Chapter 0437 - Characteristic Cultivation and Border Policy

Knowing the Queen Mother's intention to call him back to Beijing to 'report on his work', Rao was still suspicious of this matter, and Lu Lu was still secretly relieved.

- overflow is not overflowing and don't mention it first, at least it's not a crime!

This discovery alone is enough for the current Lu Lu to put his hanging heart back in his stomach.

Since he didn't return to Beijing to clean up, Lu Luzi also relaxed and told Lu Tong to 'stay in Andong for a few days';

As an uncle, I might as well take my nephew, who I haven't seen for many years, to take a good look at the scenery of this new place, and show off my political achievements by the way.

In Chang'an, Liu Ying, the son of heaven sitting in the Xuanshu Hall of Weiyang Palace, was also thinking about Anton's problem.

In fact, in the past few years, although Liu Ying has not asked much about Anton, in secret, he has also sent people to Andong to 'inspect the work' and inquire about the situation.

The reason why he secretly sent people to inspect, instead of sending the imperial history with great fanfare, and even the envoy of the Son of Heaven to check, was mainly because Liu Ying was worried that he would break some 'inconvenient to break' things.

After all, the Korean Peninsula is the new place of the Han family;

Since it is a new place, it will definitely go through a period of slightly chaotic period, and experience a short run-in period of 'new immigrants and aborigines'.

During this chaotic period and run-in period, there is a high probability that something will happen that is not convenient for outsiders, or even inconvenient for Liu Ying to 'know'.

But fortunately, in the end, Lu Lu, the first Andong County Guard, handled all the things that Liu Ying was worried about relatively properly;

In addition, during the Eastern Expedition that year, Liu Ying deliberately only turned the northern peninsula of the Korean Peninsula into counties, and left the southern peninsula to foreign vassals such as Ma Hanjun and Ben Hanjun, which left enough buffer space for these contradictions that would have intensified.

- If you don't want to be a Han in Anton, you can go to Mahan to be a savage!

- Isn't it that you won't be given a way to live?

But what Liu Yingdu didn't expect was that as a descendant of Lu Ze, the Marquis of Zhou Lu Lingwu, Lu Lu showed some ······ in Andong County

Hmm······

Strange talent.

Obviously a second-generation Gonghou who has been pampered since he was a child and was born with a golden key, Lu Lu showed a 'talent' that Liu Ying was excited about in the newly established Andong County.

And this kind of talent, in Liu Ying's obscure words, is: without washing his face, he can immediately become a vassal country and deal with the internal and external vassal kings.

For Lu Lu's achievements in Anton, Liu Ying naturally felt sincerely gratified;

But in addition to being gratified, Liu Ying naturally did not forget to plan the next step for Anton.

To put it bluntly, it is a reflection on the rational application of the advanced system of 'tun farming' in the Han Dynasty.

When it comes to tun farming, in fact, we have to mention: at the beginning, after the word "tun farming", there is the word "garrison".

As early as the time when Qin Shi Huang was in power, it was already the main content of the Qin court's policy of governing the border.

After the first emperor of China, he also immigrated to the Lingnan and Hetao areas to reclaim the frontier.

Among them, the one sent to Lingnan was the first generation of generals to conquer the south: Tu Sui, and later Ren Huan and Zhao Tuo, who brought 500,000 people to Lingnan.

These 500,000 people are the truest portrayal of the policy of 'cultivating and defending the border';

- If there is to be a war, these 500,000 people are '500,000 troops';

And after the war, these 500,000 people became '500,000 immigrants' again.

With these 500,000 Yimin and Yijun pioneers, Ren Huan and Zhao Tuo were able to sweep Lingnan and set up Nanhai, Guilin, Xiang and other counties for the Qin court;

It is precisely because of these 500,000 people that Zhao Tuo was able to destroy the stream and cut off the road in the chaotic era at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and 'closed the country' in Lingnan and was able to stand on his own.

This is the Qin court's 'cultivation and garrison' in the south.

Speaking of the north, we have to mention the famous name that made later generations feel like thunder.

- General Qin: Meng Tian!

After the first emperor annexed the world, Meng Tian was ordered to lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north and recover Henan (now the area of Yin Kezhao League in the south of Hetao, Inner Mongolia).

Later, from Yuzhong (now north of Yinjin Huoluo Banner in Inner Mongolia) to Yinshan, 34 counties were established; He crossed the Yellow River, occupied Yangshan, and migrated to the Kwantung to enrich the border counties.

Subsequently, Meng Tian presided over the construction of the Great Wall from Lintao in Longxi (now Minxian County, Gansu) in the west to Liaodong (now in Liaoning) in the east, connecting the Great Wall of Yuanyan, Zhao and Qin.

By the time Qin Shi Huang died in the sand dunes, the 'Qin Great Wall Army', or 'Qin Great Wall Tun Farming Regiment', led by Meng Tian, had set up 44 counties in the Hetao area to resettle the border people.

The history books contain: the Xiongnu Shan Yu said - Touman, Touman is not defeated by Qin, migrated north; After more than ten years and Meng Tian died, the princes provoked Qin, China was disturbed, and those who migrated to the border of Qin were all returned, so the Xiongnu were widened, and the border between Henan and China was restored.

In other words: the 300,000 'Tun Cultivator Soldiers' under the command of Meng Tian once forced the Huns in the Touman period, and even all the steppe nomads, including the Huns, to the north, thousands of miles away from the Great Wall.

All this undoubtedly shows that cultivating the border is the only good strategy to resist foreign enemies, stabilize the border, and even slowly expand outward during the feudal period of China;

At the same time, it is also the most cost-effective and successful plan that can be adopted in the feudal era.

As for today's Han family, the policy of 'cultivating and defending the border' that once arose during the reign of Qin Shi Huang has undergone some changes.

——Mainly the word "Shubian" in the four characters of "Tun Cultivation and Garrison Frontier" was gradually transformed because of the direction of the Han Dynasty's first implementation of the Tun Cultivation Policy.

Andong, the Korean Peninsula, was the area where the Han dynasty first implemented the cultivation policy.

And this area is not the border between Han and Hungary, nor is it a place of 'unsubjugated' and 'outside'.

It is not so much that Liu Ying is carrying out 'cultivation and garrisoning the border' on the Korean Peninsula, but rather that Liu Ying is doing his own experiments in Andong, or in a remote place on the Korean Peninsula that is completely bordered by the Han Dynasty on three sides of the sea.

Since it is an experiment, it is natural that the mature policy after the final improvement will return to its original mission.

That is to say, Anton's cultivation policy was based on Liu Ying's experiments, which can be accepted and implemented by the Han dynasty today, and can be applied to the nomads of the northern grasslands in the future.

But there is a problem that has never been solved by Liu Ying.

"Anton, can ······ farming"

"- What about the steppe?"

"——Do you really want to farm on the grassland like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in history?"

"Wouldn't it be a little stupid··········

Full of sorrow, Liu Ying, who was sitting on the couch, sighed a little for a while.

This problem is the main problem that Liu Ying is currently concerned about, and there is no one!

Because the original intention of the tun farming group was to protect and feed itself through the tun farming group, which 'the enemy can fight when the enemy comes, and the land can be farmed when he is hungry';

It can be stationed at the border wall for a long time, and there is no need for a special system of blood transfusion from the central government, so as to ensure that the defense force of the border wall is sufficient, and at the same time, it does not need to cause too heavy a burden on the central finances.

Take the distance between the northern garrison troops displayed on the front line of the Great Wall by the Han Dynasty today: the Han Dynasty has deployed a total of more than 200,000 troops on the front line of the Great Wall in the north;

And these 200,000 people are not even enough to ensure the stability of the border wall, at most they can only ensure that when the Huns invade south, the Han family can 'discover' as soon as possible.

As for stopping an effective defense in time, it is definitely not something that these 200,000 or so people can do.

The reason is very simple: if the Huns come, they will definitely not come to the hundred and eighty people!

Or, it is the scale of 500 to 1,000 people, stealing chickens and dogs on the side wall, such an 'invasion', the Han family does not care, and cannot care - by the time someone finds this looted village, the Huns will have already run back to the grassland.

Or, just like last autumn, the battle of Mayi, which almost killed the Xiongnu Zuoxian King and the old Shangdan Yu in history, went south to attack the border cities on a scale of between tens of thousands and 100,000.

In the face of a Hun cavalry cluster of this scale, the more than 200,000 border guards displayed on the side wall of the Han dynasty could not stop any effective defense at all.

Because these 200,000 people have to defend not a village or a city, but the entire northern defense line that is thousands of miles long on the Han-Hungarian border.

There are more than 200,000 people, distributed in the direction of tens of thousands of miles, and there are only 1,000 people every 50 miles.

And a thousand border guards, in front of tens of thousands of Hun cavalry, the only thing they can do is to hide in the city······

But it is precisely these more than 200,000 border troops that once made the central government of the Han Dynasty shoulder extremely heavy financial pressure.

Because these 200,000 border guards who 'can't stop the Huns at all, and can only warn in advance', just the annual military rations need to be sent by the Chang'an Central Committee to send 5 million stones!

In order to deliver these five million stone grain to every pass on the front line of the Great Wall, the transportation cost of Chang'an Central Committee is several 'five million stones'······

Just like in the past, the people of Guanzhong often said: if you want a man to send one stone of corn to the side wall, you must let him set off with three stones of corn.

But if these 200,000 border troops are all self-sufficient cultivators, there will be no such problem.

- Not only the Chang'an court, but also the military rations of five million stone will be left every year from now on;

At the same time, it can also save the transportation cost of tens of millions of stones.

This is just a line of the Great Wall;

In the future, the northern defense line of the Han family will continue to move northward, or explore in the northwest direction, then this nursery rhyme will have to be rephrased.

- If you want a man to bring a grain of corn to the side wall, let him set off with a handful of corn······

Therefore, letting the border guards far away from Guanzhong, or even far away from the Han dynasty, try to achieve self-sufficiency, at least self-sufficiency in military rations, which has become the top priority of Liu Ying's attention.

But that's exactly the problem.

Cultivating and ploughing, you have to have a field to plough ······

It is the Han family today, where can I farm in the area near the northern border wall?

Yan and Dai, which directly border the grassland, let alone near the border, and even the inland, are 'bitter cold lands' where the yield per mu cannot reach three stones, and even often does not reach two stones.

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

As for the upper and younger counties, not to mention it;

- Even the hay and straw taxes collected by the court from the peasants in order to raise horses are 'three stones per hundred mu in the world, and one hundred mu into two stones'.

In such a place, even full-time farmers cannot feed themselves on farming, so how can they farm?

How can we hope that the border guards will be 'self-sufficient' through cantonment?

This is even just the current side wall of the Han Dynasty, not the side wall of the future.

In the future, the northern defense line of the Han Dynasty, from the current Zhao Great Wall, to the north to the Gaoque-Qin Great Wall, the situation will only get worse.

Because there, the border guards of the Han family can see nothing but the grassland, but the desert······

"Cultivating ······"

"Tuntian ······"

"······ acres of land"

"Prairie ··········"

"Grazing?"

"Tun Mu ????"

After thinking about it for a long time, he muttered about tuntian, tun farming and the like, and a thought suddenly flashed in his mind, which made Liu Ying suddenly feel bright!

- Can't tuntian, can you can't herd?!

Anyway, whether it is farming or grazing, the purpose is to let the troops on the border wall engage in production in non-war situations, so as to be self-sufficient in living materials!

There shouldn't be much difference between that kind of land and grazing, right?

The grain cultivated in the tun can be eaten directly by the border guards;

The livestock raised by the 'tun herdsmen' can be sold inland by the border guards and exchanged for grain!

The more she thought about it, the more Liu Ying felt: Well, it's worth a try!

After making up her mind, Liu Ying got up from the couch, spread out a blank piece of paper, and started writing.

As the sporadic thoughts in his mind fell on top of the rabbit in his hand, Liu Ying's thoughts became clearer and clearer······

——In Loufu County, set up the 'Loufu Du Weitun Pastoral Group', with the people of Han Loufu County as the generals, and the 3,000 captives of the First Battle of Mayi as the regimental soldiers!

With Loufu County as the center, a radius of 100 miles is the grassland of the Loufang Duwei Tun Pastoral Group!

All the Huns have to raise a horse, three cattle, and ten sheep;

Cattle and sheep dairy products are the food of the regiment, and the abundance of cattle and sheep and livestock is tax······

The more she wrote, the more she thought about it, the more feasible it became, Liu Ying finally even stopped her pen and crumpled the white paper in front of her.

"Prepare the car!"

With a loud call, the young man who was full of interest walked briskly towards the outside of the temple gate.

- Liu Ying, I want to find someone to discuss the feasibility of my plan!

Because Liu Ying vaguely felt that the plan she was about to come up with was probably not just a plan to solve the problem of the border troops' cultivation;

It is even very likely that it is a once-and-out strategy to completely solve the threat of the northern nomads to the Chinese agricultural civilization, or even to permanently solve the threat of the northern nomads·················

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