Faced with Xun You's reproachful tone, Liu Zhang didn't say anything.
No explanation, no anger, just listening silently.
All Xun You's starting points were for the good of Liu Zhang and the entire Yizhou Group. There is no doubt about this.
And Liu Zhang's starting point was not for his own selfishness.
To put it more grandly, it was for all the people of the Han Dynasty.
On a more minor note, it was also for the sake of the power under his command.
Xun You is not a time traveler. He does not know the direction of history, so he can look at the world of the Han Dynasty and ignore these foreign races.
But Liu Zhang couldn't do it. He knew that something would definitely happen, it was just a matter of sooner or later.
For example, Wu Huan Hua!
Wouldn’t it be that without the Sima Family’s Eight Kings Rebellion, the Five Husbands’ Rebellion in China wouldn’t have happened?
What should happen will still happen, it's just a matter of time.
Even if Liu Zhang finally unified the world, would the Xianbei, Xiongnu, Qiang, Di, and Jie be safe and sound?
The answer is undoubtedly no.
Whether it is the Xianbei or the Xiongnu, they have never stopped since the establishment of the Han Dynasty.
If it were not for the strong military power of the Han Dynasty, I am afraid that the Central Plains and Hebei would have fallen long ago.
If you want to completely solve the problem of Wu Huan and China, there are only two ways.
One is to infinitely assimilate them like the barbarians and the current Qiang people.
But assimilation may not completely curb their rebellion.
Nowadays, the Qiang people are completely wiped out, which gives Liu Zhang a great opportunity.
If all 400,000 Qiang soldiers had not been wiped out, Liu Zhang could not guarantee that the Qiang would never rebel after they surrendered.
Unless these more than one million Qiang people are thrown into the 10 million Han people, dispersed and assimilated without restriction.
The second method is simpler and more direct.
kill!
Kill them until they are exterminated!
Kill them until they no longer dare to covet the land of the Han Dynasty!
They fought until they heard about the Han army, saw the Han army, and even saw the banner with Liu characters, they felt fear from the bottom of their hearts!
When facing the Southern Barbarians, Qiang, Di, and even the Shanyue in Yangzhou in the future, Liu Zhang could take his time.
Because these alien races will always be in a certain area, Liu Zhang can deal with them whenever he wants.
But facing the Xianbei, nomadic peoples like the Xiongnu couldn't do it.
Since the founding of the Han Dynasty by Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, the biggest threat has been the Huns.
But in the past hundreds of years, only Wei Qing and Huo Qubing had truly beaten them, and only Huo Qubing had managed to seize the wolf and live in Xu!
The Xianbei who replaced the Xiongnu never dealt them a severe blow.
If Tan Shihuai hadn't died early, we still don't know what the world would be like now!
The biggest problem that troubled the Han army was that the desert where the Xianbei or Xiongnu lived was all endless grassland.
Cavalry is necessary for grassland warfare, otherwise many infantrymen will be dragged to death by the cavalry.
Cavalry is not the most important problem. After all, there were stables in the Han Dynasty, so war horses were not a problem.
The biggest problem is the grassland itself.
The Xiongnu or Xianbei can retreat at any time.
They are also cavalry, who can do anything to whom?
Fighting on the grassland is almost like fighting on the territory of a foreign race. Without the right time, place and people, there is almost no possibility of victory.
The mere question of getting lost made countless famous generals shake their heads and sigh.
The famous flying general Li Guang got lost several times in his expedition against the Xiongnu, and was criticized for this.
In Liu Zhang's mind, the only two ethnic groups that he could not let go were the Xianbei and the Xiongnu. To eliminate evil, they must be exterminated!
Now that we have finally trapped 150,000 Xianbei people in Guanzhong, we must completely block their way back to the desert!
This is nothing short of a God-sent opportunity!
How could Liu Zhang not seize the opportunity and completely eliminate them in one fell swoop?
Whether they are Xianbei people or Qiang people, as foreigners, they all have an indelible problem.
The total population base is much smaller than that of the Han people.
The entire Xianbei tribe has developed to this day. Counting the Suli tribe in Liaodong, there are only about 300,000 string control people, and the entire tribe has a population of more than one million.
It's not that the Xianbei people don't want to reproduce, but that the grasslands cannot support so many people.
Just food alone can make them starve to death.
In fact, the Xianbei people cannot afford the current population of more than one million.
This was also the main reason why they often looted the borders of the Han Dynasty.
Nowadays, not only the 150,000 Xianbei army gathered in Guanzhong, but also three major leaders, Fu Luohan, Ke Bineng, and Bu Dugen.
As long as the Xianbei people in front of us are destroyed, at least the western Xianbei and the central Xianbei will be completely destroyed.
Suli of Xianbei in the east will inevitably covet the remaining power of the three men, and the already severely weakened Xianbei tribes will once again fall into civil strife.
If there are no accidents, Xianbei's military strength will not be able to return to its current level by the time Liu Zhang dominates the world.
This is completely a gift from God to Liu Zhang!
If you don't seize the opportunity in front of you, you may have to pay a higher price if you try to capture three people in the future.
There may even be a dilemma where you can't do it even if you pay the price.
After all, in the desert grassland, if the Xianbei people wanted to run away, Liu Zhang could do nothing.
It's a pity that Xun You didn't understand it, and Liu Zhang couldn't explain it to him.
Is it possible to tell Xun You that these guys will pose a threat of annihilation to the Han people in the near future?
Even if Xun You believed in Liu Zhang, he would not believe these words.
After all, there had never been any precedent for foreigners to invade the Central Plains. The most they could do was make a fuss on the border.
In this era, whether it was Cao Cao and Yuan Shao as monarchs, or Xun You and Xun Yu as counselors, they would treat foreigners as scabies.
Or maybe all the foreign races combined would not have as much of a sense of crisis as Liu Zhang brought to them!
Just like Yuan Shao, he only needs to station some troops on the border to attack southward without restraint.
Because Yuan Shao had already established his thinking in his mind, the Xianbei people could not affect his rule.
Liu Zhang could not explain all this. He could only rely on a "dictatorship"-like ruling power to force the army to do what he thought must be done.
According to Liu Zhang's prestige in the Yizhou Army, not to mention just marching into Qixian County, even if Liu Zhang ordered the entire army to attack Xiaoguan and approach the Xianbei home base, Taishi Ci and others would not frown.
However, in the eyes of Xun You, Fazheng, Pang Tong, Liu Ye and others, these decisions were undoubtedly arbitrary.
Fortunately, Liu Zhang's own charm once again came into play!
Whether it was Liu Ye, Pang Tong, or Fa Zheng, they were all willing to advise Liu Zhang on his decision.
Even Xun You, who had always raised objections, was doing his best to help Liu Zhang.
Therefore, Liu Zhang was not unhappy from beginning to end, but he could not explain it.
Faced with Xun You's complaints, he could only show a look of helplessness.
"Report!"
Just when Liu Zhang and Xun You were silent, a soldier ran in.