Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1395 Yongzhen Western Regions
To the west, the Yili River flows into the Great Lake Yibohai. The southwest of the Great Lake is sweet and fresh water. Due to the lack of river water in the northeast, salt water is miraculously formed.

Two big mountains and a big lake make Yili a relatively closed and safe huge river valley plain with unique geography.

There are now five counties in Yili County, and besides the 72 princes and more than 3000 knights, it is also divided into dozens of townships.

"There are now more than [-] households and more than [-] people in Yili County."

Because Yili is mainly immigrants, there is no big family, and the average household is only about four.

In such a huge place, there are only about [-] households, and an average of only about [-] households in a county. In the Central Plains, this is the average level of a middle county.

But in the Western Regions, this is the largest county of Han immigrants in the imperial court, which is more than the number of Han immigrants in Gaochang, Yiwu, Yanqi, and Kucha counties.

But relatively speaking, Yili County is much larger than the Gaochang counties.

"It would be great if the population could be doubled or tripled."

It is becoming increasingly difficult for the heirs who have been in the Western Regions for a long time to understand the emperor's frontier strategy. To expand the frontier and control the Hu, the simplest and most powerful way is to emigrate, and to emigrate on a large scale will completely change the local population structure.

Only when the number of Han people absolutely overwhelms the Hu people, it will be considered stable.

"Our Yili County has five counties under its jurisdiction. There are townships under the counties, and Baojia is established in every village below the township. The Baojia joint defense and joint sitting system is implemented. When one family encounters bandits, the Tongjia actually nine households must be rescued, otherwise they will be punished. If a family Collaborating with thieves is evil, and the other nine families must report it, otherwise they will be imprisoned."

"For the original Hu people in Yili, what we implemented was to return them to Luoji, split them up and resettle them in various places, and at the same time require them to prohibit nonsense and obedience, they must change their Chinese surnames to speak Chinese in Chinese characters, and worship Confucius, accept Confucianism."

This is a complete makeover from top to bottom, inside and out.

It doesn’t matter whether you were a Turkic in the past, a Sogdian in Zhaowu, or a Tiele, in short, all the old customs in the past have to be broken, starting from the surname and the language, and even the gods they worshiped in the past. change.

"Are those barbarians willing to accept this change?"

The prince asked seriously.

"Some people are willing to accept it, and some people are not so willing."

"Then how did you deal with it?"

"It's actually quite simple. The sage has given instructions on this situation long ago. It's nothing more than three words, defense, suppression, and comfort. In the Western Regions, we have built countless beacon piers, post stations, and military forts with the three silk roads as the core. , Patrolling camps, this is the smoothest information network, our sensitive eyes and ears, monitoring every move of the Hu people here, and also communicating with our Han immigrant settlements, garrison camps, etc.”

"We used Yiwu, Gaochang, Yili, Yanqi, Qiuci, etc. to build a network of cities, military fortresses and villages, and then connected them with the silk road to form a network, covering the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions, and the east and west of Congling. , this is defense."

"There are those rebellious and ambitious people. We have been watching them all the time. Once they refuse to obey the imperial court and dare to make trouble, we will not tolerate them. We will immediately deploy troops from all over the country to directly encircle and kill them. There will be no mercy."

For those Hu tribes who made chaos, the official attitude of the imperial court in the Western Regions is to encircle and kill them when they find them. The treatment is quite cruel and ruthless. Most of the people should be sold to the Central Plains and other places, and it would be a hidden danger not to keep them in the Western Regions.

"As for those Hu people who sincerely attached themselves, the imperial court's attitude is to comfort them, disperse them, arrange them as naturalized, treat them as they do to the Han people in the Central Plains, and give them land and land, and let their children go to school. Not bullying but not pampering either."

Under the guidance of this kind of ideology, 20 tents of Shu Nishi were exterminated, and the great country Kucha was uprooted, and the whole country was wiped out.

Sinicization of Hu people is the fundamental strategy of the imperial court to control Hu people.

All Hu people have to change their surnames to Chinese, wear Chinese clothes, keep Chinese hairstyles, and even learn Chinese, not only to worship their gods from the past, etc.

All old customs must be changed.

For example, Turkic people had a custom in the past, which was to accept step marriages.After the father died, the son who inherited the family business could take over all his father's wives and concubines other than his biological mother.

This kind of custom system, in the eyes of the Central Plains, is contrary to ethics, so it has been expressly banned now, and must be followed by the laws and customs of the Central Plains.

The concubines of the father and brother are the elders, and the sons and brothers must never get involved.

Another example is the inheritance of family business. Many Hu people have the system of keeping the business by the youngest son, and also have the system of dividing the family property equally, but now the imperial court requires the Hu people to abide by the patriarchal system.The title is only inherited by the eldest son, but the property is divided equally between brothers, and women have no right to inherit.

However, a woman's dowry is the woman's private property, and neither the husband nor the in-law's family has the right to touch it. This dowry is personal property, which inherits the previous system and also protects the woman's status.

The prince was greatly admired.

"Defense, suppress, and appease, these three words are important. I used to hear these words often when I was in the capital, but I didn't have any real feelings. Now that I'm here, I know these three words are very important. Uncle Huang Sitting in the western frontier, it's really hard work."

"For future generations!" Siye said. "My Han family has a huge advantage, that is, the population. If we can conquer a land and immigrate to guard it, it will be stable after a long time. Unlike those barbarian tribes in the grassland, their prosperity is also hasty, and their death is also hasty. Even like Tuyuhun, Its royal family was originally a branch of the Murong tribe of Xianbei in the northeast, and then moved westward to Qinghai. They defeated and conquered the local Qiangdi and established the Tuyuhun Kingdom. In the past, although King Khan had always been controlled by the Murong clan, in fact, the Murong clan had already been converted into Qiang. They are not Xianbei people, they have become Qiang people."

This is an inescapable problem that a nation with a small population will face after it conquers a foreign land with a large population. It will inevitably assimilate after a long time.

In fact, not to mention the Tuyuhun Murong Department, but to say that after the end of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms, occupying northern China, and establishing the Xianbei Tuoba Department in the north, it is actually the same.After they occupied the Central Plains, they faced a far larger number of Han people and a more advanced Han culture. In the end, they had to take the initiative to Sinicize and maintain their usual stability. Still did not escape the result of being assimilated by the Han people.

"We kept moving the Han people from the Central Plains here, and then moved many Hu people from here to the Central Plains and other places, and transported the slaves who conquered captives from other frontier places. This has made the population structure here completely complete. It has changed, there is not a single real native in Yili's more than 2000 miles of land."

"As long as there are another ten years, I dare say that the Yili River Basin, which is [-] miles away, will truly realize the same text and pronunciation of books."

This will be an unprecedented event, far away from the Qin and Han Dynasties.

The young prince nodded seriously, this is a real facelift, a real assimilation.None of the policies of the past dynasties towards the Hu people can compare with this once and for all.

The resettlement policy of Hu people in Wei and Jin Dynasties eventually led to the chaos of China and the catastrophe of the Central Plains.However, the Hu people's policy in the Sui Dynasty was to use the barbarians to control the barbarians. In fact, it still didn't have much effect. It was only for a while, but not for a lifetime.

As it is now, if the Hu people are turned into Han people, after one or two generations, these people who have the blood of the Hu family can only speak Chinese, and even think like the Han people, can they still be considered a Hu people?

Of course not, by then, they will be completely Han Chinese.

A nation without culture and roots is no longer a nation.

(End of this chapter)