The local guards of Eastern Wu have an inextricable relationship with those court members and clan forces, and some people are directly people from local clans, so the persuasion letters of those court officials are still very effective. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Han army's acceptance of the remaining territory of Eastern Wu was much smoother than the original acquisition of Wei's territory. In the past, to accept the territory of Wei, it was necessary to use a large army to suppress the territory and use the method of force and coercion, but to take over the territory of Eastern Wu, it was basically a peaceful liberation, and there was no need to send many troops at all, and many times it was enough to send a messenger or lobbyist.

Of course, this also has a lot to do with the fact that the general trend of the world has become clear, and now the re-emergence of the Han is inevitable, and anyone who wants to fight against the rolling wheel of history will definitely be crushed to pieces. Those local guards are not stupid~, they have seen this problem, and of course they will not do stupid things again.

At this time, even if the world is unified, the current territory of the Han Dynasty has been restored to before the Yellow Turban Rebellion, or even larger than that time, at least some areas of the northern grasslands and Tubo were not controlled by the Han Dynasty before, and now the Han army has invaded these places and has begun to operate.

Although it is said that the Han Dynasty has been unified, the war has not stopped, and there is still war in the direction of three and a half years. The first direction is the northern grassland, and Su Li is leading the Xianbei cavalry to sweep the northern grassland. The grasslands are vast, and I don't know how long this clearing process will last.

The second direction is the Tubo Plateau, where Zhang Fei and Pang Tong's corps are slowly advancing. This territory is also quite large, and the key is that the climate of the plateau is difficult for the Han people to adapt, so the speed of advance is also quite slow, and the war here will not end in a short time.

In the same way, the third direction is Jiaozhou in the south and further south, that is, the southeast peninsula in later generations. It's not a big place, it's not a big government, it's not a big army, it's a small country and an indigenous tribe, but the climate here is very bad, it's full of rainforests, and the environment is very harsh.

All kinds of plagues and miasma are rampant here, and the number of non-combat deaths of the Han army here is much higher than the number of battle losses. If it weren't for Gao Ding's continuous absorption of local natives into the army, and if it weren't for Liu Hou's dispatch of a large number of medical personnel to accompany the army, this southern expeditionary army would have been wiped out long ago.

A large number of barbarians are scattered in the reckless jungle, and it will not take a year and a half to completely conquer this land. It is no exaggeration to say that the conquest here is not easier than the conquest of the Central Plains.

There is also half a direction in the east, in the East China Sea, that is, going out to the East China Sea to hunt down the monarchs and ministers who fled from Eastern Wu. Because this direction needs to wait for the completion of the construction of sea ships and the completion of the formation of the navy before it can begin, and now the war in this direction cannot be carried out for the time being, so this can only be regarded as half a theater of operations.

Many Confucian scholars in the DPRK and China advised Liu Hou to end the three wars as soon as possible (the war in the East China Sea has not yet begun, it is still under secrecy, and only a few important ministers in the DPRK and China know about it, and the ordinary courtiers do not know, they think that there are only three wars), and shift the focus to the country, they believe that now is a good time to do a good job in domestic construction and create a peaceful and prosperous era.

They also talked a lot about the reasons, such as "although the country is big, the belligerent will die", what "the army is reckless, the soldiers are deflated, the soldiers are not declining, and they see that I am seriously ill", and what "the world has been in chaos for a long time, the people are unbearable, the people's minds are at peace, and it is advisable to rest and recuperate to support the people's livelihood" and so on.

Liu Hou felt a headache when he heard these great truths. In order to dispel the concerns of these ministers, the key is that he doesn't want to be written as a tyrant by these people in the history books~ Liu Hou had to patiently explain to them that this is not a reckless force, but to seize the living space for future generations.

The so-called reckless use of military force not only consumes a large amount of material wealth of the country, but also sacrifices a large number of young and strong lives in the country, so that the industrial and agricultural production in the country is destroyed because of the lack of labor. This is tantamount to a continuous drain on the vitality of the country, and in the long run, the country will be in a state of distress, in which case of course the country will face the possibility of overturning.

First of all, these three wars not only did not consume the country's resources, but on the contrary, resources and wealth were continuously imported into the Central Plains, making the Central Plains profitable.

Needless to say, in the northern grasslands, Suli's Xianbei cavalry plundered every tribe they conquered, and the plundered things were in the form of "unequal transactions", so that more than half of the profits flowed into the "military merit office", and then transferred to Liu Hou's money bag.

The cattle and sheep raised in the pastures continue to produce milk, meat, skin, wool, tendons, bones, etc., which are either used as raw materials or processed into finished products into the Central Plains.

The conquest of the Tibetan Plateau was the same, not only to plunder a large amount of gold and silver wealth, but also to cattle and sheep and their by-products. A number of mineral deposits have also been explored there for future exploitation.

The benefits of the conquest of Indochina were not small, in addition to the large amount of timber, the key was rice. The rice in that place is harvested three times a year, and if a large amount of rice had not been plundered from here and transported back to the Central Plains, the Central Plains would have been fighting endlessly for many years, and there would have been a famine.

Of course, the Indochina Peninsula is a place rich in resources, and others don't know, but Liu Hou knows very well in his heart, at least, he knows that somewhere contains ~ most of the world's jade and jade, which is a secret that no one knows yet. He made up his mind that this place must be in his own hands.

The continuous import of various materials from these three directions greatly enriched the material wealth of the Central Plains and greatly improved the quality of life of the Han people.

As for the loss of young and strong human lives, there is indeed a point, how can there be immortals in war. However, in fact, in the wars in these three directions, not many Han soldiers died in battle, and more losses were due to the non-combat attrition caused by the harsh environment and disease.

Servant armies were now heavily used in all three battlefields, and there were very few cases of Han soldiers directly participating in the war. In the northern grasslands, it was originally the Xianbei cavalry as the main force of the battle, and later, as more and more prisoners were captured, many times the Xianbei cavalry was too lazy to do it, and they let the servant army composed of those prisoners rush to the front.

The same was true on the battlefield of Tubo, where Pang Tong organized some captured Tubo, Qiang and other Yi people into a multi-way servant army, and when there was a war, these servant armies were also allowed to go first, and the opportunities for the Han army to go to the battlefield were very few.

Since Tibet was not yet a unified country at this time, the Tibetan Plateau was scattered with large and small tribes, and these people did not have any messy concepts of nationality and state. For the Han Dynasty and the Han Army, they only have admiration, and they are not excluded from accepting the rule of the Nengtian Empire and fighting for the Heavenly Army, and they even feel honored.

Moreover, these people are familiar with the local terrain and adapt to the local climate, and they have different advantages in fighting in that place, if it were not for the advantage of firearms, the Han army may be difficult to subdue them. But having subdued them, they became the main force of the battle, and the number of Han casualties quickly decreased to a negligible level.