Luo Zhaoyun officially opened his office in Huangshui City, set up the general's mansion, and did not continue to pursue the remnants of Li Liang's army for the time being, but to redeploy the army plan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Because of the current border between Xiping County, Wuwei County, and Jincheng County, the three-legged pattern, the Sui army has limited strength, and if it goes to fight Wuwei County, it will be attacked by Xue Ju's men and horses in Huangshui City. If it continues to advance and fights with Xue Ju's Western Qin regime, then the Xiliang regime will sit on the side and reap the benefits of the fishermen.

After consulting with Du Ruhui, Hou Junji and others, he decided to hold his troops for the time being, not to continue to attack the regimes of Xiliang and Xiqin, but to adopt the method of surrender to try to stabilize them.

At the same time, send a military horse to subdue the southwest of the river county, and then spread out Xihai County and Heyuan County, the four counties can be connected, manpower, materials, and territory are greatly expanded, and the tiger is in the west of the river, forming a huge threat to the Guanzhong region.

Even if Li Yuan successfully occupied Daxing City, Luo Zhaoyun felt that he was pushing down from the west to the east, like a tiger descending from a mountain, would the Guanlong forces be able to stop it?

However, Western Qin is difficult to deal with, Xue Ju's father and son are all fierce people with ten thousand enemies, and their family has been hoarding in the northwest for a hundred years, and there must be a lot of connections with the seven forces in Hexi.

"If you are obscure, you write a letter, send someone to the northwest Liu, Fu and other wealthy families, the so-called strong dragon does not suppress the head snake, they have developed in the northwest for a hundred years, although some survive, but after all, there is a deep foundation, if they can support the development of business in this way, for the trade with the Western Regions, the Central Plains, have a great effect, only the northwest is stable, we can lay a foundation here, otherwise, after all, it is duckweed, the front foot just go, the back foot may change banners, need to be economic, military, cultural and other comprehensive bundles, Develop our own identity. Luo Zhaoyun tried to be as straightforward as possible, so that Du Ruhui could understand and understand.

Du Ruhui analyzed: "Most of these wealthy clans are Qiang, but there are also Xianbei clans, Dangxiang clans, and Rouran clans, but the Hu people have lived together for a hundred years, and it is impossible to say what the bloodline is, but the seven wealthy clans in the northwest have been operating in the border for many years, and they should have some background." ”

Luo Zhaoyun said: "They are in business, lack of confidence and courage as a hero, businessmen pursue profits, pay attention to the maximization of interests, we can give them greater benefits, cooperate with us, it is reasonable, send an invitation, invite those in their clan to come to Huangshui City to talk about cooperation, if it is the patriarch to come, I will be more welcome." ”

"Does the young marshal really plan to stay in the northwest for a long time, and is he not ready to return to the Central Plains as soon as possible to compete for the world?" Du Ruhui asked.

Luo Zhaoyun shook his head and smiled: "The Central Plains War, let Li Mi, Dou Jiande and others kill each other, if we pass, we are likely to become the target of everyone." Second, Your Majesty has not yet returned to heaven, and it is not suitable for me to go to the Central Plains to fight. Third, the Central Plains has no danger to defend, and it is easy to be attacked and besieged everywhere. ”

"As long as we spread out our forces in the northwest, strengthen military training, make salt, make steel, do business, expand cavalry, destroy Li Liang, Xue Ju, and Liang Shidu, and then fight with Li Yuan in Guanzhong, as long as we win, it will be much easier to pacify the Central Plains. At that time, the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Great Qin Dynasty both rose to the west, and they still had certain strategic advantages in terms of geographical advantages. ”

After listening to this, Du Ruhui also felt that he was reasonable, and thought: It turns out that the young marshal is quiet and unhurried on the surface, but in fact, he has a long-term plan in his heart, and he is in the next big chess game.

"Are the salt and steel making that the young marshal said in Xiping County?"

"No, salt production is in Xihai County, where there are many salt lakes, after the improved salt making method, it can produce small salt blocks that are several times more delicious than the ordinary salt stone at the moment, there will be no bitter and fishy smell, improve the edible salt of the people in the northwest, and it will greatly improve their health, and it will also benefit one party, when the time comes, our new salt will be emaciated in the northwest counties, and it will be dumped in dozens of countries in the Western Regions, but the Turks and Tibetans will have a war with us sooner or later, and they will not be sold to them."

"As for steelmaking, it is to improve the casting method on the basis of the current iron smelting, and adding two processes will make the quality of iron tools improve a lot, and it will become steel, although it is not yet mature steel, but it is sharper than iron weapons, which has been verified in the arsenal of Yanshan Fort in Zhuo County, and some master craftsmen will come to the northwest in the near future to build a new arsenal and improve the quality of our army's weapons and equipment."

Luo Zhaoyun's words made Du Ruhui more confident, and he admired this young marshal more and more in his heart, taking precautions, it seems that he had started preparations many years ago, could it be that he had already had a rebellion?

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In Xingyang City, the number of troops was sharply reduced, because Li Mi took 200,000 troops out of the Tiger Prison Pass to attack Luoyang.

In this important city, there is Zhai Rang sitting in town for the time being, and Zhai Hong, Zhai Kuan, Huang Junhan, Wang Ruxin and others gather together to drink stuffy wine.

Although they have been rewarded and promoted, they are obviously marginalized, without real power, and often they are the Chengyi tasks in the rear, and the credit is definitely not there, and the gap with those main factions will become bigger and bigger.

"The big boss shouldn't give way, what Tao Li Zhang, Li Miyu, it's fake at all, the Li family is also fake when there is a world, that is the rumors and prophecies that Yuwenshu, the old fox, deliberately released in order to fight Li Valve, has been confirmed The news has been confirmed, the Li family will not have the world, it is a fake dragon." Zhai Hong used the strength of the wine to complain, and the proverbs that had once pressed on their heads suddenly became ridiculous, so they no longer respected Li Mi, the leader who was deliberately 'deified' by Li Xuanying in the army.

"We should find a way to regain power and re-give my brother Zhai Rang, even if he is not appropriate, I can't pass it on to outsiders as a brother!" Zhai Kuan also has grievances.

Wang Ruxin said: "You can't talk nonsense, lest the wall has ears, and if Li Mi listens to it, it will be unfavorable to us." ”

"He dares, it is my Zhai family who holds him in this position, if he dares to take revenge, he doesn't know what to do, beware of my Zhai family, and then abolish him and take back all the power in his hands." Zhai Hong drank too much, his face was flushed, and he was talking big words, but he didn't know that he had caused a big disaster for the Zhai family.