Baili Wuji drew a circle on the map with his finger.

Zhu and Jiang stretched out their heads and saw that it was Zhou Guo.

Baili Wuji said: "From now on, the two of you can secretly sell grenades, mines, and firearms such as wheel guns in the warehouse to Zhou Guo every month in the name of smuggling, but the monthly amount should not be too much, and I will allow you to sell them for a year." I don't want the money I get, and the treasury doesn't accept this kind of black money, what I mean is that you two get 20% each, and the rest will be used to build a few large workshops and schools for the people of Padang, so that the children of Padang can have a future, how about it? ”

Jiang Jiliang and Zhu Pengliang hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Old man and others thank the emperor for Badong's father." ”

After the two left, Baili Wuji summoned Xu Shiming.

He confessed that the armory workshop privately provided some firearms to Zhu and Jiang every month.

And let Xu Shiming send the personnel of the intelligence network to join the caravan as members of the caravan to conduct topographic exploration of Lianggan, Guasha and Xizhou to make accurate sand tables.

and ordered Xu Shiming to arrange relevant details to carry out latent infiltration.

Now that a year has passed, Zhu and Jiang have not only earned a lot of money, but also brought a piece of news to Baili Wuji.

The Guiyi army of Gua and Sha Prefecture heard about the changes in the situation in the Central Plains and the Ming State's feat of recovering Yanyun from the caravan, and had the intention of annexing the Ming State, but because the Gua and Sha Prefectures were located in the middle of the Hexi Corridor, they were separated by the Ganzhou Uighurs and the Zhou State.

The road is impassable, and there is no way to talk about annexation, so Baili Wuji ordered Xu Shiming to strengthen the control of the Hexi Corridor.

Now the sand table of the Hexi Corridor has been made.

Hexi, I will definitely take you into my bag. Baili Wuji secretly said in his heart.

……。

Three years after the liberation. At the end of December, another year passed.

In this year, the strategic layout of the Ming Kingdom entered a new stage. Baili Wuji's mind began to shift to the northwest, Liao is a country with a vast territory and deep roots, there is no chance to come, and the best result of hard shaking is also a lose-lose situation.

Now the Ming State used the land of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures to hold the pass of the Liao army to the south, and removed the Northern Han regime that was in cahoots with the Liao State, and at the same time helped the Zhou State recover the five states of Dingyan. Tomorrow and Zhou have completed the ability to stop the Liao army from moving south.

Baili Wuji's current strategic layout is to eliminate the surrounding forces of Liao one by one, prevent the unification of Liao, and form a land with big ideas. Then try to weaken the national strength of the Liao State little by little, and eat it in the last bite.

In this way, the goal of reunification will be achieved, and the consumption of military strength will be reduced as much as possible.

Baili Wuji is quite satisfied with this strategic layout.

It's been a very comfortable year. The daughter has grown up. The son also has a son, the Ming State is getting richer and stronger, and the Zhou State is also friendly with the Ming State.

The most important thing is that Baili Wuji has straightened out the strategy of the Ming Kingdom in the next few years.

The first day of the first month of the fourth year of liberation.

Baili Wuji led the civil and military officials of the Ming Kingdom to the altar to worship the round altar of Sheji.

After the ceremony, Baili Wuji led the second queen and the second concubine to sacrifice to the ancestors.

Subsequently, Baili Wuji issued an order to reward the ministers of the DPRK and China, and distributed additional pensions to the families of the soldiers who died in the Ming Kingdom in recent years.

The monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom and the people were happy and peaceful.

It was also on the evening of the first day of the Lunar New Year that the monarchs and ministers of the Ming Kingdom received an urgent military situation. Yunyang, who was stationed in Chengdu Mansion, urgently reported to Jinling that Tubo had always been attacking. The four prefectures of Wen, Long, Wei and Ya were all attacked by the Tibetan army at the same time, and although the number of the Tibetan army was small, the people of the Ming State were all harmed.

Yun Yang didn't take the Tubo army's attack on the border to heart, so he immediately contacted Han Jixun, the defense envoy of Baoning stationed in Langzhou, and ordered him to lead his troops out of Jianzhou and divide his troops into two ways to block the Tubo army that came to attack Wen and Longzhou, while Yun Yang himself sent two soldiers to march into Wei and Ya respectively.

Han Jixun was originally the envoy of the Wutai Festival of the Shu State, stationed in Qianzhou, after Meng Changchan gave the emperor, Baili Wuji established the Ming State, and the military generals were not allowed to interfere in politics according to the system, Han Jixun was removed from the position of the Wutai Jiedu envoy, and the station was moved to Langzhou, and he was appointed as the defense envoy of Baoning, and the Gongwei Chengdu Mansion.

In order to compensate Han Jixun, Baili Wuji awarded him the third rank of General Zhaoyong.

The commander of the First Army, Yun Yang, was only from the third rank in terms of military position, and he was only promoted from the third rank of the general Dingyuan, but Baili Wuji ordered him to guard the Chengdu Mansion, thus giving him a temporary position - the right to know the affairs of the Chengdu Mansion.

In this way, Yun Yang had the power to order and mobilize Han Jixun.

After Yun Yang completed the deployment of troops, he thought that such an arrangement was quite thorough, but he didn't expect that not only Han Jixun's Baoning Army lost one after another, but even the two black flag troops under Yun Yang's old bottom also lost more than 1,000 people.

It turned out that the Tibetan army attacked the border with light cavalry and fled when it encountered the Ming army, but as soon as the Ming army withdrew, it continued to attack and rob the border people of the Ming State.

The Ming army sent troops to pursue again, but the Tubo army just did not fight a decisive battle with the Ming army.

In desperation, the Ming army had no choice but to go out of the border of the Ming Kingdom and chase it to the territory of Tibet. Because of this, because the terrain is not familiar and the local people do not support it, not only do they not support it, but they also keep reporting the movements of the Ming army to the Tubo army, so there are constantly small Ming troops intercepted and killed by the Tubo army.

Yun Yang was shocked when he heard the report, but he was in Chengdu Mansion and couldn't leave without permission, so he had to ask Jinling for help and ask for help.

Baili Wuji did not blame Yun Yang, although the Ming army lost thousands of people for no reason, but this kind of barbarian raids on the border has happened in all dynasties.

The reason for the defeat in this battle was not that the Ming army lacked combat strength, on the contrary, those barbarians were not only excellent in horsemanship, but also in terms of ordnance and equipment with the Ming army. As the saying goes, barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes, and the reason why the Tubo army temporarily gained power was because they were barefoot, while the Ming army wore a good pair of shoes.

The Ming army had people to protect, so it naturally had some scruples about arranging troops and marching to fight, and they couldn't make it even harder.

In the evening of the same day, the courtiers of the Ming State specially held a relocation meeting for this matter, and unanimously agreed to send troops to teach Tubo a lesson, so that it would know that the prince of Ma was three-eyed.

But the ministers had different opinions on who should lead the army to reinforce Chengdu Mansion.

Feng Daoshang played: "Shengshang, the Ma Jiyun Division of the Seventh Army of Gyeongju is the closest to Chengdu, and there are 40,000 troops stationed in Gyeongju. The minister thought that the Seventh Army should be transferred to reinforce Chengdu. ”

This proposal was seconded by the majority of ministers.

Baili Wuji slightly bowed his head.

However, a small number of ministers represented by Sun Guangxian and Xu Shiming had other views.

Sun Guangxian played: "Your Majesty, the Seventh Army has been stationed in Gyeongju for many years without fighting, and now that the Ming Kingdom has lost the first battle, it must not be lost again. The minister suggested that the special operations army Xu Shouren be sent to reinforce it. ”

Baili Wuji heard that the corner of his eyes swept Xu Shiming, and the old man Xu lowered his head, thinking something uncertainly. (To be continued......)