Chapter 938: Woju surrenders to the new two counties
The battle of Qingjin completely defeated the Woju people's resistance. The Woju people's culture was backward, and the more backward the culture was, the more they believed in the theory of ghosts and gods. The Han magic made Woju people feel depressed, so fear dominated the Woju people's emotions. Nearly 70,000 to 80,000 cavalrymen fled from the city of Qingjin. They fled back to their tribes and brought fear back.
As for those infantry, none of them escaped and were captured. In fact, their feet were scared and weak. How could they escape? In addition to some fleeing cavalry, Fang Zhiwen captured nearly 90,000 prisoners in this battle, greatly enriching the population of Qingjin City.
After the battle, Fang Zhiwen was busy rectifying and building Qingjin City, while searching for several former Woju nobles among the prisoners, and asked them to advance to the Woju settlement in the middle of the Tumen River with Taishici, and went to persuade the Woju people to surrender. If they could achieve their goal without killing people, Fang Zhiwen was unwilling to kill more people.
The Woju people actually divided into two factions of opinions. One faction agreed to learn Goguryeo and attached the Han Dynasty. The basis for this faction is very solid, that is, the former sect leader was attached to it, and as a vassal state, it should naturally be attached to it.
The other faction agreed to evacuate and stay away from the black demon Fang Zhiwen, because the reason was that the Han army was too evil!
There is no need to say that surrenders, just talk about the idea of the retreating party. First of all, it is impossible to escape northwards over Changbai, because Goguryeo over there has become the Goryeo county of the Han Dynasty. To the south is the sea, so we can only go east, which is the territory of Sushen people. And the eastwards, the worse the climate is, and it is not suitable for farming.
The Woju people are a branch of the Fuyu people. They were originally nomadic fishing and hunting for a living. After reaching the relatively warm south, they gradually learned farming techniques from the Han people. As a result, their survival ability was improved and their population grew rapidly. However, their confidence in fighting the harsh natural environment was declining, and it was indeed difficult to get them to retreat from the fishing, hunting and nomadic state.
Although it is cruel to go east to a more harsh place and to compete with the Sushen people for living space, there are still many Woju people who would rather choose this path than face the terrible Han people.
However, before the leaders of these tribes argued, Taishici's cavalry had arrived at their doorstep. Fortunately, Taishici came to negotiate first and then to fight.
With the appearance of the Woju nobles, the Woju people, who were originally extremely afraid of the Han army, finally regained some rationality. Taishici also contacted the representatives of these people and personally promised not to launch an attack for the time being. Instead, let the representatives of the Woju nobles go to Goguryeo, Liaodong and even Miyun to check it out. Then decide whether to attach the Han Dynasty.
After the preliminary negotiations between the two sides, the war temporarily stopped. The Woju people naturally did not dare to go south, and Taishici did not go back. Instead, they set up camp at the Tumen River mouth, established a simple port, and obtained supplies from the sea. On the other hand, Taishici's camp also became a transit place for merchants. Before the representatives of the Woju people came back after visiting, the merchants of the Han Dynasty had already conquered the Woju people's hearts with exquisite goods.
In September, it started to snow in the Tumenjiang area. The representative of the Woju people who had been in the mainland of Youzhou for a long time finally returned. After returning to the settlement, the Woju people did not say anything and asked Taishi Ci to represent the Han court on behalf of the Han Dynasty. They requested to attach the Han Dynasty.
So, within a few days, the emperor's writing came, and he accepted Woju's support. He named the old land of Woju people Changbai County, appointed Cui Yan as the first prefect of Changbai County, and Taishi Ci as the commander of the commander of the Woju tribe. He also granted many hereditary marquis to the leaders of the Woju tribe.
Taishici built a city in the middle of the Tumen River, called Tumen City. Winter is coming, so Fang Zhiwen quickly led his army north and ordered Zhou Tai to transport a large number of supplies to the north and establish a stable commercial route as soon as possible.
Taishici and the newly defected generals followed Fang Zhiwen's requirements and drove the scattered tribe population to gather at the three cities of Tumen, Qingjin and Changbaijin as much as possible before the heavy snow came. First, it can speed up the construction of these cities, and second, it can also avoid the losses caused by snow disasters. You must know that in the past, every winter, there would be many Woju people who died of cold and starvation. Therefore, Fang Zhiwen's suggestion received warm support from the Woju people, which should now be called Changbai County people.
Some of the original Woju nobles took advantage of the winter and followed the caravan back to Liaodong to see the prosperity of the mainland and enjoy the legendary luxury.
Fang Zhiwen made three months of eastern expedition and basically completed the preliminary goal, with a distance of less than 600 miles from the final goal. He also established cities and ports along the North Sea coast, successfully opening up the route from Xianxing to Tumen River, opening up the northward path of Zhoutai fleet, and providing strong support for the adventure activities across the seven seas.
However, Tumen City has not yet reached a second-level town, so the Postal System has not been opened. Players can only follow the merchant ships, and the number is not large. However, players who have arrived one step earlier have cheap ones. Not only can they acquire a large number of high-quality and low-cost specialty props, but they can also recruit forest cavalry, a unique military troop in Changbai County. These cavalry are good helpers for hunting.
From a political perspective, the Eastern Expedition has been completed. Because Goguryeo destroyed the country and Woju was attached to it, the political purpose of the Eastern Expedition had been achieved, but Fang Zhiwen did not return to Miyun, but instead took charge of Tumen City and vigorously built Tumen City.
The incident of Fang Zhiwen's eastern expedition itself is actually very confusing. For the princes of the Central Plains, Goguryeo and Woju are both far away places, and are wildernesses in Huawai. They don't understand why Fang Zhiwen is obsessed with capturing these wildernesses. You must know that Fang Zhiwen's own Liaodong, Lelang and Xuantu County have large areas of white land. Is Fang Zhiwen's enthusiasm for the land unusually high? Or is he still obsessed with the pleasure of expanding territory and unable to extricate himself?
In three months, it was not surprising that Fang Zhiwen flattened Goguryeo and annexed Wo, but Fang Zhiwen himself did not win and went home. Instead, he stayed in the easternmost city. Is it a bit intriguing. Is Fang Zhiwen still not satisfied and wants to continue to go east and north, and annex Sushen and Fu Yu?
But no one can answer this question. Of course, the princes of the Central Plains were happy that Fang Zhiwen continued to fight the east. Even if he fought to the horizon, the farther Fang Zhiwen was away, the happier the heart of the princes of the Central Plains might be.
Therefore, both the court in Chang'an and the court in Jixian received a large number of comments and praise and praise. This time, the young emperor Liu Xie acted faster and immediately accepted Zhang Miao's suggestion and appointed Fang Zhiwen as the General of the North. All the generals under his command were promoted and rewarded. Even Zhen Jiang, who was sitting in Miyun's home, was named the second-rank lady, and the Grand Historian Zhaorong was also named the General of Zhenguo.
Fang Zhiwen saw this and just smiled faintly, let them go around the Central Plains. As long as they don’t go to trouble themselves, Fang Zhiwen is too lazy to care about it. Compared with the crisis formed on the northern seas, things in the Central Plains are all small things. No matter how much their family members make trouble, they are still family affairs. Fang Zhiwen’s current eyes are staring at the enemies of the country and the nation.
"President Wang, how is the progress?"
"It's still not possible. The pirates on that strait are too strong. According to our observation, the pirate's nest is a large island on both sides of the north and south. It seems that it will take some effort to break through this strait."
"It must be here, by the way, what is the place name here?"
"This place is called Hai... no, it's Yongming!" Wang Ben replied. He originally wanted to say Vladivostok, but thought about it, it should have been called Yongming earlier. It was the capital of the Chinese people in the Ming Dynasty, so he changed his words and named it Yongming.
"Yongming? A good name, did you name it?"
"Well, there are no signs of civilized activities here. There are quite a few pirates. The harbor has a very good geographical environment and is very suitable for building large harbors."
Fang Zhiwen pondered for a moment, and Guo Jia interrupted: "Population problem! If a large harbor is built there, population will become an important bottleneck, not only quantity but also quality. If you cannot be upgraded to a first-level city, a large port, and a shipyard, don't think about it!"
Wang Ben also frowned. This was really an unavoidable question: "Can we try our best to attract Yiren? If it is hundreds of thousands of Yiren who love sailing, we may be able to achieve this goal."
"Inhuman is a good choice, but how should the stability of Inhuman be solved?"
"this....."
"Let's go through a multi-pronged approach, strangers, immigrants from the Central Plains, local indigenous people, and transform pirates and bandits, and then appropriately tilt their education. Is there any better way? I just hope that there are enough products and specialties in Yongming that can attract merchants and manufacturing practitioners."
"This should be fine. It looks like a rich place. Even if there is nothing else, there must be many specialties, and there are so many mountains!"
"Haha, this can be seen by just looking at it. President Wang is so funny!" Guo Jia said with a smile, and Wang Ben's face turned red. Of course, this is not seen, but evidence is found!
Fang Zhiwen smiled slightly: "Fengxiao, how do you know that President Wang can't see it?"
"Uh!......... Yes, Zi Feiyu, lord, you are making trouble!"
"Haha, even so, it's useless to argue about these things now. Now we should build the Tumen City quickly and strive to make our troops go to Yongming before the New Year!"
"Lord, why don't you pass by the sea? That's not more convenient. You can first ask Zhou Tai to build a base there to store supplies for us!"
Wang Ben's eyes lit up and he agreed: "Yes, this is a good method!"
"Haha, Zhou Tai's defense zone is now thousands of miles long and must be divided into two squadrons, so it is focusing on forming a new fleet."
"Who will be the head coach for the new fleet?"
"Sun Ming!"
"Sun Ming? Is it OK?"
"Haha, don't treat people with admiration for three days, don't look at people with old eyes!" Fang Zhiwen smiled proudly. Sun Ming's growth can be said to be the most proud thing for Fang Zhiwen.
Chapter completed!