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The Wind Rises in Chang'an Chapter 228 The Master Returns to the Court

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    Within half a month, the Han army launched a winter offensive, with seven Nanyue barbarians and 50,000 Yelang barbarians as the main force, driving away and plundering the Luo Yue barbarians. The raids not only involved Luo Yue's gathering areas in Xiou, but also important banana groves and grapefruit forests.  The forest was also gradually controlled, and the Luo Yue tribe, which lost its main source of food, was forced to fight in the vast jungle.  The morale of the southern captain Zhao Sui was greatly boosted. He successively removed dozens of settlements established by Longbian. The Luoyue barbarians who had no time to escape were captured and made into slaves to fight with the army. Only by plundering more of their own tribe could they be eligible for freedom.  Slavery is a normal thing in the eyes of the barbarians. The South Vietnamese often kidnapped Luo Yue barbarians as slaves, while the Luo Yue people captured Zhan people as slaves. The ecological chain linked by links lasted for thousands of years.  The Han army ordered the establishment of settlements in various barbarian settlements, with civil-reinforced camps as the core, and moved the South Vietnamese to cut down trees, open up wasteland, dig pits and fill in fertilizers.  Reclamation begins in winter. The advantage of South Vietnam is that it has abundant soil and fertile land. There is no shortage of water or fertilizer, but there is a worry about the poisonous miasma caused by soaked fertilizer. Relying on the fertile land to plant three-season rice is the best choice.  The winter in South Vietnam is extremely short, and it doesn¡¯t take long for spring to bloom.  Han soldiers gathered in front of the reclaimed land outside Panyu City. The South Vietnamese were planting rice in the paddy fields. Rice in Champa was not a new thing. The rice seeds plundered from Champa a few years ago attracted the attention of the King of Nanyue.  The results of several crops were very poor. The South Vietnamese, who were not good at farming, could only stare blankly. The slaves who accounted for the crops did not understand the language. When farming, they only counted the amount of rice they planted. They could not figure out how to do it, so they gave up.  The Yue people like to farm, but they are not good at farming. The Han people also like to farm.  The Han people are very good at farming.  During the Shennong era, the Han people were able to grow rice, and the rice they grew was the main food for the Chu people.  However, as the Chu State expanded northward into the hinterland of the Central Plains, the differences in climate caused rice to lose its unfailing advantage.  The nutrition provided by rice is far less than that of corn, and eating rice consumes 50% more grain than corn. Therefore, rice has never been popular in the north.  Furthermore, rice breeding in Chu State is poor, and rice yields are never high. Two-crop rice is only slightly higher than corn and soybean rotations. Farmers calculated carefully and still suffered a slight loss. The combination of multiple factors further weakened the dominant position of rice. In the south,  Eating rice is a last resort.  Just like eating wheat in the north is a necessity.  Half of the Southern Army is from the Southern Chu people, and everyone is good at planting rice. It is easy to command the South Vietnamese to plant rice. The seedlings planted today are the long-famous three-crop rice of Zhanren.  Cao Shi walked among the fields, with several staff following behind him to take notes at any time. Transforming South Vietnam and Africa can be achieved overnight, and he must remember every bright point that comes to his mind.  We didn¡¯t go back to the city to rest at noon, but had a light meal at the Han army¡¯s temporary camp.  The staff were worried: "It is not good for the generals of chariots and cavalry to teach the Yue people to grow food. If the Yue people learn to farm and become stronger and rebel, we will be unable to suppress them." "What kind of enemy do you think the Han army is afraid of?  "The Huns." "Why are we afraid of the Huns?" "They come and go like the wind, and they are invisible." "Then the South Vietnamese are as cunning as Luo Yue, what should we do?"  Slowly tightening the pockets of slavery will take a long time, require a lot of investment, and be slow to produce results. It will take at least five years, or even ten years, to completely subdue Luo Yue. If all the South Vietnamese people run into the mountains, how can we stand firm in South Vietnam?  How many troops will be invested to suppress it?¡± The staff were stunned and speechless.  It stands to reason that the South Vietnamese are more barbaric.  The more beneficial it is to the Han family. However, civilization is constantly progressing. The barbarians today do not mean they will still be barbarians a hundred or a thousand years from now. The reason why people are human is because they have strong learning ability.  The Xianbei people who hide in the woods can dominate the world, and the prudent savages will turn into Jurchens. If they still hold on to their stubborn obsessions and cling to their own will, they will only harm the country.  Cao Shi explained patiently: "I can't guarantee that every tribe will always be barbaric. Maybe a powerful tribe will emerge in a few hundred years. In order to ensure that the interests of the Han family are not lost and to maintain control over South Vietnam for a long time, we must promote the local people."  Chineseization requires not only cultural assimilation of Yue people, but also a comprehensive transformation of farming habits, and strengthening the sense of identity through sharing the same clothes and food as one family. They will become Han Chinese in no more than two generations. From now on, there will be no title of Yue people in the world, and it will be like disappearing.  The Chu people are the same as the Qin people." In the afternoon, Zhuang Qingzhai's army returned in triumph.  The war between Min and Vietnam lasted for two months. Fifty thousand Min-Vietnam troops garrisoned the city and resisted stubbornly. Faced with the pressure of 60,000 Han troops, they refused to give in. Until the news of the annihilation of South Vietnam came, Dong Ou and South Vietnamese reinforcements joined in.  Destroying the spirit of the Minyue people, the collapsed Minyue army was no match for the Han army. The Han army used full firepower to destroy the city step by step, dividing and surrounding the Minyue capital. Zuoying personally led 20,000 Minyue troops to defend.  The royal capital lasted for a whole month,When food is exhausted, help is exhausted.  At the critical moment, the captives who were tied up in the Nanyue Kingdom, the Nanyue Crown Prince Zou Chou persuaded him to surrender outside the royal capital. The Minyue King Zou Ying suffered a nervous breakdown and personally opened the city to surrender. In addition, the Dong Ou King Zou Zhenfu took the initiative to annex himself, and the Nan Yue King Zhao Huang was captured.  , Mitsukoshi has been completely included in the territory of the Han Empire.  The great hero returned with his troops, and there was a big banquet in Panyu City for three days.  Trophies from South Vietnam and Minyue are still being transported. It is said that the reserves of gold and silver are considerable. Perhaps because they are located on the coast of the South China Sea, South Vietnam and Minyue have particularly many rhinoceros horns, ivory, and pearls. Herds of Asian elephants can be seen passing through Lingnan. South Vietnam  Humans regularly kill elephants to ensure that elephants do not destroy crops and important banana and grapefruit forests during the estrus period.  Among the Three Kingdoms, only Dongou Kingdom survived. Zou Zhenfu paid the price of annexation in exchange for Dongou Kingdom's interests not being plundered. However, the Han army did not care about Dongou's petty profits. The majority of Sanyue were South Vietnam and Minyue.  "There is news from Central Sichuan that there seems to be something strange happening in Kunming when King Dian invites various tribes from southwestern China. What do you think?" Cao Shi handed the information to Zhuang Qingzhai, who took the information and said nothing. The Han generals who were accompanying him  They looked at each other, not knowing what to say.  The battle was fought for more than half a year. Although it was not intense, it was difficult to fight. Yue people like to go into the woods. The threat of poisonous insects and beasts in the mountains and forests is secondary. Poisonous miasma and swamps are simply a nightmare for the Han army. A small team often disappears inexplicably.  .  Either they will be poisoned to death, or they will fall into the mire and everyone will be destroyed.  Non-combat attrition was the biggest flaw, which caused the Han army to be mentally stressed all day long.  At this stage, everyone is exhausted physically and mentally, and it will be difficult to fight against the southwestern Yi again.  "I don't recommend mobilizing troops." "Me too." "We need to rest for at least three months. I heard that the situation in the southwestern barbarians is worse than that in South Vietnam. There are countless poisonous miasma and swamps there. We should be more careful."  Zhuang Qingzhai said: "One more thing, the service period of the Confederate Army is about to expire. The rule of replacing county soldiers once a year is only for war preparation and wartime. Now that we have finished fighting Mitsukoshi and are entering a rest period, there is no reason to force the county soldiers to stay.  The national troops continue to fight. The imperial envoys will explain the matter when they arrive. The next batch of Southern troops will be recruited directly to Chang'an. This batch of Southern troops will be disbanded on the spot after passing Wuling. " The generals nodded. The system of the Han army is similar to that of compulsory soldiers.  According to the system, every male has two years of compulsory military service in his life, one year as a local soldier, one year as a member of the Northern and Southern Army in Chang'an City, and in addition to three days per year to guard border counties, he can pay taxes and redeem 3  days of border service.  This was part of the extra money, and of course it was quite expensive. The court would use part of the money from the extra money to give to poor county soldiers and let them continue to guard a certain person for three days.  Some counties and counties have soldiers guarding them for decades.  With more than a hundred people serving as border soldiers, of course they could make a lot of money, at least as long as the system did not collapse in the early Han Dynasty.  County soldiers who are willing to serve for others can earn 30,000 yuan a year.  Going out to fight is different from getting rich, there is no extra money to make.  Only by relying on the rewards and gifts of war can one be qualified for the nobility. For example, the soldiers of the Southern Army destroyed Yelang Kingdom last year and destroyed South Vietnam and Minyue this year.  So far, all the soldiers participating in the war have basically been promoted to the fifth level of nobility, and the lowest level 0 privates have also become the fifth level of nobility. As for the granting of land, it is not difficult to solve. Most of the wasteland from Changsha to Yuzhang County can be given out. The court is working on it.  Make proper arrangements.  "The purpose of fighting is to make money. If you can be promoted to a higher position, there is no problem in continuing to fight for three years. Don't complain about suffering. Of course, I will not force the Southern Army to do something they don't want to do. In the past few years, I was sentenced to 400,000 yuan in Kanto.  There are hundreds of thousands of criminals in Guandong, and they can form a crusade at any time. "Zhuang Qingzhai remained silent. Everyone wanted to make money by fighting. The war against Luo Yue has changed. Luo Yue's settlement has changed.  The land is not only the Longbian impact plain, but also the vast jungle, which is Luo Yue's main residential area. There is not much arable land available there, and it is very difficult to remember merits and rewards.  Cao Shi invented a new system based on the situation and informed all the Han troops participating in the war, whether they were Nanyue people or Yelang people, that one-third of the treasures plundered would belong to individuals, and the other two-thirds would go to the imperial court. Of course, such division would not  If there are any military merit bonuses, don¡¯t ask the court for any credit if you defeat them.  Everyone in the Confederate army is grabbing credit. The morale of Luo Yue and Zhan Ren's slave army is extremely high. Dozens of small-scale battles take place almost every day. It is still hard to say how many Confederate soldiers are willing to leave.  During the rest period, Cao Shi transferred Yulinqi back to Bashu. The 15,000 men he brought back were reduced by more than 1,000. The loss of one-fifteenth was almost the same as the overall situation of the Han army. The 200,000 soldiers who went south  Nearly 13,000 people died, 30,000 Vietnamese soldiers were injured, and 10,000 were killed. The main losses were caused by the poisonous mire and the attacks of poisonous insects and beasts. The poisonous snakes and spiders in the jungles of South Vietnam are very powerful. If you are not careful, you will be killed.  It will kill people.  By the beginning of March, the weather in South Vietnam was already very hot, and the imperial envoys arrivedToo late.  Zhuang Zhu set out from Qi State by boat and went all the way along the coast to Panyu. When he arrived in South Vietnam, he was sweating in the heat.  When he saw Cao Cao, he was not polite. He picked up an ice drink and drank it all: "I haven't seen you for half a year. My skin is very tanned. General Chariot and Cavalry has worked hard!" "Serving the country is not very hard. How is the situation in the court?  ? After not being in the court for half a year, I am almost out of touch." Zhuang Zhu hesitated and said: "In the first month of winter before I set out, your Majesty removed Xuchang from the position of prime minister, appointed Da Nong Ling Dou Ying as prime minister, and Ting Wei Tian Fu as Taiwei.  Hou Wangxin moved to the Da Nong Order, Zhou Yanghou Tiansheng moved to the imperial court, and Dong Zhongshu and Gongsun Hong were waiting for the imperial edict. " "What a big change!" "Yes! The Queen Mother promoted her relatives on a large scale, and there were rumors in the court and the public.  The Queen Mother will be the second Queen Mother Dou." Cao Shi nodded silently.  His mother-in-law is not an easy person to treat with. Maybe she really wants to be the second Queen Mother Dou.  Zhuang Zhu said: "I would also like to congratulate General Chariot and Cavalry. Your great achievements have spread throughout the court and abroad. The emperor specially ordered Chariot General Cao Shi and Weiwei Zhuang Qingzhai to return to the court. The remaining southern army will be reorganized on the spot and awaiting the next detailed arrangement. He will also send Jing.  300,000 households from various barbarian tribes have moved southward, and 200,000 households have moved to Dongou and Minyue. The generals of chariots and cavalry can pack up their luggage and escort the king of Nanyue and Minyue together with the king of Dongou and Minyue.  The King of Yue returned to Chang'an." (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster! PS: I was wrong, really wrong. I have been very depressed in the past few days. The volume of South Vietnam has been reduced again and again, but I still can't subscribe.  Stop it. I won¡¯t write about South Vietnam. Let¡¯s write about the main plot of fighting the Huns and the Han Empire. Thank you!
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