MTL - Chastity Layman-Chapter 1433 Special care and reward
Chapter 1433 Special care and generous rewards
"I heard that Dongcao Kingdom, where my uncle died this time, is at the mouth of the Dawan Basin. This country was originally one of the four small vassal states of Kang Kingdom, and its king was also held by a descendant of the Kang family. The king city of Dongcao Kingdom was built in a It is not a small oasis, with Boxi Mountain on its back, Yaoshashui in the north, Dawan Basin in the east, and Kangguo on the oasis in the Nami River Basin in the southwest. It is better to directly connect Dongcao King City and the oasis to both Reward it to the uncle of the country as the land of the world."
The land here is fertile, and it is located on the main road of the Silk Road. It is a very fertile oasis. It is of course good to reward Qin Jun who has made great contributions to the country.
The Eastern Cao King’s City was called Shidusana in the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the core and most fertile oasis in the Eastern Cao Kingdom, and there are many oases around it. They are all very heavy rewards.
Tianhou refused to treat her brother badly, so she was very satisfied with this place.
"Then give the city of Shana and the oasis where it is located to the king of Wu'an County as his hereditary land, and then directly change its name to Dongcao Prefecture, and it will become the hereditary fiefdom of the royal family of Wu'an County in the future."
Outside the curtain.
Laiji and other prime ministers and ministers of the two prefectures were slightly surprised that they directly rewarded Qin Jun with the Dongcao King City after hearing about it.
However, no one objected.
The main reason is that Dongcao Prefecture is too far away, thousands of miles away from the Central Plains. At the beginning, the military system was changed, and one of the important new policies was to give a large amount of land to the soldiers and officials in the places where the frontier troops were stationed.
Dongcao is just a small country in Sogdia, a vassal of Kang. Kang is the largest country in the river, although it is not the Kangju of the Han Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, Kangju used to be a nomadic tribe, a tyrant in the river, together with the Yuezhi and Dawan, etc., but today's Kangguo is a semi-nomadic and semi-settled country.
It’s just that it’s still a tyrant in the river, and the other Shiguo and Anguo are basically the traditional Sogdian city-states, but Kangguo is the only big country that has a vassal brother. East Cao, West Cao, Middle Cao, and the three small countries are all Kang. The country is a vassal, and even the king is the Kang royal family, and the country of Mi is also the younger brother of the Kang country.
Since the Sui Dynasty, the Western Turks became the overlords of the Western Regions. The Sogdians in the river, like other city-states in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, were all targeted by the Turks. Many city-states were changed by the Turks, and the Turkic kings were replaced.
But only the Kingdom of Kang has never been replaced by the Turks. The Kingdom of Kang has the largest army in the river, and also has a strong mercenary Zhejie warriors. The Sogdians in the river are generally businessmen, and a few are nomads. The elite warrior Zhe Jie came out of Nomad.
These people often became the mercenaries sent by Kang to the Sogdian countries in the river, and also served as the guards of the Sogdian merchants.
So Kang was the only country that was not replaced by the Western Turks. In the end, it was just a marriage with the Western Turks.
The Hezhong area is vast, and what the imperial court needs is to control the most important Dawan Basin and several other oases. As for the rest of the land, they can recruit immigrants if they can. The generosity of others is a newly conquered land.
It is yours who can hold it, if no one can't hold it, it will be nothing.
Because of this, Tianhou wanted to reward his elder brother with such a very rich and fertile Dongcao King City, and the almsmen did not object. Qin Jun's contribution is high enough, and he needs to continue guarding the river, so this piece of land that Qin Jun just conquered was sealed for him. He, everyone agrees.
The queen spoke again from behind the curtain.
"Since the Prime Minister said just now that Duke An has made great contributions in guarding Kunlun, he will also add rewards to him, and find a suitable river valley from Congling under Duke Ango's jurisdiction and give it to Duke Anguo."
Gao Hu immediately suggested, "The small city of Bolu King in Congling Ridge is Niedu City, facing the Suoyi River, on the main road of the Silk Road. Although the plateau is cold, if the world entrusts it to Duke An, then such an important place will be given to me by the Tang Dynasty from now on." The meritorious, loyal and brave guarding of the gate will surely ensure long-term peace and stability in the territory, and will also add strength to Kunlun Town."
"Lady, what do you think?" Tianhou asked.
Laiji has no objection.
Attendant Shangguanyi, Zuo Pushe Pei Xingjian, etc. did not object either. The so-called small Bolu country is just a small plateau country separated from Bolu country. The conditions in Congling are worse than Tubo, and compared to Dawan Basin. It's even worse.
Randomly pick a piece of land in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, that is much better than Congling.
The Congling Mountains are high and the valleys are deep, and many places can only be passed for two or three months a year. It is really like a place outside the world. The imperial court established Kunlun Town in Congling Mountains of the Kunlun Mountains to control the original Pantuo, Big and Small Bolu, Humi, Shi Hidden and solid lost honey tribes in mountainous states.
This is the commanding height of the entire Western Regions, where the Kunlun Mountains, the Hindu Kush Mountains, and the Karakoram Mountains converge, forming a roof of the world.
For the aborigines in the Congling mountain area, maybe they are used to everything here, and they may even fight over a certain grassland or a flatter river valley, but for these princes in the Luoyang Chaotang Said, that kind of ghost place is completely useless and disgusting.
Sending them off for nothing may not be appreciated. Tianhou wanted to give Xiao Bolu's royal city to his uncle Qin Gui. Everyone was very calm and even felt a little blushing. For the heroes and generals who defended this place in the country, some of them couldn't do it.
"I would like to confer the title of Qin Gui's first son as Boluhou, and another son as the fifth-rank Sanjie."
"Can!"
days later, I agreed with satisfaction.
After a good mood, I picked up the buttermilk next to me and took a big sip, feeling comfortable all over.
The great victory in the river, the coach Qin Jun dealt with it, the rest is not a problem, anyway, according to the imperial court system, meritorious service is rewarded.
However, because two generals, Qin Jun and Qin Gui, won the world fiefdom, the lords suggested that, in addition to merit promotion and official promotion, the imperial court should reward an additional sum of money for military merit, and in addition, they should also give some more money in the river. The land will be rewarded to the soldiers who have done meritorious service as feudal territories, officials' Yongye fields, etc.
However, these fief rewards are not as good as Qin Jun and others. They range from three to five hundred mu to as many as one thousand eight hundred mu, and they are not even those big fertile oases, but they are additional rewards after all. It is always possible to make the soldiers in the river grateful.
During the entire court discussion, no one mentioned the treatment of Shi Guo and Cao Guo, and no one mentioned that after Qin Jun conquered the two countries, he demoted all the Sogdians of the two countries, no matter how high or low, into slaves, and then sold them directly to Hezhong at a low price. General.
Even all the properties of the two countries were confiscated.
Since the implementation of the new military system, each town's Jiedu envoys have guarded the frontiers, granted double banners and double festivals, and gained great authority. Not to mention that the Tang army in the Western Regions has been besieging and suppressing the Western Turks for several years, and has arrested hundreds of thousands of Turks. The imperial court also agreed to be a slave to the miscellaneous Hu.
After all, without the authorization and permission of the central officials of the imperial court, the Jiedu envoys would not dare to mess around with such a fundamental policy.
The acquiescence of the imperial court is based on the treatment of the Goguryeo people in Liaodong after the holy ancestor personally conquered Liaodong. The treatment back then was slightly lighter. Most of the prisoners were resettled in the Central Plains, and some prisoners of war were demoted to slavery.
But later the imperial court conquered the Korean peninsula, and it was much more ruthless towards Sanhan. The ancestors made an edict to immigrate and change their species. When they saw Sanhan, they would be arrested, but it didn’t matter whether you surrendered or not.
Because of these precedents, the Tang army in the Western Regions now shows no mercy to the Western Turks, and naturally they don’t have to show mercy to the Sogdians. Even the towns of Yongchang, Pyuyue, Southern Tibet, and Xichang in the southwest are now dealing with barbarians. Also very vicious.
The imperial court set off a new wave of immigration, deliberately intensifying land annexation in the Central Plains, allowing ordinary Han people with no property or low production to move to the frontier and let them go there to be landlords.
The Central Plains area engaged in the manor slavery economy and the urban industrial and commercial economy, immigrated to expand the border, and the poor people in the Central Plains used to grant land and distribute land as landlords.
But this policy has a flaw, that is, after the poor in the Central Plains migrate to the frontier, the manor or workshop manufacturing industry of the Central Plains landlords will have a larger labor demand gap, so more slaves are needed to supplement.
Similarly, even if the Han people who migrated to the frontier could get a lot of land, they would not be able to become landlords on their own, and their life might not be as good as before in the Central Plains. Therefore, to improve their living and income, they had to rely on slaves.
These are forcing the imperial court to expand in an all-round way, especially the expansion that focuses on plundering the population.
Qin Jun destroyed Shi Guo and Dong Cao, and then turned all the people of the two countries into slaves. Hundreds of thousands of people were not slaves. Not only was there no fault at all, but it was a great achievement.
What made the prime ministers of the two governments a little bit dissatisfied was that Qin Jun was too partial to Hezhong Town. The hundreds of thousands of captives captured during the Turkic attack on Sogdia in recent years were basically digested by the Western Regions themselves, and those who flowed into the Central Plains also Even nobles, beauties, craftsmen, or some literate businessmen, etc., young women with strong labor force and good fertility, were mostly digested by the generals and their families in the three towns of the Western Regions, and a small part was also sold to New immigrants from the Western Regions.
This time, there are another two to three hundred thousand people and countless livestock. The imperial court hopes to get more people and livestock from Qin Jun, especially the population, even if the imperial court allocates silk cloth coins to Hezhong Town in exchange for military expenses. .
A large number of people have migrated to the border areas, which has exacerbated the labor shortage in the Central Plains. The price in the slave market is rising steadily.
At the end of the meeting, several ministers proposed to send Doctor Yinqing Guanglu, Secretary Shaojian, and Zhao Guogong Chief Sun Yan to the three towns in the Western Regions to reward the soldiers for their meritorious service.
However, his main task is to fight with his son and daughter in-laws, Qin Jun, to bring back more people this time. With a population of two to three hundred thousand, at least one hundred thousand must be given to the court this time, right?
Changsun Yan is the grandson of Changsun Wuji, and his son, Changsun Wuyi, is already engaged to Qin Jun's daughter. The relationship between the two is more suitable for this trip.
(end of this chapter)
