Three Kingdoms

"Longyou, as Wen He said, there are few people. 』

Fei Qian sat on his horse and headed west.

The rest of the journey is not so rushed.

He was rushing so hard before because Fei Qian also needed to personally test and experience whether this "highway", or a "straight road" similar to Qin Shihuang's back then, could be achieved.

As a centralized feudal dynasty, an important part of its ability to expand its territory is that the larger the area directly covered by the strong central force, the more powerful the dynasty will naturally become.

Before the advent of steam engines, cavalry was the strongest land arm, a quick reaction force.

After Feiqian sorted out the bills along the way and re-examined the changes brought about by the new logistics model, he found that this path is indeed very good and effective, but it can actually save some...

Because Jia Xu knew that Fei Qian would come with people, and it was not just a trip, but at least a round trip, he made good preparations, whether it was in the Anding area near Guanzhong, or in Zhangye and other places in the Western Regions. The specifications and facilities of the ground, the military camp, or the small military station are basically similar, and there are no flaws.

However, this also results in higher overall costs.

As an important corridor connecting the Western Regions and Guanzhong, Jia Xu's dense arrangement of such support military stations is not a big problem from a certain perspective, but if those are not very important, or are relatively complicated and rugged It is obviously unreasonable for the roads in the district to be so densely constructed.

Jia Xu also agrees with this.

Moreover, Jia Xu also raised a very critical issue, which is also an old problem in Longyou, that is, there are few people.

In other words, what Fei Qian had just agreed with was that there were indeed few people.

This place has little water, so the land is barren.

Because the land is barren, large-scale crops cannot be grown.

Because without large-scale planting, it would be impossible to support a high-density population.

This is a real problem, and it is true that Feiqian cannot change it.

The spirit of Foolish Old Man who moved mountains is advisable, but his behavior is not. When the mountains don't support people, people can climb out of the mountains and bring back a team of excavators. Isn't it better than making baskets at home? Of course, the key is to come back. Otherwise, after driving the excavator outside the mountain, he will be happy and ignorant, and it is not just Liu Chan.

"The policy of migration can only be implemented temporarily, but cannot be sustained for generations." "Jia Xu said on the sidelines that he did not agree with large-scale migration of people from the interior. "In the past, during the reign of Xiaowu, people moved to the Central Plains to fill in the borders, but there were many problems..."

Fei Qian nodded and said: "The method of migration can only cure the symptoms, not the root cause." If we are looking for a permanent cure, we still have to look to the Qiang people. 』

"Qiang people?" ” Jia Xu frowned.

Migratory Qiang people?

Fei Qian nodded, "Yes, Qiang people." But it’s not migration…』

Sometimes you need to open your eyes a little bit.

"Water is an ordinary thing..." Seeing that Jia Xu was a little confused, Fei Qian said slowly, "If you don't get water, you will die in three days." If there is water but no food, you can live for seven days. If you have food and water, you will be safe for a hundred days. 』

This is common sense, or in most cases accurate knowledge.

A question mark appeared on Jia Xu's head.

Fei Qian tilted his head slightly and glanced at Jia Xu, "There is some new research from Chang'an Agricultural College... I will have someone send a copy to Wen He to see... mainly the water Zhuang He needs..."

"water? ” Jia Xu blinked. This is an area that he has not touched at all. Even though he is extremely intelligent and has the top wisdom of a big man, he still seems to be unable to grasp the key points.

"Water and soil... The water and soil on one side can support people on the other side... Rice grows mostly in the south, and wheat grows mostly in the north." This is water and soil, Zhuang He is like this, and so are people." Fei Qian stretched out his hand and waved it up and down, "Wen He, you need to look in another direction...look from the bottom up...most of the time we were doing this before. Looking from top to bottom, now you might as well look back..."

"in turn? ” Jia Xu seemed to be thinking about something.

Fei Qian glanced at Jia Xu.

In fact, this is also a problem reflected on the Longyou Military "Highway".

When Jia Xu formulated these military stations, his main basis was military needs. Therefore, some military stations were actually in relatively remote areas, with no human habitation for more than ten or even twenty or thirty miles around. Although this was a great supplement And it facilitates military needs, but it also puts a lot of pressure on subsequent replenishment of such military depots.

If we consider it from the grassroots level, then military depots will extend outward along important towns. Then in these uninhabited areas, the layout of some military depots will be relatively reduced, which will add additional burden to the surrounding towns until the population increases. , and then consider the issue of outward extension.

This is like the settlement and migration of Han people.

At a certain period, border patrols are necessary, just like military stations. If it were not decided and implemented by the upper levels, such a military "highway" would not naturally appear in ten or twenty years. However, If there are problems in this process, but turn a blind eye, or talk about what can be "overcome", "ignored", "endured", or "suffered", this kind of person is often not Stupid is bad.

What is "temporary" "endurance", or "suffering"? Then they turn a blind eye to the problems in front of them and clamor about whether "tomorrow" will be better and the "future" will be sweeter?

Well, some people believed it at first.

However, the year before last was said to be the most difficult, and you will be fine if you get through it.

Last year, I said that last year was the most difficult. If you get through it, you will be fine.

This year is still said to be the most difficult, and the future will be...

What else can we say next year?

No matter how short the memory of the people is, it's not like they can't remember it every year, right?

Anyone who doesn’t talk about the specific time of patience and doesn’t specify the temporary period is similar to the Buddha’s theory, isn’t it?

This life is karma and suffering, but the next life will be wonderful.

So in this life, everyone deserves to suffer?

Oh, it's not "everyone". After all, there are still a group of people who don't need to "overcome" or "endure" to enjoy the happiness and sweetness of the moment. After all, these people have practiced cultivation in the previous life and only have the blessings in this life. . right?

There were obvious problems with the border migration strategy of the Han Dynasty.

The first wave of people migrating from the interior were five kinds of "sinners". The laws of the feudal dynasty are so simple and crude. If you are guilty, you are guilty. But what are the thoughts and purposes of the ministers and noble elites who want to move the so-called "sinners" to the border?

Perhaps to a certain extent, he wanted to protect the "innocent" people outside the five "sinners", but are these "sinners" really sinners? Are the "innocents" that I protect really pure?

Moreover, for the migration to the border areas, Feiqian will also send officials here to make arrangements for the early, middle and later stages. But who knew this at the beginning? Who else will go back and do it? Just like leaving grass seeds on the ground randomly, whether they can grow up depends on luck. In this way, the effect of migration can temporarily support the Western Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu. This is not because of how smart these upper-class feudal rulers who formulated strategies are, but because of the Chinese The people of this nation can endure hardship enough!

Otherwise, would you try it with another ethnic group?

But just because the people of China are so innocent, they cannot be bullied to death!

If all the good people are bullied to the point of death, what will be left? Either a darkened good guy or a pure bad guy. By then, everyone will be happy?

This is what Fei Qian wants to tell Jia Xu.

Those in power in a feudal dynasty, especially those at the top, such as the emperor, must stand with the people at the lowest level, otherwise...

When the emperor of a feudal dynasty forgot his position and began to mix with the ministers in the middle, the dynasty began to perish. This has been proven several times in history, and Fei Qian will certainly not turn a blind eye to these "lessons from the past".

The military station can be regarded as a small-scale migration, but even a small-scale migration requires strategy.

Fei Qian had considered this issue before, but he had always been disturbed by this or that matter and had not thought about it or explored it specifically. It was not until this time that the Western Region incident broke out that Fei Qian Suddenly I remembered this question that I may have considered several times before, but had not thought about it deeply enough.

Amid the chaos in the Western Region, a situation occurred that Fei Qian had not expected at all.

Not Lu Bu, but Buddha.

Fei Qian had made preparations for the Western Regions before, but in this preparation, the only thing Fei Qian did not consider thoroughly was Buddhism in the Western Regions.

How did a false hope confuse so many people?

This is a big problem.

Fei Qian cannot solve them all, but he can try to solve some of them.

After all, in the final analysis, it’s all about people.

Jia Xu glanced at Fei Qian's face, cupped his hands and said, "What the Lord said is true, and the people are like water." Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. 』

This is the view of the old Xun family in the Spring and Autumn Period, so it is not surprising that Jia Xu understood it immediately.

Fei Qian snorted, "The differences between the great men in the Western Regions are like Jingwei." We see the difference at first, but what happens next? When the river rushes into the sea, is it divided into Jing and Wei? Therefore, Lu Fengxian's move to massacre the Buddhist kingdom and kill the people is absurd. What is available to the people should be used and should not be easily destroyed. 』

Jia Xu sighed, paused for a moment, and sighed again, "If Brother Wenyou were here, just based on the Lord's words, it would be obvious." 』

Jia Xu was very emotional.

Li Ru and Jia Xu were both Han Chinese, but there was a time when they were not human beings inside and out.

The Han people in Shandong felt that people like Li Ru and Jia Xu were no longer Han people, and they were expelled from the Han nationality.

The Qiang and other minority tribes also feel that people like Li Ru and Jia Xu cannot be considered their people...

In fact, both Li Ru and Jia Xu accepted the culture of the Han family and lived and grew up in the land of Longxi. Why should they be tolerated by both parties? The Han people think that Li Ru and Jia Xu have become barbarians. Even in history, Jia Xu was able to accumulate merit and reach the Three Sophora Palaces. When he took the position of the Three Lords, there were still people who whispered below, indicating that Jia Xu had no foundation at all. He is not qualified to serve as the Third Duke. The reason is not Jia Xu’s wisdom and ability, but his dislike of his origin!

People in Shandong believe that a position is not determined by ability, but by origin!

The key is that this concept can be recognized by many people in Shandong and even some people from other places...

In fact, one's origin is a circle.

The political groups of the feudal dynasty were accustomed to having a circle to protect themselves. Those with vested interests also don’t want more people to share the pork. So these upper-level guys will consciously build information cocoons for the lower-level people, inducing the lower-level people to separate into various circles, and then they will fight, bite, and kill each other like fighting animals in cages...

This can ensure that these fighting beasts will not spend all day thinking about opening the cage or hanging someone from the street lamp.

What Jia Xu lamented was that Fei Qian was more tolerant than ordinary rulers.

Tolerant of the Han people, but also tolerant of the Qiang people.

Also tolerant of people with disabilities.

Even now that Lu Bu has disrupted the Western Region, Fei Qian is still able to think calmly, and seems to be looking at the future all the time, looking for the direction, instead of opening his mouth to talk about anger or boredom. And related words that tend to express emotional catharsis.

This is a characteristic of a leader that Jia Xu has never encountered before.

Not even Cao Cao could do it.

Li Ru did logistics for Lu Bu and opened up the Western Regions, not for any so-called meritorious service, but to prove the broader world that Fei Qian had described before.

Now before Li Ru's death, he did lift a corner of the curtain, and the current disputes in the Western Regions have proved from another perspective that the West does have a broader land and a more fertile country.

The "highway" model now used for military purposes will naturally be built in the Western Region in the future.

"My lord, but..." Even though Fei Qian said this, Jia Xu still said with some concern, "If we use barbarians as a stronghold... I might be tempted to give others a thumb..."

Fei Qian turned his head and glanced at Jia Xu, "Wen He, you are too cautious." 』

Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, and quickly raised his eyes to look at Fei Qian, only to see that Fei Qian seemed to have just said this casually.

Did you really say it casually?

Jia Xu didn't believe it.

Because Jia Xu is really so cautious. He is like a thousand-year-old bastard. He is not sure that there is really no danger in the outside world, so he will never stick his head out easily. It's like Jia Xu clearly knew that there were problems in the Western Regions, and also knew some things about Lu Bu in the Western Regions, but Jia Xu never took the initiative to report them. At most, he only had one hand, such as delivering the matters reported in the Western Regions to Guanzhong.

It's also like Jia Xu clearly has ten thousand ideas in his mind at the moment, but he doesn't say anything. He has to wait until Fei Qian asks several times before one of them comes out from his stomach...

But the question is, does avoiding or hiding or hiding really help solve the problem?

“Being cautious is a good thing, but being too cautious is not necessarily the case. As the sage said, those who love war will perish. Therefore, some people say that a country should not indulge in war. This is a good thing. However, there is no mention of why we should fight. In the end, we cannot fight. Anyone who talks about fighting will be guilty. Fei Qian said slowly, "Since ancient times, when has there been no war in this world?" If you don't talk about war at home, does that mean there are no thieves in the world? 』

People are sometimes very contradictory, just like the small group of people in Guanzhong. Some time ago, someone in Guanzhong asked why Fei Qian didn't go to Shandong? Not attacking Shandong is simply a waste of time, place, people and people. It is simply a combination of stupidity, benignity and stupidity...

And now some people are asking why Fei Qian wants to fight in the Western Regions? To fight in the Western Regions is to be belligerent, wasteful, and stupidly combined with one another, etc...

Fei Qian sometimes finds it very interesting.

The people of Shandong are more or less from the Han Dynasty, and then a group of people in Guanzhong jumped up and down, saying that they would start quickly, the sooner the better, the faster the better, the heavier the better, and then they turned around to deal with the Western Regions, which was not considered bad for the time being. Let’s go to the mainland of Han Dynasty, and then there is a group of people in Guanzhong who are chirping, saying that they should not care so much about external affairs. It is thankless and just can get by. If you are willing to fight, you will die. What’s the point of winning this kind of war...

I wonder, is it possible that this pair of internal and external faces is also a fine tradition of the Han Dynasty?

Jia Xu's eyes suddenly condensed.

"What the sages said was originally well-intentioned, but thieves stole it. ” Fei Qian said slowly, “But when the literary thief speaks, where is the bravery of the literary thief? It's good to be kind, but don't you know what's good and what's evil? A small thief can lead to great disaster, just like Bian Que's technique, the wound will still be injured after healing. 』

Jia Xu sighed, "I am guilty." 』

Fei Qian waved his hand and said, "Wrong again." I am not blaming you for this, but I am just saying that someone has made a mistake, and I will encourage you to do so. Punishment without discipline is a taboo. It is human nature to seek benefits and avoid harm, so there should be laws to determine right and wrong. In the past, according to the laws of Qin, anyone who saw atrocities and avoided them would be guilty of the same crime, so he saw righteousness and bravery. There is no such law in the Han Dynasty today, so we stand by and watch the crowd. Therefore, we should use discipline to promote courage, rather than using courage to offend discipline. 』

"If you are willing to fight, you will die. We should discuss the pros and cons, and the pros and cons should be put into practice. This is the account..." Fei Qian pointed to the ledgers tied behind the guards, "Or we can investigate it on the spot. ... It is a sin only for those who only stand above others and end the path of the world with one word. 』

Jia Xu cupped his hands and said, "What my lord said is true." I am taught. Nowadays, the Qiang people are mostly settled, and then they are self-transformed. According to the lord's policy, promote settlement through business, consolidate the people through settlement, teach them the Chinese language, and recruit their elite... After three generations, they will be Han. 』

Fei Qian nodded slightly.

Isn't this great? This model was still used in later generations.

Among civilizations, it is also the law of the jungle.

If you cannot uphold your own civilization, you will inevitably be replaced by the civilization of others. If you want to maintain your own civilization, you must have your own language and writing, and have your own core values ​​condensed from your own thoughts.

Jia Xu obviously had some ideas, but just now he was pretending to be stupid.

“Forced migration will inevitably breed resentment. Therefore, the Han Dynasty should be regarded as noble, and people will come to be noble. But where does the price come from? In terms of strength, who will win between Han and Qiang? Only through wisdom can we win. Being clear about affairs, dealing with disputes, and holding a balance are all the ways to show the wisdom of the Han Dynasty, and then you can show your nobleness. Fei Qian said, "If you want to value wisdom externally, you should learn it internally, know the law, and understand the principles... In this way, you should not value strength, but civilization... Those who are strong will eventually decline." time, but the wisdom of civilization can be passed down from generation to generation..."

To put it simply, we should put aside the so-called "invasion" remarks and instead hold high the banner of "freedom" to express that the great Han came to help those tribes and countries that are full of contradictions, class conflicts, and low primitive technology. Let’s work together towards the bright future...

Jia Xu laughed and said, "My lord, do you want to see Ajiesha?" 』

Fei Qian pondered and nodded, "That's fine, but not now." A little further..."

Further ahead is Yumenguan.