Luda drank and drank, suddenly his face was a little gloomy, and he looked at the seed master and asked, "Xianggong, has there been any military report from the Western Regions recently?" ”

The seed master looked at Luda and smiled: "Luda, but you miss your precious son?" ”

Luda nodded when he heard this, but he shook his head again and said, "I don't think about anything, it's just a little unaccustomed, in the past, at this time, I could always see him." This year, I suddenly can't see it, and I'm not used to it. ”

The seed master smiled and said: "In the past few days, there has been no military information, and the military report that came more than a month ago said that it was preparing for war in the northwest of Bancheng, and the Turks also had an army of seventy or eighty thousand coming east. At this time, I am afraid that the battle has already been completed, and if I get military information, I am afraid that it will be after the beginning of spring. ”

The news from the Western Regions takes a lot of time to get to Yumen Pass, and it only takes one or two months to get from Yumen Pass to Hejian.

Luda nodded and said: "I think I won the war, after this battle, there should be negotiations, and the national letter may be on the way." ”

Zheng Zhi also said: "If this is defeated, after the letter of state arrives, Luda, you should go to sea, arrange for more than 10,000 troops to choose a good place to build a city in the Persian Gulf, and stay for more than ten years, then you can gain a firm foothold in the Gulf." ”

Zheng Zhi was slightly worried in his heart, but he still thought that everything was going in a good direction. If this grand strategy is achieved, as long as the Turks cede a little land, the Han Chinese can gain a foothold in the Persian Gulf.

After that, there was a steady stream of shipwreckage merchants, a steady stream of weapons and equipment ashore, the ability to transport more troops over, and the ability to gather locals to form an army. If the Turks wanted to drive out the Han Chinese, it would be impossible.

Going by sea, the time is too much saved, and the transportation capacity is also increased exponentially. Compared with going from Yumen Guanxi, I don't know how much manpower and material resources will be saved.

If they really gain a foothold in the Persian Gulf, the Han Chinese should also profit from the two-hundred-year crusade. The war of religions is really something that the Han people have never seen before. The Han people have been civilized for thousands of years, and they have never really fought a war because of religion.

Even in the eyes of the Han Chinese, fighting for a dispute over the name of religion seems somewhat ridiculous. The Han people believe in heaven and earth, worship their ancestors, and believe in their clans. This is the most striking difference from Western civilization.

When Han people do things, they have never said that they will not lose face to their ancestors or their surnames. You must be worthy of your ancestors, worthy of the land of the emperor and queen of heaven, worthy of your own surname, and worthy of the place where you raised yourself. He never said he would be worthy of his God.

Asking for blessing is also asking for the blessing of God and the blessing of our ancestors. There is something brilliant about it, and it is also the ancestral tomb that is smoking. Not God forbid.

The Chinese will throw their heads and blood for the land that raised them, and they will throw their heads and blood for their ancestral clans. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were named ancestors, and the founders were ancestors. Xiang Yu killed himself in Wujiang, and the person he faced without a face was the Jiangdong father.

The Wei State in the north of Shu State, with the weak and strong, worked tirelessly, it was for the ancestors of the Liu family.

And so on and so forth, in the land of China, there has never been a derogatory word for infidels, only for barbarians and tartars. Chinese culture is a truly inclusive culture. In this respect, it is beyond this ignorance of the West. Of course, religion does not mean ignorance, but ignorance is the people under religion. Religion tends to be the high-sounding name of everything that people do, both good and bad.

China, since the Zhou Dynasty, mainstream society, has been freed from the shackles of religion in the true sense. It is significantly different from other civilizations in the world and has embarked on a different path.

Since Luda crossed the Bohai Sea with Zheng Zhi to negotiate with the Jurchens, he has no rejects going to sea, and now he is also a veteran of sailing.

"The Sprinkle family will go directly to the land of Persia this time, stay for three or five years, occupy dozens of his cities, and then come back." Ruda showed his pride, that is, he also knew that Zheng Zhi was obsessed with the places around the Persian Gulf, since this was the case, then he was still not old, and he would fight again.

When Zheng Zhi heard this, he pondered while carrying his cup and drinking with Luda. In Zheng Zhi's heart, there is a big goal for the land of the bay. The small goal is still just thinking of occupying a stronghold first, so that people and material resources can be continuously transported, and also recruit locals to serve their lives.

Ruda's words are already thinking about the next step.

After Zheng Zhi drank a drink, he thought for a moment before he spoke: "Luda, it's okay for you to go." There should be a plan for the start of war. Occupy the city, when the main thing is encroachment, and wait until there is really a force on the other side, then you can start a full-scale war. After all, thousands of miles away, the Turks are not at the mercy of others. In the early stage, it is still mainly dormant. As for the method of encroachment, there is a certain plan, which is mainly based on the war of punishment, and the excuse for punishment is that our Han people were killed by the locals and so on. This method is justified and should be extremely useful. It is also easier to paralyze the Turks. ”

Zheng Zhizhi's method is actually also a reference, borrowing from the method of the Westerners encroaching on the Qing Dynasty in his mind, and the Orientals are the most proficient in this point.

It is also the rule of the Turks, which is actually fundamentally different from the rule of China. The rule of the Turks is more similar to that of the Western Liao. The country was mainly divided into feudal systems, nominally under the leadership of the Turks, and various ethnic groups and fiefs paid money and grain to the Turks, and also sent troops when fighting.

After leaving the Yumen Pass, go west, no matter where it is, the law of ruling is the same, much the same. This is the reason why even after a thousand years, Central Asia, West Asia and Europe are still countless countries of all sizes. In the West, there is a lack of China's unified concept and culture, and kings, dukes and marquis can all be independent countries.

The British Empire was once invincible, and it could not really unify its own territory of a few small islands. This is another difference between East and West.

It is not that the West has not been unified, nor has it not produced a generation of great unification like Qin Shi Huang. It's just that the West, falling apart, is falling apart. It is useless under a religion, and it is still falling apart.

This is also a blessing for other worlds, and it is also one of the opportunities for China to rise again. If Europe has been a unified country for a long time, the difficulty of China's rise again will increase exponentially.

Heaven is fair after all. China has been blessed for thousands of years, and it will decline for more than 100 years. The West has been blessed with two hundred years, but it cannot really be a single power, which also gives China a chance to rise again.

More than 100 years is really insignificant for human history. Even if we take the history of China as an example, it is insignificant, and the number of times that China has declined is more than 100 years. After the past, it is nothing.

Thinking in this way is the correct way to look at history. Low self-esteem is the most ridiculous thing.

"Well, the Sprinkle family can't remember so much, Your Majesty will write down all these things, and when the time comes, the Sprinkle family will do what Your Majesty wrote. Whether it is framed or nothing to do, Your Majesty will write it down. Ruda didn't have the heart to say a word, and he was also wiping his mouth full of greasy.

But it was Ruda's such a straightforward sentence that made the people on the left and right look at each other. This kind of thing, only Ruda can say so directly.

Zheng Zhi laughed a little when he heard this, so he also smiled: "You can't use your own brains?" ”

It's not that Ruda doesn't use his own brains, and it's not that Ruda doesn't have these brains. Just like when he was in Xingzhou, Luda dealt with the rebellion, and he also had his own careful thoughts. But Ruda thinks that everyone here is better at this kind of thing than himself, so he doesn't need to worry about it.

"The Sprinkle family will inevitably lose a war." Ruda only replied with one sentence.

Zheng Zhi shook his head with a smile, looked left and right, and his eyes were finally fixed on Wu Yong.

Wu Yong saw Zheng Zhi's gaze, and knew in his heart that Zheng Zhi wanted Wu Yong to go to sea with Luda and go to the outer land.

Wu Yong subconsciously resisted, and when he went to that thousands of miles away, he was getting farther and farther away from the authority of the court, but Wu Yong didn't dare to refuse directly, so he had to speak: "Your Majesty, the minister is still busy with the affairs of the Lingyan Pavilion... ”

Zheng Zhi's heart was like a mirror, and he said bluntly: "Lingyan Pavilion can drag on for a few years, and it can be handed over to others." If this trip to the sea is done, and after coming back, you will be crowned the Duke of the Kingdom, and a hundred years later, there should be a place for you in the Lingyan Pavilion, and you will receive incense for generations. ”

The method of employing people varies from person to person. Wu Yong obviously couldn't escape from Zheng Zhi's palm. Zheng Zhi even had the intention to persuade Wu to use a few words, that is, he knew that Wu used this person, so he ate this set. It's okay to give a straightforward order, but it also has to talk about some favors, and let Wu use it to work harder.

Wu Yong really felt a little flattered when he heard this, and then thought that Luda would only take three or five years, but three or five years was not a long time. Wu Yong had already nodded and got up, bowed, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister must do his best, bow to the end, and die for the sake of death!" ”

Luda also laughed when he heard this: "Okay, it's safe like this, those things that are framed and framed, and there is nothing to do, Lao Wu Tou is the best at it, and black can also be said to be white." Sprinkle the family to fight, the old Wu head hurts people, a match made in heaven. Ha ha... ”

At this words, the entire hall echoed with the laughter of everyone.

The seed master even raised his finger and pointed at Luda, and said with a smile: "Luda, you guy... Ha ha... ”

However, Wu Yong looked a little embarrassed, watching everyone laugh more than once, looking at Zheng Zhi also laughing more than once, and he had to squeeze out an embarrassed smile.

After another push and change of glass, everyone at the banquet was already red-faced.

Zheng Zhi remembered something serious again, and said: "The land of Tubo can go straight to Tianzhu, and the southwest of Tubo is Tianzhu, and there are also large plains, and the products are also extremely rich. Now that the Southwest Theater is at a loss, it is time to change its strategic thinking. Do you have any good ideas? ”

When the planter heard this, he replied: "Your Majesty, the Privy Council has held several strategic research meetings on this matter, and there are a few simple countermeasures, but the details have not yet been written. I wanted to wait until the plan was drawn up before I came to the ceremony, but since His Majesty asked about this matter first, the minister said a few words. ”

Zheng Zhi nodded and motioned for the seed master to continue.

The seed master opened his mouth and said: "The strategy of Tibet is divided into two strategies: north and south. Since the fall of the dynasty established by Songtsen Gampo, Tibet has been scattered for hundreds of years. It's just that the terrain is too high to attack. To the north of Shu is the strategy of driving wolves and tigers, and attracting some tribes with armaments and materials, so that the people of Tubo attack each other, so that the army can benefit from it when they go to the high ground. The southern strategy is supplemented, and the northern strategy should be the main one, so that Dadan and the Murwei people can form a coalition army to go south and subdue them in battle. ”

Zheng Zhi thought about it, that is, he knew the method of the planter, which was really a feasible method, that is, the later Manchu Qing Dynasty ruled Tibet, in fact, there was the shadow of the northern policy mentioned in the planter, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and the Mongolian Plateau have always been inextricably linked, and the people on the Mongolian steppe are more accustomed to the plateau, whether it is the altitude or the cold climate, the grassland people are obviously able to adapt. Historically, Tibet's internal problems often relied on external forces to solve them.

The Manchu Qing Dynasty entered Tibet, and there was a good opportunity for the Nepalese to invade Tibet. Hit Lhasa straight away.

"Before the grassland was settled, I didn't think about the affairs of the Dadan people, and now the grassland has slowly stabilized. It's time to let Dadan send troops. The holy decree will be issued tomorrow, so that Dadan and the various tribes of Murowei will begin to assemble in Dingmeng City and go to the southwest to the plateau. Zheng Zhi couldn't wait, and he didn't even consider the importance of spring grazing on the grassland.

So Shi Jin, who had been the protector of the grassland, opened his mouth and reminded: "Your Majesty, grazing on the grassland in the spring, if the young and strong are all on the expedition, I am afraid that the production of horses will decrease next year." ”

Even if Shi Jin was thinking about the spring grazing of the grassland, he was not thinking about the problem of eating on the grassland, but thinking that the country's horse production would decrease.

I saw Zheng Zhi wave his hand and said, "Let Gan Han and Su Han send more people to the major horse farms to help." If the people of the steppe were short of food, they would transport some from the interior to the land of Dingyuan and Dingmeng and distribute it to various tribes. There are also women and children to handle the grazing matter, and there is not much of a problem if you think about it. ”

Shi Jin nodded and said no more. The planter had already spoken: "Your Majesty, the minister will send it out tomorrow." ”

A year ago, the banquet was held, but it was still drunk into a work meeting.

This land of China, now only Tubo has not been solved, and when Tubo is solved, the domestic expansion strategy will also come to an end. As for places like Siberia, it's just a matter of drawing a circle on a map.

As for the Jurchen matter, it will not happen overnight, even if Yue Fei's army stops, there will still be countless soldiers going to the forest.

In the deep mountains and old forests, I found a tribe one by one and registered them. also continue to pursue the Jurchens. There is also some infrastructure to be done, roads to be built, and fortifications to be built. These are the foundations of domination.

There is just one thing that Zheng Zhi didn't expect.

After everyone was drunk and dispersed, they got up early in the morning, and a military report from the white mountains and black waters, deep mountains and old forests went straight to the Privy Council.

The seed master has not yet arrived at the Yamen, and this military report has come straight to the imperial city, and the stakes are very high, and only the emperor Zheng Zhi can decide this matter.