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Chapter 488: Jiong and Thunder ([-])
From Shanzhou to Yinzhou, there are not eight states, and there are several scattered states in the surrounding area. It is not that Wang Hua is not interested, but he can't dig out a golden baby with a shovel.The existence of these states has formed a small constraint on the eight states.

This will somewhat reassure the Tang royal family.Otherwise, turning Wang Hua into an iron bucket is not a rebellion, but a rebellion.As far as Wang Hua is concerned, if he is given sixteen states before his strength grows stronger, can he hold on?Moreover, it will take at least a few months to fully digest the eight states.

But one state is special, Kuozhou.To the east of Dafeichuan, to the west of Hezhou, and to the south of Shanzhou and Shancheng.With Hezhou and Shanzhou all in the king's bag, Kuozhou has been completely isolated.

The reason why Wang Hua did not win this state was that there was an army stationed here.It was stationed before the blood camp arrived.This army has fought against Tubo many times, and its combat effectiveness is also extremely impressive.Of course, they didn't have the guts to touch Wang Hua's tiger prestige.However, if you want to conquer them, there may be some casualties.And this army Wang Hua didn't want to ruin them.It is best to let them voluntarily surrender.

There is another factor, which is to prepare for the upcoming battle.

Once Kuozhou is in the bag, then Kuozhou has also become the first choice for Tubo to attack.It also lost one of Wang Hua's most important arrangements.

Therefore, let Kuozhou be left under the jurisdiction of the Tang Dynasty's official army for the time being.In this way, no matter how ambitious Di Dayan was, he would not dare to attack Kuozhou.If he dared to attack, he would directly force the Tang Dynasty and Wang Hua to join forces against Tubo.Di Dayan can be regarded as a general with a bit of strategy, and this obvious mistake will not be made.

Then there are only two ways to attack Shanzhou.First, passing through Kuozhou and crossing Nanchuan of Huangshui, as long as they let out their mouths, the Tang army stationed in Kuozhou will not stop them.But in this way, it loses the meaning of surprise soldiers.Dayan would not choose this one either.This can only choose the second option, passing through the upper reaches of the Huangshui River from Dafeichuan, between Nanchuan and Beichuan, and directly attacking Shanzhou.There are countless valleys, basins, forests and valleys here, which are also conducive to hiding the traces of the army.

Of course, there is another way, from Nanchuan to Shancheng.But the current Shancheng is not the Xining of later generations. It is not worth dispatching thousands or even tens of thousands of troops for a small broken city.Moreover, the granary arranged by Wang Hua is not on the south bank of Nanchuan, but in a valley to the north.

But this gave Wang Hua a chance.

The flow of Huangshui has decreased a lot in later generations, and some tributaries have all dried up or disappeared, but it is also a famous river in Qinghai. Moreover, the environment is not damaged now, and the water resources are more abundant. There are many small tributaries densely distributed in the upper reaches.But they are not big, and the deepest part of some tributaries is less than one meter.This did not hinder the march at all.

Wang Hua chose a small river that must pass through, the fine pebble river.The surface of the river is also considered to be a bit wide, the widest place can be 30 meters, but the river is very shallow, with an average depth of only [-] to [-] centimeters.And because the river is wide, the current is not rough.The river is covered with a kind of fine-textured pebbles, which is also the origin of the name of this small river.

There are many lush green grasses growing on both sides of the bank, and now in June, the green grass is in full bloom.

But Wang Hua ordered Xue Song to do one thing, to build a dam on the upper reaches of the Xipebble River.There are mostly dangerous mountains and steep mountains on both sides of the upper reaches, no matter how careful you are and how much you use surprise soldiers, you will not go there.And it's an almost uninhabited area.There were only a dozen hunter-hunting households, so Wang Huazao ordered people to relocate them.

Xue Song led his men to patrol the area for tens of miles, and started to build the embankment when he was sure that there was no one else.Because the river is not deep, the difficulty is not high.But you can't let it dry out, once it dries up, it will always make people suspicious.It also lost its significance in this battle.

However, the preparation time for this battle was very early, so cement was shipped in and dozens of pipes were made.Let these dozens of pipes continue to release part of the water flow downstream.Then build embankments on the pipes, but put a lot of explosives in the middle of the embankment, use felt cloth to coat waterproof paint, and then apply thick wax to ensure that water vapor will not enter.And it's not just one place, in fact, as long as there is no water in one place, it can guarantee that the dam will be blown up quickly.It cannot be dug by hand. If the blocked flood cannot quickly break through the dam, it will alert the other party.There is a long airtight iron pipe on the explosives. Inside the iron pipe is the fuze, which penetrates all the way to the top of the embankment.

So although some procedures in this battle make people feel very thunderous.But in terms of meticulousness, preparation, and strategy, they can all be included in textbooks.

However, when summer comes, it is the time when the water is huge, and the melting snow from the upper reaches of the Qilian Mountains, the floods from the mountain torrents, and the rainwater continue to come.The river immediately upstream of the dam rose.Xue Song had to raise the embankment again.

This made Xue Song a little worried during the inspection. He wondered if the dam would not be able to withstand the pressure of the river as the river continued to rise, and the dam would collapse immediately before the Tibetans arrived.

Thinking of this, he secretly scolded Dayan in his heart, what kind of shit famous general, don't he know the truth that soldiers are expensive and fast?

This is what worries him.In fact, Dayan's speed is already very fast. There are many things to prepare for a battle, not only to gather troops, but also to inquire about news.For example, check whether the map provided by Wei Kong is so accurate.Is there grain in that valley?Did Wang Hua come back and take those generals away?

When the news came back, he was also relieved. The scouts did not dare to go deep, but they confirmed that the valley was very secret and was closely guarded by soldiers. There were many large grain cellars in the valley, and there were deep axle marks on the road leading out of the valley. .Not only that, Wang Hua went to the Yinchuan Plain and took away Kong Heizi and Gongsun Yun, two confidant veterans.There is also Wang Junchuo, the number one brave general in the Shannan Blood Battalion.Only then did the final decision to send troops be made.

But Xue Song's irritable mood gradually improved, because the [-] troops of Tubo, like thieves, came out at night and day, and came to Shanzhou quietly.

At this time, Wang Hua was experiencing a headache.

There was a serious conflict between Xiang Zheba, a foreign party in Lingzhou, and Mi, a member of Zhaowu's nine surnames.

The attachment of party members was not only because of the persecution of the Tubo people, but also began to migrate to Ningxia, Gansu and northern Shaanxi since the Han Dynasty.From the Sui Dynasty, the extent of migration began to increase.It was not until the Tang Dynasty that the large-scale migration from Qinghai to Ganxia and Shanxi was really due to the persecution of Tubo.The Tang Dynasty deliberately organized two large-scale official relocations.

Among the eight tribes of Dangxiang, the Zheba clan was not the largest, but they moved early and moved quickly. After moving to Lingsui and other places that were more suitable for living, the tribe gradually grew, faintly surpassing the other seven tribes.Outside Lingzhou City, it can be regarded as a very large-scale Fanzi.

There is no hostility towards the paintings of the Kuba clan.Because of his agitation, even Xue Na's campaign to rehabilitate his father may not exist, let alone the Zheba clan's Western Xia Kingdom hundreds of years later.Even the Song Dynasty, Wang Hua guessed that nine out of ten would never appear in the long river of history again.

Another Mi surname should not be underestimated.

Not all the people with the surname Mi in the world are those with the nine surnames of Zhaowu, and there are far more Han people with the surname Mi in the Tang Dynasty than there are people with the nine surnames of Zhaowu.This surname came from the ancient state of Kang. After being defeated by the Huns, they moved to Central Asia and established nine small countries including An, Cao, He, Kang, Shi, Mi, Shi, Huoxun, and Wudi.When Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty was attached, he also moved to the Lingwu area of ​​Longxi.Americans still keep the surname Mi, and some have changed it to Zhang Wang Li Tang He Xin Pei and other surnames.

However, after the Mi surname entered Longxi, it developed and multiplied rapidly, and it was close to the Wang surname in Longxi.There are also many people with the surname Mi outside Lingzhou City.

This is what happened between these two tribes.The cause was a dispute over a pasture.

Although Lingzhou is next to a big river, the water resources are not rich.From the south of Lingzhou to Yanzhou, there are many Gobi deserts.The main reason for this is overgrazing. Without vegetation to fix the soil and water system, the fertile land quickly turned into Gobi and then deserted, and there were even a lot of saline-alkali land.Similar to this, including many places in Qinghai and Gansu, the hardest hit is Nanhetao, and now there are small-scale deserts.But later it became the famous Kubuqi Desert, which is beyond the imagination of the herdsmen living in Nanhetao.

Moreover, because of the protection of the Tang Dynasty army and the lack of wars, these tribes multiplied rapidly, and the more people there were, the faster the pastures decreased.Even the imperial court opened a huge horse farm in this area.This leads to a large number of disputes over the ranch every year.

The previous officials always adopted a policy of appeasement, and even turned a blind eye. I can't control it, so you can figure it out.Whoever has the biggest fist belongs to them.

But this accident was not a small one.Both of them are common surnames and have a large population. At first, they quarreled, then a few young people did it, and finally they fought in groups.Dozens of people were killed in the gang fight.Although the Mi surname is the Wang surname of Longxi, there are not as many people in Lingzhou as the Zheba clan.Group fights suffered.According to the previous rules, this pasture belongs to the Zheba clan.

The elder named Ke Mi thought of a person, Comrade Xiaomi.This elder was very cunning, he didn't directly persuade Xiaomi's parents, but encouraged Xiaomi's older brothers to continue to fight.It was another gang fight, and as a result, Xiaomi's two older brothers were injured.

This time there was no need for the elders to come forward, Xiaomi's mother ran to Zhu Dian's residence, found Xiaomi, and cried.

When Xiaomi heard about it, she rushed back to her mother's house immediately. One brother was slightly injured, while the other brother was a little disabled. The thigh bone was broken. Fortunately, his life was not in danger.But that's it. If you don't want to get up in three or four months, even if you get up, you may be disabled.

Xiaomi's mother immediately asked Xiaomi to avenge her brother.Xiaomi is not scary, but she has a big backer behind her.Although Zhu Dian has no formal official position, everyone knows that he is Wang Hua's right-hand man, and his status is no less than that of Wang Hua's half master, Kong Heizi.

Xiaomi didn't know the seriousness of the matter, and he was of the same blood, seeing his brother's injury, he immediately found Zhu Tong.

Zhu Dian also found Wang Hua.It's not because of personal feelings, other tribal conflicts are better, even these two tribal conflicts are also not a big problem. In this land, such stories are played out almost every day, unless it can be settled down in winter.

The main reason is that he saw some people surnamed Mi's plan, which was to drag him into the water on purpose.If you don't come forward, you still have to procrastinate, and things may get worse.If it is too big, not only will there be greater conflicts between the two tribes outside Lingzhou City, but it will also cause conflicts between the Mi surname and the Zheba surname in other places.This is not in line with Wang Hua's purpose of requiring rapid stability in the eight states.

In terms of relatives, although I have taken Xiaomi as my concubine, do I know how many soldiers from the Dangxiang clan are recruits in the blood camp now.Zhu Dian has not done statistics, but the number of people will not be less than 500.

Wang Hua also frowned after hearing this.

In the land of eight states, because there are many foreigners, they can select excellent fighters, and their loyalty to the Tang Dynasty is not high.But the biggest headache is the ethnic issue.Wang Hua is working hard for the integration of nationalities, integrating all nationalities together, and don't distinguish between Dangxiang people, Tuyuhun people or Tubo people, Shiwei people, Sogdian people, and Turkic people.It is best to become Han Chinese together.Therefore, if there is no stability, we encourage ethnic marriages.

Of course he didn't want this to happen.Moreover, there were dozens of murder cases, all of whom were young and middle-aged, which also made him furious.These men are useful fighters on the battlefield, and strong farmers on the tillage.It is also the most scarce resource right now.

He didn't bring many soldiers, and he didn't need it. With this group of mobs, he solved the problem by himself.Of course, he will not use force.

After driving for more than [-] miles to the south of the city, when they came to the pasture, they saw two groups of people standing opposite each other like two fighting cocks, glaring at each other.There are also some weapons in the hands, such as bows and arrows, knives and sticks.Wang Hua rushed to the middle of the two groups of people on horseback, glanced at both sides, and said in displeasure: "The person in charge comes here."

Very well-behaved, a few old men came out from both sides.

Wang Hua didn't bring many people, only a dozen or so people, and there were two to 300 people on both sides of the field.But the one who dares to do it?This was killed by a single person from tens of thousands of troops in the palace (the difference is too far, anyway, the people of Lingzhou have adopted such a statement. Some people doubted it, but then an old master took out the history books, and there were two fresh people with the strength of one person. For example, Qi Yu, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty, once pushed up a big tree and killed 1000 people by himself without any reinforcements. Xue Rengui fought in and out among 20 people, not to mention. In the end, all of them died. believe this statement.)
Wang Hua looked at one of the oldest elders and asked, "Let me ask you, when did you come to Lingzhou?"

The old man was equally terrified, because he was a member of the Zheba family. He heard that the surname Mi had moved reinforcements. Think something bad is going to happen.Although there are more than 2000 residents of the Zheba clan outside Lingzhou City, is this enough for people to get stuck in their teeth?It's not even enough for the young man in front of him to stuff his teeth alone.

So today Mi surname sent someone to find a place, and he ordered the people in the clan to be patient, otherwise when Wang Hua came, there would be another war.

He replied cautiously: "My ancestors arrived in Lingzhou very early."

Don't even dare to call yourself a certain or old man.

"Then do you remember how nervous the pastures outside Lingzhou were when you were young?" The old man seemed to be in his 70s, and the tension in the pastures evolved very slowly.However, 70 to [-] years ago, the population of the Tang Dynasty was not that large, and there were not so many Hu people who migrated here, so Wang Hua asked this question.

The old man thought for a while and shook his head.

"Then how many grandchildren do you have?"

"I have seven."

"You have seven grandchildren, so let me ask you again, how many grandchildren will they have if you have seven grandchildren in a few decades?"

The old man couldn't answer anymore, but he understood what Wang Hua meant. The population was increasing, and the ranch was becoming more and more tense.

"How many herders do you think this pasture can support?"

The old man glanced at it, thought about it, and replied: "It can feed about two or three hundred people."

The ranch is not small, otherwise it would not cause disputes between the two surnames.In fact, the matter was provoked by the Zheba family. Originally, the two tribes grazed together.But Zheba first became greedy.But Wang Hua can't find out whether they are right or wrong, there is no justice, and it makes sense for a person to have big fists.Just like he is the most powerful and has the most right to speak in Lingzhou.This right is not his position, no position at all, mainly the army in his hands.

"Then how many people will it support if it is replaced with arable land?"

The old man thought about it again, and replied: "There are thousands of people."

I also understood what Wang Hua meant. Wang Hua had been agitating them to build water conservancy a few days ago. Wang Hua paid for the construction out of his own pocket, but let them do the labor.Reclamation of the Yinchuan Plain.But the water conservancy has to wait until after autumn, and the harvest has to wait until next autumn. What should we do in this year?
"I also want to ask you, how many people died and how many people were injured in the two fights?"

The old man didn't understand what Wang Hua meant. He still replied very carefully: "There are more than forty dead. I don't know the injured. There are about 100 people."

"It can feed two or three hundred people, and the casualties are close to 300. Is it worth it?"

The old man murmured and could not answer.

Only then did Wang Hua say: "Everyone wait a minute, it will be easy next year. I just wanted to call everyone to talk about a problem. Some tribes are very poor, especially some people. I can provide you with some support, but how do you Guarantee that these materials are really distributed to the poor and helpless people?"

According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, it is possible that dozens of murderers will be pulled out and asked to be executed after autumn, and all problems will be settled.But Wang Hua can't do this, not only these two tribes, but also conflicts between other tribes.So he now longs for the coming battle to happen.After this battle is over, there will be a shock to all the tribes, and only then will they really have the right to speak.But it doesn't work now, and I still focus on appeasement.

The old man is not an idiot either, Wang draws the most and has a lot of money.After arriving in Qinzhou, the subsidy money was close to tens of millions of dollars, which almost benefited the entire Lingnan people, not to mention the land of eight states.How can you guarantee it?But he couldn't answer.

Slapping your chest, swearing, swearing, that is a trick for children, does Wang Hua believe it?

At this time, Wang Hua suddenly had an idea, and said, "There is another matter that I want to ask you to discuss. Now you are so idle that you can kill dozens of young people for a ranch. There is just an opportunity."

The old man was stunned, why did Wang Hua come up with such a vulgar phrase about egg pain.He didn't know that Wang Hua was actually very angry in his heart. If he didn't consider the overall situation, he would immediately order people to arrest all these hundreds of people and beat each of them thirty times with sticks, and there would be no problem at all.

The old man asked: "What chance?"

"I'm about to send an order that all tribes can send their best disciples to join our blood camp. If the war comes, the spoils will be distributed to the tribe according to their merits and the number of soldiers. First The approval will be implemented immediately, and it will take two days."

This order, when carried out, will literally tie many tribes to his chariot.Zhu Ting nodded secretly when he heard this.

But the battle was about to start, so Wang Hua said that it would take two days, and it would be too late to keep up with a good show.

After finishing speaking, Wang Hua said again: "That's it. For the injured and dead families, I will provide some subsidies. This pasture is still the same as before, and you jointly own it. If anyone does it first, I will be rude to him. "

Hearing that Wang Hua paid for the pension out of his own pocket, the people on both sides felt embarrassed.Several elders nodded their heads.

The matter was finally resolved, but Wang Hua received a piece of information after returning to Lingzhou.

He twitched his brows, feeling a little joy in his heart, the fish had entered the net.

PS: A little later, but the third update is here.

Then I got on the chariot and thanked a reader for the inspiration.

Some comments have been deleted. Although I know that some of them are well-intentioned suggestions, I promise to give you a comfortable experience in this volume. In order not to affect the mood, I accidentally deleted it. No wonder.

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