"I probably understand what Guo Kang means." Theodora was the first to react and began to save Guo Kang: "This evolution is caused by the continuous pressure from the direction of the Central Plains, is that what it means?" ”

"That's all we can understand." Guo Kang nodded gratefully: "During the Han Dynasty, this ethnic group still looked like Celts; During the Tang Dynasty, there was a situation where two types of people lived together. ”

"It's also a bit interesting. During the Tang Dynasty, this generation of nomads came to pay tribute again. The people of the Tang Dynasty discovered that there were two distinctly different appearances in this ethnic group. One is the red-haired and green-eyed person mentioned above, and the other is the dark-haired and black-eyed person. ”

"The chief of this tribe is the one with black hair and black eyes. They claimed that the people who grew up like themselves in the tribe were all descendants of Li Ling, and they were distant relatives of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"It is impossible to confirm who their ancestors were, but the phenomenon is interesting: he shows that there was a time when 'Celts' and Orientals were mixed together, and that these Orientals, most likely outsiders who established their dominance by conquest, gave the chiefs this idea."

"And now, everyone who passes by there knows that the local area is basically black-haired." Guo Kang finally said: "What does this mean, I think, it's already obvious, right? ”

"I see." Xiao Zhu Guanren nodded: "It means that although there are not many historical records, in fact, the people of the Central Plains are constantly entering the grassland, and the population is increasing rapidly, and they are even gradually replacing the locals." ”

"yes, that's one of the hardest places to solve." Guo Kang nodded: "Even if all the tribes on the grassland are destroyed and the nomads are killed and expelled, there is no way to completely eradicate the grassland problem." As long as the grassland is still there, there are people from the Central Plains who continue to migrate and flee for various reasons. ”

"There is no long-term solution to the population blockade and the technological blockade. Because as long as there is a phenomenon that some people can't get by, there will be people from the Central Plains who will continue to bring the population and technology over. And once there is a problem with the Central Plains Dynasty, these former exiles will become the new steppe invaders. This kind of person cannot be killed or purified. ”

"So what do you mean by that? What you really want to say is this question. Jeanne said.

"There are many ways to do this, but the idea is actually the same." Guo Kang replied: "After analyzing for so long, you should be able to find the root cause, right?" ”

"Poor." Jeanne reacted immediately.

"That's right. There is only poverty in the world, and it is the most difficult to solve. Guo Kang shook his head: "As long as there are people in this place who are too poor to survive, they will continue to attack slightly richer places." ”

"Of course, most of the results of such attacks are actually unsuccessful. The herdsmen and tribes who crashed into the border walls and the city fortress were far more killed than those who succeeded in raiding and plundering. It's just that on our side, what we value is only the losses that will occur, not the price paid by the other party, so we only remember that the thief eats meat, and we don't remember that the thief was beaten. ”

"But even so, there are always people involved in this very high-risk activity. Because for them, participating in the raid is likely to die, and not participating in the event is more likely to die. Therefore, their motivation is also very sufficient. ”

"And as long as these outlaws have a motive, they will lose money by fighting them. Take someone's life in exchange for your money, and this account will not be settled. This situation is the most annoying. ”

"And what about the solution?" Jeanne looked at him with sparkling eyes, as if she was also interested. As she spoke, she picked up her teacup and prepared to listen to him.

"Since it's a problem of poverty, isn't the simplest and most straightforward way already out?" Guo Kang spread his hands and said, "Give money." ”

Jeanne was drinking tea with her head down, and when she heard his words, she squirted out the tea soup with a pop.

"Don't be too busy being surprised." Guo Kangle looked at her heavily, and was a little proud of the difficulty of playing this somewhat cunning child and letting her understand the real difficulty of the adult world: "This money is a fine thing." How to give, it is also very particular. ”

"This ......" Zhu Wenkui was also a little surprised: "Mainly, why do you give people your own money?" ”

"Actually, the main reason is that Jeanne has no experience in governing the country. In the past few years, I have helped my parents to help, but I have seen a little bit of it. Theodora also came uninvited, comforting her on the surface, but in fact helping Guo Kang: "A country of a little size like ours is actually going to 'give money' to each other in different places. ”

"In a country, there are always places where there are poor and rich places. But in many cases, it is necessary to deliberately mobilize materials, money, and food from the rich places to the poor places. For example, if there is no food in the local area, we must find a way to transport supplies over. Otherwise, those places will be in chaos, and the originally rich places will also be affected by the war, and they will not be able to get rich. ”

"Actually, it's a problem as well." Guo Kang continued: "Because people in both places will actually feel unfair. ”

"Wealth gathers. Lao Tzu said that the way of man is to lose more than enough. Where conditions are better and richer, they will get richer and richer, while it will not be so easy for other places to get rich. After a long time, the rich places think that the poor places are a burden that drags them down, and the poor places think that the rich places are monsters that suck blood on themselves. There will be contradictions between each other. ”

"We have ready-made examples here." The Empress also nodded, and agreed with his statement: "Every year, we will take a part of the commercial tax of Constantinople and provide special subsidies to the sixteen new military offices of the Northern Romanian Military District. And the townspeople would routinely express their dissatisfaction every year, believing that this was their money, and that they should be given racing competitions and festivals, and that they should be given money to the newly recruited Slavs and Kipchak barbarians in the north. ”

"But opening up the frontier and building a new Legion estate requires a lot of investment. If you don't give enough support there, you can't stabilize. If Northern Romania was unstable, Crimea and Moldavia would be threatened, and the empire's industries there would be affected. ”

"Constantinople's income depended heavily on the trade in goods on the Black Sea coast. If the output of those places decreases, so does the income of the castle; If those places fall into war, the castle will be in the same state of decline as it was a hundred years ago. Citizens may not understand this truth, but we must understand it. ”

"So, it's understandable." Zhu Wenkui nodded: "This is similar to giving Tatar officials and distributing property to Mongolian military households." This is indeed a common method. ”

"I think it's quite appropriate for our minister, Seris, in the middle of the court, to compare these areas to barriers." The queen said, subconsciously glancing at Tuohuan: "Sometimes, we do need some barbarian-like people who can communicate with us to act as a barrier, because it is really easy to use." ”