Chapter 357 Northern Expedition
There are only a few months left until January of the first year of Huangtong.
However, the work and energy required to form an expeditionary force is extremely enormous.
Although the northern iron cavalry responded enthusiastically to Lu Yi's call, plus the elite soldiers drawn from the thirteen states of the world.
It is very easy to form an army of 200,000.
But war horses, food, fodder, military equipment, weapons, armor, baggage, etc.
What was originally a simple task now has to be multiplied by two hundred thousand.
That was the first astronomical amount of consumption and preparation.
If Lu Yi had not built an efficient and completely loyal administrative system during his conquests.
It would take several years just to gather the food, caravans, and transporters needed for an army of 200,000 to march out for a year.
Fortunately, there were basically no major, exhausting battles when Lu Yi unified the world.
There is no excessive consumption of food.
Moreover, he has bases in Hebei and Luoyang.
Almost all of the Han Dynasty's most vital regions and most populous population were in his hands.
It is still easy to get food for an army of 200,000.
However, the rest of the baggage, weapons, and equipment still need to be manufactured and prepared overtime.
However, Lu Yi has already issued an order to recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the country to gather in Luoyang, and the preparations for the expedition should be completed before January of next year.
All kinds of supplies, food, carriages, horses, and drivers from all over the country were also coming to the center of Luoyang at the same time.
Luoyang seemed to have turned into a big factory. In order to follow Lu Yi's orders, millions of Luoyang people were busy.
Once the Han nationality's war machine starts moving, in this era.
Only the Roman Empire in its heyday in the West could compete with it.
And the outcome is uncertain.
Although the Xianbei occupied an area of a thousand miles in the northern part of the desert and had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, they were still far less than the Han people.
The Hu people are like a student who is very partial to certain subjects.
Besides being good at sports, he can also fight as well as big men.
The rest is basically trash.
Once the war reached a stalemate, the nomadic Xianbei with its poor resource utilization would surely collapse earlier than the agricultural civilization of the Han Dynasty, which was extremely advanced in all aspects.
Now, Lu Yi would rather sacrifice ten years of development of the Han Dynasty than to completely pacify Mobei and eliminate the threat of the Hu people.
Change the historical process of the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China from the source.
Force the wheel of history to make a sharp turn under Lu Yi's control.
In fact, after twelve years of conquest by Lu Yi, history has completely changed beyond recognition.
The reunited and rejuvenated Han Dynasty is the best proof of this argument.
While the entire Luoyang was busy preparing all kinds of supplies for the army.
Lu Yi was not idle either.
But he did not waste time on basic work.
Instead, he came to a secret workshop that was completely unknown to the outside world.
In order to ensure the absolute confidentiality of the workshop, Lu Yi even set up the workshop in her own harem.
Anyway, after Lu Yi came to power, he dismissed most of Liu Hong's palace maids who had no official status.
Although Liu Hong had many beauties in his harem, not many of them had official titles, and most of them were palace maids.
However, Liu Bian was still young and had not been on the throne for long. More importantly, he was just a puppet emperor, so his harem could be ignored.
After dismissing a large number of palace maids, Lu Yi's family was still settled in the Prince of Jin's Mansion.
The harem was specially set aside as this secret workshop.
In fact, the things produced by this number one secret workshop in the Han Dynasty do not have much technological content.
Anyone with relevant experience can understand the structure and manufacturing conditions of this thing just by taking a look and playing with it.
There are only two things that Lu Yi secretly produces.
But these two inconspicuous things can affect the final outcome of the Han-Xian war next year.
What Lu Yi secretly produced was the prophetic benefit brought by his status as a time traveler.
Horseshoes and double stirrups.
The boundless northern desert is a battlefield that belongs only to cavalry.
As long as they possessed these two cavalry artifacts, the Han cavalry could immediately make up for the superior riding skills of the Hu people who grew up on horseback.
With horseshoes, the Han people's mounts could immediately surpass the Hu people's.
Most of Lu Yi's war horses were collected from the Xiongnu tribes in the grasslands south of the desert.
In fact, in essence, they are not much different from the horses of the Xianbei people.
Horseshoes not only protected the fragile body of war horses, but also extended the use time of horse hooves, and could also adapt to certain terrains that were difficult for natural horse hooves to gallop on.
With horseshoes, the Luyi cavalry's horses could defeat the Xianbei's horses in all aspects.
The double stirrup is more useful than the horseshoe.
It is simply a groundbreaking artifact.
Before the invention of double stirrups, cavalrymen had to clamp their legs together to control their horses.
Moreover, on the battlefield, having strong legs alone is useless. If a knight cannot adapt to and coordinate with the galloping of the warhorse, he cannot fully exert his combat power.
The Hu people, represented by the Xiongnu and Wuhuan, grew up on horseback.
When their children are born, their game is chasing on horseback. When they grow up, they ride on horseback to drive livestock to graze. After they become adults, they have to go through frequent tribal annexation wars. In the autumn and winter, they have to go south to rob the Han people for grass and grain.
Therefore, riding has become as instinctive to them as breathing, eating and drinking.
Even the riding skills of Hu women are generally better than those of the most elite ordinary cavalry soldiers of the Han people.
Only first-rate military commanders and cavalry generals like Lü Yi, Lü Bu, Zhao Yun, and Gongsun Zan could catch up with and surpass the riding skills of the Hu people through years of hard training.
But now, double-sided stirrups have appeared.
Ordinary Han cavalry could sit steadily on the saddle, with their feet on the stirrups, so that their bodies would have support.
As a result, the riding skills of ordinary Han cavalry immediately made a qualitative leap, and they could instantly catch up with the Hu cavalry who had been riding for many years.
On the other hand, with the support of the cavalry's feet, the movements that the upper body can perform are greatly increased.
Whether it is drawing the bow to shoot an arrow or thrusting the spear to stab, these actions originally required strong leg strength to support them. With the appearance of double-sided stirrups, the difficulty can be immediately greatly reduced.
It allows people with mediocre riding skills to easily draw stronger bows and stab more powerful spears on horseback.
This is especially true for heavy cavalry like Lu Yi!
The heavy iron armor brought the most powerful protection of this era, but it also brought a heavier burden to the knights.
Now with these two magical weapons, Lu Yi's cavalry has surpassed the Hu people in all aspects.
However, these two magical weapons are useful to the Han people, and they are even more useful to the Hu people!
Before the invention of horseshoes and double stirrups, no matter how powerful the Hu people were, they would never be able to break through the Great Wall.
Even if they cause trouble for a while, they will eventually be driven out of the Great Wall.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the double-sided stirrup appeared and was introduced to the grasslands. The fighting power of the Hu people was completely liberated, and the gap between cavalry and infantry was completely widened.
The cavalry began to firmly establish itself as the king of the military.
The Hu people also began to shine in the war against the Han people, stirring up chaos in China and causing chaos in the land.
By the time the Mongols had developed their cavalry to its peak, they relied on horseback archery to traverse the Eurasian continent and established the largest Mongol Empire in human history.
Lu Yi was well aware of the importance of this matter, so he kept the production of double-sided stirrups and horseshoes strictly secret.
At least, these two artifacts must not be passed on until he completely pacifies the desert and subdues all the nomadic peoples!
Fortunately, if everything goes well.
The next year, when horseshoes and double-sided stirrups were first used by the Han cavalry, the Xianbei could be completely wiped out.
Minimize this risk.
It is now approaching the end of the year, and the 200,000 pairs of double-sided stirrups and 800,000 horseshoes that Lu Yi prepared for the Northern Expedition Army have basically been completed.
Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing!
the following year.
The first day of the first month of the first year of Huangtong.
After Lu Yi announced it to the Taimiao, he vowed to lead his troops to fight in Mobei.
The lineup that Lu Yi brought with him on this expedition was extremely luxurious.
Not only did he have generals like Lu Bu under his command, but he also had famous heroes like Gongsun Zan, Sun Jian, Sun Ce and his son, Ma Teng, Ma Chao and his son, and Zhang Ren.
As for the civil officials, in addition to Tian Feng and Chen Gong who were ordered to supervise the country and transport food and supplies to the army.
It can be said that Lu Yi packed up all his available troops and brought them out of the Great Wall, determined to completely defeat the Xianbei people.
In terms of military force allocation.
Lu Yi brought a total of 200,000 cavalry, including 100,000 heavy cavalry and 100,000 light cavalry.
In addition, there were 80,000 light cavalry from the various Hun tribes south of the desert commanded by Qin Han and Hatter, and 20,000 light cavalry from the various Qiang tribes who had surrendered to the Han Dynasty as vassal troops.
The total army of 300,000, claiming to be an army of 800,000, gathered in Pingcheng, Bingzhou, and was ready to launch an all-round attack on the Xianbei.
But at this moment, the Xianbei had no idea about the Han Dynasty's movements.
Today, after nearly a decade of renovation, the Xianbei has gradually recovered its vitality.
After recovering, the Xianbei did not immediately think of conquering the Han Dynasty with military force, but instead took the lead in starting a full-scale civil war.
In other words, ever since the death of Tan Shihuai, who unified the entire Xianbei, this suddenly rising tribal alliance has never been free from civil war.
Internal strife will lead to the destruction of a country, and the destruction of a country will also require internal strife.
This is the most realistic portrayal of the Xianbei at present.
Budugen, who is proud of his bloodline, and Kebineng, who is proud of his abilities, are at odds with each other.
Since the two returned to Mobei, they have been fighting small fights every month and big fights every year.
If it weren't for the continuous fighting between the two, the Xianbei might have recovered a few years earlier.
The report was received through Toto, a spy planted by Lu Yi next to Budugen.
After nearly ten years of tribal wars, the originally powerful Budugen was repeatedly suppressed by Kebineng, who was not as strong as him at the beginning.
From being able to bully others in the beginning, to being evenly matched later, and even to the current situation of being defeated.
This is also one of the reasons why this secret agent who currently holds a high position in the Xianbei ranks is still so obedient.
If Lu Yi does not take action this time, he will have to wait a few more years for Ke Bi to unify the Xianbei again.
What Lu Yisuo had to face was not a divided and declining Xianbei.
But a complete, powerful and dangerous Xianbei.
Therefore, after receiving Tuotu's reply, Lu Yi immediately acted decisively. On the second day after the country was unified and he ascended the throne, he announced that he would start a war against the Xianbei.
The goal was to fight the Xianbei before Kebi could completely defeat Budugen.
Now, Budugen is in danger. Its army has been reduced from over a million people and a hundred thousand soldiers to only twenty or thirty thousand troops by Kebi Neng. It is possible that they may be wiped out by Kebi Neng at any time.
Therefore, after receiving instructions from Lu Yi, Toto secretly found Budugen, revealed his identity, and persuaded the left wing of the Xianbei led by Budugen to surrender.
For Budugen, his own survival is now uncertain.
How could he care about the shame of being defeated by Lu Yi?
It is better to give to friendly foreign countries than to domestic slaves. This idea seems absurd and incomprehensible.
However, it will appear repeatedly in certain specific periods and among certain specific people.
This is the case for Budugen today.
As long as Lu Yi can help him defeat Ke Bi, he can save his tribe and his life.
Then it would not be unacceptable even if they returned to the Lü Yi and the Han people.
After all, before this, the Xianbei were dogs that the Han people had raised for hundreds of years.
I have been a dog for more than a hundred years, so I can be a dog for another hundred years.
For Budugen, as long as he could ensure his own survival, he would let the Xianbei continue to be ruled by nobles with Tan Shihuai bloodline.
Then, one day in the future, it may be possible to turn the situation around and make a comeback.
But for Lu Yi.
His goal was to completely pacify Mobei.
However, the Han people could not completely occupy the grasslands and grasslands in northern Mobei like the Hu people did.
Therefore, Lu Yi's goal naturally turned to controlling the Hu people in Mobei.
However, if a cruel genocide policy were implemented, all ethnic minorities such as the Xiongnu, Xianbei and even the Western Qiang would be killed.
Let’s not talk about whether causing such a huge amount of bloodshed is against the harmony of nature.
Even if Lu Yi had the ruthlessness and ability to do so, he couldn't do it so simply and crudely.
Even if all the Hu people died, such a large area of grassland would not be left vacant.
Under the pressure of survival, the nomadic peoples in the Western Regions to the west, and even further west in Central Asia, will definitely choose to move towards the completely empty desert where there is no pressure of survival or competition.
Within a hundred years, a new nomadic Hu people will emerge.
They will even be more difficult to deal with than the current Huns and Xianbei people.
By that time, Lu Yi had already been buried, and it was hard to say whether his descendants could withstand the challenge of the new nomadic peoples who were unable to resist the law of technological diffusion and had mastered the technological level of the Han people.
Therefore, some obedient Hu people were left to control the grassland, while Lu Yi could indirectly control the Hu people to control the vast desert.
However, if the Xianbei were destroyed, the Xiongnu would be the only dominant force and would become strong again within a hundred years.
At that time, the untamed Hu people would once again turn from loyal dogs into hungry wolves and pounce fiercely on the Han people in the south.
Therefore, a monopoly is definitely not a reasonable policy.
The weakened Xiongnu, Xianbei, Western Qiang and other ethnic minorities were left behind to restrain and consume each other.
The Han Dynasty sought to differentiate and balance the situation from the sidelines, which was the way to long-term stability.
(End of this chapter)
There are only a few months left until January of the first year of Huangtong.
However, the work and energy required to form an expeditionary force is extremely enormous.
Although the northern iron cavalry responded enthusiastically to Lu Yi's call, plus the elite soldiers drawn from the thirteen states of the world.
It is very easy to form an army of 200,000.
But war horses, food, fodder, military equipment, weapons, armor, baggage, etc.
What was originally a simple task now has to be multiplied by two hundred thousand.
That was the first astronomical amount of consumption and preparation.
If Lu Yi had not built an efficient and completely loyal administrative system during his conquests.
It would take several years just to gather the food, caravans, and transporters needed for an army of 200,000 to march out for a year.
Fortunately, there were basically no major, exhausting battles when Lu Yi unified the world.
There is no excessive consumption of food.
Moreover, he has bases in Hebei and Luoyang.
Almost all of the Han Dynasty's most vital regions and most populous population were in his hands.
It is still easy to get food for an army of 200,000.
However, the rest of the baggage, weapons, and equipment still need to be manufactured and prepared overtime.
However, Lu Yi has already issued an order to recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the country to gather in Luoyang, and the preparations for the expedition should be completed before January of next year.
All kinds of supplies, food, carriages, horses, and drivers from all over the country were also coming to the center of Luoyang at the same time.
Luoyang seemed to have turned into a big factory. In order to follow Lu Yi's orders, millions of Luoyang people were busy.
Once the Han nationality's war machine starts moving, in this era.
Only the Roman Empire in its heyday in the West could compete with it.
And the outcome is uncertain.
Although the Xianbei occupied an area of a thousand miles in the northern part of the desert and had hundreds of thousands of soldiers, they were still far less than the Han people.
The Hu people are like a student who is very partial to certain subjects.
Besides being good at sports, he can also fight as well as big men.
The rest is basically trash.
Once the war reached a stalemate, the nomadic Xianbei with its poor resource utilization would surely collapse earlier than the agricultural civilization of the Han Dynasty, which was extremely advanced in all aspects.
Now, Lu Yi would rather sacrifice ten years of development of the Han Dynasty than to completely pacify Mobei and eliminate the threat of the Hu people.
Change the historical process of the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China from the source.
Force the wheel of history to make a sharp turn under Lu Yi's control.
In fact, after twelve years of conquest by Lu Yi, history has completely changed beyond recognition.
The reunited and rejuvenated Han Dynasty is the best proof of this argument.
While the entire Luoyang was busy preparing all kinds of supplies for the army.
Lu Yi was not idle either.
But he did not waste time on basic work.
Instead, he came to a secret workshop that was completely unknown to the outside world.
In order to ensure the absolute confidentiality of the workshop, Lu Yi even set up the workshop in her own harem.
Anyway, after Lu Yi came to power, he dismissed most of Liu Hong's palace maids who had no official status.
Although Liu Hong had many beauties in his harem, not many of them had official titles, and most of them were palace maids.
However, Liu Bian was still young and had not been on the throne for long. More importantly, he was just a puppet emperor, so his harem could be ignored.
After dismissing a large number of palace maids, Lu Yi's family was still settled in the Prince of Jin's Mansion.
The harem was specially set aside as this secret workshop.
In fact, the things produced by this number one secret workshop in the Han Dynasty do not have much technological content.
Anyone with relevant experience can understand the structure and manufacturing conditions of this thing just by taking a look and playing with it.
There are only two things that Lu Yi secretly produces.
But these two inconspicuous things can affect the final outcome of the Han-Xian war next year.
What Lu Yi secretly produced was the prophetic benefit brought by his status as a time traveler.
Horseshoes and double stirrups.
The boundless northern desert is a battlefield that belongs only to cavalry.
As long as they possessed these two cavalry artifacts, the Han cavalry could immediately make up for the superior riding skills of the Hu people who grew up on horseback.
With horseshoes, the Han people's mounts could immediately surpass the Hu people's.
Most of Lu Yi's war horses were collected from the Xiongnu tribes in the grasslands south of the desert.
In fact, in essence, they are not much different from the horses of the Xianbei people.
Horseshoes not only protected the fragile body of war horses, but also extended the use time of horse hooves, and could also adapt to certain terrains that were difficult for natural horse hooves to gallop on.
With horseshoes, the Luyi cavalry's horses could defeat the Xianbei's horses in all aspects.
The double stirrup is more useful than the horseshoe.
It is simply a groundbreaking artifact.
Before the invention of double stirrups, cavalrymen had to clamp their legs together to control their horses.
Moreover, on the battlefield, having strong legs alone is useless. If a knight cannot adapt to and coordinate with the galloping of the warhorse, he cannot fully exert his combat power.
The Hu people, represented by the Xiongnu and Wuhuan, grew up on horseback.
When their children are born, their game is chasing on horseback. When they grow up, they ride on horseback to drive livestock to graze. After they become adults, they have to go through frequent tribal annexation wars. In the autumn and winter, they have to go south to rob the Han people for grass and grain.
Therefore, riding has become as instinctive to them as breathing, eating and drinking.
Even the riding skills of Hu women are generally better than those of the most elite ordinary cavalry soldiers of the Han people.
Only first-rate military commanders and cavalry generals like Lü Yi, Lü Bu, Zhao Yun, and Gongsun Zan could catch up with and surpass the riding skills of the Hu people through years of hard training.
But now, double-sided stirrups have appeared.
Ordinary Han cavalry could sit steadily on the saddle, with their feet on the stirrups, so that their bodies would have support.
As a result, the riding skills of ordinary Han cavalry immediately made a qualitative leap, and they could instantly catch up with the Hu cavalry who had been riding for many years.
On the other hand, with the support of the cavalry's feet, the movements that the upper body can perform are greatly increased.
Whether it is drawing the bow to shoot an arrow or thrusting the spear to stab, these actions originally required strong leg strength to support them. With the appearance of double-sided stirrups, the difficulty can be immediately greatly reduced.
It allows people with mediocre riding skills to easily draw stronger bows and stab more powerful spears on horseback.
This is especially true for heavy cavalry like Lu Yi!
The heavy iron armor brought the most powerful protection of this era, but it also brought a heavier burden to the knights.
Now with these two magical weapons, Lu Yi's cavalry has surpassed the Hu people in all aspects.
However, these two magical weapons are useful to the Han people, and they are even more useful to the Hu people!
Before the invention of horseshoes and double stirrups, no matter how powerful the Hu people were, they would never be able to break through the Great Wall.
Even if they cause trouble for a while, they will eventually be driven out of the Great Wall.
In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the double-sided stirrup appeared and was introduced to the grasslands. The fighting power of the Hu people was completely liberated, and the gap between cavalry and infantry was completely widened.
The cavalry began to firmly establish itself as the king of the military.
The Hu people also began to shine in the war against the Han people, stirring up chaos in China and causing chaos in the land.
By the time the Mongols had developed their cavalry to its peak, they relied on horseback archery to traverse the Eurasian continent and established the largest Mongol Empire in human history.
Lu Yi was well aware of the importance of this matter, so he kept the production of double-sided stirrups and horseshoes strictly secret.
At least, these two artifacts must not be passed on until he completely pacifies the desert and subdues all the nomadic peoples!
Fortunately, if everything goes well.
The next year, when horseshoes and double-sided stirrups were first used by the Han cavalry, the Xianbei could be completely wiped out.
Minimize this risk.
It is now approaching the end of the year, and the 200,000 pairs of double-sided stirrups and 800,000 horseshoes that Lu Yi prepared for the Northern Expedition Army have basically been completed.
Everything is ready, only the east wind is missing!
the following year.
The first day of the first month of the first year of Huangtong.
After Lu Yi announced it to the Taimiao, he vowed to lead his troops to fight in Mobei.
The lineup that Lu Yi brought with him on this expedition was extremely luxurious.
Not only did he have generals like Lu Bu under his command, but he also had famous heroes like Gongsun Zan, Sun Jian, Sun Ce and his son, Ma Teng, Ma Chao and his son, and Zhang Ren.
As for the civil officials, in addition to Tian Feng and Chen Gong who were ordered to supervise the country and transport food and supplies to the army.
It can be said that Lu Yi packed up all his available troops and brought them out of the Great Wall, determined to completely defeat the Xianbei people.
In terms of military force allocation.
Lu Yi brought a total of 200,000 cavalry, including 100,000 heavy cavalry and 100,000 light cavalry.
In addition, there were 80,000 light cavalry from the various Hun tribes south of the desert commanded by Qin Han and Hatter, and 20,000 light cavalry from the various Qiang tribes who had surrendered to the Han Dynasty as vassal troops.
The total army of 300,000, claiming to be an army of 800,000, gathered in Pingcheng, Bingzhou, and was ready to launch an all-round attack on the Xianbei.
But at this moment, the Xianbei had no idea about the Han Dynasty's movements.
Today, after nearly a decade of renovation, the Xianbei has gradually recovered its vitality.
After recovering, the Xianbei did not immediately think of conquering the Han Dynasty with military force, but instead took the lead in starting a full-scale civil war.
In other words, ever since the death of Tan Shihuai, who unified the entire Xianbei, this suddenly rising tribal alliance has never been free from civil war.
Internal strife will lead to the destruction of a country, and the destruction of a country will also require internal strife.
This is the most realistic portrayal of the Xianbei at present.
Budugen, who is proud of his bloodline, and Kebineng, who is proud of his abilities, are at odds with each other.
Since the two returned to Mobei, they have been fighting small fights every month and big fights every year.
If it weren't for the continuous fighting between the two, the Xianbei might have recovered a few years earlier.
The report was received through Toto, a spy planted by Lu Yi next to Budugen.
After nearly ten years of tribal wars, the originally powerful Budugen was repeatedly suppressed by Kebineng, who was not as strong as him at the beginning.
From being able to bully others in the beginning, to being evenly matched later, and even to the current situation of being defeated.
This is also one of the reasons why this secret agent who currently holds a high position in the Xianbei ranks is still so obedient.
If Lu Yi does not take action this time, he will have to wait a few more years for Ke Bi to unify the Xianbei again.
What Lu Yisuo had to face was not a divided and declining Xianbei.
But a complete, powerful and dangerous Xianbei.
Therefore, after receiving Tuotu's reply, Lu Yi immediately acted decisively. On the second day after the country was unified and he ascended the throne, he announced that he would start a war against the Xianbei.
The goal was to fight the Xianbei before Kebi could completely defeat Budugen.
Now, Budugen is in danger. Its army has been reduced from over a million people and a hundred thousand soldiers to only twenty or thirty thousand troops by Kebi Neng. It is possible that they may be wiped out by Kebi Neng at any time.
Therefore, after receiving instructions from Lu Yi, Toto secretly found Budugen, revealed his identity, and persuaded the left wing of the Xianbei led by Budugen to surrender.
For Budugen, his own survival is now uncertain.
How could he care about the shame of being defeated by Lu Yi?
It is better to give to friendly foreign countries than to domestic slaves. This idea seems absurd and incomprehensible.
However, it will appear repeatedly in certain specific periods and among certain specific people.
This is the case for Budugen today.
As long as Lu Yi can help him defeat Ke Bi, he can save his tribe and his life.
Then it would not be unacceptable even if they returned to the Lü Yi and the Han people.
After all, before this, the Xianbei were dogs that the Han people had raised for hundreds of years.
I have been a dog for more than a hundred years, so I can be a dog for another hundred years.
For Budugen, as long as he could ensure his own survival, he would let the Xianbei continue to be ruled by nobles with Tan Shihuai bloodline.
Then, one day in the future, it may be possible to turn the situation around and make a comeback.
But for Lu Yi.
His goal was to completely pacify Mobei.
However, the Han people could not completely occupy the grasslands and grasslands in northern Mobei like the Hu people did.
Therefore, Lu Yi's goal naturally turned to controlling the Hu people in Mobei.
However, if a cruel genocide policy were implemented, all ethnic minorities such as the Xiongnu, Xianbei and even the Western Qiang would be killed.
Let’s not talk about whether causing such a huge amount of bloodshed is against the harmony of nature.
Even if Lu Yi had the ruthlessness and ability to do so, he couldn't do it so simply and crudely.
Even if all the Hu people died, such a large area of grassland would not be left vacant.
Under the pressure of survival, the nomadic peoples in the Western Regions to the west, and even further west in Central Asia, will definitely choose to move towards the completely empty desert where there is no pressure of survival or competition.
Within a hundred years, a new nomadic Hu people will emerge.
They will even be more difficult to deal with than the current Huns and Xianbei people.
By that time, Lu Yi had already been buried, and it was hard to say whether his descendants could withstand the challenge of the new nomadic peoples who were unable to resist the law of technological diffusion and had mastered the technological level of the Han people.
Therefore, some obedient Hu people were left to control the grassland, while Lu Yi could indirectly control the Hu people to control the vast desert.
However, if the Xianbei were destroyed, the Xiongnu would be the only dominant force and would become strong again within a hundred years.
At that time, the untamed Hu people would once again turn from loyal dogs into hungry wolves and pounce fiercely on the Han people in the south.
Therefore, a monopoly is definitely not a reasonable policy.
The weakened Xiongnu, Xianbei, Western Qiang and other ethnic minorities were left behind to restrain and consume each other.
The Han Dynasty sought to differentiate and balance the situation from the sidelines, which was the way to long-term stability.
(End of this chapter)
