Luoyang Cai Mansion

Cai Yong, as the emperor, also has a mansion on the left side of Zhuque Street, of course, it is not as brilliant as Liu Taiqin's Spring Garden, like an ordinary small manor, and on the second day when Liu Tai was named the Marquis of Heaven, he was invited to Cai Yong's mansion by Cai Yong and other ordinary court magnates.

"I've seen the ...... of the Heavenly Marquis"

"I've seen the ...... of the Heavenly Marquis"

As soon as he entered Cai Yong's mansion, Liu Tai's ears rang with the congratulatory voices of those court officials, and Liu Tai also responded politely in return, smiling at the warm greetings of these dignitaries.

"Tai'er, come here to sit...."Cai Yong, as the landlord, sat at the top and greeted with a smile.

"Yes, Lord Yue" Liu Tai bowed slightly and returned the salute, did not postpone, and sat on the left side of Cai Yong, and his subordinates were the military generals of the current dynasty headed by Lu Zhi, among which there were Huangfu Song who Liu Tai knew, Zhu Jun and other military generals.

"Hey, my little heavenly marquis, when you enter the hall, you won't say hello to me?" I saw Lu Zhi say jokingly.

"Where, where, Tai has seen Uncle Lu..."Liu Tai said with a smile and bowed to Lu Zhi.

Lu Zhi nodded with a smile, a well-deserved look, so that everyone present was out of tune, Lu Zhi has always been cold, less smiling, but now he is so kind to Liu Tai, of course, all the bureaucrats are also fine characters, after a little thought, it will be understood, although Liu Tai is a member of the Han family, he does not worry about having no official to do, but Lu Zhi recommended it, and General Tianwei is in front, it is obvious that Liu Tai is a military general.

Since the opening of the Han Dynasty by Liu Bang, the military generals and civil officials have always been at odds, of course, there are also the monarch's intentions, but the main thing is that most of the military generals and civil officials are born and customs are different, as the saying goes, the good Kansai generals, the Kanto prime minister, such as Huangfu Song, the leader of today's military generals, is the Guanxi Anding people, the nephew of Huangfu Gui, one of the Liangzhou Sanming of the Qiang people, and many military generals are not one by one.

Yuan Kui and others headed by the scholars of the dynasty are people from the Kwantung region, including Jingzhou and Yangzhou, there are a lot, that is, there are no Guanxi people in the high position of the scholars, the original Western Han Dynasty, when the capital was still in Chang'an, the power of the military generals is greater than that of the scholars, since the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu moved the capital to Luoyang, the strength of the military generals gradually weakened, of course, the biggest reason for the weakening of the military generals is that Wang Mang usurped power at the end of the Western Han Dynasty.

Who is Wang Mang? It is the nephew of the Empress Xiaoyuan of the Western Han Dynasty, belonging to the family of relatives, when the Wang family was in power, the Wang family had nine marquis, five people served as the highest military position of the Great Sima, controlled the power of the country's soldiers and horses for decades, is the most noble military and foreign relatives in the late Western Han Dynasty, there are lessons from the past, the emperors of the Eastern Han Dynasty, how dare to give so many rights to the generals? It is also understandable to weaken the military power and influence of military generals in the court.

"Okay, okay, Tai'er, I wonder when you're going north?" Lu Zhi asked with a smile on his face.

"Huh?" Liu Tai nodded, and after thinking for a while, he said out loud: "Uncle, now that the northern Xinjiang is undecided, after Tanshihuai was killed, He Lian was promoted to the king of Xianbei, in order to stabilize the internal disputes in Xianbei, it will definitely be a disaster, in the name of revenge for Tanshihuai, he will raise troops to attack, and take the opportunity to control the military power of Xianbei in the central part of the country. ”

"Haha, Tai'er already has the demeanor of a military master, I still want to remind you, I don't want you to think of it yourself, okay, very good, I salute you." Lu Zhi laughed with more and more joy, if you count the identity, Lu Zhi is half of Liu Tai's mentor, how can he not be happy when he sees Liu Tai having such an opinion in military affairs?

"Drink together, drink together" Liu Tai replied with a smile, about the problem of Xianbei going south, it was not Liu Tai who came up with it, but Xun Yu, Xi Zhicai and others were rewarded by Tanma, and the three adults of Xianbei were all recruited to the central Xianbei royal court, and came to a very likely conclusion.

"Dare to ask the Marquis of Heaven, if Xianbei comes to the border again this time, in the opinion of the Marquis of Heaven, how many soldiers and horses will he bring?" Huangfu Song, who was most concerned about military issues on the side, asked with a frown.

Liu Tai frowned, a little difficult to answer Huangfu Song's question, according to Liu Tai's conjecture, this time the offense will definitely not be less, but it is also impossible to really have a large-scale battle with the Han Dynasty in a short period of time, after all, He Lian and Murong Feng are not fools, they have just lost ** 10,000 soldiers and horses, and when the morale of the clan is low, they came to pinch the tiger whiskers of the Han Dynasty.

"As little as 1340,000, as much as 200,000 or 300,000!" A fine light flashed in Liu Tai's eyes, looked at Huangfu Song, and said word by word.

"What??? Two or three hundred thousand?? "The officials present turned pale one by one, this battle is getting bigger and bigger, when the battle was originally called, it was only 30,000 people, and the battle of Linghe suddenly exceeded 100,000, and now....230,000?

"Impossible, Xianbei perennial foreign war, in the west and the Northern Xiongnu battlefield, in order to prevent the Northern Xiongnu counterattack, the western Xianbei has more than 100,000 people with strings can not be mobilized, the situation in the east is more complicated, not only has Fu Yu perennial war with it, the northeast of Louyi is also repeatedly surrendered, repeatedly surrendered, the central Xianbei to suppress the remnants of the Xiongnu in Mobei have 50,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the south can not go south, the previous Tianci Marquis is a battle to annihilate the main force of the Xianbei royal court 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses, in a short period of time, It is absolutely impossible for the Xianbei army of more than 100,000 soldiers and horses to move south. I saw Zhu Jun stand up, his brows furrowed deeply, and he said in a sonorous and powerful tone, as the military attache of the current dynasty, the existence of the second emperor Fu Song, what Zhu Jun said naturally has some truth.

"Otherwise, otherwise" Liu Tai shook his head disapprovingly, sighed, looked around at the hundred officials present and said: "If Xianbei shakes hands with the remnants of the Mobei Xiongnu in order to avenge the great revenge, and sends gold and silver to the knot, there will be 50,000 soldiers and horses here who can go south, and then transfer 50,000 soldiers and horses from the western battlefield, so that plus the remnants of the royal court, there are 150,000 or 60,000 people who control the strings, and Louyi and the Guanxi of Xianbei in the east are very ambiguous. Can't support the more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of Xianbei in the east, if the three are combined, the strength is at least about 2340,000, and these people who control the strings, fight against foreign tribes all the year round, compared to the elite soldiers of the Xianbei royal court is not worse at all, if it really goes south, my Han will have to send at least 300,000 soldiers and horses to block it from the Great Wall, well, the original border army can not be mobilized. ”

"This ......" I saw Zhu Jun sit back on the couch with a pale face, glanced at everyone, and found that most of them were like this, 300,000 troops, most of the border troops in the two states of Youji were a little difficult, and the Xianbei army was all cavalry, and the mobility was not comparable to the army of the Han army at all, if Xianbei continued to harass the border of the Han Dynasty, where would the border army be unable to mobilize? Is it possible to transfer all the county soldiers of the entire Central Plains to the north?

"Hey, this matter should be reported to Your Majesty immediately, if you don't respond as soon as possible, my big man will be in danger." Huang Wan, the lieutenant who was present, stood up with a look of urgency and said to the many officials present.

"It's okay..."Lu Zhi glanced at Huang Wan, shook his head and said, "In this war, Tai'er already has a plan in his heart, why bother me?" ”

"Huh?" The hundreds of officials present looked at Liu Tai with shocked faces one by one, and they really couldn't think of what way Liu Tai had to retreat from the enemy, more than 200,000 Xianbei troops, not 200,000 ants.

Liu Tai saw the eyes of the officials one by one, shook his head with a wry smile, and said with a confession: "This strategy is not suitable to say, in case it is known by Xianbei in my Han, I am afraid that the northern Xinjiang is really in danger..."

Seeing that Liu Tai refused to say it, the hundred officials present also knew that no matter how good the plan was, if it was known by everyone, what was the use? Xianbei and the Han have been at war all year round, and there are many spies and spies for each other, if the news is really obtained, everyone present has no good fruit, and naturally they don't dare to embarrass Liu Tai to say it, otherwise they will definitely become the target of the public.

But what everyone doesn't know is that Liu Tai really doesn't have any good strategy, he can only cover it with water and soil, and the soldiers will block, and now Liu Tai has not taken over the military and political power of Erzhou, I don't know how the soldiers and horses in Erzhou are, if Xianbei really goes south, Liu Tai may not be confident that he can fight Xianbei, but just to prevent Xianbei from breaking through the Great Wall and the northern defense line, Liu Tai is still confident.