Chapter 275 Stealing the Hetao and Establishing the Tang Dynasty
Lin Hu's rebels had already recovered their vitality. Of course, the so-called vitality was only compared to his brother, but he had gathered 2.3 million people.
With Qin Mo's full support, King Hu of Lin also recovered his vitality. Of course, the so-called recovery of vitality only has a population of one million, but only 200,000 Lin Hu's people could fight, and the rest were all controlled by the people of the Central Plains led by Qin Mo.
In other words, after six years of war and a fire from Zhao Xing, Lin Hu, who originally had a population of 2 million, had only more than 400,000 left.
The richest area of Linhu has been fully occupied by the Central Plains people recruited and developed by Qin Mo.
Neither Lin Hu nor Ben had stopped. They had changed from a national dispute to an endless revenge, and their true nature had completely changed.
Without righteousness, only revenge was left, which made the few Lin Hu people feel tired and made the people of the Central Plains who were constantly exploited and exploited angry. They shouted out the calls for expelling Lin Hu, and the conditions for Zhao Xing to take over Lin Hu were ripe.
Zhao Xing did not come to Lin Hu alone. He brought his 20,000-match iron cavalry, 50,000 equipped with simple saddles and stirrups, and steel knives. The Loufan warrior, who was called the light cavalry by Zhao Xing, and the 10,000-match Xijun.
This time, he asked Zhao Xing, their god, to rescue them from the hands of King Lin Hu, who had become increasingly cruel.
Zhao Xing and Loudi were all the Central Plains officials of Qin Mo and the former Lin Hu King’s Court. Some of the leaders of the Lin Hu tribe who were unwilling to be driven by Lin Hu King again, and were welcomed from the Yellow River.
When Zhao Xing's frame appeared on the horizon, the 50,000 cavalry that Zhao State promised to lend to Zhao Xing also rushed to the Yellow River to meet.
For a time, there were really soldiers on the entire bank of the Yellow River.
The officials Qin Mo led were kneeling in front of Zhao Xing's frame not with the etiquette of welcoming each other's help, but with the mood of welcoming his king's return.
Qin Mo knelt down with tears in his face and shouted: "Qin Mo, the false prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, brings his colleagues from the Tang Dynasty to welcome the king to return to the country."
All officials and the people who were accompanying them knelt down and cheered.
Zhao Xing lifted the curtains of his four-wheeled carriage, stood high on the carriage, looking down at the thousands of subjects in front of him, and his heart was infinitely surging, and stomped his feet: "This is already my land, this is already the land of the Tang Dynasty. I will start from here and move towards the road of fighting for hegemony and unification. The world, the Warring States Period, I am really here now."
The temporary capital chosen by Zhao Xing is only 300 miles from the great river tributary of Jingbian Fort in Qinbei Great Wall, and the upstream of the water-generating Feichi.
This is the upper reaches of the huge salt lake that Zhao Xing and Xu Jie discovered with Linhu for the first time. The reason why Zhao Xing chose here is because it not only occupies the salt pond, but also has an important pillar of his economy in the future. At the same time, you can peek at Qin near the south and directly occupy the fiefdom of the Shangjun of Qin in the east. Cross the Yellow River, it is Zhao State. You can follow the Yellow River to reach your four passes, which is Sanmenxia in later generations. You can also look at the grasslands in the south and north of the desert in the north.
Of course, Zhao Xing had solemnly announced that this was just a temporary capital of his own, renamed Tangcheng.
Entering Tang City, Zhao Xing sat upright in the original palace built for King Lin Hu, now called Tang Palace, and once again accepted the congratulations from all officials. Zhao Xing officially announced that the Tang, Tang and Marquis were officially established, and Qin Mo, who had worked hard to manage the hard and made the right prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, and was named Xu Jie, the left prime minister.
Qin Mo thanked me with gratitude.
Then, according to Zhao Xing's six ministries and nine ministers system, all the officials here were named the right ministers of the Six ministries. Only Dongguoli, who had made contributions in water control, specially set up a Ministry of Water Resources, and he was the first Minister of Shang. The first task was to build a huge dam near the Yellow River to prepare for the mint that was about to be relocated.
The second task is to block the bitter Hu, which is the water entering the upper reaches of the salt lake in the future, and prepare for the salt drying of yourself in the future.
Dongguoli happily accepted the task.
"Please tell me about the situation of the places we have grasped now."
Qin Mo stood in front of you unswervingly and began to introduce the current situation: "The situation around us is not too good, but not too bad."
Not too bad, this is a good start.
"The Qin State in the south had annexed the two countries of Bashu in just one year, and obtained the huge grain-producing areas of Bashu in Guanzhong. The year before yesterday, he destroyed his closest terrorist Yiqu State and annexed the land and population of Yiqu. Now the Qin State has a stronger national strength."
This is bad news.
"But because Qin supported Lin Hubendu, he also spent his huge financial and material resources. Therefore, he did not attack the five Great Walls of Yifei Lixing, which we had occupied. He only built five cities across the five cities to confront each other. Now the two sides are in peace."
This is good news.
"In order to train troops and deal with Bendu, Lin Hu, who was supported by Qin, placed all his Hu teams in the south of the desert and north of the Yellow River. After several years of tempering, they were already strong and had 100,000 tigers and wolves."
This is bad news.
"But they are used to all the supplies supplied by our current Hetao area, so as long as we block the Yellow River, King Linhu will not last long."
This is good news.
"But we suddenly occupy the foundation of Lin Hu and establish the Tang Dynasty, he will definitely lead the army to turn back, and he will be more likely to reconcile with Ben directly. If the two places join forces to fight back, the force will reach 200,000, and we will have a big battle."
This is bad news.
Zhao Xing said to everyone: "This time I brought 20,000 troops. I called him the Guards, Loufan, 50,000, and the 50,000 lent from Zhao State, totaling 120,000. But remember, these are all soldiers equipped with stirrup saddles and steel knives. In terms of equipment, we are definitely better than the Linhu people who are still riding horses. To defeat Linhu, I have absolute confidence in defeating Linhu."
This is good news, and the crowd is excited.
Qin Mo continued to report: "After eight years of operation, our Hetao area has fertile fields and irrigation nets as dense as spiders. There are 1.3 million citizens and 50,000 permanent troops."
This is good news.
"But there are Linhu people in our area who are unwilling to surrender, which is the reason why we are unsafe."
This is bad news.
"Qin State will also take advantage of the opportunity when we seize the Linhu area and the people are unstable, and take advantage of our foothold and attack us and seize the Hetao area with us, which will cause us to be attacked on both sides."
This is another bad news.
Zhao Xing calmly explained to you: "Faced with the attack of the strong Qin Dynasty and the counterattack of Lin Hu, I am not worried. Because we have a powerful millions of Loufan people, a continuous army of Loufan people on the vast grassland, we have military products continuously produced by Dai County, and the wealth that the four passes have brought us continuously. And we are now, at least the Zhao State, which is now an alliance with us. Therefore, we have absolute ability to eliminate the enemy and gain a foothold."
This is good news, great news. With the land area, the newly born Tang Dynasty has already squeezed into the top three of the vassal states. In terms of population size, if the migrant population of Dai County is added, it can squeeze into the top ten of the vassal states. If it is about output, it can firmly sit among the top ten of the vassal states. With such a foundation, why should the Tang Dynasty worry about not competing for hegemony of the Central Plains and unifying the world?
Chapter completed!