Chapter 2878 Water and soil, the continuation of the same old routine
『Longyou, as Wen He said, there are few people. 』
Fei Qian sat on his horse and headed west.
The next journey won’t be so hurried.
?The reason why he was rushing so hard before was because Fei Qian also needed to test and experience this "highway" for himself, or whether it could be a "straight road" similar to Qin Shihuang''s back then.
As a centralized feudal dynasty, an important part of its ability to expand its territory is that the larger the area directly covered by the strong central military force, the more powerful the dynasty will naturally become.
Before there were steam engines, cavalry was the strongest land arm, a quick reaction force.
After Feiqian sorted out the bills along the way and re-examined the changes brought about by the new logistics model, he found that this path is indeed very good and effective, but it can actually save some...
Because Jia Xu knew that Fei Qian would come with someone, and it was not just a trip, but at least a round trip, so he made good preparations, whether it was in the Anding area near Guanzhong, or in Zhangye and other places in the Western Regions. The specifications and facilities of the ground, the military camp, or the small military station are basically similar, and there are no flaws.
However, this also results in higher overall costs.
As an important corridor connecting the Western Regions and Guanzhong, Jia Xu''s intensive deployment of such support military stations is not a big problem from a certain perspective, but if those are not very important, or are relatively complex and rugged It is obviously unreasonable for the roads to be so densely constructed.
?Jia Xu also agrees with this point.
??Moreover, Jia Xu also raised a very critical issue, which is also an old problem in Longyou, that is, there are few people.
That is to say, what Fei Qian just agreed with is that there are indeed few people.
?This place has poor water resources, so the land is barren.
Because the land is barren, large-scale crops cannot be grown.
Because without large-scale planting industry, it is impossible to support a high-density population.
This is a real problem, and it is true that Feiqian cannot change it.
The spirit of Foolish Old Man who moved mountains is advisable, but his behavior is not. When the mountains don''t support people, people can climb out of the mountains and bring back a team of excavators. Isn''t it better than making baskets at home? Of course, the key is to come back, otherwise after driving the excavator outside the mountain, Liu Chan will be happy and ignorant, and it is not just Liu Chan.
The strategy of migration can only be used for a short period of time and cannot be sustained for generations. Jia Xu said on the sidelines that he did not agree with large-scale migration of people from the interior. "In the past, during the reign of Xiaowu, people moved to the Central Plains to fill in the borders, but there were many problems..."
Fei Qian nodded and said: "The method of migration can only cure the symptoms, not the root cause." If we are looking for a permanent cure, we still have to look to the Qiang people. 』
Qiang people? ” Jia Xu frowned.
Migrating Qiang people?
Fei Qian nodded, "Yes, Qiang people." But it’s not migration…』
Sometimes you need to open your eyes a little bit.
"Water is an ordinary thing..." Seeing that Jia Xu didn''t understand, Fei Qian said slowly, "If you don''t get water, you will die in three days." If there is water but no food, you can live for seven days. If you have food and water, you will be safe for a hundred days. 』
This is common sense, or in most cases accurate knowledge.
??A question mark appeared on Jia Xu’s head.
?? Fei Qian turned his head slightly and glanced at Jia Xu, "There is some new research from Chang''an Agricultural College... I will have someone send a copy to Wen He for a look... mainly on the water Zhuang He needs..."
"water? ” Jia Xu blinked. This is an area that he has not touched at all. Even though he is extremely intelligent and has the top wisdom of a big man, he still seems to be unable to grasp the key points.
Water and soil... water and soil on one side can support people on the other side... rice grows mostly in the south, and wheat grows mostly in the north. This is water and soil, Zhuang He is like this, and so are people." Fei Qian stretched out his hand and waved it up and down, "Wen He, you need to look in a different direction...from the bottom up...we spent most of the time looking from the top. Look down, now you might as well turn around and take a look..."
"in turn? ” Jia Xu seemed to be thinking about something.
Fei Qian glanced at Jia Xu.
In fact, this is also a problem reflected on the Longyou military "highway".
When Jia Xu formulated these military stations, his main basis was military needs. Therefore, some military stations were actually in relatively remote areas, with no human habitation for more than ten or even twenty or thirty miles around. Although this was a great supplement And it facilitates military needs, but it also puts a lot of pressure on subsequent replenishment of such military depots.
If we consider it from the grassroots level, then military depots will extend outward along important towns. Then in these uninhabited areas, the layout of some military depots will be relatively reduced. On the other hand, it will add additional burden to the surrounding towns until the population increases. , and then consider the issue of outward extension.
This is like the settlement and migration when the Han came.
At a certain period, border patrols are necessary, just like military stations. If it were not decided and organized and implemented by the upper levels, then such a military "highway" would not naturally appear in ten or twenty years, but If there are problems in the process, but turn a blind eye, or talk about what can be "overcome", "ignored", "endured", or "suffered", this kind of person is often not Stupid is bad.
What is the "temporary" "endurance" or "suffering"? Then they turn a blind eye to the problems in front of them and clamor about whether "tomorrow" will be better and the "future" will be sweeter?
?Well, some people will believe it at first.
However, the year before last was said to be the most difficult, and you will be fine if you get over it.
Last year I said that last year was the most difficult, and you will be fine if you get through it.
I am still saying this year, this year is the most difficult, and the future will be...
What else can we say about next year?
Even if people’s memories are short, it’s not like they can’t remember them every year, right?
Anything that does not talk about the specific time of endurance and does not specify the temporary period is similar to the Buddha''s theory, isn''t it?
?This life is karma and suffering, but the next life will be wonderful.
So everyone deserves to suffer in this life?
Oh, it''s not "everyone". After all, there are still a group of people who don''t need to "overcome" or "endure" to enjoy the happiness and sweetness of the moment. After all, these people have practiced cultivation in the previous life and only have the blessings in this life. . Right?
There were obvious problems with the border migration strategy of the Han Dynasty.
The first wave of people migrating from the interior were five kinds of "sinners". The laws of the feudal dynasty are so simple and crude. If you are guilty, you are guilty. But what are the thoughts and purposes of the ministers and noble elites who want to move the so-called "sinners" to the border?
?Perhaps to a certain extent, he wanted to protect the "innocent" people outside the five kinds of "sinners", but are these "sinners" really sinners? Are the "innocents" that I protect really pure?
Furthermore, for the migration to the border areas, Feiqian will also send officials here to make arrangements for the early, middle and later stages. But who knew this at the beginning? Who else will go back and do it? Just like leaving grass seeds on the ground randomly, whether they can grow up depends on luck. In this way, the effect of migration can temporarily support the Western Han Dynasty against the Xiongnu. This is not because of how smart these upper-class feudal rulers who formulated strategies are, but because of the Chinese The people of this nation can endure hardship enough!
Otherwise, how about trying another ethnic group?
But just because the people of China are so kind, you cannot bully them with all their might!
After bullying all the good people until they have no chance of survival, what will be left? Either a darkened good guy or a pure bad guy. By then, everyone will be happy?
??This is what Fei Qian wants to say to Jia Xu.
The people in power in the feudal dynasty, especially those at the top, such as the emperor, must stand with the people at the lowest level, otherwise...
When the emperor of a feudal dynasty forgot his position and began to mix with the ministers in the middle, the dynasty began to die. This has been proven several times in history, and Fei Qian will certainly not turn a blind eye to these "lessons from the past".
The military station can be regarded as a small-scale migration, but even a small-scale migration requires strategy.
Fei Qian had considered this issue before, but he had always been disturbed by this or that matter and had not thought about it or explored it specifically. It was not until this time that the Western Region incident broke out that Fei Qian Suddenly I remembered this question that I may have considered several times before, but had not thought about it deeply enough.
Amid the chaos in the Western Region, a situation occurred that Fei Qian had not expected at all.
Not Lu Bu, but Buddha. Fei Qian had made a plan for the Western Regions before, but in this plan, the only thing Fei Qian did not consider thoroughly was Buddhism in the Western Regions.
How did a false hope confuse so many people?
This is a big question.
?Fei Qian cannot solve them all, but he can try to solve some of them.
After all, in the final analysis, it is all a human problem.
Jia Xu glanced at Fei Qian''s face, cupped his hands and said, "What the Lord said is true, and the people are like water." Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. 』
This is the view of the old Xun family in the Spring and Autumn Period, so it is not surprising that Jia Xu understood it immediately.
Fei Qian hummed, "The differences between the great Han men in the Western Regions are like Jing and Wei." We see the difference at first, but what happens next? When the river rushes into the sea, is it divided into Jing and Wei? Therefore, Lu Fengxian''s move to massacre the Buddhist kingdom and kill the people is absurd. What is available to the people should be used and should not be easily destroyed. 』
Jia Xu sighed, paused for a moment, and sighed again, "If Brother Wenyou were here, just based on the Lord''s words, it would be obvious." 』
Jia Xu was very emotional.
Li Ru and Jia Xu are both Han Chinese, but there was a time when they were not human beings inside and out.
??The Han people in Shandong felt that people like Li Ru and Jia Xu were no longer Han people, and they were expelled from the Han nationality.
The Qiang and other minority tribes also feel that people like Li Ru and Jia Xu cannot be considered their people...
In fact, both Li Ru and Jia Xu accepted the culture of the Han family and lived and grew up in the land of Longxi. Why should they be tolerated by both parties? The Han people think that Li Ru and Jia Xu have become barbarians. Even in history, Jia Xu was able to accumulate merits and ascend to the Three Sophora Palaces. When he took the position of the Three Lords, some people would still whisper below, saying that Jia Xu was not good at all. The reason why he is not qualified to be the third official is not Jia Xu’s wisdom and ability, but his dislike of his background!
People in Shandong believe that a position is not determined by ability, but by origin!
The key is that this concept can be recognized by many people in Shandong and even some people from other places...
Actually, one’s origin is a circle.
The political groups of the feudal dynasty were accustomed to having a circle to protect themselves. Those with vested interests also do not want more people to share the pork. So these upper-level guys will consciously build information cocoons for the lower-level people, inducing the lower-level people to separate into various circles, and then they will fight, bite, and kill each other like fighting animals in cages...
?This way, we can ensure that these fighting beasts will not think about opening the cage all day long, or hanging someone from the street lamp.
What Jia Xu lamented was that Fei Qian was more tolerant than ordinary rulers.
Tolerate both the Han people and the Qiang people.
Also tolerant of people with disabilities.
Even now that Lu Bu has disrupted the Western Region, Fei Qian is still able to think calmly, and seems to be looking at the future all the time, looking for the direction, instead of opening his mouth to talk about anger or boredom. And related words that tend to express emotional catharsis.
This is a trait of a leader that Jia Xu has never encountered before.
Not even Cao Cao could do it.
??Li Ru was doing logistics for Lu Bu and opening up the Western Regions, not for any so-called meritorious service, but to prove the broader world that Fei Qian had described before.
?Now before Li Ru died, he did lift a corner of the curtain, and the current disputes in the Western Regions have proved from another perspective that the West does have a broader land and a more fertile country.
This "highway" model used for military purposes now will naturally be built in the Western Region in the future.
"My lord, but..." Even though Fei Qian said this, Jia Xu still said with some concern, "If we use barbarians as a stronghold... I might be suspicious of giving others a handle..."
Fei Qian turned his head and glanced at Jia Xu, "Wen He, you are too cautious. 』
Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, and quickly raised his eyes to look at Fei Qian, only to see that Fei Qian seemed to have just said this casually.
Did you really say it casually?
Jia Xu didn’t believe it.
Because Jia Xu is really so cautious. He is like a thousand-year-old bastard. He is not sure that there is really no danger in the outside world, so he will never stick his head out easily. It''s like Jia Xu clearly knew that there were problems in the Western Regions, and also knew some things about Lu Bu in the Western Regions, but Jia Xu never took the initiative to report them. At most, he only did one thing, such as delivering the matters reported in the Western Regions to Guanzhong.
It’s like Jia Xu clearly had ten thousand ideas in his mind at the moment, but he didn’t say anything. He had to wait until Fei Qian asked several times before one of them came out from his stomach...
But the question is, does avoiding, hiding, or hiding really help solve the problem?
It is a good thing to be cautious, but it is not necessarily so if you are too cautious. As the sage said, those who love war will perish. Therefore, some people say that a country should not indulge in war. This is a good thing. However, there is no mention of why we should fight. In the end, we cannot fight. Anyone who talks about fighting will be guilty. Fei Qian said slowly, "Since ancient times, when has there been no war in this world?" If you don''t talk about war at home, does that mean there are no thieves in the world? 』
People are sometimes very contradictory, just like the small group of people in Guanzhong. Some time ago, someone in Guanzhong asked why Fei Qian didn''t go to Shandong? Not attacking Shandong is simply a waste of time, place, people, and stupidity...
?And now some people are asking why Fei Qian wants to go to the Western Regions? To fight in the Western Regions is to be warlike, wasteful, and just another combination of stupidity and stupidity, etc...
?Fei Qian sometimes finds it very interesting.
The people of Shandong are more or less from the Han Dynasty, and then a group of people in Guanzhong jumped up and down, saying that they would start quickly, the sooner the better, the faster the better, the heavier the better, and then they turned around to deal with the Western Regions, which was not considered bad for the time being. Let’s go to the mainland of the Han Dynasty, and then there is a group of people in Guanzhong who are chirping, saying that they should not care so much about external affairs, it is thankless, just get by, if you are willing to fight, you will die. What’s the point of winning this kind of war...
Hey, this pair of internal and external faces, is it possible that this is also a fine tradition of the Han Dynasty?
Jia Xu’s eyes suddenly condensed.
“What the sages said was originally well-intentioned, but thieves stole it. ” Fei Qian said slowly, “But when the literary thief speaks, where is the bravery of the literary thief? It''s good to be kind, but don''t you know what''s good and what''s evil? A small thief can lead to great disaster, just like Bian Que''s technique, the wound will still be injured after healing. 』
Jia Xu sighed, "I am guilty." 』
Fei Qian waved his hand and said, "Wrong again." I am not blaming you for this, but I am just saying that someone has made a mistake, and I will encourage you to do so. Punishment without discipline is a taboo. It is human nature to seek benefits and avoid harm, so there should be laws to determine right and wrong. In the past, according to the laws of Qin, anyone who saw atrocities and avoided them would be guilty of the same crime, so he saw righteousness and bravery. There is no such law in the Han Dynasty today, so we just stand by and watch the crowd. Therefore, we should use discipline to promote courage, rather than using courage to offend discipline. 』
"If you say that war will lead to death, we should discuss the pros and cons, and the pros and cons should be implemented in reality, so this is the account..." Fei Qian pointed to the ledgers tied behind the guards, "Or we can investigate on the spot... It is a sin only for those who only speak of the superior and end the path of the world with one word. 』
Jia Xu raised his hands and said, "What my lord said is true." I am taught. Nowadays, the Qiang people are mostly settled, and then they are self-transformed. According to the lord''s policy, promote settlement through business, consolidate the people through settlement, teach them the Chinese language, and recruit their elite... After three generations, they will be Han. 』
?Fei Qian nodded slightly.
Isn’t this great? This model was still used in later generations.
Among civilizations, there is also competition between the weak and the strong.
If you cannot persist in your own civilization, you will inevitably be replaced by the civilization of others. If you want to maintain your own civilization, you must have your own language and writing, and have your own core values ??condensed from your own thoughts.
Jia Xu obviously had some ideas, but just now he was still pretending to be confused.
Forced migration will inevitably lead to resentment. Therefore, the Han Dynasty should be regarded as noble, and people will come to be noble. But where does the price come from? In terms of strength, who will win between Han and Qiang? Only through wisdom can we win. Being clear about affairs, dealing with disputes, and holding a balance are all the ways to show the wisdom of the Han Dynasty, and only then can he show his nobility. Fei Qian said, "If you want to value wisdom externally, you should learn it internally, know the law, and understand the truth... In this way, you should not value strength, but civilization... Those who are strong will eventually decline." , but the wisdom of civilization can be passed down from generation to generation..."
To put it simply, we should put aside the so-called "invasion" remarks and instead hold high the banner of "freedom" to express that the great Han came to help those tribes and countries that are full of contradictions, class conflicts, and low primitive technology. Let’s work together towards the bright future…
Jia Xu laughed and said, "My lord, do you want to see Ajiesha?" 』
Fei Qian pondered and nodded, "That''s fine, but not now." A little further...』
Further ahead is Yumenguan.
(End of this chapter)