In early March, the governor of Guiyang County reported that there was a rebellion by barbarians in the area under his jurisdiction.
Guiyang County belongs to the southernmost part of Jingzhou, which is later known as Chenzhou City in Hunan Province.
In the northern part of the Sui Dynasty, in the eyes of the aristocratic families with Guanzhong and the Central Plains as the core, Hunan was the place where barbarians were born. Even in later generations, they were nicknamed "Hunan barbarians", but at that time, barbarians more often referred to a kind of struggle, hard work, and hard work. The spirit of being proactive, pursuing truth, and having the courage to sacrifice is commendable.
But in the Sui Dynasty, it had a purely derogatory meaning, the kind that was relegated to the home.
The Manzi of Guiyang, called Guiyangman, are the ancestors of the Yao people.
Jingzhou under the jurisdiction of Yang Ming was half Hubei and half Hunan. The entire Hunan territory was full of barbarians.
The main ones are Linyang Man, Changsha Man, Wuling Man, Xiangzhou Man, Lingling Man, Hengyang Man, etc. They are the ancestors of Tujia, Miao, Yao, Dong and other ethnic minorities.
It is still a semi-civilized stage and is not to be trifled with.
Whether it was the Old Chen, the Old Liang, or the current Sui Dynasty, they all actively encouraged Han people to enter the Manzi area to farm and work in order to promote the integration between Han and Barbarians, including the exile of criminals, all of which were concentrated in the area where Manzi was located.
Actually, it didn't work.
Han people are currently only concentrated in counties and towns, and most of the remaining areas are owned by barbarians.
How to deal with the barbarian rebellion? There is only one way, which is to hurt him.
Barbarians are barbaric and vulgar, and the system of stepmarriage is popular in barbarian areas, that is, "when a brother dies, his sister-in-law is taken, and when a brother dies, his brother-in-law is taken in." This was denounced by the Han people as "filthy sins steamed to report", which was despised.
In fact, the process of civilization is much slower than that in the north. Later, after the great integration of ethnic groups, everyone became the same thing.
But the current Sui Dynasty cannot integrate because of different concepts, language barriers, and different living habits, which creates inevitable conflicts.
These people don't pay taxes. They basically belong to my territory and I have the final say. There is a mountain king for each village.
There is intermarriage between shanzhai and shanzhai, in order to avoid incest marriage and the birth of offspring with physical defects.
As a result, intermarriage between several villages will form a larger mountain king.
This time the barbarian rebellion in Guiyang County came from several barbarian villages in the mountains surrounding Linwu County. They came down from the mountains to grab food.
The food is in the county granary. If they rob the granary, isn't that a rebellion? What's more, they killed dozens of civilians and ran away after grabbing the food.
Barbarians live in high mountains and dense forests, living in groups in villages and cottages. Once you get into the mountains, it's really hard to find them.
Therefore, barbarian rebellions have always been based on scale. If there are more than 3,000 people, the government army will be dispatched to kill them. If there are no more than 3,000 people, they will usually be ignored.
Because it is difficult to suppress.
The number of barbarians who entered the county to plunder food this time was only a thousand men, and they were not included in the troop dispatch.
The north occupied two-thirds of the Sui army, and the entire south only accounted for one-third. There were very few soldiers in the south. If Yang Ming wanted to wipe out these barbarians, he would have to mobilize troops from northern Jingzhou, which was very costly and not cost-effective.
Yuan Wendu and Pang Niu did not recommend the suppression, because in their opinion, the loss this time was not big, because the official warehouse in Linwu County did not have much grain, and most of the grain had been shipped to Jiangling and Jiangxia as early as the end of last year. Okura.
Therefore, this rebellion was also defined as a riot. Since it was a riot, there was no need to report it to the court.
It is better to do less than to do more. The affairs in the north of Jingzhou have not been dealt with yet.
Of course Yang Ming would not ignore the Southern Barbarians' problems, but at the moment, there was really no good solution. Even the big bosses in the Great Sui Center could not solve the problem, and he certainly could not solve it either.
What's more, there are more and more water bandits in the Yangtze River, Han River, Honghu Lake and Dongting areas this year.
Since this year, Yang Ming has not allowed military governments in various places to send troops to suppress bandits, and deliberately released water to raise fish. As a result, the water bandits no longer have the threat of government soldiers, and they have wreaked havoc and spread to all the rivers in Jingzhou, making business travelers miserable.
That night, after Yuan Wendu sent Xiao Xuan, the prime minister of Jiangling County, away, he came to the inner garden to see Yang Ming:
"The person left and made a
He was grumbling and complained that the military government was unwilling to suppress the bandits, causing his fleet to suffer heavy losses. "
Xiao Xuan was born in the Xiao family of Lanling, and became a county magistrate in Jiangling County on an empty salary. With the help of his biological grandfather Xiao and his mother-in-law who had adopted Yang Ming, he was able to make a living in Jingzhou and Yangzhou.
Yang Ming ate his dinner and said with a smile: "We have a big family and a big business, so it won't hurt our bones. If he comes again, I'll send him away."
"Understood,"
After Yuan Wendu left, Yang Yinjiang asked curiously:
"Why don't you send troops?"
Yang Ming smiled and said, "Wait a little longer."
"Are you waiting for the sheep to be fattened before slaughtering them?"
Pei Shuying made the point, and Yang Yinjiang suddenly realized: "This method is not bad? It can make up for the salary of the school inspector."
Pei Shuying on the side curled her lips and said: "It must not be that simple. This method of making money is a bit inferior and easy to be seen through. It will cause those who do water transport to complain that Your Highness releases water to raise fish. Water transport has official and civilian movements, and official luck returns. The Ministry of Water Management, one of the four departments of the Ministry of Industry, all the water boats of the Ministry of Water Resources have been robbed. If they take the matter to the next level, it may be detrimental to His Highness."
After saying that, Pei Shuying looked at Yang Ming and said, "You should understand this, so you must be holding back other bad things."
"That's right," Yang Yinjiang said to Pei Shuying: "Didn't you say last year that there would be an emergency this year? He must have other purposes, and it is definitely not as simple as releasing water to raise fish."
Yang Ming put down Kuaizi angrily, glared at Pei Shuying, and said:
"Last time you said that if a woman doesn't discuss important matters, today she will slap herself in the face."
Pei Shuying stuck out her tongue in embarrassment: "I'm just curious. If you don't want to tell me, I won't tell you."
"If he doesn't say anything, he just treats us two as outsiders," Yang Yinjiang tugged on Pei Shuying's sleeves and winked: "Or maybe he thinks that we are just women and not worth discussing."
Pei Shuying cooperated: "We overstepped our bounds, and we will never ask again."
"Okay...since you have said so," Yang Ming sighed, looking at the expectant expressions on the faces of the two women, and said, "Then don't ask me anymore."
Yang Yinjiang and Pei Shuying's smiles froze at the same time, exactly the same.
"Ask me if I'm a dog again!" Yang Yinjiang angrily threw up her sleeves and went out.
Pei Shuying covered her mouth and laughed, almost laughing.
In fact, Pei Shuying guessed correctly from the earliest stage that Yang Ming wanted to create an emergency situation so as to report to the court and ask for the use of money and food from the treasury.
What is it used for? Of course, it is to suppress bandits. The water bandits are currently very powerful and have already robbed many commercial ships. If left alone, the situation will be formed in another month.
At that time, navy ships will be needed to suppress bandits. Yang Ming just wants to use the money from the treasury to rebuild the Xiangyang navy.
And this navy army, from top to bottom, must be his people.
