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Spring on the grassland comes much earlier than in the Great Wall.??
Just after the first lunar month, the ice and snow in Shunde have melted, and the grasslands are revitalized.
At this time in previous years, the tribes near Shunde must have been preparing for migration.
Because they must hurry up and head to distant pastures for the spring feast of grass.
The timing must be just right.
Don't go too early. If you go too early, the pastures haven't grown yet and the livestock, people and horses will be hungry.
Don't go too late, otherwise the pasture will be eaten up by other people's livestock.
But this year, the people near Shunde are much more calm.
This past winter, the Han Dynasty's army expelled and executed almost all the nobles within a 300-mile radius of Shunde City.
Seeing each and every big shot in the past who were so high up that it was difficult to even look up at them, they were guillotined by the Han Dynasty people, and their pastures, livestock and wealth were all evenly distributed among the big guys by the Han Dynasty officials.
Who wouldn't be happy?
Of course, for the Han Dynasty, this transaction was not a loss.
The livestock of the surrounding tribes are not their own.
It's a great deal to take other people's things and win people's hearts for yourself.
The only problem is - now, the herdsmen and herdsmen of various tribes have been liberated according to Chang'an's wishes, and pastures and livestock have been allocated to them.
But the question is how to manage these people? How to guide them?
This has become a big problem.
There is no other choice but to resort to the policy of military control.
All herdsmen were uniformly taken over by the military.
The Han army was already very proficient in organizing the troops according to the organization of the reclamation regiment, so it didn't take much effort to build dozens of township pavilions of various sizes around Shunde.
There were more than a thousand people in large numbers, and hundreds of people in small numbers.
At the same time, a census of the Hu tribes around Shunde was also conducted. The final statistical results were shocking!
With Shunde as the core, there are more than 43,000 people living on the grassland covering hundreds of miles.
Considering that this place has always been a forbidden area for the Huns, after the Xiongnu retreated, their headquarters fled to Mubei, leaving only the old, weak, sick and disabled and a miscellaneous slave tribe.
Therefore, its original actual population may have been larger.
And this Shunde is just a corner of the grassland, and it has not been the main pasture for the Yingong people since ancient times.
Therefore, the population size of this entire grassland is likely to exceed the estimates and assumptions of the Han Dynasty.
This made the merchants very excited.
The industry and commerce that are in desperate need of support are now short of cheap and reliable labor force that can be supplied in large quantities.
Especially the smelting, mining and logging industries.
There is a huge shortage of labor!
Using Han Chinese would be too expensive and too easy to attract public criticism.
If you use it a little too much, Confucianism and Legalism will criticize them for "hurting capital and seeking profit," "injuring nature and harming justice," and "ignoring human life."
It's better to be a slave laborer, with no human rights. If you die, you will die, and no one will care.
As soon as the merchants were happy, the transportation of military supplies suddenly accelerated.
Within a few days after the ice and snow melted and the roads were open again, merchants transported thousands of carts of supplies to Shunde City.
Their efficiency is at least twice as efficient as that of civilians mobilized by the state!
There was no other way, the businessmen waved five baht coins and threw down a lot of reward money, and the work efficiency of the truck drivers and civilian laborers who transported supplies immediately increased sharply.
In order to earn an extra five baht, some people are willing to work overtime.
Merchants, of course, can't afford to do it early without any profit.
This war is a feast in itself!
Judging from past examples, after the Han army pacified Munan and stabilized its rule, the country would inevitably place countless orders to prepare for the opening of the Munan area.
Of course, these orders will be handed over to righteous merchants who are "diligent in royal affairs, loyal to the king and patriotic".
In addition, righteous merchants can also have priority in purchasing any captured or captured prisoners during the war.
And you can use donated materials to offset the purchase price!
This is already a hugely profitable deal!
Not to mention, Zhidu also promised them to let them participate in this war, so that they could share some military merits.
In today's Han Dynasty, money can buy almost everything - except for titles.
Since the first year of Yuande, the imperial court has tightened the regulations on the millet donation system. After the Mayi War, the imperial court completely stopped the millet donation system.
In today's world, the only title that can be bought with money among all classes of citizens, businessmen, and citizens is the civilian title.
However, these tradable civilian titles can only support up to the public title. If you want to go up further, the titles obtained through trading or buying and selling cannot be stacked.
Only with military merit can one continue to improve without restriction.
For merchants who lack a sense of security and always feel that their political achievements may be wiped out by local officials, their only way to protect themselves is to upgrade their titles.
As long as you are promoted to the fifth doctor, you will have privileges.
If you rise above the level of Zuo Shuchang, you will have the initial power to protect yourself. According to the system, Zuo Shuchang and above belong to the ministers. Their status is compared to Qianshi. It is difficult for local officials to decide their life and death. Their fate is controlled by higher-level officials.
in the hands of officials.
At least, a county magistrate cannot deal with anyone who holds the title of Zuo Shu Chang or above.
And among the merchants in the world today, there are only a few who hold titles above Zuo Shu Zhang.
As for the title of prince, there are only two.
In order to obtain a higher status, greater autonomy, and for the prosperity of their families, merchants are now really working hard.
The money was thrown away as if it wasn't money.
Within two months, they almost bought up all the surplus grain from farmers in Longyou County, Beidi County and Taiyuan County.
In front of the checkpoint gates of Langmengsai and Yunzhongsai, there were piles of food and crowds of caravans eager to leave the fortress.
Countless people were frightened by the power of these merchants.
With the power of merchants, they can actually support a war of moderate intensity or above!
This is really weird!
This is unprecedented. Before today, no one had ever thought that merchants, a group at the bottom of society and discriminated against by the world, could have such power!
Everyone was stunned.
However, if you think about it carefully, Zhi feels that this is reasonable.
I think back then, when Emperor Taizong first came to the throne, in the years after Guan Ying completely expelled the Huns from the Great Wall, the defenders of the Great Wall were often hungry, so much so that some defenders with beacon towers starved to death.
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However, when Chao Cuo proposed the policy of losing millet and donating noble titles, this situation was completely reversed within two years.
Merchants and landowners from all over the world enthusiastically took their retainers and servants to drive ox carts and horse-drawn carriages thousands of miles away to deliver carts of corn to the frontier fortress of the Great Wall.
Soon, the official warehouses in various places were full of food.
The history of the hungry defenders of the Great Wall is gone forever.
No one can calculate how many people were transporting food to the defenders of the Great Wall at that time? No one knows how much food they sent.
But one thing is certain, the grain and grass they transported must have exceeded two million dan, or even more.
The wealth, strength, and resources of Han merchants today are dozens of times greater than those of the past.
It shouldn't be a surprise that they can create such a miracle.
Inexplicably, Zhi thought of a prophecy circulated in the Chang'an market: Those who win business and industry will win the world!
"Should the power of merchants be taken seriously?" Zhi Du was thinking in his mind, but then he shook his head.
For the Legalists, hating and being hostile to merchants is their foundation, their orthodoxy, and the path guided by countless sages.
Businessmen can take advantage and cooperate, but if the power of businessmen is allowed to participate or even dominate the thinking of Legalists, what is the difference between that and deceiving the master and destroying the ancestors?
In the future, after you and others die, under Jiuquan, how can you meet Li Kui, Shang Jun, Han Feizi and many other sages and ancestors?
But the power of hundreds of people can be introduced appropriately.
Industry and commerce, industry and commerce, where there is industry there is commerce.
Without workshops, without workshops, without workers, what can merchants do with their business?
It just so happens that now, Nanyang County under Zhang Tang's rule has countless workshops and countless blast furnaces.
Legalists may start from this aspect in the future to establish and build their own workshop thinking.
It would be best to dress up Legalists as the spokesperson for workshop owners, especially the majority of small and medium-sized workshop owners.
In this way, even if the future is indeed a world of industry and commerce, a world of machinery and workshops, Legalism can still survive and continue to lead the times.
With this thought in mind, Zhidu picked up his pen and wrote a letter. He then gave it to one of his close confidants and asked, "Send this letter to Nanyang County in person for me and present it to the governor Zhang Gong!"
"No!" The confidant said as he accepted the order and went out.
Now, the private letters of senior nobles and senior civil servants of the Han family have begun to be specially delivered by their close confidants.
This is to prevent being spotted by spies from the Xiu Yi Guard.
Zhidu was not afraid that the emperor would know the contents of the letter. He was afraid that the Confucian people would know it.
Who knows if there are any Confucian people in Xiuyiwei?
Anyway, Zhi knew that many people in Xiuyiwei were inclined to, sympathized with, and even disciples of Legalism themselves.
When they see letters from Confucian giants, they will definitely open them and read them, and then secretly reveal the contents to the Legalists.
After finishing this matter, Zhidu turned his attention to government affairs again.
Before the Chang'an decision came, his main responsibility as a general protecting the Huns was to build and establish the county system with Shunde as the core.
Although Zhi had experience in the reclamation regiment, Zhi handled this matter very easily, even without any effort.
There are only more than 43,000 people, which is not as large as the population of Shangxian County in the Han Dynasty.
To be honest, one official is enough to handle these things.
And he Zhidu was a man who had served as the governor of Henan County, a lieutenant, a lieutenant general, and a man who held the title of King Wu.
He once governed a large county with a population of millions.
This kind of thing is very easy for him.
But the problem is - this brand new county is different from the previous counties in China.
This is the first county in the world with animal husbandry as its foundation and backbone.
Rather than those counties in mainland China that are mainly farming.
It is undoubtedly an arduous task to divide the pastures reasonably and guide these people to adapt and learn the settled lifestyle.
Fortunately, the soldiers of Loufan Army have fully learned and understood how to run a settled livestock economy in the past four years.
Under their step-by-step guidance, herders from various tribes within a hundred miles of Shunde City have basically completed the construction of settlements.
Now, we are waiting for the officials from the Shaofu and Taipu to come and teach these people alfalfa seeds and various techniques and tools.
However, the tribes in the two hundred miles outside Shunde do not have this condition.
Because of the serious shortage of resources and manpower, they have to maintain their nomadic lifestyle for at least this year.
And how to organize and lead these people to successfully transition this year has become a problem again.
We can't just let these people stay where they are and be lazy, right?
They have to be allowed to support themselves.
But this cannot allow them to lose control and escape the control of the Han family.
Zhidu is having a headache right now.
There are approximately 20,000 people living abroad.
Among them, there are about 8,000 adult men, about 10,000 women and children, and the remaining 2,000 are the old, weak, sick and disabled.
If these people ignore them, or restrict them and prevent them from going nomadic, then they will all starve to death.
Of course, many businessmen expressed their willingness to take over the business.
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But Zhidu knows with his butt what these scum want to do!
"How about letting these people, the men transport and keep food and grass for our army, while the women sew and wash clothes?" Zhi Du thought in his heart, but then rejected this idea.
Because it is impossible for the Han army to take them with them.
"Or, set up a project and let them do the work?" Zhidu's eyes sparkled.
This is a good idea. Since the Han family has arrived on this grassland, they will naturally not let the grassland be stupid. Of course, they will transform the geography and landform of this area and change the flow of the river, so as to make the world adapt to the Han people instead of
Like the Huns, let yourself adapt to the world stupidly.
Although now, the emperor has rejected the plan to colonize the grassland.
However, the development of animal husbandry is also inseparable from the supply of water resources.
Digging channels between settlements, building reservoirs to store water, and even building dams along areas prone to flooding, and planting trees in areas flooded by wind and sand, are all options.
Although he came here not long ago, Zhidu has already created a transformation project tailor-made for the world around Shunde.
First, a large number of trees were planted in the northern area close to Junji Mountain to block and weaken the intensity of wind and sand invasion.
The matter of planting trees to prevent sandstorms has been known to the Chinese since the Qin Dynasty.
When the Qin people managed the Hetao area, they planted more than 100,000 trees around Yulinsai. To this day, the elm trees around Yulinsai are still the strongest defense against the wind and sand blowing from the west of the Hexi River.
To put it bluntly, without the management of the Qin people, the desertification in the Hetao area might have been serious now.
In addition, it seems necessary to establish a water supply channel near Shunde to satisfy Shunde City's thirst for water in the future.
Otherwise, if Shunde has a large population and lacks water in the future, it will be in trouble.
Thinking this way, Zhidu had already made his decision.
For Legalists, it is indeed a subconscious and natural decision to make a decision when faced with problems and engage in infrastructure construction. 8
