Chapter Ninety-Nine: People die for money, and birds die for food

If something is good, it will be tended to be at the bottom. The king of Chu has a thin waist, and he starves to death in the palace.

The tribal leaders of the anti-Songtsen Gampo alliance found that Chen Ying liked Kunlun white jade and gold, and they unanimously offered the jade and gold looted in Songbang Fort to Chen Ying.

Although the money was received softly, it was more important to stabilize Songbang Fort and the whole of Tibet.

The Tang Dynasty was actually very unsuccessful in governing the areas it occupied. In the original history, Li Shimin conquered the Eastern Turks in the north, and Su Dingfang pacified the Western Turks, and later occupied a large area of land. In order to facilitate management, the state of detention was set up. The so-called Detention Prefecture, "Historical Records, Sima Xiangru Biography, Suo Yin" explains: "Custody, Ma Luotou also; 縻, 牛靷also", by extension, for enveloping control. China's establishment of the state of detention began in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty adopted a policy of restraint for some remote ethnic minorities, recognizing local indigenous nobles, making them princes and bringing them under the administration of the imperial court.

It is equivalent to the current autonomous region. However, the only difference is that the governor of the state or the assassin directly controls the army, which lays the groundwork for the division of the Tang Dynasty.

In the early days of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court won one after another in foreign wars, and the governors of the state did not dare to rebel, with the passage of time, the famous generals of the early Tang Dynasty gradually grew old, and there was a fault line in the Tang army, and the combat effectiveness began to decline, especially Li Shimin's eastward expedition to Goguryeo returned in vain, and the governors of the prefectures in various places began to move.

Although it is said that the Tang Dynasty actually did a very rough job in terms of the state of bondage. In the Tang Dynasty, there were two kinds of prefectures, the first was the establishment of prefectures and counties in areas under the military power of the Tang Dynasty, which were hereditary by the tribal leaders, autonomous in internal affairs, and tribute, but had some responsibilities, such as loyalty to the imperial court, providing military supplies as required, and so on. The imperial court regarded it as part of the territory, and the document was written with "edict".

The second is the internal vassal state, such as Nanzhao, Hui Hui, etc., generally named as a khan or county king, with its own territorial scope, but the political legitimacy of its leader comes from the canonization of the imperial court, can not be autonomous, the Central Plains regime regards it as a subordinate, and the document uses "the emperor asks".

Either way, the imperial court will not directly manage it, and the various prefectures are also unevenly rich and poor due to the ability of the tribal leaders, and the centripetal force for the imperial court is also very weak.

Chen Ying, as a giant standing on the shoulders of history, will never follow the original old path in history. Although, as in history, the Tang Dynasty established the Anxi Prefecture and the Andong Prefecture, but Chen Ying did not establish 16 prefectures as in history, governing 80 prefectures, 110 counties, and 126 military prefectures.

Chen Ying's approach is the same as that of Pingyuan. It has jurisdiction over 19 states and more than 100 counties. There is no so-called fetter state, and there is no hereditary tribal leader.

Of course, this is related to Chen Ying's hardline policy in Anxi, the annexation of Anxi at this time, unlike in history, Chen Ying adopted the strategy of driving wolves and sheep, using Murong Fuyun, the Khan king of Tuyuhun, to unite the various tribes of Anxi, and then eliminate them with military force. As for the tribal leaders who were unwilling to cooperate, they all fled with Murong Fuyun to the two rivers.

Therefore, Chen Ying is like painting on a blank piece of paper, you can play as you like.

For example, the obvious sign of the state of bondage, the hereditary leader and governor, this article does not exist at all. Even if they followed Chen Ying from Shuozhou to Anxi's six powerful families in Shuozhou, they could not be directly hereditary, but their children Anxi County School and University, and only after passing the assessment could they be promoted to the county order or assassin history.

Of course, this is not absolutely fair. Even if some of the children of the family have excellent academic performance and good ability, Chen Ying would rather promote them to the rank of assassin or chief of other states than let them hold the position of hereditary county magistrate in the local area.

After a night of inventory, Chen Ying asked Ma Zhou, "How many people are there in Songbang Fort?" ”

Ma Zhou bowed and said: "Back to the Lord, there are more than 35,000 households in Songbang Fort, with a total of more than 134,000 people, and the major tribes cannot count ......."

The most difficult thing for nomads is to count the population, and if the grass does not grow well in the coming year, they may go to other places to graze, and the small tribes will move here.

Chen Ying asked again, "How much grain is there in the city?" How many horses? ”

Ma Zhou took a piece of paper and said, "The grain is mainly barley, with a total of 65,000 stones!" ”

Chen Ying said unexpectedly: "Why is it so much? ”

Ma Zhou said with a wry smile: "The yield of highland barley is extremely low, the yield per mu is only about 100 catties, and these highland barley needs at least hundreds of thousands of acres of land to be harvested!" ”

Chen Ying waved his hand and said: "This bit of food won't last long at all, pass through the rear, let Guo Xiaoke organize people to transport the grain!" ”

Anyway, the treasure seized this time was very large, worth at least more than three million yuan. Of course, these riches are not worth that much money, provided that they must be transported to Chang'an City for sale.

Of course, Chen Ying's capital for sending troops this time has already been restored.

Chen Ying summoned the tribal leaders of the anti-Songtsen Gampo Alliance, and did not directly make a wish to them as officials, but looked at the heads of the people: "Our war with Songtsen Gampo has just begun, and it is far from over. You can continue to march freely, and the general will not interfere with your marching strategy, except for one point, you can exchange the heads of the Tibetans for goods or food, salt, silk, including iron pots, knives and guns, anything. A complete head can be a three-way Kaiyuan Tongbao, or a property of the same value. ”

Listening to the translation of the tongue man, the tribal leaders of the anti-Songtsen Gampo alliance went crazy all at once.

They didn't even participate in Chen Ying's celebration banquet, and each brought their own warriors to prepare for a big fight.

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Located in the south of Songbang Fort, about thirty miles from Mo, the Aronnen tribe.

The west falls on the west mountain, and the smoke curls up.

Horses, yaks, and sheep are grazing leisurely. Dinner was being cooked in a tent not far away.

A young man who has nowhere to vent his energy, pulling his throat and singing mountain songs.

I have to say that the Tubo people have excellent singing talents, even if they are ordinary people, they have a very wide vocal range.

In this quiet and peaceful atmosphere, the Nen of Aron did not know that danger had befallen them.

The soldiers of the anti-Songtsen Gampo alliance are of the same origin as the Yalung Nbu, and they are familiar with each other. They are all thousand-year-old foxes, and no one needs to play and chat with anyone.

Quietly approaching, not rushing into the attack.

Waiting for the sunset on the horizon to light up the entire sky, the young men of Yalong, who were in charge of grazing, began to return to their respective homes, pick up their rice bowls, and gobble up.

The soldiers of the anti-Songtsen Gampo coalition began to attack.

The sound of hooves rumbled like thunder, and the earth shook violently, making people untenable. The horns were continuous, the smoke and dust were soaring into the sky, and tens of thousands of cavalry of the anti-Songtsen Gampo alliance roared.

The soldiers of the Yalong Nen Division all looked at each other in shock, and their faces turned pale. They never expected that there were enemy troops in the vicinity, they were close to Songbang Fort, as one of the descendants of Songtsengan, they were first-class citizens in the Tubo Dynasty, and they enjoyed super-grade treatment. usually drags 2580,000 yuan, and no one dares to mess with it. I never dreamed that in order to deal with their tribe of 2,000 people, the enemy army would gather 20,000 or 30,000 people!

Twenty or thirty thousand horses is a relatively frightening number on the prairie, and in history, the Wara Iron Cavalry of the 500,000 troops of the Ming Dynasty was only in the early 30,000s!

Now that their mere 2,000 people have actually enjoyed the treatment of 500,000 Ming troops, I really don't know whether to cry or laugh!

The cavalry of the anti-Songtsen Gampo alliance swept away the leaves like an autumn wind, and almost effortlessly, they killed all the more than 2,000 people in the Yalongnen Division, and captured tens of thousands of cattle and sheep and thousands of war horses.

Not counting these captured cattle and sheep, even the beheaded head can be exchanged for 6,000 yuan. Just went out for a walk, and a piece of money worth tens of thousands of yuan was in hand.

They have never made such easy money.

Now they are faced with a problem. Whether to continue to sweep around, or to take the head to Chen Ying.

"Further south is the tribal pasture of the Yalongwei tribe, I am afraid that they have long been heavily guarded, it is difficult for us to take advantage of the situation, it is better to take it when we see it." A tribal leader of the anti-Songtsengan coalition proposed.

"There are more than 30,000 people in the Yalongwei Division, although most of them followed Songtsen Gampo to send troops to the Subi country, but there are more than 10,000 people left, 30,000 Guan" Another tribal leader glared at him and shouted: "Why don't you try?" Why don't we bring these people along? Let them share the bounty for no reason? ”

"It's not a try, it's a gamble! If something happens to the target......"

"I'm afraid of a fart, although Alon Weyne is strong, they will never be the opponent of the Tang people."