Seeing Gao Shaoyi looking at him, General Long also encouraged himself. To be honest, he could straighten up in other places, but he felt shorter than others in this place, although General Long was also on the battlefield.
He has made military exploits, but at this time, he has to mention his origin.
Everyone else here is an old man from the Suppression Army, and many of them follow Gao Shaoyi’s father. These people are all upright. To put it bluntly, everyone has their own background, even if they make some mistakes.
If so, I can find a way to reconcile the past, but I am different. I surrendered to the suppressing army for a relatively short time. Although I have made military exploits in the northwest region, these military exploits are not all my own, so I will inevitably feel that when I speak,
Somewhat short of breath.
"Let me also talk about the situation in our area. Now the northwest region has basically stabilized. The local bandits and horse bandits have been almost wiped out. Our army has also taken control of the entire area, but we encountered another
One trouble is that the local people are still living in poverty. Every time we wipe out a group of bandits, new bandits will appear soon. It's not that the people are willing to be bandits, but because the people can't live anymore.
So they can only be bandits."
After General Long said this, everyone present fell silent. No one thought that General Long was the third person to speak. After all, many of the people present were much more senior than him in terms of seniority.
Don't you have to wait until those people have finished speaking? Why are you rushing?
General Long did not look at these people. Gao Shaoyi's encouragement just now made him full of courage. He also remembered what Gao Shaoyi once said. The Suppressing Army is not a place based on seniority. If you have real talent, or
If you think about the common people wholeheartedly, then you can be in front of these people, and you don't need to take into account what these people are thinking.
Isn’t it the time now? General Long is not doing it for his own selfish desires. Although he came to the capital this time to find a future for his son, what he is talking about now are also facts in the northwest region. Their army has recently
I am quite tired. Although I have not made any mistakes in a big way, I am still on the road to suppress bandits every day, and there are more and more bandits. If the economic situation in the northwest region is not changed, I am afraid that the security situation will be worse in the future.
It's getting worse and worse. Many local people are relatively poorly educated, and their ancestors came here this way. You can't just kill them all, right?
When we first occupied this area, we did take out many bandits and let people from all over the place go and see them. However, a recent snowstorm plunged the northwest region into a huge disaster. The suppressing army did send many soldiers.
There was little relief material, but some people couldn't control it. When these people had no food, they immediately went out to become bandits and began to rob the surrounding villages.
Originally, the northwest region has tended to be stable, but now it is in chaos. The current proportion is not very high. However, according to General Long's estimation, if we do not have a practical solution, this development will be in the future.
It is getting more and more powerful. In the end, even if they send out all-out troops, they may not be able to change this situation. The main thing is to fundamentally solve the lives of local people.
Gao Shaoyi has long known about the poverty in the northwest region. Although some places can be cultivated and some places can be grazed, if we look at the proportion of land, the large areas of desert and desert make it difficult for the economy of this region to develop.
Many people in places with abundant water and grass live a good life, but in places with harsh natural environments, even if they use up all their strength every year, they will not be able to live there in the end. God will not reward you with food.
No matter how hard you try, it's useless. This is a special case in places where there are many bandits.
Liu Shan and Zhou Zhipeng took a look. They were economically capable, but they didn't know how to answer this question at this moment. Mainly because they had studied the northwest region and it was not easy to develop the economy here.
, there is still a big gap between them and the southwest region.
The southwest region is at least relatively close to the three southern provinces, and some border trade can be carried out outside the border. Therefore, if it is well organized, the people can be fed to some extent. There are many specialties in the mountains, but the northwest region is completely different.
, in addition to the harsh natural environment here, the border areas have been completely blocked. We do not allow the people of the Rakshasa Empire to conduct border trade, which has made their already poor economy worse again.
"I remember when we first occupied this area, weren't there many businessmen who came to this area to purchase supplies? At that time, the transaction volume in the northwest and the interior was still quite large. Didn't they improve the local life?"
Gao Shaoyi thought of another thing. There were many caravans between the inland and the northwest. By exchanging goods from the two places, huge profits could be made. Many people were doing this business before. Could they?
Not injecting vitality into the local economy?
"What the prince said is that this is currently the only vitality in the northwest region. However, the output in the northwest region is relatively small. Most people do not have the ability to hunt. Naturally, they do not have so much fur in their hands. If there is no fur, there will be no fur.
If there is no way to trade, they will have to rely on the weather."
General Long said bitterly, the best fur produced in the northwest is naturally the fur of any animal, but how many animals can there be in the northwest? Only some relatively outstanding hunters can get such treatment, and ordinary people cannot catch these things at all.
, if you want to catch these things, you usually have to be capable. Where are there so many capable hunters?
"This problem is not a simple one. Since everyone has no idea now, let's put it aside for now and let's think of a solution together. Our meeting is not a panacea. It is impossible to solve all the problems in one meeting.
We will slowly explain it later..."
When Gao Shaoyi saw that everyone was silent, he naturally knew that this was indeed a difficult problem. There were still many people waiting to speak below, so he could only bypass this problem first and look at other people's problems and solve them one by one. He couldn't do it because of this matter.