Chapter 207 Guanlong is in chaos!
In the third year of the Shengui reign, in late spring in March, the grass was long in the south of the Yangtze River, various flowers grew on the trees, and groups of orioles flew around.
However, there is no such scene in Qinzhou in the north.
Even near Tianshui City, the capital of Qinzhou, the hilltops are bare. This is because in winter, the refugees surrounding Tianshui City cut down and burned all the trees on the hilltops to keep warm.
It was clearly the spring ploughing season, but the fertile fields near Tianshui City were overgrown with weeds, and no farmers were tilling the land.
The farmlands were filled with ragged refugees digging for edible wild vegetables.
On the ridges of the fields not far away, the bark of the trees has been eaten up, and soon these trees will die and be cut down for fuel.
This was the scene near Tianshui City in March of the third year of the Shengui era. The bodies of people who had starved to death were lying on the roadside with no one to collect them. Everywhere there was famine and a fight for life and death.
In comparison, the pastoral tribes near Tianshui City have a better life.
The herds of livestock only need grass, as nomadic people live wherever there is grass, and the tribe itself is a paramilitary organization, so they are naturally better than farmers when it comes to robbery.
The place of Qinzhou has been accepting the migrating Qiang people since the Eastern Han Dynasty. The local land is also barren, and it is a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic area.
Farming requires a stable environment. If you plant a grain of millet in spring, you can only harvest it in autumn. In such a turbulent year, no one would grow food.
The Qiang leaders such as the Mozhe family had no idea of organizing agricultural production. Instead, they were happy to see the Han farmers go bankrupt so that their tribes could turn farmland into pastures, and incorporate these Han people into their tribes to strengthen their own power.
The last great defeat in Longxi County had already left a shadow in Mozhe Dati's heart, but now the grain reserves in Qinzhou had been eaten up. If he didn't go out to rob, he was afraid that there would be trouble again.
To put it bluntly, the people of Qinzhou rebelled because they could no longer survive under the exploitation and oppression of the governor Li Yan.
If we are rebelling now and everyone still can’t survive, then isn’t it all in vain?
Mozhe Dati understood this truth. Qinzhou’s resources were no longer sufficient and it was time to fight back.
This led to the military meeting in Tianshui City.
In Qinzhou City, Hou Gang, the "King of Qin", lived in the upper seat, and sitting next to him was the Prime Minister Mozhe Dati.
Next came Mozhe Dati's sons, also wearing armor and carrying swords, sitting next to their father.
Further down were the leaders of the various rebel groups in Qinzhou, including Qiang generals, Han fortress owners, rebellious commanders of the state and county troops, family generals of the wealthy families, and leaders of the rural militia and refugees.
In addition, the guest seat also included the envoy of the "True King", Po Liuba Kongque, who had gone through many hardships to arrive in Qinzhou.
It can be said that Po Liuba Kongque was quite unlucky on the journey.
Po Liuba Kongque received the order from the "True King" and went south from Woye Town and first came to Gaoping Town, wanting to contact the Xiongnu general Hu Chen in Gaoping Town to discuss an uprising in Guanzhong.
Unexpectedly, just as he arrived in Gaoping Town, Hu Chen was arrested and imprisoned by Gaoping County Magistrate Yu Jin for plotting treason.
Po Liuba Kongque was also arrested and imprisoned by the county magistrate's office because his origins were unknown.
Po Liuba Kongque originally thought that he was dead, but he did not expect that there were so many people who were arrested and imprisoned in Gaoping Town.
Yu Jin had no choice because the Hu Chen he arrested was a Hun.
After the Southern Xiongnu surrendered to the Han Dynasty in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu people began to gradually move into the banks of the Yellow River.
However, during the rule of the Han Dynasty, these Huns were relatively stable.
Because of the policy of the Han Dynasty, caution was still the main approach towards these ethnic minorities.
Those who could be assimilated were assimilated as much as possible, and those who could not be assimilated were disbanded and re-registered. This method was used to avoid the formation of a unified Xiongnu force in the Central Plains.
After that, the Huns experienced multiple changes. During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao carried out the final reorganization, dividing the Huns living in Bingzhou at that time into five groups and settling them along the banks of the Yellow River.
This was also the last time that the Central Plains regime reorganized the Hu people's forces.
After being tolerated by Cao Wei and Western Jin, the powerful Xiongnu Liu Yuan rebelled and established the Zhao Han regime. He was the ancestor of Liu Gui.
Zhao Han was once a very powerful force during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. The Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Later Zhao after it captured Luoyang in 313 AD.
However, Zhao Han was destroyed by Shi Han, whom he had nurtured, that is, the regime established by Shi Le. The Huns were once again defeated and widely distributed throughout the northern region.
The Huns in Gaoping Town were the Huns tribe that moved into the Gaoping area after the fall of the Zhao and Han dynasties.
The Hu family was the leader of this Xiongnu tribe. When Gaoping County was still a military town, they were the leaders of the Xiongnu people in the entire Gaoping town.
As the territory of the Northern Wei Dynasty expanded, Gaoping was transformed from a frontline military town into a county in the rear, and the Hu family of Gaoping County remained a force that could not be ignored in the local area.
Yu Jin also acted quickly. He used his trusted confidants to control Gaoping City and captured Hu Chen and his generals in one fell swoop. Only then did he barely control the situation in Gaoping.
However, Yu Jin did not dare to kill Hu Chen. He just placed him and his generals under house arrest, and then carefully dealt with the problem of the Xiongnu tribe.
However, there were so many people related to Hu Chen that the prison in Gaoping City could not hold them all. Po Liuba Kongque was briefly interrogated and then released from prison.
When Po Liuba Kongque was released, he found out that Qinzhou had already rebelled.
After receiving the news, Po Liuba Kongque immediately headed south and finally arrived in Tianshui after going through untold hardships.
Before the Mozhe family rebelled, they had already had contact with the "True King". Mozhe Dati's original plan was to respond to the "True King" and rebel together after the "True King" rebelled.
But things change so fast, who would have thought that Li Yan would take action first?
In order to protect himself, Mozhe Dadi had no choice but to rebel and nominated Hou Gang as the King of Qin.
Mozhe Dati also did not believe in the "True King's" theory. He was just an ordinary ambitious man and had no interest in the "True King's" dream of establishing a "paradise on earth."
Moreover, we are the "King of Qin" and you are the "real king". We are all kings, so why should we listen to you?
Therefore, in this military meeting, Po Liuba Kongque only sat in the guest seat.
Po Liuba Kongque didn't care. He went south with two missions.
One was to incite the forces in Guanzhong to rebel and gain more responses for the upcoming Six Garrisons Uprising.
Another thing is to check the situation of these rebel forces and provide experience for the future uprising in the Six Towns.
Now the most powerful rebel group in the whole Guanzhong is the one led by Mozhe Dati. Po Liuba Kongque is very satisfied that he can observe this "Qin King's Army" up close.
Hou Gang, the mascot King Qin, was just about to open his mouth to announce the start of the meeting when Mozhe Dadi took over the right to speak. The old Qiang leader sat cross-legged and shouted at the top of his voice:
"Is everyone here? Let's get started!"
How rude! Hou Gang cursed in his heart. He thought that he was probably the most aggrieved King of Qin in history.
After offering his advice, Hou Gang's treatment improved a little, at least Mo Zhe Dadi allowed him to move around in the palace. But that was all. After Mo Zhe Dadi came back from his defeat, he watched Hou Gang even more closely, and even moved his "Prime Minister's Mansion" into the "Prime Minister's Mansion" to work and personally watch over Hou Gang.
Hou Gang understood that it would be fine if Mozhe Dati won, but if he lost, he would naturally be more afraid that someone would use him as the "King of Qin" to stir up trouble.
Mozhe Dati coughed, and his son Mozhe Niansheng stood up and began to report on the progress of the rebels last year.
It must be said that apart from the setback in Longxi County, the rebels did make some progress.
The first was Qizhou, where Mozhe Tiansheng led his troops. After the rebels captured the administrative city Yongcheng, they quickly swept across Qizhou.
By controlling Qizhou, the exit of Longxi area was occupied.
However, the Wei army did not fail to resist. Before the fall of Qizhou, Xiao Baoyin stationed troops in Huazhou and ordered Yuan Xiuyi, the governor of Yongzhou, to gather Yongzhou's troops in Chencang to block the rebel army led by Mozhe Tiansheng from Qizhou.
Chencang belongs to Qizhou and is a more important dangerous pass than the state capital Yongcheng.
As long as Chen Cang was still in the hands of the Northern Wei, Mozhe Tiansheng would not dare to abandon Chen Cang and attack Chang'an.
The "Qin King's Army" had already deployed its troops in Yongcheng (now Fengxiang) and was confronting the Northern Wei army in Chencang.
This situation is similar to the one when Zhuge Liang first went out of Qishan to attack Guanzhong.
Zhuge Liang's first Northern Expedition was to occupy the Qinzhou and Qizhou areas, surround Chencang and confront the Cao Wei army.
Hearing this, the generals below were very excited.
Chencang, even the illiterate Qiang generals knew that this place was of great significance.
Emperor Gaozu of Han openly repaired the plank road while secretly passing through Chencang. When Liu Bang was about to send troops from Hanzhong to attack Xiang Yu, General Han Xin deliberately repaired the plank road to confuse the enemy and secretly attacked Chencang. That is, he went out of Longxi from Chencang and attacked Guanzhong.
After the capture of Chencang, the only two counties left in front of Chang'an were Fufeng and Wugong, and the rebels could attack the fertile Yongzhou area. This would not only solve the problem of food shortage for the Qin army, but also have great political significance.
When Mozhe Niansheng said this, he said to Mozhe Dadi, "Grandpa, my brother requests to go to fight in Chencang."
Mozhe Dati was a little hesitant. Last year, he advanced on two fronts and sent his son Mozhe Tiansheng to capture Yongcheng. However, he hit a wall in Longxi County and ran into Su Ze's iron wall.
Now Mozhe Dam was still a little upset. He thought of Hou Gang's strategy of "taking all of Longxi and then attacking Heliang", and he was undecided about attacking Yongzhou.
He said irritably, "How many times have I told you this! You have to refer to your official title during a meeting!"
Mo Zhe Niansheng immediately said: "Yes! Prime Minister!"
Mo Zhe Dati said: "Let's talk about other aspects."
Mo Zhe Niansheng said: "In Gaoping County in the north, the county governor Yu Jin imprisoned the great general Hu Chen. Now there are several rebel armies in Gaoping County, but they were all suppressed by Yu Jin. However, Yu Jin did not kill Hu Chen and his generals, fearing that it would provoke a greater uprising."
Mo Zhe Dadi waved his hand. What kind of place is Gaoping County? It is even poorer than Qinzhou. He has no intention of sending troops to Gaoping.
Mo Zhe Niansheng added: "In Liangzhou, General Lu has already entered Liangzhou, but was blocked by the Wei army outside the city of Nanzheng (Hanzhong)."
Ancient Liangzhou refers to the entire southwestern region including Yizhou and Hanzhong. Liangzhou during the Northern Wei Dynasty was probably the Hanzhong region.
Hanzhong is the barrier of Bashu. The Northern Wei and Southern Liang fought for Liangzhou for a long time, and Hanzhong and Bashu changed hands repeatedly.
In the second year of Zhengshi (505 AD), the Northern Wei Dynasty appointed the famous general Xing Luan as the commander-in-chief and took advantage of the internal turmoil in Southern Liang to conquer Liangzhou and Yizhou.
At that time, the Northern Wei Dynasty captured Liangzhou and Yizhou on the western front and Xuzhou on the eastern front. The battle line had been pushed to the coast of the Yangtze River. The situation was originally very good.
However, in the Battle of Zhongli in the third year of Zhengshi, Wei Rui became famous in one battle and completely reversed the decline of Southern Liang.
The situation in Yizhou also changed at this time. The governor of Yizhou at that time was Yuan Faseng, a member of the Northern Wei royal family.
Yuan Faseng was mediocre and arrogant, had capricious moods, and killed people at will.
When Yuan Faseng was the governor of Yizhou, he treated local powerful people as slaves and plundered local money at will, causing people to fear Wei and triggering a rebellion throughout the region.
Southern Liang immediately sent troops to try to retake Yizhou.
Yuan Faseng sent his son Yuan Jinglong to fight against the Liang army. The two armies fought a fierce battle at Jiameng Pass. Yuan Jinglong was also a fool. He wanted to escape before the battle even started. As expected, he was defeated and lost more than ten cities.
At that time, Emperor Xuanwu received Yuan Faseng's request for help, and knew that he was incompetent, so he had to recall him. However, he still did not hold him accountable for the loss of Yizhou and appointed him as Zi Guanglu Doctor.
Emperor Xuanwu sent Fu Shuyan, an officer under Xing Luan, as general to invade Yizhou again. He fought nine battles in three days and won nine victories. He fought over 200 miles and drove away the Liang army, thus stabilizing Yizhou.
Fu Shuyan had just taken office as the governor of Yizhou, and then the court appointed Yang Kan’s father Yang Zhi as the governor of Liangzhou.
Yang Zhi was born into the Yang clan of Taishan. It is not known whether it was because the Qi and Lu regions were slaughtered so badly by the Five Barbarians during the Invasion of China, so Yang Zhi's greatest hobby in his life was to kill the Hu people.
The result was that when Yang Zhi was in office in Liangzhou, he killed the Di Shu people and Shanyue people in Liangzhou and caused them to rebel.
The result was that Fu Shuyan was sent from Yizhou to Liangzhou to quell the rebellion.
As soon as the fire captain Fu Shuyan left Yizhou, the Southern Liang army invaded Yizhou and retook it.
Fu Shuyan had no choice but to stay in Liangzhou to quell the rebellion. He appeased the leaders of the Di Shu and Shanyue tribes, improved civil affairs, fought against bandits, rebuilt the pass in Hanzhong, and blocked the Southern Liang army in Yizhou.
At the time of the Qinzhou rebellion, Fu Shuyan was already over sixty years old and had been bedridden for a long time. The affairs of Liangzhou had been handed over to his son Fu Jingshao.
However, Fu Jingshao was not as prestigious as his father. Although he had a reputation for being knowledgeable and talented, he was also greedy for pleasure and pursued fame, wealth and power.
When Fu Jingshao governed Liangzhou, he also caused dissatisfaction among the people. After the rebellion in Qinzhou, Liangzhou was also very uneasy.
At the end of last year, Hou Gang proposed to occupy Liangzhou, get in touch with the Southern Liang army in Yizhou, and ask for support from Southern Liang, and his suggestion was also agreed by Mozhe Dati.
Mozhe Dadi sent his trusted confidant Lu Bodu to Liangzhou, and soon achieved certain results.
There have been three roads from Guanzhong to Liangzhou since ancient times.
One is to go through Chencang through the old road of Chencang, which is the oldest route for Qin to attack Hanzhong. From Chencang, it crosses the Qinling Mountains that separate Qin and Shu, first enters the Huicheng Basin, and then attacks the Hanzhong Basin.
One route goes directly from Guanzhong via the Baoxiade Road and directly into the Hanzhong Basin.
However, for the "Qin King's Army" that occupied Qinzhou, there was another easy route to take, which was to go south from Tianshui, directly into the Huicheng Basin along the West Han River, and attack Liangzhou.
Lü Bodu naturally took this route, while Yang Kan took the Baoxia Road to enter Liangzhou.
Mo Zhe Dadi felt a splitting headache. The war situation was chaotic and complicated, and the entire Guanlong was in chaos!
Transition chapter, but these are the core areas of Guanlong, so make a picture to make it clearer.
(End of this chapter)