Chapter 820: Failure to make a decision will lead to disaster.
Liu Bei hoped that even if he was dead,
This is really important.
He hopes that if any problem arises in the future, the first thing everyone will think of is not to reflect or think about their own mistakes, but to immediately think that it is someone else's mistake, and quickly turn to the outside for solutions, diverting trouble to the east and diverting conflicts.
Shameless, but happy.
Just like when the Jin Kingdom was attacked by the Mongols, they would not think about strengthening and improving themselves, but immediately thought about launching a war southward and seeking compensation from the Southern Song Dynasty.
How shameless is it to think that this is the fault of the Southern Song Dynasty and not your own after you have gotten so messed up that your country is about to be exterminated?
However, this mode of thinking never appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Everyone in the Southern Song Dynasty, from the court to the people, had never had such a thinking mode. This is really a huge regret.
Living in this chaotic world, if you don't have the ability and ambition to change the world, you have to have a shameless spirit, and have a mindset that even if the floods are raging, I can't delay my timely enjoyment.
Don't feel like everything is your fault.
Once there is a dispute, you feel that it is your own fault and you have to reflect... Why not change your thinking?
Is there a possibility that this is someone else's fault?
Is there a possibility that even if it is my fault, I can use force and war to make others realize that it is their fault, not mine?
Although the battle for incremental growth is just as cruel, at least it may be external.
Follow this thinking mode until you find a new incremental point, or you can't find any incremental point at all.
When it really got to that point, Liu Bei had no choice but to watch humanity move toward a brutal war for stock. Most people were squeezed out of this war and died until the population and resources matched again.
Cruel, right?
But at least before this model comes to an end, the subjects who initiate it are happy. They do not need to go through the cruel battle for stock. They only need to watch others go through the cruel battle for stock, and then think that it is their mistake.
It is not the fault of the subject who started this war.
However, there are also problems with this.
Just like the problem Zheng Xuan raised before, it is a serious problem in development.
If there is no good preparation, the development will not yield results, a large amount of wealth will be invested but no output will be produced, and there will not be enough increment, then sooner or later the Third Reich will have to return to the mode of competing for stocks.
Towards the end of collapse in chaos.
Therefore, there must be results, there must be income, for example, there must be clear incremental points in front of the whole society, so as to form a consensus among the whole society.
Even the youngest children should know that you can make a lot of money by forging ahead.
When this thinking becomes the general consensus of everyone, the Third Reich will be able to break out of that damn cycle, and can take an unprecedented path, and abandon the meaningless "modesty".
To this end, Liu Bei needed to do a lot of work.
First of all, he wanted the Han Empire to have the ability to sail across the ocean.
As he had learned before, people's understanding of navigation in this era was still quite rudimentary, and navigation tools were very limited. There was no compass and no corresponding navigation knowledge. Even the large ships that sailed were flat-bottomed.
Such a ship cannot withstand wind and waves. If the wind and waves are strong, the ship will capsize and fall apart. Therefore, ocean voyages always rely on the coastline.
It was safe, but it also lost a lot of possibilities, so in the Yangzhou area, while Guan Yu was building ships, Liu Bei promoted the technological innovation of ocean-going ships, that is, the creation of pointed-bottomed ships.
Adding the concept of keel and pointed bottom to the structure of the ship can enhance the ability of the ship to resist wind and waves, and enhance the solidity of the hull. As for the existence of sails, rudders, etc., the ancients were not fools. After a long period of exploration, these things
It also gradually appeared on sea ships, but it was not yet systematic.
Just like the astronomical technology at that time, not everyone can master sufficient astronomical knowledge and can identify the direction during ocean navigation, so being experienced is one thing, and whether you can find experienced people is another.
Whether experience is reliable is another matter.
If you want to sail smoothly, you need many things, especially tools to determine the direction.
These things either don't exist now, or they only have prototypes, and there is no possibility of widespread use. This is very disadvantageous for navigation, but at this moment, only through practice again and again can we truly find a way to solve the problem.
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It's useless to build things behind closed doors. You still need to use everything you have to practice a few times and explore the possibilities through continuous practice.
As the vanguard of all these actions, Rinan County sent a battle report on the 19th day of the first month of the second year of Zhenguan, saying that Gan Ning commanded 3,000 battalions, with the help of 1,500 county soldiers commanded by Ma Chao.
In this way, he defeated the natives of Rinan County, killed the native leader Ou Lian, recovered Xianglin County, and solved the two-and-a-half-year rebellion in Rinan County.
Speaking of which, this battle was not easy.
Of course, that doesn't mean that the natives are very good at fighting. They can't even make a few serious standard weapons. They basically use their own locally produced weapons, with various materials, various styles, and the like.
For those seemingly useless things like the meteor hammer, when they go to the battlefield and fight, they will do far more damage to their own people than to the enemy.
So much so that Gan Ning and Ma Chao didn't know whether those guys were enemies or friendly forces for a while.
But if we say that those guys have no merit at all, that's not necessarily true.
Their advantage is that they are familiar with the terrain, have a large number of people, and have a strong will to fight. They are not a ragtag group that has no idea why they are fighting.
They also dared to take the initiative, dared to attack at night, and often launched sneak attacks on the Han army.
When the Han army first came to Rinan County and was still adapting to the climate, these guys came to attack at night every night. It really made the Han army uncomfortable for a while, and they didn't know how to deal with them better.
However, the Han army was elite after all, and they strictly abided by the wartime health regulations in the army. They did not drink raw water, eat raw food, and did not eat wild fruits and fungi. They used things like mugwort leaves to drive away mosquitoes, and set up military camps in relatively close quarters.
It is a clean place, far away from jungles and waterholes, and there are more than a hundred military medical teams in the army and local doctors who are familiar with the local conditions.
With such blessing, the Han army passed through the relatively difficult first two months.
Later, at the end of the first year of Zhenguan, even Rinan County felt a little cooler. Of course, being able to wear single clothes in November and December was a novel experience even for soldiers born in Jiangnan.
According to the locals, the cool days in Nichinan County are very short, and they are gone after they pass. They are very precious. Therefore, if the army wants to start a war, it must seize the opportunity to start the war quickly, otherwise it will start again in February or March next year.
hot.
Gan Ning, Ma Chao, and Fazhengyi combined and felt that they really needed to seize the time to take action, so the three of them worked together and exerted teamwork spirit. At the end of November, they launched a counterattack against Xianglin County, Rinan County, and entrenched themselves in Xianglin County.
Lin County also caught the local natives who continued to go northward to encroach on the empire's territory by surprise.
On November 28, Gan Ning led his soldiers to fight a victory south of Lu Rong, defeating more than a thousand natives who came to harass him.
These natives were in ragged clothes, with broken weapons, and they were of all kinds. Apart from their fierce looks and full momentum, there was nothing worthy of praise.
Gan Ning commanded the army to fire arrows, and after several rounds of volleys, they shot into a large area. Then the army formed a formation and came forward to fight hand-to-hand. The natives were cut to pieces with three strikes, five by two, and the remaining people suffered heavy casualties.
They tried to escape, but their retreat was cut off by the Han army's only 300 cavalry, and finally the entire army was annihilated.
Then Gan Ning went all the way south towards Xianglin County. He encountered three native tribes along the way, all of which were defeated and destroyed by him. Through these three battles, Gan Ning almost figured out the fighting power and fighting methods of the natives, and how to deal with them.
The natives also have some understanding of
So when the army arrived at Xianglin County and faced with a coalition of more than 10,000 natives led by District Company, Gan Ning did not have any worries.
The battle ended quickly, the native coalition forces were completely wiped out, and the Han army won a complete victory, regained Xianglin County, and rebuilt Xianglin County.
As for the little-known country established by that guy named Ou Lian, it was destroyed. Everything was burned by the Han army, leaving no trace.
Originally, the matter would have ended here.
However, although Ou Lian died, the locals did not admit defeat.
The coalition forces were defeated. There were still many of them. They lived in the jungle and it was difficult to find traces of them. However, they could relatively easily take small roads to sneak attack on the county town. And using the spirit of Niubi Tang, even if they were beaten away once, they could still survive.
Come again a second time, a third time, a fourth time.
Gan Ning and Ma Chao tried many ways, but failed to drive away all these natives. They wanted to take the initiative to launch an attack, but they could not successfully find where these guys were. They sent people to explore and find the way, but the efficiency was very low.
Yue also touched three tribes, and there may be dozens or hundreds of such tribes in the entire dense jungle.
Regarding this situation, Gan Ning and Ma Chao thought it was too difficult to deal with these natives with only the army. Moreover, the army was not permanently stationed here, but the county soldiers were stationed here permanently, but the county soldiers still had to be stationed here.
Maintaining order and enforcing the law cannot be spent all the time dealing with these natives, otherwise the local manpower to maintain order will not be enough.
At the critical moment, Fa Zheng, who had read more and was more active in thinking, came up with a solution.
Previously, when the new land transfer decree was issued, Liu Bei said that in the undeveloped areas south of the Yangtze River, officials and private individuals were allowed to use slaves in the process of labor and land reclamation. Although the number of Han slaves was strictly limited, and later
There was a posture of completely restricting the Han people's access to slaves, and instead using a comprehensive employment contract system.
But for non-Han groups, the imperial court opened slave restrictions.
Therefore, as long as he is not Han, as long as you can capture and raise him, he can be your slave, and you only need to pay a deposit to the government equivalent to a quarter of a Han slave, and he can be legally used within the Han Empire.
These slaves work for themselves.
According to the requirements of the Land Acquisition Law, in places like Rinan County, a Han adult man can be allocated 1,000 acres of land, a woman can also own 500 acres of land, and a family of three can own at least 1,500 acres of land.
You can own up to 2,500 acres of land.
This size of land is considered a well-known and powerful place in the Central Plains.
When Liu Bei first started his business, he only had more than 2,000 acres of land. In this way, he was already one of the representative families with abundant military virtues in the county. In Rinan County, because of the vast land and sparse people, there was no shortage of land, only population.
, even if so much land is given, the amount of land is still very large.
Nichinan County is relatively good. Jiuzhen County, a little further to the north, has a very large amount of plain land and fertile land at first glance, but Jiuzhen County does not have that many people to cultivate these lands.
Such a large amount of land can only be cultivated by a few people in a family. Even if your waist is broken, you cannot cultivate that much land. You must ask for help or find slaves to help cultivate the land. The master only needs to supervise these natives.
That’s it.
Therefore, Fazheng believes that we cannot rely solely on the government to deal with these natives.
It is obviously not enough to rely on the government and the army to deal with these natives. If the land distribution can be completed, and then the requirements in the land transfer law can be implemented, then the land owners in Nichinan County will be able to promote the large-scale expropriation of native slaves.
need.
When there is no demand, relying solely on the army to deal with the natives will have a very low input-output ratio.
But when the market demands it, the input-output ratio will increase instantly, and it will become a business that everyone is willing to compete for.
Just like when Liu Bei captured more than 700,000 grassland captives, large numbers of captives were sold to Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou because there were powerful families in the Central Plains who needed these captives.
Now, they can also try it in Ninan County to see if these native captives can open up the market.
After Fazheng proposed this idea, both Gan Ning and Ma Chao thought it could be a try. Although they had never experienced it before, since it was a possibility, they had to give it a try.
They must find a way to maintain long-term peace and stability. They cannot let the Han army stay here to deal with the raids of these natives. Then the Han army does not have to do anything and can just fight endless security wars here.
As the saying goes, you can only destroy thieves with a thousand days, but how can you prevent thieves with a thousand days?
However, Ma Chao is still a little worried that this matter will not be easy to handle. He is worried that this matter will take a long time to be effective, and the army cannot stay here for too long. He is worried that once the army leaves, it will be more difficult to rely only on the county soldiers to maintain it.
difficult.
But Fazheng doesn't think so.
Fa Zheng believes that as long as the government releases the news about the land transfer decree, issues permission for the large-scale use of non-Han slaves, and provides a certain amount of help, then the Han people in Rinan County and even Jiuzhen County will take the initiative to help the government deal with it.
Natives, arrest the natives.
The Schrödinger's martial ethics of the Han people requires certain stimulating conditions. As long as the conditions are met, they can become a "fighting nation."
Fa Zheng also believed that when time passes slowly, no more than a year at the latest, the natives of Nichinan County will face a situation where their numbers are insufficient and they cannot make ends meet.
By then, there will be a wave of arresting natives as slaves throughout Jiaozhou. Maybe everyone will have to go to the dense forests further south and west to actively search for more native tribes and capture them for the development of Jiaozhou.
By then, neither the imperial court nor the local officials will have to worry about being invaded by natives.
He has this confidence that he is not joking.
Gan Ning and Ma Chao didn't look that far ahead and were skeptical, saying they just wanted to see the results.
The result was that, in just five days, after Nichinan County's land transfer decree and the latest slave decree were issued, more than twenty large local families came to consult on related issues.