Listening to Adou's words, Pu Lin lowered his head and didn't speak for a long time. Adou could feel that Pu Lin was constantly weighing in his heart.

Adou was not in a hurry, he sat there quietly, quietly waiting for Pu Lin, and after about half an hour, Pu Lin spoke: "Engong, I think I should tell you about the situation of the Di people." ”

"Please." Adou also wants to know what the situation is like with the Di people.

"Six or seven percent of the Di people in the Western Regions migrated from Liangzhou and other places, and the current King of Di is Fu Jian. In the vicinity of the Western Regions, there are eleven people, including Fu Jian's headquarters, and there are countless small villages. We, Pu, are just one of these eleven parts.

Although our eleven tribes are independent tribes, we all need to listen to Fu Jian's orders in major matters. Especially in military affairs, it is necessary to follow Fu Jian's wishes. Pu Lin paused slightly, and then said: "So Engong wants our Di clan to send troops, and Fu Jian needs to nod and agree!" I'm just a part of the Pu family, and I can't be the master. However, if Engong needs it, I will go to the royal department tomorrow and mention this matter to Fu Jian. ”

"Mr. Pu, I also saw on the way that you Di people were oppressed by the Qiang people in every way, and our Han people were often attacked and harassed by the Qiang people, now it is a good opportunity for the Han people and the Di people, if you can eliminate the main force of the Qiang people in one fell swoop, it will be beneficial to me Han people and you Di people are all good and harmless, the so-called cooperation is mutually beneficial, this is a win-win thing, Fu Jian should not agree to it!" Adou said tentatively.

"Hard to say!" Pu Lin shook his head: "Engong, real. Don't hide it, I have followed Fu Jian for many years, but I still don't know him, I don't dare to guarantee whether Fu Jian will agree. ”

Seeing a trace of sadness on the corner of Adou's eyebrows, Pu Lin hesitated for a moment, and then said: "My grandfather once said that my Pu clan will definitely repay the kindness of the year!" Now that Engong has come with this golden knife token, I, Pu Linding, should do my best to promote this matter, but this matter is a major matter related to the life and death of my Di people...... Well, this ...... We still have to think carefully......"

Adou nodded: "I also know directly. It's a bit abrupt to find you in this matter, but now that the Cherrigi army is being dragged in Liangzhou, which is far away from the rear, it is the best time to flank the attack, such a good time, the opportunity must not be lost, and it will not come again......"

"What Engong said is that I'm worried that if Cherrigi escapes, it will be very disadvantageous to our Di people, the Qiang people are far away from Liangzhou and close to our Di people, if Cheriji escapes, he will inevitably come to take revenge on us Di people who are relatively close in the future."

"You don't have to worry about this! Now the elite of the Qiang people are all in my Liangzhou. If. If you Di tribe are really willing to send troops to help, you can cooperate with our side inside and outside, and attack the Qiang people, even if you let Cheriji escape, you can destroy seventy or eighty percent of the Qiang elite. In this way, the strength of the Qiang people has been greatly reduced, and only some old and weak soldiers and women and children are left, and the strength will be far inferior to your Di people. Adou said.

"Engong is reasonable...... Pu Lin's eyes flashed, and it seemed that . was a little moved, but then, Pu Lin's expression became serious.

"Engong, that's not it. Yes! Even if the Qiang people have declined, our Di people are still having a hard time. Now this Western Regions is surrounded by strong enemies, near Gaochang, there are the front of the Che Division and the rear of the Che Division, they have always wanted to get involved here, there is also the Guizi Country in the west, and the Wusun Country in the northwest, these two countries have been trying to invade the land of our Di people for many years, and there is also the Green Qiang in the south, although the Green Qiang has no contact with Cherrigi, but it is also a Qiang people...... Now the Qiang people are strong, and there are hundreds of thousands of armor soldiers under the command of Cheriji, so countries such as Cheshi, Wusun, and Qiuzi dare not come here, but once the Qiang people are finished, these countries that are ready to move will definitely not let us go! If you count the Qiang people who have just moved east, it will be difficult for us Di people alone to resist! Pu Lin said.

Adou frowned slightly after hearing this, he couldn't imagine that the situation in the Western Regions was so complicated. Among the countries that Pu Lin just mentioned, Cheshi and Qiuci are both subject countries of the Han Dynasty and belong to the management of the Western Regions Protectorate, but the political situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was turbulent, and the Han Dynasty was no longer able to take care of the Western Regions Protectorate, so today's Cheshi and Qiuci are already independent.

As for the Wusun Kingdom, this is a large country in the Western Regions, and it was also the Shu Kingdom of the Han Dynasty, Wusun and the Yue Clan have been at war for many years, and the two sides can be regarded as winning and losing each other. The Han Dynasty established diplomatic relations with Wusun after Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also implemented a policy of peace in order to win over Wusun to fight against the Xiongnu.

Wusun's King's Cup was called Kunmi, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was actually not happy at that time. After Emperor Wu defeated the Xiongnu, the Han Dynasty married the princess of Xie Wu to divide the Wusun royal family, and finally made Wusun split into two parts, Da Kunmi and Xiao Kunmi, since then Wusun began to decline in the process, and during the Huan Emperor period, Wusun was also destroyed by Xianbei Tan Shi Huai. However, the so-called emaciated Luo Tong is bigger than Ma, and in the Western Regions, Wusun is still a very powerful existence.

The green Qiang mentioned by Pu Lin is also a branch of the Qiang people, but unlike the Qiang people in the Western Regions of Liangzhou, these green Qiang live in the south of Kunlun Mountain, with Kunlun Mountain as the boundary, and divide and rule with Cheriji. On weekdays, the Qiang people of the two sides do not have much contact.

The Qiang people are a people who migrated from West Asia, and the previous Qiang people were also rampant in the Western Regions, but since the Qiang people died in Yongzhou, the Qiang people near the Western Regions have also converged a lot.

And as Pu Lin said, the Western Regions is currently in a balanced situation. Although Wusun, Cheshi, and Qiuzi have long wanted to capture more territory and strive for more living space, they have no choice but to have a strong Qiang people, and the hundreds of thousands of Qiang people led by Cheriji can fight well. Therefore, the countries of the Western Regions can only look at their greed at present, and do not dare to make any deviant moves. Although the Di people have to pay a lot of tribute to the Qiang people every year, and they have to be bullied by the Qiang people, they can be protected by the Qiang people, and with the Qiang people, the countries of the Western Regions will not find trouble with the Di people.

And once the strength of the Qiang people is greatly damaged, the countries of the Western Regions will definitely not let go of this good opportunity, and then the Di people will face the attack of the Western Regions countries, and because of this, the Di people have to rely on the Qiang people. The Di people and the Qiang people can be regarded as a kind of relationship between the lips and the teeth.

looked at Pu Lin, and Adou also realized the contradiction in Pu Lin's heart. The Qiang people's oppression of the Di people has long been hated by the Di people, but without the Qiang people, the Di people will be attacked by those restless neighbors around them. In comparison, with the Qiang people, the Di people can only farm safely, and if there are no Qiang people, the Di people may even be able to land steadily.

"Hey......" Pu Lin sighed lightly, and then said: "Speaking of which, it's not that there is no way to get the best of both worlds, but I have a way to get rid of the Qiang people, and I don't have to worry about the invasion of the Western Regions in the future." ”

"Is there really a way to get the best of both worlds?" Adou asked eagerly.

"Engong, there is a way, but before I want to ask, Engong is from Chang'an?" Pu Lin asked.

"However, I'm from Chang'an."

"I also know that now the Central Plains of Wei, Shu, and Wu are the three kingdoms, as well as the two emperors Cao Pi and Liu Bei, I heard that Liu Bei is now occupying Yongzhou, so that means that Engong is an official under Liu Bei?" Pu Lin then asked.

"En......" Adou nodded in acknowledgement and asked, "Does the best of both methods have anything to do with this?" ”

"Of course it does! But please forgive me for daring to ask again, what is the official position of Engong under Liu Bei? ”

"Official position?" Adou thought about it slightly, the official system of the Han Dynasty, from the highest three princes and nine kings to the lowest county officials, is not himself, this emperor should not be considered an official! In this way, Adou has become unofficial and unemployed.

"This Pu Lin asked me what my official position does? Although I am unofficial and unemployed, I have the most power. Adou thought to himself.

Suddenly, Adou understood Pu Lin's intentions, the bigger the official, the greater the power, the best of both worlds Pu Lin said, the things involved are probably not ordinary messengers can make decisions, maybe the stakes are high, so Pu Lin needs a person with a big official position and a high position to be able to make decisions, and it is precisely because of this that Pu Lin will ask himself about his official position.

Knowing this, Adou smiled slightly: "Mr. Pu, please rest assured, no matter how big or small the matter is, you can make a decision in the future." ”

"Really?" Pu Lin looked at Adou with some disbelief, in Pu Lin's opinion, Adou was just a young man who was less than twenty years old, and what he was about to say was too involved, a twenty-year-old young man, no matter how old the official was, how could he make such an important decision.

"Engong, this matter is very important!" Pu Lin said.

"That's what Mr. Pu said, I can deal with big things." Adou said confidently.

"Engong, don't be too arrogant, this matter is your emperor's coming, I'm afraid you have to frown a little!"

"Oh? It's true? I'm more interested in listening to it, and tell me what the best of both worlds is. ”

"Hey, okay, I'll talk about it!" Pu Lin's face rose with a hint of solemnity, and then he spoke: "It's okay for us to send troops to attack the Qiang people, but the emperor of your Han people wants to give us a way to live." ”

"Alive? What's the way to live? Aren't you doing well now? ”

"Hehehe, Engong, I just said, there are strong enemies around the Western Regions, and the Qiang people oppress us Di people in every way, and our Di people's life is quite difficult! So what I mean by the way of life is to hope that your emperor will agree to let us go to live in the Central Plains. ”

"That's all?" Adou was slightly stunned, in Adou's opinion, this is not a very difficult thing.

Back then, both Cao Cao and Liu Bei migrated to the Central Plains. The Di people themselves are an agrarian people, and there will be nothing unsuitable after coming to the Central Plains.

Although there are a large number of Di people now, Adou is not afraid of many people coming, so if there are many people, just spend more time to migrate. In the era of cold weapons, wars were fought by population, and the more people, the better. What's more, the Di people can also farm the land, which can provide a lot of military food for the Shu army. After moving these Di people to the Central Plains, let them go to Tuntian, anyway, the Central Plains has a serious loss of population due to the war, and there is a lot of idle land, especially Yongzhou, which urgently needs the population to replenish, and let these Di people go to Tuntian, which is exactly what Adou wants.

"Okay, I promised." Adou immediately agreed.

"Wait a minute, I'm not done yet." Pu Lin continued: "We Di people go to live in the Central Plains, and your emperor wants to give us enough land to cultivate, but we don't want to be tun people!" ”

"Don't be a tunmin!" Hearing these four words, Adou's brows furrowed.

This Pu Lin is right, the conditions he prescribed, even Adou, the emperor, had to frown after hearing it.

It is not difficult for the Di people to go to the Central Plains to live and cultivate the land, but the Di people are unwilling to be tunmin, which makes Adou a little embarrassed.

Since Cao Cao received good results in the great rejuvenation of Tuntian, a Tuntian atmosphere has emerged in the Central Plains in a very short period of time. The princes of the Quartet began to recruit displaced people to serve as military camps, and at the same time, some soldiers were also arranged to go to military camps.

Unlike ordinary peasants, the land and even farm tools provided by the government are provided by the tunmin, so the tunmin do not have their own land, while the ordinary peasants own their own land. For example, in Cao Cao's early days, the tun people had to pay 60% to 80% of the harvest as tax grain every year, and the tun soldiers paid more, even up to 90%. As for ordinary peasants, they only need to pay three or four percent of the tax grain.

At the same time, many places also implemented quasi-military management of the tun people, and all cultivation matters were arranged by the tuntian governor, such as Deng Ai back then, who was a small official under the command of the tuntian governor. Compared with ordinary peasants, the life of the tun people is much worse, and when it comes to status, the tun people are not as good as those peasants who own land.

When Adou swept down the Southern Barbarians, he allowed the barbarians to farm in Yizhou. In fact, those barbarians are also tun people. And Adou's original plan was to treat these Di people as tun people.

The Di people do not be tun people, that is to say, they have to give the Di people land for nothing, and at the same time, the annual tax and grain will be doubled in the future, and the productivity of hundreds of thousands of strong men will be doubled at once, which makes Adou feel a little heartache. After all, this is a war year, and the more food you have, the more chance you have of winning.

Another point is that the Di people do not do the tun people, that is, they cannot use the management of the tun people to manage the immigrants of the Di people, these Di people are different after all, and the living habits are still many different from the Han people, and hundreds of thousands of foreign people have come to Yongzhou at once, if they are allowed to be free, there will definitely be chaos.

Hey, I can't bear to let the child trap not find a wolf, if you promise Pu Lin, at least there will be tax and grain collection, although it is twice as small, but it is better than nothing, not to mention that if you have the opportunity, you can also recruit these Di people to immigrate to the army and replenish the soldiers! Thinking of this, Adou nodded reluctantly and said, "Okay, I can also agree to this." ”

"Ahh This time, Pu Lin was surprised. That condition just now is equivalent to raising the Di people to the same status as the Han people, and even some Han people have faintly been registered. Let's not talk about whether this condition is harsh or not, that is, if this Di person does not do the people, at least a national brain-level figure can agree. And the young man in front of him just frowned, and then agreed.

"Who the hell is this young man? Is he bluffing and lying to me? Such a thought popped up in Pu Lin's heart.

"I'll try again!" Thinking of this, Pu Lin continued: "Another point is that I will be exempted from paying taxes for three years. ”

"Exemption from taxes? Or three years! "This time, Adou is really red-eyed.

That's hundreds of thousands of productivity, and Yongzhou is very suitable for planting, and the grain collected by Yongzhou's three years of taxes is enough for the Shu army of 100,000 to start a one-year war.

"Three years is too much, one year at most!" Adou began to bargain.

"No, a year is too little, we have hundreds of thousands of people, if we want to move all to the Central Plains, we have to consume a lot of food on the way, we will not be exempted from paying taxes for three years, even if we get to the Central Plains, we can't slow down." Pu Lin continued.

Adou thought about it, what Pu Lin said was the truth, hundreds of thousands of men, women, and children were no better than soldiers. It takes several months for the soldiers to travel from the Western Regions to Yongzhou, and if you add these old and weak, the march will be even slower, think about when Liu Bei fled from Xinye, even if he was desperate with the people, he could only walk thirty miles a day. The road from the Western Regions to Yongzhou is thirty miles a day, and you have to go to the Year of the Monkey to reach Yongzhou!

"I have thought of a way for you, you can move some people to Yongzhou first, and then use the food grown by the people who came to Yongzhou first to supply the people who come later, so that everyone will not have to starve, but it will take longer. As for the three-year tax exemption...... I think so, from the time you arrived in Yongzhou, you Di people are exempt from tax for two years, the tax is halved in the third year, and the tax is collected normally in the fourth year, but I am not responsible for the grain and grass consumed during the migration, so how about this? Adou paused at this point, and then said: "As for the specific plan, I will find someone to discuss in detail after I return to Yongzhou." ”

For internal affairs such as immigration, even if Adou has 1,700 years of advanced experience, he is still far inferior to Zhuge Liang in some details. How to operate such a large-scale immigration, Zhuge Liang still has to figure out a way. And Adou is also ready to wait until he returns to Yongzhou, and then hand over the immigration matter to Zhuge Liang to take full responsibility.

Pu Lin thought about it for about a stick of incense before he nodded reluctantly: "That's fine." With these conditions, I am seventy percent sure that I will be able to persuade Fu Jian to send troops tomorrow. ”

Then Pu Lin raised his head, looked at Adou carefully, and then asked very solemnly: "Engong, can you tell me now, who are you?" ”