Chapter 44: Disposing of the Barbarians
Wu Xing seems to have found a way to use this Yongzi teleporter, each of the eight strokes rotates to the position of the red button, and when he releases his hand, the eight strokes will be reset tick-tock, feeling like he is winding up this delicate mechanical device.
"Then how to send it?" Wu Xing looked at Lu Lao with a blank eye, the remaining steps could no longer be done without a teacher, and he was worried that fooling around would damage the delicate parts, so he directly asked for help.
Lu Lao stretched out his right index finger, condensed a small amount of star power, and gave the simplest answer.
Wu Xing did so, condensed the star power points on the ring, and quickly activated those ornaments, and then the ornaments transformed by those star powers floated one after another, intertwined and shrunk above the ring, forming a bean-sized point of light, and then directly atomized and disappeared.
The general took out a Yongzi teleporter from his arms, took it in his hand and looked at it, smiled faintly, did not speak, and put the Yongzi teleporter back again.
"Each Wenqu Xingjun produced the Yongzi telegraph, its techniques are different, even the same Wenqu Xingjun, each series of Yongzi telegraphs will deliberately make subtle differences, different series of Yongzi telegraphs can not communicate with each other. The red, orange and yellow colors represent the three, well, three departments within the organization that uses this series of tattoos. The Yongzi transmitter can transmit seven to thirteen characters per transmission, mainly depending on the total number of strokes, and the excess part will cause a certain amount of wear and tear on the mechanical device and ornamentation. If necessary, the continuous input of a large amount of condensed star power into the Yongzi teleporter will cause irreversible damage and can no longer be used. That's pretty much it about this Yongzi teleporter. After speaking, Lu Lao turned to Qian Nanzheng, stretched out his hand to gesture, and said, "Okay, you sit down and talk back." Tell me what you see in the Northland. ”
Qian Nanzheng answered, sat back on the maza, and said: "Continue to the north across the grassland, and the deepest part of the snow can almost be topped. The barbarians used snowstorm bears to open the way, and the Yake cattle were used as the animal power for transportation. Further north, about 100 miles away, there were Xingwu of the four major totems of the barbarian tribe who came to inspect the goods. There was a sudden snowstorm, and I took advantage of the chaos to take the rutile from the convoy. Then, we headed south. ”
"You walked about a hundred miles north from the grassland, and you still haven't seen the legendary glacier strait and the Far North?" Lu Lao muttered: "In that environment, the life of the Star Monarch is not more valuable than that of ordinary people. It is said that there are also powerful monsters in the Northland...... Looks like I'm going to have to make a trip north myself. ”
The general is a very decisive person, nodded, and let Lu Lao decide for himself when to set off and choose all kinds of materials needed.
"What about those barbarians?" the general asked Lu Lao.
Lu Lao turned his head to look at Wu Xing, smiled slightly, and asked, "How would you answer this question?"
Wu Xing saw Qian Nanzheng's familiar little action and expressed a hint of "speak freely", so he spoke: "Last night, before I returned to White Horse Town, I met a militia deputy in Shili Pavilion, who turned out to be a slave soldier of the barbarians. He told me what to do in the steppe to wipe out the totems of a tribe? not to kill all the people in the tribe, but to incorporate the people of the tribe into their own tribe, not to speak their own language or legends, not to write their own words. In this way, after two or three generations, a tribal totem will disappear. This is the annexation and assimilation of barbarians. ”
"There is also a kind of assimilation, just as the first emperor of the old calendar and the previous dynasty did through the ages, integrating the totems of other people's countries and tribes into their own totems, so that foreigners can know and learn Baiwen, learn more advanced production techniques and tools, accept a more civilized social system, make meritorious monuments, tree archways, and disseminate popular readings...... This is indoctrination. ”
"I think these two kinds of assimilation are like Xingjun's left and right hands, one literary and one martial, civil and military help each other!"
The general was noncommittal, and added: "Say something more specific." ”
Wu Xing also said: "The yaks of the attached tribes can be tamed as ploughing cattle, and the reindeer can be used as pack horses, which can at least reduce the problem of animal shortage in several counties in the north; then, the barbarian young and strong people will be conscripted as slave soldiers, scattered and supplemented under the guerrilla generals of each county, and the defense will be changed from time to time, which can not only familiarize themselves with the northern defense area as soon as possible, but also avoid the barbarians from gathering crowds to make trouble; and the stele forest is divided into the old and weak women and children of the barbarians, which also breaks up the mixed organization and weakens the concept of their tribes. Anyway, the Forest of Steles is the land of the Star Palace, and if the Star Hall sends people to drive away the barbarians, it will make the barbarians more dependent on the government. In this way, there is an opportunity to domesticate these wolves into loyal dogs of my Zephyr country. ”
The general had nothing to do, and asked, "Is there anything else you want to say?"
Wu Xing scratched his head and muttered, "Either we will fill the gap in the Great Wall in this section of the West Wind Country, and the disaster will lead to the east...... Well, this one probably won't work. Deploy the military strength to the line of the Great Wall, and if the barbarians invade the northern counties of our country through the Northern Zhao State, they will be slaughtered. ”
After all, Wu Xing was only a fourteen or fifteen-year-old boy, and the question of how to deal with the barbarians was too far away for him.
"The views on assimilation, education, and mutual assistance between civil and military forces are quite remarkable. But when it comes to specificity, it is still limited by origin, and it is not far enough. The general waved his hand, took over, and said, "Domesticate these wolves into loyal dogs of my Zephyr country? And the grasslands vacated by the attached tribes will feed more barbarians, and then continue south to Koubian. The reason why barbarians became barbarians is that they learned to ride and shoot from an early age, and they will directly fight for grassland and water with other tribes. As long as we can't kill them, even if we drive them to the northern snowfields, they will return to the grassland after a few years to lick their wounds. ”
Wu Xing nodded secretly when he heard this, obviously realizing that he had thought about the problem too simply.
"Yes, I have created an illusion for them: the old and weak women and children of their tribe are waiting for their triumphant return north of the gap in the Great Wall. The dozens of barbarians rode to bring them to be reunited, so that all of them would not have to die, and they would be reunited. The general said coldly: "However, in fact, I will finally build the whole of the invading tribes into a Jingguan, and leave it at the gap of the Great Wall, and then set up a stele next to it: 'Welcome to the inside, but don't bring a saber!' Well, maybe according to their custom, the barbarian children who are shorter than the height of the wheels should be released back to the grassland to convey this message. ”