The Qiang people are widely distributed, not only in Shanzhou, but also in Hexi and Tuyuhun areas. There are a large number of Qiang tribes.
In addition to the Qiang people, there are also Xianbei people, Tubo people and other foreign ethnic groups in the Tuyuhun area.
In the Longyou area, alien races are always a topic.
An urgent report came from Beiting, and Li Yan was faced with the same problem.
How to manage the alien races on the border is a problem that all Central Plains dynasties have to face.
The situation in Longyou is even more complicated, and this is what Li Yan needs to solve.
"Your Highness, this is an official document sent from Jiuquan, Zhangye and Wuwei." Liu Yan held a stack of official documents and moved them to Li Yan's case.
These official documents were submitted by players through the system. Li Yan established a "recording room" in the palace, and specialized players would transcribe these official documents into documents.
Although Liu Yan and Yang Yan were also puzzled as to why Long You's official document was delivered so quickly.
They can only attribute this to Longyou's developed post station system.
Li Yan rubbed his eyes. The one who was in trouble this time was Cao Lingzhong, the newly appointed Grand Protector of the Beiting Protectorate. Suddenly Shiqi came to Longyou to join him. Cao Lingzhong did not dare to act on his own, so he asked the Governor of Longyou, King Jianning.
After Liu Yan traveled around Xizhou, he happened to meet King Jianning who was patrolling Longyou.
Li Yan, who had seen Liu Yan's name in the "New Book of Tang", recruited this famous celebrity with supernatural powers to the governor's mansion.
Liu Yan's position is in the Record Office of Longyou Governor's Mansion, and he does secretarial work.
Although the reporter is the lowest-level civil servant in the Dudu Mansion, he has regular access to King Jianning, which is considered a lowly and powerful position.
Li Yan had a headache after putting down the official document in his hand.
He said to Liu Yan: "Shi'an, look at these letters."
Liu Yan opened the official documents. These were official documents sent by the governor's office to the officials stationed in various places.
Cui Tao, Zeng Mu, Xue Hu, and other officials at the prefecture level all expressed their views on the naturalization of Tu Shi Qi Ren.
After reading it, Liu Yan, like Li Yan, felt that his head was like paste.
This is not because the letters written by these three magistrates are obscure and difficult to understand. Their writing is simple and straightforward, not in the four-six-parallel style of imperial official documents. Each letter starts with a clear meaning and goes directly to the topic.
The pros and cons of various options and how to implement them are written in great detail.
Liu Yan knew that this was a new form of official documents that was popular in Longyou.
Because this kind of Wen Gong is not the four-six parallel prose commonly used in the Tang Dynasty, but more like the reasoning prose of hundreds of schools of thought in the pre-Qin era.
Therefore, this kind of official document reform is also called the ancient prose movement, which corresponds to the parallel prose that has been widely used in the court since the Han Dynasty, that is, modern prose.
If you ask Liu Yan whether he supports the classical prose movement, he will of course support it.
Although the 46 parallel prose is catchy and neatly contrasted, a good official document sounds majestic.
However, not everyone in the imperial court was a great writer, and many officials did not have a high level of education.
Some military generals educated by their father-in-law would bring a scholar with them in order to understand the official documents of the court.
Moreover, the decrees of the imperial court were all announced in parallel prose, which the people could not understand or understand at all.
Some unscrupulous officials will deliberately misinterpret the court's orders and use this method to exploit the people.
Therefore, Liu Yan was very supportive of the "Ancient Prose Movement" that arose in Longyou.
However, the letters written by these three prefects were simpler and clearer than the ancient texts of the Pre-Qin Dynasty. They used a large number of charts and figures to verify their conclusions.
The more Liu Yan looked at it, the more frightened he became.
Liu Yan's family is also a family of officials, and he was a child prodigy appointed by the emperor to make his debut, and he has met many big shots.
But in terms of knowledge and ability, these three magistrates under King Jianning really far surpassed everyone he had ever seen!
Where did King Jianning collect these monsters?
Moreover, there is also Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the Longyou Governor’s Mansion!
Jiang Lun, the boss of Liu Yan's friend Yang Yan, was regarded by Yang Yan as a figure like Guan Zhong Sang Hongyang, and he wanted to worship Jiang Lun.
What gives Li Yan and Liu Yan a headache is not that they haven't come up with a plan.
Moreover, their plans can all be implemented, and each has its own pros and cons.
However, Liu Yan was indeed a child prodigy. He quickly sorted out the contents of the three letters and clarified his ideas.
Li Yan asked: "Shi'an, what do you want to do with Tu Shiqi?"
Liu Yan sorted out his thoughts again and said cautiously:
"Yan Yan boldly summarized the plan proposed by the three governors."
Li Yan quickly said: "Tell me quickly."
Liu Yan organized his thoughts as he spoke: "Xue Zhizhou's method is the method of 'using barbarians to control barbarians' mentioned in Jia Yi's public security policy in the Han Dynasty."
Li Yan nodded. Liangzhou Zhizhou Xue Hu's method was to keep Tu Shiqi who had actively attached himself to them, so that they could continue to maintain a semi-independent state.
If Longyou needs to use troops against the Uighurs or the Western Regions in the future, he can recruit these barbarians to fight.
Liu Yan said: "But Xue Zhizhou also made it very clear that the Western Han Dynasty had a strong military and the method of using barbarians to control barbarians was easy to use. These vassal Hu people could be controlled in the border areas and help the Han Dynasty resist foreign invaders. This was also the case in the Western Han Dynasty since Emperor Wu
, the reason why there have been no border troubles for hundreds of years.”
"However, it was inappropriate to use this method again in the Eastern Han Dynasty. The Eastern Han Dynasty used internal Qiang people to guard the border, but lacked the military power to deter the Qiang people. In the end, the Qiang rebellion in the northwest spread to Guanzhong, and the Yongming Qiang rebellion even caused disaster for forty years later.
Long."
Li Yan nodded and used the barbarians to control the barbarians, which meant ennobling Tu Shiqi as a subordinate tribe.
Then when encountering other border dangers, Tu Shiqi was recruited to fight other barbarians.
This method can be said to be simple and direct. It is an old trick that the Central Plains Dynasty has been using for hundreds of years.
Li Yan nodded. Although this trick is an old trick, commonly used tricks are often good tricks.
It is a good idea to accept Tu Shiqi's annexation, let them stay where they are, and accept Longyou's recruitment in the future.
Liu Yan continued: "Zeng Zhizhou's method was to immigrate to the border areas, which was also a common strategy used by Taizong."
"Zeng Zhizhou's letter lists in detail the number of people who have fled the famine and entered Longyou."
"According to Zeng Zhizhou's calculations, if the population inflow rate is maintained at this rate, there will be no new farmland to be granted in the entire Longyou area in less than two years."
"Even though more people are entering the workshops now, there are still very few people who are willing to give up farming."
Li Yan nodded, this is the Chinese people's unique attachment to land.
Even though Li Yan developed industry in Longyou, farmland was still something that everyone from officials to refugees longed for.
However, the stable life has also caused the population of Longyou to increase explosively. Although Zeng Mu's estimate is not rigorous, the general trend is definitely correct.
Liu Yan said: "Zeng Zhizhou believes that people can be moved to the Tushiqi area. For people who are willing to go to Tushiqi, the Dudu Mansion will bear the toll and expenses along the way, and more land can be granted."
"In just one generation, the Tushiqi area, like Xizhou, will become the territory of the Tang Dynasty 'since ancient times'."
Li Yan asked: "You said this was a method commonly used by Emperor Taizong?"
Liu Yan said: "When Taizong took the land west of Hexi, he moved Sanfu and the people of Guanxi to the border. Later, when he conquered Gaochang Kingdom, he also used the Han people in Hexi to enrich Gaochang Kingdom."
So that’s it, it seems to be a method that has been tested by our ancestors.
Liu Yan said: "The practical method is slow to take effect, but the effect is good. The disadvantage is that it will cause conflicts between the Han people and the Tushi cavalry, and maybe the Tushi cavalry will rebel again and again."
Li Yan nodded, and Zeng Mu also listed this shortcoming.
When the Han people move to Tushiqi, the Tushiqi people who originally lived in this land will definitely feel threatened.
The Han people who moved to the frontier would definitely compete for resources with the Tushi cavalry who originally lived here.
The result of this will inevitably be that the hatred between the Tushi cavalry and the Han people will grow stronger, and sooner or later they will rebel again.
Li Yan pinched his temples. It was obvious that Tu Shi was surrendering, but he still had such a headache.
Liu Yan continued: "Cui Zhizhou's method went a step further. He named it 'Returning the Chieftain to Return'. This name is really appropriate!"
"Cui Zhizhou suggested that His Highness bring the Khans of Tu Shiqi and the chiefs of various tribes to Shazhou to support them."
"The Tushiqi people still stayed in the same place, and the Dudu Mansion sent officials to establish the Tang system in the Tushiqi area."
"We will then send academic officials to establish Sinology in the Tushiqi area, so that the Tushiqi people can be sinicized and become people of the Tang Dynasty like the Qiang people in Hexi."
"Yan thinks Cui Zhizhou is the best policy!"
"but..."
Li Yan asked: "But what?"
Liu Yan said: "The best policy is the best policy, but it is very difficult to change the chieftain's return."
"It is easy to move the Tushiqi chieftains into Shazhou. After all, the Tushiqi people take the initiative to seek surrender."
"But it is not easy to change the chieftaincy in the Tushiqi area."
"If the ruler is too lenient, Tu Shiqi people will not learn Chinese studies and will still live in grass. Even if the governor's office spends manpower and material resources, it will not be able to make Tu Shi Qi people return to his heart."
"If the people in power are too strict, they will feel that His Highness is oppressing them. If someone raises their arms and shouts, Tu Shiqi will rebel again."
"Those in power must be both lenient and strict in order to implement the strategy of changing the chieftains and returning them to their homeland!"
Li Yan nodded, and the Qing government implemented the "reform of native land and return to local rule", using Ertai, Yongzheng's most capable general.
Ertai was capable of both civil and military skills, and he also used the method of suppressing and pacifying. First, he killed several chieftains in Yunnan and Guizhou who took the lead in resisting.
Then, they continued to subsidize the remaining chieftains, ensure their wealth, and then promoted the reform of native land to local chieftains to each chieftain, allowing them to hand over their power and accept the management of the Qing Dynasty.
Although Li Yan didn't like pigtail drama, the reform of native land and return to local rule did solve the problem of Yungui chieftains that had plagued the Central Plains for thousands of years.
After all, it’s still talent!
Cui Tao is in Zhangye now, and he really can't get out of his way to ride suddenly.
Among the remaining players, I don’t know if there are any players who can implement the reform and return to their hometown.
Li Yan finally understood how proud his ancestor Li Shimin was to see "the world's elite enter the urn" among the candidates for the imperial examination.
Longyou is in urgent need of talents who can take charge of the party!