Chapter 1403 The barbarian is fierce
If some tribes want to be dissatisfied with Daqin, it is estimated that other tribes will have to consider the pros and cons.
"Fifth brother, after saying this, I remembered that wasn't this our strategy to the Khitan and Xi tribe at the beginning? It's just that Khitan and Xi have always been close to us and are very loyal. No unpleasant things have happened in recent years."
Luo Cheng nodded, "The two tribes of Xiqi, although the two counties that are now not the court's county, there are eight counties under the two counties. In recent years, although King Xiqi King Khitan seems to have called the wind and rain more than in the past, in fact, the tribes below obey the orders of the court. Now, there have been a large number of castles, fortresses, villages, and many tribe leaders now have many fields and pastures in front of the lords and nobles, and many original tribes have become self-cultivated farmers or free herders. Of course, many people have become slaves to the leaders."
Raole County and Songmo County, established by the Xiqi Ministry, are now full of castles, with commercial sites everywhere, and large areas of farmland are opened along the river and road. Many Han immigrants have entered the Han Dynasty, and merchants are even more in a row.
Now the Xiqi nobles have gradually begun to become sinicized. In front of the officials of the Qin Dynasty, they have the salary of the Qin Dynasty, wear the official robes of the Qin Dynasty, and even began to accumulate the hairstyle of the Qin Dynasty, name the Chinese name, and learn Chinese language. They began to settle down and live no longer by pursuing water and grass, and no longer live a nomadic life.
Although there are still many pastures on the grassland, for those nobles, this is just their own industry.
In less than ten years, Luo Cheng implemented the assimilation strategy of Xi Qi very well.
Now when Shi Xin heard that his strategy against the Marx people was an improved version of the Xiqi strategy.
The emperor sighed.
"Actually, whether it is the Northern Barbarian or the Southern Barbarian, they just want an overly stable life. If this stable life can have more oil and salt, it will be even more delicious."
Why did the frontiers easily become battlefields in the past, and why did the barbarians on all sides like to invade?
After all, it is because they are too poor and have a hard life. The Han people in the Central Plains live a very good life. In their eyes, they are drooling.
A barbarian leader on the frontier may live a life worse than a self-cultivated farmer in the Central Plains.
But in the Central Plains, they often do not trade with these barbarians, and they don’t share good things with them, and they don’t sell them. If it were normal, the barbarians would tolerate it, after all, they could not defeat the Han family in the Central Plains.
But sometimes barbarians will encounter famines, and barbarians have a lower ability to withstand famines than Han people, especially tribes on the northern grasslands. Once they encounter plagues or heavy snow, they will be unable to hold on as soon as the sheep freezes to death. Therefore, they either rob other tribes of the same tribe or they can only go to the south to grab them.
In the year of the disaster, other tribes were the same, so they had to snatch them south.
Although he robs the south, in most cases, he can get a lot of good things at the beginning, but he will always encounter severe revenge from the Central Plains, unless it is in the case of civil strife in the Central Plains.
"After all, as long as the barbarians live a secure life, they are actually not the kind of desperate people."
"There is a saying that only those with constant property have perseverance. Those with barefoot are not afraid of those who wear shoes. If it is really jade, who would be willing to collide with tiles?"
"The fifth brother always speaks one by one, and it is a series of truths." Shi Xin said.
"This is not the reason for the fifth brother, but it was summarized by our ancient sages in the Central Plains since ancient times. Our Han family has also experienced disasters, so why has it still stood firm? It is because compared with the barbarians, we have words and thoughts, and our Han civilization can pass on it from time to time and never die!"
Luo Cheng thought of something. In later generations, Cambodia discovered Angkor Wat, and a powerful Angkor dynasty that had disappeared for five hundred years was only seen again.
This powerful Angkor Dynasty, at its peak, included the entire Cambodia, some Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. It was the most powerful dynasty in the history of Southeast Asia.
However, after the descendants of the Angkor dynasty and the Khmers in Cambodia discovered the Angkor dynasty, they never knew or believed that this powerful dynasty was founded by their ancestors. They always thought that the Angkor dynasty was established by the Angkor people in history, and they did not believe that their Khmer ancestors were once so rich.
This is the greatest sorrow.
Their history will eventually be searched from the historical records of China and even their roots have been forgotten.
"On the grassland, many powerful tribes rose and even surpassed the Han family in the Central Plains for a time. But as a result, although our Han family had risen and replaced the dynasty, they were only replaced by those who sat on the imperial dragon throne, but we still remained in the world. But in the grassland, the Huns, Rouran, and Turks, one after another, they were all in a hurry to prosper and die. "
Luo Shixin was slightly lost.
"The fifth brother is indeed talking about this. Those Martyr barbarians used to be very fierce, but since they traded with us, they shook their tails and nodded when they saw us."
"That's because you brought them the goods they wanted. They used the fur, herbs and other things they originally didn't have in their hands to exchange for the very precious good things they thought were very precious. They felt that they made money and life became more convenient. They even changed the flour, rice, salt, tea, etc. to make them live in food and clothing and have a good taste. The doctors, medicines, etc. you brought to treat many diseases of tribes with backward medical skills and saved the lives of many of their relatives. Of course, they welcome you."
"Remember one thing, when the Marines come to trade, they will be taxed. Even if you collect taxes, they can accept it. But don't collect any poll taxes or anything, and don't force them to do service, etc."
After all, tax is just a little money, but the tax is like a direct charge.
"There is another point, it is prohibited from banning the Qin merchants from lending usury to those tribes, and it is strictly prohibited!"
Luo Cheng remembered that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, many Central Plains merchants went to the grassland to do business, and liked to trick herders, such as giving goods first and then collecting money, and even asking herders to use cattle and sheep to pay for the money, and then asking the herders to raise them, and only then collect cattle and sheep in autumn can they be collected, etc.
Various routines emerge one after another. The herdsmen never had these unscrupulous merchants. As a result, countless herdsmen were bankrupt by routines and ended up hating endlessly against the Han merchants.
Chapter completed!