Putting aside the brown cloth and the poppy cloth for the time being, the Son of Heaven asked: "Zhang Qing, the matter of Pingqiang, Qing has a draft?" ”

It's something he cares about.

This is mainly because Li Guangli's initial defeat in Dawan left him with a very bad memory.

It made the Han Empire even more disgraced.

If you fight a Qiang now, you will suffer defeat.

So, what did the Xiongnu and the countries of the Western Regions think of the Han family?

Therefore, although he is interested in Zhang Yue, he is very demanding.

Not only a victory, but a big victory!

Like Wei Qing's recovery of Henan, Huo Quai's capture of Hexi's glorious victory.

In this way, we can deter the four provinces, stabilize the frontier, and then wait for the opportunity to move.

Zhang Yue listened and bowed: "Your Majesty, the minister has already made a slight plan......"

"Speak!" The Son of Heaven sat up straight and made it look like he was listening.

Zhang Yue then requested: "Your Majesty please borrow the river sand table for use!" ”

The Son of Heaven waved his hand and said, "Yes! ”

He ordered Guo Sui to take people to carry the sand table in the Hehuang area.

The sand table was very large, and Guo Sui brought four attendants to carry it to the palace.

Zhang Yue looked at the sand table and bowed: "Please explain to Your Majesty!" ”

"Yes!" The Son of Heaven nodded, stood up as well, and walked to the sand table.

This is a well-crafted sand table, which I dare not say is completely accurate in terms of geography and landforms, but at least the approximate correctness can be guaranteed.

Therefore, Zhang Yue passed through the sand table and had an unobstructed view of the geography of Hehuang before the Western Yuan Dynasty.

In today's Hehuang area, the direction of mountains and rivers is generally similar to that of later generations.

But the entire geography has changed dramatically.

The Gobi and desert in later generations are now green mountains and clear waters.

This place, now a place of lush vegetation and abundant water and grass, especially in the Huangshui Basin, is almost a plateau paradise.

In just over 20 years, the remnants of the Xiaoyue clan have grown from tens of thousands to more than 200,000 today, an increase of at least four times.

Until the Two Song Dynasty, this place is still a paradise-like earthly realm, where the Western Xia was divided, punching the primary school students of the Northern Song Dynasty, and kicking the two stunned sons of Liao Jin, which was very majestic for a while.

Nowadays, however, the degree of development in this area is very low.

However, a Great Wall appeared here suddenly.

It stretched for hundreds of miles along Yongdeng County in Gansu Province in later generations, all the way to Jiuquan County, forming a part of the defensive and offensive system of the Great Wall in the west of the Han River.

And its core is the order of the Qiang school captain to rule the place.

Judging from the sand table, Ling Jukong choked the ancient Huizhong Road and choked the throat of the Qiang people going south and north.

It can be said that as long as the residence is not lost, even if the Qiang people break through the Huangshui, they will not be able to go south and north on a large scale.

But......

Zhang Yue's concern is not Ling Ju.

Rather, another place.

Following his memory, Zhang Yue found this place.

Zhang Yue stretched out his hand, pointed at a barrier in the middle of the sand table, and said to the Son of Heaven: "The minister foolishly thinks that if you want to determine Xiqiang, you must accept the heart of the Huangshuiyue clan, and if you accept the Huangshuiyue clan's righteousness, then this Xiping Pavilion must be the key!" ”

"In the old years, the hussar general built a fortress here, climbed high to look at the big river and Huangshui in the west, and stood solemnly with a halberd, so he ordered Xiping Pavilion, intending to use this as a base to pacify Xiqiang and preach education in a barren land!"

The Son of Heaven listened, but fell into memory.

Huo Quai's untimely death caused a series of consequences.

Not only did this Xiqiang strategy have to be terminated indefinitely, but the Wuheng people also began to snake and rat at both ends.

As for the great cause of Hanhai again, going to Guyan Mountain and sealing the wolf Juxu Mountain, it has become a masterpiece.

The death of the Han hussar general Da Sima was not only a loss to the Han Empire, but also a loss to the vast grassland tribes.

When he was alive, the strong did not dare to bully the weak, and the big did not dare to bully the small.

Wuheng, Huiqu, Yueshi, Hun Evil, Kun Evil and even Qiang people......

Dozens or hundreds of nomadic tribes, large and small, all obeyed the orders of the Han hussar generals, and grazed and lived in an orderly manner.

No one dares to disobey, let alone disobey.

Because everyone knows that the Han Hussar General will do what he says, fair and just.

Pity......

Thinking of Huo Qu's illness, the Son of Heaven couldn't help but feel melancholy, and even with it, he also paid special attention to the 'Xiping Pavilion built by the hussars' mentioned in Zhang Yue's mouth.

He bowed his head slightly, concentrating on the place of Xiping Pavilion pointed out by Zhang Yue.

Just looked at it for a while, and the Son of Heaven couldn't help but slap his hands and admire: "Xiping Pavilion is really a place where soldiers must fight, and the city of locks and keys!" ”

Because of this, it is located in the upper reaches of the Huangshui River and is stuck at the intersection of the three tributaries of the Huangshui.

Controlling this place is equivalent to controlling the entire Huangshui Basin.

Not only that, but the geography of this place is very dangerous.

Surrounded by mountains, the terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast.

As long as you hold this place, the water will be foolproof.

Zhang Yue was also full of emotion.

Huo Qu's Xiping Pavilion was built by Huo Quai, which was Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province in later generations.

From the Eastern Han Dynasty to later generations, this place has always been the political, cultural and military center of Qinghai.

Two thousand years will not change, and two thousand years of vicissitudes cannot be moved.

Huo Quzhi's strategic vision and foresight are just like hanging up.

Therefore, after planning to go to Huangshui to brush up his reputation, Zhang Yue immediately locked this place.

Think of it as your old nest and forward base in Huangshui.

"Your Majesty Shengming!" Zhang Yue overlooked the sand table in front of him and said: "The false minister will be ordered to go out to Huangshui in the future, and he will build a city here, for Hanxi Pingcheng, control and choke Huangshui, suppress Xiqiang, sow the king here, and spread poetry, books, rituals and music!" ”

The Son of Heaven listened, but his eyelids jumped: "Build a city? Aiqing, if you build a city here, I'm afraid the treasury won't be able to support it......"

Xiping Pavilion is too far away from the area ruled by the Han family, and the cost of building the city is afraid to be several times that of the Central Plains.

If it is to be spent from the treasury, if others do not say it, Li Guangli will definitely jump up.

Zhang Yue replied with a smile: "Your Majesty, rest assured, the cost of building the city does not need to be allocated by the treasury......"

"Even, the ministers foolishly thought that the cost of leveling the Qiang did not need to be allocated by the national treasury......"

"Huh?" The Son of Heaven looked at Zhang Yue and was very puzzled.

In his understanding, even Huo Quzhi may not be able to do this.

Why?

Because the Qiang people are poor!

The poor have nothing but the flock!

So poor that even mercenary merchants would not trade with them.

"This matter, landed on the cloth mentioned in front of the minister......" Zhang Yue Gong said: "The minister heard that the Qiang people shepherd, the sheep they shepherd, is the sheep of the high mountains, there is a different kind of sheep in this kind of sheep, its cashmere is soft, comfortable, people can wear it to resist the cold, can go to the far north!" ”

In later generations, the cashmere of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was known as soft gold!

As for now......

As long as it is knitted, it can instantly kill any luxury in the world.

It was unanimously touted by the majority of nobles.

As a result, the Qiang people turned the poor into a rich man!

It's a pity that such a rich man does not have the strength to protect himself.

It is tantamount to a child holding gold in the downtown area......