Vol 2 Chapter 553: Strategy

Mi Zhu had long been a merchant in Qianghu's land in his early years. His understanding of the Hu people is more specific. Although he can't help him too much in military affairs, for Liu Yi, the information provided by Mi Zhu is extremely important for him to understand the grasslands. In addition to grazing, the Hu people actually cultivate, but the grassland is thin, even if the manure technology of the Han people is used, it is difficult to cultivate for a long time. Only some relatively fertile places will use manure and other things to cultivate .
As for the question of how the agricultural technology of the Han people was passed on, this does not need to be asked in detail. In fact, the Huns and the Han have communicated with each other over the years. There is more technology passed on in the past, but the problem is that the resources cannot keep up, and there is no Many of the texts passed down are lost.
In the case of salt and iron, for example, it has always been restricted to be sold to the Huns, and they are all used for trading. Every time the Xiongnu are rewarded with a batch of salt and iron, the Huns will return a large number of cattle and sheep. It is several times higher than the salt and iron sent by the Han. This is not a commercial, but the purchase of salt and iron from the merchants by the Xiongnu is basically the same price. This is also prohibited by the Ming Dynasty but so many people always take the head. The risk is to deal with the Huns.
The profit among them is too horrible, as long as it succeeds once, it can create a local nobility.
Generally speaking, because of the living environment, the Huns are not as concentrated in power as the Han. Although they are divided into Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Wuhuan, in fact, the population flow is relatively large, and it is difficult to count, even if they are Xiongnu or Xianbei I am afraid I do n’t know how many people there are under my own control.
The structure of the political system is probably tribalism. The slaves still circulate among the tribes. They may be prisoners of war, or they may be Han people and people from the countries of the Western Regions. In short, the composition of the slaves in the grassland is quite complex.
"I have an idea." Fumbling his chin, Liu Yi looked at the two and suddenly laughed.
"Oh?" Mi Zhu and Jiang Wan looked at Liu Yi and asked with a smile: "What is Bo Yuan's strategy?"
"There is no good way." Liu Yi shook his head and said: "What is the most lacking in Xiliang now?"
"Population." Jiang Wan sighed. He checked the household registration. The entire population of Guanzhong is nearly one million, but the Jingzhao generation has a population of 800,000. The area of ​​Xiliang is ten times that of Jingzhao, but the population is the Jingzhao area. A quarter of them, even less than three Chengdu.
"The well salt in Shuzhong has been abundant in production in the past two years, and iron cannot be sold, but the salt is okay. This time I invited Brother Zhong to come for this reason. We have a large amount of excess well salt that can be sold to the Huns or even the Qiang people, but we have to change the method. Come to trade. "Liu Yisi asked:" Population is what we need, they need to say, need cloth, and in trade, in addition to normal cattle and sheep horses and fur, a large number of slaves come here, remember, old people do not . "
"This ..." Mi Zhu groped his chin. "They're afraid they won't trade us young and strong."
"In other words, it is good for young and strong to give nature. If not, we also accept women and children. In short, apart from the elderly, as long as they are slaves, they are willing to sell, and we can accept it." Liu Yi laughed.
"How much is it?" Mi Zhu asked.
"As many as you want, deal directly with those tribes, not just through Wang Ting." Liu Yi squinted and smiled: "We don't care where they come from, as long as there are, we can, a young and strong A war horse or a cow and a sheep, a woman can reach a cow, a child can reach two sheep, of course, this is just my own statement, how to determine the specific price, Zi Zhongxiong decides, but there is a little They are crazy, and they have to make them feel that selling people is more profitable than selling cattle and sheep. "
"Sikong!" Jiang Wan hesitated and looked at Liu Yi: "This is not within the budget."
Most of the time Liu Yi and the court asked for money, but when dealing with the Huns, the Han family ’s five baht money was rarely used by the Huns, and they could only be exchanged for things. Liu Yi had no problem asking for money. There is not much coolness, and it must be raised by the court.
"I know that I will write to Your Majesty, and what other old cloths that have been backlogged are also brought in. It's a pity to lose it, so I might as well deal with the Huns." Liu Yi smiled, as there are many workshops under the workshop today In the cloth villages around the world, the cloth produced by these cloth villages is not only of high quality, but also has a large output. It has replaced the old cloth step by step. Those old cloths are sold by no one. It is better to take them together with the Huns, Qiang people, and even further away The people of the Western Regions do transactions, and when these old cloths are used up, they can use the early gauze production to do it.
Liu Yi didn't think that he could solve Hu Hao by this, but he wanted to form an economic check and balance in this way, without compulsion, and let the Huns, Xianbei and Xiyu accept Han step by step. Culture, from the beginning, the barter gradually attracted them to exchange here, and then promoted the five baht money, so that they gradually approached the Han people in terms of living habits and ideas.
Assimilation sometimes does not require force to conquer.
No matter how fierce the Central Plains fights, but no one rejects anyone, saying you are from another country, because everyone ’s living habits and thinking habits are the same. If the living habits and thinking habits of the Huns are the same as the Han people, then it is not. What is the difference between Hu Han.
If you want to do this, you must first invest and then attract. In fact, this kind of thing has been done before, but it is just in the feudal era. It is difficult to continue this kind of thing. One is the financial problem. The court may not always support it. After all, this requires too much initial investment.
Another problem is that the social form is different. The Han is a farming society, but the grassland departments are nomadic society. Unlike the Han, it is not easy to manage. To integrate the two ethnic groups, you have to let the two social forms merge. Otherwise, even today the Huns , Xianbei and Wuhuan are all extinct, and other nomadic people will also replace them in the future, so killing by killing is undesirable, seeking a social structure that allows the two to coexist, or changing the social form on the grassland today , So that they can stabilize, this is the key.
Of course, before you reach your goal, your fists must be hard, because you must first make them willing to reason with you, and the most direct and effective way to make the enemy willing to reason with you is the fist, so Liu Yi brought two Wanlanchi New Army and a large number of elite craftsmen in Tiangongfang.
Jiang Wan could only nod his head when he heard the words. Liu Yi was extremely powerful in Xiliang, and even Zhao Yun, who fought against Qiang in Lingju, was also subject to Liu Yi ’s restraint. As Liu Yi ’s drive, he only had to raise the existing problems. Just come out and do your own thing. You do n’t have to worry about the rest.
Mi Zhu smiled bitterly: "It's simple to say, but it's not easy to do. Sometimes the Huns are not too willing to reason."
What long-term things do you say to others, they may not be willing to listen, just grab it directly, what can you do on their territory?
"So just asked Brother Zi Zhong to come to help." Liu Yi smiled.
He invited Mi Zhu to come for the purpose of this transaction. It is best to make the Huns unable to invade again before the autumn. This land of the rivers is a good place. Later generations are called Jiangnan, and they are used as Huns. Human pastures are naturally possible, but some are too wasteful. They are still exploited together. It is so good to be beautiful with the United States and the United States. It is absolutely unnecessary. Many of my own studies are also expected to be here. Take time to fight. It ’s better to do industry together, hello, hello, everyone, and finally become a family, how good.
With six years of experience in national assimilation in Yunnan, Liu Yi still has some confidence and experience in assimilation in Xiliang this time, coupled with the assistance of architecture, maybe in a dozen years, there will be no Xiongnu People and Hans are separated, of course, the premise is to have the support of the court.
In fact, there are also many successful cases of Hu naturalization in history. The South Huns cannot be completely counted ~ EbookFREE.me ~ But these years, the South Huns have been close to the Han people in many habits, but the Central Plains has been Guangwu Zhongxing Since the beginning, the strategy and attitude towards the South Xiongnu has been changing, so that the South Xiongnu has not yet been completely naturalized, but compared with Xianbei and the Xiongnu, farming has accounted for a certain proportion of the South Xiongnu. Closer to the Han Chinese, it is also the easiest to naturalize.
"I knew it was better to stay in Chang'an." Mi Zhu shook his head and smiled.
"Don't say that, because of the abundance of products in this area, many of them can't be found in the Central Plains. Maybe some new things can come out. There are good things. The first one you use is you." Liu Yi smiled at Mi Zhu Road.
"Oh?" Mi Zhu heard the words with great interest: "Bo Yuan has a new idea?"
Although the Mi family was low-key in the Han dynasty, it is not an exaggeration to say that wealth is an enemy country. This is also an important reason why the Mi family can have today's status. The Mi family now has such a low position.
"It's just an idea, but whether you can succeed or not depends on whether Brother Zi Zhong has helped." Liu Yi is not blunt. His thoughts have gone too much, but he is suffering from conditions, and many of them can't be completed at this moment. If it can, still Let's get the Tu Kang out first. It is not easy to live in the winter in the northwest. This is also the reason why the Xiliangdi is sparsely populated. Now it requires a lot of manpower. Things on the Xiongnu side must be implemented as soon as possible.
"Okay, it will take some time for the court's approval. I will trade with them with a small amount of salt and old cloth. How about supporting Bo Yuan?" Mi Zhu smiled.
"I am the best." Liu Yi is also not polite, not only because of the friendship between the two parties, but the most important thing is that the Mi family has gained a lot, and now it does not help at the beginning. When everything is done properly, what should he do? use? The relationship between adults can be maintained not only by friendship.