"My lord, there is an urgent report from Beilou Lanlai!"

The sound of the announcement from the distance from the guards interrupted Qin Dui's thoughts, and he was slightly stunned, Qin Dui immediately returned to normal, and a pair of hands also withdrew from the body of the second girl beside him, and after a slight groan, he said, "Let him come to my study." He motioned for the girls to leave.

At this time, there was an urgent report from Beiloulan, it must be a relatively heavy matter, and the girls got up with interest, Liu Rushi and Li Xiangjun's two daughters hurriedly sorted out some scattered clothes, and sent an autumn wave to Ailang coquettishly, and then they left.

After reading the letter, Qin Duan couldn't help but smile bitterly, although he hadn't completely forgotten about this matter, but he didn't expect that the Indian people would come to the door again at this time, it seemed that he blamed himself for being a little inconsiderate when he was in the imperial capital, he only knew how to grab benefits at that time, but he didn't take into account that he also needed to pay a considerable price to get benefits, especially in this bone joint.

Chen Deming's letter was to report to Qin Du the requirements of the nobles of the Hyderabad tribe of the Indean Kingdom, and it was also the fulfillment of the agreement reached between Qin Du and the envoy of the Inderabad in the imperial capital. The nobles of the Hyderabad tribe came one after another to ask Qin Duan to fulfill his promise, but they were all put on the grounds that Qin Duan had not returned to the territory and could not be the master.

But the persevering Indeans even sent envoys to the capital again to meet Qin Dui, asking Qin Dui to fulfill his promise, at that time Qin Dui also excused himself on the grounds that he had not yet returned to the territory, but at the insistence of the other party, he had to promise that he would give them a satisfactory explanation after returning to the territory.

How do you know that the Yindean people have such a keen sense of smell, probably they got the news as soon as they left Beijing, otherwise they wouldn't have found Chen Deming so quickly. Sooner or later, it will come. The problem is that the current chaos in the empire has appeared, and Beiloulan is in a relatively safe environment, which is a good opportunity to develop the economy and build it into its own rear, at this time, if it conflicts with the Punjabi and the Tik tribe behind them, will it affect their overall planning? This made Qin Duan a little distressed.

I carefully read Chen Deming's letter again. Qin Dui's heart slowly calmed down. In the past six months, as the de facto military commander of Beiloulan, Chen Deming has spent a lot of effort, especially the high-intensity suzhì and tactical training of the armed forces in the entire Beiloulan area, whether it is the two garrison divisions or the independent infantry division, the combat effectiveness has been greatly improved, and several divisions and regiments have also carried out several synthetic military exercises under the leadership of the first division, and the results are also quite good, which have been reported to Qin Duan in Zhuge Fang's intermittent letters.

But just with these four divisions, they wanted to challenge the Tik tribe, which was known as one of the three major tribes of the Indians, and Qin Duan was not so arrogant. The Tik tribe is known as one of the three major tribes in the Indean Kingdom. With a population of more than 20 million, and a Punjab tribe on the side, although the combat effectiveness of the Indian army was not favored by Qin Du, the gap in the number of the two sides was still a problem that had to be considered. As the saying goes, ants bite elephants to death, and the Indeans are not ants.

In addition to these reasons, Qin Dui also had the idea of drawing the 1st Division back to the Northwest County as a strategic general reserve when the time was ripe, so as to add a weight to his side in the upcoming war, if it really wanted to clash with the Indians. Then this hope will naturally come to naught.

But the demands of the Hyderabad tribes cannot be ignored, otherwise they will be able to raise tariffs once they revert. The impact on the past business interests is secondary, if the rumor of his untrustworthy and untrustworthy promises is revealed, his reputation in the Central Continent region will be greatly affected, which Qin Duan does not want to see, how can the reputation he has worked so hard to build up be destroyed casually? You must know that in this world, sometimes a good reputation can often be more conducive to the expansion of power. It is also more able to blind the eyes of many people, and Qin Duan has a deep understanding of this.

Another important reason is that the views put forward by Zhuge in the letter also moved him.

"No matter how good an army is in training, it is far less useful than the experience gained from experiencing a real war, because the ever-changing and sudden shapes and tests of life and death in a real war cannot be experienced by the officers and men of an army in ordinary training exercises. Without this, this force can never be called a real army. ”

"Well, Chen Deming, this kid is really good at making up reasons, obviously he wants to fight, but he still gives me this set of high-sounding reasons, but it makes a little sense."

While chewing the words carefully, Qin Duan muttered to himself with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "It seems that the officers of the First Legion are probably suffocated, so let him operate it well, I hope I won't be disappointed." ”

Spreading out the letter, Qin Duan picked up the pen and wrote six words on the snow-white paper as a reply: "Reasonable, well-founded, and modest!" Two points are heavily placed under the last two words.

The Bauhinia Pass Fortress is built in a flat place about 120 miles northwest of Shuangdui Fu City, which is on the throat road where the Indean Kingdom enters Loulan, about 20 li to the northwest into the territory of the Indean Kingdom, about 100 li to the northeast is the boundary of the Kuqa Kingdom, and in the southwest is the vast green sea swamp and the area where the five ethnic groups have lived for generations, which is really an extremely important pass.

After nearly a year of construction, the Bauhinia Pass Fortress has been built from scratch, and under the hard work of nearly 50,000 migrant workers day and night, a medium-sized fortress has begun to take shape. The fort gate was built in a grand way, spanning the trade route that extended from the northwestern kingdom of Indean, and it was clear that the intent of the planners was to hold off this important trade route, and it was one of the original intentions of the fort to have the inspectors of the tax collectors inspect the caravans that were evading taxes in the area.

The fortress is square, the west gate is slightly oblique, biased to the north, it should be called the northwest gate, the city wall on each side is about a thousand meters, in fact, it is not long, it can be regarded as a medium-sized fortress, there are not many residents living in the fortress at present, many administrative organs have not yet been established, except for a few people in the tax inspection department, but the garrison accounts for most of it.

It took less than a year to build such a fortress, and in addition to the work day and night, the strong support of the people of the surrounding five ethnic groups was also a reason. Of course, most of the fortifications on the fortress have not yet been installed, and many bricks, woods and stones are still scattered on the city wall waiting to be cleaned up, but this does not seem to affect the interest of the few people who visited and inspected the city wall. (To be continued......)