The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1249 Grassland Colonization
Although the reserved areas of each tribe are very large, compared with the vast grasslands, these reserved areas are still much smaller. The total area of ​​these reserved areas is only about one-third of the entire grassland.Moreover, each reserved area is not connected, which prevents the collusion between the various tribes. Each tribe can only live in its own reserved area. Once it crosses the border, it will be patrolled by the Han army stationed on the grassland. The chase of the cavalry.

And since there are no horses, it will take several days to travel from the reservation of the tribe to the reservation of other tribes by walking alone. As for crossing the entire grassland, it will almost take years to calculate.

When delineating the reserved area, the Han army did not deliberately designate the barren and barren grassland as a reserved area, and on the contrary, that area with rich water, grass and fertile land would be given priority as a reserved area, which undoubtedly made the previous Those chiefs who were very worried about their tribe being divided into desolate areas were relieved, and their resistance to the reservation law was greatly eased.

Two-thirds of the grassland, since most of the area belongs to the Gobi desert, this part of the area has been designated as no-man's land, and no one is allowed to enter.And those fortresses and strongholds were established between the various reservations, usually stationed by Han troops and Han people, and the Hu people were also prohibited from entering.

The food and salaries of these garrison troops are provided by the taxes of various tribes, and they can be completely self-sufficient without the imperial court appropriating them. Grain for disaster relief.

In order to increase the proportion of the population of Han people on the grassland, Liu Yin suggested that the imperial court reduce the death penalty. Unless it is a heinous crime of treason, the general death sentence will be changed to life-long exile, and the prisoners who were originally exiled to the south will also be exiled to the northern grassland. .

This alone can add tens of thousands of Han people to the grassland every year, and these prisoners who are exiled to the grassland can engage in planting and animal husbandry to survive.Those prisoners who have been exiled for life can marry and have children, but their descendants cannot leave the grassland for generations.

Liu Yin wanted to change the proportion of ethnic groups on the grassland through this method of grassland immigration. On the one hand, he would curb the development of the Hu people, and on the other hand, he would support the migration of the Han people. Of course, the living environment on the grassland is much more difficult than that in the Central Plains. , Ordinary people are unwilling to move in, Liu Yin can only use the brains of prisoners, for those prisoners who are awaiting execution, exile to the prairie is already a great gift, not to mention it is a kind of compulsory The means they had to get from.

As for life on the grassland, although it is more difficult, the Hu people can survive, not necessarily the Han people, and with the support of the imperial court, it is not a big deal to provide them with as much life and production guarantee as possible, so that these exiled prisoners can survive on the grassland Difficult.

This will be a long-term national policy. Although it will be implemented unswervingly for a long time, Liu Yin believes that in a few decades, it will definitely achieve fruitful results. Only by completely changing the proportion of the population on the grassland can we truly solve the problem. Problems in the north.

Over the past dynasties, the only way to solve the problem of northern border troubles is to attack and defend. Needless to say, defending. The Great Wall, which was built with a lot of money and life, was hardly able to effectively resist the roaring cavalry of the barbarians. Passive defense is only Take a beating.

But even if it is as strong as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, although he can seal the wolf and live in the North Sea, but due to the lack of effective occupation of the grassland, those defeated Huns will soon recover their vitality and make a comeback, even if they use genocide. It is also difficult to cut the weeds and eradicate the roots. In such a vast grassland, only one or two branches remain, and they will always grow stronger and develop in the future, threatening the Central Plains Dynasty again.

As for using Hu to control Hu and instigate the Hu tribe to kill each other, that is even more stupid.As everyone knows, in a pack of wolves, in order to compete for the position of wolf king, countless male wolves will fight to the death and kill each other, and the one who wins in the end is the most powerful lord.Those who rely on this kind of bloody slaughter to ascend to the throne of the grassland are often the most powerful characters, and after such characters dominate the grassland, they will have a fatal impact on the Central Plains dynasty, such as Tuobagui, Yelu Abaoji, and Wanyan Aguda For example, Genghis Khan, all of them were heroes who fought their way out of the bloody tribes on the grassland. Not only could they dominate the grassland, but they could also conquer the Central Plains. To them, it was just a joke for them to use Hu to control Hu.

If we really want to solve the frontier problem of the prairie, we can only adopt the colonization method of the Americans of later generations to the western region, through a large number of immigration and massacre of Indians, and gradually change the population ratio of the west.At that time, the western part of the North American continent consisted of the Grand Canyon and desert. In terms of natural conditions, it was not as good as the Mongolian prairie. However, it only took one or two hundred years for the Americans to completely solve the problem in the west. Could it be that it has troubled countless Chinese? Can't similar means be used to solve the problem of thousands of people living in the north?
The road that Liu Yin walked was indeed an unprecedented road. No matter whether it was Emperor Qin and Wu who lived in the front, or Tang Zong and Song Zu who lived behind, they did not provide him with any useful things. Liu Yin could only use Use your own way to conduct experiments and explore a feasible path of long-term stability.

As for this process is extremely long, perhaps in Liu Yin's lifetime, he may not be able to see results, but Liu Yin believes that only his method is correct, and after several generations of hard work, he can completely eliminate the border troubles from the north. It will not be a dream, and the Chinese nation will not have to experience the catastrophe from the Hu people in the north again and again.

Perhaps, this will be the richest legacy Liu Yin left to future generations.

Liu Yin went all the way north from Langjuxu Mountain to the shore of the North Sea. The North Sea in the Han Dynasty was later called Lake Baikal. This pearl on the grassland is the lake with the largest fresh water storage in the world. One-fifth of the total, the earliest contact with Han people in Beihai was Su Wu. He has been herding sheep here for 19 years, and he is determined. Liu Yin also became the second Han general to set foot in Beihai after Huo Qubing. Picking this pearl is It is Liu Yin's biggest dream.

The surrender of the Xianbei tribes had left Liu Yin without any opponents on this grassland. Liu Yin went all the way north with the purpose of hunting wild horses.

If we want to really curb the development of the barbarians, we must solve the problem of horses. Simply banning horses will not solve the problem. Only by eliminating the wild horses can we truly cut off the barbarian's dream of cavalry.

(End of this chapter)