In the eighth year of Taixing, spring.
South Zheng, Hanzhong.
Li Dian stood in the lobby of the Nanzheng Prefecture Office in Hanzhong, with his hands behind his back, looking at the seat in the middle of the lobby, and was silent for a long time. He had just finished handing over with Zhang Liao, and today he personally sent Zhang Liao out of the city thirty miles before returning to the city.
From now on, Li Dian has been regarded as the number one figure in Hanzhong.
When he was in Yinshan, he was just a guardian of a city, but now he is the lord of a place.
Although the land of Hanzhong cannot be considered large, and it belongs to a transit boundary and serves as a transport hub between Sichuan and Sichuan and Chang'an, it is of great significance to Li Dian.
Li Dian walked forward slowly, sat down, and then straightened his back a little, with some indescribable expressions in his eyes, as if he was feeling a little emotional, as if he was a little relieved, and perhaps some memories were mixed in...
When Li Dian was about to stand up for the first time and assumed the responsibility of the whole family and the whole family, he was under eighteen years old.
As far as Li Dian believes, he is in the third level. Of course, the third level is not the lowest, after all, there are still foreign products and defective goods...
Because it is in the third level, it is difficult for Li Dian to integrate into the core system of Cao's army.
If you stand on the shoulders of historical giants and look down, in order to break the stern bureaucratic system, Cao Cao did absorb a large number of poor families and ordinary children as officials, and fought against stern bureaucratic bureaucratic systems in the cultural management system. However, in the army, Cao Cao was just the opposite, with a very strict hierarchy system.
The first one is naturally the Cao family's central army.
This category includes the Central Leader, the Central Guard, the Cavs, and the Guerrilla General. These were originally considered to be the titles of the Han Dynasty's miscellaneous generals, but they grew up with the growth of Cao Cao's power and formed a special military structure. Simply put, these generals with Chinese characters may not be very powerful, but the primary condition must be loyalty. Not only are the deputy commander and above the military region, the clan or confidant, but there are also a large number of middle and lower-level officers.
The second level is the recruitment of troops that Cao Cao followed in the early days.
The five good generals in history are basically this class. Zhang He is the salt-bearer of the Yuan soldier, Yu Jin took over Bao Xin's squad and was the new talker of the Taishan Army. Zhang Liao held Lu Bu's former Bingzhou Army in his hand, Xu Huang made Yang Feng and became the new leader of the Baibo thief, and Le Jin was an important expert in Cao Cao's early recruitment and training.
The recruitment system and the private army system made the five sons form a relative position state. Only the Taishan faction generals could lead the Taishan faction, and only the Bingzhou soldiers could be instructed, which made the poor generals unable to be promoted at all. In the middle and late stages, Cao Cao did not know whether he realized this problem or felt that the second-level generals had threatened the first level, so he started to take action slowly. He continued to suppress them until Cao Pi took office...
Of course, this suppression has also caused even worse consequences.
Of course, the boundary between the second and third levels of the Five Sons is not so clear. After all, the concept of the Five Sons was proposed by Chen Shou, but it is very interesting that Chen Shou did not agree with Li Dian and did not include Li Dian among the Five Sons. This seems to explain some problems. Otherwise, how big would it be to change the Five Sons to Six Sons?
The third place is Li Dian and others. Li Dian is even listed in the lower position of the third place.
In the third level, the main ones are professional soldiers. Most of them are those who are unworried and can die at any time. For example, those in history like Dian Wei can fight with the army, but it is basically impossible to command a large army in a certain area alone.
This is actually Cao Cao's restriction on the gentry and powerful...
Li Dian is known to be both literary and military, but this is exactly what Cao Cao fears.
Cao Cao did not want his soldiers and generals to pee in the same pot with the gentry and powerful people, so the third-level professional soldiers basically intercepted the defense line of these powerful households. Even if they broke through the third level, there would be five sons in the second level blocking it, which minimized the possibility of civil servants and military generals forming cliques.
Of course, this does not mean that Li Dian has never led the army under Cao Cao, but that Li Dian is definitely not a member of the core military system of the Xiahou family of Cao. Moreover, as Li Dian, he could not really leave the Li family behind and the elderly and follow Cao Cao to work hard without hesitation.
In history, Li Dian was basically similar to the Yu Zhongxin version of Zang Ba. He was both a civil servant of the gentry and a capital of local tyrants and powerful military generals, so he was not fully accepted and trusted by Cao Cao and the civil and military sides. Li Dian was also very clear about this, so in history he proposed to move his family to Yecheng and take the initiative to be monitored. But even so, Li Dian still did not escape the fate of being plotted. In the battle of Hefei, Zhang Babai was made, but Li Mancheng died.
And now...
Li Dian breathed out a long sigh.
It's almost his dream that has come true now.
The ability to govern the country with literature and martial arts can make peace with country. This is the dream of many children of the Han Dynasty, and Li Dian is naturally no exception.
Although Hanzhong is not a large territory, it is at least a county that is not too small!
Compared with the so-called Lihu County in Hanzhong County, the difference is not a little bit. And Cao Cao didn't have much thought when he asked Li Dian to be the prefect of Lihu County. The main reason was to let Li Dian provide food and grass. If there was no title of a prefect, how could he make a legitimate request?
Cao Cao did dare to use people, but he also used them very ruthlessly.
In comparison, the employment environment of General Cavalry made Li Dian feel what a community is, uh, corporate culture...
After Li Dian's family moved to Guanzhong one after another, they would receive holiday gifts and handwritten thank-you letters specially sent by General Cavalry during the holidays!
The letter summarized and praised Li Dian's work this year, and also explained the vision and goals of the Guanzhong Political Group. Then, thanked and looked forward to Li Dian's continued hard work in the next year, and went further...
This method was almost used in later generations, but it was the only one among the great men!
Where can the Li family bear this?
It is said that after receiving the handwritten letter from the cavalry, all the elders in Li Dian's family were so moved that they cried. They specially made people frame them and worshipped them in the clan's ancestral hall.
Although Li Dian also knew that the handwritten letter from the cavalry was not for himself alone, and had written it to others, how could he say that what was warm in his heart was to benefit. Therefore, Li Dian had to do it well, and could only manage Hanzhong well. Otherwise, let alone seeing Fei Qian, even seeing his elders would be shameless!
While thinking, I suddenly heard footsteps coming from the hall.
"The Lord..." Li Dian's confidant guard bowed and reported, "The Di king Pu asked for a meeting..."
Li Dian pondered slightly, then nodded and said, "Please."
In the military and political affairs of Hanzhong, there are two important points: one is Shangyong and the other is Yangping.
Shangyong is the Shen family, and Yangping is the Di people.
The Shen family of Shangyong was within the territory, while the Di people were outside Yangping Pass.
The Shen family’s problem is actually the problem caused by Xintian Zheng, and it will not be expressed for the time being. The Di people’s problem is like the Qiang people, which is a problem left over from the Han Dynasty.
The Di and Qiang people are two ethnic groups in ancient my country with early origins, wide distribution and large populations. From the Shang Dynasty to the Qin Dynasty, the central and western Han Dynasty were all in the "Di" area. Later, the Di people slowly retracted back to the mountains, and the Southern Zheng generation became the settlement of the Han people.
In the south of the Hanzhong Zheng left Yangping Pass, heading northwest, near Wudu, almost all Di people were Di people. In fact, the Di people were similar to the Qiang people. Generally speaking, they were the dominant tyrants and unwilling to rely on them, and rebelled against the Central Plains dynasty. Just like the last Hanzhong incident, the Di people also had their own thoughts. After the two Di people were attacked, the other Di people were busy expressing their surrender.
That's right, there are more than one Di people, and even the Di people themselves may not be able to know how many Di people there are. It seems that for the Di people, this "Di people" is not the "king" in the conventional sense, but represents the leader of a larger tribe collection. This leader has both big and small strength, with more than ten thousand people, and perhaps only a few hundred people. For example, this time, he came to visit the Pu family of the Di people.
The Di people originally had no surnames, but later they imitated the Han people themselves to take it, or simply adopted the surnames of Han. In addition to the common surnames such as "Wang, Lu, Jiang, Lei, Yang, Dou, Yao, etc., there are some relatively uncommon ones, such as "Pu, Qiu, Qiang, Dang, Yaoliang". The closer to Hanzhong are the Di people with surnames such as Pu, Qiang, Lu, Dang, etc.
Simply put, the ancient Di people's territory, such as Hanzhong, Wudu, and Tianshui, are now occupied by the Han people and become the territory of the Han people, while the Di people are forced to "divided into the valleys", which has led to a natural contradiction between the Di people and the Han people.
Therefore, for Li Dian, if he cannot handle his relationship with the Di people well, he will naturally not be the top leader of Hanzhong.
When it comes to specific matters, Li Dian probably had some ideas, but he didn't expect that before Li Dian started doing it, the Di king Pu came to the door.
This is a bit interesting.
The Di people are different from the Southern Xiongnu, and they are also different from the Western Qiang.
Before coming to Hanzhong, Li Dian specially sent someone to apply to the Cavalry and read the files related to the Di people. He found that the rebellion of the Di people was actually quite interesting. Among the relevant files of the Di people sent by the Cavalry, in addition to some basic information about the Di people's kings at present, they also specially briefly indicated several major turmoils of the Di people during the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty.
The first rebellion of the Di people in the Han Dynasty was in the third year of Yuanfeng. The official documents and Fei Qian supplementary notes had any problems in terms of time, but the order was slightly different. The official original document was that the Di people rebelled in the front, and Emperor Xiaowu sent people to suppress the rebellion, and later moved the Di people to govern Jiuquan. However, Fei Qian supplemented the notation that before the Di people rebelled, there were two additional words "defeated".
Of course, what happened during the Yuanfeng period was now unknown.
The Di people did not have special historians, so what happened was only a one-man statement. However, Li Dian felt that the word "defeat" written by the cavalry was probably the most likely truth.
In order to fight against the Huns and enrich Zhangye to the Dunhuang line, Emperor Xiaowu not only recruited son-in-law prisoners from all over the country, etc. to fill the Hexi Corridor, but probably also focused his attention on the Di people.
Another incident of Di people indicated by the Cavalry was during the Xiaoguang Wu period.
When the great situation of Xiaoguangwu was completed, Wei Xiang appeared to surrender to Liu Xiu, but privately joined forces with Gongsun Shu to instigate rebellion. During this rebellion, the wealthy chief of Di people, Qi Zhongliu, cooperated with Kong Fen, the then Wudu County Chief, to repel Wei Mao who attacked Wudu. Xiaoguangwu immediately gave these Di people the treatment of "restored the princes, kings and kings" and "give them seals and ribbons."
The cavalry also indicated two other words "Faith Integrity" on this matter.
Why did Qi Zhongliu, the rich chief of Di, help Kong Fen instead of turning to Wei Mao?
Kong Fen is old now, and he doesn't have much force, and he can't say he has any wisdom and ingenious plans. However, such a person led to the ultimate defeat of Wei's plan, because the two words "一六" indicated by Fei Qian.
Before Kong Fen served in Wudu, he served as the Guzang Order at the invitation of Hexi General Dou Rong. At that time, the world was chaotic and chaotic, and only the Hexi region was relatively stable. Guzang was called Fu County and traded with the Hu people, and there were four markets a day. Each county magistrate before Kong Fen became rich in less than a few months, while Kong Fen served for four years and his property did not increase at all.
Are greedy people trustworthy, or are honest people more convincing?
Then we will take this question further. Is it that the Di master Qi Zhongliu believes in Kong Fen more, or are those ordinary Di people more, believe in Kong Fen?
These are the questions that Li Dian has been thinking about during these days. Li Dian asked someone to go to Guanzhong to seek archival information about the Di people, and Fei Qian of the Cavalry left four words in these archival information. If he didn't know that this was the point of the cavalry, Li Dian would have lost his head.
After arriving in Hanzhong, Li Dian had some brief communication and exchanges with Zhang Liao, which also made Li Dian even more certain about his future ideas in Hanzhong. Li Dian believed that when dealing with the Di people, he could not treat the Southern Xiongnu or the Western Qiang people.
Although it is also education, there are some differences in the subtleties.
The Southern Xiongnu were basically single leaders, but there were not many troops, so the cavalry cut off the link between its leaders and ordinary herders in the Southern Xiongnu, and naturally they were divided and brought together. The Western Qiang was a bit deeply rooted in the influence of the Beigong. If the Beigong could not be removed, it would not be very effective in any differentiation, so the Beigong finally died...
So what about the Di people?
Before, Zhang Liao was in Hanzhong, and all the Di people were fighting with each other. They didn't hear Zhang Liao say that there were any Di people coming to pay their respects. Now that Zhang Liao had just left, the Di people's king Pu came. It was just a coincidence?
Li Dian smiled a little, but he quickly closed it.
The Di king Pu came and paid a visit to Li Dian.
Pu secretly observed Li Dian.
Li Dian's face was neither sad nor happy.
"I heard that the general entered Hanzhong and came to congratulate the general..." Pu said, then took out a gift list from his arms and handed over it, "A little bit of military supplies is not respectful..."
Li Dian reached out and signaled that the guards would not need to accept the gift list. "I have my heart to take it, so there is no need for this kind of military service. Under the command of the cavalry, the saying that the military service is needed is to be a laborer... People come to hold a banquet! King Pu does not need to refuse. Since he came from afar, he should be a guest. How could he lose the reception? What's more, the mountains, rivers, and soil in Hanzhong are not very familiar with, so he also asked King Pu to give more advice...
When the Di king Pu heard this, he was a little surprised. Li Dian did not accept the military gift list, but he also kept him for dinner. He was not sure what Li Dian was selling in the gourd.
Although Li Dian said it was a simple meal, it was a polite word, and there were also wine and meat. While urging him to drink, Li Dian talked about some family customs and customs, from Shandong to Yinshan, and then from Yinshan to Guanzhong, which made the Di king Pu stunned and dizzy. It was unclear whether Li Dian said these things were really idle or had ulterior motives.
Chats are all mutual.
Although Li Dian has not learned any psychology, it does not hinder his specific application. Just like when someone takes the initiative to introduce his name and asks him, most people will subconsciously tell his name, even if this person is a stranger.
The same is true for Li Dian. When Li Dian talked about the customs and cultures, he only needed to get a look at the Di people. The Di people's king Pu couldn't help but talk about things around the Di people, because he really only had these contents to say...
"What? Your harvest is so low per acre? In the mountains, the number of fields in the mountains is also low!" Li Dian said sincerely, "Look at our Hanzhong, there are also more farmlands planted on the hillside than you have harvested! This is either the method is wrong or the seeds are not good!"
"Uh? Really?" Pu was stunned.
"Then there is still fake? Can I still lie to you?" Li Dian seemed to be drunk and patted his chest and said, "If you don't believe me, find a piece of land. You and I will send someone to farm to see who has more!"
Pu opened his eyes wide, then swallowed, "This is it... why don't you forget it, will this not be good?"
Li Dian laughed and said, "It's a big deal when farming and serenity is a big deal, what's wrong with it? What's more, you planted more farmlands, so you can get taxes, otherwise...ahhaha...'
Pu's eyes were circling, "General, can this tax... be...?
"The tax cannot be reduced!" Li Dian seemed to be a little more awake, and his face darkened, "This was decided by General Cavalry, not by me!"
Pu was blocked back, but he didn't seem to insist on saying anything more, just nodded.
Then the topic was soon disbanded.
After Pu left Nanzheng, he didn't walk out of the city gate. Some of the Di-like guys who were waiting halfway to be impatient rushed out of the woods, hurriedly grabbed Pu and asked, "How is it? Ah? What kind of person is the new Han general?"
Pu pondered for a while, then frowned and said, "It's not easy to say... Although it seems to be a reckless military man and has a simple and direct temper, I always feel something is wrong..."
『What's wrong with that?』
In the expectant eyes of everyone, Pu scratched his head awkwardly, "I can't say it..."
Chapter completed!