In early November, Shao Shude had already lived in Fengzhou for quite some time.
He did not go to Zhoucheng or Tiandejun, which had better conditions, but lived in his old house in Xicheng.
Because Zhao Yu was pregnant, Shao Shude specially asked not to walk too fast on the road, but to go west slowly. In addition, the children should not fall behind in their studies and should study every day.
Zhao Yu's pregnancy was actually inevitable. Ever since they relived their old dreams in Suizhou and talked about it, every time they fell in love until the end, the two always hugged each other tightly and never separated again.
Some people are pregnant, and some are missing. Mrs. Chen of the State of Wei gave birth to a son three months ago, but before she could name her, she received news a few days ago that she died in infancy.
Shao Shude was depressed even though he didn't see the child before he was born, but he was more concerned about Chen's condition. He kept writing letters in the past few days and tried his best to write a lot of affectionate letters to Chen under the cover of the long and short sentences he had learned from Wei Zhuang.
The lingering Song lyrics.
Mrs. Chen is a mature, wise and calm imperial sister. With her talent and learning, she certainly knows how much Shao Shude weighs. These long and short sentences must have been contributed by the shameless literati around King Xia. But it is enough to make her happy. Shao Shude is thick-skinned.
It doesn't matter.
In a bad mood, Marshal Shao didn't even bother to take the roll of more than ten girls from the Arbus family that his subordinates had sent to him. One of them was a pair of twin girls with high noses, deep eyes, and blue eyes. They were really lovely. Let's put them away first.
They are my own female slaves, and I will let them come over to serve me when I want to play in the future.
"If you want to control the grassland, Feng, Sheng, and Lingzhou, you must have some appearance." Walking in the snow-covered fields, Shao Shude said to Zhao Guangfeng, who had just returned from Chang'an to report on his work: "Since the Qin Dynasty, we have been constantly
Immigration has begun. But it is not easy for these people to settle down."
"My ancestor Zhengyuan Gong worked hard in Xicheng and said that there were frequent flash floods on Langshan Mountain, and silt and stones rolled down year after year. Sooner or later, the river would change its course." Shao Shude said: "If it changes its course, it will be a disaster."
The Yinshan Mountains are divided into Langshan Mountain, Chaona Mountain (Wula Mountain) and Daqing Mountain from west to east.
"Mr. Zhengyuan has great wisdom." Zhao Guangfeng said sincerely.
A farmer farming in the countryside can tell that the Yellow River has changed its course from the flash floods that carry mud and rocks down. This is indeed a sign of great wisdom.
"There is actually a gap between Helan Mountain and Yinshan Mountain, in the west of Yongfeng County." Shao Shude added: "Westerly winds often blow here. Over the years, the sand from the moraine is blown over, squeezing the river channel, and causing the river bed to rise.
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"But in the long run, it's not a bad thing." Shao Shude smiled.
He later read an article that said that due to geological activities, the Yinshan Mountains have been rising and the Hetao Plain has continued to subside. Then, due to the continuous uplift of the Yellow River bed, it was finally blocked during the Qing Dynasty, and the river changed its course to the south instead of going north.
It is connected to the Ujia River at the southern foot of Yinshan Mountain.
This is actually not a bad thing.
It is precisely because of the uplift of the Yellow River that the Houtao Plain can make full use of the water source of the Yellow River and build artesian canals for irrigation. In the Qing Dynasty, the Houtao Plain has been greatly developed and can be called the Pearl on the Fortress. Wuliang Suhai also appeared at that time, with turbulent waters.
The floods had nowhere to go, so a large lake was formed. At this time, it was still a grassland wetland with rich water and grass, and the horse breeding place of Yongqingzha.
"Fengzhou now has more than 19,200 households and a population of more than 101,000, which is quite a lot. In the past dynasties, the only people who could reach this number were the large-scale immigrants in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Each year, more than one million grains, beans, meat and milk were produced.
It's hard to estimate how much profit I will make." Shao Shude said: "With these people here, I can continue to use troops in the south and north of Qi."
In fact, a lot of effort was spent on the development of Fengzhou, because the current course of the Yellow River is still relatively low, and artesian canals cannot be dug in every place, so water trucks were built. At first, they wanted to use commercial operations to
A department of the Dou Zuo Institute that made the water trucks became independent and financed itself, using the profits to improve the equipment and continue to iterate. But later it was found to be useless, and the people were unwilling to buy water just for irrigation.
There is no other way but to resort to taxation and austerity. In fact, it is just one more kind of exorbitant levy and miscellaneous taxes, but the people actually approve of it.
This is outrageous. Things that are obviously beneficial to both parties cannot be achieved through a purely commercial model and must be enforced by administrative means. Currently, each county in Fengzhou collects this fee and then transfers it to the independently operated Dafeng Agricultural Tools Club. But
As you can imagine, how much is collected and how much is transferred, and there are a lot of troubles and huge losses in the middle, which is actually not conducive to business operations.
But no matter what, it still has positive significance.
After the difficult times, due to the chaos of the times, merchants in various states across the country generally organized guilds and associations to stay together, and guilds became very popular. This promoted the development of commerce to a certain extent, and gradually prospered by the Song Dynasty.
The existence of Dafeng Agricultural Tools Club has at least broken through the relatively conservative social structure. The more we see it, the more we understand it. Sooner or later, the people will accept this new thing of purchasing agricultural irrigation services, because it is indeed beneficial to both parties. And then
Slowly promote it to other aspects, and the business atmosphere of the entire society will be further enriched.
Development must comply with objective laws, establish a model that can sustain and stabilize operations, and create soil that can nourish new technologies and new things. Both the supply side and the demand side must be ubiquitous. This is the most important thing.
"Your Majesty, hundreds of years ago the Qin and Han Dynasties immigrated to Shibian, with hundreds of thousands of people, and the scale was huge. In the end, these Han people were either killed or taken captive by the Hu people and became the new Hu people. How to maintain the stability of Guanbei?
The most important thing is that there is no foreign invasion." Zhao Guangfeng said: "It's time for the Anbei Protectorate to restore the area under its jurisdiction when the country was in its prime."
The Han region is controlled by Han law, and the grassland is controlled by grassland law. It has nothing to do with anything else, but is related to production methods and cultural habits.
As for ethnicity, bloodline, etc., they are not important.
The subjugated people of Goguryeo were forcibly moved to Huainan, and hundreds of thousands of Turks, Zhaowu and other ethnic groups went to Henan and Guanzhong. After the Anshi Rebellion, Li Zhengji's group of Han, Xi, Khitan, and Goryeo people went to Shandong again.
The south is also continuing to establish households, and the population of many states and counties has increased significantly.
As long as they adopted Han production methods, immersed themselves in Han culture, and unified the people, they would basically integrate into Han society and become "new Han people." Hundreds of years later, who would have known that their ancestors were once Qiang and Hu
,barbarian?
Similarly, when Han people went to the grasslands, they became barbarians over time. The Tubo-ized Helong Han people are the best example, and the same is true for the Han people who were kidnapped by barbarians in the grasslands. Different geographical environments and climates determine different production methods.
Different national characters and cultures have been shaped, and you cannot force one method to do it.
"Step by step. This time, let's include the Black City area first," Shao Shude said.
The news that Yang Yue raided the Uighur tent and won a great victory has been sent back.
More than 13,000 people were beheaded, more than 40,000 people were captured, and more than 600,000 cattle, sheep and miscellaneous animals were captured and executed. Most of the prisoners and beheaded were Tatars. It can also be seen from this that the Gaochang Uighurs had great influence on the Kun River Basin.
Sooner or later, the reconquest will be a dream. They really don't have much energy to go eastward, so that after the conquest, only a few troops can be left to garrison, and the main local population is still the Tatars who migrated from the west.
Once the Uighurs show their decline, the Tatars will definitely have dissent. What's more, there are still Tatar tribes moving westward at this time. You can know what will happen in the future by just thinking about it with your toes.
"How is your Majesty going to manage the Uighur tooth tent?" Zhao Guangfeng asked again.
"The old method is to form an alliance between the various tribes and decide how long it will last. Yang Yue came to report that there are still many Tatars in the Kunkun River Basin. Pick a few to serve as officials and divide the pastures." Shao Shude said: "That is to say, Ji Wei."
Mu Yong admitted that because of the long distance between Qibei and Fan tribe, the effect of the restraint was definitely not as good as that of Qinan under the nose, let alone the Weicai clan in Hetao who was surrounded on all sides.
But let’s take control first. While we still have prestige, we can suppress those people and tighten the system step by step.
Moreover, this system must be three-pronged: military, political, and economic, otherwise it may not be stable.
The current system of the Protectorate is still too rough and the management effect is not good. The reason why the tribes have not rebelled yet is because the Supreme Khan's old name was "Shao Papi", and he once killed many people in the Guanbei tribe.
How many years have passed? It’s not time to rebel yet.
But if one has no long-term worries, there must be immediate worries. Shao Shude is worried that after his death, some ambitious people will think that an opportunity has come and start a rebellion.
Among the several major achievements in life, the first one is to change the production and living model of northern farmers. He has already done half of it, and the trend is basically stable and difficult to be reversed. The second thing is to spend a lot of energy to control the grassland and transform this
China's innermost dangers have been weakened, rendered harmless and even annexed.
The military battle is only the simplest part, and the remaining political battles further test his ability as a member of the Kansai military and political group.
He recalled the methods used by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties to control Mongolia and the Western Regions in later generations. He could not remember the details clearly. He only knew that the Manchus and Qing Dynasties also adapted measures to local conditions. The methods used to control Mongolia were completely different from those used to control the Western Regions, including garrisoning troops, sending officials, collecting taxes, and recruiting troops.
These four things have been done for more than two hundred years, which is really awesome.
I feel that the Manchu and Qing Dynasties are the most playful. The vast desert of Mongolia and the Western Regions have made them fool around. You have to think carefully about what insidious and damaging tricks the Manchu and Qing Dynasties used.
"Since you want to meet with all the alliance tribes, your Majesty has to go to the grassland." Zhao Guangfeng said.
"I'm definitely going. But I have to go back to Lingzhou first, inspect the counties, and then go to Hexi Town after the New Year." Shao Shude said.
This is all as it should be. As the core asset of Guanbei, if the eight counties of Lingzhou, the money and grain base, don't show their faces, wouldn't it be in vain? What's more, I have lived there for many years, and I miss Helan Mountain.
Fengyue.
"Your Majesty is going to the Uighur Tooth Tent via Juyanhai?" Zhao Guangfeng was a little surprised.
"Let's take a look around the sand moraine." Shao Shude said affirmatively.
Shaqi is the Alxa Grassland in later generations. It is home to the Blackwater City Racecourse. It was also a site acquired after several years of fighting. In the Western Xia Dynasty, there was the Yanjian Military Division of Heishui Town, which was their important source of cattle, sheep, horses, camels and troops.
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We have come, how can we feel at ease if we don’t walk all the way?