Dragon fights in Tang Dynasty

The grassland tribes are nomadic peoples, their cultural concept is that their living customs are very different from the farming civilization of the Central Plains. Since ancient times, there have been constant conflicts and never stop. Whenever the Central Plains is strong, troops will be sent to conquer the grassland tribes. When the power of the Central Plains declined, the grassland tribes invaded the Central Plains. For the Central Plains regime, the border troubles were always a headache. Even if they were as strong as the Han and the Tang Dynasty, they would inevitably have to deal with the harassment of the grassland peoples. Even if Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty completely defeated them The Hun Empire did not help, and there were still five chaos in China. As far as Li Zhen knew, it was not completely resolved until the Ming and Qing dynasties of later generations.

In the final analysis, nomadic civilization is a kind of destructive civilization, a kind of plundering civilization. Nomadic civilization has never been good at building, only good at destroying. For nomadic civilization, plunder is the root of their survival. However, the lack of basic moral concepts is the root cause of the predatory nature of the nomads, but it is this kind of predatory nature that emerges from the bones that makes the combat effectiveness of the nomads extremely powerful. The mainland is the concrete manifestation of this kind of wolf nature developed to the extreme.

The farming civilization of the Central Plains has never found a good way to deal with the grassland nomadic civilization. Apart from fighting, it is pulling. As for fighting, it goes without saying. Qiang Qin, Qiang Han, and Qiang Tang all focus on fighting , supplemented by La--when the strength is insufficient, it is a marriage, and when the strength is enough, it is to sweep the grassland. Even the Qing Dynasty, which was transformed from nomads in later generations, never found a good match for the Mongolian tribes who were also nomads. A good way, apart from wantonly conferring kings, dividing all parts of Mongolia into countless small tribes, and then adding marriage marriages is actually not a very good move. Li Zhen, who is a time traveler, is naturally in the heart of this series of various historical facts. There are many, but Li Zhen has some ideas about how to deal with the wolf-like grassland people, but she is not too sure.

Marriage?What Li Zhen dislikes the most is marriage, not to mention that marriage has never been successful since ancient times, it is just a stopgap measure. It's a shame to pin your hopes on a woman's weak shoulders. Li Zhen can't care about others, but if Li Zhen is the emperor, he will never use his daughter to do such shit. It's useless, isn't it?

beat?Of course beatings are necessary, but for the grassland people, if you don’t frighten them by beating them, they won’t trust you at all, but beatings won’t solve the fundamental problem—a wolf is a wolf after all, even if it’s beaten badly. Don, it will never become an obedient dog. Even if it stops for a while, in the end it just stops to accumulate strength. When the time is right, it will still bite you.

Completely wipe out the grassland tribes?This is impossible at all, not to mention how inhumane the massacres are, even if they can kill all the grassland tribes close to the Central Plains, it will be the same thing-didn’t the strong men destroy the Xiongnu?so what?After all, the grassland is too big, and there are too many tribes scattered on the grassland. Even if one crop is wiped out, there will still be nomads migrating from other places.

Eclectic?This is a way, Li Shimin is playing this game at the moment - as long as the grassland peoples who are attached to the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty will move them inward, give the fields, the land, the money and food, but what is the result?What should be rebelled is not still to rebel——in the 13th year of Zhenguan, the Turkic aristocrats of the capital conspired to assassinate Li Shimin, and then took advantage of the situation to rebel. Facts have proved one thing—wolves are wolves, and they will not become dogs just because they are locked up. Unless all wolves are dispersed and intermarried with dogs, maybe after a few generations, wolves will become wolf dogs. However, things like this are not that simple. Without him, it is easy to confine wolves, but it is difficult to separate a pack of wolves. After all, wolves live in packs, and the price of dispersing wolves is that wolves will Rise up and rebel.

It is not easy to tame the wild wolf of the prairie tribe, at least in the cold weapon era, or even the initial stage of firearms, it is impossible. Without him, the prairie tribe is a nation on horseback, regardless of gender Young and old, they are warriors on horseback, and their fighting power is very powerful. It is actually a thankless task for warriors with agricultural civilization to fight with the grassland people. The only thing that can suppress the grassland people is the age of firearms, especially After the invention of the breech-loading gun, most of the advantages of the impact force of the cavalry of the grassland nation were offset, and the grassland civilization embarked on the road of decline. With the invention of the breech-loading gun and machine gun, but the tank, the grassland civilization became the most difficult. The civilization can no longer set off any waves, and has been completely reduced to the target of arbitrary bullying.

Self-improvement is the fundamental way, and Li Zhen knows this very well. Li Zhen may not be as good as those military experts in later generations when it comes to gunpowder and firearms, but in her previous life, she knew a lot about this aspect, such as airplanes, tanks, etc. Li Zhen knows some things, but, limited by the current production level, Li Zhen can't make it at all, even a prototype. Of course, it is not difficult to make black powder or even muzzle-loading guns and cannons. When the conditions are ripe, even if it is smokeless gunpowder, breech-loading guns and other things, Li Zhen can get close to each other, but what is needed is not only time and technical personnel, but more importantly, timing. Li Zhen didn’t have the guts to play those sharp things. After all, Li Shimin is not so easy to fool. If he is not careful, he will end up being thrown into the abyss by the old man. For more than ten years, Li Zhen did not dare to take any action other than sorting out some simple knowledge and secretly teaching it to the orphans taken in by "Yanji Company". Of course, the foundation has already been laid. It's very fast to move, isn't it?

As for how to treat the people of the grassland, Li Zhen has never seriously thought about it—this era is different from the later generations Li Zhen came from. The concepts of territory and national boundaries are actually very vague, even in the Tang Dynasty. The country is vast, but if we really want to clarify where is the land of the Tang Dynasty, I am afraid that none of the civil and military men in the Manchu Dynasty can tell, even Li Shimin himself does not know. The Central Plains of the Tang Dynasty is still a vast prairie, which can be regarded as the border of the Tang Dynasty. Both the grassland tribes and the people of the Central Plains can be regarded as the people of the Tang Dynasty, but the actual territory controlled by the Tang Dynasty is not too large, except for the Central Plains. , the other areas are all independent or semi-independent, so Li Zhen really didn't think much about the people of the grassland. Hearing Li Long ask about this out of the blue really confused Li Zhen for a while.

Headache, a real headache, facing this huge problem, Li Zhen had a severe headache, repeatedly thinking about the key points, but still couldn't find the answer - what to say?It must be different to say that it is not my race?Hey, Li Zhen is not a person of the time at all, he knows very well that those grassland people are all Chinese in the end, so there is no reason to exclude them and say that they are their own people?But at present, the grassland people are not the people of the Tang Dynasty, at least not yet, so they can't just keep their eyes open and talk nonsense.

***, where did this Li Long come from?It's really f*cking out of place to annoy Lao Tzu with a difficult problem!Li Zhen glanced unhappily at Li Long who was standing aside with a smile on his face, and suddenly felt that this guy was very clean, without even a trace of water, and was stunned for a moment——standing in the snow For one night, not to mention his energy and health, even his body is clean and tidy. This person's internal strength is really not to be underestimated. It may not be as good as his own, but it is also commendable. Coupled with his good speech, he is really a talent!Li Zhen's love for talent was greatly aroused, and seeing this person's face darkened again, she already figured out that this person must be from the grassland, but she still had some doubts in her heart—this person speaks fluent Mandarin, which is exactly Chang'an's accent, A prairie person can speak Chang'an official dialect, unless this person has stayed in Chang'an often, but Li Zhen has never heard of such outstanding talents in Chang'an.

Forget it, I can say what I think, let's see how this kid reacts!Li Zhen narrowed her eyes, smiled and said: "Sir, this question is really too big. This king can only try his best to answer it. Well, this king thinks that the whole world is the land of the king, the land of the land. , Could it be Wang Chen, what do you think, sir?"

Li Long's face turned pale immediately, and after a long silence, he lowered his head and asked, "Could it be that the prince's intention is to use force to quell the grasslands, and do things like Han Wu?"

Ha, I guessed it right, this kid is really from the grassland, damn it, interesting, hey, if such characters can't be used for their own use, then they can only be eliminated.Li Zhen had murderous intentions in her heart, but she didn't express anything. She smiled lightly and said, "Otherwise, this king is just a prince and has no right to make decisions. Second, even if this king can have the right to make decisions, I will The king doesn't even bother to learn from Han Wu's policy of exterminating the Xiongnu. In my opinion, since the tribes of the grassland respect my father and emperor as the Khan of Heaven, they are considered the people of my Tang Dynasty. Of course, those rebellious people among them It is impossible not to pacify them by force, but the rest only need to obey, they are the people of our Great Tang, so why should we slaughter them."

Li Long was not moved by Li Zhen's words, but asked with a frown: "Assuming the prince has the right to make decisions, what should we do after the grassland is pacified?"

Li Zhen had already thought through this question when she was thinking about it, and she didn't hide it at this time, she smiled and said: "This king has said that this matter cannot be decided by this king, but if this king can decide, There will be no country outside the Great Wall, it can only be the territory of the Great Tang. All the tribes will be the people of the Great Tang, enjoy all the rights of the people of the Great Tang, and naturally assume all the obligations of the people of the Great Tang. You can seal the Khan, but everything must obey the orders of the imperial court. The ministry has its own borders, and there are divisions. The ministries are not allowed to kill or annex each other. All disputes are adjudicated by the courts set up by the imperial court. No pardon!"