Dahan first prince

Chapter 452 Characteristics of Nomads

"Your Majesty's strategy is really a bit..."

"Uh······"

"Whimsical..."

When Liu Ying came to the prime minister's mansion and saw her prime minister, Wang Ling, she just expressed her thoughts, but Wang Ling smiled wryly and shook her head, tactfully denying it.

Seeing that Liu Ying still had doubts on his face, Wang Ling could only shake his head and smile wryly before sighing a little.

"Your Majesty, you know: Why are nomadic people called 'nomadic' people?"

Asked softly, seeing that Liu Ying still didn't respond, Wang Ling finally let out a long sigh.

Between the brows, there was even a hint of sadness.

"The nomadic people, the grassland people drive their cattle and sheep, and move to the grassland to herd their livestock."

"Shepherds are herders, and wanderers are wanderers."

"—Gain because the nomadic people have to travel for years to chase water and grass, so they get the name: nomadic people."

"That's why the nomads move from spring, and every time they stay in a place for less than ten days, they move again;"

"In this way until Jixia, and then slowly turn back along the road from when I came, and return to the gentle place in the south of the curtain, so as to spend the harsh winter in peace."

"This is the custom of the nomadic people, and it is also the foundation for the nomadic people to live and work..."

Saying so, Wang Ling couldn't help but smiled again, and immediately raised his head to look at Liu Ying.

"This nomadic custom and habit cannot be avoided even if the Huns are alone in the court;"

"Zongdi Chieftain Maodun also started in the south of the curtain in spring, went north sequentially, patrolled the grasslands, waited until Jixia, and then went south and turned back."

"It goes back and forth year after year, and it's like this every year. What you do is nothing more than 'chasing water and grass, raising livestock, and fattening'..."

Hearing what Wang Ling said, Liu Ying finally understood, and couldn't help laughing at herself, shaking her head and sighing bitterly.

As Wang Ling said: Liu Ying ignored a crucial issue.

——The nomadic people, the reason why they are called "nomadic people" is because they live in no fixed place and migrate year after year!
From spring to late autumn, nomads in the grasslands are always driving cattle and sheep, either chasing aquatic plants or on the way to chase aquatic plants.

This is because the nomads living in the grasslands in the era have long realized what is meant by "fixing the lake and fishing";
In order for this grassland to grow plump aquatic plants next year, the herdsmen can only endure physical and mental exhaustion and strictly abide by the unwritten law of survival on the grassland.

——No matter who, even Shan Yuting, can't stay in a pasture for more than ten days!
Because after ten days, the livestock will start to eat the grass roots;
The human and animal manure produced by the tribe staying here will also greatly damage the ecology of this pasture, resulting in the fact that this pasture may not grow water and grass in the second year;

In the past three to five years, the pasture that was once extremely fertile may become a desert that never poops because of a certain tribe that stayed here for more than ten days.

In the next three to five years, this desert will expand in all directions, and eventually, the grasslands that are already in short supply of resources will be squeezed less and less...
Therefore, the problem that Liu Ying neglected was precisely the key to the system of "tunning and animal husbandry".

——Whether it is farming or "grazing", the most important core is collective production, working together, resting together!

Just like what Liu Ying has done in Anton in the past few years: Let the immigrants work collectively in a "farming group" of 2000 people to deal with the survival crisis together;

After many years of collective work, enough fields have been reclaimed, and enough production tools for independent survival have been prepared for everyone in the collective. They are now broken up into parts, and the farming group is dismissed to become local farmers.

The same mode of operation, derived from the idea of ​​"farming farming", seems to be feasible, but in fact, the operation is extremely difficult.

First of all, the most important point is: different from farmers' "living and working in peace and contentment", herdsmen are born synonymous with the words "living in no fixed place".

And living without a fixed place means that centralized management cannot be done, let alone Anhua City, where dozens of farming regiments and tens of thousands of immigrants in the vicinity can get shelter and live in this city wall like Anton today. Inside.

Furthermore, the herders' survival principles of 'protecting the grassland' and 'not excessively damaging the grassland' will also cause another problem.

——In order to protect the pastures from being destroyed, the nomads need to disperse as much as possible in addition to being "nomadic";

Therefore, nomadic people formed the custom of nomadic herding on the grasslands with tribes or even families as units.

And if such a group copied the Tungeng's set, there would be big problems.

The reason is very simple: the way of the farming group is to form a collective of [-] immigrants, and eventually separate into [-] families;
However, the "herdsmen group" could not form a group of [-] herdsmen at all.

Because of this, because of these two thousand immigrants, tens of thousands, or even 10,000+ head of cattle and sheep will be needed to herd livestock, and then act collectively on the grassland.

Leaving aside the current Han family, there is no huge grassland for herdsmen to "nomade". Even if there is, Liu Ying will never do that.

——Because neither the farming group nor the "grazing group" created by Liu Ying's whimsy is a completely civil organization!

——The original intention of the establishment of the farming regiment is to allow the border guards to cultivate their own land and be self-sufficient!
Let such a semi-militarized, or even nearly fully militarized organization, move freely in a huge area?

Liu Ying may be naive, but she is definitely not stupid!

You must know that today's Han Dynasty still maintains an extremely strict "Jinguan Law" in order to restrict the large-scale migration of people!
Unless they are officials in the court or servants of nobles, ordinary people cannot leave their county or even their county without a legitimate reason!
Even if there is a legitimate reason, you still need to go to the county government where your household registration is located, start the game, introduce it, and get a letter of introduction from a county magistrate-level official before starting from the local area;

Then, just like Master Xuanzang who set off from Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, in "Journey to the West", he passed and stamped all the way to reach his destination smoothly.

The control of population flow is an important measure, or even one of the main measures, for the feudal dynasty to stabilize the regime under the premise of insufficient centralization!

Once the population flow is out of control, Liu Ying can hardly guarantee that she can die and be buried safely in her Anling under the current Han Dynasty's control over the place...

The Han Dynasty'control of population flow' and the grazing system'inability to control population flow' are the first major flaws of the grazing system;
But it's just an 'important flaw', not a 'core flaw'.

——The core defect of the grazing policy is that the Han Dynasty did not have enough pastures, and there was no way for the herdsmen in the grazing group to finally obtain production tools through collective labor like the soldiers of the grazing group!
There is not enough grassland, so I don't need to go into details: the Han Dynasty today doesn't even have decent land for raising horses, let alone pasture for the "grazing group" to graze.

As for the final acquisition of production tools through collective labor, this is the core defect of the herding policy.

Give a very simple example:

You are a surplus son. After you became an adult, your father gave you half a month's rations, and then drove you out of the house to fend for yourself;
You were walking down the street dejectedly, and when you saw the farming notice issued by the court, you had no other way to survive, so you decided to take a risk.

Then, you were incorporated into a farming group of 2000 people, became a soldier of the farming group, and together with your colleagues, arrived in the distant Andong.

The travel expenses and food along the way are all paid by the government, and you are not starving.

After arriving in Anton, you began to live a very regular collective life: you practiced with your colleagues every day, opened up wasteland together, ate together, and slept together;
Although it is boring and boring, it is always fulfilling and has a bright future.

After two or three years of such days, it is roughly equivalent to serving another military service;
Then, your good days begin.

The acres of fields reclaimed collectively by your farming group were distributed to each regiment soldier, and you were allocated [-] acres.

And the past two years of hard work, practice, and food that has never been in short supply have also given you a strong body;

After that, you held [-] mu of land, a small house, and your former comrades, and became neighbors living in Anhua City.

After several years of hard work, you have accumulated a lot of savings by virtue of your [-] mu of land, and used this money to continue to marry a dutiful woman who will become your first wife.

In a few years, you will become a self-cultivator with [-] acres, a small house, two children and a happy family.

There is a field and a house, a family and a room, a wife and children on the kang, and a group of neighbors who are "friends of the same robe".

Your life is not brilliant, but it is happy enough...
The same example is placed in the "Tun Mutuan", but it has a completely different style of painting.

You are still a surplus son. After you became an adult, your father still gave you half a month's rations, and then kicked you out of the house to fend for yourself;
You were walking down the street dejectedly, and when you saw the "Tun Mu" notice issued by the court, you had no other way to survive, so you decided to take a risk.

Then, you were incorporated into the 2000-member "Tun Mu" regiment, became a member of the "Tun Mu" regiment, and together with your colleagues, reached the distant side wall.

Then, you are dumbfounded.

Because you found out that you don’t have to conduct military exercises every day, and you have to drive the cattle and sheep lent to you by the Chang’an Chaotang to graze water and grass everywhere;

At dusk, you return to the group camp exhausted physically and mentally, and find that your dinner is not the corn porridge you have been thinking about all day, but a few pieces of disgusting cheese.

You're hungry, so you eat with nausea, only to almost throw up acid in the middle of the night because you're still lactose intolerant.

You have lived through such days for several years;

Malnutrition for several years has caused many problems in your body, and you have even lost a lot of weight than before.

Then, the shepherd group was about to be disbanded, but you only got two calves and five lambs.

Although the Shaofu still built a brick and tile courtyard for you like it did for the farming group, but looking at the calves and lambs in front of you, you fell into a long period of contemplation.

——You will never live in the house given to you by Shaofu, because you need to take your calves and lambs to chase aquatic plants;
The comrades who used to practice together in the "grand herding group" will not become your neighbors, but will become miserable shepherds like you, who spend their whole lives on the grassland.

And your life will become more and more bleak under the embellishment of endless piles of cheese and beef and mutton that you can't eat once in many years...
Oh, right;

You can sell the dairy products produced by your cattle and sheep in exchange for the rice you want to eat;
But unfortunately, the dairy products you sell will only make more and more people realize that there is a genetic defect called 'lactose intolerance' for farming civilization.

So, in the end, you will only choose such a path.

——From the age of 20 when you entered the herding group, when you were separated from the herding group at the age of 22 or 23, until you were 40, you will concentrate on herding;
By the age of 40, you may be able to raise dozens of cows and a hundred or so sheep.

Then, you will sell all your cattle and sheep and return to your hometown.

You want to use the money from selling cattle and sheep to buy dozens of acres of land;
But you will find that even if you buy land and build a house, no one is willing to marry an old man in his 40s.

There is a high probability that you will die alone, and there is a high probability that you will lose your incense. Even if you marry a wife, you will not have much life left.

What's even more frightening is that eating dairy products all the year round will probably make you less than 40 years old at all...
"Um······"

"So, if you want to form a 'grazing farm' group, you have to find a way to stabilize the livestock land?"

"—Clover?"

With such a question in her heart, Liu Ying shook her head to herself.

Because Liu Ying realizes: Nowadays, neither the Han Dynasty nor the Xiongnu grasslands have a grass species with high yield and fast production cycle like alfalfa.

Even if there is, Liu Ying still vaguely remembers: alfalfa is definitely not a good fodder for livestock.

Whether alfalfa is in a mature state or in a hay state, it will cause flatulence in cattle and sheep, and seriously affect the health of livestock.

In addition to alfalfa, other types of fine pasture...
"Ah······"

"Things that the Huns and nomads don't have, where can I find them..."

Shaking her head with a bitter smile, Liu Ying finally let out a sigh of relief and bowed to Wang Ling.

"I was trapped in the palace all day long, watching the sky from the well, whimsical, the prime minister laughed..."

Unpretentiously admitting her innocence, Liu Ying quickly adjusted her mentality and brought the topic back to the right direction.

"In this case, there is only one strategy for the Huns captured in the battle of Mayi."

"——At the Daxing Horse Garden on the outskirts, with the help of Human's ability to raise horses, I will raise horses for my Han family for future use, and organize cavalry to fight against Hu!"

"For this matter, Prime Minister, is there any good strategy??????"

　Call ~
　　After straightening out my thoughts a little bit, it just happens to be the beginning of tomorrow, and I will take another day off if I take the opportunity, and I should be able to adjust my state.

　　During this period of time, the text has been delayed a lot, and the judges and masters will forgive me.

　　Thank you, parents, for your understanding.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)