Xuande

Chapter 820 Indecision

Liu Bei hoped that even if he was dead, this way of thinking "If you fail to make a decision in trouble, the trouble will be diverted to the east" has become one of the principles of conduct for the Third Reich and all future dynasties.

This is really important.

He hopes that once any problems arise in the future, the first thing everyone thinks of is not to reflect on their own mistakes, but to immediately think that it is someone else's fault, and quickly turn to the outside to find a solution, so as to divert the trouble and divert the conflict.

Shameless, but happy.

Just like when the Kingdom of Jin was defeated by the Mongols, they would not think about strengthening and improving themselves, but immediately thought about launching a war to the south and seeking compensation from the Southern Song Dynasty.

How shameless it is to get to this point, to the point where the country is about to perish, and you still think it's the Southern Song Dynasty's fault instead of your own?

However, this mode of thinking never appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Up and down the Southern Song Dynasty, from the court to the people, there has never been such a mode of thinking, which is really a great pity.

Living in this chaotic world, if you don't have the ability and ambition to change the world, then you need to have a bit of shameless spirit, and you need to have a bit of thinking that even if the flood is torrential, I can't delay Lao Tzu's timely enjoyment.

Don't feel like everything is your fault.

Once there is a dispute, I feel that it is my mistake, and I have to reflect...why not change my 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 brutal, at least it may be external.

Follow this mode of thinking until you find a new incremental point, or you can't find any incremental point.

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 start it are happy. They don’t need to go through the cruel battle for stock, they just need to watch others go through the cruel battle for stock, and then think it’s their mistake. And not the fault of the subject who started this war.

But there are also problems with this.

Just like the question raised by Zheng Xuan before, it is a severe problem in development.

If there is no good preparation, the development will not be fruitful, a large amount of wealth will be invested but no output will be obtained, and there will be no sufficient increase. Then the Third Reich will return to the stock competition mode sooner or later. In the chaos towards the end of the collapse.

Therefore, there must be results, there must be income, for example, there must be a clear incremental point in front of the whole society, so as to form a consensus of the whole society.

Even a small child can know that forging ahead abroad can make a lot of money.

When this way of thinking becomes a general consensus, the Third Reich will be able to break out of that damned cycle, take an unprecedented path, and discard the meaningless "humility".

For this, Liu Bei needs 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 knew before, people in this era still had a rudimentary understanding of navigation, and the navigation tools were very limited. There was no compass and no corresponding navigation knowledge, and even the big ships that sailed were flat-bottomed ships.

Such ships cannot withstand wind and waves. When the wind and waves are too strong, the ship will capsize and be torn apart as a whole. Therefore, ocean voyages always rely on the coastline.

Safety is safe, but it also lost a lot of possibilities, so Liu Bei promoted the technological innovation of ocean-going ships at the same time as Guan Yu built ships in the Yangzhou area, that is, the creation of sharp-bottomed ships.

Adding the concept of keel and sharp bottom to the structure of the ship can enhance the ability of the ship to resist wind and waves, and enhance the firmness of the hull. As for the existence of sails and rudders, the ancients were not fools. After a long period of exploration, these things It also gradually appeared on sea ships, but it was still fragmented.

Just like the astronomical technology at that time, not everyone can master sufficient astronomical knowledge and be able to identify the direction during ocean voyages, so rich experience is one aspect, and whether or not you can find experienced people is another aspect. Whether experience is reliable is another matter.

To sail smoothly, you need many things, especially the tools to tell the direction.

These things are either not available now, or are only prototypes, and do not have the possibility of widespread use, which is very unfavorable for navigation, but at this moment, only through practice again and again can we really find a way to solve the problem .

It is useless to build a car behind closed doors. It is still necessary to use everything that is available to do a few times of practice, and to explore the possibility in continuous practice.

As the vanguard of all these actions, Ninan County sent a battle report on the [-]th day of the first lunar month of the second year of Zhenguan, saying that Gan Ning commanded [-] battalion soldiers, with the help of [-] county soldiers led by Ma Chao. Under these circumstances, the natives of Rinan County were defeated, the leader of the natives, Qulian, was recaptured, Xianglin County was recovered, and the rebellion in Rinan County that lasted for two and a half years was resolved.

Speaking of which, this battle was not easy.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that those natives are very good at fighting. They can’t even come up with a few serious standard weapons. They basically use their own locally produced weapons, with various materials and styles. Things that are useless such as meteor hammers, when they go to the battlefield to fight, they will do far more damage to their own people than to the enemy.

So Gan Ning and Ma Chao didn't know whether those guys were enemies or allies for a while.

But if it is said that those guys are completely useless, it is not entirely true.

Their advantage lies in their familiarity with the terrain, their large number of people, and their strong will to fight. They are not the kind of mob who don't know why they are fighting.

They also dared to take the initiative to attack, dared to attack at night, and often initiated sneak attacks on the Han army.

When the Han army first came to Ninan County and was still adapting to the climate, these guys came to attack every night, which really made the Han army uncomfortable for a while, and they didn't know how to deal with them better.

However, the Han army is elite after all, and they strictly abide by the wartime health regulations in the army. They do not drink raw water, do not eat raw food, and do not eat wild fruits and fungi. It is a clean place, away from jungles and pools, and there are more than 100 military medical teams in the army and local doctors who are familiar with the local conditions.

With such blessings, the Han army passed through the difficult days of the first two months.

Later, at the end of the first year of Zhenguan, even Rinan County felt a little cooler. Of course, it was a novel experience even for soldiers from Jiangnan to be able to wear single clothes in November and February.

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 Fa Zhengyi together felt that it was time to take action, so the three of them joined hands and played a team spirit, launching a counterattack against Xianglin County, Rinan County at the end of November, and will occupy Xianglin County in Xianglin County. The local natives in Lin County who continued to go north to encroach on the empire's territory were caught off guard.

On November 28, Gan Ning led his soldiers to fight a victory in the south of Lurong, defeating more than 1000 natives who came to harass them.

These natives are dressed in rags, have dilapidated weapons, and all kinds of weapons. They only have fierce faces and full of momentum. Apart from that, there is nothing worthy of praise.

Gan Ning commanded the army to shoot arrows, and after several rounds of volleys, they were shot across a large area. Then the army formed a formation and fought hand-to-hand. Tried to escape, but was cut off by the only [-] cavalry of the Han army, and finally the entire army was wiped out.

Then Gan Ning went all the way south toward Xianglin County. He encountered three native tribes along the way, and he defeated and destroyed them all. Through these three battles, Gan Ning almost understood the fighting power and fighting methods of the natives, and how to deal with them. The natives also had a little understanding.
So when the army approached Xianglin County and faced the more than 1 local allied forces led by the District Company, Gan Ning did not have any worries.

The battle soon ended, the native allied forces were wiped out, 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.

It was supposed to end here.

However, even though District Company was dead, the local natives did not admit defeat.

The coalition army was defeated, and there are still many of them. They live in the jungle, and it is difficult to find traces, but they can relatively easily take small paths to attack the county town. A second time, a third time, a fourth time.

Gan Ning and Ma Chao thought of many ways, but failed to drive away all these natives. They wanted to take the initiative to attack, but they couldn't find where these guys were. They sent people to search for 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 such a situation, Gan Ning and Ma Chao together felt that it was too difficult to deal with these natives only by the army, and the army was not stationed here, but the soldiers of the county were stationed here, but the soldiers of the county had to Maintaining order and enforcing the law cannot be spent all the time dealing with these natives, otherwise there will not be enough manpower to maintain order locally.

At the critical moment, Fazheng, who read more books and was more active in thinking, thought of a way.

Before, when the new land-duty decree was issued, Liu Bei said that for the undeveloped areas in the south of the Yangtze River, slaves were allowed to be used by the government and private individuals in the process of labor and land reclamation. Although the number of Han slaves was strictly limited, and later There is a tendency to completely and completely restrict the acquisition of Han Chinese slaves, and instead use a comprehensive employment contract system.

But for non-Han groups, the imperial court opened slave restrictions.

So as long as he is not a Han, as long as you can catch him and afford him, then he can be your slave, and he can be legally used in the territory of the Han Empire only by paying the government a security deposit equivalent to a quarter of that of a Han slave. 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 [-] acres of land, a woman can also own [-] acres of land, and a family of three can own at least [-] acres of land. You can own up to [-] acres of land.

This size of land is considered a well-known local and powerful configuration in the Central Plains.

When Liu Bei first started his family, he only had more than 2000 mu of land, so he was already one of the representative families with abundant martial arts in a county. However, in Rinan County, because of the vast land and sparse population, there is no shortage of land but only a shortage of population. Even with so much land, the amount of land is still very large.

Rinan County is quite good. Jiuzhen County to the north has a very large number of plains and fertile land at first glance, but there are not so many people in Jiuzhen County who can cultivate these lands.

With such a large amount of land, only a few people in a family can cultivate that much land even if their waists are broken. They 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 Dutian Law can be implemented, then the landowners in Ninan County can promote the large-scale slavery of the natives. need.

When there is no demand, relying only on the army to deal with the natives, the input-output ratio is very low.

But when the market raises demand, the input-output ratio will instantly increase, and even this will become a business that everyone is willing to compete for.

Just like when Liu Bei captured more than 70 grassland captives, because there were powerful families in the Central Plains who needed these captives, large numbers of captives were sold to Jizhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yanzhou.

Now, they can also try it in Rinan 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 was worth trying. Although they hadn't experienced it before, since it was possible, 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 just fight endless security wars here.

As the saying goes, there is only a thousand days to suppress thieves, how can there be a thousand days to prevent thieves?
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 will not be able to stay here for too long. 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 Wude of the Han Chinese group needs certain triggering conditions. As long as the conditions are met, they can become a "fighting nation".

Fazheng also believes that when time goes by, no more than a year at the latest, the natives of Rinan County will face a situation where there are not enough people to make ends meet.

At that time, there will be a wave of arresting natives as slaves in the whole Jiaozhou. Maybe everyone will go to the dense forests further south and west to actively find more native tribes and capture them for the development of Jiaozhou.

At that time, whether it is the imperial court or the local government, there will be no worries of being harassed by the natives.

He has this confidence that he doesn't think he's joking.

Gan Ning and Ma Chao didn't look that far, they were skeptical and only said they wanted to see the result.

As a result, after Ninan County's decree on Dutian and the latest slave decree were released, in just five days, more than 20 large-scale local families came to consult related issues.

(End of this chapter)