Three Kingdoms

In the eighth year of Taixing, spring.

Nanzheng, Hanzhong.

Li Dian stood in the lobby of Nanzheng Government 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 completed the handover with Zhang Liao, and today he personally escorted Zhang Liao out of the city for thirty miles before returning to the city.

From now on, Li Dian is regarded as the number one figure in Hanzhong.

When he was in Yinshan, he was just the defender of a city, but now, he is the lord of a land.

Although the land of Hanzhong is not very big and belongs to a transit area, serving as a transit hub between Sichuan, Shu and Chang'an, it is of great significance to Li Dian.

Li Dian slowly walked forward, sat down, and then straightened his back a little. There were some indescribable expressions in his eyes, which seemed to be a little emotional, a little relieved, and maybe mixed with some memories. …

The first time Li Dian had to stand up and take on the responsibility of the whole family, he was not yet eighteen years old.

As far as Li Dian knew the military system under Cao Cao, he was on the third level. Of course, the third level is not the lowest. After all, there are substandard products and defective products...

Because he was on the third level, it was difficult for Li Dian to integrate into Cao Jun's core system.

If we stand on the shoulders of historical giants and look down, in order to break the oppression of the gentry bureaucracy system, Cao Cao did indeed recruit a large number of poor and ordinary people as officials to fight against the gentry bureaucrats in the civil administration system. However, in the army, Cao Cao, on the contrary, had a very strict hierarchy.

The first group is naturally Cao's Zhongjun.

This group includes the central leading army, the central protecting army, as well as the heroic cavalry and guerrilla generals. These were originally the titles of miscellaneous generals in the Han Dynasty. They grew up with the growth of Cao Cao's power and formed a special military structure. To put it simply, these generals with Chinese prefixes may not have strong military force, but the first condition must be loyalty. Not only the deputy commanders of military regions and above must be relatives or confidants, but there are also a large number of Qiao Pei people among middle and lower-level officers.

The second level is the recruitment of soldiers who followed Cao Cao in his early days.

The five great generals in history are basically from this group. Zhang He was the leader of Yuan's soldiers, Yu Jin's successor to Bao Xin was the new leader of the Taishan soldiers, Zhang Liao held Lu Bu's former Bingzhou army, Xu Huang manipulated Yang Feng and became the new leader of the Baibo thieves, and Le Jin He was an important expert in Cao Cao's early recruitment and training.

The recruitment system coupled with the private army system caused the Five Sons to form a relatively blocked position. Only generals from the Taishan faction could lead Taishan soldiers, and only Bingzhou soldiers could be commanded. This made it impossible for generals from poor families to be promoted. In the mid-to-late period, Cao Cao didn't know whether it was because he realized this problem or felt that the second-tier generals had threatened the first-tier generals, so he started to slowly take action. After Cao Pi came to power, he still continued to suppress...

Of course, this kind of suppression has also caused worse consequences.

Of course, the boundary between the second and third gears of Wuzi is not so clear. After all, the concept of Wuzi was proposed by Chen Shou, but what is very interesting is that Chen Shou did not agree with Li Dian and did not list Li Dian. Being among the Five Sons seems to indicate something. Otherwise, how big of a deal would it be to change the Five Sons to Six Sons?

The third group is Li Dian and others. Li Dian was even listed in the lower third gear.

Among the third group, the main ones are professional soldiers. Most of them have no worries and can die at any time, such as Dian Wei in history. They can fight with the army, but it is basically impossible to command an army alone.

This is actually Cao Cao's restriction on the powerful nobles...

Li Dian claimed to be capable of both literary and military skills, but this was exactly what Cao Cao was afraid of.

Cao Cao didn't want his soldiers and generals to urinate in the same pot with the powerful nobles, so the third level of professional soldiers was basically the defense line to intercept these powerful people. Even if he breaks through the third gear, he is still blocked by the fifth gear in the second gear. This minimizes the possibility of cliques between civilian officials and military generals.

Of course, this is not to say that Li Dian never commanded the army under Cao Cao, but that Li Dian is definitely not a member of the core military system of the Cao family and the Xiahou family, and as Li Dian, he cannot really abandon the Li family. Everyone in the family, young and old, followed Cao Cao and worked their lives without hesitation.

Li Dian in history is basically similar to the loyal version of Zang Ba. He has the nature of a noble civil servant and the capital of a powerful local military commander, so he is not completely accepted and completely trusted by Cao Cao's civil and military parties. Li Dian was also very aware of this, so historically he proposed to move his family to Yecheng and took the initiative to accept surveillance. But even so, Li Dian still did not escape the fate of being plotted. In the battle of Hefei, Zhang Babai was successful, but Li Mancheng died.

And now...

Li Dian took a long breath.

At this moment, it was almost his dream that came into reality.

Being able to rule the country with literature and bring peace to the country with military force was the dream of many gentry children in the Han Dynasty, and Li Dian was no exception.

Although Hanzhong is not a very large territory, it is at least a county that is not too small!

Compared with the so-called Lihu County back then, the difference between this Hanzhong County and the so-called Lihu County is not even the slightest bit. And when Cao Cao asked Li Dian to serve as the governor of Lihu County, he had no good intentions. The main reason was to allow Li Dian to supply food and grass. If there was no title of governor, how could he make the request in a legitimate manner?

Cao Cao did dare to use people, but he also used them ruthlessly.

In comparison, the employment environment of General Hussar made Li Dian feel what is a community, uh, corporate culture...

After Li Dian's family members migrated to Guanzhong one after another, they would receive special holiday gifts and handwritten letters of thanks from General Hussar during every festival!

The letter summarized and praised Li Dian's work during the year, and also elaborated on the vision and goals of the Guanzhong Political Group. Then he once again thanked and looked forward to Li Dian's continued hard work and greater success in the next year. Going further...

This method was almost widely used in later generations, but it was the only one among the big men!

How can everyone in the Li family bear this?

It is said that the elders in Li Dian's family were so moved that they cried after receiving Husband's handwritten letter. They had it framed and enshrined in the clan's ancestral hall.

Although Li Dian also knew that Qiusi's autographed letter was not for him alone, but also for other people, but how can I put it, the warmth in his heart was just a blessing. Therefore, Li Dian must and can only govern Hanzhong well, otherwise he would be shameless even to meet his own elders, let alone meet Fei Qian!

While thinking about it, I suddenly heard footsteps coming down the hall.

"General..." Li Dian's confidant guard handed over and reported, "The Di man Wang Pu wants to see..."

Li Dian pondered slightly, then nodded and said, "Please." 』

In the military and political affairs of Hanzhong, two important points are important, one is Shangyong and the other is Yangping.

Shangyong is from the Shen family, and Yangping is from the Di family.

The Shen family of Shangyong is within the territory, while the Di people are outside Yangping Pass.

The problem of the Shen family is actually caused by the new land policy, which will not be mentioned for the time being. The problem of the Di people, like the Qiang people, is a problem left over from the Han Dynasty.

The Di and Qiang are two ethnic groups with early origin, wide distribution and large population in ancient western my country. From the Shang Dynasty to the unification of the Qin Dynasty, the central and western Han Dynasty were all within the "Di" area. Later, the Di people gradually shrank back into the mountains. , Nanzheng became a Han settlement only a generation later.

From Nanzheng, Hanzhong, out of Yangpingguan, heading northwest, near Wudu, almost all were Di people. In fact, the attitude of the Han people towards the Han people is similar to that of the Di and Qiang people. Generally speaking, they dominate the territory and are unwilling to rely on them. They sometimes rebel against the Central Plains dynasties. Just like the last incident in Hanzhong, the Di people also had their own thoughts. After the two Di people kings were defeated, the remaining Di people kings hurriedly expressed their submission.

That's right, there is more than one Di Ren King, and even Di Ren himself may not know exactly how many Di Ren Kings there are. It seems that for the Di people, this "King of Di people" is not a "king" in the conventional sense, but represents the leader of a larger tribal group. The strength of this leader may be large or small. A large one may have more than ten thousand people, while a small one may only have a few hundred. For example, this time I came to visit Wang Pu from Di, which was one of them.

The Di people did not have any surnames at first, but later they imitated the Han people to choose their own surnames, or simply adopted Han surnames. In addition to the common surnames such as "Wang, Lu, Jiang, Lei, Yang, Dou, Yao", there are also some Less common ones are "Pu, Qiu, Qiang, Dang, Yaoliang" and so on. Those who are relatively close to Hanzhong are Di people with surnames such as Pu, Qiang, Lu, and Dang.

To put it simply, the territory of the Di people in ancient times, such as Hanzhong, Wudu, and Tianshui and other counties, are now occupied by the Han people and have become the territory of the Han people, while the Di people are forced to "distribute among the valleys." This caused a natural conflict between the Di and Han people.

Therefore, for Li Dian, if he cannot handle the relationship with Di people well, then he will naturally not be able to be the top leader in Hanzhong.

When it came to specific matters, Li Dian probably had some ideas, but he didn't expect that before Li Dian could start doing it, the Di man Wang Pu came to his 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 Hussar and reviewed the files related to the Di people. He found that the rebellion of the Di people was actually quite interesting. In the files related to King Diren sent by Hussar, in addition to some basic information about the current King Diren, several major turmoils of Diren during the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty were also briefly noted.

The first rebellion of the Di people in the Han Dynasty was in the third year of Yuanfeng. There is no problem with the timing of the official documents and Feiqian's supplementary notes, but there is a slight deviation in the order. The official original document is that the Di people rebelled first, and later Emperor Xiaowu sent people to quell the rebellion, and later moved the Di people to govern Jiuquan. However, Fei Qian added that before the Di people rebelled, there were two more words "the incident failed".

Of course, what happened during the Yuanfeng period is probably unknown to everyone now, and what the specific situation should be.

The Di people did not have a dedicated historian, so what happened could only be told by one family. However, Li Dian felt that the word "failure" written by Xiu Qi was probably the most likely truth.

In order to fight against the Xiongnu and to strengthen the front line between Zhangye and Dunhuang, Emperor Xiaowu not only conscripted all the sons-in-law prisoners from all over the country to fill the Hexi Corridor, but he also probably set his sights on the Di people.

The other incident of disobedience noted by Hussar was during the Xiao Guangwu period.

When Xiaoguangwu was in power, Kaixiao ostensibly attached himself to Liu Xiu, but secretly joined forces with Gongsun Shu to cause rebellion. During this rebellion, Qi Zhongliu, a powerful Di chief, cooperated with Kong Fen, the then Prime Minister of Wudu County, to repel Kai Mao who attacked Wudu. Xiao Guangwu immediately gave these Di people the treatment of "returning their lords, kings and elders" and "granting seals and ribbons".

Qiusi also marked this matter with two other words, "Integrity".

Why did the Di people's powerful chief Qi Zhongliu help Kong Fen instead of turning to Wei Mao?

Kong Fen is quite old, he doesn't have much force value, and he can't be said to be resourceful and clever. However, just such a person led to the ultimate failure of the Kuai family's plan. The reason was the two mentioned by Fei Qian. The word is "Integrity".

Before Kong Fen took office in Wudu, he was invited by Hexi General Dou Rong to serve as Guzang Ling. At that time, the world was in chaos, but only the Hexi region was relatively stable. Guzang was known as a rich county. It traded with the Hu people and held four markets every day. Every county magistrate before Kong Fen became wealthy within a few months, but Kong Fen's property did not increase at all after four years in office.

Are greedy people trustworthy, or are honest people more trustworthy?

Then we push this question a step further: does Qi Zhongliu, the powerful Di people believe in Kong Fen more, or do the ordinary Di people believe in Kong Fen more?

These are the questions Li Dian was thinking about during these days. Li Dian asked people to go to Guanzhong to search for archive information about the Di people, and Qiu Qi Fei Qian left four words in these archives. If it was not clear that this was Qiu Qi's suggestion, Li Dian would have been in vain. Got a head.

After arriving in Hanzhong, Li Dian had some brief communication and exchanges with Zhang Liao, which also made Li Dian more certain about his future ideas in Hanzhong. Li Dian believed that when it comes to treating the Di people, they should neither be treated like the Southern Xiongnu nor the Western Qiang people.

Although it is the same education, there are some differences in the subtleties.

The Southern Xiongnu basically had a single leader, but there were not many tribes, so the Hussar cut off the bond between their leader and the ordinary herdsmen of the Southern Xiongnu, and naturally they divided and united. As for Xiqiang, the influence of Beigong is somewhat deep-rooted. If Beigong cannot be eradicated, no amount of differentiation will be effective, so Beigong died in the end...

What about Di people?

Before, when Zhang Liao was in Hanzhong, the Di people were all wary and cautious, and they didn't hear Zhang Liao say that any Di people came to pay their respects. But now, as soon as Zhang Liao left, the Di people Wang Pu came. Is it just a coincidence?

A smile appeared on Li Dian's lips, but he quickly put it away.

Wang Pu from Di came and bowed to Li Dianxing.

Pu Shi secretly observed Li Dian.

Li Dian's face was neither sad nor happy.

"I heard that the general took over Hanzhong, so I came here to congratulate the general..." Mrs. Pu said, then took out a gift list from her arms and handed it over, "A little labor fodder is not a sign of respect..."

Li Dian stretched out his hand and signaled to the guard not to accept the gift note, "I accept it with my heart. This is a gift from the army, there is no need." There is no such thing as a military force under the command of Qiusi... Come, let's have a banquet! King Pu does not need to refuse. Since he has come from afar and is a guest, how can he lose the hospitality? What's more, I'm not very familiar with the mountains, rivers, water, and soil of Hanzhong, so I'd like to ask King Pu for more advice..."

Wang Pu from Di was somewhat surprised when he heard this. Li Dian did not accept the labor gift sheet, but he allowed him to eat. It was not clear for a while what medicine Li Dian was selling in the gourd.

Although Li Dian said it was a simple meal, he was speaking politely, and there was also food and wine. While Li Dian was persuading him to drink, he talked about the local customs and customs of family members. He talked about it from Shandong to Yinshan, and then from Yinshan to Guanzhong. He was stunned for a while, and at the same time, he was also dizzy and couldn't understand Li Dian at all. Dian asked whether these were really idle talk, or whether they had ulterior motives.

Chatting is all mutual.

Although Li Dian has not studied psychology, it does not hinder his practical application. Just like when someone takes the initiative to introduce their name and asks a question, most people will subconsciously tell their name, even if this person is a stranger.

The same is true for Li Dian now. After Li Dian talked about the local customs and customs, Wang Pu of Di could not help but talk about things around Di with just a few ticks, because he really only had these things to say...

"What? Your harvest per acre is so low? Inside the mountain? The number of acres in the mountains is also low! Li Dian said sincerely, "Look at us in Hanzhong, there are crops planted on the hillsides, and they can harvest more than you!" This is either the wrong method or the seeds are not good! 』

"Well? real? ” Mr. Pu was stunned for a moment.

"Then there's still a lie? Can I still lie to you? ! Li Dian seemed to have drunk too much. He patted his chest and said, "If you don't believe me, find a piece of land. You and I will send people to farm it to see who has more!" 』

Mrs. Pu opened her eyes wide, and then swallowed, "That's it... why don't you forget it? Wouldn't it be bad?" 』

Li Dian laughed and said, "Farming is a big event, what's wrong with that?" What's more, the more crops you plant, the more taxes you will receive. Otherwise...ah haha..."

Pu's eyes rolled around, "General, can this tax... be..."

"Taxes cannot be reduced!" ” Li Dian seemed to wake up a little, and his face darkened, “This is the decision made by General Hussar, not me! 』

Pu was blocked back, but she didn't seem to insist on saying anything more and just nodded.

The topic was soon diverted again.

When Pu left Nanzheng, not far out of the city gate, some Di Ren-like guys who were waiting impatiently on the way burst out from the woods, grabbed Pu urgently and asked, " How about it? ah? What kind of person is the new Han general? 』

Mr. Pu pondered for a while, then frowned and said, "It's hard to say... Although he seems a bit like a reckless military man with a simple and direct temper, but... I always feel that something is wrong..."

"What's wrong with that?" 』

Amid everyone's expectant gazes, Mr. Pu scratched his head awkwardly, "I can't tell..."

All Di people: "..."