After the New Year's bell rang, the fireworks were released, and the banquet began to end, Yang Chong instructed those who were willing to be lively to wait until dawn to go back, and return to the study behind the Ned Hall to carefully read Liu Xuan's suicide note. Liu Xuan's tone was flat, just like every time he corresponded with Yang Chong, he couldn't see the panic when he was dying; Liu Xuan's meaning is that Yang Chong should be called the emperor, because of the people's habits, Yang Chong is not the emperor but it seems abnormal.

Liu Xuan made an inference about the fate of Empress Xiao, this old woman will not stop until her descendants die, and if Yang Chong wants to be a good person on the surface, he must not care about all kinds of conspiracies in his heart; Liu Xuan told Yang Chong from the perspective of a historian that there was no era before the Great Sui that there was no conspiracy, and the history books were written by the victors, so victory was the most crucial. Yang Chong burned the letter, the elder has passed away, and it is better to bear all the charges himself.

But many people saw Kong Yingda's letter, combined with the news of Liu Xuan's death, and understood that it was Liu Xuan's suicide note, that is, when Yang Chong returned to the Yue Palace's banquet, Cui Chuzhi also asked about it; Yang Chong believed that Cui Minshou must have written another letter to inform Cui Chuzhi, Cui Chuzhi asked about the emperor, Yang Chong persuaded the dish and said: "Big brother, you try this fried shrimp, dipped in ginger and rice vinegar, the taste is absolutely different." ”

Du Yan smiled and said, "King Yue, don't talk about sad things, tell me about your plans for the future." ”

The family members are in the other seat in the inner courtyard, and the people sitting in the dining room in front of them are all the bigwigs of the DPRK and China, or is it that the grand plan of hegemony can resonate the most, Yang Chong put away the sadness in his heart, pointed to Yujuluo and said, "Start with your military department." ”

Yu Juluo said with a smile: "Han Shige and Wang Xiongdan will definitely be able to win Lingnan, it's just a matter of time. Li Jing and I value Woye Town, Yu Sheshe, Yin Netler currently gather 50,000 people in Tieshan, Woye Town is only 60,000 people who control the strings, plus 60,000 people of all ethnic groups; After this winter, the casualties were even greater, and Jieli Khan was likely to abandon the city and flee north, wanting to retreat to Mobei with the men and horses of Tieshan, plus the Ashina Suni Ni, Desire Valley and other Mobei Turkic tribes, defeated Xue Yantuo and made a comeback. Our article is made on the way of Jieli Khan's escape. ”

Du Yan asked, "What if Jieli Khan marches south with all his army?" ”

"Impossible." Jiang Duo said with certainty: "The growth of Turkic weapons depends on the iron ore and iron we supply, and the other things in Woye Town can hold onto, but weapons are the weakest link." If the Turks forcibly move south at this time, it will be compared to whether we have more arrows or more war horses; When tens of thousands of Turkic troops arrived in Mobei, they could still fight a decisive battle with Xue Yantuo, as long as Xue Yantuo was defeated, everything was promising. ”

Fang Xuanling bowed his head and said: "So the order given to Li Jing by the Privy Council and the Ministry of War is to wait for the opportunity to move, there are too many variables in this kind of battle, and everything can only be solved by Li Jing himself." Fortunately, the Taiyuan First Army commanded by Liang De, Yang Ze, Song Jingang and Li Jing was a battle-hardened force, with more than 100,000 people. But once the war is won, the next question is control, at present, Ashina Hubo's Yunzhong Governor's Mansion and Yang Shanjing's Dingxiang Governor's Mansion, will there be another Governor's Mansion? ”

Yang Chong shook his head and said: "Woye Town is still returned to the Central Plains and assigned to Fengzhou; The Six Towns are to be re-established as a barrier to our north. For Turkic immigrants, the Iron Mountain Governorate was established in Iron Mountain; In addition, the Governor of Bac Ninh was set up to lose contact with Ashina Suni, and the Turkic tribes were free to choose where to join, and they could also go to the six towns. ”

Wei Zheng asked: "When Tuoba Xianbei was founded, the six towns were mainly tribal soldiers of Xianbei people, and the soldiers were very high and brave in battle. After moving the capital to Luoyang, the tribal soldiers were divided, and those who moved into Henan were Yulin and Huben, and the nobles and scholars were in the same ranks; On the contrary, those who guarded the six border towns gradually degenerated from the "heart and soul of the country" to the towns and government households, and their status was low, which caused widespread dissatisfaction among the military and people in the six towns. If we rebuild the six towns, we will still face such difficulties. ”

Fang Xuanling pondered and said: "It's not a big problem, in addition to Woye Town, Huaishuo Town and Wuchuan Town can be handed over to the Yunzhong Metropolitan Protectorate; Once built, Toyosu and Yunzhong will have strongholds and places of depth; The military department also has a plan for the three cities outside the river, and the six towns conceived by the king of Yue are the three cities outside the river and the three towns of Woye, Huaishuo, and Wuchuan. In terms of the width of the defense, it is half shorter than that of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the most important thing is that the prosperous area behind it is not too far. ”

Yujuluo then asked people to bring a map to explain, the three cities outside the river were built on the north bank of the Hetao or the Monan grassland, and formed a defense system in the north of the Hetao with the surrounding military towns and prefectures, with a prominent military garrison nature. Xicheng is located in the south of Wolf Mountain, the ferry port on the north bank of the Yellow River, controlling the north-south traffic key point; The Fuyundui Shrine in the north of the Jinjin Ferry of the Yellow River in the middle city is more than 400 miles away from the east and west cities; Dongcheng is on the grassland on the north bank of the Yellow River.

Like Dali City, the three cities outside the river set up the Tuntian Governor's Mansion outside the river, and the local reclamation of barren land and the construction of cities will greatly reduce the financial resources of the people compared with the Great Wall, but the role of defending against the Turks will not be reduced in the slightest. Yang Chong affirmed this plan and said: "Tuntian is the most critical, if necessary, you can also immigrate some people to the past and build a village outside the three cities; In peacetime, official silk horse trading was carried out in Xicheng, Woye Town, and Huaishuo Town. ”

Silk horse trading?

Wei Zheng immediately asked Yang Chong to explain, and Yang Chong said with a serious gaze: "What the nomads lack is the grain, cloth and metal tools produced by the farming peoples of the Central Plains, and silk has always been favored by the upper class of Turkic and other tribes as a high-end luxury. The Turkic and other ethnic groups generally do not produce silk fabrics, can only be obtained from the Central Plains, the most important thing is the pricing and quantity control of the transaction between the two sides, we must control our annual excess output, or designate a certain number of workshops to be responsible for the transaction. In this way, with the price of horses, the economy of Mobei can be controlled. ”

Over the years, the vision of the economy has been greatly broadened, the Great Sui has Hetao and Longzhong, Qinghai three places to raise horses, the demand for horses is limited, the Great Sui can not buy the Mobei horse, but the desert ethnic groups can not buy the silk silk of the Central Plains; Even if it was traded on a large scale, the Great Sui was able to suppress the various ethnic groups in the north and south of the desert in terms of price. Fang Xuanling understood and said: "As long as it is stipulated that the trade of the crushing field is not traded, horses and silk silks can be traded. ”

Yang Chong smiled and said: "It's not enough, we can designate a clan in the north and south of the desert to conduct official transactions with the Great Sui in Xicheng and Woye Town; The usual private trade of horses and silk is not canceled, but it is only allowed to be carried out in Huaishuo Town, and if it is found in other areas, it will be treated as a smuggling transaction. ”

As soon as Yang Chong said this, everyone understood that the silk horse trade was a weapon to divide the north and south of the desert.

(End of chapter)