Chapter 592: Things Happen for a Reason
Liu Yi learned from Himiko and other women about their situation in the Wa Kingdom for more than three years, and wanted to ask some more questions about whether the situation of the Wa Kingdom was immediately opened after Lu Bu, Chen Gong and other new Han troops arrived in the Wa Kingdom, but they were already vague, tired of drowsiness, and had no energy to answer Liu Yi's questions anymore.
On Cuiri, Liu Yi woke up, and several Japanese women were still reluctant to get up, and the madness of the night was too intense, and they hadn't rested enough.
Liu Yi had no choice but to get up by himself and go to meet with Zhou Shang, Hong Ying, Hong Liang and other Qu'a Chengshou and the shipyard's director and generals.
After learning about Qu A's current situation first, he encouraged them to turn it over, and then asked them to get busy first, and then Liu Yi asked people to send intelligence information from all aspects and watch it carefully.
Because of Lu Bu and Chen Gong, as soon as they arrived in the Wa Kingdom, they were only busy handing over the power of the Yamatai Kingdom and all aspects of affairs with Himiko and other women. Therefore, until the handover was completed and when they were sent to Dahan, Lu Bu and Chen Gong did not have any military operations for the time being, so Himiko and the other women did not bring back more of the latest news and intelligence of the Wa Kingdom.
However, since he doesn't know the latest situation of the Wa Kingdom for the time being, Liu Yi won't think much about it, since Lu Bu and Chen Gong have arrived in the Wa Kingdom safely, then Liu Yi believes that he believes that Lu Bu and Chen Gong will definitely be able to deal with and solve the problem of the Wa Kingdom.
Liu Yi's instructions to them at the beginning were clear enough, and he mentioned to them the badness of the Japanese people, and privately told Lu Bu that he was in the Japanese country, and he didn't have to show mercy to the Japanese people, and he tossed as he wanted. What Liu Yi needs is for the entire Wa Kingdom to be destroyed and the species to be exterminated. Even if they are not completely wiped out, they must never turn over.
Anyway. In the future, the Wa Kingdom can only be an area of a state capital province of the Great Han, and its Wa Kingdom area will always be ruled by the Great Han.
After learning about the situation in the Wa Kingdom, Liu Yi naturally had to have an in-depth understanding of the situation in the Jiangdong region.
Actually, one by one, but the whole Jiangdong is actually quite big.
It is bounded by the Yangtze River, the area south of the Yangtze River. And, the southeast area of Yangzhou and Xuzhou is almost universally called Jiangdong.
Because of the excavation of the New Han Dynasty, the Jiangdong region is no longer full of forces, including many bandits who occupy the mountains as kings, and water thieves who occupy the lake as thieves, and as early as when the New Han Dynasty naval army dug up, they were cleared by the naval forces of the New Han Dynasty led by Gan Ning, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and other naval generals.
Especially after the fall of Yuan Shu. The Yangtze River port, one south and one north of the Yangtze River, fell into the hands of the New Han Army and Cao Cao respectively, so that. Those small power princes, bandits and robbers, etc., if they were not attached to the New Han Army or Cao Cao, they would only be destroyed.
Albeit. Now the forces of the New Han Dynasty and Cao Cao are fighting against each other. There was already a faint sense of tension that a big war was about to break out. However, compared to the period of great chaos in the world about ten years earlier. The Han people on both sides of the Yangtze River have a relatively stable and more prosperous life. It's barely a sign of economic recovery.
At least, the people on both sides of the Yangtze River, especially in the areas around Yangzhou, are indeed living much better than before. Although they are under Cao Cao's rule, Cao Cao is not like Yuan Shu's straw bale generation, and he does have a hand in local governance.
However, Liu Yi is not too concerned about the things that are still in Cao Cao's sphere of influence now. Instead of paying attention to those territories that Cao Cao did not have the ability to capture or had no way to reach out to those territories, Liu Yi felt that it was time to close the net and completely solve the problem of the Central Plains of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Yi thinks about it, since he established the New Han Dynasty, he has gone through a lot from scratch, and the New Han Dynasty seems to have gone all the way, although there are risks, but all of them can stride through, and there are always thrills and dangers. Or, some people will think that with the strength of the New Han Dynasty and the New Han Army, it should have been unified with the Han Dynasty a long time ago, and there is no need to leave time for the development of other forces and princes, and there is no need to wait for others to become stronger, and then say that they want to raise troops to unify the Han Dynasty and attack them.
But is that really the case? If you are not in the game, you will not understand many things and the difficulties after operation. Sometimes, fighting a war really doesn't mean that you just rely on your strength on paper, and you can fight it without any worries or foresight.
In the Three Kingdoms era, there were many princes, no matter which one they were, I am afraid that they would have the foundation of their existence, and it was definitely not that they could be destroyed if they wanted to.
Think about it again, in the past ten years now, how many princes in the Han Dynasty have really been destroyed?
Liu Yi remembers very well that when Dong Zhuo's army had just evacuated Luoyang and moved the capital to Chang'an, he led the army to suddenly insert and occupy Luoyang to prevent Dong Zhuo's army from burning Luoyang.
You must know that at the beginning, Liu Yi's military horses were indeed not many, but tens of thousands of horses, and at that time, they had to disperse their troops to act separately, and if there was a little accident in the soldiers and horses along the way, it would give Liu Yi a big blow. Because at that time, no matter which way the soldiers and horses were, they were facing more and stronger Dong Zhuojun.
Fortunately, Dong Zhuo's army was indeed in chaos before the battle at that time, and he was frightened by the army of the princes of the world.
Of course, this is not the end, there is also the coalition army of the princes of the world that is much stronger than Dong Zhuo in terms of overall strength, if it is not for the coalition army, it is also chaotic, and it is difficult to march to Luoyang with concerted efforts. In addition, Liu Yi had a gentleman's covenant with Cao Cao early on, so that Cao Cao withdrew from the alliance in a fit of anger after the defeat of the attack on Xingyang, which greatly reduced the strength of the allied forces of the princes of the world. and Sun Jian, the backbone of the princes of the world, Sun Wentai, also because he found the jade seal of the country in Luoyang, he became greedy for a while, regardless of the fact that Liu Yi sent someone to send a letter to advise him, and resolutely withdrew from the allied forces in the world that made him angry. Hurriedly led the army away. In this way, the alliance of the princes of the world has existed in name only. The strength is already weak to slag, and that's the only way. Only then will Zhao Yun lead the army to kill the allied forces of the Yuan Shao brothers who attacked Luoyang from the Tiger Prison.
The establishment of the New Han Dynasty under such a complicated situation can be described as really not easy. Of course, the New Han Dynasty was not easy, and it was not only that, and it was not so simple to gain a foothold. At that time, the Luoyang Silizhou area was forced to become millions of displaced people, and these displaced people were not well settled. It is difficult to say that Liu Yi can establish a firm foothold in Luoyang. In addition, around Luoyang, there are many powerful and alien races, everywhere must be vigilant, to be vigilant, to be stationed in the army and horses to garrison, in such a situation, how can the New Han Army destroy those princes of the world early?
Standing and talking doesn't hurt your back, some people say. The New Han Dynasty had many opportunities to unify the Han Dynasty, and there was no need to leave the opponent and the enemy to slowly sit bigger, waiting for the enemy to grow stronger, and increase the difficulty for themselves.
Hehe, just want to say. The thought of a certain person is too simple, and he always thinks that he will unify the Han. Just look at the military strength of the New Han Dynasty, and only look at how many super fierce generals in the Three Kingdoms period Liu Yi subdued. Super strategist, thinking that with the assistance of so many people. The three kingdoms were already unified.
In fact, just looking at the strength on paper, Liu Yi does not deny that there will indeed be some opportunities, but who can know that when the New Han Dynasty is surrounded by enemies, when it really recklessly raises troops to destroy one of the potential future strong enemies, who knows what changes will occur in the New Han Dynasty?
What's more, don't you know that firewood and rice are expensive, and you think that all the food falls from the sky? You must know that in the early days of the New Han Dynasty, especially in the year or two after the establishment of the New Han Dynasty, the food consumption of millions of people, as well as the food consumption of the New Han Army, all had to be solved by the New Han Dynasty, in fact, Liu Yi had to find a way to solve it. Where does that food come from? Self-produced part, purchased part, exhausted methods, even if it was not a very glorious means, and took another part of the part, so that the New Han Dynasty barely survived the difficulties again and again.
Here, it should also be said that there are some weaker forces, and some places that the New Han Dynasty can indeed capture, and Liu Yi did not order to attack them, and there is a reason. The reason is that because of the policy problems of the New Han Dynasty and the unique strategy of how to govern the Han people within the sphere of influence of the New Han Dynasty, it was also doomed from the beginning that the New Han Dynasty should not be in a hurry and should not expand too quickly all at once. Only by developing step by step and doing a good job can we have spare strength, so as to seize the next piece of territory and achieve more efficient governance of the land.
Think about it, every time the New Han Dynasty recovers a territory, it will take comprehensive assistance to the people of the land to fund them, so that the local people can barely survive and live, so that they have hope for a new life, so that they can win the hearts of the people in the territory they have seized in a short period of time, so that they can return to the New Han Dynasty from the beginning, so as to be loyal to the court and Liu Yi. The fact that the New Han Army was able to grow to its current size of two or three million troops in a short period of about ten years has a great deal to do with the policies and practices of the New Han Dynasty. Therefore, every time Liu Yi seizes a territory of power, he needs to consider not only how to defeat those princes, but also how to govern the people in those places after seizing it, so that they can feel recognized and recognized by the New Han Dynasty from the beginning, and from then on, they are willing to give everything for the New Han Dynasty while feeling the beauty and hope brought to them by the New Han Dynasty.
Therefore, even if he has the ability to conquer the territory of this force, he is not sure that he can govern it well, and he is not sure that he can really bring hope and peace to the people in those areas after conquering it, and Liu Yi cannot easily take over those areas. Because, after the New Han Dynasty spent a lot of manpower and material resources to govern the areas that were seized by the New Han Army, but because it was a key place of war, it was difficult for the New Han Army to ensure the safety of its place, in case, it was attacked by hostile forces, and even lost control of its place, this was not only a huge blow to the New Han Dynasty, and a huge loss, but a heavy blow to the people in those areas, which would directly make the people in those areas lose confidence in the New Han Dynasty and lose the sense of trust and dependence.
For example, during the period of modern warfare in later generations, our party established countless base areas in the vast rural areas during the national war and the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. That, when our party's people's army was still in the base area, it was good to say that the army and the people were a happy family, and everyone was full of hope for the future. However, after our army had to shift strategically and withdraw, the people in the base area would suffer.
The cruelty of it, Liu Yi doesn't want to say more, anyway, Liu Yi doesn't want that kind of tragedy to happen again, only with Luoyang as the center, when he has the ability, he will slowly expand around, until, one day, the New Han Dynasty has enough ability, will consider sending troops to unify the Han Dynasty.
Saying this, in fact, I want to say that many times, Liu Yi did not rush to do it when there were some conquerable or eliminable princes, and there was a reason. This is not a game, it can't be repeated, and Leo must carefully consider every step of the way.
Eat the meal one bite at a time, walk the road step by step, and don't wear such a big hat if you don't have such a big head. These are some of the truths.
Now, there are still many forces in the Jiangdong region, of course, these forces occupy a city and a pool, or some small pieces of territory, and they all have a close relationship with the New Han Dynasty. In fact, most of the princes of these forces have already secretly submitted to the New Han Dynasty, but Liu Yi had already set a strategy to let these forces not openly submit to the New Han Dynasty for the time being, let them secretly submit to the New Han Dynasty, and with their secret support of the New Han Dynasty, they will exercise autonomy over their territory.
Of course, there were also some princes who did not formally express their willingness to submit to the New Han Dynasty. But they have always come, and they have always maintained a good relationship with the New Han Dynasty, and there must be commercial and trade exchanges.
Among them, there is Liu Miao of Jiangdong Jianye City.
Liu Miao is the most qualified prince in Jiangdong region, and he is much more qualified than Sun Ce.
Of course, these are not the reasons why he has been able to keep his power until now. The reason why he was not destroyed was because Sun Ce had surrendered to Liu Yi early, otherwise, Sun Ce would have raised troops to destroy him. What's more, keeping him all the time, Liu Yi is using him as a buffer for himself with Yuan Shu at that time and Cao Cao now, so that he doesn't have to directly confront those big forces.
Now, Liu Yi plans to meet Liu Xuan. (To be continued......)