Just when Zhuqiang decided to wait for news on the Chen Bing border of the imperial court, Liu Wei, who was in Chang'an, also thought about how to deal with the Qiang problem on the border of the Han Dynasty.

Originally, not all the people in the court agreed with Liu Wei's behavior of ordering Chen Bing to the border. There are many ministers, including Lu Zhi, who believe that since Li Dao and Guo Yan have been ambushed and the Xiliang rebels have been completely wiped out, Liu Wei should no longer lightly cause trouble. The Han Empire really couldn't stand the toss, and Liu Wei's behavior really felt like he had nothing to do and caused trouble.

Therefore, many ministers have written to advise Liu Wei to return to the court as soon as possible, not to use swords and soldiers, and to slowly plan for rebellion.

However, Liu Bian, who was leading the troops, completely ignored these recitals, and Emperor Guangxi Liu Bian showed his stubborn side to everyone for the first time. Lu Zhi and the others couldn't persuade Liu Wei, so they had to shake their heads and sigh. They don't know. In the future, because of Liu Wei's stubbornness, the various problems caused to the empire made a generation of famous ministers of Guangxi, including Lu Zhi, exhausted and suffered.

However, Liu Wei was not entirely a self-righteous and unwise person, and he did not intend to resort to force to solve the problem of the Qiang Rebellion that had plagued the Han Empire for many years.

Long before he was reborn, he had an in-depth study of the Qiang rebellion that dragged down the Han Empire in history, and combined with the detailed understanding of the Qiang people in this era, he actually had a mature solution in his heart.

Qiang chaos has always been the most troublesome problem in the Han Empire. Historically, it was precisely because of the ups and downs of the Qiang Rebellion in the west and the severe blow of the Yellow Turban Uprising in the east that the Han Empire went to the abyss of destruction.

The reason for the continuous outbreak of the Qiang Rebellion lies in the failure of the Han officials in dealing with the ethnic issue and the Han court's Tuntian policy on the border.

The Qiang are an ancient ethnic group, and there are written records about them as early as the Shang Dynasty. They have always been in peace with the Central Plains and growing together. During the Zhou Dynasty, the central government also intermarried with them many times, dividing the descendants of the Qiang people into vassal states. However, in the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the government's discriminatory policy against the Qiang people, the Qiang people, who were originally Han people's relatives, suffered from the cruel rule of the Han Dynasty officials. In disputes between the Han and Qiang ethnic groups, many officials deliberately favored the Han Chinese. For example, the great rebellion of the Anyi Qiang people in the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty was because a small official in Anyi County of the Han Dynasty seized a beautiful Qiang woman, and his husband had nowhere to explain, so he angrily killed the official, and then fled to Saiwai with his wife and children. The Anyi County Commander was furious, believing that this Qiang person had violated the law and discipline, and led the army out of the fortress to pursue him, which aroused the anger of the Qiang tribes and united to resist together.

Another important reason for the Qiang rebellion was the policy of tuntian in Qiang that began at the beginning of the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Due to the continuous migration of a large number of inland residents, prisoners and even the use of the army to the Qiang area, the living space of the Qiang people has been seriously squeezed, and many Qiang people have been forced to migrate to barren and barren land farther away, and some have even lost their land and cannot sustain themselves. Under serious threats to their survival, the Qiang organized themselves to rebel against Han rule.

The Han and Qiang fought each other intermittently for a century, including Zhang Xu's treacherous poisoning of the Qiang king Miwu, and the large-scale massacre and plundering of the Han by the Qiang. Both of them suffered huge losses because of the war, and in this national hatred, in fact, both the Han and Qiang ethnic groups are losers.

As early as the beginning of Liu Bian's succession, there were people in the court and China who wrote to solve the problem of the Qiang people, and the former Situ Cui Lie wrote to Liu Biao suggesting that he give up Liangzhou and surrender Sanfu, but Liu Biao did not use his stupid tricks. In dealing with the Qiang rebellion, he still adhered to the principle of "carrots and sticks", and Chen Bing was in the Qiang Dao to show force to the Qiang people, but Liu Wei's real intention was to prepare peace talks with the Qiang people, and use the Qiang people's attachment to make the powerful culture of the Central Plains assimilate the Qiang people.

The conscious assimilation of the Han nationality to ethnic minorities in the Guangxi era had begun since the time when Yu Fuluo led the Xiongnu to attach themselves to the Han Dynasty.

However, because of the huge cultural differences between the Han and the Hu, as well as the long-term antagonism, the assimilation of the Han ethnic minorities was not completed overnight.

"If it is not my race, its heart will be different, and Rong Di will not be the same as Hua." Originally, this sentence of Jiang Tong, a political commentator of the Western Jin Dynasty in history, expressed the different views of the Central Plains on foreign people. Not only do the Han people distrust ethnic minorities, but also the misunderstanding of the Han people is also deep because of the different beliefs and language barriers.

Misunderstandings inevitably create estrangement, which ultimately leads to disputes.

Liu Wei was not a pure nationalist in nature, although he used the Propaganda Agency to promote the superiority of the Han nation and the martial spirit of the nation in the army, but he was still willing to accept other nationalities, of course, the premise must be to unite around the Han nation under the rule of the Han Empire.

Influenced by the vigorous promotion of their own culture and values by Americans around the world in his previous life, Liu Wei felt that it might be easy to conquer a nation by force, but it was extremely difficult to conquer a nation's culture. Although the Han nation was able to drive away the Xiongnu by force for a while, there were Xianbei after the Xiongnu, as well as Turkic Tibet, and Jurchen Mongolia. Not to mention the Wuhu Chaos that will bring great disasters to the Han nation in the near future.

Therefore, conquest by force is only the initial means, and national assimilation is the biggest weapon for Liu Wei to deal with the issue of alien races in the future.

Therefore, after the Xiongnu were annexed, Liu Wei made great efforts to speed up the sinicization of the Xiongnu. First of all, in order to increase the sense of identity between the Xiongnu and the Han people, Liu Wei put forward the views on the origin of the Xiongnu in the "Historical Records" through various propaganda resources in his hands, and publicized to the world that the Xiongnu were originally remnants of the Xia Dynasty, and the Han people actually belonged to the same Chinese clan, the descendants of Yan and Huang.

The "Records of the Historians" was written by Sima Qian, the most famous historian of the Han Dynasty, and few scholars in this era were qualified to question the views of this Taishi Gong, so everyone had to agree with the fact that Liu Wei propagated it.

And in the assimilation of the Qiang people, Liu Wei is also ready to use the same method. He has already publicized through the "Luoyang Times" or Ren Hongchang's Hongdu Gate that the Qiang people are descendants of Emperor Yan and people surnamed Jiang. The evidence is that the Qiang character is a variation of the Jiang character. The Qiang people, like the Xiongnu, are the brothers of the Han nation. It's just that the cultural customs are different because of the separation of the two places, but they still have the same blood flowing with each other.

For this reason, Liu Wei later put forward a plan to help Xiqiang Beidi and other foreign brothers catch up with the Central Plains civilization, which was actually the assimilation of foreign cultures by the Han nation. Through the recommendation of Cai Yong, Lu Zhi and others, Liu Wei sent a large number of famous scholars from the Central Plains to the Xiongnu, Qiang and other foreign areas to carry out teaching work. Among them are Guan Ning, Bing Yuan and other great Confucianists and scholars at home. Although these alien areas are backward and poor, and the people are fierce, and there are many celebrities who are reluctant to go, the despicable Liu Wei first praised these celebrities through the "Luoyang Times" and other media, saying that they went to other races to spread the Central Plains culture as inheriting the legacy of the Confucian saints and teaching morality in all directions. So that these people couldn't get off the stage, and whoever told them to believe in the words of Confucius, everyone had to go to educate the barbarians.

When everyone has the same belief in the future, the estrangement between each other will be lightened, and there will be no more disputes on the border of the Han Dynasty.

For the cultural assimilation of the Xiongnu and the Qiang people, Liu Wei had already made up his mind for a long time, and in the face of the biggest problem that caused the Qiang rebellion - the uprising of the Qiang people caused by the imperial court's tuntian enclosure, Liu Wei also had a countermeasure in his heart.

Through the study and research of the past life and the present life, it was gradually discovered that the main reason for this behavior was the land problem of the Han Dynasty itself.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, most of the empire's land was controlled by wealthy families, and their forcible seizure caused extremely acute internal contradictions within the empire and a serious shortage of food for the border garrisons. The Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu and his successors, who relied on the clan lords, had no choice but to solve the internal land contradictions and the supply of border garrisons by using a large number of foreign fields.

Compared with the Xiongnu, Xianbei and other fierce northern nomads, the Qiang people in the west are more gentle, and many Qiang people near the Han Dynasty have given up their nomadic life and changed to farming, so the Qiang people have easily become a soft persimmon used by the Han to alleviate domestic contradictions.

If Liu Wei wants to resolve the contradiction between the Han and Qiang peoples, he must first solve the serious land problem in the country and reduce the encroachment on the land of the Qiang people. However, he didn't need to bother to solve this problem, because a group of people had already helped him solve it long before he succeeded to the throne.

These people are wrapped in yellow scarves and believe in Taoist thought, believing that under the leadership of their "Great Liang Ancestor", God will descend on them in a happy society. The name of this group of people is the Yellow Turban Army. Their essence is a desperate revolt of a group of landless peasants against the family lords who have forcibly seized their land.

I have to say that the Yellow Turban Army uprising in the late Eastern Han Dynasty had a very huge impact on the Han Empire. It had a serious impact on many wealthy families within the empire, and reshuffled the land holdings within the empire. Also because of the war and natural disasters caused by the population of the Central Plains region plummeted, a large number of ownerless wasteland appeared, so that the imperial court no longer needed to alleviate the contradiction by encroaching on the Qiang land, as early as the end of the Ling Emperor, the imperial court has stopped in the Qiang land, on the contrary, the biggest problem of the imperial court at this time is that there is not enough population in the Central Plains to reclaim the wasteland, if possible, Liu Wei hopes to move the Qiang people inward, enrich the population of the Central Plains. And not out-migration.

Liu Wei already had a good solution to the two major problems that caused the Qiang Rebellion, and when he was hesitantly preparing to solve the Qiang problem, a letter from the imperial court made Liu Wei realize that there were great variables within the Han Empire.

(To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter)