I am not Yuan Shu

Chapter 277 Yuan Shu's Package Plan
After Yuan Shu said this, Yuan Feng was slightly stunned.

Yes, they are no longer just a huge family with three dukes for four generations and a powerful and prestigious family holding great power. They are now the real rulers of this huge empire.

The central organs and violence machines of this huge empire were under their control, as were the strongest military forces, and even the emperor. With this as a basis, they could issue orders to the world and no one dared to disobey.

If there are those who really disobey, it will be equivalent to giving them an excuse to label them as rebels, and they can take the opportunity to send troops to attack them, kill them all, and then naturally seize the benefits that they could not get in the past.

Isn’t this the biggest advantage?
Yuan Feng pursed his lips and took a deep breath, as if he had just accepted this fact.

He couldn't help but cover his forehead and sighed.

"I'm old, old, my mind can't turn around, I'm still not used to it..."

"Father, we have been in charge of government for some time now, you should be used to it."

Yuan Shu shook his head and smiled, "Of course, we have to consider all aspects when governing the country, but if someone dares to resist our orders, we don't need to look back and forth at all. We can just label them as rebels and thieves in the name of the emperor. Naturally, they will lose on the moral ground first!"

Following Yuan Shu's words, Yuan Feng changed his thinking and found that if he looked at the problem in this way, this matter did not seem so unfeasible.

First of all, because the three states of You, Bing and Liang are located in the desolate north, agricultural development is limited, economic development is poor, and therefore cultural development is not good. There are no powerful families in these three places, and even a lack of scholar families, so naturally they have not been invaded by too many interest groups.

This means that most of the people in the three states are local powerful families, and lack core interests that are connected to the high-ranking officials in Luoyang, so that some central dignitaries will not challenge the status of the Yuan family for these interests.

Therefore, what the Yuan family had to face were actually the local people in the three states, and it was these local people that they had to subdue.

In addition, the foundation for the establishment of the Eastern Han Empire was the delicate political balance between the Luoyang court and local forces. According to the long-standing rules, local military and political leaders were arranged by the central government and could be parachuted in from other places.

The officials and clerks working under these top leaders must be locals and cannot be appointed from outside the area.

Most of the states and counties in the world are arranged in this way to balance the interests of the central and local governments. Only the three river areas and border counties do not need to refer to these rules.

The Sanhe area was the heartland of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which was equivalent to being directly under the central government. From the highest official to the clerk, outsiders could be appointed to positions, so the Luoyang court was able to quickly mobilize the Sanhe knights to launch a war.

As for the border troops, they do not have to follow this set of rules simply because of the bitter cold, danger, and the fact that local forces are often destroyed by war. If they had to follow this set of rules, there would probably be no shortage of military and political leaders, but there would be a large-scale shortage of clerks.

It’s unknown at some point that the local powerful families were wiped out by the Xianbei people who came from the north. All the literate people were killed, and the only ones left were illiterate peasants.

Will the peasants be used as assistant officials or clerks?

This is obviously impossible.

There are such border counties on both the north and south sides, but there are more in the north and relatively fewer in the south.

Most areas of the three states of You, Bing and Liang can be considered border counties.

This means that the military and political leaders and clerks of these border counties can be replaced by outsiders or even their own people. As long as Yuan Feng and Yuan Shu join forces and they are willing, then in terms of political power, these people can be guaranteed to follow Yuan's pace.

In this way, the government level of the three states of You, Bing and Liang can be stabilized first.

Then there are the local forces.

Without the government as their protective umbrella, these local tyrants don’t really think that the powerful dragon can’t suppress them, right?

The reason why the strong dragon cannot suppress the local snake is that, firstly, the strong dragon feels it is unnecessary, and secondly, local official positions are occasionally infiltrated and controlled by the local snakes, who then give all power to the local snakes rather than the strong dragon. As a pure outsider, it is not easy for the strong dragon to get things done.

If you really want to do it, nothing is impossible. Not to mention in the Han Empire, a classical country with an imperfect legal system, what would happen if a central official came to a border county with an army of 5,000 or 10,000 and said, "You all must listen to me. If you don't listen to me, I will kill you."

It's clear at a glance.

it goes without saying.

As a result, Yuan Feng's attitude also changed.

Yuan Shu noticed this sign and began to talk about his own package plan.

He planned to start from Bingzhou, which was the closest to Luoyang, and implement his plan from Bingzhou. He would replace the main officials of all seven counties in Bingzhou except Taiyuan and Shangdang with his own people to ensure his absolute control over Bingzhou, and then start from Bingzhou to implement the plan of building a defense line based on cities and farms and conducting active defense.

The specific approach was to gather local residents and refugees in various counties of Bingzhou, and use his previous experience to build production units with strong defensive capabilities - Liangzhuang. In terms of site selection, he focused on connecting Liangzhuang and the city as closely as possible to keep traffic between them unobstructed.

The purpose of this move was to concentrate the population and materials, to gather together and safeguard all resources that might become the target of looting by the Xianbei people, and to protect them with cities and defensive farms to prevent them from succeeding easily.

In the farm, the population was concentrated for production and military training was carried out at the same time. Everything was modeled after the good farm model, integrating soldiers with farmers, and a small number of troops were stationed there as military instructors. They were given sufficient weapons, and gradually everyone in the border counties of Bingzhou was able and dared to fight.

As for the troops brought by Yuan Shu, they were mainly stationed in important cities and passes, overhauling city defenses, strengthening defense capabilities, and ensuring that these strategic locations were not lost.

When the Xianbei people moved south, they found that all the people and things they needed were concentrated in cities and farms, and had considerable defensive capabilities. The Xianbei people, who mainly relied on light cavalry, had to either dismount and fight on foot or give up.

If they chose to dismount and fight on foot and give up their best cavalry tactics, Yuan Shu would be more than happy to engage in a city attack and defense battle with them. Even if they also had some siege equipment, it didn't matter. He would definitely beat them until they were bloody.

If they choose to give up and continue to move south to try to plunder more inland areas, it means that they will move away from the grassland and deep into Han territory. In this case, Yuan Shu will lead the cavalry out of the city to fight and engage in a mobile confrontation with them in Bingzhou, which is vast and sparsely populated.

"It was fine before, but now that it has come to this, isn't it a little dangerous?"

Yuan Feng frowned and asked, "If we just want to defend the city and concentrate manpower and resources to prevent the barbarians from plundering, your method is still somewhat useful, but if we have to face off head-on, it will be quite dangerous."

Yuan Shu shook his head.

"Father, over the years, have the Xianbei people ever invaded the interior of China?"

"That's not true."

"Their purpose is not to occupy land, but to plunder people and materials. They don't have a large population, so one death is one less. This means that when they go south to plunder, they will not fight a head-on battle with us as their main purpose. To put it bluntly, we have more people and can afford to die, but they have fewer people and cannot afford to die."

Yuan Shu clenched his fist and said in a cold voice: "Based on our experience over the years, they only sent 30,000 to 40,000 people to plunder the south at most. If they didn't have the intention of attacking cities and encroaching on territory, it's impossible for them to send out 100,000 people.

So I estimated that as long as I could command 10,000 cavalry and give me 20,000 infantry, then in one or two years, I would be able to wipe out the Xianbei people in Bingzhou. When they saw the border of Bingzhou, their legs would tremble and they would never dare to come to Bingzhou to plunder again.

If Bingzhou can solve this problem, it will prove that this model can be used by Liangzhou and Youzhou, and promoted in the border counties of Liangzhou and Youzhou. In this way, in another three or four years, it will be inevitable to march north to the grasslands and completely solve the Xianbei problem! "

When Yuan Feng heard Yuan Shu was so confident, he couldn't help but feel excited.

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, the threat from the north has always existed. Except for a few years when the Han Dynasty was too strong and there was no threat from the northern border, most of the time, this threat was as unbearable as a thorn in the flesh.

The border suffers losses every year, people die every year, and a heavy price is paid for this every year!
If this scourge could be solved, how much money would the court save?

(End of this chapter)