Farmer of Shu Han

Zhang Xingcai, who aspires to leave a name of a virtuous queen in history, certainly wants to urge the emperor to enjoy himself and not make progress.

But she also knows that direct persuasion will only have the opposite effect for the emperor's lazy nature.

Moreover, there are virtuous ministers in the Han Dynasty, and the politics is clear; there are powerful generals outside, who are determined and sharp.

The people under his rule live and work in peace and contentment, and there is a legacy of the Huang-Lao rule of the former Han Dynasty.

Not to mention that the national strength is growing day by day, and the three revival of the Han Dynasty is just around the corner.

So he can only persuade him in a roundabout way.

Fortunately, although she cannot directly interfere in the government affairs now, as the queen, it is reasonable for her to be in charge of the inner palace and control the inner government.

"Since Feng Mingwen is in charge in the front, your majesty does not have to worry, then your majesty should at least pay some attention to the affairs in the rear."

"Rear?"

Adou was stunned. Isn't the rear here?

What can go wrong with singing and dancing?

The queen looked helpless and reminded him, "It's the grassland in the north of the border."

Adou really fell into the trap: "What happened to the grassland in the north of the border again?"

Why say again?

"Isn't this normal? This year, the grassland in the inner palace has been crushed to death by more than a hundred sheep by the accumulated snow."

"And those Hu Yi who fled from Mobei took advantage of the snow and broke into the grassland from time to time to steal and rob, and the losses were not small."

When Feng Da Sima led his army to expel the Western Xianbei, the Hu people from Liangzhou to Jiuyuan were almost wiped out.

Wouldn't it be a waste to leave such a large grassland empty?

So the court issued a policy to encourage everyone to go out of the border to run horses and enclose land, open grasslands and shear wool.

The court recognized the enclosed land.

If you enclosed it, you would make money!

In the next ten years, the court will only send pastoral supervisors to collect sheep head taxes based on the land, and will not care about the rest.

As for what the rules will be after ten years. It depends on the actual situation.

With such a hot market for wool textiles, ten years, a full ten years, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a golden decade.

As soon as this policy came out, which family with some connections and some ability would not be tempted?

Even those small families have united to get a piece of land outside the Great Wall to add some income to their families.

Although the Han people are not good at herding, they can recruit Hu people friends to herd for them in the Han Dynasty!

Not to mention that there is a certain CEO of a labor company who does not want to reveal his name, who promised to rent and sell all kinds of labor.

Even as long as you can afford it, the Agricultural College can also provide technical support in animal husbandry.

For example, the Qingliao Tower.

So now there are countless hall names behind the grasslands outside the Great Wall.

What Zhongyi Society, what Zhongjun Society, what Yongliang Society, what Shuyi Society...

Even Hua Xiaowu, who originally lived in Nanzhong, secretly put on a vest, took advantage of the northern Hudi wool, and provided some benefits to the people in Nanzhong.

The spiritual civilization of Nanzhong is still quite good now.

During festivals, many Yi people will even take the initiative to worship and remember Zhuge Taigong.

Thanks to Taigong for giving them the opportunity to grow sugarcane and enjoy a sweet life.

Han and Yi are the same, Yi people are also the subjects of the Han emperor.

There are many Yi people in the Han army, especially the infantry and archers.

These Yi soldiers are not only happy to hear about war, but also proud to die in battle.

They have the style of the Bantun Barbarians who fought for Emperor Gaozu to conquer the world.

Seeing that the subjects of the Han emperor are so loyal and brave, everyone naturally turned a blind eye to Hua Xiaowu's food grabbing.

If it was in Yizhou before, it would be strange if she was not "a barbarian woman who was promiscuous and died suddenly"!

Now, no one can beat General Zhendong.

The wife of General Zhendong flaunted in the streets, which would only make people envious and jealous and gnashing their teeth - it was really annoying that the barbarian woman took advantage of the opportunity and picked such an outstanding man.

The royal inner court would also not miss this opportunity to make huge profits, and even secretly enclosed a lot of land outside the Great Wall in advance, and it was a grassland with abundant water and grass.

What's even more abominable is that they also used the name of the royal family to get the moon first and abducted many students from the Agricultural College.

The popularity of the grasslands outside the Great Wall attracted the Hu people who moved to the Great Wall in the early years. Some people said that they missed the scenery outside the Great Wall and wanted to go back to see it.

Then they were slapped to the ground:

What do you think the Han Dynasty is?

Come as you like and leave as you like?

If you are not dead, get up and work on the farm for me!

The Han people went out of the Great Wall to enclose the land and herd sheep, and the Hu people went into the Great Wall to farm and work. There is no place to reason in this upside-down and confusing world!

Of course, high profits, especially huge profits, are always accompanied by high risks.

The Hu people on the grassland are like leeks. After being cut one after another, they will always pop up from some places from time to time.

Moreover, the main energy of the Han Dynasty now has to be focused on suppressing the internal thieves, and it is impossible to devote too much energy to the Great Wall.

Therefore, the grasslands outside the Great Wall, facing the Hu people who pop up from time to time from unknown corners, mostly rely on themselves to protect themselves.

Fortunately, the martial spirit of the Han Dynasty was very strong, and almost every Han man who went out of the border carried a bow and a sword.

In addition, the Grand Marshal led the army to clean up the grassland in advance.

All the larger tribes were either killed or ran away.

Facing the security teams composed of various vibrant communities, and the security teams also had old equipment eliminated by the army.

To put it bluntly, it was the East India Company of the Han Dynasty.

Those primitive small tribes that were scattered here and there and refused to obey the king naturally could not become a force to be reckoned with.

They could only steal and rob, and they still risked becoming laborers.

They didn't want to, but Mobei was too cold!

Food was also extremely scarce.

The damn Han people forcibly occupied their grasslands and acted like they were the masters of the grasslands. Shouldn't they go back to the south to farm?

Then the rich Han emperor said:

Wherever the sun and moon shine, wherever the rivers flow, they are all Han territory. Haven't you heard of it?

You dare to steal my sheep!

You are simply courting death!

"Why did the Hu thief steal them again? How can the people in the inner court do their work?"

The Han emperor was very sad because a few sheep were stolen.

"It happens every year, and every family can't avoid it. It's no wonder those people below."

The queen rarely said a word for the person in charge of the grassland in the inner court.

"This grassland is originally the world of the Hu people. The court cannot send a large army to garrison now. It is inevitable that there will be omissions if we rely on those security teams alone."

The emperor sighed and sighed:

"There is no way. If the thieves are not eliminated, the court cannot spare too many troops."

It is not that the court does not have troops to deploy to the grassland now.

But that little force is deployed to the vast desert. Even if they patrol the grasslands every day, it will take more than a month.

So they had to build docks along the remains of the pass left by the former Han Dynasty, with a small dock every three miles and a large dock every ten miles.

Each grassland is basically enclosed with a dock as the center.

If you are really greedy and go too far to enclose land, you will be on your own.

The large dock is not made of soil and plants like the pass of the former Han Dynasty, but directly made of artificial stone.

It is also built in a strange shape, with irregular edges and corners.

These semi-permanent artificial stone docks are like nails, nailed to the grassland.

But this also brings a problem, that is, the increase in cost and the slow construction speed.

"If we gain something in the battle of Hebei, the desert from west to east will be empty of Hu people, and the border will be peaceful for at least ten years."

The queen's gentle voice hides the extremely cruel and brutal expected facts. She believes in her brother-in-law's methods very much:

"Your Majesty should make some preparations in advance."

If the battle of Hebei can be won, the entire north will fall into the hands of the Han Dynasty.

Beyond the northern part of the Great Wall, whether economically or militarily, especially economically, there is a need to further strengthen control and even governance.

This requires the court to invest more resources.

At least it is necessary to increase investment in the military to deter Hu Yi and further protect the interests of each grassland.

Otherwise, how to promote the expansion of the Han grassland to the north and east?

However, the pastoral supervisor only has the right to collect taxes, not the right to command the military, and the captains in the fort are too scattered. They can deal with tribal disputes within the fort, but there is no unified command.

This is probably the initial precautionary measure to prevent the tail from being too big to be cut off.

However, it has been nine years since Feng Da Sima expelled the Western Xianbei.

That is to say, in one year, the policy of the Great Han East India Company, no, it should be called the Great Han North Desert Company, will usher in the ten-year period promised by the court.

What to do next is a question that many people are concerned about.

The queen is also concerned.

The invisible power in her hands has been cut off by the court officials, so she has to hold on to her purse to make up for the lost sense of security.

The policy changes in the grasslands outside the Great Wall are related to the purse, so she naturally has to be concerned.

For example, in the grasslands north of Liangzhou, the queen believes that the conditions for setting up government governance are already mature.

Even if it is not possible to set up a Zhenbei Duhufu, Hubei Duhufu, or Anbei Duhufu, it is not a problem to set up one or two or three Dudufu.

Because this is the only way to better safeguard the interests of the Han Dynasty on the grasslands.

Just like Jiuyuan, isn't it good?

There is a Changshi Mansion in such a far place in the Western Regions. Why is there no Dudufu so close to the grassland?

As for whether the established governor's office can be stuffed with people in their pockets, it is not important.

There are so many vacancies in the established governor's office, whether anyone will come to ask for help is not important.

What is important is that even if the internal forces are about to fight to the point of being exhausted, they can still expand their power to the desert and make the grassland Hudi lie on the ground and cry for mercy from the Han father. For the powerful Han, that is a basic operation.

Of course, the trump card in Ji Han's hand is also the reason why the emperor and empress dare to think so.

Although Han is an old country, its destiny is to reform.

Promote new labor tools, implement new policies, find ways to promote the imperial power to the countryside, clean up the land register, check the household registration, clean up the aristocratic families...

Ji Han only has half of the world, but the population under its rule has reached more than 10 million.

It is more than three times the total of Wei and Wu.

What is the concept?

The Tang Dynasty, which was comparable to the Han Dynasty in history, destroyed the Dongjue in the third year of Zhenguan.

But it had to wait until ten years later, that is, in the thirteenth year of Zhenguan, when the official registered population was only more than 12 million.

Later generations all said that the population dropped from 60 million at its peak to 7 or 8 million, or only one tenth of the total population, due to the wars during the late Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms period.

This is both right and wrong.

It is right because this is the population officially registered.

It is wrong because it does not count the hidden population of the aristocratic families.

When the Western Jin Dynasty destroyed Wu and unified the world, the population that was investigated had reached more than 16 million, and two years later it reached almost 20 million.

This was based on the bizarre system of Sima Jin's official occupation of land and the use of people as tenants and food and clothing guests.

Because these national policies openly encouraged the aristocratic families to hide their population.

Therefore, while Ji Han severely cracked down on aristocratic families, he also improved his medical level, and then continued to organize the people into households for the barbarians in Bingzhou and other places in Liangzhou and other places in the south.

Not satisfied with this, they also plunder labor everywhere.

It is not unusual for it to take so many years to reach a population of 10 million.

But with a population of more than 10 million, the big man can look around and shout: Who dares to disobey?

If the student doesn't want to grow sugar cane, he will do it.

If the barbarians don't want to shear their sheep, then kill them.

The aristocratic family didn't want to admit the Han Dynasty Reform, so they became the aristocratic family.

If the thief is not willing to change sides and confess his crime, then he will kill the thief...

Anyway, just do it!

The queen wanted to do it too.

If I can’t reach out to the frontline army, why can’t I make more money in the rear?

At the same time, this is also the reason why there is no panic in the palace and the palace as the war in Hebei is imminent.

Sima Yi can rely on Taihang Mountain to defend once, twice, three times and four times, but as long as he fails once, Hebei will be waiting to welcome the king.

Even if the Han Dynasty fails in this expedition, at worst it will be repeated in three years. Anyway, it can afford it.

Therefore, the emperor could not care about the front line in Taihang Mountains, but when he heard that a few more sheep were lost in his pasture, he immediately became furious:

"What the queen is saying is that those grassland barbarians still dare to disobey Wang Hua. When this battle is over, they will look good!"

Don’t you know who my brother-in-law is?

You are simply asking for your own death!

There are barbarians seeking death, and naturally there are barbarians who are clear-headed.

For example, Dou Suhou and Dou Huiti, who do not have the Luhui Department, are very sober.

Originally, when the two of them learned of the arrival of the Han army, they carefully selected warriors and handsome horses, and led more than a hundred riders to greet them.

The original intention is to show off the muscles of the gyrus.

The Han people who are good at teaching also know that their own tribe is also good at conquering and fighting.

Who would have expected that as soon as they saw the army led by General Zhendong, the muscles of their own legs would tremble involuntarily.

Countless large deer carts were traveling steadily on the snowy wilderness, which was already considered astonishing.

Not to mention that a shed can be installed on the deer cart.

It really feels like a myth and legend of land boating.

And the guns, swords, halberds all reflected the snowy light, and there was a dazzling and intimidating effect that made one dare not look directly.

Thinking about the two of them working together here and there, they managed to make up the hundreds of horses behind them.

But the Han people were able to march here in large numbers.

Thinking about my tribe, old and young, they are all hiding in their tents, shivering, begging for their lives from the gods.

The Han people were already able to conquer the grasslands in such weather.

Comparing the two, if the Han army really wanted to commit massacre, I am afraid that in such weather, most of the tribes on the grassland who had nowhere to escape would not be able to escape.

At this thought, the two brothers had a clear understanding, and they knelt down on the snow and buried their heads deeply in the snow:

"The foreign barbarian Dou Suhou (Dou Huiti) was transformed into a foreign barbarian, and he came to see the king of heavenly soldiers."

His teeth were chattering, he was cold and frightened.

The hundreds of people behind them were already stunned.

As soon as they saw the leader, they all knelt down and followed him to the snow.

There is no way, although General Zhendong's core combat strength is only 3,000 Tiger Cavalry troops.

However, there are still some miscellaneous Huns among the Xianbei and Huns, and there are twenty to thirty thousand miscellaneous Yi Conghu cavalry.

Equipped with the "Made in Hanyang 1.0" standard weapons that were eliminated by the Han army, they were enough to give an advantage to the barbarians in the grasslands.

Stretching tens of thousands of people, the momentum is astonishing.

"Click, click, click..."

The Western Region Pegasus walked on the snow that was no more than the horse's knees, and made a slightly dull sound, stopping in front of the two people:

"You two young patriarchs don't need to be polite. Get up."

After hearing this, the two thanked him and stood up.

Looking up, I couldn't help but secretly exclaimed:

"What a handsome Pegasus!"

When he raised it higher, he couldn't help but exclaim:

"What a handsome general!"

But I saw that although the Han army general had a few minor scars on his face, this not only did not affect his handsomeness, but instead added a bit of killing and masculine aura.

He was wearing a beautifully made silk armor with intricate patterns engraved on it, which made the bumpkins on the grassland feel ashamed of themselves.

The general of the Han family is indeed a noble man.

Of course, General Zhao behaved in a more noble manner:

"We have come presumptuously and disturbed your troops. We are really uneasy. When we meet for the first time, here are three hundred kilograms of liquor, two hundred kilograms of brown sugar, and five hundred bolts of wool. It is a gift from my general to the two young patriarchs. "

A stack of fluttering bills suddenly hit Dou Suhou, Dou Huiti and both of them dizzy.

Although it is not a physical thing but a ticket, the ticket is so good!

Both of them had been to Pingcheng to do business and knew that these notes could be exchanged for real things in Pingcheng.

"Of course, walking in the snow is inconvenient, so we can't carry more supplies at this time. However, as long as your department can give us a sheltered place to camp this time, we will be more rewarded when the snow melts in the future."

"It should, it should! General, please rest assured, we will do our best to make the general feel at home!"

Dou Huiti paid even more attention to what the general of the Han army said. He heard that the general in front of him was not the leader of the army, so he asked carefully:

"But I don't know where the commander of the Heavenly Arms King's Division is? I want to go and pay my respects, so as not to be rude."

"No need." General Zhao forced a smile on his face and glanced behind the two of them, "Why don't you see Lord Dou Bin of your department?"

When asked this question, Dou Suhou and Dou Huiti's faces suddenly changed.

In the rear team, Tuoba Shamo Khan also changed his face.

Seeing his uncle bowing and scraping in front of the Han general like a dog begging for food, Tuoba Shamo Khan not only felt sick, but also felt like he was falling into the abyss.

The Han people were determined to destroy Tuoba Xianbei!

So they did not completely believe in themselves, and made another preparation.