But this is fine, the Xiongnu station is controlled by the Han people, even if it is hostile, after the Sichuan army conquers Wu Jun, that place will also be Han territory.
"In addition, with our secret support, Zhe Lanying from the north has completely established a foothold in the western grasslands. According to the order left by the lord, Zhou Buyi led an army of 80,000 to attack the Di people.
Zhe Lanying left Zhuge Liang to guard Hetao, and personally sent troops to fight Zhou Buyi, defeated Zhou Buyi, and captured 40,000 of us. Now these 40,000 people have become a powerful force of the Di people, and they are Zhe Lanying's direct descendants.
Strength, because of the growth of power, all the swaying tribes in the western grassland have taken refuge in Zhe Lanying.
Zhe Lanying's Di forces now have 100,000 troops and can compete with the four Xianbei forces in the eastern grasslands, but..."
Huang Yueying smiled when she said this: "Zhou Buyi has now become the biggest laughing stock of all time, even worse than Zhao Kuo.
After the defeat in the war, Zhou Buyi was dismissed from all official positions, and the government confiscated all the Zhou family's property. In addition to his contribution to suppressing the rebellion in Chengdu, he barely escaped death.
Now, whether it’s our Sichuan area or Cao Cao’s and Sun Quan’s territory, everyone talks about Zhou Buji after dinner. They say that Zhou Buyi was only a good debater at the beginning, with a cruel mouth and no skills, and he only came to power because of Liu Xun’s relationship.
You are so young that you actually want to rule the army..."
Huang Yueying talked about Zhou Buyi's affairs in a relaxed tone. Liu Zhang knew that Huang Yueying knew it, but Zhou Buyi didn't care at all. Huang Yueying just said it like this. If it was said with indignation, it would be hypocritical, but everyone knows
Zhou Buyi’s sacrifice.
Liu Zhang felt a little sorry for Zhou Buyi. Zhou Buyi had no intention of pursuing an official career. He had induced him step by step to take this step, but with his last order, he deliberately ruined his reputation.
He was good at debating and could not fight. He was young and frivolous, he was still young, and he took advantage of Liu Xun's relationship to rise to power. All these factors combined would definitely make Zhou Buyi infamy for thousands of years.
Moreover, it also affected Zhou Buyi's family. The family members must not know that Zhou Buyi deliberately failed. Now those family members whose property has been confiscated may hate Zhou Buyi.
It can be said that in this world, his family, and in future generations, Zhou Buyi was ruined.
Such a huge price was paid by using some modern scientific knowledge to deceive him. When Liu Zhang thought of this, he felt ashamed, and at the same time he was very grateful to Zhou Buyi.
But no matter how grateful he was to Zhou Buyi, Liu Zhang still asked: "Will this incident have any impact on Xun'er's reputation?"
Huang Yueying knew what Liu Zhang was referring to and shook her head: "Don't worry, my lord. When Zhou Buyi left the army, the young lord was firmly opposed to it, but he just couldn't withstand the remonstrances of a few ministers. At least that's how it seems to the outside world. Now Zhou Buyi
After the defeat, the young lord's reputation not only did not suffer, but his prestige became stronger."
After Huang Yueying finished speaking, she added: "This was also arranged by Zhou Buyi." Huang Yueying said this solemnly. It was obvious that Huang Yueying respected Zhou Buyi at this moment, even though Zhou Buyi was nearly ten years younger than her.
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Liu Zhang was silent for a long time, then breathed a sigh of relief and asked calmly: "What's our situation?"
"According to the lord's decree, we did not increase our troops. Moreover, in order to restore Guanzhong, Yueying took the initiative and reduced the number of troops by 100,000. As the main force in the construction of Guanzhong, our military strength is now 600,000.
In terms of finance and taxation, due to the prosperity of commerce and large-scale investment by banks, there is still more money and less food. However, large-scale planting of rice in Champa, as well as many imported crops from the south, are very drought-tolerant and flood-resistant, and many crops that were difficult to grow in the past have been replaced.
Use the land.
Coupled with the increase in subsidies to encourage farming, a bumper harvest was achieved this autumn, a lot of surplus grain was accumulated, and people's lives have also been greatly improved.
In addition, due to the increase in the number of craftsmen's rooms, the young master ordered the central government to establish an equipment manufacturing bureau. Hundreds of seven-shot repeating crossbows were produced, and there were follow-up production plans. One hundred ten-shot repeating crossbows were planned to be installed in Tongguan, Qingni Pass, etc.
Dangerous place.
The single-shot crossbow is planned to be produced around 2,000. In the past, due to tight money and food, there were very few single-shot crossbows. Now, the kind of battlefield sniping that the Lord longed for in Xiangyang can definitely be taken shape.
In addition, there is a production plan of 10,000 composite bows. The young master and I both think that the horse archers are a weapon on the battlefield. If the assembly process of the composite bow is not too complicated, the technology must be kept secret, and the production is too slow, the 100,000 horse archers will be the same for us.
There is no harm at all.
We received the order from the lord and sent a large number of people to Gaochang to search for black wood vines and stockpile Chang'an treasury. We believe that as long as General Wutugu returns, our rattan armor workshop can operate. How much rattan armor will be produced depends on the rattan.
Determined by the process and cost.”
After listening to Huang Yueying's words, Liu Zhang knew that he had nothing to worry about, no matter whether Sun Quan was decadent or not, no matter how much Cao Cao expanded his army.
The Sichuan Army has the Xiliang Iron Cavalry and the Sichuan Army Infantry, which is the best in the world. The main cavalry and infantry are invincible.
There are so many advanced crossbows, horse archers, and rattan armies, which are enough to look down on Cao Cao and Sun Quan, but they themselves don't know what the Sichuan army they are facing looks like.
Wu Jun is just a clown.
"Yueying, you have done a good job." Liu Zhang nodded: "But in addition, we also need to form a strong army. I hope to see a pure Dawan horse cavalry galloping in the Central Plains."
"Dawan Horse Cavalry?" Huang Yueying suddenly remembered an important reason for the Sichuan Army's Western Expedition, that is, Yarkand seized Fatty Jin's Dawan Horse, so the Dawan Horse was also a target of the Sichuan Army's Western Expedition.
Liu Zhang said: "Now that the Western Region has been basically pacified, from Loulan to Wusun, we are the strong men who are intimidating us. As long as we defeat the Kushan army, Dawan will be in our pocket."
Hundreds of years ago, because the Huns were powerful in the north, the late Emperor Xiaowu could only introduce Dayuan horses from the south of Tianshan Mountains. The Dayuan horses traveled through the harsh climate and environment, and their food was not guaranteed. All 5,000 Dayuan horses were transported.
, and in the end there was only one thousand left.
Now Wusun and the north of Tianshan are our areas. Zhe Lanying will also transfer the main force to Hetao on the grounds of guarding against Xianbei in the east. No one will stop us from transporting horses.
The king plans to set up post stations every certain distance from Wusun to the entire northern grassland. It will not do anything else but supply feed and water to the horses along the way, and prepare a large amount of medicine at each post station.
It is much easier for horses to pass through the north than south of the Tianshan Mountains, and the terrain is also conducive to war horses galloping. If we choose dry autumn to transport horses, and add horseshoes to enhance the endurance of war horses, I believe that many war horses will not die, at most 20%. I estimate that we can get it this time
Twenty thousand Dawan horses.
"Twenty thousand? That's all the horses in Dawan, right?" Huang Yueying and Pang Tong were startled at the same time.
"Just leave some horse breeds and a few winners for them. The winner takes all."
Liu Zhang said calmly. The meaning of this sentence is to completely defeat Dawan. The reason why Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty only had 5,000 horses was because transporting so many horses cost a lot of money.
The most important reason is that the Han Dynasty only defeated Dawan, but not completely. The five thousand horses were given to the Han Dynasty as compensation for a defeated country.
But this time Liu Zhang obviously didn't intend to just scratch the itch. All the countries in the Western Regions had their military power taken away. A Dawan was nothing. Dawan also had to become a member of the Protectorate of the Western Regions. With all military power gone, Dawan could take whatever he wanted. Dawan could not help it.
The Wan Kingdom would not give it to him unless he wanted to imitate Che Shi and his entire country was massacred.
"Don't worry, my lord." Huang Yueying thought for a while, and it was true that the conditions for the Sichuan Army to transport war horses were much more advantageous than those during the Han Dynasty, so it should not be difficult to complete the task.
Liu Zhang let out a sigh of relief: "Yueying, with you, no doubt, filial and upright, as well as Zhang Ren, Wei Yan, Huang Quan, Li Yan and other civil and military officials, I feel relieved.
There are just a few more points. Regarding Zhelan, I hope she can help me pacify the northern grassland. I believe she will work hard to accomplish it, but some things are unavoidable.
Let’s not talk about Zhuge Liang’s problem. Zhuge Liang must use it, but he must also guard against it, and for such a wise man, there must be a good reason when guarding against him.
There is also the issue of the Di people. Zhelan now has 40,000 Han troops under his command, but after all, they are still a Di people force. My suggestion is not to try to let the Han people seize the power of the Di people, but to cultivate pro-Han people for the Di people.
Sex can make Zhelan change his customs and make the Di people's culture and habits closer to those of the Han people and gradually assimilate them. You can implement them in detail."
The Northern Wei Dynasty in the Northern and Southern Dynasties ruled the north after Hanization, but the upper class of the Xianbei people were also assimilated. However, changing customs is not an easy task. This requires a detailed analysis of the specific situation, but fortunately Zhe Lanying's Di
One-third of the people have assimilated in Xiliang.
"The most important thing about Zhelan's Di army." Liu Zhang looked at Huang Yueying and said: "Even if Zhelan leads a Han army and fights independently to conquer the north, it may not belong to us Han people. It may still belong to us Han people.
Create a divisive force.
Yueying, you also know that the grassland is bitter and cold, and there is not enough food to eat. No matter who occupies it, no matter whether that force is Chineseized or not, they must rob our Central Plains area.
So you and Xun'er need to work with Zhelan to divide the Di forces before Zhelan unifies the grassland, and finally they are controlled by us. The ultimate goal is to achieve our goal of completely checking and balancing the grassland. This is difficult, but I hope you can do it.
, because this has a bearing on China’s future generations.”
Huang Yueying frowned. She could fully imagine how difficult it would be to achieve Liu Zhang's goal. Liu Zhang wanted to control the grasslands separately and assimilate the grassland people, but the grasslands were so bitter and cold. How much supplies would be needed to control the grasslands every year? Isn't there any opposition in the court?
?Won’t the people of the Central Plains complain?
However, Huang Yueying quickly relaxed her brows. Since the Sichuan army could rebel against the family, what could be more difficult than this? What's more, it was Liu Zhang who told him that he had to complete it even if he suffered a bloody blow. If what he was told was so easy to accomplish, what should he do?