Chapter 22 The Strategy of Faster and Better Provinces

"Buddhism in Nepal has not completely become the mainstream ideology in Tibet for centuries, and the fundamental reason is that the Tibetan aristocracy and slave owners in power do not have enough willingness to embrace Buddhism. Bon in Tibet was sufficient to meet the needs of the ruling class's theoretical system.

The primitive polytheism and the backward primitive tribal state system were mutually adaptable, and the more advanced Buddhism was compatible with the more advanced slavery. According to the truth that the economic base determines the superstructure, we must grasp the superstructure with one hand while grasping the productive forces and the economic foundation with the other.

We do not need to implant the most advanced centralized imperial system, and the superstructure of slavery and feudalism is very suitable for the Tibetan region, which will inevitably be in the agricultural and pastoral economy for a long time. If we import a large number of advanced feudal social technologies and systems to arm the spokesmen and those conservative reactionary forces to compete for territory and population, and we cannot get most of our strength done within half a year, then I can only choose the same means as in the history of the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, and directly send troops to solve the problem.

Conquering a region through religion and culture is the least costly and most effective. Take a look at world history. What nation has been conquered by foreign forces through military and political means that can be ruled for thousands of years until it is completely assimilated? Assimilation can only be achieved by cultural and religious means. Military and political forces can only treat the symptoms but not the root causes, but without political and military means, the smooth implementation of culture and religion cannot be maintained.

Military and political means are the medicine of tigers and wolves, which can only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and religion and culture are the warm and tonic prescriptions for consolidating the foundation and cultivating the yuan, and they can maintain health but cannot save the emergency. The economy is the best way to treat the symptoms and the root causes, but the cost is too great for non-political organizations like us to afford. We still have to rely on military and economic means to carry out the plan of Tibet.

The economic means are already beginning to bear fruit, and the military and political means that we have prepared are beginning to be launched. In order to bring the entire territory of Tibet under the ruling system of the Song Empire, we had to solve all problems quickly, in a provincial way, and in a good way.

What does it mean to be fast? Occupying the whole territory within half a year is fast. I estimate that it will take more than four months to build a dirt road from Qingtang City to Yushu on the plateau, so we have to build the road and march at the same time, and those people and baggage workers are road builders. As long as we have enough horses and grain and grass, and we don't need much cement, we just build a dirt road where horses can run, fill in the swamps, build bridges, compact the roadbed, and so on, and we can use countless tribesmen of various Tibetan forces and their horses as labor. As long as we have the goods and necessities they want, we will not have to worry about the members of the 'Sustaining Society'.

What does it mean to be good? As much as possible, we will solve the contradiction between friend and foe without leaving any trace of trouble. The innate conditions of Tibet determine that it is impossible for us to dilute the local population through immigration, and to occupy it forever, we need to rely on the traditional strength of the locality, and how to make the local ruling class and the ruled class satisfied with obedience is an art, which is the art of the conqueror. As far as historical cases are concerned, the most successful ones belonged to the ancient Roman and Arab empires, where a small number of conquerors managed efficiently and the majority of the conquered were multi-pronged. Not only did it rely on military and military force, but you also knew what happened to the Mongol Empire. A nation that is politically, economically, culturally and religiously backward cannot be a successful conqueror. Behind us is the Great Song Empire, which is leading the world in all aspects, so we have enough capital and methods to solve the problem of 'relative population disadvantage'.

What is a province? The fewer resources you spend, the better, and it's better to make money without spending money. Through trade and investment in agriculture, animal husbandry and mining in Tibet, we can obtain war dividends that were impossible for ancient societies, and the only strategy that can reflect our pattern is to change the war from a loss-making transaction that only spends money for a peaceful environment and political prestige to a profiteering transaction like the American model in modern society, where spending money for commodity pricing power and regional and global economic hegemony are the same as the modern society.

Under my arrangement, the Jiaoguoluo local armed forces, which are extremely combative, have begun to carry out the cavalry system of the later Mongol Empire to adapt to the surname, as long as these 2,000 people can reach half of the combat effectiveness of the Xue army.

Before Wang Xinyu's intelligence system infiltrated the entire territory of Tibet, it was the task of the military factory to prepare the corresponding munitions. The level of non-military equipment of each combat unit is required to reach the level of the US military battlefield in Iraq, such as steel helmets, tactical vests, blankets, first-aid kits, and military food.

'Valuables' such as standard swords, bows, crossbows, chain mail made by us, and large road-building equipment (rollers, pile drivers, mixers, four-wheeled wagons) were distributed before the final mobilization for war.

Is there a breakthrough in black powder technology in our fireworks industry? Did the flares come out? If not, be prepared to switch to rockets. Has the secret order we received from the Privy Council been completed? When Li Ji returned to Kaifeng and discussed the progress of the Tibetan strategy, he first reported the results and achievements of various projects, and then cared about the progress of the secret industry.

"No problem, we are just ready to complete the preparations, as long as Yuan You gets it done before the Qingming Festival in the fourth year of Yuan You, we can sweep away all the Tibetan forces. The secret weapon is the earth-shattering MLRS, and in the tradition of Big Brother, we only use rockets with stabilizer wings as artillery shells. Although there are no high-end goods such as cyclotrimethyltetranitroamine, **, and trinitrophenol, the technical content is relatively close to that of the 11th century, granular black powder, and a small amount of secretly produced nitrocellulose filled inside the rocket still have the power to suppress the Tubo turtle. Qian Jin patted his chest and reassured.