"Your Majesty, what a slave" Zheng Shanguo was shocked by Zhang Chao's generosity, a common man from the Central Plains immigrated to the Caucasus, and he actually gave 200 acres of land and a slave for nothing.
Divide the fields and mountains or something, Zheng Shanguo doesn't think there is anything, anyway, they are all those barbarians, and their land is distributed to the Han immigrants, and the court is not distressed.
But slaves are expensive.
Land is worthless, but slaves are hard currency everywhere these days, second only to gold.
From the Mediterranean to Jianghan, wherever slaves are valuable, very valuable.
"Without the plane tree, you can't attract the golden phoenix."
Zhang Chao doesn't care, slaves are indeed expensive, but how expensive is it, this thing is like money, as long as the money is spent in the right place, then Zhang Chao never cares about spending money.
Money, put it there and save it, in fact, it is not worth any money, only when it is used, can it reflect its value.
The imperial court was to take over the Caucasus, to control the Caucasus, a Caucasus that connected the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea, and was also the gateway to Western Asia and Southern Europe.
It is also a passage between Central Asia and the Middle East.
For Dahua, controlling the Caucasus is equivalent to choking Arabia by the throat, and even pushing a sword against the back of Europe.
Such a place must be in your hands.
But conquest by force alone is not enough.
After the defeat, you still have to rule and occupy, relying on those indigenous barbarians alone, it will not last long, there is a powder keg, when there are no outsiders, they themselves can fight for thousands of years.
There is a very distinctive way for China to expand its territory, that is, to open up immigrants.
Relying on the strong reproduction ability of the Han family and relying on the population advantage, it expanded.
At the beginning, China only occupied the Yellow River Basin, and later expanded to the downstream Huai River Basin, then the Han River Basin, then the Yangtze River Basin, and then to Lingnan.
The history of China, in fact, is a history of pioneering, conquest and colonization, which is just a little bit of cannibalization, not swallowing.
Only immigrants can truly keep the Caucasus in the hands of Dahua permanently.
Only by choking the Caucasus and then controlling the three seas can Dahua firmly grasp the vast western frontier.
"Anyway, this time we have to make a few big moves in the Caucasus, first with power and then grace, and with both grace and power, so that those barbarians can know how powerful and know how to surrender.
Those who refused to accept were cut down, and then they were reduced to slaves and sent directly to the Han people who came to immigrate. ” "Your Majesty, this is another separation."
Li Jing sincerely admired Zhang Chao's strategy.
This was a great division of the title of no knighthood, and the use of extensive land and slaves to attract Han people to immigrate.
Those Han people who immigrated to the Han people, dragged their families with them, and then the imperial court sent them a batch of slaves, holding a large amount of land in their hands, and almost every family was equivalent to a large manor, equivalent to a landlord or lord.
It's just that compared to the lords who confer knighthoods, they don't have titles, they can't enjoy the treatment of nobility, they can't be exempt from taxes, etc., but in this way, they can indeed attract people who are willing to come to this distant Caucasus.
On the other hand, this kind of manor of land can give the immigrant people a stronger ability to keep their family business and cultivate it.
This model was more advantageous to the imperial court than to grant land directly to the nobility, as the court had more control and more taxes.
Although the power of the nobility was limited, the nobility still enjoyed many economic and political privileges in the fiefdom.
"Of course, if there are those barbarians who are more knowledgeable about current affairs, we don't have to fight them.
For those who are familiar with the general situation of the times, we can confer official positions and lands on them, and include them in our Dahua system, so that they can also become registered subjects. ” Qin Qiong also expressed her opinion.
"We should encourage the soldiers of the army stationed here to bring their families and friends.
The soldiers were given land and their families to be given land, so that the soldiers could see their relatives more often and would be better able to defend the land. ” This is similar to a military canton.
Generally speaking, Zhang Chao is not very supportive of this method.
Dahua's army is not a government army, but a standing army, the soldiers are mainly non-commissioned officers and conscripts, and the conscripts are iron-clad battalion soldiers, and even Dahua's armies are actually not completely fixed.
Every few years, the armies change their locations, and the generals often switch places.
This is to avoid the army being in one place for a long time, and the connection with the local area is not clear, or even the generals have been in the army for a long time, which will form a mountain.
The transfer of garrisons and the exchange of generals are all for the stability of the army and for the good tempering of all armies.
It is not possible to be very elite because the army on a certain side has been preparing for war or fighting for a long time, and in some places because there has been no pressure of war for a long time, the result is that it will become sluggish and erosive over time.
This will lead to an imbalance in the army, for example, in history, the northern army is mostly stronger than the southern army, and once something happens to the northern army, even if the southern army is transferred, it will not be able to check and balance.
Because of the current system of adjustment and defense, it is very inconvenient to let the family members of the army accompany the army.
"You can confer knighthood and samurai titles on meritorious soldiers, give them estates and villages, and let their families come over to run them."
"If you want to run the Caucasus well, I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money."
Zheng Shanguo calculated in his heart and felt that the expenses for immigrants and garrisons would definitely not be small.
"Money is a bastard, spend it and earn it.
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Besides, the imperial court has not made less money over the years, both taxes and trade, and gold and silver, and the treasury is full.
In the past, we used the money to build roads and rivers, build education, increase investment in health education, and expand equipment.
In fact, the money has come full circle, and it is also taken from the people and used for the people. ” "Now we are investing a huge amount of money in the Caucasus, in the short term, the investment is huge, but in the long run, this money is not spent in vain."
Instead of having money to build palaces and enjoy them, it is really better to use them for expansion and colonization.
Just as the old peasants in the past thought that they had land and wealth, the country is actually the same, and the territory is also fundamental.
No matter how poor the land is, it will not be superfluous.
The Caucasus is not as fertile as the land south of the Yangtze River, but it is strategically located here.
The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Tianzhu Continent cannot be said to be unimportant.
"If in ten years, we can move 50 to 1 million Han people to the Caucasus and take root, then it can be said that the Caucasus will always be our Han family, and no one will be able to snatch it from us."
There are hundreds of thousands of indigenous barbarians in the Caucasus, but the barbarians are a plate of loose sand.
But the Han people are different, there are a million Han people, and they can really turn the Caucasus into a Han family land, into a new Taihang Mountain or a new Qinling Mountains.
Zhang Chao has this kind of self-confidence.
Shuo Fang.
The Wang family is in a meeting.
The old king sat cross-legged on the kang, still holding the big pipe, since the rise of this tobacco from the Americas a few years ago, the old king also completely liked this mouthful.
He is used to suffering when he is a child, and he is not the kind of person who has good food in his mouth.
Usually, if there are no guests at home, he is reluctant to even make a pot of broken tea, let alone like some people, he often gets some snacks to eat.
The family doesn't worry about food, but Lao Wang eats porridge every morning and evening, and only eats dry rice at noon.
As for eating meat, it is only eaten once a week.
Only this tobacco leaf, he tasted it once and liked it.
Anyway, I have planted a small piece of tobacco at home, and I can smoke more than I can, and I can sell it at the market for money.
"I still mean that, I don't agree.
Why can't I stay at home well, whether I have no food or no clothes, I have to go all the way to the Caucasus, I have inquired, the Caucasus is far away.
There must be 20,000 miles away, and my old man has buried the people around his neck, and the farthest door in his life has never been 200 miles away from home.
Good guy, I have to be 20,000 miles away from home this time, how long will I have to walk on this road, can I get there in three or five years?"
Wang Dafu was sitting there rolling a cigarette, and he also smoked, but he was not used to smoking a pipe, but smoked with paper cigarettes.
"Dad, more than 20,000 miles is true, but it's not as mysterious as you say, why don't you have to walk for three or five years.
What's more, in fact, we don't go by land, we go by water.
The people in the yamen told me that we would first take a boat to Chang'an, then go to Hanjing via Danba Road, and then go down the Han River into the Yangtze River until Yangzhou entered the sea, and then took a sea boat instead. ” "Why do I get more and more confused the more I listen, isn't that Caucasus to the west, why are we still going east, boss, you won't be deceived, don't be deceived to be a piglet."
"Dad, look at what you said, I am such a big person can still be deceived, and this is a notice from the official office, the bright red seal, the official documents of the court, and the emperor's edict."
The eldest grandson of the family, who was only ten years old, spoke at this time, "Grandfather, it is right that the Caucasus is to the west of us, but it is also right to go east. ” "Isn't this the opposite, how is it right?"
"Grandfather, the world we live in is a big earth, and our teacher taught it in geography class for a long time.
As long as we move forward and keep walking, theoretically one day we will return to the original point.
So if we go east, we can also get to the Caucasus.
But we don't all go east, first east to the sea, then to the south by sea, then to the west after the South Sea, through the Xindu Ocean and then to the Red Sea, through the Suez Canal into the Mediterranean, then into the Black Sea, and then east to the west coast of the Caucasus. ” The old king was confused, and he didn't understand it at all, but he only knew that the Caucasus was really very far away.
"You'll have to sit on this sea for a long time."
"It will be there in about half a year."
"Drifting on the sea for half a year" the old king's face changed, he had never seen the sea in his life, he only knew that the sea was boundless, and he actually had to drift on the sea for half a year.
"I don't care, I firmly don't agree to go anyway."
"Dad, I have already signed up, and I have discussed it with my daughter-in-law and children, they are all willing to go to the Caucasus with me, although our family does not worry about eating and drinking these days, but now in this world, who will be cold and hungry.
You have never been far away, if you go to the provincial capital, go to Chang'an, see the people there, and see the lives of others.
We have a chance now, and it would be a shame not to hurry. ” Lao Wang picked up the cigarette stick and knocked it heavily on the table, "I'm not going." ” Wang Dafu was also anxious, "Anyway, I'm going to decide, it's okay if my father doesn't go, the son will go by himself."
It's just that in the future, I can't do my filial piety. ” The other sons of the Wang family also wanted to go, but after the old king's knife-like gaze scraped on the faces of the three sons, all three of them lowered their heads. t1706231537: