Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 362 Good Hu

  The reason why the nomads started from the Zhou Dynasty, to the Qin Dynasty, to the Han Dynasty, and even to the Tang Dynasty, was always thinking of coming to the Central Plains to make a fortune and leave, because of poverty.

   It was not until the Yuan Dynasty that the nomads had an overall strategic goal for the first time, and began military operations to build the country, and they were no longer scattered.

   But are nomads really poor?

  In a sense, if the wealth of farming peoples is mainly land, then the "land" of nomadic peoples is cattle and sheep.

According to historical records, at the time of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Wei Qing, who was already a general of chariots and riders, "...Duxi River to Gaoque, won the rank of 2,300 captives. Land, ...discuss pu mud, break talismans, cut off light and sharp soldiers, capture three thousand and seventy-one listeners, ... drive horses, cattle and sheep with more than one hundred thousand, return with all armored soldiers, benefit and seal three thousand households... "

   "Driving horses, cattle and sheep with more than one hundred thousand" is tantamount to bringing back the "land" of the Xiongnu in one pot, and because of this, the entire Xiongnu suffered heavy losses, and they have been terrified ever since.

   But the question is, where did these "lands" end up?

  These cows, horses and sheep do not have big cows to give birth to calves, and big horses to give birth to ponies, and then they thrive on the land of China, which has increased the development of the animal husbandry of the Chinese nation, and made China enter the era of four legs...

   On the contrary, it promoted the development of the slaughtering industry. Apart from increasing the fat absorption of a part of the population, it did not improve the proportion of agriculture and animal husbandry throughout the Han Dynasty.

  Huaxia is farming, so it is not good at animal husbandry, so in the technology line of animal husbandry, only sheep are selected, but horses are not selected...

The requirements for raising war horses are very high. You can’t raise war horses in captivity. You must have a happy horse land, that is, a whole area with rich water and grass, so that the horses can live in groups and grow in nature, so that they can truly produce what they need. war horse.

  However, the Chinese nation did not control the water and grass land, and the second did not control the people who raised them, so there was always a short section on the legs and feet.

"Poverty is the most terrible and saddest kind of power," Fei Qian said, setting his sights on the market outside the camp, "Because of poverty, there is no one but his own humble life." Things are not afraid of losing at all, so to these poor people who can use force to obtain anything, it is earned. Killing one is enough, killing two to earn one... Any law, any morality, in this kind of In the face of absolute poverty, there are empty words..."

  Any dynasty, any political system, when changing from chaos to governance, the fear is not that there are too many middle classes, but that there are not enough middle classes...

Hearing this, Ma Yan also turned his head to look at the bustling market, pondered for a while, nodded, and said: "Then this is the envoy's order that five baht must be used when trading, and every transaction must be given as much as you want." Is there a reason why the barbarians have some odds?"

"Hehe, yes. Most of the barbarians will not take the five baht money away, but will try to trade as much as possible, so in fact we don't need to invest a lot of five baht money, but in this way, these people who used to come Hu people who have traded here will know what 'money' is, and then they will tell their families and friends..."

In fact, such a small move has a deeper meaning, which Ma Yan could not fully understand, and Fei Qian didn't want to talk about it. Although it seems that it is nothing more than giving one or two more money, once it can make the barbarians form money. Consciousness, second, can establish a sense of integrity in the hearts of Hu people, third...

   You must know that the commodity equivalent exchange has been **** since the day it appeared...

  The social structure of the Hu people in the Han Dynasty was very complicated. It was like taking a part of each of the primitive society, the slave society and the feudal society, and then integrating them together to become the social structure of the Hu people...

Most of the Hu people live in tribes, and within the tribe, there is a form of mutual assistance to a certain extent. The tribe is also the basic unit in foreign wars, and the spoils obtained in the war are also distributed within the tribe. One point is very similar to the structure of primitive society.

However, the Hu people's headmen, handsome men, etc. are parasitic on the Hu people under them, and they are basically the same as the slave owners. These characteristics also show that the Hu people's society also contains some characteristics of the slave society.

In the upper class of the Hu people, a loose enfeoffment system was adopted. The king's court was Shan Yu's court, and most of them were located in the center of the most lush aquatic plants. It also belongs to Shan Yuting, but enjoys independent military and political power. Under the left and right kings, there are left and right Guli kings, and there are left and right generals under the left and right kings, so the Hu people also have a part of the feudal society. factor.

It is also precisely because of this that the complex social structure of the Hu people is very unstable. A slight natural or man-made disaster will bring about huge changes, the division of the northern and southern Huns, and even the recent murder of the Qiang by the southern Huns. The actions of his old Chanyu all illustrate this point.

   "Only if you have owned it before, you will be afraid of losing it..." Fei Qian looked at Ma Yan and said, "What we are doing now is to make these barbarians feel that they have owned it..."

  Why did the Hu people cry bitterly after losing Yinshan, because they had it first, and then lost it, so the Hu people were heartbroken and miserable.

  Wealth, or private property, has been continuously promoting the transformation and development of the entire society since the day primitive society emerged, and money is the materialized form of personal private property.

  Ma Yan thought again and again, but still said: "But trading with these barbarians... Once these barbarians become strong, won't they become a disaster?"

  Fei Qian held the spear, shook it, and found that although he could shake a spear to some extent, but it was crooked and not well-formed, and it was completely incomparable with Ma Yan who could shake out a round and beautiful spear.

   "So the weapon must be held in the hand..."

Fei Qian looked at the iron smelting furnace that was started to be built in the camp, and then at the soldiers who were practicing outside the camp, and said: "The iron collected from Luoyang will be re-melted and cast into armor blades, and these Armor blades will be used on our soldiers, these are the swords and shields in our hands! So, don't worry about whether the barbarians will be strong, just pay attention to whether we are strong enough..."

  Fei Qian looked at Ma Yan and said, "Brother Chengyuan, not only dead barbarians are good barbarians, but obedient barbarians are also good citizens, um...good barbarians!"

   Ming Dynasty military book "Zhen Ji": "Bian Zhuangzi's split attack method, Wang Ju's rising and falling method, Liu Xianzhu (Liu Bei)'s Gu Ying method, Ma Mingwang's lightning method, Ma Chao's attacking method, and the swords of the five schools are legendary."

What does that mean?

   There are five masters of swordsmanship, Liu Bei and Uncle Liu Huang are one of them!

   Wang Yue said it was none of my business...

  (end of this chapter)