"Sir, Mo Gui agreed to surrender."
Liu Ye's report surprised Liu Cheng.
It had only been a day, and Liu Ye had convinced Mo Gui so quickly.
Even Zang Ba, who was following Liu Cheng's patrol arrangements in the tent, was stunned and asked, "Master Liu, how did you do that?"
Liu Cheng was also quite curious and asked, "Tell me quickly."
Liu Ye smiled, cupped his hands and said: "Everyone has advantages and disadvantages.
Sometimes flaws can become something that is beneficial to him, and advantages can also become factors that are detrimental to him.
It is actually very simple to say it at this time.
Mo Gui is a prince who cares about his subjects very much.
He would rather sacrifice his life in exchange for their unity and unity.
Although he cares about his subjects, then I will use the safety of his subjects to force him to commit the crime.
There is a reality in this that he must understand.
The strength of the Qiang people is not on the same level as the strength of the Han Dynasty.
Regardless of No matter what he does, as long as the Han Dynasty is determined to destroy the Xiqiang, there will be no chance of the Xiqiang being spared, so he has to surrender."
After hearing this, Liu Cheng sighed: "Zi Yang is a great talent.
Mo Gui's surrender has saved me and the court a lot of trouble.
The rest of the matter will be relatively simple.
Come and reward Zi Yang with a pair of jade bis." , a meal of wine and meat” Liu Ye smiled and said: "Thank you Lord Sikong for the reward."
The attendant quickly brought a tray, a food box, and a jar of fine wine, and helped Liu Ye deliver them to his tent.
Liu Ye was very happy to get a pair of jade stones and a meal of wine and meat.
He sent someone to invite his friend Chen Qun to enjoy the wine and meat together.
You must know that drinking is not allowed in the army.
Drinking is usually rewarded by the commander.
Chen Qun came to Liu Ye's tent and saw him kneeling behind the table.
There were fragrant meat and wine on the table.
The glutton in his stomach suddenly became angry.
He walked over to Liu Ye with a smile, knelt down in front of Liu Ye, looked at the meat and wine, and said with a smile. : "Haha, after Ziyang received the reward from Lord Sikong, he sent someone to invite me to enjoy it together.
He is indeed a kind person.
Thank you very much."
"Of course I'm a kind person, you know that."
Liu Ye smiled, stretched out his hand and said, "Brother Changwen, please, you're welcome."
The two of them drank and drank together, and when they were slightly drunk, they began to talk about world affairs.
"Brother Changwen, it can be said that the War of Xiqiang is over now.
Even if there is another small tribe of Qiang people who are dissatisfied, they will not be able to make a big splash.
Where do you think Lord Sikong will turn his attention to next?"
Liu Ye used chopsticks He picked up a piece of beef rice and put it in his mouth while chewing it and asked.
Chen Qun picked up the wine cup and drank it all, put it down and said: "Brother Ziyang, although the War of Xiqiang is over, the imperial court has only done half of the things in Xiqiang, and the other half has not been done.
I thought Lord Sikong and his army will stay here for at least half a month."
Liu Ye thought about it and asked: "Are you talking about the governance of Xiqiang?"
"Of course."
Chen Qun nodded, "The governance of the Xiqiang is a big problem.
The imperial court has been fighting with the Xiqiang for more than a hundred years.
The Xiqiang rebelled and surrendered at times.
It was because of problems with the governance strategy that it took such a long time.
Well, the imperial court has not been able to find a strategy to manage the Western Qiang, which has caused Lord Sikong a headache.
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Brother Zi Yang, how about we each submit a letter to Lord Sikong to offer suggestions to solve the governance problem of the Western Qiang."
Liu Ye smiled and said: "That's what I meant."
Liu Cheng was indeed thinking about the governance of the Western Qiang.
The governance of the Western Qiang must not be done by just appointing a local official like in the Central Plains and Guanzhong.
This is the Western Qiang with strong folk customs.
The tribal concept is too strong, and the Han Dynasty The laws of the imperial court simply did not apply here, and the Qiang people were still strongly hostile to the imperial court.
The next day, Liu Cheng received a letter from Liu Ye, Chen Qun and other military officials, all of which contained suggestions on how to manage the Xiqiang.
These letters really had views and suggestions that made Liu Cheng's eyes bright, even though they were influenced by the times.
There are many limitations that have not been taken into account, but we have to admit that they are careful.
For example, Chen Qun suggested that if you want to govern the Western Qiang, you must first mobilize tens of thousands of young men from various Western Qiang tribes under the guise of warning troops, so that the Western Qiang will be without the strongest people, and the Qiang people will rebel if they want to.
No strength.
Liu Ye also suggested in his letter that the governance of the Xiqiang should be both civilized and forceful, and should not simply adopt a mild attitude or complete force sanctions.
Liu Cheng himself also did some analysis.
He found that he had been at war with the Western Qiang since the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The imperial court's rule over the Western Qiang was sometimes forced to give up due to political struggles, and sometimes it was blindly appeasement and compromise.
The leaders of the Western Qiang tribe were arrogant and wanted to get rid of the rule of the Han Dynasty and launched rebellions.
Sometimes they were forced to rebel because the local officials sent by the imperial court exploited the Qiang people so hard.
All in all, the reasons why the Qiang people often rebel are varied and varied.
Two days after the battle between the imperial army and Mo Gui ended, the Qiang tribes did not act rashly.
They were all waiting to see whether Mo Gui was dead or alive.
Three days later, Mo Gui was sitting on a carriage and was pulled outside the west gate of Longqi City by Zang Ba with some cavalry guards.
Mo Gui sat on the carriage and looked at the people on the tower and shouted: "Open the city gate" When the Qiang people in the city learned that Mo Gui was still alive and had been sent back by the Han army, they all ran to the city wall.
The city gate was soon opened, and the carriage slowly drove Mo Gui into the city.
There were a large number of Qiang people kneeling on the city walls and on both sides of the city streets.
However, these people were almost all old, weak, sick and disabled, and all of them had been killed in the battle outside the city three days ago.
"Prince Mo Gui" "prince" The Qiang people knelt down on both sides of the street and cried, and the little children also screamed.
The carriage stopped inside the city gate.
Mo Gui waved to one of the kneeling old Qiang officials and ordered him to summon all the Qiang people in the city to near the city gate.
The old Qiang officials took the order and sent people from house to house.
Door-to-door and street notifications.
When the Qiang people got the news, they rushed to the west city wall.
It didn't take long for the open space inside the west city wall and city gate to be filled with a large number of Qiang people, making it completely dark.
Mo Gui carried his sheepskin robe and walked up the city wall with difficulty, turned around and faced the Qiang people below.
The Qiang people knelt down again and shouted: "Prince Mo Gui" Mo Gui said: "My people, Mo Gui is grateful for your support to me after my father died in battle.
Now that I have been defeated, I barely managed to save my life.
It is not a pity for me to die, but you and the Qiang people of other tribes To survive, our descendants will have to live on this land.
We can no longer fight against the imperial court.
Using our strength to fight against the imperial court can only be an egg against a stone.
We have no chance of winning, so I decided and announced my surrender to the Han Dynasty."
"Prince Mogui, we cannot surrender.
We Qiang people cannot be slaves to the Han people.
We can govern the Xiqiang ourselves, so why should we hand over the ruling power to the Han Dynasty?"
An old Qiang nobleman shouted in opposition. .
Mo Gui asked expressionlessly: "If you don't surrender, can you defeat the Han Dynasty?
How many troops do you have left to use?
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There are tens of thousands of imperial troops stationed outside the city.
The tribes are scattered.
Who has the prestige and talent to gather them all?"
The imperial court can destroy me, the Xiqiang, at any time, so for the sake of your own rights, can you just drag all the clan members to be buried with you?"
The old Qiang minister opened his mouth but was speechless.
If he persisted, it would be tantamount to not taking the lives of his tribe seriously.
Mo Gui waved his hand: "This matter is settled.
I will immediately send people to convey my decision to all tribes: surrender to the imperial court."
In fact, everyone knows that it is not the ordinary Qiang people who want to rebel against the imperial court.
Ordinary Qiang people are satisfied as long as they have a stutter, a tent to live in, a few cattle and sheep, and a wife to continue their offspring.
The real Qiang people want to rebel against the imperial court.
It was the tribal aristocratic leaders among the Qiang people who were unwilling to be ruled by the Han Dynasty and had to hand over so many war horses, animal skins, and property to the court every year, so they incited the Qiang people to rebel.
There are many ways to arouse Qiang people's hatred for the imperial court.
Tribal leaders used the imperial court's needs as an excuse to collect cattle, sheep, horses, and skins from ordinary Qiang people.
Some even used the excuse of offering women to the emperor.
Let the Qiang people make their homes beautiful They contributed beautiful women and passed the conflict onto the court.
As time went by, the ordinary Qiang people hated the court more and more.
The noble leaders continued to instigate and instigate, and the rebellion became a matter of course. .
Liu Cheng knew this very well.
The imperial court wanted to govern the border barbarian tribes such as the Xiqiang.
The noble leaders of these tribes were the biggest obstacles.
People's greed was unlimited, and the noble leaders of these tribes refused to give up on themselves. interests, even want to get more, want to unify Xiqiang, want to expand In order to seize territory, population and wealth, they must not avoid the behemoth of the Han Dynasty.
Their ambitions made them touch the bottom line of the Han Dynasty again and again and test the strength of the Han Dynasty.
Once the Han Dynasty had no time to look outside or was weak, they would He immediately rebelled and got rid of the control and rule of the imperial court.
The noble leaders of these tribes have never been honest people.
As long as there is the slightest opportunity and hope, they will never let it go.
As Mo Gui sent people to inform the noble leaders of various tribes about his decision to surrender to the Han Dynasty, the news quickly spread throughout the Xiqiang.
The Qiang people were discouraged for a while, and several tribal noble leaders wanted to start an army.
They fought against the Han Dynasty army, but received no response or support from other tribes.
Each tribe was worried that the Han Dynasty would burn them.
No one dared to be the leader anymore.
Even if someone dared to do so, they did not have enough prestige and talent. , other tribal leaders simply refused to accept it.
Just when these tribal leaders were uneasy, Liu Cheng sent more than a dozen envoys to convey his instructions to the noble leaders of the Xiqiang tribes, giving them ten days to arrive at Longqi City to attend the meeting.
Those who arrive are considered to be against the imperial court, and the imperial court must send troops to attack: