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I heard Tuoba Ju say, "How many times have you said that, don't call me my master when you go to war with me. You are not a slave. You are my think tank now. Just call me the king. Let's talk about it. If you don't recruit soldiers from various countries in the Western Regions, how should you deal with Bai Qi and the others?

The 20,000 soldiers in Waci City are the foundation of this king's foothold in the royal court, and it cannot be afforded. Besides, Bai Qi is not comparable to an ordinary general of the Central Plains. He can turn the Western Regions upside down and escape without losing his body under Murong Lian's eyes. He must not be careless..."

Zhao Shen owed his body and replied, "King, those Western Regions people are unreliable. Even if they can send troops to help me, they will only cause trouble. However, the conscript order that should be issued must be issued, and they cannot be too peaceful."

Tuoba Ju said, "I understand this, then what? Let's hold the city to the death?"

Zhao Shen said: "The king can go to find another reinforcement army, and it is definitely more reliable than those from the Western Regions."

"Other reinforcement?" Tuoba Ju sneered, "Where are there any reliable reinforcements in the entire Western Region? Could it be that you want me to go to Zhongzhou to find Sasansan and Dashi?"

Zhao Shen said: "It doesn't need to be that far. Just send people through Longyou Road and inform the Bohe people on the plateau that we are willing to give some land to the Western Regions. They will definitely lead their troops to join us to snipe the Han army."

"Bohe people?" Tuoba Ju was stunned when he heard this, and then shook his head, "No, the Bohe people are too greedy. If they let them enter the Western Regions, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Zhao Shen said: "Wang, the Bohe people have strengthened their strength by plundering the wealthy Shu area in the Central Plains over the years. Although they actively depended on the empire during the western expedition of the Monroe Empire,

But my subordinates thought that if they did not let them work, they would only make them more unscrupulous. If they did not care about it, one day the development of the Bohe people would exceed expectations.

At this time, they were asked to intervene in this Western Regions war in the name of the sect leader, and at the same time, they could see if the combat power of the Bohe people had grown to the point that threatened us Monroe people."

Tuoba Ju got up and paced around the house, thought carefully, nodded slightly: "Then order people to pass through Longyou Road, to the palace where the Bohe people are located, and in the name of the sect leader, they ask the Bohe people to send troops to the Western Regions."

Zhao Shen bowed and said, "The king Shengming, my subordinates ordered people to go to the Bohe people's camp..."

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The Saman Plateau, with a total altitude of nearly 4,000 meters, the capital of the Plateau Empire, the military and political center of the Bohe people, the Elephant Bear King City is located at a height of 2,000 meters here...

The rise of the Bohe people is due to the warming plateau climate in the past century. Many low-altitude areas have been suitable for crop cultivation, which has greatly increased the population in the cold areas here.

The Elephant Bear Empire was established three hundred years ago, seventy years later than the Great Zhou Dynasty. At first, the Elephant Bear Empire's economy relied on grazing and its agricultural foundation was almost zero. In addition, due to the climate and environment, the tens of thousands of Bohe people living in the plateau areas could only make a living by looting the food of small surrounding countries.

In the 180th year of Great Zhou, the Bohe people attacked Shu and were defeated by the officers and soldiers of Shu at that time. They were honest for a while. Until the 230th year of Great Zhou, after Songtuzang, the elephant bear empire, became the king of the country, the plateau climate began to gradually warm up, and the opportunity changed here.

He took the initiative to show kindness to Dazhou and asked Dazhou for marriage, wanting to marry the royal princess.

The Great Zhou Empire agreed to Songtuzang's request, marrying Princess Ningxiang, the youngest royal family, far away from the plateau, and brought a large number of books, craftsmen, as well as farming techniques.

As a result, the two countries entered a period of 50 years of peace. Until the 283rd year of the Great Zhou Dynasty, after the Elephant Bear Empire obtained various iron smelting and planting technologies in the Central Plains, allowing the domestic population to exceed 500,000 for the first time, the ambitions of the Bohe aristocratic class buried deep in their hearts gradually erupted.

In the same year, after Soda Tsering, the new monarch of the Elephant Bear Empire, ascended the throne, he immediately launched a war against the Bolu Kingdom, who was in harmony with the Great Zhou Dynasty.

Faced with such a barbaric and warlike ethnic group on the plateau, Bolu Kingdom could not resist it, and the prosperous towns were burned. In addition, a series of domestic coups were divided into Bolu Kingdoms of all sizes.

This move shocked the Great Zhou Dynasty. The imperial rulers ordered people to go to Xiangxiong City and questioned Soda Tseren repeatedly, hoping to give an explanation.

But Soda Tsering ignored the Great Zhou Dynasty and instead led his troops toward Shu...

As the Shu and the Bohe people went through a period of peace for fifty years, the border troops in Shu were lax, and five thousand Bohe people took the opportunity to enter Shu in one fell swoop, plundering more than 20,000 people, and then they left after countless gold, silver and grain.

This move completely angered the Great Zhou Empire. Three years later, under the order of the emperor, the Great Zhou Empire dispatched a total of 250,000 troops to launch an attack on the Elephant Bear Empire.

Unfortunately, the plateau climate was harsh and the Great Zhou government troops could not adapt to the plateau reaction. Before they even started fighting with the Bohe people, they fell 30 or 40 years old, causing a heavy blow to morale.

Afterwards, Soda Tseren seized the opportunity and took advantage of the long-distance attack of the Zhou army and was exhausted, he sent troops to encircle all 250,000 Zhou dynasties in one fell swoop.

In just a few days, the Bohe Plateau was filled with the bodies of the Great Zhou official army. The entire army had 250,000 people fled back to Shu, which immediately shocked the Great Zhou Dynasty.

From then on, Soda Tsering also saw that the Great Zhou army was vulnerable, so he wanted to take advantage of the victory to occupy Shu in one fell swoop, expanding the territory of the Elephant Bear Empire to the heart of the Central Plains.

However, at the critical moment, Soda Tsering was assassinated and died at the hands of his own deputy general, which made the Great Zhou Empire breathe a breath.

Afterwards, the Bohe people took the initiative to make peace, and released the captured generals in the Great Zhou army, and proposed a marriage again.

The reason why the Bohe people made peace was mainly because although Soda Tsering defeated the Great Zhou official army, the soldiers of the Elephant Bear Empire suffered heavy losses, with more than half of the 50,000 troops losing. If he continued to be allowed to be militarized, the Elephant Bear Empire would definitely be trapped in a place of doom.

The Emperor of Great Zhou once again agreed to the request for marriage, but this time, marriage only maintained peace for twenty years.

Twenty years later, the population of the Elephant Bear Empire had exceeded 1.5 million. Relying on its powerful cavalry and barbaric folk customs, it officially broke up its face and continued to use troops to the surrounding countries, including the Great Zhou, causing unprecedented hardships to all parts of the Central Plains. Shu has become the ATM and back garden of the Bohe people.

Just after the Bohe people obtained a huge amount of wealth and population from the Central Plains, the Elephant Bear Empire, which had a population of four million, focused its attention in the Western Regions, but unfortunately they failed this time.

Because they met the Monroe who were stronger than them, they could only take the initiative to surrender and stop expanding, so as not to suffer a catastrophe.

The above is the general history of the Bohe people. This is a semi-nova and semi-agricultural group. They advocate force, but their political system is still dominated by backward slavery, and the political situation is very unstable. On average, a palace coup will occur every seven years. This is also the essential reason why the Bohe people's military strength is strong but they can never get out of the plateau.

In the city of Elephant Bear King, almost all of the male men captured from Western Shu were snatched and scolded by the Bohe people, doing heavy work in the cold wind.

As for those female relatives, the fate was even more miserable. The extremely beautiful ones were divided up by the elephant bear nobles, and a few were taken away by the military officers. The rest were gathered together and sold to custom shops, becoming tools for the Bohe people to enjoy and make money.

The Bohe people also learned the rituals of the Monroe and the Great Zhou Dynasty, and divided people into three levels: upper, middle and lower. The highest level was naturally the central aristocratic class of elephant bears, followed by Bohe generals, and the lowest level was civilians and poor peasants. As for these captured slaves, they were called untouchables, and their identities were outside the third level.

After the last coup, General Bohe Lu Qingling won the final victory and supported the young monarch Song, who became the prime minister himself and became the current actual ruler of the Elephant Bear Empire.

After Lun Qingling came to power, he quickly eliminated dissidents and firmly controlled the army of the Elephant Bear Empire. After more than a year of restoring his energy, he felt that it was time to continue to launch an offensive against Shu.

In the palace, Lun Qingling said to the civil and military officials of the court: "In the past few years, our Bohe people have stopped looting Shu. Now it is time to continue to give them some colors.

I heard that the Great Zhou had disappeared, and now the Central Plains was replaced by a country called Han. Their emperor was less than thirty years old, but he asked for fortresses to be built everywhere in Shu. This was intended to target my Bohe people.

Just in time, I wanted to teach the young new emperor a lesson, telling him that in the eyes of us Bohe people, the Central Plains is just a piece of meat on a chopping board. If you want to avoid being beaten, you must submit to my elephant bear empire!”

"Prime Minister, please think twice..." At this time, a civil servant put forward his own opinion, "The Han Dynasty was first established, and we knew nothing about their understanding. Before sending troops, my ministers suggested that it would be best to send an envoy to their country for inquiries.

If their emperor intends to live in peace with us, Bohe, we can directly let them send money on time every year to avoid unnecessary wars."

Lun Qingling's face changed: "Now I, Bohe, is a strong army and horse. Even if I want to reconcile with the Emperor of Central Plains, I should be afraid of them so that we can have more bargaining chips. Otherwise, I would probably have such an extra move."

The minister said, "Prime Minister, please think twice. This year, the crops in various parts of the Bohe Plateau are not harvested. Even if the army is out to plunder Shu, the marching food and grass will only be enough for 100,000 people for half a month. If there is an accident..."

"Do you don't believe in the ability of the minister to lead troops?" Lun Qingling Chen interrupted the minister's words, "It is precisely because crops in various places are not harvested this year that they need to obtain the necessary supplies from the Central Plains. Otherwise, how can they last until the sowing season next year?"

What Lun Qingling said is not without reason. Although the current plateau climate is much milder than more than a hundred years ago, it is a plateau area and there are still many uncertain factors. We can only continue to use plunder to overcome the difficulties.

The minister was speechless, and Lu Qingling was about to call for troops. News of the arrival of the envoy Mengluo arrived at the royal city suddenly came outside the palace gate.
Chapter completed!