Chapter 516: Land, Women, and Children Are Indispensable
Since the Han Dynasty, it was Cao Cao who was really the first to develop Tuntian to the extreme, facing the problem of serious shortage of population and food during the Three Kingdoms period, compared with Liu Bei and Sun Quan, the more powerful and comprehensive military Tuntian management system implemented in the Central Plains.
The ministers and officials in the court naturally do not have a deep understanding of the immigrants in Tuntian as Fuquan, and Fuquan's strategy is completely no problem in their opinion, and the proposal is really good.
For example, the first policy proposed by Fuquan is actually the next policy, and if it is implemented seriously, it will definitely ensure the peace of the Han Kingdom for a hundred years.
It's just that there are quite a few symptoms that don't cure the root cause, and they can't keep the Han border safe forever, because those barbarians who were expelled by the Han to foreign countries are likely to merge with other barbarians in foreign countries, eventually recover their vitality, form a larger force, and eventually invade the Han realm again. Therefore, although this strategy is simple to implement and the Han army will not spend too much money and food, it can only be used as a policy.
The second strategy is the middle policy, which is similar to the fetters system, which is similar to the strategy of the Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Qiang and other ethnic groups Su Yong. However, Fuquan's offerings are different, if the Han insists on this method and does not oppress the barbarians too much, one day, they will be able to assimilate their clan.
The so-called "restraint" means that on the one hand, it is necessary to "bond" and use military means and political pressure to control it; On the other hand, the "縻" is used to give comfort to economic and material benefits. It has existed in ancient times, but no matter which dynasty, it is mostly given to the virtual prince, the implementation of autonomy, Fuquan to change, turn the virtual into the real, and establish a good law for all generations. The fundamental purpose of Fuquan's policy was to slowly assimilate the alien races, and as with the policy of the Celestial Empire towards ethnic minorities in later generations, it was difficult for the barbarians to rebel unless the central government was completely weakened. It's just that this policy costs too much money, food, and manpower, and it takes a long time, maybe three generations, five generations, or even a hundred years, so it is the middle policy.
And as the third strategy in the first volume, it is the most poisonous strategy, because with this strategy, force is subdued, and after three generations at most, unless there is an invasion of other foreign enemies, there will be no more barbarians.
This is also very understandable, this is the same as most of the Chinese who immigrated to the United States in later generations, in the end, many people only say that they are from China, but they are Americans. Now if the Han Dynasty forcibly relocates those barbarians to the sparsely populated places of Shudi, Jingnan and other places that have long been controlled by the Han Dynasty, and then forcibly suppresses them by force, three generations later, even if their descendants know that they are from outside the Saiwai, I am afraid that they will not think that they are barbarians, but will think that they are Han people and Chinese people.
He Miao on the side looked at Fuquan blankly, he wanted to refute Fuquan's three strategies, but he had nowhere to start, after all, his understanding of Tuntian immigrants was only from the experience of this dynasty. Compared with Fuquan, who summed up the experience of later generations and compared with the current situation of the Han Dynasty, the three strategies for conquest proposed are really insignificant.
Of course, in fact, in Fu Quan's heart, there is one of the best and most effective strategies, that is, to carry out a complete massacre, according to the same method he used to kill the Xianbei Hu people outside the Saiwai at that time, all those who do not obey Wang Hua and are slaughtered on the spot above the wheel, leaving the women to give birth to children for the Han, and the children who are not higher than the wheel are slowly indoctrinated, and there is no need to abolish so many other things.
However, this is too bloody, and Fu Quan is afraid that even if the Manchu Dynasty Minister knows in his heart that this is a very simple, effective and vicious method, he will not agree to it. After all, the mainstream thinking of the Han Dynasty, which takes the Confucian classics as its official knowledge, is probably only to lay a butcher's knife on the people of the same race who endanger their rule.
If Fuquan said it, it would inevitably attract ridicule from a group of Confucian gentlemen, and after he returned from the war, he didn't know that he had heard of the scolding and criticism of the government and the opposition about his strategy of slaughtering prisoners and raising war by war.
Therefore, after thinking about it a few times, this strategy was finally hidden by Fu Quan, and instead used three strategies that were acceptable to today's Han officials.
It's just that He Miao has nothing to refute, but other councillors will not be like this, I saw that Yang Xuan, who had a lot of entanglements with Fuquan in Jingzhou, got up and saluted Emperor Liu Hong and said: "The three strategies offered by Fuba County are all good policies, but according to the policy of Fuba County, expand the land and plug the outside, the fundamental policy is that the Han people move to the border, and now Ba County uses cattle and horses fake loans, and Tuntian land is lured, which can lead the landless people to the outside of the Sai, how can Ranba County ensure that the Han people can be repaid, and they can all be repaid to the imperial court?" How can we ensure that Hermes-Epitek will stay outside the Cypriot for a long time? ”
Fu Quan glanced at Yang Xuan in front of him, very puzzled about how he entered the court, he had a previous acquaintance, he knew that Yang Xuan was a person, he knew that this Yang Xuan was not intentionally targeting himself, in fact, he was just making in-depth inquiries about his plan.
I saw that Fuquan replied: "The land outside the plug is a fertile land, if the army is in charge of it, the people have no laziness, within a few years, there will be a big harvest, then if the fake loan is reasonable, within a few years, the benefits of cattle and horses will be profitable, and you can get the tax of thousands of miles of fertile land, and the country and the people will also benefit." ”
After a pause, Fu Quan continued: "As for making the Han people stay outside the Saiwai for a long time, there is also a law to solve it, the people go out of the Sai, if they return to the Central Plains, they will have no relatives outside the Saiwai, and now the Han Dynasty has destroyed Xianbei and captured tens of thousands of women, and these tens of thousands of women can be given to the Han people together, so that they can marry and start a family." In this way, in a few years, the Han people have land, wives and children, and with these three, dare to ask who wants to return to the Central Plains? ”
Yang Xuan was stunned for a moment after hearing this, thoughtful, and then stopped speaking, and after luggage with Liu Hong, he returned to his seat, obviously he would not have too many objections to this Tuntian immigration policy.
After all, the first thing in Fuquan is that the land outside the blowing plug is fertile soil, and there are countless fields, of course, the ministers have doubts about the yield per mu, but they are thinking that they can collect taxes on more fields and make up for the deficit of the imperial court, so they have no objection. Second, Fu Quan's proposal to use the captured Xianbei women to give those bachelors who ran away to the outside of the Saiwai to start a family, so that they can have wives, children, and land. As long as they use a home to trap them outside the Saiwai, there is no worry that these people will be willing to return to the Central Plains and live the original hard life.
In fact, not only Yang Xuan, but also other officials and ministers in the court, there is no objection, after all, Fuquan has almost all the major problems that may arise in various Tuntian immigrants, and there is no reason for them to oppose it, and the rest of the situation depends on Liu Hong, who is sitting at the head of the palace, how to choose.
After all, no matter how it is handled, the money and food invested by the Tuntian immigrants in the early stage will definitely not be inferior to a big war, and judging from the national strength of the Han Dynasty that has just fought Xianbei, it will definitely be even tighter. I just don't know if Emperor Liu Hong will be willing to give up those blood capitals, but if he does, I'm afraid that all localities will have to collect heavy taxes to make up for the deficit in the West Mansion.
"Fu Qing, the land outside the plug, can it be fertile soil?" Liu Hong was silent for a long time, and finally he couldn't make a choice, after all, if the land outside the fortress could not be planted into fertile soil and fertile land, if he ordered a fake loan, he would definitely make the treasury lose money, and it might even make the entire Han collapse because of the financial deficit, which naturally made Liu Hong hesitate.
"Returning to Your Majesty, the minister dares to guarantee that the land outside the fortress will be fertile soil, and if the tuntian is cultivated extensively, the Han Dynasty can collect tens of thousands of taxes on fertile land at the age of a few years." Fuquan saluted and replied in a positive voice, for those lands outside the Saiwai, he can't guarantee other places, but the northeast outside the Saiwai must be fertile soil, after all, the three eastern provinces in later generations are known as the granary of the Celestial Empire, and at the same time, it is the heavy industry base of the old Northeast.
Although at this time, due to the primeval forests, swamps and weather, it is obviously impossible to turn the current northeast into a granary with 100 million tons of grain in the future, but it should be possible to develop tens of thousands of miles of fields that can produce in Fuquan, and with these reclaimed land, because of the fake loans of the Han people and the imperial court, the imperial court reasonably collected a lot higher taxes than the Central Plains to make up for the financial deficit of the Han Dynasty, which is completely feasible in his opinion, of course, the premise is that the Han can persevere.
Moreover, there are few people and more land in the northeast, and the development potential is almost unlimited, and the land is all plains, which is easy to cultivate. And in winter, the so-called local customs, those who want to go to the outside of the fortress to struggle if they can't even resist the cold, then it's best not to come, think to come to the ability of people to adapt to the environment, they will find the best way to solve it, otherwise, if no one adapts, I'm afraid the Northeast will have no chance to develop at all.
Now, it depends on Liu Hong's choice, and after Liu Hong is determined, under the temptation of land and women, how many people in the world are willing to go to the bitter cold land outside the Saiwai to struggle.
As for the fake loans mentioned by Fuquan in the whole plan, they were actually loans from later generations, which had been in place since the Spring and Autumn Period, and even at that time there were usury merchants. Of course, this time Fuquan is to let the Eastern Han Dynasty court play the role of the merchant who lends goods, and Fuquan also has another reason, he believes that because this is the imperial court host, it is the emperor's borrowing capital, and those who want to make a windfall in the spoils seized by the court may have to be reined in.
Unlike Fu Quan's prediction of Liu Hong's quick decision, even if Fu Quan said a lot of affirmative words just now, and after that, no one in the government and the opposition refuted him, Emperor Liu Hong, who was the decision-maker of the Han Dynasty, did not choose to support Fu Quan's strategy 100% this time, but shelved the proposal and did not reply immediately.
After going to the court, Fu Quan made up his mind in his heart, if he was weak this time and failed to make Liu Hong finally agree to the strategy of immigrating to Tuntian, in the future, when he took charge of the court, he must do whatever it takes to completely incorporate the land outside the country into the territory of China.
Subsequently, Fu Quan and his old acquaintance Yang Xuan went out of the palace together, and talked about all kinds of things after the separation of the two along the way, after all, there was a friendship similar to that of comrades-in-arms, so even if there was some family estrangement between the two, they talked happily.
As for Yang Xuan's entry into the court as a councilor, in fact, there are also reasons, it turned out that after Fuquan put down the Huang Sui Rebellion, Jingzhou was stable for a period of time, and there was a rebellion again.
At that time, the rebels gathered together to attack the county, there were many rebels and Yang Xuan's troops were weak, and the officials and people were very worried and afraid. But Yang Xuan was not afraid, he specially made dozens of carriages, used a row of bags to hold lime on the carts, tied cloth to the tail of the horse, and made military chariots, specializing in bows and crossbows, and agreed to meet on a date. Then let the carriage in front, the wind and the ashes, the thieves are not allowed to open their eyes, so they burn the cloth with fire, the horses are frightened and rush to the thief array, and then call the rear car bow and crossbow to send out randomly, the sound of the drum shocks the sky, the thieves are frightened and scattered, chase and wound the thieves countless people, and show the head of its leader to the public, and the county can be peaceful.
Afterwards, Zhao Kai, the assassin of Jingzhou, who was already at odds with Yang Xuan, was greedy for his merits, so he directly falsely accused Yang Xuan of not breaking the thief himself. After Yang Xuan found out, he also argued at the same time, but after all, Zhao Kai belonged to the eunuch party, and there were people in the palace to help him, and in the end, Liu Hong did not know why, and directly ordered Yang Xuan to be recalled with a car to ask for the guilt.
On the way, because of the strict prohibition, there was no opportunity to justify the reason, Yang Xuan looked for opportunities in every possible way, and finally bit his arm and wrote a chapter in blood, specifically stating the situation of the thief, and talking about Zhao Kai's framing of him, and then asked his relatives to go to the court to play.
In the end, after Liu Honglan played, he understood what was going on, so he forgave Yang Xuan and worshiped him as a speaker, but Zhao Kai was convicted of falsely accusing others because of this. The whole thing can be described as twists and turns, otherwise, there would not have been any meeting with Yang Xuan in the court today.
In his heart, Fu Quan also understood that after this incident, Yang Xuan's official fortune would definitely be better, after all, no emperor would not like this kind of loyal and capable courtier.