Chapter 462: One Door and Three Generals

On the north bank of the Yangtze River is the second division led by Guan Xing, in the war to destroy Wei, Zhang Bao sang the leading role, he just played a role in containing Zuò, which made him very dissatisfied, so he had to join in the excitement of this battle to destroy Wu, for Guan Xing, Zhang Bao These two guys who have played from childhood to adulthood, Liu Hou is not good at favoring one over the other, so he agreed to let him lead the Northern Route Army.

This has caused a very strange phenomenon, the commanders of the three routes of the war to destroy Wu are all Guan father and son: Guan Suo on the south bank, Guan Xing on the north bank, and the naval army in the middle of the river is led by Guan Gong himself. The father and son, one family and three generals, became the protagonists of this war to destroy Wu, and it was rumored to be a good story for a while.

However, Liu Hou said that this was definitely not deliberately arranged by him, but that the army was mobilized according to the actual situation, and this result was caused by carelessness. After Zhang Bao conquered Chang'an, he was stationed there and was responsible for the defense of the entire Guanzhong and Hetao areas.

As the imperial capital in the future, it is necessary to let a reliable and powerful army to defend it, Zhang Baogang personally laid down here, and his reputation is far and wide, and he is the best candidate to guard Guanzhong and Hetao.

Originally, Guanzhong didn't need so many troops to garrison, but with the Hetao, it was different. Originally, some unruly forces in the Hetao area were defeated by the Xianbei cavalry, and the people of these forces were not completely killed or all captured, and a small number of men and horses escaped.

These escaped people are in the rivers and lakes, some escape from the river loop, some live a peaceful life incognito, but there are also many who have fallen into the grass and turned into horse thieves. As a result, the First Division had something to do, and they were busy just suppressing bandits in the Hetao area, so Zhang Bao couldn't get away from going south to Jingzhou to grab credit.

Jiang Wei's Ninth Division followed the Xianbei cavalry into the vast grassland. The Xianbei cavalry was responsible for playing the front forward, and the 9th Division was in the rear. The land they conquered was very vast and required a large number of troops to defend it, especially the "Military Merit Department" established countless pastures and processing factories in the grassland, and these places required a large number of troops to maintain law and order.

This important task was also given to Jiang Wei's Ninth Division. The Ninth Division originally had 50,000 horses, and it was a division with a strict supernumerary, but it was not enough for such a few people to be scattered into the vast grassland, so Jiang Wei asked for some Wei prisoners one after another.

There were a lot of prisoners in Wei, and even though Liu Hou transferred a lot of them to Jingzhou to join the shipbuilding-related industries, he was still able to free up a lot of people for Jiang Wei, which allowed Jiang Wei's career on the grassland to be carried out smoothly.

After Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's army recovered Guanzhong, they were ordered by Liu Hou to go all the way to the west to reopen the Silk Road, and stationed in the west to guard the Hu people in the Western Regions and Tubo (it doesn't seem to be called Tubo at this time, what is it called?). There may not be a unified title yet, because there is no unified regime. ）。

Pang Tong has different opinions on this order, he believes that there are countless tribes in the Tubo region that are not subordinate to each other and are completely poisonous, and there is no unified state power at all, and these tribes have no ability to threaten the security of the Han Dynasty, so there is no need to waste troops here.

Liu Hou replied to him that there was no threat to this place now, but if a strong figure appeared one day and united these loose tribes, it would form a terrifyingly powerful country, and then it would inevitably become a big problem for the Han people.

In this way, it is better to hold this place firmly in their hands before they are unified. It is better for him to be the great man than to let other powerful people unify the region.

Pang Tong felt incomprehensible about Liu Hou's statement and thought that the little emperor was worrying about the sky. It is sparsely populated, the areas where each tribe lives are far apart, the productive forces and social forms here are very backward, and it is almost still in a slave society, or even a primitive society.

Even if there is a strong person, it is impossible to threaten the safety of Dahan without hundreds of years of operation. The point is that this place is a "cursed land", not only bitter cold and desolate, but also the Han people will be out of breath when they go up, and they will get sick and die easily, even if there is a cold, they will kill people.

In this case, sending troops into this area will inevitably cause heavy losses, and the gains will not outweigh the losses at all. Therefore, Pang Tong was extremely opposed to wasting the lives of his subordinates in this place.

Of course, Liu Hou knows that this is altitude sickness, and with the current medical conditions, there is no good way to deal with altitude sickness, only to resist and slowly adapt to these two paths.

If it was other subordinates, Liu Hou didn't need to explain so much at all, just give orders directly. The orders given by the emperor, you understand and carry them out, and if you don't understand them, you have to carry them out, this is the imperial society, this is the dictator.

However, for Pang Tong and Zhang Fei, the two old ministers, they can't help but explain. These two are important ministers left by Liu Bei, and they have a pivotal position in the court, especially Zhang Fei, who is his father-in-law and uncle, and he must speak well, and he can't give an order to let him carry out things unconditionally.

Therefore, Liu Hou had no choice but to send another letter to Pang Tong, first explaining to him the necessity of occupying the Tibetan region. For what I said earlier, this will become a henchman of the Han Dynasty, he can't explain too much, he can't say that there will be a Songtsan Gampo in the future, very powerful, very awesome, forcing Tang Taizong to marry a princess to him.

That's all about the Tang Dynasty, who would believe it now when I take it out. In the late Tang Dynasty, Tubo also invaded Chang'an, and now that he says it, who would believe that those primitive people had the ability to invade Chang'an?

Therefore, he added a reason, that is, this place contains ~ rich in various mineral deposits, and mining them in the future can make the Han more rich and powerful.

As for the specific mineral deposits, Liu Hou couldn't say, and could only say in general terms that there were gold, silver, iron, coal, and copper. As for why he knew that there were these mineral deposits there, he pushed them all on Zuo Ci according to the old method, saying that Zuo Ci watched the sky at night and found that there were golden light, silver light and treasure light from various mineral deposits rising to the sky.

Of course, Liu Hou is talking nonsense, he is just making up a set of rhetoric to fool the ancients, in fact, he himself does not know what mineral deposits are in this land, let alone where there will be mineral deposits.

All he had was a strong possession of the land. His possessiveness of land is comparable to that of the old ~ Maozi of later generations. Lao ~ Maozi is an expanding nation, and its possessiveness for land has almost reached a state of paranoia.

They don't care what is good or bad, anyway, they will occupy it first, and even in a bitter cold place like Siberia, where birds don't pull ~, they unceremoniously swallow it in one bite. Their non-picky eating of land has indeed paid off handsomely.

Later, after the development of science and technology, it was confirmed through exploration that Siberia is very rich in various mineral deposits, and it is not only a barren land, but also an out-and-out treasure land. I'm afraid this is something that the old ~ Maozi ancestors who encroached on these lands didn't think of.