Fan Wenjin was in a special situation. He served as a high-ranking official in Liang State. In the second year of Yuanzhen, Liang State was in civil strife again. Fan Wenjin contacted many people to offer Liangzhou.
Therefore, he has only been the general manager of Liangzhou for more than four years, and has not yet served one term.
"In the pre-Sui Dynasty, the disadvantage of Liangzhou was the Tuyuhun people. They were scattered in the West Sea and in the highlands, and there were frequent rebellions. Now that the Tuyuhun people have gone and the Qiang people have replaced them, they will surely be troublesome in the long run.
In the past few years, Bai Lan and other Qiang people in Dangxiang were forced by Tubo and fled to the highlands. They attached themselves to Liangzhou and colluded with the Qiang tribes in the northwest. In the fourth year of Yuanzhen, I ordered people to investigate. In that year, the Qiang people
There have been dozens of marriages between different tribes, and this is a trend of gradually becoming one.
I feel that the court should make plans early, otherwise there will be endless trouble..."
Li Po had not spoken much. He knew most of the situation in the northwest, but the imperial court generally focused on the general direction, and the details could not be compared with the local ministers.
Although things were reported by ministers from various places, there must be some discrepancies with the actual situation.
Moreover, local ministers had a big shortcoming: they reported good news but not bad news, so their power needed to be supervised, and various supervisors and censors came into play.
In the past, most of the reports reported to the capital by the General Manager of Liangzhou were good news and achievements, and Liangzhou's shortcomings were only mentioned when offering suggestions.
Until now, Fan Wenjin had never reported that the Qiang people were prone to disasters. Instead, he had repeatedly made optimistic estimates of the overall situation in Liangzhou.
Now when I returned to Beijing to report on my work, I singled out the Qiang people, feeling that their power was growing rapidly and that the Qiang tribes in the highlands and the Qiang people in Liangzhou were gradually becoming one, which was a very bad sign.
Li Po thought about it in his mind for a while and realized that this was a step that Fan Wenjin deliberately left for himself, something he would only say out loud when facing the emperor.
This can also showcase his talents.
Li Po nodded secretly. It was not wrong for the minister to think about himself, and he also had a very long-term vision.
The Qiang people are a nation that will be able to establish the Xixia Kingdom in the future. They are similar to the Khitan, Mohe and other ethnic groups in the northeast. They can't see anything now. But after many years when they grow up, they will be able to cause harm to one side and invade the Central Plains.
Today, whether it is the Khitan, the Mohe, the Jurchens in the future, or even the Qiang people in the northwest, the situation is still similar. They cannot even be unified into one ethnic group, and outsiders have to give them a label.
Fan Wenjin had a very unique vision and compared the Qiang people to another Tuyuhun.
It's just that he wanted to attract Li Po's attention, but it wasn't strong enough.
Because Li Po knew very well that things in the world were like this. When the Central Plains dynasty was strong, everything was easy to say, but there were still foreign nations such as the Huns and Turks rising.
When the Central Plains dynasty weakened, without Xixia, Liao, and Jin, other races must have taken advantage of the situation. Who knows what will happen in the world hundreds or thousands of years later?
It is an extremely stupid idea to solve these foreign enemies from the source once and for all. It is better to strengthen ourselves and reform the social system and technology than to do those useless efforts.
For example, if the Tang Dynasty can maintain the current rapid development process, and wait until the last 1200 years to build guns, those guys riding horses and chewing smelly dried meat will probably be sent away.
vegetable.
In the struggle against nomads, it is crucial to maintain the advancement of civilization and technology.
Because the grassland is not like the islands to the east, the indigenous people on the islands have captured Tang Dynasty to work, and it is very likely that their descendants will be wiped out. Maybe there will be no more Japanese pirates who go everywhere to recognize their ancestors.
But the nomads are different. They wander around. If you kill a group of them, another group will come back. No dynasty has a good way to deal with them.
The Tang Dynasty in another time and space was actually pretty good. Although it could not eliminate the threatening northern nomads, its control over the grasslands was much stronger than that of the Qin and Han Dynasties, and even the former Sui Dynasty.
The marriage strategy that was criticized by later generations was actually a very sharp weapon of the Tang Dynasty. It was because of the blood connection that the Tang Dynasty could accurately interfere in the internal affairs of the grassland tribes from time to time.
But the dilemma they faced was no different from that of the previous dynasty. Even if they could exert influence, it was absolutely impossible to assimilate the nomads on the grasslands.
The main problem is the way of life of the people in the Central Plains. The Central Plains are too rich. Officials in the Central Plains regard the grasslands as a dangerous route, so there is no need to expect the people to be willing to move north.
Relying on marriage alone, it is impossible to completely integrate the grasslands and even wild places like the northwest into the big family of the Central Plains.
Just like the Qiang people mentioned by Fan Wenjin, they have been scattered in the northwest region since the Qin and Han Dynasties, and their living scope is very wide.
They used to belong to different ethnic tribes, but gradually people scattered in the northwest, Hanzhong, Hexi, and Dunhuang areas were classified into the Xiqiang genus. This created the prerequisite for forming a national group.
Basically, it is not that these tribes themselves merged together, but the influence of the Central Plains Dynasty arrived here, divided them into ethnic groups, and gave them a unified concept.
Therefore, the so-called Qiang tribe today actually has the blood of the Huns, Xianbei, and even Hans, Turks, etc.
From the absence of any historical records, until the Central Plains people found their ancestors and recorded them in the history books of the Central Plains, some ethnic groups were created.
Khitan, Mohe, Xibu, Shiwei, plus Xianbei, Di people, etc., actually all came from this. Who makes the people of the Central Plains always like to divide the tribes in a region into one place to save trouble?
To put it bluntly, it can be said that it is one’s own fault.
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Li Po's thoughts were scattered, and he asked leisurely after a while: "You have been in the northwest for many years, and you have always been good at controlling barbarians. Since the Qiang tribes are regarded as a disaster by you, it must be right. Now that I talk about it, it seems that
Do you have any good advice for me?"
Fan Wenjin cheered up and heard that the emperor's tone was not very good. Why?
Do you think he is going to stir up the dispute in the northwest again? No, right?
Fan Wenjin thought a lot in that moment. He had no choice but to do it. He had never been by the emperor's side. Compared with other founding heroes, he was like an outsider. He didn't understand the emperor's temperament, so he had to be cautious and think more.
Seeing Fan Wenjin brooding for a long time without saying anything, Li Po took the opportunity to eat a few pieces of mushroom. The taste was quite fresh. They had been inspected by a specialist and should be non-toxic.
The palace's mushroom soup was very good. For this reason, he also sent some to his mother-in-law's house. It should be suitable for making chicken stewed with mushrooms in the future.
Li Jing is coming back soon. When I go to my mother-in-law's house in the future, I will have to see Li Jing's old face talking about messy government affairs, which really makes people unhappy.
It seems that Li Jing needs to go out more, but there is no need to think about it in the near future. Li Jing will have to stay for a while when he returns to the court. After all, he is his father-in-law and teacher. He cannot be used like a donkey, otherwise the chicken cooked by his mother-in-law will taste like chicken.
It will definitely get worse.
Li Jing's position after returning to the court has been determined, and he will be granted the title of Duke of Wei, Minister Zuopushe, and then Wen Yanbo will be promoted to Minister of Order.
The ministers always thought that he had vacated the other two positions in the Shangshu Province and did not intend to set up the post of Shangshu Ling again.
In fact, people didn't guess correctly. He was not Li Shimin. He had served as a minister, so he didn't want anyone to occupy that position again. Moreover, others had to avoid his name when naming him.
Li Po thought that he was not that pretentious. He left some positions just to accommodate meritorious ministers. However, there were not many positions, so it would depend on who came back early to occupy some good positions.
For those who came back late, they would place more ministers in various places, and one or two more generals would come out of the Wei Mansion. It is estimated that this would be enough.
Therefore, Fan Wenjin has caught up with the good times. In addition, he has no family background and has few connections with people in the court, so he is even more popular in Li Po's eyes.
He is easy to control, and even if he has other thoughts, no one will help him. I believe no emperor would dislike such a minister.
With people like Li Jing in the government, no matter how big the official position is, Li Po is very relieved. This is the confidence of the king immediately. Lao Zhu did a little worse...
But it is understandable. Lao Zhu started his career as a rebel. I believe everyone knows what the rebels are like. The leaders of the rebels are all kinds of people, and they always compete with others for credit and territory. If they don't kill them all, Lao Zhu probably won't.
You will enjoy the glory and wealth with peace of mind.
And how did Lao Zhu's Dragon Court come from? He himself knew best. There were many mountains among the rebel army. How many people died before it was his turn to be the master of the family. Once he became the emperor, the foreign enemies were almost wiped out. He
Naturally, no one will be allowed to imitate his story again.
This is far removed from Li Po's experience. Although Li Po also came from a rough background, he was an official soldier when he started the army, and he has always been the one in charge, so the sequelae are much smaller than those of Lao Zhu.
Now that six years have passed safely, if anyone can make waves again, Li Po will have to praise you for your ability, just like Fan Wenjin who recruited Fan Wenjin to return to the court this time and worked hard in Liangzhou for ten years.
He didn't dare to let go of anything and came to Chang'an obediently.
This is the difference. If you give Lan Yu a try, you have to carefully consider whether he can successfully return the imperial edict to the imperial court.
When Lan Yu died, more than 15,000 people were implicated in his death. If you put it in the early Tang Dynasty, Li Po, a man with such power, would probably have to kill him.
Being involved in the battle for the reserve position, and having such great strength, you are simply more hateful than Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao. If you don't die, all the emperor's descendants will have to be killed by you.
This is the original sin of the heroes. No one can escape the mercy of fate. Just like Li Po, in a few years, the generals in the army will change a few times. I am afraid that Li Po will also have to think carefully about how to make the generals
A little more stable.
This chapter has been completed!