Chapter 229: War or peace? (IV)

Although Pusidor left in the first peace talks, Zeng Hua did not dislike him and still warmly entertained Pusidor. Not only did he entertain him with delicious food and drink, but he also pulled the Persian peace talks envoy to run around in the city of Wanjin, and even went out to hunt in the city.

Pusidor saw the general of the Northern Palace in an enthusiastic manner on a self-guided tour in Siwanjin City, and his heart was full of questions. What was the idea of ​​the general of the Northern Palace? Why was he so calm and not in a hurry at all? Could he be sure that we are the Persian Empire?

After observation during this period, Pusidor had a general understanding of the deployment of the troops of the Northern Mansion people. He was very sure that all the main troops of the Northern Mansion people were stationed in the Hezhong area, and most of the cavalry should be active on the periphery. From various signs, the main forces of these cavalry were not placed in the west, but in the east of India and Tocharo in the south. The Northern Mansion cavalry acted east of Khorasan should be harassing and restraining the troops. It seems that the general of the Northern Mansion had no intention of fighting the Persian Empire to the death.

Pusidor was carefully pondering his guess. Although the people of the Northern Palace had more than 300,000 people and had used the river as the base and springboard for advancement, he still had no capital to fight the Persian Empire. To the east was the Khorasan Province, which was already the territory and land of the Persian Empire. The Persian Empire had been operating there for hundreds of years. If the people of the Northern Palace took advantage of the defeat of the Pessian Branch in early winter, they might have gained a big advantage. However, the Northern Palace suddenly stopped moving forward, stopped in the river and Tocharo, and lost such a "big opportunity".

However, Pusidor felt that it was not unreasonable for the people of the Northern Palace to stop moving west. Once they continued to move forward, they would be counterattacked by the Persian Empire. The people of the Northern Palace were still separated by a chaotic Hezhong area. Maybe they would also have to count the newly harvested Western Regions. It can be said that they were the front line and the logistics were thousands of miles away. No matter what kind of tricks and strategies the people of the Northern Palace could reduce the demand for the supply of food and grass in the rear, this situation was extremely dangerous. Once defeated, the river might be lost. The Persian Empire's army even took advantage of the victory and advanced to the city of the Western Regions.

Although the people of the Northern Palace do not want to fight with the Persians, why is the general of the Northern Palace so calm and indifferent, and why is he so ignoring the peace talks? What is his idea of ​​fighting?

After thinking about it, Pusidor was always uneasy, but he had confirmed that the people of the Northern Palace would not fight against the Persian Empire. Moreover, the weather was already cold and the earth was biting cold, and the large group of people could not act normally. Pusidor had to force himself to accept Zeng Hua's invitation and move around.

On this day, Pusidor was helplessly pulled out by Zeng Hua to attend the completion ceremony of the Dayun Guangming Temple in Xiwanjin City.

While plundering hundreds of highly respected scholars of Manichaeism and sent them all to the east, Zeng Hua distributed a large amount of manpower and material resources to repair the Dayun Guangming Temple on a ruin. However, this kind of repair was not a complete restoration, but only half of the original site was repaired, and the rest of the site was cleaned up and marked into a square. Moreover, according to Zeng Hua's order, a broken wall burned and blackened by the fire was left on the original site, that is, on the square on the side of the rebuilt Dayun Guangming Temple.

Pusidor was very worried when he looked at the broken wall that was in sharp contrast with the newly renovated Dayun Guangming Temple and the stone tablet in front of it. Because he knew what it was written on it! This monument used Chinese and Persian language to describe in detail how the prince of the Beishi, the governor of the Khorasan province of the Persian Empire, burned down Dayun Guangming Temple, massacred tens of thousands of Maniches, and how the people of the Northern Palace repaired this Maniche temple and moved back thousands of Maniche monks.

Pusidor smiled and many other officials of the Northern Palace, generals and people in the river watched the Manichi monks grandly held the Manichi ritual. Seeing the monks' faces of joy and tears, Pusidor smiled bitterly in his heart. These Manichi monks do not have the profound knowledge of ancient and modern times, they are not qualified to move eastward, and have no ability to spread the gospel and widely accept believers. Apart from being able to practice hard by themselves, they are of no use to spread Manichi spread. The people of the Northern Palace gathered these people from all over the river, and could "ban" Manichi religion and gain a good reputation. It's really a matter of birds with one stone.

Pusidor turned his head to look at the people around him. Looking at the helplessness and indifference on their faces, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The real Manichaeists had long fled the Hezhong area, and the remaining people had long made up their minds to beg for life in the "mercy" of the people of the Northern Palace. How dare they risk "risk" to believe in Manichaeism and visit Dayun Guangming Temple? Perhaps decades later, this temple will become a museum in history, and its function will be the same as the broken walls and stone tablets.

Unexpectedly, it was arranged on purpose, and more than ten days after the reconstruction was celebrated lively in Dayun Guangming Temple, Xiwanjin City silently added six holy temples. On the second day of the second month, when the grand birthday of the Holy Lord of the Holy Lord came, Xiwanjin City and Pusidor looked at the people of the North Mansion kneeling outside the Holy Church. Listening to the sings like wind and tide, they suddenly found that Xiwanjin City had been unknowingly covered with a strong holy atmosphere.

As the Holy Lord's birthday passed, the weather gradually became warmer, and Pusidor took the initiative to hold three talks with Zeng Hua, but the gap between the two sides was too big and he refused to give in. As a result, he still parted in disagreement and was ineffective. Zeng Hua still did not take the peace talks to heart, and he took advantage of the spring season to "sway" everywhere. Pusidor also became peaceful as he received a letter from Khorasan Province, and he became more and more patient and became "entangled" with Zeng Hua.

After March, the Hezhong area has become warmer. Xiwanjin City is about the same latitude as Beijing in another world, and due to the surrounding environment, the average annual temperature is higher than that in Hebei, China. Winter wheat is about to grow rapidly, and cattle and sheep that have eaten "dry food" for a winter have to be fattened. Therefore, at this time, the Hezhong area has begun to enter the busy farming and animal husbandry season.

As the weather was warm, Pusidor found tens of thousands of herders were pouring in from the east, driving herds like clouds to rush over the Iri River basin. Although they were tired and the cattle and sheep were full of traces left by the severe cold winter, the herdsmen's high and melodious singing and the cheerful cry of cattle and sheep showed their mood at this time.

As Zeng Hua went out of the city to welcome him, Pusidor quickly understood that these herdsmen who bent down to pay respectfully to Zeng Hua were real herdsmen. Pusidor could even smell the unique smell of the northern desert grassland and the Jinshan grassland on them. These people were all Jinshan and Wuhe tribes who had been with Zeng Hua for more than ten years. They came according to the orders published by Zeng Hua the previous year: Any sons below the eldest sons of each household did not inherit their father's property, and some voluntarily moved westwards would be given twice the Yongye Ranch and the remaining full tax ranch, and the government would also invest in purchasing cattle and sheep to match them.

According to the "Family Property Inheritance Law" passed by the Beifu in the first year of Taihe, each household can inherit the Yongye land in the family, which is generally the eldest son, and can also be designated by the parents of the head of the family. This son can inherit the Yongye land in the family that has been cultivated and cultivated, and can also receive a portion of Yongye land (the number is only one-third of the normal Yongye land), and add it to the Yongye land in the family. The remaining sons must separate the household and re-grant the Yongye land by the government. These newly-granted Yongye land are generally wasteland or newly developed land. The government will provide materials such as plowing oxen, sheep, and farm tools to help the newly established people clear the land. In the past ten years, the Beifu has used this method of land granting, not only effectively breaking the formation of feudal families, but also migrating a large number of related people back to Hebei and Henan, which has become an effective means to guide the people to migrate on a large scale.

Now Zeng Hua used this method to migrate the Wuhe and Jinshan areas to the Yining River and Hezhong areas with his tribes first to follow him to migrate to the Yining River and Hezhong areas to fill the vacuum there. These people almost worked together with the Western Expedition Army from the expedition army, but were far behind these cavalrymen, and finally arrived at the same destination more than a year later.

Pusidor didn't know the mystery here. He only knew that according to various situations, the Yining River Basin, the Shuye River Basin, and the vast areas to the east bank of Yaosheshui (now the Sir River), except for the Yueban people who had already surrendered to the Northern Palace, the rest of the Wusun people, Kangju people, Yuezhi people, and Saezeng people probably died under the horse's hooves of the Beifu people's horse expeditions in the Western Expedition. There were only two roads left. Some of the Wusun people who were said to have a connection with the Northern Palace, and the Yuezhi people subdued the Beifu people and merged into the Northern Palace people. The other Kangju people who escaped their lives either crossed the Aral Sea west or went south to escape the Hezhong area, and met with their tribesmen who migrated first in the Tochar and Xintou River areas.

Also in the Hezhong area, due to the military power of the Northern Prefecture, hundreds of thousands of Sogdians fled south, leaving the wealthy Hezhong area to the people of the Northern Prefecture. The people of the Northern Prefecture used sabers and strong bows to clear out these areas. They would definitely not waste these rich and fertile fields and grasslands, and would definitely hand over these lands to their own people whom they could trust. From now on, the General of the Northern Prefecture planned to hand over these lands to these real herders.

Then followed by tens of thousands of Beifu people who came out of the Pamir Mountains from Shule County, Shazhou. These Beifu people who also rode horses, drove cattle and sheep, and pulled high carts were more like a group of farmland farmers, who would take over the farmlands in the Hezhong area.

When welcoming these people, Pusidor found that a general standing next to Zeng Hua was very excited and couldn't help but feel extremely strange. He wondered, could these newly arrived people from the Northern Palace and this jealous general? Pusidor was a little bit right. The tens of thousands of newly moved people in the Northern Palace were Xianbei people, and most of them were Murong Xianbei people. After being dispersed to various states for labor reform, these people not only abandoned herds and farming, but also integrated into the Northern Palace people. This time, Zeng Hua specially issued a special amnesty order to exempt nearly 100,000 former Murong Xianbei people from the crimes, officially became civilians, and selected tens of thousands of people from them, transformed their Yongye fields and tax fields into the newly recovered Hezhong area, and became one of the hundreds of thousands of people who moved westward. How could Murong Chui not be excited to see these old tribe members?

As more and more people moved westward, the originally deserted Hezhong area immediately became lively. Soon, small towns and churches were built in oasis, and irrigation land was established. The people of the Beidu who had moved westward for more than a year began to calm down and build their homes. They saw the flowing medicine and water slaughter water and the Wuhu water, the water conservancy ditches that were well sorted out by the Persian and Tocharian prisoners of war, and the fertile fields that were also leveled by the prisoners of war, and the excitement that was excited. This would be their new home.

However, Pusidor became more and more moved as the number of herders moved westward became heavier. He knew that the power of nomads, especially nomads under the control of monsters like the North Mansion, was even more frightening. These herders who lived by water and grass would spread along the grassland to any part of the world, and these herders with faith and equipment transformed into very excellent cavalry. The black-armored cavalry running around the east of Tochar, Sistan and Khorasan provinces are the best examples. Now Pusidor is very worried that these herders or cavalry will follow the fleeing Kangju, who has gone west, and the Seeds continue to go west, cross the Aral Sea, and occupy the Gorasmian region (now the Tulan Plain).

Pusidor knew that this vast wasteland was located north of Payati (now north of the Iranian Plateau), and now it was the territory of the Sixia people. But Pusidor believed that the Sixia people were with the Sixia people who fled west, and the Kangju people were not the opponent of the Northern Prefecture people when they were added. At that time, where would the failed Sixia people and Sixia people go? Continue to flee west, then there would be nothing in the Persian Empire. What if they fled south? Thinking of this, Pusidor couldn't help but shudder.

However, Pusidor had just passed this information back to the Persian Empire, and before he could get a reply and instructions from the country, the new situation and matters disrupted Pusidor's peace talks plan.
Chapter completed!