Daming: I, Yang Xian, really govern Yang!

Chapter 103: Victory without fighting and subjugation

In ancient times, losing a field meant losing everything.

For those homeless victims, Yang Xian gave them a way to survive, a way to stay in Yangzhou.

They can choose to stay and continue to work in construction sites, road construction teams, cement brick kilns, wool processing workshops and other places.

Even, one day, you can settle down in Yangzhou.

Yang Xian promised to build cheap internal staff housing for them. As long as they work hard in the future, they will be able to afford it one day.

This is not a blank check, because the victims have heard from the senior workers from time to time that so and so has moved into a new house. Whenever someone talks about this, the others around them look envious.

Of course, even if it is a cheap internal staff room, the money required cannot be collected in a short time.Therefore, Yang Xian has built several low-rent apartments. For those who have requirements for accommodation and do not want to live in multi-person dormitories, they can rent them for a little money.

If it is farming, no matter how hard a woman works, the benefits she can produce are not as good as those of men.

In Yangzhou, women can work in wool processing workshops and earn the same wages as men.

There are also children.

Yang Xian has promised that their children can go to school and read and learn like the children of local people in Yangzhou.For these farmers who have faced the loess and turned their backs to the sky all their lives, now they have an opportunity to save their children from this fate. How can they not shed tears of gratitude.

Any of the above points are very attractive to these disaster victims.

Not to mention, added together.

If you stay here, you can have enough to eat, you can live, and you can live with dignity.

At the same time, we can have a bright future and look forward to it.

For these victims, there is no reason to leave.

It is conceivable that by the beginning of the next spring, there will be far more people left than Yang Xian imagined.

Successful disaster relief is another great achievement.

But since the Marquis had just been awarded, it was naturally impossible to promote Yang Xian to a noble title in such a short period of time.

Zhu Yuanzhang was worried about what reward should be given to Yang Xian, let's not talk about it for now.

On the other hand, in preparation for the coming winter.

Prince Zhu Biao, the general person in charge of the Garment Department, is currently in Yangzhou discussing with Yang Xian the processing and production of woolen clothing that will be launched on a large scale in various places.

"Yang Qing, although we have been promoting the raising of sheep in various places since last year, the wool is still far from enough." Zhu Biao frowned and said.

Yang Xian was already prepared for this, and said with a chuckle: "May I ask Your Highness where the wool is most abundant."

"If it is not limited to the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally a grassland, and there are sheep everywhere on the grassland." Zhu Biao asked a little puzzled, is Yang Qing still thinking of launching another Northern Expedition?
Now that the disaster has just passed, the Ming Dynasty's treasury is empty and may not be able to support this.

You must know that war is essentially burning money.

Yang Xian shook his head slightly, and then said: "Go and buy it from the Tatars in the north, or exchange it."

Under the influence of extreme climate, Yang Xian believes that herders on the grasslands will also have a hard time.

And the potatoes they grow can be grown twice a year.

At that time, you can completely exchange potatoes and salt for the wool in the hands of herdsmen.You must know that salt is also a scarce commodity for nomads.

"Doing business with the North?" Zhu Biao whispered, and after thinking carefully, he expressed his worries.

In his opinion, leaving aside the majesty of the Ming Dynasty, sending food to these herdsmen in the north would inevitably lead to the possibility of endangering the enemy.

Regarding Zhu Biao's doubts, Yang Xian smiled and said: "These grains will indeed help more herders on the grassland survive, and the salt will also make their lives better, but in my opinion, it cannot be said to be an enemy. "

"One of the important reasons why grassland herdsmen disturb the border is because they want to obtain more survival resources. We can give them this directly. They don't have to risk their lives and choose to take risks to plunder the border. I believe that as long as they are sane people, , everyone will know how to choose when the time comes.”

This is especially true after the shocking battle of Dragon Roar outside Beiping City last year.

"They just need to herd sheep and shear sheep with peace of mind, and they will have a lot of supplies."

"In the short term, there is no visible effect. As time goes by, more and more herdsmen will join the team of herding sheep and shearing sheep. By then, these herdsmen on the grassland will be extremely dependent on us."

Zhu Biao was shocked. He had never thought that he could do this.

Yang Xian continued: "In the end, these herdsmen will be completely constrained to shearing sheep on the grassland because they are overly dependent on the supplies we provide. Who will have time to go to the border by then?"

"I believe that if this policy is implemented for more than ten years, most of the grassland forces in the north will be digested. By then, it will be very easy to recover."

"Victory without fighting and subduing the enemy's troops is a good thing." Zhu Biao opened his mouth and praised. "If Yang Qingti's policy can be implemented smoothly, it will indeed be possible to completely conquer those Mongolian Tatars without making a sound!"

Zhu Biao looked very excited.

You must know that from ancient times to the present, the Han people in every dynasty have been invaded by the northern Tatars.

From the beginning of Qin Shihuang to the present.

All the wise kings in the past dynasties have made it their mission to eliminate the nomads, but most of them only attack or resist.

In the pre-Qin period, in order to prevent the invasion of the Xiongnu, even the dominating Qin Shihuang had to send Meng Tian to build the Great Wall.

Even the Western Han Dynasty, which was closest to completely solving the grassland problem, still fell short in the end.

In order to completely eliminate the Xiongnu forces and perfectly solve the northern barbaric problem that has plagued the civilization of the Central Plains for hundreds of years, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che sent out the imperial double wall for a decisive battle in Mobei.

The Han army achieved an unprecedented victory in the history of the Han-Hungarian war. Not only was there no royal court in Monan, but the entire grassland had no overlord for decades.

But after recuperating, the Xiongnu came back again. This time they lost Huo Qubing's Han army and were ultimately defeated.

Not to mention the Song Dynasty, it was destroyed in the hands of the prairie people in the end.

Therefore, if the problem of the northern grasslands can be solved in one fell swoop, with such great achievements, it would not be an exaggeration to say that they are more powerful than Emperor Qin, Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Zong of Tang and Song Dynasty.

This is why Zhu Biao is so excited. As long as he accomplishes this, his name will go down in history.

Of course, it is impossible for Yang Xian to really wait for more than ten or twenty years for this policy to be fully effective.

When the technology tree climbed up, it was just a grassland.

It was just the first step in his vision of the world.

(End of this chapter)