Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 577
Two months later
Summer of the eighth year of Yan State 370 (588)
While Yan State was stepping up its preparations for the war and engaged in a public opinion war against Sui State, it did not forget to continue to reduce the living space of Goguryeo by the way.

Heishui City (Temple Street)

It is located at the estuary of Heishui (Heilongjiang). Along this river, you can enter the Nan River (Songhua River). The middle reaches of the Nan River is where the royal city of Goguryeo is located.

It is too difficult to enter the hinterland of Goguryeo from the southern land. There are forests and swamps everywhere. It takes a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to open mountains, build roads, build bridges, and transform swamps. Interference, maybe the newly built bridge was secretly demolished by Goguryeo people within a few days.

So Yan Xu changed his mind and adopted a new way of thinking.

"The Northern Expedition doesn't have to be fought from south to north, it can also be fought from north to south!"

"Fighting from north to south can also be called the Northern Expedition!"

His idea was to build cities, fortresses, and settlements along the Blackwater River, subdue the indigenous tribes along the Blackwater River, and entrust the nobles to be city lords here, allowing them to expand their territory here.

The first city was planned to be built at the mouth of Heishui, under the direct control of Yandu government.

There are a large number of aborigines living near Heishui. They are collectively referred to as "Heishui tribes" by Yan State. The Heishui tribes are divided into three parts, namely the northern part of Pimao Island, the north bank of Heishui, and the south bank of Heishui.

The Heishui aborigines in the northern part of Phi Mao Island have become chieftains of the Yan Kingdom. The Heishui aborigines on the south bank of Heishui were conquered by Goguryeo and became the subjects of Goguryeo. The aborigines on the north bank of Heishui are still free. They attack each other. Kill, not affiliated with any country.

The indigenous tribes on the north bank of the Black Water were collectively called Sushen before, and they were also called Savage Jurchen, Fish Skin Jurchen, Saurons, etc. in later generations.

They are very capable of fighting alone, each of them is a brave man, but team fighting is very awkward, there is no way to fight, and they always like to charge without thinking.

Tai Shihu, a famous general of the Yan State, once said that if they carried the same weapons and equipment, ten Yan State Imperial Guards would be chased and beaten by ten Sushen people, and a hundred Yan State Imperial Guards would fight to a tie with a hundred Sushen people. , a thousand Imperial Guards of the Yan State can chase a thousand Sushen people with hammers.

The living conditions of Sushen people are difficult. They have to fight all kinds of wild animals since they were young, fight with Jiaolong (crocodile) for food every day, and use Jiaolong skin (crocodile skin) to make clothes, so they can be so brave, but it is only limited to bravery. In fact, bravery alone is not enough.

Although they are all called Jurchens, they have nothing to do with Wuji.

It's like the Chinese and the Japanese are both called yellow people, but neither side will regard each other as compatriots, because yellow people are just a collective name for them by Westerners.

In the same way, there is not much relationship between the savage Jurchen (Sushen people) and the Wuji Jurchen. They don't know each other. Their collective name, they don't even know that they are called Sushen people.

The overall appearance of the Heishui River is dark green, hence the name Heishui. This is because the soil in the Heishui River Basin is fertile, the water is abundant, and the evaporation is small. A large amount of humus dyes the river water.

Although the Spice Islands have more water and heat, but there is too much rain, and the evaporation is too high, and the soil fertility is washed into the ocean by the rain.

Therefore, the fertility of the land cannot be preserved, but there are many fishery resources near the island.

In the black water area, because of the perennial cold, the soil fertility is preserved underground, making the land appear black.

"Except for being too cold, this place is truly a land of abundance!"

The general of Yan State who came to build Heishui City was the first time he came to Heishui area. Looking at the vast forest, swamp and plain in front of him, he expressed such emotion.

This land, if it can be remodeled, is really suitable as a grain production base, but the climate is too cold, not only must choose cold-resistant crops, but also prepare cold-resistant clothes for the immigrants and build infrastructure that can withstand the cold.

All in all, Yan Guo's evaluation of this land is: the future can be expected!

The prospects are very good, but Yan Guo does not have so much manpower, material and financial resources to invest.

Yan Guo is currently busy preparing for the Great War in the Central Plains, so it is naturally impossible to spend its national power on the development and transformation of this black land.

Building the Blackwater City and conquering the natives along the Blackwater River are just the first things.

Yan Xu's second thing for the Blackwater area is [Xia Jun Yimin].

What do you mean, that is, in the northern part of Pimao Island, those black water chieftains were formally brought under the rule of Yan Kingdom.

It can be regarded as a low-profile version of [Reform the soil and return to the stream]. The specific method is to build several cities in the northern part of Phi Mao Island, and let the nobles of the Yan Kingdom hereditary rule these cities. By the way, the black water chieftains around these cities , also belonged to these aristocratic rule.

The ruler is the nobles of the Yan Kingdom, and the people at the bottom are the natives of Heishui. This is Yan Xu's [Xia Jun Yimin] plan.

For the relatively obedient Phi Mao island chieftains, Yan State is much more gentle. It will not directly kill them all like Goguryeo, but spend a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to immigrate Heishui indigenous people to Yan State. Issue [Yan Guo ID card], specially arrange Confucian students, teach them the official language of Yan Guo every day, take them to familiarize themselves with the life of Yan Guo people, and integrate them into Yan Guo people.

While migrating the natives of Phi Mao Island to live in the mainland of Yan State, and slowly assimilating them, they also migrated the native people of Yan State to live in the bitter cold Phi Mao Island.

In this way, the country of Yan is tantamount to completely digesting the fur island, and integrating the fur island into its own land, instead of the Jimi area.

Before, Phi Mao Island (Sakhalin Island) was to Yan State what the Western Regions were to the Han Dynasty.

And in order to encourage the aborigines of Phi Mao Island to voluntarily immigrate to the mainland of Yan State to experience the kingship, the government of Yan State promised that as long as the aborigines of Phi Mao Island immigrated to the mainland of Yan State, they would directly become civilians and be exempted from taxes for life, starting from the second generation. To collect taxes.

Not only the natives of Phi Mao Island who immigrated to the mainland of Yan State can be exempted from tax for life, but also the people of Yan State who immigrated from the native country of Yan State to Phi Mao Island can also be exempted from tax for life.

As long as it is beneficial to land reclamation, the King Yan family still attaches great importance to it.

In order to encourage the nobles of Yan Kingdom to rule Phi Mao Island hereditaryly, Yan Xu also thought of a way.

That is "proxy jurisdiction", what is "proxy jurisdiction"?
This is because, after the last Hou Jing Rebellion, the number of nobles in the Yan Kingdom has been greatly reduced, and all the remaining nobles have their own hereditary territories.

To expect them to voluntarily give up the rich territory of Yan State and go to the bitter cold Pilao Island to reclaim wasteland and develop new territories is to treat them as selfless saints.

Yan Xu would not regard others as saints with perfect morals, so he never expected the nobles to realize their conscience and voluntarily go to the frontier to open up wasteland, but to impress the nobles with benefits.

That is to say, you go to the frontier to be the emperor of the land, and open up wasteland for development. As for your territory in the mainland of Yan, the central government will not take it back, and will even send someone to help you act as an agent to govern it. All income from the territory is still yours. If you are not at ease The proxy jurisdiction of central officials can also entrust a certain guild to act as a proxy, and even allow the people in the territory to self-govern, as long as the people continue to pay taxes to you.

The various behaviors of the government of the Yan State are like the Han Dynasty entrusting the clansmen of the Han family to the Western Regions to establish a vassal state, and also encouraging people from the Western Regions to immigrate to the Central Plains, and encouraging people from the Central Plains to immigrate to the Western Regions.

There is no doubt that this is a matter of great significance. It is similar to the feudal state and the founding of the country in the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Xia Junyi people, or the reformation of the land and the return of the people in later generations.

However, this kind of thing can't be rushed, we can only take it slowly. After all, if we act too hastily and have too many goals to digest at one time, it will lead to a large number of tax-free people in a short period of time, and at the same time greatly increase the consumption of national power in a short period of time.

You can only grow by eating one bite at a time. Eating a large bucket of rice at one time is not growth, it will only choke yourself to death.

(End of this chapter)