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Chapter 394 More Detailed Front Cool
Those who can achieve their careers by abandoning their wives and children and beheading their wives and children will always be a minority. Most people will have family affection no matter how numb they are. It is actually a common feature that kings like to control their subordinates and their families. There is no rebellion or deceit People basically don't resist much.After all, it is a kind of thing that the king can rest assured, and his subordinates can also make contributions with peace of mind.

It doesn't sound good to say, but the king wants his ministers' family members as hostages, and he won't really play with them. Instead, he needs to take care of them properly.The subject rejects and resists... What exactly do you want to do?
Sincerely, family members can get better protection when they stay in the capital, and the quality of life will definitely be better.Although it exists as a hostage, there is no love for no reason in the world, only hatred for no reason.

The king cannot demand unconditional loyalty from his subjects, and his subjects cannot expect the unconditional trust of the king.Trust is built between each other, definitely not unilateral wishful thinking.

Facing Liu Yan's words, Xie Ai nodded with a smile: "Naturally."

That's good.It was impossible to talk about it in detail during the march, and what to say should be waiting for Liu Yan and Xie Ai's family members.

Jizhou has always been a large state in the Central Plains, but it is a pity that it is mostly mountainous like other regions.

The land of Huaxia is generally mountainous and hilly, and the plains are localized areas. The vast Central Plains has never had much flat land, and the resulting phenomenon is that there are not many acres of good cultivated land.

For thousands of years, the fields that can be used for farming in the Central Plains have actually been reclaimed. I don’t know how many dense forests and grasslands have been cleared and turned into farmland, and how many swamps and muddy land have been reorganized. Become Sang Tian.

Perhaps a long time ago, all parts of the Central Plains were prosperous. After a hundred years of fighting among the princes, and the Sima royal family leading the barbarians south, the busy scenes of the former farmlands have become a few scenic spots, and most of them have turned into overgrown weeds. of wilderness.

Restoring prosperity is definitely not a one-day achievement. It also needs to have a sufficient population. It is worth considering where Han should focus on development. What is certain is that the threat of the North will not be eliminated and the western front will not be expanded. Jizhou is by no means The place where the Han country gave priority to development.

"The statistics in Jizhou have been carried out for seven days, and the registered population is less than [-]." Liu Yan saw too much desolation along the way, and there were even more desolate human bones on the roadside. Dingkou, each household was required to prepare horses and horses and food, and they picked women in large numbers, causing the trees on the side of the road to be covered with hanged corpses, which can still be seen today."

It is well known that the Shihu is brutal and not sympathetic to the national strength. However, the Jizhou area recovered by the Han army should not have so few people. It can only be said that the registration of the population by the Han Dynasty encountered resistance.

"Murong Hao followed the advice of the mastermind, Feng Yi, and conducted household registration statistics on the population of Yan State in the past few years." Liu Yan must have some depression: "I heard that the rich and powerful in Yandi would not dare to disobey. It was done in less than a year.”

Xie Ai, who was still staying in the king's carriage, nodded and said: "When Murong Xianbei encounters resistance, the whole family will be killed. The big and powerful families are deeply feared, and it was completed in just one year."

"When the widow only had Changguang County before, the big clans and powerful families who encountered resistance should be wiped out. It is very easy to know the population, the number of acres of fields, livestock, etc. in a county." Liu Yan twitched the corner of his mouth. Laughing: "When we were doing statistics in Qingzhou, we still encountered resistance."

"The king and the Hulu are still different after all." Xie Ai said deeply: "The king is the king of my middle-earth."

Hu Lu should be cruel, because they are ignorant and do not understand people who follow the way of heaven.

Zhongtu is China, let’s not talk about the beauty of the rules, etiquette has always been the basis of conduct, how can it be as stupid and cruel as the barbarians, it will be punished by the "law of heaven".

Liu Yan frowned immediately when he heard this remark. Not only Confucianists believed in this set of remarks, but it should be said that the entire Chinese civilization system believed in it, but it was not understood in the pre-Qin, Western Han, and Eastern Han.

In the past, the six barbarians were not regarded as human beings in Chinese civilization. They were almost equal to cows, horses, sheep, chickens, geese, etc., so the kings of the Central Plains would not treat them with Chinese values. There is no mercy in killing Liuyi.

When did the Six Barbarians begin to be accepted into the species "human"?
By the way, it is now, after the Hu people became the overlords of the Central Plains, the Liuyi not only became human beings, but also superior people. It was the first time that the Yanhuang Miao people were interrupted in this catastrophe. Become an inferior nation, and this is thanks to the Sima family and the contemporary elite.

Of course, among the rich and wealthy families in the Central Plains, there are Yanhuang Miao descendants, and more are Hu people. After all, Hu people are the overlords of the Central Plains.Let’s talk about those few rich and powerful families who are descendants of Yanhuang Miao. If they didn’t bow down and flatter the Hu people, would the Hu people allow their existence?
Xie Ai will not be ignorant of the current situation in the Central Plains, so it is understandable that he is persuading him. Most of the time, turning a blind eye is what a king should do. If Liu Yan can absorb it, he should accept it with a broad mind.

Liu Yan has been doing the matter of integrating the Hu people, but he is doing it in a way that the majority accommodates the minority. It is necessary to kill the Hu people as much as possible in the process. Otherwise, the number of Hu people is more than that of Yanhuang Miao. Who is merging.

In addition to the population, the culture actually has the absolute advantage of the Yanhuang Miao people, but even the best civilization needs a strong backing, that is, military force as the basis to pass it on.

Liu Yan asked Xie Ai a lot about Xiliang along the way, but this time Xie Ai answered all his questions.

Zhang's Liang Kingdom has always been a vast and sparsely populated area. After the Central Plains fell into the hands of the barbarians, a considerable number of Jin people could not escape, but the Sanqin people could not escape that far. Therefore, the Sanqin people could not escape that far. People actually choose Xiliang as a place of refuge.It is precisely because of the population that fled from the land of Sanqin that Zhang's Liangguo has more human resources.

Regardless of whether it was the Pre-Qin Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty, or the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liangzhou has never been a populous state. Zhang Jun did not have an accurate figure for the domestic population. He guessed that it was over a million. With such a population and a weak national power, it It is difficult to protect the capital, so it is natural to choose a feasible way out.

The Western Regions had been conquered repeatedly during the Western Han Dynasty. If you want to say what the "world" is in the eyes of the Chinese Miao people, there are only a few places. When there is really no choice, the Western Regions are one of the choices.

Zhang's Liangguo encountered only a few resistances in its westward expansion. The real difficulty was the completely different landform and climate from the Central Plains, especially the desert and the next door were the real problems.

"The reason Liangguo opened up to the west instead of to the east is that he knew that Liangguo's military and national strength would make it difficult for him to go eastward." Xie Ai mentioned one point. Things are really not so easy to handle: "There are big families and powerful people, and it is even more difficult to handle than the Central Plains and the south of the Yangtze River."

Liu Yan can understand that compared to the turmoil in the Central Plains and the impact of families fleeing south to the south of the Yangtze River, the turmoil in Xiliang is much less and the impact is not too great. Relatively large, the fact that the Zhang family can gain a firm foothold there is inseparable from being the top officials in Liangzhou when the world was in turmoil.

The rise of the Zhang family relies on their original official positions. When they are not strong enough, they still have to rely on the power of the Sima royal family. Although they have established a firm foothold after a long period of management, I am afraid that the things that have formed habits will not be changed for a while, that is. The reason why Zhang's Liangguo has been superficially submissive to the Sima royal family for a long time.

"With your strong rise, you are in Taishan again..." Xie Ai said with an unpredictable face: "In fact, Xiliang is very confused now."

Xie Ai seemed to need no taboo, and talked about the mentality of Zhang's Liangguo, including why he didn't go east, and what kind of mentality he had towards the small~chao~ting and the newly established Han Kingdom.

After talking all the way, many things fit Liu Yan's intelligence and guesses, and they can generally be compared.

The people in power in Zhang's Liang country are very clear-headed. They can't do local household registration. They don't know the exact population of the country. Being in a desolate place is also a weakness. They have absolutely no strength to try to be the lord of the Central Plains.

"You have risen in a short period of time, but your development is beyond imagination." Xie Ai looked at Liu Yan and wanted to solve his confusion, but Liu Yan just smiled and said nothing.He looked a little disappointed, and waited for a while before saying: "The matter of Ran Min's removal of the country name has greatly touched my king. It's not just that the eastern barrier will be lost, but also waiting to see what the results will be. And Ran Min Min Weiren..." He shook his head as he spoke, "I'm afraid... there won't be any good results."

Liu Yan can think that the Zhang clan is soft-tempered. As long as the Han Dynasty can unify the Central Plains and go south of the Yangtze River, then the Zhang clan will accept the conditional annexation?
The sound of majestic war drums and desolate horns resounded through the confluence, that is, the king's chariot has actually gathered Lu Tai and other generals who have come to welcome them, and have entered the army camp.

There were tents arranged in an orderly manner inside the camp, and soldiers lined up to greet them on both sides of the road.

I don't know how many people were shouting "mighty" loudly and repeatedly, knocking on their weapons or repeatedly slapping their chests with their left hands while shouting.

Xie Ai has seen the Han army more than once, and may have compared the armies of various countries more than once. Regardless of the actual combat effectiveness, no country can match the excellent weapons, armor, and equipment of the Han army.

A country that has only developed for five years can do this, but the national policy is not clear, and even the direction of the war is chaotic. Xie Ai deeply believes that what Liu Yan lacks is a person who can point out the direction, nothing more.

……Dividing line……

There will be another chapter around eleven o'clock, and the other two will return to normal on the 3rd, and one chapter will be added for rewards.

(End of this chapter)