Chapter 208 Swallowing Liao

Liu Fu could have refused, or even directly crushed the entire Liao Kingdom, turning it into a flat plain, but in the end, Liu Fu still agreed.

The struggle between nomadic and agricultural peoples on Earth ultimately boils down to differences in their lifestyles.

One is a pastoral culture, and the other is an agricultural culture. These two different lifestyles have shaped two different groups of people.

Therefore, you will find that whenever foreign tribes invade the Central Plains on a large scale, it is when the weather begins to get cold. That era will experience hundreds of years of cold weather, which is the Little Ice Age.

Because of the cold weather, animal husbandry could not develop, and without pasture for raising livestock, these foreign tribes could not survive, so they risked their lives to raid southwards.

Therefore, the colder the times, the more foreign invasions there were, while the warmer the times, the more harmonious the people influenced by these two cultures tended to be. In good times, they would even trade and buy and sell goods at the border, each getting what they needed.

The problem was never solved on Earth. In the era of feudal dynasties, conquering foreign tribes became a great achievement, and emperors were happy to do so, which is why they did indeed make a name for themselves in history.

However, the military expenses spent on conquering foreign tribes amounted to half or even more of a feudal dynasty's annual expenditure. This money was spent on war, creating hatred that lasted for thousands of years. If this money had been used to improve people's livelihoods, would a different world have emerged?

Therefore, the wars and conquests with foreign tribes continued for thousands of years, and the feudal dynasties were also unable to make ends meet. They had to constantly levy taxes to maintain their expenses, which ultimately contributed to the demise of the dynasties.

But Liu Fu is now preparing to solve this problem that has existed for a thousand years!

Actually, to be honest, the solution to this problem isn't difficult.

This requires an enlightened emperor who also possesses the means to awe the world, along with several years of adjustments.

Finally, with the maintenance of the status quo for decades or even centuries, that state can be achieved.

This method is actually very simple, just like the method used by Ma Liang and Wang Ping to subdue the barbarians: Sinicization.

The Han culture in the Central Plains was very powerful, and countless other ethnic groups were eventually assimilated.

Therefore, assimilating the other races is the best solution.

When they were all assimilated, when farming and animal husbandry coexisted as means of survival.

Then there would be no more conflicts and bloodshed, because at that time the Little Ice Age would not affect humans, and the cold weather over several hundred years would not pose any threat to the two different groups, because the groups would have been united and would no longer be affected by the Little Ice Age.

If we can't solve the climate problem, then we can solve the culture problem.

Eliminating people is the least efficient approach, because eliminating one group of people will only lead to the rise of a new group, and hatred will continue indefinitely. Therefore, in the end, we still have to address the cultural level.

Under such circumstances, internal problems can never be solved, but external problems are basically eliminated.

Internal strife will continue indefinitely, as it has never been resolved at its root. Therefore, the only solution is to reduce conflict.

But external threats can be resolved, so let's resolve them ourselves.

Liu Fu suddenly realized that if he didn't take action to resolve this matter, future generations would be unable to do so.

No one else could wield such a behemoth and subdue all the nations under heaven, nor could anyone be as open-minded and inclusive as him.

No one else has the same level of dominance and influence as Liu Fu!

If I establish these things now, this framework should be able to last for decades or even centuries. But if I don't do this, then later generations will not be able to do all of this.

Will later generations have cheat codes, system assistance, or even behemoths to help them?

This is one of the reasons why Liu Fu has decided to sit down and talk with the Liao Emperor. Otherwise, he could have simply ignored this minor trouble and wiped out all the foreign kingdoms.

At this time, Liu Fu did not even hide his true intentions, but instead told the Liao Emperor about these thoughts.

Integration between ethnic groups and ethnic groups has occurred countless times throughout history.

When Liu Fu revealed his ideas, even the Liao emperor had to admire the progressiveness and avant-garde nature of Liu Fu's thinking, and was impressed by the grand plan in his mind.

But there is a generation gap between people.

Liu Fu's plan was somewhat awkward for the Liao emperor.

The Liao emperor frankly admitted that under Liu Fu's rule, all of this could certainly be integrated, but he also felt that once integrated, ethnic groups such as the Xianbei, Turks, Liao people, and Jurchens would be incorporated into the Central Plains of the Later Han Dynasty, and their own lineage would be cut off.

This is where the generation gap and differences between the two lie.

In fact, after the integration, all these things will remain, and the Central Plains culture will become even more vast. The good things will be preserved, while the bad things will eventually be thrown into the dust of history. This is a very obvious truth.

But the Liao emperor was afraid of such a "new life". He could not imagine it. He always felt that once the new life was integrated, the things produced would be new and no longer the same as they were now. Wouldn't that be different?

Liu Fu suddenly realized that no matter how powerful he was, he couldn't change the minds of the conservative Liao emperors.

But if I can't change his mind, so be it. Anyway, the Liao emperor has agreed to destroy the country, and the Liao country will no longer exist. At worst, I can just appoint him as a king of a different surname.

Liu Fu would naturally announce to the world the fall of the Liao Dynasty, the surrender of the Liao Emperor, and the preservation of the Yelü royal family.

However, he would not truly agree to the Liao emperor's promise to allow the Yelü royal family to continue for generations to come.

Leaving aside whether the Later Han dynasty could last forever, which is almost impossible, one day, someone more advanced than you will overthrow your dynasty and establish a country with a more advanced system.

The Later Han Dynasty could not remain so bright forever; one day it would also face a tyrannical ruler and darkness. These things could not happen to Liu Fu, but that does not mean they could not happen to other successors.

But the survival of the Yelü royal family ultimately depends on their own decisions.

If they remain unwilling to re-establish the Liao dynasty or do anything else unacceptable, they will still perish.

But if they live peacefully and keep a low profile, they can continue to exist.

Liu Fu will tell his successors how to handle this problem flexibly in the future.

But now Liu Fuxian has agreed to the Liao Emperor's request, and at this time, the Liao Emperor has also made his decision.

He personally brought about the downfall of the powerful Liao Dynasty, willingly becoming a ruler of a vanquished kingdom. Afterward, the Liao Dynasty officially disappeared from history, all of its territory was formally incorporated into the Later Han Dynasty, and he himself became a subject of the Later Han Dynasty forever, shedding all the rites of an emperor...