The affairs of Master Yan, whether for Zhang Ran, Wei Qing, or the Emperor, were just a small episode. Even if Master Yan survived by the help of Zhang Ran and Wei Qing this time, he lost his official position, his title, and his trust from the Emperor, he would probably have to be a human being with his tail between his tail for a long time in the future, and he could no longer think that he was as powerful as the court and the people before.

Perhaps only after Liu Che's anger disappeared or when the princes and kings in various places had a stir and completely stopped, would the Lord's father Yan have the opportunity to make a comeback.

Moreover, this time may be very long, maybe several years, or more than ten years, no one can say.

Everything depends on the emperor's will and his own efforts. There is no other way, and no one can help him again!

Not only Wei Qing understood this, but Zhang Ran also knew it very well. Therefore, after Emperor Liu Che ordered the pardon of Zhufu Yan, Zhang Ran and Wei Qing changed the topic in a tacit understanding and focused the discussion on the matter in Shuofang County. No one mentioned another about the matter related to Zhufu Yan.

In view of the fact that Zhang Ran took out two methods of cold protection from the kang and wool garment in a short time, which greatly alleviated the problem of cold protection among the soldiers of the northern counties, neither the emperor nor the Hou Weiqing of Changping could help but look at Zhang Ran with admiration.

They also looked forward to Zhang Ran bringing them more surprises, so the following conversations about the situation in the border areas did not avoid Zhang Ran.

Through Wei Qing’s conversation with the emperor, Zhang Ran learned that although Wei Qing led his troops to attack the Huns this time, he won an unprecedented victory, expelled the Aries King and Loufan King, and captured Henan in one fell swoop. However, because this place is new, if you want to completely digest it, you still face many difficult problems.

The problem of cold-proof clothing is only one of the most urgent problems. In addition, many problems such as how to manage this area, how to resist the possible revenge of the Huns, and how to deal with the herdsmen who were left behind by the Huns and were not taken away by them, still need to be solved...

In this regard, Wei Qing's view was that he should follow the strategy of the Qin Dynasty and send heavy troops to garrison strategic areas, such as Gaoquesai, and rebuilt the Great Wall defense system to connect it with the old Qin and Zhao Great Walls to prevent the invasion of the Xiongnu. At the same time, he should migrate the mainland people's real borders and occupy the Hetao area, where the land is most abundant...

As for how to deal with civil affairs such as surrendered Xiongnu and the remaining Xiongnu herders, Wei Qing did not take the initiative to express his opinions.

It was not until Liu Che took the initiative to mention that Wei Qing said that counties, roads, and vassal states should be divided into Shuofang, Wuyuan and other places, and officials should be sent to govern.

As for those surrendered Huns and the Hun herders, they should be divided and migrated, some of them should be moved to the mainland for resettlement, and some should be handed over to the vassal states for screening, and the more obedient or meritorious surrendered captives should be selected, and they should be appointed as new tribal leaders to manage their tribes...

In short, most of Wei Qing's views basically follow the Qin Dynasty's policy of treating northern nomadic tribes.

The so-called restraint, "restriction" means to control it with military means, and "restriction" means to comfort it with economic and material interests. The so-called combination of kindness and power is nothing like this.

The specific approach is to establish roads (county-level parallel units, composed of original nomadic tribes, managed by themselves, equivalent to...), divide them, and send officials to coordinate management. However, the township pavilion level below the county maintains or basically maintains its original social form unchanged, and only conducts a small amount of intervention on candidates from the high-level ruling class such as tribal leaders... In other words, except for those tribes nominally belonging to the central dynasty and having the obligation to pay tribute economic tribute, all other affairs are managed and ruled by the tribal leaders themselves.

The advantage of this is that it will soon form an effective rule over these newly occupied areas, quickly stabilize the local situation and restore order.

But the disadvantage is also very obvious, that is, because it fails to break the original structural pattern and language barriers, it not only takes a long time to digest it little by little... but also prone to recurrence or rebellion.

To this end, Wei Qing proposed to follow some strategies of King Wuling of Zhao and Hu's clothing, cavalry, and practices in the early Han Dynasty to recruit knights from the surrendered Huns and various nomadic tribes in the ruling region, and set up special lieutenants for management and training.

In this way, a cavalry with great combat power can be obtained, and the Han army can be familiar with the customs and tactics of the Huns. At the same time, it can also use this to drain the most combat-capable males in each tribe, greatly weakening the resistance of each tribe, and more conducive to ruling the Huns and surrendering the people and exerting the effect of using barbarians to control barbarians.

After hearing this, Liu Che praised Wei Qing's various suggestions and basically accepted his suggestions. He also planned to give generous gifts to those who performed better and win over them to attract people's hearts according to the previous strategies of the Han emperors' treatment of the Huns' surrender...

As for how to win over, in fact, as early as decades ago, the famous minister Jia Yi of Emperor Xiaowen had already given specific methods.

Jia Yi's method to deal with the Huns was to "subjugate the four barbarians with virtue and ambition", supplemented by the technique of "three appearances and five baits".

The so-called three expressions are to establish faith, love others, and be kind to others.

First of all, to establish faith and righteousness means to have faith in words, let the Huns believe in you and establish initial trust.

Secondly, the appearance of loving others and the skills of being kind to others means that one cannot discriminate against the appearance and living habits of the Huns, but instead pretends to like it very much.

The so-called five baits are given a cart to ride to destroy their eyes; they are given a good food and precious taste to destroy their mouths; they are given a good music to destroy their ears; they are given a high hall to destroy their servants; they are given a good supper to destroy their belly; those who come to surrender will summon them to cheer them, entertain each other, drink and eat them with their hands to destroy their hearts.

In fact, the essence is to use the name of benevolence and to differentiate and win over the Huns.

After this combination of punches, the surrendered Huns could basically make the surrendered Huns bow their heads and obey the commands honestly, and drive forward the Han horses.

I don’t know how many times better than the rough and arrogant exploitation and rule of the Huns.

However, there is one obvious disadvantage of this method, that is, it is too expensive, and basically it is all made with money...

So, after listening to the conversation between the two, Zhang Ran found that this method seemed to be only carrots, no sticks or iron fists, and always felt that there was less meaning, so he felt that it was necessary to say something and add it.
Chapter completed!