Of course, Wang Lei had no choice but to absorb these barbarians from the north.
This has to be said about an extremely depressing thing. His Mobei Governor's Mansion is larger than the entire Han Dynasty, but its population is only four to five million. It can be said that the vast territory is extremely sparsely populated, and grazing in this desert is so difficult. Tens of millions of cattle, sheep and war horses, if all these are converted into wealth, the entire Daqian is richer than the desert, which is really not a lot!
But the desert has a desolation and coldness that does not match its wealth. This would have been fine, but Xu Wei opened up the barriers for herdsmen to go south. Now the herdsmen are also members of the large cadres, and they can naturally enter and leave any land in Daqian. .
And this brought huge trouble to Wang Lei. The temperature in the desert in winter can be said to be like dropping water turning into ice. Not many people were willing to stay in the desert. Due to the pressure of life in the past and the exclusion of the Han people, everyone had to live in the desert. In order to survive, but now we are all from the same country, and the great development of animal husbandry and textile industry has brought a lot of wealth to the desert, and many tribes have become rich (at least than they originally only had a small life, but now the herdsmen have A group of sheep is considered the property class).
Many tribal leaders in the desert lead their herdsmen south for the winter. When they come back, they will lose one-tenth of their population, and the most terrible thing is that this one-tenth of the population are young men and women. The main labor force in the desert, these people envy the prosperity in the pass and are not willing to return to the desert at all. And at this time in Hebei, as long as you have hands and feet, you can live a good life even as a porter or a textile worker. Good. But the wealth and prosperity in the pass are not comparable to those in the desert! The elderly herdsmen may miss their hometown, but the young herdsmen want to make a living in this prosperous pass!
As a result, the population of the desert has continued to decline, and it still has the strongest young labor force. Many small tribes simply passed away after the winter. They were not buried in the wind and snow, but envied the prosperity of Hebei. Don't want to go back.
However, the land of Hebei has been continuously developed over the years, absorbing a large number of people into factories and becoming workers. In addition, the Han Dynasty has suffered many years of war and more than half of the population has been killed and injured. There is a shortage of people everywhere. The more land the Daqian occupies, the more people there are. Now the population is about There are tens of millions of people in Jizhou, but there are only more than 5 million people. Even if each of these people is allocated 100 acres of land, there is still plenty of land in Jizhou.
This situation has occurred all over Daqian, so officials in various places can only try their best to absorb the population from other places for their own political achievements. Although these desert herdsmen have no technical skills, they can herd animals, and at this time, the entire Hebei Grazing is on the rise.
There is too much abandoned land in various parts of Daqian, and there are not enough people to work on it. But it would be a pity to waste this land like this. Coupled with the development of industrialization, the wealth in the hands of a large number of citizens has increased, and these citizens want to improve their lives. , the demand for various meats in Daqian began to expand, and the grazing industry, which required less manpower and produced high economic value, began to arise in various parts of Daqian, and breeding farms were opened near many cities.
"Green Gourd Sword Fairy"
The expansion of a large number of breeding farms even made Xu Wei and Daqian officials worried that it would affect food security. So Xu Wei and Daqian officials formulated a decree prohibiting officials from various places from grazing on farmable land and establishing breeding farms. field.
However, the profits of breeding farms are high, and they can also bring raw materials to textile factories. In recent years, Hebei has converted farmland into forests, and a large number of abandoned mountainous lands that are not suitable for farming have been used one after another because these lands are suitable for grazing, so in A large number of mountain pastures were established in Bingzhou, Youzhou and other places. After these farms were built, they naturally needed herders who were familiar with herding to operate them. Therefore, the herdsmen in the desert became high-tech talents. A large number of them were established in Bingzhou, Jizhou and Youzhou. Be absorbed.
So Wang Lei could only watch the herdsmen under his rule gradually dwindling. For this matter, he often complained to Xu Wei and quarreled with the governors of other states and counties, but it was of no use. Everyone yearns for a better life. Yes, given the harsh conditions of the desert, it is difficult to stop the population loss, and now the sudden appearance of barbarians has become a way for him to solve the problem of replenishing the population.
Moreover, Wang Lei also discovered that these barbarians are tall and powerful, with amazing strength, powerful fighting ability, and their ability to withstand cold is first-rate. In a cold area like the desert, they can survive with fur, but within the pass The near-zero climate is already a warm place for them. They don't even feel the cold even when they are naked. Of course, such a strong soldier is not without shortcomings, otherwise he would not be defeated by him and become a leader in the mine. captured,
One is that these barbarians have no discipline at all. They rush into battles in a swarm, and they don't even assemble in military formations. What's more, they eat an astonishing amount of food. One person eats more than Da Gan's three soldiers.
But these shortcomings can be easily solved by Wang Lei. They didn't understand military formations at the beginning, but after the government trained them for three months, they would have simple formations. He could train these barbarians for a year (in fact, Wang Lei trained these barbarians It took three years for people to barely understand what military discipline is.
If they were really lawless barbarians, Xu Wei would not dare to let Wang Lei bring these people to Dahan!)
And eating more is even more of an advantage for him. They are worried about lack of food when they go out on a large scale. To Wang Lei, these barbarians are simply natural heavy infantry. Weapons and armor weighing dozens of kilograms cannot affect their actions at all. , to Wang Lei, these are not the most suitable soldiers for fighting in winter, so when he went south to fight this time, Wang Lei brought more than 30,000 such barbarian soldiers to fight south.
And now is the time for him to reap the rewards. While other soldiers are affecting their combat effectiveness because of their bloated clothes, these barbarian soldiers are charging at the front line wearing simple woolen coats and leather armors. Many barbarian soldiers even undress themselves. Charged naked with their leather armor and clothes on, their agile bodies quickly climbed up the ice walls and overcame Cao Cao's first line of defense in a short period of time!
Wang Lei was overjoyed when he saw this scene and just ordered the soldiers to continue to expand the victory from this line of defense.
But at this time, more than a dozen artillery guns fired!
"Boom, boom, boom!" More than a dozen cannonballs hit the ice wall, killing dozens of barbarian soldiers. Originally, these casualties were nothing.
But for the barbarians who encountered artillery fire for the first time, artillery was a magical weapon. The roaring sound was the anger of the gods. The soldiers who were so brave just now exploded the camp in an instant. Thousands of barbarian soldiers dispersed and fled to the rear.
, which made Wang Lei, who had just wanted to praise the barbarian soldiers, extremely angry!