Pang Tong did not disappoint Liu Xuan, or rather...... The group of troublemakers didn't let him down. Although this winter was extremely calm on the surface, there was a bloody killing under this calm.

"The remnants of Daiguo, Xiongnu, several countries in the Western Regions, as well as Goguryeo, Samhan, and some vassal states of Dongying・・・・・・"

The news reported by Pang Tong did not make Liu Xuan happy, especially since there were several of them involving the three Xianbei vassal states of the Han Dynasty.

"These copies, just don't exist!"

After extracting the information about Beiyan, Beizhao and Beizhou, Liu Xuan casually threw it into the brazier on the side - originally with Liu Xuan's physique and the perfect thermal facilities in this palace, there was no need for a brazier to keep warm.

However, the imperial study, where Liu Xuan specializes in office and reading, retains this very original equipment. As for the reason for retention, it is that, as is the case now, when there is no need for something to continue to exist, it is simply destroyed on the spot.

Pang Tong glanced up at the burned documents, which detailed the process of arrest and interrogation, as well as the testimony of the prisoner's confession.

"As for these guys, you know what to do!"

Pang Tong retracted his gaze and immediately answered yes.

As for those documents, if they are burned, they will be burned. Although it took a lot of time and effort to get this thing, it seems that it is a bit inappropriate to destroy it directly? But Pang Tong understood what the Son of Heaven meant: sooner or later, there will be a day to settle the account, but now is not the time, so it is useless to keep these things!

What really makes the Son of Heaven care is the other ones.

You don't need to look at the content, just look at the people involved to know what the situation is facing the Han Dynasty now - several forces around the Han Dynasty seem to have reached an alliance agreement overnight, and they have all begun to carry out a series of actions against the Han Dynasty.

secretly destroying some basic civilian facilities; creating messages to reduce the prestige of the imperial court in the hearts of the people; inciting people with intentions to carry out some actions that are unfavorable to the imperial court・・・・・・

When Pang Tong captured a group of Confucian students, these guys didn't know that there were spies from Dongying and Sanhan among them, and if it weren't for Pang Tong revealing the true identities of several of them in person, these idiots really thought they were doing something great.

However, their sins cannot be forgiven for this reason, and His Majesty has already instructed that if something like this happens, kill them.

Pang Tong couldn't do it, but Xu Chu had no psychological barriers, and he raised his hand to cut down this group of people.

If this is still on the surface, then the strange black-armored woman that His Majesty sent to his side really sent a chill down his spine.

The Han Dynasty has changed more in recent years than in the previous hundred years, and it is not uncommon for women to serve as officials, especially today's noble lady Huang Yueying, after becoming one of the Nine Qings in winter, this woman's status seems to be invisibly higher.

In addition, there was already a woman named Lu Lingqi as a captain in the army, and Pang Tongyi did not take this female general in his heart at first, and regarded this as the daughter of a certain general trained by His Majesty.

"Maybe it's because he saw his outstanding qualifications, so he sent him to follow his own experience and experience for a long time?"

As for why he covered his face with a helmet mask, Pang Tong was only because the elders of the woman's family were not happy with their daughter doing such a thing outside, and the girl ran away by herself, so she covered her face with armor.

Thinking so in his heart, Pang Tong didn't take it seriously at the beginning.

But what happened next shocked him again and again.

Silent, ruthless and weird!

Only three sentences are enough to describe all Pang Tong's perceptions of this woman, when he held a part of the information in his hand and pointed to some people in the court, but there was no evidence, this woman made a move. ..., he didn't even know how this man did it, anyway, he found evidence in a very short time, and immediately took action to get rid of some difficult characters

The impression on Pang Tong that day was so deep that it is estimated that he will never forget it for the rest of his life -- Pang Tong, who was still dealing with things in his study late at night, was wearing a futon.

The lamp invented by the Han Dynasty was used in the study to make the whole room very bright, and there was no darkness, Pang Tong didn't even need to look up, as long as he raised his eyelids slightly, he could see every corner of the entire study.

But it was in this environment that this woman suddenly appeared beside him silently, and then placed several bloody heads in front of him.

Fortunately, Pang Tong is not a chick who has never seen the world, although he was shocked, but he was shocked and did not lose his temper, and he saw clearly who the person was and only complained a few words, "I don't know how to say hello, is it a ghost who is silent?", and then when he saw clearly who the person in front of him was, he opened his mouth and couldn't speak.

Since that day, Pang Tong's eyes have changed when he looks at this woman, anyway, he doesn't want to offend this person no matter what. Otherwise, I don't even know how to die.

As for Liu Xuan, he was not afraid, and the few people Sun Shangxiang killed were also killed with his consent.

"I hate this guy the most!"

Enjoying everything in the Han Dynasty, enjoying the court's fortune but secretly hooking up with outsiders, this kind of person does not raid his family and exterminates the clan, but he has also contributed a lot to the Han in the past few years.

After cleaning up some moths and killing a group of spies sent by outside forces, Liu Xuan could finally have a relatively happy Spring Festival.

But this pleasure is probably only a few days, and all this investigation by Pang Tong means that the group of guys around Dahan is starting to move.

"The forces in the Western Regions are complicated, it stands to reason that they shouldn't have any thoughts about the Great Han, why did they all have crooked thoughts this time?"

It is not uncommon for the remnants of the Xiongnu, Daiguo, Samhan and Goguryeo to do this, and Dongying's side is still in the stage of conquest in all directions, because Liu Xuan withdrew the general and left only the forbidden army there, and Liu Xuan asked to adopt a strategy of fighting steadily and digesting one place after hitting one place, so the progress was not fast. However, it is better to be stable, at least in the areas occupied by the Han Dynasty, the people do not have any resistance, but because of the good life brought by the Han Dynasty, they are extremely supportive of the rule of the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, there are still a few forces on the Dongying side, and the Samhan Peninsula is occupied, but the Samhan forces are very complicated and the terrain of the peninsula is very complex and harsh, so they really didn't clean up all the Samhan forces at the beginning, and there are indeed a few that have disappeared.

It is not surprising that this hatred of the country will attract revenge.

Not to mention the fact that the country is already hostile, and the Three Kingdoms of Northern Yan are just a few wall grasses, and the Xiongnu have now become meat stuffed in the middle, and it is not surprising to make a move.

As for the countries of the Western Regions, he couldn't figure it out.

But if you don't understand it, you don't have to figure it out yourself, when he was the emperor, he raised so many civil servants and strategists, wasn't it just to be used at this time?

For example, the Pang Tong in front of him said that these Mr. Feng Xiao and Zhuge Liang's Wolong style are just two extremes.

Zhuge Liang seeks stability, everything must be calculated, and he will not make a move if it is foolproof. If a strategy is a strategy that he turns his head and thinks of the problem, then this strategy will never be used.

For example, in the romance, many people criticized it as one of Zhuge Liang's biggest mistakes, the 'Meridian Valley Scheme', Zhuge Liang refused to adopt it.

Because there are too many variables, it is impossible to guarantee the smooth implementation of this strategy. ...,

Of course, from Liu Xuan's point of view, the Meridian Valley conspiracy itself is too much shit and flaws, and it is normal not to use it - Later, Cao Zhen, the governor of Wei State, led troops from Meridian Valley to attack Hanzhong, but he walked for more than half a year, and he didn't go over, and finally had no choice but to retreat and turn back.

In short, Zhuge Liang is cautious, and the use of strategies is mostly a regular arrangement. There is both right and strange in the art of war, and Zhuge Liang is the kind of character who focuses on righteousness and rarely wins by surprise - the so-called empty city strategy is also forced to be used when there is no trick.

And Pang Tong is just the opposite of Zhuge Liang, which may be caused by personality, if Liu Xuan wants to analyze it, this product may be because his appearance is ugly and very different from ordinary people, so he has an inferiority complex when he is young.

In order to prove himself, he studied hard and was in the limelight, such as the original part of the romance, when he felt that Liu Bei didn't value himself, he deliberately acted like that, surprised everyone, and then forced Liu Bei to politely invite himself back - once he succeeded, it was of course a big show.

People who are good at winning by surprise are naturally extremely proficient in intrigues and tricks, and they are proficient in these, and their ability to speculate on the actions of others is also very good, such as Jia Xu and Guo Jia - Jia Xu is gloomy and his stomach is full of bad water, and Guo Jia is also a showy character.

Therefore, in Liu Xuan's opinion, Pang Tong is a very suitable person to help him speculate on the actions of the Western Regions.

Sure enough, as soon as he asked, Pang Tong didn't need to think about it, and immediately said, "Your Majesty... Those who are mapped by the countries of the Western Regions, the land of the Western Cool!"

"Xiliang?"

There is a map hanging in the imperial study, this map is the latest, in addition to the current territorial power of the Han Dynasty, it also contains the forces of several surrounding countries, and there are some things pasted on it, indicating its current relationship with the Han - red is hostile, green is allies, but there is a lot of red on the map, and green is not visible at all.

"The land under the jurisdiction of the countries of the Western Regions is much poorer than that of the Great Han, and there are many countries in the deep barren land, so these countries have always coveted the land of the Great Han!"

In fact, in this era, don't talk about the countries of the Western Regions, and the Middle East is not as full of yellow sand as in later generations, it is somewhat green.

It's just that although it is green, it is not necessarily suitable for farming, which is why most of the Asian countries except for the Chinese civilization are nomads.

For the land of the Han Dynasty, these countries have always been very envious, and at the same time, they have wanted to plunder the land of the Han Dynasty more than once.

It's just that the power of the countries in the Western Regions is relatively weak, and when the Han Dynasty set up the Western Regions Governor's Mansion, they fought more than one war, and none of them were victorious for the countries of the Western Regions.

But things seem to have changed?

"Maybe it's because the Han was very weak a few years ago, and these countries think there is an opportunity to take advantage of it?"

A few years ago, the weak appearance of the Han Dynasty was seen by everyone, and the so-called Western Regions Changshi Mansion was also divided by most of the Western Regions countries, leaving only a part still under the rule of the Han Dynasty, and after Liu Xuan ascended the throne, he only divided the remaining counties in the Western Regions, including Xiliang and Dunhuang, into Liangzhou, and the entire northwest was also mainly on the defensive, and he did not think about returning a large area of influence of the former Western Regions Changshi Mansion.

After Pang Tong stated these situations one by one, he immediately analyzed and came to a conclusion: "Your Majesty has never taken action in the early years to pacify the world and focus on the Xianbei of the Northeast, so these countries think that the Han Dynasty has no spare strength to take care of the Northwest!"

Although the strength of the Han has been improving, the Northwest countries and the Qiang tribes in the northwest that are most feared by the Han have never really clashed with the Han Dynasty, and after a long time, they will inevitably feel: "The Han people dare not oppose us at all!", if there are some more ambitious people, and at the same time there are people who are interested in instigating them, it is inevitable that some thoughts will arise. ...,

"Hmph, since you're disobedient, let's teach you a lesson!"

In fact, why didn't Liu Xuan want to take back the land of the Western Regions? But that place was a bit far away, and even if there were hovercars now, as long as no people moved and settled in the past, it would always be an enclave.

Now the Han Dynasty has just laid down a large piece of land and designated it as Liaozhou, and has drawn up a detailed development plan, but the migration of the people has not been smooth - this is the case with the Han people, who are eager to live, old, sick and die in their hometown, and they will not move if they die if they do not have to.

In the early years, when the Yellow Turbans were raging, many families refused to leave, and as a result, they were slaughtered and plundered by the Yellow Turban Bandits, and most of the people in this part were the elderly.

On the contrary, some young families in charge of the house moved early to avoid the disaster.

Although the Han Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time, the chaos of more than 20 years has had a considerable impact on the world, especially the large-scale rebellion and civil strife, which has caused the number of strong men to decline a lot

At the same time, when the world was in turmoil, I am afraid that no one was in the mood to create human beings, which led to the number of babies born during that period was almost the lowest in the history of the Han Dynasty.

At that time, there may not have been an impact, but the impact of the chaos just after the pacification was manifested - this is the same as when the Three Kingdoms fought in history, the population had dropped to that extent, but the foreign race could not fight in, but the Jin Dynasty only sat on the country for a few decades after the country was beaten by the foreign tribe and cried for a father.

In addition to the stupidity of the Jin Dynasty at that time, an important reason was the rapid decline in the number of strong men.

For example, if the number of combatable troops during the Three Kingdoms period was 100,000, and after a few decades, all of these 100,000 soldiers could no longer fight, and because they had been fighting in the early years, there were not too many newborn babies born, and when the catastrophe came, the base of the people's prime-age population would be much lower than back then.

Now that's it, in the early years, there were still some young and middle-aged people who were directly requisitioned, and later, although Liu Xuan continued to encourage childbearing, but after all, some people were worried that there would be chaos, especially when the Han Dynasty had not yet regained unification, and the princes everywhere were being soil emperors, and they had to fight from time to time, and some people fled in all directions, where was they in the mood to create human beings?

Therefore, the people of the Han Dynasty are now showing a polarization trend: a group of early years of life have gradually grown old and left some important positions, and this group of people is the most homesick, and they all hope to spend the rest of their lives in their hometown.

And the new batch of young people are too young, and now they are still in the school age stipulated by the Han Dynasty, receiving compulsory education popularized by the imperial court, and they cannot take over any important work for the time being, let alone go to Liaozhou to settle down and be the pioneers.

In short, Dahan's immigration plan has been in an embarrassing state, and in recent years, it has only filled some of the populations in several important towns identified in Liaozhou, and I don't know how long it will take to completely occupy the huge Liaozhou!

In this case, where did the surplus population come from to occupy the land of the Western Regions? Moreover, in Liu Xuan's original plan, the Western Regions did not need to be occupied at present, but the Xiongnu in the north needed to be cleaned up as soon as possible.

But since this group of guys can't open their eyes, then the appropriate lesson still has to be given!

"Feng Xian seems to have been depressed enough in Luoyang for a long time, I heard that he has some itchy hands recently, maybe he should lead a group of soldiers and horses to the northwest to inspect, a while?"

Why couldn't Pang Tong hear what the Son of Heaven meant? Inspecting? It's almost the same to teach a lesson! But why does this sound so powerful?

After thinking about it for a moment, I immediately understood what was going on.

When you want to be the strongest, don't you also want to fight whomever you want? Today's big men also have the same confidence as when they were strong, but whoever dares to compete with the big men doesn't need to think too much, just fight first

However, as a courtier, he can't patronize the refreshing, he should still give appropriate advice as a courtier.

"In fact, the Qiang people and the Xiongnu also have a suspicion, why don't Your Majesty take advantage of the situation and let the Xiongnu and the Qiang people conflict?"

Pang Tong likes intrigues and tricks the most, and he usually has no place to use them, but at this time, he is finally able to show what he has learned, and he naturally seems very positive.

After Liu Xuan heard Pang Tong's suggestion, he remembered...... These guys are not monolithic, and if they provoke a little, they will fight better than sending troops to the area.

However, when it comes to the majesty of the Han Dynasty, soldiers and horses still have to be sent!

"Well, it's a good way!" After a moment of silence, Liu Xuan made a decision: "Let Lu Bu lead the army to the northwest to inspect the edict unchanged, take advantage of this time to provoke the relationship between the Qiang people and the Xiongnu, if you can directly break out the conflict, if not・・・・・・ let Feng Xian add them a handful of firewood!" ...... ，