Xingwu 5 years, April 20.

It has been a whole month since the Xiongnu fled into the desert, during which Ding Hongguang sent people to explore the desert, but also discovered the oasis where the Xiongnu were once stationed.

It's just that now this oasis is only a mess all over the ground, and all kinds of things that can be used have been taken away.

And judging by the remaining traces, the Huns left here half a month ago.

They even found a large number of Hun corpses in the desert.

After exploring, after half a month of guarding the border.

In the end, Ding Hongguang judged that the Xiongnu might have migrated to the depths of the desert en masse.

With the size of this desert, the Song army had reason to believe that the Xiongnu who went deep into the desert would not live long at all.

After guarding the border for a whole month, the extermination of the Xiongnu was officially announced, and the army began to return to the court.

When the news was transmitted back to the capital, it immediately plunged the entire Great Song Dynasty into a sea of cheers.

From the beginning of the founding of the Great Song Dynasty, the Xiongnu have always been the henchmen of the Great Song Dynasty, and the invasion of the Xiongnu in the autumn of each year not only brought great physical and mental harm and even economic losses to the residents of the border, but also made the imperial court continue to increase troops to the border, resulting in the imperial court's finances being worse than this year.

In the case of poor finances, the imperial court could only collect taxes from the common people.

It can be said that the suffering of the Xiongnu is not only the heart disease of the Song Dynasty, but also a heavy burden for the common people.

And now the Xiongnu have been completely exterminated, which means that there will be no Xiongnu on the border of the Great Song Dynasty in the future!

The imperial court no longer had to invest more and more money on the border every year.

There is no need to collect more taxes from the people for border troubles.

It was a national jubilation, and the court and the local government began to celebrate.

But in the hustle and bustle of this celebration, Zhao Jun was unusually calm.

He knew that although the Xiongnu were gone, if the Great Song Dynasty could not occupy and control the Great Grassland, sooner or later other races would appear on that grassland, and that new race would become a problem for the new frontier of the Great Song Dynasty, and sooner or later the border of the Great Song Dynasty would fall into the same situation again, and at that time, would the Great Song still have the strength to resist?

But the Great Song Dynasty was an agrarian civilization, and it was too difficult to control a grassland.

But we can't just leave it alone.

As for handing over the steppe to the Tatars, it is completely a matter of raising tigers.

Although it is said that the Tatars have now come under their command, but they can control the current Tatars, can their children and grandchildren control the Tatars in the future, when the power expands to a certain extent, the Tatars will inevitably begin to stretch out their ambitions, once the military superiority of the Great Song Dynasty is no longer there, Zhao Jun does not believe that the Tatars will not rebel.

The reason for loyalty is that it is only the bargaining chips and interests of betrayal, which is not enough.

Zhao Jun saw this very clearly.

How to manage a grassland?

It is inevitable that the grassland will not be governed by the methods of the Song people, and the environment on the grassland is naturally destined to be unsuitable for cultivation and only for grazing.

If you can't farm, you can't migrate a large number of Song people to the grassland, so if you want to control the grassland, you can only use herding to control herding.

As we all know, the Central Plains Dynasty has been strong since ancient times, and even destroyed the grassland tribes countless times, but why do the grassland tribes always rise repeatedly?

The answer is maneuver!

First of all, the grassland tribes all live by grazing, they are naturally in the company of horses, each grassland tribe has a strong mobility, and they live on water and grass.

There was no fixed position, which brought great difficulties to the control and suppression of the Central Plains.

You determined his location and sent troops to deal with it when he ran away!

He's not staying there anymore, you can't find him! What can you do?

It's impossible for the imperial court to send an army to chase after it all the way, right? That kind of consumption is simply something that a normal court can support.

Moreover, the reason why the grassland tribes can repeatedly appear strong tribes is because they will always descend fierce people from the sky, and the fierce people can always unify all the tribes of the entire grassland, so that all the tribes of the grassland can unite together, thus forming a strong grassland force.

Therefore, in order to control the grasslands, we need to start from three aspects.

One is the inheritance system, the second is the migration system controlled by faith, and the third is economic control.

Whenever a strong tribe appears, he can always continue to annex other tribes through normal and reasonable rules, so as to make himself more powerful and become a powerful force, so as to be able to fight against the court of the Central Plains.

Therefore, if you want to restrict the emergence of a force like the Xiongnu in the grassland again, it is necessary to control the inheritance system of the herdsmen on the grassland, stipulate that the father will succeed the son, and any attack on other tribes without the permission of the Central Plains Dynasty will be regarded as a provocation to the Great Song Dynasty and will be severely cracked down! and even extermination!

They are forbidden to strengthen their tribe in this way.

And in order to cooperate with the imperial court to facilitate the crackdown on disobedient tribes, they can no longer be allowed to live in water and grass.

It's about getting them fixed.

At this point, Zhao Jun is ready to learn the wild boar skin in his previous life and divide the grassland into collars one by one.

Then using religion to control these tribes in terms of faith, such as Buddhism, Zhao Jun has decided to spread Buddhism in the grassland, castrating the thoughts of the grassland herders, so that they can worship the Buddha and live around the local temples so that they can gather together, and no longer chase water and grass to live.

Without the orders and permission of the imperial court, no tribe can leave the location where it is located to graze, otherwise it will also be attacked by the imperial court.

And then there's the economy.

The reason why so many tribes on the grassland have to attack the Central Plains every time they are reborn is mostly because of the lack of materials in the grassland.

So Zhao Jun had decided to open the border in the grasslands, so that the herders could trade to obtain enough supplies from the Great Song Dynasty.

Solve the root cause of their invasion even if they know they will die.

Zhao Jun also believes that through these three axes, most of the grassland problems should be solved.

All that remains is whether the court of future generations can continue according to its own system.

There is also the development of science and technology, once the machine gun appears, then the grassland problem is no longer a problem.

The herders of the steppes will also become good at singing and dancing.

It just so happened that when this official assessment was over, he began to clear the country's acres and monasteries.

At that time, the extra monks will no longer have to dismiss all of them, and they will all be packed up and sent to the grassland for them to preach, don't they like to build temples and preach?

Then let them go to the grassland to continue to shine for the Great Song Dynasty, and the provincial people who stayed in the Great Song Dynasty scourged the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

And why do those herders who control the grasslands have to use Buddhism?

In fact, Zhao Jun's choice was very helpless, he couldn't let Taoism go.

As for the Taoist attitude of you love to believe in and don't believe in the Taoist (ˉεˉ乀), Zhao Jun has reason to believe that if he really sent the Taoist priests, they can stay in the Taoist temple by themselves and be otaku for a lifetime and are not willing to go out to preach.

Therefore, if you want to preach, there is really nothing more suitable than Buddhism in the Great Song Dynasty.

…… (End of chapter)