Chapter 384

The Qiang tribes invaded the counties of the Han Dynasty, plundering living materials and people.

And the Han soldiers also invaded the villages of the Qiang tribes, burning, killing, and looting.

The accumulated resentment started from this time.

The composition of the Qiang tribes is made up of clans.

One clan is one tribe.

This is slightly different from the Xiongnu and Xianbei.

Therefore, the tribes of the Qiang people are called clans.

In the early Western Han Dynasty, there were actually not many Qiang clans, only a few.

These included the Shaodang Qiang, County Magistrate Qiang, Fengyang Qiang, Hankai Qiang, and Laojie Qiang.

In this tug-of-war of the Qiang tribes repeatedly entering the Han counties, finally, during the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han, the Han Dynasty tacitly allowed the Qiang tribes to enter the Han counties.

Therefore, the Qiang tribes were thoroughly incorporated into the commandery system of that time.

Exercising the authority of the Han Dynasty within the surrendered Qiang clans.

This was the first time the Qiang tribes welcomed a larger space for development.

According to Ban Biao's records.

"Book of the Later Han: Western Qiang Biography: Now all the Liangzhou departments have surrendered Qiang, Qiang Hu have disheveled hair and left-lapel robes, and live mixed with Han people."

This was already the Later Han.

That is to say, by the time of the Later Han, Qiang people were everywhere in Liangzhou.

This is inextricably linked to the Rebellion of Wang Mang.

Because the collapse of the Han Dynasty's policy toward the Qiang and the defense system in the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions caused by the Rebellion of Wang Mang, the Qiang tribes welcomed a second large-scale explosive growth.

Since then, the Later Han also welcomed the first large-scale rebellion of the Qiang tribes.

The tenth year of Jianwu of Emperor Guangwu.

"Book of the Later Han: Western Qiang Biography: In the tenth year, the County Magistrate Qiang and other clans united, and again raided Jincheng and Longxi."

Ma Yuan, who was then the Administrator of Longxi, rose to prominence from this battle.

But it was also after this battle that the Qiang tribes entered the Guanzhong region for the first time.

It is also recorded in the "Book of the Later Han: Western Qiang Biography."

The Qiang tribes surrendered and were relocated to the three commanderies of Tianshui, Longxi, and Fufeng.

Fufeng was already in the Guanzhong region.

At that time, the Han Dynasty's policy was to hope to use this method to gradually Sinicize and assimilate the Qiang tribes.

Separating these rebellious Qiang tribes from the Qiang tribes in the Liangzhou region would not cause another rebellion.

In the decades since then, the Han Dynasty used the same method to settle many Qiang tribes migrating inward.

There were two reasons for this: the first was to assimilate and solve the Qiang problem.

Another reason was that because of the Rebellion of Wang Mang, the population in the Guanzhong region decreased sharply, cities were abandoned, land was abandoned, and a large population was needed to fill it, and the armed forces of the Qiang tribes were used to solve the problems of some grassland tribes of the Xiongnu.

The Rebellion of Wang Mang led to a sharp decrease in the population of the Han Dynasty.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the population of Fufeng alone was over 800,000.

After the Rebellion of Wang Mang, Fufeng only had a population of over 90,000.

Such a large loss of population was a heavy blow to land, cities, and even the political and defense systems.

But this time, it gave the Qiang tribes a passive development process, making the Qiang tribes welcome another era of population explosion.

Besides the two political factors above.

There was also another factor.

Because of the large loss of population in the Guanzhong region, the income of the gentry and powerful families in Guanzhong decreased sharply.

The economy depends on population.

Without population, land cannot be cultivated, animal husbandry cannot be developed, and goods cannot be produced.

But there is no doubt that after the Qiang tribes migrated inward, the gentry and powerful families in Guanzhong could obtain cheap labor from the Qiang tribes, which was used to ease labor and enrich the wealth of the gentry.

However, this seemingly convenient, fast, and efficient method buried a hidden danger for the Great Han.

The large-scale rebellions of the Qiang tribes, which were recorded, broke out frequently for forty or fifty years starting from the first year of Emperor Ming of Han.

The first year of Jianchu of Emperor Zhang of Han (58 AD).

The second year of Jianchu of Emperor Zhang of Han.

The first year of Zhanghe.

The fourth, fifth, eighth, ninth, and tenth years of Yongyuan of Emperor He of Han...

And during this period, the Qiang clans also successively added more than ten.

The accumulation of these decades, coupled with the oppression given by the gentry and powerful families in the Guanzhong region in terms of labor, led to the largest Qiang rebellion in the history of the Han Dynasty.

The Yongchu Qiang Rebellion.

The first year of Yongchu of Emperor An of Han, 107 AD.

And this rebellion lasted for a full eleven years.

During these eleven years, it led to a sharp decrease in the population of Liangzhou, Fufeng, Bingzhou, and other regions again.

The loss of the economy caused by the expenditure of the army, military expenses, and abandoned land was immeasurable.

The Yongchu Qiang Rebellion also drove grassland tribes like the Xiongnu to see an opportunity to rebel together, making the pressure on the northern defense line of the Great Han increase sharply.

This was a year with records, where the number of troops consumed alone exceeded 200,000.

Consuming 40 billion in money and grain.

The number of corvée laborers who died transporting supplies and military grain exceeded hundreds of thousands.

The number of officials who died in battle, or were executed or punished due to unfavorable war situations, was countless.

The large-scale conscription of corvée labor caused these corvée laborers who were originally in the Guanzhong and Central Plains regions to lose the cultivation of their original land, which also led to the abandonment of land in Yingchuan, Runan, and other places.

The losses caused were immeasurable.

This was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the Later Han regime.

In the fourth year of the Yongchu Qiang Rebellion.

Because of various reasons, the first voice to abandon Liangzhou appeared in the court of the Later Han.

"Book of the Later Han: Yu Xu Biography: In the fourth year of Yongchu, the Qiang Hu rebellion ruined Bing and Liang; the Grand General Deng Zhi, on the grounds that military expenses were difficult to sustain, wanted to abandon Liangzhou and Bingzhou."

These wars between the Han and Qiang were what Duan Yu learned from Li Ru when he was in Luoyang.

Otherwise, as a person from later generations, although he knew some knowledge about history.

How could he know it so detailedly?

Even those who are well-versed in the Three Kingdoms could not understand the composition and evolution of these alien border forces so subtly.

The reason Duan Yu wanted to know this was to better handle the Qiang problem in Liangzhou after he arrived there.

The Yongchu Qiang Rebellion was the second large-scale Qiang rebellion in history.

And the third large-scale Qiang rebellion in history was about to break out in a year.

Duan Yu had already regarded Liangzhou and Bingzhou as his future base.

So he must solve these problems.

At first, Duan Yu thought very simply.

That was one word.

Kill.

But through Li Ru's exposition, and after Li Ru popularized the knowledge of the Qiang tribes, Duan Yu realized that killing was fundamentally impossible to finish.

If it could be finished, if these Qiang people could be thoroughly frightened,

Then there would not have been a Han-Qiang war that lasted for hundreds of years.

Military deterrence is only one of the means to pacify one side, but it is definitely not all.

Nowadays, the number of Qiang people in Liangzhou far exceeds that of Han people.

There are dozens of clans.

Wanting to solve it in one day is impossible.

Unless he could be given millions of troops, and there was an unlimited supply of military grain.

Otherwise, it is hard to say who would drive whom out of Liangzhou.

It is precisely because of this that before leaving for the Xiongnu, Jia Xu had already formulated a plan.

First, win over an ally.