Longxi County and the eastern pass, such as the former Hangu Pass, followed by Tongguan, Tiger Pass, Lantian Pass, and Yaoguan, are all the gateways of Guanzhong.
Compared with the pass established by the topography of mountains and rivers in the east of Guanzhong, the west and northwest sides of Guanzhong are almost flat, and it is difficult to have any dangerous terrain.
The regime that set its capital in Chang'an attached the most importance to the security of the east, because the east was the Central Plains.
The Central Plains has always been densely populated and well-built, no matter what the pass is, those passes are the barrier of the capital, preventing the Central Plains from quickly entering the pass after the turmoil, and the capital is not given time to prepare.
Since the annexation of Yiqu by the pre-Qin Dynasty, there are few factors that can cause chaos in the northwest of Guanzhong, and it is because the Qiang people have descended the plateau to entrench themselves in the northwest, and there is a new threat to the west of Chang'an in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The Qiang rebellion plagued the Eastern Han Dynasty for more than a hundred years, and the Qiang people rebelled again and again, and the northwest was a quagmire for a certain period of time, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the Eastern Han Dynasty was dragged down by the Qiang chaos.
Why didn't the Eastern Han Dynasty build the Great Wall as a guardrail to defend the grassland nomads, it was because the prefectures and counties where the Qiang Rebellion broke out were the territory of the Han Dynasty, how could there be a reason to build the Great Wall and give up their own territory, and then the finances of the Eastern Han Dynasty have not been very good, that is, they are willing to cut off the territory and do not have the financial resources to build the Great Wall.
Longxi County was originally the border of the Han family, and then to the west is a basin with a wide range.
That basin was actually in the hands of the Han family, but it was not controlled for a long time.
To the west of the basin is the plateau, which is an absolutely unfamiliar territory of the Han family, since the beginning of the Zhuxia, to the fall of the Han Dynasty, basically no one has set foot on the plateau.
There are different races in the basin, which are classified as Qiang, and the real meaning of Qiang is a group of shepherds herding sheep, and the reason why it will become a nation is the definition given by Zhu Xia, who has the right to name the nation and the right to record history.
It is not wrong to say that Zhuxia has the right to name the nation, because the Central Plains Dynasty is strong, and the strong can give the weak a name, saying who is what clan, even if that tribe does not recognize it, then it will be recognized until it is recognized, or it will be destroyed directly and then the coffin will be closed.
In terms of the right to record history, there are quite a lot of ethnic groups in the forest of nations in the world, but there are few people like Zhuxia who use words to record their own history or that of other peoples.
Whoever records history in writing, I don't know how long it will take for future generations to see it, they are afraid that only by building a time machine can they see with their own eyes what happened in ancient times, or they have to believe what their ancestors recorded, and there is no means to authenticate the historical record at all.
"The Qiang people have plagued the Han family for hundreds of years, and there are still legacy disasters."
Liu Yan was one of those who thought that the Eastern Han Dynasty was dragged down by the Qiang Rebellion, not to mention that he also knew what role the Qiang people played during the Wuhu Rebellion.
He was riding on a horse, surrounded by ministers and generals, and envoys from foreign countries, and said in a cold voice: "Don't make it come back." ” Xie An had to turn over and dismount, respectfully salute and promise: "The minister will sweep away this disaster" Longxi County is very large, basically a flat grassland, and has been one of the breeding places for shepherding military horses since ancient times.
In the pre-Qin period of ancient times, Daqin built a horse farm in the Longxi Plain to ensure that the chariot had a majestic horse to pull the cart, the knight rode across the horse to ride, and even the logistics baggage was not lacking in animal power, and even the people could have enough horses to pull the plow.
The pre-Qin use of horses to pull plows is not a joke, there are quite a lot of documents have recorded that the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States countries generally used horse-drawn plows for farming, and cattle were not the only livestock for farming.
There are far more peoples and countries that use horses as their main animal power for agriculture than oxen, especially the more powerful the empire, the more common it is for them to use war horses for farming.
This is a very simple truth, the cavalry of cold weapons is equivalent to modern armored force, and even the people have enough horses for farming, so how can the army lack war horses.
Nowadays, there are many countries that use horses as the main animal power for farming, especially the number of powerful countries, all of which mainly use ploughs.
For example, Rome did not attach importance to cavalry, but the Romans mainly relied on horses for agricultural animal power.
For example, the Persians who were entrenched in Central Asia as the overlord, whether it was the powerful Parthia or the Sassanid Dynasty today, as long as they crossed the agricultural records, they basically saw the horse-drawn plow.
Of course, the use of horses as the main animal power in agriculture is not the use of many horses, but actually related to the geological landscape and what kind of food is grown.
For example, for example, in most areas of the Central Plains, horses are of course more suitable, but if they are south of the Yangtze River, they are not suitable, that is, cattle are more suitable for farming in the mud than horses, and the consideration is not speed, but the durability and strength of animal power.
It is obviously not appropriate to let Indochina use horses as the main agricultural animal force, and the legs and hooves of animals are destined to be more adapted to what environment, and forcibly reversing it is only painful.
In today's Han Kingdom, horses are mostly used as the main animal power for agriculture in the north, and cattle are used in the south, which is a geographical limitation.
There is no shortage of pastures in the Han Kingdom, the grasslands north of Yanmen County are under the control of the Han people, the north of Bohai County has also been a breeding ground for horses since ancient times, and there is Longxi County, which has been used by Zhuxia for a long time, and the Han people have too many places to graze.
Xie An said that he wanted to eliminate the remnants of the Qiang and Di people in his area of responsibility, referring to those who were still resisting, and not targeting the rest of the place.
The Han Kingdom now has a population of nearly 18 million, and in fact, not all of them are authentic Zhuxia and Miao descendants, many of them are actually Sinicized Hu people, or Hu people who are trying to be good Han people in order to survive.
In the Han Kingdom, it is not that they say that they are Han people, they are really Han people, living habits are one thing, language is a big test, that is a system of mutual supervision, which leads to the development of time, even if they are not Han people, they will be Han people in the long run.
There are clear data that since the Hu people destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty, the real Han people north of the Yangtze River have been repeatedly reduced, and before Liu Yan destroyed the Shijie Zhao State, the official population registration of the Shijie Zhao State was only about 3.15 million.
This population is actually quite unreliable.
The population registration of Shijie Zhao is mainly in the major cities, and there is definitely no registration for people outside the city, which means that the vast majority of people do not appear on the official population register.
Every time the Han State conquered a place and settled down a little, the first thing it did was to carry out population registration, which ended with a series of censuses and registrations after the Han State destroyed the Shijie Zhao State, and the population at the beginning was about 7 million.
There are no more than 3 million people who are really Han Chinese, which means that there are 4 million people who think they are Han people on the premise of refusing to be killed as Han Chinese.
The Han state has an indulgent attitude towards the phenomenon of impersonation, as long as there is no blood on the hands of Han people, and on the contrary, the willingness to become a Han is welcome.
The Qiang and Di people are more sinicized than the rest of the Hu people, before the Shijie Zhao State did not fall, quite a lot of Qiang and Di people are actually more like Han people than Han people, that is, they feel that the Han civilization is very high, big, and high, and they feel that they want to have a little self-cultivation after being generous, and they are demanding themselves with the etiquette and values of Han civilization.
Liu Yan did not reject the Hu people who thought they were Han Chinese, if he had not interfered, quite a few Hu people during the Wuhu Rebellion would have sinicized themselves, and they really became Han people later.
And the main reason why he didn't interfere was that there were only so many Han people left in the Central Plains, counting the four or five million under the rule of the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the historical record was five million and four million, and there were so many when it was full, and it was really going to become one less number, one people, and one tribe.
The current Han Kingdom is in a process of integration, resulting in almost all the skills it has, and it has become the national characteristic of mastering both farming and herding in the pre-Qin period in ancient times.
Another point that must be admitted is that precisely because they are called Han people but their composition is complex, a large part of them are not familiar with agriculture at all, in addition to grazing, joining the army has become a single option for quite a few people, maintaining the supplement of the Han army.
"The widow doesn't want to hear the news of this disobedience in the next year."
"No" According to Ji Chang's plan, the first stage is that Guanzhong must have a population of at least two million or more, and the people who have migrated will not all be resettled in Chang'an, or will they be diverted to various counties.
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In Ji Chang's migration plan, the relocation of people to a certain place opened a door of constraints, that is, about the preferential distribution of land.
Han Guo has been making preparations for abolishing the poll tax, and while no longer collecting the poll tax, it has fully adopted the method of collecting taxes on production.
Abolishing the poll tax is, of course, Liu Yan's idea, and he is always looking forward to the greater number of Han people, preferably hundreds of millions or even billions of Han people in the blink of an eye, and that is impossible.
The abolition of the poll tax would certainly have led to a faster increase in population, which he knew was the product of "a whip law", but he had no intention of using it.
The Han State's use of Longxi County is almost none, that is, there are not many people in Longxi County itself, and the future Han army must be to enter the Western Regions, re-bring the Western Regions under rule, and re-use the grasslands of Longxi County need to be put on the agenda.
The army has a tendency to supply nearby, the closer the supply base is, the better, and the convenience of the grain, ordnance and other systems naturally does not matter when Liu Yan is still alive, but the war horses needed by the military cannot always rely on the north of Yanmen County or the east of Shan1, which is thousands of miles away, In this way, the pastures of Longxi County are quite important for the Han army to step into the Western Regions.
Xie An is naturally under pressure to eliminate the enemy within a year, and it is more of a motivation.
He is still the general of Zhengxi, although he is only one order away from the general of Zhengxi, but this level is undoubtedly a moat-like existence.
In fact, Xie An has fully understood that there must be a reason for the time limit given by the king, sweeping away the nearby enemies and reusing Longxi County, everything is a prelude to the march into the Western Regions, which means that he is closer to touching the seal of the general Zhengxi.
Of course, Liu Yan wants to enter the Western Regions, he knows better than anyone in the Han Kingdom, whether the Western Regions have been re-incorporated into the mastery is definitely a watershed for the Central Plains Dynasty, and the Central Plains Dynasty that does not control the Western Regions is not an empire, only the Western Regions are ruled in the true sense of the empire, and the past dynasties are no more than that.
The significance of whether or not to control the Western Regions is very complicated, not only the question of soldiers, but also the key to the Central Plains Dynasty's influence on the outside world.
A strong country should not think that it is a strong country behind closed doors, but should be able to influence the will of its neighboring countries, spread its influence far and wide, and make the lord of a country tremble even by relying on fame alone.
Furthermore, whether the people of the Celestial Empire want to or not, they all take whether the current dynasty can control the distant Western Regions as an assessment, and if they can control the Western Regions, they will have strong self-confidence, and if they can't control the Western Regions, they will not think that they are a strong country and a people.
Liu Yan would ask Xie An for a deadline, which was a kind of self-esteem on his part.
When he was communicating with Kianush Arta Ardashir, he was stimulated by a sentence.
Of course, Kianush Arta Ardashir did not dare to be presumptuous to Liu Yan, and he did not even dare to have any disrespectful behavior, and the slightest mistake was the beginning of the war between the two countries.
He asked some questions during the conversation, and said in a confused tone, "I have sent troops to the credibility, but I didn't expect that the Han Empire has not yet taken back the Western Regions", that's all.
What is "original" and what is "take back", isn't it that the first Han has always controlled the Western Regions since defeating the Xiongnu, even Cao Wei in a divided state has control over the Western Regions, that is, the Sima family also controlled the Western Regions before they lost the Central Plains, and now this awesome Han State has not recovered the Western Regions Don't speculate about what the intentions of Kianus Arta Ardashir are, but that sentence really embarrassed Liu Yan, everything is still Liu Yan knows that the Western Regions is a façade, not only the façade of the Zhuxia and Miao descendants, but also the basis for distant countries to judge whether the Central Plains Dynasty is really strong.
Of course, Liu Yan will not attack the Western Regions because of a sentence, governing the country is never based on emotions alone to formulate national policies, there are other factors, such as the Fu Hongsuo Department sheltered in the Western High Carriage has already entered the Western Regions, and then the countries in the Western Regions are forming an alliance to resist the comeback of the Han Chinese.
In the final analysis, the current Han State has just stabilized for a long time, and it is impossible to say that the people's will is fully subordinate, and then there are too many fake Han people, and the Han State is of course stable under its absolute strength, but if there is no way for the Han State to take some enemies, those people who are dormant should engage in the east and west.
Facing a large-scale natural disaster, the Han State could not withstand the toss, and it was difficult to raise the butcher's knife internally, "It is better to kill 3,000 by mistake than to let one person go", so the only way to raise the war knife is to face a clear enemy
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