Fei Qian is often like a mascot, and it seems that he has not done any specific work. Because most of the specific matters are done by Fei Qian, whether it is agriculture, industry, military or scriptures. Most of the time Fei Qian is just a guiding suggestion, and seems to be simply talking, so some people will think that Fei Qian is useless, or without Fei Qian, will the world not change?
Indeed, without Fei Qian, the world is still wandering.
In other words, even without all human beings, the world is still wandering around.
If the existing life span of the earth is condensed into one hour, then humans are creatures that appear in the last second of the last minute. Such a creature category with only one second of existence, claiming to be the master of the earth is just humans touching an elephant by blind people.
Fei Qian's biggest function is that when many people in the Han Dynasty were still touching elephants, they could know in advance what the elephant might look like...
Perhaps only those social animals who have entered society and worked in certain companies in later generations can truly realize how rare it is to have a leader who has clear goals, pay attention to facts, and not turn back without giving up.
Just like the present.
There are also disputes in the agricultural society. Of course, this dispute is not a dispute over the distribution of interests, but a disagreement in academics.
Not far from the experimental field is a breeding farm. The agricultural society not only has the cultivation and research of Zhuanghe, but also the development of livestock technology. In the breeding farm, it is naturally a site for selecting livestock and poultry varieties, which is the same project as Zhuanghe selection. Now in the breeding farm, there are more than a dozen agricultural scholars gathered together, watching and listening to the two people in the middle arguing.
The party that argued was Cui Cheng.
Cui Cheng is a descendant of Cui Shi.
Cui Qi wrote a book called "The Monthly Order of the Four Peoples", and was once the prefect of Ren many places and served as the Minister of the Shangshu. However, after Cui Qi died of illness, his family was erected with all the disciples, and there was no funeral fee. Guanglu Xun Yang Ci, the Grand Duan Feng, and Shaofu Duan Jing prepared coffins for him, and Yuan Wei, the Great Lu Lu, set up a monument to praise him.
So it is obvious that there is no future for writing books, and the more you write, the poorer you become... Cough cough, it is obvious that Cui Shi did not leave much property for his descendants. In addition, after Cui Shi's death, the troops were in chaos and Cui Cheng was wandering around until he arrived in Chang'an. With his knowledge of agriculture and livestock, of course, he also had the role of "Four Minutes and Monthly Orders", he became a farmer in Chang'an, and quickly found his own research project, Slow Horse.
The other side is Wang Yun.
Wang Yun is from Taiyuan. Because he is familiar with the Hu people, cattle and horse affairs, he is responsible for the cultivation of war horses in the breeding farm.
However, just like the forum building often falls apart, the original problem of war horses gradually becomes whether the Western Regions should be conquered or not.
The Agricultural Master standing around the two people has their own ideas, either supporting this or feeling that, so they are also talking about each other, making the sound rolling.
Many people who were attracted by the quarrel were looking at each other, and then asked and talked about each other.
Many people have already known about the fact that the great protector of the Western Regions Lu Bu sent troops, and some even linked Lu Bu's second expedition to Chigu with Li Guangli's expedition to Dayuan.
That's right, Lu Bu captured Chigu for the first time, but this does not mean anything, because during the first war, Lu Bu did not really hit Dayuan, but only fought almost half of the way. Now Lu Bu not only wants to attack Chigu again, but also march into Dayuan...
Li Guangli's conquest of Dayuan was indeed successful, but the consequences were too tragic. Only 30,000 soldiers returned to Yumen. Many people buried their bones in foreign lands, and the treasury of the Sanfu in Chang'an was also empty. All these war expenses were finally transferred to local counties and counties. In order to charm the superiors, local counties and counties imposed thieves, which led to the rise of thieves in the late years of Emperor Xiaowu and the world was in chaos.
Many people are worried that Lu Bu's conquest this time is not optimistic. War is the root cause of chaos. Now it has affected Guanzhong and may even affect a more profound world.
Cui Cheng said that Lu Bu, the great protector of the Western Regions, did not need to attack Dayuan at all, and Dayuan's war horses may not be very good. Now the Han Dynasty now needs to improve the slow horses, especially to improve the tolerance and strength of the slow horses, and carry out key cultivation and screening.
Wang Yun said that Lu Bu was not wrong in attacking Dayuan. It was not only a problem of good war horse breeds, but also a certain amount of strength must be demonstrated in the Western Regions. Otherwise, once the people of the Western Regions think that they are weak and bullied, it is basically equivalent to giving up the Western Regions. At that time, the war will not be fought in the Western Regions, and it may be attacked to Longyou or even Chang'an again. To fight, you must have better war horses to provide the war needs. If the battle is ended as soon as possible, the loss will naturally be smaller. Therefore, there is no condition for Cui Cheng to cultivate slow horses, and you must concentrate on cultivating war horses.
Cui Cheng believed that this was a fallacy and did not consider long-term issues. Everyone knew that attacking a country of people thousands of miles away, and over half of the troops had not fought, and finally obtained dozens of so-called good-bred war horses. What is the use of illusory surrender to the people of the Western Regions? On the other hand, slow horses are in line with agricultural production and suitable for transportation, which is an important means to consolidate the foundation and cultivate the essence.
But after the building is crooked, it will become more crooked...
"I thought that Marquis Wen would not be the expedition in the west!" Someone shouted loudly, "Mr. Wen was guilty, so the cavalry pardoned him and ordered him to make up for his mistakes. Now that he has another trouble, he may be suspected of raising enemies!"
Some people began to say that Lu Bu could correct his mistakes and that he would be very good. He didn't need to catch any mistakes before. Some people also said that Lu Bu was not a minor mistake, but seemed to be a crime of being unfaithful and deceiving the king. It was simply angered by both humans and gods, and it was also possible to destroy the clan. Now that he was asked to redeem his merits, he was still thinking about expanding the war. The second conquest of Dayuan was obviously uneasy.
Then there was another discussion. Some people said that Lu Bu was loyal, while others said that Lu Bu was a traitor...
"Wen Hou fought in Chigu in the past, but he killed two thousand Kushan soldiers' heads! The other countries in the Western Regions also had more than one thousand heads! If this plan was used, Wen Hou would be enough to be a merit and be exempted from his crime!"
"The heads of Kushan and Western countries, it is said that when Sima, the Longxi military merits, went to verify, they were mostly rotten. Who knows whether they were soldiers? What if they were killed indiscriminately to count the Kushan people? What's more, this kind of deed has never been seen before..."
"I think the cavalry should send an envoy to investigate the matter thoroughly! If the Marquis Wen lied to report the number of beheadings, he would follow the old story of Emperor Xiaowen and be punished severely!"
"Absurd! To this day, what other old stories about Xiaowen are used?!"
"Bold! Emperor Xiaowen is also the orthodox Han Dynasty, so what's wrong?"
"Sir..."
"Dog thief..."
Seeing that the argument was about to evolve into a full martial arts movement, I suddenly heard someone shouting loudly: "The Great Han Cavalry General is here! Silent!"
Everyone who was quarreling was stunned, then hurriedly tidy up their head crown and robe, and then saluted Fei Qian and Zao Zhi who were walking towards him.
Zao Zhi's face was not very good.
It's like when the leaders of the Education Bureau inspected the school, a group of students quarreled in the playground and almost started fighting...
Fei Qian smiled slightly, not seemingly angry because of the arguments between these people. He even slapped Zao Zhi's arm, who was about to come forward to scold him, indicating that Zao Zhi didn't need to get angry.
Most of the agricultural society are bachelor's degree or doctoral students in agriculture who teach about bachelor's degree. Although it is about studying and studying agriculture related content, it does not mean that these people are not allowed to discuss political affairs.
What's more, these agricultural bachelors may be promoted to local officials in the future, assisting or in charge of the government. They are just agricultural knowledge in a blink of an eye and have no political ability, which may not be a good thing.
So after a little understanding, Fei Qian was not angry about their argument, but felt that they should not focus their main energy on the argument...
"Even if you don't care about the merits of the head and follow the laws of the Han Dynasty, you can win the king of the enemy's country. " Fei Qian said with a smile, "Lu Fengxian had three defeats of the enemy's army in the Western Regions and two destroyed the country. There is no doubt about the merits of the Western Regions. Although it is a crime to lie about military merits, it is not a waste of money, but knowing that he has made merits but not rewards. "
"However, the size of the merits and demerits, and the amount of rewards and punishments should not be discussed in the court?" Fei Qian smiled and stretched out his hand to signal the environment of the farm. "Why do you have to fight against the birds and before the cattle and horses?"
Everyone was stunned and then laughed.
Lu Bu had conquered the Western Regions before and regained the authority of the Western Regions. This is a fact that no one could deny. Even if Lu Bu conquers Dayuan again, he could not say that he would not admit his previous achievements, or simply slander his previous leader for taking credit...
After everyone eased, Fei Qian pulled back the main topic and said: "As for the choice of war horses and slow horses... it is a good topic... What do you think?"
Horse breeds need to be cultivated.
After Fei Qian Chang'an Sanfu lit up the research tree on seedling seeds, other livestock, including pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, began to study varieties one after another.
Fei Hikki is located in the north, with a whole area suitable for various research areas.
That's right, it's the Hetao Plain.
The Hetao Plain is located on the northern border, with the Yellow River running through it, with lush water and grass, forming environmental conditions suitable for both agriculture and animal husbandry, and thus becoming a must-fight place between the Central Plains regime and the northern nomadic peoples. On this piece of land, there are mountains, waters, plains, grasslands, deserts, and the collision between farming and nomadic peoples.
Cui Cheng took a step forward and bowed his hand as a courtesy, and said in a deep voice, "In the current situation of the Western Regions, we should lead the old rules of Hetao! Han defended foreign enemies, built cities, shu, beacon, and pavilions. Although the barrier pavilions were easy to arrange, they could not resist the enemy! If you want to defend the enemy, you must have the defense of the city and shu! There are more than a thousand cities, shu or 500 cities, in addition to eating in the trunk, you also need vegetables, beans, etc., and you also need to use utensils for utensils, and all of them need to be transported! Such things should be transported to a slow horse! A slow horse! Not a war horse!
Wang Yun listened on the side, frowned and waved his hand and said, "No, no! What the Western Regions are important is war horses! The Western Regions are far larger than the Henan territory! The city is fired, beacon barriers, and the lack of control is insufficient. How can we consolidate it? Therefore, we should use war horses to control the rule of cavalry. If there is chaos, we will arrive in a moment! The use of slow horses is only for farming and transportation, so how can we reach thousands of miles and govern all nations?! Is the benefit of the cavalry, because of the slow horses? "
"Wrong, wrong! Now the war horse is already sufficient. If it is increased, it will not be beneficial. If it is slow, it will be insufficient. If it is more profitable, it will benefit thousands of households..."
『No, no...』
As the two of them were talking, they started to argue with each other again, obviously no one could convince anyone.
After Fei Qian occupied Pingyang, he reclaimed the deserted fields and repaired water conservancy facilities. All these actions allowed Fei Qian to obtain a large amount of grain output in the early stage of Pingyang, and provided corresponding savings to Fei Qian for subsequent military operations.
However, with the continued operation of Fei Qian Pingyang, a parabola above agricultural output appeared, and there seemed to be an invisible ceiling pressing on the upper end of agricultural output, making it very difficult to break through after the agricultural yield reached a value.
This problem is not only about Pingyang, Feiqian. From the perspective of the entire era and the entire dynasty, from the Western Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, after reaching a value of about 50 million in total population, the total grain output hit the ceiling, resulting in the total population being unable to increase, forming a double bottleneck. It was not until the Southern Song Dynasty that it was considered that the population bottleneck of 50 million was broken under the large-scale development in Jiangnan.
When the fleet had not yet been able to cross the Bering Strait to reach the American continent and obtain high-yield sweet potatoes, corn, potatoes and other products, Fei Qian could only think about how to expand agricultural harvests under limited conditions.
The Hetao area was bordered by the Han Dynasty border and had constant conflicts with the Huns. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, a large number of troops were sent to garrison, so a huge amount of food and grass was needed to maintain the survival of the army and ensure military operations.
Calculated according to the usual ratio, if the Fei Qianhetao area deploys about 30,000 troops, it will cost about 800,000 stones a year, and about 50,000 yuan will be given to the military salary and salary expenses.
If Fei Qian was a brainless person for a while, obeyed the bewitching of some single-cell animals, blindly expanded the scope of war, and increased the number of soldiers, the financial and financial pressure would be greater. Even if he was in the salary of soldiers, he could deceive himself, indicating a trick of the left and right pockets. However, food and grass would be gone after eating, and Zhuanghe would not be able to regain it again in the second year. During this period, as long as there was a little problem at any time, the things that were smashed when the dominoes collapsed may not be a little bit.
During the Western Han Dynasty, in order to maintain the huge demand for money and food of the border army, Chao Cuo accepted Chao Cuo's advice, "Let the world enter the border and get the title and get the title and get the title and transport it to the border counties. This method is not only inefficient, but also produces various disadvantages. Fraud phenomena occur one after another. Corrupt officials and corrupt officials are working hard during the transportation process, and their mouths are full of oil.
Therefore, after realizing the disadvantages of this "mill-exporting" plan, under the suggestion of Zhufu Yan, the Hetao area began to implement military farming. The grain produced can solve the food problems for border troops on the spot, and also provide relatively stable material guarantees for the Western Han Dynasty to resist the Huns.
This has become the most proactive, active and long-term model of border development in Chinese history.
That is what Cui Cheng mentioned just now, "The Old Hetao Example".
Cuicheng means to ensure long-term stability in the Western Regions. Blindly strengthening force will only lead to continuous loss. It is necessary to strengthen civil affairs guidance, use small forts, beacons and other defensive fortifications, and then add military farms and transportation to build a network system to ensure the rule of the Western Regions.
Wang Yun means traditional concepts, which means that more and better war horses represent stronger force, and naturally control the Western Regions.
As Fei Qian's world map hanging in the lobby of the Cavalry Office became more and more widely spread, many people were a little suspicious on the one hand, and on the other hand, they were also considering more and more distant places, not blocked by mountains, rivers, forests, deserts and Gobi.
This is indeed a problem.
Perhaps it is also a bottleneck at the moment.
The Han Dynasty was the first dynasty to use cavalry tactics on a large scale. There were cavalry during the Qin Dynasty, or during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, but at that time, cavalry was basically used as part of the army and was used in conjunction with chariots and infantry. Most of the time, they were only used as partial army and were not the main combat units.
The subsequent feudal dynasties in China did not make great breakthroughs in the use of cavalry, but even shrank. Even the big braided dynasty, which claimed to be a country built with cavalry, did not make many breakthroughs in cavalry tactics. When there were already muskets and cavalry in the Ming Dynasty, they still insisted on their own bow and arrow tactics, and were finally beaten by the Eight-Nation Alliance and their butt curtains fell off...
The Han Dynasty had a wider territory than the Qin Dynasty. These border areas could not only choose to be cultivated and reserved, as the ignorant Confucian scholars said, and the rest were discarded.
If there is a border, there will inevitably be a long border line. These border lines were defended by Great Wall, beacon towers, and pavilions in the Han Dynasty. However, no matter what kind of fortifications were, soldiers were required to be stationed. These Great Wall, beacon towers, and pavilions did not automatically generate food and vegetables for the stationed soldiers to eat like in the game.
To arrange defense of soldiers means providing sufficient food. Otherwise, not to mention defending the enemy, famine can directly defeat any powerful defenders.
In order to solve the food problem, the Han Dynasty adopted the policy of moving people to the border and promoting military farming. However, this was still not enough. Not all Great Walls, beacon towers, pavilions and barriers could have the conditions for military farming, and not all areas could plant grains. This naturally requires various transportation, and what is needed to transport grains and grass is a horse and a logistics vehicle.
Fighting requires horses, and transportation requires horses.
The question now is whether to conduct special research on slow horses, or directly follow the old methods, just study war horses, and then use retired war horses and horses that fail to meet the standards as slow horses?
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Chapter completed!