Chapter 524: Dominance (First Update)
Yinggao gave Fusu a final task when Fusu was about to set off, this task was not anything else, but after Fusu arrived in the Western Regions, although Daqin had already divided half of the territory to the Xiongnu, but Fusu still had to achieve a dominant position in the Western Regions while developing the Western Regions, and this matter must be very difficult.
This so-called dominance is naturally aimed at the Xiongnu, because whether it is Daqin or Xiongnu, if you want to go to this land, you must pass through the land of the Western Regions, so Yinggao wants to help Su control this land, that is, to control the dominance of Daqin to the Peacock Empire.
Although the division of the Western Regions between Great Qin and Xiongnu is very clear, and the geographical division of the Peacock Dynasty is also very clear, Yinggao knows that there is one thing that he and Xiang Yu did not explain, he doesn't know if Xiang Yu has discovered this problem, but he himself knows that the 20 or 30 million people in the Peacock Dynasty are not allocated by him and Xiang Yu.
That is to say, in the near future, Daqin and Xiongnu will definitely have a series of battles for those populations of the Mauryan Empire, and Yinggao had already discovered this problem when Han Xin and Xiang Yu had not returned, so he must deploy it in advance.
"What does the monarch mean is that not only should I develop the power of my Great Qin in the Western Regions, but also keep an eye on the Huns all the time?"
"Yes, the progress of the Huns is indeed a lot slower than ours, but in less than half a year, their straight road will basically be completed, although the Huns do not have such rich products as my Great Qin, but the laws of the Huns are not strict, not as complicated as the laws of my Great Qin, so once the Huns understand the language of the Peacock Dynasty, I am afraid that many people will turn to enter the territory of my Huns in the territory that belongs to my Great Qin."
"If that's the case...... Should I, Great Qin, speed up the occupation of the territory of the Mauryan Empire? ”
"Otherwise, my brother only needs to observe what kind of strategy the Huns use, the Huns are based on tribes, if there is no major matter, it is basically their own affairs, the people of the Peacock Dynasty will eventually find that although the laws of my Great Qin are complicated, they are fair to every person of Great Qin, what my brother has to do is to seize the opportunity when such a situation arises, the Xiongnu can only exist as a subsidiary of my Great Qin, and my brother wants to let them know this idea of mine through my Great Qin's actions."
Speaking of which, Fusu knew that his hidden mission was nothing more than to monitor some of the Xiongnu's actions against the Mauryan Dynasty, which was something that Fusu had not done before when he was in Nanhai County, so Yinggao specially told him.
"Your Excellency, please be relieved first, Fusu will definitely do a good job in this matter, if Xiang Yu makes any moves in the Western Regions, Fusu will definitely report back to you as soon as possible."
According to Yinggao's idea, the county rule of the Western Regions was set near the mountain range at the junction with the Mauryan Dynasty, because there would be many immigrants from the Mauryan Empire to the Western Regions in the early stage, and this place was also easier to monitor some of the actions of the Xiongnu under the leadership of Xiang Yu against the Mauryan Dynasty, but it was a little farther away from the territory of Daqin.
Fusu set off from Xianyang City with an army of 50,000, because of the straight road, this road in Fusu is much better than the distance he went to Nanhai County, in fact, the straight road from the three counties of Lingnan to Xianyang City has also been in the plan of Yinggao, but the priority may be smaller.
Because the people of the three counties of Lingnan were originally very scarce, and they rarely went to other counties, at present, Daqin is in full swing is the construction of straight roads in several counties in the north, because the climate in the land of Yanzhao is harsh, but there are many people living in it.
In such a situation, Yinggao has already solved the traffic problem in this developed place first, and then said, if there is no attack on the Peacock Dynasty, even the straight road from Bashu to Xianyang City will not be completed so quickly.
After a long time of trekking, Fusu, the real person in charge of the Western Regions, finally came to the huge land of the Western Regions, and after arriving here, he really knew why Yinggao didn't send him here directly because of the hardships here, and he was very glad that he followed Yinggao's advice and left his wife and children in Xianyang City temporarily.
In the process of entering the Western Regions from Bashu and then all the way to the mountain range that is said to lead to the Mauryan Empire, Fusu saw that the settlements that Yinggao had mentioned before had gradually changed to the direction of a city.
Although the conditions were bad, the officials who had been appointed by Yinggao were leading the people of the settlements under their jurisdiction to build cities in suitable areas near the settlements.
Fusu knows that after a certain period of time, there will be cities on the boundaries of the Western Regions, and when the population increases, there will also be villages around these cities, just like Daqin, but the climate here is really not good, and many things that can be easily cultivated in Daqin must be unattainable here, and Yinggao is based on Lu Jia's suggestion, and proposed to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people here by grazing like the Huns living in similar places in the early stage. After that, I will observe and study what can be done to maintain the livelihood of the people.
And every time he passed through a settlement, Fusu would ask the officials in charge of the place, the number of people here, and how many people were needed, and then leave some soldiers to camp nearby, especially in places close to the boundary line with the Xiongnu, and leave a relatively large number of soldiers, which is enough to see that Fusu still has a lot of ideas about the governance of this place.
When Fusu rushed to the bottom of the mountain range, he found that a larger city was almost half built, and there were obviously a lot more people here than in other places, Fusu knew that this place was the county seat of the Western Regions, and it was also the place where he would live for an unknown amount of time, and the entrance he guarded was also the only entrance and exit that could almost be smooth between the Peacock Dynasty and Great Qin in the future.
The Peacock Dynasty must have a lot of things that Great Qin does not have or are very scarce, and these things will have to be transported from here to the territory of Great Qin sooner or later, which is also the important reason for the Western Regions, and this gateway is now all in the hands of Fusu.
In fact, when determining Fusu, the county guard of the Western Regions, Yinggao still had a lot of pressure in his heart, the Western Regions and the Peacock Dynasty were not as good as Nanhai County, and Fusu's appeal among the nobles and people of Daqin was obviously still very outstanding, so that Fusu guarded the pass of Daqin and the Peacock Dynasty, once Fusu really had any bad ideas, there were many things that Yinggao could not control.
But Ying Gao thought about it, when there was no Peacock Dynasty, wasn't Nanhai County such a place for Great Qin? And in a place like Nanhai County, Fusu is still conscientious for so many years, in fact, he has already proved his loyalty to Daqin and Yinggao, if this will cause Yinggao's suspicion, Yinggao is a little worried about whether he is going to make the mistakes that many emperors in later generations will make, and he will not feel at ease if he does not kill his brothers who are a little capable.
Facts have proved that Fusu is still very powerful, when Fusu arrived in the Western Regions, he immediately sorted out what he saw and heard, wrote a very detailed report and sent it to Yinggao.
In this report, Fusu not only introduced the current situation in the Western Regions, but also proposed to Yinggao based on his own analysis that those people in the Mauryan Dynasty who could know a little bit about the language of Great Qin and the laws of Qin should be transferred to the Western Regions at this time.
Because of the climate and lack of manpower in the Western Regions, the construction of cities everywhere is very slow, and in Fusu's view, the arrival of the people of the Peacock Dynasty can not only join in the construction of the city, but also make them feel the same as the immigrants of Great Qin, that is, this is their new home, a place to start again, instead of waiting for Daqin to get everything done and then transfer them over, in that case, the people of the Peacock Dynasty who have lost a lot of sense of participation will already regard themselves as guests of Great Qin.
For Fusu's suggestion, Yinggao decided to agree after thinking about it, because this would not only play the role that Fusu said in his letter, but also speed up the construction of the Western Regions.
Before receiving the letter from Fusu, Yinggao also got a report from Chen Ping, in which Chen Ping informed Yinggao that he was taking the craftsmen and people of Daqin to help the Xiongnu build a straight road on the boundary of the Western Regions, and the Huns also sent a lot of so-called craftsmen, although these people almost didn't know anything, but they actually went against the Xiongnu school and learned the construction of the straight road with the craftsmen of Daqin.
This was Yinggao's suggestion to Xiang Yu at the beginning, but in Chen Ping's eyes, he was very worried, if the Xiongnu mastered the way to build the straight road, he really didn't know where they would build the straight road.
The Xiongnu originally had a very elite cavalry, if they built straight roads everywhere, it would greatly improve the mobility of their march, although the Xiongnu are now allies of Great Qin, but in addition to Yinggao, other officials of Great Qin do not think so, they have always felt that the Huns are unreliable, and sooner or later they will stand on the opposite side of Great Qin again.
Ying Gao naturally couldn't really admit Chen Ping's worries, he just asked Chen Ping to observe silently in his reply to Chen Ping, and try to cooperate with the Huns in the construction of the straight road, as for other things, it would have to wait until he returned to Daqin.
In fact, Chen Ping's worries Yinggao naturally knew in his heart, but anything that went out of his letters must be based on the premise that Daqin and the Xiongnu were allies, otherwise, once it was spread and finally reached Xiang Yu's ears, it would have a very big impact on Yinggao's plans in the future.
Yinggao knew that when he fully took over the Mauryan Dynasty, some small dynasties around the Peacock Dynasty would know what kind of existence the dynasty that had laid down the Mauryan Dynasty, and in this case, even if Daqin officially entered the field of vision of other dynasties in the world, and would eventually attract the attention of some giant-like dynasties.
Ying Gao didn't know how long it would take for these times to come, what he could do now was to make Great Qin and the Peacock Dynasty, and of course, the Western Regions impregnable.
He didn't think that there was only one Great Qin in the world that could easily annex the Peacock Dynasty, but he was the first to discover the Peacock Dynasty, and geographically, the Peacock Dynasty was indeed an existence that was not very far from Great Qin.
When you completely caused a lot of turmoil because of the Peacock Dynasty, you naturally have to be prepared to accept a more severe test, although in Yinggao's heart, Daqin has always swept the world as an attacker, but he is not the only one who has such thoughts.
In this process, his wisest choice is to let Xiang Yu always be his reliable partner, and at the same time successfully limit the development of Xiang Yu and his Huns, it is undoubtedly very difficult to do both at the same time, but Yinggao is obviously walking on such a path now.
After being the emperor for a few years, Yinggao feels that the life of the emperor will never be boring, because whenever you have temporarily arranged something, there are still many things waiting for you to arrange.
Now he has added a little son, although the little guy is only a few months old, and he doesn't know anyone at all, but going to Feng Qing's palace every day to see his son has become a compulsory course for Yinggao, and the birth of this little guy has also made Yinggao sure in his heart that the grand wish he made in his heart before will definitely be completed in his life, not only when he is gone, his son has become the target of public criticism, which is not a fun thing.
A few days after the study of the Western Regions was completed, Xiao He and Lu Jia came to the door again, because the half-year period set at the beginning had passed several months in a blink of an eye, and it was time for them to come up with questions for the first imperial examination.
Yinggao took the questions of the two and looked at them, and was generally very satisfied, because the two of them still knew themselves very well, so the questions were also some divergent things, but they made some requirements in the way of answering.