Sweep the World

Longxi County and Dongmian Pass, such as the former Hangu Pass, and the subsequent Tongguan, Hulao Pass, Lantian Pass, and Yao Pass are all gateways to the Guanzhong.

To the east of Guanzhong, there are passes built by the terrain of mountains and rivers, while the western and northwestern sides of Guanzhong are almost a flat river. It is difficult to have any dangerous terrain.

The regime that set the capital in Chang'an paid the most attention to the security of the east, because the east is the Central Plains. However, the Central Plains has always been densely populated and well-developed. No matter what the pass, those passes are the barriers of the capital city to prevent the Central Plains from quickly entering the pass after the chaos, and there is no time for the capital to prepare.

Since the annexation of Yiqu in the Pre-Qin Dynasty, there have been few factors that could cause chaos in the northwestern part of Guanzhong. It was waiting for the Qiang people to descend to the plateau and occupy the northwest, and there was a new threat to the west of Chang'an during the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The Qiang Rebellion has plagued the Eastern Han Dynasty for more than 100 years. The Qiang people rebelled again and again. For a certain period of time, the Northwest was a quagmire at all. It is really nothing to say that the Eastern Han Dynasty was dragged down by the Qiang Rebellion. pass.

Why didn't the Eastern Han Dynasty build the Great Wall as a guardrail like the defense against nomads on the grassland? That's because the prefectures and counties where the Qiang Rebellion broke out are the territory of the Han Dynasty. There is no reason to build the Great Wall and cut off its own territory. Furthermore, the financial affairs of the Eastern Han Dynasty have not been very good.

Longxi County was originally the border of the Han family, and to the west is a vast basin. The basin was actually in the hands of the Han family, but it didn't last long. To the west of the basin is the plateau, which is an area absolutely unfamiliar to the Han family.

There are alien races in the basin, which are classified as Qiang, and the real meaning of Qiang is a group of shepherds who herd sheep. The reason why they become a nation is the definition given by Zhu Xia, who has the right to name the nation and the right to record history.

It’s not wrong to say that Zhu Xia has the right to name the nation. Because the Central Plains Dynasty is strong, the strong can give the weak a name, say who is what clan, even if that clan does not recognize it, then hit recognition, or just destroy it. After that, we will make the final conclusion.

Regarding the right to record history, there are quite a few ethnic groups in the forest of nations in the world, but few people use words to record their own or other ethnic history like Zhu Xia. The long river of history is so long that no one can see the end. Whoever records history in words does not know how long it will be for future generations to see. They may only see what happened in ancient times only by building a time machine, or otherwise. The ancestors have to believe what they have recorded, and there is simply no way to verify historical records.

"The Qiang people have harmed the Han family for hundreds of years, and there are still woes to this day." Liu Yan is one of those people who believed that the Eastern Han Dynasty was dragged down by the Qiang rebellion, not to mention that he also knew what role the Qiang people played during the Five Husbands. He was riding on a horse, surrounded by ministers or generals, and envoys from foreign countries, and said coldly: "Don't make it come back."

Xie An had to stand up and dismount, respectfully saluting and promising: "The minister will surely wipe out this disaster!"

Longxi County is very large, basically flat grassland, and has been one of the breeding grounds for herding army horses since ancient times.

In the pre-Qin period of the ancient times, Daqin was on the horse farm in the Longxi Plain to ensure that the chariots had majestic horses, the knights rode on the horses, and even the logistic baggage was not lacking in animal power, and even the folks could have enough horses for use. To pull the plow.

Used Malay to pull the plow before Qin Dynasty? This is not a joke. There are quite a lot of documents that have recorded that horse-drawn plows are widely used in various countries in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, and cattle are not the only livestock in farming.

There are far more nations and countries that use Malays as the main animal power for farming than cattle. Especially the stronger the empire, the more common they use war horses for farming. This is a very simple reason. The cavalry of cold weapons is equivalent to modern armored forces. Even the civilians have enough horses for farming. How can the army lack war horses?

Nowadays, there are many countries that use horses as the main animal power for farming, especially the most powerful countries, all of which use plows. For example, Rome did not pay much attention to cavalry, but the Romans mainly relied on horses in terms of animal power in farming. It is also like the Persian who dominates Central Asia. Whether it is the powerful Parthian or the Sassanid dynasty, as long as it is over the agricultural records, it is basically to see the Imala plow.

Of course, the use of horses as the main animal power for farming is not so much that horses are used. In fact, it has something to do with the geology and what kind of food is grown.

For example, horses are of course more suitable for most areas in the Central Plains, but if they reach the south of the Yangtze River, they are not suitable. Cows are more suitable for farming in the mud than horses. The consideration is not speed, but animal power. The endurance and strength.

If horses are used as the main farming animal power in the Indo-China Peninsula, it is obviously not appropriate. The animals’ legs and hooves are destined to adapt to the environment in which they are destined. Forced twisting will only suffer.

In today's Han, horses are mostly used as the main animal power for farming in the north, and cattle are used in the south, which is a geographical limitation.

There is no shortage of pastures in Han. The grasslands to the north of Yanmen County are all under the control of the Han people. The grasslands north of Bohai County have been a horse breeding land since ancient times. There is also Longxi County, a grassland that has been used by Zhuxia for a long time. The Han people have Too many places can be used for grazing.

Xie An said that he wanted to wipe out the remaining Qiang and Di people within the scope of his duties, referring to those who are still resisting, and not targeting the rest.

The Han country now has a population of close to 18 million. In fact, not all of them are out-of-the-ordinary ancestors of the Xia Dynasty. Many of them are actually sinicized Huren, or Huren who are working hard to survive.

In Han, it’s not that you say you are Han, you really are Han. Living habits are on the one hand, and language is a big test. It is a system of mutual supervision, which leads to the development of time, even if it is not Han, it will last for a long time. It's also a Han.

There are clear data. Since the Hu people wiped out the Western Jin Dynasty, the number of real Han people north of the Yangtze River has repeatedly decreased. Before Liu Yan wiped out Shijie and Zhao, the official population of Shijie and Zhao was only 3.15 million. about. This population is actually quite unreliable.

Shijie Zhao’s population registration is dominated by major cities, and people outside the city are definitely not registered, which means that the vast majority of people did not appear on the official population registration.

Every time the Han State conquered a place, it stabilized a little. The first thing it did was to register the population. After Han State destroyed Shijie and Zhao, a series of censuses and registrations were carried out. At the beginning, the population was 700. 10,000 or so.

The number of 7 million people who are truly Han will not exceed 3 million, which means that 4 million people believe that they are Han people on the premise that they will be killed if they refuse to be famous. Han Guo is an indulgent attitude towards the phenomenon of impersonation. As long as there is no blood on his hands, he is willing to become a Han. On the contrary, he welcomes it.

Qiang and Di people have more sinicization than other Hu people. Before the death of Shijie Zhao, quite a lot of Qiang and Di people were actually more like Han people than Han people. That’s because they felt that the Han civilization was very high. , Da, Shang, and feel that I want to be a little self-reliant after being generous, they are all demanding themselves based on the etiquette and values ​​of the Han civilization.

Liu Yan did not reject Hu people thinking that he was a Han. If he hadn't interfered, quite a lot of Hu people during the Five Husbands China would become Han people themselves, and they would really become Han people afterwards. And the main reason for his non-interference is that there are only so many Han people in the Central Plains. If you count the four or five million under the rule of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (historical record is 5.4 million), there are only so many people who are full. Really It's about to become a small number, one people, one clan.

The current Han country is in a process of integration, resulting in almost all the skills possessed, and has become the kind of national characteristics that masters both farming and grazing in the pre-Qin period. The skills are lost.

Another point that must be admitted is that it is precisely because they are all called Han but their composition is complicated. A large part of them are not familiar with farming at all. Apart from grazing, joining the army has become a single option for quite a few people to maintain the Han. Army supplement.

"The widow does not want to hear the news of dissatisfaction here in the next year."

"promise!"

The country must enrich Guanzhong. According to Jichang's plan, the first stage is that Guanzhong must have a population of at least two million. The people who migrated will not be resettled in Chang'an, or will be diverted to various counties and counties.

In Ji Chang's migration plan, the people moving to a certain place opened a door of restriction, which is about the favorable distribution of land.

Han Guo has been making relevant preparations to abolish the poll tax, and at the same time it no longer collects the poll tax, it has fully adopted the method of tax collection on production.

The abolition of the poll tax is of course Liu Yan's proposal. He is always looking forward to the increase in the number of Han people. It is best to blink hundreds of millions or even billions of Han people, and that is impossible. The abolition of the poll tax will definitely make the population increase faster. He knew that it was a product of the "one whip method," but he didn't plan to learn from it.

The use of Longxi County by the Han State was almost non-existent. There were not many people in Longxi County itself. The Han army in the future would definitely enter the Western Regions, re-incorporate the Western Regions under its rule, and re-establish the grasslands of Longxi County. To use it, it needs to be put on the agenda.

The army has a tendency to replenish nearby. The closer the replenishment base is, the better. The convenience of systems such as grain and ordnance does not matter when Liu Yan is still alive, but the army cannot rely on thousands of horses. To the north of Yanmen County or to the east of Shan1, right? In this way, the pastures in Longxi County were very important for the Han army to enter the Western Regions.

Xie An is naturally under pressure to eliminate the enemy within a year, and it is more of a motivation. He is still conquering Xizhong Lang, even though he is only one step away from Zhengxi General, but this level is undoubtedly the existence of the sky.

In fact, Xie An has fully understood that there must be a reason for the time limit given by the king. Sweeping the nearby enemies and reusing Longxi County is a prelude to marching into the Western Regions. It's closer.

Of course, Liu Yan wanted to enter the Western Regions. He was a little clearer than anyone in the Han Kingdom. Whether the Western Regions were brought back into control was definitely a watershed of the Central Plains Dynasty. The Central Plains Dynasty that did not control the Western Regions was not an empire. , Only when the Western Regions are brought into rule is an empire in the true sense.

The significance of whether or not to control the Western Regions is very complicated. It is not only a matter of soldiers, but also the key to the Central Plains King's influence on the outside. A powerful country does not close the door from thinking that it is a powerful country. It should be able to control the will of neighboring countries and spread its influence as far as possible, so that even by relying on its reputation, it can make the sovereign of a country double share. trembling. Furthermore, the people of the Celestial Dynasty, whether they like it or not, always use their own dynasty to control the distant Western Regions as an assessment. If they can control the Western Regions, they will have strong self-confidence. If they cannot control the Western Regions, they will not think they are. Power the country and the people.

Liu Yanhui's request for Xie An to have a deadline is his attitude of self-esteem. When he was communicating with Kianusz Alta Aldahir, he was stimulated by a single sentence.

Kiyanush Alta Aldashir certainly did not dare to be presumptuous to Liu Yan, or even any disrespectful behavior, a slight error was the beginning of the war between the two major countries. At that time, he asked something during the conversation, and said in a confused tone, "The reliability of the troops has been dispatched, but I did not expect...It turns out that the Han Empire has not taken back the Western Regions", that's it.

What is "it turned out to be ~www.wuxiaspot.com~" and what is "take back"? Doesn't it mean that the first Han had always controlled the Western Regions since they defeated the Xiongnu, and even the divided Cao Wei had control over the Western Regions, that is, the Sima family? Zi had also controlled the Western Regions before losing the Central Plains. As a result, this arrogant Han country has not yet regained the Western Regions!?

Kiyanush Alta Aldahir did not speculate about what purpose, but that sentence really embarrassed Liu Yan. Everything is still Liu Yan knows that the Western Regions are a facade, not just the facade of Zhu Xia’s descendants. , It is also the basis for the distant countries to judge whether the Central Plains dynasty is really powerful.

Of course Liu Yan will not attack the Western Regions just because of a single sentence. Governing a country is never based on emotions to formulate national policies. There are other factors. It is the countries of the Western Regions that are forming an alliance to resist the comeback of the Han people.

After all, it hasn’t been long since the current state of Han has just stabilized. It’s impossible to say that the people’s minds are fully subordinated. There are too many fake Han people. Of course, under the absolute strength of Han, it is stable. These enemies can't help but those who are dormant should do things. Facing a large area of ​​natural disasters, Han was unable to withstand the toss, and it was difficult to raise the butcher knife internally to say "I would rather kill three thousand by mistake than let go of one person", and then only raise the sword against a clear enemy.