81. The starting point of the voyage (medium)
In fact, Li Shushi still has some other thoughts about Liangzhou.
In his opinion, Liangzhou is still a little too big, especially on the road leading from the central and southern parts of Liangzhou to the northwest, there is only an extremely narrow terrain such as the Hexi Corridor, and it is this kind of terrain that divides Liangzhou into two major blocks, north and south, and it becomes extremely inconvenient to transmit information between the north and south of Liangzhou.
Therefore, Li Shushi has always planned to split Liangzhou again, and the general plan is to take the western part of Zhangye County as the boundary, abolish the Zhangye Juyan subject state and the Zhangye subject state, and set up a new county with the Zhangye Juyan subject state as the core, which is probably the Xihai County established later in the Jian'an period in the history of another plane, and then form a new state with the new county plus Jiuquan and Dunhuang counties and Yiwu City and the surrounding areas in the eastern part of the Western Regions, and the remaining part is the new scope of Liangzhou.
This new state can not only serve as a forward barrier against attacks from the Western Regions, but also become the fastest backup base for the Western Regions Protectorate, with a more definite pivotal attribute.
Of course, the above is just one of Li Shushi's personal thoughts, and when the northern part of Liangzhou cannot support the scale of a state in terms of population and production capacity, this idea can only stay in his mind. And in Li Shushi's view, Ban Fu's integration of the Western Regions is far from complete, and with the old general's reverence for his ancestors, he probably hopes to complete that great cause independently.
Yongzhou, speaking of which is still an ancient domain name, is the name of the part of the land located in the northwest when Yu divided the world into Kyushu, and the scope probably includes Shuozhou and Xinliangzhou. It's a pity that the stars have shifted with the turn of the bucket. The world has changed, the original ancient term has now disappeared in the long river of history, although it can still be salvaged from the long river of time in a certain period of time, but it will not take long to return to the long river and slowly rise and fall with the passage of time.
And now, Li Shushi once again salvaged it again, but this time the land represented by Yongzhou is no longer the far northwest, but includes Sanfu, the remaining three counties of Hanyang, Longxi and Wudu in the original Liangzhou, plus Yinping County, which has been regarded as a bag by the Bingzhou army, which is now a Guanghan subject country that now belongs to Yizhou, such a land located in the west of the Han Dynasty.
The reason why the Guanghan vassal state, which originally belonged to Yizhou, was included in the newly established Yongzhou was also thanks to Dong Zhuo's Yu Ze.
It is said that Dong Zhuo had been the governor of the northern part of Shu County in Shu County in Yizhou for several years.
The topography of this Shu County can be said to be extremely interesting. Its southeastern region is the western part of the Sichuan Basin. The famous Jinguan City is located on the banks of the Tuojiang River, which flows through it. It can be said that the southern part of Shu County is a fertile land and flowers, and it is not a problem to describe it no matter what kind of beautiful words it is, and the world-famous Shu brocade is a hard currency that will never depreciate.
However, in the central and northern areas of Shu County, it rushed all the way up into the western Sichuan Plateau. Among them, the northernmost road of Shu County is located at the western foot of the Minshan Mountain Range. That is to say, go upstream along the Min River. After crossing the road, it will not take long to reach more than 500 miles in length and more than 300 miles in width. The total area is about 15,200 square kilometers, and the Songpan grassland is more than 3,500 meters above sea level.
What the? Why do I want to describe this Songpan meadow in such detail, you ask?
Well, although it seems a bit off-topic, it is estimated that some people should have reacted, because this Songpan grassland, which is run by the Heihe River (also known as the Moqu River) and the Baihe River (also known as the Gequ River) from south to north, is the meadow that was stepped on in the very famous "snowy mountains and grasslands" in the Long March, which is known as one of the miracles in human military history.
Although there is abundant water and grass here, because this grassland is located in a low-lying area, the confluence of the two longitudinal meadows is meandering (so the name has to emphasize a twisted word), so it is more accurate to say that this place is not so much a meadow as a plateau wetland or a muddy swamp.
It can be said that the Red Army suffered so much that the great comrade chairman said in his future poems that he would rather like to climb snow-capped mountains than dare to recall the painful life of living on the meadows.
Okay, that's really a bit of a stretch, pull back, pull back.
The terrain in the central and northern parts of Shu County is roughly like this, except for the high mountains.
Such terrain was naturally extremely difficult for the Han Chinese who occupied the fertile land of the Sichuan Basin, and not many people wanted to live in such a difficult place except for those who had fled or were born hunters.
Therefore, the Qiang and Di people, who were driven out of their original homeland by the Han people, became the masters of this kind of place.
Even the Han people can't ignore this influence, don't you see that many county-level units in the western part of the Han Dynasty have the word "Di", for example, Shu County has a Dao, Guanghan belongs to the state of Diandi, and Longxi has a Dao.
Anyone will yearn for a better life, and no one wants to lose that good life, so for those Di tribes close to Jinguan City, the Han people have never relaxed their care and strangulation of them.
It is said that the Qiang people are not separated, and even the best ethnologists cannot decipher the intricate relationship between these two major tribal populations, but it is certain that in the face of the strangulation of the Han people, the Di people will naturally not forget to call friends, which is naturally indispensable to the Qiang tribe from the north - anyway, they were originally not far apart.
And what Dong Zhuo served as the northern governor of Shu County needed to face was such a group of enemies.
In history, Dong Zhuo's troops are known for having more Hu people than Han people, on the one hand, because Lao Dong fought too fiercely and the dead were too ruthless, and the population of Longxi and even the entire Liangzhou was relatively limited. Therefore, it is estimated that it is not easy to recruit enough soldiers from the Han Chinese. On the contrary, it is much easier to obtain Hu soldiers.
The land where the Hu people live is more desolate and difficult than that of the Han people, so they are more tenacious in character. It is also easier to adapt to the hard military life and the brutal war. In addition, although the battle losses with Dong Zhuo were huge, if he could survive, he would be able to get a lot of rewards, Dong Zhuo often gave all the rewards to his subordinates from the imperial court, and even if he couldn't get a reward from the imperial court, he would often pay out of his own pocket so that his soldiers could get something after a hard battle. Comparing this harvest with the risks and harvests that nomadism needs to take, it is no wonder that the strategy pursued by the entire Eastern Han Dynasty to raze was tried and tested.
Such a style of acting coupled with Dong Zhuo's bravery, Enwei and Shi made Dong Zhuo's reputation in the Qianghu rise steadily, even if throughout Dong Zhuo's early promotion path, almost stepping on the blood of the Qianghu step by step, but it did not affect his great prestige in the west.
Not to mention that in addition to the recruited soldiers, another reinforcement of Dong Zhuo's foreign soldiers was those who were defeated and surrendered. Some of these captives came from wars between interracial tribes. Some were captured in the battle with Dong Zhuo.
It can be said that nomads have always been a huge headache to the farming people, because the national characteristics determine that the nomads are on the attacking side most of the time, and the excellent mobility allows the farming people to defeat them with various advantages, but it is extremely difficult to annihilate them completely. Even if it is easy to encircle and annihilate the enemy. What to do with captives who surrendered is also a big question. In particular, the Qiang people, located in the northwest of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is also in this game of cat and mouse that he has developed a cunning character.
They were well aware of the fighting power of the Han border army, so if the situation was not good, they could surrender lightly, and then surrender some looting and settle down for a while before rebelling again. Such repeated rebellions were a great headache for the Eastern Han government.
You can choose to kill all the captives. But in the face of the intricate Qiang tribe, it is difficult for you to guarantee that you will kill or lead to a new mortal enemy this time, a small strong mortal enemy that will never die and will be born again in the spring breeze.
In fact, in the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu Liu Yeboar was born because of the rough treatment of the Qiang people, and such a stupid Qiang tribe was born, and the descendants tossed the Han Dynasty for more than 100 years.
Unless you can deal with tens of thousands of Qiang people at once like Duan Cheng Duan Butcher, and let Dongqiang be completely wiped off the map.
However, such a deterrent also collapsed under the chaotic rule of officials in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, and in the face of the oppression of Han officials from other towns, as well as the instigation of those uneasy tribal leaders, the already rebellious Qiang people became more fearless of death.
Therefore, among the people who have handled the Qianghu issue better, Dong Zhuo must definitely be counted as one.
Specifically, when Dong Zhuo served as the governor of the north, the battle with the Di people was naturally indispensable, and then the Qiang people in the north were also involved, and then after omitting the battle plot of 30,000 words in five chapters, Dong Zhuo won a brilliant victory, and then achieved the epic achievement of "Weizhen Shudi", and harvested a large number of prisoners and volunteers, a large part of these people became one of the "Eight Western Qiangs" of the alien corps with the strongest combat effectiveness under Dong Zhuo.
As for those Qiang people who did not join Dong Zhuo's army, they have always had a kind of admiration and fear for Dong Zhuo.
This is not only true of the northern region of Shu County, but also the Qiang tribes of Guanghan and Wudu.
Originally, the best inheritor of this political inheritance was Dong Zhuo's descendants or subordinates, but unfortunately Wang Yun and Lu Zhi's plan was quite decisive at the beginning, except for the Dong family's little Lori and Li Ru's husband and wife who escaped in advance, Dong Zhuo's family can be said to have been wiped out.
As for Dong Zhuo's subordinates, the just-concluded battle of Guanzhong can be said to be their final farewell.
In this way, Li Shushi has the opportunity to inherit this inheritance.
Although one of Dong Zhuo's sons-in-law is now hiding in an unknown corner to enjoy leisure, his ambition is not dead, and Li Shushi will not let him take money and not work, and he will come forward to help Wu Ze and Li Kang, even if he can only be incognito, but it should still be able to have a good effect, and it can also make the two young people suffer less losses when facing the Yizhou soldiers.
In addition, in addition to military contributions, Li Ru actually had a mission, that is, to go to Wudu County to help Li Dang reopen the copper official and mine copper. In order to quell the hyperinflation that began in the Guanzhong region since Dong Zhuo came to power, Li Shushi obviously needed to unify the value of the currency, and naturally needed a large amount of copper materials to mint new copper coins.
In other words, the copper content of the "little money" left by Dong Zhuo is really sad and tearful, and there is no value of recasting at all.
Although Li Kang did not have the right to mint coins privately. However, with his excellent business acumen and so many years of experience in Shuozhou, Wu can rely on some of his own advantages to become the strategic fulcrum of the Bingzhou army to peep into the east and west of Yizhou.
In fact, if it weren't for the close proximity of Shu County to Chengdu, Ruxian, and Jinzhu, the core areas of Yizhou's rule, any small action would have caused a strong backlash from Yizhou, and Li Shushi would have been eager to push it all the way.
Although there is not much arable land cultivated in the 100,000 mountains, and it can't feed too many people, the mountains are full of treasures, and all kinds of gold, silver, copper and other monetary metals alone are enough to make Li Shushi wake up in the middle of the night drooling and laughing.
Over there, don't laugh, don't laugh. Do you know that there is a saying called "If you don't know how expensive firewood and rice are not at home", ah, Hu!
As for the history of this Yongzhou. Li Shushi originally planned to recommend Guo Yi, who has worked hard for many years, is diligent, hardworking, and has a good son, but unfortunately, anyone with a discerning eye knows the status of Yongzhou very well, and even if he puts aside the various interests of other regions in Yongzhou, just one Sanfu is enough to make many people break their heads.
As long as I think of it, even old men like Huangfu Song and Sima Fang, who have retired to the second line, are showing themselves and selling themselves openly and secretly. Li Shushi suddenly felt an inexplicable excitement.
Back then, you ignored me. Now I can't make you climb!
That's probably the mood.
However, judging from the fact that the history of the thorns in Yongliang and Liangzhou is so popular. More and more people have begun to be optimistic about the future of the Bingzhou army, at least they also think that the Bingzhou will occupy these places for a long time, otherwise the urine of the Eastern Han people. They could have closed the door and then reclined in their homes, which would not only enhance their reputation, but also have a good reputation as "not following thieves".
But it is precisely because he is worried that Li Shushi will be able to occupy this place for a long time, and once he is away from the officialdom for a long time, then the influence of the family will be reduced, and the family's property will be gradually embezzled by those families who support the state army. Even if he waits for the new master, the family has long since changed from the original prestigious family to an ordinary poor family, and the glory of the ancestors is just talking.
The result was this hot and hot position in the history of the assassination, and finally fell to Zhu Jun, the veteran general who was famous for his military exploits most of the time, and can also be said to be the last batch of outstanding generals in the late Han Dynasty who could be praised.
The reason why Zhu Jun was used was that he was also very interested in this position, even if the state assassin under Li Shushi could only manage civil affairs and local security, but it was just suitable for Zhu Jun, who was already planning to gradually move away from the battlefield, and Zhu Jun had also done Hanoi Taishou, Henan Yin and Shaofu, and he had some experience. In addition, Zhu Jun also worked as a servant, and he also had a little experience in managing animal husbandry, which could help Li Shushi re-implement horse politics in Yongzhou and open a horse farm.
Although the main person in charge of this matter is Miss Luo He, the "agricultural expert" that Li Shushi relies on the most.
Second, it is because of Zhu Jun's personal reputation in the world. Although this old general from a good background is not from a family, as a capable official, he has also come up step by step, and will not be completely rejected by the circle of scholars. And as a famous general at the end of the Han Dynasty, even if he can't compare with Lu Zhi and Huangfu Song in terms of ability, he has also made great contributions to the Han Dynasty.
Especially during the reign of Dong Zhuo, Huangfu Song hid in Bingzhou to enjoy leisure, Lu Zhi endured humiliation and burdens in Shuozhou to fulfill the last wish of the first emperor Liu Hong, only Zhu Jun repeatedly admonished in the court, which made Dong Zhuo quite helpless. After Dong Zhuo moved the capital to Chang'an, Zhu Jun reorganized his troops on the ruins of Luoyang City, and led his men and horses to fight guerrillas with the troops left behind by Dong Zhuo's army. Even if he had to move to the Zhongmu region because of the supernatural events that happened in Luoyang City, such an act still made the world awe-inspiring.
In fact, Mu Taoqian of Xuzhou, who was also from Yangzhou, once funded Zhu Jun's 3,000 men and horses and a lot of military funds, and used this as a demonstration to make other princes also get some soldiers, horses, grain and grass, and after the disbandment of the coalition army, they cobbled together a large army.
Although this army was quickly defeated by Dong Zhuo's army sent by Dong Zhuo with Li Dao as the main general. But Zhu Jun seems to be possessed by Wellington's soul, it doesn't seem right, it should be Wellington possessed by Zhu Jun's soul, and it doesn't seem right, so let Zhu Jun Xiaoqiang possess him, and let Zhu Jun collect the defeated army and run it in Henan not long after.
There was even a period of time when Tao Qian asked Zhu Jun to be the leader of the alliance and lead the princes of the world to rescue the emperor who was trapped in Chang'an, but at that time, the hearts of the princes were scattered, and at this time it was finally over, but no one said that Zhu Jun was not qualified to be the leader of the alliance.
Even the former alliance leader Yuan Shao and the arrogant Yuan Shu acquiesced to this statement after thinking about it.
Maybe the two of them felt that the allies would not appear anyway, so they were happy to push the boat, but this also reflected from one side what kind of status and popularity Zhu Jun had reached in Shilin at this time.
In the history of another plane, after Liu Bei took Yizhou, he needed to reward his ministers. There is no name of Xu Jing in the list of rewards. Because although this guy is very famous, in the Chengdu offensive and defensive battle, Xu Jing, who was the Taishou of Shu County, tried to secretly jump down from the city wall to join Liu Beijun during the war - this is nothing, but he also failed to let Liu Zhang be caught, if it wasn't for Liu Zhang's intention to surrender at that time, maybe Xu Jing had been used by Liu Zhang to kill chickens to show the monkey click.
Therefore, Liu Bei is extremely contemptuous of this guy who has an empty reputation but has no will quality, and has no ability and ability, so naturally he will not give him any official position, let alone the issue of rewards.
But at this time, the mastermind Fa Zheng beside Liu Bei spoke out, and he persuaded Liu Bei: There are people in the world who have a false reputation but no reality, and Xu Jing is also. However, now the lord has created a great cause, and the people of the world can not say, the floating name of Jing, sowing all over the world, if it is rude, the people of the world think that the lord is a cheap and virtuous person. It is advisable to be respectful, to dazzle far and near, and to recall the treatment of Guo Kui by King Yan in the past.
This passage translates to say: There is a kind of person in this world who has a false name but does not do practical things, and Xu Jing is the best example. But the lord, you have just started your business, the world is so big, you can't go door to door to sweep the streets, and Xu Jing's false name is really known all over the world, if you can't respect him, the world will not say that Xu Jing is incompetent, but will only say that you Liu Bei is sloppy and talented. What is the most important thing in these years, talent, so the lord should show him great respect, even if he is acting, he must act so that far and near are fooled by your acting skills, just like King Yan Zhao treated Guo Kui who proposed the construction of the bone of Qianjin City.
As a result, Xu Jing was immediately promoted to Taifu by Liu Bei, a position that was half a level higher than the Third Duke in theory, although it was a fictitious position.
I don't know if Liu Chan's various styles of acting are the credit of this Mrs. Xu.
In addition, Zhuge Liang also gave a similar advice to Fa Zheng in this matter, but considering Fa Zheng's status in Liu Bei's mind and Zhuge Liang's status at that time, it is obvious that Fa Zheng's words are the fundamental reason why Xu Jing was put up.
By the way, since Xishu offered Xu Jing up, it seems that the world has really been fooled, for example, Wang Lang's letter to Xu Jing called Cao Pi the emperor Every time he talked about Xu Jing at the banquet, he called him "the head". It also made the Wei scholar class represented by Hua Xin greatly change their view of the Shu regime.
Zhu Jun's reputation is no worse than Xu Jing's now, and his ability is even higher than Xu Jing's, and he can subdue those large and small but deep-rooted families in the Sanfu region. It can also provide the experience and judgment of an old general for the war in Yongzhou.
Pan Sen: Add more to say, touch the local tyrant Qianqian sauce~ (to be continued......)