Duan Da's eyes rolled, and he smiled: "General Changsun, I am from Guzang, I grew up in Guzang since I was a child, but the people in the city are all complaining about such a damn desert, and they all say that without this desert, the business of the Silk Road can be much better, like you said that this desert is good, but it is the first time I have heard it." ”

Wang Huaqiang's heart moved, and he said to Changsun Sheng: "General Changsun has thought of any way to deal with the Turks?" ”

Changsun Sheng's eyes flickered, as if he wanted to speak, but he still stopped his mouth and shook his head: "It's not good to say now, but the Great Wall in the north, especially Bingzhou and Youzhou, out of the pass is a thousand miles of grassland, from the Xiongnu to the Turks, these nomads are on it to herd sheep, once a strong overlord appears on the grassland, can unify these tribes, you can knock on the pass, the Great Wall is empty, there is not even a buffer zone." ”

Duan Da crooked his mouth disdainfully: "General Changsun's words are wrong, my Great Sui soldiers are strong and strong, if the grassland barbarians attack, we will fight with them, hum, it's not that I haven't fought with the Turks, that's it, it's not so fierce, it's always been us who went out of the fortress to sweep their tribes, I have already told Hua Qiang, I'm not afraid to fight with them, I'm afraid that these guys can't beat and run, and they can't find their tribe, trouble!" ”

Changsun Sheng sighed: "Now that the emperor is sage, assisted by good ministers, the Great Sui is strong, and the treasury is full, I am not afraid of these grassland robbers, but if the Central Plains is in decline, like the chaos in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, then the grassland Hu cavalry will knock on the gate and burn and loot in the Central Plains."

Duan Yitong, have you forgotten the past of Wuhu Chaohua so quickly? Even when the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty, the Turkic cavalry also drove straight into it many times, plundering Yecheng and Taiyuan. This is all because beyond the Great Wall is the Monan Prairie, which is really unsafe. ”

Although Duan Da was a rough man, he had also read some military books and nodded his head again and again.

Wang Huaqiang somewhat understood what Changsun Sheng meant: "What General Changsun means, does he want to expand the Great Wall to the north and get it to the south of the desert, so that with that desert as a barrier, you can ensure peace in the customs?" ”

Changsun Sheng smiled and nodded: "It's still Hua Qiang who is smart, and he can guess my mind at once." However, I am afraid that this thing can not be done overnight, from Daizhou Shuozhou to the desert, a distance of hundreds of miles, and how to connect with the Guanzhong line in the west and the Great Wall in Youzhou in the east, it is a troublesome thing. ”

Wang Huaqiang nodded thoughtfully: "General Changsun, even if you can build the Great Wall and build it in Monan, what about these hundreds of miles of grassland encircled in the Great Wall?" The grassland is not cultivated land, is it possible that my Han family people also follow the example of the Turks to herd horses and sheep here? ”

Changsun Sheng shook his head, and a gleam appeared in his eyes: "No, Shuofang City in Hancheng, which is our current Xiazhou, is the best example. I don't know if you've ever been to Shuofang, it used to be a meadow with abundant water and grass, but now it's all desolate. ”

Duan Da suddenly shouted: "Before I entered Xiaoguo, I had been to Xiazhou for half a year, damn, I heard that it was the capital of Huxia, one of the sixteen countries in the original Wuhu period, and it was renamed Tongwan City, and the city was really strong, hey, it has been hundreds of years, and the city wall is still so hard that it can't even be cut into it with a knife." ”

Wang Huaqiang laughed, he had read this paragraph in the history books: "Brother Duan doesn't know, when Helian Bobo, the king of Huxia, built Wancheng, he wanted to build an imperial capital that could allow him to dominate the world for thousands of generations.

The most terrible thing is that after the city is built, let the soldiers poke a section of the city wall with a spear, if they pierce into three inches, they will kill the craftsmen who built this section, and then tear down and rebuild, if they can't stab in, they will kill the soldiers. ”

Duan Da couldn't take his eyes off when he heard this, and let out a sigh: "Damn, is this Helian Bobo still human." The steppe barbarians are really inhuman. ”

Changsun Sheng smiled slightly: "Duan Yitong, don't patronize and say how strong Tongwan City is, what I asked you just now is whether there is a large grassland around Tongwan City, you talk about this first." ”

Duan Dahaha laughed: "What kind of grassland, a radius of three hundred miles is the same as this ghost place, the Gobi Desert, so although that broken place is lonely and hangs north of Guanzhong, even the barbarians don't come to rob it, just a ghost place where a bird doesn't." Wait, what kind of recipe do you say? This name is a little familiar, Hua Qiang, which dynasty is it from? ”

Wang Huaqiang sighed: "Shuofang was built by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when Mo Nan won a great victory and drove the Huns out of this grassland, so he built a city here, moved many powerful clans in the Guannai to the past, and named Shuofang. General Changsun, you said that this Tongwan City, which is now Xiazhou, is Shuofang County of the Han Dynasty, how can it be desolate like this? ”

Changsun Sheng Zhengse said: "After our Central Plains Han people passed, they reclaimed the fields around Shuofang and began to cultivate the fields, and for more than a hundred years, those grasslands were also turned into fields, and then the Han Dynasty declined, and returned to the Guannei, and Shuofang was abandoned, so it was taken away by Helian Bobo, but it is impossible to grow grass there, but now we see this desolate desert." ”

Wang Huaqiang said excitedly: "General Changsun, do you mean that in the future, we will go all the way out of the customs from Daizhou and Shuozhou, which are the states and counties in the north of the state, to build cities to the north, and to farm the fields, and after a long time, we will turn these desert grasslands into deserts?" ”

A trace of excitement and expectation flashed in Changsun Sheng's eyes: "There is this plan, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Jianshuo defeated the Xiongnu, and Hu Qi did not dare to cross Yin Mountain. Moreover, this plan needs to pour national strength, and it has been carried out non-stop for decades and hundreds of years, and it is difficult to say whether the emperor will agree to it if he cherishes the people's power and does not want to work the people and lose money. ”

Speaking of this, Changsun Sheng also sighed long, poured two large sips of mare's milk wine, and there was a trace of loneliness in his eyes.

Wang Huaqiang got up and walked out of the tent, glanced at the situation outside, An Xinggui also followed a few stewards there to point at the map, and he couldn't care about it for a while, he walked back to the tent and glanced at Duan Da, Duan Da nodded, got up and went out of the tent, and called the few sergeants who were on duty outside far away, and put up a sentry outside.

Wang Huaqiang looked at Changsun Sheng and said, "General Changsun, what are you going to do next?" Go to see Datou Khan and ambush An Xinggui and the An brothers and sisters next time they trade the 200,000 catties, there will be no problem. Today, I heard that An Xinggui said that Datou Khan was not directly stationed in Gaochang, and there was also this 7,000-mile sand sea, would he come over? ”

Changsun Sheng smiled slightly: "Hua Qiang, believe me, he will, Datou Khan will definitely not allow anyone to transport iron ore to the Eastern Turks in his territory now." Since the second year of the emperor's reign, he has been fighting with the Eastern Turks for seven years, from Sha Boluo to Mohe to Dulan, not a day has stopped, his hatred and fear of the Eastern Turks far exceeds that of our Great Sui, do you know why? ”

Wang Huaqiang pondered for a moment and said: "I'm afraid this is to fight for the suzerainty of the Turks, now although his strength is more than Dulan Khan, but after all, the East-Turks are the right trace, only by destroying Dulan and entering the sweat tent under the Yin Mountain, he is a well-deserved steppe Khan, not just a Western Regions overlord."

This is second, because the two Turks have the same root and origin, and the way of life and war is exactly the same, listening to An Suiyu, Datou's tribes are now somewhat influenced by the Western Regions, and some tribes have given up nomadism and begun to settle down, and their combat effectiveness is not as good as that of the fierce steppe hungry wolves of the East-Turks.

Now it is due to the lack of iron in the East-Turks, his troops have an advantage in equipment, and Du Lan Xinli is not attached to the people, so he has taken some advantage, if Du Lan Khan also makes tens of thousands of ironclad cavalry, he will not be able to fight. ”