Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 641 Competing in the Central Plains (Ninety)
Two months later
Spring of the fourth year of Yan State 430 (644)
In this year, the Tang Empire sent troops to capture Tuyuhun and regained the Hehuang Valley that had been separated from the Central Plains for hundreds of years.

At the same time, Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Empire, asked his ministers about the current situation of mixed ethnic groups living in the Tang Dynasty.

Wen Yanbo and others believed that we should follow the former Han Jiayi’s strategy and move some Hu people to the borders of the empire, allowing them to guard the borders of the empire, while the other part of the Hu people moved to the hinterland of the Central Plains, allowing them to intermarry and integrate with the Han people, so that they Becoming a Han Chinese can increase the population of the empire on the one hand, but on the other hand, it has not solved the border troubles.

This kind of practice, in fact, has been doing this from the Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty, and it didn't stop until after the chaos of the Five Dynasties.

However, Wei Zheng raised an objection: "In the past, the Zhao Dynasty (Yuan Zhao) and the Jin Dynasty moved the Hu people inward, so that my Central Plains were full of Hu people, which eventually led to the chaos of the Five Hu. Isn’t it short-sighted to focus on the population and national strength, but ignore the national destiny in a hundred years’ time?”

"Hu people give birth to Hu people, and they are endless. After a hundred years, hundreds of thousands of Hu people will give birth to millions of Hu people. At that time, millions of Hu people will be in the Central Plains, and the chaos of the Five Hu people will repeat itself?"

Wei Zheng suggested that not only barbarians from the grasslands should be prohibited from entering the Central Plains, but those who had already lived in the Central Plains should be moved back to the grasslands, and those who refused to move should be killed directly.

But this kind of thing is actually very difficult to handle, because after hundreds of years of wars in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, many Han people and Hu people have intermarried for generations. It is already difficult for you to distinguish whether a person is a Hu or a Han. If you forcefully promote this policy , It is bound to cause a large number of unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and the Han people who are not Hu people will also be massacred.

There is a precedent for this. When Ran Min ordered the massacre of Hu people, many Han people were also massacred as Hu people.

With this in mind, Li Shimin, who has always listened to Wei Zheng's advice, did not follow Wei Zheng's advice on the ethnic issue this time. He felt that Wei Zheng's suggestion was too difficult to implement. It's just a barbarian, and all kinds of public and private enmity will appear.

For example, if I have a grudge against my neighbor, I have long been unhappy with him. Now that the imperial court ordered the massacre of Hu people, that would be really great. I sue my neighbor for being of Hu blood.

Another example is peer competition and framing.

The most worrying thing is that if some anti-Tang forces fish in troubled waters and take the opportunity to magnify the matter, expanding the killing of Hu to killing all the people, making the people of the world miserable, and everyone panicking, then this Tang Dynasty will be over. ?

At the beginning, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty promulgated the warning order, wanting the people to report the tyrants, and the tyrants directly expanded, and reported the common people one after another, so that the warning order hit indiscriminately, making everyone in the world feel at risk, and the country was in turmoil.

Therefore, once Li Shimin really listened to Wei Zheng's suggestion, I am afraid that Datang would fall into civil war again.

Wei Zheng's original intentions were good, and he was worried that after a hundred years, the Central Plains would be occupied by barbarians and the tragedy of Wu Huan Hua would repeat itself, but his approach was too naive, and it was very difficult to operate. After all, after hundreds of years of mixed blood, many barbarian and Han people , there is not much difference in appearance, and it is very difficult to strike accurately. When it comes to massacres, there is a high probability that they will attack indiscriminately.

In this matter, Li Shimin is more mature.

He neither adopted Wen Yanbo's plan of relocating the Hu people to the interior, nor adopted Wei Zheng's plan of killing all the Hu people in the interior.

Instead, a compromise method was adopted, that is to say, the Hu people who have migrated to the Central Plains belong to a done deal, and there is no other way, so the court simply ignored you and treated you as a Han Chinese, but Hu people who have not yet moved inland are not allowed to move inward in the future, and can only live in the frontier Jimi Autonomous Prefecture, guarding the frontier for the Tang Dynasty.

Neither kill nor emigrate, but admit the established facts and don't let it happen again in the future.

Obviously, Li Shimin's approach is relatively safer.

"I decided to follow the example of Yanlu, and spend a hundred years slowly digesting the territory of the Hu people, from military conquest, to self-government, to imperial princes, and finally becoming a court county, step by step."

"It has just progressed from military conquest to self-government. I hope that the descendants of our Tang Dynasty can follow my national policy and operate step by step, slowly digesting and integrating the grassland into the mainland of the Central Plains."

This is a century-old national policy, which cannot be accomplished by relying on Li Shimin's lifespan alone. It needs four or five consecutive generations of monarchs to advance steadily, and there must be no chaos in the middle, otherwise everything will be empty.

"Although the Yanlu are despicable and shameless, their methods of digesting and merging the barbarians and natives are really clever, which is worth learning from us in Tang Dynasty."

Li Shimin highly appreciated the national policy of the Yan State. Although the State of Yan has no famous generals, the biggest advantage of the State of Yan is that the national policy can always be implemented for a long time, and it will not always die like the Central Plains.

A long-term and stable national policy is more terrifying than ten famous generals!
When Li Shimin was imagining with great interest that after a hundred years, Datang could completely digest and integrate the self-governing grassland of Jimi into the native land, a piece of information from the front line made him frown.

"How can there be such a powerful country in the snowy plateau where the birds don't shit?"

In terms of emergency military situation, it is said that suddenly a group of barbarians from the hinterland of the snow-covered plateau, who called themselves the Great Zhou Army, actually demanded that the Tang Dynasty cede the Hehuang Valley, otherwise, they would forcibly capture the Hehuang Valley.

"Zhou?" Li Shimin pondered for a moment, and then called Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling and others. They are knowledgeable and have read many classical books, so they should know what Zhou is.

Soon after, Fang Xuanling explained: "I once saw such a description in an ancient book of the Han Dynasty. It said that during the time of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, the kingdom of Tianzhu and Zhou united with the kingdom of Tuhuoluo and Guishuang to attack the capital of the Western Regions. Definitely defeated."

"And I have also seen such a description in the Buddhist classics, saying that the empress of the Great Zhou Dynasty is a demon who hates Buddhism. She massacred Buddhist disciples in Tianzhu and expelled Buddhism from Tianzhu. Many Buddhist disciples, I had to escape from Tianzhu, enter the Western Regions, and finally enter our Central Plains."

"Huh?" Li Shimin was even more puzzled: "If according to this description, this week, it should be in Tianzhu. How could it invade our Hehuang Valley from the snow-covered plateau? Could it be that the snow-covered plateau can enter Tianzhu?"

Li Shimin is worthy of being a wise gentleman, he drew inferences from one instance, and based on such little information, he actually correctly deduced that from the snow-covered plateau, one can enter Tianzhu in a straight line.

Li Shimin speculated that what kind of week this week might be, troops started from Tianzhu, crossed the snow-covered plateau, and attacked the Hehuang Valley.

(End of this chapter)