The king's patrol is usually for deterrence, that is, to restrain some restless people, and then to pacify the locality.
Under normal circumstances, a strong king has to go out on patrol every few years, and seeing his own country with his own eyes is one thing, and on the other hand, showing control.
There are a lot of kings who like to go out on patrol in history, but there are not many who are relatively remembered, and those kings who can be remembered are at least indelible contributions to China, such as the first emperor of China, Yingzheng, the filial piety emperor Liu Che of the Western Han Dynasty, and Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty of the Yang Sui period.
As for the wild boar skin emperors in the Manchu Qing who like to go down to the south of the Yangtze River to play with women, such as the guy who didn't do anything and dared to claim that he was perfect, don't say it.
In addition to the strong king's love of patrolling, the founding king must also go on patrol from time to time, and only a king who has inherited his father's business and has no ambition will be willing to stay in this small world of Miyagi all the time.
It is usually difficult for the kings who have been hiding in Miyagi to do something that is helpful to the nation, not because they are unwilling or unwilling, but because their vision is so narrow.
The pre-Qin period and the Western Han Dynasty cultivated the heir to the king one thing in common, that is, the heir could not be blind.
The king of the Qin State has continued to let the heirs suffer in the people since Qin Xiaogong, so that the inheritors have a thorough understanding of the people, and when formulating national policies, they are not completely at the mercy of the courtiers, and have their own opinions.
The cultivation of the prince in the Western Han Dynasty was not as rough as that of the pre-Qin, and the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty has always let the prince go out of the palace more, and the more young and frivolous and absurd the prince is, the more he is liked by the emperor, such as Emperor Wen to Emperor Jing, Emperor Jing to Emperor Wu, and it has been until Liu Che's prince Liu Zhi was broken The cultivation method was broken.
Facts have also proved that a prince who has deep etiquette to the bone will not be liked by the emperor, and Liu Ju was forced to rebel.
What the emperor likes is not the absurdity of the crown prince, but the fact that there are so many heirs that the people can understand what country they are going to govern, and they will not let the courtiers say whatever they want.
What the king saw with his own eyes was far more intuitive than the description on the concerto, Liu Yan had seen that the movement was reviving everywhere, but I don't know if I can believe it even if the description is detailed.
He set out from Linzi to Wei County, which took two months, although he still had a cursory view but a more direct impression.
The season is about to turn into summer, and during the two months, the Han Kingdom has not made much action except for focusing on farming in various places and continuing to prepare for war.
Not only the Han State under Liu Yan's rule, but the rest of the countries basically did the same, that is, to continue to prepare for war and pay attention to farming.
Wei County is more desolate than the other counties that Liu Yan sees, that is, the essence of most of the alien races in Wei County was concentrated before, and the racial vendetta in Wei County was far more intense than other places, not only the ruins everywhere, but even the corpses that had not been cleaned up could be seen.
Ran Min came to Yecheng from the front line of Hukou Pass and went thirty miles south to welcome Liu Yan's arrival.
The Han army on the northern front is currently in a confrontation with the Zhao army of Shijie, and the main confrontation location is within the jurisdiction of Shangdang County, one is Huguan and the other is Hukou Pass.
In fact, according to the administrative division of Shijie Zhao, Shangdang County is part of the state.
Shi Hu didn't want to hurt the vitality of the Qi people, and repeatedly avoided the war to consolidate the two places of Bingzhou and Shuozhou, and Huguan and Hukou Pass, which were in the territory of Shangdang County, were specially operated.
Huguan and Hukou Pass are separated by 100 miles from the map, they are both in the northwest of Taihang Mountain, behind the two is a relatively flat terrain, forming a large mountainous area is the area of Yuer Mountain.
Due to the existence of a large lake in Jiuze, there are many tributaries of the surrounding water system, and the Hu people deliberately create barrenness all the year round, and the water and grass in most areas of Bingzhou are very abundant, which is a good place for nomads to graze.
Bingzhou was a large state when it was divided into Shijie Zhao State, including Shangdang County, Wuxiang County, Taiyuan County, Yongshi County, Pingyang County, Dingxiang County, and Yanmen County, covering a very wide range.
Shuozhou, not to mention, the land is the entire Hetao area, the counties set up by the Han family before are basically deserted, but Shijie retains a Shuofang county unit, and there are a large number of mixed-blood Xiongnu and Zhufang Zahu within the jurisdiction.
After the Han army went north, it took about two-thirds of the territory of Shangdang County, and there were really not many places that could stop the Han army from continuing to go north from the direction of Shangdang County, and the importance of Huguan and Hukou Pass was also highlighted, so that Shi Hu had to use some Jin ministers and generals, after all, the Hu people were really not so good at the defense of the pass.
"The minister tried several attacks, but they didn't succeed."
Ran Min looked very energetic, and he didn't seem to think much about Liu Yan coming over in person, and after reporting some information, he began to talk about how to continue to compete with Shijie Zhao Guo: "It is Yinong who is stationed in Huguan, and he is an old and cunning person.
Stationed at Hukou Pass is Zhang Jackal, who has been a general for generations, and he also has a set of defense passes. ” That is, Ran Min, who still thinks about attacking in the face of a winter when non-combat losses will be very serious, and the more traditional generals think about how to avoid non-combat losses.
According to the intelligence, the Shijie Zhao army stationed in Huguan had 80,000, with about 20,000 Qiren soldiers as the main force, and the rest were from Qiang, Di, Zahu, and Jin.
The Shijie Zhao army defending Hukou Pass was only 30,000 at the beginning, and after Ran Min personally arrived, Shi Hu increased his troops, and the current defenders of Hukou Pass were as many as 160,000, and there were 70,000 soldiers of the Qianren clan alone.
Liu Yan's main purpose in coming to Wei County this time was to beat Ran Min and prevent him from getting carried away and causing some embarrassing situations on both sides.
Before he met Ran Min, he didn't know how many people had vaguely mentioned that he should be wary, and his inner thoughts would inevitably be slightly swayed.
After he saw Ran Min, Ran Min saw that there was nothing abnormal except that he was too excited, and the surveillance personnel did not report any suspicions, saying that he was not relieved that it was false, after all, everyone is safe, hello, I am good, everyone.
Miao Song, who was standing on the side, breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Liu Yan's expression.
Ran Min was originally going to greet him with great fanfare, but he persuaded him, if tens of thousands of strong troops really appeared, the scene would be huge, and the consequences would definitely be difficult to say.
Since Ran Min led the expedition to the west and went north, first entered Wei County to take Yecheng, and then conquered Guangping County to seize Xiangguo, the honor should be enough, after all, it is the two most important cities of Shijie Zhao State in a row, and the title has also reached the twelfth rank of Zuo Geng, which is much higher than those who followed Liu Yan in the early days, and is definitely the highest title of the Han State.
The first person to take the title of Han State did something that did something without thinking, and in the face of some local investors, he did not refuse, and in a short period of time, the troops under the shogunate of the general Zhengxi were expanded from 110,000 to 30,000 to 440,000.
Although the act of recruiting local young men as soldiers was approved by the king and allowed by the center in advance, Ran Min was too loud and unscrupulous, and it was abnormal not to be suspicious.
Because of Ran Min's personality, even Jiang Gan, Miao Song, Liu Yi, Dai Shi and others, who were his retainers, didn't know where to start persuading, and then they knew that it was useless to persuade them, what they could do was to urge Ran Min to rein in some details.
"To recruit people as soldiers is to give them something to eat."
Ran Min faced Liu Yan bluntly mentioned that the troops under the shogunate of the shogunate of the western expedition were too large, and he didn't seem to think much of anything, and said one thing: "The chaos caused by racial vendetta is too great, and the civilian output is completely cut off, so there is no way to put food for no reason, and find a way for them to live for their own use, and then they really need manpower." ” Liu Yan will mention it bluntly, because it is clear that Ran Min does not understand what detours and detours, and if he doesn't talk about it, he will understand it, I'm afraid it's useless to say it.
He still admires Ran Min's military talent, and for some special reasons, he doesn't want it to develop to the point of unloading the mill and killing the donkey, so it is really necessary to talk about it.
In the face of the king's direct questioning, Ran Min said the truth indifferently, but the faces of the people listening next to him kept changing.
For example, Ji Chang and Sang Yu felt complicated when they saw Liu Yan's attitude towards Ran Min, they had a very bad impression of Ran Min, whether they were public or secret, and they did not pay less attention.
Jiang Gan, Miao Song, Liu Yi, Dai Shi and some of Ran Min's retainers had more exciting expressions on their faces, and there was shock and joy in their eyes in the constantly changing, that is, they saw that Liu Yan did not have any tendency to kill Ran Min.
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"Speaking of which, why don't you put grain" Ran Min didn't know if it was really stupid or fake, and said: "The people are a little miserable, they used to eat bark and grass roots, and some didn't even have to eat Tuguanyin soil, or the order to kill Hu was issued, they desperately killed Hu people in exchange for food, and they also robbed Hu people of food to live more comfortably." ” The racial vendetta in the Han realm was strictly controlled, and the area that originally belonged to the jurisdiction of Shijie Zhao was completely out of control, even if there is still a vendetta phenomenon, the difference is that before the Han army settled in, the Hu people killed the Jin people to play, and after the Jin people became Han people, they caught the Hu people and killed and played.
After the re-emergence of the Han people, venting long-term resentment is one thing, and exchanging the Hu people's heads for meritorious service and materials and robbery is the main business of the new Han people.
Liu Yancai will not answer why he didn't release grain, there are part of the system reasons, killing Hu in exchange for it is already a measure, and there is still labor to provide food and drink.
"The mutual vendetta between the Hu people is also very serious" Liu Yan was more interested in this, and asked: "They continue to flee outside the Han realm, and there are not a few people who kill each other."
"The king is right."
As soon as Ran Min said this, his eyebrows flew a little and danced: "After many Hu species killed each other, they came to ask for rewards with their heads, and the ministers selectively agreed to some."
Previously, all kinds of Hu people in Sizhou were entrenched in nearly three million, and from August and September of the third year of Yuan Shuo to April of the fourth year of Yuan Shuo, there were basically no Hu people in Sizhou.
In addition to the revenge of the Han people, more than three million Hu people actually killed each other during the migration.
Sizhou is the largest state inhabited by the Hu people, which is determined by the national policy of Shijie Zhao, such as Xiangguo is entrenched around millions, and Yecheng once lived close to one million.
The rest of the Hu people such as Jizhou, Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Shuozhou are not like Sizhou Hui, but scattered everywhere.
"It's a pity that they fled."
Ran Min saw Liu Yan raise his eyebrows, and said as a matter of course: "Let's kill ourselves to relieve our hatred, and it is necessary to kill more for the people to restore the heart of martial arts." ” Speaking of the heart of martial bravery, the resurgence of the bloody Han people is really a bit fierce, the territory controlled by the Han army is full of killing Hu, and the local people in the places not controlled by the Han army are also killing Hu after the uprising, and there are still people who take their heads to the Han realm in exchange for rewards.
The reason why the center recognized Ran Min's army expansion was mainly because he didn't want to fight the blood and courage of the people, the war between the Han people and the aliens would continue, and he didn't know how long it would last, and it was better for the people to be brave than cowardly.
Walking and chatting all the way, Liu Yan came to the outside of Yecheng, and what he saw was a dense crowd of people outside the towering city walls.
Yecheng is a big city, it is the second city that Shihu attaches the most importance to, the height of the city wall reaches five zhang after repeated reinforcement, the distribution of dwellings in the city is chaotic and there is no difference from other cities, the vast majority of the area is the palace construction place, and even outside the city there are corresponding chapters and pavilions.
When Wang Qi approached, all the people were shouting and cheering early, waiting for Liu Yanzhen's arrival to sweep their eyes, and they didn't know who took the lead, and then they all bowed to the ground.
Kneeling in front of the king was the head of the first emperor, or before the first Qin, he bowed his head and bowed.
The first emperor did this to deter the remnants of the Six Kingdoms and strengthen his majesty, and the subsequent emperors continued this system.
Liu Yan didn't want to do anything to destroy customs, and making the people awe was something that rulers would do.
Facing the crowd of black presses, he watched silently for a long time, waved his hand, and continued to move forward.
Yes, there is no need for Liu Yan to speak openly to the people, not because he is not close to the people, but because some behaviors cannot be done by the king.
Moreover, the king really cherishes the people, and it is not really done by some showmanship, and it is right to think more about the people when governing the country.
Wang Yan disappeared in the city gate hole, and the cheers began to resound through the heavens and the earth.
The people actually didn't see Liu Yan's true face, all they could see was the royal flag, and then the accompanying guards and others, even if it was just like this, it was enough for them to brag to their children and grandchildren.
The escort is composed of the Praetorian Guards and some meritorious children, and it definitely has a grand momentum and will not disappoint the people who see it.
The city wall of Yecheng is high enough, the corresponding base is also wide, the thickness of the city wall should be about six zhang, out of the city gate hole to look at the city, the most striking thing is the palace group that can be seen at a glance: