Chapter 333 Zhang Liao


Chapter 333 Zhang Liao

Why do the Kanto gentry despise and even resent the Xizhou gentry?

It's shameful to say that it's all because Xizhou scholars blocked them from getting rich.

Because of the avoidance principle of the Three Mutual Laws, local officials in Xizhou are generally from Kanto. These people are here to make a fortune.

Most of them are greedy and stubborn and only know how to exploit and bully the Qiang people, herd horses and livestock, and obtain good wealth. And because they are in a remote place and do not have the moral concerns of their hometown, these people are all greedy.

How can the Qiang people endure both abuse and greed?

So the Qiang people rebelled, and this time the rebellion was different from the past. That is, since the Qiang people were suppressed in the former Han Dynasty, a large number of Qiang people migrated to the fortress in the past hundred years, and even penetrated deep into the areas of Sanfu and Sanhe.

These attached Qiang people also could not escape the oppression of the officials, so during this chaos, the Qiang people inside and outside the Great Wall responded to each other and supported each other, directly bringing the war to the core area of ​​the Han Dynasty.

The annexation of the Qiang people was originally a national policy continued by the Han Dynasty. Its original intention was to disperse and disrupt the Qiang people, and then assimilate the Qiang people to the rehabilitated Han people, and then become the Han Dynasty's household registration system for the people.

There are examples to follow. During the reign of Emperor Wu, the Yue people were included and achieved great results. But why did they fail when they came to the Qiang people?

It turns out that the inner areas of the Qiang people are different from the inner areas of the Yue people. The Yue people are attached to the Jianghuai area, which is vast and sparsely populated, and has few conflicts with the local Han people. But the Qiang people are different. The areas they migrated to are Guanzhong and Sanhe areas, which are the core areas of the Han people.

When these Qiang people come here, they will not only be out of place, but they will also be enslaved by the Han people based on their superior status. This kind of slavery and suffering, in turn, strengthened the identity among the Qiang people.

At the beginning, the rebellion of the Qiang people did not affect the Guandong people's ability to earn wealth, but instead allowed them to make greater war fortunes.

At the beginning of the counter-rebellion, the Han Dynasty deliberately guarded against the northwest warriors and did not let the northwest heroes participate in the counter-rebellion. Instead, they continued to recruit soldiers and horses from Guandong to counter the rebellion.

In fact, the Han Dynasty's defense against Xizhou warriors was based on ancestral precepts. During the Han Dynasty, a series of powerful powers emerged in Xizhou. Among them, Lu Fang, Kai Xiao, and Dou Rong all had a decisive impact on the situation in the world.

Later, when Guangwu pacified Xizhou, he moved the Kui Xiao party members to Hongnong and the east of the capital. Dou Rong, Liang Tong, Ma Yuan and other Xizhou warriors were also transferred away from Xizhou and used for other purposes. Two thousand people in the Xizhou area Almost all the positions of Shi, governor, and governor were from Guandong.

Therefore, this time when the Qiang rebelled, the generals sent by the Han Dynasty and the county soldiers recruited came from Guandong.

At the beginning, the imperial court sent generals such as Deng Zhi, Sima Jun, and Pang Shen, all of whom were from Guandong, but they could not defeat them.

The reason why this war has been protracted for so long is certainly because the Qiang people have the fighting spirit to regard death as home. But this is not critical, because previous rebellions have also been suppressed.

The key here is that the people of Kanto discovered that this war is not a bad thing.

If the Qiang people rebel, won't they be able to capture prisoners and make them slaves?

Therefore, when the Qiang rebellion began, the county chiefs in Xizhou did not directly put down the rebellion, but used this as an excuse to start plundering the Qiang tribes under their rule. This situation directly expanded the situation of the rebellion. Originally, only a small number of rebellions began to sweep across the entire Xizhou.

However, these Qiang people were just forced to rebel, and they were not actually well prepared. They almost always used bamboo poles and branches as spears, or used wooden tables as supports. In short, their combat effectiveness was very poor.

But in this case, the heavily armed county officials could not control it.

Why?

Because these Guandong people were not only cruel to the Qiang people, but also cruel to the Xizhou heroes under their rule. They usually either defended or suppressed them. Now, if these people are asked to go up and stop the Qiang people, how can these people be willing?

However, the officials in Guandong are all floating officials. Without the support of these powerful locals, there would be no troops. In addition, they are here to make money and not to risk their lives, so they only need to protect their own city and ignore everything else.

As for those Qiang people who burned, killed and looted, it was not their hometown anyway, so they didn't feel bad.

After all, the interests of the Kanto people are in Kanto. What do the interests of you Kansai heroes and people have to do with them?

Some county officials even saw that the Qiang rebellion was getting more and more violent, and directly stated that they wanted to move to counties to avoid the enemy.

To put it bluntly, he just wanted to run away after seeing that he was messed up.

Since we are moving to a county, we need to bring the people with us. But the people love the land, and their homes and fields are all here. How can they be willing to follow the Guandong people to evacuate?

If the people don't leave, the county chief won't be able to leave. Therefore, the people of Guandong ordered to destroy crops, demolish houses and razed camp walls. In short, force them to leave.

Now, not only the Qiang people rebelled, but these Guanxi people also rebelled because of the harsh treatment of the Guandong people. Now the rebellion in Xizhou is even bigger.

At this point, it is no longer the matter of these Xizhou county guards. It has already reached the then cavalry general Deng Zhi. He directly wanted to abandon Liangzhou at the court meeting.

The impact of this matter is still great, which means that the people of Kanto completely ignore the interests of Kansai.

But fortunately, some people in Guandong were sober at that time and knew that Liangzhou could not be abandoned. However, with the people of Guandong as the general, they have not been able to calm down several times. Everyone knows that the interests involved are too great.

Everyone knows where the huge sum of money spent on this war has gone.

You must know that in order to quell the rebellion, the imperial court successively dispatched 50,000 troops from Sanhe, Sanfu, Runan, Nanyang, Yingchuan, Taiyuan, and Shangdang. Later, more troops were continuously added, and more than 200,000 troops were stationed in the three states.

The military expenditure here is almost more than 24 billion. This money was all embezzled by the generals in Guandong, who made it privately and bribed middle-ranking officials. These thieves are being suppressed more and more, and the Kanto generals are getting fatter and fatter.

The generals are greedy for money, so how can the soldiers below have the fighting spirit?

Another key point is that these Kwantung soldiers are foreign soldiers, and the quality of their discipline depends entirely on the restraint of the generals and the adequacy of supplies. But now that the higher-ups are so corrupt, these foreign soldiers can only rob it themselves.

In this way, no one at the top or bottom has the will to fight, and they cannot get the support of local powerful people. Can this war be won?

Therefore, the Kanto generals were defeated five times.

Deng Zhi was defeated by Jixi, Ren Shang was defeated by Pingxiang, Sima Jun was defeated by Dingxi City, Ma Xian was defeated by Shegu Mountain, and Zhao Chong was defeated by Manyin River.

At this stage, even the country knows that the Kanto people cannot use it. Otherwise, if this continues, the counties in Guandong will also have troubles due to raising military expenditures.

At this point, the Han Dynasty could only make a decision that went against their ancestors, which was to use local generals and soldiers from Kansai.

In order to defend their hometown, these people must be full of fighting spirit.

So during the period of Emperor Huan, the Han Dynasty began to change its past tradition and no longer idle the Guanxi troops, becoming the absolute main force of the Pingqiang.

The Kansai soldiers are better than the Kanto soldiers in terms of tactics. Kansai has a lot of cavalry, so it is equipped with a large number of cavalry teams, which is suitable for mobile counterinsurgency.

Among them, the two cavalry troops protecting the Qiang captains were Huangzhongyi Congbing and Huangzhongyi Congbing Qianghu. Together with Wanqi, they became the absolute main force in countering the rebellion.

It was at this time that Kansai would also emerge from this process. Because Kansai soldiers can only be commanded by Kansai generals, the importance of Kansai generals can be imagined.

Among the many Kansai generals, three are the most outstanding.

They are Huangfu Gui, Zhang Huan and Duan Jiong. Among them, the first two were both used to suppress and appease the Qiang, and only Duan Jiong was from the Qiang-slaughtering faction.

But no matter how the three solved it, they all gained the love of the Kansai soldiers. Compared with the generals of Guandong who are not military-minded and corrupt. They are brave and good at fighting, well versed in military strategies, take the lead and care for their soldiers.

Even Dong Zhuo, who was known for his violent temper, was rewarded by the court with nine thousand pieces of silk after he performed meritorious service with Zhang Huan. He distributed all of them to the officials and soldiers, leaving nothing behind.

Comparing the Kanto generals and the Kansai generals, they can be described as clouds and mud. Relying on kindness and protecting their hometown, Guanxi General and his hometown children finally pacified the Qiang people and stabilized the border affairs in Xizhou. I thought everything was back to the starting point, when the great people in Guandong were planning to go to Xizhou again to make money for their official positions.

They found that everything had changed.

During the long period of countering the rebellion, the Kansai families have mastered huge amounts of force and have their own interest groups. It will be difficult for the Kanto people to do whatever they want in Xizhou.

As a result, the Guandong nobles who controlled the imperial court successively transferred Liangzhou Sanming and Xizhou away from each other for various reasons. However, these three people may still have Han Dynasty in mind and did not support their own troops.

But after leaving their homeland and losing their military power, the three people could only rely on various political forces until they were ruthlessly abandoned.

In fact, the Kansai Group, which has grown up and has its own extremely powerful force, is very powerful. With the Liangjiazi of the six counties as the core, Qin and Hu Yicong as their wings, and the Qiang and Hu as their minions, they have experienced hundreds of battles and are powerful in all directions.

Originally, they were still loyal to the Han Dynasty under the leadership of Huangfu Gui, Zhang Huan, and Duan Jiong, but with their tragic decline, they were once again played by the Guandong people.

The Kansai Group, which grew again, decided to be incompatible with the Kanto people.

It was also because of this deep-seated contradiction that Liu Hong arrived in Chang'an and quickly gained the support of the Kansai warriors. These Kansai people decided to fight a war that would determine their future destiny and return the Kansai people to the center of power.

So the Guandong court sent a letter to Liu Hong in Chang'an this time.

Liu Hong, who knew what he could rely on, was not a little embarrassed when he saw this extremely insulting letter. Instead, he passed the letter to all the Kansai generals.

When these men saw the arrogant Guandong people once again accusing them of being barbarians, they were filled with hatred and shame. The crowd was furious. In the court and in front of Liu Hong, they vowed to fight to the death with the Guandong people.

Looking at the powerful general below, Liu Hong also drew his sword and pointed it to the east, roaring:

"Then fight them!"

"Fight!"

For a moment, the crowd was excited.

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Since the Kanto court despises Kansai so much, the heroes of Kansai will defend their glory with iron and blood.

Later, Yuti flew from outside Chang'an and set off towards the counties of Yongliang and Yi.

The most popular direction is the northwest, which is the direction of the Six Counties. Those are the three counties of Tianshui, Longxi and Anding in Liangzhou, and the three counties of Beidi, Shangjun and Xihe in Shuofang.

Liu Hong wanted to recruit children from six counties to come to Chang'an to defend the Han Dynasty.

When the Emperor of the Han Dynasty ordered troops, the six counties would naturally be summoned. They don't recognize the new imperial court in Guandong. To these people, the latter is a rebellion even in the heavens.

In this way, thousands of heroes from six counties were summoned, bringing their own provisions, weapons, spears, armor and horses, and rolled into Chang'an along the galloping road.

Among the thousands of heroes from the six counties, there was one named Zhang Liao. Although he was from Yanmen, he also brought his children from his hometown to join the recruitment. He is Zhang Liao of Mayi.

Like countless good family members in the six counties, Zhang Liao, who was born into a powerful family in Mayi, also received severe training since he was a child.

In addition to learning Yayan since childhood, they also need to learn Xianbei dialect and Xiongnu dialect. Yayan was used to make it easier for him to travel to the capital in the future, while Xianbei and Xiongnu dialects were used to enable Zhang Liao to deal with local relations.

As the front line against Xianbei, Yanmen rarely needed this kind of language, and there were many Huns in Yanmen. The local Zhang family rarely had to deal with these people whether doing business or recruiting Hun warriors.

In addition to these language studies, Zhang Liao also needs to learn some scriptures. Although not many, he must be able to read and write, because this is a compulsory study for the good families in the six counties.

But these literature and arts are just embellishments in Zhang Liao's life for more than ten years. All the good families in the six counties only have three things on the road of growth, that is, swords, bows, and horses.

Zhang Liao got his first real sword from his father when he was ten years old. Before that, he had used wooden swords for several years to train basic fighting skills. Zhang Liao spent his childhood playing with knives.

After he grows up, Zhang Liao will join the hunting with the descendants of Yanmen's wealthy family.

Only in hunting can these frontier warriors master the bow and horse fighting skills and mounted fighting tactics. Because hunting is the activity closest to war, which can be seen from the Xianbei people.

The reason why the Xianbei people are natural cavalry is because they have a lot of hunting activities and have honed their combat skills and coordination.

But the Xianbei people's training is just like cavalry at best. It is completely different from the Liujun Liangjiazi's method of cultivating knights and warriors.

The hunting of the Han knights was almost like a small war.

Every son of a wealthy family must prepare his own food, riding, war horses, and weapons. Then once hunting, no matter the cold or heat, no matter whether you get enough sleep or not, you have to endure pain and obey military law.

During hunting, a qualified Knight of the Six Counties must understand the habits of prey, learn to observe the hunting ground, be able to deal with various emergencies of the mount, and most importantly, use the sword and bow in his hand to kill.

In this way, Zhang Liao would participate in hunting with his friends from Yanmen every year, and his patience, courage, and combat skills grew from this process.

Although Zhang Liao is young, he is very brave.

Among his peers, he is most praised for his bow skills. He can shoot hundreds of arrows continuously during hunting, and he can also shoot the eagles in the sky. He has already reached the level of a grassland eagle shooter.

But hunting can only hone the riding, shooting and cooperation of the children of the six counties, but he cannot hone the impact of cavalry fighting.

For the knights of the Han family, their world-leading ability is the impact of the horse with one hand. Several Han family sudden riders cooperate in the battle formation, and one man can act as five barbarians.

Therefore, in order to practice the sudden riding tactics, Zhang Liao also participated in the local sudden riding competition in Yanmen. This is a kind of competition in which the headless horses attack each other.

Because of the danger, there are only a few people who can participate. Therefore, in order to hone their combat skills, heroes like Zhang Liao need to travel to Yanmen, Beidi, Shangjun, and Anding. It is also through this kind of competition that the children of the six counties have their respective interpersonal circles.

This time Zhang Liao participated in the recruitment of Han Emperor Liu Hong because he was invited by a friend.

This man is Fu Xun, a wealthy family in the North. After his family is Fu Jiezi, his uncle is Fu Xie. Fu Xie was left by Zhang Wen to guard Xingyang, but later he decisively abandoned the army during the Henan Shi rebellion.

Originally, he went back to Kyoto directly, but he didn't know about the national western inspection until he was on the way, so he rushed to Chang'an without stopping and stood on Liu Hong's side.

During this western expedition against the Kwantung Army, many generals in Kansai sided with Liu Hong. As far as one county in the North was concerned, the Fu family, the Liang family, and the Xie family all sacrificed their outstanding sons and vowed to To win this battle.

For the good fortune of the Kansai generals in the future, this time, they are united.

The discussion about cooperatives in the last chapter was actually something I expected. Many people think that this form is a very modern product, but in fact it is not. On the contrary, when we implemented this, it was regarded as a kind of retro, a supplement to the lack of productivity. When I wrote the previous chapter, I had sorted out the evolution of land policy. In fact, the commune system has a longer history, while private ownership is a so-called countercurrent.

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