Hearing Guo Youzhi's inquiry, to what extent he wanted to fight this battle, Liu Hou said without thinking: "Of course, it is Zhi~ to smash Huanglong and wipe out these alien races in one fell swoop." After speaking, he waved his fist, looking full of ambition.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, may I ask what is straight~ pounding Huanglong?" Guo Youzhi asked puzzled.

"Uh" Liu Hou, who was full of ambition, was choked with saliva, and then remembered that the word straight ~ smashed Huanglong came from the mouth of Yue Fei in the Southern Song Dynasty, and now people have not heard of it, and there is no place name of Huanglong Mansion. So, he explained: "Oh, it means to fight all the way to their lair and completely destroy them." ”

"Your Majesty, please forgive Weichen for being blunt, I'm afraid it will be difficult for us to do this." Guo Youzhi.

"Why? Are our firearms not enough to defeat the barbarians, who lack even the tools of iron? Liu Hou asked.

"Of course, we can fight, our army is invincible in attacking cities and field battles, but the operations outside the Saiwai are different from the operations in the Central Plains, there are no cities to attack there, and there are no cities to defend. There are also no advantages or disadvantages of terrain, and there are flat steppe deserts everywhere.

Moreover, most of our army are infantry, and the Xianbei people are all cavalry, and the land outside the fortress is vast and boundless, and they can come and go up and down the grassland, even if our army wins a big victory, it cannot catch up, and if it loses, it cannot even escape. "Guo Youzhi.

"The forces of our five divisions are besieging them from all sides, so that they have nowhere to escape." Liu Houdao.

"It can't be encircled at all, there is no terrain on the grassland to use, and you can escape from any direction. No matter how many of us there are, it is impossible to enclose people's stations, as long as there is a slight gap, they can escape from the encirclement and quickly use the advantage of speed to escape.

And Your Majesty, don't forget, Weichen just said that the land controlled by Xianbei is more than 14,000 miles from east to west, and more than 7,000 miles from north to south. Most of these places are bitter cold places, for them, they can come and go freely, but for our army, it is a dangerous place where it is difficult to move an inch.

What should we do if they are defeated and wander around this land of thousands of miles? They don't even need to bring more food and grass, they go to get there, grab it, and eat it. And our army can't catch up with them, even if they can, such a long supply line is an impossible task. "Guo Youzhi.

"Moreover, even if we occupy a certain place, it cannot be considered our land, because there is no city to rely on, and there is no garrison, and the enemy can take the road at any time to reoccupy these places. On the contrary, it will cut off the logistics channel of our army, so that the front-line troops will become a lonely army. Deng Zhi also came out to join in the fun.

"What then? Isn't this battle going on? Watching these aliens slaughter us Han people in vain? Liu Hou said angrily.

"Your Majesty, now that the world is undecided, it is indeed not appropriate to make a big move. The minister suggested that these alien races should be stabilized with Huairou tactics first, and after the rebellion of Wei and Wu was pacified, they would recuperate for a period of time, and then use the strength of the country to pacify these alien races in one fell swoop. "It was Deng Zhi who made the suggestion this time.

"Oh? How to be gentle? Liu Hou asked.

"The practice of all dynasties is nothing more than two strategies, one is to reward, and the other is to be friendly." Deng Zhi said, "Your Majesty can crown these three Xianbei lords and Karasuma chieftains as kings respectively, and reward them with the grasslands near the Great Wall for grazing. As for the pro"

"As for harmony, it's better to let Lord Deng's daughter get out of the plug." Liu Hou said angrily.

"This, this" Deng Zhi was choked by the little emperor's words.

"What's wrong? Lord Deng, you are not willing to let your daughter go to that bitter cold place and be humiliated by those barbarians who are full of fishy smell, why are you willing to let the emperor's daughter go? Liu Hou stared at Deng Zhi and asked.

Deng Zhi said loudly: "That's not what Weichen meant, it's just that Weichen's daughter is not qualified to be a relative, and a pro must be a daughter of the royal family." ”

"Hehe, it's funny, fortunately I haven't given birth to a daughter yet, or I won't be killed by you bastards. You're smart, and it's easy to solve a big problem with a royal daughter. Anyway, no matter how you choose someone, it won't be chosen to your head, and the feeling is not that your daughter goes out to suffer, so you can casually mention such a bad idea, right? ”

"This, this, Weichen definitely doesn't mean that," Deng Zhi hurriedly argued.

"What does that mean? In vain, you are still a great Confucian who has read the Confucian classics. If you are a great Confucian, you must set an example. Master Deng, you are an example for the world's scholars, you should lead by example. Isn't it up to you to sacrifice the happiness of your family for the sake of the country and the people?

Why do you always let the royal family sacrifice? Isn't there a saying that 'the king is worried about the humiliation of the minister, and the king is humiliated and the minister dies'? It means that the emperor is in trouble, and the ministers want to help solve it, I don't know if I understand it this way, right? Now that the emperor's daughter is in trouble, do you want to help solve it? What's wrong with letting your daughter go out of the fortress and kiss instead of the emperor's daughter? ”

"This, this, Weichen's daughter is not qualified enough, and the Xianbei adults are not willing to marry Weichen's daughter." Deng Zhi wiped the sweat oozing from his forehead.

"You haven't tried how to know. I hereby declare that from now on, the daughters of the royal family of my dynasty will never go out of the palace and relatives, and whoever makes a proposal for peace in the future will let their daughters go. This is customized, starting from me, and future generations must follow it, otherwise my ancestor will not recognize him as a descendant of my Liu family. ”

Liu Hou's words were equivalent to announcing that the peace system had been abolished from now on, and the ministers did not dare to speak out against the emperor when they saw that the emperor was so excited once. The reason why Liu Hou was so opposed to the peace system was also influenced by the story of Zhaojun's exit from the fortress in later generations.

Although Zhaojun has made contributions to the further development and consolidation of the unity and friendly relations between the Han and Xiongnu ethnic groups, and has been famous in the annals of history and left a legacy for eternity, the main tone of Zhaojun's play in Liu Hou's impression is that it is miserable and miserable.

This is actually conceivable, from the warm and prosperous world of flowers in the Central Plains, to the bitter cold and backward foreign lands, all I met before were gentlemen who knew books and etiquette, and now I see Ru Mao drinking blood, N years without bathing, full of fishy smell of rough ~ Lu Hanzi, who can be happy?

There may be some princesses who have noble hearts and are willing to sacrifice for the sake of peace and friendship between the two races, but that is also a sacrifice after all. Liu Hou is unwilling to let a woman sacrifice for national affairs, let alone his own relatives.

He thinks that it is a man's business to protect his family and defend the country, maybe this is a bit machismo, but Liu Hou is such a person. When a bad guy comes, it's a man who should take up arms and fight the bad guys. Isn't it natural for a man to protect the property of the family and a woman?

What is it to sacrifice a woman's happiness in exchange for peace? Even ordinary people can't do this kind of thing. But at the national level, it was made high-sounding, and it was called "harmony".