Whether to accept the attachment of hundreds of thousands of Hu people, Ran Min was still hesitant in his heart.

Cui Hao and Wei Yan said that Ran Min is very clear.

It's easy to make yourself inhuman inside and out. Just like the martial mourning king Ran Min in history, there are roughly four reasons for the failure.

First, treachery and loss of righteousness lead to rebellion and separation.

Second, it is extremely brutal, murderous, and capricious.

Third, he was stubborn and self-serving, suspicious and jealous, did not listen to advice, and was also ruthless to the military officials under his opponents, killing the whole family and the three clans at every turn.

Fourth, the reckless use of military force and the neglect of people's livelihood.

This first reason is the most fatal, because after Ran Min promulgated the "Killing Hu Order" and usurped the throne as emperor, he completely lost his righteous reputation and was besieged by Zhuhu, and the most straightforward reason is that Ran Min did not fully implement the "Killing Hu Order".

In the end, Ran Min also named his son Da Dan Yu and accepted many Hu people, which caused great dissatisfaction among the people and completely lost the hearts of the people of the Han family in the Central Plains.

But at this time, Xu Ji, the secretary of Dali Temple, stood up and spoke: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Cui Hao and Lord Wei said is wrong!" At that time, the Jin Dynasty could not effectively solve the problem of large-scale internal migration of the Hu people at that time, and the problem of the resettlement of thousands of Hu people has actually been haunting the court of the Western Jin Dynasty, and they borrowed more from the Eastern Han Dynasty and the methods of the Cao Wei period for the resettlement of the Hu people. ”

"That is, it does not completely exclude the Hu people, and while guarding against them, it also uses the Hu people in all aspects to help the Sima family consolidate their rule, that is, the so-called 'Yongyi'!"

"Military use, that is, razing to defeat razing, has been razed into soldiers. Economic integration, i.e., the transformation of the people. Only these two points, if the Jin Dynasty at that time could operate properly, without the later Eight Kings Rebellion, there would never be any chaos in the future! ”

Ran Min nodded, feeling that what Xu Ji said was right.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the internal migration of the Hu people has become a scale, and ethnic integration is also a trend, due to the differences in culture and customs, coupled with the tyranny of officials, the contradictions between the Hu and Han have become increasingly serious, so the voice of "Migration Rong" has been rising.

However, due to the continuous wars and losses in the Central Plains since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the population controlled by the imperial court has plummeted.

This has led to the inheritance and development of the strategy and practice of "using Yi" formed since the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty at the specific practical level, so "using Yi" is more in line with the actual situation of the Western Jin Dynasty than "migrating Rong".

Of course, this does not mean that "migrating Rong" is useless, at least Ran Min believes that the points expounded in Jiang Tong's "Treatise on Migrating Rong" are indeed major mistakes of the Western Jin Dynasty on the Hu issue.

If Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty and others had listened carefully to some useful opinions in the theory of migration in the early years, then it is unknown that the Western Jin Dynasty might have been able to avoid a catastrophe.

Xu Ji said again: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he can accept these Hu people who have returned, but they must be properly resettled and strictly guarded. Hu people have a beast's face and a beast's heart, not my race, the strong will be a thief, the weak will be humble, regardless of kindness and righteousness, and their nature is also! However, Your Majesty can completely deal with it by razing and subduing the razed, turning the razed into soldiers and turning the razed into the people. ”

"The Central Plains has experienced decades of turmoil, full of devastation, dilapidated land, and withered population. If you can really educate these Hu people, I believe that in a few generations, hundreds of years, you will definitely be able to turn Hu into Xia and turn Hu people into Han people! ”

"Hmm." Ran Min nodded, but was still noncommittal.

At this time, Ran Liang stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Lord Xu's advice is very good. Raze to raze, has been razed into soldiers! It has been razed into the army, and it is to integrate the Hu people who have moved from the interior into the army to expand the strength of the army. As early as the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used this method to fight the Xiongnu, and at that time, the two pillars of the Han Dynasty, Shi Weiqing and Huo Quai, had a lot of Huns under their accounts. ”

In the Three Kingdoms period, due to years of war, the Central Plains appeared ten rooms and nine emptiness, and the large decline in population will inevitably lead to a decline in the actual available military resources. Therefore, in response to this situation, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei all set their sights on the surrounding ethnic minorities. ”

"For example, when Zhuge Liang made a northern expedition to the Central Plains, there were Nanzhong people in his troops, and Zhuge Liang also unified these Nanzhong soldiers into a unified formation to form the Wudang Flying Army; When Jiang Wei went on a northern expedition to the Central Plains, he also used the Qiang people in the northwest to contain Cao Wei; Similarly, Sun Quan of Eastern Wu has also incorporated the military sources of Shanyue into the Eastern Wu army many times! ”

It can be seen that the Hu people can also become one of the forces of the Great Wei army. And turning it into a civilian can also make up for the current defect of our Great Wei, that is, the defect of insufficient population! The Central Plains has been war-torn for a long time, the population is sparse, and the labor force is not much, although Your Majesty encourages the people to give birth, but if you want the newborn to grow into adulthood, it will take more than ten years, can Your Majesty afford to wait? ”

This last paragraph deeply touched Ran Min.

Yes, more than ten years, can you afford to wait?

With this kind of work, it is better to think about how to increase the labor force!

In fact, Ran Min has not thought about the three policies of razing to control razing, razing soldiers and turning razing into people, but it is very difficult to really operate, and the first thing to consider is that if the Hu people make trouble again, he Ran Min will be the sinner of the Han family through the ages!

These three policies for the internal migration of Hu people were implemented as early as the Han Dynasty.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty attacked the Xiongnu on a large scale, to the early Western Jin Dynasty, there was no behemoth like the Xiongnu on its vast border line to threaten the Western Jin Dynasty. However, even so, the borders are not flat.

A series of problems such as the Xiliang Rebellion in the Eastern Han Dynasty were not effectively solved in the early Western Jin Dynasty, and there were small-scale rebellions in the Xiliang land from time to time, such as the "Qinliang Change".

The Hu people were already taking shape north of the Yellow River and in the Guanzhong region, and they were entrenched in droves on the lands of the Western Jin Dynasty, which was always a threat to the Western Jin Dynasty without the Great Wall to guard them.

In response to this series of situations, the Western Jin Dynasty was not inactive:

On the one hand, they selected capable generals to go to the northern border to quell the rebellion; On the other hand, it is to use the courage and good fighting of the Hu people to integrate them into the army, that is, the so-called "razed into soldiers" and the contradictions between the Hu people's various tribes to divide and disintegrate, this is "razing to defeat the raze".

There are also soldiers who have been razed.

Because there was such a precedent in the previous dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty court incorporated a part of the Hu people into the Western Jin Dynasty army, and the eight kings who participated in the rebellion during the Eight Kings Rebellion all used the Hu people to expand their own army to strengthen their own strength, which shows that the living force of the Hu people has become one of the main sources of troops in the Western Jin Dynasty.

This practice was not useless for the Western Jin Dynasty!

The integration of the Hu people into the army made up for the shortage of young and middle-aged soldiers in the Central Plains and relieved some of the pressure.

The integration of a part of the army into the army also alleviated the lack of living space for the common people in the Central Plains and eased the contradictions between Hu and Han.

It can be said that the method of razing into soldiers solved the situation that the actual available soldiers of the Western Jin Dynasty were insufficient at that time, and it can be said that the idea of the Western Jin Dynasty court did not make a big mistake on this point.

Since the time of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Hu people have begun to move inward on a large scale, and by the early years of the Western Jin Dynasty, they had begun to take shape. The internal migration of the Hu people made up for the shortage of people in the Central Plains caused by the war, but it can be described as "a few happy and a few sad".

At that time, the number of Hu people was too large, and due to the different customs and customs, there were constant conflicts with the farming peoples.

The rebellion that broke out in the northwest during the Eastern Han Dynasty was not effectively resolved, but caused more turmoil due to the expropriation and extortion of officials.

In response to the situation of rebellion in the north, the Western Jin Dynasty has also been a headache, especially the rebellion with the function of the bald tree lasts for the longest, and the Western Jin Dynasty is also full of tricks for the Guanlong region where the rebellion is repeated.

On the one hand, in order to eradicate the function of bald trees, the Western Jin Dynasty sent generals to guard the town several times, among which except for Wenyang, the rest of the governors died in office until Ma Long completely quelled the turmoil; On the other hand, as mentioned in this article, the method of "using razing to defeat raze" was adopted, and the contradictions between the superiors and subordinates of the Hu people and the contradictions between various tribes were used to divide and disintegrate them.

In the seventh year of Taishi, Liu Meng rebelled, and Emperor Wu of Jin sent He Zhen to quell the rebellion, and He Zhen used Liu Meng's account to help Li Ke to trap Liu Meng, and soon Liu Meng's rebellion was put down, and the Xiongnu tribes surrendered to the Western Jin Dynasty.

After Liu Yuan raised troops from Lishi Fortress, Liu Kun, the assassin of Bingzhou, repeatedly repelled Liu Yuan's invasion of Bingzhou with the help of the Xianbei tribe who surrendered to the Western Jin Dynasty, forcing Liu Yuan to change his strategy and attack Hedong instead, and at the same time used the contradictions between the Xianbei tribes Yuwen Xianbei, Murong Xianbei and Duan Xianbei who were entrenched in the northern border of the Western Jin Dynasty to contain each other.

It can be said that the strategy of the Western Jin Dynasty to raze and raze was extremely successful, and if there was no series of turmoil in the aftermath, the Hu tribes would not be able to shake the foundation of the rule of the Western Jin Dynasty:

On the one hand, due to the deep contradictions between the Hu tribes, they could not unite at all.

On the other hand, the use of razing to control razing made it impossible for many talented nomadic leaders at that time to unite the grassland tribes to resist the Western Jin Dynasty.

The successful use of razing as a soldier and using razor to control raze brought many benefits to the military position of the Western Jin Dynasty, relieved the military pressure on the Western Jin Dynasty, and allowed the Western Jin Dynasty to formulate a policy of exterminating Wu with peace of mind.