In the city of Ganzhou, the corpses have been cleaned up, and all the officers and nobles of the Ganzhou Uighurs of more than 100 people, large and small, have been locked up and taken away.
Zhang Zhao mobilized 3,500 stones of corn from Liangzhou to Ganzhou, which directly stabilized the skyrocketing food prices in Ganzhou, and allowed the people of Ganzhou to work in exchange for food from the Guiyi Army.
In addition, the Guiyi Army did not commit adultery or indiscriminate killing after entering the city, and the situation in Ganzhou quickly stabilized.
Whether it was the Uighurs, the Long family, or a small number of Dadan people in the city, they all accepted the rule of the Guiyi Army.
They were even very lucky that the Guiyi Army could take over the Yao Geluo family, because the hostility between them and the Guiyi Army in recent years had tortured the people of Ganzhou miserably.
Of course, the people of Yao Geluo's family would not starve to death. Those who starved to death were poor people like them. Therefore, many people actually recognized and supported the Guiyi Army who defeated Ganzhou.
On the third day after the city was broken, Huang Yanger came to Ganzhou City with the leaders of the eleven yellow-headed Uighur tribes in the Qilian Mountains.
In accordance with Zhang Zhao's order, they beheaded Yao Geluo Tongli, the last royal family of the Uighurs in Ganzhou, and more than a hundred people in his tribe.
Zhang Zhao received them at the palace of the Uighurs in Ganzhou, and immediately appointed Huang Yang'er as the commander of the seventh battalion of Hanhai Town, the Guiyi Army.
In addition to his own more than 300 people, Huang Yang'er was asked to recruit warriors from the Yellow-headed Uighurs and collect 900 people.
Looking at the dozen or so yellow-headed Uighurs in front of him, who were almost the same as the Tubo people, Zhang Zhao also rewarded them with some gold, silver and cloth, and then asked kindly.
"You all know that someone is willing to let you return to your hometown, right?"
All the leaders hurriedly bent down and replied in a flurry of words, "You all know it. We thank you for your grace!"
"Okay! Since you are going back to your hometown, don't call yourself Yellow-headed Uighur. From now on, you can use the original name of Kucha people!"
Zhang Zhao said with a smile, in fact, he was trying to separate the words "yellow-headed Uighur" and "Uighur".
Because Saktu, who was beaten by Zhang Zhao to the land of Seven Rivers north of Tianshan Mountain, was an Uighur, and the Gaochang Uighurs even took Uighur as their national name.
If these tens of thousands of people go back with the title of Yellow-headed Uighurs, it will inevitably increase the difficulty of management.
For these tens of thousands of Yellow-headed Uighurs, changing their name is nothing at all. Originally, they didn't like the name Yellow-headed Uighurs very much. It was somewhat contemptuous, and Kucha people were their original name.
After talking about the Uighurs, Zhang Zhao looked at Huang Yang'er again, and couldn't help but have a somewhat playful smile on his face.
"Huangyang'er, don't you have a famous name? There is a Huangyang in the volunteer army of a certain person. He was brought back from Shule City by a certain person. He is extremely intelligent."
Huang Yang'er didn't care about Zhang Zhao's teasing, he even wanted to go one step further.
"The king said this, does he also want to adopt you as your adopted son? If so, you will kneel down and shout "yeah!"
Anyway, the emperor of the Central Plains can recognize the Khitan leader who is more than ten years younger than him as his father. He is only two or three years older than the king, so he can naturally call him "yeah". "
"You have a good idea, kid. I also want to call the king Yeye!" Qiongre Duojin on the side heard this and couldn't help laughing.
Everyone burst into laughter, and the slightly tense and awkward atmosphere immediately eased.
Zhang Zhao also laughed so hard that he stopped for a while and said to Huang Yang'er: "Forget it, let me give you a name. This Tang'er also has the surname Huang, so there is no need to change the surname.
In the past, a certain great-grandfather, Taibao Gong, had a great general named Yan Yingda. Why don't I give you the name Yingda. He is brave, majestic, cheerful and open-minded, which is in line with your temperament. "
Yan Yingda, also known as Shang Yanxin in history, was no ordinary person.
When Zhang Yichao restored Hexi, he was a big figure who surrendered to Hexi and Weizhou.
He is a ruthless man who can lead the Tubo tribe as a Tumo man.
The Guiyi Army lost control of Hexi, which was marked by Yan Yingda's death in the battle of Jiedan Town.
This kind of naming was not an ordinary naming. Huang Yang'er immediately put away the playful expression on his face, quickly got out of his seat and fell to the ground, giving Zhang Zhao three bows.
"My servant Huang Yingda, I thank you for your name, and I am willing to follow you through fire and water, even to the death!"
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After dealing with the matter of the Yellow-headed Uighurs, Zhang Zhao dispersed and distributed the Ganzhou Uighurs who had wiped out the aristocratic system.
After six days of research and statistics, it was found that at this time, there were 39,000 Uighur households in Ganzhou and more than 241,000 people.
More than 30,000 of them live in the area from Xiasuzhou to Miaoquan Shoudao.
There are more than 19,000 people in Xidan.
There are eight to nine thousand people in Jingtie Mountain in Gannan.
From Juyanhai to the desert, there are more than 90,000 Uighurs living together with the Dadan people.
There are more than 90,000 people in Ganzhou headquarters.
After this battle, more than 20,000 men will be confiscated to Jingtieshan Mountain.
For the tribes from Juyanhai to the desert, over which the Ganzhou Uighur Khan had relatively weak control, Zhang Zhao divided them into ten tribes, each with about 10,000 people.
Then one hundred of the most brave men were selected from the first group to form a battalion and took it with them. They were incorporated into Yucheng Town and were called the Uighur Yiconzuo Camp.
Then he selected a thousand people from the Ganzhou headquarters and incorporated them into Yucheng Town, which was called the Uighur Yi Congyou Camp.
At the same time, 15,000 Uighurs from Ganzhou in Xiedan were relocated to Minqin County to the north of Liangzhou and Changsong County to the south.
Then from the Liubu family, the Bu family and Zhao Zhenjia family were transferred, and about 10,000 people were transferred to Jiedan.
Zhang Zhao officially appointed Zhao Zhen as the general of Xiedan, and controlled Xiedan for Zhang Zhao, which can be called the holy land of horse breeding in China.
In addition, the more than 90,000 people in Ganzhou headquarters will also be separated from 30,000 people and dispersed to Lanzhou, Hezhou and other places. Of course, Hezhou has not been captured yet, and arrangements have been made in advance.
After making these arrangements, there were only 40,000 to 50,000 Uighurs left in Ganzhou.
Zhang Zhao then moved 10,000 people from the rebel army to Ganzhou, appointed Cao Yansi, the son of Aduyu Khan of Ganzhou, as the governor of Ganzhou, and appointed Luo Tongda, the military envoy of the rebel army's yamen, as the envoy for Ganzhou's defense and management. .
It's just that Cao Yansi will not be in Ganzhou at all. Zhang Zhao just wants to temporarily appease people's hearts in his name.
The power of Ganzhou is still in the hands of Luo Tongda, an experienced veteran of the Guiyi Army.
Zhang Zhao originally wanted his own people to guard Ganzhou, but after all, the only generals under him who could take charge were Yan Jin, Yin Yaozi, Fan Quan, Ma Shacai and others.
But these people couldn't move at all. They all had important responsibilities, so they had no choice but to let Luo Tongda go.
However, this is not bad. Luo Tongda was Zhang Zhao's father Zhang Chengfeng's confidant general, and there are hundreds of Luo family members in the Guiyi Army. With Luo Tongda, Zhang Zhao is relatively relieved.
At the end of June, after arranging things in Ganzhou, Zhang Zhao returned to Liangzhou and asked people to arrange the wedding.
On the one hand, they are preparing to capture half of Shanzhou (Xining, Qinghai) within the range of Longyou Jiedushi and not under Zhang Zhao's control.
Kuozhou (Hualong, Qinghai)
Hezhou (Linxia, Gansu)
Taozhou (Lintan, Gansu)
Weizhou (Longxi, Gansu)
Diezhou (Diebu, Gansu Province)
Minzhou (Min County, Gansu) and other six semi-states.
At the beginning of July, Zhang Zhao appointed Yan Jin as the expedition envoy to Shan, Kuo and He prefectures. He led 4,000 horse and infantry troops and recruited 4,000 Xiaoqi from Shandong tribe to enter Shan prefecture.
At the end of July, Yan Jin and the six tribes of Shanxi, who refused to surrender, fought at the Huangshui River in Huangshui City (Qinghai Ledu). The 20,000-strong coalition of the six tribes in western Shanxi was defeated.
Yan Jin entered Huangshui City, which was the residence of the former Longyou Jiedu envoy of the Tang Dynasty. After recapturing Huangshui City, Zhang Zhao's title as Hexi Longyou Jiedu Ambassador became more and more real.
After half a month of repairs, Yan Jin once again led his troops south to attack Kuozhou. The Tubo tribe in Kuozhou gathered more than 4,000 people to resist, but they were wiped out in a wave.
At this time, Zhang Zhao, who received the battle report from Yan Jin, rushed to Huangshui City and immediately executed all the leaders of the six tribes in western Shanxi, Jiang and Beining, who dared to lead the resistance, and punished more than 9,000 men from the two tribes. A slave from the Jingtieshan mine.
The other Chuokezong, Yangdan and other tribes were extremely frightened and offered their cattle, sheep and women to submit.
Fifteen days later, the Tubo tribe in Kuozhou, which originally occupied Kuozhou but was driven to the snowy mountains by Yan Jin, broke out in a riot. The people killed Dongdai's entire family and went down the mountain to seek refuge.
Are you kidding me? This was the Little Ice Age. It was very difficult to survive in Kuozhou. Being driven to the snow-capped mountains was like a narrow escape.
Zhang Zhao took the opportunity to recruit these Tubo tribes and gained more than 8,000 people. He appointed Fan Quan as the governor of Kuozhou and moved 2,000 people from the Li clan in Shatuo, Lanzhou to Kuozhou to appease and divide the local tribes.
Subsequently, Zhang Zhao transferred 3,000 people from the four tribes in western Shanxi and 6,000 people from the rebel horse infantry to form a large army of more than 20,000 civilians, starting from Shanzhou and advancing on Hezhou.
After the army arrived, under the "inspiration" of the master of the thousand-year-old Lingyan Temple in Hezhou, the various tribes in Hezhou sent their children as hostages and presented their land, household registers, cattle, sheep, and children to express their surrender.
Many of the people in Hezhou are descendants of Longyou soldiers. Moreover, the capital of Hezhou is only about 120 miles away from Lanzhou. As long as Zhang Zhao is willing, he can mobilize a large army to attack.
Therefore, he agreed to the surrender of all the tribes in Hezhou, and asked each tribe to take an oath of blood in Hezhou City, renounce his identity as a minister, and return to the country as a descendant of Longyou soldiers.
Although only 30 to 40 percent of them actually have the blood of Longyou soldiers, the identity of the Han people has never been determined solely by blood, but more by cultural identity.
Zhang Zhao also believed that with just his modest level of education, he would be able to assimilate quickly.
After Hezhou surrendered, the only remaining territories were Taozhou, Minzhou, Diezhou and the most important Weizhou.
In October, people in Taozhou rioted and killed the Tubo nobles in Taozhou who were preparing to resist the rebel army and surrendered.
The frightened leaders of various ministries in Minzhou walked thirty miles naked and led sheep to surrender at Zhang Zhao's military camp at the foot of Kongtong Mountain in Minzhou.
However, there was a slight accident in the end. The Tubo tribe in Diezhou had little communication with the outside world and was unaware of the changes in the outside world. They actually gathered more than 3,000 people to defend the mountain city of Diezhou in preparation for resistance.
Governor Zhang Zhao asked tribesmen from Min, He, and Tao Prefectures to be the vanguard, while the Guiyi Army provided long-range support.
In order to receive the pledge of surrender, the tribesmen of the three states launched a desperate attack. With the help of various siege equipment from the Guiyi army, the army fought for a month and a half and finally defeated Diezhou.
Diezhou was originally able to become a state because the climate was warm during the Tang Dynasty and a certain amount of farming could be developed.
But in the current Little Ice Age, grazing is almost the only option. The only place where some land can be cultivated is more than a thousand acres in the river valley.
So in order to shock the local area, and also to give some benefits to the tribesmen in Min, He and Taozhou who had submitted the certificate of voting.
Zhang Zhao failed to control his troops for the first time. After Diezhou City was defeated, the tribesmen from the three states rushed into Diezhou City and took the opportunity to fight for three days before withdrawing their weapons.
Immediately, Zhang Zhao ordered the destruction of Diezhou City built by the Tang Dynasty, moved away all the remaining thousands of Diezhou tribesmen, and rewarded meritorious ministers.
At this point, Diezhou, which originally had a population of more than 10,000, was completely abandoned.
On December 12, just before New Year's Eve, the leaders of the Han and Qiang tribes from Longxi, Xiangwu and Weiyuan in Weizhou rushed to Liangzhou in person to announce their surrender.
Just from the names, we can tell that places like Longxi, Xiangwu, and Weiyuan must be areas with a large number of Han people and a high degree of Sinicization.
They were also related by marriage to the Han people in Liangzhou, Minzhou and other places, so they quickly joined Zhang Zhao.
So far, the seventeen prefectures of Gua, Sha, Su, Gan, Liang, Lan, Shan, He, Min, Kuo, Tao, Die, Wei, Dan, Cheng, Wu and Qin in Longyou, Hexi.
Except that Diezhou was destroyed and abandoned, the three states of Cheng, Wu, and Qin were in the hands of Later Jin, and Danzhou was in the hands of Hou Shu, Zhang Zhao finally completed the great cause of unifying Longyou in Hexi.
