What Sun Ying said is true, since Lu Bu chose to settle in this Hetao, he naturally investigated Xianbei. Xianbei during this period was also in chaos. The powerful monarch of the Xianbei tribe, Tan Shihuai, the male lord of the grassland who gave the emperor of the Han Dynasty a headache, after the death of Guanghe in the fourth year, his son and Lian were incompetent and incompetent, and they died when they plundered the northern land. Qianman, the son of Helian, was young, so he let the son of the Helian brothers, Kuitou, act as Shan Yu. At this time, Qian Man was gradually getting older, and he was competing with that leader for the supreme power in the Xianbei clan.

In this way, the places of Shuofang Wuyuan have settled down. Of course, this is only a temporary stability, and sooner or later the civil strife in Xianbei will settle down, and then it will be the great enemy of the Han people.

Why did Lu Bu choose to have a glimpse of the Great Wall? Isn't it just that after this Hetao Tuntian, those Xianbei offenses are in the realm! At that time, the Great Wall was the last barrier, and if the Great Wall was lost, the five original Shuo sides would be trampled on by those Xianbei iron horses.

Looking sideways at this Wuyuan Elder Sun Ying, Lu Bu smiled, "Sun Xianjun also seems to know a lot about the situation of this Shuofang Wuyuan, you, the Wuyuan Chief, are quite dutiful!" ”

Sun Ying bowed his head slightly, "These things, the people in the border counties are very clear, and they dare not say that they are dutiful!" ”

This Sun Ying's answer made Lu Bu shake his head slightly, looked at the grassland outside the Saiwai again, and pointed his hand, "Sun Xianjun, you said that we have the Great Wall inside and outside, why can't we still guard our Han people?" Since the Later Han Dynasty, people have been constantly moving in, giving up these places to the Xiongnu who have joined them, treating them as hunting dogs, in order to resist the invasion of those nomads in the north. But now it seems that this hound is unreliable after all. ”

"Those who are not of my race will have different hearts."

Cheng Lian said, "These Huns still have the blood of those barbarians in their bones, and they still regard us Han people as cowardly cattle and sheep. Don't look at them now that they are surrendering again, if one day we are weak, these people are afraid that they will rebel again! ”

There was a moment of silence.

What Cheng Lian said was also true, and Lu Bu couldn't help but think of the tragedy of the five chaos in the later generations. At the beginning, after Cao Cao unified the entire north, he was also afraid that these Huns would be in turmoil, so he moved those Huns to Han in order to assimilate them. It's just that Cao Cao never thought that the foundation of the Wei clan would become the foundation of the Sima clan. The Mandate of Heaven of the Three Kingdoms has brought Jin to unification! And those stupid rulers of the Jin Dynasty fought for power and profit, and after all, they brewed that tragedy. Even in later generations, there are many people who threw this pot to Cao Cao, I don't know if Cao Cao will be angry after he knows about it?

If you think about Cao Cao's idea, these Huns will gradually assimilate the Han people after a few generations. In Lu Bu's view of these Huns, Cao Cao's ideas are still okay. If it weren't for the death of the ruler of the Jin Dynasty, where would there be a tragedy in the future? If these Huns do not move to the interior, they do not know how many years it will take to assimilate them. Counting up, these Huns have also been attached to the Han Dynasty for more than 100 years, but how many people regard these Huns as Han people in their bones? It is Cheng Lian who grew up in border counties that maintains this concept, let alone those Han people in the interior. However, according to the current situation in this county, Lu Bu felt that these Huns were no different from the Han people. Many of the Xiongnu people could speak Chinese, learn Chinese characters, plough the fields and weave cloth, and successfully transformed from a nomadic people to an agrarian people.

But even so, they still let those Han people discriminate, and they are very aggrieved.

After sweeping away the Xiongnu, Lu Bu's opinion of these Xiongnu people also changed greatly. These Huns were not enemies of the Han Chinese, at least not yet! Their real enemies are still the Xianbei people with vast grasslands beyond the Great Wall! It is the relationship between these two nations that is truly irreconcilable.

After inspecting the Great Wall, Lu Bu and his party had another meal in Wuyuan City at noon. Wuyuan eldest Sun Ying also received Lu Bu and them very warmly. What surprised Lu Bu was that there were a little more Han people in these five original cities than there were people in Jiuyuan. These nine plains are the seat of Wuyuan County, which logically speaking, this population should be more than Wuyuan. In this regard, Sun Ying also explained.

In the fifth year of Yonghe, the left part of the Southern Xiongnu, such as the Dragon King Wusi and Che New, defected, killed Shuofang Changshi, and then led Qiang Hu south. The county of Shuofang was forced to move from Linrong to Wuyuan, and since then, the counties to which Shuofang County belonged have been abolished and have died in name. That's decades old. Decades ago in Shuofang, the Southern Xiongnu was still strong, the county of Shuofang was Linrong and remote, it was difficult for the Han Dynasty to have any control over it, and Emperor Shun of Han moved this Linrong to Wuyuan, which was also a helpless move.

But how could he know that after that, the county of Shuofang would exist in name only? None of the later rulers thought of restoring the county of Shuofang. There are only six cities in this county, and the population is less than 10,000 people, so the population of any county in the interior is more than the population of one of their counties. For the sake of these six cities, it is not cost-effective to send troops to defend them.

Sometimes the territory is too big to manage. Not to mention the six cities of Shuofang, even the Han Dynasty in Liangzhou wanted to give up several times! A mere rebellion is to empty the treasury of the Han Dynasty. In order to govern Qiang and Pingqiang, the entire Eastern Han Dynasty really paid a huge price.

It's just that the six cities of Shuofang County, are they really just irrelevant? Do those princes in the court want to deceive themselves, or do they really not want to get into trouble? I'm afraid it's a bit of both.

Lu Bu's mind suddenly recalled some things that Li Ru had discussed with him before Hetao Tuntian. Among the counties of this Hetao, only Shuofang County has the most complicated situation. Those who are entrenched in Shuofang County are not only those Huns, but also many Qianghu tribes. These Qianghu tribes are the most feared. And what makes people care the most is what Li Ru said.

Shuofang has Shiozawa!

Jinlian Yanze and Qingyanze are both south of Shuofang, both of which are famous for their large salt lakes. During the Western Han Dynasty, Shuofang County had salt officials in the three counties of Woye, Shuofang, Guangmu, and Mu, who were responsible for the production of salt in Shuofang County. This shows the importance of these two salt lakes! There were only six cities in the whole Shuofang, and three of them had salt officials.

It's just for this reason, this Shuofang County, Lu Bu is determined to win! Salt, that was the most profitable one in ancient times! The patent of salt and iron was the most important thing in ancient times.