Chapter 505. Nomadic economy
Hegemony is to gradually stabilize one's rule through one war after another, in other words, to cut everything that is not satisfied with it honestly! Obediently call Lao Tzu protection money! The battle of Jinzhou City cleaned up a big thorn again, and Wang Hou's small life in Liaodong was also more comfortable.
On the grassland, just crossed the Great Xing'an Mountains, from the Inner Mongolia Plain to the Liaodong Plain to live a good life in the eastern Xianbei tribes, they drove the sheep again, dragged their families back with a gray mouth, Mom! I'm a robber enough, but I didn't expect that Liaodong was even more ruthless! Totally unreasonable!
Our nomadic Hu people have lost the battle, shouldn't your Han court send Taishou civil officials to appease you? Anyway, you Han people have so much food! Take out some of it and give it to us, and the Xianbei people can't die poor! This is a good man, not only did he not appease or say anything, but he sent our such elite cavalry to dig coal, and constantly sent cavalry to sweep the grasslands and rob us of the cattle, sheep and women of the poor people.
It's so unreasonable! Won't play with you anymore!
However, the Xianbei people can return to Monan with grievances, but the Wuhuan people cannot, after all, the Liaodong Plain is their hometown, and there is no pasture to graze in Monan, and in the face of the continuous sweep of the Han cavalry in Liaoxi, the Wuhuan people who were angry and called their seven aunts and eight uncles to find the field have begun to lower the standards to the minimum.
I don't want any rewards, as long as we don't go to Ma'anshan to mine, we can continue to graze our sheep on the grassland, and we will surrender!
Wang Hou is not unreasonable, in the tears of these "poor" herdsmen in Wuhuan, he finally reluctantly traveled to take up his subordinate official position, the duty of protecting the captain of Wuhuan, and took the mess left by Badun into his own hands.
No wonder the Murong tribe can become the first tribe of the Xianbei people to enter the Central Plains, in May, drive the herd to Liucheng, Jinzhou, according to Wang Hou's order to divide the grassland for grazing, there are still a lot of Wuhuan people, nearly 20,000 households and 50,000 people, in history, these Wuhuan tribes were almost all annexed by Murong Xianbei, and the hardcover cavalry alone can provide more than 10,000.
In the warm sunshine, flocks of white sheep sprinkled on the grass and gnawed on the newly grown young grass.
In fact, not only the farming people are afraid of the conquest and delay the farming, the nomads are also afraid of delaying the pasture, after all, the grass is also a plant, and the growth time in a year is also limited, the sheep eat the grass is milk, the premise is to eat enough grass, in normal feeding, a sheep has to eat grass for at least ten hours a day, and after returning to the sheepfold, it has to regurgitate and chew for more than ten hours, saying that it is a foodie, and these herbivores are out-and-out foodies.
This is also the reason why the Xianbei people fled after defeat, and the Wuhuan people surrendered so quickly? Zhang Yan! This thief takes the cavalry every day in the Liaodong Plain, and the Horqin grassland of later generations wanders back and forth, even if he can't catch people, he has to wander around the road like a second tumor, he wanders blindly, the tribe can't graze, he has to take the sheep every day to run around, set up stalls to hide from the city management like that, the sheep can't eat enough grass, not to mention the long meat, the milk can't be squeezed out, dairy products are the main thing of the nomadic tribe, there is no milk dry milk tofu milk skin to eat, they are also facing food shortage.
If it was in the past, there would be no food to enter the customs and rob the Han people! But last year, Mr. Cao just killed Boss Badun, and this year, Wang Lizard Ou slapped Boss Murong again, so that his teeth fell out, and he robbed the Han people, and the Han people came to rob them! I had to pretend to be a grandson!
Seeing this, it was a team of Han army cavalry walking briskly, the Wuhuan people who were grazing sheep on the edge were so frightened that they were all trembling, the men who were grazing on horseback hurriedly jumped off the horse, nodded with a smile on their faces, and on the other end of the felt bag that was more primitive than the yurt, the old lady Wuhuan held her trembling grandson, while protecting him with her arms, and whispered how the Han people had copper and iron arms, green fangs, and a big axe from the chrysanthemum, and the legend of chopping off the head of the kind nomadic dog with a click, After educating your little grandson, you must stay away from Yunyun.
Watching the big official at the head turn over and dismount, and walk straight to his flock, the tribal man with a small pigtail is really full of pain, these more than 200 ironclad cavalry, let go of their belly to eat, at least they can gnaw him fifty sheep!
The continuous war from last year to this year, coupled with the tribute provided to the Xianbei people, and the livestock that had just been supplied to Wang Tiangao Yicheng, the herd of the Wuhuan people had already shrunk to the red line.
Without another fifty sheep, his family is destined to starve!
But don't give it? Do you dare? The strong of the grassland are respected, and if you offend the Han people, I heard that you will be thrown into the hell magma to dig black stones, and life is better than death!
This bald pigtail is so beautiful and tangled there, but he doesn't know that in front of him is Wang Tiangao himself, and Wang Tiangao himself is also there to search and entangle, turn over and dismount, grab a sheep casually, obscenely grasp the sheep's belly in his hand, and what he caught is the coarse hair of a hand.
In the past he was worried about how to take the money and grain out of the pockets of the family and stuff them into his purse, but now, he was distressed, how to take the money out of his pocket and stuff it into the hands of these poor nomads.
How did the county and the Hu cavalry in the early Han Dynasty be so harmonious? The Han court took out rice and grain every year, hired the captured Huns as mercenaries, and went to the grassland to kill their fellow tribesmen, and there were grain cloth offerings every year, so the Xiongnu county cavalry and the Han army were very close, even if they followed a straw bag general like Li Guangli, 2,000 people died in 6 or 700 people, and they would not retreat.
Why did the Junguo Huqi decline again? The Northern Xiongnu were beaten away, got out of the way and went to Europe, which promoted a wave of yellow perils, and the Southern Xiongnu surrendered! The war between the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu was simply not a fierce degree, and the war needs of the Han court were not so strong, so naturally there was not so much support for these mercenaries, and there was no money to take.
And they only have one livelihood skill as a mercenary, since they can't be a mercenary of the Han Dynasty, then they should be mercenaries of the grassland careerists! From the border barrier of the Han Dynasty to the vanguard of border bandits.
Isn't that the case with his father Qiu Juli!
The model of controlling the grassland in later generations from the late Ming Dynasty to the entire Qing Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's control was forced, and the rising Tumut did not get any bargain for war, and finally opened the border to do business, and then the entire Eastern Mongolia fell together, so that the rising Manchu Qing Dynasty was bruised and swollen!
As for my Tatar Qing Dynasty, the political, economic, military, and religious two in command are hard, and the grassland is even more obedient, especially economically, the red-topped merchants of the Han people run all over the grassland, and the Mongolian princes follow to do business.
Wang Hou also wants to engage in economic friendship, but the problem is that now Wuhuan Xianbei, except for brute force as a mercenary, he really hasn't found anything to trade! They are like the three and great gods of Wang Hou's era with a dim future!