Chapter 7: The Evil Horse Messenger
Liu Xuan's casual circle was not drawn casually.
This circle includes the three future northeastern provinces, as well as eastern Mongolia, the Korean Peninsula and part of the future Russia, and this area should be the richest area from Liaodong to the north.
Further north, because of the weather, it is not suitable for the current Han to develop - after all, the place cannot be just thrown away, and the common people need to be relocated to live in the past.
Although Liu Xuan made a fire kang and ensured the output of grain, the people in the places where it was too harsh were unwilling to go over. What's more, at present, there are not so many people in Dahan to let him immigrate casually.
Nearly 30 years of chaos have greatly damaged the vitality of the Han Dynasty, not only in terms of armament, food and culture, but also in the loss of population.
And the loss of population can not be made up for overnight, even if Liu Xuan issued an edict to encourage childbirth, and even to a certain extent, the imperial court will help ordinary people raise children, but the children can only increase one by one, after all, this is a creation of people, not pig breeding, it is impossible to get out of a litter at once.
Based on the current population of the Han Dynasty, even the existing territory is enough to meet the land needs of ordinary people.
Moreover, with a series of reform measures implemented by Liu Xuan, the Han Dynasty's ability to use land far exceeded that of any dynasty at any time.
The grain produced by one acre of land is several acres or even more than a dozen acres, and even if the population has increased several times, there is no need to worry about insufficient food.
Coupled with Liu Xuan's encouragement of the development of industry and commerce, many people turned to industrial manufacturing and business, and there was no longer as urgent need for land as it was in the past - of course, according to traditional Chinese thinking, the people's thirst for land did not disappear all at once, and even those engaged in industry and commerce would buy a piece of land that belonged entirely to them after having rich money.
But after all, it is not as good as before, everyone needs land to live, so the current situation is - the population is insufficient!
"Originally, a large area of Jiangdong had not had time to be developed, and a considerable number of displaced people had already migrated from the north to the south, and there was no surplus population to carry out another large-scale migration!"
After the military objectives were identified. The next thing on the agenda is the occupation and development of this huge piece of land, and the problem in front of Liu Xuan is population.
"At present, the best way is to build some important towns first, block a few key nodes, and radiate the whole area to achieve the goal of controlling this vast area. However, if you do this, it will definitely be difficult to take care of it, and it may be used or even infiltrated by some well-intentioned people. ”
Although Xun You, the secretary of the household department, is in charge of the household department, Xun You not only understands civil affairs, but also understands military strategy and government affairs. Even some tricks and tricks are just as good as that.
Looking at the vast land on the map, if you are hostile to the Han Dynasty, there are too many places to make a fuss with such a wide and sparse defense.
Of course, Liu Xuan also saw this problem. However, the problem of population is not something that he can solve in an instant if he has an immortal method. Even if he came up with any aphrodisiac drugs, it was impossible to see the results instantly.
Population growth is slow, and this cannot be changed, and if you want to increase the population explosively, you can only expect the population base to reach a certain level in addition to various incentives, and then there will be explosive growth.
"Now that the population of the Han Dynasty cannot even completely occupy the whole of Asia, if you want to occupy the world, how many people do you need?"
Considering that the global population in later generations will be more than 6 billion, but in fact, the environment of the earth in 1,000 years will not be comparable to this period at all, and many of the areas in this era are still very beautiful and suitable for habitation. After a long time, it was no longer possible to live for various reasons. ..., if these places are also taken into account, it will take at least about 10 billion people to 'fill up' the earth, and then link it to their own interstellar strategic plan...... Then the need for population is much more than that.
"Colonization, assimilation!"
It's pretty much the easiest and most feasible way to do it.
"When fighting against Goguryeo, Wuhuan, and Xianbei, try to integrate ordinary people as much as possible!"
Liu Xuan's request is very clear.
"Anyone who dares to oppose the Han will be killed, but he is willing to submit. We won't be embarrassed for him, but we will treat them as if they were ordinary Han people!"
"That's ...... Is it inappropriate?"
In fact, similar moves have not been done by the Han Dynasty, and now Liangzhou and several counties in the west of Yongzhou have a large number of foreign races, among which the Qiang and Di people are the most, and there are also a small number of Huns settled in the northern state.
But these people live and live, but they have never regarded themselves as the people of the Han Dynasty, and they will not say anything if they do not obey the king's law. When foreign invasions were made, these people often acted as guides and vanguards, burning, killing, looting, and doing everything, which really made many people hate it.
Liu Xuan snorted: "Let them be the people of the big Han, naturally they are the people of the big Han, and they will deal with it as they should if they violate the royal law, and there will be no special treatment!"
He always felt that there was a problem with the way he treated and managed different races differently.
Let's not talk about what the aliens themselves think. The practice of the Han officials directly excluded the aliens from the Han people, and they themselves could not get a sense of identity, so naturally they would not live according to the laws of the Han Dynasty.
At the same time, the best way to prevent this group of people from gathering together on their own is to directly break them up and arrange them into ordinary Han villages, and only when they get used to the Han way of life will they give up some of their original habits. Otherwise, they have been living according to their previous way of life, and they will not feel any difference, and naturally they will not have any sense of belonging to the Han Dynasty.
Let them feel different, get benefits, and then let them understand what the end will be when they go against the big Han, and give it to him, Liu Xuan doesn't believe that this group of guys can really fight against the big man all the time.
What's more, the culture of the Han people has a very strong assimilation ability, which has been proven for more than 2,000 years, and Liu Xuan does not need to doubt it - even the Jews who claim to be the most unlikely to be assimilated in the world have a record of being completely sinicized, so Liu Xuan has enough confidence in the assimilation ability of the Han culture.
After listening to the many methods of the Son of Heaven, everyone felt that it was indeed quite feasible. What's more, whether it is Wuhuan, Xianbei or Goguryeo, because the time spent dealing with the Han is not short, and even surrendering to the Han to a certain extent, they all have more or less admiration and learning for the Han culture, so it is not impossible to assimilate it.
As for the people of Samhan in the peninsula southeast of Liaodong...... Xun You is still a little worried about these outsiders. I'm afraid that this group of guys will not accept the indoctrination, how to deal with it at that time?
Liu Xuan simply said: "Treat everyone equally, if you really want to resist to the end and kill them all, what's the headache about this?"
Everyone smiled bitterly, the Son of Heaven said this easily, but they didn't know that if they really encountered this situation, it would not be solved by killing a few people.
Maybe the heads of thousands of people will fall to the ground in the words of the Son of Heaven, and of course, it is also possible to directly kill the people of Sanhan. It's just a foreign race...... How many people die?
was discussing, and suddenly Deng Zhi, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, came to report: "There is an overseas country named Evil Horse Tai who has come to claim his minister!"
"Yamadai?"
Liu Xuan was stunned for a moment, he didn't remember where this evil horse platform was, but there were erudite people among the ministers below who knew about it. Seeing that the Son of Heaven looked confused, he immediately spoke: "Yamatai is on the big island of Yingzhou marked on the map of Your Majesty!", but this one also knows so much, for these characters of the Han Dynasty, the Dongying Island is also an overseas wild land, and its status is no different from the land of Sanhan.
Being able to know the name and location of Yamatai is already considered erudite, but as for more, they are not interested in knowing.
And Liu Xuan actually knows a lot more than these people, but he was still thinking about Sanhan just now, and this time an evil horse platform popped up, so he didn't react for a while.
At this time, I remembered that I finally found something about the Yamatai Kingdom from the depths of my memory. But I also remembered that the lord of Yamatai was called Himiko, a figure from the era of Japanese mythology, and a woman.
At the same time, this woman had been a vassal to the Wei State during the Three Kingdoms period in history, and he didn't know more things, after all, he didn't specialize in studying history.
Looking at everyone, Liu Xuan saw that several important ministers in the court happened to be there, and they came not as good as they came. Just let these two people meet directly, and just ask them what is the purpose of coming to Dahan?
Not long after, Deng Zhi, the waiter of the Yellow Gate, walked in with two men who were not tall and barefoot and only covered their waists with coarse cloth.
At this time, Liu Xuan and all the ministers had already moved to the Lingxiao Palace, where they met with these two envoys from the Yamatai Kingdom. And during the waiting period, it was not idle to do anything, Liu Xuan carefully read a detailed piece of information about the Yamatai Kingdom that had entered Beijing with the two envoys.
This information was sent by Gongsun Zhan, and these two envoys from the Evil Horse Taiwan Kingdom were also escorted into Luoyang by Gongsun Zhan - otherwise, these two would not be like this, let alone Luoyang. Even Youzhou went in.
Due to the large amount of content, and the fact that this was the time to use the army, the communicator was not used to report it. What's more, Gongsun Chan didn't think that this so-called Evil Horse Taiguo was a big deal, and he arranged for it to be received by Dahonglu Temple at the beginning.
It's just that Zhou Huan, the great Honglu Qing, was discussing with the emperor in the court at this time, and these two envoys came to claim the ministers on behalf of overseas countries, so the officials of Honglu Temple felt that this matter had to be reported to the Son of Heaven. Only then did they send the two directly to the palace.
It was so by mistake, Liu Xuan didn't receive any news before the two envoys from overseas countries came, and he didn't know about it until the two of them arrived outside the palace.
However, Liu Xuan didn't mind this, after all, he didn't do anything wrong with these civil and military forces - Gongsun Chan felt that the communicator should be used in more important military affairs, so it was normal for him not to report it directly, and he was still fighting with Wu Huan, Goguryeo, etc., so it was understandable to do so.
What's more, Gongsun Chan also probed the matter about Yamatai in detail, otherwise there would not have been such a detailed report for the Son of Heaven to read.
As for sending it to the Great Honglu Temple, it is also very in line with the system and regulations, the Great Honglu Temple was originally responsible for these things, and to a certain extent, it played the role of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, although Liu Xuan intended to hand over some foreign affairs to the Ministry of Rites, but after all, it has not been implemented, so the Great Honglu Temple is the real official diplomatic department of the Han Dynasty at present.
And in the arrangement of these two envoys, Dahonglu Temple is not at fault, especially after realizing the importance, he directly reported to the Son of Heaven, which shows the efficiency of the court now.
After reading the report sent by Gongsun Zhan, Liu Xuan finally had a slightly more detailed understanding of this Evil Horse Taiguo.
It turned out that Dongying Island was also in chaos at this time, and there were dozens of countries on the small island, large and small, and Yamatai was just one of them, and it was also the leader of an alliance force.
And this alliance dominated by the Evil Horse and Taiwan countries, the current situation is actually not very good. At present, life in Dongying is not very good, so the lord of the Yamatai Kingdom thought of the neighboring Han and wanted to use the power of the Han to help him pacify the entire territory of Dongying. ..., to put it bluntly, this group of people came to the table to claim their ministers, and they didn't have any good intentions at all, and in connection with the little information in their minds, Liu Xuan finally figured out something.
"It is said that there is also a country on Nadongying Island that has made contact with the historical Soochow, and it also has similar thoughts to this Yamatai. It's a pity that both Wei and Wu are in the country. I'm not interested in wasting energy on that Dongying, and let these guys' calculations fail!"
As for this time, it is estimated that this Yamatai Queen Himihu is still in general mind, and wants to help her fight the world by herself?
"But...... It's not that I can't agree to come down!"
There is a good saying. It's just that considering that Dongying Island is isolated overseas, and a strong enough navy is needed to attack or even occupy it, and at present, the navy of the Han Dynasty is still undergoing basic training on the ground, and the ships are still lying in the shipyard and have not been launched.
"What a nuisance!"
Maybe you should send a troop of soldiers over first to help Himiko destroy the other nations, and then go back and clean up this woman?
A few thoughts turned in his head, but his expression was not abnormal at all.
But he watched as the two messengers bowed to him according to the number of prayers. Then he began to introduce his own country.
I have to say that this Himiko is still very clear and well-regulated, and the two messengers she sent, one of whom is named Nanshengmi, actually knows how to speak Chinese.
Although the speed of speech is not fast, and the pronunciation is a bit strange, there is no difficulty in communication. It seems that it has also done a lot of hard work.
In the mouth of the envoy of the Yamatai Kingdom, Yamatai is not the Dongying Island Kingdom as reported by Gongsun Zhan, but has become the real owner of the Dongying Island, the nominal ruler, and at the same time, the war in the Dongying is only called 'a riot carried out by a small number of rebels, which will be pacified in a few days!'
As for wanting the Han to send troops to help, it also became 'It's just that the Yamatai Kingdom has always been a vassal state of the Great Han, and these rebels want to overthrow the Yamatai is actually offending the Han Tianwei!' and then with a look of expression and tone that I can't bear it anyway, it seems that I want to stimulate Liu Xuan, the 'young' emperor.
Watch the performance of this difficult rice to rise. Liu Xuan couldn't raise any interest at all, except for lamenting that this evil horse platform was not without talent.
Then after opening his mouth to appease a few words, he asked Zhou Huan, the Qing of the Great Honglu Temple, to take the two envoys down, and then go to arrange a business.
Even he didn't deal with it by casually sealing two meaningless official titles like Cao Cao in 'history', nor did he give any gold, silver and jewelry to show the majesty of a great country.
This kind of performance seemed to be very different from the lords of the kingdom of all dynasties, and it also made the two envoys feel a bump in their hearts. After arranging a resting place, the two men gathered together with a frown and discussed.
"How is it so different from what was expected?"
According to the many rumors circulating on their side, it seems that the lord of the kingdom will always give many benefits to the envoys who come to claim his vassals.
"Could it be that this big man is also in trouble? I remember that when we entered Liaodong from Sanhan, the Liaodong soldiers and horses were mobilized quite frequently, and it seemed that a big war was about to happen!"
Nansheng Mi also frowned, and couldn't figure it out after thinking about it for a long time. However, he didn't think that Goguryeo could pose any threat to this great man.
"It's nothing to fight, it's not that you haven't seen how majestic the soldiers and horses of the Great Han Kingdom are......? It's just that the performance of this Han lord is a little strange, he obviously looks very young, how can he be so calm?"
Scratching his hair, he couldn't figure it out for a while, but soon he put the matter aside: "But when it comes to this Great Han Kingdom, it's really like a fairyland!"
To talk about what the two of them saw and heard along the way, the two of them wondered if they had arrived in the legendary fairyland, how could there be such a rich place? Even the most ordinary people were dressed in gorgeous and neat clothes, and even drank fine wine at will.
And every time I pass through the city along the way, I can't help but be amazed, and these surprises have reached their peak after coming to Luoyang.
The two of them...... Have you ever seen such a majestic giant city?
Standing at the gate of Luoyang and looking at both sides, there is no end in sight, as if this city wall is going to stretch all the way to the edge of the world. And how powerful the Great Han Kingdom was that it was to be able to build such a huge city was no longer something they could imagine.
And for a moment, both of them were thinking in their hearts: "Let such a powerful country send troops to Yamadai...... Is it good or bad?"
If such a powerful country sends troops to Dongying, I am afraid that the entire Dongying countries will be defeated and occupied by it in an instant, and there will be no resistance at all, right?