Tian Yu opened several volumes of documents on the case and explained the strategies he had drawn up to stabilize the desert one by one. ∮ Yan Moxuan ∮ ad-free ∮

In order to ensure that the Han and Hu people in northern Xinjiang can solve the problem of survival in the shortest possible time, the tuntian, animal husbandry, and mutual markets in the seven border counties of Beidi, Shuofang, Wuyuan, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, Daijun, and Shanggu must be fully launched and put into use next spring, and strive to greatly reduce the relief next winter, and strive to basically get rid of the dependence on the imperial court for relief after five years. Only when the lives of the people in these seven border counties improve, can the conditions on the desert gradually improve, and the Zhuhu of Hanbei County in the south of the desert and the Xianbei Zhubu in the north of the desert can gradually stabilize.

According to the agreement between the Cheqi General's Mansion and the imperial court, within ten years, the relief of northern Xinjiang must be settled by the salt and iron and tax revenues of northern Xinjiang. If there are no special circumstances, the imperial court will no longer allocate other relief, and the main relief objects in northern Xinjiang in the next few years will be the border counties and deserts north of the Great Wall, so whether Hetao Tuntian can achieve early results is a top priority and the foundation of stability in northern Xinjiang. The success of the Hetao Tuntian and the development of animal husbandry in the border counties can not only solve the problem of feeding more than one million people in the border counties, but also solve the problem of military rations for tens of thousands of garrisons in the border areas, and also help the Hu people in the desert gradually get rid of the crisis of survival. More importantly, it can also save a lot of relief money and food for northern Xinjiang to solve more difficult problems in northern Xinjiang.

At present, the tuntian in Taiyuan, Shangdang, and Hedong has been implemented for more than two years, and the military and civilian tuntian have all achieved initial results, and the investment in tuntian has also begun to be greatly reduced, while the scale of the tuntian in Xihe is not large, and whether the tuntian is effective or not does not affect the overall situation, so if the counties south of the Great Wall are successful, they will not need to provide relief in another two years. As long as the survival of the people in Tuntian is solved, they will be able to reap some harvest next winter, and they will be self-sufficient and feed more than one million people the year after next. (At their peak, the population of these two counties was about 1.5 million.) After three years in Tuntian, not only did they not need to provide relief, but they could also provide money and food to northern Xinjiang.

According to Tian Yu's optimistic estimate, the Tuntian in central Jinzhong and northwest Hebei will be basically effective in two years. In other words, northern Xinjiang can get rid of part of the crisis after two years, and if the livestock of Hetao Tuntian and border counties is successful in five years, then the desert can gradually stabilize after five years, and northern Xinjiang can gradually come out of the crisis. Ten years later, northern Xinjiang will be completely stable. Of course, the premise for achieving this goal is that more than 1 million people from northern Xinjiang must be relocated to Jizhou next year, there will be no more floods in the lower reaches of the Yellow River next year, and there will be no more rebellions in Jiqingyan and other prefectures next year.

In view of the fact that Northern Xinjiang has seen its scale in the first five years and will be successful in ten years, the current priority of the desert is not to keep the Hu people fed and clothed and help them quickly get rid of the existential crisis, but how to safely, quickly and thoroughly suppress the Hu tribes and control this territory of 10,000 miles.

This time, our Han army went on an expedition to the desert and captured a lot, and most of the spoils were owned by the Hu people, plus the Hu tribes who moved north to Hanbei County were rewarded by the emperor, so now as long as there is no heavy snow disaster on the desert and the livestock can be preserved, there will be no problems in the life of the Hu tribes, and there will be no major problems even in the past few years. The survivability of the Hu people is several times more tenacious than that of our Han people. As long as the livestock don't die, they can live. If we give to them what they need and give them without restraint, we will fatten them and starve ourselves, and the results speak for themselves. Therefore, this mess in the desert, in the final analysis, is a sentence, first suppress the Hu by force, weaken their strength, firmly occupy the desert, and then supplement the grazing with agriculture and commerce, gradually improve the life of the Hu, and gradually start the Han and Hu mixed living, Han and Hu intermarriage, educate and tame the Hu people, and finally gradually Sinicize the Hu people, in order to achieve the goal of permanently occupying the desert.

How to suppress the Hu and weaken the strength of the Hu tribes? Tian Yu put forward a new proposal.

Now the Hu people in the desert are divided into two types: vassal and belonging. The tribes belonging to the Hu nationality have fought for the Han Dynasty for many years, and their military exploits are brilliant, so we should play the Son of Heaven and let them join the Han nationality and officially become the subjects of the Han Kingdom, and enjoy the same treatment as the people of the Han Kingdom. After some tribal kings arrived in the desert, they wanted to become vassals again and build another army, but this could never be agreed, and we could only cut the vassals, but not build vassals. All the people who belonged to Zhuhu, including the royal court of Beixianbei, and the wild wolf tribe that was about to report the title of the Son of Heaven as the king, were all included in Hanbei County. They are the people of our Han Dynasty, they obey the laws of our Han Dynasty, and they are protected by our Han army, and even if they are plagued, they do not need to worry about their survival. The Han Congress will provide them with food, clothing, and safety. If we can't even guarantee their survival and safety, is this desert still the territory of the Great Han Kingdom?

At present, there are only three tribes of the Huns and Xianbei. The Xianbei tribe occupies the entire northern part of the desert. If we divide the desert into five regions, southeast, northwest, and middle, they actually occupy the eastern, northern, and part of the western part of the desert, and we occupy the southern, central, and part of the western territory, with half for each side. However, the Xiongnu's Shan Yuting carved a large territory from the southern desert, so the vassals occupied seventy percent of the entire desert territory, while Hanbei County only accounted for thirty percent.

It is obviously impractical to cut the feudal domain immediately, and in the future, when we are strong enough, the opportunity to cut the feudal domain abounds. A drought, a heavy snowfall, can force them to cut back on the iron horse. A vassal is a vassal subordinate, do you dare to be an enemy of my Han? The vassals retained a certain number of troops, obeyed the requisition of the Han Emperor, and were protected by the Han army, which posed a great threat to the northern frontier, to the desert, and to the Hu people belonging to the desert, so the Han should establish the Mobei Protectorate in the middle of the desert to take care of the vassal Zhuhu in the desert.

"Mobei Protectorate?" The crowd was shocked.

"It's the same as the Protectorate of the Western Regions?" Li Hong asked. When Li Hong was in the Western Xinjiang, he had heard about the Western Regions Protectorate, but he didn't know it very well, and then he suddenly heard Tian Yu's suggestion to build the Protectorate in the desert, and he suddenly became very interested.

"That's right, follow the system of the Western Regions Protectorate, build the Protectorate of the Northern Desert, and take charge of the military and political affairs of the Northern Desert." Tian Yu said with a smile, "Now that the Lord has conquered Mobei, the situation in the desert has changed, Mobei must have a capital protectorate who is in charge of the military and political affairs of Mobei, otherwise how can the three Xianbei tribes become vassals?" Could it be that a letter of apology is enough to show that they are vassals? It is a vassal, that is, a subject of my Great Han, and must accept the rule of my Great Han Kingdom. In this way, the Hu people on the desert are in the hands of Hanbei County, and the Hu people are under the care of the Duhufu, so the desert is in the hands of my Han. ”

Tian Yu's words shocked the audience, and everyone talked about it.

Li Hong pointed at Tian Yu and said, "Guorang, I heard that the Western Regions Protectorate has been abolished for more than a hundred years. How was this Western Regions Protectorate established at that time? And for what reason did the imperial court revoke it? ”

Tian Yu said: "The main purpose of this dynasty to build a capital in the Western Regions is to defeat the Xiongnu and defend the frontier. During the reign of Emperor Xiaowu and Emperor Xiaozhao, they often sent troops to Quli and Luntai Tuntian, and placed envoys to lead and protect them to supply envoys to and from the countries of the Western Regions. In the second year of Emperor Xiaoxuan's Dijie (68 B.C.), the imperial court sent the squire Zheng Ji Tuntian canal plough to compete with the Xiongnu for the country. Zheng Ji fought with the Xiongnu for seven years, and in the second year of Shenjue (60 BC), the Xiongnu led 12,000 people to surrender to Han. The imperial court then ordered Zheng Ji to send troops to attack the remnants of the Xiongnu, and the 'Northern Road' was also passed, and Zheng Ji was worshiped as a cavalry lieutenant and the 'Northern Dao' countries west of the chariot division. Because Zheng Ji led the north and south roads, he was called Duan. This is how the Western Regions Protectorate was established. At that time, the seat of the Western Regions Protectorate was in Wulei City (now northeast of Luntai, Xinjiang) in Qiuci Kingdom, which was close to the Qu Plough Tian Guan, and the Tuntian Governor there was also under the control of the Tuntian Governor. ”

"The protector of the Western Regions is in charge of the military and political affairs of the Western Regions, and his rank is more than 2,000 stones, and he opens the mansion. This Du Hu is actually a special envoy, and his own position is to ride the Du Lieutenant, and Du Hu is his additional title. Zheng Ji is the captain of the Western Regions. The main duties of the protector were to guard the territory and secure the land, deal with the contradictions and disputes between the vassals, stop the intrusion of foreign forces, and maintain the stability and development of the Western Regions. ”

"At the end of the new year (around 23 AD), the Western Regions were in turmoil, and Li Chong, the protector of the Western Regions, died in Qiuzi, and the imperial court was unable to look westward, so he dismissed the Western Regions Protectorate. In the twenty-first year of Emperor Guangwu's establishment (45 AD), the Eighteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions asked the imperial court to restore the capital to protect the palace, but Emperor Guangwu felt that the national strength was insufficient and could not support it, so he refused. In the seventeenth year of Emperor Xiaoming's Yongping reign (74 AD), the imperial court took Chen Mu as the protector and restored the Western Regions Protectorate. In the second year, the Yanqi and Qiuci kingdoms in the Western Regions rebelled and killed Chen Mu, and the imperial court dismissed the capital again. In the third year of Emperor Yongyuan (91 AD), the long history Ban Chao pacified the Western Regions, and the imperial court took Ban Chao as the capital to protect it, stationed in Qiancheng (near Kuqa in Xinjiang today). In the first year of Emperor Xiao'an Yongchu (107 AD), chaos broke out again in the Western Regions, and the imperial court urgently summoned Duan Xi to return to the country, and since then the Western Regions has not been restored. In the second year of Yanguang (123 AD), the imperial court took Ban Yong, the son of Ban Chao, as the chief of the Western Regions and re-leveled the Western Regions, but since then, he has only served as the protector of the capital and placed the Western Regions Governor's Mansion. Due to the decline of the national strength of this dynasty, all the Western Regions have been lost, and this Western Regions Governor's Mansion has been abolished for decades. ”

Li Hong didn't speak for a long time after listening.

"Is there a big desert in the Western Regions?"

"No, it's only half the size of the desert." Tian Yu looked at Li Hong, who had a cold expression, and said cautiously.

"When the matter of Northern Xinjiang is over, I will play the Son of Heaven and lead the iron cavalry to conquer the Western Regions." Li Hong suddenly slapped the case and said loudly, "How can the territory of the Han Dynasty be lost?" ”

Tian Yu continued to explain his strategy for stabilizing the desert.

When the southern part of the desert was just conquered and Hanbei County was established, there were three Xianbei tribes outside, and Xiongnu vassals inside, and the Hu tribes who moved north to Hanbei County were worried about the safety of their own tribes. Now that the desert has been occupied by the Han Dynasty, the Xianbei Three Divisions have also become vassals of the Han Kingdom, but things on the desert are more complicated. Tian Yu used the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate to lead the Hu people, and the Hanbei County to control the Hu people, temporarily solved the problem of controlling and balancing the Hu people.

The head of the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate is in charge of the military and political affairs of Mobei, and his power is very great, and he can even use any excuse to hunt down and kill the leaders of the Hu clan, and his authority is far greater than that of the Hun Zhonglang General or the Duliao General. The desert is the territory of the Great Han Kingdom, and the internal affairs departments of the vassal can handle it on their own, but if there is a matter involving the safety of the Great Han, the Metropolitan Protectorate can deal with it flexibly. To a certain extent, this restrained and deterred the future expansion of the strength of the Hu tribe.

After the Hu people in Hanbei County became the people of the Great Han Dynasty, their safety and survival were guaranteed. Although the Hu tribes did not have their own armies, under the battle banner of the Great Han Kingdom, the Han army composed of various ethnic groups became the only force to protect the safety of all tribes in Hanbei County, and they were also the border troops guarding their own country.

The army of the Mobei Protectorate and the border army of Hanbei County, Tian Yu planned to recruit from Hanbei County, and it was composed of Han people, Qiang people, Karasuma people, and Xianbei people. The iron cavalry of the Han army on the desert should be maintained in a certain number. Most of the Han soldiers and soldiers came from the Hu tribes belonging to the Hanbei County, and the rotation of these young and strong men in the army could properly control and weaken the strength of the tribes, so that the strength of the Hu tribes in Hanbei County gradually reached a balance, so as to prevent the Hu tribes in the county from rebelling, deliberately making trouble and other problems. With such a coalition army, the weaker Qiang, Karasuma and Xianbei people did not need to fear the Xiongnu and the vassal Xianbei people.

At present, the territories of the Xiongnu and the vassal Xianbei people are not in the territory of Hanbei County. If they wanted to attack any of them, they would first have to enter the country to attack, and at this time they would have to face a border army composed of Han, Qiang, Karasuma, and soldiers belonging to the Xianbei tribe. In other words, they are at war with the four clans at the same time. At the same time, the army of the Mobei Protectorate would also join the attack on them, and the Xiongnu and the Xianbei people of the vassal would immediately fall into a desperate situation. If any of the two tribes of the Hu clan rebelled, they would be vigorously suppressed.

In order to avoid the contradictions between the Hu tribes in the desert to the greatest extent and reduce the friction and strife between them, Tian Yu once again proposed to divide thirty provinces on the desert (the territory inhabited by the Hu tribes in the territory is called the Dao, and the county is a level).

There are eight tribal kings and seventeen tribal kings in Hanbei County, and Tian Yu intends to divide twenty-five provinces with tribal territory as the boundary. Debuting as a nomad is a violation of the law and is punishable. In the event of a disaster in this province, the Hanbuk County Government will provide relief in a timely manner. The Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate has jurisdiction over five provinces. The territory of the three Xianbei lords in the east, middle and west is three, and the territory of Liu Bao, the king of the Xiongnu Zuoxian, and Liu Ming, the king of Rizhu, are two. The governors of each province are concurrently served by the chiefs of the tribes.

Tian Yu said: "All matters involving the interests of the tribes or between the tribes in Hanbei County will be handled by the Taishou of Hanbei County to convene twenty-five kings and small kings. In addition, the tribes who died in the Battle of Sunset Plains, such as the little kings Heng Sai, the heart fox, and the camels, as well as the nine sheepskins and horses, who died in the early wars, were all inherited by their descendants. I've sent someone to do it. ”

"Guorang, the descendants of the nine sheepskins, horses and camels of Huangzhongqiang, you must send someone to Xiliang Huangzhong to pick them up." Li Hong instructed.

"Don't worry, my lord, I'll do it. As soon as the descendants of Xiao Wang received Hanbei County, I immediately reported it to my lord. ”

Tian Yu also introduced some specific governance strategies, such as the exchange of agricultural and animal husbandry goods, the location and opening time of the market, and the selection of the children of the vassal and the leaders of the Hu nationality to study in the Jinyang University Hall.

Li Hong was very satisfied, praised a few words, and then said: "Guorang, about the preparation for the establishment of the Mobei Metropolitan Protectorate, we will go back and discuss it." After the discussion, you write a concerto, and when I return to Jin Xueyuan to report to the imperial court, I will send it to Luoyang with the report documents. Regarding the governance policy of Hanbei County, you can go directly to the imperial court. As for the specific content, at the beginning of December, we convened all the kings of the tribes, the king of Zuoxian, the king of Rizhu, and the three lords of Xianbei to discuss together. Isn't it better for us to sit down together and discuss some things, and everyone is satisfied, wouldn't it be more conducive to the stability of the desert? ”

Tian Yu agreed.

"Now that the battle in Northern Xinjiang is over, how to garrison the army in Northern Xinjiang, and how to form the border army iron cavalry of Mobei Protectorate and Hanbei County, these things must be decided as soon as possible." Li Hong looked at the people in the tent and said quite emotionally, "I started from Lu Longsai, and at first I fought with our own iron cavalry, but then our own iron cavalry became less and less, so I took the Hu iron cavalry to fight everywhere, and until today, there are only 20,000 iron cavalry left. The army in northern Xinjiang cannot do without iron cavalry, it cannot do without the iron cavalry of the Hu nationality, but it cannot do without the iron cavalry of the Han people, so we must do everything we can to form our own iron cavalry. I hope that ten years from now, it will be 50,000 Han iron horsemen galloping on the desert, not 50,000 Hu iron horses, which is my greatest wish. ”

"Gongding has drawn up a strategy for garrisoning northern Xinjiang." Xian Yufu took out a scroll from the desk and handed it to Li Hong, "It is believed that the garrison of Northern Xinjiang should be at least 80,000. This figure is similar to the early predictions of adults. ”

Li Hong took a closer look. Zhu Mu believed that since the main task in northern Xinjiang in the next few years would be to provide relief to the tuntians, military funds would inevitably be scarce, and it would be impossible to keep more than 100,000 troops in the border areas. However, considering that the desert was initially determined, northern Xinjiang still needed to retain strong force as a deterrent, so he suggested that at least 30,000 iron cavalry and 50,000 foot soldiers should be retained, making a total of 80,000 troops. 10,000 iron cavalry and 20,000 foot soldiers are south of Yinshan, and the iron cavalry is mainly based on the Black Panther Yicong Battalion and the Duliao Battalion. 20,000 iron cavalry and 30,000 foot soldiers are in the desert, and the iron cavalry is the main force of the Fengyun Iron Cavalry Battalion. The remaining 50,000 foot soldiers were stationed in Changshan, Jinyang and Hedong, and garrisoned troops on one side of Tuntian, so that some military funds could be saved.

In the book, Zhu Mu also gave a detailed description of the recruitment of Hu iron cavalry, the improvement of military camps, the preparation of horse husbandry, the training of armaments, and the repair of passes. In addition, he proposed to take back the Jinyang and Hedong ordnance workshops and change them to the Cheqi General's Mansion**, which attracted Li Hong's attention. The ordnance workshops in Jinyang and Hedong are now controlled by Xu Ling of Chang'an and the Wei of Hedong respectively, and Zhu Mu said that he has received news of the two men selling arms privately several times. If heavy ordnance such as ballistas and stone-throwing trucks are also sold by them privately in the future, it will endanger the Dahan Society.

Li Hong handed Zhu Mu's document to Xu Rong, "Zilie, is this Hedong Weilord and Chang'an Xu Ling becoming more and more threatening to Northern Xinjiang?" ”

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