Chapter 164 Plowing the Court and Sweeping the Cave (1)

Author: Immortal Grass Bean Curd

Chapter 164 Plowing the Court and Sweeping the Cave (1)

Liaodong

royal manor

Jiacheng and three family ministers were discussing matters.

Wang Xiaoqian died long ago, and the new family minister is Wang Yujun. The family minister has also changed, but they are all women from the Wang family.

"Incheon City requested the allocation of 5,000 oxen and 10,000 iron plows."

"How can we have so many oxen and iron plows now?"

"Iron plows are easy to say. Although the number of 10,000 is too scary, we asked each iron smelting plant to suspend the production of weapons and go all out to produce iron plows. Slowly we can always supply them, but five thousand cattle is not a small number."

"Now a cow costs 7,000 yuan. If you buy 5,000 cows, it will cost at least 35 million yuan. The total output of our Wang family in a year is only worth about 40 million yuan. This

Not counting our own consumption.”

"In other words, it is absolutely unrealistic to rely on money to buy five thousand cattle, unless we, the children of the Wang family, do not eat, drink or consume for a year."

"Wuhuan is relatively close to Liaodong and they are nomadic. They should have more cattle. Can we ask Wuhuan to smuggle some cattle over?"

"Sisters, I have a better way."

"What?"

"Isn't cousin Hongnian serving as a cavalry general in Chang'an? The niece of the emperor is also the queen of the dynasty. Can we let them turn a deaf ear and encourage the emperor to declare war on Wuhuan? Then our Wang family can take the opportunity to plunder Wuhuan during the war.

of cattle to solve the cattle shortage problem.”

"Forehead……"

"This is a good idea. You can just go to prostitutes for free. Why go through all the trouble to smuggle and buy cattle?"

…

Liaodong County

"They want to use this method to solve the cattle shortage?"

Wang Hongyin, the governor of Liaodong, read the letter sent by his soldiers and kept thinking about the feasibility of this plan. His hair on the sideburns grew a lot more white.

This is because his aunt Wang Chaoge died shortly after assassinating the governor of Youzhou at the age of 111. The Wang family lost a powerful protector, which made Wang Hongyin sad for a long time.

"You can give it a try."

In the end, Wang Hongyin also decided to follow the suggestions of Jiacheng and the three family ministers, and asked his soldiers to send a letter to Chang'an to inform Wang Ling and Wang Hongnian of the matter.

…

a few months later

Chang'an

Wang family mansion

Wang Ling, who was sixty-three years old, received the letter from her family, so she asked the cavalry general Wang Hongnian to discuss the matter.

Wang Hongnian was already sixty-six years old, but he was still vigorous and vigorous, so he agreed with this plan. He thought that it would be easy to fight a small Wuhuan.

"The queen still needs to take action." Wang Ling finally added.

"Of course." Wang Hongnian said with a smile. In recent years, the imperial court has not fought wars, and it has been difficult for generals like them to be promoted. Therefore, attacking Wuhuan can not only solve the cattle shortage for the family, but also give him the opportunity to be promoted to the nobility.

…

Weiyang Palace

Jiaofang Hall

"What's wrong?"

Seeing the frown on Queen Wang Zhengjun's face, Liu Shi felt a little distressed.

"My hometown was plundered by the Wuhuan people, and many people were slaughtered." Wang Zhengjun replied.

"I will send envoys to Wuhuan to ask them to apologize and send the heads of the plunderers to Chang'an." Liu Shi comforted and held Wang Zhengjun in his arms: "I heard that Ao'er was praised by the great scholar?"

"Yes, Ao'er is very talented, and he can draw inferences from one instance when studying Confucian classics." Wang Zhengjun also loves his biological son very much, but as a member of the Wang family, he must also be responsible for the Wang family.

…

Ten days later

Weiyang Palace

main hall

"The Wuhuan plundered our Han border people. I ask you to conquer the Wuhuan and show the prestige of our country!"

Today at the court meeting, the chariot and cavalry general Wang Hongnian requested to conquer Wuhuan.

The ministers looked at Wang Hongnian. They were very curious. They didn't understand why the Chariot and Cavalry General suddenly wanted to attack Wuhuan. Therefore, they could only think that the Chariot and Cavalry General might really dislike Wuhuan for robbing the Han border people.

"Wuhuan has surrendered to me, the Han Dynasty. The plunderers who went south are just Wuhuan's horse bandits. How can I, the Han Dynasty, raise an army and mobilize a large number of people to conquer?" someone tried to dissuade him.

Wang Hongnian glanced at the person who said this. He was a descendant of the Langya Wang family. However, the Langya Wang family was still very weak and was like an ant in front of the Liaodong Wang family.

So Wang Hongnian directly reprimanded him: "Are we going to condone Wuhuan's plundering and let the foreign barbarians think that our great Han has no one?"

The son of the Wang clan of Langya just said this to show that he loves the people and to gain some fame for himself. He had no other intention. He did not expect that the general of chariots and cavalry was so determined to defeat Wuhuan that he would actually reprimand him, so he trembled.

Dare to speak again.

The fight against Wuhuan had no direct interest in the nobles present, nor did it have any interest in the eunuch group. Therefore, the vast majority of people remained silent, neither supporting nor opposing, silently waiting for the emperor to speak.

"Hmm..." Emperor Liu Shi had no idea. Seeing that all the ministers were silent, he also remembered the sad face of Queen Wang Zhengjun, so he said: "Then the chariot general will lead 50,000 cavalry and go to conquer Wuhuan."

"My lord, I obey the order!" Wang Hongnian was very happy.

Using the soldiers of the imperial court to rob foreign barbarians, and finally secretly allocating the robbed livestock to one's own family to increase the strength of one's own family, the first step of this empty-handed White Wolf plan has been successful.

…

a few months later

"Damn it, who acted without authorization and went south to plunder the Han Dynasty?"

Wuhuan Shanyu was so frightened that he heard that fifty thousand cavalrymen of the Han Dynasty were coming to conquer him.

Wuhuan was a foreign vassal of the Han Dynasty. Although it occasionally went south to plunder the Han Dynasty in the past, it mainly raided Yuyang County, Shanggu County, and Liaoxi County. It never raided Liaodong County, because although Liaodong County also borders Wuhuan

, but it only borders a little bit, the distance is a little far, and Liaodong County is too poor, there is nothing to plunder.

Since the surrender of the Xiongnu, Wuhuan has not raided the Han Dynasty for decades.

In the past, when the Xiongnu attracted the firepower of the Han army, the Wuhuan could secretly go south to plunder, but the Xiongnu have surrendered. If they still go to plunder the Han territory at this time, wouldn't they be beaten to death by the Han army?

"We report to the Great Chanyu that the Han chariot generals have agreed to our request for peace!" At this time, a Wuhuan envoy returned to Shanyu's court and said happily.

"Haha! Okay!"

Wuhuan Chanyu's originally anxious heart was relieved, and many Wuhuan nobles also breathed a sigh of relief.

…

Monan Grassland

The Han army is still marching towards Wuhuan and will soon arrive at Wuhuan Shanyuting.

"Since the general agreed to the Wuhuan envoy's request for peace, why did he continue to march north?" A general was puzzled.

"Soldiers are deceitful!" Wang Hongnian didn't want to explain too much. Could it be that he told him: Because I was afraid that the Wuhuan people would run away and I would not be able to rob their livestock, so I pretended to agree to their request for peace to give them peace of mind.

Continue to stay in Shan Yuting, and then I can go to Shan Yuting and kill them all?

The generals on the side also seriously thought about Wang Hongnian's words "soldiers are deceitful", and mistakenly thought that Wang Hongnian wanted to use this method to paralyze the Wuhuan people, and then attack them unprepared and defeat the Wuhuan people.

"General, you are a man of heaven!" The general flattered Wang Hongnian.

"Haha..." Wang Hongnian ignored it, but was thinking about how to secretly drive the plundered cattle and sheep to Liaodong after defeating Wuhuan.
Chapter completed!