Zhang Chong was silent, he didn't expect his strategy to make Fu Zhi think like this.

In fact, what he was going to do had nothing to do with the Huihu strategy that he thought was frustrated.

To put it bluntly, what Zhang Chong does is actually a large-scale border trade.

It's just that unlike the high-end silk products commonly used by the Han people in the past to trade with each other, Zhang Chong used bulk grain to trade with the Hu people in the grassland.

Why do the Hu people keep going south? In addition to its plundering and martial culture, it is more economic. A white plague on the grassland can bankrupt these herdsmen, if they want to live, is there any other choice but to go south to rob?

Of course, looting is always much happier than hard production, so the Hu people will prefer to plunder regardless of whether there is this reality factor or not.

But when the Taishan army rises, the risk of the Hu people going south will become higher and higher, and there will be less and less space for ethnic groups to plunder purely for the sake of plundering.

So when there is a strong force that makes these Hu people dare not go south to rob, they can only go to production.

And if you want the Hu people to graze with peace of mind, you need to solve their economic problem, that is, to eat.

First of all, there is a certain complementarity between the grassland economy and the Central Plains economy, which is the practical basis for the two regions to form large-scale border trade.

The cattle, sheep and horses of the Hu people have always been needed by the Han people, whether it is meat, dairy products, or simple animal power, which can greatly improve the productivity of the Han people. It's just that in the past, the Han people only exchanged some flashy things with the Hu people, which could only satisfy the Hu people's upper class to show off, and did not supplement the overall economy of the Hu people.

Therefore, when there is a systemic crisis in the ethnic group, everyone will consciously plunder the Han people, after all, no matter how good the silk is, it can't fill the stomach.

And now Zhang Chong has decided to replace the past trade in silk luxury goods with grain. In this way, the Hu people could sell their cattle and sheep to the Han people before the White Plague came, and then exchange them for enough grain to survive the winter.

In this way, the Hu people not only dealt with the accumulation and waste of cattle and sheep resources, but also obtained a stable source of rations. The Han Chinese also received cattle and horses that could increase productivity.

But is it only Zhang Chong who discovered such a simple thing? In fact, it is not, the reason why we preferred to use silk, silk, and cloth to trade with each other in the past was because these things were easy to carry.

At that time, the Hu people were still living in pursuit of water and grass, and the Han people couldn't find a place to transport grain in the past, and the distance between the departments was far away, so it was even more difficult to implement.

But now, according to Zhang Chong's plan, there is no such problem for the Hu people to settle in the nearby divided grasslands.

Thus, settlement and border trade became mutually reinforcing.

However, there is still a question here, that is, is there enough food for the Han people?

Judging from the current situation, the total population of the Hu people is estimated to be only about 100,000 people, that is, more than 1 million people, which is not much for 40 or 50 million Han people, and it is completely affordable.

Moreover, Zhang Chong consciously cooperated with the development of Han land and improved varieties and water conservancy, and the output of Han land will be higher and higher, which has been proved by reality in Hebei alone.

In the two years that Hebei was successively governed by the Taishan Army, it ushered in a bumper harvest one after another, which greatly consolidated the foundation of the Taishan Army in Hebei and made the implementation of various policies more recognized.

However, Fu Zhu proposed a future situation, that is, with the great improvement of the living environment, the population of the Hu people will usher in a big explosion, and will the Han people still be able to support such a large food burden at that time?

For this, Zhang Chong's current idea is to develop the area around Yingzhou, first form a self-sufficient farm, and then continue to absorb and guide the surplus Hu population into the farm production.

Professor Frustration has been listening, and in the end he can only express an attitude noncommittally:

"The king's thoughts are thorough, and if it is finally implemented, it may take a lot of hard work."

But Zhang Chong didn't care, waved his hand and said:

"We have already taken a path that no one has taken before, and no one knows whether we can do it well. This is just like the Flying Leopard Army before they crossed the river, if they want to cross the other bank, they can only feel the stones and step out of a road, this process requires both courage, wisdom, and more importantly. But is it okay not to go into the water? No way. ”

I understand.

Then, Zhang Chong began to talk about the second important issue, that is, the core strength of the Yingzhou area.

In any region, if you want to govern, you must have a grasp and an implementation team.

If the Taishan Army wants to carry out in-depth governance of the Yingzhou area, instead of the fetters of the past, it needs to build such a core force here.

In Zhang Chong's vision, the children of the soldiers who died in this battle would be relocated here as this core force.

These people will be the core of the warrior group, and they will be guarded here for generations.

Yingzhou will also set up a dual structure of military government and state capital. The military government is in charge of the army, and the state government is in charge of the people.

Among them, Zhang Chong boldly set up the entire Yingzhou area as a complete military government, that is, the Yingzhou Songmo Governor's Mansion.

The reason why this is so is to protect the Sene county and realize the tradition of the Son of Heaven guarding the four yi.

Based on the analysis of the historical trend in the future, Zhang Chong knew that the basic threat to China in the future was the Hulu from the north and northeast, and the Yingzhou Songmo Governor's Mansion was the first pilot that Zhang Chong did to destroy this trend.

The essence of this military government is to establish a northeast defense system.

For this reason, the Yingzhou Songmo Prefecture will maintain a relatively strong garrison army, and the Hu people here and the Zahu further north will be converted to Han nationality after being recruited, and at the same time serve in the military, so that they will shoulder the heavy responsibility of guarding the northeast frontier.

In addition, more than 100,000 Han families who were originally captured by the Wuhuan people will also settle here, as the main body of the population in this area. After that, Zhang Chong will refill a part of the population from the mainland and fill it here, but the number may not be much.

The Han people here will not have to collect any taxes, but they will need to draw one ding from five households to join the army. In this way, we can maintain an army of about 20,000 troops.

The remaining Hu and Han population will be promoted to tuntian, and all these fields will be owned by farms.

However, these farms are not directly managed by the military government, but are governed by the Yingzhou state government.

The taxes collected by the state government in Yingzhou will not be sent to Yecheng, but all of them will be left in the local area as a military salary to maintain the Yingzhou legion.

In other words, the military government is in charge of one-fifth of the population, and the state government is in charge of the remaining four-fifths of the people.

However, such a high proportion of military-civilian ratios makes the Yingzhou area undoubtedly a military-administered area.

This was also deliberately arranged by Zhang Chong.

The Yingzhou area is outside the Saiwai area, which controls Zhuyi, and is a staggered area of various forms of survival such as farming, nomadism, fishing and hunting, and gathering, so it can be said that the ethnic relations are very complicated.

Therefore, the less mobile military management of the tuntian manor system can be a good management of this area of responsibility.

Hearing this, Zhang Chong talked about the core of these military governments, that is, the issue of the children of the sacrificial rampage.

Zhang Chong knew very well that as the core of the first generation, these people and his kindness could guarantee loyalty. But as the generations pass, these people become entrenched in the local area and form groups, then they will become more and more aware of their local consciousness.

In order to overcome the centrifugal force in such a place, Zhang Chong specially opened an election for Yingzhou.

That is to say, Yecheng has a fixed number of officials every year to allocate to these battalion state soldiers.

One of the advantages of this is that it can give these warriors who defend the country a step forward, which will make them feel like they have a head start, and they will not be inferior to the local tyrants.

Another benefit is that it deepens the connection between Yecheng and Yingzhou, so that Yingzhou soldiers will not be isolated.

Here, Zhang Chong deliberately illustrated the problem of a Hu person.

In Zhang Chong's plan, after the successful construction of Yingzhou, it will surely become a funnel to absorb the population of Saiwaihu.

In this way, there must be a set of charters.

First of all, in terms of culture, Zhang Chong has asked Cai Yong of Yecheng to take the lead in compiling relevant historical materials, the core of which is the Hu-Han homology theory, such as what the Xiongnu people did after the Xia people.

In this way, every time the Hu tribe moves to the Yingzhou area, they will be given Han surnames and Han nationality, and then the children of their chieftains will be moved to Yecheng to serve as forbidden military attaches such as Yulin and Huben.

After a few generations, these people will be sinicized.

Zhang Chong repeatedly instructed Fu Zhi that the focus of Yingzhou was to deal with the problems of the Hu tribe.

Because Yingzhou is remote, filling people from the inner county is only a temporary means and cannot become a long-term policy, so in order to maintain the military government of Yingzhou, it is necessary to unite and absorb the Hu population.

Only by absorbing these wandering Hu people into the military government can we stabilize the rule of Yingzhou and control thousands of Hu tribes.

So when these Hu people enter the camp state, their political treatment will be the same. You can also participate in the selection, and you can even rely on your own efforts to advance in the Taishan Army system.

It is not impossible for these people to be promoted to the Inner Dynasty, the three provinces, the Janissary System, and even the three provinces and six ministries are not impossible.

In short, Zhang Chong just gave him a chance.

However, if you don't eat the toast, that Zhang Chong also has a means of punishing the wine.

And the reason why Zhang Chong said so much to Fu Zhu was because Zhang Chong had decided to appoint Fu Zhu as the first Yingzhou Song Mo Du.

In this regard, Fu Zhu also accepted it with emotion.

On the way to go with the king, because only he had the physical strength of one of his subordinates to persevere, he talked with Zhang Chong a lot along the way, the focus of which was about the Liaodong region.

It is also Zhang Chong's high-level understanding that makes Fu Zhi more and more aware of the importance of this area. Coupled with his innate Hanist attitude, he was even more willing to take over this important task, and even a little impatient.

And Fu Zhu also understood that with the arrival of the follow-up expedition to Liao, the king would start the second phase of the campaign against Liao.

And what he has to do is to govern Yingzhou for the king and become the rear military station of the Liao army.

Looking at the high-spirited king, Fu Zhu realized that this time the battle of conquering Liao would definitely be a reverberation, comparable to the great expansion of the Han Dynasty, another epic.

He is proud to have contributed to this historical process.