The savage war has been plaguing Shu Han. How did Shu handle it?

Judging from Meng Huo's last suggestion in Shu, Shu mainly adopted appeasement policy for ethnic minorities to solve the harassment of barbarians.

Zhuge Liang's southern expedition was not for military conquest and rule, but to comfort the ethnic minorities in this area.

Wei, Shu and Wu all have ethnic minority problems, and the biggest problem in Shu is southern Xinjiang. Liu Bei was not originally from Yizhou, so his ruling foundation in Yizhou was not stable. He married the fifth aunt of Yizhou gentry to win the support of Yizhou gentry. So Liu Bei has no spare capacity to take care of southern Xinjiang. However, Zhuge Liang's expedition to the south really won the hearts of ethnic minorities in southern Xinjiang, stabilized the national defense in southern Sichuan and provided abundant manpower and material resources for Shu.

However, Zhuge Liang is more than comfort. Like Cao Cao, he also carried out the policy of divide and rule and immigration to these ethnic groups.

First of all, Zhuge Liang increased the original four counties in this area to six counties, divided and ruled them, and selected 10000 soldiers to be incorporated into the Shu army, which was called "flying school"; Then the leaders of all ethnic groups were awarded official positions. For example, Meng Huo, who became famous for his seven vertical and seven captures, joined Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition and later became an official in imperial history. All these measures are aimed at solving the problem of insufficient population in the three countries, especially the shortage of Serenade talents in Shu. Through a series of softening policies, the harassment of barbarians was finally solved.

In the north, Shu also actively pursued the policy of softening the Qiang people, because the Qiang people lived in the border area bordering Wei, and their retreat had a great impact on the war between Shu and Wei. After Jiang Wei inherited Zhuge Liang's Great Northern Expedition, he made some achievements in this respect, so there is a saying that Jiang Wei was originally from Qiang nationality.

In addition, Liu Bei once told Sun Quan that once Liangzhou was acquired, it would be returned to Jingzhou, showing that he was ambitious about Liangzhou where a large number of Qiang people lived. To the west of Liangzhou and along the Silk Road, the so-called western countries generally paid tribute to Wei. However, in Zhuge Liang's letters to Liu Chan, there are records of Yueshi and Kangju (Tashkent in the Syr Darya River basin), envoys of the Western Regions. It can be seen that in order to win over these western nationalities, there should have been many disputes between Wei and Shu.