In the second half of the year of Jian'an, civil strife broke out in the northern part of Bingzhou, west of Danhan Mountain and east of Yin Mountain.

The system that Ye Zhao set for the tribal alliance was a wolf system, which strengthened itself by constantly plundering and robbing the resources of other grassland tribes.

But the Xianbei was destroyed, and Kuitou, Kebineng and Budugen died. The remaining small tribes were divided up by the tribal alliance during the seventh year of Jian'an.

Then the tribal alliance, which had no targets of plunder, finally turned its finger on its own people.

As for pointing the finger at the Han people, they dare not. First, Xu Rong guarded Bingzhou and his army was powerful. Second, they also needed to digest the robbed population, cattle and sheep through the Han people's markets in exchange for survival resources. Of course, some people have seen the disadvantages of this strategy. When the tribal alliance was almost in the same battle, they did not even have the direction of robbery.

However, Ye Zhao used two years to develop the habit of these people getting something for nothing. Even if they were drinking poison to quench their thirst, they were unwilling to return to their previous hard grazing career. Therefore, from Yanze to Yinshan, they basically survived the war in the second half of the seven years of Jian'an.

As for such things, under Ye Zhao's instruction, Xu Rong would not care about them as long as he did not threaten the Han people, and would even secretly add fuel to the fire. This led to the reduction of more than 40 tribes in the tribal alliance to six in half a year.

Correspondingly, Ye Zhao has 160,000 more women and children, and as many as 30,000 mine slaves.

In the winter of the seventh year of Jian'an, the melee that lasted for half a year came to an end. It was not that they didn't want to fight anymore, but that Xu Rong suddenly sent troops and helped them with shackles in the confused eyes of the seven tribe leaders. The only remaining 20,000 Xianbei men were sent to Zhangye and became mine slaves. The rest of the population was all headed to Bingzhou, Xiliang, and Guanzhong.

At this point, the huge Xianbei people were completely lost by Ye Zhao under the dumbfounded attention of the princes in the world.

At the same time, Ye Zhao sent 20,000 more troops to Zhangye to suppress the mine slaves. The price of drinking poison to quench thirst was also revealed. As long as Ye Zhao did not fall, these mine slaves could only mine for Ye Zhao in this life, until they died of exhaustion in the mine.

It was also at this time that Juyan, a vassal state of Zhangye, offered a surrender to Ye Zhao, expressing his willingness to surrender.

This is the first vassal state that has taken the initiative to present a surrender to the Han Dynasty and is willing to submit unconditionally, and it also represents the further strengthening of Ye Zhao's control over the Western Regions.

Although Juyan is just a country with one city, simply put, it is a country with only one city, Zhangye’s unconditional surrender also means that Ye Zhao’s control over the Western Regions is gradually strengthening.

Ye Zhao ordered King Juyan to move his family to Chang'an and treat him with the salary of the Marquis of Ting. At the same time, he set Juyan as a county and belonged to Zhangye County. He no longer had the title of Juyan's vassal state.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand that King Juyan's surrender is the Han Dynasty in the south, and to the west is the Xianbei in the west. Ye Zhao destroyed only the Xianbei in the central region. Although the Xianbei in the west is not as strong as the Xianbei in the central region, it also has a population of more than 100,000, and there are as many as 50,000 people who control strings. Every year, they blackmail Juyan and have women.

Juyan only has one city, with a population of only 10,000 people, and even 10,000 households cannot reach it. In the Han Dynasty, it is a city with a lower average size.

The Huns were slaughtered and the Xianbei in the central region were also destroyed. The Xianbei in the Western Region, which had little to do with the Han Dynasty, did not want to provoke the evil star Ye Zhao, so after Yinshan was occupied by the Han army and set up a city walle, the Xianbei in the Western Region chose to move north without hesitation.

If you can't afford to offend the great man, then the countries in the Western Regions around you will be in trouble.

Juyan was sandwiched between the Xianbei, the Northern Huns and the Han Dynasty in the west, and the Han Dynasty did not collect taxes from them, but the Xianbei and the Northern Huns in the west were different. Most of the food and cattle and sheep planted every year were sold, and one hundred Juyan beauties were given to each of the Xianbei and the Northern Huns in the west.

Not to mention how many years Juyan could last under such high taxes, the Xianbei people and the Northern Huns came to fight the autumn wind from time to time. Last month, a leader of the Xianbei people in the west even slept with the princess of Juyan. He slept more and more cruelly killed him.

No matter how cowardly a man is, he will be unbearable to encounter such a thing. What's more, no matter what, King Juyan said, he was the lord of a city. After his anger broke out, he directly ordered people to slaughter all the Xianbei people and the Huns in Juyan City that day.

The people of Juyan were naturally praised by everyone, but the calm King Juyan knew very well that he could not bear the anger from the Xianbei and the Northern Xiongnu in the west, so he simply surrendered to the Han Dynasty and refused the city. He directly accepted all the conditions of Ye Zhao, offered his ownership of Juyan City, and moved his family to Chang'an.

Ye Zhao had no reason to give it to the city that was given for free. As for the Xianbei and the Northern Xiongnu in the west, it was just the time when the energetic troops in Guanzhong had nowhere to vent. If they really dared to come, Ye Zhao would not mind spending some time having fun with the Xianbei and the Northern Xiongnu in the west. So he accepted Juyan's surrender without hesitation and directly ordered a few students who had just graduated from Chang'an Academy to go to Juyan City to take over Juyan City.

The new Juyan Guardian was Zhao Tong, who was also Zhao Yun's eldest son. Zhao Yun was born before he defected to Ye Zhao. Later, Zhao Yun joined Ye Zhao and his family followed Ye Zhao into Hanzhong. Later, Chengdu Academy was established. Zhao Tong was also at the age of academic research and was sent to the academy by Zhao Yun. His grades were not top-notch, but he was also well-behaved. He had the true teachings of Zhao Yun with his martial arts.

The magistrate of Juyan County, named Wang Ren, is a peasant family. He is a specialist and is best at governance.

The two are about the same age and want to achieve some achievements. One wants to show it to his father and the other wants to shine on his family. So as soon as he takes office, he actively coordinates, stabilizes the hearts of the people, trains the army, and waits for a big fight.

The Northern Xiongnu and the Western Xianbei were indeed here. When the two thought there would be a big battle, they were shocked to find that when the Western Xianbei and the Northern Xiongnu saw the Great Han King Banner at the top of Juyan City, they both chose to withdraw their troops.

There were 4,000 or 5,000 people on both sides, but they didn't launch a single arrow. They came in a fierce manner, but they left very simply, which made Zhao Tong and Wang Ren, who were ready for a big battle, unable to react. What were these people here for?

Although this battle surprised Wang Ren and Zhao Tong, this was the first time for the people of Juyan to see the terror of the Han family's power. The Xianbei and Huns who were extremely arrogant in the past did not even dare to let go of a fart when they saw the Han family's king flag. The most important thing is that Juyan City has now completely become a Han city. They will be Han people in the future and no longer have to live a life of fear like before.

Many Juyan people did not have the tragedy of the country's destruction at all. Instead, they were extremely grateful to Juyan King Xiancheng and brought them to the light.

The voluntary surrender of King Juyan was not just a city. Rile, Dedan, Shichi, and Wulan were all under the jurisdiction of Zhangye. However, in recent years, as the Han Dynasty's control over Zhangye continued to weaken, Dunhuang, Jiuquan, and Shu areas in Zhangye have become independent and have been in name only. Now, seeing the reappearance of the Han Dynasty, coupled with the leading role of King Juyan, one by one, have submitted a letter of surrender, willing to sacrifice the city and return to the Han Dynasty.

These places used to be the territory of the Han people, and most of the people had Han ancestry, and culture was evolved from Han culture. Now, it is not difficult to merge back to the Han Dynasty.

The voluntary surrender of King Juyan brought Zhangye to seven or eight cities from the previous commander. As long as these cities were properly managed, they would be enough to support Huaxiong's Western Region Protectorate, without the need for Ye Zhao to spend a lot of manpower to transport food and grass every year. Naturally, many officials under Ye Zhao who had objected to the reconstruction of the Western Region Protectorate were shut up.

Leverage cars also came in handy because of Zhangye's stability. The first one started to use them on a large scale, but were not the army, but the vendors traveling to and from the Western Regions.

This kind of thing can save a lot of horsepower, and its speed is no less than that of horse consignment. After Ye Zhao released a trial version, it was bought by vendors. Then a large number of caravans from the court began to use this leverage vehicle to transport a large amount of goods to the Western Regions, and at the same time brought back land and production from the Western Regions to various states and states under Ye Zhao's rule.

In addition to poor stability, such as difficulty in steering and insufficient space, as more and more experimental data are sent out and continuously improved, Shengong Camp has successively launched improved versions for sale for vendors for trial.

What surprised Ye Zhao was that Ma Liang had designed something similar to a track to solve the problem of poor stability, but due to the current material problem, there is no solid enough material to make large quantities of wooden tracks, and wooden tracks cannot be used for a long time. As for using iron, it is too expensive, and it is easy to lose at such a long distance. In the end, this plan was knocked out. Then Ma Jun stuffed some cloth with some flocs to wrap the wheels to avoid shock absorption. Although the effect was not good, it was still effective. Later, Ma Jun even suggested that Ye Zhao pave a cement road between Chang'an and Zhangye with cement.

After all, the cement technology under Ye Zhao's rule is now mature, the cost is not high, and the labor is not difficult. Although it is easy to crack, it can be repaired regularly. As long as the road surface is spacious enough, once it is completed, even if you don't need a flying boat, it will take a few days to travel from Chang'an to Zhangye, which plays a great role in Ye Zhao's control of the Western Regions.

After all, although flying boats are convenient, there are always risks, and the turmeric oil consumed on a round trip is not a small amount. In terms of versatility, it is definitely not as practical as laying cement roads.

In order to verify his idea, after Ma Jun nodded, he led people to pave the ground of the schoolyard with cement and tried the lever truck. It was difficult and laborious to walk on the land, but he walked like the wind on the cement road, which also confirmed Ma Jun's idea. Seeing this, Ye Zhao nodded and agreed. However, it was not easy to repair the cement road for thousands of miles. Ye Zhao asked the Shengong Camp to hire people, and at the same time ordered people to allocate funds to recruit people to build cement roads between cities during the slack season to speed up the transportation effect between cities.
Chapter completed!