In Ganquan Palace, Emperor Jing did not wait for the news of Dou Ying's move in Chang'an City, but received an urgent report from Wu Kuai, the Taishou of Longxi County. After reading it, Emperor Jing frowned, handed it to Liu Che beside him, and consciously began to train Liu Che to handle government affairs.

Hexi Corridor! Liu Che put down the music in his hand and looked at Emperor Jing excitedly, his eyes full of ecstasy.

The Hexi Corridor is a choke point and strategic point leading to the Western Regions, an important part of the famous Silk Road in later generations, and a golden channel in the history of cultural exchanges between China and the West.

The high mountains of the Qilian Mountains are covered with abundant snow and glaciers, which melt in specific seasons of the year, providing a steady stream of living water for a large number of oases and cultivated land in the Hexi Corridor, nourishing and irrigating the Hexi Corridor, which is rich in water and grass and rich in products.

Today's Hexi Corridor is a nomadic place for the Xiongnu, and the Xiqiang tribes here are all subject to the Xiongnu. The Xiongnu were strong, and Mao Dunshan Yu had "broken Donghu, walked the Yueshi, shocked the barbarians, and surrendered to the Qiang". At that time, the Han Dynasty was initially established and was unable to carry out a counterattack against the Xiongnu. In order to cut off the road leading to the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu attacked Guanzhong from the east and west, trying to connect with the Xiqiang chieftains in the south. The Han Dynasty, on the other hand, cut off the Xiongnu from Xiqiang as an important defensive measure.

Xiqiang, from Sanmiao, is another branch of the Qiang people, and lived between Hexi, Cizhi River and Huanghe River after three generations. After a long period of migration and differentiation in the pre-Qin period, the Qiang people who entered the Central Plains have basically merged into the Han people, and the Qiang people who have not entered the Central Plains are mostly scattered west of the Great Wall, especially in the Hehuang area, except for some who live in Longxi.

Just when Liu Che was worried about how to open up the Hexi Corridor, he got a great news - the descendants of the Qiang tribe were left to be enslaved by the Xiongnu nobles, and led the people to ask to be attached to the Longxi fortress for the Han Dynasty.

"What is my father's plan?" Liu Che asked.

Emperor Jing didn't understand why Liu Che was so excited, after all, there were many Qiang tribes who had previously attached to the Han Dynasty and moved into the Central Plains, but it was of little use, but there were many conflicts with the Han people in the border area, and then he replied lightly: "Since it is a request to be attached, you can move Liuhe and his research Qiang tribes to Longxi County together, and arrange them to live together in the five counties of Didao, Angu, Lintao, Didao, and Qiangdao, and live together with our Han people to guard the northwest frontier." ”

"Father, the sons and daughters think that moving them into the customs will do more harm than good, and they can't do it." Liu Che didn't want to transform Liuhe Qiang into a farming nation like the Qiang people who had been attached to him before, it was too wasteful!

Emperor Jing was stunned when he heard this, shook his head and said: "I also know that this move is not beneficial, and it will even harm the local Han people, but if I don't accept to stay and belong to him this time, I am afraid that it will chill the hearts of the Xiqiang tribes who want to return to the Han Dynasty." ”

"My father misunderstood, the son didn't want to refuse to stay and belong to him, he just didn't want his clan to move into the pass."

"Oh? Do you have a good plan? Emperor Jing knew that Liu Che would never be untargeted, and he suddenly became interested.

Liu Che nodded and said, "Erchen has some ideas, which still need to be considered, and he will prepare a recital and present it to his father." ”

Emperor Jing suppressed the curiosity in his heart, and then told Liu Che to go back and think about it carefully, but he tossed and turned all night and couldn't sleep at night.

The next day, Emperor Jing couldn't wait to finish reading Liu Che's "Six Strategies for Pingqiang", his hands couldn't stop trembling, it was too bad! Emperor Jing knew how much turmoil this piece would cause once it leaked out, and this was a desperate plan for the sword to go sideways. After thinking about it for a long time, Emperor Jing gritted his teeth, but he still couldn't make up his mind.

Liu Che was not in a hurry, he just stood aside, waiting quietly, he knew that once these strategies were implemented, Emperor Jing, as a decision-maker, might be left behind for ten thousand years. Of course, he is confident that he will rewrite history as the ultimate victor. Even if Emperor Jing doesn't adopt it now, it will be implemented after Liu Che ascends the throne in the future, and now it depends on whether the emperor's father has the courage to take this black pot first.

Emperor Jing forced himself to calm down, opened the "Six Strategies of Pingqiang" again, and listened to Liu Che's detailed explanation.

1. Open border trade, trade with the Western Qiang tribes, and exchange livestock and Qiang slaves. They no longer moved the Xiqiang tribes inward, but used them as mercenaries, stationed outside the pass, and promised to exchange a large number of eliminated ordnance, grain, grass and luxury goods for large livestock and Qiang slaves to raze and raze. Driving the Xiqiang tribes to attack other tribes can not only weaken their war power, but also create hatred within the Xiqiang and disintegrate the already fragile trust and ties between the tribes.

2. Recruit rangers and set up a Xiqiang slave hunting team. The rangers in the early Han Dynasty were actually hooligans, bandits, robbers, criminals and other social garbage. Don't underestimate these social garbage, in the era of cold weapons, these social garbage still have a lot of ability to fight alone, if you can make good use of these social garbage (for example, Tsarist Russia will make good use of these social garbage to open up Siberia and the Far East for the Tsar), with a fierce general to put it in the frontier area after a certain amount of training, tell them that here they can rob and kill aliens at will and the proceeds of the robbery belong to them, they only need to admit that they are subordinate to the Central Dynasty. In this way, it can not only reduce domestic contradictions, but also contribute to the defense of the border areas without the need for central finance, and can open up the territory.

3. A large number of high-priced Xiqiang slave girls were purchased. Against nomads, it is useless to kill their men, because men can have many women, and if men kill again, the population may also reproduce normally. But reducing the number of women is different, it can directly affect their fertility rate, and it is okay to have more women than others. Therefore, they can spend money to buy their women, and at the same time, Liu Che will also speed up the process of the Han textile industry, which just needs a large number of female slaves.

4. Build forts, burn grasslands, and fortify the frontiers. Dispatch the military and civilians to distribute land, grain, grass, seeds, and agricultural tools, burn pasture grass to open up wasteland, build cities, and integrate the military and civilians to reclaim the borders. On the one hand, it can destroy the growth of forage outside the border city, and at the same time, it can provide a small amount of grain and grass for the border army and reduce the dependence on logistics. In order to prevent the plundering of the Xiqiang and the Xiongnu, it is necessary to achieve a cross-force deployment network of one fort for ten miles and one city for one hundred miles, and watch over each other. Trenches and traps were dug between the cities, horses were placed, thistles were sprinkled all over the city, and a large number of crossbows and other defensive equipment were distributed, and the walls were ready to clear the wilderness at any time, so that the invading nomadic cavalry and war horses starved to death under the high border walls.

5. Build roads, improve logistics, and expand the border army. Use the Xiqiang slaves obtained to build a road from Xi'an to Longxi, so that the elite cavalry of the Han Dynasty can rush to the border city as quickly as possible. At the same time, military merit titles will be distributed, but all merchants who can deliver military supplies to the border army can obtain corresponding military merit titles depending on the size of their merits, and the highest can be crowned marquis. In this way, the logistical pressure was greatly reduced, and the border troops that could be expanded by 100,000 were enriched into the newly built fortresses and border cities.

6. Contaminate water sources and spread plagues. Secretly dispatched capable men to transport the livestock that died of the epidemic to the depths of the grasslands of the Hexi Corridor and put them into various water sources, causing a large-scale epidemic to break out in various parts of the Xiqiang Corridor. Hoarded a large number of medicinal materials and doctors in the border cities, strictly prevented the spread of the epidemic to the Han Dynasty, and increased the trade of medicinal materials and grain and grass in the border trade, taking advantage of the fire to loot, and wantonly plundered the population and resources of the Xiqiang tribes......

"It's rare to be so decisive at such a young age. I, the son of heaven, the great Han Dynasty, if I am afraid of being infamous through the ages, and I miss Sheji, how can I have the face to see my ancestors a hundred years later? After listening to Liu Che's explanation, Emperor Jing looked thoughtfully at his firm little face, and sighed, "That's it, that's it!" Give me ink! ”

In Liu Che's excited and admiring gaze, Emperor Jing re-transcribed an edict in accordance with the "Six Strategies of Pingqiang", hidden some of the disgraceful strips, and then slowly but firmly covered the jade seal, so that the palm print eunuch Sun Quan ordered the whole country as soon as possible.

In later history books, this "Six Strategies of Pingqiang" is regarded by historians as the turning point of the Han Empire's transition from defense to attack, resulting in a millennium-long debate, and Emperor Jing became the most controversial emperor in Chinese history. Why this gentle and frugal "Sven" emperor in the first half of his life suddenly promulgated such an "evil edict" that can be regarded as annihilating the world has become an insoluble mystery for the ages. As the initiator, Liu Che has always been hidden behind the scenes, and he has not been seen by historians.

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