Chapter 1093 Leeks(2/2)
The clan members must move to Pingcheng.
But it’s not just leaving, there will be compensation.
"Brother, don't worry. When Cao Cao moved our people to Taiyuan, he didn't give us any benefits."
"If someone is really willing to pay a high price to move us, how can we take the opportunity to raise the price?"
Liu Hun didn't explain too much, just nodded:
"hope so."
The Hu people in Liangzhou thought the same way at first.
But later on, there were some people who could have benefited, but in the end they became laborers.
Because they find that the benefits are too easy to obtain, they want to get more.
Liu Hun followed Feng Junhou for more than a day or two.
As the Han Dynasty continued to win over the years, Feng Junhou's attitude towards the Hu people became more and more obvious: Shunchang would perish in reverse.
To say it's good, it's really good.
The various tribes were divided into pastures, and each family was not allowed to cross the boundary to go to other families' pastures. How many disputes were reduced?
They even arranged for barbarians to work in the workshop, and everyone's life was obviously much better.
But when it comes to ruthlessness, it is really ruthless.
Anyone who disobeys will either be exterminated or become a labor force.
Kebineng's tens of thousands of fine knights were slaughtered at will without batting an eye.
And my current clan members, including all the young and old, are probably only in the tens of thousands.
As the little prince of the clan, he naturally did not want to see his clan members making Feng Junhou furious because of their greed for petty gains.
Feng Junhou's actions always reminded Liu Hun of the legendary attitude of the emperors of the Han Dynasty towards the northern and southern Xiongnu.
The power of the Han Dynasty has probably been engraved in the bones of the Southern Huns.
Liu Meng did not have the insight of Liu Hun, so he naturally did not have such complicated thoughts.
He got the answer he wanted from Liu Hun, and finally stood up with satisfaction:
"This matter is of great importance. I will go and talk to several Qu commanders in the clan right away, so as not to miss the big deal later."
"So good."
Since it was decided to move the Hu people from Taiyuan and Xihe counties to Pingcheng, it was naturally impossible for Feng Junhou to return in Jinyang City.
He first asked the Hu cavalry to return to their tribes to prepare for migration, and then asked Liu Hun to lead three thousand fine cavalry to accompany him out of the fortress to inspect Pingcheng.
In fact, excluding Jiuyuan, the largest plain basin in Bingzhou is actually the Pingcheng Basin north of Yanmen Fortress (the Datong Basin in later generations).
It's just that although the Pingcheng Basin is a dangerous terrain, there are too many breakthroughs around it, allowing the northern grassland barbarians to enter at will.
Otherwise, Han Wangxin would not have easily surrendered to the Huns, and Emperor Gaozu would not have been surrounded by Bai Deng near Pingcheng.
Therefore, the geographical environment of the Pingcheng Basin is actually far inferior to that of the Jincheng Basin (i.e. Taiyuan Basin) guarded by Yanmen Fortress.
When the Han Dynasty was strong, it also built a fortress at the northern mountain pass of Pingcheng.
However, with the decline of the Han Dynasty's national power, the pass north of Pingcheng had to be abandoned and another pass built at a dangerous location near Yanmen.
The vast Pingcheng Basin could only be given to the Hu people to herd horses and sheep, and at the same time let them serve as the frontier of the Han border.
"Alang, aren't we here to inspect Pingcheng? Why are we still heading north?"
To everyone's surprise, after Feng Junhou arrived in Pingcheng, he had no intention of checking around Pingcheng.
He only stayed in Pingcheng for one day, and then directly led his troops to continue north.
"Don't worry, Sir, my teacher's book records that from Yanmensai to Pingcheng, the ground is full of coal."
"As for where is the most suitable place for mining, I actually don't know. When the miners from Nanxiang arrive, I will check it out and then decide."
Feng Junhou explained with a smile, "I came here this time mainly to see the north side of Pingcheng."
"Alang wants to rebuild the pass at the mountain pass?"
When General Guan heard what Feng Junhou said, he immediately guessed what he was thinking.
"Yep."
Of course, there is another meaning, which is to visit the place where Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty was besieged.
When I passed through Pingcheng last year, I was pressed for time and I just passed by in a hurry.
This time, to put it bluntly, it was the literary youthful sentiments of the literati and poets.
"Now on the Han border, except for Xianbei and Wuhuan in Liaodong north of Youzhou, I'm afraid there are no barbarians who can threaten the Han border, right?"
General Guan didn’t quite understand:
"If we rebuild the fort, I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money and food."
Feng Junhou shook his head:
"It doesn't happen now, but that doesn't mean it won't happen in the future."
He looked towards the far north, "I talked with Xie Guini. He followed Kebineng to escape to the north of the desert and met the Gaoche people."
"High-car man?"
When General Guan heard this, he couldn't help but feel a little confused, "What is a high-car person?"
"The Hu people who are further north than the Xianbei people like to use cattle and horses to carry tall carts on the grassland, so they are called Gaocha by the Xianbei people."
"When the Northern Xiongnu disappeared, the Xianbei people came from the north and occupied the desert."
"Now that the power of the Xianbei people is weakening, the Gaoche people in the north will definitely move south."
As the Little Ice Age continues, the barbarians from the north will only swarm southward.
To put it bluntly, as long as the Han people did not bring the northern grasslands under their management, the barbarians on the northern grasslands would pop up one after another like leeks.
And even if Feng Junhou knew this, there was nothing he could do to stop it.
After all, the population base of the Han Dynasty is only so small now. It would be a great blessing to be able to hold on to the original territory.
The most important thing is that productivity is there.
Only by raising productivity to a certain height and forming a sufficient number of people in the industrial class can qualitative changes occur in the Han Dynasty.
Only the Han Dynasty had the ability to bring the grassland into effective management. Otherwise, there would be no way to break through the dividing line between nomadism and farming set by nature.
General Guan did not have such a lofty vision, but she always believed in Feng Junhou's judgment.
When I heard Feng Junhou's words at this time, my first reaction was not worry, but my eyes lit up:
"So, wouldn't Pingcheng's new city have a steady stream of labor?"
As soon as these words came out, not only Li Mu suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Chapter completed!