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Speaking of this issue, Yang Lin thought of a lesson from history. He organized a line of thought and said solemnly: ”The reason why the citizens rebelled was simply because of the natural and man-made disasters. We can't do anything about the natural disaster, but we can establish a complete system, and try our best to avoid human disaster, so as to not let the ambitious take advantage of the situation. ”
”The reason I reserved a portion of the land for the tribe leader was because we still have to conquer other tribes. If we kill them, it will definitely arouse the fear of the other tribe leaders and cause them to fight back with all their might, making it more difficult for us to conquer them.”
Yang Lin had thought of sending them to Guang Yang for house arrest before, but there were too many tribe leaders, so the cost of house arrest was too high. Besides, you are going to put them under house arrest, but they still have brothers and sons who are also powerful. You can't put his entire family under house arrest, can you?
”Even if we leave them in the tribe, the chances of them rebelling are not high. First, we have a powerful garrison, and they don't dare to act rashly. Second, they had only been given a small amount of land. Without an economic foundation, they would not have the strength to rebel. Third, they were constantly drawing away their young and strong, and they no longer had an army to rebel against them. Fourth, they sent a lot of Wasteland soldier, which was mixed with sand, effectively stopping their rebellion. Fifth, they had to encourage intermarriage and restrict intermarriage, so there wouldn't be any difference in the next generation. The sixth is to cultivate a large number of Chinese landlords in these tribes, to expand the influence of the Chinese. Seventh, I will reward a group of meritorious warriors of the tribe, turning them into the new Surveillance History and dispersing the influence of the tribe leader. Eighth, let them speak Chinese, recognize Chinese characters, take Han name, promote their recognition of the big man. If we have these measures and there is still a rebellion, we can quickly suppress it. ”
When the Zhang Banxian heard this, he was filled with admiration. I never thought that Lord General would be so thoughtful. If we follow Lord General's method, I'm afraid there will not be any other clans after thirty to fifty years. ”
”Reporting...” Lord General. Ten miles ahead, the leader of oriental person Tribe, Yin Dong, was waiting at the mountain entrance with more than three thousand eastern footmen. They said that they wanted to pay their respects to Lord General. ” After entering the territory of the oriental person, Yang Lin's army received an unusual welcome from the oriental person.
”Come, let's go greet them.” Yang Lin waved towards Zhang Banxian and spurred his horse forward. Along the way, what they met were all the smiling faces of oriental person, and Yang Lin was even a little pleased with himself.
”Greetings Lord General.” A tall, muscular man jumped down from his horse and ran towards Yang Lin's horse. He kneeled in the snow and kowtowed three times towards Yang Lin, to the point that his head was covered in snow.
Yang Lin immediately jumped down from his horse and pulled Yin Dong up. Good god, another burly man, almost as tall as Yang Lin. Yang Lin intimately patted Yin Dong's shoulders and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. What a sturdy fellow! Hehe … ”What a great general talent!”
”Thank you, Lord General, for your praise.” Yin Dong cupped his fists, and cupped his hands towards Yang Lingong, he glanced at Chinese cavalry behind Yang Lin, and could not help but reveal an envious expression: ”What a mighty burly officer, this is the most elite rider I have ever seen.”
”Haha …” Towards Yin Dong's praise, Yang Lin didn't know whether he should be modest or not, and could only chuckle. He looked behind him and saw more than three thousand young men lining up at the entrance of the mountain. He changed the topic. ”Is this the young man you recruited?”
”Reporting to the Lord General, my tribe has three ten thousand people s. This is the three thousand strong young men that I recruited. They have all experienced battle formations and are not afraid of death.” Yin Dong proudly raised his head and said: ”I have also experienced dozens of battles, and am willing to follow the Lord General in battle.”
Yang Lin was shocked. He did not want the leaders of the tribes to follow them in the battle, he just wanted their soldiers. He did not want these leaders to accomplish meritorious service or even learn the skills of the Han army in battle. But facing the passionate Yin Dong, how could he refuse?
”Ah …” Your spears are so long! ” Yang Lin immediately noticed oriental person's extraordinary spear and changed the topic. He walked towards oriental person and took the spear from a soldier who was holding onto it, and was nearly shocked, ”Oh my god … This spear should be at least three Zhang long. ”
”Lord General has good eyesight!” Yin Dong had already caught up, he also took a spear from the hands of the soldier, held it up with one hand, and said with a proud smile: ”This spear shaft is 30 meters long, blade is 2 feet long, it is the unique weapon of our oriental person!”
”Such a long spear, is it convenient to go up on stage?” Yang Lin did not say anything and could only smile. This kind of long spear was very suitable to deal with cavalry. In any case, they would perish together. However, when it came to dealing with foot soldiers, if one couldn't stab them, one could only allow themselves to be killed. Even if one stabbed them, they wouldn't be able to do so for a short period of time.
”Our oriental person pays particular attention to group assault, suppressing the enemy in momentum. Killing one is enough, killing two will earn one.” Yin Dong raised his head high and said confidently: ”The pikes are our offensive weapons, each of us have a long knife. If we miss the pike, we will fight with it.”
Yang Lin nodded, and understood oriental person's strategy. Imagine the sight of rows and rows of Easterners bearing long spears rushing at them. What a sight to behold! No matter if it was the cavalry or the soldiers, they would all be terrified and didn't dare to face him head on.