Wei Yan thought for a while and replied: "Grass, shrubs, and trees bear countless seeds every year, how many of them are bred in the end, most of the seeds are spoiled because the scattered places are not suitable for growth, rather than letting these grass seeds spoil in vain, it is better to put some poultry to forage."

Of course, it is impossible to raise too many poultry on the grassland, and if you raise too much, you can't sell it. After all, the life of the Han people is not good now, it is good to have a bowl of porridge to eat, who wants to buy a chicken to eat, in my reasoning, now the entire Han people can not eat an average of one chicken a year, and the number of chickens, ducks and geese eaten in a year will not exceed 50 million, and the Han people in various states and counties will raise some chickens, ducks and geese in their own courtyards, which can be produced and sold by themselves, and the poultry that can be raised in the first few years on the grassland will not exceed 30 million, and each of the 300,000 herdsmen can raise no more than 100.

Of course, when everyone's living standards improve, when everyone can eat dozens of chickens a year, and when the entire Han Dynasty eats a billion chickens a year, hundreds of millions of chickens can be stocked on the grassland. ”

Tian Chou asked again: "Lord, do you want to start implementing it now?" ”

Wei Yan thought about it carefully, shook his head lightly and said: "Don't force it first, first encourage the herdsmen to try to raise poultry, and explain the seven benefits of raising chickens, ducks and geese to the herdsmen clearly, and after explaining it clearly, let them automatically and voluntarily buy chicken seeds from the government, and don't force them." ”

Despite all the measures taken to prevent the desertification of the grasslands, Wei Yan is still not optimistic about the ecological environment here.

After more than ten days of observation, Wei Yan found a fact that made him very frustrated: compared with the Europa steppe at the same latitude, the shortcomings of the grassland outside the Dahan Pass are very obvious, the soil layer is thin, the water level is low, and the amount of water is small.

However, the Baikal Lake and Songliao region in the eastern part of the steppe are all black soil belts, and the temperature in summer is also very high, because of the vast lake surface of Lake Baikal, the huge water body is a natural two-way giant "air conditioner", the temperature of the lakeside in summer is about 6 °C lower than that of the surrounding area, and the relative humidity is about 11 °C higher in winter, and it has the characteristics of an oceanic climate, and there are many times when the wind and rain are smooth.

Wei Yan planned to sweep away the Xianbei people, Ding Ling people, and Fuyu people in the future, and moved most of the herdsmen to live there, where they were half farming and half pasture, and slowly reclaimed the Great Northern Wilderness into the Great Northern Warehouse.

That fertile black land, Wei Yan drooled when he thought about it, compared to there, the Hetao area in the south of the Yangtze River was no longer so attractive, but it was still occupied by Murong Xianbei and other Xianbei tribes, and there were also forces such as Gongsun Zhan, Gongsun Du, Wu Huan, and Central Xianbei in the middle, which were beyond the reach of the whip.

Wei Yan sighed, let's sweep away the Western Xianbei who was close to him.

The area controlled by Xianbei in the west is very vast, the easternmost to Shanggu County, the westernmost has been close to Wusun Kingdom, the southernmost to Wuyuan County, Shuofang County, and the northernmost has been near Beihai, Beihai is what later generations called Baikal Lake, Su Wu once herded sheep there, because of the control of more territory, herdsmen and horses, strong soldiers and horses, so the western Xianbei adults rely on the central Xianbei and ascend to the top of the Xianbei Xinshan Yu Kuitou disdainful at all.

Wei Yan burned Qingyan Mountain and defeated the 140,000 horses of the Hetao Xiongnu Tribal Alliance in one fell swoop.

Combined with the secret report transmitted by Feiying from a certain head of Xianbei in the central part of the country, knowing that after Wei Yan destroyed the Xiongnu, the soldiers would inevitably point directly at the western Xianbei, and he couldn't help but be shocked, and hurriedly convened the Tuoba tribe, the Beilu Jie Division, the Mohou Division, the Tulai Division, the Bohan Division, the Pilan Division, the Migui Division, the Yugou Division, the Tilun Division, the Yuezhi Division, the Douliuhan Division, the Qidouhun Division, the Stacking Digging Division, the Yue Dajian Division, the Fuhun Division, and other leaders of the Western Xianbei tribe to discuss the matter.

These tribal leaders have never dealt with Wei Yan, so they naturally don't know how powerful Wei Yan is, and the 140,000 Hun cavalry defeated by Wei Yan were also pressed and beaten by the Xianbei people before this, so these Xianbei tribal leaders don't think that Wei Yan has anything to fear.

The Western Xianbei Lord put the son of Luoluo, Putou, and proposed: "Wei Yan's Wei army is in full swing, so it's better for us to retreat, lure Wei Yan's army to the Mobei grassland, and then surround and annihilate it!" ”

Most of the leaders of the Xianbei tribe shouted: "Putou Xiaoshuai, do you remember when Lao Shan Yu led us to break the three-way army of the Han Dynasty?" ”

Xianbei people never forget that the Han sent more than 100,000 horses to attack in three ways, and was defeated by Tanshihuai, seven or eight out of ten Han soldiers died, in fact, the Han army that attacked that year was only 30,000 horses, and the rest were county soldiers and auxiliaries, Tanshihuai still united with the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, and Dongqiang people to attack together, and won a complete victory.

These stupid Xianbei people still carry the understanding of the past, thinking that the combat strength of the Han army is still so poor, and there is nothing to fear, especially in the western Xianbei strongest tribe Tuoba Commander Tuoba Jufen is the most disdainful.

Tuoba Jiefen's father, Tuoba Lin, was the previous Tuoba Division, and for the development of Tuoba Division, he lied that the gods suggested that the tribe be migrated, and Tuoba Neighbor thought that he was old at that time, and passed it to Tuoba Jiefen, who was ordered to move south.

In the historical "Book of Wei", the ancestor of the Tuoba people who founded the Northern Wei Dynasty Tuoba Jiefen is depicted as a god, Tuoba Jiefen in the process of moving south, first "the valley is high and deep, nine difficulties and eight obstacles", the people originally planned to stop, but "there are divine beasts, its shape is like a horse, its sound is like a cow, the first guide, the years are out", and finally migrated to the hometown of the Xiongnu, and the subsequent records are more like myths: later when Jiefen once led tens of thousands of horsemen to hunt, he saw a beautiful woman coming down from the sky, and told him that he came to "be ordained" with Jiefen, so he "slept together" 。 Later, the goddess said goodbye, and a year later, the goddess gave birth to a male to Jiefen, and this man was Tuoba Liwei. After the death of Jie Fen, he was succeeded by Liwei. Tuoba Jiefen's son, in addition to the second son Tuoba Liwei, there is also the eldest son Tuoba Pigu, who is the ancestor of the bald Wugu of the Southern Liang founder during the Sixteen Kingdoms period.

In fact, the reason why Tuoba Jiefen migrated to the hometown of the Xiongnu was that he was attacked by the Ding Ling people in the north and had to migrate, and Tuoba Jiefen was not as wise as the "Book of Wei" written by the traitors, and the current Tuoba Jiefen had just migrated from Mobei, and he didn't know much about the Han at all, thinking that the tribe had more than 100,000 people, and could pull up 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry, and it was a few large tribes in the western Xianbei, so he could underestimate the Han army that had been repeatedly defeated in the hands of the Xianbei people.

Zhi Luoluo, Putou father and son glanced at each other, they learned from the secret report that Wei Yan hated this Tuoba Department very much, saying that as long as the Tuoba Department was destroyed, they didn't know why Wei Yan hated this Tuoba Department so much, but this Tuoba Department had just migrated from Mobei and occupied part of their territory, and Putou father and son did not have a good impression of this Tuoba Department, but because of the internal unity of Xianbei in the west, they did not rashly attack this Tuoba Department, and now the Tuoba Department wants to come out and touch the hard nail of Wei Yan and Wei Jun, Let them touch it, so as to test the reality of the Wei army.

Having made up his mind, he asked Tuoba Jiefen to lead his headquarters and go to meet Wei Yan, and he and the rest of the tribe would arrive later.

Wei Yan was very happy when he learned that Tuoba Jiefen had led 40,000 cavalry from the headquarters to approach the city, and he was trying to get rid of Tuoba Ministry, but he didn't expect him to automatically send it to the door.

Wei Yan left Han Hao to supervise the local military and political affairs of the Hetao, and settled the Xiongnu herdsmen in the Hetao, he took the headquarters of the Guards Division, Zhao Yun, Xu Huang, Tai Shici, and Zhu Lingbu, with the assistance of Liu Bao and Zhang Yan of the Southern Xiongnu Army, 200,000 troops poured into the city, but claimed that there were only 30,000 cavalry, in fact, the 200,000 army had 80,000 cavalry, of which 30,000 were captured by the good horses of the Huns and quickly equipped, the most important training of the Wei army in the past year was horsemanship, in addition to the naval army, All armies had to train in horsemanship, and a year of hard training would allow them to quickly become elite cavalry once they had good horses.

Except for the 30,000 elite cavalry exposed, the rest of the teams all died down, day and night, just to hide from the arrogant Tuoba Jiefen, so that his myth of Tuoba Xianbei would never have a chance to be written into the garbage history book "Book of Wei".

Wei Yan rode on the black horse, looking at the prairie in the early winter, the north wind is bleak, the grass is withered and yellow, although there is a scene of decay, but you can also imagine the happy scene of the herd of cattle and sheep in this prairie when everything recovers in the spring of the next year, the Yellow River in the distance flows through here, different from the downstream Wang-Yang raging, the Yellow River in the shape of the Hetao flows very calmly, generously irrigating this fertile soil, you can imagine what kind of scene it will be if it is properly protected, not to mention the desert grassland, The Hetao area alone can raise all the alien races who are in trouble in the north, and they can eat and drink without worry, and have enough food and clothing.

Wei Yan turned around and asked Lu Su, who was following him: "Zijing, the Yellow River is harmful, only one is rich, and millions of Han people downstream are harmed to form a fertile land here, why do we want to hand it over to this group of aliens to multiply?" ”

In the past few days, Lu Su has always had objections to Wei Yan's arson to the mountains and the Xiongnu coalition army, he thinks that Wei Yan's methods are too spicy and hurtful to the heavens and peace, but Wei Yan thinks that Lu Su should correct his attitude towards foreign races.

Lu Su shook his head and said, "My lord, the imperial court used to place these alien races in the Hetao in order to make him attached and attached to our Han court. Since the Southern Xiongnu annexed to the Han Dynasty, they have benefited from the Hetao, and other foreign races such as Qiang and Wuhuan have also sensed the magnanimity of our Han and have joined our Han and followed our Han army to resist Xianbei. ”

Wei Yan sneered: "Zijing, you have been studying in Yangzhou, I don't know about the border fortress, what you said about annexation, it is just that the imperial court used it to cover up their incompetence, I have never seen the Southern Xiongnu, Wuhuan, and Qiang sincerely belong to my Han, but I have seen them invade Bingzhou and Youzhou again and again, loot our Han people's property and women, and kill our Han men and children. As for resisting Xianbei together, I see more of the Southern Xiongnu succumbing to Xianbei, and as Xianbei's pawns, they came to attack and harass the Han border that attacked us. ”

Speaking of this, Wei Yan said sadly and inexplicably: "Hey, even I know that a rough martial artist knows that humans and wolves can't coexist, why don't those ministers in power in the court know, they have relaxed their minds to these beast-like alien races, forgiven the trips of these alien races again and again, and gave them such a rich land for them to recuperate, raise them, and then eat my big man!" ”

Lu Su was speechless for a while, no matter how much he prevaricated with words such as the education of saints, he couldn't ignore the blood and tears of the Han people in Biansai.

Lu Su thought for a long time before he came up with a statement: "Lord, if it weren't for Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Rebellion, if Dong Zhuo was in charge, causing the princes to rise up, maybe our Han court would have wiped out these alien races." ”

Wei Yan shook his head and said: "As long as everyone has the idea that the outside must first settle the inside, there will only be snipe and clam competing for the benefit of fishermen, and the princes will fight, and only these foreign races will be cheaper, if I don't unite all forces, I will not be able to recover the Hetao one day." To tell the truth, if it weren't for my Wei Yan, I'm afraid that we Han people would never have recovered the Hetao one day. ”

Wei Yan's words are true, if he did not recover the Hetao now, according to historical records, from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Republic of China, the Han people only limited control of the Hetao during the Sui Dynasty, and then the Tang Dynasty generously gave the Hetao to foreign races, the Song Dynasty did not control it at all, and the Ming Dynasty also generously gave it to foreign races, and the magnanimity of the Han people to foreign races will only create their greed. The loss of the Hetao, a horse breeding land, made the Han people not strong enough cavalry to resist the invasion of foreign races in the north, and they have always been passively beaten. Without strong enough cavalry to ensure the agrarian civilization, the nomadic barbarism such as the Wuhu Chaohua, the Jurchen annihilation of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Mongol annihilation of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty's extermination of the Ming Dynasty would be repeated again.

Looking at all the history, Wei Yan didn't understand very much, the Han rulers of all dynasties, didn't they understand that the alien race on the grassland was hungry wolves, they actually used some bullshit to show magnanimity and benevolence as a reason, not only put these hungry wolves into the Sei, but also provided them with countless money and food, and raised some hungry wolves that could be starved and killed if they continued to starve into vicious wolves.

Wei Yan will not repeat the mistakes of some stupid rulers in later generations, in Wei Yan's eyes, there is only one nation in the Han Dynasty, and the other nomadic peoples, whether they are Xiongnu, Wuhuan, Qianghu, Xianbei or others, must be Sinicized, otherwise they will only perish.

Wei Yan continued to march to the northwest, crossed the Yellow River at Lingshuo City, Shuofang County, and pointed his troops directly at the two passes of Jimingsai and Gaoyan. 10