In addition, the terrain in the northern part of Shaanxi Road is complex, which is not conducive to Northern Liao cavalry operations. Therefore, compared with Shanxi and Hebei Second Road, it has never been the main direction of the northern Liao border. Bei Liao moved southward several times, and Ningxiafu and Shaanxi Road in the northwest generally played a supporting role. The Yanshanfu line on Hebei Road and the Yunzhou line on Shanxi Road are the main directions of the northern Liao border.
Therefore, Huang Qiong believed that under the same situation that the Shaanxi Road Guards were not available, some border troops could be deployed to participate in the containment, so that the rebels could not attack the Shaanxi Road. As for the army on the right side of Longxi, the Ehuihe tribes currently in civil strife are no longer able to invade the border. It is only necessary to leave some border troops to contain the Tibetan tribes around Qinghai Lake and guard Yumen Pass.
The combat strength of the border troops far exceeded that of the guards in the interior. Each of the two routes will allocate part of its troops to cooperate with the guards with low combat effectiveness as the backbone to participate in the containment. This will not have much impact on the second route's defense of the border. Huang Qiong's idea is very simple. Use the border army as the backbone and cooperate with the guard army to form a large containment net. The rebels were trapped in Ningxia Prefecture, preventing them from fleeing.
Using the army sent by the imperial court as a sword, they attacked Ningxia with all their strength to encircle and suppress the rebels. At the same time, he used the Fan family's business network and the Nanzhen Fusi faction's detailed operations in Ningxia Mansion to make every effort to divide the rebels. This Tuoba rebellion also brought a large number of Han people with them. But people of our race must have different minds. The estrangement between the Han people and the Dangxiang people that has lasted for more than a hundred years cannot be resolved in a year or two.
Especially since the founding of the country, in order to consolidate its rule in Longyou. They have been trying every means to move the Han people to Longyou and vigorously support the local Han people. Even during the Emperor Gaozong's reign, he issued an imperial edict exempting the Han people in Longyou from the capitation tax, while the Dangxiang people were levied the capitation tax normally. At the same time, Han people were strongly encouraged to marry Dangxiang women, and it was clearly stipulated that Han people who married Dangxiang women would be exempted from land tax for three years.
Even after three years, only half of the land tax was collected in twenty years. If a Dangxiang woman marries a Han man, her natal family can also be exempted from the capitation tax for ten years. Even for a concubine, the land tax can be halved within three years. If a Han woman marries a Dangxiang man, the wife will be taxed heavily. Regardless of her husband's family or her natal family, the land tax and Ding tax will be doubled within twenty years.
If a Han man marries a Dangxiang or a woman marries a Dangxiang as a concubine, she will be directly sold into slavery by the official. Although laws and regulations have been relaxed in recent years, the local government basically no longer cares about Han men who take wives as wives or women as concubines, as long as they pay money. However, starting from the Gaozong Dynasty, the strategy of supporting local Han people to control the party had a profound impact. In order to get tax exemption, the local Han people took many Dangxiang people as wives and concubines.
In addition, if you marry your daughter to a Han, your family can also be exempted from the capitation tax for ten years. As a result, in the past hundred years, the local party members have even stopped being reborn as boys and reborn as girls. Even if he has a daughter, he still has to find ways to marry a Han man. Especially those Dangxiang families who gave birth to beautiful daughters would rather marry their daughters as concubines to ordinary Han people than marry them to Dangxiang people.
Because the Dangxiang people take wives, the nomads need to pay one hundred sheep. Cultivators also need to pay three stones of wheat as an additional tax. Although those powerful party members who are powerful and wealthy still have three wives and four concubines. However, there are many men who are ordinary party members who cannot afford to marry a wife because they cannot pay the extra taxes required for marriage or the sky-high betrothal gifts required to marry a wife.
Coupled with other problems, the contradiction between the Han people in Longyou and the party people was extremely deep. At present, although a large number of Han people are either coerced into joining the rebels, or they defect to the rebels for livelihood reasons. But as time goes by, it is impossible not to have conflicts. In this way, it will be extremely conducive to internal division and collapse. As for this brother Tuoba Jiqian, the rebellion is still brewing.
The planning of advance and retreat can be said to be orderly, but after the rebellion, they did the stupidest thing. On the second day after capturing Ningxia Prefecture, he issued an order for men to be bald in the name of restoring the honor of the ancestral party. All his subordinates were asked to shave off their knotted hair, which had been combed for more than a hundred years, like the Han people, and restore the ancestral hairstyle of the Dangxiang people. He took the lead in shaving off his hair as an example.
And this is not generally difficult to accept for the Han people who have to rely on their parents for their body, hair and skin. Even in Huang Qiong's opinion, Dangxiang people's hairstyles are more hygienic. But no matter what, what Han people pay attention to in this era is the knotted hairstyle they wear now. The baldness order issued by this man not only requires Dangxiang people to shave their heads, but also Han people.
They also required everyone to shave their heads within three days, and anyone who exceeded the deadline would be killed without mercy. Keep your hair but not your head, keep your head but not your hair. In this way, it is tantamount to further deepening the gap between the two races that were already deeply separated. Since ancient times, the most vulnerable part of a fortress is its interior. As long as we use a combination of suppression and appeasement to divide and disintegrate, and further divide it internally, there won't be any big problem in suppressing this rebellion.
After listening to Huang Qiong's thoughts, the emperor pondered for a long time, and finally nodded slightly: "Okay, I can agree to everything you want. The Longyou and Shaanxi border troops will be mobilized by you, and the Xijing camp will be at your disposal. Fifty thousand troops and horses are also at your disposal. The last time you went to Zhengzhou to quell the rebellion, I gave you the sword Shangfang, but I have never taken it back.
"This time you serve as the ambassador for the control of Longyou and Shaanxi's second-level system. You will continue to carry this sword of Shangfang. If officials below the second rank, including the second rank, do not listen to your orders, you can deal with them directly without asking for an order. That's it. If you are a military and political official such as the Envoy or Jiedu Envoy, you can also dismiss him directly. I am recommending a person to you, Zheng Daoyuan, the Warehousing Ambassador of the Ministry of Revenue, to serve as your third-rank political officer."
"This person has been an official in Longyou for many years, and he knows the terrain and people's conditions there very well. If he is your military and political officer, he can give you advice on the one hand, and on the other hand, he can coordinate the supply of food and grass for the army. As for this It is up to you to select the deputy envoys and military attaches above the third rank of the Privy Council, the Ministry of War, and the Front Office. As for the selection of troops and horses, I think this time I will dispatch the heroic cavalry battalion to fight."
"You led the old subordinates of the Xiaoqi Camp in Zhengzhou and selected the troops and horses of the Xiaoqi Camp to fight. It will be more convenient for you to command and mobilize. There will not be a group of arrogant and powerful generals who refuse to obey your dispatch. Ah Jiu, I should give it to you. . But you can only win this battle, never lose, and you can't even fight a defeat. As for why I request this, with your intelligence, you should still know it."
"As for the General Provisions Officer, I am here to take charge of it for you. But I am making a request for you, that is, the shorter the time it takes to counter the rebellion, the better, because the shorter it is, the less it will consume the imperial court's vitality. . The money and food you have painstakingly accumulated over the past six months, the court still needs to keep for emergencies and to prepare for shortages. They cannot all be spent on Longyou, let alone military expenditures."
After hearing the emperor's words, Huang Qiong did not answer him immediately. Instead, he pondered for a moment and said: "Father, since you have also handed over the Xijing camp to my son. I thought that this time Longyou To counter the rebellion, the four major battalions in the capital should not be mobilized. Most of the troops in the Xijing camp were brought back by the army from Longyou and Shaanxi. They are more familiar with Longyou and Xijing camp."
"My son thought that 20,000 troops and horses would be transferred from the Xijing camp as the main force to counter the rebellion. In addition to leaving 20,000 troops and horses to stay in Xijing, the remaining 30,000 troops and horses would be transferred to the border of Shaanxi and Longyou. There is enough to spare. As for the Xiaoqi camp, which is far away, it takes too much time to get to Longyou from the capital. If it is not far away, I think it is more convenient to transfer the Xijing camp. "
"I ask my father to issue an imperial edict to mobilize 20,000 troops and horses from the Xijing camp to enter the Qingyang Mansion. 10,000 troops and horses will be transferred to the border area of Longyou and Shaanxi to participate in the containment of the Ningxia rebels. After my son returned to the mansion to explain, He immediately rushed to Qingyang Mansion and tried his best to arrive in the shortest possible time. My father and I have appointed Zhang Qian as the new Ningxia magistrate. He will arrive in the capital within a day or two."
"My son, I hope that after my son leaves, my father will urge him to speed up. As for my son's marriage, I think that the military situation is in trouble, so I can't take care of it for the time being, so I can only postpone it for now. The Guilin County Prince, there is still We need to be comforted by my father. The rebellion in Ningxia Mansion is just a scabies problem for the imperial court. Getting back the right to overseas trade as soon as possible is the foundation of our dynasty."
After Huang Qiong finished speaking, the emperor fell into deep thought when he heard Huang Qiong mention Zhang Qian and his marriage. After a long time, he raised his head and said: "Your wedding will be held as usual. Although the military situation is very good, your wedding will be the day after tomorrow, and the preparations have been completed. At Longyou, let your selected deputy envoy be in charge first. After your wedding, We are rushing to Longyou. The situation in Longyou is not that bad yet."
"It shouldn't be a big problem for two or three days at night. However, don't think about returning home or anything. Whether you can survive your wedding night with candles and candles, I also have to see how the situation changes. As for Guilin The prince, humph, I'm afraid he won't care too much whether you will come back. He is eager to return home now, and he doesn't want to stay in the capital for one more day."
"As for Zhang Qian, how come you remembered this man and made him the prefect of Ningxia? This man is a die-hard prince's party, and he has a lot of personal grudges with you, and has had conflicts more than once. Although there is a reason for everything. , but if you hadn’t uncovered his old background, he wouldn’t have been demoted to Yongzhou by me. Aren’t you afraid that if he was transferred to Ningxia Prefecture, he would secretly do something to hinder you? "
After the emperor finished speaking, he looked at Huang Qiong with a thoughtful look. Facing the emperor's appraising eyes, Huang Qiong shook his head and said: "It's true that I have a personal grudge against this person, but a grudge is a private grudge. This man still has talent and ability. The things he did in the capital are just It's just for the sake of making money for the prince. And when this person is in the Jingzhao Mansion, no official son dares to act recklessly."
"This is enough to show that this person is still capable. Ningxia Mansion is currently in chaos, and it needs someone with an iron fist and proficiency in government affairs to take over as the new magistrate. As for the others, I want this Over the years, he should have thought it through in Yongzhou. If he takes office in Ningxia and his old habits return, I will definitely not be merciful. "
"When the time comes, you can deal with it as you want. As for now, I think you should give him a chance to use his abilities. Father, don't worry, when you see him, you will make it clear to him, and I will do the same. Make it clear to him. If he is determined and doesn't want to take this job, I will never force him, let alone let my father chill my heart."
Regarding Huang Qiong's answer, the emperor pondered for a moment, and finally nodded: "Since you have made up your mind, I will follow you. Ignore other things for now. Go back to your hometown to prepare for the expedition. , say goodbye to those who should say goodbye. Since I have given you the right to choose the deputy envoy, you should think about it carefully when you go back, and tell me the candidate tomorrow."
"I am a little tired now. I will ask the Ministry of War, the Minister of Household Affairs, and the Privy Council to come to your house to discuss matters. Since you are the ambassador for this expedition, you can discuss the specific matters with them yourself. I will issue an imperial edict to the Xijing camp and ask them to follow your request." At this point, the exhausted emperor waved his hand and walked out of the Wende Hall.
