"Brother! What nonsense are you talking about! Lou Ban stood up with a bang and said excitedly, "If we turn against General Zhenbei, if we don't say anything else, what will happen to the wool in the hands of the clansmen?" Without the caravan of the Red Star Battalion, where would we find the ironware gap? Where does salt come from? Where does the cloth come from? And the slaves we captured from Xianbei and other places, who should we sell the cattle and horses we raise to? You can't eat it all by yourself, can you? ”

"These are just small profits! As for those slaves, wouldn't it be better for our people to keep them for themselves? ”

"No! I disagree! Brother, you're putting us in danger! ”

Seeing that Lou Ban was so resolute, his face suddenly smiled, and he said, "I just put forward an idea, since you don't agree, forget it, after all, this Wuhuan will be your single in the future."

What about going to Jixian County, do you go or do I go? This Liucheng still has to be watched, what if the Xianbei people are killed? ”

Lou Ban thought for a while and said, "Brother, let me go this time, after all, you have experience in leading the battle." ”

It is true to say that the experience is false, and Lou Ban is afraid that he will fight with the Zhenbei Army.

"Okay, I'll prepare a hundred warriors for you, you go early and come back early!"

Walking out of the big tent, Badun's face suddenly changed.

His determination to be the next one will not change.

Since there are people who are unwilling, let those who are unwilling leave his Liucheng!

——Jixian County's former Youzhou Pastoral Mansion

Ma Qiang was talking to Jia Xu and Guo Jia, and Huang Xu walked in with the two of them.

"Meet Ming Gong!"

Ma Qiang raised his eyes and said with a smile, "Brother Xianyu, Mr. Kou, you are so slow to come!" ”

Xian Yufu looked no different from a few years ago, but Kou Xian had a few more gray hairs, and it seemed that the position of the Shanggu County Guard was not easy to do.

"Come and take a seat, these two are Jia Xu Jia Wenhe, Guo Jia and Guo Fengxiao, they are all my right-hand men!"

Although the two sides have never met, they have really admired the name for a long time, and they saluted each other and sat down.

"Just now I was still talking to the two gentlemen about Wuhuan, the two of you have been in the border county for many years, and you have always been helping to escort the difficult building, you can tell me about the situation of the Wuhuan departments now."

The two glanced at each other, and finally Xian Yufu said, "Then let me talk about it, now among the eight departments of Wuhuan, Nanlou is the most powerful and the most friendly to us, but the Liucheng royal court has a lot of complaints about us, and the Wuhuan of Liaodong and Liaoxi, who are kind to him, also have opinions on us, and their opinions are mainly two points.

The first is that we used to buy a lot of wool, but in recent years the purchase has decreased, which makes it very uncomfortable for their herding people, and the second is that we continue to recruit volunteers in various departments, and these warriors go one or two and they have no problem, but now they have gone thousands, and they feel threatened. ”

"I have let the newspaper out of the wool matter, if I want to stabilize the grassland in the future, I will rely on this wool, what about this person, as long as he has a stable income, and then let him do the things of the traitor department, he will consider the consequences." Ma Qiang smiled, in the years of burning passion in later generations, why the social atmosphere was so positive, it was because everyone was a person in the system, that is, a peasant, and there was also a collective called the commune.

Of course, the decline in enthusiasm for labor that may result from collective life is another matter.

"I heard that Ming Gong summoned the lords of the Wuhuan tribes to Jixian County for a meeting this time, so he is ready to announce this matter, right?" Kou Xian smiled, "Before we came, Nanlou also specially asked about it. ”

"What's his opinion?"

"Of course, he hopes that the purchase price can be increased a little, and the purchase volume will also be increased a little."

Ma Qiang nodded, which was also reasonable.

"Is there..."

While Ma Qiang was speaking, a guard came in and reported, "Ming Gong! Yan envoy Jun took one person to ask for a meeting. ”

"Please!"

After a while, Yan Zhong brought in a young man, who looked to be no more than twenty years old and dressed in ordinary cloth clothes.

"Ming Gong, this is Tian Yu!" Yan Zhong said.

"The grass people have seen General Zhenbei!"

"Hahaha! Don't say anything about the grass people, you will be my Liaoxi County Guard in the future, I heard that you are very familiar with all the ethnic groups in Youzhou, and it just so happens that we are discussing the matter of Wuhuan, you sit down and listen together. ”

Tian Yu breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Ma Qiang being so friendly, and sat in the last seat after thanking him.

"We just mentioned that the Wuhuan ministries have different attitudes towards us, some can be wooed, but some may not be wooed.

I will not hide it from you, gentlemen, this time I invited all the Wuhuan tribes to come here in order to solve the Wuhuan problem and lay the foundation for solving the Xianbei, Xiongnu and even Qiang problems in the future.

Wuhuan, attached for more than 200 years, many places have been no different from our Han people, the biggest difference is probably that our people are mainly farming, and they, mainly grazing, but even so, Wuhuan people also have a large number of farmers and farmland, and a lot of farm tools they buy when trading with us are evidence.

Since there is no difference between everyone, why are they called Wuhuan and we are called Han Chinese? I wonder which gentleman can tell me? ”

Yan Zhong stroked his beard and said with a smile, "There is a saying, the princes use Yi etiquette to raze it, and if they enter China, it will be China's one, and the reason why Wuhuan has been Wuhuan for two hundred years is simply that they have been using their own etiquette system. ”

In the eyes of the Chinese sages, etiquette is the first of all things, and many later generations think that the so-called rites are some red tape, but in fact, etiquette is not only the rules of those sacrifices, but also includes various systems.

For example, in the eyes of the blue star of later generations, in the eyes of the lighthouse country of the world's civilization center, although Japan is a yellow-skinned person, because it uses the gift of "China", it is a "Chinese" person, while Cuba, although it is a white person, uses the gift of "barbarian", that is, a barbarian.

"Mr. Yan is right! Therefore, I want Wuhuan to use my Chinese gifts, and my Chinese political system has only two core gifts! First, centralization, and second, the county system! ”

"The general is going to make Wuhuan a county system? This... It can't be, right? I'm afraid those Lord Wuhuan won't agree to it, and I've tried this method before, such as Xiliang, that's the case, but the result is a rebellion. Tian Yu said immediately.

Yan Zhong and Jia Xu both nodded, they were both from Xiliang, so they naturally knew a lot about it.

Ma Qiang smiled and said, "After all, Wuhuan has its own special circumstances, if we send Han officials directly, I'm afraid that both sides will not be pleased, therefore, I am ready to promote Wuhuan his own talents, and then appoint some officials, and at the same time move some people inside and outside, and establish autonomous counties for transition." ”

"Autonomy?"

"Yes, the Han in the future will not only be the Han of the Han people, but also the Han of the Wuhuan people, the Han of the Huns, the Xianbei people, the Qiang people, and even all the people who are willing to join us and have the blood of Yan and Huang!"