Qin Fei put away the chaotic thoughts in his heart and slept beautifully. It was night when he woke up again, the oil lamp was lit in the carriage, Jing Jialan hugged his knees, sat beside him, and held a book in his hand that I don't know if it was a Fengyue novel or a martial arts secret book.

Seeing Qin Fei wake up, Jing Jialan put down the book and brought the prepared dinner, although this was in the desert, the dinner was still very rich, all kinds of beef and mutton, fruit platter and light vegetable soup, most suitable for Qin Fei who had already recuperated in his belly.

After gobbling up, the corners of Qin Fei's mouth were full of greasy, the carriage door was suddenly opened, and a middle-aged man walked in. He didn't look like a barbarian at all, with a delicate face, a thin fluttering beard, and a pair of wise eyes, looking at Qin Fei calmly.

"Your father?" Qin Fei asked Jing Jialan vaguely.

Jing Jialan nodded, and sat down to serve the barbarian Khan Tuoba Lie.

"It's not hard to guess who I am." Tuoba Lie smiled and said, "I came to see you, Lord Wuzun went to the Eastern Capital for you, and you released my daughter." I'm a little curious about you! ”

Qin Fei put down the leg of mutton that had not been gnawed clean in his hand, and said seriously: "I'm also curious, as a barbarian khan, you don't want to open up the territory, you don't want to defeat your brother Tuoba Hong, what are you thinking?" ”

Jing Jialan is very well-behaved, when the two men were talking, she knelt upright beside the two of them, serving tea and pouring water without saying a word, as honest as a maidservant.

Tuoba Hong said lightly: "The barbarians are not what you think. A thousand years ago, we occupied Middle-earth, but what was the result? An immortal Heavenly Dao master and his twelve dragon riders commanded the world and almost wiped out our race. We live in the grassland desert, we rely on the sky for food, a storm and a snow disaster is enough to kill cattle and sheep all over the field. Although after the war, the population of Middle-earth, like ours, was drastically reduced. But you are based on agriculture, you are growing rapidly, your population has doubled, and you can still feed so many people. ”

"And it took us hundreds of years to regain our vitality, but in terms of strength, we are already much worse. The martial arts of Middle-earth are broad and profound, and there are many masters. There are endless generals who can fight well. Our advantage lies in the fact that all the people are soldiers, and in the event of a war, we can quickly organize tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops, and we can form an army of hundreds of thousands at most, and we do not think about any supplies at all, occupy a place, and that is our supply. ”

"But that's also a fatal factor. We can't afford to lose, and if we lose once, we have to flee in a hurry. Otherwise, starvation will starve the soldiers to death. Middle-earth began from Wei to Chu and Tang, and fought with us for hundreds of years. We are still in the desert, still living on herding, fishing and hunting, but what has changed? Oh, if anything, it's our young adults, who keep dying in war. As a result, there are more and more women and old people in the desert! ”

Qin Fei couldn't help but look at this seemingly elegant khan differently, he really thought that a barbarian was a barbarian, with well-developed limbs and a simple mind, and he was a normal barbarian who howled all day long to annex the world. Perhaps, Tuoba Lie is a non-mainstream barbarian khan, right?

"Successive khans have fought against Middle-earth, why did they later split into barbarians and demons?" Tuoba Lie looked at his daughter meaningfully, and asked softly, "Do you know?" ”

"Our royal family loves peace?" Jing Jialan just said half a sentence when he felt that something was wrong. Barbarians and demons fight to the death all day long, how can they not have anything to do with peace, right? She was just a woman, and it was difficult to understand things with too strong political implications, so she looked at Qin Fei suspiciously.

Qin Fei said with a straight face: "I also want to know your answer." ”

"It's actually quite simple!" Tuoba Lie smiled: "Two results, you can understand it when you think about it!" ”

"The first result is the unification of our royal family, and then the war against Middle-earth, the complete conquest of Middle-earth, the turning of your people into our slaves, and the turning of your land into our pastures. Yes, under the blue sky is our pasture, what a grand goal! But without the agriculture of Middle-earth, even if the whole world is pasture, isn't it looking to the sky to eat? Isn't it a storm that can starve large numbers of herders to death? So what's the point of our conquest of Middle-earth? ”

"As a second result, we have conquered Middle-earth and continue to let your people farm to meet their survival needs. But Middle-earth is so big, Chu and Wu have a total of 800 military states, even if we use the surrendered army, each state capital must at least divide some of the royal family's own army, right? A state to a hundred-man team? 80,000 people. But what is the 100-man team capable of? If there is a civil uprising in a state capital, each person can drown the hundred-man team with a mouthful of spit, even if it goes to a thousand-person team, it is just a matter of one brick per person! What about officials with managerial skills? It's much worse. Moreover, we are still suitable for the life of herding and singing, why do you need your northwest mountains and Jiangnan water towns? ”

Qin Fei said: "If you can't conquer it, then let alone it, you are likely to be beaten to the ground, like a thousand years ago, hiding in the depths of the desert, enduring an extremely harsh environment, waiting for recuperation, maybe it will take a few hundred years to return here." ”

"Yes!" Tuoba Lie muttered: "When I was a teenager, I used to travel in Middle-earth in disguise, and the more I learned, the more I opened up my thinking. The land we occupy is a grassland desert, and for the people of Middle-earth who make a living from agriculture, even if I give away the entire desert, I am afraid that few people are willing to come to live in the grassland. Since you have no intention of taking the initiative to fight, why should I risk starting a war? ”

"If the two countries can go on peacefully, set up trade, and exchange rice and grain for our horses, cattle and sheep, this will form a win-win situation. First, we can store large quantities of food, and in the event of a disaster year, we can survive safely. Second, you have fur herb horses that are hard to find in Middle-earth. Isn't that the best of both worlds? ”

Tuoba Lie looked at Qin Fei seriously: "What do you think?" ”

Qin Fei sighed lightly, this Khan, who had been studying in Middle-earth for many years, was indeed a very far-sighted person. It is absolutely impossible for the state of Chu to take the initiative to use troops against the desert. No one knows how big the desert is, and it is really impossible to win, so the barbarians can run into the depths of the desert with their legs. And the Chu army can't stretch the supply line indefinitely! Although the grasslands depend on the sky for food, they also have a large number of supplies needed by Middle-earth. The most important thing is that if the two countries can reach peace, Da Chu can save a lot of military spending every year and use it in more needed places, such as government-run schools, government-run infirmaries, and so on!

"Many people will not understand you, the millennium-long war between the Desert and Middle-earth has made many people only remember hatred. I think that before you, there should have been people like you in the barbarians, otherwise they would not have been divided for so many years. Qin Fei said with a straight face: "However, I admire you very much." Although your idea is idealistic, it is definitely a goal worth striving for. ”