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At this moment, a court discussion about the future has begun.

"I have just received information that the Xiongnu are gathering heavy troops in the Western Regions through the land of Dawan and preparing to conquer Da......xia again through the land of Dawan," Liu Che slowly introduced the situation to the ministers.

The Huns' westward expedition, the Han family had actually been prepared.

In Wuyuan, even the countermeasures and strategies of the Han dynasty after the Xiongnu's westward expedition were discussed every day.

It's just a pity that the Han family is still exploring and investigating the specific situation of the Hexi Corridor now, and the Western Regions are simply blindsided, and they only know about some well-known mountains and famous rivers.

If it is further away, it is not the intelligence that China can grasp at this moment.

The current Han family, except for the vague cognition of Daxia, Kangju, and Yueshi in the far west, knows almost nothing about that distant world.

Therefore, deduction and discussion are just talk on paper, drawing a target by yourself and hitting it yourself.

But this still could not cool the battle spirit in the chests of the generals a little.

As soon as Liu Che's voice fell, Zhijin Wuzhi came out to worship and said: "Your Majesty, since the Xiongnu pseudo-single is in the west, then its nest must be insufficient in strength, and the minister is willing to lead 10,000 light horses, from Longcheng out of Junji Mountain, and directly take the fake single in the court!" ”

The other generals and princes were also very excited.

Some people said that they wanted to copy the old nest of the Huns like Zhidu, some felt that they could start the Hexi strategy, and some even felt that they would simply wipe out the two pseudo-Danyu regimes at one time.

Hearing these words, Liu Che frowned slightly, waved his hand and said, "Now, it is autumn and August, and the heavy snow outside the Saiwai is coming...... The so-called words of sending troops can be put to rest! ”

This is also the main reason why the Xiongnu chose to march west in autumn and August.

In such a season, the main force of the Xiongnu marched westward, and the Han family had no way to stop and delay.

The wind and snow outside the fortress would help the Huns and leave the Han army in the vast grassland.

The lessons of the Battle of Pingcheng have not been forgotten by Liu Che.

Of course, if you really want to fight the Huns, it's not impossible.

It is enough to transfer the Protector Army from Anton, this army rooted in Andong is now completely accustomed to surviving in the ice and snow.

The wind and snow outside the plug are just daily for them.

Then strengthen the elite dragoons of the loyal army and the Lou Fu army to the Huhao army, so that it will completely form a sharp knife of 14,000 horsemen, and go straight to the heart of the Huns.

However, now it's too late to go and protect the Hao army.

Moreover, even if he could, Liu Che would not send troops.

Because, if Mu Nan didn't digest it, he would destroy the Huns, and Liu Che couldn't afford the chain reaction caused by this.

Since ancient times, one power has fallen and another power has risen in the grasslands, intertwined with each other.

Before the Han family is prepared and familiar with how to govern and rule the grassland, rashly scaring a decaying old king to death will only create a soil for the new king to rise.

So, the idea that the generals want to finish the battle is unrealistic.

Seeing the attitude of the Son of Heaven, the generals and princes all wisely chose to obey, and bowed one after another: "Your Majesty Fu Wei's holy judgment!" ”

At this time, the great Honglu Gongsun Kun Xie finally found an opportunity and came out to worship: "Your Majesty, Chen Kun Xie has a performance!" ”

"Tell ......" Liu Che smiled slightly, looking at Gongsun Kunxie.

In recent years, the Dahonglu Yamen has been increasingly marginalized, and its authority and responsibilities have been shrinking.

Even the establishment of government offices and officials have been continuously abolished.

Once, when the Dahonglu Yamen was strong, it had hundreds of large and small officials and thousands of servants and miscellaneous servants.

There are also many favorable policies.

But now, the Great Honglu Yamen is not much harder than a dead duck.

Today's Dahonglu Yamen, although it is still called Jiuqing, has basically lost all the privileges it had in the past.

His government offices were cut from five in their heyday to two.

The officials in the yamen have changed from hundreds at the peak to only a hundred cats and dogs combined.

In this Chang'an City, don't say that it is someone else, even the officials of the Dahonglu Yamen also look down on Dahonglu.

When going out, almost no one dares to say that they are officials of Dahonglu.

Every year, once someone is assigned to Dahonglu, it must be a sprinkling and rolling, and he will not go to office even if he dies, even if he goes, after two or three days, he will automatically hang up the seal and flee.

It is really this yamen, which has neither oil and water, nor power, or even a sense of existence.

Seeing that Da Honglu was in his hands, declining day by day, Gongsun Kunxi and his left and right sides were sweating profusely.

If, in their hands, the Great Honglu Yamen drew a sentence.

Then, in history, their names must be engraved in it.

That's not a good thing!

Therefore, in order not to let himself become the last Great Honglu, Gongsun Kunxi could only desperately make the last struggle.

Liu Che had heard that Gongsun Kunxie had been doing something particularly interesting since the Battle of Yan Ji last year.

Gongsun Kun Xie walked to the hall, bowed his body, and said: "Chen Kun evil died to play Your Majesty: Now the Xiongnu is pseudo-single in the west, and Your Majesty is worried that the family of Daxia may be turbulent......

After a series of patting horses, Gongsun Kun worshipped: "Although the minister is humble, when he hears His Majesty's will, he is still agitated, and he is willing to die for His Majesty......

This is not unexpected, in fact, in the past few months, many powerful factions of the Northern Xiongnu have secretly sent people to Longcheng to contact the Han family.

Although most people, in fact, are just here to leave a way back.

But there are really a few who are really willing to lead the way.

Therefore, the Han family was able to establish a simple intelligence network in the Makubei region.

But......

The real high-level Huns did not have a leading party.

At most, they just say good things and leave a channel for contact, and if they want to do other things, they will open their mouths and ask for all kinds of benefits.

Some even directly demanded that the Han family give them how many weapons, horses, and food they would invest in their rebellion against the false Shanyu.

There is no doubt that these people have come to touch porcelain.

Maybe they may have discussed it with Juli Lake.

Liu Che and the Han family, of course, would not be stupid enough to believe these words.

However, there was no complete refusal and rejection, since the other party wanted to drag, the Han family was naturally willing to drag.

Left and right, it is the Han family that now has the advantage and initiative.

It is no exaggeration to say that now the Han family wants to play, and the Huns have no other hole cards in front of the Han family in addition to geographical advantages and space advantages.

Because, just two months ago, the Han family had broken through a major obstacle that originally constrained the Han army's expedition - the difficulty of identifying the direction.

The Mohists developed the first compass with practical value.

The advent of the compass announced that the lost general would never appear again.

It also means that the Han Dynasty's ocean-going navigation career will open a new page.

At present, for the Han family, the biggest obstacle to solving the Xiongnu problem lies in the desert and distance.

The Gobi Desert, which stretches across the grassland, is like an iron curtain, blocking the road of the Han army's northern expedition.

If you want to break through this iron curtain, the price is too great for the Han family.

If you're not careful, you'll be wiped out.

Therefore, Liu Che has completely rejected any plan to attack from the grassland south of the Makunan to the north of the Maku.

In this way, the true expansion intention of the Han army was also exposed - to take Hexi first.

Once the Han army eliminated or subjugated the small Western Xiongnu regime in Hexi, then the Han army could move forward to the Western Regions and completely expel the Xiongnu forces from the rich Western Regions.

At that time, the Gobi Desert will no longer be an iron curtain to protect the Xiongnu, but a cage to imprison the Xiongnu!

The Huns would starve to death and die of thirst in the barren and bitter cold region of Mubei.

But if you want to conquer the Hexi Corridor, there are many difficulties and obstacles for the Han family.

First of all, the most important point is - what if the Han army attacks Hexi, and it is difficult for Hexi to surrender to Juli Lake of the Northern Xiongnu?

The Xiongnu Empire, which was finally dismembered, is likely to make a comeback.

You must know that although he is a bastard, he still has at least twenty or thirty tribes and a population of three or four hundred thousand in his hands.

Once these people run to the Makubei and the Western Regions, they will increase the power of Juli Lake.

So that the Northern Xiongnu can have more choices.

People really can't do it, and they can even learn from the Yue clan to move west.

Another is that at present, the Han family has not even controlled the south of the Munan, and if it is well managed, it can't wait to open a copy of Hexi.

This is tantamount to asking for trouble for yourself.

If you eat too much, you will have indigestion.

In particular, the matter of the grassland has been difficult to solve since ancient times.

Gongsun Kunxie naturally knows these things - after all, he is Jiuqing, although he doesn't have much power, but the relevant information and resources can be known.

Therefore, he didn't bother to talk much about the affairs of the north of the Mubei, but directly cut to the topic and said: "In addition to the Northern Xiongnu pseudo-Shan Yu, the minister also discussed with many nobles of the Western Xiongnu in secret, and the Western Xiongnu's Zhelan Wang Gutu and the right general Hu Yan extravagant slaughter, all said: If the king goes west, he is willing to ...... for the inside."

Liu Che laughed when he heard it.

I have to admit that Gongsun Kunxie is really powerful in fooling and hooking up with the Hun nobles!

It is commendable to do such a thing quietly!

In particular, most of the things that Gongsun Kunxi did were done when Da Honglu was already in decline.

This is all the more commendable.

Regardless of whether the things he did were useful or not, it was good to have this heart!

It turns out that bureaucrats are creatures who still have to be whipped with a whip before they can work hard.

Just like this Gongsun Kunxie, if Liu Che is not mistaken, he was a typical representative of the bureaucracy back then.

When he encounters something, he is busy throwing the pot, and if he has merit, he will desperately try to make it up, ask for power and money, and rush to the front, but he wants to do things, but he shrinks his eggs.

But now, Gongsun Kunxie has become the person with the strongest work enthusiasm and subjective initiative among the nine Qings of the Han family.

There is no way, if he doesn't get active and take the initiative, he will have to become the last Dahonglu and be remembered by the historians.

"If you knew today, why bother in the first place?" Liu Che sighed in his heart, if Gongsun Kunxi was so active and active from the beginning, where would it be the turn to get Zhidu and Zhao Yu?

Perhaps, Gongsun Kunxie can now compete with Chao Cuo.

It's a pity, one wrong step, one wrong step.

However, since he was willing to admit his mistakes, and made positive repentance, and also made certain achievements, Liu Che naturally wanted to praise and praise.

"Aiqing is doing a good job!" Liu Che stood up and said to Gongsun Kunxie: "I am very relieved, he gave Qing an imperial sword......

This kind of thing of giving swords has always been the favorite of the Liu family.

It is both economical and affordable, and it gives the minister more face than gold cloth.

When Gongsun Kun heard this, he hurriedly bowed: "Don't dare, I'm willing to leave for His Majesty's family......

It's just that......

Liu Che sighed and said to Gongsun Kunxie: "There are still some omissions in what Qing has done, don't you know?" The Western Huns can breathe so far, I deliberately kept it! ”

In fact, the small regime of the Western Xiongnu, as long as Liu Che is willing, will not live for more than a month.

There is no need to do anything else, not even a single soldier, just cut off the border city.

From last year to this year, the Han dynasty bought more than 30,000 cattle and sheep, 500,000 stone corn, and more than 200,000 stone wheat from the border city of the Han dynasty.

As well as cloth, tea, salt, iron pots and other materials.

In other words, in fact, it is difficult for the canal and the eagle to maintain their own rule, relying on the blood transfusion of the Han family.

Of course, the materials of the Han family are not so easy to get.

For these resources, more than 70,000 slaves and more than 20,000 gold were paid.

What's even better - he also castrated all male slaves according to the requirements of the Han family.

Today, the main force of the Weihe Caohe River project that is being dug and the chasm that is about to be dug - the Luoyang Canal project are these slave laborers imported from the Western Xiongnu.

Basically, these people are disposable consumables.

Moreover, it is the kind of consumable that does not have any side effects.

They will not have children and grandchildren, and they will not leave any traces in history.

As for the interior of the small regime of the Western Huns, it was even better.

From Shan Yu to the powerful nobles of various ministries, they have now been controlled by 'Yaosan'.

A group of big smokers, can they have the ability to fart?

Liu Che didn't even need to cut off the border city, cut off their loose supply, and these scum would roll all over the ground and be miserable.

Keeping this small regime is not because Liu Che has no intention of Hexi, but because Liu Che doesn't want to take Hexi now.

Before the affairs of Munan are not completed, Hexi is temporarily deposited to and it is difficult to carve, as long as this scum does not provoke Liu Che's bottom line, Liu Che will temporarily protect him.

And once the Makunan is digested, the end of the canal and the carving will come.