Why can't the agrarian people defeat the nomads at all?

Because even if all the people are killed, the grassland is still there, and if there is a grassland, there will be people who go to nomadism.

Since nomads can survive for a long time, the agrarian peoples will weaken sooner or later. (Periodic). At this time, the steppe nomads will take the initiative to attack the territory of the farming people. It's like the five chaos of later generations.

But if the herdsmen are no longer nomadic, they live a fixed life, and they still grow something, and the people who occupy the grasslands will become a mixed population of herding and farming.

Gao Ran, as a general, also wants to show himself. He proposed the current solution to Youzhou's dilemma.

"The main reason for the destruction of the nomads on the farming peoples is their high mobility, and the dividing line between agriculture and nomadism in northern China is too long to prevent," he said. I don't know where they came from to raid.

But the nomads themselves have women, children and the elderly, cattle, sheep, tents, etc. These are not able to withstand a raid. Therefore, a group of cavalry troops, of course, all young and middle-aged, should be organized to learn from the nomadic cavalry and learn from them to eat beef and mutton and cow and goat milk. Also eat grain. If possible, each cavalry was equipped with two horses, one for carrying food, etc. Such a cavalry unit does not have to be too large, only 2,000 people are enough, and there are many of them. In peacetime, there is no direct confrontation with the armies of the nomads. Rather, they wander around the nomadic population. If they are discovered by their large forces, move immediately, but don't get too far away from them, so that they can't catch up, can't fight, but can't get rid of them. If they are in pursuit, our army will retreat, but don't retreat too far from them. When they were far away, their settlements were empty, and our other cavalry entered their settlements, taking away cattle and sheep, burning tents, and plundering or destroying all their possessions. But as long as they do not resist, they will not be killed. And tell them that it is not that we are coming to take captivity, but that you are always coming to take captivity, and we have to take revenge. As long as you can change the policy of aggression against us, we will live amicably. Plundered and quickly left.

When they lose their cattle and sheep, there will be a famine, and when they burn their tents and supplies, they will be miserable, and they will not be able to cope with the cold winter and the wind and snow, and they will no longer be able to fight us. And we have captured cattle and sheep to provide for us. Of course, we also have food supplies.

If they don't chase them, then we always hang around them, try to prevent them if they can't prevent it, and go in at the first opportunity, grab a handful, destroy a handful and leave.

In any case, our army is as cavalry as they are, just as fast, and they can't beat us. And they are always on guard against us, because they have women, children, and old people, and they still need to give birth. And our cavalry does not need to produce.

Our cavalry can also come back every once in a while to rest, and they can never let up.

In the long run, the nomads will inevitably be divided, and it must be known that the nomads have never had real unity, only military coercive unity. In this way, in the end, some tribes will not want to fight anymore, and will throw themselves on us, and when the time is ripe, they will destroy the first evil one in one fell swoop. that all the nomads will turn to us, and then divide their tribes according to their territory, and each tribe shall occupy a small steppe, subject to us and subject to our supervision, and shall not invade each other, and even if one tribe has a careerist and wants to annex another tribe, and the other tribes shall join us to defeat them, they shall only kill the careerist and his accomplices, and shall not allow other tribes to take the opportunity to occupy their steppes, but shall choose another leader in this defeated tribe, Let the common people of this tribe still survive and produce on the grassland allocated to them. Of course, for the tribe that was originally too large, it was necessary to take the opportunity to draw small.

In this way, no tribe dares to invade, and has no ability to invade, only to obey our central government.

Of course, if the agrarian peoples themselves are internally disintegrated, then it is inevitable that the nomadic peoples will merge again and pose a threat. The above methods must also prevent our generals from being greedy for merit, so we must be cautious in rewarding generals who have made meritorious contributions.

After the nomads have obeyed us according to the above methods, the officials who went to supervise and the generals who guarded the border have made the greatest contribution to the long-term peace with the nomads. Those who have been in peace for a long time have great merit. If the nomads rebel, counterinsurgency is the responsibility, and the credit is not. If it is provoked, it must be punished. For the rebelled tribes, we must first try to calm down, and do not superstitious suppression. Don't kill too much if you are forced to suppress. The imperial court must pay attention to the correct treatment of nomads, the back of the hand and the palm are all meat, when the border generals and the supervising officials, and the nomadic tribe have contradictions, do not favor their own generals and officials, a bowl of water is even. If a nomadic tribe comes to complain, listen carefully to their opinions. ”

The crowd listened to him and did not comment for a long time. In fact, the military advisers were thinking about how not to discourage him.

Xi Zhicai coughed and broke the silence. He said: "General Gao's method is indeed feasible. For more than ten years before Liaodong, we used this method to continuously plunder the population of Goguryeo, thereby weakening the strength of the Goguryeo kingdom, and finally fighting a decisive battle to completely eliminate Goguryeo. ”

Gao Ran was praised and was very happy.

All the military advisors held back their laughter, knowing that there was still a but.

Sure enough, Xi Zhicai continued: "However, this time, we will completely wipe out the Xianbei people of the grassland in one battle, and transform them into a part of the Han nationality, and there will be no semi-independent nomads in the future." Everyone is Han Chinese, and there is only one court! ”

Gao Ran's face flushed, he didn't think he was naïve, he was just not a core member of Liaodong, and he didn't grasp the premise of this meeting.

Guo Tu saw that Xin Bi and Gao Ran had spoken. As an important strategist in Hebei, he must of course say a few words. He said, "Pass Buddhism on to them." Teach them to eat fasting and recite Buddha, teach them piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and teach them to play and appreciate antiques and jade. Within 10 years, the tiger became a cat. ”

Guo Tu's suggestion is also very bad, in history, Kangxi made men abstinent through Buddhism, and implemented family planning for Mongolian tribes, reducing the Mongolian population.

Xi Zhicai had to supplement Guo Tu's suggestion, he said: "Changing the religious beliefs of the grassland tribes is a matter of long-term stability, we create gods for the grasslands, but not Buddhism, but the god of thunder, and use the god of thunder to change their beliefs." Cultivate and rule the new steppe people with the god of thunder faith. The power of faith is great, and under the common faith, the people of the steppe can fully integrate with us. This is the successful conclusion of a ten-year experiment among the millions of people on Wajima! ”

Xi Zhicai's words are completely in line with Gongsun Kang's intentions. He secretly gave a thumbs up to his brother. With a smile, he motioned to the confidential secretary to record it as the second policy of the grassland policy to be implemented.