Chapter 40: Don't be in a hurry
Tianshui County will become the breadbasket of the northwest will be the main goal of the region in the coming years, and even the surrounding counties will have to adjust their current tasks according to this.
First of all, Longxi, Guangwei and other counties can appropriately slow down agriculture, but focus on the development of other matters, such as animal husbandry -- Liu Xuan has always been concerned about this matter, especially considering that the development of the army requires a large number of war horses, and simply buying excellent war horses from the Qiang people is obviously not a long-term solution, and once a war with the Qiang people starts, the source of war horses will be limited, and Liu Xuan does not like this kind of situation of being controlled by others.
Considering that he has the herbs for cultivating war horses in his hands, although the number is still very small, but since he has the Refining Division, Xun You has also comprehended many skills and spells related to logistics, so he can completely hand over this aspect of war horse cultivation to his subordinates.
In this way, as long as excellent horse breeds are introduced, then the imperial court can cultivate a large number of excellent war horses by itself. Moreover, with the many spells and medicines provided by Liu Xuan, these war horses will not gradually lose their original advantages because of the change of environment, but will evolve from generation to generation until they become perfect.
Leaving from Tianshui County, Liu Xuan calculated that he had been away from the capital for several months.
They left Beijing in spring and February, and it is already June, and it is almost autumn. The stay in Tianshui County was a little long, and Liu Xuan almost walked to all the larger counties in Tianshui County, and came into contact with some local living aliens nearby.
On the whole, these aliens are satisfied with their present life and have become accustomed to many of the habits of the Han people, which proves once again that the most powerful point of the Han is not doctrine, creation, or backbone, but the terrible ability to assimilate.
"It is said that the Jews, who claim to be the least likely to be assimilated in the world, have been assimilated by the Han Chinese for many ......"
Liu Xuan only saw this kind of record in some miscellaneous books, and he didn't know if it was true, but he was able to spread this statement, which also objectively proved the strong assimilation power of the Han people.
Liu Xuan was naturally very happy about this assimilation ability, because this assimilation ability would be of great help to his future plans.
In addition, it also proves his point of view: there is no need to have a headache for the problem of foreign races, just the simplest way to deal with it: those who go along prosper, and those who go against it die!
After confirming this, Liu Xuan had no interest in continuing to stay in Tianshui County, and talked about some miscellaneous matters with Man Chong, and after inquiring about his cultivation, he left Tianshui and went straight to Longxi.
On the side of Longxi, I checked the news again, but this time it was not as leisurely as when I was in Tianshui County, especially considering that Longxi County was the border area of the current Han Dynasty, and it was not very peaceful, so Liu Xuan's range of activities was controlled within a small range.
Liu Xuan himself wished that the group of Qiang people who were not eye-opening would lead the troops to kill, but at present, Ma Teng was still in a friendly period with the Qiang people, so the Qiang people did not entangle the soldiers and horses to plunder the territory of the Han Dynasty.
After staying for a while, Guo Jia took a moment to say to Liu Xuan: "It's autumn today, Your Majesty should set off and return, otherwise the road will be cold in winter, and it will be very easy to have an accident if the road is closed by heavy snow." ”
Huang Zhong also strongly agreed with Guo Jia's suggestion.
Huang Zhong has been concentrating on cultivation since he saw Liu Xuan's strength, and he has hardly spoken much in the past few months, just quietly guarding Liu Xuan, and at the same time directing the accompanying soldiers to arrange affairs.
This is the first time in several months that he has taken the initiative to put forward his own proposal: "In recent days, I have heard that Zhang Lu in Hanzhong and Nanhua in Yuzhou have made frequent moves, and it is not conducive to dealing with many changes outside the capital for a long time. ”
The silence of the imperial court this year seems to have made Nanhua and Zhang Lu more unscrupulous, especially Nanhua, because he is far away, even if the imperial court wants to make a move, it can't reach him.
Now Nanhua's Taiping Road not only occupied the eastern part of Yuzhou, but also conquered the western part of Xuzhou, and finally took over the two lone armies of Langya.
The forces are connected, the strength is naturally soaring, and now the Taiping Dao sharpens the knife Huo Huo seems to be going to swallow Xuzhou in one bite, if it weren't for the new Yangzhou Mu Sun Ce who was canonized by the imperial court to perform well, and frequently attacked in the south to contain the strength of the Yellow Turban Thief Army, Tao Qian is afraid that he would have lost his hometown a long time ago.
And Yanzhou Liu Dai and Qingzhou Yuan Shao, who had high hopes at the beginning, did not perform, among which Liu Dai fought with the Yellow Turban Thief for a few battles, but there were fewer wins and more losses.
Yuan Shao's actions on his side are worth pondering, he only used the generals Yan Liang and Wen Chou to guard the choke point, and then ran to drive Jizhou Mu Han Fu out of his own territory, and it didn't take much effort to annex the entire Jizhou to his stomach.
At the same time, because of this, he fell out with Gongsun Ji of Youzhou, and now that the two families are in the same situation, Yuan Shao didn't have the heart to pay attention to the Taiping Dao that was still entangled with Tao Qian and others, but concentrated on digesting Jizhou, which had just arrived, and guarding against Gongsun Ji in the north.
This was only a few months, and Yuan Shao not only did not follow the court's insistence on dealing with the Yellow Turban Thief Army, but began to annex the surrounding princes, and his disobedience was undoubtedly revealed.
It is precisely for this reason that Taifu Yuan Kui sent an urgent letter to Xuan Xuan as soon as possible, announcing that he would sever the relationship with Yuan Shao, and the other was to resign from the above table.
Liu Xuan naturally knew what this old guy was planning, but he did lack some old man consulting affairs at hand, so Liu Xuan did not agree to Yuan Kui's resignation.
This is what happened in half a year, compared to Zhang Lu's movement in Hanzhong, although there is a little friction with Liu Yan at the moment, there is not much movement on both sides, and I don't know if they are accumulating strength or guarding against their own side?
However, Liu Xuan estimated that Zhang Lu couldn't endure it for too long, or it wouldn't be long before Zhang Lu launched a full-scale attack on Liu Yan, after all, he who was sitting in Hanzhong had an innate advantage in attacking Xichuan Hanzhong is known as the gateway to Xichuan, not only because it is necessary to pass through Hanzhong from Xichuan out of Shu, but also because there are several relatively flat roads from Hanzhong to Xichuan.
In other words, Qinling, the natural barrier of Shu, will not create any obstacles to Zhang Lu, on the contrary, it will also block the reinforcements of the imperial court as soon as Shu has its own world, and it is indeed difficult for them to come out, but Liu Xuan wants to go in...... It's not easy at the moment, you can only sit and watch the two of them fight to the death.
"It's time to go back, too!"
A few days ago, Zhang Liao also sent a letter, and there were not many things to tell in it, and what Liu Xuan cared about the most was the reorganization and training of Yulin Cavalry.
According to Liu Xuan's plan, the Yulin Cavalry, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, and the Tiger Benjun will all start their preliminary cultivation, and after half a year, it is time to produce some results, right?
He didn't ask that all of these soldiers become the same as Lu Bu in such a short period of time, but they had to be stronger than ordinary soldiers, right?
However, judging from the letters sent by Zhang Liao, it was difficult for ordinary soldiers to understand the meaning of the formula, even if it was a hand-in-hand teaching, the progress was extremely slow, and this embarrassing reality made Liu Xuan helpless for a while.
"Ignoring the fact that the knowledge level of most people in this era is not very good!"
Even many soldiers were originally just honest people who had never left the village for hundreds of miles in their lives, and even if they were soldiers and ate food, they only received weapons, learned a few basic moves, and then survived a battle, so they learned the most important combat experience from life and death and became a veteran.
As for the so-called elite soldiers, the basis of selection is these 'veterans', most of whom can't even write their own names, and it is really a bit difficult for these people to comprehend the complicated and profound cultivation methods.
Liu Xuan's original plan to implement the cultivation method to all armies in the shortest possible time was difficult because the basic knowledge of soldiers was not up to the mark.
"It seems...... The issue of this school has to be put on the agenda!"
As far as he is concerned, even if these ministers in his hands have nothing to do in the future, they can be teachers to teach students, and Liu Xuan will not be very avant-garde to engage in any 'modern courses' They still teach things that are in line with this era.
But Liu Xuan didn't want that knowledge to be restricted when it was passed on, but to teach it to all the people of the Han Dynasty.
As for those cultivation knowledge, if you want to learn it, you should at least learn the basics of that knowledge first.
After this knowledge is popularized throughout the Han Dynasty, Liu Xuan can officially popularize the knowledge of cultivating truth, and at that time, many things will begin to be transferred to civilian use, and it will be easier for the people to accept these 'common sense, and similar things.
Then some of the gifted ones will enter the 'major' school system to learn relevant knowledge, which is the educational framework formulated by Liu Xuan.
But to accomplish this, it takes people!
After embarking on the road back, Liu Xuan thought about who was suitable to be responsible for the popularization of education along the way, and Xun Yu said: "Now that most of the people are still working hard for food and clothing, Your Majesty has begun to think about this teaching matter, will it be too impatient?"
Xun You can perceive that this is a good government, but he does not think that this decree can be implemented smoothly, especially in the current situation, the knowledge is in the hands of the wealthy families, these people will be willing to teach the children of the poor who are far more numerous than the wealthy families?
Maybe Liu Xuan can use strong means to promulgate the decree, but the people below will definitely not do their best to do it, just disobey the yang and the yin, which official will not do this trick?
And...... Before the three problems of food, clothing, and housing are completely solved, ordinary people don't have the heart to think about it, even if Liu Xuan really implements this decree, how many people will respond?
Xun You felt: "In order for this decree to be implemented, there must first be several conditions! First: There will be no second voice in the court except for Your Majesty, and the Chinese martial arts of the court are all loyal to Your Majesty!"
"Second, people don't have to worry about food, clothing and accommodation!"
"It will take at least a few years to achieve these two points. However, His Majesty is only in his early twenties this year, so there is no need to rush it. ”
(To be continued)