Tong Yuan led the 11th and 12th Brigades of the Dreadnought Army, which had been prepared for a long time, and a total of 7,000 soldiers and horses from the Qiang and Yueshi tribes, along the repaired Qin Straight Road, converged with 5,000 soldiers and horses of Zhang Ji, Yu Poison, and Shenlong, and entered Shuofang County.

Shuofang County has 60,000 Toucheng Huns, 700,000 livestock, as well as Wuhuan people in the southeast, Tuoba Xianbei in the northwest and Qifu Xianbei in the west. In addition, some Han Haoqiang and Zahu tribes are located in remote locations, which is temporarily inconvenient for statistics.

However, most of these Huns were old, weak and poor, and those who usually acted as leaders and oppressed all ethnic groups had either fled to the Tiefu Department or had already been corrected.

And the small number of Han people, who are also dependent on the powerful tenants and tribes, cannot be the dominant force in this region.

Tong Yuan did not intend to adopt an iron-blooded policy towards these people, after all, they took the initiative to surrender, and they were very different from being captured.

Therefore, half of them were selected and 200,000 livestock were incorporated into Yan'an County, and the local officials and people incorporated them into the tuntian structure or small peasant economy.

Correspondingly, 10,000 tun people were selected from Yan'an and Shangjun to Shuofang County as the backbone, and some aspirants who were willing to develop the frontier were recruited from Sanfu to join the tuntian of Shuofang County, and together they led the remaining Huns into the system of the Xinxi Liang Army.

Considering this arrangement, the population of Shuofang County has already surpassed that of Upper County, and the large number of livestock herds may have an irreversible impact on the environment in this era.

Tong Yuan allocated 100,000 livestock respectively and donated them to Tuoba Xianbei and Wuhuana. Let Tuoba Xianbei move outside Shuofang County as a vassal force.

And the more than 6,000 people in the building department were assigned to Shangjun, and 1,000 were selected to be incorporated into the Xinxi Liang Army, among which 100 good shooters were divided into two teams and included in the Dreadnought Army.

The rest of the Haoqiang, tribes, and beggars in remote places were also rewarded with a total of 100,000 livestock. The first two made them obey the arrangements of the county, and the latter also slightly pulled away some people as tunhu, and the rest as vassal forces.

The remaining 200,000 livestock were handed over to Shuofang and Shangjun, which controlled the number and density of the herd, avoided a large area of grassland being eaten away, and exposed the surface of the gravel to exacerbate the formation of desertification.

After settling Tuntian and the tribe, Tong Yuan personally dealt with the captives and spies.

When he heard of the old slave's wicked deeds, he was so angry that he scolded and jumped. Even if he has been a human being for two lifetimes and has experienced the conception in the era of information explosion, for the first time, he has deeply realized that he is a guy who hates the days of turning over and would rather be a slave in the world.

It is really difficult to write about the time to give advice to the enemy, and also use the identity of the Han people on the battlefield to deceive our army into an ambush.

Tong Yuan was so angry that he couldn't say anything, and directly asked people to take him and his accomplices to the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum in Qiaoshan to be cast as a kneeling statue alive!

As for those Huns, even if the report is meritorious, then let them live and suffer. All of them were distributed to dig coal underground, ordered to eat and eat less, and were not given any protection, and they were not allowed to see the sun again when they went to the mine.

Yu Poison wanted to personally escort the old slaves and others to be cast into kneeling statues, but Tong Yuan had an order to let the families of the soldiers killed by him do it, so he had to obey the order and continue the expedition of Hetao.

Tong Yuan did a good job of planning and punishing evil, handed over the follow-up development affairs to Zhang Ji and Shen Long, and led some soldiers and horses to inspect the situation in the county.

He found that the counties of Shuofang County were basically distributed along the Yellow River, and the northern area near Yinshan Mountain was rich in water and grass, and there was an endless stream of business travelers, and the Hetao Desert in the south had been expanding day by day, and few people would choose to cross it.

He studied this area in later generations and knew that the environmental problems in the region were gradually deteriorating at this stage.

It is easier to take the initiative to prevent it, but it is too difficult to destroy and restore it for the ancient productive forces.

The specific water source, vegetation, economic type, population, number of livestock, type, etc., none of them can be careless.

What's even more terrifying is that this place is the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, and if it deteriorates too much, the middle and lower reaches will also deteriorate the environment, disasters will occur frequently, and decay day by day.

At that time, the counties of Feng Yi, Hedong, Yan'an, and Xihe, which had been developed with great difficulty, will decline again, and the foundation of his rule will no longer work, and half of the meaning of coming to this world will be lost.

He thought about it, this place cannot be handed over to the nomadic tribes to develop at will, because then this place will deteriorate due to the increasing number of herds, and it will not be able to force the economy of the Central Plains, because the result will be the same as that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

It seems that the tuntian model, which combines agriculture and animal husbandry with economy, controls the number of people and herds, and enables the grassroots to implement the policy, and can live a good life and have combat effectiveness, is the most suitable choice for the development of the here and now.

Before the Eastern Crusade, he expounded this point from a suitable angle with the local officials, generals, and even county officials, and bundled interests, if there is a place where the people can live a good life, and can protect the water source, and does not rely on extensive development, it will be popularized, and if it is suitable, it can be promoted and appointed.

Correspondingly, if the development is not done well, or if the damage is serious, the people will be punished, and the same will be true for the officials. Of course, this is not a kind of coercion or intimidation, but it is to make it clear to them how this place should be and should not be.

Zhang Ji also has a deep understanding of this, he said:

"Our recovery of Shuofang County is only the first step, the next step is to stand firm and develop well, only when the roads are really connected, the vegetation is lush, and the cattle and sheep are full of herds, our army can come and go everywhere. In the future, the frontier will not become the Central Plains, but the Central Plains will also connect the frontier, like the palm and fingers of the hand. ”

Zhang Ji's words are easy to understand, and everyone knows very well the positioning here, what they need to do, and what the people need.

These things seem simple, but it is not easy to understand and do, but they have broken through one problem after another, and they can develop Fengyi and Yan'an counties well, and they don't have to worry about building a bad Hetao.

Shen Long was also eager to try, in addition to using the original trade route to further build the road of the Hetao, he was also responsible for the command of a part of the cavalry and infantry of the Tuntian Army.

He thinks that although the level of command and fighting is not as good as a few captains of the Dreadnought Army, he can still rank in the top three in the Tuntian Army, and he has also accumulated experience in high-intensity combat in the last Shangjun Campaign, and he is not afraid of the surrounding ordinary nomadic tribes.

Moreover, because Shenlong is proficient in inverted fighting, he also has a lot of experience in complex terrain and river combat, and he can just be competent for the complex terrain of Shuofang County in the upper reaches of the Yellow River.

In this way, if the upper county is stable, the Hetao will be stable with the support of the rear, and the westernmost Shuofang County of the Hetao counties will be stable and worry-free, and the entire Hetao will be basically worry-free.

In the end, Zhang was stationed in the two cities of Guangmu and Shuofang for a long time, as well as the soon-to-be-recovered Wuyuan County, while Shenlong led a group of Tuntian troops and Xiongnu able-bodied men to be stationed in Linrong City and the neighboring Woye County, and built several roads to connect them from Yinshan and Hetao to farther places.