Chapter 222: Two Month Movements
In this era, the common people actually have certain standards, such as having their own houses, their own farmland, paying taxes from time to time, and having a certain amount of private property, even if there are no cattle and horses, there must always be some chickens and sheep.
Liangzhou should be regarded as a multi-ethnic area, but regardless of whether the original ethnic group was Huqiang, Xiongnu or Han, settled in Liangzhou, all of them were Han people.
And the people here in Liangzhou can be roughly divided into three categories.
The first type of people who live in the city, or who have a fixed civil construction residence around the city.
Such people either cultivated the land or participated in the farming, and their lives mainly revolved around farming, occasionally raising pigs and sheep. Pingtang, Anfen, can be regarded as a relatively pure common people, whether they are local heroes or officials, they are at ease, but they don't value them.
The second group has fixed settlements and will also establish permanent settlements, but they are more inclined to graze livestock than to cultivate land.
Such people usually occupy a better geographical location, establish their own pastures away from the official city, choose places with abundant water and grass, or have the ability and strength to build villages near the main road of commerce.
And this kind of person is usually the local hero, and there are many grassroots officials in Liangzhou in the clan, and they are also the main source of Liangzhou's elite soldiers.
The third type is more troublesome, belonging to the Han nomadic herds, who retain quite strong foreign customs, chasing water and grass grazing, wandering in all seasons, and sometimes even stopping outside the border to settle down.
This kind of people account for a large proportion of Liangzhou, providing Liangzhou with a large share of war horse output, and also making greater use of Liangzhou's natural resources, bringing more cattle and sheep to this bitter cold land.
As far as Liangzhou is concerned, although they are always surrounded by strife and rebellion, in fact, the official attaches more importance to them than to the settled cultivators.
Liangzhou likes to graze livestock, in addition to the so-called bitter cold, livestock can also bring more wealth than farming.
There is no shortage of merchants in Liangzhou, and although there is chaos here, most people will not rob merchants casually. Because the merchants allowed them to exchange their livestock for money, food, weapons, and daily necessities. This kind of exchange of wealth can never be realized by farming.
Nomadic greed and gambling with life, farming and disaster resistance, the difference is only that.
In the Liangzhou rebellion initiated by Beigong Boyu this time, many of the second-class powerful groups will provide funding to the rebels in order to avoid trouble and harassment. The third group of nomads inevitably became the main source of rebel soldiers.
Most of the rebels are not interested in farming, they don't need to siege the city and occupy the land, it is rare for someone to gather troops, and it is already profitable to be able to kill those powerful tribes who have occupied the land of abundant water and grass for a long time.
This also led to the rebellion for several months, the southeast area of Liangzhou, which is on the line from Jincheng to Fufeng, has not experienced tearing and killing, and can still occupy the pasture to maintain a normal life, and most of them have some unexplained relationship with the rebels.
These things are already in a state of being on the surface. But in the same way, as long as the anti-flag is not raised, the Han army officials cannot clean up these places.
Because for the people here in Liangzhou, whoever has a big fist and can hold them back, they will listen to whomever they want. This has been an unspoken rule in Liangzhou for a long time.
For this Liangzhou rebellion, it is necessary to say that the fist of the official army is not small, but unfortunately, compared with the reckless behavior of the rebel army, which can be 'justified', the official army has no ability to blackmail the local powerful at all.
And Liu Cang pulled out a group of Mengbeast beasts in a timely manner, but it made up for the shortcomings in this regard.
Wolves travel to Liangzhou! The countless wolves have silenced the people who worship wolf nature here.
Liu Cang's so-called beast disaster made many people hate itchy, and they were afraid of the beasts brought out by Liu Cang, but what was even more frightening was that these beasts were out of control.
Walking in the sun is at best a wild deterrent.
But if these beasts are out of control, when they hide in the shadows, and are dominated by their own animal nature and run freely, it is the real horror for the people who mainly live on herds.
This also led to a very strange phenomenon in this rebellious area, that is, people knew that they were being coerced by Liu Cang, but they inevitably didn't want Liu Cang to have an accident, and sincerely hoped that he could control the beasts under him.
Liangzhou is vast and sparsely populated, and compared with the millions of people in other states and counties, the total population of this vast land is only four or five hundred thousand.
The people here are fierce, but the ability to deal with the large herd of beasts here is even weaker.
Is the tiger bear withered wolf so easy to control? It's just enough to raise one or two, how dare you lead such a large group!
In people's conventional perception, Liu Haoxuan's bastard is playing with fire!
Liu Cang's imperial beast, the official court doesn't care, the people of Liangzhou are worried that the beast will get out of control, but they hope that Liu Cang will live a long life, well, at least a hundred years old before leaving Liangzhou with his Mengmeng beast.
And Liu Cang is indeed fighting beasts with beasts, no matter whether there is a scourge or not, after the wolf disaster, anyway, the original fierce beasts in the local area are gone, and he is really encircling and suppressing the beasts that harm people all over the world.
Liu Cang requisitioned the livestock, but it seems that after the wolves, tigers and leopards around the ranch are cleared, even if the share is handed over, it seems that the output of livestock can be increased this year?
This is a bit of a joke, some people hate Liu Cang's teeth, some people hate and hate, it seems that they suddenly don't know what to hate?
The Wild Wolf Valley in Yuzi Gorge was flattened, and the wolf plague chased by Liu Cang seemed to have expanded a lot.
The vultures of Qiuyu Mountain disappeared, and Liu Cang added another three hundred vultures to the birds, and even the ugly and fierce vultures squatted behind the butts of some slave soldiers under Liu Cang's command.
At the same time, the two places are rich in water and grass, but because of the indestructible beasts, they cannot be used by people, and they have become real treasure lands.
Within half a month, there were more than 50 private fights involving more than 100 people in the two places, with thousands of casualties.
Eventually, the five larger nomadic tribes decided to settle in the two places, and were willing to offer a certain amount of livestock to Liu Cang every year as a reward for Liu Cang's righteous act of eliminating harm for the people.
And this kind of beast is difficult to get rid of, and there are dangerous places where the beasts inhabit, and there are countless in Liangzhou.
Outcome?
As a result, Liu Cang wandered outside for two months with the wolf plague, and the call for counterinsurgency in Liangzhou was rising, rebels or something, hurry up and die!
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The imperial city of Luoyang.
He Jin was a little confused, the military newspaper came out, and there were hidden people in Qinchuan and Jieting in Liangzhou who gathered troops and wanted to obey the righteousness, and there was a tendency to spontaneously beg for thieves.
Most of the elite horsemen of the imperial court are still in Hedong, you don't want to graze and farm well, what kind of excitement are you making around?
Liu Hong was also a little dazed, why did the anti-thieves press back to the Jincheng area?
He is also going to discuss with He Jin the formation of the Eighth Battalion of the West Park in another half a year under the pretext of pleasing the thief.
The family of hundreds of officials was shocked, and the whole world collected information about Liu's dragon mastery, but to no avail for a while, many court officials played, asking Liu Hong to issue an order, strictly prohibiting Liu Cang from returning to the hinterland of the Central Plains with the herd.
This really can't be said that the big guys are all targeting Liu Cang, seeing that Liu Cang's 'chasing and killing' wolves are almost tens of thousands, no one knows how many beasts he can control, and how long can he control them? The people of Liangzhou are afraid that the beast will get out of control, and here in the Central Plains, they are also afraid.
Bian Zhang, Han Sui, Beigong Boyu and other rebel leaders are relatively simple, and they are just crazy.
In the two months, the good food, drink and good service, the more than 100,000 rebels directly became 50,000, and they didn't fight, they all ran away.
Do you want to pay homage to the prime minister? Is it good to raid the Central Plains?
I see you! Everything else is easy to say, but, what does it mean to go home and catch rape!? You're going to make a good rebellion for me!
Regardless of the reaction of the outside world, Liu Cang has not returned to the barracks for a long time. Because he needed to take care of the consumption of food and drink, and the cattle and sheep accompanying the brigade, Liu Cang always thought that his march was too slow, and he hated too few places to wander around.
At this time, Liu Cang also wandered to the vicinity of Tianshui Lake. There are many mountains and ravines in the terrain here, and I heard that there are often Menghu tigers here, and Liu Cang is ready to add some new blood to his tiger herd, which has grown to 300 heads.
And his own wolves seem to be a bit too much, and Liu Cang can't say whether he should change their staple food to wolf meat.