Vol 2 Chapter 2528: Sixteen states of China
Chapter 2528 Sixteen States of China
Chapter 2524: Sixteen Chinese States
Yongzhou, Chang'an.
“Report...to report to your majesty, after Ji Chang had a small victory over Yang Su, he immediately started negotiations with the Sui State, and took the initiative to surrender to the Sui State on the condition of retaining military power.
Yang Guang was afraid of the combat power of the Zhou army and wanted to occupy the Qiang land at the lowest cost, so he accepted Ji Chang's surrender and named Ji Chang the governor of Yizhou. "Tian Yanhui reported.
“Yizhou County?”
After hearing this place name, Ying Hao was stunned. Apparently he didn't know which county this Yizhou was.
“When did the Sui Kingdom create Yizhou County?”
Ying Hao asked slightly puzzled, after all, the Sui Dynasty had five counties in Liangzhou and seven counties in the Qiang region, but none of them had Yizhou County, so where did this county come from?
"Yizhou County is in the Western Regions. During the Sui Kingdom's last western expedition, Yang Sulian destroyed nine countries in the Western Regions. Based on these nine countries, Yang Guang established Tianshan County, Yizhou County, and Gaochang County, totaling three counties."
Ying Hao suddenly said: "I see, it seems that Yang Guang is doing quite well in the Western Regions."
Among the countries in the Central Plains, the Sui Kingdom is indeed not ranked high, but it is naturally extremely easy to bully the backward Western Regions.
Even if the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions joined forces and deployed several times the force of the Sui army, they were still no match for the Sui army, and even nine countries were wiped out.
If it weren't for the help of Ji Xiaolan and Wang Ben, Sui's first western expedition might have wiped out nearly half of the countries in the Western Regions.
The twenty-five remaining countries in the Western Regions have been completely frightened by the Sui State and have to unite to resist the Sui army.
Seven countries voluntarily became tributaries of the Qin Dynasty and took the initiative to pay tribute to the Qin Dynasty.
And this is mainly due to the Sui State. If the Sui army had not pushed these seven countries into a hurry, how could they have attacked Da Qin?
In this regard, Da Qin paid almost no price. It only sent more than a hundred people, including Ji Xiaolan and Wang Ben, to unite the countries in the Western Regions. However, it accidentally obtained seven satellite countries.
After figuring out the new territory of the Sui Kingdom in the Western Regions, Ying Hao pointed at the map and smiled: "It seems that Yang Guang doesn't trust Ji Chang either.
The Sui Kingdom had five counties in Liangzhou and seven counties in the Qiang region. Twelve counties were not enfeoffed, but only Jichang was granted the title of governor of Yizhou.
Yang Guang's move was just to transfer Ji Chang away from the Qiang region so that he could completely take over the seven counties of the Qiang region. "
Gongsun Xuanyuan allowed Ji Chang to retreat to the Qiang land because he wanted both Zhou and Sui Dynasties to suffer losses, but this goal was only partially achieved.
Ji Chang had a small defeat against Yang Su, killing 10,000 Sui soldiers and losing 9,000 himself. However, he immediately took advantage of the victory to seek peace and surrendered to the Sui state.
Now that the Sui Kingdom has no constraints in Guanxi, it will naturally have to compete with the Qin Dynasty for the hegemony of Liangzhou.
"Your Majesty, the Sui State has completely occupied the Qiang land and established it as Haizhou, which has seven counties under its jurisdiction, namely: Xining County, Haidong County, Haibei County, Hainan County, Huangnan County, Goluo County, and Yushu County;" Tian Yan said.
The former seven counties of the Qiang region are now Haizhou, which is the boundary of Qinghai Province in later generations.
More than four-fifths of Qinghai is a plateau. The terrain is generally high in the west and low in the east, with high altitude in the north and south and low in the middle. The altitude in the west is high and slopes to the east, declining in a trapezoidal manner.
Qinghai is mountainous in the east and plateaus and basins in the west. It has three landforms: the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the inland arid basin and the Loess Plateau. It has a plateau continental climate and spans five major river systems: the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, the Lancang River, the Heihe River and the Datong River.
As for why Yang Guang chose the name "Haizhou"? In fact, it’s because of Qinghai Lake.
Just from the fact that three of the seven counties in Haizhou all have the word "海", it can be seen that the boundaries of Haizhou suitable for human survival, nearly 100 of them are around Qinghai Lake.
This is enough to show the influence of Qinghai Lake in the local area, but it is not yet called this name.
The locals call Qinghai Lake Xihai Lake, so Yang Guang chose the name "Haizhou".
The native residents of Haizhou are not only the Qiang people, but also other ethnic groups such as Di and Ba. However, the Qiang people are the most powerful and the largest in number.
The Qiang, Di, Ba and other ethnic groups are also the root causes of cholera in Guanxi.
The Han Dynasty did not try their best to pacify the Qiang people, but basically every time after returning from victory, all the tribes in the Qiang land would surrender and rebel again, and the Han Dynasty had to spend time on expeditions.
Over time, most of the Han's national power was consumed in suppressing the northwest rebellion, but it was all in vain. This also formed a vicious cycle, and the national power naturally became weaker and weaker, and eventually collapsed completely.
The Han Dynasty was overthrown, and the northwest foreigners definitely contributed a lot.
Before the rise of Dong Zhuo, the foreign races in the northwest had always been a problem that the Han Dynasty could not solve. It was not until after the rise of Dong Zhuo that several battles were fought, and the Qiang land was almost unable to hold its head up, and the Qiang land was forced to surrender.
After Dong Zhuo's death, the Qiang people thought they could live a good life for a few days, but Li Shimin and Yang Guang were more ruthless than Dong Zhuo and directly occupied the Qiang land, preparing to exterminate the Qiang people.
It is naturally not that easy to assimilate a race.
In the Sui and Tang Dynasties, in addition to leaving troops stationed in the Qiang area and establishing seven new counties, they also moved Han people into the Qiang area and implemented Chinese rule over the Qiang area.
At the beginning, the Qiang people in the Qiang area did not agree with the rule of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Almost every month, the Qiang people revolted against the rule of the Sui and Tang Dynasties.
But the garrisons of the Sui and Tang Dynasties were not just decorations. All the Qiang people who dared to rebel were slaughtered by the armies of the two countries.
Every person who opposed was killed, and the remaining people naturally became obedient people.
Over the years, the Qiang and Han people in Xizhou have lived together and intermarried with each other. They have initially completed ethnic integration. Basically, they no longer dare to rebel, and they have recognized the rule of the Han people.
It wasn’t until the fall of the Tang Dynasty and the Sui Dynasty’s complete occupation of the Qiang land that they established a state capital and changed the Qiang land to Haizhou, making this land completely belong to the Han people.
From this point of view, although the separation of the Sui and Tang Dynasties was a source of turmoil, opening up territory and allowing the Han people to gain another state was definitely a great achievement for the Han nation.
You must know that after the beginning of the Troubled Times, the major princes have been fighting among themselves. Only the five kingdoms of Qin, Wu, Chu, Sui and Tang were opening up territories. Although the Qin Dynasty recaptured Hetao from the Xiongnu and established three new counties, there were still only three counties after all. Although the regional level was at the state level, the regional scope did not reach the state level.
As for Yingzhou, although Da Qin occupied the most elite area, it did not occupy all of it.
The four kingdoms of Wei, Song, Wu and Ming occupied a larger base in Japan than Qin.
So, when the Qin Dynasty completely occupied the Japanese country and initially assimilated the Japanese people, can it be regarded as opening up a state.
Although Wu State developed Yizhou Island, Yizhou was too small after all. Even if it was fully developed, it would not be considered a state.
As for the Chu State, although there was an opportunity to expand a state, after sending troops to Annan, they only plundered supplies but did not govern them. They fought one battle and then left.
Like the Chu State, the Wei, Song and Ming Dynasties occupied a lot of land in the Japanese State, but they also only took possession of it and did not manage it at all. Naturally, it cannot be regarded as opening up territory.
So far, the only country that has really expanded its territory and managed it is the Sui State.
Of course, this great achievement was accomplished jointly by the Sui and Tang Dynasties, but the fruits of victory were eaten by the Sui State.
[Ding dong, Yang Guang established ‘Haizhou’ and achieved the achievement ‘Expand the territory of a state’. Reward: Five-dimensional permanent +1, charm +9, and the population growth rate of the area doubled within one year;
Yang Guang: Commander 98 (+8), Force 77 (-8), Intelligence 93 (+3), Politics 98 (+8), Charisma 87 (-8)
The current five dimensions of Yang Guang are: Commander 99 (+9), Force 78 (-7), Intelligence 94 (+4), Politics 99 (+9), Charisma 97 (+2)]
After receiving the system prompt, Ying Hao's heart was moved and he thought: "Sure enough, opening up new territories and expanding territory can also be achieved."
“Master Jia, how are the two newly established counties in Hetao being handled so far?” Ying Hao asked.
Just when everyone thought that Ying Hao was going to discuss the Sui Kingdom affairs further, they did not expect that Ying Hao suddenly changed the topic to the Hetao.
Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, but still reported the truth: "Your Majesty, Wen Tianxiang, the governor of Hetao, has already selected the site for building the city in the east and west areas of Hetao, and built three counties and 24 counties in the past two years, namely: Wuzhong County, Guyuan County, Zhongwei County."
As for the plan to add counties to the Hetao, preparations had already begun in Daqin.
After all, there are only three counties in the Hetao, but it has a population of more than 3 million, with an average population of more than 1 million per county.
Obviously located in the Hetao in the north, it should logically be vast and sparsely populated, but now the population density is almost greater than that of the Central Plains.
A large number of people are concentrated in the three counties. If this continues, it will not be conducive to the development of other land in the Hetao, nor is it conducive to the increase of the population.
Therefore, only by adding new counties and building new cities can the Hetao Plain be further developed.
As for the matter of adding more counties to the Hetao, preparations had been made long before the Qin Dynasty was established. After two years of large-scale construction and population migration, three counties and 24 new lands were added to the Hetao.
Among them: Wuzhong County has eight counties in total, with Wuzhong City as its administrative seat;
Guyuan County has seven counties in total, with Guyuan City as its administrative seat;
Zhongwei County has seven counties in total, with Zhongwei City as its administrative seat.
At present, the construction of new cities has been completed, and only the population migration has not yet been completed.
Although Wen Tianxiang has moved nearly 100,000 people to the three newly established counties, he still cannot effectively develop the land. At least 200,000 people must be moved to each of them.
After adding three new counties, although the total population and land area of the Hetao have not changed, the population growth rate and land development rate have greatly increased, and the total grain production has been nearly half higher than before.
This is the benefit of adding counties and subdividing administrative regions.
Ying Hao glanced at the ministers below and saw their confusion, and he said: "Yang Guang established the 'Haizhou' in Qiang land, adding a new state to China. It is really a great feat.
I did not want the Sui Dynasty to be more beautiful than before, so I decided to set Hetao as "Hezhou" and administer six counties of Hetao.
In addition, Shuofang County in Bingzhou and Beidi County in Liangzhou will also be under the jurisdiction of Hezhou in the future;"
Most areas of Shuofang County belong to the Hetao Plain and are placed under the jurisdiction of Hezhou, which is completely reasonable.
As for Beidi County, except for the southern area which belongs to later Gansu, most of the northern area also belongs to the Hetao Plain.
Therefore, Ying Hao's transfer of Shuofang County and Beidi County to Hezhou is completely in line with the administrative plan.
Seeing that all the ministers were a little confused, Ying Hao did not stop at all and continued: "From now on, Hezhou will govern the eight counties of Ningxia, Yinchuan, Yinshan, Wuzhong, Guyuan, Zhongwei, Shuofang and Beidi. land;
The governor of Hezhou will continue to be the former governor of Hetao Wen Tianxiang;
The governor of Hezhou also continued to be the former governor of Hetao, Huo Bing. "
Hearing this, the ministers realized that His Majesty the Emperor had already planned it. This was not just discussing with them, but simply informing them.
But who made Ying Hao the founding emperor?
As the founding emperor, Ying Hao's prestige was unparalleled. As long as the decisions he made were not particularly outrageous, basically no one would dare to object.
【Ding dong, Ying Hao established ‘Hezhou’ and achieved the achievement ‘expanding a state’. The reward: permanent +1 in the fifth dimension, +9 in charm, and the population growth rate of the area doubled within one year;
Current Qin Hao: Commander 101, Force 107, Intelligence 100, Politics 102, Charisma 108;
Since the five-dimensional amplification range of the host is full, the attributes cannot be increased by the rewarded attribute points, so the rewarded attribute points will be changed to free attribute points;
The current host has a total of: 1 random attribute point, 1 commander attribute point, 2 force attribute points, 2 intelligence attribute points, 2 political attribute points, and 11 charm attribute points; ]
After receiving the system prompt, Ying Hao couldn't help but be startled. He didn't expect that the system reward would come so quickly.
“With the addition of the three newly established states of He, Hai, and Ying, China already has sixteen states.
This is not the end yet. After the seven Central Plains countries are wiped out and completely unified, it will be time to take action against Man Qin, Yuan Meng, and Wang Mang.
These three families can still establish four states in their territory. By then, China will have twenty states. The territory will be far wider than the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties. I and all my dear friends will create unprecedented achievements. "
Ying Hao thought about the future with excitement on his face, while all the ministers cheered in unison: "Your Majesty will live for ten thousand years, and the Qin Dynasty will live for ten thousand years;"
(End of this chapter)