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Gu Xiancheng's "theory of the head and feet of the Yi and Han" was first proposed by Jia Yi, a famous official in the Han Dynasty, as a national policy for dealing with foreigners on the frontier.

Of course, when Jia Yi proposed this idea, the Han Dynasty was not very powerful and was still deeply threatened by the Huns from the north.

During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, as the power of the Han Dynasty began to overwhelm the northern barbarians, this national policy began to be implemented.

To put it simply, the Yi-Han theory is a system that Jia Yi hopes to establish. This system is that the Han people live in the Central Plains area, and then recruit Sinicized aliens to guard the Han people in the border areas. These Sinicized aliens defend the Central Plains and fight against the more powerful Han people. Foreigners on the frontier.

An ideal system was formed with the Han as the leader, the barbarians as the sufficiency, civilization as the frontier, and the semi-civilized barbarians as the guardians of the civilization.

The most ideal state of this system is the state of the early Eastern Han Dynasty and the early Cao Wei Dynasty. The foreign races within it resisted the barbaric foreign races in the border areas, while the Han people did not need to guard the distant frontiers and quietly enjoyed the prosperity of the Central Plains.

Starting from the Han Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, even the Song Dynasty when military power was not prosperous, and then the Ming Dynasty, this political system was followed.

The reason why the system proposed by Jia Yi is so strong is that Jia Yi not only proposed methods to govern foreign tribes, but also put forward the ideological system of "Hua Yi Debate" and "Respect China and Reject Yi" to provide ideological guidance. , proposing measures in the military and providing plans in politics, which naturally allowed all dynasties to continue this policy.

Gu Xiancheng said:

"The theory of Yi-Han head-and-foot theory has caused great harm since the Han Dynasty. In the two eras when the entire policy was implemented most thoroughly, the Later Han Dynasty and the Wei and Jin Dynasties, both suffered huge problems because of this policy."

"The Later Han Dynasty (Eastern Han Dynasty) used this method to sort out the Qiang chaos problem in the northwest frontier, which eventually led to the inward migration of the Qiang people in the entire northwest region, but they could not digest these Qiang people. The Qiang chaos lasted for a hundred years, and the Eastern Han Dynasty used various methods, but it could not be quelled. The Qiang Rebellion, and finally the Liangzhou warlord Dong Zhuo destroyed the Later Han Dynasty due to the Qiang Rebellion."

"The problems in the Wei and Jin Dynasties were even greater. Cao Wei used the Xianbei, Huns, and Di people within it to manage border issues. By the time of the Jin Dynasty, the power of the Hu people in the north expanded rapidly, which eventually led to the Five Husbands invading China. tragedy."

Everyone was silent. What Gu Xiancheng said was right. Although the theory of Yi-Han primacy seemed very good, the barbarians on the border were like untimely bombs.

They may become Chinese because of the strength of the Central Plains, and they may also become barbaric because of the decline of the Central Plains.

It is also possible to bring the Han people in the border areas with them to become barbarians.

The most typical example is the Song Dynasty.

As a culturally developed Song Dynasty, it indeed had very strong sinicization capabilities.

It can even be said that the Song Dynasty has succeeded in cultural assimilation.

The upper class of the Liao Dynasty was already highly sinicized in the later period. After the Liao Dynasty was destroyed by the Jin Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty also absorbed the Han system and was then destroyed by the Mongols.

The Yuan Dynasty also absorbed many systems from the Central Plains, and in the end the national destiny was less than a hundred years old.

This confusion between civilization and barbarism even caused ideological confusion in the early Ming Dynasty. Can Confucianism strengthen a country?

Su Ze looked at Gu Xiancheng and said:

"Gu Shaosi thinks how to deal with the Guangxi issue, or the border issue."

Gu Xiancheng said directly: "The most important thing for the Governor is to move inward, break up and assimilate."

Gu Xiancheng said: "First of all, the chieftains of the Yao people in Guangxi, as well as the senior leaders of the tribe, have to move to cities with a large number of Han people, and encourage intermarriage between Han and Yao people in Guangxi to reduce discrimination against the Yao people. Guarantee the same treatment, work, and security, and even give preferential treatment to attract the Yao people living in remote areas to leave the mountainous areas and actively integrate into the civilization circle of the Central Plains."

"The Yao people who migrated inland must be kept dispersed and cannot be linked together to help each other. It is best to intermarry with the Han people, so that they can be fully Hanized in a few generations."

"Border areas must be guarded and suppressed by Han people. Alien soldiers can only be sent to other provinces or the northern front line. Retired alien officers must also stay in places with a large number of Han people. These people with military capabilities cannot be released back."

After Gu Xiancheng finished speaking, he said to Su Ze:

"Grand Governor, as you said, today is a 'great change unprecedented in history'. It is a completely different era from the past!"

"There is a big gap between urban and rural life now. Even foreigners prefer to live in prosperous cities. As long as discrimination can be reduced, few Yao leaders are willing to return to the mountains to rebel."

"As for the outstanding talents among the Yao people, we can use the city to attract them to stay, downplay their national characteristics, and build a sense of identity with the entire southeast."

"So I think Guangxi is also a border area. The more Han officials are appointed, if these problems are not solved now, it will cause greater trouble in the future."

Everyone nodded. Gu Xiancheng's words could be said to be a summary of his experience in serving in Guangxi, and he proposed a new border management plan.

However, this does not mean that Gu Xiancheng's plan is right, but it is obvious that all the cabinet ministers were moved by Gu Xiancheng's "big changes unprecedented in history" and were willing to give him a chance to experiment.

The next day, Xu Wei, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet and also the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, issued a cabinet decree, which was approved by the Metropolitan Governor's Office and established the Guangxi Department in the Ministry of Personnel, which was responsible for the promotion, transfer, evaluation and dismissal of Guangxi officials. The chief department was not established for the time being, and was replaced by Gu Xiancheng. Shao Si presided over the work.

Gu Xiancheng finally caught up with Tang Xianzu's footsteps in the same year and ranked among the seven majors, becoming one of the two people who made the most progress in the same department.

The phrase "great changes unprecedented in history", from the first time Su Ze mentioned it in a newspaper, quickly became popular throughout the Southeast and even spread to the entire world.

It was under the call of "great changes unprecedented in history" that North Korea's progressive scholars drove away the North Korean leader and two groups of nobles and began the process of trying to lead the country's construction on their own.

Under the guidance of the "great changes unprecedented in history", the monarchs and ministers of Annan gave up the tendency of separation that had persisted for thousands of years and tried to integrate into the Central Plains again and enjoy the development dividends of the Central Plains.

Kinoshita Tokichiro led the Kyushu Crusade, defeated the Otomo family and the Shimadzu family in Kyushu, and sent troops to besiege Nagasaki, hoping to gain support from the Central Plains by acquiring this port.

At the same time, Shen Yiguan and Chi Hongmo, the heads of the Pedestrian Division across the ocean, had just left Champa but were intercepted by the Khmer King's envoy.

They were originally going to Siam to accept the tribute request from the Siamese king. When they saw the Khmer envoy kneeling on the ground, Shen Yiguan said loudly:

"The Khmer country mainly pays tribute to our southeast. It goes directly to Nanjing. Why does it want to intercept us?"