Qin Official

After settling the land dispute among the five tribes, Heifu did not rush back to Yiqu City. Instead, he led more than a hundred personal guards to patrol around Oyuan.

"Dong Zhiyuan's head is a wonder, and the vast plains are far away from the sky." Later generations used this sentence to praise Dayuan. Indeed, compared with Liangmao, which is more than a thousand miles away and has crisscrossed ravines, Dayuan is like a flat and boundless plain. Once inside, I couldn't believe that I was walking on a high plateau.

After every distance, Heifu got off the carriage and asked the accompanying agricultural officials such as Tian Shifu and Tian Zuoli to check the water and soil. It was found that there are thirteen streams in the Great Plains, evenly distributed within a radius of two hundred miles. The forest coverage rate is pretty good, and there is almost no water and soil erosion in later generations. The soil in various places is also deep and soft, making it very suitable for farming.

Back then, if the ancestors of the Zhou people could defeat the troops here, they might have settled here.

The dark-faced Lao Tianguan threw down the soil in his hand, licked his lips and said, "Jun Lieutenant, as long as there is enough water, not only millet but also wheat can be grown here."

Another field man also said: "The land in the Great Plains is flat and it is easy to plow the fields. If there are enough manpower, it will be easy to cultivate millions of acres of new fields..."

After receiving such a report from the field official who specializes in agriculture, Heifu was even more certain that Gongsun Bailu's suggestion of converting Dayuan from pastoralism to agriculture to feed more people and resolve pasture disputes was feasible.

There is also a saying in later generations: "The eight hundred miles of Qinchuan is not as good as the border of Dong Zhiyuan"! You know, this will also be a fertile land known as the "Granary of Longdong" for a long time to come. As the most suitable place for agriculture in Beidi County, even with the current agricultural technology, it is easy to feed ten thousand households, but now it is crowded with more than ten thousand people. This is simply a waste of resources.

But Heifu's idea was slightly different from Gongsun Bailu's.

"Forcing Rong people to abandon herding and turn to farming is like forcing a war horse to take off its saddle and harness and put on farm tools to plow the fields."

Confucian scholars say that China's Rong and Yi, and the people of the five directions, all have their own nature and cannot be changed. The people in the West are called Rong, and they are given clothes and skins, and there are those who do not eat grains. The people in the north are called Di, who live in caves with clothes and feathers, and there are those who do not eat grains.

There is a certain truth to this sentence. The most obvious difference between Rong Di and Huaxia is not blood, but lifestyle. Rong Di's living habits are deeply rooted and cannot be changed by a decree. Although the Ohara Rong people are half farmers and half herders, from what Heifu has seen, they are undoubtedly mainly livestock husbandry. They measure the wealth and poverty of each family based on the number of livestock. The fields were burned randomly, and seeds were scattered all over the fields. They neither cultivated the fields carefully nor fertilized the fields.

Forcing them to abandon herding and engage in farming will definitely meet with huge resistance. Even if it succeeds, Heifu still doubts whether the food grown by the Rong people will be enough for them to eat.

Besides, if all the soldiers went to farm and neglected cavalry and shooting, the northern cavalry would lose a large number of troops.

All in all, Hei Fu’s plan coincides with Gongsun Bailu’s second idea!

"Jun Lieutenant, let me tell you, since the Great Plains can no longer accommodate so many people and livestock, and the ban fifty years ago is outdated, why not ask the court to relax the ban and allow the five tribes to move to other places for grazing... Otherwise, even if the county The captain ordered the five tribes to reconcile. In a few years, the five tribes will still fight and bleed. At that time, the matter may not be solved by tug of war."

Hei Fu didn't know whether Gongsun Bailu's proposal in Pengyang City was acceptable. He didn't know that the new county captain had a plan in his mind that was more radical than his!

On the first day of October, after returning to the county town, the Heifu family didn't even bother to go back, so they went to the county lieutenant's office and asked Chen Ping, who was left behind, to come and see him. He told Chen Ping what he had seen and proposed a bold plan.

"Within three years, I want all the Rong people in Dayuan to move away voluntarily, and to immigrate to Guanzhong and Guandong!"

"Relocation voluntarily?"

Chen Ping was slightly surprised.

Heifu had his own plan: "The place where he lives is impermanent, relying on water and grass, with little land and little grain, and making livestock the main occupation. This is the custom of the Rong people, but King Zhao used the Great Plains as a dog pen and kept the five tribes in it. If Even if the government removes the barriers, the five tribes will still migrate."

During the half month that Hei Fu left, Chen Ping was not idle either. After Shi Xinguan, the county captain, took office, he spent time in the government office day and night, giving him the tasks that Hei Fu had given him, such as checking the county soldiers. After finishing the list, preparing winter clothes, food and other things, I then worked non-stop to receive the "Shanghai Plan" brochures sent from various counties and filed them one by one. I was so busy that I didn't even have time to drink water.

Even so, he took the time to read through the records of the armies in Beidi County and had some knowledge of the armies of Ohara. At this time, after listening to Heifu's words, he asked:

"My subordinates dare to ask the county captain where they can move to? You must know that there are more than five Dayuan Rong people in the North. On the Jingshui line, there are Wushi Rong and Chaonarong, and on the Nishui line, there are Yuzhi Rong and Yiqu The soldiers and others each occupy pastures. The northern land seems vast, but there are not many truly flat and livable places..."

In his view, the Rong of Ohara were originally troublemakers in the North. If they were placed elsewhere, conflicts might arise and disrupt the order of the North. It would be better to be trapped in one place.

Therefore, when Heifu went to deal with the dispute between the Rong of Ohara, Chen Ping also proposed a poisonous plan of "using Rong to control Rong": he could take this opportunity to create disputes among the five tribes, causing them to engage in more vendettas and destroy each other. , the government supports two tribes to attack three tribes, or vice versa, the last five tribes are weakened, while the government and immigrants benefit.

Hei Fu disagreed: "Hounds get into fights and become bloody, and they can also bite their owners. What's more, hounds are used for hunting. Now that the cunning rabbit is not dead and the birds are still there, how can we rush to hide the dog and cook it?"

His vision is not limited to the Northland, but also casts its sights into the vast distance.

"Bring me the map!"

The lieutenants quickly hung up the map of Beidi County.

Hei Fu and Chen Ping walked to the map and said: "The bustling world is all for profit; the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit. In the past few decades, whenever the Qin army recruited soldiers and cavalry, the soldiers rushed over each other. The reason for recruiting is not only that the Rong people have a strong and brave character, and death in battle is considered auspicious, and death from illness is unlucky, but also because they can get bounties by conquering the six countries, and the property they capture can also be owned by them."

"The world is unified. In the past two years, the army and cavalry have no place to use, and they dare not disturb the people. They can only fight against each other and private fights have become common."

"What if there are new preys outside the country now that they can bite and plunder, or even seize their fertile pastures? Will the Five Parties still guard the Great Plains and remain indifferent?"

Chen Ping's heart moved, and he also knew that Hei Fu's appointment as the governor of Beidi County was an important part of Qin Shihuang's "Western Expansion" plan. Li Xin of Longxi County's target is Hexi, Qiang Yu and Feng Jie of Shangjun's target is Henan Province of the Xiongnu, and Mengtian of Yunzhong County's target is Zhao Jiuyuan City and Gaoque Fortress that were taken away by the Huns. Heifu, as the initiator of the plan, also How can you not have your own goals?

"Could it be that the cunning rabbits and birds that the county lieutenant is interested in are..."

Chen Ping's eyes found Xiao Guan on the map, and then looked up. Most places outside the country are completely blank, occupied by stretches of desert and mountains...

But not all is lost!

That's right, Heifu has already found the prey in his heart.

It is located outside the Great Wall, to the north of Xiaoguan, to the south of Helan, and on the bank of the river!

Heifu found its general location, clenched his hand into a fist, and hit it hard!

"Here, there is a place flowing with honey and milk! Not only can the five tribes of the Great Plains immigrate to live as pastoralists, but also new counties can be established for immigrants to open up fields!"

There, later generations called it "Lingzhou Yinchuan", and it also has a famous name:

Block up Jiangnan!

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October has arrived, and six hundred miles north of Xiaoguan, I felt the chill from the north earlier.

A ten-year-old young nobleman, wearing a golden crown, a black panther fur, a strong bow on his back, and deerskin boots on his feet, is riding his fiery red horse, galloping on the withered yellow grassland. On the top, the horse has slender limbs and light legs and hooves. It gallops forward, leaving the Hun riders behind it far behind, and is the first to arrive at the felt tent!

The young man reined in his horse and looked back, raising his bow high. He was the winner of this competition!

"Helan!" The Hun riders arriving one after another cheered and threw their felt hats under the young horse's hooves to show their admiration for him.

"Helan!" The Hun women who had been waiting for a long time in the felt tent also ran over with a smile, stretched out their hands, and raised their round faces, eager to get the prince's mercy.

But the young man ignored them. His eyes were always staring at the Helan Mountains covered with silvery white frost and snow, watching the snowflakes above being blown by the strong wind and falling to the mountainside.

"Helan", in the Xiongnu language, is the name of the horse. He loved the mountain and the winter pastures at its feet, even though it was just one of many Huns territories.

Because the prince felt that this mountain had some mysterious connection with him.

On the day he was born, the great witch lifted the bloody man high, put him on the horse, and announced the prophecy about the prince:

He, the son of Touman Chanyu of the Xiongnu, Prince Modun of the Luantang clan, was destined to be a horse that could gallop thousands of miles in the future!