Lord Moyu was forced to open

In the fifth year of Xingwu, April 20th.

A full month has passed since the Huns fled into the desert. During this period, Ding Hongguang sent people to explore the desert and discovered the oasis where the Huns once stationed.

But now this oasis is just a mess on the ground, and all usable things have been taken away.

Judging from the remaining traces, the Huns left here half a month ago.

They even found a large number of Huns corpses in the desert.

After investigation, and half a month of guarding the border.

Finally, Ding Hongguang concluded that the Huns might have migrated collectively to the depths of the desert.

With the vastness of the desert, the Song army had reason to believe that the Huns who penetrated deep into the desert would not survive long.

After guarding the border for a full month, the Xiongnu genocide was officially announced, and the army began to return to the court.

When the news spread back to the capital, the entire Song Dynasty immediately fell into a sea of ​​cheers.

From the beginning of the founding of the Song Dynasty, the Xiongnu had always been a close concern of the Song Dynasty. The invasion of the Xiongnu every autumn not only brought great physical and mental harm to the residents on the border and even economic losses, but also caused the court to continuously increase troops to the border. Investment has resulted in the imperial government's finances not being as good as each year.

In the case of poor finances, the court could only collect taxes from the people.

It also led to a worse life for the people. It can be said that the Xiongnu's troubles were not only a concern for the Song Dynasty court, but also a heavy burden for the common people.

And now that the Huns have been completely extinct, this means that there will no longer be trouble from the Huns on the borders of the Song Dynasty in the future!
The imperial court no longer has to invest more and more money in the border every year.

There is no need to collect more taxes from the people to deal with border troubles.

This was a nationwide jubilation, and the court and localities all began to celebrate.

But amidst the hustle and bustle of the celebration, Zhao Jun was unusually calm.

He knew that although the Huns were gone, if the Song Dynasty could not occupy and control the grassland of Nuoda, other races would appear on that grassland sooner or later, and that new race would become the new race of the Song Dynasty. Regarding border troubles, sooner or later the Song Dynasty’s border will return to its previous situation. But by then, will the Song Dynasty still have the strength to resist it?
However, the Song Dynasty was a farming civilization, and it was too difficult to control a grassland.

But it cannot be left alone.

As for handing over the grassland to the Tatars, it is completely raising tigers.

Although the Tatars are now under his command, and he can control the current Tatars, can his descendants be able to control the future Tatars? When the power of the Tatars expands to a certain extent, the Tatars They will inevitably start to show their ambitions. Once the Song Dynasty's military advantage is no longer there, Zhao Jun does not believe that the Tatars will not rebel.

The reason for loyalty is that the chips and benefits of betrayal are not enough.

Zhao Jun saw this very clearly.

How to manage a large grassland?
It is definitely not possible to use the methods of the Song Dynasty to manage the grassland. The environment on the grassland is naturally destined to be unsuitable for farming and only suitable for grazing.

Without farming, it would be impossible to migrate a large number of Song people to the grassland. So if you want to control the grassland, you can only use pastoralism to control pastoralism.

As we all know, the Central Plains dynasties have been so powerful since ancient times that they have even wiped out the grassland tribes countless times. But why are the grassland tribes always able to rise again and again?
The answer is mobility!
First of all, the grassland tribes all make a living by grazing. They naturally associate with horses. Every grassland tribe has strong mobility, and they live on water and grass.

There is no fixed position, which brings great difficulties to the control and suppression of the Central Plains.

When you determined his location and sent troops to deal with it, he ran away! He doesn't stay there anymore, you can't find him! What can you do?
It's impossible for the imperial court to send troops to pursue it all the way, right? That kind of consumption is simply not something a normal court can afford.

Moreover, the reason why the grassland tribes can repeatedly appear powerful tribes is because they always send fierce men from the sky, and the fierce men can always unify all the tribes in the entire grassland, thus uniting all the tribes in the grassland and forming a Powerful grassland forces.

Therefore, to control grasslands, we need to focus on three aspects.

The first is the inheritance system, the second is the system of controlling migration based on belief, and the third is economic control.

Grassland tribes believe in the law of the jungle. Whenever a strong tribe appears, it can always annex other tribes through normal and reasonable rules, thereby making itself stronger and becoming a powerful force that can fight against the Central Plains. of the imperial court.

Therefore, if we want to limit the emergence of a force like the Xiongnu from the grassland again, we must control the inheritance system of the herdsmen on the grassland, stipulating that after the death of the father, the son will succeed. Any attack on other tribes without the permission of the Central Plains Dynasty will be regarded as In order to provoke the Song Dynasty, we must severely crack down! Even to the point of genocide!

They are prohibited from growing their tribes in this way.

In order to cooperate with the imperial court to conveniently attack the disobedient tribes, they can no longer be allowed to live in pursuit of water and grass.

It’s about getting them fixed.

At this point, Zhao Jun plans to learn from the wild boar skin of his previous life and divide the grassland into territories.

Then use religion to control these tribes based on their beliefs, such as Buddhism. Zhao Jun has decided to spread Buddhism on the grassland, castrate the thoughts of the grassland herdsmen, and let them gather around the local temple in order to worship the Buddha and no longer Live after water plants.

Without the order and permission of the imperial court, no tribe could leave their territory to graze, otherwise they would be attacked by the imperial court.

Then there's the economy.

The reason why there are so many tribes on the grassland that they attack the Central Plains every time they are born is mostly due to the lack of materials in the grassland. Unless they attack the Central Plains to grab enough materials, the materials on the grassland alone will not be enough to feed the gradually growing tribes. A powerful tribe.

Therefore, Zhao Jun has decided to open the border on the grassland so that herders can obtain sufficient supplies from the Song Dynasty through transactions.

Get to the root of why they invade even though they know they will die.

Zhao Jun also believes that through these three axes, most of the grassland problems should be solved.

What remains is whether future generations of court can continue according to their own system.

There is also the development of science and technology. Once machine guns appear, the grassland problem will no longer be a problem.

The herdsmen on the grassland will also become good at singing and dancing.

It just so happened that when the official assessment was over, he began to clear out the land and monasteries across the country.

When the time comes, there will be no need to send all the extra monks away. They will be packed up and sent to the grasslands for them to preach. Don’t they like to build temples and preach?
Then let them go to the grasslands and continue to shine for the Song Dynasty, so as not to stay in the Song Dynasty and harm the people of the Song Dynasty.

And why do the herdsmen who control the grassland insist on using Buddhism?
In fact, Zhao Jun's choice was very helpless. He couldn't let Taoism go.

As for Taoism's attitude of "believe it or not", Zhao Jun had reason to believe that if he really sent the Taoist priests away, they would stay in the Taoist temple and be otakus for the rest of their lives and would not be willing to go out to preach.

Therefore, if you want to preach, there is really no place in the Song Dynasty that is more suitable than Buddhism.

...(End of chapter)