Chapter 1094 Traveling to Pingcheng (Part 1)
When Hutou left Beijing, he heard that Taibao Pan Tao had passed away, and he couldn't help but sigh.
The Pan family in Xingyang and the Yu family in Yingchuan were very close, but Hutou and Pan Tao's grandson Pan Dan had a good relationship.
Pan Dan is five years older than him, but the two have had many interactions since childhood and often go out, hunt and enjoy together. Because of this, Pan Dan did not follow the family's political tendencies, but instead devoted himself to the Yan Prince's Mansion and served as the Left General Staff. He is currently cooperating with county officials in Youzhou to check the fief and household registration.
Of course, now he is going home to mourn.
Hutou temporarily delayed his trip and came to the door to worship, then turned north.
The guards have been expanded to 400, and the newly added are the children of the two county soldiers in Chenliu and Henan.
The title of the prince is very easy to use. He raised the banner and recruited hundreds of people, and they are all strong and powerful with a certain martial arts and a foundation in war.
For the soldiers of the Right Cavalry Guard and the Left Jinwu Guard, the King of Yan also helped them solve the problem of excessive family members, giving these nephews a place to go, which is a win-win situation.
When passing by Shangdang, Liu Runzhong held a banquet to entertain the group, and asked his daughter to come out to toast and dance.
Good guy, I gave my daughters who were not given to Shao Xun and wanted to give them to King Yan again. The Hu people are really not particular about it...
Tiger head refused.
He stayed in Shangdang for several days. On the one hand, he replenished food and raised horses, and on the other hand, he was also observing the people's sentiment of Shangdang.
Sheren Guo Shi is from Taiyuan. He saw it clearly: "There are many schools. In the past, I heard that counties with more Hu people such as Kelan, Pingyang, and Taiyuan had county doctors and county doctors, recruiting children of Hu Han from county and county to study, and dozens of people in each school. Now Shangdang also has it, and almost every county has a sound of reading. In time, the Hu wind gradually fades and the prosperity wind is getting stronger, and the people's sentiments will definitely change greatly."
Hutou was chewing half a piece of cheese in his mouth. After hearing this, he said, "I think that Liu Run and the middle generation had a greater effect on building a mansion and living a gentry life. The so-called upward and downward effect, will the clan leader and tribal adults not follow the example?"
"The king said it is." Guo Shi smiled and said, "The Guo family in Taiyuan has been in war for a long time. In order to ensure that the family members have not fallen, their clan members have been scattered in Taiyuan counties and even Wei counties. Many people have long lost their family business. However, they have some of the heritage of their ancestors, so they are admired by the Hu chiefs and are competing for imitations. After changing their clothes and hair accessories, their children and nephews are also learning Xia Yan and compiling a family tree. After decades, no one can tell whether they are Han or Hu people, unless Liu Runzhong looks very different." "No matter how different the appearance is, I think it's almost the same for several generations. Liu Runzhong regrets letting his first two sons marry the daughter of the tribe's adults. After having all the sons, they basically marry the gentry of Bingzhou and the powerful. Who would marry who would marry yesterday?" Hutou asked. "Follow the Marquis of Zhenxiang of Cao Wei." Guo Shi replied.
Shen Yi was originally the General Jianxin of Shu Han and the Prefect of Xicheng. After surrendering to Wei, he was named Zhenxiang Marquis. His son Shen Zhe served as the Prefect of Shangdang during the Qinglong period, so he settled here.
At this moment, the Shen family no longer listed the genealogy of the gentry, but the clan took the path of strong military power and had a fort manor in Huguan County.
Although Liu Runzhong was the attendant of the dynasty, he was still inferior to his ancestry for his high nose and deep nose. The great gentry looked down on him, so he could only marry into the local gentry, the devastating poor family, and even the local tyrants whose ancestors were gentry.
When I married my daughter to the Sun family in Taiyuan, the rich dowry was shocking, and I might have thought of letting go - you always think of me as a newcomer without background, so I will spend money to show you!
As a local powerful faction that has been entrenched in Shangdang for a hundred years, it is normal for Liu Runzhong to marry a local tyrant. In the past, people might not have looked down on the Liu family.
"Huguan Shen family, Tunliu Bao family, Tunliu Cui family, Luxian Feng family, etc. either marry a daughter or a wife, which shows Liu Run's central ambition." Hutou smiled and said, "Although they are all settled, Liu Runzhong thinks it's good."
Guo Shi couldn't help laughing. The King of Yan really didn't give these local wealthy families of Shangdang.
To be honest, he also felt that the quality of these Shangdang tyrants was much worse than that of other places. Many of them were glorious in their ancestors, but now they are really defeated, and the genealogy may not be true.
For example, the Feng family of Nalu County, whose ancestors led Feng Ting, the prefect of Shangdang in South Korea, did not know whether it was true or not - this person was the direct fuse of the battle between Qin and Zhao Changping.
After diving the fields, these wealthy families had a harder life, and it was inevitable that they would marry Liu Runzhong.
To put it bluntly, the Jie people are the main population of Shangdang, and the Han people are not as large as the second largest ethnic group, and they also need strong support. "Did you think about what they are doing?" Hutou asked again.
"Look." Guo Shi replied, "The Jie people, Wuhuan people, and the Xiongnu people are actually building ponds."
When talking about this, Guo Shi always feels disillusioned.
In the past, the Huns farmed, but they "rely rely on heaven to harvest" and did not let go of their animal husbandry. Even, food cultivation may just be supplementary so that they can survive the famine and avoid large population losses.
But now it is obviously going to develop in a more refined agricultural planting direction. This is what the court strongly advocates and they also choose themselves. In the next few years, they will focus more and more on the planting industry, and less and less on livestock, gradually making farmland their main source of income, and the proportion of animal husbandry income has decreased year by year.
This trend has become irreversible, and the impact it brings is far-reaching, so Hutou is very clear--
"How the Wuhuan tribe in Guangning County, Youzhou will be disintegrated, and how the Jie tribe in Shangdang will be disintegrated." He only laughed and said, "In the future, there will be no tribe masters, only the Jie people's fortress owners and the manor masters. The clan leader will become a county and township tyrant, and the tribe masters will become powerful, and gradually they will no longer be affiliated with each other. The prefect and county magistrate appointed by the court can be directly controlled." "Your Highness is wise and has no talent." Guo Shi said sincerely.
Hutou acted as a gesture to hit him, but Guo Shi shrank his head and did not dare to hide.
Hutou retracted his hand and said, "Let's go, go to Pingcheng. Try the teams that deliver food, don't delay the trip."
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Since Shangdang went north, he soon entered Taiyuan County. This is a place with a strong smell of military service.
The 9,600 soldiers and troops of the Right Jinwu Guard, totaling nearly 40,000 households, constitute the main population of the counties in Taiyuan.
The once arrogant tyrants were first destroyed by war, and then suppressed by liquidation after the war, and they were all covered in dust. When they were traveling to the field, they could not resist even if they wanted to resist. After all, the family of the Right Jinwu Guard could theoretically dispatch nearly 40,000 soldiers with war experience. The devastated Taiyuan tyrants had no ability to resist at all, and they had no idea.
The prefect of Taiyuan and Hou Shaoguang of Yuancheng County were also a royal family. He was in Jinyang many years ago and protected this important town in northern Beijing for the Shaoliang Dynasty.
Hutou stayed here for several more days.
During this period, I took the time to visit Loufan and other counties in the west to see what the Hu people live in.
He even recruited hundreds of Huns who were skilled in cavalry and shooting as archers in the royal palace guards.
Overall, because of the existence of the palace soldiers and the powerful pressure, the Hu people living in the mountain pastures are still honest. Like Kelan County, they gradually developed the custom of farming in spring, then going up the mountain to grazing, and then returning to the mountain to spend the winter in autumn. As the saying goes, farming and pastoralism are both employed.
Basically, most tribes have a small piece of land and simple houses and livestock at the foot of the mountain, and the number of households is increasing. The court can gradually manage the middle and lower classes of these tribes, rather than having to deal with the upper classes of tribes during the Cao Wei and Sima Jin periods.
The more I looked at the tiger's head, the more I felt that the soldiers of the palace are really a powerful weapon to conquer the country. The most important thing is that they are still very good at fighting. If they are good at maintaining it, this set will probably last for hundreds of years.
He also understood more why his father tried every means to move out of the remnants of the government soldiers, with the purpose of allowing the family of the government soldiers to maintain the land without being divided and to extend the life of this system as much as possible.
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So, he also recruited soldiers from the government here, and obtained more than 200 people, all of which were organized into guards. The Yan King's Guardian now has more than 700 infantry and cavalry.
On the third day of the seventh month, the group passed Shiling Pass, entered Xinxing County, then passed Yanmen, and entered Mayi.
On the way, Hutou as usual recruited more than a hundred soldiers from the two county governments of Xinxing and Yanmen.
On July 15th, everyone arrived at Pingcheng, and the assistant minister of Dai State Wang Feng came to greet him in person. As for Mrs. Wang, she took her son and daughter and Dai State Tuoba Shiyijian to Liangcheng State for summer vacation. "Prince, 300,000 hu of grain and 40,000 pieces of silk are given by the court. I hope you can use it with great pleasure." When entering the city, Hutou looked at Wang Feng with a happy face and said softly.
Wang Feng replied repeatedly, but he still disagreed.
How much can a sixteen-year-old noble boy know? This grain was used to buy internal chiefs, divide the opposition forces, and maintain the rule of the royal family. After all, the grassland situation has undergone new changes.
The little boy also understands the inside story?
However, after all, he is the King of Yan of Daliang, and his grandfather is also the Prime Minister Wang Yan, so he cannot offend him. Therefore, Wang Feng's attitude is very good. He only heard him ask, "I wonder if Your Majesty has any instructions?"
"Where is Tuoba Jing?" Hutou asked. "In Liangcheng." Wang Feng replied.
Mrs. Wang gave birth to two sons for Shao Xun. The eldest son Yuanzhen is already six years old. He is still in Luoyang and is educated with the princes and princesses. Liangcheng Kingdom is handed over to his subordinates to take care of.
There are more than 50,000 people in the country, basically all the elderly, weak, women and children captured during the rebellion many years ago. After being disbanded, they were mixed and formed, and a tribe was re-formed, called "Yuan Tribe".
The second son was born in October last year and was named Tuoba Jing. According to the Xun Year, he is already two years old and is actually only nine months old.
However, although Tuoba Jing was young, Dai State was already discussing his title.
No doubt, this was another storm, so the tiger head escorted 300,000 hu of grain and 40,000 pieces of silk to come here.
Thutou certainly knew that he was here to wipe the grandfather's butt. He didn't mind and wanted to tease the new brother, which must be fun.
Of course, the fake brother Tuoba Shiyijian is more fun, and Hutou will not let him go. "I'm going to Liangcheng in a few days." Hutou said.
"I will send someone to report to the Grandma." Wang Feng nodded.
The tiger's head slams the reins and turns the horse's head.
"Where is your highness going?" Wang Feng said in surprise. He was already preparing for the banquet.
"The Protectorate of the Shanyu." Hutou replied concisely: "A banquet can be done at any time, this matter is even more important. If something goes wrong, I may be hung up and beaten by my father after returning to Luoyang."
After saying that, he rode away.
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