"Your Majesty's strategy is really a bit ······"

"Uh······"

"Whimsical ······"

When Liu Ying came to the Prime Minister's Mansion and saw his Prime Minister Wang Ling, he had just said what he thought in his heart, but Wang Ling shook his head with a wry smile and politely denied it.

Seeing that Liu Ying's face was still full of doubt, Wang Ling had no choice but to shake his head and smile bitterly before sighing slightly.

"Your Majesty can know: why are nomadic people called 'nomads'?"

asked softly, and seeing that Liu Ying still didn't react, Wang Ling finally let out a long sigh.

Between the eyebrows, there was a faint sadness.

"Nomadic people, the people of the steppe drive their cattle and sheep, and migrate to the steppe to herd their livestock."

"Herdsmen, herdsmen, nomads, migrants."

"—Guy is a nomadic people, who need to move for years to chase water and grass, so that they can get their name: nomadic people."

"It is the old nomadic people, who move from the spring, and stay in one place for less than ten days, and then move again;"

"In this way, in the summer, I will slowly turn back along the road from which I came, and return to the mild place in the south of the Makunan, so as to spend the winter in peace."

"This is the custom of the nomadic people, and it is also the foundation of the nomadic people's life······

Saying this, Wang Ling couldn't help but smile again, and looked up at Liu Ying.

"This nomadic custom and habit, even if the Huns are only in the court, it is not avoidable;"

"The longitudinal chieftain is also springing in the south of the curtain, going north in order, patrolling the grassland, staying until the summer, and then going south and returning."

"Year after year, year after year, all that is done is 'chasing water and grass, storing livestock, and fattening fat'······"

Hearing Wang Ling say this, Liu Ying finally understood, couldn't help laughing at herself, shaking her head and sighing bitterly.

As Wang Ling said: Liu Ying ignored a crucial issue.

- Nomads, the reason why they are called 'nomads', is because they have no fixed place to live and move year after year!

From the beginning of spring to the end of autumn, the steppe nomads have always driven the cattle and sheep, either chasing the aquatic grass or on the way to chase the aquatic grass.

This is because the nomads who lived in the grasslands at that time had long realized what it meant to 'fish in solidity';

In order to grow fertile aquatic grass next year, the herdsmen can only endure physical and mental exhaustion and strictly abide by the unwritten rules of survival on the grassland.

- No matter who it is, even if it is Shan Yuting, they can't stay in a grassland for more than ten days!

Because after ten days, the cattle will start to gnaw on the grass roots;

The human and animal manure produced by the tribe staying here will also greatly damage the ecology of this grassland, resulting in the second year of this grassland, which may not grow aquatic grass;

In the last three or five years, a pasture that was once extremely fertile may become a desert that does not for a year because a certain tribe once stayed here for more than ten days.

In the next three to five years, this desert will expand in all directions, and eventually, the grasslands on the grasslands, which are already scarce resources, will be squeezed less and less······

Therefore, the problem that Liu Ying ignored is precisely the key to the 'tun herd' system.

——Whether it is tun farming, or 'tun grazing', the main core, or collective production, work together, rest and rest together!

Just like what Liu Ying has done in Anton in the past few years: let the immigrants work collectively in the 'tun farming group' of 2,000 people to jointly cope with the existential crisis;

After many years of collective labor, enough acres of land have been reclaimed, and enough production tools have been prepared for each person in the collective to survive independently, and then they will be broken up and the farming group will be dismissed to become local farmers.

The same mode of operation, derived from the idea of 'tun farming', seems to be equally feasible, but in fact, the operation is extremely difficult.

First of all, the most important point is that unlike the farmer's 'living and working in peace and contentment', herdsmen are born synonymous with the word 'no fixed residence'.

And having no fixed place means that it cannot be centrally managed, let alone like Andong today, with a single Anhua city, dozens of nearby farming groups and tens of thousands of immigrants can get shelter and live within this city wall.

In addition, the survival principle of herders to 'protect the pasture' and 'not over-damage the pasture' will also raise another problem.

- In order to protect the pastures from destruction, nomads need to be as dispersed as possible in addition to being 'nomadic';

Therefore, the nomadic people will form the custom of nomadic herding in the steppe with tribes and even families as units.

And if such a group copies the system of tun farming, there will be big problems.

The reason is very simple: the method of the tun farming group is to form a collective with 2,000 immigrants, and eventually split into 2,000 families;

However, the 'Tun Herdsman' Group was unable to form a collective of 2,000 herdsmen.

Because of this, because these two thousand immigrants need tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of cattle, sheep and livestock, and then act collectively on the grassland.

Not to mention the Han family today, there is no huge grassland for herdsmen to 'nomad', and even if there is, Liu Ying will never do that.

- Because neither the Tun Farming Group nor Liu Ying's whimsical 'Tun Mu Tuan' is a completely civil organization!

-- The original intention of the establishment of the Tun Farming Regiment was to let the border guards farm their own land and be self-sufficient!

Let such a semi-militarized, or even near-fully militarized organization, operate freely in a very large area?

Liu Ying may be naïve, but she is definitely not stupid!

You must know that today's Han family, in order to restrict the large-scale migration of the people, still maintains the extremely strict "Jinguan Law"!

Unless they are officials in the court, or noble servants, ordinary people can't leave their own county, or even their own county, without a valid reason!

Even if there is a legitimate reason, you need to go to the county office where your household registration is located, start the game, and get a letter of introduction from the county magistrate-level official before you can start from the local area;

Then, just like Master Xuanzang who set off from Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, in "Journey to the West", he passed on all the way and stamped it all the way to reach his destination smoothly.

Controlling the flow of population is an important measure, even one of the main measures, of the feudal dynasty to stabilize the regime under the premise of insufficient centralization!

Once the population flow is uncontrollable, under the current Han family's control over the locality, it is difficult for Liu Ying to guarantee that he will die and be buried in his own tomb······

The Han family's 'control of population flow' and the 'inability to control population flow' of the tun herding system are the first major defects of the tun pastoral system.

But it's still a 'major flaw', not a 'core flaw'.

-- The core defect of the pastoral policy is that the Han family does not have enough pasture, and there is no way for the herdsmen of the tun herdsman group to finally obtain production tools through collective labor, like the pawns of the tun farming group!

There is a shortage of pasture, so there is no need to repeat it: today's Han family does not even have decent horse breeding land, let alone pastures for grazing for the 'tun herding group'.

As for the final acquisition of production tools through collective labor, it is the core defect of the pastoral policy.

Here's a simple example:

You are a remnant, and when you reach adulthood, your father gives you half a month's ration, and then kicks you out of the house to fend for yourself;

You walked lonely on the street, saw the notice issued by the court, and you decided to take a risk.

Then, you were incorporated into the 2,000-strong Tun Farming Regiment, became a member of the Tun Farming Regiment, and together with your comrades, arrived in distant Andong.

The travel expenses and food along the way are all borne by the government, and you are not starving.

After arriving in Anton, you began to live a very regular group life: every day with your comrades to perform exercises, open up the wasteland together, eat together, sleep together;

Although it is boring and boring, it is always full and has a head.

After two or three years of such a day, it is roughly equivalent to another military service;

Then, your good days begin.

The acres of land collectively cultivated by your tun farming regiment were distributed to each regimental soldier, and you were given 200 acres.

And the past two years of hard work, drills, and food that has never been in short supply, have also made you gain a strong body;

After that, you held 200 acres of land, a small house, and your former comrades, and became neighbors living in Anhua City.

After several years of hard work, you have accumulated a lot of savings with your 200 acres of land, and you have used this money to continue to marry a woman who is your duty and become your wife.

In a few years, you will become a homesteader with 200 acres and two days, a small house, both children and a happy family.

There is a field and a house, a family and a room, a wife and children are hot on the kang, and there is a group of neighbors who have 'comradeship'.

Your life is not bright, but it is happy enough·······

The same example, placed in the 'Tun Pastoral Group', is a completely different style of painting.

You are still a child, and when you became an adult, your father still gave you half a month's ration, and then kicked you out of the house to fend for yourself;

You walked lonely on the street, saw the 'Tun Mu' notice issued by the court, and you decided to take a risk.

Then, you were incorporated into the 2,000-strong Tun Mu' Regiment, became a member of the 'Tun Mu', and together with your comrades, arrived at the distant border wall.

Then, you're dumbfounded.

Because you find that you don't have to carry out military exercises every day, you have to drive the cattle, sheep and livestock lent to you by the Chang'an court, and go around grazing water and grass;

At dusk, you return to the regimental camp exhausted and find that dinner is not the corn porridge you thought of for the day, but a few disgusting pieces of cheese.

You're hungry, so you endure nausea and eat it, but in the middle of the night you're still lactose intolerant, and you almost vomit all the stomach acid.

You have lived such days for years in a row;

After several years of malnutrition, your body has many problems, and you have even lost a lot of weight than before.

Then the herdsmen were about to be disbanded, and you were given only two calves and five lambs.

Although Shaofu still built a small brick courtyard for you like it did with the Tun Farming Group, but looking at the calves and lambs in front of you, you fell into a long period of contemplation.

- You won't live in the house that Shaofu gives you, because you need to take your calves and lambs to chase water and grass;

The comrades who once performed together in the 'Tun Pastoral Regiment' will not become your neighbors, but will become miserable shepherds like you, who have been busy on the grassland all their lives.

And your whole life will become more and more bleak under the endless cheese piles and beef and mutton that you can't eat once for many years······

Oh, right;

You can sell the dairy products produced by your cattle and sheep in exchange for the rice you want to eat;

But unfortunately, the dairy products you sell will only make more and more people realize that for agricultural civilizations, there is a genetic defect called 'lactose intolerance'.

So, in the end, you will only choose such a path.

- From the age of 20 to the age of 20, from the time of the 22 or 23 years of the group's 'separation' to the age of 40, you will concentrate on herding;

By the age of forty, you may be able to raise dozens of cows and a hundred or so sheep.

Then, you will sell all your cattle and sheep and return to your hometown.

You want to use the money from the sale of cattle and sheep to buy dozens of acres of land;

But you will find that even if you buy land and build a house, there will still be no one who is willing to marry an old man in his forties.

There is a high probability that you will die alone, and there is a high probability that you will cut off the incense, and even if you marry a wife, you will not have much life left at all.

What's even more terrifying is that the eating habit of eating dairy products all year round is likely to make you live to be forty years old at all······

"Hmmm······"

"So, if you want to make a 'tun herd' group, you have to find a way to fix the livestock land?"

"- Alfalfa grass?"

With such a question in his heart, Liu Ying shook his head again.

Because Liu Ying realized that now, whether it is the Han dynasty or the Xiongnu grassland, there is no alfalfa grass, a grass species with high yield and fast production cycle.

Even if there is, Liu Ying vaguely remembers that alfalfa grass can never be regarded as a good forage for animal husbandry.

Whether alfalfa grass is in a mature state or a hay state, it will cause flatulence in cattle and sheep, which will seriously affect the health of livestock and livestock.

In addition to alfalfa grass, other kinds of excellent forage grass ······

"Huh······"

"What the Huns don't have, the nomads don't have, I, where can I find it······"

Shaking his head with a bitter smile, Liu Ying finally sighed with relief and bowed to Wang Ling.

"I am trapped in the palace all day long, sitting in the well and watching the sky, whimsical, and the prime minister smiled when he saw it······"

admitting her innocence without pretentiousness, Liu Ying quickly adjusted her mentality and quickly pulled the topic back to the right direction.

"In this way, there is only one way to capture the Xiongnu captured in the first battle of Mayi."

"——In the border area, the horse garden is greatly developed, and the ability of Hu Man to raise horses is used to store horses for the Han family in the future, and the cavalry is formed to fight against Hu!"

"In this matter, Prime Minister, what is the best way to do it??????"

Call~

After straightening out my thinking a little, it happened to be the beginning of tomorrow month, and I took the opportunity to rest for another day, and I should be able to adjust my state.

During this time, the text has been delayed a lot, forgive me.

Thank you for your understanding.

(End of chapter)