Chapter 20 Westward Migration 2

Ma Yun asked suspiciously: "Fan Aiqing, why do you say that?" Henan is fertile for thousands of miles, the land is fertile, in the past, Zhu Liang relied on the land of Henan and the Li family in Hedong to fight for more than ten years, as long as Guo Wei is in Henan, the tax is light, stable and abundant, Henan will inevitably become a big granary. 【Latest chapter reading. 】”

"Your Majesty, Henan does produce grain, but the geographical location is not good. The terrain of Henan is flat, easy to attack and difficult to defend. If I make great Chubei, then Henan will inevitably become the main battlefield, and the granary of a country will become a battlefield, so how long can this country hold out? The privy deputy envoy Li Xiang said: "And Guanzhong is very different, there are mountains and rivers in Guanzhong, the Han and Tang dynasties prospered because of this, and the fertile land is famous in history." Since the end of the Tang Dynasty, there have been frequent wars in Guanzhong, so that the people have been displaced, and this fertile field. It was completely barren. Now the puppet Zhou moved the people of the Central Plains to Guanzhong in order to consolidate Guanzhong, establish a stable base area, and continuously provide food and military strength for the puppet Zhou. This move, pseudo-Zhou is wonderful! ”

Xu Zhongya's face sank involuntarily: "In this way, the pseudo-Zhou in turn used the news we spread to make the people of Henan automatically move to Guanzhong, which not only avoided the possible resistance caused by the forcible relocation of the people, but also achieved their goal." ”

Ma Yun also understood that Guo Wei enriched Guanzhong, this is because the land of Kanto, whether it is Shanxi, Hebei or Henan, is under the threat of several strong enemies, and Liu Chong and Guo Wei in Hedong are mortal enemies, and it is definitely not possible to compromise; And the Khitan, if he wants to develop and grow himself, to the west, to the east, to the north, all belong to the big cost, little profit, only go south to the Central Plains, familiar with the road, and the income is also more, therefore, the Khitan and the pseudo-Zhou are basically no possibility of peace, not to mention that there is Liu Chong in Hedong in the middle to stir up trouble; And the state of Chu in the south, because the state of Chu wants to unify the world, in this way, Guo Wei is a pair of opponents by nature, and the two countries are basically unable to coordinate. In this way, the land of the eastern part of the country is likely to become a battlefield, if Guo Wei set up his grain production area in Henan, then once the Chu army is in the north, the people's one-year work may be completely souped, in this case, it is better to fill the Guanzhong and rebuild the Guanzhong. With the land of Guanzhong and the east to fight for the world, Qin Guo, Liu Bang, Yang Jian, and Li Shimin all did this back then.

Fan Zhen said: "Your Majesty, don't worry, today's world, and the past is not very different, the world of that year, only Guanzhong is rich, and the land of Kandong, relatively barren, but since the Tang Dynasty, the south of the Yangtze River has developed rapidly, Suzhou and Hangzhou are more called heaven, some people say: 'Suzhou and Hangzhou are ripe, the world is full.'" 'Guanzhong is rich, but if we rely on Jiangnan, it is enough to confront the pseudo-Zhou, not to mention, there are Khitans in the north! When Fan Zhen said this, he obviously showed his attitude, confronted, sat and waited, and when the pseudo-Zhou civil strife came, he sent troops in a big way. However, will the pseudo-Zhou be in civil strife? Even if Guo Wei is old now, but because Guo Wei is old, he is unlikely to have another son, and this throne must be passed to Guo Rong, Guo Rong is a more powerful character than Guo Wei. Even if Guo Rong is a short-lived ghost, Zhao Kuangyin is not much worse than Guo Rong, although Ma Yun is not very old, but how to wait is not a solution.

Ma Yun is unwilling to wait, and some of his ministers are unwilling to wait.

"Master Fan, that's not what you said. Your Majesty, the minister is not afraid of the pseudo-Zhou to enrich Guanzhong, the minister is afraid that after the pseudo-Zhou enriches Guanzhong, he will go south to attack Shu, once the pseudo-Zhou breaks through the Shu State and occupies the Yangtze River, then the threat to our Great Chu can not be said in the same day. What's more, the land of Guanzhong is already rich, once it is developed by the pseudo-Zhou, and the pseudo-Zhou has a fixed money and grain production area, it will have the capital to last for a long time, and the dispute between Chu and Zhou may not be able to be solved in a while. Li Xiang said.

Ma Yun rubbed his forehead: "I think all of you Aiqing's words are reasonable." However, at the moment, the pseudo-Zhou wants to enrich Guanzhong, and we have no good way to stop it, after all, this is in other people's territory, and the whip is beyond the reach of the whip. I felt that I could only put some rumors among the immigrants and provoke the struggle between the immigrants and the original residents of Guanzhong. Even so, as long as the pseudo-Zhou strengthens management, we don't have any good way. In the past, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty entered the customs with 100,000 powerful households in the eastern part of the country, and it was not that it did not cause any chaos. It's not easy to get this thing done. If the Guanzhong of the Pseudo-Zhou develops, we must be prepared for a long-term battle. ”

"Your Majesty, if the pseudo-Zhou really wants to enrich Guanzhong, we should take Shu first. As long as you occupy the land of Shu, you can send troops to harass Guanzhong, and when the time comes, although the pseudo-Zhou is large, there is no pure land, and our chances of victory will naturally be more. What's more, as far as defense is concerned, the defense of the Yangtze River pays attention to 'guarding the river must guard the Huai, and guarding the downstream must guard the swim.' 'During the Three Kingdoms, the death of the State of Wu was due to the fact that the State of Shu perished first. And when Guanzhong is tired, it is often because Shu is not in the hands of the central power, such as Cao Wei's Guanzhong and Northern Wei's Guanzhong. And the rise of Guanzhong is often because it seized the land of Shu. Your Majesty, since the Pseudo-Zhou wants to shift the center of gravity to the west, the minister thinks that our Great Chu should also go westward in order to continue to threaten the Pseudo-Zhou. The privy envoy Wang Yun said.

After Wang Yun's words were finished, the ministers discussed it in a few words, and said that this opinion gradually unified the western conquest of Shu, but when to take Shu, there are two points of view, one is that it is not too late, and it is necessary to start early and gain early, and the other is to think that when deploying troops and horses, moving with cameras, and destroying Shu, there can be no interference from the pseudo-Zhou, otherwise, the pseudo-Zhou sent troops to snatch the fruits of victory, and in the end, the two countries divided the land of Shu equally, and the gains outweighed the losses.

However, there is a problem here, Ma Yun was called emperor a while ago, and Shu also sent an envoy, and the two countries determined an alliance to jointly deal with the pseudo-Zhou. Whether you can do anything in this alliance and take advantage of it, this is also an important question, in addition, although Shu is weak, after all, it has been established for decades, with hundreds of thousands of armored sergeants, and the gun shoots the first bird, if Da Chu sends troops, in case it touches a hard bone and does not swallow Shu State, this is equivalent to pushing Shu State to the side of Pseudo-Zhou. Once the Pseudo-Zhou and Shu are united, it will be unfavorable to our Great Chu. After all, the living environment of the pseudo-Zhou is not good now, if the Shu Kingdom takes refuge in the past, maybe the Shu State and the pseudo-Zhou will really unite. That's not a good deal.

To find an opportunity to test the military strength of Shu is also a key issue. You can't fight a war that you can't be sure of, although the emperor of Shu is also a family, but what is the combat effectiveness of the Shu army, it's hard to say.

Ma Yun hesitated again and again, he decided to send people to Shu, visit Shu back, see the real situation of Shu, and invite Shu to hold a joint military exercise between Shu and Chu to see the military strength of Shu. If the power of Shu is weak, it will enter Shu in a big way next year or the year after that.