Han Khan

Chapter 183: The weak eat the strong

The slaves in Jinhan came from a wide range of sources and their numbers were astonishingly large.

The largest number of them were the Ubili and Kuchuti people who were nomadic near Jinshan Mountain, the Dubo people in the area of ​​Tannu Mountain and Eastern Sayan Mountains, and the many Tatar tribes near Yanran Mountain, totaling as many as 160,000.

This number of slaves was almost half of the entire population of Jin Han. The large number of slaves also indirectly demonstrated Jin Han’s strength and fighting ability.

The people of the nomadic tribes on the grassland are not weak in courage at all, and can even be said to be very tough, although they are certainly not as brave and valiant as the Tang Dynasty which has been feared and terrified for the past two or three hundred years.

But it was precisely this spirit of incomparable bravery and bellicosity that completely tore apart the entire Tang Dynasty. Now that the Five Dynasties had begun, the warlords of the late Tang Dynasty, who had their own troops and came from various backgrounds, were killing each other in the Central Plains with the support of their generals!
On the grassland, there is also a brave spirit that is different from that in the Central Plains. They worship heroes and various magical legends, imitate the deeds of heroes, and take the initiative to submit to all kinds of ruthless people.

Just like playing chicken, under the leadership of these strong and ruthless men, the warriors of various tribes on the grassland fought and plundered each other, eliminated hostile tribes, killed all their men, robbed all their women and children, and the strongest one who gradually emerged victorious would gain the submission of all the tribes. The tribe where this ruthless man came from would thus become the name of all the tribes he conquered.

They were in pain from being killed, and realizing how fast the new master's horse was and how sharp his knife was, they quickly knelt down and surrendered, following the master's lead. The Hu people had been doing this for thousands of years. On the grassland, there were no ethnic differences or traditions, and all those under the knife soon submitted to the conqueror.

Its rise and fall are also due to the harsh environment, difficult living conditions and fragile economic production capacity, which led to the emergence of a large number of ruthless people and heroes and also tore the grassland apart!

Such as the ancient Huns, the Xianbei, Rouran, and Tiele during the period of the Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms, the Turks, Xueyantuo, Uighurs, and Kyrgyz in modern times, and the Khitan and Mongolia in the future.

The special ones are Xianbei, Khitan and Mongolia, who actively and thoroughly integrated into the Han family as conquerors;
One envied the Han culture but was afraid of being completely assimilated, so it hesitated, was torn apart internally, and was eventually completely defeated and assimilated into other ethnic groups;
The last one, under the reorganization and leadership of its wise leader, truly established a new grassland tribe amid the continued weakness of the Central Plains.

Although the grandson of the Archer did enter the Han culture with the purpose of ruling the vast Central Plains and the huge number of Han people, his essence was just for ruling.

They were arrogant and denounced the descendants of Xia as inferior people. Their barbaric rule and disrespect for the descendants of Xia led to them being completely driven out of the Central Plains.

After their defeat, they completely lost the opportunity to get close to Han culture, and were finally completely defeated by the descendants of the Jurchens east of the Liaohe River.

Afterwards, due to his inhumane rule, it completely declined in the East.

After separation, a bunch of descendants of slaves actually clamored all day long about the greatness of their ancestors. It was really ridiculous. Their ancestors were just a group of slaves, the descendants of the Archer of the Condor Heroes, all in the Central Plains. Were those slaves praising the greatness of the slave owners?
But all in all, these descendants of the Xianbei and Rouran people, today's Shiwei people, did find a way out. Of course, if the situation was during the time of Emperor Wu of Han and Tian Khan, they would still be taken to Chang'an to dance.

But one fact is that after that Condor Heroes, no new name has appeared on the grassland until the future!

Zhang Sheng, who is familiar with his deeds, regards him as his teacher!
In particular, the way he broke up all the tribes and reorganized them into a new organizational system under his unified command and dispatch was astonishing.

Relying on such an organizational system, launching foreign wars, no, no, no, it cannot be called war, it should be called robbery, the act of robbing the world, enriching oneself, solving those who create internal conflicts, and consuming a large amount of cannon fodder to consolidate the rule of that clan.

The Thousand Households System is Zhang Sheng's tribute and imitation of him.

But he also knew that such a simple and efficient organizational system, as well as their poor knowledge and ruling ability without any history to draw on, could not sustain a country with a profound culture like the Central Plains for a long time, so it was only a matter of time before they were driven out and assimilated.

Zhang Sheng still insisted on learning from the system of the Condor Heroes in order to create a group of Jin Han people who worship Haotian, respect the holy religion and identify with Jin Han.

Today, the system of Jinhan, especially the military arrangement, is inherited from the old system of the Tang Dynasty and the Guiyi Army, and on the other hand, Zhang Sheng has continuously imitated and created new systems based on the excellent systems in history that he knows. Today, Jinhan has 4 guards regiments, 7 ordinary regiments, 500 blacksmith camps, 600 priest camps, 7 Khitan camps, and a total of more than households.

Together with the 13 forest tribe camps in the Tannu Mountain area, the 21 thousand households with families reorganized today, the 11 thousand households that have just gotten married, and the 13 thousand households composed of orphaned males, three thousand children, and six thousand slave soldiers who have not yet escaped from their slave status, the Jinhan tribe now has more than 27 people. Of course, this does not include the nearly six thousand slave households.

However, there were only about 36,000 households of subjects who could actually be mobilized for battle.

Why were the 11 Tang people who had just married sent to fight at this time? Their role was to adapt to the nomadic way of life first and give birth to more Jin and Han people who could speak elegant language. Only after they had offspring could they be called up to fight.

The 13 unmarried soldiers were the best fighters. They were alone and had no property. Now that they had been freed from slavery, they were extremely eager for spoils of war and women.

The guards of the four guard regiments are the most elite and combat-ready cavalry in the entire Jinhan. Not only that, they are also the strongest in dismounted combat and can fight in formation. When they work together, it can be said that they are invincible in Jinshan and even in Mobei.

In particular, the four guards regiments have now completed their equipment. They are equipped with excellent armored helmets, broadswords, spears, iron arrows forged in the blacksmith shop, and even some warriors' horses are covered with leather armor.

Looking at the venue that was crowded just now and was now gradually deserted, Zhang Sheng thought that these people had gained stability, smiled slightly, turned around and walked down the platform.

Koza and Yin Shanxiong, with two regiments of guards, quickly gathered in front of him. A guard pulled his black horse over, and after mounting the horse, they headed towards the wall.

"Your Majesty, this time you, Zhang Xibao, and Lord Koza led the army to conquer the west, north, and east. This will surely let the entire grassland know the reputation of our Jin Han. I think this is an opportunity!" Yin Shanxiong's eyes flashed with a gleam, and he said in a deep voice beside Zhang Sheng.

"Oh?" Zhang Sheng tilted his head and looked at him, confused.

"Your Majesty, Jin Han is no longer the same as when we just broke away from Dunhuang. Now, we have many people under our command, and our livestock is incalculable. From the upper reaches of the Duoluos River to the Langjuxu Mountain, all of them have been conquered by Jin Han.

But there must be many nomadic tribes in these places, including the Shiwei people, the Tatars, the Thirty Surnames of Tatars, the Dilie, the Ugu, the Merkit and other tribes, who were oppressed by the Khitans and were looking for better pastures.

They kept migrating here, but were defeated by my Lord Koza, and now belong to my Jinhan’s pasture. ” Yin Shanxiong looked at Zhang Sheng respectfully and said through gritted teeth.

Zhang Sheng looked at the high stone wall in front of him and thought, yes, this is what the Mobei grassland was like in the tenth century. The tribes that came from the Great Xianbei Mountain in Shandong were fighting with the Uighurs, Turks, and Tiele people who remained in Mobei, and were gradually merging in language and customs.

Today, the ancestors of the future Turkified Kerait and Naiman people had been conquered and incorporated into the Jin Han. The Khitans continued to plunder the Tatars who were nomadic in the areas around Hulun Lake and Buir Lake.

These tribes that are not subordinate to each other and are constantly fighting each other have not yet emerged as a truly powerful tribe. No, no, no, isn't Jinhan the powerful tribe that is now rising in Mobei? Thinking of this, Zhang Sheng suddenly smiled.

The fighting on the grassland is even more dangerous than the warlords' melee in the Central Plains. Even if you don't provoke anyone on the grassland, as long as you are weak, trouble will come to you like a fly.

Wild beasts, enemies, horse thieves, powerful tribes are always threatening the weak tribe. All this is because they are weak and have no power to protect themselves!

In this cruel grassland where the law of the jungle is fully demonstrated, tribes without power can only be bullied and trampled upon!
(End of this chapter)