In the next few days, Shao Shude mainly carried out activities in the Guanfeng Hall of Shangyang Palace (for the Shang Dynasty), Lichun Hall (for writing books), Hehuan Hall (for negotiations), and Longlin Palace in Shendu Garden (for hunting).
Very regular.
He increasingly feels that staying in Luoyang is also a huge contribution he has made to the country. Because all the plans he formulated are being steadily implemented, step by step strengthening the country's strength.
He sat in the Guanfeng Hall, listening to the ministers' speeches, and seemed to see the various chaotic ethnic groups in Liaodong gradually integrating and assimilating - it was really a mess, Han people, Khitan people, Xi people, Lin people, Wugu people,
Tatars, Shiwei people, Bohai people, Goguryeo people, Mohe people, Jurchens, Uighurs, Shatuo people, Dangxiang people, Annan people, and Tibetan people from central Guizhou, Yunnan, Jiannan, and even Gaochang
Everyone has a small part.
These ethnic groups can actually be subdivided within themselves.
For example, the Annamites who migrated here, do you know that they are all the same? Obviously impossible.
The Tibetan people in central Guizhou and Yunnan are even more complicated. Some are relatively advanced in civilization and have mastered relatively good farming techniques; some are relatively backward and are still in the slash-and-burn cultivation stage; and some are even more backward and have always made a living by gathering and hunting.
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Liaodong has almost become a museum of races and ethnic groups, slowly integrating and converging with each other. This is what has happened continuously in the past twenty years.
A Xi man married an Annan woman as his wife.
A Mohe man married a Shatuo woman.
A Wuman man married a Khitan woman as his wife.
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After the integration, the government is a little dumbfounded and doesn't know how to register the ins and outs of the government soldiers.
Shao Shude wanted to laugh a little after hearing this.
Is it easier to assimilate an ethnic group in their original place of residence or in a new place? The answer is obvious.
After immigrating, everyone comes to a new place, whose environment, climate, products are very different from their hometown, and the language and customs are also different. At this time, the psychological security and sense of belonging are weakened to a certain extent, and the ethnic consciousness is weakened.
Significantly weakened.
What's more, when the soldiers were selecting troops, the government specifically asked them to choose people who were not from the same place.
For example, someone has three tribes. One family may be a grassland herdsman, one is from Lizhou, Jiannan, and one is from a county in Annan. It is difficult to find fellow villagers to join forces, but in the end, it is usually the tribe of a certain soldier.
Qu Lai is your new identity. If you want to join forces, you can only join forces with the other two households of Fu Bingzhu's family. This means that your identity has been re-divided.
In the long-term life and work, everyone has been in contact with each other, choosing "Chinese" as the only common language of communication, and the living customs have converged with each other. You teach me this skill, and I teach you that skill. In the end, they are basically the same.
And because the tribesmen place themselves in a lower position - in fact, their status is also very low - the master's family is their destiny, so they consciously or unconsciously learn the living habits of the master's family, and use the years as their basis.
During the unit's time span, it gradually lost its original national characteristics and cultural elements, and began to become more like a superior person like Mr. Fu Bing.
Of course, the phenomenon of acculturation also exists.
Fu soldiers will also unconsciously absorb their cultural elements, it's just a matter of how much.
It will be interesting to see what Liaodong will look like in dozens or hundreds of years - this is a large-scale "social experiment" created by Shao Shude, but he can't see the results.
He's certainly optimistic about it.
Even within the nine states of China, the culture, customs, and habits of each place are different. In later generations, there will be Han people in the north and Han people in the south. In this time and space, there will not be a Liaodong Han people, right?
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When Shao Shude sat in the Lichun Hall and continued to revise the manuscript, he seemed to see the steady implementation of the new dynasty's elegant politics.
The prince traveled south, as far as Wenzhou, and was now on his way back to Luoyang.
It can be seen from the memorials sent back that Erlang still gained a lot this time.
Why is the silly son of a landlord easily deceived? Because the silly son really has little experience and his vision is not broad enough. If his ears were softer and he was more gullible, it would be even worse.
Only a very small number of idiots with little experience and broad vision, who are gifted with a good understanding of human nature and can instigate the masses to fight against the masses, can take the initiative. But this so-called initiative can only be maintained with difficulty. If you don't understand, you don't know.
Understand, even if you gain the upper hand, people will be afraid of you, and you won’t be sure in your heart that what you are doing is correct.
Shao Chengjie visited Hebei and Liaodong, and then went to the south of the Yangtze River. His horizons were broadened. And like his father, he liked not to follow the established route. He often led his bodyguards and galloped for dozens of miles to
By patrolling and visiting somewhere, you can get first-hand information.
The ministers must have hated such a monarch very much. But Shao Er was a warrior, proud and fierce, and no one could stop him. After some investigation, he gradually came to his own understanding.
Erlang believes that a family in the south has very little arable land. There are many families with only a few acres, and ten acres is considered too much. In such a situation, the only way is to cultivate intensively and increase yields.
Taking the Taihu Lake area as an example, he visited a household with only eight acres of land. They harvested two crops of rice a year, with just over two bushels of dendrobium per mu.
If a family in the north has thirty acres of land and does not cultivate it intensively - there is too much land and it is impossible to cultivate it intensively - the final harvest of millet and wheat will be approximately this amount.
Because of the rise of tea, farmers in the south can earn an income by doing odd jobs in tea farms during their free time.
Because of the warm climate, sericulture production is greater than in the north, and the technology level has improved rapidly in the past ten years, and the income in this area is also considerable.
Erlang predicts that if the weather continues to get colder, sericulture production in the north will be further reduced, tea will slowly disappear, and some fields that can barely produce three crops every two years may degrade to one crop a year, and the overall income of farmers will gradually lag behind that in the south.
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Shao Er only mentioned the phenomenon, not the solution, but this alone made Shao Shude very happy.
The son saw the essence of the gradual shift in the economic center of gravity. He did not attribute it generally to the war, but analyzed it concretely, which is better than many people.
In fact, Shao Shude reviewed a memorial sent by Zhao Guangfeng yesterday. The memorial mentioned that the Qian Supervisor of the Ministry of Revenue minted no less than 200,000 silver coins a year, and most of them were taken away by tea merchants from the south.
It can be seen from this small incident that he tried his best to balance the economy of the north and the south and sell woolen cloth from the north to the Yangtze River Basin, but in the end it was of little use.
Where the money "travels" tells it all.
The decline of the tea and silk industries in the north is inevitable, and even grain output may slowly decline.
His operations only delayed the process, but did not completely reverse the trend.
After all, manpower is no match for timing, and there is no other way.
In his last memorial, Shao Er praised Shao Shude's "foresight" and believed that as maritime trade became more and more developed, a large amount of commercial taxes could be collected in the south in the future to supplement annual revenue.
Shao Shude indeed thought so.
Nowadays, the Yellow River and Huaihe River systems in the north are very stable and have not been damaged by anyone's messing around. The prosperous Hebei Plain is not on the front line of war, so there is no need to build a Great Water Wall or other various means to artificially inhibit its development.
With Hebei here, food is safe, but the main shortage is cash. We need to find a solution in the south.
Erlang's understanding was very clear and sober, which made him very happy.
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On November 26, when Shao Shude sat in the Hehuan Hall, the negotiations with Persia were basically over.
He took the time to meet Samani.
"Deputy Khan, you are well." As the victor, Shao Shude sat high on top, while Satuk's wife, Adeshi, knelt at his feet like a docile kitten and beat her legs gently.
Her two daughters held fans behind them and looked at Samani with wide eyes.
Samani's current appearance is indeed not very good. In the entire Persian mission, probably no one really regarded him as a member. He was strictly guarded along the way. After arriving in Luoyang, he did not resist for a few days and was taken away by the Daxia Punishment Department.
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In such a situation, even if there is no intentional abuse, the person's spirit will not be much better.
"The Male Camel King is already your puppet. Even if Karasha is gone, you don't dare to interfere." Samani said with a mocking look on his face: "The worst thing has happened. Bisatuk has taken over Karasha.
The result is even worse, isn't it?"
"The matter has come to this, and I am too lazy to talk nonsense to you." Shao Shude rubbed his rough and broad palms on Adies' face as if he was playing with a work of art. He smiled and said: "You
This person is actually relatively pure. Although there are rumors outside that you were instigated by Persia to incite the Satuk rebellion as deputy khan and make profits for Persia. But in fact, you probably just want to spread the glory of the Creator. I used to doubt it.
You have a connection with Bukhara. Now, most of the suspicion has gone away. Bukhara really doesn’t want to see you, so he just sent you away."
Samani was silent for a long time, then suddenly sighed and said: "I only hate that the ignorant people of Karasha are unwilling to rise up and resist, allowing you to easily gain this city. Their cowardice is worthy of the suffering they have suffered."
"Indeed, no one is forcing me. Even if there is, it is honor that is forcing me, forcing me to plot conspiracies, and forcing me to participate in deadly battles."
"You won, Supreme Khan, but only for a while."
"I did win." The smile on Shao Shude's face became brighter.
His palms covered half of Adiesi's face, and his fingers stuck into her mouth. In order to please, Adiesi drooled and sucked softly. Her two daughters looked behind, blushing slightly.
"I won a lot." He continued: "Atush's temple has been turned into Tongguang Temple. The highest peak in the Alai Valley is named after me. The Bukhan Turks and the Yangmo tribe who were suppressed by you are becoming more and more popular."
Active, their leader prostrates himself at my feet, begging me to confer an official position. By the way, they believe in Nestorianism and Manichaeism, and in order to show their loyalty, they have done many things that you will find heartbreaking."
The highest peak in the Alai Valley was originally named Stalin Peak in 1932. It was renamed Communist Peak after 1962, with an altitude of 7,495 meters.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, in order to de-Russify Tajikistan, it was named after Ismail Samani, the founding king of Saman Persia. In this time and space, it is called "Supreme Emperor Peak" - this is Shao Shude's bad taste.
Not enough for outsiders.
"Your motherland sent a huge mission to me to sue for peace." Shao Shude continued: "They agreed to five of my seven demands and did not dare to disobey any. You lost, completely, and I
Not even using my full strength."
"The war you launched is more brutal than any nomadic tribe. It will inevitably arouse everyone's resistance. You will be unable to move forward and will eventually suffer a shameful defeat." Samani's face looked a little ugly.
"Yesterday, someone also mentioned this matter." Shao Shude laughed loudly: "He wrote a poem in your language in front of me, counting my crimes."
"The blasphemous murderer entered the blessed land of heaven and wandered in the sky like an exiled ghost. The mountain peak was his incarnation. He acted wantonly and launched a bloody trial... This black crime has always made me unbearable..."
Who wrote the poem? Does it even need to be said?
Shao Shude is a pervert. The more his enemies hate him, the more excited he becomes and the more he feels it is his supreme glory.
Negotiations with Persia have indeed been concluded.
Of course, the Persians could not openly cede territory, but they had their own "strategic adjustments."
The princes of Tochara have also gained some autonomy - in fact, some have come to Shule to show their respect, and there may be more and more such people in the future.
The Persians did not pay compensation, did not cede territory, did not lose any momentum in their momentum, and even allowed the supreme emperor to "fall into the trap". How great, but there will be another wave of propaganda when they go back.
"Samani, you did give me a 'surprise'." Shao Shude finally said: "As a pure respect for you, I decided to let you die in a dignified way. After you die, no one will know that you are buried.
Where, no one will bother you, no one will come to pay homage, cry, or worship. No, you don't need these. If you die, you are dead, and there will be no trace of your existence in this world.
Pull him down and send him on his way."
Shao Shude took out his hand, wiped Adie's chest, and said: "That's it for the Western Regions."