webnovelvip Chapter 421 Unbelievable
Chapter 421 Unbelievable
Chapter 421 Unbelievable
"I wonder what His Majesty thinks of the nomads?" Lin Xuan asked rhetorically.
Li Shimin was slightly taken aback, and pondered: "The lack of enlightenment of the nomads is the weakness of my Tang Dynasty. In order to stabilize the future of the Tang Dynasty, the strength of the nomads must be weakened."
"Your Majesty only thinks about weakening? Didn't you think about solving the problem of nomads once and for all?" Lin Xuan asked.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with describing nomads with gangrene.
In the thousands of years of history of the Chinese nation, the conflicts between nomads and Central Plains dynasties have never stopped.
"I am sure to destroy the Western Turks and Xue Yantuo, but it is impossible to solve the problem of nomads once and for all," Li Shimin said.
The strength of the Han Dynasty caused the Xiongnu to continue to divide and eventually perish.
But the problem of nomads on the steppes remains unresolved.
When the Xiongnu perished, there was the Xianbei, and when the Xianbei perished, there were the Turks.
Khitan, Mongolia, Manchu and so on appeared later.
Although these ethnic groups are constantly changing, the conflict with the Central Plains dynasty has always been there.
The origin of this conflict is the cultural conflict between the two living conditions.
The culture of ancient Chinese Central Plains dynasties was farming culture, and the geographically closed small-scale peasant economy model lasted for thousands of years. The unified dynasty emphasized agriculture and suppressed business, suppressed Han farmers from engaging in commerce, and was exploited for farming peacefully on the land.
In order to maintain this kind of rule, the dynasties of all dynasties have instilled in the people the ideas of loyalty to the emperor, patriotism, propriety, righteousness, honesty and shame.
The nomads are different. Because of the harsh living environment and frequent wars, the nomads pursue the respect of the strong.
If nomads encounter natural disasters and food is not enough, they will choose to let the elderly starve to death and give the limited food to the young and strong.
Father and son and brothers died, and they lived to marry their wives to be their wives.
These practices are unacceptable to the Central Plains dynasty, which pays attention to propriety, justice, integrity and shame.
Therefore, the Central Plains dynasty regarded the nomads as aliens. In the eyes of the Han people, the nomads were barbaric and vulgar.
But in essence, the political model and social ethics culture of the nomads are for the survival of the race.
Nomads make a living by grazing animals, and in case of disaster, they can only plunder.
Coupled with the sparse population, there is a situation where the father dies and the son can even inherit the father's woman.
The culture and living environment created the different ideology of the Central Plains Dynasty and the nomads.
This kind of ideology made it impossible for the Central Plains dynasty and nomadic people to live in peace.
When the Central Plains dynasty is strong, it will think about weakening the strength of the nomads.
When the Central Plains dynasty declined, it would be invaded by nomads.
"Your Majesty, the only way to solve the problem of nomads once and for all is to occupy the grassland," Lin Xuan said.
The root cause of the Central Plains dynasty's inability to solve the problem of nomads was that they did not occupy the grassland.
Whenever there is a gap in the power of the grassland, many small tribes will come to the grassland to develop slowly.
The world will be divided for a long time, and it will be divided for a long time. This sentence is equally valid for the nomads on the grasslands.
Some people will fight, and over time, a new nation will be born in the grassland.
This is also the reason why the nomads are the gangrene of the Central Plains dynasty.
To solve this situation, the only way is to occupy the grassland.
"Do you know why the past dynasties did not occupy the grassland? Don't they know that occupying the grassland can solve the nomadic people once and for all?" Li Shimin asked.
Lin Xuan nodded and said: "Because the grasslands are grazing and there is no fixed place to live, the people of the Central Plains Dynasty can't adapt to it at all. Even if they occupy it, there is no sense for the court to station a large number of troops there. Another reason is that it is not cost-effective. Occupation The grasslands can't bring much tax to the imperial court, but need the imperial court's support."
If you want to occupy the grassland, you have to move a large number of people there. For the people, it is hard to leave their homeland.
If the situation is turbulent and the people cannot live, in order to survive, some people may be willing to go.
And when the Central Plains Dynasty can occupy the grassland, it must be when the Central Plains Dynasty is strong, and naturally no one wants to go.
Without people, if you want to occupy the grassland, you can only station a large number of troops in the grassland.
Garrisoning troops at a long distance without receiving taxes is likely to drag the court down.
One of the most important reasons is to occupy the grasslands and not receive any taxes.
In order to survive, the nomads would come to the Central Plains dynasty to plunder. Could it be that the Han people would be self-sufficient if they went there?
The imperial court spent a lot of effort to relocate the people there, not to mention not receiving taxes, but also requiring the imperial court's support, which is not worthwhile at all.
The combination of all the reasons led to the fact that even though the Central Plains Dynasty eliminated the grassland forces, they could not occupy them.
After the nomads recover, they will continue to invade the Central Plains Dynasty, which is tantamount to falling into a vicious circle.
"Since you know, why do you still say that?" Li Shimin asked a little strangely.
He originally thought that Lin Xuan didn't know the reason. Since Lin Xuan knew, why would he propose to occupy the grassland?
Lin Xuan said with a smile: "If you want to solve the grassland problem once and for all, you must occupy the grassland. If you want to occupy the grassland, you must let the people have land to plant in the grassland. As long as this problem can be solved, there will be no worries about no people going there."
Homeland is hard to leave?It's just not attractive enough.
If the people are willing to go, they will share [-] mu of land, and you can see if anyone is willing to go.
The ancient people's desire for land far exceeds that of their homeland.
"Impossible. The land in the grassland is not suitable for planting. What's the use of allocating more land?" Li Shimin said.
If the grassland could be planted, the Central Plains Dynasty would have occupied it long ago.
"Your Majesty, it's not that the grassland cannot be planted, it's just that we haven't found suitable crops. I have something that can be planted on the grassland." Lin Xuan said surprisingly.
Although the grassland is not always cultivated in all places, as long as it can occupy the part of the future Inner Mongolia, it is enough.
"What?" Li Shimin stood up in shock, his breathing a little short.
If there are really crops that can be grown in the grassland, then the grassland can really be occupied.
Why did he always want to attack Goguryeo?
The purpose is to expand the territory.
Although part of the reason is because he wanted to do what Yang Guang failed to do.
But the most important thing is to expand the territory.
Although he made great contributions to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan was the founding emperor.
Seriously, he just inherited it.
No emperor could refuse the temptation to open up territories.
If he can occupy the grasslands and Goguryeo, he will far surpass Qin Huang and Han Wu and become an emperor through the ages.
"I have a crop that requires little land and has a very high yield," Lin Xuan said.
Li Shimin took a few deep breaths and said, "What crops and how much is the output?"
"I named this crop potatoes, and the yield per mu is about one thousand catties." Lin Xuan said.
"What!" Li Shimin stared at the boss, and asked, "Is it true that the yield per mu is a thousand catties?"
We must know that Datang's current grain output is about one stone per mu.
A stone in the Tang Dynasty was about a hundred catties in later generations, less than 120 catties. (There are several theories about the weight of a stone in the Tang Dynasty. Some say it is more than 80 catties, some say it is a hundred catties, and some say it is nearly 120 catties. The author does not know the specifics, so he chooses one of them.)
What is the concept of a thousand catties?It is about nine stones per mu.
Even if it is folded in half, there are still four or five stones.
Even four or five stones surprised Li Shimin.
(End of this chapter)