As the New Year approaches, the situation outside the border is becoming clearer and clearer, and good news comes back every day. In the autumn, 100,000 soldiers from two routes of soldiers and horses went straight to the Khitan and Murowei grasslands, and began to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, completely consolidating the results of the battle.

Those who go along prosper, and those who go against it die!

Under the trampling of 100,000 iron hooves, the entire Northeast trembled. Under the banner of the Hunting Flying Eagle, all the northeastern tribes, from the Mongolian Plateau Pass to the east to the Tatar Strait of the Tatar Island, north to the vast snow country, and even west out of the plateau mountain pass, until they reached the Eastern Han Dynasty Three Kingdoms and the Sui Dynasty called the North Sea, the Tang Dynasty called the Xiaohai, and was successively controlled by the Xiongnu, Xianbei, Rouran, Turks, etc., after the end of the Bohai War, several large tribes in this vast area such as the Khitan, Murwei, Jin, Goguryeo, Tatar, Tiele, Uighur, Xi and other tribes have been defeated, and the vitality is greatly damaged, With almost the entire army gone, no one could stop the iron hooves of the Qin army.

Under the banner of the Flying Eagle, either surrender or be conquered by arrows and swords.

The subjugators, the tribes were ordered to move south, and they were to be dispersed and settled in the territory of the Qin domain, which stretched from Liaodong to Bohai, from Rehe to Beiping, and from Shanxi to Huaihai. Their young sons and daughters will be selected to go to the Central Plains for the new style of education in the Qin domain, and their young men and women will also be required not to marry within the clan, they must marry foreign women and marry foreign men. They were even required to cut their hairstyles into short haircuts, and women were not allowed to go bald, and even their clothes had to be changed to wear Hanfu and practice Han family etiquette.

The conditions of the Qin army were harsh, and they traveled thousands of miles south. It's not a direct south. Rather, all the subjugating tribes began with their tribal settlements. All the young and old began to build roads, one side to the south, and the other to build roads. Roads were built to converge in the northeast, and cobweb-like vertical and horizontal roads were built in the white mountains and black waters, forests and swamps, all the way to the south.

Although the Qin army promised that when they reached the south, the Qin king would give them land. The pasture will give them a better life than they do now. But the fear of the unknown still left them confused and panicked, coupled with the bad weather, heavy labor, people dying every day, fleeing every day, and even small rebellions of subjugated tribesmen at times.

For the rebels, what the Qin army gave was iron-blooded suppression and merciless slaughter.

There are many more fierce and savage tribes that refuse to submit, and they either join forces to resist. Either they will begin to migrate further north to the north and to the highland savannahs to the west. The rebels were mercilessly purged, and those who moved north and west were also pursued by several cavalry forces sent by the Qin army. Let them lose a lot.

For the Qin army, after defeating the tribes of the vast northeastern region, they will exercise real control here, and they will set up prefectures and counties and provinces, rather than the system of fetters as in the Han and Tang dynasties. From now on, in this land, the Qin Domain is the real master, whether it is the Khitan or the Murwei, they will only be a member of the Qin Domain, and they will not be allowed to have a chance to resurrect and make a comeback. This is also the reason why the Qin army practiced a hard-line strategy in the northeast that was completely different from that in the occupied areas of the Central Plains. First Liwei, then grace, in the white mountain and black water grassland forests where the strong are respected, the fist is the most important.

One by one, the tribes were subjugated, and one by one they were conquered.

One by one, the tribes continued to move south, and with their footsteps, behind them, one road after another was built from all directions, leading directly to Yanjing in the Guannei.

One after another, the corps triumphantly marched from the northeast, and at the same time, new frontier troops and the Baolu Army also assembled from the pass and marched to the northeast. The most elite troops triumphed, and the newly built troops opened the border gates.

When the end of the year was approaching, a full 400,000 elites had been withdrawn from the northeast, and there were also 12 legions composed of hundreds of large and small tribes outside the country, including the Bohai Sea.

This is a terrifying number, 400,000 Qin troops, 600,000 tribal troops.

Of course, this is a figure advertised to the outside world, in fact, the 400,000 Qin troops are indeed elite, but among them there are 150,000 unity soldiers and township soldiers recruited from the Guanwai area, and the combat troops are actually only five legions. And the so-called twelve tribal legions are even more exaggerated. Under the blows of the Qin army, the tribal army was wiped out, and even if it was captured and surrendered, not many of them were captured. Coupled with the remaining rabble of the Bohai State, there are not many real soldiers. These twelve tribal legions were actually Li Jing's forced conscription of the strong and even the young men of the larger tribes into an army. The establishment of this army was not really to use them to fight, but a strategy by Li Jing to evacuate the clan. Without the young men and young men, those tribes would have lost the backbone to resist the Qin Domain.

After these twelve legions went south, Li Jing did not even want to keep the establishment of one of the legions, he only planned to select one-tenth of the tribal warriors from the 600,000 people, and disorganized them into various units of the Qin army. Even the Ninth and Thirteenth Legions, the two Pure Fan Legions that had just made great achievements, would be immediately disbanded and re-added to the other armies.

As for the rest of the remaining Hu people, Li Jing planned to organize them into military cantonments one by one with the displaced people and Bohai people from other parts of the Central Plains, and send them to the newly occupied northeast region according to the production and construction corps of Taizu of this dynasty when he founded the country, establish military hoarding areas, develop the northeast, and build the northeast.

Li Jing thought about it very long-term, and he couldn't leave this large number of northeastern tribes and natives in the northeast, otherwise, it would become a big trouble sooner or later. But for the development of the Northeast, these indigenous people are the best candidates. Therefore, after thinking about it, Li Jing's plan was to move these northeastern tribes to the Central Plains, scatter them to various parts of the Qin Domain, and divide them into pieces to control the leaders of those tribes. Then, in a similar way to military service, these tribal men were conscripted into the production corps to develop the northeast. It is also for a period of five years, and you can return to your hometown after completing five years of service. In this way, the resources of the tribesmen are not only rationally used, but also do not allow them to take the opportunity to restore their strength in the northeast and cause future troubles.

Such a plan to relocate and resettle in the interior and then be called back to the Northeast to serve in the Northeast seems to be a bit of a circle, but this seems to be a redundant move. But it's very necessary. It is necessary to develop the Northeast. But the development of the Northeast was for the sake of the Qin Domain. In the long run, it is for the sake of the century-old plan of the descendants of the entire Central Plains Han nation. If the Northeast was developed later, but the tribes of the Northeast rose, wouldn't this be digging a hole for themselves, or even harming future generations? Therefore, all this is necessary.

Defeating the tribes of the Northeast is only the first step in the journey of thousands of miles, and there are many things to come.

But now, this is for the Qin Domain. It's not the most urgent thing anymore.

Seeing that the New Year was approaching, more and more troops returned to the Guannai from the northeast, and several important towns on the periphery of Yanjing, such as Shanhaiguan, Tangshan, Tianjin, Lulongsai, Junduguan, Mozhou Sanguan, Hejian, and Zijingguan, began to garrison large armies, numbering more than 500,000. The New Year is approaching, but these triumphant armies have not yet been granted leave.

With so many armies gathered, anyone could rush to a tense atmosphere where a major war was approaching.

At such a moment, Yang Fuguang is very anxious.

He knew very well in his heart that this posture of the Qin army was actually a demonstration, and the huge field army cluster of 100 corps and 500,000 troops of ten army corps was gathered in Hebei. In addition, Li Jing brought back from the northeast a full 120 corps of 120,000 tribal warriors, stationed in western Liaoxi, Rehe and Shanxi.

Say good negotiations. But the result was that Li Jing held a sword against his throat, how can this be discussed?

Yang Shouliang has already received accurate information through the detailed spy arranged by the staff of the Imperial Military Department in the Qin Domain, although the tribal army is not all elite, but the number of 600,000 is not bad, and the elite of the Qin army of 500,000 is absolutely infallible, and there are 300,000 elite soldiers in this 500,000 army, and the remaining 200,000 are also reserve troops that have fought in the Bohai Sea for several years. With the huge number of reserves of the Qin army and its mobilization capacity, the Qin army could gather at least 300,000 reserves in the north at any time.

He had confirmed this news several times, and it was completely correct.

"With the strength of the Qin army, it is completely possible to send troops south, why didn't they start fighting immediately, what are they waiting for?" Yang Shouliang was puzzled, in his opinion, if the imperial court had an army of millions, it would have sent troops directly to fight, and whoever was not satisfied would be beaten. But after Li Jing won a great victory in the Northeast, he actually had the intention to stop negotiating. And after they put forward such conditions yesterday, Li Jing actually backed down a few points, looking like he was very concerned about negotiations.

Anyone can see that with the current strength of the Qin army, with no worries, it will forcibly start a war with the Chang'an court, and the chances of victory are also on the side of the Qin army. But when the Qin army had such a chance of victory, it gathered a million troops in the northeast, stood still, and even secretly talked with them about the verdict.

"Could it be that there is a conspiracy, could it be that Li Jing wants to use negotiations to paralyze us, and then suddenly send troops?" Yang Shouliang only thought of this possibility.

Yang Shouyi shook his head, "I think Li Jing is very scheming, and it is difficult to guess his true thoughts, but maybe he wants to use force to deter and surrender without a fight, and wants to get what he wants directly at the negotiation table." ”

"Are you saying that Li Jing wants to get the four towns of Weibo, Chengde, Hedong and Xuanwu without bloodshed?"

"Or what Li Jing wants more is to borrow our hand and kill Li Keyong and Zhu Wen!" Yang Shouyi muttered, there has been a long-standing grudge between Li Keyong and Li Jing, and the Shatuo people are dissatisfied with Li Jing in every way, and they have been defeated repeatedly. Li Keyong now occupies the important town of Hedong, blocking Li Jing's road to Luoyang in the south and Chang'an in the west.

But even if you can guess what is the significance of Li Jing's purpose, Yang Fuguang on the side is sitting on the couch like an old monk, but his heart is troubled. He felt that his trip to Yanjing was doomed to be a failure. Li Jing sharpened the knife, but he took the initiative to jump to the door.

"Father-in-law, I think Li Jing's last move today shows that he cares about this negotiation very much and does not want the negotiation to break down. Therefore, I don't think we want to reach this negotiation unilaterally, it is better for us to be tougher, otherwise, blindly backing down will only allow the other side to arbitrarily slaughter. Yang Shouyi put forward his own views.

Yang Fuguang opened his eyes, shook his head with a wry smile, today the two sides only put forward their own initial conditions, and did not have substantive negotiations. However, judging from the conditions put forward by the two sides, it is too difficult to reach this negotiation, because the conditions of the two sides are so far apart that they are simply worlds apart. If you want to find common ground while reserving differences, you have to have at least some similarities, but they are too far apart.

Just now, Li Jing has sent someone to inform him that negotiations will continue tomorrow morning, but at this time, Yang Fuguang's heart is still in chaos, how to talk about this negotiation? (To be continued......)