Chapter 177: Rebellion against Tiangang! The Central Plains Dynasty robs the nomads to get rich!

"The Central Plains...robbed the northern nomads?"

Qin Dynasty.

When Ying Zheng saw this question, he was stunned at first.

Then began to doubt.

Is there something wrong with the person who asked this question?

Or is this video the product of another idiot from later times?

"Nomads in the north? What do they have to steal? Just those few cattle and sheep?"

"Even if we rob them and get some cattle and sheep, I'm afraid it won't be enough to cover even a fraction of the military expenditure!"

"Those Huns in the north were able to behave themselves and not come south to harass our Great Qin. I should thank his eight generations of ancestors!"

……

And in the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, just wanted to laugh when he saw this question.

"Since the war with the Xiongnu in the north began, our Han Dynasty has won many victories and also brought back a lot of spoils from the Xiongnu royal court."

“That’s a pretty huge number.”

"But what's the use?"

"Huo Qubing won a great victory and brought back countless gold, silver and jewelry. The spoils piled up like mountains."

"But when we finally calculated the accounts, we found that we were still losing money! A huge loss!"

"It can be said that even if the Xiongnu in the north is a rich country, it is basically impossible to make a profit from them through war."

"Besides, the Huns were already poor."

"Over the years, the wars have made us even poorer, and I can't stand it any more."

"Their territory is also bad land, and most of it cannot be incorporated into the Han ownership."

"Want to rob the northern nomads?"

“This is a pure loss-making business!”

Jin Dynasty.

Emperor Wu of Jin, Sima Yan, saw the issue about nomadic peoples on the sky curtain.

He also thought of the situation in the north of Dajin, which was surrounded by countless foreign ethnic groups.

What a headache!

Emperor Wu of Jin also knew it.

Although the overall situation in Dajin is relatively stable at present, the national defense pressure brought by the nomadic peoples in the north has become very heavy.

Especially the Qiang rebellion in the northwest!

The Qiang Rebellion brought down the Han Dynasty.

Now it is the Jin Dynasty's turn to have a headache.

The Qiang Rebellion was a nightmare that plagued Sima Yan for a long time.

The imperial court almost wanted to give up Liangzhou.

It is precisely because we know how much it will cost to pacify these northern nomadic peoples.

"It's good enough that they don't come. Why would I rob those poor bastards?"

So after seeing this question, Sima Yan just thought it was just another idiot from later generations.

Next to Sima Yan, Sima Zhong, who was still a minor at the time, was inspired by the sky curtain.

My eyes lit up and I suddenly realized!

"I understand! I understand!"

"The solution to the nomads is to attack them."

"Father, why don't we in the Great Jin send troops to rob the nomads?"

And the ancient people in later times were also thinking about it.

How to steal money from the nomadic peoples in the north.

Zhu Di had his own ideas.

"At this stage, we must still focus on fighting against the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty."

"But to be honest, if you want to steal money from the northern nomads."

"Send troops directly to rob them?"

“That basically means losing money!”

"Perhaps opening up trade and conducting cross-border trade at ports would be a better approach."

“You don’t need to use force, you need to use economic means to grab the money.”

“This should be the only way.”

And it was also the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Qizhen didn't think about this problem at first.

But he immediately thought of a country that had been written about in history books.

Zhu Qizhen thought he was very smart, so he laughed and said.

"The Central Plains Dynasty robbed the northern nomadic people? That's easy!"

"Just learn from the Northern Wei Dynasty!"

"I will mobilize 500,000 troops this time, just like Tuoba Tao of the Northern Wei Dynasty did back then. I will travel around Wala leisurely and plunder their wealth."

"You can get a lot of spoils without paying too much!"

"This is how the Ming Dynasty, as a dynasty in the Central Plains, should steal money from the northern nomadic peoples."

"It's very simple."

Zhu Qizhen stood with his hands behind his back, exuding an air of dominance.

"Just kill them directly!"

……

After the Southern and Northern Dynasties, many ancient people already remembered the country of Northern Wei.

And the sky curtain began to tell the story.

It was indeed the Northern Wei Dynasty!
[Generally speaking, they were nomadic peoples from the north who went south to rob the Central Plains dynasties.]

[After all, the northern grasslands and deserts where nomadic peoples live are harsh environments and are generally poor.]

[During years of famine, even basic survival became a problem. ]

[You must grab it, you can't not grab it! 】

[It is said that nomadic tribes like to go south to rob the Central Plains dynasty, but in fact they prefer to rob other brother tribes. ]

【We treat our own people and others equally. 】

【But in the history of our country, there was a dynasty called the Northern Wei Dynasty. 】

【It's a bit special. 】

[Speaking of the Northern Wei, they were actually the nomadic Xianbei people living in the north. ]

[During the Sixteen Kingdoms period of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Tuoba tribe of the Xianbei established a regime called the Dai Kingdom.]

[During the Dai Kingdom period, Tuoba Xianbei gradually completed the transformation from a tribal alliance to a state. ]

【It became a semi-Hanized Xianbei state.】

[The capital of Dai was Shengle, and it once had a good momentum of development. But before it had time to fully rise, it was destroyed by Fu Jian of the Former Qin Dynasty.]

[After the collapse of the Former Qin Dynasty, the Tuoba tribe re-established their country. ]

[And changed its name to Wei State, officially establishing the Northern Wei Dynasty. 】

[Step by step, it grew from a small country to a big country, and finally unified the entire northern part of China, becoming the most powerful country in China! 】

[The Northern Wei Dynasty, which controlled the Central Plains, also became a Central Plains dynasty whose ruling center continued to move southward.]

……

Qin Dynasty.

Ying Zheng felt very unhappy when he saw the map of Northern Wei appearing on the sky.

Although such a period of time has passed, Tianmu continues to tell the story.

Ying Zheng also knew that China had sunk into oblivion more than once in later generations.

In Ying Zheng’s own words: There is absolutely no bottom line!
Anyone can become emperor.

It's simply the utter collapse of social order.

But seeing yet another barbarian from the grassland taking control of the Central Plains still made Ying Zheng unhappy and disdainful.

"Humph! I was just curious about this video, wondering how the Central Plains Dynasty could steal money from the nomads."

"I didn't expect them to be some barbarians again."

"Could it be that the Central Plains dynasty that was good at robbing the nomadic peoples of the northern grasslands was this barbaric Northern Wei?"

"It's ridiculous that the barbarians and scoundrels are fighting each other."

The sky continues.

[How did the Northern Wei Dynasty develop in the future? We will not discuss this for now.]

【But from the current introduction, you can see that the Northern Wei was a country founded by the nomadic Xianbei people in the north. 】

[Those Xianbei people who went south and entered the pass were the Northern Wei people. ] [Those Xianbei people who did not go south and still stayed on the grasslands eating sand. ]

[As well as the remnants of the Xiongnu and other miscellaneous Hu tribes, they were called Rouran people.]

[Their tribal alliance was also collectively called Rouran. ]

[From the map, we can see that after the Xianbei people of the Northern Wei Dynasty entered the pass, the grassland was completely ruled by the Rouran. ]

[The area of ​​Rouran was indeed very vast, dominating the entire northern grasslands, with an area of ​​nearly 400 million square kilometers. ]

[It is definitely a very powerful grassland regime. ]

【So, the present northern China is the Northern Wei Dynasty founded by the Xianbei people. 】

[Further north of the Northern Wei was the Rouran regime dominated by the Xianbei people.]

[Both sides are 100% relatives, and there are definitely a lot of aunts, uncles, and the like. ]

[The same can be seen. ]

[Although the territory is large, the Rouran are very poor as it is all rotten land. ]

[As a nomadic people, the Rouran would definitely want to move south when they became poor. 】

[They set their sights on the Northern Wei Dynasty established by their Xianbei relatives. ]

[What a coincidence! The Bei Wei family, who had just started their business and was at war every day, was also very poor. ]

【So the Northern Wei also played up the glorious tradition of nomadic peoples, giving priority to robbing other brother tribes, and also set its sights on the Rouran. 】

[It’s not that the Liu Song Dynasty in the south couldn’t afford to rob. ]

[It is more cost-effective to rob the Rouran people in their hometown. ]

[Were the Rouran the first to seize the Northern Wei? ]

[Or did the Northern Wei Dynasty seize the Rouran first? ]

[It’s hard to explain.]

[Anyway, in 402 AD, Tuoba Gui, the founding monarch of the Northern Wei Dynasty, faced the plight of the lack of livestock resources in the Northern Wei Dynasty and thought of his poor relatives on the northern grasslands.]

[Tuoba Gui launched a massive attack on the Rouran, robbed countless livestock and returned south. ]

【From then on, the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Rouran broke off completely. 】

[Those who entered the customs and those who stayed behind started fighting! 】

[In order to defend against the Rouran from the north, the Northern Wei also built the Great Wall in the Yinshan area as a solid line of defense against relatives. ]

See here.

The commentators were all speechless.

"Poor ghosts killing hungry ghosts is a case of that."

"The land and water nurture the people!"

"Tuoba Gui: I have been a Central Plains person for a long time!"

"The stinking grassland people are coming to the Central Plains to beg for food."

"Northern Wei: It is better to build the Great Wall."

"Tuobajia: I got in the car and welded the door shut."

"Master Tuoba was kindhearted and could not bear to see his poor relatives, so he specially built a Great Wall for them."

"Is Hua Mulan the Khan of Northern Wei, going to attack the relatives of Rouran?"

"Do you know how harshly the Northern Wei insulted their Rouran relatives? The Northern Wei called the Rouran "Ruoru!" "Rui Rui!" "Ruru!" "Yu Ru!" "Tan Tan!""

……

The sky curtain also continues.

[Later, during the reign of Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, Tuoba Tao, large-scale military operations were launched against the Rouran.]

[When Tuoba Tao was young, he was on the front line of the Great Wall against the Rouran, and was very familiar with the tactics of both the grassland and the Rouran. ]

[After ascending the throne, Tuoba Tao sent troops to rob the Rouran 13 times. ]

[Of these, there were 11 victories.]

[There were two other times when the Rouran were faster and therefore failed to win.]

[The most brutal one was the large-scale northern expedition in 429 AD, when Tuoba Tao was so aggressive that he divided his troops into several routes and marched northward.]

[Head straight to the Rouran Khan's royal court! ]

[The Rouran were so frightened that they fled westward. It is said that some of the Rouran people fled directly to Hungary and established the Avar Khanate.]

[Tuoba Tao ordered a carpet search! ]

【From the vast sea in the east.】

【To the Zhangye River in the west. 】

【From the Great Wall in the south.】

【To the Yanran Mountain in the north.】

[On a battle line 5000 miles wide from east to west and 3000 miles deep from north to south, strike the Rouran in an all-out manner! ]

[In the end, more than one million horses, cattle, sheep and other livestock were captured! ]

[There were also countless Rouran fellow villagers who were captured as slaves. ]

[It was like robbing the Rouran, and they had robbed the main artery. 】

[In fact, in terms of military size, the Northern Wei Dynasty was definitely not as large as that during the reign of Emperor Wu of Han.]

[But it was mainly the Northern Wei, which itself was the Xianbei tribe from the grasslands that moved south. ]

[The Xianbei people and the Rouran people in the Northern Wei Dynasty have always maintained regular contact.]

[This is especially true between the Xianbei tribe and the Rouran tribe.]

[So when the Northern Wei attacked the Rouran, there was almost no risk of getting lost. ]

[Which season should I go? Which grassland should I go to look for people at different times? ]

[Wherever there is water, wherever the road is easy to walk, these Northern Wei people are all clear! 】

[Generally speaking, other Central Plains agricultural dynasties that attacked the northern nomads often suffered small, medium, large, extremely, or even huge losses in terms of economy.]

[If we lose the war, we lose territory; if we win the war, we lose money. ]

[The Northern Wei Dynasty dealt with the Rouran and made a lot of money. ]

[For the Northern Wei soldiers, attacking the Rouran could directly rob them of money, capture people and sell them as slaves, and if they won, they would also receive military merits and would always win.]

【So the people of Northern Wei were very active in seizing the Rouran.】

[It has even been made a basic national policy.]

【But the Rouran were in a miserable state. 】

[This powerful nomadic tribal alliance suffered a heavy blow under the Northern Wei Dynasty's long-term sustainable policy of exhausting resources.]

[It only experienced a slight revival during the Eastern and Western Wei dynasties. ]

[It has become one of the least noticeable grassland regimes in our country’s history. ]

The sky video ends.

The comments on the barrage were also amused by Bei Wei’s bold move.

"Searching the mountains and picking up the sea in reverse, right?"

"When fellow villagers meet, they stab each other in the back."

"Selling your northern relatives as slaves is really cruel!"

"With professional expertise, we can find you clearly no matter where you hide."

"When the Magyars settled in Hungary, they kept out their poor relatives from the Black Sea steppes; when the Seljuks entered Persia, they blocked their Turkic relatives from Central Asia in the river; when the Afghan warlords entered India, they set up a defense line in northwest India to block their poor Afghan relatives..."

"Huo Qubing has several guides under his command, and they are so powerful. The Northern Wei Dynasty's subordinates are all guides, and they will take off directly!"

"Can other dynasties learn from the Northern Wei?"

"Before Empress Dowager Feng's reform of the Northern Wei Dynasty, officials had no salary, the cost of fighting was low, and the profits were all from robbing. The ordinary dynasties in the Central Plains should not even think of learning from this."

"In fact, the Lulong Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty often went to the Khitan to forage for food. The Khitan went to the emperor to complain, but the emperor could do nothing..."

"So Hua Mulan actually went on a robbery for her father?"

"If the Fubing system doesn't rob, it will go bankrupt!"

"The Jin Dynasty also liked to go to the grasslands, but they went there to look for children and wheels."

Han Dynasty.

Liu Che finished watching this section of the sky curtain.

I feel very sorry too.

"What a pity. The Northern Wei Dynasty waged war against the Rouran for years and always won."

"I really envy you."

"It would be great if the Han army could also fight and make money."

"Unfortunately, I have also seen that the system of our Han Dynasty is completely different from that of the later Northern Wei Dynasty."

"The state does not need to bear too much expense for the tribal soldiers of the Northern Wei Dynasty."

"And the might of the Han army must be built on the basis of spending money."

"The system is different, I can't learn it!"

"It's a pity, it's a pity."

(End of this chapter)