The rebellion in the Soviet Union lasted for half a year.
In fact, when Lu Yuan sent an envoy in January and arrived in Su State in February.
At that time, Su Xuange had already led troops to put down the rebellion of the Seven Islands Society.
Not only did he recapture Ningyue Mansion in one fell swoop, he also personally led the troops and went out to sea to sweep the seven main islands of the Seven Islands Association.
They also killed most of the elite members of the association, including the president, vice-president and other top leaders in the association, were killed one by one by Su Xuange's sword.
Without the leadership of these characters, although some remnants escaped, they were no longer relevant. At most, they will become pirates and be eliminated slowly in the future.
As soon as this meeting was eliminated, Su Xuange immediately relieved the worries of his confidants near the capital, and then went north without stopping to attack Guangchang Road.
By the time the Chu State's envoy arrived, Su Xuange had already led his troops to clear out the Guangchang Taoist bandits in Shi'an Mansion, and was about to continue his efforts. His troops invaded Cangwu Mansion, the home of Guangchang Road, and completely wiped out the bandits.
It can be said that at that time, it was the most critical moment to go abroad to quell the rebellion.
Therefore, when facing the envoy from the Chu State, he expressed his request to invite the Su State to join him in the crusade against the southwestern barbarians.
Su Xuange was shocked, but also had to say that his heart began to move.
Lu Yuan and the courtiers had a good discussion before.
Considering the situation of the Su State, it is true that it cannot raise too many soldiers and horses to support Su Xuange's ambitions.
Now they have forced out this rebellion that has spread to half of the country. Even if it can be put down now, it will only slightly eliminate the immediate disaster.
If the problem of military pay for the Soviet Union's huge army is not solved, even if the rebellion is eliminated now, the poor financial situation will still be a huge hidden danger, like a buried bomb that will be exploded at some point.
So for Su Xuange.
He could either give up his ambitions, cut down his army, completely recuperate and restore his national strength after the plane rebellion.
Or find another place and send troops to conquer. Domestic conflicts can be alleviated through external pressure and by obtaining benefits from the outside.
Which of the two options should be chosen is naturally self-evident given Su Xuange's temperament.
Without hesitation, he chose to join Hezong and conquer the southwestern barbarians together.
It's just that the rebellion within the Su Kingdom has not yet been settled, so even though Su Xuange was very moved, he didn't respond at all.
Just let the Chu envoy have a good rest and make the country a good reception.
Then he concentrated on putting down the rebellion.
With the strength of an innate master, Su Xuange gathered up the scattered prefecture and county soldiers in various places. At the same time, he also sent a group of militiamen to support him. Together with the forbidden army he brought, he quickly raised a force of 100,000 people. counter-insurgency army.
With such power, it would not be too difficult to conquer Guangchang Road.
After only a month of fighting, Brother Su Xuan led his troops to defeat Guangchang Road, captured more than 30,000 people, and killed the main force of these thieves in one fell swoop.
Not only was Cangwu Mansion recovered, but the mountain gate of Guangchang Road was also breached, and its master was beheaded by the sword.
After the death of Taoist Master Guangchang, the believers gathered by him and some remaining Taoists also fell into a leaderless situation.
In just over ten days, the remaining tens of thousands of Guangchang Taoist bandits dispersed, and the rebellion in the northern part of the Su Kingdom was suppressed.
By this time, Su Xuange had finally put down most of the rebellions in the country. …
Du Chang, the remaining rebel leader, has been sending troops to attack the enemy these days, hoping to support the Seven Islands Association and Guangchang Road.
But long ago, Su Xuange ordered the Yongxi and Hepu county soldiers located in the north and west of Gaoliang Prefecture occupied by Du Chang to strictly guard the important roads and directly block the Gaoliang County from the north to the west. The way forward.
The combined number of soldiers in these two prefectures and counties is ten thousand. Recruit some more militia groups, with no less than 40,000 soldiers and horses.
Although Duchang has been recruiting troops since the uprising, he has expanded his tribe to as many as 50,000.
But those are mostly rabble, and few are elite.
It is extremely difficult, even impossible, to break through the blockade of these two palaces.
Therefore, in the past six months, even if Du Chang was anxious, he could only watch the Seven Islands Society and Guangchang Road being pacified one after another.
Now that the news of the destruction of Guangchang Road in the north has come back, the rebels in Gaoliang Mansion heard the news and everyone knew that they were the only rebels left in the country.
All of them were demoralized.
Many rebels who were afraid of Su Xuange's military force simply packed up their packages, fled back to the countryside, and became good citizens again.
Some people even took boats directly across the sea and chose to go south across the ocean to avoid this losing battle.
Some people also contacted the Nanhai Kingdom in the east and surrendered.
Under this series of fleeing or hiding, most of the more than 50,000 troops originally commanded by Du Chang disappeared immediately.
Only more than 10,000 people who had no way out and hated the Su Kingdom followed and continued to huddle in Gaoliang Fucheng, planning to make this final resistance.
But by this moment, it was a foregone conclusion that the last group of rebels had been put down.
As long as Su Xuange leads his troops to Gaoliang Mansion, he can completely defeat Du Chang in less than ten days and a half.
It was under this situation that Su Xuange was finally able to spare his energy and respond to Lu Yuan's request.
He quickly found an envoy and simply said: "The King of Chu and I have always been allies. Now that the King of Chu has the ambition to conquer the barbarians and open up a new land for the descendants of our three emperors, naturally he cannot be left alone." Down.
The envoy went back and told the King of Chu that he would wait until the first month of next year, after Gukan had put down the rebellion in the country and stabilized the country a little.
We decided to raise 100,000 troops to jointly attack the barbarians in the west.
At that time, our two countries, Su and Chu, will form an alliance under the Erhai Lake. "
Erhai Lake is where the capital of Dali Kingdom, located in the middle of the three major Yi Kingdoms in the southwest, is located.
Su Xuange said that he wanted to meet here, and he obviously knew that a mere Changhe country could not satisfy the appetites of Su and Chu.
At the same time, its main goal is also on the side of Dali.
As for Dachanghe State, which borders Chu State more, it was selectively given to the other party.
It has to be said that as an ambitious man, Su Xuange still has some understanding of Lu Yuan's thoughts.
In this way, it was decided to send troops to the southwestern barbarians together, as well as the direction of the troops sent by both sides, and the division of their respective interests.
After saying this, when the Chu envoy was about to return, Su Xuange said with some dissatisfaction: "Su and Chu are allies, and our country will send money and food to Chu every year, year after year. It can be said that The utmost benevolence and righteousness are fulfilled.
However, there is currently a rebellion in our country, and at the borders, we are recruiting fugitives and traitors from our country. …
Could this be done by allies?
After the envoy returned, he hoped to tell the King of Chu that if he did not want to harm the peace between the two families, he would also like to send these fugitives back.
In this way, our two families can live well, and don't cause discord because of these small gains.
Furthermore, this rebellion has not affected any prefecture or county in our country. Taxes have been greatly reduced in the past two years and this year.
Tomorrow and the next two years, it will be difficult to recover.
Therefore, in the past few years, assistance to Chu State may not be possible.
I hope the envoy will tell the King of Chu about this to avoid any misunderstanding. "
In the past six months, with the rebellion of the Soviet Union, a large number of people in several prefectures in the north of the country who were unwilling to participate in the rebellion and also wanted to escape the war chose to flee to the Chu State.
After Guangchang Road was pacified, a large number of Taoist people who participated in the rebellion were afraid of being held accountable by the court, so they chose to drag their families with them and flee to Chu State together.
These two waves of escape, coupled with the casualties caused by a war, directly caused the loss of more than half of the household registration in the three prefectures in northern Su country.
This loss of 300,000 to 400,000 people is almost 10% of Su's original household registration.
Facing this huge loss, Su Xuange was of course extremely heartbroken.
Those rebels who have been killed cannot be recovered, but those who fled to Chu State can indeed be recovered.
Although he didn't know how many people fled to Chu.
But no matter what, you can still have a hundred thousand, right?
Recovering these 100,000 people first will help restore some vitality to the local area.
Therefore, at this time, taking advantage of Chu's invitation to join forces, Su Xuange promptly raised his dissatisfaction and demands.
…
"You want me to spit out the meat that I have already eaten. This Su Xuange, at this moment, still has such delusions."
When the envoy returned to the country and truthfully conveyed Su Xuange's opinions and requests, Lu Yuan couldn't help but laugh.
To be honest, although the Chu State was not involved in the Su rebellion this time, it only gathered some fugitives on the border, and it was already full of food.
There is some discrepancy with Su Xuange's guess that Chu State gathered 100,000 refugees.
The number of people from the Soviet Union that Lu Yuan took in during this wave was actually far more than 100,000, but as many as 230,000.
Of course, it was impossible for Lu Yuan to return these many people, almost the same population as the whole mansion.
In fact, he had already made plans for the arrangements for these refugees.
Aren't you planning to conquer the Great Chowa Kingdom now?
This land of two counties in the Yi State was such a vast territory. After the Chu State conquered it, it was of course impossible not to devote energy to its governance.
It is certain to set up prefectures and counties, and it is certain to organize households to integrate the people.
But the newly captured prefectures and counties cannot all be the original barbarian people, and the customs here can still maintain the original customs of the immigrants, right?
In that case, how long will it take for this place to stabilize?
Therefore, it became necessary to immigrate and allow the descendants of the Three Emperors, who were originally transformed into kings, to go to this newly developed territory, change their customs, and help assimilate the original barbarians.
But within the territory of Chu State.
The people who originally migrated from Zhou State and Xichuan County have just settled down and established a firm foothold in the local area.
You can pay taxes right away and provide a steady stream of output for the great cause of Chu State. …
At this critical moment, Lu Yuan would certainly not be able to force these immigrants to relocate and open up that barbaric land.
For the same reason, these immigrants cannot be moved, and the people in Chu State are also not easy to move.
If we take forceful action, it is very likely to cause riots.
So at this time, where to find new immigrants has become a problem.
Just at this time.
There was civil strife in the Soviet Union, and he sent 230,000 refugees. Aren't these immigrants sent by God?
Although 230,000 people are not many, they are still the population of a prefecture. In the prefectures and counties newly developed by Dachanghe Guo, if divided one by one, each prefecture can have a population of 10,000 or 20,000 people.
Although this population base is not large, it can almost meet the requirements as a seed for early assimilation and to help the imperial court gain a foothold there.
Therefore, it is certainly impossible for Lu Yuan to return these fugitives who are of great use.
But now he is still counting on Su Xuange to join forces with him to attack the barbarians. It is not appropriate to directly respond to the other party's dissatisfaction and demands at the moment.
Therefore, Lu Yuan thought for a while and finally issued an edict: "Order the local officials to select 10,000 people from the fleeing people of Su State and send them back to Su State."
Well, it’s impossible to send them all back, but you can’t completely ignore them either, so just send 10,000 people.
Although there weren't many people, they gave some responses, and the attitude couldn't be said to be too bad.
Although Su Xuange is bound to still be dissatisfied with this, at least he feels much better on the surface at this level.
Furthermore, the huge benefit of attacking the Southwest Yi together is that the other party will probably tolerate this.
After all, compared to the 100,000 refugees Su Xuange had guessed, if the attack on Southwest Yi was successful, the Su Kingdom would most likely gain the land of a county and millions of people.
With such a huge benefit in front of you, what's the point of fussing over the 100,000 people in Chu State?
If it ruins the relationship between the two countries, it will also affect this collaboration, which is not worth the gain.
not to mention.
Didn’t people send back ten thousand people?
It's a bit of a recovery, so it's not such a loss.
As for the matter of appeasing the Su Kingdom, it was decided like this. As for Su Xuange's request for temporary assistance, Lu Yuan, who had been mentally prepared for a long time, readily agreed.
Anyway, after receiving the meeting gift of tens of millions of taels from Dan Ding Dao, Lu Yuan's military expenses were immediately abundant. Counting the savings of the past two years, there was no shortage at all.
Whether or not the Soviet Union provides assistance has little impact on him.
On the contrary, for Su State, whether or not they have this money has a great impact on them.
It is also very difficult for Su State right now.
Instead of forcing the other party, spend money to help yourself. It would be better to let Su Xuange keep the money and use it to fight against the southwestern Yi people in the next Hezong War.
This is the strategy to maximize the power of the Soviet Union.
…
The affairs of the Soviet Union are now clear.
And with Su Xuange's statement, it was like a signal, and good news came one after another from Xichuan Kingdom and Jiuzhen County.
The first was the Xichuan Kingdom. After spending a few years recuperating, the originally impoverished Xichuan Kingdom finally regained some of its vitality. After saving a little money and food, I have enough energy to do other things. …
Therefore, after initially transforming the Xichuan Kingdom into a Buddhist kingdom, and working as a Buddhist king's assistant for several years, I couldn't help but be obsessed with the feeling of being called a Buddha in the human world.
Therefore, when he received a proposal from Lu Yuan, whether he was willing to go south together to conquer the southwestern barbarians and spread Buddhism to this unprecedented barbaric land.
It has to be said that Ji Hui was immediately moved.
As a devout Buddhist king, he had achieved the achievement of establishing a Buddhist kingdom on earth and became a holy king in the hearts of many Buddhist disciples.
It can be said that his reputation far exceeds that of many sages and sages, reaching a level that has never been seen before in Yangzhou, and it is unknown whether there will be others in the future.
But human desires are always endless.
Although Buddhism emphasizes purity of mind and few desires, as a human being, who can really abandon all these?
At least for now, it seems that Ji Hui, who has been exposed to the title of Buddha King, cannot give up these things.
Therefore, in terms of current achievements, he can help Buddhism open up the land of the southwest, and in this wild land, he can preach the Dharma and educate the people here. Once again achieved great success.
For Ji Hui, nature is extremely tempting.
Not to mention, in these troubled times, if we can open up more territories for the Xichuan Buddhist Kingdom and increase the strength of the Buddhist Kingdom. Let the foundation of the Buddhist Kingdom be stronger and prevent it from being easily destroyed. All these realistic considerations have been taken into consideration.
Therefore, after receiving Lu Yuan's request, Ji Hui immediately held several rounds of debates in the country. After discussing with many eminent monks and sages, he finally decided to join this conspiracy.
Give a clear answer at the same time.
In the first month of next year, in the Buddhist Kingdom of Xichuan, Ji Hui will personally take action and lead 20,000 Buddhist disciples from the north to coordinate Lu Yuan's western expedition.
In this way, after the Su Kingdom, the Nishikawa Kingdom also joined the Coordinated Alliance.
Since Su State and Xichuan State had responded, naturally only Xie Ning from Jiuzhen County was left.
After receiving Lu Yuan's invitation and promise, Marquis Wuping of the Ningguo court and the general manager of Jiuzhen County was obviously shaken.
Found a country and become a king.
Faced with such temptation, who can not be tempted?
Xie Ning has been in sole control of a county for ten years, and the Jinling court to which he is loyal is blocked by the Su and Nanhai countries and is thousands of miles away.
Now that the imperial court wants to revive, the hope is getting smaller and smaller.
If Jiuzhen County wants to restore contact with the imperial court again, it will be impossible for another thirty to fifty years.
As for the surrounding area of Jiuzhen County, looking around, there are either barbarians or enemy countries. There are also rebellions surging in the country, and it is still not stable.
Under this situation, anyone in Xie Ning's position would start to think.
Where should I and Jiuzhen County go?
Xie Ning was still extremely troubled by this thought.
Being born into a Linhai family, he naturally identifies with the Jinling imperial court and is concerned about the future of his family.
It is still difficult for him to make plans to rebel against the imperial court and establish an independent country.
But after the arrival of Lu Yuan's envoy, the promised help from Lu Yuan, and the participation of Jiuzhen County in the attack on the Southwest Yi, the vast prospects and benefits were visible to the naked eye.
The original trace of confusion has completely dissipated.
So after the dispatcher was able to return to Linhai, communicate with the family, and obtain an announcement from there that Xie Ning would be expelled from the clan and no longer be part of the same family.
Xie Ning finally had no worries anymore. On the seventh day of April in the fourth year of Shenwu, he built an altar to worship heaven outside Jiaozhi City and formally ascended the throne and proclaimed himself king.
At the same time, the country's name - Song, which was used by the ancestors of the Xie family when he proclaimed himself emperor in Jinling, was restored.
Later, Xie Ning issued an edict, and the Song Dynasty continued to respect the Jinling court as Zhengshuo, continued to use the Jianwu reign name, and established itself as a vassal state.
Then he changed the name of the capital Jiaozhi to Songping to show his intention to calm the world.
After completing this series of actions, the new King of Song finally responded to Lu Yuan. In the first month of next year, the Song State would send 50,000 troops, led by You Qi himself, to launch a northern expedition against the southwestern barbarians.
At this point, the alliance initiated by the Chu State and involving the three countries of Su, Song, and Xichuan against the southwestern barbarians was finally established.
A war between the three emperors of Miao and Yi to conquer the Yi people is about to begin.
