Dahan first prince

Knowing the Queen Mother's intention to call him back to Beijing to 'report', even if he still had doubts about this matter, Lu Lu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

——Let’s not mention it, at least it’s not a crime!

This discovery alone is enough for the current Lu Lu to put his heart back in his stomach.

Since returning to Beijing was not to be cleaned up, Lu Luzi also relaxed and told Lu Tong to "stay in Anton for a few days";
As an uncle, I might as well bring my nephew, whom I haven't seen for many years, to appreciate the scenery of this new land, and show off my political achievements by the way.

And in Chang'an, Emperor Liu Ying, who was sitting in the Xuanshi Hall of Weiyang Palace, was also considering Anton's problem.

In fact, in the past few years, although Liu Ying didn't ask much about Anton's affairs, she secretly sent people to Anton to 'inspect the work' and inquire about the situation.

The reason why they secretly sent people to inspect, instead of sending the censor or even the envoy of the emperor to check with great fanfare, was mainly because Liu Ying was worried that she would break something that was 'inconvenient to break'.

After all, the Korean peninsula is the new place of the Han Dynasty;
Since it is a place of new servers, it will definitely go through a slightly chaotic period, a short period of 'conflict between new immigrants and aborigines'.

During this chaotic period and running-in period, there is a high probability that some things that are inconvenient to explain to outsiders, or even inconvenient for Liu Ying to 'know' will happen.

But fortunately, in the end, Lu Lu, the first governor of Andong County, handled Liu Ying's worries relatively well;

Coupled with the Eastern Expedition that year, Liu Ying deliberately turned only the northern peninsula of the Korean peninsula into prefectures and counties, while leaving the southern peninsula to foreign vassals such as Ma Hanjun and Bian Hanjun. Enough buffer space.

——If you don’t want to be a Han in Anton, you can go to Mahan and be a savage!
——Isn’t it not giving you a way out?
But what Liu Ying didn't expect was that, as a descendant of Lu Ze, Marquis of Lu Ling of Zhou, Lu Lu showed some...

Um······

Unusual talent.

Obviously a second-generation Gonghou who was spoiled and spoiled since childhood, and born with a golden key in his mouth, Lu Lu showed a kind of "talent" that even Liu Ying was excited about in the newly established Andong County.

And this kind of talent, in Liu Ying's cryptic words, is: without washing your face, you can immediately become a vassal state and deal with domestic and foreign vassals.

For Lu Lu's administrative achievements in Anton, Liu Ying was naturally gratified from the bottom of her heart;
But apart from comfort, Liu Ying naturally did not forget to plan the next step for Anton.

To put it bluntly, it is a reflection on the rational use of the advanced system of "village farming" in the Han Dynasty.

When it comes to Tungeng, we actually have to mention: At the very beginning, the word "Tungeng" was followed by the word "Shoubian".

Reclamation and guarding the frontiers had been the main content of the Qin court's frontier policy as early as when Qin Shihuang was in power.

After the first emperor came to China, he also successively immigrated to the Lingnan and Hetao areas to settle and guard the frontier.

Among them, the ones who were sent to Lingnan were the first-generation general who conquered the south: Tu Sui, and later Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo, who brought 50 people to Lingnan.

These 50 people are the truest portrayal of the policy of "farming and guarding the border";
——If you want to fight, these 50 people are the '50 army';
After the war was over, these 50 people became '50 immigrants' again.

With the 50 pioneers of Yimin and Yijun, Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo were able to sweep across Lingnan, and established Nanhai, Guilin, Xiang and other counties for the Qin court;

It is precisely because of these 50 people that Zhao Tuo was able to destroy the streams and break the road in the troubled times of the end of Qin Dynasty, and "closed the country" in the south of the Lingnan, and was able to stand on his own.

This is the Qin court's "farming and guarding the border" in the south.

When it comes to the north, we have to mention the famous name that makes the future generations feel like thunder.

— General Qin: Meng Tian!

After the first emperor annexed the world, Meng Tian was ordered to lead an army of 30 to attack the Xiongnu in the north and recover Henan (now in the area of ​​Kezhao League in Nanyin, Hetao, Inner Mongolia).

Later, from Yuzhong (now north of Yinjinhuoluo Banner, Inner Mongolia) to Yinshan, 34 counties were established; they crossed the Yellow River, occupied Yangshan, and migrated to Guandong people to enrich the border counties.

Later, Meng Tian presided over the construction of the Great Wall stretching from Lintao (now Minxian County, Gansu) in the west to Liaodong (now in Liaoning) in the east, connecting the original Yan, Zhao, and Qin Great Walls into one.

By the time Qin Shihuang died on the sand dunes, the "Qin Great Wall Legion" led by Meng Tian, ​​or the "Qin Great Wall Farming Group", had set up 44 counties in the Hetao area to resettle the migrants.

According to historical records: The Xiongnu Shanyu said - Touman, Touman was invincible against Qin, and moved northward; after more than ten years, Meng Tian died, the princes provoked Qin, and China was disturbed. Return to the old fortress between Henan and China.

In other words: Meng Tian's 30 "farming soldiers" once forced the Huns in the Touman period, and even all the grassland nomads including the Huns, to the north thousands of miles away from the Great Wall.

All of this undoubtedly shows that farming and guarding the border was the only good strategy for China to resist foreign enemies, stabilize the border, and even slowly expand outward during the feudal period of China;

At the same time, it is also the most cost-effective and successful solution that can be adopted in the feudal era.

As for the current Han Dynasty, the policy of "farming and guarding the frontiers" that once arose during the reign of Qin Shihuang, has undergone some changes.

——Mainly, the word "garrisoning the border" in the four characters of "gardening and guarding the border" was gradually deprecated because of the orientation of the Han Dynasty's first implementation of the policy of farming.

Andong, the Korean peninsula, is the area where the Han Dynasty implemented the farming policy for the first time.

And this area, even if it is not considered as the border of Han and Hungary, is also not regarded as the land of "unconquered" and "outside".

Rather than saying that Liu Ying practiced "garrisoning and guarding the border" on the Korean Peninsula, it would be better to say that Liu Ying was in Andong, or that the Korean Peninsula is a remote place facing the sea on three sides and completely bordering the Han Dynasty on one side. with his own experiments.

Since it is an experiment, it will naturally return to its original mission when an improved and mature policy is finally obtained.

That is: Anton's farming policy is for Liu Ying to obtain the "Liu Han's characteristic farming and frontier policy" through experiments that are acceptable and implementable by the Han Dynasty today, so as to apply to the nomadic peoples of the northern grasslands in the future.

But there is a problem that has not been solved by Liu Ying.

"Anton, you can farm..."

"—What about the grassland?"

"—Do you really want to farm on the grassland like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in history?"

"Is it a little stupid..."

Muttering full of sorrow, Liu Ying, who was sitting on the imperial couch, also sighed for a while.

This issue is the main issue that Liu Ying is currently concerned about, and there is no one!

Because the original intention of farming and guarding the border is to use the farming regiments to "fight when the enemy comes, and farm when hungry", so that they can protect themselves and feed themselves;
A special system that can be stationed on the border wall for a long time without the need for blood transfusion from the central government ensures that the defense force of the border wall is sufficient without causing too heavy a burden on the central government's finances.

Take the distance of the northern garrison troops displayed on the front line of the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty today: Today, the Han Dynasty has deployed a total of more than 20 troops on the front line of the Great Wall in the north;

And these 20 people are not even enough to ensure the stability of the side wall. At most, they can only ensure that when the Huns invade south, the Han Dynasty can "discover" as soon as possible.

As for preventing an effective defense in time, it is definitely not something that more than 20 people can do.

The reason is simple: when the Huns come, there will definitely not be NO.80 people!

Or, it is a scale of 1000 to [-] people, stealing chickens and dogs on the side wall, such an "invasion", the Han Dynasty does not need to care, and can't care - when someone finds this ransacked village, the Huns will have already run back to the grassland .

Or, just like last autumn, the battle of Mayi that almost killed King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu and the old Shang Shanyu in history-Jianji porridge, went south to attack with a scale of tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. Frontier city.

In the face of such a large-scale Hun cavalry group, the more than 20 border guards of the Han Dynasty displayed on the side wall could not prevent any effective defense at all.

——Because what these 20 people are defending is not a village or a city, but the entire northern defense line that is thousands of miles long on the Han-Hungarian border.

There are more than 20 people, distributed in the direction of tens of thousands of miles, and every fifty miles, there are only a mere 1000 people.

And the only thing a thousand border guards can do in front of tens of thousands of Hun cavalry is to hide in the city...
But it is precisely these more than 20 border guards that once made the Central Committee of the Han Dynasty bear extremely heavy financial pressure.

Because these 20 frontier troops who can't stop the Huns at all and can only warn in advance, need the Chang'an Central Committee to send 500 million shi for the annual military rations alone!

And in order to send the 500 million shi grains to every pass along the Great Wall, the transportation cost that Chang'an Central has to spend is several '500 million shi'...

Just like what the people in Guanzhong used to say in the past: If you want a peasant to send a stone of corn to the side wall, you have to let him set off with three stones of corn.

But if the 20 frontier troops were self-sufficient farming regiments, there would be no such problem.

——Not only the court of Chang'an, but also 500 million shi of military rations will be left every year from now on;
At the same time, it can also save the transportation cost of grain worth tens of millions of stones.

This is just the front line of the Great Wall;
In the future, if the northern line of defense of the Han Dynasty continues to move northward, or explore toward the northwest, then this nursery rhyme will have to be rephrased.

——If you want a civilian husband to send a grain of corn to the side wall, you have to let him start with a handful of corn...

Therefore, it became Liu Ying's top priority to make the border troops far away from Guanzhong, or even from the Han Dynasty, to achieve self-sufficiency as much as possible, at least self-sufficiency in terms of military rations.

But the problem lies precisely in this.

Tun plowing and plowing, you have to have a field to plow...

It is the Han Dynasty today, the area near the northern side wall, where can you farm?
The two countries of Yan and Dai directly bordering the grassland, not to mention the borderline, even inland, are "bitter cold places" where the yield per mu does not reach three shi, or even two shi.

As for Shang, Dai and other counties, let alone;
——Even the hay and straw tax collected by the court from farmers in order to raise horses is "three stones per [-] mu in the whole world, and evil on behalf of the land, and two stones per [-] mu".

In such a place, even full-time farmers cannot rely on farming to feed their stomachs, so how can they farm?
How to place hope on the border guards to be 'self-sufficient' through farming?
This is even the current side wall of the Han Dynasty, not the future side wall.

In the future, the northern defense line of the Han Dynasty will be pushed from the current Zhao Great Wall to the north to the Gaoque-Qin Great Wall line, and the situation will only get worse.

Because there, the border troops of the Han family can see, apart from the grassland, only the desert...
"Tun farming..."

"Tuntian..."

"Field acres..."

"grassland··········"

"grazing?"

"Tun Mu????"

After thinking about it for a long time, and muttering to herself about farming, plowing and so on, a thought suddenly flashed in her mind, which made Liu Ying suddenly feel bright!
——If you can’t farm, can you farm? !

Anyway, whether it is farming or grazing, the purpose is to allow the troops on the side wall to engage in production in non-combat, so as to be self-sufficient in living materials!
There shouldn't be much difference between that kind of land and grazing, right?

Border guards and soldiers can eat the grain cultivated in the village directly;
Border guards and soldiers can sell the livestock raised by 'Tunmu' to the inland area for food!

The more she thought about it, the more Liu Ying felt: Well, it's worth a try!
Having made up her mind, Liu Ying got up from the couch, spread out a blank sheet of paper, and started to write.

As the sporadic thoughts in her mind fell on the rabbit hair in her hand, Liu Ying's thoughts became more and more clear...
——In Loufan County, set up a "Loufan Duwei Tun Shepherd Regiment", with Han Loufan County residents as generals and [-] Loufan prisoners of World War I in Mayi as regiment soldiers!

With Loufan County as the center, a land with a radius of one hundred miles is designated as the grassland of the Loufang Duweitun pasture regiment!
All soldiers who descended from the Hunlou tribe had to raise one horse, three cows, and ten sheep;

Cattle and goat dairy products are food for the regiment, and the abundance of cattle and sheep is taxed...
The more you write, the more smooth you are, the more you think about it, the more feasible it is. In the end, Liu Ying even stopped writing and crumpled the white paper in front of her.

"Prepare the car!"

With a loud cry, the enthusiastic young emperor walked quickly towards the gate of the palace.

——Liu Ying, I need to find someone to discuss the feasibility of my plan!
Because Liu Ying vaguely felt that the plan she was about to come up with was probably not just a solution to the settlement of the border troops;
It is even possible that it is a once and for all eternal strategy to completely solve the northern nomads, and even permanently solve the threat of the northern nomads to the Chinese farming civilization...