Chapter 236 (1/2)

”Please don't worry about your left chariot. You will certainly guard the land of Liangzhou for the imperial court.” Liu Ye said firmly.

Huang Fu Song was slightly silent, then nodded: ”well, since you insist on this, this will release these Qiang people.”

Liu Ye was overjoyed and said, ”thank you for your left riding.”

After Liu Ye released more than 20000 Qiang and Hu soldiers, it had a positive effect in Liangzhou. Many Qiang people thought that their father and brother would not come back, but Liu Ye let them back.

The effect is also obvious. Tens of thousands of Qiang people are grateful to Liu Ye and persuade the soldiers who once rioted from Han Sui to keep their own affairs.

”Mother, the child is back.”

”God bless you, my child, don't make trouble at will, you know?”

”Mother, I dare not.”

Such dialogues have been staged in many Qiang families, and after discussion with Fu Xie, Liu Ye struck while the iron was hot and issued the ”order of internal migration”.

The Qiang people, who moved to agriculture, could inherit 20 mu of the reclaimed wasteland for generations. The taxes would be reduced by half within three years, and those who settled in the prefecture for more than three years would be treated the same as the Han people.

Foreign invasion of the Han Dynasty is common, but in fact not all ethnic groups are plunderers. There are peace loving people among Qiang people. After hearing Liu Ye's order, many Qiang people even moved their families to Liangzhou counties. The population of Liangzhou, which was reduced by the war, began to rise slowly.

However, a new problem quickly broke out in Liangzhou, that is, many Han officials had a mean attitude towards the Qiang people, even extortion, which led to many Qiang people's complaints, and this kind of problem is difficult to solve.

”From a certain point of view, it is better to treat Qiang with Qiang.” Liu Ye said slowly.

Fu Xie frowned: ”to cure Qiang with Qiang?”

”Not bad.” Liu Ye nodded, ”the Qiang people are divided into settlements, and the local officials are responsible for collecting food and fodder. However, in order to prevent the Qiang people from dying out, the Qiang people can live in one village at most, and they should move to the inland of Liangzhou as far as possible.”

In fact, this is the rudiment of regional ethnic autonomy in later generations. However, Liu Ye did not directly delineate the autonomous regions. Instead, he followed the example of autonomous prefectures and autonomous villages. Otherwise, there would be too many Qiang people living together and a new rebellion would break out.

Fu Xie immediately drafted laws and decrees according to Liu Ye's instructions, and arranged the Qiang people from the interior to the counties in an orderly manner. The main difference between the Qiang people and the Han people lies in the mode of production. Therefore, whenever the climate is cold, the nomads will go south to plunder the Central Plains Dynasty.

Instead of spending a lot of manpower and material resources to eliminate the nomadic people in the northern expedition, why not simply transform the nomadic people fundamentally and turn the Qiang people and the Huns into a member of the Han nationality?