For the Qiang people, Li Xingchen still hopes to appease and recruit them as much as possible, just like he did for the Ba people, and gradually make them a part of China.
After all, simple killing and conquest cannot kill the Qiang people to extinction, nor can they make the Qiang people truly surrender. Only by bringing them more advanced productivity and cultural ideas, and giving them the same treatment as the Han people
, so that they can realize that the Han people did not want to harm them.
As this generation leaves, the next generation will become more loyal to the Han people. Generation after generation, gradually this nation may still be preserved, but in terms of ideology, blood, and cognition, they have merged with the Han people.
There is no difference, and they are recognized by the common name of the Chinese nation.
Of course, Li Xingchen did not mean that the strategies of killing and suppressing these barbarian tribes used by previous dynasties were wrong from beginning to end.
In the age of cold weapons, productivity cannot keep up, and plunder and suppression are inevitable.
Otherwise, the central dynasty simply would not have the financial and material resources to support the troops stationed in the border areas and send enough officials to establish a complete rule locally. If nothing else, it is simply Guangxi and Hainan in later generations. In fact,
It was not until the Tang and Song dynasties that the Shang Dynasty gradually formed the direct rule of the Central Plains dynasty. As for places like Tubo, the eastern part was not officially under the central government until the Qing Dynasty pacified the Jinchuan and Jinchuan areas, while the western part, namely Houzang and other places
, which is the location of Tibet in later generations. For a long time, it just listened to the tune but not the propaganda. During the turmoil of the Republic of China, he proclaimed himself king. He almost said goodbye to China due to the small actions of the British.
And the current Han Dynasty, at least in Li Xingchen's opinion, is no longer a feudal dynasty that simply relies on cold weapons and small-scale peasant economy.
The rapid development and expansion of industry and commerce, as well as the large-scale installation of firearms, meant that the Han army could more easily defeat the local tribes that originally had advantages in terrain and numbers - this number was of course local, after all, the Han army attacked remote areas.
It is also impossible to send too many soldiers and horses to the region. It also means that the Han Dynasty can bring these places into the territory of the Han Dynasty by building trade networks and mining local mineral raw materials, so that the local people can also compete with the Han Dynasty.
If they make profits from trade, industrial production, etc., they will naturally be more inclined to belong to the Han Dynasty.
At the same time, whether the Central Plains dynasty can form effective rule over the border areas actually depends not only on whether the border ethnic groups cooperate and support the central government's policies, but also on whether the ministers in the court and the people in the government and the public have the "These lands belong to me, the Han Dynasty"
"the concept of.
It has to be said that such a concept may be relatively strong in the court, but among the people, it is difficult for those people who have just solved the problem of food and clothing to adhere to such an idea. Therefore, the court's foreign expeditions are likely to be denounced as "wasting people and money, and engaging in military warfare."
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The importance of education was naturally fully reflected at this time. If the people were told from an early age that such a far-flung land should have been the territory of the Han Dynasty, and it was originally the land that our ancestors won with bloody battles, then they would definitely be more confident.
We tend to support the Han Dynasty in foreign wars. In the past, we were weak and bullied. We couldn't even keep our land in Kyushu, so we didn't have time to care about it. But now that the world has been unified, let's go and take back the land that our ancestors once developed.
Any more questions?
However, I am afraid that it will take at least a generation for this kind of thinking to be implemented in people's hearts.
But the current big man and the current Li Xingchen don't really want to wait.
The enemies have already come to attack us. If we don't fight back, wouldn't it mean that I, a big man, are tough internally but weak externally?
Therefore, Li Xingchen also needs to start exploring and developing the rich resources in these remote areas to make the people fully aware of the importance of winning the Western Regions and Liaodong and other places. However, Li Xingchen does not know whether the Ministry of Industry will be able to find in the Western Regions by then.
There are enough resources to confirm his ideas. After all, he only has a general understanding of the mineral resources in the Western Regions and Liaodong and other places in later generations.
Li Xingchen really doesn't know whether these minerals can be mined in the open pit or on which mountain they are located.
But having said that, now that there are abundant resources discovered in Nanyang as an endorsement, Li Xingchen said that there are also in the Western Regions, and the people will naturally not question them anymore. Regardless of whether they are in the Western Regions or Liaodong, even if they cannot be found, when the Han Dynasty has established a firm foothold in these places
By the time the government started to expand its power, the next generation would have become the pillars of society, and would naturally support the imperial court's external expansion more than their parents, who were more accustomed to staring at the one-third of an acre of land at the door.
Conquering these frontier lands that once belonged to China was definitely not the work of one generation. It may even take generations of people to cultivate and multiply before the roots of Chinese civilization can be deeply rooted in each piece of land.
However, precisely because this is a long and protracted process that requires patience, Li Xingchen prefers to start earlier.
It is conceivable that at the beginning, all of this will inevitably face many setbacks and challenges. Therefore, Li Xingchen also hopes that he can solve these problems as much as possible during his time in office, so that his descendants can use
Policies and guidelines have been refined to achieve the assimilation and control of these lands.
Making the Qiang people a part of the Han Dynasty will also create more labor force for the Han Dynasty. With so many people squatting in the mountains, hungry and full, why bother? If they can be allowed to farm or enter workshops,
That will naturally make up for the current lack of manpower in the Han Dynasty. In other words, if these brave and aggressive Qiang people can really be subdued and recognized by the Han Dynasty, then there will be one more brave man in the Han army.
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Xiao Mohe seemed to understand Li Xingchen's thoughts but not quite.
But he also knew that Li Xingchen was simply reminding himself first.
If your Majesty really wanted to make the Qiang people surrender to the Han people, he would not just leave this kind of work to himself, but would definitely send civil servants and military chiefs to provide guidance.
When the time comes, all I have to do is be obedient in this regard.
During the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty, the military generals in the front were only responsible for killing, and the civilian officials were only responsible for calming the people. Soon the entire north settled down. This gave the Han civil and military officials enough experience and proved that this was an effective method, at least.
It was better than before when the officials on the governor's side were busy fighting and appeasing the people. They looked like they had the power, but in fact they were in a hurry.
After Xiao Mohe readily agreed, Li Xingchen didn't stay much longer.
Xiao Mohe was originally recruited to go into battle, so why did Li Xinchen need to come in person?