Chapter 680: Conquest of the Western Regions
No matter what others think of Sima Yi and the others, in Fuquan's heart, although they all have earth-shattering talents in the future, if they can be used by him, if not, then they can be reasonably hidden.
As for whether these people will be reused in the future, especially Sima Yi, a criminal offender, Fu Quan is not worried.
After all, Fuquan is now in the prime of life, and because he is now in charge of the government, he no longer needs to run around like when he was young. In addition, over the years, he has also continued to invite famous doctors from Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing and the world, and has found a lot of secrets of longevity such as health preservation and room surgery, according to the meaning of those famous doctors, as long as there are no assassinations and infectious diseases during this period, it will not be a problem for Fuquan to live for another thirty or forty years.
And with these thirty or forty years, Fuquan can guarantee that it will make the Han Dynasty change, and will make these people even if they are ambitious, they will not have a chance to be in the Central Plains, after all, the world is so big, if you want to be the emperor, go to the vast land outside the Central Plains to split the soil and seal the marquis, and become a country of its own?
As for the fact that a bunch of people are worried about power, constantly fighting among themselves, exhausting all the strength of the Han Dynasty, and finally making the alien race take advantage, Fuquan will never allow it to happen.
In his previous life, Fu Quan remembered that many people especially admired the era of heroes and the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty, but who understood what the price of this era was?
This is the era when the Eastern Han Dynasty peaked from 60 million Han people, and in just a few decades, the population has plummeted to millions, and these people have to count the Huns, Shu Han and Dongwu who migrated to the Central Plains Cao Cao and the Southern Barbarians and Shanyue people who had to go deep into the mountains every year to catch them, and even in order to make up for the lack of population, Dongwu had to cross the sea to Yizhou to arrest people.
From this point of view, there will only be fewer real Han people at that time, and as for later generations, some people say that most of the population of the Three Kingdoms has been hidden by the powerful people of the world, which is pure nonsense in Fuquan's view.
After all, whether it is the three families of Wei, Shu and Wu, they are all practicing military competition, and the materials are so poor that even a dog and a knife are recorded, how can they tolerate the powerful and hidden population of the world? You don't see whether it is Liu Bei, Cao Cao, or Sun Quan, under the rule of the three people, they are not all suppressed by the powerful and powerful of the world, if it were not for Cao Pi to break everything about Cao Cao for the sake of need, how could there be the emergence of the nine-product Zhongzheng system that made the world strong soar to the sky?
Therefore, during the Three Kingdoms period, the total population must have been pitifully small in Chinese history. Think about it, when the princes were fighting for Dong, the princes from all over the country recruited tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, which was actually not a big strength, but before the later Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei, who had only a few thousand men and horses, could actually walk sideways in the south, and the population loss in those decades can be seen, and it is no wonder that Liu Bei is reluctant to go south to those coerced people, which is really rare for these people.
Fu Quan, who knows that population is the key, will definitely not give these careerists a chance to engage in internal friction, and now that the two culprits of the Yuan brothers are dead, Fu Quan will naturally not worry about what chance those old careerists can have to cause chaos.
What he is afraid of now is that these young people who are not yet famous, they are born in a powerful family, and they have ambitions early, which is the most terrifying, so what Fu Quan has to do now is to transfer their ambitions to other places, and the Western Regions is the experimental field of Fu Quan's thoughts.
In the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, in the spring and February, the hussar general Fuquan played the imperial court, and the Western Regions were cut off for decades, and the countries did not accept the prestige of the Han Dynasty, resulting in the Silk Road not returning to the grand occasion of the former Han Dynasty, and the traitor Han Sui entrenched in the Western Regions, and the ambition of the wolf son of self-reliance was clearly revealed.
The emperor played the quasi-play, and personally ordered all the things of the westward expedition to be in charge of the hussar general Quan, and the ministers had no objections.
In March, the spring breeze was slow, and in the western suburbs of Luoyang, Fude, the commander of the Western Expedition recommended by Fuquan, led Fuquan to draw 2,000 Luoyang elite cavalry, and a group of civil and military elites, swore to the Western Expedition.
With Fu De as the main general, it is natural that Fu Quan wants to continue to promote this younger brother who represents the interests of the Fu clan, after all, Fu Quan is no longer the general of the conquest in the past, as a hussar general, his attention naturally cannot only be in the Western Regions, he is more to control the overall situation of the country in the capital of Luoyang; Second, it is because Fu Quan has no heirs so far, for the sake of the future, even if Fu De is a mediocre talent, Fu Quan has to temporarily raise him to a high position and show him in the front desk of the Han court.
It's strange to say, he has also accepted a lot of concubines in the mansion so far, counting the children born to Murong Shuisu and the other two concubines he gave to her in Bajun in the past few years, that is, there are only five children, but they are all daughters, which makes Fuquan depressed for a while.
Although it is true that he likes his daughter, after all, compared to his son, his daughter is intimate, and giving birth to a son will only be annoying, but after all, this is the Han Dynasty, not the next generation, not to mention that Fuquan is now the leader of the entire political and military forces headed by the hussar general, if there is no heir, it will undoubtedly make the following unstable.
Therefore, Fu Quan can only continue to promote the men in the clan first, if he really has no children in the future, then he can only rely on these clan children to maintain, and focusing on promoting Fu De, who has already made a lot of achievements, is naturally what Fu Quan should do, so of course, the commander of this expedition to the Western Regions, of course, belongs to him.
Sometimes, Fuquan himself feels depressed, after all, the chance of having a daughter for the second time is really enough. Although Fu Quan knew that there was a half chance of having a child and a daughter, and Hua Tuo, Zhang Zhongjing and other famous doctors invited said that Fu Quan's body was fine, but it was just bad luck, but Fu Quan still couldn't help but think again, did he cross over, the chromosomes in his body have changed, and it is impossible to have a son in the future?
Let go of Fuquan in the end, whether there will be a son, not to mention, the total soldiers and horses of this western expedition will certainly not be the two thousand cavalry brought from Luoyang. According to Fuquan's meaning, after Fu De went to Liangzhou with more than 2,000 civil, military and military soldiers and horses, he would join forces with the 28,000 cavalry that had been prepared there for a long time, and then, all the cavalry, one person and three horsemen, sent troops to attack the Western Regions.
In order to pacify the Western Regions, Fuquan has not relaxed the strengthening of Liangzhou's military strength for a moment since he came to power, and knows that Fuquan, who is well aware of the expedition to the Western Regions and the use of infantry to drag down the treasury of the Han Dynasty, has been continuously transferring elite cavalry to Liangzhou in order to reduce expenses, which is for today.
These cavalry, is not from the northern Xinjiang Chengping, after the expansion of the Saibei Changshi Mansion, the northern Saiwai grassland is gradually decreasing, Fuquan in order not to let these cavalry waste, one tun and one song are constantly drawn.
After all, the expedition to the Western Regions is not a trivial matter, if you only use the soldiers and horses in Liangzhou, it is actually enough, but if you draw out all the Liangzhou cavalry just because of the expedition to the Western Regions, it is undoubtedly stupid.
After all, the land of Liangzhou, where the northwest of the Han Dynasty is dangerous, it is inevitable to leave enough soldiers and horses to guard, otherwise once the cavalry is transferred, only the foot soldiers will be left to defend, and if there is really any chaos in the empty Liangzhou, it will not only be a disaster in Liangzhou, but also a disaster for the Western Expeditionary Army that needs to rely on Liangzhou as a backup.
Although Fu Quan's order to Fu De was that the enemy could be fed with food, and the logistics pressure of the army must be reduced to the greatest extent, but after all, they were 30,000 cavalry expeditions, and there were nearly 100,000 war horses.
Time is long, but it is said that the crusading army of the Han family led by Fude went all the way to the west, and there were local government offices that received instructions along the way to arrange food for the army.
Because there are still old troops in the army, such as Xia Yu, who were revived by Fuquan this time, Fude was worried that the fatigue of the boat and car would make them unwell, so the speed of the army's march was naturally not very fast, originally fast horses, it took a month to get there, but it took almost two months, and the army finally arrived at the westernmost Dunhuang County in Liangzhou at the end of April.
Outside the county of Dunhuang County, Liangzhou, because of the war in the Western Regions, Zang Min, the assassin of Liangzhou, and Ma Teng, the Taishou of Dunhuang County, who were specially appointed by Fuquan last year, led many officials to meet the army that Fude came from afar.
"I've seen Zang Liangzhou and Ma Dunhuang!" Seeing the greeting person, Fu De dismounted and saluted the two, one of these two people is his Xuzhou Shibo elder, and the other is the eldest brother's former official, although now because of the right Fu Feng Maoling Ma clan, the relationship is a little stiff, but also can not be disrespectful.
Zang Min and Ma Teng faced the noble identity of Fu De, and naturally they would not sell their old in front of Fu De, so they hurriedly returned the salute, and when the three of them saw the salute, Ma Chao, who was sent by Fu Quan under Fu De, immediately ran to Ma Teng and knelt down to salute.
"I've seen the adult, the right person is in front of the west, the son is his subordinate, he doesn't dare to move, I hope the adult will blame!"
Ma Teng was naturally very happy to see his son Ma Chao, who had not seen him for almost a year, where did he care about this, he stepped forward to help him up with a smile and said, "It's okay!" Since you have joined the army, you should obey the orders of the superiors and be loyal to the affairs of the state, how can you not respect the officials because your father is there? ”
Looking at his beloved son who is about to go to the battlefield, Ma Teng also has an indescribable worry in his heart, as well as relief, the worry is naturally that this son who does not like to learn and only loves swords, will he be safe and lose when he goes to the battlefield for the first time, as for the relief, of course, it is to watch his son become an official, and he will have greater development and be happy.
Speaking of which, in this life, he Ma Teng is lucky, with the call of Zhang Huan, one of the "Liangzhou Sanming", under the choice, in order to regain the reputation of the family and restore the ancestral hometown, he took all the belongings in his hands and joined the army.
As a result, he met Fuquan, who had only been contacted by letter, and then he had the intention of getting closer to the royal family and seeking opportunities, and he didn't want to go all the way to today.
In the end, the family reputation has been corrected, and he has also got his wish and re-entered his ancestral hometown, and now even his son has joined the army to fight for greater glory for him, the Ma clan, how can he not make Ma Teng happy and happy?
It's just that Ma Teng is still puzzled by Fuquan's release of Ma Chao into the Western Expeditionary Army, and even let him serve as the Dunhuang County Taishou who is the most important bridgehead for attacking the Western Regions, he is also very puzzled.
As for the reason, it is also very simple, naturally it is because of the right support wind behind them Maoling Ma Clan, with the stiff relationship between Ma Riyan, the head of the Ma family, and Fuquan, Ma Teng and Ma Chao, the two rising star generals in the Ma family, naturally become a dilemma because of their close relationship with Fuquan.
This is from the past few years, Ma Riyan has repeatedly wanted to promote Ma Teng to important positions in the border area, and Fu Quan's rejection can be seen, and Ma Teng naturally has been complaining about Fu Quan because of this matter, after all, the qualifications and military exploits are enough, and he can continue to be promoted, but he is blocked, can he not complain and resent?
However, fortunately, Ma Chao and Fu Wan have a master-apprentice relationship, and Fu Quan seems to attach great importance to Ma Chao, and Ma Teng understands Fu Quan's mind in his heart, and also thinks that when the situation is unclear, he can't easily break with Fu Quan's thigh, so the relationship between the two families seems to be good on the surface.
It's just that with the sudden promotion and appointment of him as a county magistrate last year, Ma Teng was still a little surprised, originally, when he knew that it was just a remote county in Liangzhou, Ma Teng still complained, thinking that Fuquan was still afraid of Ma Riyan and did not give him a chance.
However, later in Fuquan took the initiative to meet with each other, informed Fuquan of the plan to attack the Western Regions, Ma Teng, who had experienced a hundred battles, realized the importance of the location of Dunhuang County, and was happy to go to the post at the moment.
However, I didn't think about it, I just thought that there was this unexpected joy, but I didn't expect that now even Ma Chao was awarded the position of captain by Fuquan with Xiaowu and went to the Western Regions, which had to make Ma Teng speculate about what Fuquan was thinking, could it be that he reconciled with Fufeng Ma?
It's not quite like it, because Ma Teng himself hasn't heard any rumors in the clan, but even if he doesn't reconcile, it's not bad for him, at least it can allow him to be left and right without being burdened.
For Ma Teng, whether it is Fufeng Ma or Fuquan, he doesn't want to lose, now that he can continue to be promoted without offending the clan and Fuquan, he naturally wants to do it, hoping to maintain this situation forever.
In fact, Fu Quan's move had no intentions, just for the war in the Western Regions. After all, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses in the Western Regions, Fu Quan naturally doesn't care, he doesn't believe it, he has been preparing for so many years, and the 30,000 hundred battle elite horses equipped with stirrups and horseshoes will not be able to deal with those soldiers and horses in the Western Regions, even if Han Suibu already knows the secret of stirrups and horseshoes, but the strength of the Han army is here, and there are brave generals from all over the country who are dispatched by Fu Quan, so they are naturally not afraid of them.
What really worries Fu Quan is that the Western Regions are too far away, and there are problems in logistics, routes, etc., so he transferred Ma Teng, who was already familiar with the road topography and customs of Liangzhou and the Western Regions, to let him prepare in Dunhuang County in advance, and even in the selection of Liangzhou Thorn History, he also considered it in detail, and on the basis of the "Three Mutual Laws", he also arranged Zang Min, who had good military achievements and was not bad in internal affairs.
This is the arrangement of the logistics of the Western Expeditionary Army, and in terms of the route, Fuquan also specially dispatched Xia Yu and Dong Zhuo, who have served in the Western Regions, to come here, fearing that the Western Regions will be cut off for a long time, and the army will not be able to recognize the road.
Otherwise, with Xia Yu's more than seventy years old, Fu Quan would not recover anything, but he really didn't know if he could eat it.
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