Chapter 273: The bread is for you, give it to me!
Until now, Liu Che is like a dream.
One by one, the problems that he had been tossing for decades and could not be completely solved were solved so easily in the hands of Liu Ponu.
Since the time of Gaozu, it began to collide head-on with the Huns, but at that time, the Han had just been established, the national strength was weak, and the people's war-weariness was very high.
During the Warring States Period, it fought for hundreds of years, and although Qin's unification of the Six Kingdoms made the remnants of the Six Kingdoms a little unhappy.
But deep down, they are still willing to accept this reality, because they have long been tired of fighting, every family, every generation, who has not lost a loved one on the battlefield?
Qin Shi Huang's unification of the six kingdoms meant the end of the era of war.
But who would have thought that creation would make people?
The war is gone, but all kinds of administrative pressures are pressing the people out of breath.
The chaotic times at the end of the Qin Dynasty, although they did not last too long, had no small impact on the Han Dynasty.
Gaozu also wanted to fight when facing the threat of the Huns, but after a battle, he found that this battle could not be fought at all.
So it stopped, and the Han began a hundred years of history of enduring humiliation.
It wasn't until Liu Che ascended the throne that this history was completely changed.
Although he achieved good results, he still failed to completely defeat the Huns.
Liu Che's biggest dream in this life is to completely defeat the Huns, until the Han people can gallop on the grassland at will, and never see a Hun again.
But as time passed, Liu Che found that although he was improving, his dream seemed to be far away from him.
He had pinned his hopes on Liu Ju, but Liu Ju couldn't control his disgust when he heard about the war.
Although Liu Che is the Ninth Five-Year Honor, although he is very strong, although he is very domineering.
But when facing Liu Ju, he didn't have any better way, even if the father and son quarreled for a long time, they could only end up without a problem.
Liu was not able to do it, which also made Liu Che have to plan for the worst.
Liu Che knew that Dahan, who had been fighting for twenty years, needed time to recuperate, because Dahan was already too tired.
But the Huns have been beaten by him, if they can't seize the opportunity to completely destroy them, once they are given time to recover, the advantage that the Han Dynasty has established at such a big cost in the early stage will be completely gone.
It's not that Liu Che can't wait, but he can't accept the endless waiting.
Fortunately, Liu Ponu appeared, giving Liu Che new hope, and Liu Ponu also opposed the war, but he was against it in a planned way.
Not to fight is not because he doesn't want to fight, but because he can't fight for the time being, and when all the conditions have developed to his psychological expectations, this battle will naturally still have to be fought.
Originally, in Liu Che's consciousness, it might take five or ten years.
But even Liu Che didn't expect that Liu Ponu's order to send troops would be so resolute, and more importantly, judging from the results, Liu Ponu obviously grasped the fighter and chose the right person.
Although the means are still a little immature, although ......
Liu Che suddenly had a bold idea......
"This time, it should just be an accident to directly let dozens of countries in the Western Regions take refuge in the whole country!" Liu Che asked with a fixed face, as if he had seen through the whole thing a long time ago.
"Well, it's really an accident, originally I just wanted Han Yannian to explore the road first, so I took a lot of photos of him in the team to explore the terrain and understand the customs of the people, according to the original plan, Han Yannian will destroy the Dawan Kingdom within a year, and then return to Chang'an, and then use these 20,000 new troops as the backbone to expand the new army to about 50,000 to 80,000 people, and use a year to train them, and at the same time let the veterans pass on their experience to the new soldiers, and wait until the third year of the Taichu to carry out the second expedition!"
Liu Ponu looked at the sky helplessly, in addition to the stars, there was only one moon left.
"According to the plan, the second expedition is the battle to level the Western Regions and solve the future affairs of the Huns, but who would have thought that the entire Western Regions would not even have a single one that could fight, and the force was too strong......"
"It feels like a strong man going to fight a child, and he lies down before I can use my strength, and it's boring, it's so hard, it's ......."
Liu Che raised his eyebrows and pursed his mouth.
See!
What's the name of this?
Every time I heard how many casualties there were, my heart rose to my throat, but this kid felt bored because the battle was fought too easily.
Are you still human?
However, Liu Che was lazy to be more serious with Liu Ponu, Versailles, and asked instead: "What about the cutting of the feudal domain you mentioned earlier?" Are you planning to resettle them in the Western Regions? ”
"No!" Liu Po shook his head and said, "The Western Regions is our own land, so let's keep it for development." ”
"You want to put them on the prairie?" Liu Che frowned slightly.
Although the grassland is large, it is not as big as expected, and after going north to the extremely cold land, there is basically not much grass there.
Of course, it's not that there are no trees, but there are tall trees all over there, and grass grows on the ground between the trees, and grazing is not impossible, but it is very troublesome and dangerous.
After all, there are all kinds of animals in the establishment, even people dare not go in alone.
When the Huns were defeated before, he did not choose to enter the forests of the extremely cold land, and the bad weather was only one of them.
"The grassland is also ours, although the plan of the military fort group has been postponed, it will be built sooner or later, if there is a crisis in Dahan in the future, then the crisis will only come from two directions, one is the interior, and the other is the grassland in the north."
"Only offense is the best defense, so we must always maintain a high level of pressure on the grasslands, so that they cannot form a scale, so that foreign herders cannot enter privately, and only in this way can we ensure the safety of the north to the greatest extent."
Liu Ponu said eloquently, isn't there enough lessons from history?
For example, in the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Turks in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Liao, Jin, and the Mongols who ruled China for decades, the Manchu Dynasty could not be regarded as a complete northern nomad, but the Mongolian cavalry was also involved when the Manchu Qing Dynasty destroyed the Ming Dynasty, and the participation was not low.
Counting the current Xiongnu, and then counting Liao and Jin as one family, from now until the establishment of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it will have a history of more than 1,700 years, and there are as many as six forces from the north that can overthrow the Central Plains Dynasty in more than 1,700 years.
On average, every 300 years, the Central Plains Dynasty needs to face a huge threat of extinction brought by the northern nomads.
Although the Central Plains Dynasty won more and lost less, even if it was a victory, what did they do?
It's nothing more than driving them back to the grassland, and using their strength to tell them not to always think about going south, you can't beat them.
Even if we boil, we can survive you.
In fact, it is indeed dead, but the Central Plains Dynasty is constantly changing, and the nomads on the grassland are also constantly changing.
So the threat on the grassland seems to be solved, but it is not solved.
Liu Che doesn't understand this, and he doesn't have a historical plug-in to refer to, but Liu Ponu understands.
He knew that after driving away the Huns, there would be Xianbei people to replace him, which was nothing more than the length of time.
If we have already paid a huge price to win, why can't we hold the fruits of victory firmly in our own hands?
Hundreds of thousands of people moved out to live in the grassland, and the Central Plains Dynasty still could bear this price.
And the benefits are not to mention, that part of the grassland is occupied by the Central Plains Dynasty, and it is difficult for the enemy to form a large scale of power on the grassland, and there is no scale, and he can't even take a military fort, so what do you expect to go south?
Liu Ponu didn't say much to Liu Che about these words, because he didn't understand it, this was a grand plan that needed to be completed by himself.
As for the effect, history can only evaluate it, anyway, he avoided the pit that his predecessors stepped on.
"Outside the Western Regions, there is still a big place, and the strength of the power there is said to be not much different from the Western Regions, my plan is to move those vassal kings to places outside the Western Regions, and I heard that further west of the Western Regions, there is also a force whose territory is not much different from that of the Great Han!" Liu Ponu said slowly.
"What? And a force as big as the big Han? Liu Che suddenly glared at him, and said with a confused expression: "No, why haven't I heard of it?" ”
Liu Ponu smiled, of course you haven't heard of it, even in the Western Regions, they don't know the existence of Rome, at most they know that there are forces in the more western places, and they have also had dealings with them, but not frequently.
However, the flatbread has already been drawn for Liu Che, whether to eat it or not, how to eat it, it has nothing to do with Liu Ponu.
"It doesn't matter if you've heard of it or not, the important thing is that we know that there are bigger places and forces in the west, and the next thing we have to do is only two things, stabilize the interior, encourage the fertility of the population, and double the population of the Han Dynasty as much as possible in the last one or two decades, or even increase several times, the second thing is to move the princes and kings westward, give them military power, allow them to expand, and at the same time the imperial court will send another army to protect them......"