"The king, the minister is willing to lead the army and conquer Qiangrong!"

Wu Zixu, as the great Sima, came out of the queue as soon as possible and asked for his life.

Zuo Sima Tian Sui Tho was not far behind, and then stood up with a tooth wat in his hand, and said loudly: "King, the minister is also willing to lead the army to fight against Qiang Rong." If you don't break the Qiangrong, you won't pay it back! ”

"Wait for the war!"

"Fight!"

The generals of Wu State, Xiong Zidan, Gou Jian, Xu Menchao, Gongsun Xiong and others, all stood up to ask for battle.

The statements of the generals occupy absolute weight in the court!

It is true that Wu Guo is still inseparable from civil and military affairs.

Talents such as Wen Chong, Fan Li, and Bo Biao can still go to the battlefield and lead troops into battle.

Sun Wu, Wu Zixu and others can also serve as a county guard, a metropolitan governor, or even a minister of state affairs.

There is some opposition between Wenchen and military generals.

After all, relatively speaking, generals such as Wu Zixu and Tian Sui Tho can go out on expeditions and capture a large number of enemy heads, so as to get many rewards and be promoted through military merits.

Ministers like Ji Ran and Kong Qiu can only concentrate on government affairs.

Once the state of Wu opens up new territory, it will make them very tired......

That being said, they can also be rewarded for their political achievements.

In the treatment of each minister, the achievements made in dealing with different things, Qingji is to see in the eyes, keep in mind, and treat everyone equally, and give enough rewards.

"Wu Anjun, what do you think?"

Qingji set his eyes on Sun Wu's body.

Sun Wu's title is Wu Anjun, the title of military merit is the chief of the army, and the official position is the national lieutenant, which is equivalent to the "Three Princes", and Wu Zixu is the same level.

Even, before that, Sun Wu was the only general who enjoyed the treatment of the chief of the concubine, and the only general with the number "Jun".

It's just that Qingji deliberately promoted Wu Zixu, let Wu Zixu lead the troops out of the pass, fought Tiaoshan, broke the Wei army, and broke through Anyi, the capital of Wei, and captured the land west of the river.

Wu Zixu, who has worked hard and made great achievements, has been named "Wu Xinjun" by Qingji and given the title of "Grand Chief"!

In this way, Wu Zixu can keep pace with Sun Wu in the army, so as not to make Sun Wu's family dominant.

Sun Wu seemed to understand Qingji's thoughts, knowing that he seemed to be unsealable, and was more or less suspicious of Qingji.

Therefore, Sun Wu has not taken the initiative to express his advice, and when he went to the court, he was decent, as usual.

This made Qingji a little dissatisfied in his heart, but he didn't show it after all.

Sun Wu is so wise to protect himself, is it in his opinion, Qingji is a monarch who can't treat meritorious heroes well?

Sun Wu, who was silent, thought for a while after being named by Qingji, and said: "The king, the minister thinks that it is understandable to conquer the Qiang people and open up the land west of the river. ”

"The vast wilderness in the northwest, or there may be a desert, the minister has seen it."

"The river valley there is fertile water and grass, suitable for cultivation and grazing, and has the reputation of 'plugging the south of the Yangtze River'. Since ancient times, it has also been a battleground for soldiers, and it is the throat road to the Western Regions! ”

"If the Qiang land cannot be opened, the trade routes may be cut off by the Qiang people, and the interests of the Wu State and the merchants of the East and the West cannot be safeguarded, and the revenue of the national treasury will be reduced."

"If the Qiang people rebel all the year round, plunder the borders, and threaten the trade routes, I am afraid that our Wu State will send troops to suppress it every year, or the military confrontation with the Qiang people for many years will cost a lot."

"Rather than this, why not solve the Qiang rebellion once and for all?"

"Good!"

Sun Wu's statement made Qingji bow slightly and agreed.

His remarks have also convinced ministers such as Kong Qiu, Wen Chong, Zeng Dian, and Ji Ran.

After all, the annual income that the Silk Road now brings to Wu is not a small amount.

To a large extent, the state of Wu, which pursued the policy of lightly leviing on the people and hiding the wealth from the people, could only "take from the people and use them for the people" every year.

Why can Wu's treasury be full of money and grain?

The reason is that through the Silk Road, Wu was able to collect a large amount of customs duties and commercial taxes every year, and sold a large number of goods such as silk, tea, ceramics, refined salt, perfume, soap, and soap to the West, so that Wu made a lot of money.

The profit in this is very exciting......

From this, how can Wu tolerate the Qiang people threatening his wealth?

Furthermore, the land west of the river (Hexi Corridor) is not really a barren land.

The Hexi Corridor has a vast area and complex topography.

Within its borders, there are the snowy peaks of Qilian Mountain, the Liangzhou Plain, the undulating Dahuang Mountain, the vast grassland as far as the eye can see, and the rivers that fly to the pearl and the jade......

The snow and groundwater flowing down from the Qilian Mountains have formed dozens of large and small rivers, irrigating thousands of hectares of fertile land in the Hexi Corridor, making it a natural granary of Gansu.

Similarly, the Hexi Corridor was the choke point of the Silk Road.

In the original history, Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang and other places were all prosperous places with abundant land and resources.

Tang Dynasty poet Cen Shen's "Liangzhou Seven Cities and 100,000 Families" and Yuan Zhen's "I heard that in the past in Western Liangzhou, the crowd was dense. The wine is ripe and happy, and the red and bright green flags are vermilion. ”

are all true portrayals of the history of Hexi at that time!

"The king, the minister still thinks it's inappropriate!"

The right prime minister, Kong Qiu, stood up, sighed, and said to Qingji: "A big war at every turn is always a move to work the people and lose money. ”

"In the land west of the Fu River, the terrain is complex, and the Qiang cavalry on the grassland and the Gobi have grown up on horseback since childhood, and they ride horses to and fro like the wind, and their whereabouts are erratic."

"Even if our Wu country has the advantage of iron cavalry and bows and crossbows, if the Qiang people dare not fight with our army, I am afraid that it will be in vain to defeat the army."

"Please be cautious!"

“……”

Kongqiu's remarks are also not unreasonable.

For example, Zhu Di, the Yongle Emperor in history, made the border stable with the great five expeditions to Mobei, but in Qingji's view, Zhu Di's actions were really unworthy.

Zhu Di's first expedition, due to the long distance, Zhu Di was afraid of the embankment, and the unprecedented scale of the army reached 500,000.

On the way to the expedition, the consumption of 500,000 people was quite huge, but Zhu Di only encountered a few small groups of enemy troops three months after this expedition, and only after a few months did he really encounter the Benjamli army, although the enemy army was defeated, but still let Benjamin Khan escape.

Due to the supply problem in the later stage, although the first campaign was successful, it was not worth mentioning compared to the consumption.

How about the second expedition to Mobei?

Zhu Di once again sent 500,000 horses.

In Kulan, the 500,000 Ming army encountered the main force of the 30,000 Warat army, but the numerical advantage was not visible at all.

The final result was the defeat and flight of the Warat army, but the losses of the Ming army clearly exceeded that of the Warat army.

If it weren't for the extraordinary performance of the Shenji Battalion, the outcome of this battle is still unknown.

More than a dozen princes of the Wara Department were captured, but the generals of the Ming army were also lost, and in desperation, Zhu Di took the poor victory class.

For the remaining three, four, and five expeditions, Zhu Di "looked at the barren dust and weeds, but there was no shadow of the captives, and the ruts and horse tracks were all gone, and it was suspected that he had been away for a long time"......

There wasn't much to gain at all.

Labor and money are so bad, Zhu Di really can't be called a "great emperor".

If this is changed to Qingji, with the strong national strength of the Ming Dynasty, it would have hit Western Europe long ago, at least in the Madanube River Valley.

"My lord, the minister thinks what the right prime minister said is very true."

As a disciple of Confucius, Zhisu Neishi stood up and bowed to Qingji: "The Qiangrong in the northwest is different from the previous Xirong Eight Kingdoms. ”

"The Eight Kingdoms of Xirong had been in contact with the Zhou and Qin States in their early years, and their cultures were quite similar, and they belonged to the semi-agrarian and semi-nomadic Rongdi country."

"Xirong built cities and bunkers, set up villages and villages on his own territory, imitated the Chinese system, and called the king of the country."

"And the Qiang people are Rong Di through and through."

"They don't learn the etiquette of China, they don't know etiquette, righteousness and shame, like barbarians in ancient times. Living by water and grass, there is no fixed place! ”

"Even if my Great Wu is overwhelmed by large soldiers, I am afraid it will be extremely difficult to find the location of the Qiang tribe and fight a battle."

"Please King Mingjian!"