Three Kingdoms

Chapter 3048: Mount your horse to defeat the bandits, dismount your horse to govern the people

"The strengths of the Western Regions are the same as those of Beirong. Fei Qian didn't mean to make Zhang Liao too embarrassed. He pointed at the group of horses in the distance and said, "Hu Rong is good at fighting and also good at riding horses." If Hu Rong has no horses, there is nothing to fear. 』

"Horses..." Zhang Liao turned around and looked at the horses.

Fei Qian now has two huge ranches in Longyou Yin Mountain. A professional horse breeding institution composed of Jiang Mengshi and Western Qiangnan Huns specializes in raising war horses. After several years of breeding and cultivation, the number of war horses is now close to Eighty thousand horses.

Does that mean that 80,000 horses can be sent to the battlefield?

Obviously, no.

The war model of exterminating descendants is not what Fei Qian likes.

Reasonable use and planned development are the embodiment of a country, an order, and a civilization.

Although Fei Qian's trip allowed Shanshan to sign a contract with the city, he did not bring back much money. It will take a certain amount of time until Chang'an benefits, and the lag of this time is not suitable for ordinary family tribes. , is unsustainable. Only large organizations with certain savings and accumulation can adopt this model.

It's like raising a horse.

Without horses, trying to conquer the continent is undoubtedly a joke.

If Fei Qian mobilizes with all his strength, the nearly 100,000 cavalry will become a nightmare for all hostile forces. However, at the same time, the scale of such an all-out war will also make Fei Qian unable to follow up...

The full CD time is too long.

If you only use one-tenth or one-twentieth of your power, the blue bar will recover quickly.

This is easy to understand.

And Fei Qian did exactly that.

This is actually not the fighting mode of the Han people, but that of the Hu people...

If Zhao Guo's Hufu cavalry and archery during the Warring States Period was the first reform of the cavalry combat mode, then Fei Qian now wants to communicate with Zhang Liao and wants Zhang Liao to implement the combat mode in the next stage, which can barely be said to be the second. Reform of cavalry combat mode.

China should have the courage to learn from the best in the world.

Hufu riding and shooting changed the war of the Warring States Period from chariots to war horses, making chariots gradually withdraw from the stage of history.

The second war horse reform that Fei Qian wants to carry out is to change the entire Chinese war model from the inland to the mainland!

If you want to reform war horse tactics, you must naturally start with horse politics.

Fei Qian's eyes fell on these war horses.

In addition to following the soldiers on duty, the war horses were basically removed from their bits and saddles, and then rushed to a place with relatively shallow water to let the horses move around on their own. Because the horses under Fei Qian are accustomed to moving together, even if the reins are loosened, these horses will still not stay away, nor will they be afraid of humans. They will even run to the cavalry to beg for food, shaking their heads. .

"Sima of the Western Zhou Dynasty is one of the emperor's facial features. Since the rise of Qin, it has also been herded by the emperor. ” Fei Qian said slowly, “During the Spring and Autumn Period, chariot battles were prevalent. Horses and horses galloped between the streets... In a country of thousands of chariots, chariots and horses were the most important thing. The Warring States period was chaotic, with people riding and shooting in wild uniforms and riding alone, horse politics became more and more important..."

"The horse administration of the Han Dynasty was governed by the servants of Etai. Thirty-six pastoral gardens were divided into the north and west. There are 30,000 official slaves and maidservants, and 300,000 horses. Fei Qian looked at Zhang Liao and said, "When Ma Zheng was prosperous, the Han Dynasty prospered. However, after Guangwu, Ma Zheng declined, and the border areas also declined. Do you not know about these things?" I don’t know? People don’t know? 』

War horses are a strategic resource. In order to enrich this strategic resource, the Han Dynasty government began a majestic and majestic horse policy. In addition to the government's establishment of a special horse management agency, Taipu Temple, the Han Dynasty also encouraged private horses to be raised and purchased high-quality private horses at high prices. With a rich mass base, the Han-Hungarian wars were fought for more than a hundred years, and the Han cavalry had a steady supply of war horses.

Artillery can be a deterrent force in local wars, but it cannot be the main force in overall wars.

With the current production technology and material conditions, the cavalry is undoubtedly the king of inland wars. This throne will continue until the emergence of the internal combustion engine, and the cavalry will be kicked off the throne and gradually withdraw from the stage of history.

The biggest enemy of the Chinese cavalry is not their opponents, but themselves.

Zhang Liao also followed Fei Qian's gaze and looked at the horses, "My lord, do you mean that the government of men is worse than the government of horses?" 』

This is not a particularly difficult question.

Policies formulated by people will inevitably be destroyed by others. But the point is not to know that this is a problem, but to solve it.

"A filial warrior has a horse, but a glorious warrior has no horse." Fei Qian said with a smile, "The Han and the Xiongnu fought, and each suffered injuries... The Han forced the Xiongnu to flee to the North Sea in a hurry, but he also lost tens of thousands of troops and killed 100,000 horses... The Han horses were in short supply, and in Xiaowu's later years, When marching into the Western Regions, they mostly advance with infantry... either because they don't want to know the use of cavalry or because they don't have horses. 』

"In the beginning, Xiaowu's horses were like the Xiongnu. They were raised by the people, and the best ones were selected and purchased..." Fei Qian looked at the horses, and then showed a meaningful smile, "Later, when the powerful saw the benefits, they raised them. The harm caused by the support of the people caused Xiaowu to change the support of the people to the support of the powerful..."

Zhang Liao was a little stunned and a little confused.

Are there any problems with free-range horses?

There must be something wrong.

Uneven.

In the later Japanese countries, it was initially emphasized that a cup of milk every day would make you stronger and taller. However, some powerful people focused on this business and claimed that the milk raised by private farmers was substandard, unhygienic, and could not make people strong and tall. They also caught a lot of unqualified samples and sent them to them. They immediately banned free-range cattle breeding and changed to large-scale cattle breeding.

Are there any problems with privately raised free-range cows?

have.

Is it okay for big households to raise cattle?

Not really!

The original problem of retail feeding has been taken over by powerful investors. Not only can various "beneficial" feed supplement ingredients be added with a scientific basis, but various "qualified" food additives can also be added to finished milk. Modify the original milk naming rules and confuse the original definition of fresh milk, so that milk with insufficient protein can be successfully put on the market.

This is actually the same process as the horse administration of horse breeding in the Han Dynasty.

Because there are some problems with free-range horses among the people, the powerful people reported and expanded these problems. However, the powerful people created this problem not to solve these problems, but to extract this part of the benefits from the people. Local powerful people are not fools. Horses are extremely important strategic resources. They know that the country needs them, so how can they be willing to sell them at a low price?

The price of horses is getting higher and higher, but the quality of horses can be made worse and worse through various means...

So if all the breeding of war horses is nationalized, will it be possible to avoid the shortcomings of the powerful?

That's what Li Shimin thought, and that's what he did.

The horse administration of the Tang Dynasty learned from the experience and lessons of the horse administration of the Han Dynasty, and transformed the horse breeding of the powerful into a state-owned horse farm.

Not only Li Shimin, but also the emperors of several subsequent dynasties realized the importance of war horses, so they basically relied on state-owned horses...

In the Tang Dynasty, the Li family raised war horses on a large scale in the Helong area, with the number at its peak reaching 700,000. But it was because the Tang Dynasty valued war horses so much that the Tang Dynasty adopted policies to suppress and suppress private horse breeding. The social style of horse breeding was no longer the same as in the Han Dynasty. As for national-owned enterprises, the disadvantages are naturally obvious, without any thought. The desire to evolve, let alone the breeding and improvement of horse breeds.

Every time the Tang Dynasty fought a foreign war, while winning, it also meant that the best batch of horses in the original racecourse died, and the next batch would be sub-optimal, and the next batch would be sub-sub-optimal, and finally degenerate to Pony…

Because the pony was not selected every time, it naturally preserved the most genes.

Therefore, when it comes to raising horses, it is obviously not possible for the private sector alone. Private horse breeding, high and low, is no problem in emergencies, but it is impossible to establish an establishment and scale.

Allowing the powerful to raise horses can lead to large-scale establishments, but the powerful will take the opportunity to get in the way of the country, and even ask the country to lower the standards for horse selection again and again, because raising horses is difficult and the income is low!

Letting official state-owned institutions raise horses can indeed guarantee the supply of war horses for a certain period of time, but the degree of corruption of state-owned enterprises is very alarming. At the same time, after state-owned enterprises, policy has become the biggest influencing factor.

Just like raising horses in the Song Dynasty, the state devoted all its efforts to it, formulated many policies, and even provided various benefits, in an attempt to concentrate its efforts on doing big things. However, because the horse policy in the Song Dynasty changed too quickly, Song Dynasty During the Shinsong period, the number of state-owned horses reached a peak of 200,000. However, after the reformists lost power, the number of horses plummeted, and the subsequent "horse politics" was nothing more than a show. As a result, the cost of a state-owned horse in the Song Dynasty was as high as 500 guan, while the price of a horse in the northwest border trade was only 25 guan. The more state-owned horse assets, the greater the financial pressure, and the harder the lives of ordinary people.

"Take the broadness of the people and horses, the excellence of the village horses, and the size of the garden horses!" Fei Qian said with a smile, "If this can be done, then the Chinese horse will be the most powerful in the world!" 』

Zhang Liao nodded, then rolled his eyes a few times, seemingly hesitant to speak.

Fei Qian laughed and said, "Haha, Wen Yuan thinks that by then the people and horses will probably be scattered, the village horses are ugly, and the garden horses are weak?" 』

Zhang Liao also laughed and said, "My lord, since you have thought about it, you should have a plan." 』

Fei Qian nodded slowly. He has actually been thinking about this issue for a long time.

For most people in the Han Dynasty, there was no way to look at the problem vertically and based on the entire history like Fei Qian. For most people in the Han Dynasty, being able to make horizontal comparisons was already considered remarkable, and very few Only a first-class intelligent person can combine some examples and experiences of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to seek solutions to some current problems.

This is also the reason why Li Ru thought so highly of Zuo Zhuan at that time...

Fei Qian couldn't understand it at first, but later he figured it out.

The reason why some gangsters think Zuo Zhuan is not a big deal and sneer at it is because the nine-year compulsory education and the Internet have contributed to the popularization of knowledge. However, if the people of the Han Dynasty wanted to understand the historical experience, ordinary people really couldn't do it. arrive.

Don't look at the current situation where Fei Qian civilized the Southern Xiongnu, beat the Xianbei, hooked up with the Western Qiang Rouran Jiankun, drove the Wuhuan far away to the White Water and Black Mountains, regained the Western Region of the Yinshan Mountains, extended his sphere of influence to the snowy area, and pinned the young Tubo to the ground for life. Friction, but this does not mean that there will no longer be the threat of nomads around China.

Now Fei Qian is just continuing the last window of superiority of China's classical military, crushing the nomads who are still in bone and bronze. In the Western Regions, Fei Qian has already discovered the settlement and farming of nomads. With the development of metallurgy and the excavation of mines, as time goes by, the original metallurgical gap in black iron technology will be narrowed.

Although nomads may not be able to make more steel, steel can suppress iron as much as iron can suppress bronze.

Corruption in the Chinese Empire was also an unavoidable problem.

No matter which feudal dynasty it is, under the suppression of the second generation of the founding emperor, it may be able to be clean for a while, but the third and fourth generations will almost 100% begin to become corrupt. After a hundred years, it will become a stubborn disease. Those who want to moderately reform must He will be pushed to death by senior corrupt officials in Xiyuan Pond.

So have catfish.

And there can’t be just one.

Catfish also appeared more than once in Dahan Pond.

Dong Zhuo was originally a catfish, and then Lu Bu, but unfortunately, although they came from a lower level, they did not want to expand the rights and assert their authority for their original class. Instead, they sharpened their heads and thought He wanted to squeeze into the upper class, and how could the upper class easily accept Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu?

And when people with relatively low backgrounds like Dong Zhuo and Lu Bu break away from their original class, how can the original class continue to support them? So their final defeat became inevitable.

And Li Guo, as well as Huangjin Heishan Baibo, etc., are another kind of catfish.

It's a pity that these catfish have lost their order from the beginning and only know how to solve problems by killing. Kill corrupt officials, kill powerful people, kill everyone who stops them, kill everyone who opposes them, thinking that killing them all will be useful, and killing them until no one dares to oppose them is done. But these people don’t even understand the most basic political theory, human beings The establishment of society and the birth of various laws were originally based on the word "compromise".

I have fish and you have grain.

When it comes to exchanging fish for grain and grain for fish, no one is willing to compromise and cannot agree on a price, so the only option is to kill. After killing, only the fish or the grain will be left, or both parties will lose and nothing will be left.

If the two emperors of Yan and Huang did not compromise with each other, they would not be able to cooperate, so there would be no China.

The biggest characteristic of a wealthy family is that they know how to compromise. It can be said to be weak in the knees, or it can be said to be aware of the current situation. So just like Shanshan, even if Fei Qian split Shanshan into two countries, whether it is Lao Wang or Xiao Wang , both endured it silently, because both of them knew that the current situation could only be tolerated. Even they knew that the Shanshan Congress might be destroyed one day in their descendants, but that would be their descendants' business after all... …

"The foreign countries in the Western Regions are just like the powerful China. To conquer the countries in the Western Region, they can be destroyed, they can be collected, they can be divided, and they can be weakened. The important thing is not to destroy the weak, to collect them, but to educate and unify them. Fei Qian said slowly, "The prefectures and counties in China are also powerful. With the balance of agricultural and engineering bachelors, with horse administration, farming and animal husbandry as the most important tool, with the circulation of metal and stone tools, with the people's wishes as the link, not to mention the obstruction of China's tyrants, the world is so big, and the wastelands all over the world are also the same. Take it! 』

"These methods are the correct solution for scholars, farmers, industry and commerce." 』

"The learning of scholars cannot be used if it is not used by the people." If farming does not benefit the people, it will not benefit the people. This is true for everything in industry and commerce. The people's desires are nothing more than food, clothing, shelter and transportation. However, the food of the Spring and Autumn Period cannot be eaten today, and the clothes of the Warring States Period cannot be worn today. There is a nest that can be placed in the ancient times, but it cannot live in the present. If the ancestors' requests are given to the people, they can be called saints, just like Cangjie who created Chinese characters. When the people are in urgent need, they can be praised as virtuous, just like Yu the Great who controlled the floods. If you solve the people's sufferings, you can become an emperor, just like the great ancestor. 』

"The people's hearts are like flowing water, and it is better to clear them than to block them." Fei Qian finally said, "Wenyuan is now galloping north and south, and his horse is leaping east and west. Among the big men, the one with the most extensive experience is Wenyuan..."

Fei Qian's eyes stayed on Zhang Liao, "Wen Yuan has thought about what he wants." 』

Zhang Liao was stunned.

Fei Qian and Zhang Liao talked so much, firstly to clarify their position, secondly to show future prospects, and thirdly, naturally to prevent Zhang Liao from following in Lu Bu's footsteps.

Although Zhang Liao's fate was better than Lu Bu's in history, in fact it was only a little better. He was always excluded from the periphery of the political circle. On the surface, it seems that Cao Cao always boasts about Zhang Wenyuan as long as Zhang Liao is present, but in fact, Cao Cao does not trust Zhang Liao at all, at least not more than he trusts the Xiahou clan of the Cao family...

Some warriors are indeed not suitable for political participation because their brains are full of muscles, but Zhang Liao obviously has the potential in this area, and for an empire that focuses on external expansion, if political power falls into the hands of civilian officials, it will inevitably It will soon turn from external expansion to internal friction. Therefore, Fei Qian wants to develop Zhang Liao's potential in this area and allow Zhang Liao to successfully transform into a qualified "catfish".

Of course, if Zhang Liao only hopes to become a pure military general, then it doesn't matter. But if Zhang Liao hopes to reach a higher level, Fei Qian is also willing to support him.

After all, there are many types of catfish, it just depends on where you put them.

Zhang Liao pondered for a long time, "My lord... Liao Bucai, dare to ask my lord what you want..."

Fei Qian smiled and said, "Does Wen Yuan know that rice and grain prices in Shandong have been rising again this year?" The price of corn has doubled, but the people have not benefited. Some people can't even take care of their own food, and there are many people who sell their sons and daughters... However, people in Shandong still think that the people still have blood, so they crawl on it and suck it. ...』

"What someone desires is not this country, but the people in the country." Fei Qian said with a smile, "If there are no people, what is the use of a country?" 』

"If there are no people, what is the use of the country..." Zhang Liao murmured and repeated, then fell to the ground, "What the lord wants is what Liao wants!" Liao is willing to be driven by his lord, mount his horse to defeat the bandits, and dismount his horse to govern the people! 』

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