It rained intermittently for several days, and today it finally stopped.

To Brother Ji's surprise, Fang Youde did not lead his troops back to the Shence Army camp north of Liquan County. However, he very thoughtfully sent people from Lantian County, south of Chang'an, to mobilize the soldiers and horses of the Shence Army guarding the node of the southern line of Chang'an, and converged with the Shence Army camp on the Liquan side to protect the safety of Jige.

Except for the day of departure, Fang Youde sent someone to reply to Brother Ji, saying that he had led troops to the outskirts of Jingyang, and at other times, there was no news.

A few days passed, and Ji Ge felt like a year in the camp. Because Gao Lishi presided over the overall situation in Chang'an, and he had to monitor Li Linfu's administration, he couldn't leave, and Ji Ge was surrounded by two eunuchs, Bian Lingcheng and Yu Chaoen, who were not as intimate as Gao Lishi.

This can't help but make Brother Ji more and more irritable, like ants in a hot pot every day, pacing back and forth in the handsome tent, and he doesn't dare to get out of the handsome tent.

In the early morning of this day, Brother Ji finally couldn't hold it back, and recruited a commander of the Shence Army, that is, the one Fang Youde transferred from Lantian County, to ask him how the military situation was.

This commander is named Lu Jiong, more than seven feet long, born in the door, and the door is in the shade, but Fang Youde was promoted from Youzhou and recommended to be an official in the Shence Army. When Fang Youde transferred him to Liquan this time, he did not say that the Son of Heaven was in the army.

But Lu Jiong, who has a keen sense of politics, has already noticed that something is wrong, and guesses that Ji Ge is likely to be in the tent of the Shence Army camp. Now that he was summoned, he just hammered the prediction in his heart, so Lu Jiong looked calm and did not show a surprised expression.

"Where is General Fang now?"

Brother Ji asked in a deep voice.

"Back to the saint, the general is not allowed to inquire into the secrets in the army, General Fang did not tell the whereabouts, and the general did not know.

But in the humble opinion of the last general, General Fang should have marched to Pizhou. ”

Lu Jiong replied cautiously.

"Haven't you come back yet......"

Ji Ge sighed a little impatiently, he was not worried that Fang Youde would defect to the prince, but that the other party would not be able to quell the rebellion in Pizhou.

It's just a bunch of Khitan slaves, can it take so long? Is the war not going well ahead?

"Sage, General Fang is the foot soldier, Pizhou is more than a hundred miles away from here, and it will take four or five days to march back and forth, and please wait patiently."

Lu Jiong persuaded Ji Gedao.

"I understand, I understand, it's a long way to go."

Brother Kee paced back and forth, sighing again, feeling like he couldn't do anything now. That kind of grievance made him feel like he was throwing a fist at the flowing water.

In fact, there are not only so many soldiers and horses that can be dispatched in Chang'an City. For example, how can the sixteen guards of the Southern Ya get together a few thousand people. In extreme cases, tens of thousands of private soldiers, generals, domestic slaves, etc. in the families of various magnates are also concentrated.

It is even more possible to mobilize the Shence Army scattered around the area, and it is no problem to gather 10,000 people, after all, the Shence Army now has more than 20,000 establishments.

It's just that the example of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty is in front of us, and when countering the rebellion, the more soldiers and horses, the better. After dealing with these Khitan slaves, what should we do next?

Do you want to be rewarded for meritorious deeds? Do you want to give some people some sweetness? Will it inspire some people's ambitions?

Brother Ji had a lot of questions and worries in his heart, and he didn't dare to rashly expand the impact of a small thing. To put it simply, I just don't want too many people to get involved in this matter!

"You're a reckless ......"

Brother Ji suddenly forgot what the commander of the Divine Strategy Army in front of him was.

"The last general, Lu Jiong, obey the orders of the saint."

Lu Jiong replied expressionlessly, feeling tired in his heart.

Riding a horse, the emperor really didn't even remember what his name was!

"I order you to set up camp now and go to the Shence Army camp north of Jingyang County to station."

Brother Ji suddenly made up his mind, gritted his teeth and said.

The emperor personally commanded?

Lu Jiong was startled, and he didn't know whether to take this order. He believes in Fang Youde's command ability, but he doesn't believe in the level of this "saint" in front of him!

Fang Youde strictly forbade him to leave Liquan County, and explained the reason very clearly: this place can be attacked and defended, not only close to the water source and there is no worry about flash floods, but behind it is Liquan County that can be retreated.

He also instructed that no matter what happens, never go to Jingyang, where the Zhengguo Canal was opened, saying that there is a high possibility of flash floods after heavy rains.

As a result, now the Son of Heaven insists on going, what can he do?

"Don't be a saint, there is ......"

Before Lu Jiong finished speaking, he saw Brother Ji pull out a sword from the weapon rack of the handsome tent and put it on Lu Jiong's shoulder.

"I'm the lord of the world, can't I mobilize the Divine Army? Are you going to rebel? Aren't you afraid of punishing your nine clans? ”

Brother Kei asked with red eyes.

The depression and helplessness of these days made him accumulate a belly of anger that he needed to vent.

Although Lu Jiong is neatly draped, he has a family, parents and brothers, and a wife, sons, and daughters. The emperor was ruthless, Lu Jiong couldn't resist it, even if this so-called "saint" like a bad old man, he could beat ten in one go!

"A saint can kill the last general, but you must not go to Jingyang!"

Lu Jiong knelt on the ground and refused to get up.

"Yu Chaoen! Take this person down and dispose of it after the war! ”

Brother Ji shouted outside the tent.

After a while, the eunuch Yu Chaoen took a few soldiers of the forbidden army of Qianniuwei and brought Lu Jiong, who was loveless, down, and searched for the fish talisman of the Shence Army from him.

After Lu Jiong was taken down, Ji Ge said to Yu Chaoen again: "Call the commanders of the two remaining Shence troops in the camp!" I'm going to talk to them! ”

After a stick of incense, the other two Shence troops were commanded and brought in. Under the coercion of the Son of Heaven, they did not insist like Lu Jiong, but had to agree to lead troops to Jingyang. Then he planned to rest there for a while, and then the whole army would march and attack Pizhou along Jingshui.

Of course, Ji Ge took Lu Jiong's original trilogy hall, and the other two capitals' Shence army took the lead. Although he is angry, he still has at least a sense of self-preservation.

Unfortunately, when Brother Ji gathered the power of the Shence army and decided to go to Jingyang with the whole army. The sky cleared, and a round of scorching sun swept away the previous haze.

This made him feel that he was really the chosen one, and even God was on his side.

If there is no heavy rain, there will be no "flooding" in Jingshui. It's just thousands of Khitan slaves, what waves can I turn over, the advantage is mine! The elite Shence army is out, and there is a fart trouble!

The sun came out, victory was coming, and Keigo's heart suddenly exploded with confidence. The pride of the royal expedition when he was young came to his heart again, and even his bones were a little lighter.

……

At the gate of Luocheng, Shazhou, Hexi, there was a long queue, winding from the city gate to the bank of the river, dense and unsightly.

The family members of the Doulu Army in Shazhou are not Han people-only household registration, and they do not belong to the tribe next to the Hu people's city, and almost every Hu family living in Luocheng has people lining up here, waiting for naturalization.

After today, they are Hermes-Epitek's household registration, officially registered with the people, and no longer have a "dual identity".

That's right, these people are basically the remnants of the Tuyuhun tribe. After Tuyuhun was destroyed, its people were divided into two by the Tang Dynasty and Tubo. On the Tang side, most of them were placed in Shazhou, and on this basis, the "Doulu Army" was formed. A small number were placed in Guazhou and formed the "Moli Army".

On the Tibetan side, Sun Boru joined the Subi District, and later became independent.

The identities of these people have always been delicate. They are not like the surname Zhaowu Jiu, who was already on the bus when the Tang Dynasty was founded, and they have broken through the political ceiling. It is not like the Turkic and Tiele tribes to be placed separately as a tribe next to the city.

When they settled in Shazhou, they were military households and made a living in Tuntian. Nowadays, many people have changed their Chinese names, speak Chinese, and they can't tell whether they are Han or not by looking at their appearance.

However, Datang has always been very ambiguous about the political identity of these people, and they have not officially settled down, and they are still managed separately from the Han people in Shazhou.

This has created a lot of unnecessary troubles for the daily government affairs management of the border towns.

In fact, it is not that the Tang government does not want to rectify, but that the cost of governance is too high and not cost-effective.

In Shazhou and Guazhou, the westernmost part of the Hexi Corridor, the garrisons were divided into Doulu Army and Moli Army, which were originally border troops reorganized by Tuyuhun immigrants. Now that decades have passed, they have intermarried with each other, and many Han soldiers from Guanzhong have been added, so identity positioning can no longer be used to "one size fits all".

Because of these Guanzhong Han people, the bond with the original family was actually cut and became part of the household registration of the border town, which can be regarded as a legacy of the government military reform.

It can be called a cut and a mess.

Before leaving, in order to implement his "Datang Green Card" policy, Fang Chongyong took 3,000 silver guns and filial piety troops to his hometown of Shazhou, and directly organized households outside Luocheng, and handled the settlement procedures openly and transparently in front of all Shazhou people.

Cut the Gordian knot! Let any rumors associated with it have no soil to survive!

As long as your family is in the Doulu Army, or someone has ever served in the army, then your family will be directly registered as a Hanmin household registration. In the future, speaking Chinese, wearing Hanfu, and collecting taxes uniformly will not be treated separately.

"Fang Jieshuai, you are really popular in Shazhou. The last general didn't dare to think about it before. ”

Next to the stall of "household registration", He Changqi saw that everyone who had completed the household registration would come forward to bow and say hello to Fang Chongyong, and said with emotion.

When I followed Fang Chongyong to Shazhou, I found that the atmosphere here was completely different, and they were like coming home, which was very popular. Of course, these are all blessings thanks to Fang Chongyong.

"If you're not worried that we're going to the Western Regions and the logistics will be blocked, then it doesn't matter what happens in Shazhou.

If you are still worried about logistics and supplies, then you must be kind to the people here in Shazhou and Guazhou.

Because once these two states are in chaos, the connection between the Western Regions and Guanzhong will be severed.

At that time, even if you can beat a hundred people alone, you will starve to death if you have no food to eat and no baggage. ”

Fang Chongyong said with a smile. After speaking, he shook hands with the person who had just completed the household registration and exchanged a few words, as if he was very familiar with the other party.

In fact, he had never seen the person in front of him at all.

The Tang Dynasty couldn't solve it for decades, or the problem of household registration in Shazhou, which was deliberately not solved, was solved by Fang Chongyong!

It seems simple, but it's not.

Solving this problem requires vision, courage, and the courage to take responsibility.

In Fang Chongyong's view, the little ninety-nine in the imperial court is obvious. Isn't it just rubbing, I want to consume these Tuyuhun remnants as consumables, just like the soldiers of the border town, the more you smoke, the more empty it becomes.

It is a bit unrealistic to want these bureaucrats to handle problems from the high plane of the "united front" of the "Chinese nation," and this is caused by the limitations of history. There is no problem with the mind, but the vision is not so far-reaching.

Of course, Fang Chongyong felt that if he hadn't had the Anshi Rebellion in his previous life, Datang would have been able to have another fifty years of prosperity, and he couldn't have really succeeded in "killing people with a knife".

Unfortunately, however, the Anshi Rebellion came.

The choice of these remnants of Tuyuhun in Hexi is obvious, and the Doulu army in Shazhou and the Moli army in Guazhou both explicitly refused to follow the Chishui army to "go to the national disaster together" and march into Guanzhong. The two armies retreated to Shazhou to protect themselves, formed a 20,000-strong Tang Army, and held out in Shazhou for many years without surrendering.

Although they refused to be slaves of the Tibetans, they did not want to protect the Li Tang court of Jige. Although they recognized their identity as "Han Min", they did not identify with the rule of the Li Tang Dynasty.

This is the will of the people and the will of the people, which can be described as planting melons and getting melons.

Just as Fang Chongyong was chatting with He Changqi, a young Tang Army officer came to ask to see him, it was Yan Chao, the son of a local Han family in Shazhou who had taken in Duan Xiushi!

"Fang Jieshuai, Yan Chao, the general of the Doulu Army, greets you, and the general has something to ask for."

Yan saluted the other party with a fist in his fist.

"You're here for the Expeditionary Force, aren't you?"

Fang Chongyong asked disapprehantly.

"Yes, the last general wants to take the generals of the family to enter the Anxi Expeditionary Force, and go to the Western Regions with Fang Jieshuai before and after the saddle.

Meritorious service, horse leather shroud. ”

Yan Chao asked excitedly.

Seeing that Fang Chongyong was silent, Yan Chao continued to add: "In addition to the last general, there are many people in Shazhou who want to lead the horse for the commander and go to the Western Regions to fight for a future. ”

Sure enough, it is the hearts of the people who fight the war! If you stand on the side of the people's hearts, you don't have to worry about the soldiers at all.

Fang Chongyong sighed in his heart, but his face was silent, he held Yan Chao's hands and said, "Okay, then you go and tell them that this section is to take my good boy of the Tang Dynasty to fight on the battlefield and establish immortal achievements." The soldiers are not more than fine, and the establishment is limited, so let them hurry up to find the commander of this section. ”

"Don't worry, it's all the people you've met, and you know the roots."

Yan Chao said quietly.

"Go ahead, I'll rest assured that you can do something."

Fang Chongyong patted Yan Chao's shoulder and said.

The trick of arranging households for the families of the Doulu Army is to win the hearts of the grassroots people in Shazhou; And letting the children of big families in Shazhou join the army to expedition to the Western Regions is to win the hearts of the high-level people in Shazhou. With such preparations, if something happens in the future, there will be an old nest in Shazhou that can return to blood.

Among the people who can play politics, Fang Chongyong is the most capable of fighting.

Among the people who can fight the most, Fang Chongyong is the best at playing politics.

Super comprehensive quality, its power is undoubtedly shown here in Shazhou. Whether it is a local big family in Shazhou, the government or the Doulu army, basically Fang Chongyong can do everything he wants.

"Jie Shuai, this trick of organizing Qi Min for the Doulu Army is so good, why didn't you do it before?"

After Yan Chao left, He Changqi asked without knowing why.

"Because it's no good to do it, you have to be responsible if something happens.

If you were replaced, would you do it or not? ”

Fang Chongyong waved his hand and asked rhetorically, in fact, this move was not within the scope of the responsibility and power of the Hexi Jiedu envoy, it was a "skipping operation", and it was found out to be a board.

If he is just a Shazhou assassin and organizes Qi Min for the Doulu army, doing so purely to find trouble for himself, even if it is beneficial, it is indirect and long-term.

And the army is about to go out, and stabilizing the rear is the most important.

Of course, household registration is a matter that benefits and does not cost money, so that the people of Hexi can see their courage and means to do things. Even if something happens, it's in the future, and we'll talk about it then.

Of course, the imperial court has always only looked at the effect and not the process of implementing the rules. If Fang Chongyong led his troops to sweep the Western Regions, then his would be fragrant, and his operation in Shazhou would not be worth mentioning.

If he loses, it is estimated that he will already become a corpse in the Western Desert, so naturally he doesn't have to worry about these things.

In short, everything is to win, and the border towns only obey the strong.

"Tonight, there is a banquet between this section and the local big family in Shazhou, and you can also attend it together. Let's get some baggage for the expeditionary army, and it is not realistic to count on Chang'an for everything. ”

Fang Chongyong looked at the sturdy small city across the river from Luo Cheng, and said with squinted eyes.

It's time to issue some national bonds or something, and it's a pity not to take out the grain piled up in the treasury to eat.

Fang Chongyong thought secretly in his heart.

(End of chapter)