Mi Zhu also had a long time in the land of Qiang Hu in his early years, and his understanding of the Hu people was more specific, although he could not help much militarily, but for Liu Yi, the information provided by Mi Zhu played an extremely important role in his understanding of the various ethnic groups in the grassland, such as the Hu people in addition to grazing, in fact, they also have farming, but the grassland is thin, even if the manure technology of the Han people is used, it is difficult to cultivate for a long time, and only in some relatively fertile places will use manure and other things to cultivate.

As for the question of how the agricultural technology of the Han people was passed on to the past, this does not need to be asked, in fact, the Xiongnu and the Han have communicated with each other over the years, and there are more technologies that have been passed on to the past, but the problem is that the resources cannot keep up, and there is no inheritance of writing, and many things are lost when they are used.

For example, in terms of salt and iron, it has always been restricted from being sold to the Huns, which are officially used for trading, and every time the Huns are rewarded with a batch of salt and iron and other things, the Huns will also return a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, which is several times higher than the salt and iron sent by the Han Dynasty, which is not a business, but the Huns privately buy salt and iron from traders at this price, which is also the reason why the Han Dynasty explicitly forbade so many people to risk killing their heads to trade with the Huns.

The profits in this are too terrifying, as long as you succeed once, you can create a local wealthy family.

In general, the Xiongnu people because of the living environment, the power is not as concentrated as the Han Dynasty, although it is divided into Xianbei, Xiongnu, Wuhuan, but in fact, the population flow is relatively large, and it is difficult to count, even if the Xiongnu or Xianbei alone I am afraid I don't know how many people are under their rule.

The political structure is probably tribal, and slaves are still circulating among the tribes, which may be prisoners of war, or Han Chinese, people from various countries in the Western Regions, in short, in the slave groups of the grasslands, the composition is quite complex.

"I have an idea." Groping his chin, Liu Yi looked at the two and suddenly smiled.

"Oh?" Mi Zhu and Jiang Wan looked at Liu Yi and asked with a smile, "What is Bo Yuan's strategy?" ”

"It's not a good idea." Liu Yi shook his head and said, "What is the most lacking thing in Xiliang now?" ”

"Population." Jiang Wan sighed and said, he checked the household registration, the population of the entire Guanzhong is nearly one million, but the Jingzhao generation has a population of 800,000, and the area of Xiliang is ten times that of Jingzhao, but the population is a quarter of the Jingzhao area, not even thirty percent.

"The well salt in Shu has been rich in production in the past two years, and the iron cannot be sold, but the salt can, this time I invited Brother Zizhong to come, and it is also for this matter, we have a large amount of excess well salt that can be sold to the Xiongnu and even the Qiang people, but we have to trade it in another way." Liu Yi pondered: "The population is what we need, they need words, they need cloth, if they trade, in addition to normal cattle, sheep, horses and furs, a large number of slaves need to come here, remember, the old man doesn't want it." ”

"This ......," Mi Zhu groped his chin and said, "I'm afraid they won't trade Qingzhuang to us." ”

"In other words, it is good for the young and strong to be able to give it to nature, if not, we will also accept women and children, in short, except for the elderly, as long as they are slaves and they are willing to sell, we can accept them." Liu Yi said with a smile.

"How much?" Mi Zhu asked.

"As many as you want, trade directly with those tribes, not through the royal court." Liu Yi squinted his eyes and smiled: "We don't care where they get the people from, as long as they have them, we can do it, a young man can be worth a war horse or a cow and a sheep, a woman can be worth a cow, and a child can be worth two sheep, of course, this is just my own statement, how to set the price, Brother Zizhong will decide, but there is one point, you have to make them crazy, you have to make them feel that selling people is easier to get huge profits than selling cattle, sheep and animals." ”

"Sikong!" Jiang Wan hesitated, looked at Liu Yi and said, "This is not in the budget." ”

Liu Yi asked for money with the imperial court most of the time, but when he traded with the Huns, the five baht money of the Han family was rarely used by the Xiongnu, and he could only barter.

"I know, I will write to Your Majesty, and I will also bring any old cloth that has been backlogged for the rest of the year, it is a pity to lose it, it is better to use it to trade with the Huns." Liu Yi said with a smile, such as today's workshops have cloth villages all over the place, the cloth produced by these cloth villages is not only of high quality, but also has a large output, and has replaced the old cloth step by step, and no one wants to sell those old cloths, so it is better to take them over and trade with the Huns, Qiang people and even the people of the Western Regions farther away, and when these old cloths are used up, you can use the products of the early yarn mills to do.

Liu Yi didn't think that he could solve the Hu problem by relying on this, but he wanted to form an economic balance in this way, and he didn't need to force it, step by step to let the Huns, Xianbei people, and people in the Western Regions accept Han culture, and gradually attract them to come here to communicate from the very beginning, and then promote the five-baht coin, so that they can gradually get closer to the Han people in terms of living habits and thoughts.

Assimilation sometimes doesn't require force to conquer.

No matter how fierce the Central Plains fight is, I haven't seen anyone reject anyone, saying that you are from another country, because everyone's living habits and thinking habits are the same, if the living habits and thinking habits of the Xiongnu people are the same as those of the Han people, then there is no difference between Hu and Han.

If you want to do this, you must invest first, and then attract, in fact, this kind of thing has been done before, but in the feudal era, it is difficult for such a thing to continue, one is the problem of funding, the court may not always support, after all, the initial investment required is too much.

Another problem is the difference in social forms, the Han is an agrarian society, while the grassland departments are nomadic societies, not as easy to manage as the Han Dynasty, to integrate the two ethnic groups, you have to let the two social forms merge, otherwise even if the Xiongnu, Xianbei, and Wuhuan are wiped out today, there will also be other nomadic people in the future, so it is not advisable to kill to stop killing, and it is not advisable to seek a social structure that can allow the two to coexist, or change the social form on the grassland today, so that they can stabilize, this is the key.

Of course, before achieving the goal, the fist must be hard, because you first have to make them willing to reason with you, and the most direct and effective way to make the enemy willing to reason with you is the fist, so Liu Yi brought 20,000 Lanchi new troops and a large number of elite-level craftsmen of the Tiangong Workshop.

Jiang Wan could only nod when he heard this, Liu Yi's power in Xiliang was extremely powerful, and even Zhao Yun, who fought against the Qiang people in Lingju, was also subject to Liu Yi's control, as Liu Yi's other driver, as long as he raised the existing problems and did his own thing, he didn't have to worry about the rest.

Mi Zhu smiled bitterly: "It's easy to say, but it's not easy to do, this Huns are sometimes not too willing to be reasonable." ”

If you talk to others about long-term things, they may not be willing to listen to them, and they will grab them directly, what can you do on other people's turf?

"That's why I invited Brother Zizhong to come to help." Liu Yi said with a smile.

He invited Mi Zhu to come, just for the sake of this transaction, it is best to be able to make the Huns unable to invade again before the autumn, this Hetao is a good place, and later generations are known as plugging the south of the Yangtze River, and it is natural to use it as a pasture for the Huns, but some are too wasteful, everyone still mines together, and how good it is to fight and kill, it is completely unnecessary, a lot of their research is still counting on here, take the time to fight, it is better for everyone to engage in industry together, hello, I am good, everyone, and finally we can become a family, How nice.

With the experience of ethnic assimilation in Yunnan for six years, Liu Yi still has some confidence and experience in assimilation in Xiliang this time, plus the assistance of architecture, maybe after more than ten years, there will be no difference between Huns and Han people in this Hetao, of course, the premise is to obtain the support of the imperial court.

In fact, there are many successful cases of Hu naturalization in history, the Southern Xiongnu can not be completely counted, but over the years, the Southern Xiongnu have been moving closer to the Han people in many habits, but the Central Plains has been changing the strategy and attitude towards the Southern Xiongnu since the rise of Guangwu Zhongxing, so that the Southern Xiongnu have not been completely naturalized so far, but compared with Xianbei and Xiongnu, farming has accounted for a certain proportion of the Southern Xiongnu, in terms of living habits and other issues, it is closer to the Han people, and it is also the easiest to naturalize.

"If I knew this was the case, it would be more comfortable to stay in Chang'an." Mi Zhu shook his head and smiled.

"Don't say that, this Hetao is rich in products, many of which cannot be found in the Central Plains, maybe you can make some new things, there are good things, and you are the first to be used." Liu Yi smiled at Mi Zhu.

"Oh?" Mi Zhu said with great interest when he heard this: "Bo Yuan has a new idea? ”

Although the Mi family is now low-key in the Han Dynasty, it is not an exaggeration to say that the wealth is rivaled by the country, which is also an important reason why the Mi family can have today's status, otherwise with the current system of the Han Dynasty, it is not enough to make the Mi family have such a low position now.

"It's just an idea, but whether it can succeed depends on whether Brother Zizhong helps." Liu Yi didn't say it bluntly, he had more ideas, but because of the conditions, many of them could not be completed at the moment, if he could, he would better get the soil kang out first, it was not easy to survive in this northwest winter, which was also the reason why the Xiliang land was sparsely populated, and now it takes a lot of manpower, and the things on the Huns' side must be implemented as soon as possible.

"Okay, it will take some time for the imperial court to approve it, I will trade with them with a small amount of salt and old cloth first, how about supporting Bo Yuan?" Mi Zhu smiled.

"Self is the best." Liu Yi is also not polite, not only because of the friendship between the two sides, but most importantly, the Mi family has benefited a lot, and now he didn't help at the beginning, and when everything is in order, what use do you want him? Relationships between adults are not just friendships.