sweeping the world

Chapter 752 Prevention
For a country that is on the rise and is in the pioneering period, the more population the better, especially in an era when everything depends on manpower.

Hua Yi has other major premise, it is best to be able to transform Hu into Han, but it usually takes time to digest, and there must be a limit to the number of Hu into Han, otherwise the naturalized Hu people are several times more than the real Han people , that is, the Han people are more likely to be Huhua.

Under the premise that it is impossible to absorb too many naturalized Hus, and there is an extreme lack of labor force, enslaving foreign races has become an inevitable choice, not only in Zhuxia, but in fact, the situation is the same in most countries in the world.

Look at those powerful countries in the world, whether they have perished or still exist, the rise of most of them basically uses the flesh and blood of another nation to forge their own glory.

Rome is the best example. Their original population was only a few million, but they enslaved 2000 to 2000 million foreign races. The Romans were only responsible for conquest and development, and domestic projects were basically built using foreign races.Not only in terms of engineering, the Romans used slaves in all aspects, creating a powerful empire, and making this empire strong for more than [-] years (from [-] BC to [-] AD).

Rome is the most vivid example, and there are more countries whose prosperity is based on the exploitation of alien races, such as the empire on which the sun never sets.There were the Spaniards before, and the British later. The British ruled a quarter of the world's land with a population of nearly 3000 million, and the population of the ruling territory also accounted for a quarter of the world.

If a nation (country) wants to develop, even if it occupies the best land, it will only rely on internal circulation, and its prosperity will be limited, and even that kind of prosperity is very fragile. If you accidentally fail to notice who is rising outside , Waiting for that powerful enemy to attack, one's own strength is likely to be burst like a bubble.

At the beginning, Zhu Xia's strength knew how to exploit and develop outwards, but as he got to the end, he lost his aggressiveness...

The distant ancestors knew that only by standing up to the enemy, turning the enemy's wealth into one's own wealth, turning the enemy into one's slaves, or simply fusing the enemy with oneself, can one ensure to remain strong.

I don't know when it started, Zhu Xia lost the desire to explore the external world, immersed in the strength built by his own thoughts, and the constant internal reincarnation became inevitable, and even the only way to survive is to wait for aliens to invade and be destroyed. Passively expanding the territory... It is still the mode of "recovering" the foreign territory that invaded one's own before. Only a very small number of ambitious emperors have opened up a little bit.

"We need people, we need land." Liu Yan has never concealed this ambition: "In our generation, there are many things that can be done."

The current era is not the best era for Zhu Xia. There used to be many stages where Zhu Xia could easily open up a large territory as long as he was willing to look outside. But for some reason, he didn’t take that step. .

The time Liu Yan lived in can be said to be the worst era of the Xia Dynasty. The Han people experienced catastrophes and the population was reduced to ten. Ruins can be seen everywhere, and almost all the ruins that could be destroyed were basically destroyed.

Xu Zheng said: "Because of this, big men need more people."

In an era when everything depends on manpower, if there is not enough population, it is impossible to do anything big. Even the civil servants who think that the war should be suspended cannot refute Xu Zheng's words.It can even be said that as long as the military that is fighting abroad can continue to send slaves to the country, the civilian group will have to grit their teeth and support the military's foreign expansion.

"Since the sixth year of Yuanshuo, the great Han has acquired 170 million slaves..." Sang Yu said to Ji Chang in a low voice: "Except for the necessary rewards for meritorious soldiers, most of them have been used for national infrastructure."

The term “infrastructure” did not come into existence in modern times. Li Kui, a legalist, was a sage who strongly supported infrastructure. He believed that there is nothing that infrastructure cannot solve. If the problem is not solved, the scale of infrastructure must not be large enough.

The infrastructure Li Kui mentioned is not building palaces or forest gardens for emperors, but private infrastructure, which can be roads, but he prefers to build irrigation systems.The construction of the irrigation system can generally get the support of the people, which means that the people know that the construction of the irrigation system is beneficial to them.

It was only after Liu Yan entered Guanzhong that he had the desire to build the palace city. Before that, the national corvee was basically used for irrigation systems and roads. It took nearly seven years to gradually restore the original irrigation systems in various places, and the townships connected to the county The road is also attached great importance to, and the country's adoption of such behavior has won the enthusiastic support of the people.

It was not until the eighth year of Yuanshuo that the construction of a road from the county seat to the county capital was put on the plan, but the plan could not keep up with the changes. The guessed large-scale drought became a reality, and the construction of the national road connecting the north and south ends of the country was turned into a reality.

Today, the total labor force used to build the national road exceeds 500 million people. They work in the nearby counties and counties along the national road, and slaves are used for the more dangerous mountain opening.

Five million people is almost one-third of the total population of the Han Dynasty. There has never been an example of using this population base for national projects in all dynasties. In comparison, after the completion of the national road, the effect on trade circulation and the speed of troop deployment, those efforts are worthwhile.

The time has come to the ninth year of Yuanshuo (AD [-]), and there is only one year left before the drought broke out in northern Xinjiang and the Central Plains.After the drought, there will be locust plagues. This level of natural counterattack is really not something that humans can resist if they want to.

The most serious thing about the great Han... or Liu Yan is that the imperial power of the Xia Dynasty is basically linked to the divine power, especially after the Western Han Dynasty's heaven and man sensed that the Eastern Han Dynasty was fully accepted, any natural disasters that occur are basically linked to the ruler's morality .

At the end of the eighth year of Yuanshuo, a drought occurred in the northwest, and Liu Yan was said to be morally inadequate to rule the northwest. The remnants of the Zhang family in the Liang Kingdom were jumping up and down, but it was the Han Dynasty's timely response that prevented it from causing serious trouble, but the trouble was not completely eradicated.

Li Kuang, who was originally in charge, first killed a group of people and imprisoned a group of people, and Xie Ai was there to comfort him. It was better to wait for Ran Min to pass by to suppress the matter to the greatest extent. The problem was that Liu Yan's morals were not enough to rule the northwest. Not completely gone.

"It is appropriate for all the young and strong to leave Yangguan and go to the Western Regions." Sang Yu is the head of the Yushi Mansion. After the reform of the Yushi Mansion, although it does not have as much power as before, it still has the right to speak: "I think it should be Going a step further, maybe the people in the northwest can be moved to the southwest?"

"Inappropriate." Ji Chang frowned, looked at Sang Yu, and said, "It's not appropriate for the Northwest Qingzhuang to leave the customs in a big way, and then move their people."

The southwestern area of ​​the Han Dynasty is a bit large, including Bashu and the original southwest of Jingzhou.It was owned by Zhuxia during the Western Han Dynasty, but the Western Han Dynasty, Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms separatist regime, and the Western Jin Dynasty to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Except for the intentional construction of Bashu, the rest of the area seems to have been forgotten.

Taking the original Jiaozhou as an example, the Qin Empire sent the Southern Expedition Army to go south. With the collapse of the Qin Empire, the Southern Xinjiang Army established itself and established itself. Zhao Tuo had undergone construction during his administration, but after Nanyue was conquered by the Western Han Dynasty, those places have always been No progress.Even if the Sun Wu regime, which once ruled the south, had construction, it only focused on Jiangnan (modern Zhejiang and Suzhou), and did not care about the rest of the place.

Hundreds of years have passed, what the Southwest area was like before, it is still what it is now, the only difference is that the number of Han Chinese has increased, but the local natives have not decreased.

The Han Dynasty adopted a "one size fits all" approach to people. There were only two types of Han people and non-Han people. After conquering the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the military marched to the southwest and swept it all the way. Due to historical factors, they rarely used knives. However, there are many necessary population registrations. The natives who are willing to cooperate will suddenly become members of the glorious Han people, and the natives who are unwilling to cooperate will either be killed or captured as slaves.

So far, the Southwest has not really settled down. The natives who are unwilling to give up their customs are hiding, and occasionally come out to attack the Han villages, and then the Han garrison sweeps them from time to time, and encourages the slave hunting team to go to the southwest to arrest the natives. people.

One of the reasons Ji Chang objected to relocating people from the northwest to the southwest was that there was no stability there. The young and strong in the northwest went to the Western Regions to fight for their lives, but their families were forced to go to the southwest to fight with the natives. If those young and strong in the Northwest who went to the Western Regions knew the news, Do you want to rise up and form a large army to counterattack?

Sang Yu said that there are certain reasons for that. People in the Northwest do not have a sense of belonging to the Han Dynasty. As a result, the rest of the region began to not regard the Northwest people as their own. The more intense the resistance in the Northwest, the more disgusted the people in other regions are towards the Northwest. .

There is a gap, and it may even turn into a confrontation, so should we act first before the confrontation happens?
Liu Yan glanced over and found that Sang Yu's remarks were very marketable, especially this kind of politically correct proposal. For civil and military officials, if Northwesterners dare to oppose the current rule, it will be no problem to deal with it. Even if you say something wrong, you will not be blamed.

"The northwest is also the land of the Han Dynasty, and we are the hometown of the few." Liu Yan had to set the tone. If he really wants to target the northwest like that, if something similar happens in that area again, will he have to target it again? Will he still have a basic base in the end? ?But he couldn't help but say blankly, "The southwest is too far away, we can open up the grassland to make it possible."

Sang Yu laughed immediately, the northwest is the northwest, the grassland is the grassland, and the north and east of the northwest are grasslands.The grassland is now captured by the Han army, but only some official groups are doing things like grazing, and there are really not many people living in the grassland.

Taking territory and not using it is just a better look on the territory map, and it is even a burden. It is too ugly for people from the Northwest to go to the Southwest. There are many reasons for letting them go to the grassland nearby.

"As usual, those who are willing to follow will be loaned by the government?" Ji Chang is the prime minister, even if he is disgusted with any group, he must ensure the greatest degree of gentleness. When Liu Yan responded, he immediately said: "Your Majesty is merciful."

Lending to the private sector in the Han Dynasty is an inevitable behavior at present, and it once supported the people who had nothing to live and work in peace.Of course, the official lending has interest, but it is much less than the private loan interest. This is what Liu Yan has been grasping, even if there are no less troubles. Every year, a group of officials who dare to operate in the dark are dealt with. .

Utilizing the grassland is something Liu Yan has always wanted to do. It has been four or five years since the Han army captured the grassland, and it has been within a year or two.There were no Han people on the prairie, so he created troops with the same nature as the Tuntian Army. The difference was that the Tuntian Army reclaimed farmland, and the Grassland Construction Corps grazed.

The Han Kingdom accepted a considerable number of naturalized Hus, even if they had forgotten their grazing skills before, they picked them up again as they absorbed a large number of naturalized Hus.

At present, the Han State has a large number of construction corps in the grasslands. They divide the pastoral areas and place troops separately. They are also responsible for cleaning up the tribes that have not surrendered.

The Grassland Construction Corps has been providing a large number of livestock to the mainland. After Yuanshuo developed the use of wool in six years, the textile industry has grown from scratch to a giant beast, but it has also made the people aware of the ways to make profits in the grassland. More and more capital is eager to get a share of the pie, and Liu Yan naturally supports this.

"Your Majesty." Ji Chang bowed and saluted, hesitated for a moment, and said: "Northern Xinjiang and the Central Plains, can we follow the Northwest example?"

Liu Yan naturally agreed.If he remembered correctly, in [-] A.D. there would be a complete drought in northern Xinjiang, and then it would sweep across most of the Central Plains. No matter how much preparation the country made for such a drought, it would only reduce losses.

"I have some advice." Xu Zheng also bowed and said, "Your Majesty, please expand the counties and counties."

At present, Han has thirteen standing armies. Except for a few who are mobilized to go out to fight, the rest are deployed to areas that are expected to cause chaos.In addition to the standing army, there are as many as 56 county and county soldiers and nearly 40 field corps in the establishment, all of whom are part of the public food.

"Your Majesty..." Ji Chang echoed, "Your Majesty, please expand the counties and counties."

After that, all the important ministers stood up and echoed. They didn't all become militants all at once, but it was really necessary to do so because of the changes in the current situation.

Liu Yan has nothing to hesitate. In difficult times, bringing more young and vigorous people into the scope of management is to reduce and mitigate risks.

Once the drought has swept through, the disaster relief is actually not the first sequence, but how to prevent the turmoil caused by the disaster.

Because of Zhuxia's special political outlook, careerists who yell "the emperor has no virtue and cannot sit in the world" are absolutely indispensable, and ignorant common people must follow. At that time, Liu Yan was the most difficult time since the founding of the country.

(End of this chapter)