Chapter 137: A dilemma

My lord, will Mr. Ziyuan's actions make Qiangdi more chaotic? Li Ru frowned.

"Chaos will definitely be chaotic, but if you don't do it, you won't see peace." Chen Mo nodded and said with a smile: "What's more, my dynasty is not compulsory, what you are willing to do, if you really fight, they are also at fault, besides, our side has always supported the Qiang population to enter the household registration, and the teacher did this to strengthen the relationship between the Qiang and Han." ”

Chen Mo probably guessed that Zang Hong's hand was broken, if the Qiang man is willing to join the Han nationality, he will be treated equally, in this way, as long as the Qiang man lives as a Han nationality, he can not only reduce taxes, but also get a wife and bring his own livestock, how good?

The biggest victim here is the head of the Qiang tribe, the population will continue to lose in this way, if there is a war, the population will only lose faster, after eating a few defeats, the prestige in the clan will be lost, and the population will be lost faster.

Fighting with the Qiang people, now Chen Mo is not only not afraid, but even a little impatient, Zang Hong is right, to integrate different races, not only must there be means, war is also necessary, fight until they are afraid, and it is best to fight when they are at a loss, now what Zang Hong is doing is actually forcing the Qiang people to take the initiative to provoke, and then press to fight.

In this way, even if Ma Teng Han Sui has no reason to help, after all, this is the loss of the Qiang people, they are now suffering a loss to Chen Mo's troops, if they help the Qiang people beat Chen Mo because of this kind of thing, what do the people under their rule think? But if they don't help, whether it's Ma Teng or Han Sui, they can fight against Chen Mo, in addition to the two joining forces, they are also quite dependent on the Qiang people, Zang Hong is now using this soft knife to cut the flesh of the Qiang people, which is to draw wages from the bottom of the kettle, and it is not only the Qiang people who are pumped, but also Ma Teng Han Sui.

This plan is wonderful!

Chen Mo and Li Ru also gradually saw Zang Hong's move clearly at this moment, and even Ma Teng and Han Sui were calculated.

"You say, will Ma Teng and Han Sui send troops?" Chen Mo looked at Li Ru and asked with a smile.

"Yes!" Li Ru nodded affirmatively, although sending troops will definitely not stand in the general righteousness, but if they don't send troops, the confidence of the two to confront Chen Mo will completely collapse, in this case, how can Ma Teng and Han Sui not send troops?

Immediately, Li Ru frowned and said: "It's just that in this way, it is a successful infighting between Ma Teng and Han Sui, and I am afraid that the two will not really turn against each other." ”

There are priorities, these two are old foxes, and at this time, they naturally know how to choose.

In this regard, Ma Teng and Han Sui are actually much stronger than Li Dao and Guo Yan in the past, but unfortunately the resources in their hands cannot be compared with Li Dao and Guo Yan, otherwise, Chen Mo may not be able to win Chang'an so quickly at that time.

"It's still useful, Ma Teng and Han Sui can see it clearly, but it doesn't mean that his two generals can also abandon their past suspicions in the blink of an eye like them, so they can change their strategy and provoke conflicts between the soldiers under their command, which will always come in handy." Chen Mo smiled.

At present, it is still the beginning stage, and the real war has not yet arrived, Chen Mo estimates that even if the war starts, it will have to wait until the end of the year or even next year.

"Whoa." Li Ru nodded, seeing that Chen Mo had no other instructions, he bowed down and retired, although all parties were secretly plotting, and the invisible confrontation never stopped, but in essence, Chen Mo is still focusing on the development of people's livelihood, and Guanzhong is now gradually recovering its vitality, but many of Chen Mo's ideas have not yet been implemented, and now Guanzhong is still developing around people's livelihood, and it is also accumulating more foundation.

Don't look at the bumper harvest in Guanzhong for two consecutive years, but if it really encounters a big war, now the little grain and grass that Chen Mo has saved, if the whole army is mobilized, it can't even withstand the toss of a big war.

After all, fighting a war is very food and grass, Chen Mo commanded more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, just raising an army only began to be able to afford the year before last, if it really starts a war now, even if it is not a 150,000 army, the consumption of grain and grass is also an astonishing number, which is also the reason why Chen Mo is unwilling to directly start a war with Ma Teng and Han Sui.

If you can fight quickly, it is naturally the best, but if you can't fight down, not only will it damage your prestige, but more importantly, it will be more difficult to destroy Ma Teng Han Sui in the future, so unless there is a great opportunity, Chen Mo will not make a move easily.

Time passes day by day, Chen Mo's side does not seem to have a low harvest this year, it is a new plough, manure plus grafting, and trade with Saiwai, the days are thriving, in comparison, Xiliang's side, Ma Teng and Han Sui's life is a little difficult.

"Wenyue, the situation is not good." On this day, Ma Teng took the initiative to find Han Sui to discuss the matter: "Recently, many tribes in the south have moved north, and there has been no war, but a large number of tribes seem to have moved north. ”

"It's a big deal." Han Sui nodded, handed a few files to Ma Teng, and said, "We were deceived by that Zang Hong. ”

Ma Teng frowned slightly when he heard this, his impression of Zang Hong was still good, after all, as soon as Zang Hong came to Liangzhou, the first thing he did was to show goodwill to them, saying that he only cared about the people's livelihood, and the others did not want to take care of the others, and there were only 800 soldiers around him, so obviously he couldn't set off any storms, what did Han Sui mean by saying this now?

The dossier recorded some of Zang Hong's governing strategies, and Ma Teng looked at Han Sui suspiciously: "What do you mean?" ”

"Since last year, he encouraged Qiang and Han to marry, and promised that anyone who married a Qiang woman who married a Han woman would be rewarded with a sheep as a dowry, which would be issued by the government office, and at the same time, if a Han man married a Qiang woman as a wife or concubine, the field tax would be reduced by 30% that year." Han Sui said in a deep voice.

"Of course I know that." Ma Teng nodded, encouraging the integration of the Qiang and Han has always been a strategy advocated by Chen Mo, and Zang Hong, as Chen Mo's teacher, is not wrong to help Chen Mo promote the integration of the Qiang and Han after taking office.

"The problem is here, those tribes who came to defect, the marriageable women in the tribe are less than half of the marriageable men, at the beginning of the year, many tribes were dissatisfied with this riot, but Chen Mo's side has already prepared, just the tribes that have been destroyed, there are more than a dozen, they can't beat Chen Mo, but they don't want to watch their tribe die, Zang Hong's method can be said to be a desperate plan!" Han Sui said helplessly.

If the Han woman marries into the Qiang tribe, there is also a reward, this is not a big problem, but the problem now is that only out and out, many tribes are a group of singles, Zang Hong, which is to benefit the people, is simply forcing the Qiang people to death, and even reproduction has become a luxury, and there are ghosts if they don't turn around.

But what makes people headache is that Zang Hong did not use any coercive means, and he had already made preparations, this time to suppress the rebellion, the means of the imperial court are extremely ruthless, and there are almost no prisoners left on the battlefield, which rarely appears in the past in the process of fighting with the Qiang people.

"It seems that this Zang Hong is not a good person!" Ma Teng hadn't turned a corner at first, but as soon as Han Sui explained this, Ma Teng also reacted, it seemed that it was just a decree to promote friendship between the two families, but he didn't expect it to force people to a dead end.

It's no wonder that the Qiang people who came to defect reacted so violently.

Anyway, are one or two of these reading sages so insidious? Think about your brother Han Sui, think about Zang Hong, and that Chen Mo, tsk, your heart is black.

"Chen Mo was taught by him." Han Sui said leisurely, Chen Mo's ability, Han Sui is actually quite admired, only a few years, from the beginning of Hedong, will be the state, Sanfu have been taken, and now they have begun to calculate Xiliang, as a bystander, Han Sui can see very clearly, that Chen Mo's ambition is not ordinary, many people are the ones who were sold by Chen Mo and helped him count the money, such as the Manchu Dynasty minister, I heard that until now, Chen Mo has never given Yu Lu, but these ministers are quite hard to do things, and what are Dong Zhuo's former generals, Many of them were cheated by Chen Mo and had no choice but to vote for Chen Mo, and the Guan Sergeant clan was even more so.

To be able to teach such a demonic disciple, what kind of good person can the teacher be?

"Now these Qiang leaders are inviting me to send troops, but at this time, how can we fight Chen Mo?" Ma Teng smiled bitterly, what's the point of saying this now? The problem at the moment is that those Qiang leaders are indignant one by one and want Ma Teng to send troops to clean up Chen Mo, but Ma Teng himself is okay to disturb him, but to let him send troops to fight Chen Mo, Ma Teng is unwilling, the strength is second, the main thing is that there is no benefit in winning, if he loses, Xiliang will have to completely lose to Chen Mo, and if he doesn't do it, he will have to take his life, this kind of thing, Ma Teng doesn't want to get involved, but the Ma family can have the momentum now, and it is also the momentum of the Qiang people, if these Qiang people turn against the water, the Ma family is probably over.

Today's Ma Teng doesn't want to offend both sides, but the problem is that both sides must offend one side now, which is why Ma Teng came to Han Sui to discuss.

"If we talk about troops, you and I join forces, plus the big clans such as Burning Dang and Poqiang send troops, we may not be less than them, and it would be better if we could pull the Huns." Han Sui groped his chin and said, Ma Teng's problem is also his problem, at this time, the two have to fight the same enemy, otherwise defeat is not far away.

"Although our army is brave and good at fighting, which time did Chen Mo not use small to make a big deal?" Ma Teng smiled bitterly, if you count the troops, it should be the Yellow Turban Thief who wins the world, the Yellow Turban Rebellion back then, the Yellow Turban in the world added up to more than one million, and it was not quickly pacified?

Ma Teng is also a family of generals, and he knows very well that even if he brings these parties here, he will only have an advantage in terms of troops, and in fact, the internal differences will be very serious, and he may even be used by Chen Mo.

"But the matter has come to this, if we don't care about this matter, I'm afraid that Xiliang will have no place for us!" Han Sui looked at Ma Teng and said solemnly.

"Let me think about it." Ma Teng shook his head, this matter was too big, and it was difficult for him to make a decision at once.

"Brother should make a decision early!" Han Sui didn't urge, just said in a deep voice.

"Hmm." Ma Teng nodded, and at this time, he saw a person come in, and said with a panicked face: "Lord, the big thing is not good, General Yan and General Ma Shao have fought!" ”