Chapter 3049: Mount your horse to slay the bandits, dismount your horse to govern the people
Chapter 3048: Mount your horse to slay the bandits, dismount your horse to govern the people
"The strengths of the Western Regions are the same as those of the Northern Rong." Fei Qian did not mean to make things too difficult for Zhang Liao. He pointed at the group of war horses in the distance, "Hu Rong is good at fighting and is good at riding horses. If Hu Rong has no horses,
, then there is nothing to fear."
"Horses..." Zhang Liao turned around and looked at the horses.
Fei Qian now has two huge ranches in Longyou Yin Mountain. A professional horse breeding institution composed of Jiang Mengshi and Western Qiangnan Huns specializes in raising war horses. After several years of breeding and cultivation, the number of war horses is now close to
Eighty thousand horses.
So does that mean that 80,000 horses can be sent to the battlefield?
Obviously, no.
The war model of exterminating descendants is not what Fei Qian likes.
Reasonable use and planned development are the embodiment of a country, an order, and a civilization.
Although Fei Qian's trip allowed Shanshan to sign a contract with the city, he did not bring back much money. It will take a certain amount of time until Chang'an benefits, and the lag of this time is not suitable for ordinary family tribes.
, is unsustainable. Only large organizations with certain savings and accumulation can adopt this model.
It's like raising a horse.
Without horses, trying to conquer the continent is undoubtedly a joke.
If Fei Qian mobilizes with all his strength, the nearly 100,000 cavalry will become a nightmare for all hostile forces. However, at the same time, the scale of such an all-out war will also make Fei Qian unable to follow up...
The full CD time is too long.
If you only use one-tenth or one-twentieth of your strength, the blue bar will be restored quickly.
This is easy to understand.
And Fei Qian did exactly that.
This is actually not the fighting mode of the Han people, but that of the Hu people...
If Zhao Guo's Hufu cavalry and archery during the Warring States Period was the first reform of the cavalry combat mode, then Fei Qian now wants to communicate with Zhang Liao and wants Zhang Liao to implement the combat mode in the next stage, which can barely be said to be the second.
Reform of the cavalry combat mode.
China should have the courage to learn from the best in the world.
Hufu riding and shooting changed the war of the Warring States Period from chariots to war horses, making chariots gradually withdraw from the stage of history.
The second war horse reform that Fei Qian wants to carry out is to change the entire Chinese war model from the inland to the mainland!
If you want to reform war horse tactics, you must naturally start with horse politics.
Fei Qian's eyes fell on these war horses.
In addition to following the soldiers on duty, the war horses were basically removed from their bits and saddles, and then rushed to a place with relatively shallow water to let the horses move around on their own. Because the horses under Fei Qian had already
They are all used to moving together, so even if the reins are loosened, these war horses will still not stay away, nor will they be afraid of humans. They will even run up to the cavalry and beg for food.
"The Sima of the Western Zhou Dynasty was one of the emperor's facial features. At the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, he was also herded by the emperor." Fei Qian said slowly, "During the Spring and Autumn Period, chariot battles were popular, with horses on the left and horses on the right, galloping on the streets.
In between... In a country of thousands of chariots, chariots and horses are of paramount importance. The Warring States period was chaotic, with people riding and shooting in wild uniforms and riding alone, horse administration became even more important..."
"The horse administration of the Han Dynasty is governed by the masters of the Taiserve. There are thirty-six priests and gardens, divided in the north and west. There are 30,000 officials and slaves, and 300,000 horses are raised." Fei Qian looked at Zhang Liao and said, "When the horse administration is prosperous, the Han Dynasty will be prosperous."
However, after Guangwu, Ma Zheng declined, and the border areas also declined. Do you not know about these things, the king? Don’t you know the ministers? Don’t you know the people? 』
War horses are a strategic resource. In order to enrich this strategic resource, the Han Dynasty government began a majestic and majestic horse administration. In addition to the government setting up a special horse administration agency, Taipu Temple, the Han Dynasty also encouraged private people to raise horses.
, purchasing high-quality horses from the people at high prices. With a rich mass base, the Han-Hungarian wars that followed for more than a hundred years, and the Han cavalry had a steady supply of war horses.
Artillery can be a deterrent force in local wars, but it cannot be the main force in overall wars.
With the current production technology and material conditions, the cavalry is undoubtedly the king of inland wars. This throne will continue until the emergence of the internal combustion engine, and the cavalry will be kicked off the throne and gradually withdraw from the stage of history.
The biggest enemy of the Chinese cavalry is not their opponents, but themselves.
Zhang Liao also followed Fei Qian's gaze and looked at the horses, "My lord, do you mean that the government of men is worse than the government of horses?"
This is not a particularly difficult question.
Policies made by people will inevitably be destroyed by others. But the point is not to know that this is a problem, but to solve it.
"Filial military has horses, but glorious military has no horses." Fei Qian said with a smile, "The Han and the Xiongnu fought, and each suffered injuries... The Han forced the Xiongnu to flee to the North Sea in panic, but also suffered tens of thousands of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of horses... The Han
Horses were in short supply for this reason. In the later years of Xiaowu's life, when he marched into the Western Regions, he mostly used infantry to advance... It's not that he didn't want to know the use of cavalry, but he didn't have horses."
"In the beginning, Xiaowu's horses were like the Huns. They were raised by the people, and the best ones were selected and purchased..." Fei Qian looked at the horses, and then showed a meaningful smile, "Later, when the powerful saw the benefits, they raised them.
The harm caused by the support of the people caused Xiaowu to change the support of the people to the support of the powerful..."
Zhang Liao was a little surprised and a little confused.
Are there any problems with free-range horses?
There must be something wrong.
Uneven.
In the country of later generations of Japanese, it was initially emphasized that a cup of milk every day would make you strong and taller. However, some powerful people focused on this business and claimed that the milk raised by private farmers was substandard and unhygienic, and could not make people strong and taller.
They also caught a lot of unqualified samples and sent them to them, and immediately began to ban free-range cattle breeding and changed to large-scale cattle breeding.
Are there any problems with privately raised free-range cows?
have.
Is it okay for big households to raise cattle?
Not really!
The original problem of retail feeding was taken over by powerful investors. Not only can various "beneficial" feed supplement ingredients be added with scientific basis, but various "qualified" food additives can also be added to finished milk.
Modify the original milk naming rules and confuse the original definition of fresh milk, so that milk with insufficient protein can be successfully put on the market.
This is actually the same process as the horse administration of horse breeding in the Han Dynasty.
Because there are some problems with free-range horses among the people, powerful people reported and expanded these problems. However, the powerful people created this problem not to solve these problems, but to extract this part of the benefits from the people. Local powerful people are not fools.
Horses are extremely important strategic resources. They know that the country needs them, so how can they be willing to sell them at a low price?
The price of horses is getting higher and higher, but the quality of horses can be made worse and worse through various means...
So if all the breeding of war horses is nationalized, will it be possible to avoid the shortcomings of the powerful?
That's what Li Shimin thought, and that's what he did.
The horse administration of the Tang Dynasty learned from the experience and lessons of the horse administration of the Han Dynasty, and transformed the horse breeding of the powerful into a state-owned horse farm.
Not only Li Shimin, but also the emperors of several subsequent dynasties realized the importance of war horses, so they basically raised state-owned horses...
In the Tang Dynasty, the Li family raised war horses on a large scale in the Helong area, and the number reached 700,000 at its peak. However, it was because the Tang Dynasty valued war horses so much that the Tang Dynasty adopted policies to suppress and inhibit private horse breeding, and the social
The style of raising horses is no longer the same as it was in the Han Dynasty, and as a national enterprise, its disadvantages are naturally obvious. There is no desire to evolve, let alone the cultivation and improvement of horse breeds.
Every time the Tang Dynasty fought a foreign war, while winning, it also meant that the best batch of horses in the original racecourse died, and the next batch would be sub-optimal, and the next batch would be sub-sub-optimal, and finally degenerated to
Pony…
Because the pony was not selected every time, it naturally preserved the most genes.
Therefore, when it comes to raising horses, it is obviously not possible to do it only among the private sector. Horse raising among the private sector is high and low, and emergency response is no problem, but it is impossible to establish an establishment and scale.
Allowing powerful people to raise horses can lead to large-scale establishments, but powerful people will take the opportunity to get in the way of the country, and even ask the country to lower the standards for horse selection again and again, because raising horses is difficult and the income is low!
Letting official state-owned institutions raise horses can indeed guarantee the supply of war horses for a certain period of time, but the degree of corruption of state-owned enterprises is very alarming. At the same time, after state-owned enterprises, policy has become the biggest influencing factor.
Just like raising horses in the Song Dynasty, the state devoted all its efforts to it, formulated many policies, and even provided various benefits, in an attempt to concentrate its efforts on doing big things. However, because the horse policy in the Song Dynasty changed too quickly, the Song Dynasty
During the Zhenzong period, the number of state-owned horses reached a peak of 200,000. However, after the reformists lost power, the number of horses plummeted, and the subsequent "horse politics" was nothing more than a show. As a result, the cost of a state-owned horse in the Song Dynasty was as high as
500 guan, while the price of a horse in the northwest border trade is only 25 guan. The more state-owned horse assets there are, the greater the financial pressure will be, and the harder the lives of ordinary people will be.
"Take the broadness of the people's horses, the excellence of the village horses, and the strength of the garden horses!" Fei Qian said with a smile, "If this can be done, then the Chinese horses will be the most powerful in the world!"
Zhang Liao nodded, then moved his eyes a few times, as if he was about to speak but hesitated.
Fei Qian laughed and said, "Haha, Wenyuan thinks that by then the people and horses will probably be scattered, the village horses will be weak, and the garden horses will be weak?"
Zhang Liao also laughed, "My lord, since you have thought about it, you should have a plan."
Fei Qian nodded slowly. He had actually been thinking about this issue for a long time.
For most people in the Han Dynasty, there was no way to look at the problem vertically and based on the entire history like Fei Qian. For most people in the Han Dynasty, it was great to be able to make horizontal comparisons. Very few
Only a first-class intelligent person can combine some examples and experiences from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to seek solutions to some current problems.
This is also the reason why Li Ru thought so highly of Zuo Zhuan at that time...
Fei Qian couldn't understand it at first, but later he figured it out.
The reason why some gangsters think Zuo Zhuan is not a big deal and sneer at it is because the nine-year compulsory education and the Internet have contributed to the popularization of knowledge. However, if the people of the Han Dynasty wanted to understand the historical experience, ordinary people really couldn't do it.
arrive.
Don't look at the current situation where Fei Qian civilized the Southern Xiongnu, beat the Xianbei, hooked up with the Western Qiang Rouran Jiankun, drove the Wuhuan far away to the White Water and Black Mountains, regained the Western Region of the Yinshan Mountains, extended his sphere of influence to the snowy area, and pinned the young Tubo to the ground for life.
Friction, but this does not mean that there will no longer be the threat of nomads around China.
Now Fei Qian is just taking advantage of the last window of advantage of China's classical military to crush the nomadic people who are still in bone and bronze. In the Western Regions, Fei Qian has already discovered the settlement and farming of nomadic people.
With the development of metallurgy and the excavation of mines, as time goes by, the original metallurgical gap in black iron technology will be narrowed.
Although nomads may not be able to make more steel, steel can suppress iron as much as iron can suppress bronze.
Corruption in the Chinese Empire is also an unavoidable problem.
No matter which feudal dynasty it is, under the suppression of the second generation of the founding emperor, it may be able to be clean for a while, but the third and fourth generations will almost 100% begin to become corrupt. After a hundred years, it will become a stubborn disease. Those who want to moderately reform must
He will be pushed to death by senior corrupt officials in Xiyuan Pond.
So there have to be catfish.
And there can’t be just one.
Catfish also appeared more than once in Dahan Pond.
Dong Zhuo was originally a catfish, and then Lu Bu, but unfortunately, although they came from a lower level, they did not want to expand the rights and assert their authority for their original class. Instead, they sharpened their heads and thought
He wanted to squeeze into the upper class, and how could the upper class easily accept Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu?
And when people with relatively low backgrounds like Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu broke away from their original class, how could the original class continue to support them? So their final fall became inevitable.
Li Guo, Huangjin Heishan Baibo, etc. are another kind of catfish.
It's a pity that these catfish have lost order from the beginning and only know how to kill to solve problems. Kill corrupt officials, kill powerful people, kill everyone who stops them, kill everyone who opposes them, thinking that killing them all will be useful, and kill until no one dares to object.
Even if everything is done, these people don't even understand the most basic political theory. The establishment of human society and the birth of various laws are originally based on the word "compromise".
I have fish, you have grain.
When it comes to exchanging fish for grain, or grain for fish, if no one is willing to compromise and cannot agree on a price, the only option is to kill. After killing, only the fish or grain will be left, or both sides will lose and nothing will be left.
If the two emperors of Yan and Huang did not compromise with each other, they would not be able to cooperate, so there would be no China.
The biggest characteristic of a wealthy family is that they know how to compromise. It can be said to be weak in the knees, or it can be said to be aware of the current situation. So just like Shanshan, even if Fei Qian split Shanshan into two countries, whether it is Lao Wang or Xiao Wang
, both endured it silently, because both of them knew that the current situation could only be endured, even though they both knew that the Shanshan Congress might be destroyed one day in their descendants, but that would be their descendants' business after all...
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"The foreign countries in the Western Region are just like the powerful ones in China. The conquered countries in the Western Region can be destroyed, captured, divided, or weakened. The priority is not to destroy, capture, or weaken the weak, but to educate and unify them."
Fei Qian said slowly, "The prefectures and counties in China are powerful, and this is also the case. With the balance of agriculture and engineering, horse administration, farming and animal husbandry as the most important tool, the use of metal and stone tools, and the desire of the people, don't
It is said that the power of China is blocking it, but even if the world is huge and the wastelands are everywhere, it is also taken from it!"
"These are the correct solutions for scholars, farmers, industry and commerce."
"The learning of scholars cannot be used if it is not used by the people. The cultivation of farmers cannot be beneficial if it is not benefited by the people. This is the case with all things in industry and commerce. What the people want is nothing more than food, clothing, shelter and transportation, but food in the spring and autumn
It cannot be eaten today, and the clothes of the Warring States period cannot be worn today. A nest can be placed in the ancient times, but it cannot live in the present. Giving the people what the ancestors asked for can be called a saint, just like Cangjie coined the word. Giving to the people when they are in urgent need
, can be called a virtuous man, just like Yu the Great who controlled the floods. If he solved the sufferings of the people, he can be called an emperor, just like the great ancestor."
"The hearts of the people are like flowing water, and it is better to thin them than to block them." Fei Qian finally said, "Wenyuan is now galloping north and south, his horse leaping east and west. Among the big men, the one who has the most extensive experience is none other than Wenyuan..."
Fei Qian's eyes stayed on Zhang Liao, "Wen Yuan has thought about what he wants, what exactly is he seeking?"
Zhang Liao was stunned.
Fei Qian and Zhang Liao talked so much, firstly to clarify their own positions, secondly to show future prospects, and thirdly, naturally to prevent Zhang Liao from following in Lu Bu's footsteps.
Although it is said that Zhang Liao's fate was better than Lu Bu's in history, in fact it was only a little better. He was always excluded from the periphery of the political circle. On the surface, Cao Cao seemed to praise Zhang Wenyuan as long as Zhang Liao was present, but in fact, Cao Cao did not
If you don't trust Zhang Liao, at least not any more than you trust the Cao family and the Xiahou family...
Some warriors are indeed not suitable for political participation because their brains are full of muscles, but Zhang Liao obviously has the potential in this area, and for an empire that focuses on external expansion, if political power falls into the hands of civilian officials, it will inevitably
It will soon turn from external expansion to internal friction. Therefore, Fei Qian wants to develop Zhang Liao's potential in this area and allow Zhang Liao to successfully transform into a qualified "catfish".
Of course, if Zhang Liao only hopes to become a pure military commander, then it doesn't matter. But if Zhang Liao hopes to reach a higher level, Fei Qian is also willing to help.
After all, there are many types of catfish, it just depends on where you put them.
Zhang Liao pondered for a long time, "My lord... Liao Bucai, dare to ask my lord what you want..."
Fei Qian smiled and said, "Does Wen Yuan know that since this year, the price of rice and grain in Shandong has been boiling again? The price of corn is twice as high, but the people have not benefited, and some can't even afford to eat at home.
, there are not a few people who sell their sons and daughters... However, the people in Shandong still think that the people still have blood, so they crawl on it and suck it up..."
"What someone desires is not the country, but the people in the country." Fei Qian said with a smile, "What is the use of a country if there are no people?"
"What's the use of a country if there are no people..." Zhang Liao murmured and repeated, then fell to the ground, "What the lord wants is what Liao wants! Liao is willing to be driven by the lord, mount his horse to drive away the bandits, and dismount his horse to govern the people."
