Chapter 284 On Farming
"Using foreigners to farm the fields?" Ma Su was startled, and his expression suddenly became serious.
"Prime Minister, I'm afraid this is a huge project, and I will need a lot of people to help."
"Do you still need people? Is it so troublesome to cultivate a field?" Zhuge Liang narrowed his eyes.
"Yes." Ma Su answered honestly.
"The Prime Minister should know more about farming than I do, so I won't go into details. But the key point is that if foreigners are used to farm, we need to pay attention to the local Han-Qiang contradictions."
"If the Han and Qiang people are not allowed to live together, interact with each other in the fields, and educate them with etiquette, it will not be long before the Qiang people in the fields rebel again. Only by educating the Qiang people into Han people in the true sense can we avoid surrender. And the situation of rebellion."
Ma Su had been living in Longyou for more than a year, and he had basically straightened out the situation between the Qiang and Han people in the northwest. Ma Su basically had an idea about how to use foreigners to farm the fields and subtly Chineseize the Qiang people.
Zhuge Liang was also a little more interested in this, especially Ma Di's idea of farming. He gently flapped his feather fan and looked at Ma Su calmly and asked.
"Then based on You Chang's words, how should the Liangzhou farming be carried out?"
Zhuge Liang had also implemented the strategy of farming in the past, and the farming in central Sichuan was centered on the Qingqiang barbarians in the south. But to be honest, Zhuge Liang did not study too much about the specific details of farming.
He had too many things to do, including presiding over the construction of water conservancy projects, training troops, and formulating the strategy for the Northern Expedition. Zhuge Liang really had no time to study the details of farming.
So now Ma Su has put forward a theory, and Zhuge Liang is very interested.
"It's actually not complicated. The main thing is that the living customs of Han people and Qiang people are different. This is a general overview of disobedience to education in Confucianism." Ma Su scratched his head, sat down and told Zhuge Liang.
"The living customs of the Qiang and Han people are not the same. If they are allowed to live together, it is easy to cause local conflicts. If the local chaos is too serious, it will lead to local Qiang chaos."
"But if they are not allowed to come into contact, the Qiang people will always be Qiang people, and it will be very difficult to manage them if they continue to refuse to accept education. If chaos occurs in the future, the Qiang people may take advantage of the situation to cause chaos at any time, causing the centuries-old Qiang chaos to reappear in Liangzhou."
"But I used to work in the fields in Longyou, and today I found a phenomenon during my re-examination. In the villages where many of the strong families went out with the army, there were basically no conflicts in their interactions with the nearby Han people."
"Because most of the able-bodied people in the village joined the army and went out to fight, but there were few able-bodied people in the villages, naturally the farming villages did not have the confidence to have conflicts with other Han people. And because most of the people in the farming villages were controlled by the government, the Han people did not dare to take advantage of them, so the conflicts between the Qiang and Han people Instead, a balance is maintained.”
"If things continue like this, the Qiang people will slowly be influenced by the Han people, and gradually be educated and convinced. If we want to prevent the Han Qiang from directly engaging in armed fighting, we can also set up the fields between the generals to achieve a certain degree of isolation..."
Ma Su is very detailed about the details of using foreign people to farm fields. Basically, they are all about how to avoid conflicts between Han and Qiang and accelerate the sinicization of the Qiang people.
There is no way, Ma Di knows about the Wu Huan Hua in the original history. When a large number of foreigners poured into the Central Plains and the number of Han people was not enough to Chineseize them, fierce ethnic conflicts were enough to overthrow the regime.
You must know that although Han culture is extremely inclusive, it is based on a situation where the population base far exceeds that of foreigners.
For example, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, countless Hu people moved south.
However, the Hu people who entered Jizhou were no more than three generations old, and the lives of their descendants were no different from those of the Han people. Not only would those who moved into Bingzhou not become Han people, it would also turn the Han people living in Bingzhou into barbarians.
Therefore, Ma Di made great efforts on how to maximize the weakening of the Han-Qiang contradictions when he was stationed in the fields, so as to prevent the Wuhu from disrupting the Chinese.
In the end, Ma Su's solution was the system of military settlements and government troops.
Military settlements were set up in local areas to recruit Qiang people to farm among the Han people. Collect the best of them into the government for training and join the army to reduce the strength of the Qiang tribe. In this way, even if there is any conflict, it will not expand in scale.
After all, the villages are much stronger, so they have the confidence to confront each other, and even dare to break out into armed fights.
With the implementation of Fubingjuntun, the Qiang people in the farmland were slowly civilized through Han-Qiang exchanges, in order to educate the people and avoid chaos.
In this way, the settlement can not only slowly promote the integration of Han and Qiang, but also provide sufficient troops to the central government.
But there are also conditions, that is, it requires a lot of manpower to work. Ma Su doesn't have many people who can take on this important task, so he can only ask the prime minister for it.
"So, if the Prime Minister needs Su to be in charge of the farmland in Liangzhou, I'm afraid Li Muchen is not enough." Ma Su smiled bitterly, spread his hands and said.
"I see, you kid is really full of fantastic ideas." Zhuge Liang also basically understood the feasibility of Ma Di's idea, and couldn't help but smile with some satisfaction.
It seems that Youchang's abilities are as powerful as ever, and he can surprise him wherever he goes.
Now Zhuge Liang has begun to think about whether the late emperor Tuogu's words against Ma Su had other meanings, but he misunderstood it?
For example, what the late emperor meant... Ma Di is actually a military genius. You must not keep him tied to a civilian position?
Hmm...there is a certain rationality to it!
"In this case, I will write to Jiang Wan and ask him to allocate a group of people from Chengdu to you. At that time, you will be responsible for farming in Jincheng, Wuwei, and attacking the Qiang and Hu from the east, Xi'an to the west, and ensuring that there are no more bandits in Liangzhou. "
"It won't be long before the Han Dynasty will restart the trade routes in the Western Regions. You will be responsible for the safety of the trade routes by then!"
"Don't worry, Prime Minister! I am willing to issue a military order. If a caravan is robbed in Liangzhou, I, Ma Su, will come to see you!" Ma Su promised without saying a word, patting his chest.
"Okay, okay, go and take office." Zhuge Liang waved his hand to him silently and said lightly.
"When Jiang Wan sends someone, remember to ask Jincheng County Sheriff to take over. If you can't handle this task, you can stay in Yongliang until the Eastern Expedition to Guanzhong!"
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Just when Zhuge Liang finished arranging the personnel appointments in Yongliang and sent people to Chengdu to be rewarded by His Majesty, Sima Yi, who had survived the disaster, also arrived in Luoyang, the capital of Cao Wei.
The Tuogu minister of Cao Wei survived a narrow escape in Liangzhou. After basically killing all of his subordinates, he fled back to Cao Wei with half his life. But once he returned to Luoyang, he still received a high-level reception from Cao Rui.
"Sima Fujun has worked hard. For the safety of the northwest of the Wei Dynasty, my beloved has suffered so much. I feel uneasy." After Sima Yi entered the palace, Cao Rui immediately brought people to receive him, and came up to support Sima Yi who was about to salute.
"Your Majesty! How dare you say it's hard to guard the border for the Wei Dynasty?" Sima Yi immediately replied, using his leaky mouth to express his loyalty calmly.
"This is my duty."