Fenghou

The cavalry of the Song Army patrolled the streets without interfering with the children's play, and the streets were in order.

Standing in front of the window, Chen Qing watched a group of children running and having snowball fights on the street. He turned his head to Zhang Xiao: "Sima is right, the key is the children, starting from the children, education, culture, sending outstanding children to Jingzhao, Is 20 years enough for them to accept Han culture psychologically, identify with it, and then encourage intermarriage to make their children and grandchildren Han Chinese?"

Zhang Xiaowei smiled and said: "Actually, it doesn't take 20 years. If it is done well, a few years will be enough. The key is the profit. It is profitable to become a Han Chinese, and the people will definitely flock to it. For example, sending children to study can share the land and can be tax-free. For example, Beizhi learned that many people in Xixia can speak Chinese, and ordinary people can also speak a few words, but they don’t want to speak it, but as long as we create an atmosphere where only Chinese can be used, everyone will definitely be able to speak Chinese.”

"Why can you speak Chinese?" Chen Qing asked curiously.

"Because the Dangxiang people in the city are different from the Dangxiang people who graze, just like the difference between cooked and uncooked. The Dangxiang people in the herds live on animal husbandry and have no communication with the outside world, so they basically speak Dangxiang language, and the Dangxiang people in the city do not. Farming, mainly engaged in business and handicrafts, a lot of communication, basically can speak some Chinese, plus their Han slaves, as far as I know, they communicate with each other and speak the party language, but with the Han slaves Being able to speak Chinese is just a question of who is the master and who is the vice.

As long as all officials speak Chinese and all businesses speak Chinese, after a few years, the Dangxiang language will not be heard here. As for the promotion of Chinese character reading, that is the second step. Take your time. Abolition, books, steles, storefronts, etc., are not allowed to appear, and all people who understand the party's writing are sent to Sichuan and Shaanxi, just like plants without land, they will soon wither. "

Chen Qing took a few steps with his hands behind his back and said: "When it comes to interests, we have to cultivate a group of Han gentry and Han landlords. The government alone can't do it. These gentry and landlords are the backbone of promoting Sinicization and maintaining Sinicization.

Some injured generals, I am going to let them leave the army and stay in Lingzhou, and Han Chinese managers like Song Cheng can be trained as landlords.

Party members who are willing to accept Sinicization can become civilians, while stubborn Party members can only be reduced to slaves and tenant farmers. This is the redistribution of interests. Xixia has been destroyed, so it is impossible to maintain the status quo. The Han people must stand up. Benefits must be redistributed. "

Chen Qing pondered for a moment and said: "According to the original plan, part of the party members will migrate to northern Shaanxi, and the rest of the party members must live together with the Han, Qiang, Uyghur and other ethnic groups. The Han people are dominant, and they must be mixed. , this is the principle, there must be no Dangxiang County or Qiangren County.

The best way is to weaken the current Xingqing Prefecture, establish more counties in the Hetao area, disperse the population, and then cooperate with the villages to make all the counties operate around farming.

As for business, Lingzhou can be assigned this function, and it can be done slowly, and the plan can be completed within five years. "

Chen Qing stared at Zhang Xiao and said, "Re-establishing Lingzhou Road, Zhang Sima will be the highest administrative officer, and he has a heavy burden on his shoulders!"

Zhang Xiao knew that Chen Qing took him to go to Xixia for the purpose of allowing him to take charge of Xixia government affairs. This trust moved him, but he had to suggest Chen Qing to think more broadly about this matter.

"I reported to the Xuanfu envoy that I suggested that Lingxia Road be set up, and Lingzhou Prefecture and Xiazhou Prefecture be set up below. The road is mainly military, and the Han Navy should be set up to control the party members internally and defend against the invasion of Jin soldiers externally.

The government is in charge of government affairs and reports directly to the Xuanfu envoy. The humble official can serve as the magistrate of Lingzhou, and the humble official recommends Lu Wei as the magistrate of Xiazhou. Cultivating his ability to deal with the Qiang people and being independent will help him mature.

Then set up a Lingxia Road Transshipment Department, which is in charge of both the military and the civilians, and then set up a punishment department and a supervision department. Xuan Fu envoy under the jurisdiction. "

"What about the imperial court?"

Chen Qing said again: "I'm a little undecided now. I want to hear Sima's opinion on whether to let the imperial court intervene in Xixia."

Zhang Xiaowei smiled and said: "Xixia is not Sichuan, there is no oil and water, I guess the imperial court is not very interested, at most it only has one name, for example, the imperial court reviews the work reports of Lingzhou Prefecture and Xiazhou Prefecture every year, I have one The idea is to take out some low-level official positions, such as Zhu Bo, county magistrates, or ministers of various prefectures, etc., and ask the court to send a group of young and talented Jinshi to work on Lingxia Road. After these officials come to Jingzhao to report, what will happen? How to use it is up to the Xuanfu envoy to decide."

"Great trick!"

Chen Qing applauded and laughed. There are many young Jinshi in the imperial court who are waiting for jobs. Since the imperial court doesn’t use them, it’s better to give them to themselves. They use Lingxia Road’s lack of people as an excuse to ask these young talents to come here.

"Let's make this decision! Sima write me a detailed report, and I'll think it over."

……

Just three days after the capture of Xingqing Mansion, Chen Qing received news from Cao Baozong that his brother Cao Baohui was willing to surrender to the Song army. Since the Hetao area in the north was covered by heavy snow, he could only lead his army south to surrender after the beginning of spring.

Chen Qing was overjoyed, and immediately changed the name of the Black Mountain Army Division to Fengzhou, and appointed Cao Baohui as the commander of the upper army, and served as the commander of Fengzhou soldiers and horses.

Of course, this is just a measure of rights and interests. It is impossible to allow the Dangxiang Army to defend Fengzhou again. It can only be reorganized next year. Cao Baohui will go to Hexi to serve.

This morning, Chen Qing, accompanied by Cao Baozong, inspected the situation in the city. Cao Baozong was familiar with the situation of Xixia people, so Chen Qing appointed him as the general judge of Lingzhou Prefecture and became Zhang Xiao's right-hand man.

The martial law in the city had been lifted a few days ago, and many shops had opened, and Song Jun in twos and threes became the guests of these shops.

The biggest change is that the streets used to be full of Dangxiang dialect, but now it is no longer, the streets are full of Chinese speakers, and the best business is restaurants and brothels. Of course, the former Han female slaves can no longer be seen in the brothels. Disappeared, every brothel will be beheaded if it dares to use Han women as prostitutes.

Now they are all Uyghur, Qiang and Dangxiang people, and the Song army no longer interferes. After all, a large number of Song army soldiers also have physical needs. Basically, there are long queues in front of every brothel.

The restaurant is the same, every household is full of customers, full of soldiers of the Song Army who came to drink and eat.

Chen Qing gave the army a three-day vacation in rotation. Basically, within half a month, the business in the city was extremely prosperous.

As expected of the capital of Western Xia, Xingqing City had many mansions, but Chen Qing saw many women carrying packages and boxes, leading their children out of the mansions, and hastily boarded an ox cart and left.

Chen Qing pointed his horsewhip and asked curiously, "What's going on with these women?"

Cao Baozong said with a smile: "The owners of these big houses are former dignitaries, officials or wealthy families. There are no male masters, and the remaining women and children can't support such a big house, so they can only move to live in a small courtyard. "

"Actually, there is no need to worry so much."

Cao Baozong shook his head, "The envoy Xuanfu didn't know something. These women are not stupid. Living in this kind of big house, they will become fat sheep in the eyes of many people. Before, they all agreed to leave a thousand coins for them. They are basically If they ask for silver, the humble staff will know that they are going to leave quickly."

"Let's do whatever they want! These mansions will be taken back as official residences, and will be used by officials and garrison generals in the future."

"Understandable!"

At this time, Chen Qing saw that the city wall was being repaired, and many craftsmen inside seemed to be locals. Chen Qing asked curiously, "Are there many local craftsmen?"

Cao Baozong nodded, "The party members living in the city are mainly engaged in commerce and handicrafts. Among the party members at the bottom, there are many craftsmen of all kinds. There are tens of thousands of masons and carpenters who only build houses, but they are a little older, middle-aged Too much."

"That's right! I haven't seen young party members, they are basically middle-aged people, have all the young people been consumed?"

Cao Baozong sighed, "They almost died in the war. During the two years of fighting with Xiao Heda, soldiers were recruited every day in Xingqing City. Except for the powerful slaves, ordinary party civilians must be soldiers. They are over 16 years old and 35 years old. the following.

Later, it fought against the Song Army, and it was stipulated that men over 14 and under 40 must join the army. Now the remaining young men are prisoners of war. The city is basically full of middle-aged people and women, and young men cannot be seen. "

Chen Qing shook his head, and couldn't help laughing at himself. He thought so hard about how to deal with the party members, but he forgot the most critical factor. The young men in the party party could no longer fight, so what was he worried about?

"There are 10,000+ young and strong men who are slaves of the Han people without wives. This will solve the big problem."

Chapter 7 and Five

The Lingzhou Mansion has been established, Zhang Xiao is the magistrate, Cao Baozong is the Sima, Fu Lin is the judge, and there are six divisions under the Cao Fang. If there is a shortage of officials, the army's civilian officers are temporarily appointed, and even Zhong Huan is also temporarily appointed as the Household Cao Division.

There are seven counties under the jurisdiction of Lingzhou Prefecture. The original Xingqing City was renamed Daxing County, which is the seat of the government office. There are also six counties below it, including Shun County, Baojing County, Ding County, Lingwu County, Mingsha County and Li County.

The top priority of Lingzhou Prefecture is to clean up the houses. More than 60 Han people will move back. Of course, some will move to Xiazhou Prefecture, and some will form villages. At least 30 people, or nearly [-] Han households, will settle in Lingzhou. State capitals and counties.

Chen Qing specially dispatched [-] soldiers to assist Lingzhou Mansion in cleaning up the houses. It took one month to clear out the houses and let the people move back.

That afternoon, Chao Qing hurried over and said, "Xuanfu envoy, I have a letter from home!"

Chen Qing was startled, now that the road is blocked by heavy snow, can Jiaxin come over?

Chen Qing hurriedly said, "Where is the letter?"

Chao Qing handed Chen Qing a tube of Eagle Letters, and Chen Qing smiled wryly. It turned out to be Eagle Letters, so he said how he could get along.

He quickly took the letter and looked at it carefully, and immediately jumped up. Zhao Qiaoyun gave birth to a daughter. According to his idea, he named it Bing'er. The mother and daughter are safe and the child is healthy.

Chen Qing was overjoyed, he had another precious daughter, he immediately said to Chao Qing: "Go and pass on my order, to celebrate my daughter, the whole army will be on holiday for three days."

When the news spread, the generals came to congratulate them one after another. Chen Qing felt like returning home. At this time, Tang Qian suggested to Chen Qing that although the mountains were covered by heavy snow, he could go southward by the Baimachuan River and walk about eighty miles through the ice-covered canyon. The key point is that the ice surface of the small river is far from as cold as the ice surface of the Yellow River, and the soldiers, war horses and camels can completely bear it.

After arriving in Gyeongju, go directly south along the Malingshui River Valley, and finally take the Jingyuan Road to enter Guanzhong.

This suggestion was unanimously approved by everyone, and Chen Qing immediately sent a scout to explore the way. At the same time, the army began to pack up their supplies, and they could set off after getting the exact news.

In fact, Zhang Xiao and the officials did a good job, and there was no need for Chen Qing to make further decisions. After he approved Zhang Xiao's Han Chinese-dominated plan, Zhang Xiao and the officials would implement the specific matters.

Lingzhou Mansion is running very smoothly, with enough military assistance, [-] households have been cleared out of yards or houses in just half a month, and many of them have only one old man left. They all lived together in one big courtyard, and there was a special person to cook every day, which was equivalent to a nursing home. This method alone freed up nearly [-] courtyards.

That morning, 10 camels and [-] livestock brought the first batch of Han people from Cuta Village to Daxing County.

The camels that transported them were not Song army camels, but camels captured from Xixia. The Song army captured a total of [-] camels in Xixia, gave [-] camels to the Qiang people, and the government still had [-] camels.

In addition, there are a large number of horses, mules and donkeys, and these horses, mules and donkeys are all going to be given to Han families.

Before the arrival of the first batch of people, the government had already arranged the big camp. The people lived in the big camp first, and then drew lots to reserve houses. After getting the houses, they could move there directly.

Tens of thousands of households are nervous, expectant, and a little timid. After all, they have been oppressed by Xixia all the year round, and their psychology has become very weak. It will take a long time to slowly reverse their weak mentality.

In the afternoon, the first batch of [-] households assigned to courtyard houses entered the city. They were led by soldiers to their new courtyards. Many of these courtyards were non-party clans that were expelled from Xingqing City by Brother Li Cha before. Those expelled people will move to Xiazhou Mansion, and their original houses will be owned by the new owners.

Chen Qing is currently inspecting Dongcheng. This area was originally the place where the Qiang people gathered, and it will also be the place where the Han people will gather most in the future.

At this time, he saw a soldier leading a family of five to a courtyard. Chen Qing stepped forward and asked with a smile, "May I ask your surname?"

The male owner is in his thirties. The husband and wife have two children and an old mother. They should belong to the second generation of Han people. Their mother is a slave who was captured. slaves."

Chen Qing shook his head, "There are no slave households anymore. You are the people of Daxing County, the capital of Lingzhou in the Song Dynasty, and you are upright civilians. Your children are all the same."

"The villain also knows, and now it is renamed Daxing County, Lingzhou Prefecture, okay!"

"Is this the house you drew?" Chen Qing pointed to the yard and asked with a smile.

"Exactly, my mother got it. It is said that there are two acres."

The man was very excited. Originally, his family of five lived in a small shack, but now they finally have their own house, which is still two acres.

With trembling hands, he took out the key and opened the courtyard door. The two children cheered and ran in.

Chen Qing asked his soldiers to help them move everything in. The yard was huge, covering half an acre of land. There was a jujube tree and a well in the corner. The yard was covered with thick snow. Although the belongings inside have been looted, all the furniture is still there, including clothes, bedding and even pots and pans, and there is still a lot of firewood piled up in the kitchen.

The old lady was so excited that she couldn't restrain herself, and suddenly covered her face and cried, "It would be great if your father was still here!"

"Mom, don't cry, it's making people laugh!"

The man hurriedly asked his wife to take his mother to the backyard, and each family was given food. The ration was given according to the head of the family. Children received one bucket of rice per month, and adults had two buckets of rice per month. Two coins, as well as sheepskin, cloth, salt, oil and other daily necessities.

The man scratched his head and asked Chen Qing, "Excuse me, general, when will our land be distributed?"

"Now that the government is clearing the land, there must be time before the spring plowing."

"It's a bit late before spring plowing. We have three seasons in two years here. This year we only plant one season of wheat, so next year we will plant two seasons, one season of corn and one season of wheat. As soon as the ice and snow melt, we will have to plow the land. By the way, there are no seeds yet. "

Chen Qing said with a smile: "Don't worry! There will be all of them, there will be no delay."

At this time, an official and several soldiers walked in at the gate of the courtyard. Seeing Chen Qing in the courtyard, they saluted in fright.

"What are you doing here?" Chen Qing asked.

The official quickly said: "Because the situation of every household is different, the magistrate asked us to go door-to-door to register the population, give them household registration numbers and house numbers, and then see what they are still lacking, and then make arrangements together."

"What is the most missing thing now?"

The official smiled wryly and said, "Money is the most lacking thing now, so the magistrate said, we have to find something for them to do and let them work to earn some money."

Chen Qing laughed, "Register! I'll look elsewhere."

Chen Qing led the soldiers away, the official breathed a sigh of relief, the man asked curiously: "Who is this general? It seems very powerful."

"You don't even know who he is?"

The officials and several soldiers couldn't help laughing, "He is the Xuanfu envoy of Sichuan and Shanxi, our supreme commander, Chen Dutong, you know it now!"

The man's legs gave way, and he almost knelt on the ground. Just now, he asked the military master to lead the mule into the house for him!

……

The efficiency of the government was very high. In two days, all [-] households were resettled in Daxing County. Zhang Xiao also found jobs for them, which were logging, mining coal, and firing bricks.

Honeycomb coal in the Song Dynasty was very popular in Xixia. Xixia also found an open-pit coal mine in the east of Xingqing Prefecture last fall. Although the coal field is not large, it is easy to mine and the sulfur content is not high. Due to the war, mining stopped after only a few months.

Now the Lingzhou government needs to prepare a lot of building materials, coal mining to burn bricks, coal mining to make briquettes, and also go to the Hetao Manor to cut a large amount of wood, which happens to find a job for these Han people to earn money.

After the first group of people were resettled, the second group of 10 people set off from Ghota Village to go north. At this time, the scout sent an eagle letter from Gyeongju, saying that the snow in the Malingshui River Valley was not serious, and it was completely safe. Go south and return to Guanzhong.

The day of going south finally arrived.

Chapter 7 and Six

At present, Chen Qing has a total of 32 troops in Lingzhou Prefecture and Xiazhou Prefecture, including 22 Western Army and [-] Militia Army, and [-] Qiang soldiers. , the grasslands and pastures in the Henan area of ​​​​Xixia belonged to the Qiang people, and then the Uyghurs in the Hetao area of ​​​​Heishan in the north will be sent back to Ganzhou in Hexi, and the vacated Hetao area will also be handed over to the Qiang people.

As support for Chen Qing, [-] Qiang troops from the [-] Qiang army joined the Western Army, and the other [-] Qiang troops were deployed in the Hetao area of ​​Heishan to defend against the nomadic peoples in Mobei.

Originally, the Hetao area was intended to be given to the Yellow-headed Uighurs, but since the Yellow-headed Uyghurs did not participate in the battle against Xia, the land in Hetao could not be given to him, and it was handed over to the Qiang people.

From Chen Qing's original intention, he is more willing to be a good partner for the Qiang people. The Qiang people are gentle, unambitious, and engaged in animal husbandry. They can guarantee the source of meat and war horses for them for a long time.

However, for the sake of his friendship with Cao Changchun, Chen Qing decided to hand over the Uighurs in Hetao to Cao Changchun, which can be regarded as an act of benevolence.

Chen Qing considered for a long time, and decided to temporarily keep [-] troops, internally to prevent and control party members, externally defend the counterattack of the Jinbing and Datong Prefecture Xixia Army, and guard [-] Xixia prisoners of war mining.

In fact, neither the Jin soldiers nor the Xixia army has the ability to counterattack for at least a few years. The Jin soldiers on the East Road are seriously insufficient, and it is impossible to transfer troops from the East Road, and Wanyan Wushu has lost [-] Jurchen cavalry. It is possible to send troops to attack Xixia, which has nothing to do with him, and Jin Bing can be ruled out.

There are only 5000 remaining Western Xia remnants, and their purchase of one million taels of silver in Datong Mansion was intercepted. It is still a big question whether the Golden Council will give them Datong Mansion.

Even if it was given to them, what would they have to support [-] troops? The party herdsmen are all old and weak women and children. These old and weak women and children need to be raised by themselves, let alone raise an army!

So the key depends on whether Jin Guo is willing to use resources to support Brother Li Cha to continue his life in the Xixia Dynasty. If Jin Guo's senior management feels that the gain is not worth the loss, even if Wan Yanchang persists, it will be useless.

Once the support of the Kingdom of Jin is lost, the Xixia Dynasty will inevitably disappear in the long river of history, and the [-] Xixia cavalry will also become the possession of the Kingdom of Jin.

In fact, Chen Qing flew away with the iron harrier, and there was a faint intention to drive the sheep into the tiger's mouth. Would Jin Guo not be tempted when he saw three thousand iron harriers and heavy armored cavalry?

These are all things for the future, and the army can't wait any longer to go south.

Chen Qing came to the barracks. In the barracks, thousands of soldiers were busy packing and loading. They went south this time in two routes. Heavy catapults, battering rams, barracks and other supplies still used large sledges to walk on the ice of the Yellow River. Take this route to Lanzhou.

However, the 20 main force going to Baimachuan can only carry part of the property for the time being, and most of the property must wait for the spring to be transported southward.