"General, these Xianbei people have become more and more erratic recently." Huang Zhong was marching on the grassland, and Deputy General Wen Chou complained.

It was quite early at the beginning. After all, with scrolls and acceleration techniques, the huge grassland seemed to have become the happy ground for the Han army.

In a few years, more than a dozen tribes of all sizes and large were destroyed. Thousands of Huns were captured, most of whom were female relatives and children. The men were very tough and fought to the end. Anyway, the results of the border army reported were like this.

They had no idea that there were actually secret guards of Jinyiwei lurking in the army... But Liu Tao turned a blind eye to such things, as long as he didn't go too far.

After all, whether it is the Five Barbarians invading China in history, the subsequent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the Yuan and Qing Dynasties, they are allowed to massacre and merge... Just because it is the "country of etiquette" of China, China is not allowed to actively merge?

Liu Tao may be able to pay attention to the Great China, but the generals below cannot do it, and he cannot forcefully correct it. Not to mention how strange it is to do this, the ministers below must complain about him: Why are you doing so polite with a group of barbarians?

Why didn’t I build grasslands before? After all, the terrain of the grassland is not suitable for cultivation at all. For agricultural civilization, this kind of land that has no obvious landmarks, the weather is cold, but it’s not possible to cultivate, so it’s better not to be cultivated!

Liu Tao's generation was different. Baiyun discovered iron-rich ore and Yinshan also found a large number of ore veins. Especially the centralized farm was successfully tested. The grasslands in the north were not involved in gold mines for merchants.

Those guys on the grassland are too lazy and only know how to be nomadic. Such grazing efficiency is too slow, which directly leads to the high price of livestock. The price is high and the quantity is small. After transportation to the south, they can only buy it for the court or the noble family, and the price is not affordable.

It would be better to raise it yourself and raise it in large quantities. Anyway, there is a lot of forage. It is not suitable for growing crops, but it is suitable for growing forage. In addition, the grass sorghum can also be planted. This is the solution found in recent years.

Liu Tao asked to find grain crops suitable for grassland terrain planting. Later, others found grass sorghum. The yield was not as low as later generations, but at least it could be used as food. What is rare is that the grassland environment can also be planted!

With this crop, it means that the army can gradually advance towards the grassland and gradually live on the grassland. After all, down jackets and earthen kangs have also begun to become more popular.

So the road was constantly being repaired, and landmarks and various signs were being arranged one after another. The army began to go deeper and built one or two outpost cities... But the question was their opponent, the group of Xianbei people, which was becoming increasingly difficult to find.

"The Huns were the same back then. Some of them surrendered to the court by the Xianbei people." Huang Zhong sighed that the power alternation on the grassland was actually very frequent, and it was nothing more than the strong defeating the weak and then obtaining a larger grassland.

I have never studied it before, but later I stayed here and was bored in my daily life, so I went to a little more carefully to understand the grassland peoples.

I found that their civilization was very backward and had been nomadic all the time. So there would be no fixed settlements. Their animal husbandry method was also very backward, which was to keep migrating and let the livestock go to the grassland to eat grass everywhere.

The entire tribe was forced to live in such a way as to revolve around livestock, rather than their way of life.

As more people a tribe become, they need more food, but there are so many pastures at home, so they either give up some children and population, or they can only fight with others to gain more pastures.

From this perspective, these grassland peoples are simply slaves to livestock. Their survival and lifestyle are directly influenced by livestock.

Huang Zhong felt that perhaps the best result for the great man conquering the grasslands was the one that would be the best result for this place. After all, the great man can bring a more stable lifestyle, whether it is planting forage, grass sorghum, and then concentrated breeding technology...

All these can make the people here calm and no longer have to live with water and plants. When their lives stabilize, then the wolf nature and jungle rules will gradually fade, just like the Southern Xiongnu who were kept by the Han Dynasty.

Liu Tao also believes that others have no choice but to live such a life. They can only go to war or prepare for war. If they don’t fight, they must be wary of others coming to fight you... Why do people in future generations envy and promote such a life?

What is wolf nature? Wolf nature means that the boss cannot make money and cannot convince the public. Everyone fires him together. Then continue a new round of competition until he can help the company make money and no one can do anything to the position. This is called wolf nature.

In this way, the boss who brings the wolf spirit to the company can truly understand what it means to "induce the wolf into the house".

"What is the north of the grassland like?" Pang De next to him was curious.

"I don't know, no one has ever been involved in the grassland itself, who knows the north of the grassland?" Huang Zhong replied, "But those Hu people would rather go south than north. It can be seen that they should be colder than here and the environment is worse, right?"

"But now we have conquered the grassland environment. Can't we conquer the more northerly places?" Pang De was full of fighting spirit.

"Haha, Your Majesty is in full swing in the spring and autumn, maybe there is really a way to conquer there." Huang Zhong laughed, "But I may not see it. At most ten years, I should retire."

"In another ten years, the general will be only more than sixty, less than seventy, and he will be fierce!" Wen Chou quickly flattered him.

"Your Majesty has expressed before that he plans to let the general retire at the age of 60 or 70. It is not only to give young people the opportunity to experience, but also to facilitate us to teach the next generation after retirement. My youngest son is growing up and it is time to go back and teach him how to practice martial arts." Huang Zhong laughed.

According to the imperial court's will, about next year or the year after, he will go south to Jiaozhou for three years, and return to Luoyang after three years, serving in the Ministry of War, or even the Secretariat of the Secretariat, and finally retire.

Wen Chou didn't speak, he was only thirty years old and had more than twenty years to serve. The higher he reached the top, the fewer the official positions. If Huang Zhong really stayed there and did not retreat at the age of seventy or eighty, he might not be able to go up before he was sixty.

In the long run, the retirement system is indeed a very good measure for young people like them. But Huang Zhong is now his boss, so if you comfort him, you must say it so as not to be said to be inhumane...

"General, discover traces of the Xianbei... they are surrounding us!" As he said that, a spy has already come back to report.

"Haha, if they did this, they would never have a chance to turn the tables before they could join forces!" Huang Zhong was not surprised when he heard this, but laughed.

In response to these erratic Xianbei people, Jia Xu gave the idea to occupy all the water sources. There are only a few rivers on the grassland. As long as the water sources are occupied, they still don’t believe that they won’t come to the decisive battle!

Now it seems that Jia Xu is indeed predicting things.
Chapter completed!