Although the battle of Lingzhou was won cleanly, from the dispatch of troops and the bloodless opening of the city to Lingzhou, it only took a few days. It was better than the best situation Zhao Kai had imagined before the war!
However, the aftermath of the war in Lingzhou turned out to be more troublesome than Zhao Kai expected...
Those big clans in Lingzhou, as well as the Tube and Qiang tribes in Hengshan, as well as the heads of clans such as Yu Zang, Da Bin, Mi Qing, Qu Lang, Fu'er, etc., all heard the false news from no one knows where. I thought that Zhao Kai, the Emperor of Luoyang in the Song Dynasty, especially liked beautiful girls with martial arts skills. Therefore, each family carefully prepared at least one girl with decent appearance, figure, and martial arts skills and sent them to Zhao Kai, hoping to show their loyalty in this way.
This is really bad!
This puts Zhao Kai and Zhao Guan's family in a dilemma... Rejecting it is not conducive to uniting the feudal lords of the Tibetan and Qiang tribes, nor is it conducive to the unification of the country and the tranquility of the border areas.
Accept it, the number of straight female students is already too high! And Zhao Kai can't always let nice girls be the straight ones forever!
Zhao Kai has to let them grow...from being a female classmate to a concubine, and then from a concubine to a concubine. And every growth means an expansion in the size of the palace and an increase in expenses!
This costs extra money!
In addition to adding money, when there are more people in the harem, there will inevitably be struggles... This is the legendary palace fight! Moreover, they were all women who were skilled in martial arts and even went to the battlefield with Zhao Kai to engage in palace fights. I wonder if there will be a fight in the harem?
Fights between female classmates due to competition for favor are not unheard of!
For the sake of peace in the palace, Zhao Kai also specially instructed Guo Tiannv to discipline her. And Guo Tiannu came to "blocking is worse than sparing". While private fighting was prohibited, several "fair gambling" projects were opened, such as horse racing, archery, sumo wrestling... Zhao Kai was invited to the scene. Watch and learn! I don’t know what this woman’s mentality is?
Although he didn't want it at all, Zhao Kai still had to pretend to be excited and patiently watch them demonstrate their martial arts. After watching, he had to praise them before accepting them... But he had to Admittedly, the women from the families of these Tibetan leaders are really good at martial arts, and some of them are not even inferior to Guo Tiannu!
As for their appearance, most of them are just ordinary. Only the woman named Yu Zang Jinnu sent by Yu Zang Zhongliang is quite outstanding.
This woman is only a little young, but she is already a bit graceful. She has a pair of big black eyes. When she looks at people, she shows a kind of wildness that is not found in women from the Central Plains. Her lips are red, as if she is wearing lipstick. As if, when he smiles, he will reveal his white teeth, which Zhao Kai likes very much.
After looking away from Yu Zang Jinnu, Zhao Kai saw the great monk Dalba who was not very reliable in Buddhism but was very good at doing things. Yu Zang Jinnu was the monk who asked Yu Zang for Zhao Kai. Zhongliang asked for it!
And standing next to the great monk Dalba is Yuzang Zhongliang himself... This is a handsome Tubo man, what a dashing man!
However, his big eyes, high nose bridge, wheat-colored skin, and well-proportioned figure are all of the same type as Yuzang Jinnu.
Obviously, he and Yuzang Jinnu are biological father and daughter!
This Yuzang Zhongliang is indeed as his name suggests, a loyal and honest second minister - although his family has served nine masters, he himself is only a second minister.
Zhao Kai saw that Jinnu was Yu Zang Zhongliang's biological daughter, and immediately smiled with satisfaction. At this time, he noticed that Yu Zang Zhongliang was holding two beautiful boxes, and he didn't know what was inside.
Thinking of this, he smiled and asked: "Zhongliang, what is in the box you are holding?"
Yuzang Zhongliang didn't speak Chinese well and couldn't understand what he heard. He only heard "box" and thought that Zhao Kai wanted to see what was inside the box, so he called his daughter Jin Nu to come over to help and brought the two boxes to Zhao Kai.
When Zhao Kai saw that all the boxes were brought, he didn't ask any more questions and smiled at Jin Slave: "Jin Slave, open it and take a look."
Yu Zangjinnu spoke Chinese a little better than his father. He responded and opened the box with a smile. Inside the box were two human heads that had been cut off alive by sharp tools - the heads also came with "emoticons" "! One of the old men had his mouth open and his eyes wide open, as if he was determined to die. There was also a head that once belonged to a young man, with a frightened expression.
Zhao Kai was looking at the beautiful woman a moment ago, and suddenly two heads popped out in front of his eyes. He was also shocked... But it was okay. Zhao Kai had a somewhat antisocial personality and became more violent after time travel, so when he saw The two heads didn't look frightened, they just frowned and asked, "Who are they? Why were their heads cut off?"
"When we go back to the official family," Yu Zangjinnu replied, and this girl was actually still smiling, "these two heads are Weiming Abao and Weiming Renli. My father wants to switch to the official family, and I'm afraid that the official family won't believe it. I borrowed their heads to show my loyalty to the officials."
"Oh, I borrowed it..." Zhao Kai nodded, "They both look like they will die with their eyes open!"
The great monk Dalba on the other side hurriedly interjected: "Please don't worry, officials. I have already transcended for them... Their souls have gone to the west and they will not turn into evil ghosts."
Zhao Kai laughed loudly (he could actually laugh), "I'm not afraid of any evil ghosts!"
He has "immortal thunder"! What are you afraid of?
"But..." Zhao Kai stopped smiling, "If you borrow something, you will return it. It's not difficult to borrow again... It's useless for me to come here with these two heads, so I'd better exchange them back as soon as possible!"
As he spoke, Zhao Kai waved to Yu Zang Jinnu, asking her to close the lid, and then return the two boxes to Yu Zang Zhongliang. There was a disciple of a great monk beside Yuzang Zhongliang who could speak Chinese and explained to him.
"The officials have told you to return the two heads to Donor Abao and Donor Renli. Don't keep them waiting."
"Okay," Yu Zang Zhongliang agreed repeatedly, "I will find a better leatherworker as soon as I get back and sew the head back on... It should be still too late!"
Is it too late to sew it back?
Zhao Kai was a little skeptical, but Yu Zang's Zhongliang behavior still had to be rewarded!
"Zhongliang, you did a great job!" Zhao Kai thought about it for a moment and then said, "I have decided to seal the territory north of Tiandu Mountain, west of Huluchuan, south and east of the Yellow River to you."
What Zhao Kaifeng granted to Yu Zang Zhongliang was actually the original territory of the Baotai Military Division, minus Mingsha City and Yingli City. Although these two cities were under the jurisdiction of the Baotai Military Division, they were not the territory of the Yu Zang Family. It was the territory of the Xixia court, so it was no problem not to give it to Yu Zangjia.
"Zhongliang," Zhao Kai said again, "I plan to set up a Baotai army on this territory, and appoint you as the Jiedushi envoy... and you are allowed to recommend Jiedu to stay behind!
From then on, the military and civilian affairs on the territory of the Baotai Army were all managed by Jiedu Envoys. In addition to the responsibility of running the army and protecting the people, Jiedushi also had to serve in the army. Every year, 1,000 cavalry were sent out to serve for 4 months.
In addition, after the Hexi, Western Regions, Qingtang and other places are surrendered in the future, I will also transfer the title of Baotai Army... Zhongliang, are you satisfied? "
"Satisfied, satisfied..." Yuzang Zhongliang, who understood what Zhao Kai said, how could he dare to be dissatisfied? He quickly knelt down and kowtowed, "Chen Yuzang is loyal and good, thanking the Lord for His kindness!"
Zhao Kai smiled and said to Yu Zang Zhongliang again: "Zhongliang, I will give you another Chinese surname, so it will be Zang. From now on, you will be called Zang Zhongliang! The Baotai Army will be handed over to your family... You can rest assured that I will not follow the example of my ancestors in cutting down vassals and taking away military power, but I will transfer the title to the Baotai Army. I will open up new territories in the future, and the Baotai Army will have great potential!"
This Baotai Army was the first Jiedushi envoy officially sealed by Zhao Kai!
This is a feudal town!
It sounds scary, but it's actually scary... but Zhao Kai has to be sealed!
Because as his army officially crosses the "inherent territory of the Song Dynasty", the local separatist forces he faces will become stronger and stronger. Therefore, the rule of changing officials cannot be implemented in all places. Even the three divisions of camp, appeasement, and capital control based on the military system cannot solve all problems.
It is imperative to canonize the military governor of the feudal town!
In addition to the Baotai Army, Zhao Kai will soon set up a Difficult Army with Xiao Heda as the military commander. Four defense envoys will also be set up in parts of Weizhou, Yanzhou, Youzhou, Xiazhou, and Yinzhou to arrange Fan Qiang leaders such as Dabin, Miqing, Qulang, and Fuer.
The Jiedu Envoy and the Defense Envoy are actually vassal towns that control the military and civilian affairs. The difference is only in the size of their power. A separatist force with territory of one state (government, military) or above can seal a military envoy, while those with less than one state can be designated as a defensive envoy.
Regardless of whether they are Jiedu envoys or defense envoys, they can all be transferred to the feudal lord... Zhao Kai will try his best not to reduce the vassal status, but only transfer the feudal lordship to others. These military envoys and defense envoys were gradually transferred to distant border areas.
In his opinion, the Jiedushi envoys created by the Tang Dynasty in history also had reasonable aspects. For example, the establishment of Hexi, Anxi, and Beiting three Jiedushi was very reasonable. Otherwise, how would the Tang Dynasty govern Hexi, Anxi, and Beiting, three large, far away, and complicated areas?
Without decentralizing power, would it be possible to use the Song Dynasty method? Can the military affairs of Anxi and Beiting be controlled from the center? It will take two or three months for the official formation map to be sent to the front line!
This is definitely not possible!
Not only was the formation command method ineffective, even peacetime military mobilization and mobilization before war could not be decided by the imperial court. Otherwise, after a few months, the enemy has taken away all the territory, and your edict for military mobilization is still on the way... How can this be possible?
Therefore, it is necessary and reasonable to delegate power to places like Xiyu and Beiting. However, there were great hidden dangers in the Tang Dynasty's centralization of power by Jiedu envoys, so Zhao Kai figured out the method of "separating the enfeoffments layer by layer" and "continuous transfer of enfeoffments". First create some hereditary "minor military envoys" and "defense envoys", and then establish temporary official positions such as great guardians and general managers who can govern them as needed (equivalent to the military envoys of large towns in the Tang Dynasty). At the same time, we will implement the transfer system of small sections and defensive envoys to allow them to continue to advance or move. In this way, it will be difficult to be firmly controlled by the Grand Protector and Grand Manager.
