In addition to the war materials that could be used immediately, the other things were not worthless.
Xiao Ruxun had already found a suitable buyer for the mountain of bone products, leather products, and prairie style products. Apart from a small part of the demand among the people, most of them were shipped to Europe, where they were sold very well. No one knew why.
Anyway, they exchanged for a lot of money.
After a period of severe pain, the people exchanged for almost eternal comfort.
Because the Daqin Emperor cleared the northern border trouble for them, and wiped out the Northern Barbarians in history. In the future, the Northern Barbarians would become a part of history, a part of the textbooks.
No longer fresh.
Among the Mongolian tribes, only the Horqin tribe was completely preserved because of their discerning eyes. When they were conferred the title in the 14th year of Longwu, the total number of people in the Horqin tribe was about 50,000.
Xiao Ruxun graciously allowed Horqin to keep the original rules, graze the animals on the original place they lived in, delineated an area for them, built a road to their place, and even built a city for them to live in.
They were kept in pens on the grassland, grazing cattle and sheep, milking cows and goats, and then shearing the wool. They were sold to the government through Dazhi Road in exchange for survival materials to ensure their survival.
The rest of the captured Northern Barbarians were arranged to do all kinds of hard labor and construction activities. Together with the captured Wei people, they took on the glorious mission of building a better tomorrow for Daqin. During this period, historical statistics showed that the average annual death rate of the Northern Barbarians and Wei people was more than 200,000.
By the 20th year of Longwu, the death rate of Wei people had exceeded 4 million. Most of them died in the construction of Dazhi Road and the snail extermination operation in the Jiangnan area. Especially the snail extermination operation, more people died.
Basically, they were drained of labor and were infected by schistosomiasis at the last moment, and then burned.
Thanks to these people, they have been eliminating Oncomelania snails in the whole of Jiangnan for ten years. By the 20th year of Longwu, Oncomelania snails were no longer found in the areas around the freshwater lakes where Oncomelania used to flourish in the Jiangnan region. The schistosomiasis of the common people in the Jiangnan region had been largely controlled.
Xiao Ruxun got rid of the evils in the north, and they got rid of the evils in the south. They paid a heavy price for the good lives of the people of Daqin. The people of Daqin would remember them, but they would soon forget them.
When he attacked Chagatai, Yarqiang, and Ü-Tsang, he had obtained more than five hundred thousand soldiers. These soldiers had also been put to work as laborers, and it was thanks to them that the cities in those places could be quickly constructed and the basic conditions for people to live in.
Xiao Ruxun found that the ecological environment in these places was not as bad as he had imagined. Of course, it would not be easy to control it.
The map of a country's territory was generally a general concept. The real territory must have people living in it, and there must be a series of administrative facilities and a series of constructions.
This was very difficult for the vast areas with a small population, such as Qinghai, Tibet, and Xinjiang. It was not easy to completely control it.
For ancient China, even the traditional core area, which was the territory after the unification of Qin, was completely controlled by the Qing Dynasty.
Not to mention the Northeast, Northwest, and Southwest regions, which were all developed in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. Before that, the so-called control and division of territory were mostly based on the location of the garrisons, or the so-called fettered rule. There were no taxes, no oppression, and no interference.
In ancient times, it was very difficult for people to control a newly developed land. It could be said that the development of the Jiangnan area was only done after the Song Dynasty. Before the Tang Dynasty, it was the Guanzhong era, and it often took hundreds of years to develop an area.
Don't be fooled by the map. In fact, control was not the same.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the control of the large area of land in the northeast was very limited. Basically, all the military guard stations and inhabited areas were distributed along the river. A series of military guard stations were built on both sides of the river. The guard stations and control stations were built along the banks of the Songhua River and Heilongjiang River, all the way to Sakhalin Island.
Rivers meant water supply, smooth traffic, water to irrigate the land, and food to survive.
Places that could not grow food could not survive, and it was the same now.
Xiao Ruxun conquered these lands. Most of these lands were uninhabited. Even if there were people, they were very mobile. They had been here and there for many years. Although they conquered these places, how could they manage these places that could not grow food?
Building roads. There were no natural rivers, so they had to use manpower to build a living route. Through this road, they would connect the Divine Land of China and the newly acquired territory. Like tentacles, they would expand the control of the central government along the road. This was the so-called control after conquest.
Xiao Ruxun built eight Grand Roads in the country. It was to extend the control of the central government to the local areas and firmly control the local areas. It was the same for the newly acquired territories. Building roads.
Military garrisons and residential areas were built along the road. The road had to pass through important military places and places where people could live, forming a line to form a smooth passage. This would make it easier for the central government to control and control these areas and facilitate further development in the future.
So if they really wanted to control these places, for example, the vast Qinghai- Tibet Plateau, the Daqin could only control the garrisons along the road and in the border areas, as well as the big cities.
But these places could also be considered controlled, because there were only so many places with people. In other places, it was difficult to survive without people. If they controlled the people, they would control the area.
Gather the people to live on the two sides of the road, and control the people, control the place. As for other places like the Gobi Desert, to put it bluntly, they could not be used in modern times. They were still uninhabited areas. At most, they could build a few roads.
No matter what, repairing the roads was the most important thing. If the roads were not repaired, everything would be bad. Therefore, after Xiao Ruxun's conquest, the most important thing was to repair the roads. Repairing roads was a hundred-year plan.
He also made a plan to build roads to the North Sea, to the Hetao area, to the Qinghai area, and then to the Ü-Tsang area. He wanted to build a road that could be controlled by the central government.
No matter how difficult it was, if there was no traffic channel, it could not be considered to be under control.
Even if it was under control, the traffic would not be good, and a new separatist regime might be formed. The efforts of the Daqin today would be in vain.
Some people in the court felt that building roads in these places would cause a great financial burden. Although the roads could be built by the Japanese and the Northern Barbarians, there would still be financial expenses.
They said that these places could be conquered and there was no need to bring them under control. They did not see much economic benefits. Building roads would cost a lot. In the long run, it might cause too much financial burden.
The Ministry of Finance kept complaining about being poor, saying that the national treasury was empty. It looked like their hearts had been hollowed out.
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