When the crowd dispersed, Xu Ping left Lu Fang and Chong Shiheng behind, and said to them: "It is difficult to control Fanqiang, one is that they live in an account, have no fixed place, and are scattered in the mountains and wilderness. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The other is that each tribe is not subject to the jurisdiction of the imperial court. There is no place to settle, and the court has no way to manage it, so it has to rely on the leaders of various tribes. If you have a layer of leaders in the middle, things will be difficult to do, and it is good to meet the obedient, but once the leader is unruly and insatiable, there will be countless incidents and will not listen to the command of the court. ”

Chong Shiheng said: "What does the marshal mean is to let Fan Qiang settle down like the Han people?" They are nomadic and have to live in pursuit of water and grass, which is a bit difficult to do. The fertile soil of Pingtian is good, so they can learn to farm with the Han people, and it is difficult to run the grassland in the mountains. ”

"It's not that hard. In fact, most of the people in Fanqiang are half-cultivated and half-pasted, and there are not many people who purely rely on grazing cattle and sheep. Lu Fang, yes or no? Anyway, this is the case around Qinzhou, so I don't know how the rest of Hehuang is. ”

Lu Fang said: "What the festival marshal said is right, most of the Tibetan people are still half-farming and half-pasture. In particular, the Hehuang Valley to the west, in fact, there are a lot of fertile fields, but the Tibetan people do not know about farming, grazing cattle and sheep in the meantime, or occasionally planting a little wheat and millet, etc., only know how to plant, and harvest when it is ripe, and they do not know the management of water and fertilizer. If they were allowed to plant the land, these valleys would include the majority of the Tibetan people. ”

Chong Shiheng still seemed to be lacking in confidence, and said: "The recruitment of archers in Tuntian has been continuous since the founding of this dynasty. However, I listened to the meaning of the marshal, I am afraid that it is not as simple as recruiting archers, but to merge the accounts into villages and set up townships to manage. Naturally, this can be the case in the place where the archers are stationed in the fields, and it may be extremely difficult to scatter the Qiang in the mountains. ”

Xu Ping nodded: "It's difficult, I know it's difficult, but I have to do it." As long as the court can't control them, those tribes will rebel infrequently, and it will be a disaster. Needless to say, the big tribes are even across counties and do not listen to the orders of the imperial court. Even those small ones are extremely troublesome. On the contrary, it is impossible not to suppress it, and as long as the troops are mobilized, the expenses will be huge. It doesn't matter once or twice once in a while, it's exhausting to clean up like this all year round. Therefore, in this way, where the flat land can be farmed, first start to merge the tent into a village, or thirty li, or fifty li, build a fort, and garrison soldiers and horses. The fort set up a township under the fort, and assigned the township chief Li Zheng to let them announce the imperial court order to the township. As for the nomadic Fanqiang, in fact, there are only a few large pastures, and there are also several forts in each place to manage those large pastures. As long as the flat land and a few large pastures are controlled, the remaining nomads will not be able to achieve the climate, and there will be no great decline. The fortress is a place of trade, and the tax is light, mainly to let the people communicate with each other. Those who trade well are the good people under their rule, and if there are plunderers, they move their clans to other places, or they are put into prison camps for service. ”

Chong Shiheng thought for a while, nodded and said: "This move of the marshal is more difficult than fighting a few big battles, if it is done, it will be a long-term peace and stability plan for the imperial court." In this way, it started with the familiar households around Qinzhou, and just happened to be with the whole training of the soldiers. The soldiers of Fan are drawn from one account, and the 35,000 soldiers of Qinzhou are 30,000 or 40,000 accounts and a population of 120,000. When all these people are united in the village fort, they have the basic strength, and even if there is a small rebellion, there is no need for the forbidden army to be dispatched. ”

"Well, that's it. General judgment, you discuss with the prison army Wang Kai, how to act, draw up a charter, and show it to me. ”

After speaking, Xu Ping said to Lu Fang again: "Just merging accounts into villages is not enough for the Tibetan people to tame." The village is inconvenient, and compared with their previous days, the Tibetan people will eventually flee. Lu Fang, this is with the help of your bridge army. Wherever villages, villages, and forts are built, there must be roads to reach them. When the road is there, the three shops can be driven there, and the materials from the outside can be transported there. The cattle wool skins of the Tibetan people and the scarce medicinal materials in the mountains can be purchased by the Sansi shop, trafficked outside the mountains, and even sold to the Central Plains. Let the Tibetan people be able to earn money through serious means and buy their favorite goods, so that they can truly be good citizens under the rule of the imperial court. The way of government is to guide and slacken, and it is not enough to rely solely on force to subdue and forcibly control. Only by allowing the Tibetan people to live a good life under the rule of the imperial court can the fundamental problem be solved. From this point of view, wherever the road goes, it is the land of Song, and it is no longer a place of bondage, and the burden of your bridge army is not lighter than that of the soldiers. ”

The economic base determines the superstructure, and to solve the problems of Western Tibet, it is not enough to simply change the political structure, it is just a castle built on the beach, and when the tide comes, it will disappear without a trace. If you want to solve the problem, you still have to change the economic structure here, which is the role of Sansi Puzi in the northwest. Officials have established trade channels so that nomadic cattle and sheep can be sold normally, in exchange for money to buy the goods they need. This kind of normal means, which is more profitable than looting, can make people live a better life, so that the herdsmen will sincerely support the rule of the imperial court here.

Longyou includes the land of Hexi since ancient times, which is a place of half-cultivation and half-grazing, and most of the population is concentrated in the flat land of the river valley, and there are not many people who are really nomadic in the mountains. As long as the agricultural areas of the river valley are controlled, even if there are nomadic tribes, they will not be able to achieve the climate. In order to be able to fight against the Central Plains, Fanqiang must first have its own agricultural base before it has the capital, and it is not enough to simply rely on grazing cattle and sheep. The capital of the party's rise is actually the agriculture of the Hetao, and with the materials provided by agriculture, the grazing horses can show their combat effectiveness. The bridge army repaired the road to reduce the cost of commercial trade, and the three divisions opened branches to each walled fort, so that the land of Fanqiang could communicate with the Central Plains, and the economic foundation of the most important part of this area was changed.

Changing the economic base here, combined with the change of the political structure, is Xu Ping's plan to go west and west. Military power and war are only to escort these actions, not to fight for the sake of fighting.

After so many years of road building, Lu Fang has become accustomed to this profession, thought about it and said to Xu Ping: "I understand the meaning of the marshal, but there are only three commanders from the bridge army in the capital, and it takes a long time to build so many roads." Even if it is to recruit and transfer people, it is not as convenient as the people in the army, and it is difficult to do it. In two or three years, it will not be easy to build the main road. ”

"If there are not enough people, can you recruit people? The three commanders can't build so many roads, so what about the thirty commanders? In my opinion, even if you recruit three hundred commanders, it is not a big deal. Concentrate on repairing the roads, and the extra people can be added to the camp and continue to farm. As long as the road is open, it will be easy to do everything. There has been a great drought in the Sichuan Gorge this year, and now it looks likely that it will be a disaster after the autumn, and the officials there have sent the imperial court to say that the prisoners on this road are going to be sent to the outer road, and I have sent them all to Qinzhou. And their courage is still not enough, how many prisoners are assassinated every year? If you are really afraid of a disaster after the autumn, you will simply recruit people to Qinfeng Road, as long as you survive this year and open the road, it will not be a good day in the future! ”

Chong Shiheng said with a smile: "This is the method of recruiting people from Fujian Road when the festival marshal was in Yongzhou, but I am afraid that the fourth road in the Sichuan Gorge will not work." Bashu is known as the country of abundance, fertile for thousands of miles, and the people there are relocated to the land and generally do not go out. It's not the same as Fujian Road, the land is narrow and densely populated, and if you don't go out, you won't have anything to eat. ”

"Isn't there a drought this year, as long as the court gives them food, are you afraid that no one will come?"

Chong Shiheng and Lu Fang shook their heads with a smile, where is there an official like Xu Ping, looking forward to local disasters.

Where there is a road, there are people, and some people have everything, on the one hand, they are razed into summer, and on the other hand, they move Han people from other places. Changing this place as fast as possible is what Xu Ping wants to do most now. Moving from the 4th Road of the Sichuan Gorge is undoubtedly the most convenient way.