Chapter Five Hundred and Eleven Southern Barbarian Rebellion
In the fifth year of the Chu Dynasty, the chaos overseas spread back to the Chu State, causing waves in the Chu State itself.
After a lot of uproar, the Chu court also unified their opinions and targeted the culprit - the Marquis of Shu!
The Wancheng Division, which was originally preparing to withdraw from Yizhou, made another comeback. Without waiting for the envoys from the Marquis of Shu to inquire, the Chu State had already sent envoys in advance. The visitor was no one else. It was during the first imperial examination.
Deng Zhi performed outstandingly during the simulated mission and was valued by the Ministry of Rites for his eloquence.
However, from the level of the envoy, we can also see the importance that Chu State attaches to it - no matter how outstanding Deng Zhi is, he is only a young man in his twenties now...
Although Liu Zhang was angry with Chu for breaking the treaty, he still received Deng Zhi "warmly" in the capital.
This time, Zhang Song, Zheng Du and other Xichuan wise ministers did not put forward any contradictory opinions on Liu Zhang's coercion.
After all, the current situation in Shuhou Mansion, or rather in Xichuan, is indeed not good...
In the south of Yizhou, the Nanzhong barbarians moved northward to cause trouble. At this time, even if the Chu State did not launch an attack, the Shu princes were already in dire straits.
As for the sudden invasion of the Nanzhong barbarians, it was not because of anything else. It was Chen Gong, Gao Shun's "education" in the past two years, and the Chu State's export to the Shuhou Mansion in the past two years that had achieved results...
Chen Gong and Gao Shun, together with the leader of the Wuxi Barbarians, who is now the commander of the Wuxi Independent Division, Shamoke, traveled from southern Jingzhou to southern Yizhou to spread Chu learning.
The situation in southern Yizhou is similar to that in southern Jingzhou. Han and barbarians live together, and many Han ethnic groups are also half barbarians and half Han. The difference... is that the depth of the Nanzhong region is greater, and the barbarian forces are more complex.
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Because there is no unity, "big" does not mean "strong", only "complex".
But just like Jingnan, every so-called Southern Barbarian Rebellion was not a simple ethnic conflict. It was basically the big clans in southern Yizhou who took the lead in causing trouble!
The situation of this large-scale Nanman rebellion is somewhat different...
The indirect reason for the chaos was actually the actions of the Wuxi Independent Division of Chu State, which squeezed the living space of some barbarians!
Where Chu Xue crossed to the west, simple cities were built - there were no tall city walls, only residential areas were demarcated, where traffic allowed, and workshops were even started to be opened...
However, it cannot be said to be smooth!
Just a "traffic permission" is already a very stringent requirement in Nanzhong.
There are naturally reasons why the Nanzhong region has not been able to completely integrate with the Central Plains culture for thousands of years...
Judging from the census information sent back by Chen Gong, 85% of the entire Nanzhong region is mountainous, and the remaining 10% is plateau and hilly. It is true that "there are people living deep in the mountains."
Not only the fields that can be cultivated are also very scattered, especially many of them are sloping fields, making it difficult to develop animal-powered farming and Qi machine farming...
And because of the complex terrain, the climate is also complex and changeable. It can be said that "one mountain has four seasons, and ten miles have different weather."
Frequent droughts will cause drought and waterlogging will cause death. This is land with very low "qualification" for the development of agriculture.
What if you need to rely on transportation?
However, roads are not easy to repair. Even in later generations, mountainous areas are difficult to build roads. What's more, the white picture only points out cement, and there is no oil for refining asphalt...
This also makes urbanization in Nanzhong more difficult than imagined - after all, there is no way to be self-sufficient through agriculture, or to easily obtain food shipped from abroad. If you rely only on "gifts of nature", the scale of settlements cannot be too large.
big!
Bai Tu's hard drive is not omnipotent. Faced with this situation, the only thing on the hard drive that is somewhat helpful is an article about the ranking and distribution of crops in Caiyunzhinan Province.
When later generations were discovered, corn, potatoes, and rubber trees accounted for a large proportion of the crops grown in the south of Caiyun...but these could not be counted on for the time being.
The other ones are japonica rice and rapeseed...or canola (tai).
Brassica oleracea was originally not popular in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and was called "Hu Cai". It was generally grown in Youzhou, Bingzhou, Hetao, and even Hexi, where the Qiang, Di, and Xianbei people lived.
Bai Tu In order to provide dietary nutrition for the people of Chu, the Ministry of Industry and Industry studied which areas were suitable for farming various vegetables. Later, the Ministry of Civil Affairs was responsible for popularizing them. Now there are some results. Therefore, there are many places in Chu State that plant yam in the gaps that were originally fallow.
sprout.
In addition, cash crops are more popular, such as sugar cane, tea, traditional Chinese medicine, mountain fungi, and tobacco, which is also not available yet.
And in terms of minerals, Nanzhong is undoubtedly a very superior area in the Chinese civilization.
During the Three Kingdoms period in history, Nanzhong was a land rich in gold and silver...
Generally speaking, Nanzhong is not suitable for farming civilization, especially the small-scale farmer economy - if you want to be self-sufficient, the cost performance of cash crops will be extremely low, and the self-sufficient series of rice, wheat, mulberry and hemp...
The planting efficiency in Nanzhong is very impressive.
Therefore, if we engage in cash crops and develop minerals, there is still a way out in Nanzhong. If we want to transform this area into a small farmer economy, it cannot be solved by the essence of Shennong. This is why the Nanzhong area has been influenced by Chinese culture for a long time.
It never fully merged.
To solve this problem, Chu State has one more advantage than the previous Han Dynasty, that is, it has basically abandoned the small-scale peasant economy. It only needs to build a way out and improve the cost-effectiveness of Nanzhong's economic crop output and superior mineral resources. Here
You can completely rely on transactions to "suck" your daily needs.
Compared with later generations after industrialization, Chu's biggest advantage now...is naturally its population!
The entire Chu State has a population of just over 10 million, while the Han Yi population in the central and southern regions is no more than a million. Therefore, it is entirely possible to concentrate the limited population in a few areas with "more" convenient transportation and "more" suitable land for farming.
There is no need to compete with mountains that are too remote or too deep.
Otherwise, if the population is ten times or a hundred times larger, it will be even more difficult to transform!
However, even so, there are still many people who don't buy the "Chu Xue" account. Even if Chen Gong, Gao Shun, and Samoko's fists are big enough, there are still many tribes who adhere to the attitude of "can't afford to offend, can afford to hide".
Keep migrating northward.
This is also the main reason for the "Nanman Rebellion" in Yizhou...
As for the main reason, it is that many wealthy families in southern Yizhou are taking the opportunity to stir up trouble and even raise rebellion flags themselves.
Because of the continuous influx of "Chu goods" in the past two years, and the fact that Shu princes were hired as "dealers", the Shu brocade and well salt industries, which are the foundation of Yizhou's rich families, have been greatly damaged!
Even if Liu Zhang accepted Zhang Song's opinion and profited from this part of the profits, but...
These rich people are not small shops - the skewers next door are cheap, so we go directly to the next door to buy the goods? What about the skewers?
Small stores can fire skewers, but under these wealthy families, there are so many mouths to feed, which cannot be compensated by purely "commercial interests" that are large enough!
Therefore, even if the Chu State does not move, Liu Zhang is already in dire straits.
Since I can't be strong-willed, I can only treat Deng Zhi with ease...