Chapter 665. The first real power of the Han Dynasty
"That Liaodong ......"
Wang's first sentence fully exposed his "small business" consciousness, sticking to the old market, and unwilling to have the courage to open up the "new market", but! Today, Mr. Cao's head was like being squeezed by the door, and he nodded without hesitation.
"It's still yours to rule!"
This is a bit of a real fun, independent warlords, the territory under their control has spread from Liaodong to Guanzhong, and Wang Hou's power is even more fierce than the Xiongnu! After all, the Xiongnu period couldn't get involved in Guanzhong! If it is about power, I am afraid that this Han Empire, except for Cao Cao, is his king, and his dominance cannot even be compared with Liu Bei's heyday of Shu.
Cao Cao's head was really caught by the door? Take the initiative to give him such a big right!
However, such a big right was really not given in vain, and as soon as his tone changed, Cao Cao said what he asked again.
"This minister appointed you as the Guanzhong Daxingtai, in charge of the military and political affairs of Guanzhong, and it was not granted in vain, Han Sui and Ma Chao are two traitors, you want to give their heads to the prime minister, Liangzhou, must be pacified!"
"And this phase gives you three years, haven't you been there these days to be sad and sad and say that Zheng Guoqu is wasted! In three years, you have to rebuild Zheng Guoqu to his true appearance! Eight hundred miles of re-irrigation is good! In the third year, the prime minister will see at least 500,000 stone grain to pay tribute to Yecheng! ”
"Three years, 500,000 stone grain! O my father! It took ten years to gather the strength of the whole country of Qin to dig and build the Zhengguo Canal! Now that the population of Guanzhong is withering, I am afraid that there will not be even 500,000 people! You want your son-in-law to fight, and you want your son-in-law to plough the fields, don't you embarrass your son-in-law? ”
That face was simply pulled into a sausage, looking like it was still flowery at the beginning of the month, Wang Hou was extremely sad to ask, but unfortunately, Cao Cao didn't ask him to reason with him, gloomy face, Mr. Cao snorted as a particularly domineering president.
"Miaocai leads 10,000 troops and garrisons in Chang'an to help you defend! In addition, the prime minister appointed your old subordinate Sima Zhongda as the assassin of Yongzhou, and he will be dispatched by you! ”
"This is just embarrassing for you! No reason! It must be done for this phase! Otherwise, you want to look good! ”
Still helping? Xiahou Yuan's 10,000 people are looking at him, and his old subordinates, Sima Yi is not willing to be subordinate, when Wang Hou was in charge of Qingzhou, the two of them were already in harmony! Cao Cao transferred him to Yongzhou as his subordinate, which can be regarded as a constraint on him, and judging by the appearance, he still has to manage the salary and food expenses of Xiahou Yuan, the 10,000 central * central * army.
With bitterness in his mouth, Wang Hou asked in a low voice again.
"Huh! Father, dare to ask, recommend your son-in-law, but Jia Xu and Doctor Jia? ”
"It's your subordinate, Sima Yi, the assassin of Yongzhou, Jia Xu also persuaded the prime minister before the minister's decision, how can you ask for the people who defend the frontier to give the two states a complete book! But you Wang Gao is the son-in-law of my Cao Mengde, and the old man believes in the Red Festival and believes in you! So, do a good job for the old man! ”
Looking at Cao Cao's good appearance of the two brothers, the same expression as the manager of the later generations when he patted his shoulder and wanted him to achieve how many achievements, Wang Hou vomited blood even more.
Who said Cao Cao was old? Who said that Cao Cao's ambitions subsided after the Battle of Chibi? He's gambling!
Don't look at the battle of Weinan, the 100,000 troops of the Guanzhong coalition army were wiped out, and Ma Chao hugged his head and ran away, but the situation in the northwest is very complicated!
Here thanks to Emperor Guangwu's excellent policy of his old scum, starting from Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the western border of the empire, is to allow the Xiqiang, Di and Xiongnu people to enter the empire to engage in agricultural life, the good point of this policy is to promote ethnic integration and the spread of Han culture, but now it is a very bad point, it is still a generous population of Liangzhou, and the number of Han people is only half! Yongzhou Guanzhong is better, because the warlords have been fighting for many years, and those who can escape have fled to Kanto.
In particular, Guanzhong Yongzhou actually only included the cities of Xi'an, Baoji, Weinan, Tongchuan, and Xianyang in Shaanxi in later generations, and Yan'an and Yulin in the north into the Loess Plateau, including part of Gansu in later generations.
Then there is Liangzhou, about the same outline as Gansu in later generations, the whole is the famous Hexi Corridor, sandwiched between the two mountains in a narrow strip of land, Ma Chao and Han Sui have been operating here for many years, the Qiang, Han and Di three tribes are open, and the influence is far from being comparable to Wang Hou, an outsider.
These are all threats from the north, from the south, Zhang Lu in Hanzhong is not Wang Houdaoyou, and further south, after the rise of Brother Zhuge , he will also have to cut him.
And! In later generations, Shaanxi's agricultural output was the lowest in the country, and it was said that Qinchuan was eight hundred miles of fertile fields, to be honest, he actually came to wander around, and the fertility of the land here was not as great as the fertility of the cultivated land he obtained on the banks of the Liao River! Not to mention the Black Mountain Country, which already belongs to the Songnen Plain in the Black Soil Belt.
It can be said that Guanzhong is also a very chicken rib, the land of the four wars, the material output is just like that, the only advantage, the tiger according to the important traffic point of the Silk Road in the Western Regions, to the east by Qinchuan to press the Guandong, to the southwest through Hanzhong to Bashu, to the southeast and out of Wuguan directly to Jingzhou, the strategic location is particularly important, just a little advantage.
It's just that it's useless to Wang Hou! He doesn't have the ambition to dominate the world and make money, he just wants to do business honestly and make money, be a simple and unpretentious man in the first rich man, and live a boring life of a rich man.
Therefore, Cao Cao has to hand over the position of Guanzhong Daxingtai to him! If he goes to pacify Guanxi by himself, then at least 100,000 troops are needed to defend, millions of food and salaries are light, I am afraid that he will have to fight for a few years, and the salary will cost tens of millions, more importantly, it is equivalent to dragging Cao Han in an embarrassing realm of two-front combat, historically, Cao Wei unified the world so difficult, but also trapped in these two fronts of fighting, the western front continued to fight with Zhuge Prime Minister more than once, the eastern front in Hefei Wei and Wu Zuzu five wars, this year Cao always went to find a field of the wet and bearded mouth also fought three times.
Yes, the middle line was also rushed by Guan Yu, if it weren't for Liu Bei's diplomatic problems, Dongwu, an ally, began to stab in the back, Cao Cao almost gave up Yingchuan and other places to move Emperor Han Xian and the capital to Yecheng for refuge.
But now, to hand over the customs to Wang Hou, first of all, rest assured, not to mention Wang Hou and his in-law relationship, only from the mountain goods store in Liaodong, the grassland specialty store from Qingzhou to the west to Tongguan, as large as horses and chariots, beds and boats wood, as small as pots and pans, soy sauce tea, the business in the north of the Han Dynasty was almost monopolized by Wang Hou.
This is enough to reassure Cao Cao, unlike the Huns, Liaodong and Guannei are too closely connected, if this kid really dares to stab, Cao Cao will pass the border pass, there is no source of business in the mainland, and he can't hold it for a few months, those dirty and greedy big capitalists in Liaodong will go crazy, and Wang Hou will naturally not be able to sit down, and people will have to drive him down.
This is also Sima Yi's idea of not reassuring kindness, the bigger the territory, the better, from Liaodong Wang Hou's hometown to Guanzhong, if you have to walk for three months, and it will take a month to ride a horse and travel lightly, Wang Hou's difficulty in ruling is more difficult than the difficulty of ruling the huge Han Empire, which is equivalent to sharing Wang Hou's power.
Not to mention driving ducks to the shelves, and asking Wang Hou to repair Zheng Guoqu and pay tribute to Yecheng with grain, these are purely consuming the power of Liaodong to fatten himself.
On the other hand, is it possible that Wang Hou, this kid, is really a blockbuster, occupying the traffic artery of Guanzhong Woye, punching Ma Chao Han Sui, kicking Zhuge Liang and Liu Bei, and really pouting and becoming a hegemon?
This possibility is too much, so Cao Cao gambled on this, betting that he was more eloquent than this lazy boy, before he was full-fledged, he had already pinched Sun Quan's neck to clean him up, and in addition, Jingzhou Bashu was included in the bag, and he would dominate the universe, when the time came, the entire Han Empire was in hand, and he didn't care about the bitter cold land on the frontier occupied by Wang Hou.
"Back to the prime minister, there is no reason, but you let Xiao Xu hold the western frontier for you, can a few conditions be met?"
"Say!"
"Don't kill the Ma Teng family! Give it to your son-in-law! ”
Directly spelled in the popularity of the Qiang people, Wang Hou will definitely not be able to fight, but he can borrow the corpse to return the soul! Isn't Ma Teng famous? Let him stand beside him as an ornament in the name of crusading against unfilial sons, and Liangzhou will be much calmer!
Cao Cao couldn't help but hesitate at this point, Ma Chao rebelled and did not kill Ma Teng, but he lost his majesty, does this not encourage the border generals to rebel?
However, compared with Wang Hou's jumping out of the top cylinder, the political loss caused by this was minimal, so after only thinking about it for two or three seconds, Cao Cao agreed very happily.
"Yes!"
"The second point, if the people of Kansai fled to Kanto and were incorporated into the military and civilian tuns, and those who are willing to return to their hometowns, the prime minister must also be released!"
"This ......"
"Father, the population of Liaodong is less than 500,000, the population of Guanzhong is less than 300,000, and nearly half of Liangzhou are Qiang people, who do not cultivate and have no population! You are now pumping your son-in-law to death, and in three years, I can't dig Zheng Guoqu, let alone 500,000 stone of grain! ”
Immediately crying and mourning his face became the appearance of Grande, Wang Hou was particularly sad and aggrieved, and finally, seeing that Mr. Cao was helpless to slap him.
"Yes!"
"Deal!"
Although he agreed loudly, but gritting his teeth, Wang Hou's painful appearance was not at all like the appearance of having just become the first powerful minister of the Han Empire, but it was like making a loss-making transaction, and his flesh trembled in pain. Seeing that Xiahou Yuan, who was guarding Chang'an on the side, was one level shorter than him, he had the mind to slap them both!
That's Guanzhong's big line, and the military and political officials are in charge of the two states with one hand! This beep-pping grandson!