The big man has a living father

Chapter 31: Australian Cattle
Ten miles west of Jianzhang Palace, a large number of people were waiting here.

Huo Hai was also waiting here on horseback.

The local tyrants of the Han Dynasty are finally back!

At the beginning, when Huo Hai had just traveled through time, he thought that all soldiers were poor and only those with titles were rich.

However, after following Huo Qubing on a trip to the north, Huo Hai realized how rich these soldiers were.

Huo Hai still remembers that when he was watching a short video, he saw a blogger seriously discussing "Why didn't Huo Qubing distribute the meat rewarded by Emperor Wu of Han to his soldiers?"

Because according to the regulations of the Han Empire, civilians were not allowed to eat meat.

So only when people of higher classes distributed meat to the soldiers could the soldiers eat it.

But when Huo Hai entered the army, he realized that this serious discussion was a huge joke! It was absolutely hilarious.

This is the Han Dynasty, not the Ming Dynasty.

These soldiers are the wealthiest class in the world, and they are not the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!

First of all, in the Han Empire, only children from families of "middle class" or above were considered good families, and only children from good families were eligible to join the army or become officials.

What is Zhongjia?

A family with a fortune of one million coins is considered a big family, a family with less than thirty thousand coins is considered a small family, and the ones in between are called middle families. Because of restrictions on income forms, there is almost no middle number after the family fortune exceeds thirty thousand coins, and almost all of them can reach one hundred thousand coins.

This is called Zhongjia.

What is the concept? At present, in the market, a dan of grain, regardless of its type, costs an average of 20 coins, a jin of meat costs 3 coins, a sheep costs 300 to 1,000 coins, and a cow costs 1,200 to 4,000 coins.

In other words, any soldier's family's starting assets are a hundred sheep.

Besides, with wars every year, what did Emperor Liu Che do with all that money? Did he use it for the army? Of course, he didn't use it for the army, he used it to give to the soldiers!

There are two kinds of rewards from Emperor Wu. One kind is tens of thousands of gold or even hundreds of thousands of gold, and one gold here refers to ten thousand coins.

One is thousand gold, and this gold is gold.

You know, Huo Qubing had fought for three years and had 140 officials under him. If you count this time, there were 12 people who were made marquises! Not to mention the one-time reward Liu Che gave out when he was happy.

To put it bluntly, what are those top brothers in later generations? Liu Che alone is the top of tens of thousands of top rankings.

The amount of money that Huo Qubing's army had received over the years, if converted into currency, would be about one million gold, ten million strings of cash, or even hundreds of billions of coins! Although a lot of it was given away as rewards, distributed, or used to buy fixed assets, there was still a lot left, and almost all of his men were wealthy men like this!
Therefore, after Huo Hai came to Chang'an, although he was eager to do business and make money, he was not in such a hurry.

Because these people in Chang'an are all poor people.

Now, the rich are back!

Moreover, the wealthy people of the Han Dynasty went to war tirelessly and brought back 40,000 labor reserves. Just look at their contributions to the economic development of the Han Dynasty!

Huo Hai was just imagining how much money he could make as a real estate developer if each of the returning soldiers bought a house. He heard Cao Xiang mutter in his ear: "Brother Huo, Brother Huo, did you hear that?"

Huo Hai was suspicious: "Huh? What did you hear?"

Aren't I standing with Sister Liu Lian? Where the hell are you from?
Huo Hai looked around and found that Princess Wei Chang was still on his right. Princess Wei Chang was wearing a cloak and riding a horse like himself.

Princess Wei Chang's people went to Nanyue and got a kapok cloak without much effort. Although it was not as good as the later Shu brocade kapok robe, it was still good. Princess Wei Chang personally put on the cloak to experiment.

While watching, Cao Xiang said: "Brother Huo, are you interested in Her Royal Highness the Princess? You keep staring at her."

Huo Hai and Princess Wei Chang turned around and looked at Cao Xiang.

Cao Xiang then said: "Didn't you hear what I just said?"

Huo Hai: "I was just thinking about making money, what did you say?"

Cao Xiang was speechless after hearing what Huo Hai said, but Cao Xiang still said it again honestly: "It's like this, didn't King Hunxie lead many Xiongnu tribes to surrender this time? I think this is an opportunity."

"We can keep these people at the border and make them vassals. In this way, we can divide the Xiongnu into the Southern Xiongnu and the Southern Xiongnu, and use the Southern Xiongnu to control the Northern Xiongnu. This will save our war costs." "And we can also wear down the Northern Xiongnu and settle the surrendered Southern Xiongnu."

Huo Hai was amused: "Your strategy!?"

Cao Xiang said with a thick face: "Yes."

Huo Hai: "I have three strategies: best, middle and worst."

Cao Xiang looked at Huo Hai's pretentiousness and said, "Could it be that the Northern and Southern Xiongnu are the worst option?"

Huo Hai: "The Northern and Southern Xiongnu are a very bad strategy and are not worthy of being considered a mainstream power."

Cao Xiang: “…”

Huo Hai: "My worst plan is to divide the Xiongnu into the East and the West. Don't look at the map and think that the Xiongnu is the same as the Han Empire, a monolithic entity. The Xiongnu is different from us."

"They live in tribes. For example, winter is approaching and the weather there is much colder than ours. If there is a snowstorm, the snow will accumulate to half a meter or even higher. The cattle and sheep will not be able to push away the snow and eat grass. What do you think is the solution?"

Cao Xiang, who was on horseback, looked down at the horse and then raised his head: "Artificially digging snow?"

On the other side of Huo Hai, Princess Wei Chang said: "Change pasture."

Huo Hai: "Yes, we changed pastures and went to the leeward side of the mountain. Although the grass on the leeward side is not as abundant as the common pastures, it is better to avoid the wind and not have snow. Because they are in similar activities to avoid natural disasters all year round, the Xiongnu tribe is very united. Because they are facing the risk of annihilation at any time, they can only unite to fight against nature. In addition, other tribes are competitors for their resources."

Although Cao Xiang was not very smart, he also understood: "You mean, there is hatred and dissension between the Xiongnu tribes, we should sow discord and divide them into two parts, east and west, and make them hostile to each other?"

Huo Hai: "To be precise, we should instigate hatred among all the Xiongnu tribes and support the second largest among them to fight the largest. As long as the largest is destroyed or becomes weaker, we will continue to support the second largest to fight the largest."

"If this continues for a long time, first of all, to be the master of the grassland, they must get the approval of the Han Empire. Secondly, they are always fighting in hatred and can never stop to think. They can only be knives instead of abacus."

"Third, while they are fighting, we can make some war money."

Cao Xiang: "Hiss~ This is interesting!"

In fact, this was how the Central Plains Empire dealt with the grasslands during the Tang and Ming dynasties.

It is also England's way of balancing Europe.

This is far more advanced than the policy of the Northern and Southern Huns.

Cao Xiang: "The worst strategy is so powerful, what about the middle strategy?"

Huo Hai: "Isn't it stipulated in the Han area that only children of good families can join the army? It is stipulated for the Xiongnu that only those who have made military achievements can be called Han. Those who have made military achievements can change their Han names and learn to speak Chinese, and their descendants can inherit the Han identity."

"As for women who can't fight, let them become laborers and contribute to the economy of the Han Empire."

This strategy was to give Xiongnu men two choices: either die, or help the Han Empire and make contributions, and then become Han citizens.

This policy looks the same as that of the Northern and Southern Huns, but in fact it is more powerful than that of the Northern and Southern Huns.

Because they bear the name of the Huns, even after a hundred or a thousand years, they will be treated differently and they will treat themselves differently, and they will eventually rebel.

Cao Xiang didn't understand the ins and outs of this, but he continued to ask, "What's the best strategy?"

Huo Hai looked into the distance and said, "The best strategy is to implement several strategies simultaneously, so that they have different destinies and are no longer the same group. For some of them, when they obtain Han Chinese identity, I will send them to mine coal for me... or even send them to Australia to raise cattle and sheep. They can only return to live in Han areas after ten years. By then, the money they earn will be just enough to buy the buildings I develop."

"By then, their grandchildren should be able to fight in America and Europe. Then, I'll make you the Marquis of Antarctica, and let you cool down."

Cao Xiang: ???
Which state is Australia in? Is it west of Yizhou or above Youzhou? It can't be overseas south of Yangzhou, right?

What kind of room is a building?

Cao Xiang was about to ask, but Huo Hai looked ahead and said, "My brother is here!"

(End of this chapter)