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Chapter 482 Dimensionality Reduction Strike
The Qin and Yuan dynasties were locked in a standoff for over a century.

For several decades, Qin was strong and Yuan was weak. Qin people often crossed the border to attack. Back then, Li Muye even raised a large army with the intention of annihilating the Yuan people in one fell swoop. At that time, the Yuan people struggled to survive.

Subsequently, due to the Chang'an Incident, the Crown Prince was killed, and the Beiting Protectorate also suffered a bloody purge. As a result, the Qin state went from prosperity to decline, and the balance of power on the border shifted. Emperor Yingzhuo of the Yuan state seized the opportunity and conquered strategic locations such as Qingtongxia City, thus gaining a strategic advantage in the confrontation between the two sides.

In short, the main theme of the confrontation between the two sides for over a century has been hatred, fighting, bloodshed, and death.

Now that the Yuan Dynasty has been destroyed and the Beiting Protectorate has occupied the entire territory of the Yuan Dynasty, what lies ahead is no easier than fighting a major war.

Winning is easy, governing is difficult.

In particular, the two sides have been enemies for over a century.

After the big stick, it's natural to offer sweet dates.

But how to present these dates requires strategy; simply offering them directly won't necessarily be appreciated.

After all, the two sides have been at odds for so many years, and so many people have died. To expect others to accept your rule without any resentment is just wishful thinking.

Therefore, what the Beiting Protectorate is seeking now is not the other side's submission, but rather a relative level of obedience.

At the very least, you should stop causing trouble.

To achieve this goal, the Beiting Protectorate has already done a lot.

The three Yuan kings, Jebe and Tiele, had to die because their existence would surely ignite the rebellion of countless Yuan people; they were two banners.

Akdun was different. He had always openly associated with the Qin people, and in the end, he was the one who surrendered with the imperial seal and household register. He gave the Yuan people an outlet for their anger, and many Yuan people probably hated him more than they hated the Beiting Protectorate.

The reason for leaving behind people like Renduobao and Xifengkedai was to stabilize a significant portion of the upper and middle classes in the Yuan Dynasty, letting them know that as long as they obeyed the rule of the Beiting Protectorate, their wealth and status would not be affected.

This group of people can influence a considerable number of lower and middle-class people.

Of course, the most important group, and the one that makes up the largest proportion of the population, is the lowest-level ordinary people.

The saying "The most righteous are often the lowly butchers, while the most ungrateful are often the scholars" is remarkably accurate most of the time.

The more books one reads, the more calculating, comparative, and thoughtful one becomes. These people cherish their lives more than the average person, always wanting to preserve their health for the future, clinging to the idea that "as long as the green hills remain, there will always be firewood." The problem is that in the end, when even the green hills are gone, these people basically just go with the flow and drift along with the tide.

On the contrary, those at the very bottom who are stubborn and inflexible are hard to change, and sometimes, the only solution is physical elimination.

Of course, there weren't many of these people. Most were clueless, the kind of people who knew nothing about the Wei and Jin dynasties, let alone the Qin and Han dynasties. All they cared about was their own food, clothing, and shelter, and their own quality of life.

Gaining the support of these people is both easy and extremely difficult.

Therefore, the group from Changchun Valley were the first to take action.

In Fu Qingzhu's eyes, all beings are equal.

Long ago, in order to improve his medical skills, Fu Qingzhu dissected countless corpses. Of course, these things could only be done secretly, never daring to be brought into the open. But in this process, Fu Qingzhu also discovered that no matter whether they were Qin people or Yuan people, regardless of the great differences in their skin color, hair, and language, once they were dissected, their insides were exactly the same.

The same disease, the same medicine, the same treatment methods are equally effective for people of different ethnicities.

Therefore, in Fu Qingzhu's eyes, only people remained.

Rather than Qin people, Yuan people, Chu people, or barbarians.

The disciples of Changchun Valley practice medicine throughout the world, treating everyone equally. Because of their superb medical skills, they enjoy a very high reputation both outside the Great Wall and among the Yuan people.

In recent years, Changchun Valley has cooperated with the Beiting Protectorate to open a large medical clinic in Baoping City, providing large-scale training for physicians. Small medical clinics have sprung up everywhere, benefiting countless people. This can be considered a benevolent policy of the Beiting Protectorate.

Putting aside other things, since the system of large and small medical clinics was implemented, the infant mortality rate outside the Great Wall dropped sharply from over 50% to 20%. Therefore, after the war was quelled, the medical clinics followed the army into the Yuan territory.

What was most lacking after the great war?
It all boils down to medicine.

Changchun Valley, thanks to its reputation built up over the years, was able to enter smoothly, and the Beiting Protectorate also took the opportunity to promote itself.

After all, they paid for your medical treatment and gave you medicine, so it's always a bit embarrassing to speak ill of them.

The second step is the reduction or exemption of taxes and fees.

Moreover, it is highly targeted.

They mainly dealt with nomadic tribes.

These people were fierce and skilled in battle, and they were also the main cause of the chaos.

The Yuan state was deeply influenced by the Qin state. After more than a hundred years of existence, more than half of its people had abandoned their nomadic lifestyle and turned to agriculture.

The fact that agriculture occupied a dominant position was extremely beneficial to consolidating the position and interests of the ruling class.

These social classes that depend on the cities and are mainly engaged in agriculture, as well as the people who live in the cities, are easy to control. It is the nomadic tribes that are difficult to control.

Thus, Chen Fei and his group embarked on their journey to the grasslands.

Lower taxes can reduce the other party's hostility.

Compared to the burdens they had to bear in the past, what the Beiting Protectorate needs now is really very little.

However, they also find it difficult to discern the underlying meaning of certain policies hidden within them.

Each tribe was assigned a territory, which, to put it bluntly, was like drawing lines in the sand. You could only move within this area; stepping outside it meant invading someone else's territory. And for nomadic peoples, pastures were their lifeblood.

If you don't move around too much, it will be easier for me to manage you.

After completing these tasks, they began to establish hierarchical structures within the tribe, one of which was the military system. Each tribe had only a few designated positions, and those who secured these positions would inevitably become the privileged class of the tribe in the years to come.

Once he gains benefits, he will naturally support the rule of the Beiting Protectorate and help Beiting keep an eye on these people. However, the soldiers of the Protectorate may die in battle, and after they die, new people will naturally enter this class, thus giving hope to others.

The third and most important step was to begin cultural intrusion and integration, allowing the Yuan people to gradually abandon their past identities and develop a new self-identity. This would take about one or two generations, which sounds like a long time, but in reality, it would only take twenty or thirty years.

All policies, some urgent and some lenient, some short-term and some long-term, some ruthless and some gentle, and this whole set of combined measures drafted by Li Dachui, after being polished and supplemented by people like Mao Daxian and then launched, is basically a dimensional reduction attack on the local natives.

Why is Mao Daxian so devoted to Li Dachui?
It was because he discovered that Li Dachui was an extremely rare and wise ruler, the kind who could govern the world with his pen and conquer it on horseback, a type of ruler that was hard to come by even once in a hundred years or more.

Sometimes, the methods Li Dachui came up with, or the ideas he occasionally came up with in a flash of inspiration, could make even an arrogant and self-important guy like him admire him to the point of prostration.

Even if it's just a rough framework or an idea sometimes, that's enough; that's the role of a leader.

If a leader thinks about everything perfectly, then what is the point of his existence?
A leader with a broad vision and insightful perspective, coupled with someone like him filling in the gaps and making up for deficiencies, is what makes such cooperation perfect.

Having collaborated with Li Dachui for nearly ten years, from the initial planning in Tai'an City, to the implementation in Helan Plain, to the full implementation in Anxi Protectorate, to the full upgrade in Beiting Protectorate, and now finally to its complete rollout, Li Dachui's designs are gradually becoming a reality. This also proves from another perspective that Li Dachui's seemingly fantastical designs are indeed achievable in reality.

During the implementation process, the powerful vitality that these systems and regulations gradually revealed amazed Mao Daxian, and in his eyes, the means of governing the world had opened a new chapter.

He felt that he could write a book that would be passed down to future generations.

If Li Dachui doesn't care.

(End of this chapter)