Chapter 1379 Preparation (Thank you, Uncle Shan Xiong Di Ting, for the reward)
Zhang Xingcai, who was determined to leave a name as a virtuous queen in the history of history, must have wanted to supervise the emperor's behavior of enjoying himself and not making progress.
But she also knew that with the emperor's lazy temper, direct persuasion would only have the opposite effect.
Moreover, the Han Dynasty now has virtuous ministers inside, and its politics are clear; there are tiger generals outside, who are strong and sharp.
Under the rule, the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, which was quite similar to the legacy of Huang Lao of the previous Han Dynasty who ruled by doing nothing.
Not to mention that the national power is increasing day by day, and the three prosperity of the Han Dynasty are just around the corner.
So I can only persuade in roundabout ways.
Fortunately, although she cannot directly interfere with the government now, as a queen, it is reasonable and reasonable to be in charge of the inner palace and control the inner palace.
"Since Feng Mingwen is in charge of the front, Your Majesty doesn't have to worry, then Your Majesty should at least pay some attention to the affairs at the rear."
"rear?"
Adou was startled, isn't this the rear?
What can happen to people who are singing and dancing in peace?
The queen looked helpless and reminded: "It's Saibei Grassland."
As expected, Adou fell into the trap: "Has something happened again in the Saibei grassland?"
Why say again?
"Isn't this normal? This year, more than a hundred sheep have been killed by snow in the pastures of the inner city."
"There are also those Hu Yi who came from Mobei. Taking advantage of the snow, they would break into the grassland from time to time and steal, causing considerable losses."
When Feng Da Sima led the army to expel Xianbei from the west, the Hu people were almost wiped out from Liangzhou to Jiuyuan outside the Great Wall.
Wouldn't it be a waste to leave such a huge grassland empty?
So the imperial court issued a policy to encourage everyone to go out to race horses and open up pastures to shear sheep.
No matter how many circles there are, they are recognized by the court.
If you circle it, you will earn it!
Within ten years, the imperial court would only send out pastoral supervisors to collect the sheep's head tax based on the land, but would not care about the rest.
As for what the regulations will be after ten years, it depends on the actual situation.
With the wool textile market so hot, ten years, a whole decade, it is not an exaggeration to call it a golden decade.
As soon as this policy came out, any family with some connections and abilities, who wouldn't be tempted?
Even those small families have joined forces one after another to enclose land outside the Great Wall and add some income to their families.
Although the Han people are not good at herding, they can recruit Hu people to help them herd their animals!
Not to mention that there is a labor company CEO who does not want to be named, promising to rent and sell all kinds of labor.
Even if you can afford it, the Agricultural College can provide technical support in animal husbandry.
For example, the Green Material Tower.
So now there are countless names behind the grassland outside the Great Wall, and they are of various kinds.
Shi Zhongyi Society, Shi Zhongjun Society, Shi Yongliang Society, Shi Shu Yi Society...
Even Hua Xiaowu, who was originally hanging out in Nanzhong, secretly put on a vest and gathered a handful of Hu Di's wool from the north to provide some benefits to the tribesmen in Nanzhong.
Nanzhong’s current spiritual civilization is quite good.
During the New Year and festivals, many Yi people would even take the initiative to worship Grand Duke Zhuge in memory.
Thank you Grandpa for giving them the opportunity to grow sugar cane and enjoy a sweet life.
The Han and the Yi are the same, and the Yi people are also the subjects of the Han Emperor.
Among the Han army, especially the infantry and archers, there were many Yi people from the south.
These barbarian soldiers not only rejoiced when they heard about the battle, but also took pride in dying in battle.
He has quite the barbarian style of conquering the world for Emperor Gaozu.
For the sake of the loyalty and bravery of the people of the Han family, everyone naturally turned a blind eye to Hua Xiaowu's snatching of food.
It would have been strange if she hadn't behaved like a "barbarian woman in debauchery and died suddenly" when she was in Yizhou!
Now, no one can defeat General Zhendong.
General Zhendong’s wife swaggering through the streets will only make people gnash their teeth with envy, jealousy and hatred - it is really annoying that a barbarian girl picked up such an outstanding husband.
The royal family would not let go of this opportunity to make huge profits, and even secretly secured a lot of land outside the Great Wall in advance, and it was also a pasture with lush water and grass.
What's even more disgusting is that they also used the name of the royal family to abduct many students from the Agricultural College.
The popularity of the pastures outside the Great Wall attracted the Hu people who moved into the Great Wall in the early years. Some people said they missed the scenery outside the Great Wall and wanted to go back and see it.
Then he was slapped to the ground:
Where do you think Dahan is?
Come when you want and leave when you want?
If you're not dead, get up and work on the farm for me!
The Han people go out to the fortress to herd sheep, and the barbarians go into the fortress to farm and work. There is no room for reasoning in this topsy-turvy world!
Of course, high profits, especially huge profits, always come with high risks.
The barbarians on the grassland are like leeks. They are harvested one after another, but they still pop up from time to time in certain places.
Moreover, the main focus of the Han Dynasty is still on destroying the internal thieves, and there is no way to allocate too much energy to those outside the wall.
Therefore, in the pastures outside the Great Wall, faced with barbarians who appear from time to time from nowhere, self-protection is mostly up to oneself.
Fortunately, the martial arts of the Han Dynasty were very strong, and almost everyone of the Han family traveling out of the fortress carried a bow and sword.
In addition, Da Sima led an army to clear the grassland in advance.
All the larger tribes were either killed or ran away.
Facing security teams composed of various dynamic societies, the security team members also have old equipment that has been phased out from the military.
To put it bluntly, it was the Chinese version of the East India Company.
Those small primitive tribes that are scattered in the east and west and don't accept the king's rule will naturally not be able to become a climate.
You can only do petty theft and robbery, and you still risk becoming a labor force.
They didn't want to either, but it was too cold in Mobei!
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Food is also extremely scarce.
The abominable Han people have forcibly occupied their pastures and pretended to be the owners of the pastures. Shouldn't they go back to the south to farm?
Then the emperor of the Han family, who was rich all over the world, said:
Wherever the sun and moon shine, and wherever rivers reach, it is Han territory. Have you never heard of it?
How dare you steal my sheep!
It’s simply asking for death!
"Why did you let that thief steal it again? How did the people in the inner government do it?"
Several sheep were stolen, and the emperor of the Han family was heartbroken.
"It happens every year, and every family cannot avoid it. No wonder those people below."
It was rare for the Queen to say a word for the person in charge of the pasture in the inner palace.
"This grassland is originally dominated by the Hu people, and the court cannot send a large army to garrison it now. If we rely only on the security teams, oversights are inevitable."
When the emperor heard this, he clicked his tongue and sighed:
"There is nothing we can do. If the thieves are not eliminated, the imperial court will not be able to mobilize many troops."
Now the imperial court is not saying that it has no troops to put on the grasslands.
But if that small amount of troops were put into the vast desert, even if they patrolled the pastures non-stop every day, it would still take more than a month.
Therefore, we had to build Wubao, Sanxiaowu, and Eleventh Fort along the ruins of the fortress left by the former Han Dynasty.
Each pasture basically encloses the land with Wubao as the center.
If you really want to be greedy and go too far to enclose the land, then you will be lucky.
Dawubao is not made of earth and vegetation like the former Han Dynasty Guan Fortress, but is directly made of artificial stone.
It was also built in strange shapes, with irregular edges and corners.
These semi-permanent artificial stone forts are like nails nailed to the grassland.
But this also brings about a problem, that is, the increase in cost and the slow construction speed.
"If anything is gained from the battle in Hebei, the desert from west to east will probably be wiped out by the barbarians, and the border fortress will have peace for at least ten years."
The queen spoke softly, hiding the extremely cruel and cruel expected facts. She believed very much in her brother-in-law's methods:
"Your Majesty still needs to make some preparations in advance."
If Hebei can win the battle, the entire north will fall into the hands of the Han.
Beyond the Great Wall, further north, there is a need to further strengthen control and even governance, both economically and militarily, especially economically.
This requires the court to invest more resources.
At least more investment in the military must be made to deter barbarians and further protect the interests of various grasslands.
Otherwise, how can we promote the expansion of Dahan Grassland to the north and east?
However, the pastoral supervisors only had the power to collect taxes, not military command, and the captains of Wubao were too scattered. They could handle tribal disputes within Wubao, but they did not have unified command.
This is probably also the first defensive method to prevent the tail from falling off.
However, it has been nine years since Feng Da Sima expelled Xianbei from the west.
In other words, there is still one year left before the policy of the Han Dynasty East India Company, no, it should be called the Han Dynasty North Desert Company, will reach the ten-year deadline promised by the imperial court.
What to do next is a question that many people are concerned about.
The Queen is also very concerned.
The invisible power of her hand was cut off by the courtiers, so she had to tighten her purse strings to make up for the lost sense of security.
The policy changes in the pastures outside the Great Wall are related to the money bag, so naturally we have to pay attention to them.
For example, in the grasslands north of Liangzhou, the Queen believed that the conditions were ripe for establishing government governance.
Even if it is not possible to set up a Zhenbei Protector's Office, a Protectorate Protectorate's Office, or an Anbei Protector's Office, it would not be a problem to set up one, two, two or three Governor's Offices.
Because in this way, the interests of the Han people on the grassland can be better protected.
Just like Jiuyuan, wouldn't it be great?
There are Changshi Mansion in places as far away as the Western Regions, but why should there be no Governor's Mansion even close to the grassland?
As for whether the Governor's Mansion can be filled with people who have their own pockets, it doesn't matter.
There are so many vacancies in the newly established Governor's Mansion, so it doesn't matter whether anyone will apply for them.
The important thing is that they are about to lose their wits internally, and they can also expand their power into the desert, and let the prairie Hu Di lie on the ground and shout for the big man's father to spare his life. For a strong man, these are basic operations.
Of course, Ji Han's trump card also gave the emperor and empress the confidence to dare to think this way.
Although the Han Dynasty was an old state, its destiny was restored.
Promote new labor tools, implement the New Deal, find every means to promote the imperial power to the countryside, clean up land registration, check household registration, clean up aristocratic families...
Ji Han only had half of the world, but the population under his rule had reached more than 10 million.
It is more than three times that of Wei and Wu combined.
What is this concept?
The Tang Dynasty, which was compared with the Han Dynasty in history, destroyed the Dongjue in the third year of Zhenguan.
But we had to wait until ten years later, in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, when the population registered by the government was only over 12 million.
Later generations all said that due to the wars between the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, the population dropped from 60 million at its peak to 78 million, with only one out of ten left.
This is right and wrong.
Yes, because this is the population registered in official statistics.
The mistake is because the hidden population of aristocratic families was not calculated.
When the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu and unified the world, the estimated population had reached more than 16 million, and two years later it reached almost 20 million.
This is still based on the strange systems of Sima and Jin officials, such as land occupation and Yin people being regarded as tenants and food and clothing customers.
Because these national policies openly encourage wealthy families to hide their population.
Therefore, while Ji Han severely cracked down on aristocratic families, he also improved his medical level, and then continued to organize the people into households for the barbarians in Bingzhou and other places in Liangzhou and other places in the south.
Not satisfied with this, they also plunder labor everywhere.
It is not unusual that it has only taken so many years to reach a population of 10 million.
But with a population of more than 10 million, the big man can look around and shout: Who dares to disobey?
If the student doesn't want to grow sugar cane, he will do it.
If the barbarians don't want to shear their sheep, then kill them.
The aristocratic family didn't want to admit the Han Dynasty Reform, so they became the aristocratic family.
If the thief is not willing to change sides and confess his crime, then he will kill the thief...
Anyway, just do it!
The queen also wanted to do it.
If I can't reach out to the frontline army, why can't I make more money in the rear?
At the same time, this is also the reason why there is no panic in the palace and the palace as the war in Hebei is approaching.
Sima Yi can rely on Taihang Mountain to defend once, twice, three times and four times, but as long as he fails once, Hebei will be waiting to welcome the king.
Even if the Han Dynasty failed in this expedition, they would have to try it again in three years. Anyway, they could afford it.
Therefore, the emperor could not care about the front line in the Taihang Mountains, but when he heard that a few more sheep had been lost in his pasture, he immediately became furious:
"What the queen is saying is that those grassland barbarians still dare to disobey Wang Hua. When this battle is over, they will look good!"
Don’t you know who my brother-in-law is?
You are simply asking for your own death!
There are barbarians seeking death, and naturally there are barbarians who are clear-headed.
For example, Dou Suhou and Dou Huiti, who do not have the Luhui Department, are very sober.
Originally, when the two of them learned about the arrival of the Han army, they carefully selected warriors and handsome horses, and led more than a hundred riders to greet them.
The original intention is to show off the muscles of the gyrus.
The well-educated Han people also know that their own tribe is also capable of conquering and fighting.
Who would have expected that as soon as they saw the army led by General Zhendong, the muscles of their own legs would start to tremble involuntarily.
Countless large deer carts were traveling steadily on the snowy wilderness, which was already an astonishing sight.
Not to mention that a shed can be installed on the deer cart.
It really feels like a myth and legend of land boating.
And the guns, swords and halberds all reflected the snowy light, creating a dazzling and intimidating sight that made one dare not look directly.
Thinking about it, the two of them just scraped together enough to make up for the hundreds of horses behind them.
But the Han people were able to march here in large numbers.
Thinking about my tribe, old and young, they are all hiding in their tents, shivering, begging for their lives from the gods.
The Han people were already able to conquer the grasslands in such weather.
Comparing the two, if the Han army really wanted to commit massacre, I am afraid that in such weather, most of the tribes on the grassland who had nowhere to escape would not be able to escape.
At this thought, the two brothers had a clear understanding, and they kneeled down on the snow together and buried their heads deep into the snow:
"The foreign barbarian Dou Suhou (Dou Huiti) was transformed into a foreign barbarian, and he came to see the king's army of heavenly soldiers."
His teeth were chattering, he was cold and frightened.
And the hundreds of people behind them were already stunned.
As soon as they saw the leader, they all knelt down and followed him to the snow.
There is no way, although General Zhendong's core combat strength is only 3,000 Tiger Cavalry troops when he goes out to the fortress this time.
But the Xianbei people and the Huns still have some miscellaneous Hus, and the miscellaneous Yi Cong Hu cavalry numbered twenty to thirty thousand.
Equipped with the "Made in Hanyang 1.0" standard weapons that were eliminated by the Han army, they were enough to give an advantage to the barbarians in the grasslands.
Tens of thousands of people stretched out, and the momentum was astonishing.
"哢哓,哢哓,哢哓..."
The Western Region Pegasus walked on the snow that was no more than the horse's knees, and made a slightly dull sound, stopping in front of the two people:
"You two young patriarchs don't need to be polite. Get up."
After hearing this, the two thanked him and stood up.
Looking up, I couldn't help but secretly exclaimed:
"What a handsome Pegasus!"
When he raised it higher, he couldn't help but exclaim:
"What a handsome general!"
But I saw that although the Han general general had a few minor scars on his face, this not only did not affect his handsomeness, but instead added a bit of killing and masculine aura.
He was wearing a beautifully made silk armor with intricate patterns engraved on it, which made the locals on the grassland feel ashamed of themselves.
The generals of the Han family are indeed noble.
Of course, General Zhao behaved in a more noble manner:
"We have come presumptuously and disturbed your troops. We are really uneasy. When we meet for the first time, here are three hundred kilograms of liquor, two hundred kilograms of brown sugar, and five hundred bolts of wool. It is a gift from my general to the two young patriarchs. "
A stack of fluttering bills suddenly hit Dou Suhou, Dou Huiti and both of them dizzy.
Although it is not a physical thing but a ticket, the ticket is so good!
Both of them had gone to Pingcheng to do business and knew that these notes could be exchanged for real things in Pingcheng.
"Of course, walking in the snow is inconvenient, so we can't carry more supplies at this time, but as long as your department can provide us with a sheltered place to camp this time, we will be richly rewarded when the snow melts in the future."
"It should, it should! General, please rest assured, we will do our best to make the general feel at home!"
Dou Huiti paid even more attention to what the general of the Han army said. He heard that the general in front of him was not the leader of the army, so he asked carefully:
"But I don't know where the commander of the Heavenly Arms King's Division is? I want to go and pay my respects, so as not to be rude."
"No need." General Zhao forced a smile on his face and glanced behind the two of them, "Why don't you see Lord Dou Bin of your department?"
As soon as this question was asked, the expressions of Dou Suhou, Dou Huiti and the two men suddenly changed.
Among the rear team, Tuoba Desert Khan's face changed drastically.
Seeing his uncle nodding and bowing in front of the Han general, like a dog begging for food, Tuoba Desert Khan not only felt nauseated, but his body felt like he was falling into the abyss.
The Han people are determined to destroy Tuoba Xianbei!
Therefore, they did not fully believe in themselves and made other preparations.
