In the eyes of Xun You and others, Lu Bu's tiger must be eliminated, and the so-called "being Dou Rong" is just a delaying tactic - if Lu Bu really puts down his territory and arms, and runs to Anyi to claim his vassal to Cao Cao, isn't it a matter of words to clean him up?

However, it was Xun who actually built yì Jiang Gan to persuade Lu Bu to "go west and become the king", where is this going? No one would have thought that Lü Bu would go all the way west, from Asia to Europe, to bring calamity to the Roman Empire - because no one except Shixun had this concept of geography - they could only think that Lü Bu would be killed in the Western Regions. The problem is that the place is remote and vast, and the Chinese whip is beyond the reach, if Lu Bu can really stand on his feet, when the time comes, he will gather the servant armies of the countries of the Western Regions and then kill them back, it will be a disaster for China!

China began to pass through the Western Regions from Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the original purpose was only to break the arms of the Xiongnu, and then built the Western Regions to protect and protect all countries, but also to prevent the resurgence of the Xiongnu forces. The "Silk Road" linked Europe and Asia and played a very important role in promoting the development of human history in the entire Old World, but no one could see it clearly due to the limitations of the times and the natural vision of the Central Plains. Although luxury goods from the Western Regions were popular among the upper echelons of society, they were not a treasure for traditional scholars; The exotic products from the Western Regions promoted China's local economic development, and the traditional scholars turned a blind eye. Therefore, for them, the Western Regions only have a strategic purpose, and at the political level, foreign vassals come to the court, and there is light on their faces.

It's just that under the premise that the Xiongnu are no longer enough to trouble, few people pay attention to the Western Regions anymore. Theoretically, that kind of wild land. I really want to throw Lu Bu over. It's no different than exile. Why not?

It's just that Xun You, Jia Xu and others are not short-sighted people after all, they can see a deeper problem. Although the Western Regions cannot be compared with China, the region is also extremely vast, and no matter how sparse the population is, there are still more than a dozen or even hundreds of thousands of households. In the past, the Xiongnu gained the Western Regions and became rich, but they could invade the Central Plains, and if they lost the Western Regions, they were poor, and they were finally beaten to pieces by the Han army's Northern Expedition for many years. So. If a tiger like Lu Bu is really sent to the Western Regions, will it become a new generation of Northern Huns in the future?

At that time, I'm afraid that Yumen will not be enough to defend, and Liangzhou will also be in danger.

So they comprehended Shi Xun's eyes, and did not refute them for the time being, and after sending Jiang Gan away, they hurriedly asked in person: "Why did Hongfu say 'go west and be the king'?" If Lu Bu gets the Western Regions, it may be difficult to replicate it. ”

Shi Xun smiled slightly, and immediately answered their questions: "The cloth is in Liangzhou, and it is quite difficult to control. Defeat or ease. It is difficult to destroy it, and the soldiers are in trouble. I'm afraid it's no less than the chaos of the past. Han is in decline, Wei Qidu is avoidable? ”

With our Cao Wei's current military strength, as long as we recover and recuperate for another two or three years, it is not difficult to defeat Lu Bu, the problem is that Liangzhou is vast, Hu and Han live together, and Lu Bu is good at using cavalry, if he really can't beat it, he will run, and when he is finished, he will come back to harass him, I am afraid that it will be difficult to completely calm down for another few decades - how many years did Ma Teng, Han Sui, and Song Jian toss in Liangzhou at the beginning? Isn't Lu Bu's energy even higher than those three?

"If you go west, you may not be able to truly king the Western Regions for the rest of your life. Now that the countries of the Western Regions have been annexed, the small ones are vassals, and the big ones are seven or eight, how can Lu Bu be hastily decided? That is, can An drive them to invade China? Coming soon, the army is in Yumen, and now and the war in Liangzhou, which is easier? ”

Do you think that Lu Bu is really so easy to be like the Huns in the past, and he will soon be able to pacify the Western Regions? Today's Western Regions is different from that time, at that time, there were dozens of large and small countries, and their forces were scattered, but they could be broken one by one, and now under the mutual annexation, there are seven or eight large countries equivalent to a county or even a state in China, and Lu Bu has to fight for many years. Well, even if he is lucky enough to be able to pacify the Western Regions quickly, it will take time to govern it, so how can he lead the troops and horses of the Western Regions countries back to invade China? Take a step back, even if he really comes, then when the time comes, send troops to block the Yumen passage, and we will send troops to fight with Lu Bu for Liangzhou in the past few years, which is simpler?

Jia Xu listened to Shi Xun's explanation, and couldn't help laughing: "Hongfu wants to indulge in the cowardice, so that future generations will care?" "You want to throw difficult problems to future generations to solve, right?

Shi Xun said with a smile: "The Han Dynasty is represented, China is divided, and there is no one of the three in today's household registration compared to Yongyuan." However, if the king of Wei is defeated and returned to peace, he will be ruled in twenty or thirty years. Then China is stronger, and the Western Regions may not be stronger, so why be afraid of Lu Bu? "As long as we stabilize China, our strength will naturally become stronger and stronger, and it is necessary to worry that future generations will not be able to defeat Lu Bu?

Although he explained this in his mouth, it seemed that it was just to get Lu Bu out of the Central Plains, so that the country could be unified as much as possible and production could be restored as soon as possible, but in fact, it was not exactly the same as what he thought in his heart. The occupation of the Western Regions by a certain force may indeed pose a certain external threat to the Central Plains Dynasty - although the intensity is much lower than that of the northern nomadic states - such as the later Tuyuhun, Gaoche, Rouran, Turkic, and so on. But with the 2,000 years of historical experience of later generations, Xun knew that China's disasters were mainly in the north, north and west, and the disaster was tragic at the beginning, unless Lu Bu was not satisfied after taking the Western Regions, and then sent troops to pacify Mobei, otherwise it would really not be too strict to cause any consequences.

Especially with the traditional policy of the Central Plains Dynasty to foil and guardian the countries of the Western Regions, at most a few thousand garrisons were sent to guard there, and if there was really a strong external force to intervene, it would not be able to stop it at all. However, the terrible thing is that since before the Song Dynasty, most of the external forces that were enough to meddle in the Western Regions came from Mobei, that is to say, Lu Bu took Mobei from the Western Regions, which is just a historical assumption that no one has ever completed, and the annexation of the Western Regions by the Mobei nomads is a historical fact that is about to be fulfilled repeatedly.

It's still those names: Tuyuhun, Gaoche, Rouran, Turkic, and then there are Hui, Khitan, and even Mongolia......

Shi Xun knew that this series of westward migration trends would begin to be staged in less than a hundred years, and the Xianbei, Rouran, Gaoche, and Yanda tribes would successively kill from the Mobei grassland to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and start a long-term struggle in the Western Regions. In front of these barbaric and backward nomads, what Cheshi Hou Wangbu, and even Yanqi, Qiuzi, Shanshan, etc., all the great powers in the Western Regions today. There is almost no resistance at all. It was quickly bulldozed......

Rather than let those nomads occupy the Western Regions. Repeatedly ravaging the Silk Road, it is better to let us Han people occupy it. No matter how rude and uneducated Lu Bu is, he is still a Han after all, isn't he? It is certain that for a long time, the Chinese language, Chinese characters, and the Central Plains civilization will still be able to occupy a dominant position in the vast Western Regions, even if they are assimilated and integrated in the future. It will inevitably leave an indelible mark.

That's an important legacy that will affect future generations.

Besides, the Silk Road is difficult to travel, and just having a Western Regions is really so easy to disturb the Central Plains in the east? Even if the huge Western Liao was bent on going east to restore the country, didn't he still run halfway and return without hurting a single hair of the Jurchens......

Therefore, based on the above considerations, he will build yì Jiang Gan to lead Lu Bu to the Western Regions. In fact, originally in the name of rebuilding the capital of the Western Regions, he wanted to lead Lu Bu's eyes to the west, and Xun You, Jia Xu and others wanted to take this opportunity to seize Liangzhou. If Lu Bu is really trapped in the Western Regions. If he can't come back to save Liangzhou for a while, will he not have to stay in the Western Regions in the end? Whether it is Liangzhou or the Western Regions. It's not Xuzhou after all, where is it so easy to surround Lu Bu, who is good at maneuvering, and then make his generals surrender? Rather than be in the West in the future and be unable to calm down for a long time, it is better to let Lu Bu take the initiative to move to the Western Regions and let Liangzhou out.

Of course, some of the ideas were built on the basis of future history, and it was impossible for him to explain them to Xun, Jia and others, so he had to say, "It is not a disaster to settle in the Western Regions, and it can also be peaceful in China, so don't worry." ”

Jiang Gan and Jiang Ziyi just had the secret plan of Shixun and went to Liangzhou to lobby Lu Bu. But he is not an ordinary lobbyist after all, but a "between", it is impossible to persuade Lu Bu to surrender to Cao or go west immediately when he arrives at the place, he must first observe and understand Lu Bu, and at the same time strive to win Lu Bu's trust, then speaking is enough weight.

On the surface, Lu Bu seems to have really trusted this Mr. Jiang Ziyi, but through Guò observation, Jiang Gan also found that this Lu Liang Gong was proud by nature and unwilling to be subordinate, and it was estimated that the possibility of moving him to surrender to Cao was very low. Jiang Gan also discussed with Yang Fu, Jiang Xu and others in private, and those Liangzhou scholars all thought that Lu Bu was not only not the master of the world, but even an ordinary magistrate was not good, if he was not the Liangzhou pastor ordered by the imperial court, and then Liang Gong, the righteous name was in his hands, Yang, Jiang and others would not serve him. The main purpose of these Liangzhou people assisting Lu Bu is to stabilize the township, and they really don't want to do anything big with Lu Bu.

Therefore, it is estimated that Lu Bu refuses to surrender, and wants to rely on Liangzhou to confront Cao Cao, as long as he is not allowed to join forces with Liu Bei, he should not have much chance of winning, which is worry-free. In this case, then you might as well try the second plan given by Shi Xun to send Lu Bu to the Western Regions.

It just so happened that today Lu Bu sincerely asked about the plan, and Jiang Gan carefully considered the pros and cons, and finally explained this statement.

However, it seems that Lü Bu is not very interested in this strategy, and he frowned at the moment: "Lonely Chinese, King Aneng is in a foreign country?" ”

Jiang Gan took retreat as advance, and lay down to check again: "It's a lie, and the lord forgives the sin." Since the lord did not want to hear this, he retired. ”

Lu Bu hurriedly grabbed his hand and said Don't mind, why do you want me to go to the Western Regions to be the king, please tell me more details, if it really makes sense, I, Lu Fengxian, am not a person who can't listen to persuasion.

So Jiang Ziyi smiled slightly, and immediately replied: "'Under the whole world, it is not the king's land; On the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister. 'The lord and the Chinese will stay in China, then he will be a prince or a courtier, how can he be?' The construction of the public is also, in order to make the King of Wei Jin Jue's ear, not a long-term system. The king of Wei is the king because of the king, and the emperor will be the emperor in the different days because of the king, and the main public security can follow suit? Moreover, since the Qin Rebellion, those who have different surnames and kings are all in different places, and the lord wants to be the king of China, but what? ”

Since you want to stay in China, then there are only two identities to choose from, one is the emperor, the other is the subject, since you can't be the emperor, how can you not bow the knee to the future emperor Cao Cao? Do you want to be a duke all the time? That's impossible, this was originally an excessive temporary setting in order to allow Cao Cao to be the king, and it can't last long. If you want to be a prince and a king, it's impossible, think about it, since the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty, who has a different surname and is crowned a king, which one can have a good end?

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, almost all the kings with different surnames were exterminated by Liu Bang, and Zhu Lu was named king, and he also lost his head one after another. If you want to be a prince with a different surname in China, the difficulty is not ordinary.

"If you don't have the king of China, but the king is in a foreign country, then the history is written, and you can be safe." (To be continued......)