Chapter 389: Cunning Rabbit Flying Bird
After solving the matter of the five divisions fighting for land, Heifu did not rush back to Yiqu City, but took more than 100 guards to inspect all parts of Dayuan.
"Dong Zhiyuan's head shows wonders, the vast plain is far away from the sky", later generations use this sentence to praise Dayuan, indeed, compared with the surrounding more than a thousand miles, the ravines and ravines are vertical and horizontal, Dayuan is like a flat and boundless plain, after entering its depths, I can't believe that I am walking on the high plateau.
After a certain distance, Heifu got out of the carriage and asked the accompanying agricultural officials such as Tian Mifu and Tian Zuo to inspect the water and soil. It was found that there were thirteen streams in the Great Plains, evenly distributed within a radius of 200 li, and the forest coverage rate was not bad, and there was almost no soil erosion in later generations. The soil is also deep and soft, which is very suitable for farming.
Back then, if the ancestors of the Zhou people had been able to fight the group here, they might have settled here.
The dark-faced Lao Tian official threw down the soil in his hand, licked his lips and said, "County Captain, as long as there is enough water, this place can not only grow millet, but also wheat." ”
Another Tian Qifu also said: "The plain is flat, it is easy to plow the fields, and if there are enough manpower, it is not a problem to open up millions of acres of new fields......
After receiving such a report from the field official who specializes in agriculture, Heifu was even more sure that Gongsun Bailu's proposal to let Dayuan turn into farming in order to feed a larger population and resolve pasture disputes was feasible.
There is also a saying in later generations: "Eight hundred miles of Qinchuan is not as good as Dong Zhiyuan"! You know, for a long time to come, this is also a fertile place known as the "granary of Longdong". As the most suitable place for agriculture in Beidi County, even with the current agricultural technology, it is easy to feed 10,000 households, but now it is crowded with more than 10,000 Rong people, which is simply a waste of resources.
But Heifu's idea is slightly different from that of Gongsun Bailu.
"Letting the Rong people abandon their grazing and turn to farming is like forcing a war horse to take off its saddle and put on farm tools to plow the field."
Confucianism said that China's Rongyi, the people of the five directions, all have sex and cannot be moved. In the West, it is said that Rong, who is clothed and skinned, has no grain eaters. In the north, it is said that Di, who lives in caves with clothes and feathers, and there are no grain eaters.
There is some truth in this sentence, the most obvious difference between Rong Di and Huaxia is not blood, but lifestyle, Rong Di's living habits are deep-rooted, and they cannot be changed by a decree. Although the people of Ohara Rong are half-farming and half-herding, as far as Heifu can see, there is no doubt that they are still mainly animal husbandry, and they measure the wealth of each family according to the number of livestock. The fields burned the forests and sowed seeds everywhere, neither intensively cultivating nor fertilizing the land.
Forcing them to abandon their pasture and farming would certainly be met with great resistance, and even if they succeeded, Heifu doubted that the Rong people would grow enough food for themselves.
Besides, if all the Rong people ran to farm and neglected to shoot horses, the northern cavalry would lose a large number of soldiers.
All, Heifu's plan, coincides with Gongsun Bailu's second idea!
"Lieutenant, if you want me to say, since Ohara can no longer accommodate so many people and livestock, and the ban of fifty years ago is outdated, it is better to ask the imperial court to relax the ban and let the five tribes move to other places for grazing...... Otherwise, even if the county lieutenant orders the five departments to reconcile, in a few years, the five departments will be bloody in a mixed battle, and at that time, I am afraid that the matter will not be solved by tug-of-war. ”
Gongsun Bailu's proposal in Pengyangyi, Heifu didn't know if it was okay, he didn't know, this new county lieutenant had a plan in his heart that was more radical than him!
On the first day of October, after returning to the county seat, Heifu's family didn't care about it, so they went to the county lieutenant's office, asked Chen Ping, who was left behind, to see him, told Chen Ping what he had seen, and put forward a bold plan.
"Within three years, I want to make all the people of Ohara Rong take the initiative to move away, and the immigrants in Guanzhong and Kanto are real!"
"Move away?"
Chen Ping was slightly surprised.
Heifu has his own plan: "Living in impermanence, relying on water and grass, the land is less than grains, and the production and animal husbandry are the industry." This is the custom of the Rong people, but King Zhao used Dayuan as a dog pen and kept the five tribes in captivity, and if the government removed the fence, the five tribes would still migrate. ”
After Heifu took office, he soaked in the official office day and night, and threw the work that Heifu threw at him, such as checking the list of county soldiers, preparing winter clothes, grain, etc., and then he didn't stop receiving the "Shangji" brochures sent by the counties, and classified them into the files one by one, so busy that he didn't even have time to drink water.
Even so, he also took the time to flip through the books of Zhurong in Beidi County, and had some understanding of Dayuan Zhirong, and at this time, after listening to Heifu's words, he asked:
"The subordinate dared to ask the county lieutenant, where can he move? You must know that the people of Beidi Rong are not only the five parts of Dayuan. Jingshui line, there are Wushi Rong, Chao Na Rong, muddy water line, and Yu Zhi Rong, Yiqu Rong, etc., each occupying pasture, the north seems to be vast, but it is really flat and livable, but there are not many ah......"
In his opinion, Ohara Zhirong is already a troublemaker in the Northland, and if it is placed elsewhere, I am afraid that there will be contradictions and disrupt the order of the Northland, so it is better to be trapped in one place.
Therefore, when Heifu went to deal with the dispute between the Dayuan Rong, Chen Ping also offered a poisonous plan of "using Rong to control Rong": he could take this opportunity to create a dispute between the five departments, so that they would have a greater vendetta and lose each other, and the government would support the two to attack the three, or vice versa, and the last five would be weak, while the government and the immigrants would benefit.
Heifu disagreed: "Hound dogs are mixed and bloody, and they will also bite their owners." What's more, the hound is used for hunting, and now that the cunning rabbit is not dead and the birds are still there, how can you rush to cook the dog with a bow? ”
His vision is not limited to the territory of the Northlands, but to the vast distance.
"Bring me the map!"
The captains hurriedly hung up the map of Northland County.
Heifu and Chen Ping paced to the map and said, "The world is bustling, and it is all for profit; The world is crowded, all for profit. In the past few decades, whenever the Qin army recruited Rong cavalry, the Rong people competed for recruitment, and the reason for this was that in addition to the strong and brave character of the Rong people, who regarded death in battle as auspicious and ominous in death, but also because of the conquest of the Six Kingdoms, they could get a bounty, and the property they captured could also belong to them. ”
"The world is unified, and in the past two years, there has been no place for Rong Qi, and they dare not disturb the people of the household, so they can only tilt against each other and fight privately."
"What if there is now new prey in the lands beyond the borders that they can bite and plunder, and even seize their fertile pastures? Will the five departments still guard Ohara and remain indifferent? ”
Chen Ping's heart moved, and he also knew that Heifu's coming to be the county guard of the North was an important part of Qin Shi Huang's "westward expansion" plan. Li Xin's target in Longxi County was Hexi, the target of Qiang Qi and Feng Zheng in Shangjun was the southern land of the Xiongnu River, and the goal of Meng Tian in Yunzhong County was Zhao Jiuyuan City and Gaoque Sai, which were taken away by the Xiongnu.
"The cunning rabbit and the flying bird that the county lieutenant likes are none other than ......"
Chen Ping's gaze found Xiao Guan on the map, and then looked up. Most of the outside is blank, occupied by stretches of desert and mountains......
But it's not for nothing!
That's right, Hefu has already found the prey in his heart.
It is located outside the Great Wall, north of Xiaoguan, south of Helan, and on the bank of the Great River!
Hefu found its general position, clenched his hand into a fist, and slammed it on it!
"Here, there's a place where honey and milk flow! Not only can the five divisions of Ohara move to live in the herdsmen, but also establish new counties and towns, so that immigrants can open up tuntian! ”
There, later generations called it "Lingzhou" and "Yinchuan", and it also has a well-known name:
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October had arrived, and six hundred miles north of Xiaoguan, I felt the chill from the north earlier.
A young nobleman of eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a golden crown ornament, wearing a black panther fur, carrying a strong bow, and stepping on deerskin boots on his feet, was riding his fiery red horse, galloping on the dry yellow grassland, the horse with slender limbs, light legs and hooves, galloping forward, leaving behind the Hun riders far behind, and the first to arrive at the felt tent!
The young man looked back and raised his bow high, he was the winner of this competition!
"Helan!" The Hun riders who arrived behind him cheered and threw their felt hats under the hooves of the young man to show their admiration for him.
"Helan!" The Hun women, who had been waiting for a long time at the felt tent, also ran over with a smile, stretched out their hands, and raised their round faces, eager to get the prince's mercy.
But the young man was disdainful of them, and his eyes kept staring at the Helan Mountains with silver and white frost and snow on their shoulders, and saw that the snowflakes on them were blown by the strong wind and fell halfway up the mountainside.
"Helan", in the Xiongnu language, is the name of a horse. He loved the mountain and the winter pastures at its feet, even though it was only one of the many territories of the Huns.
Because the prince felt that this mountain had some mysterious connection with him.
On the day of his birth, the Great Witch lifted him aloft on horseback and prophesied about the prince:
He, the son of the Hun head Mandanyu and the prince of the Maudun clan, is destined to be a horse that gallops thousands of miles in the future!