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Chapter 1159 Wei Qing, who wants to open up

"Langjun, what's wrong?"

When the sky was getting darker, Princess Pingyang finally waited for Wei Qing to go home.

Looking at Wei Qing with a strange look, she expressed her doubts, "Didn't you go to see Your Majesty? Why have you been there for so long? Did Your Majesty say you to you?"

"No."

Wei Qing returned to his study all the way and changed his clothes under the service of Princess Pingyang. "Your Majesty is fine. After I left the palace, I went to Huo Qubing's place again."

"Huo Qubing?" Princess Pingyang was shocked and hurriedly looked at Wei Qing. "The nobles in Chang'an City said that the boy was a naughty young man. He didn't take anyone seriously with His Majesty's care. He would fist if he had disagreement. Could he have fought with you?"

In later dynasties, when court officials had conflicts and disputes, they all smiled in front of them, putting knife behind their backs, and all kinds of conspiracies emerged one after another.

However, those are all Confucian characteristics, but the truth is that there is no revenge here in the Han Dynasty.

The war will start directly whenever there is a disagreement. This is the characteristic of the Han Dynasty.

There are so many things that are full of martial arts in the court.

Moreover, Huo Qubing's reputation is not good. Although he is not old, he is really a king in Chang'an City. When flying eagles and horses are flying, they often fight with noble children.

What's even more exaggerated is that no matter how many people he faces, Huo Qubing has never lost.

"What are you saying?" Wei Qing was a little amused and crying. "I am his uncle. Give him a meal of leopard courage. How dare he attack me?"

Princess Pingyang curled her lips, "That kid is just stunned. I think he doesn't dare to do anything except His Majesty."

"It's fine."

Wei Qing waved his hands repeatedly, "It was just about Huo Qubing's side to discuss the matter of sending troops to the Hexi Corridor."

"Hexi Corridor?" Princess Pingyang looked at him in surprise, "I still want to go to war?"

Wei Qing was also surprised, "Don't you understand? We have started a full-scale war with the Huns, so of course we have to continue fighting. It will not be considered as the end until the Huns are destroyed."

"Okay, prepare some meals for me."

Wei Qing felt that he had said a little too much, so he asked Princess Pingyang to go out first. He needed to calm down.

Although he is young, Wei Qing has extremely rich combat experience, and his own abilities are also very outstanding.

But today, he saw what a real genius is at Huo Qubing.

How Huo Qubing will enter the Hexi Corridor, how to prepare, how to fight, how to deal with unexpected situations, and everything will be arranged properly and in an orderly manner.

Even from Wei Qing's perspective, there is no place to find any tricks.

He even did not consider the arrangements of many places himself.

"Genius is really a genius sent by God to specialize in fighting." This was the only thought in Wei Qing's mind after leaving Huo Qubing.

The reason why he looked weird was that he was hit.

My little nephew is actually more powerful than my old corps who have fought for many years.

When I feel lost, I will inevitably feel a little worried about gains and losses.

This is not actually the case.

Although Huo Qubing is a genius in war, he is not as good as Wei Qing in every detail.

The reason why Wei Qing was shocked was that the plans he mentioned were actually because he had carefully studied them in the Hexi Corridor when he was teaching his combat experience in Weiyang Palace.

What Huo Qubing said was not only his own plan, but more of Wang Xiao’s arrangements and plans.

The most important point of this is that Wang Xiao pointed out that while attacking the Hexi Corridor, he would send troops to the south of the Mo.

First, to restrain the power of the Huns, so that the head and tail cannot be taken care of each other.

Second, in order to cut off the Huns from the middle, forcing them to escape from Mobei to no longer concentrate their strength and thus lose their strategic initiative.

After this view was expressed, Wei Qing felt a sudden enlightenment.

He had only thought about hitting the Hexi Corridor and opening up connections with the Western Regions. He did not consider the matter in the south of the desert.

If Wei Qing's plan is carried out, then when fighting the Hexi Corridor, it is very likely that a large number of Xiongnu reinforcements will be encountered, which will delay the war into a protracted fierce battle.

This is a very troublesome thing for the Han army fighting abroad.

The battle plan against the Huns formulated by Wang Xiao is to fight quickly and seize the strategic initiative, choose the right opportunity and target, and then make a heavy blow and succeed, and resolutely not fight a tug-of-war.

Because Wang Xiao knew very well that the protracted Han-Hungary War would completely crush the fragile small peasant economy of the Han Dynasty.

He won the battle on the battlefield, but the economy went bankrupt. Wang Xiao was unwilling to do such a thing.

Therefore, the battle arranged by Wang Xiao basically consists of infantry guarding the border walls, and all the troops are replaced by cavalry to eat from the enemy.

Moreover, when a cavalry legion attacks, they must choose the right target and hit it with one blow.

Over the years, the Southern Army in Chang'an City has completely become a defender and a guard. The infantry in the Northern Army has basically been transferred to the side walls, and the rest are all cavalry, and it is still expanding. Now the number of cavalry in the Northern Army is as high as nearly 50,000.

Wang Xiao would not do such a thing as sending hundreds of thousands of infantry to fight on the vast grassland. That place is only suitable for cavalry combat.

The Han army had great advantages, from equipment to training, from martial arts to strategy and tactics.

More importantly, two of the three top cavalry commanders in the thousand-year history were under his command.

A thousand troops are easy to get, but a general is hard to find.

After Wei Huo died in history, Xiaozhu was forced to issue a request for talent. In the end, people like Li Guangli had to be generals to fight.

Wei Huo, who once beaten the Huns, was at the level of poached eggs. Li Guangli was like a armored car that was suffocated.

Wang Xiao appointed Zhufu Yan as the inspector, responsible for migrating people from all over the country to Shuofang County and Wuyuan County to enrich the border.

If you want to effectively control a place, the first thing you have to do is to migrate your own population.

The Lord's Father Yan proposed to migrate 200,000 people to Henan, while Wang Xiao's response was 500,000.

Of course, Wang Xiao didn't eat brain-destroying, so he naturally wouldn't do forced migration.

Just like in the past, we have promoted the people to plant those economic crops, this migration is also an interest-based attraction, allowing the people to actively request migration.

For this reason, Wang Xiao offered a price that a family of five can migrate to Henan and can be divided into 600 acres!

Every extra person in the family can be divided into 100 acres of land.

This is not the end. Wang Xiao also expressed that the people who are willing to migrate to Henan can get a complete set of agricultural tools for free. They are not made of wood, nor are they made of stone, but brand new agricultural tools made of steel.

Each household had a cow, which was given for free. Huo Qubing seized millions of cattle, sheep and horses in Henan. After the cows were converted to the price and rewarded by the soldiers, Wang Xiao prepared to distribute them to the migrant people.

In the end, taxes and labor are exempted, all for three years.

This is all taxes, and even a single monday tax will never be imposed on the migrant people within three years.

If such a big profit continues, the Han people who learned the detailed information through the newspaper are all a little dizzy.

What's wrong with the emperor? Did he go to the Weiyang Palace to satisfy him? He actually gave such great benefits to the people?

The land was divided into hundreds of acres, exempted from taxes and labor for three years, and also gave away a full set of new iron farm tools and a cow for free!

When they heard the conditions mentioned by newspaper readers, many simple Han people even beat the newspaper readers because they did not believe that such good things would happen. They thought that newspaper readers were nonsense.

But this is true. In several consecutive issues of the newspaper, this matter was mentioned in many articles, and even Wang Xiao's official edict was published.

Now the simple Han people believed it.

They may not believe in newspapers, but they will definitely believe in Wang Xiao's edict.

Because the emperors of the Han Dynasty would not lie, their high reputation among the people was unimaginable to later generations.

In history, due to years of war, economic bankruptcy and people's livelihood withered. Xiaozhu had to issue a self-criticism.

It was this self-criticism that made all the people who had already begun to prepare for the "King, Prince, General, and Prime Minister" quiet.

Because the emperor admitted his mistake, the people all chose to forgive the emperor.

This shows how high the prestige of the Han Dynasty emperors among the people.

After confirming that this migration was true, countless people began to sign up enthusiastically.

The reason is very simple. After decades of peaceful development, the population of the Han Dynasty had already increased from less than 20 million at the end of the Qin Dynasty to nearly 60 million.

And more importantly, this is not the exact population figure.

Because we have to evade the capitation tax, it is very common for hiding the population in the Han Dynasty.

According to the statistics and calculations of Shaofu, the actual population of the Han Dynasty may even exceed 70 million.

In the early Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty implemented the land division system, which is the "family of five people, to manage a hundred acres of land."

It means that as long as you come out of the deep mountains and forests, the great man will divide you into land. If you have five people, you can divide it into land of 100 acres.

But later, as the population grew, the land was divided into less and less, and in the end, nothing was gone.

Land annexation began to rise. In the era of small peasant economy, land was the most valuable investment target. Therefore, buying land when you have money directly led to more and more concentrated land in the hands of a small number of people.

Although Wang Xiao is suppressing such a thing, it can only be a treatment for the symptoms, not a solution from the root.

After all, everyone in this era thinks so. Even Wang Xiao can't completely stop such things, even if he is open to Wushuang, it's useless.

When the Han people began to worry about the land, such great news suddenly came, so they naturally rushed to the forefront.

Of course, Wang Xiao said that he was divided into hundreds of acres of land, not fields.

Because there are basically no ready-made fields in Henan, and almost all of them are pastures at first glance.

If you want to have land, the people have to cultivate it themselves. This is why Wang Xiao needs to be exempted from tax for three years.

The fields have not even been opened, so where can I go to collect taxes?

This massive population migration lasted for more than a year.
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