The Silk Road has huge benefits and endless benefits, but it is really difficult to trade in the Western Regions. If you only use the Central Army of the Central Plains dynasty as a escort, the cost is too high. It is not wrong to share the benefits to the local tyrants in Liangzhou, and even the local Qiang and Di. It is beneficial to everyone. Considering the particularity of Liangzhou, Liu Xie even did not hesitate to be a Liu Xiu, retaining the considerable organization of the Liangzhou heroes and allowing them to still have a certain degree of autonomy in the local area.

This is also the only way to get rid of poverty in Liangzhou. This is the climate here, with insufficient precipitation and many deserts. The Hu people and Han people live in small groups, with large land and sparse populations. Agriculture and industry cannot develop, so they can only rely on foreign trade. No matter how far the Liangzhou people are, who have not heard from their ancestors about the prosperity here when the Silk Road was opened?

According to legend, there were endless caravans coming and going at that time, including silk, porcelain, gold and silver utensils, various handicrafts and daily necessities from the Central Plains, various nuts, fur products, spices, medicinal materials from the West, and the legendary dancer whose waist is as soft as boneless as a snake, but whose skin is as white as snow.

According to legend, even small tribes with small numbers at that time, just selling water to past caravans was enough to allow them to survive countless severe winters and hot summers.

Of course, everyone would say that the Central Plains dynasty values ​​name but not reality, and they stationed thousands of troops in the Cheshi, and they would be embarrassed to call the Western Regions Protectorate, or they could be said to have opened up the Silk Road. If it were such a method and pure face project, the Liangzhou people would not get much benefit.

The key is still how to do it.

Anyway, in terms of price code, the court has already made it. If you accept it, you will follow me. If you don’t accept it, you will follow me. If you don’t, you will follow me. There is nothing to say.

So these Liangzhou heroes soon returned to their respective families to carefully consider this matter. As for the dead Pang Tong, who is?

Some people even forgot who Han Sui was.

So, when Liu Xie led less than 10,000 troops out of Longguan, Han tyrants such as Zhang, Zhao, Jiang, and Wang personally led their own tribes to surrender, which was reasonable. Especially when Yang Qiu, who was a powerful faction on the side, surrendered, Liu Xie was even more excited and quickly pulled him up, and let him get on his own imperial carriage very kindly. He seemed to have no grudges about what Yang Qiu had done before, and he was not worried at all whether this Liangzhou reckless man would suddenly draw his sword in the car and chop him.

"You come and surrender to me, and you will be defeated by a hundred thousand powerful troops!"

On the frame, Liu Xie smiled very happily at the fearful Yang Qiu.

I was really happy, my mouth was grinning to the ears.

How to say, is it too much to attack the heart for the superiors and the city for the subordinates? The war is too expensive. The court is so poor now, it is really too poor. When I returned to Luoyang this time, several of the Shangshutai said that they were bleeding when they pee, so it would be better if they could not fight.

Of course, what is more important is that this political victory was really entirely his own political proposition, authentic and has not been processed in any brainstorming. The results achieved are really good at present.

This made him feel very happy.

Perhaps it is not as difficult as I imagined to be a good emperor?

After all, all the civil and military officials in the court do things, so the emperor only needs to put forward a general direction, which is the so-called major policies. As a modern person, he seems to be better than what these ancients could do.

Is there a feeling of relief that I finally support myself.

But at the dinner, when Liu Xie personally roasted teppanyaki to entertain the heroes of Liangzhou, when facing Zhao, Jiang, Wang, Pi, Ai, Qin and others who were mostly Han people in Hanyang, he finally sighed from the bottom of his heart: "It's a pity that they are all Han people, and there are no compatriots of the Qiang and Di people."

Yang Qiu and others were already frightened by the food. After Liu Xie said this, they were naturally very frightened. Yang Qiu immediately expressed his opinion: "The Hu people do not know etiquette and do not know how to be grateful. If Your Majesty wants to use Qiang and Hu to use troops, I would like to be the pioneer."

Liu Xie shook his head and said, "It doesn't have to be like this. It's not a day since the freezing is not cold. It's normal for them to be wary of me. I really don't want to start a war against my compatriots. Every time I kill someone, the hatred of this nation will be deeper. Can't we really have to kill them all? Alas, take one step at a time."

To be honest, Liu Xie didn't think too much about what to do if the Qianghu of Liangzhou did not accept his kindness. This question is really too difficult.

"The war is fierce and the war is still in danger. Hanzhong is still fighting. It is true that I have a fake way to destroy Guo, but it is more important to rescue Hanzhong now. It is important to fight Hanzhong first. This time, thanks to Cao Zhang's child." As he said that, Liu Xie glanced at Cao Pi who had always looked down at his toes.

"Mr. Wei, I have given birth to a good son."

Then Cao Pi's head lowered even lower.

After clicking this double point, Liu Xie stopped talking about politics. After all, Liu Xie has learned a little bit of the skin after so long. First of all, it is Liangzhou. In comparison, these so-called heroes in Liangzhou are all outsiders. Liu Xie also intends to let them retain certain power. Compared to the court, they are outsiders. Although Cao Cao and his group are very disagreements with him, they are still under the big frame of the court. In other words, Cao Pi is also his own.

You have to close your door and not let outsiders watch jokes, nor can you let these outsiders make up for it or mislead political signals.

Besides, the knife is always more scary than the one hanging on the neck. The next battle will be fought with the tiger and leopard cavalry. If you deal with Cao Pi, you will inevitably have to deal with Cao Chun. It is too harmful to morale. Instead, it is just hanging like this, which can make Cao Chun and the tiger and leopard cavalry perform well in order to make the merits and commit crimes.

The art of leadership.

In fact, it seems that it is not difficult for the most part. The superiors do not need much unfathomable wisdom to control the inferiors.

So, he talked with the surrendered Liangzhou heroes about the customs and customs of Liangzhou and a little imagination about the Silk Road. After a little, he found that the Silk Road was indeed quite similar to the large-scale navigation trade. So he naturally published many high-level strategies, but he left Cao Pi in such a discomfort.

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Ten days later, Liu Xie gathered nearly 40,000 troops like snowballs in Liangzhou, and then he had to stop immediately with regret, and slashed more than 20,000 people till sever, and then went south to attack Yangping Pass.

He himself knew that these soldiers were all empty, and it was difficult for him to use orders to make the Liangzhou heroes who had newly joined him fight for him. Naturally, it was difficult for those heroes to order their men to fight for him again. It was Yangping Pass, a tough battle. To be honest, this matter had nothing to do with their own fate. Liu Xie could not allow them to rob after breaking the pass, nor did he have the ability to distribute land to them. He couldn't even get the rewards for fighting. He had no choice but to be too poor.

It was fine when he didn't want to manage things before, but now he wants to pee blood after taking care of things a little bit.

Instead of letting these Xiliang heroes follow the chaos, it would be better to let them stay in Liangzhou and provide some logistics supplies for themselves. Saving some money is better than anything else. Liu Xie is now slowly savoring the so-called "soldiers are expensive but not expensive" and let him command these Liangzhou people to fight. Even if he knows that these people are brave and good at fighting, he still feels frightened and not at all. Therefore, he only let Jiang Xu and Zhao Ang lead 1,800 people to follow him. After meeting him, the others admitted their legal identities and put them back to help him raise food and grass.

The reason why I stayed for ten days was really waiting for the first compatriots in the young people to show goodwill to him, but... I didn't wait.

Even Liu Xie's army arrived in Hechi, and Dou Mao, the Di king of Hechi, really dared not to let him in.

What’s interesting is that although the Di king did not allow himself to enter the city, he built a village outside the city that was barely small. There were actually food and grass in the village, and even several cows, as if to kill him and eat meat.

You should know that the prices of bulls have risen this spring, and you can’t even buy five new money in Jian’an.

"What does this Di King mean?"

"Obviously, I don't want us to enter the city, for fear of threatening his rule over his tribe, and perhaps, I'm afraid you can settle accounts with him or something."

"In other words, he doesn't want to surrender, he just wants to resist stubbornly? Then what does he mean? Poison me from the food?"

"This... should be to express his intention to ask our king's army for being an enemy. I hope we will leave quickly after taking the things, and he will not help Han Sui Lu Bu cut off our food route."

"Are you so twisted? Are you afraid that I will eat him?"

Liu Xie frowned, feeling really unhappy. This approach really made him a little incomprehensible.

"Your Majesty... I think it's better to forget it. There is no need to be a barbarian like this. After all, Hanzhong is important. As long as he does not disturb our food route, he might as well let him go first. It's not too late to deal with him after we pacify Hanzhong."

Liu Xie was also helpless and asked: "What is the name of this Di king Hu people?"

Everyone was stunned. Zhao Ang, who was still the most familiar with the situation in Liangzhou, replied: "When you go back to your Majesty, your name is Dou Mao."

"Ah? Chinese names?"

"Your Majesty, the names of the Di people were originally Chinese names."

Liu Xie was stunned again: "Then do they have their own language?"

"This... seems to be true. Anyway, the Di people in Liangzhou and at least the East Six County have never heard of them."

So Liu Xie asked again: "What is the difference between them and us Han people? What are the characteristics of their appearance?"

Zhao Ang thought for a while and said, "There is no difference. Most of the Di people are mainly farming. By the way, they raise cattle very well, and most of the Han people are not as good as they do."

So Liu Xie felt a little confused at this moment: "You mean, they live in the land of our Han people, call the names of Han people, speak the language of Han people, use the same production method as the Han people, and even raise cattle better than us Han people? Then why are such people not Han people! Are there extra points in the college entrance examination??"

When the ministers heard this, they were all reluctant to answer this question.

What does the emperor mean?

Although the Di people are indeed no different from the Han people in all aspects, in fact, if the household registration is not checked, it will be almost difficult for even the Liangzhou people to tell who is the Han people and who is the Di people. However, they are indeed not the Han people. Is there any problem with this?

So he could only explain with a gritty bullet: "The barbarians do not learn from education and do not read the words of saints. For example, the Di kings like Dou Mao are also ignorant of the word "dou Mao", so they did such a traitor."

In fact, there are quite a lot of such things. After all, the Han Dynasty was an inclusive and powerful dynasty. After moving within three hundred years, the effect of assimilation was still very significant. Even without special guidance, it naturally completed assimilation subtly. Apart from being uncultured, it was really not very different from the Han people, and it can even be understood as being uncultured Han people.

The problem is that the literacy rate of Han people is not high these days!

In fact, this kind of thing was actually handled better in history. For example, Meng Huo, it is not easy to say that he was a barbarian or a sinic barbarian. Wang Ping, the number one general in the late Shu Han Dynasty, was also a barbarian. Jiang Wei himself recruited many Liangzhou Qianghu. In fact, Yizhou was not a big deal when Liu Zhang was in the hands of him, but when Zhuge Liang was in the hands of him, he could go out to Qishan six times. The ethnic policies of the emperor can be said to be of great significance.

(Dou Mao helped Liu Bei beat Cao Cao in history, and Prime Minister Zhuge's administrative level is really unexplainable)

However, under the guiding ideology of "defending the wild and the Chinese", at least before Zhuge Liang ruled Sichuan, no one realized that there was anything wrong with this, or to put it bluntly, even the Han tyrants in the East Six counties of Liangzhou had never regarded these young people as their own people.

However, Liu Xie was in a bad mood, very bad, especially bad.

"This Di king obviously dared not rebel, and he admitted his cowardly. Look at the things he stayed outside the city, there are a lot of them. Even if I entered the city management, he wanted supplies. To be honest, he didn't plan to ask for so many. I believe that he must have squeezed out, so why did he refuse to let us enter the city? It's obvious that the ethnic conflict has reached a point where it is almost impossible to reconcile. He distrusts the court and does not trust me. I really want to know why the court is sorry for him now."

This is equivalent to directly setting the tone of the matter, raising Dou Mao's infidelity and domineering directly to the issue of the young people's great power, but he did not recognize his domineering, but instead determined it as a national conflict. Zhao, Jiang and others reacted a little slower, but Sima Yi immediately grabbed the topic:

"Of course your Majesty is not sorry for him. It's just that the freezing is not a day long. In the past, the local tyrants were too powerful, and the court's fiscal revenue was getting smaller and smaller every year. As the climate has continued to cool in recent years, more and more barbarians have entered the pass from the frontier, and even the Xianbei borders are becoming more and more frequent. A few years ago, did not even appear Tan Shihuai, known as the greatest Khan?"

"So, the court had to pass on the pressure to these young people. Not only did they have to pay taxes, but they also had to use their own tribe members to help the court fight. It was their own responsibility to lose, and it was not their turn to be promoted and wealthy if they won. If they went on for a long time, they would naturally have resentment towards the court."

After Sima Yi took the lead in expressing his opinion, others immediately realized the emperor's central idea. For example, Zhao, Jiang and others naturally had a much better understanding of the situation in this place than Sima Yi, and said, "Yes, Dou Mao's actions are not incomprehensible. The Di people have always been more miserable than the Qiang people in Liangzhou. The Qiang people, like the Xiongnu, pay blood taxes. They have horses, swords, and poor, not to mention that there are many people in the Western Qiang who can speak Chinese. The local governments should actually comfort them as much as possible. The Di people are indeed much worse."

"The land allocated to them by the imperial court is often those underdeveloped land that have not yet been developed. They need to dig a water source and cultivate it themselves. But as a result, they have finally raised the land, and then they have to find ways to drive them away, occupy the land they have already reclaimed, and then replace it with new underdeveloped land for them."

Liu Xie frowned and asked, "These things are a must-have for you Han tyrants."

"Yes, I admit that we must make a deep self-examination in this regard. The government's idea of ​​Han and Hu family being one family is indeed very broad. If these Hu people can really be together with us Han people, the problem of Liangzhou will be solved by half. I suggest that even if we do not pursue the mistakes we made in the past, we must conduct strict and profound reflections. Only in this way can we lay a solid foundation for the stability and development of Liangzhou in the future, and lay a solid foundation for Your Majesty's ambition to connect the Western Regions and reopen the Silk Road in the future."

Since the emperor has determined the political tendency of the emperor, it is definitely useless to deny it. If you investigate this kind of thing, you will know everything. It would be better to take the initiative to admit your mistakes, just review them, and not pursue them. Anyway, that is the past. Compared with the huge interests of the Silk Road, you will continue to bully the Qiang and Hu.

Of course, this does not mean that the blame will be taken like this. Who is not a master of trashing the blame?

"Of course, the Di people's distrust of the Han people is not just because of the land problem. You should know that the powerful people in the Central Plains like to sell the Di people as slaves. After all, they are the same as the Han people. If you buy a Di slave, you will always have much less trouble than buying a Han slave. In fact, Guanzhong and even Sili are in decline at present. Your Majesty, you are determined to move the capital back. If Dou Mao is afraid that after Your Majesty, you will force them to Guanzhong or Sili to fill the population, it is not really a worry."

After hearing this, Liu Xie was stunned for a moment, and his first reaction was: This seems to be a good idea.

Then he immediately became furious: "When did I force myself to move past the people? Do he think I would sell them like those bastards? Set up camp, set up camp, and prepare to attack the city!"

Sima Yi was shocked and quickly persuaded him: "Your Majesty... Your Majesty? This is not suitable. We still need to support Hanzhong. Now that we have completely cut off our liaison with Zhang Wei, we don't know the specific shape there. The military situation is urgent. Why do you have to be as knowledgeable as the barbarian king and miss the opportunity for rescue?"

Liu Xie shook his head and said, "It won't take much time to fight in Hechi City. Besides, Zhongda, you suggested that I take Qishan Road. Now, as you expected, the East Six counties in Liangzhou dare not make up, and it will definitely be enough to destroy Han Sui's morale and morale. Hasn't our strategic goal been achieved?"

"Unless Han Sui was willing to be merged by Lu Bu, their position would be in chaos now, and it would be impossible to break through Nanzheng so quickly. If Lu and Han really join forces and really defeat Zhang Wei, wouldn't our strategy be willing to use this entire Liangzhou to exchange for a Hanzhong?"

"As you said, I think Dou Mao's problem is not an isolated case. If I don't solve it while I'm here, I'm afraid it won't be solved in the future. To be honest, I think this small river pool is more important than Hanzhong!"

After a pause, Liu Xie asked Sima Yi again, "I want to capture this person alive and not hurt his life, but I don't want to delay here for too long. Is there any strategy that can be used?"

Sima Yi suddenly said, "Your Majesty wants to attack the heart and use this person as a typical example to spread the court's grace and power? This... is quite simple, and there is no need to make any siege equipment."

So, Liu Xie's army stayed in this temporary hamlet next to Hechi City that night, and left the next morning. Dou Mao also sent someone to check it out and confirmed that it was really all exposed, but the things in the camp did not move at all.

"Hmph, the emperor judges the gentleman's abdomen by his villain's heart. I'm afraid I'll poison him. Humph, save me. Brothers, go out of the city and bring everything back."
To be continued...