It seems that the remaining prisoners of war must be squeezed, otherwise the prisoners of war will be gone, and the water conservancy project in Shangyang County will not be completed.

At noon, the Imperial Study!

On the royal case, three meat and two vegetables, a pot of wine, Yingchang is alone holding a jade bowl and holding jade chopsticks to eat and drink, although the treasury is not rich, but Yingchang never treats his stomach badly, in the face of these delicacies, Yingchang has always had no resistance.

Trample.. Trample..

A burst of light footsteps came, Yingchang subconsciously raised his eyes, only to see Tang Hua walking cautiously, when Tang Hua walked three steps in front of the imperial case, he stopped his steps, and said with a respectful expression: "Your Majesty, the Prime Minister and Jia Shangshu are already waiting outside the palace!" ”

Yingchang put down the jade bowl and jade chopsticks, picked up a mouth towel to wipe the oil stains on the corners of his mouth, and then spoke; "Let them in!"

Tang Hua nodded in understanding, turned around and walked towards the outside of the hall, and after a short while, Jia Luo and Chang Zifei strode in.

"Minister Chang Zifei (Jia Luo) to see Your Majesty, long live my emperor, long live!" Chang Zifei and Jia Luo bowed respectfully and saluted.

"Have you ever had lunch?" Yingchang asked.

"Never!"

"Never!"

Chang Zifei and Jia Luo replied respectfully.

"Tang painting, add two utensils!" Ying Chang said to Tang Hua.

"Yes!" Tang Hua nodded, and then glanced at the palace maid on the side, who nodded in understanding.

After a while, the palace maid came with a wooden plate, the wooden plate held two silver bowls and silver chopsticks, Chang Zifei and Jia Luo bent down to take the utensils, and came to the imperial table to enjoy the imperial meal together, the two of them were not polite at all, and regarded this place as their own home.

"How about it, the food in the palace echoes the taste of the two Aiqing, right?"

"This taste should only be in the sky, and being able to eat a bite of imperial food is really a blessing for eight lifetimes!"

"The color and flavor are complete, and it is worthy of being a royal meal!"

The three of them ate and drank together, talking and laughing, the relationship between the monarchs and ministers of the Great Qin Empire was clear at a glance, the monarchs and ministers were harmonious, like relatives, in this way, the Great Qin Yan was not strong.

After a period of eating and drinking, he won the order of Tang Painting to remove the meal.

Ying Chang picked up a mouth towel to wipe the corners of his mouth, and after wiping it, he looked at Jia Luo and said, "What is the situation of the Qiang people now?" ”

Jia Luo and Chang Zifei first took three steps back, keeping a distance from Ying Chang, and then Jia Luo bent down with a solemn expression and replied: "Your Majesty, the Kama tribe has my great Qin iron weapon, and its strength has increased greatly, and it took two years to finally destroy the white wolf tribe, the overlord of the southern grassland, and occupy the entire territory of the southern Tomuqi grassland, and now the Kama tribe has occupied two grasslands, and it is the strongest overlord of the Qiang tribe!" ”

"The Kama tribe has reached an unprecedented strength, which makes the two great grassland overlords in the west and north fearful, and the two overlords in the north of the west have formed an alliance to jointly resist the Kama tribe, even if they are one enemy and two, the Kama tribe also has the upper hand, according to the Chen's calculations, the Kama tribe will only need two years to destroy the overlord in the west and the north and complete the great cause of the unification of the Qiang people!"

After hearing these words, Ying Chang and Chang Zifei fell silent, and their expressions involuntarily appeared solemn.

"The unification of the Qiang people, will build a country and covet Kyushu, then the Qiang people will take Qin Qi to open the knife, whether the Qiang people attack Qin or attack Qi, it will be greatly detrimental to my Great Qin, one, Qin Qi signed an alliance, for the allies, the alliance agreement is clear, if Qi asks for support, Qin will unconditionally rush to help, although our Great Qin can tear up the covenant, but with our current strength, it is not enough to support us to break the contract!"

"Second, the Qiang people hold our handle in their hands, if they attack Qi, they will definitely use this to blackmail our Great Qin, forcing us not to send troops, whether it is one or two, our Great Qin will fall into passivity, and then our good situation will disappear like a bubble!" Ying Chang said with a look of solemnity.

"What Your Majesty said is extremely true, so we must suppress the development speed of the Kama tribe and never allow the Qiang tribe to be unified!" Chang Zifei frowned, and his face showed worry.

"But in what way do we suppress the Kama tribe? Stop outputting iron? Or secretly transport iron tools to the two steppe overlords in the northwest? Jia Luo said helplessly.

Whether it is to choose the former or the latter, it is not feasible, choose the former, the Qiang people will inevitably release the news of the collusion of the Great Qin Empire with the Kama tribe, lead the troops of Kyushu to attack Qin, and choose the latter, which is even more impossible, Daqin only borders the Kama tribe, and it can't be transported at all, and the Kama tribe is not blind, and when they see the enemy on the opposite side also wearing armor, they guess it at once.

"The population and strength of the Kama tribe, does Jia Aiqing know?" Ying Chang asked with a solemn look on his face.

Jia Luo fell into a short silence, and after thinking about it, he replied: "Two years ago, the population of the Kama tribe was about 50,000 or 60,000, plus the population of the large and small tribes on the Mofeier steppe, about 130,000, the Qiang tribe is a soldier, and the strength of the Kama tribe should have 60,000 or 70,000 cavalry. ”

"The Kama tribe has been fighting for two consecutive years, annexing the white wolf tribe, and the population has risen instead of decreasing, but the Kama tribe can't go anywhere, the population should be around 180,000, and the strength should be between 80,000 or 90,000!"

After hearing these words, Ying Chang couldn't help but fall silent, and after being silent for a while, he asked in a deep voice: "If I send troops to destroy Qiang, will I have a chance of winning?" ”

Chang Zifei and Jia Luo looked at each other, and they could see the horror flashing in each other's eyes.

Send troops to destroy Qiang, what a big breath!

The existence of the Qiang people has been more than 800 years, and in the past 800 years, there have been many Kyushu empires that have sent troops to attack Qiang, but they all ended in failure, resulting in nearly 300 years, no country dares to send troops to attack Qiang, and it is a passive defense.

Without him, the Qiang guerrilla is really exquisite, the Qiang people deal with the Kyushu army, never attack head-on, they all choose to pull kites, what is pulling kites, kite pulling tactics is, he deliberately leads you to chase him, and then he runs and releases arrows, you chase while getting arrows, the final result is two, helpless to withdraw or annihilate.

The only way to deal with the Qiang is to train more elite iron cavalry than the Qiang cavalry, and see who is good at guerrilla, but the countries of Kyushu are all farming countries, and no matter how much they are trained, they cannot compare with the Qiang people who grew up on horseback.

No solution!

"Your Majesty, it's not that the ministers are arrogant, nor are they the ministers and others destroying their own prestige, with the current national strength of my Great Qin, there is no chance of winning to destroy Qiang, let alone our Great Qin, even if the Great Wei Empire sends troops to attack Qiang, there is a possibility of defeat in sixty percent, it's not that Qiang is too strong, but that my Great Qin doesn't have people and geography!" Chang Zifei replied helplessly.