When the two khans in the royal city of Xueyantuo were fighting.
On the other side, the rear army of the Tang Dynasty was in the military tent.
Xiao Rui was also explaining his views to Li Chengqian.
"Your Highness!"
"After this decisive battle, Your Highness will never be the same as before."
"As the saying goes, those who are not of my race must have different minds!"
"If they cannot be eradicated completely, they will bring endless troubles to our Datang!"
Xiao Rui has been stationed in Mobei for many years.
He is familiar with the habits of these nomadic people.
He also knew that once these people were told to calm down.
They will definitely come to Datang to cause trouble.
The current Tang Dynasty was powerful and had no fear of these nomadic peoples.
What about the future?
What if one day there is some internal problem in Datang and they come to harass the border of Datang again?
After hearing Xiao Rui's words, Li Chengqian said: "I have already thought about these things."
"ah?"
Xiao Rui was stunned and asked: "How does Your Highness plan to deal with it?"
"Just like the Mobei people!"
Li Chengqian said calmly: "Let them become Tang people!"
Xiao Rui's expression changed.
"this……"
"I'm afraid this is inappropriate."
Xiao Rui said: "The reason why the Mobei people were able to be conquered is because the Mobei people have learned our culture from the Central Plains in their early years."
"But people from Xue Yantuo are different."
"Most of them are uncivilized barbarians."
"How about conquering them like the people of Mobei."
"In the end, I'm afraid I'll just lure the wolf into the house..."
Listen to this.
Li Chengqian raised his eyebrows and glanced at Xiao Rui.
"If you don't give in."
"What do you think should be done?"
"Give them all
Kill them all?"
"this……"
Xiao Rui paused.
Indeed, he didn't think about what to do.
Xueyantuo has a total population of several million. How can they kill them all?
Even if you want to kill someone, how much manpower and material resources must be invested to do it?
At least with the current national power of the Tang Dynasty, it is absolutely impossible to kill all the Xueyantuo people.
See Xiao Rui like that.
Li Chengqian smiled helplessly.
"The difference between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization is not small."
"The biggest difference among them is that agricultural civilization will live in the same place for a long time."
"In order to live a stable life in this place."
"People with a farming civilization will build houses here to provide housing for themselves and their families."
"At the same time, in order to guard against the invasion of wild beasts and damage from foreign enemies."
"People in farming civilization will also build a layer of walls around their houses."
"Compared to nomadic civilization, people living in agricultural society are more gentle."
"As long as their interests are not infringed, they will not take the initiative to bully others."
"But nomadic civilization is different."
"First of all, it's their definition of home."
"They don't have the concept of hometown in their hearts."
"They only have family in their hearts, and home is where their family is."
Xiao Rui wanted to retort a few words at the beginning.
But slowly, the rebuttal thoughts in his heart disappeared, and he just listened quietly to Li Chengqian's account.
"As for their hometown, they don't value it themselves."
“Because the vast majority of nomadic people have been wandering around since childhood.
in the days.”
"They will continue to migrate with their elders. Wherever the pastures are abundant and the land is fertile, they will go."
"If there is no food to eat, the first thought in their mind is not to plant or buy, but to rob."
"They believe in the law of the jungle."
"When there is no food to eat, they will immediately plunder those nations and tribes that are not as powerful as them."
"And it's also because of this habit of the nomadic people."
"It directly led to continuous conflicts between them and agricultural civilization."
"But also because of their living habits of farming civilization, they have been suppressed by nomads."
"From ancient times to today's Tang Dynasty, the war between nomadic people and farming civilization lasted for thousands of years."
"And in these thousands of years, agricultural civilization has always been suppressed by nomadic civilization."
"Even if a powerful farming civilization occasionally appears, it can only defeat the nomadic civilization and suppress it."
"But when the agricultural civilization shows slight signs of decline, the nomadic civilization will rise rapidly again."
"The Qin Dynasty was like this, the Han Dynasty was like this, and the prosperous Tang Dynasty will still be like this in the future."
There was something Li Chengqian didn't say.
After the prosperous Tang Dynasty, nomadic civilization began to dominate.
It has even happened that nomadic civilization defeated agricultural civilization and established a dynasty.
And if you want to ask the reason for this, it is nothing more than the above-mentioned, different understanding of home.
It is because of such a cognitive error that agricultural civilization has never been able to conquer nomadic civilization.
but……
That would be a world without him, Li Chengqian.
At least this is a world without Li Chengqian.
The current Li Chengqian has knowledge that others don’t have, and he has things that others don’t have.
Cognition.
He knows the cognitive differences between nomadic civilization and agricultural civilization, and also knows how to conquer a nomadic civilization.
Of course, he does not despise foreigners.
He just thinks that this will bring better development.
After all, with the urinary nature of nomadic civilization, they will probably tear themselves apart in the end.
Moreover, they will also cause faults in civilization due to their own behavior.
This was true for the Wu Hu Luan Hua, and even more so for the unprecedentedly powerful Mongolian and Yuan Empire.
Otherwise, why were the siege equipment that existed during the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms still in use in the Tang Dynasty?
Otherwise, why did firecrackers appear in the late Tang Dynasty and artillery appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty, but these were still used in the Ming Dynasty?
Complete the explanation why those skilled craftsmen in the Southern Song Dynasty were able to build beautiful houses, make objects exquisite and delicate, and build cities quickly, but by the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, an emperor wanted to build a palace, but he couldn't even build a palace.
There were no craftsmen to be found, so I had to rely on a fortune teller to design it.
When I think of these.
Li Chengqian's eyes became a little firmer.
"Although it is difficult and may take a long time."
"But we must do it, because if we don't do it, our descendants will suffer misfortunes again."
"Do you hope so?"
There was obviously something else in Xiao Rui's eyes.
He stared at Li Chengqian for a long time, and finally said: "I understand, I will follow your highness's instructions..."
Hear this.
Li Chengqian curled up the corners of his mouth, with a faint smile on his face.
"As long as you understand."
"In the future, maybe this place will be left to you."
"After all, you've been dealing with them longer."