Johime Three Kingdoms

Chapter 547 Yangping Pass

In Hanzhong, Zhang Lu actually had the advantage of a favorable geographical location and a large number of households. Especially after Guanzhong was robbed by Dong Zhuo, a large number of farmers fled to Hanzhong.

And Zhang Lu relied on the concept of Tianshi Dao to quickly absorb and digest this part of the refugees...

The most important thing in absorbing refugees smoothly is to "reinforce their belly" and "acquire their heart". Zhang Lu originally had a lot of wealth in Hanzhong, and the laws of the Tianshi Mansion originally had many "too ideal" parts, such as Make the patient repent and pray for self-healing, forgive the prisoner three times, execute him for big mistakes, build roads for minor mistakes, ban alcohol, build "charity houses" on official roads, and place food and water for passers-by...

Although there are many disadvantages, and a large amount of money cannot be supervised at all, it can only be entrusted to "ghosts and gods", that is, curses. Naturally, it is only useful to true believers of the Heavenly Master - others who do not believe in evil are not afraid of those curses...

People who take more food from charities will be punished by ghosts and gods?If you don't believe in ghosts and gods, there will naturally be no punishment.

But it has to be said that this kind of laws and regulations based on a simple view of right and wrong are very suitable for the initial stage when the people's wisdom is not yet developed and the road is still unclear.

After all, more complete laws like the "Laws of Chu" cannot be implemented until society has developed to a certain level. Even in the Chu State today, there are still some "snatching", and it is not suitable to start from scratch.

It's just not counterproductive, but it's by no means a perfect match. This is because Bai Tu took into account the development speed of Chu State and made it mandatory - just like ordering school uniforms for children in the developmental period to be one size larger.

Even the Yangzhou Prefecture and the General's Prefecture, the predecessors of the Chu State, completed their initial infrastructure construction by relying on work-for-relief, that is, extremely cheap manpower - at that time, there was no current welfare guarantee and food-filling relief. Food, meager remuneration, and work intensity that does not threaten health constitute all the rules of "relief for work".

Of course, the days when a large amount of cheap labor could be easily obtained are now gone forever in Chu State. Workshop owners who want to "return" need the Ministry of Punishment to talk to them.

Zhang Lu was in the initial stage and went very smoothly. He occupied Hanzhong, eroded Bajun and Guanghan, and the refugees came to rely on him one after another...

But later on, he was restricted by the Celestial Master's Dao and found it difficult to grow among the princes. He kept maintaining these outdated rules. Even if no one attacked, Hanzhong's problems would gradually be exposed.

Moreover, although Zhang Lu was sitting in Hanzhong, he really had no capable people under his command. After all, the "Tianshi Dao" was simply fallacy in the eyes of the world's aristocratic families. China would never entrust its power of governance to ghosts and gods.

Even though Taoism was respected in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, they only used Taoist theory as material for metaphysical talk, rather than truly believing in gods.

Therefore, Ma Teng and Han Sui were full of confidence in their trip. The two families had nearly 20 soldiers and horses, falsely claiming to be 50. There were also more than [-] "mercenaries" from the Qiang people, and tens of thousands of civilians to carry their strength. A total of [-] troops...

As mercenaries, they are not really paid to hire, but refer to the Qiang tribes who were surrendered by Ma Teng and Han Sui. In order to show their submission, they sacrificed their soldiers for them, as well as mobilized some of the subordinate tribes. Basically You only need to take care of the food!

Of course, don't expect the foreign tribes to be surrendered so easily. Don't expect them to have high combat effectiveness, let alone compared with the Xiongnu royal court who had back and forth with the former Han Dynasty. Even the current Southern Xiongnu and Hexi Xianbei, individual soldiers The fighting power is also far stronger than that of the Qiang people.

Qiang cavalry are basically at the bottom among all types of cavalry, but their numbers are huge, and the quality of both men and horses is not high...

In contrast, the Qiang people also have a cultural habit of submitting to the strong, which is far inferior to the Southern Xiongnu who once surrendered.

For example, now... the Qiang people regard Ma Chao, the son of Ma Teng, as the "Mighty General" - ever since Ma Chao defeated all Qiang invincibles, this "foreigner" has been the god of the Qiang people.

This is also one of the reasons why the two from Xiliang easily mobilized a large number of Qiang people. Even if they didn't take food and grass supplies into account, they could even conscript more!
Zhang Wei led his troops to garrison Yangping Pass, trying to stop the enemy west of Yangping Pass.

Yangpingguan is one of the northern gateways of Hanzhong, located northwest of "Nanzheng City", the administrative center of Hanzhong.

The Hanzhong Basin is sandwiched between the Qinling Mountains in the north and the Daba Mountains in the south, so it is easier to defend from the south than from the north. Yangping Pass is built on the west side, between the Daba Mountains and the Qinling Mountains.

The two famous plank roads in the Qinling Mountains, Qishan Road and Chencang Road, both lead to Yangping Pass. After entering from these two plank roads, you need to take Yangping Pass to enter the Hanzhong Basin...

The difference is that Qishan Dao and Chencang Dao are both famous for their northern expedition from Hanzhong, while Zhang Lu occupied Hanzhong. Although they were successful because of the unity of the people, they were slow to respond strategically and were very "conservative" and could only defend the enemy at Yangping Pass.

In fact, if it weren't for Liu Zhang's fault, Zhang Lu would have even wanted to surrender a long time ago and took his family and disciples to Chang'an. Purely as a Celestial Master of Celestial Master Taoism, he would be good at studying and spreading Taoism.

However, because of Liu Zhang's existence, Zhang Lu had no option to surrender to the Han Dynasty - not only Zhang Lu himself could not forgive Liu Zhang for killing his mother and many relatives, but also because of the perennial war between Hanzhong and Xichuan, after his majesty was ruined, he The Han Dynasty, which was gradually improving, must have been determined to use him to scare the monkeys.

In history, Zhang Lu trusted Cao Cao, but now Zhang Lu cannot trust the Han Dynasty. Even if Liu Xie agrees to accept the surrender of Hanzhong, Zhang Lu will never dare to give up Hanzhong and leave...

When Zhang Wei came to Yangping Pass, it can be said that he was angry and prepared to make these Liangzhou barbarians look good. However... when he saw Wuyang Wuyang's troops and horses came outside the pass, he was overwhelmed by this "popularity" and his momentum Suddenly he was three points shorter.

In fact, if you take a closer look, you will see that the troops outside the pass are not only in disorder, but most of them are dressed in shabby felt clothes...

Since we are going to attack the city, we naturally put the least distressed ones first.

"Qiang" cannot be regarded as an ethnic group at this time, but China's collective name for the foreign races in the west. In fact, the Qiang people are also divided into different ethnic groups. For example, the former Qin emperor Fu Jian during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. There are also Dangxiang people who established Xixia in the Song Dynasty, and they are now part of the "Qiang".

"My brother Hanninghou, like your lords Yonghou and Zhaihou, are all princes of the Han Dynasty. You... have invaded our prefecture and county without any reason. Doesn't the Han Dynasty have no royal law?" Zhang Wei was a little timid. shouted.

However, trying to use Wang's method to block the Xiliang army is obviously a fantasy. It has not even had the effect of shaking the morale of the army. Instead, the cowardly tone has had the opposite effect.

At this time, I saw a young general slowly walking out from the front and center. He was not wearing any armor or driving a war horse. He just walked out step by step. However, where he passed, not only did the Qiang seem to lack training, The soldiers gave way one after another, and all of them lowered their heads, not daring to look directly...

(End of this chapter)