In the midst of the chaos, Shen Chen's array burned Dangqiang King Mangzhong, and another Dangqiang King Zhuyi also died in the battle, killed by a Qiang warrior who followed Shen Chen.

As soon as they died, the Qiang soldiers who had organized the two to resist also scattered.

Farther away, the rest of the Qiang people who were still coming out of the camp tent to come over to help didn't dare to come, so they could only watch from afar.

Soon the battlefield fell silent, and only a thousand corpses remained. In the first wave of the charge, more people died not from the charge, but from the overturning of the horses.

Under the iron hooves of ten thousand horsemen, the thousands of people brought by Mangzhong and Zhuyi could not be stopped at all, a large number of Qiang people were washed off their horses, and then trampled to death, the battlefield was full of corpses of people and horses, and there were many ownerless horses wandering back nearby.

Shen Chen's body was stained with blood, and the knife in his hand was also dripping blood, he turned his head and saw that more than 100 guards and several disciples around him were also covered in blood, with slight casualties, but they were in high spirits, and they were quite unsatisfied.

"The Grand Governor."

Guduo and several Qiang commanders rode from behind, then turned over and dismounted and reported to him: "The enemy has been routed. ”

"Hmm."

Shen Chen looked around.

Above the wilderness, there are all Qiang tribes watching from afar.

After Mangzhong and Zhuyi were killed, the people of their tribe fled back to their tents in terror.

Many people began to flee west with their families in tow.

According to Qiang tradition, after the leader is killed, the tribe is annexed by the rest of the people.

However, the tribes of Mangzhong and Zhuyi are the most powerful in this area, with 10,000 tribes and a total of 30,000 or 40,000 troops, and the total population of the two tribes together is more than 100,000.

No one can annex them.

So many people thought they were going to be slaughtered, so they fled.

However, they also had some forces within themselves, and they quickly stopped the Qiang people who wanted to escape, and soon someone came to negotiate and expressed their willingness to surrender.

Shen Chen smiled, asked Guduo and the others to surround the entire Mangzhong tribe, and then asked all the tribal leaders to go to the king's tent.

He himself led hundreds of people and swaggered into the Mangzhong tribe, not caring at all about the fifty or sixty thousand Dingkou in the enemy tribe, and one or two thousand Qiang young and strong combat forces.

Because all the Qiang people in the tents on both sides automatically moved out of the way, everyone looked at him with deep awe and respect instead of hatred.

The Qiang people worship the strong, Han Sui is a Han Chinese, and he also killed the Qiang King Beigong Boyu, but he is still admired by the Qiang people. Ma Chao is of mixed Qiang and Han descent, and is known as General Shenwei in Xiliang, which shows his status in the minds of the Qiang people.

Thus, like the later Mongols, the killing of a tribal leader never made the tribesmen feel hatred, but a deep obedience, the result of thousands of years of experience of nomads and their deep-rooted concept of respect for the strong.

After all, life still has to live, the leader and the clansmen were killed, and the rest of the clansmen had to join other tribes to continue to survive if they wanted to live. For the sake of the continuation of the tribe, why care about hatred?

Soon, in the awe-inspiring eyes of the Qiang people, Shen Chen entered the king's tent, and Wu Dang and Shan Yi guarded the door as usual, and Jiang Wei and Deng Ai screened the personnel.

In addition to Gu Duo and the other court camps that followed him, the rest of the tribal leaders, large and small, as well as several successors of the two big tribes of Mangzhong and Zhuyi, were put into the tent, Jiang Wei and Deng Ai sat on Shen Chen's left and right, and Gu Duo and the others followed.

Immediately followed by a clear seating order, although Guduo and the others were the Qiang tribe of small and medium-sized tribes, but because they were in the Shen Chen camp and won the battle, they sat on top of the Qiang, and then there were the rest of the big tribes.

There are several successors of Mangzhong and Zhuyi, basically all of them are brothers and sons of the two of them, and the tribal order of the nomads is like this, either the brother dies and the brother dies, or the father dies and the son replaces.

At this moment, everyone sat in the row in turn, and there were forty or fifty people in the king's tent, all of whom sat respectfully below, waiting for Shen Chen to speak above.

Shen Chen looked around, put the blood-dripping tiger courage knife in his hand on the table, and said angrily: "I am the pastor of Liangzhou of the Great Han Dynasty, and I govern Xiliang on behalf of the Son of Heaven. Liangzhou was originally Han soil, and since you are above the Han land, you are the Han people, and if you commit rebellion, you should be executed and exterminated, what else do you have to say? ”

Hearing this, the hearts of the people below suddenly cooled.

Many Qiang leaders knelt on the ground one after another, kowtowed and said: "Envoy, it was all Mangzhong and Zhu Yi who coerced us to come to the alliance, if you don't comply, you will slaughter us." Our tribe has only a few hundred troops, so we can only come here. ”

"Yes, the envoy, we have no intention of rebelling, we heard that the envoy has always been virtuous in Liangzhou, and they all want to be attached, but Mangzhong is very powerful, and we have to follow."

"Spare your life is the envoy, our tribe obviously has 800 soldiers, but I only brought 400 people over, I just don't want to go against the court, they are all persecuted."

The crowd kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

Shen Chen immediately smiled and said: "I see, since you are all coerced, if you kill them all, it is indeed unfair, as the so-called heaven has the virtue of a good life, and His Majesty my lord has always established the world with benevolence and righteousness, since you are not voluntary, then only the head of the evil will be punished, and the rest will not die." ”

When this sentence was spoken, everyone below was immediately overjoyed, and thanked again and again: "Thank you, thank you." ”

But they were happy, and several leaders of Mangzhong and Zhu Yi couldn't sit still, and hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to beg for mercy, and one of them said: "Envoy, my brother wants to rebel, I am firmly against it, but he is the leader, and I can't help it." ”

"Yes, envoy, my father didn't listen to my persuasion, I told him that the new Liangzhou herd was kind-hearted, treated us leniently, and must not rebel, but my father listened to the words of the Wei envoy and had to rebel."

"Nonsense, you obviously persuaded my brother to rebel, you rebel son and hurt your father, do you still think you can inherit our Mangzhong tribe?"

"You just talked nonsense, it was you who bewitched my father, what did the messengers tell you that day? Thought I didn't know? ”

"Brother, you should die in battle with your father, the envoy of Wei is the first to find you, through your father, we note that if the tribe dies, it will also die in your hands."

"The envoy of Wei came to me first, but didn't you agree? Don't think you'll be able to get rid of it if you throw your sins on me! ”

The Qiang tribe is often named after the name of the chief.

Now, with the death of Mangzhong and Zhuyi, the successors of the two tribes suddenly began to shirk each other's responsibilities and began to try their best to shake the pot.

The reason for this is also very simple, naturally he wants to put the other party to death so that he can take over the tribe himself.

However, Shen Chen's face was very gloomy, and he looked at them angrily and said, "Shut up! ”

He was furious, and several people suddenly became honest like quails, and the battle between them just now, between brothers and nephews, was eager to strangle each other.

Shen Chen looked at them and said, "You were really provoked by Cao Wei, since you have been defeated, where is the envoy?" ”

"It's been staked, please make it down."

A Qiang man in his forties hurriedly stepped forward and knelt in front of Shen Chen and said, "Envoy, if I can inherit the Mangzhong tribe, I will all obey the orders of the envoy from now on." ”

"Get in!"

At that moment, the tent curtain was lifted, and two messengers were escorted in.

Shen Chen looked at them and asked, "Who were you two sent to provoke the Qiang rebellion?" ”

"Hmph."

One sneered and kept silent.

Shen Chen smiled: "Push it out and cut it." ”

Someone pulled him out immediately, and soon a scream rang out.

As soon as he died, he not only shocked many Qiang in the tent, but also frightened another Wei envoy to tremble.

Shen Chen looked at him and said, "You can say it, you can say it, there is still a life, if you don't say it, die!" ”

"I say, I say."

The man hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed: "It was Dunhuang Taishou Yin Feng, and Jiuquan Taishou Su asked us to come." ”

"Sure enough, it's them."

Shen Chen sighed: "I heard that when Su Ze usurped the Han Dynasty in Cao Pi, he used to wear mourning clothes and cry for the Great Han, but I didn't expect that he was also a chaotic minister and thief. ”

The envoy said: "Su Taishou said that he mourned for the Han because he was a Han minister, but now that the king of Wei has ascended the throne, then he is a Wei minister, and he should be loyal to the Son of Heaven." ”

"Su Ze has a very high prestige in Jincheng, and Cao Pi sent him to Jiuquan, which really has a good idea."

Shen Chen waved his hand: "Pull it out, I have faith, if I don't kill him, I won't kill him, let him go back, and tell Su Ze that the Han is not dead." If he still has faith, he should return to the Han land, instead of continuing to work for usurpers like Cao Wei. ”

"Thank you, thank you."

The messenger was given his life, and immediately kowtowed with joy, and was taken out backwards.

After he left, Shen Chen frowned.

Su is a person who helps the wind in Guanzhong, and has promoted filial piety and Maocai at the same time, and served as the Taishou of Jiuquan, Anding, Jincheng and other places.

When Liu Bei and Cao Cao were competing for Xiliang, he stood on Cao Cao's side.

Because he thought that Cao Cao was crusading against Liu Bei in the name of the Son of Heaven, and the righteous name was in Cao Cao's hands, so when Cao Cao attacked Liu Bei, he also sent troops to help Cao Cao.

Later, Cao Cao was forced to retreat to Guanzhong because Cao Hong was beheaded, so he took Su Ze with him and became a close attendant.

When Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, this person was still mourning for the Han Dynasty. Shen Chen thought that this was a loyal minister of the Han family, but he didn't expect Cao Pi to send him back to Jiuquan backhand and start using his extremely high prestige in Jincheng County to make trouble.

This made Shen Chen very displeased.

He has not yet gone north to occupy Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang and other counties, not because of lack of strength, but because he thinks that sending troops from Tianshui to those places, the farthest Dunhuang is more than 1,000 kilometers, and the nearest Wuwei is more than 600 kilometers.

When the lead is broken by the Cao thief, it is not too late to send troops to the Western Regions.

But now it seems that it may be time to send troops.

At least he had to stabilize the situation in the rear and eliminate all the unstable factors of Cao Wei in Liangzhou, so as to prevent a sudden rebellion in the rear when he attacked Guanzhong.

Thinking of this, Shen Chen looked at the forty-year-old Qiang man before and said, "What's your name?" ”

"Satong."

"Satong, you said before, if you can inherit the Mangzhong tribe, you will all obey my orders from now on?"

"Yes."

Satong immediately said: "Everything is dispatched by the envoy. ”

"Envoy, if I can inherit the Mangzhong tribe, I am willing to obey the envoy's dispatch."

Mangzhong's son suddenly became anxious and hurriedly stepped forward and kowtowed.

The rest of the people did the same.

Mangzhong has two younger brothers and four sons. Zhu Yi is a younger brother and a son.

In fact, it should be more than that, because Zhu Yi came to the Mangzhong tribe to meet the alliance, and this expedition brought a younger brother and a son.

But those relatives who stayed in the tribe naturally lost their inheritance rights.

Seven or eight people declared their allegiance to Shen Chen, and Shen Chen felt a little headache, so he slapped the table and said, "Shut up." ”

The crowd was immediately silenced.

Shen Chen looked around at them, and said in a deep voice: "The Qiang people should be honest, I am not only the pastor of Liangzhou, but I am also willing to establish faith among the Qiang people, but you are people who have rebelled once, if you want to get faith in front of me again, it should not be as simple as a verbal promise." Moreover, if any two of you take over the throne of the Qiang king, they will kill those who compete with you for the throne, which is something I do not want to see, and I am afraid that you will take revenge on the Qiang who followed me. So I decided to divide your tribe, and each of you will receive a portion, and at the same time, your tribe of cattle, horses, and slaves, and I will also divide a part, and I will use it to reward them, and this is what I have decided, and it is also a punishment for your rebellion against the court, and if anyone has objections, then I believe that others will be happy to accept the tribes and property of the dissidents, do you have any objections? ”

When this question was asked, the eight people kowtowed almost at the same time and said, "There is no objection." ”

Just kidding, isn't it already said in the words? If there is dissent, they will die, even if they all want to inherit a powerful tribe, but Shen Chen's words are also right.

Now the eight of them, brothers, uncles and nephews, in order to snatch the inheritance of the tribe, have almost reached the place of life and death.

If Shen Chenzhen designated two of them as the king of Qiang, then the rest would definitely be executed.

So it's better to split up.

Even if he changes from the king of the big tribe to the Qiang Shuai of the small and medium-sized tribes, it is better than death.

"If that's the case, let it be arranged."

Shen Chen looked at Deng Ai and Jiang Wei and said, "Shizai, Boyo, I have made the two of you the captains of the Qiang Guard, and they must be fair and just to divide the matter here." ”

"Yes."

Deng Ai and Jiang Wei silently praised Shen Chen in their hearts.

The heart of the Taoist master is a good means.

Mangzhong and Zhuyi are the two largest Qiang kings in Jincheng County, and there is also a Qiang king who is kneeling below.

Now that the two Qiang kings have been divided into tribes, their strength has been greatly reduced, and only Burning Ge remains.

Really.

In the next second, Shen Chen's eyes surrendered and said, "King Burning Geqiang, you said you are willing to submit to me?" ”

"Yes."

Yao Ge hurriedly said: "I am willing to submit." ”

"Hmm."

Shen Chen nodded: "Take your men and horses, follow me, Jincheng County does not allow large-scale Qiang tribes, if the Qiang want to live in this land, they must not unite against the Han people, but like the Han people, they will farm and herd their own cattle, and then be the masters of their own houses." Each tribe should be like the Han people's village and pavilion township, allowing only a few people to be stationed in one area, which is also to prevent a large number of Qiang people from gathering and destroying the pastures. The Qiang people in Liangzhou should follow the path of sustainable development, and I will promote education in the Qiang tribes, and the Qiang people who are willing to read and learn Chinese characters can become officials as long as they have talent. There are also Qiang people who are willing to join the army to fight, as long as they can make war achievements, I will not be stingy with rewards. From now on, the Qiang and Han are not allowed to treat each other equally, and they are not allowed to be hostile to each other or discriminate against each other. But if there is a violator, I will punish it, you know? ”

Yao Ge's heart trembled suddenly, and he said with a bitter face: "Understood." ”

"Understood."

Many Qiang leaders below responded one after another.

Shen Chen stood up and looked around, and finally said, "The Qiang Han family, regardless of each other. This is the iron law I set in Liangzhou, since then thousands of years are not allowed to change, you must regard each other as compatriots, I want to prosper Liangzhou, from today! ”

"Obey the order of the Envoy (Metropolitan Governor)!"

Below, including Guduo and others, got up and kowtowed.

In this battle, Shen Chen made a name for himself.

Since then, it has been a shock to Liangzhou!