Overlord!

Chapter 352 King Yongchang joins the feudal clan

Regarding the two plans proposed by Sun Ce, Zhang Hong had no doubt that he supported the first one.

Then he opened his mouth and replied: "I heard that Zongzi Weicheng was called the city by the poet. The Zhou Dynasty granted the imperial family, so it expanded the territory and opened up the territory. The land of Yongchang today was adopted as the land of the Han disciples for hundreds of years. It means the eternal prosperity of the Han Dynasty, However, the Han Dynasty has lost the world and has not yet become the territory of the Han Dynasty. The barbarians are prevalent in the territory and the barbarians are densely populated. What has not been accomplished in the Han Dynasty for 400 years, how many years does your Majesty want to continue in the Song Dynasty?"

Hearing this, Sun Ce had to nod solemnly and agreed with what Zhang Hong said.

It is true that Zhang Hong's opposition to the second policy was entirely out of self-interest. He did not want the country to throw a lot of money into Yunnan but get no benefits at all.

Yongchang is too despicable at the moment. Even if the country continues to develop this place for four hundred years, it will only be a matter of benefit to future generations. The Song Dynasty did not receive much return during this development process. Could it be that Jiankang could still hope to obtain wealth from Yongchang to replenish his treasury?

Four hundred years after the end of the Han Dynasty, Yongchang was not turned into Han territory, and the territory was full of barbarians. How long will it take for the Song Dynasty to change this situation? Judging from the experience of the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid it will take at least two hundred years.

In these two hundred years, it was the Tang and Song Dynasties that laid a solid foundation for him in the Ming Dynasty. The main development direction of the Tang Dynasty was in the northwest, and few troops were used here. The Song Dynasty actually used troops here dozens of times, annihilating tribes one after another, and surrendering chieftains one after another.

Without this foundation, it will not be easy to surrender the land of Yunnan for two hundred years.

What's more important is that even in later generations, the infrastructure in Yongchang will still lose money.

Of course, each dynasty has its own destiny. You cannot just sit back and enjoy the achievements of the previous dynasty without contributing to the territory and future generations.

But the attitude is obvious. The court cannot assume that the kings, prime ministers, and ministers of later generations are all mediocre talents.

In October, the world was still steadily implementing taxation, and the tax amount even increased significantly.

The Song army advanced in two directions, but it turned out that Lu Meng's way was obviously too fast, so that Gan Ning, the fighting general, didn't even have much use.

Including Qi State, they all have to face Dongyi forces such as the Lai tribe. They had such a vast territory only after they defeated the local indigenous tribes.

People nowadays still have to consider current matters.

This is just like how the Emperor of Zhou divided the feudal lords, pointing to an area and saying which princes and kings he would allocate this area to.

This matter of future generations must still be left to future generations to take care of.

All the court has to do is help him win the rebellion.

Sun Quan may not be good at fighting, but he is definitely an outstanding person in terms of internal affairs and political strategy. If he governs Yongchang, he will definitely be able to balance the local area and obey the foreigners.

When Gan Ning arrived in Yunnan, he immediately asked Lu Meng for a battle.

The attitudes of both sides are destined to be different.

Now that the Central Plains has been stabilized, the imperial court must expand overseas, right?

So many people in later generations were curious, why when the Zhou royal family divided the feudal princes and kings, they did not leave some territory for themselves, but made the feudal territories of the princes and kings so large?

In fact, this is what Emperor Zhou did in the beginning.

Yunnan is the name of a county, located between Yuexun County, Yizhou County, and Yongchang County.

The development of Yongchang is not something Sun Ce cannot accept at all.

This destined the rebels in Yongchang County that this rebellion would not have any good results.

The climate here is mild and the land is fertile, which can easily provide logistical supplies for tens of thousands of Song troops.

The more than 10,000 Song army pioneers stationed in Yizhou County immediately set off towards Yunnan, preparing to put down the rebellion.

Later, Zhang Zhao didn't say much.

In terms of opening up barbaric frontiers and promoting Han customs, the princes and kings were undoubtedly more concerned than the ministers of the Song Dynasty.

Just like the story of the King of Changsha.

The rise and fall of King Yongchang depends entirely on the attitude of future kings.

However, Zhang Zhao continued to speak at this time and said: "Your Majesty's two methods of governing Yongchang are indeed both superior strategies. However, I think that these two methods may not necessarily be so clear-cut."

With the words of the two prime ministers, Sun Ce finally strengthened his determination and said: "Let Zongzheng make Sun Quan King of Yongchang and order him to vassal the country as soon as possible!"

The land of Yongchang can definitely follow this path again.

"To govern the land of Yongchang, we must not act too hastily and aim to achieve it once and for all."

This decision undoubtedly made Zhang Hong very excited, because one of the biggest benefits of using a vassal king to establish a vassal is to save money.

If there is no outlet to the sea, this place is really not suitable for economic development.

After all, don't think of the court as too tolerant. Even if the area is full of barbarian tribes, the imperial court will impose various tributes on them after taking control.

The name of Yizhou County is Yizhou, which is actually the southernmost point of Yizhou, just to the west of Yongchang County. His seat is in Dianchi County, which is close to Dianchi Lake. The agriculture here is relatively developed and there are salt fields. Therefore, it has been an important town in the south of the Yizhou Governor's Department since ancient times.

At the beginning, Changsha was infested with tigers, leopards and miasma. After generations of Changsha kings worked hard to control it, it finally became the territory of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, the Han Dynasty deposed the Changsha king and established counties in the area.

When the area under the rule of King Yongchang is completely Hanized, the imperial court can establish counties and reopen counties in this area.

By October, news of the Nanzhong rebellion had indeed reached Jiankang.

Countries such as Qin, Jin, Chu, Qi, etc., which country did not expel the local Yi Di, and then opened up a huge territory, and finally even surpassed the Zhou royal family in the Central Plains in strength.

The former is running his own home and territory, while the latter is just working.

The Nanman rebels were defeated by Lü Meng in a battle and captured Yunnan. Two days later, the Song army from Yuexun arrived under the command of Gan Ning.

Lu Meng commanded the army and personally set out from Dianchi Lake. In one battle, he defeated the rebel defense line at the border of Yongchang and regained the important border town of Yongchang in Yunnan.

However, this kind of rebellion in the frontier land could not affect the rule of the imperial court at all, and it even had little impact on the imperial court's taxes.

"In the early stage, it is a good strategy to use the vassal king to govern Yongchang."

Dianchi Lake has been a famous area in the Central Plains for thousands of years. A dozen miles to the north is Kunming, the famous Spring City in later generations.

Gan Ning is actually very different from other reckless men, that is, he is quite resourceful. After watching Lu Meng and Gan Ning use troops several times, Gan Ning actively made suggestions and suggestions, which is definitely different from those fierce generals who don't like to think.

On the contrary, he has a very flexible mind, has vision and military strategy, knows how to fight, and is bold and decisive.

If he hadn't been reckless and retaliatory, he might have become a handsome man.

But there were so many famous generals in the Song Dynasty who were good at fighting, so he could only succumb to the status of a fighting general.

So after he saw Lu Meng, he admonished him and said: "General, there is a rebellion in Nanzhong. The enemies are not united in their hearts and are just using their strength to follow. I think it is not appropriate to fight with them on the border. This is what the enemy wants."

"I ask you to lead your army as the vanguard and go straight to Yongkai. The general will lead the army to follow. If I defeat Yongkai, the barbarians will be afraid of my people and will flee without fighting."

In fact, Yong Kai's rebellion was really not a major chaos for the court.

Except for Yong Kai, who will undoubtedly be killed, other foreign armies have not even participated in the war until now. Because they are all relatively independent tribes, there is no unified command.

As long as they see that the Yongkai and Menghuo tribes, the largest rebel forces, have been defeated, they will definitely stop participating in the war and resisting.

Anyway, for them, Yong Kai won the battle and they were ruled. Song Ting won the battle, but they were also ruled.

Especially the edict from Song Ting had been sent over, refuting the rumors that Meng Huo had threatened them before.

The imperial court no longer controls Yongchang County, let alone taxes them.

What will happen to Yongchang County in the future depends only on what kind of rule their new King Yongchang will implement.

It was too easy for the Song Army to kill a rebellious hero.

Even this kind of rebellion was just a small test for Prime Minister Zhuge in history.

You must know that the Shu Han Dynasty at that time had just experienced the defeat of Yiling, and the army suffered all casualties. Zhuge Liang had never led an army into battle before. This was his first time leading an army into battle, and he did not lead any famous Shu Han generals.

Even so, Nanzhong was easily pacified.

What's more, now Song Ting has sent a large number of famous generals who have been fighting in troubled times for many years and are good at fighting.

Lu Meng, Gan Ning, Li Yan and others all saw the situation in Yongchang clearly.

Therefore, the march route will be that the two armies join forces and join forces in Yunnan.

Now Gan Ning asked for a fight. Lü Meng immediately agreed with Gan Ning's statement without hesitation: "The rebels have limited food and fodder, and they are divided internally and externally. If they take the risk of fighting me, they will be defeated. If they don't fight, they will be surrounded and defeated in ten days." Now the plan is to capture the thieves first and capture the king first. It is not appropriate to divide the prefectures and counties. You lead the army first, I will follow you and I will defeat them in one battle."

With Lu Meng's support, Gan Ning immediately marched his troops quickly, penetrated into the heart of the rebels, and governed the Wei army in Yongchang.

Yong Kai's reaction was exactly as Lu Meng expected.

They originally wanted to fortify the city and defend themselves, but the Song army sent Li Yan north to cut off the Lancang River and cut off its food routes.

After a stalemate for more than ten days, Yongkai's troops were cut off from food and grass. They were desperate for a fight. He led more than 10,000 infantry and cavalry to cross the Lancang River eastward and suppress the army in the morning.

Lü Meng personally led his elite cavalry, attacked his horse army, defeated it, and took advantage of the victory to trample his infantry. The thieves were routed, and more than 4,000 of them were beheaded. Since the thieves were defeated, all those who went into the water drowned. Yong Kai and more than 200 personal guards wanted to break through the encirclement and fled, but they captured all of them, and Yongchang was pacified.

As a result, the Qiyue, Minpu, Jiuliao, Nuguo and other ministries sent envoys to pay tribute.

Just by looking at these tribes, we can see how many barbarians there are in Yongchang.

And to force them to serve is like registering a household, and how difficult it is.

Therefore, we can only leave it to King Yongchang to take care of it slowly.

In March of the third year of Kaiyuan, Sun Quan, the king of Yongchang, officially arrived in Yongchang with his guards with a sad face.

Entering Yongchang, he kept cursing Sun Ce.

His brother was so mean that he was named King of Yongchang. What was the difference between this and exile?

His mother, the Empress Dowager Wu at that time, was almost blind from crying. She cried in tears for several months and almost knelt down to plead for mercy to his mean and ruthless eldest son.

I pray that today, for the sake of this old lady, I can show my noble hand and change my brother's fiefdom.

But Sun Ce's heart was as hard as iron, and while he was perfunctory, ministers came down to urge Sun Quan to surrender.

So it took Sun Quan half a year, but he was finally forced to come to this wild land outside the territory.

Looking around, they are all barbarian tribes, and the rebels have surrendered.

Sun Quan was awakened every night, fearing that after Lü Meng's army withdrew, the rebels would swarm him and chop off his head, the Yongchang King of the Song Dynasty.

However, the main force of the Song Army quickly evacuated here. In addition to leaving behind three thousand elite troops under the command of Brown in Dian Lake, the nearest troops were also in Jiangzhou, thousands of miles away.

This meant that Sun Quan could only face the hundreds of thousands of barbarians in Yongchang County alone.

You must know that although Yongchang County only has eight cities, during the Han Dynasty, the population was as high as 231897, with a population of 189 million.

1.89 million people!

The difference of 110,000 is a full two million people.

The three Jiangdong counties that Song Ting relies on as its core probably don't even have two million people!

The population of Wu County is less than one million, and the population of Danyang, excluding Jiankang City, is only a few hundred thousand.

Yongchang alone has a population of nearly two million.

Although the whole world knew that this household registration must be fake, how could Sun Quan not panic if he really ruled this place?

Let alone two million barbarians, there were even two hundred thousand barbarians. That was also a crushing number.

The price of Shanyue in the entire Jiangdong area is probably only two to three hundred thousand, right?

How much did Song Ting spend to calm down!

What's more, Sun Quan only had more than a thousand guards in his hands. A heavy rain in spring and summer cut off the roads here and lost contact with the Central Plains.

He, Sun Quan, was afraid that he had been hacked to death by the barbarians, his body was already stinking, and the Central Plains did not even know that there was a rebellion in Yongchang.

But Sun Quan was slightly fortunate that although his mean and ruthless brother was very harsh on him, he still gave him a lot of power.

He actually had the real power of all the princes and kings. No matter whether it was the power to appoint or remove the prime minister, collect taxes or form an army, there was no restriction.

Therefore, Sun Quan immediately appointed Wu Can as the Prime Minister of Yongchang, governing the eight counties of Yongchang, and subsidizing the Hulu tribes within the territory.

Then he married Zhu Rong, the daughter of the chief of the Qiyue tribe, a powerful local tribe, as his wife, and pulled this tribe into King Yongchang's chariot.

His father-in-law was also very generous and gave Sun Quan more than 2,000 tribal warriors to serve as King Yongchang's bodyguard.

With the support of the Qiyue tribe, Sun Quan finally gained a foothold in the local area and had an army of 3,000 men.

He immediately worshiped Le Jin as a general in the country and commanded the army.

Le Jin was a talent who was not allowed to display his talents in the Song Dynasty.

His experience was very bumpy. After Guan Yu was removed from Liu Bei's hands by Sun Ce's trick, Le Jin was ordered by Cao Cao to assist Liu Bei in attacking Hanzhong.

Later, Cao Cao died and Liu Bei was forced to evacuate the Central Plains.

Le Jin abandoned his official position and fled on the way south, unwilling to follow Liu Bei out of the Central Plains.

However, when he fled to Shu County, he was caught by officials of the Song Dynasty. After interrogating his identity, they were shocked to learn that he was actually a general. The local officials had to report to Jiankang and ask how to deal with it.

Sun Ce then assigned him to Sun Quan's subordinates and ordered him to assist Sun Quan in Yongchang.

Sun Quan talked with him and was immediately amazed by his talent.

Then he entrusted the army to Yue Jin, who trained and commanded it.

Yue Jin was brave and brave, and led an army of three thousand to quickly defeat two barbarian tribes who refused to obey Jiedu. As a result, King Yongchang was able to subdue the local area and rule.

(End of this chapter)