"Only the enterprising and martial spirit of monks is the real Great Wall."

"Although the Great Wall is inconvenient for the Hu people to move south, it also eroded the Han family's will to sweep the desert." Li Luo said, "The Great Wall must be well protected and become a ruin for thousands of years, but the Tang Dynasty will not build an inch of the Great Wall!"

Is the Great Wall useful?

To be honest, of course it is useful, and it is of great use.

However, the Great Wall is by no means the best way, and it is not cost-effective.

The Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall for two hundred years, but what happened? Mongolia and the Qing Dynasty entered the pass and robbed each year, and even Hetao, Duoyanwei, and Nuergandusi were lost. However, in order to build the Great Wall, the national treasury and manpower were consumed for a long time.

The gain is not worth the loss.

"Mr. Wenshan, in your opinion, I won't talk about Mobei for now, but is this Monan grassland really an indispensable place?" Li Luo asked Wen Tianxiang, who had the most tacit understanding with him.

Wen Tianxiang said: "When you go back to Your Majesty, the water and grass in the south of the desert are rich, and it is close to the Han area, which is different from the northern part of the desert. In fact, it can be regarded as a treasure land. Since ancient times, those who have obtained the southern part of the desert have the strength to invade the Central Plains south. It is a pity that the Han and Tang Dynasties did not manage the southern part of the desert. At most, they just occupied Hetao."

Although the Tang Dynasty established the Anbei Protectorate, Hao Shanyu Protectorate, which almost covered the entire desert grassland and part of Siberia, it was just a policy of restraining and did not directly govern, that is, nominal rule.

Many people believe that the Han people occupied the southern desert because the grassland could not be cultivated and was a worthless land, so they had no motivation to occupy the southern desert for a long time.

This is nonsense.

Let’s not talk about the milk and fur of cattle and mutton, but is it really impossible to open up land and cultivate?

The southern desert does not mean Inner Mongolia, because Inner Mongolia includes part of the northern desert, and the part close to Heilongjiang is indeed very bitter and cold.

But the southern part of Mohe is different. The northernmost end of Mohe is not higher than that of Liaoning. The latitude of the grassland in Mohe is actually similar to that of Hebei, and is not much colder than Hebei.

The reason why the white-haired wind in winter on the grassland is so powerful is that the Hu people have no cities and houses, so they can only live in tents with ventilation on all sides. How can they not be cold?

The grasslands in the south of the desert will never be colder than the northeast, and the temperature is even higher than that in the northeast. The grasslands in the south of the desert are not drought and the altitude is not high. Why can Heilongjiang become a granary but not in the south of the desert?

Even the Tubo Plateau can be cultivated, but not the south of the desert? The environment in the south of the desert is much better than that in the Tubo Plateau.

The Mongolian Yuan could turn arable land into pastures, but it turns out that the Han people could not turn grassland into arable land?

Judging from the geographical conditions, the grassland in the south of the desert can completely become a vast arable land. People in the Central Plains can even turn mountains and forests into fertile fields, and it is easier for the grassland to turn into arable land.

The vast grasslands in Eastern Europe are not short of cold areas. Are there fewer granaries?

If you really can't open up land and farm, then there is no shortage of cattle, sheep, war horses, and fur? While yelling that there is a lack of war horses, the fur is valuable and the people cannot afford meat, they are guarding the grassland in front of them. What's the point?

The pedantic scholars and officials often said that the outside world was a "barren land". The Hu people were poor and had no food to eat to rob. They went south to rob. Nonsense. Can the barren land raise hundreds of thousands of iron cavalry? The Hu people like to rob, but they are really not because they are hungry, but because they are robbed. Otherwise, if there are no farming people to rob, can they really be exterminated?

These reasons simply do not stand.

The biggest reason is the ruler's selfishness and short-sightedness.

They just dare not or are willing to immigrate outside the Great Wall. Just like the reasons why the Qing Dynasty prevented immigration from outside the pass and in the South China Sea. They were afraid of shaken rule and afraid of rebellion. The emperors' eyes were always staring at their own people.

If the people immigrated to the Great Wall and rode on horses, can the court still control it?

What should I do if I become a Hu person and fight back?

Is it very likely that the Donghu and the Xiongnu were formed by the Chinese people who ran to the grassland?

You can't let them go to the grassland!

The State of Zhao occupied a small part of the southern part of the desert and ruled for many years, and was able to suppress the Hu people. As a result, Qin destroyed Zhao and immediately gave up the land on the grassland outside the State of Zhao.

In other words, if the Han, Tang and Ming dynasties could immigrate to the south of the Moon, open up land and cultivate and build cities, how could it be impossible to swallow the south of the Moon?

At that time, we will have war horses and cavalry, and we will have food and food. We can defend the vast desert and block the Hu people in the north of the desert.

Who stipulated that the Han people could only farm and not grazing? Nomadic peoples could occupy farming areas like the Central Plains to adapt to farming. The Han people could not occupy the grassland and grazing? The enemy could go, but I couldn't go, right?

For thousands of years, the Hu people in the grassland have spent so much effort to prevent the fall of the north several times and the Han people were massacred. The lessons were so heavy that they never thought of occupying the grasslands with the firewood from the underworld. This is the stupidity brought by selfishness and short-sightedness.

It is caused by involuntary flow. Most of the time, it is involuntary flow.

Li Luo's view was very straightforward. He believed that at least the Han Dynasty had ways to use and digest it in the grasslands in the south of the desert.

Such a simple question is impossible, no one can imagine. It is just to control the people and is unwilling to do this.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the Northeast was sparsely populated, and it was said that it was a bitter and cold place that was not suitable for cultivation. However, after a large population descended into Guandong, it soon became a Pekidemura.

Although the Great Wall has the effect of blocking the Hu people, does it mean to stop the people from moving north?

The three dynasties of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties (the Yuan dynasties actually also banned the sea). Is there no consideration to prevent the people from immigrating overseas?

Li Luo knew very well how selfish and short-sighted the ancient rulers were. This kind of selfish and short-sightedness, especially the group of chiefs of the Qing Dynasty, reached its peak, and was beyond words.

Of course, Li Luo would not do the stupid thing about the grassland in the south of the Mobei region turning into arable land. He just wanted to completely digest the southern of the Mobei region and even the northern of the Mobei region.

How to do it specifically?

Coal mines were opened, bricks were burned to build cities as residential sites, and migrants were preferential policies, and meat and milk processing factories and wool textile factories were built. Then teachers were sent to teach, taking the opportunity to take the lead. After decades, there were many cities on the grassland.

By then, the grassland would have nothing to do with the Hu people.

Under such measures, the Han people who immigrated to the grassland would never be able to become a new Hu people. There were garrisons from the court, teachers sent by the court, Taoist temple sacrifices, and city officials. The grassland economy also relies heavily on trade with the Central Plains.

How to become a Hu person?

"The order is issued that all garrisons on the Great Wall will be removed from defense and no longer need to be defended. The troops must be used on the blade. The governments along the Great Wall must protect the Great Wall. Anyone who wants to take a brick of the Great Wall will be punished as the crime of destroying cultural relics."

"The Ministry of Works sent someone to patrol the Great Wall and register it. If any Great Wall is found to be damaged, the officials in the area will be held accountable."

Li Luo did not forget to issue a special order to protect the Great Wall.

"The order was issued to set the south of the desert to Shuozhou and the capital. The north of the desert to Mozhou and end at the southern section of the Beihai (Lake Baikal), and the capital is Helin. The east and west of the Beihai and the north of the Beihai are set to Selangor."

An imperial edict became Shuozhou, Mozhou and Xuezhou in the south and north of the desert, and the entire Siberia in later generations. The three states combined accounted for most of the territory of the Tang Dynasty!

Selangor alone accounts for a small half of the land area. However, the newly released western end of Selangor is still in the hands of the Mongolian Yuan.

"Another order was issued, and 100,000 slaves were sent to dig coal mines and burn brick kilns in Shuozhou. Within three years, nine small cities were built from east to west, and each small town could live in 10,000 people. Within ten years, nine small cities would be built in Mozhou. Within twenty years, nine small cities would be built in Xuezhou."

"Ministry of Revenue, as soon as possible, a preferential charter for immigration to the grasslands. Within five years, at least 100,000 people will be moved to the south of the desert. Within ten years, 100,000 people will be immigrated to the north of the desert, and 100,000 will be immigrated to the north of the desert, and Selangor will be immigrated to the south of the desert."

"In thirty years, the three states will have at least two million immigrants and hundreds of small cities."

"Abide by the order!"

Li Luo hopes to completely swallow the three states when he is old.

This is an endless resource.

After staying in the Great Wall for a long time, Li Luo left the Great Wall and came to Tongwancheng by the Wuding River.

Tongwancheng was already a city outside the border, the capital of the Xia Kingdom of the Xiongnu during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. It was built by Helian Bobo. Liang Shidu also occupied Tongwancheng and became emperor.

Tongwan City was destroyed by Emperor Taizong of Song and abandoned for three hundred years. However, the city walls and scale are still considerable.

Reconstructing this site can save a lot of effort.

Li Luo walked up the steps covered with weeds and walked up to the palace city of Tongwancheng, looking at the vast grassland, feeling moved.

Later generations, he and his senior brother Jiang Yao came here and stood in this position. However, Tongwan City is still a abandoned city today, and Tongwan City in later generations has completely become a ruin.

"Building a big city here can reach a 100,000 army." Li Luo said.

Tongwancheng is an important town in Hetao, with the Yellow River in the northwest and the Wuding River in the southeast. As long as this heroic city is restored, the entire Hetao area can be guarded.

"I sent an order to send 20,000 slaves to restore Tongwancheng. Tongwancheng was changed to Zhenbeicheng, and the land was divided into three hundred miles to Zhenbei County. Zhenbeicheng was the county magistrate's headquarters."

Another county was set up, making the Hetao area a place of four counties.

"Your Majesty has arrived in Zhenbei City. Are you going to return to Beijing?" Lin Biju said. He was worried that the emperor would go deep into the grassland and go on a north tour for a long time.

Although almost all the grassland tribes were brought to the West by the Yuan court, it was not appropriate for the emperor to go deep into the desert.

Li Luo smiled and said, "Don't worry, I won't go deep into the desert. But I always have to cross the Yellow River, go up to Yinshan Mountain, and inspect Yunzhong County (Hohhot)."

Lin Biju was relieved. Your Majesty just went up to Yinshan to the clouds, and he should be able to return to Beijing within that month.

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Kyoto Chang'an, Forbidden City.

After Cui Xiuning came to court, she received an imperial edict sent back by Li Luo and issued a letter to each department to handle the matter. Although the heads of each department followed the imperial guards to the north, the deputy was there and the government was still in operation.

She received a report from the commander of the Western Expedition that several armies deliberately stopped advancing in order to capture more prisoners. Cui Xiuning replied one by one, "I understand."

It was already summer, and Cui Xiuning was not in Daming Palace, but in Qingfeng Pavilion in Taiye Lake. The lake wind here is clear and the water is cool, which is a good place to escape the summer heat in Chang'an Palace.

On the big tree beside the Qingfeng Pavilion, summer cicadas were roaring "Chilizhi".

It was noon, and Cui Xiuning was a little sleepy. Listening to the cicadas' cicadas, he wrote a few words "cicadas" in a memorial.

I'll go! I'll miss the word Tao!

Cui Xiuning slapped her forehead, shook her head and smiled bitterly, adding the word "Tao" between the two words "Cicada".

The Tang Dynasty had a population of more than 100 million, and there were many states and courts every day. There were always dozens of memorials received by the Political Affairs Hall every day, which were important matters. After the Political Affairs Hall made preliminary handling opinions, they would be transferred to the palace to the imperial court for criticism.

This is just a matter of government affairs, not a memorial on military and intelligence.

It can be said that Choi Soo-ning, the regent queen, is very busy. This is still the case of fully delegating power to the three prefectures and nine ministries, otherwise, even if she is exhausted, she will not be able to deal with it.

Cui Xiuning couldn't help but yawn, and after reviewing another memorial, she took a nap in Penglai Pavilion in the lake to nourish her spirits.

His Majesty the Queen picked up this memorial, but it was the memorial of the Dongzhou (Gory) Mu Zhenglu.
To be continued...