It was just a casual remark, and Ma Lan didn't expect people to react like this. But when he thought about it, he understood.

Qiangtang bitter cold, Zhangxiong ten Dongdai is the highest place in Qiangtang, in later generations here is basically no man's land, Zhangxiong people here to earn their lives, the hardships of life can be imagined. Keeping their people from starving is an impossible task for them. And now his words give them great hope.

Capturing the valley may not make their people no longer starve, but if they conquer Tianzhu in the south, they will no longer starve, and they are naturally extremely willing.

Due to the constraints of this era, transportation and information were extremely underdeveloped, so although the Zhangzhung people lived in the upper reaches of the Indus River, they did not think of crossing the mountains to see downstream. In fact, as long as you push over from the outside Xiangxiong and conquer the land of the Tianzhu people, it is natural not to starve. So this sentence is not a lie.

Naturally, there is a road from Outer Zhangxiong to the south, and the merchants who come and go have never stopped, as long as they go, they can always get through.

"If we can stop going hungry, we're definitely going to go."

"Master Patriarch, you say, what do you want us to do!"

"Master Patriarch, how many troops can you send with us?"

“……”

The leaders looked at the map and shouted in a frenzy. At this time, these guys are showing a simple side. They may not be simple people on a daily basis, but when faced with such an opportunity, the joy is real.

Ma Lan waved his hand and said lightly: "I didn't tell you the conditions, I said it." That's an order. You must go if you wish. If you don't want to go, you have to go. Of course, as long as you go, I can guarantee that your people will never go hungry again. As for the army...... This time in the southern expedition, I will send someone to lead you forward, you must obey the command of my people, but in the matter of combat, don't think about relying on my army, you can only rely on yourself. If you can't prove your worth. What do you want? ”

poured a basin of cold water on the heads of the leaders, so that they understood that the Tang Army would not participate in it on a large scale, and the leaders listened, but there was not much backlash, they all nodded. What the patriarch said is very reasonable, this kind of thing can only rely on oneself, if it is all dependent on the Tang Army, their existence has no value, and if it is worthless, how can they get everything that the victor deserves?

"Stay here. That's it. Ma Luan's expression softened slightly, and he smiled. In this matter, let's go back and think about how many people your tribe can dispatch, and how many people's food and grass will be allocated to you by the General's Mansion after the report is reported. The king has already ascended the throne, so there is no need to stay here for long, and after reporting the number of warriors who can be dispatched, they will all go back to the tribe to prepare for themselves. When spring comes, someone will be sent to inform you when the troops are dispatched. ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and the eviction order was issued.

The order of the Southern Expedition is even if it is issued, and it is an order, so naturally the leaders are not allowed to object, but looking at the appearance of these guys, they are extremely happy.

After thinking about it for a while, what made them happiest was the sentence that ensured that the clansmen would no longer go hungry. Thinking of the life of the Qiang people on the plateau he saw, Ma Lan sighed, it was really not easy for these people to survive on this land.

The roof of the world is the forbidden area of life, and it is the height of the plateau. The Qiang people were born and raised here, and they don't know what the world outside of this land is like and how the people there live. From the perspective of a person from later generations, these people are really living too hard.

The Qiang people fought bravely, which is related to the poor life. When you are already extremely poor, there is nothing to lose. If they encounter an army with the same equipment, the Qiang people's combat power will be much stronger. Of course, the battle record in the face of the Tang army is another matter, the gap between the two sides in terms of weapons and armor is too big, and the only reliance of the Qiang people in the face of the Tang army is probably only the qi epidemic.

Although he sighed in his heart, he didn't have much sympathy for the Qiang people, after all, these are all foreign races, if the Qiang people are regarded as a whole, then there is a blood feud with the Han people. After all, it is not my race, and this time the Zhangxiong people attacked the Indus Valley, also to reduce the population of the Zhangxiong people above the Qiangtang. The war over the Indus Valley will inevitably cost many of the Zhangxiong people, which is a natural thing, and the Zhangxiong people are the dominant family above the Qiangtang, which is not what Ma Lu wants to see.

The leaders left, and there were only people left in the main hall from the Anxi army. Du Huancen looked at the extremely detailed map, and also sighed very much, saying that he didn't expect the general to take precautions and actually send Anxi to spy on such a distant area.

Naturally, the Anxi secret agent has never been to Tianzhu, but the Anxi secret agent has its own system, Du Huancen and Shen have little contact with each other, and Ma Lan does not break it, but it is also imminent for the Anxi secret agent to disperse to all parts of Tianzhu.

In this hall, several people stood on the edge of the map, listening to Ma Lu talk about the basic situation of Tianzhu. It is Du Huan and Cen Shen, although they have long been involved in Tianzhu, they don't know much about the actual situation of Tianzhu, Silla monk Huichao's "To the Five Tianzhu Records" is the first-hand information that can be obtained, and the Xinghu businessmen who come and go to this road to do business can only bring a scale and a half clawed news, and their knowledge is actually very limited, after all, this mountainous area is too big, and they are also advancing along the ancient road, and they have not gone too deep on both sides.

Ma Lan's advantage is that he read more books for a few years in his previous life, although what he did when he was disheartened at that time, and in the end, he inevitably jumped from the cliff, but what he read was engraved in his mind, and in this life, it became clearer and clearer, even if he wanted to forget it, he couldn't forget it.

In fact, he only needs to talk about a general idea, after all, the map has been marked in sufficient detail, that is, the lowest staff officer in the Anxi army - this has been slowly cultivated in the past few years - can also understand such a map, Du Huancen Shen is from a literati background, and has been trained for several years, things like sand table maps are extremely familiar, and there is naturally no problem in understanding it.

The two young wives stood beside them, Gao Qianqian listened very attentively, and Yang Youniang flickered her big eyes and watched on the side, but her eyes fell on her husband, and there was a hint of admiration in her eyes. This is the man she wants, the great hero who stands up to the sky, and she is only grateful for the choice that the master made for her.

Looking at this high-spirited man, she naturally remembered what the master said when she was in Tingzhou, and her mood couldn't help but be a little complicated, but on the whole, she still admired her man very much. She is an extraordinary woman, so she naturally doesn't want an ordinary husband, and the tall man in front of her has made her satisfied enough, no matter what it is......

Yang Youniang's little face flushed slightly, gently clamped her legs and quietly released, last night's incident was really ridiculous and embarrassing, there was at least a veil in the middle on the day of the wedding, but last night everything was unobstructed...... Thinking in her heart, she bit her lip lightly and glanced at her man, who obviously noticed her gaze and looked over with a smile, Yang Youniang hurriedly lowered her head, not daring to look again.

Ma Lan didn't care about such a child's attitude, but felt that this girl seemed to be more intimate than a few days ago. This is a good thing after all, in fact, he and her really don't get along much, the physical integration is more than the spiritual communication, there is a spiritual estrangement, this girl is closer to him, he is naturally happy.

After speaking, Du Huancen took several senior staff officers to look at the map carefully, and also put forward some of his own views. Gao Qianqian listened attentively, silently counting the numbers in her heart, determining the amount of materials needed for logistics. Now that there is no Doctor Feng, Ma Ling is not good at these, and these things have been transferred to her shoulders unconsciously. But for her, it came naturally.

At the beginning, Ma Lan led a large army to escort the coffin of the emperor, and she knew what the purpose was. Although the hereditary king of Moxi eventually became the unsatisfactory governor of Moxi, in Gao Qianqian's eyes, Moxi is the back garden of the Ma family, or the Moxi is the Ma family. Of course, she didn't know the cause of Dr. Feng's death, after all, she called Dr. Feng's uncle, and Ma Ling couldn't tell her about this, but since Dr. Feng was gone, she couldn't entrust Anxi's logistics support to others, and in fact, there was no suitable manpower, at least no one who could do better than her, so she took care of it herself. As far as she is concerned, she is the eldest lady of the Ma family, and since Qixi is the Ma family, then dealing with these affairs is to do things for her own family, and she should have her share.

She has actually been extremely tired in the past few years, and she has done too many things alone, and now she has officially passed the door, and marrying into the Ma family is also a matter of heart, and being able to truly become husband and wife with Brother Ma Lan is a matter of repetition of that ceremony. Following him and being spoiled by him day and night, her heart was happy, so she didn't feel so tired these days, and her mental state was much better.

Ma Xuan knows his own things, what he is most accustomed to is that the army directly crushes the past, relying on absolute strength to defeat the enemy at great speed, and there is intelligence, mobility, these things from later generations, this southern expedition to Tianzhu, but it is obviously different, he did not have more than a new army of Anxi sent over, so this war is destined to be a conventional war, the Tang army involved in the war has an overwhelming advantage, but the Xiangxiong people do not have such a big advantage. Therefore, he tried his best to listen to everyone's opinions, discussed with everyone, and determined the details of the matter, so that the specific matter slowly had an outline.

In fact, the most convenient thing is naturally that the Anxi New Army crushed it, but good steel should be used on the blade, and the core equipment of the Anxi New Army is still the Yuanrong crossbow, which can only be done by Li Xiu, and it cannot be repaired if it is damaged, which restricts the expansion of the new army. For the Anxi New Army, the most important thing is still the Great Eclipse side, not Qiangtang and Tianzhu.

The Buddhist civilization is a declining civilization, but the big food civilization has a vigorous vitality, for Ma Lan, the only thing that can compete with the Han civilization is the big food civilization, which is also the only opponent of the Han civilization. (To be continued......)