Qing Shiozawa, Tuoba Department.

"Then why did Liu Yi send me these supplies?" Tuoba Yu frowned and looked at the large amount of supplies sent by the Han people, puzzled.

At the moment, the relationship between the two sides is not good, he has also heard of Liu Yi's name, the big Han Sikong, the name is quite big, but since he came to Lian County, he just built some useless things, or bought slaves from them, even the messenger was killed, he didn't dare to jump out of the fart, he was not a powerful person, and now he sent these things over, what does it mean?

Mi Wei smiled and said: "Sikong has long heard that Shan Yu Daimyo, has always wanted to visit, but unfortunately now there are many farms to be built in this Xiliang area, it is not to visit, this Hetao Plain, although Xianbei and the Southern Xiongnu stand side by side, but Sikong is the heaviest warrior, the Southern Xiongnu took refuge in the Wei Dynasty, Sikong wants to be an ally with the Tuoba Department, these few things are not respectful, but now Xiliang has to use money everywhere, and after completion, there are generous gifts. ”

"I see!" Tuoba Yu opened a wooden box, looked at the porcelain inside, in order to prevent breakage, but also filled it with cloth, in addition, the other boxes are rare silk here, both workmanship and texture are counted, Tuoba Yu nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, my prairie boy, I like to make friends like Sikong." ”

"In addition......" Mi Wei smiled: "During this time, Sikong built a farm in the south and absorbed many tribes, although most of them were Xiongnu tribes, but there were also a few Xianbei tribes. ”

"It doesn't matter." Dahan Sikong pleaded in such a low voice, which made Tuoba Yu's heart very happy, and immediately waved his hand and said: "It's all a trivial matter, in addition, I also have some Hun prisoners of war here, I heard that Sikong has been buying slaves everywhere recently, even if these prisoners of war are my return gifts, they can be regarded as apologies for killing the messenger by mistake before." ”

Tuoba Xianbei and the Southern Xiongnu stand side by side on the Hetao Plain, the two sides will naturally not be much friendly, friction is a common thing, and Liu Yi has been in this period of time, although there are also infringed on the interests of Xianbei, but Tuoba Xianbei is mainly in the area of Qingyanze and Jinlian Yanze, and Liu Yi does not have much border, those small tribes are very mobile, today is Xianbei, tomorrow may be the Huns, since Liu Yi is so sincere, Tuoba Yu feels that he should not be stingy, those prisoners of war are not easy to deal with for a while, Tuoba Xianbei is not short of those one or two thousand people, Simply and generously gave it to Liu Yi.

In recent years, the Huns have the Wei Dynasty behind their backs, and they have been suppressing Tuoba Xianbei, making it difficult for him to develop here.

"Thank you." Mi Wei smiled and bowed.

"In addition......" Tuoba Yu thought for a while, looked at Mi Wei and said: "The Huns have the help of the Wei army's armor, if they can, see if Sikong is willing to send a batch of strong bows?" I'm willing to trade slaves and war horses. ”

"I must bring the words to the next, Sikong intends to form an alliance with Shan Yu, I don't think it's difficult to do this." Mi Wei smiled.

This time, Liu Yi's plan was to completely oppose the two families who were already not harmonious, so that when the war broke out after the autumn, Xianbei's side could contain part of the Xiongnu's strength.

However, whether to trade weapons or not, it is impossible for Mi Wei to give a positive answer at the moment, after all, if this thing is not done well, it may be a trouble.

After talking about business, Tuoba Yu was in a good mood, let people slaughter cattle and sheep, feast Mi Wei, until two days later, Mi Wei took Tuoba Yu to send more than 2,000 Hun slaves and a hundred war horses to leave Qingyanze, this time did not cross the Xiongnu side again, but directly across the Yellow River, take the Great Wall built by Liu Yi to leave.

"Weapons." Liu Yi groped his chin, thinking about this matter, and then looked at Mi Wei with a smile and said, "It's okay, bring a batch of weapons over in a few days." ”

"Bo Yuan!" Mi Zhu frowned when he heard this: "Beware of raising tigers!" ”

Xianbei human nature is like a jackal, and now he has a request here, so he is so generous, but if he doesn't have this need, he will turn his face, but he doesn't recognize people, and he doesn't even have an explanation for the people he sent to kill them before?

"Tigers hurt people's hearts, and people also have tiger hearts." Liu Yi smiled and picked up a pot of mare's milk wine, tasted it, the taste was a little strange, he was not very comfortable, looked at Mi Zhu and said: "At present, the Southern Xiongnu have the greatest influence in Hetao, first unite the Xianbei people to swallow the Southern Xiongnu, as for the next, it depends on who has higher means." ”

"As for the ......weapons," Liu Yi thought for a while, "The weapons captured from the Wei army before were all brought over, and these weapons are quite sophisticated for the Xianbei people. ”

Compared with the Han Dynasty, the weapons of the Wei Dynasty are naturally incomparable, and even because Liu Yi opened the trade between the two countries before, even if it is the weapons of Eastern Wu, the Wei Dynasty is also worse, but if it is put here, it definitely represents a more top-notch craftsmanship, since you want the horse to run, you have to give him grass first.

As for defeating or even eliminating the Southern Xiongnu, even if the Tuoba Department does not come to provoke, Liu Yi will settle the previous account with him, and his people are not so easy to kill.

Mi Zhu was stunned when he heard this, but he remembered that after Liu Yi returned to the court, he had specially instructed him to collect the collected Wei army weapons and not destroy them, and it seemed that he had already thought of a use.

"This time, you take 500 people, firstly, to trade some prisoners of war or slaves with these weapons, and secondly, to let these people learn riding skills with the Xianbei people, and stay for a while, and then, there will be a lot of trade with them, before the autumn harvest, you will take people to be stationed there, responsible for specific transactions, and then come back after the war." Liu Yi looked at Mi Wei and smiled.

"Whoa!" Mi Wei bowed and said.

The Han lacks cavalry generals, although there is a horse source now, but the cost of training cavalry is not low, compared to special training, Liu Yi is more willing to let the soldiers live with the Xianbei people or the Huns for a period of time to learn riding, it is definitely impossible to grow up on horseback since childhood, relying on this nomadic who eats exquisitely, but if it is combined with stirrups and Takahashi saddles, this gap will be narrowed or even surpassed.

"Recently, Ling Ming has gained a lot, and in thirteen days, seven small tribes have been willing to accept us to build farms, but the Xiongnu side seems to have begun to suppress these small tribes." After finalizing the deal with the Xianbei people, Mi Zhu began to tell Liu Yi about some recent gains in the Hetao area.

Under the guerrilla harassment of the Huns, Pang De also began to organize cavalry to select some small tribes to start, not to mention the materials that were captured, and what the big Han lacked at the moment was not this, but the surrender of these small tribes was a good signal for Liu Yi's side.

"That's a good thing." Liu Yi smiled: "In this way, more people will be willing to accept our farm plan, right?" ”

The farm plan has been going on, even if no one lives or only a few people, it has been built, these new small tribes can directly enter the farm, but this year's autumn harvest, these later farms are not able to catch up, plus after the autumn harvest, the war will break out closely, this year these farms are mainly investment, can produce results, I am afraid that only the earliest farms in this area of Hexi.

"That's right, but these Huns who have taken refuge are not easy to control." Mi Zhu sighed.

It is not easy to change a person, let alone change a nation, although the living environment is good, but it is difficult for the people's hearts to settle down before they see a stable income, and from time to time they have to face the Huns running to find trouble, people's instability This is the biggest problem faced since the beginning of the farm plan, Mi Zhu feels that the blind expansion should be temporarily slowed down, and the current farms are managed well.

Of course, if the Houqiu war, can defeat the Huns, this situation will be alleviated, then is a good opportunity to continue to expand, at the moment this scale, has been a little difficult to maintain, not external, but internal problems, Mi Zhu is worried about expanding again, I am afraid that the internal chaos will be the first.

Liu Yi nodded, he also noticed this problem, as more and more tribes joined, Ma Dai's 3,000 soldiers and horses were already difficult to deter the increasing number of Xiongnu people, and it was indeed not suitable to expand the farms to the outside world at the moment, and even the tribes that were subdued next could not be put on the Hetao Plain, and the ratio between the Hu and the Han people must be increased, otherwise in the end, it would not be the Huns who were sinicized, but it would be easy to Huhua these Han people who were transferred, which was something that Liu Yi definitely did not want to see.

"Okay." Liu Yi looked at Mi Zhu and said: "I am going to set up two military camps in Yueshi City and Zuli, select two or three Xiongnu young men from various farms to assemble, train them according to my Han family's art of war, and form a well-disciplined cavalry, but this trainer is ...... Bo Zhan is afraid that it is not enough. ”

Ma Dai is good at leading troops, but training troops and leading troops to fight are two different things, generals who are good at leading troops are not necessarily good at fighting, Ma Dai belongs to the former, in the Han court, the best at training troops, is naturally Chen Zhi, but now Chen Zhi is still in Jingzhou to prevent the invasion of Eastern Wu, it is impossible to transfer himself, then the rest is only Yu Ban.

"Bo Yuan wants to recruit Wen Ze?" Mi Zhu asked with a smile.

"Except for General Wen Ze, I can't think of anyone else at night." Liu Yi said with a smile.

"But General Wen Ze is not good at cavalry combat." Mi Zhu frowned and said, Yu Ban is an infantry general, and when he followed Cao Cao, he also brought infantry, and he was not familiar with cavalry tactics, so let him train the Huns, I'm afraid he may not be able to do it, right?

"What I want is military discipline, as for cavalry training, the Huns are natural cavalry, they don't need too much training, they just need to train military discipline, and other problems are not big." Liu Yi shook his head and said, if it was just to train cavalry, the Huns would not need training at all to go into battle to kill the enemy, but Liu Yi wanted a cavalry with strict military discipline.

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