After Liu Jian saw Zhang Ren come in, he didn't see anyone outside, and immediately asked Zhang Ren to sit there and listen to him and Zhang Fei's conversation about the Western Regions.

After all, the Silk Road has been established for hundreds of years, and the prestige of the Han Dynasty has spread far beyond the countries of the Western Regions through the Silk Road.

It is the Great Qin at the end of the Silk Road, which has also had an inextricable relationship with the Han Dynasty for many years, looking at each other, admiring each other, and has maintained contact through the Silk Road, giving each other national gifts.

It's just that with the gradual internal chaos of the Han Dynasty, serious land annexation, unstable imperial power, and the central government's own care, coupled with frequent chaos in the northwest, the prestige and influence of the imperial court lies in the countries along the Silk Road, which is much inferior to the original.

However, in order to rectify the civil strife, the imperial court has not had time to purge the Western Regions, after all, the Han Dynasty government has no time to take care of itself, and the princes compete for power. In addition, in the northwest, Ma Teng and Han Sui became a major threat to the Han Dynasty's rule, and their armies were completely cut off from the Silk Road, and the Han Dynasty had almost no contact with the Western Regions for many years.

This greatly lowered the Han Dynasty. International influence.

However, as Zhang Fei completely opened up the situation in Liangzhou, the Han Dynasty's control over Liangzhou reached an unprecedented degree.

In particular, many tribes of the Qiang nationality have been incorporated into the Liangzhou hukou, resulting in the doubling of the population of Liangzhou, the Han Dynasty is also very concerned about the reclamation of the local land in Liangzhou, and at the same time vigorously support the local animal husbandry in Liangzhou, which makes Liangzhou no longer become a transit station for the center of the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions, but has become a frontier base for communication between the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions.

The difference between a transit station and a forward position is huge!

After Liu Jian obtained Liangzhou, the frontier position leading to the Western Regions, he has not launched any decent actions or political actions against the countries of the Western Regions for the time being, but the countries of the Western Regions have already sensed it.

Therefore, many countries in the Western Regions have begun to send envoys to Liangzhou and pay tribute to the Han Dynasty.

They went from hoping to re-establish friendly relations with the Han Dynasty.

Of course, there are also some Western Regions states that have changed their strategies towards the Han Dynasty over the years.

They didn't want the powerful influence of the Han Dynasty to infiltrate them, after all, the fate of Xianbei, Xiongnu, and Wuhuan was vivid, and they knew a little about it.

Their people may not have understood the impact of the Han Dynasty's culture and power invading their country, but the upper nobility of those countries knew very well.

The population of the Wuhuan and Xiongnu tribes was gradually plundered by the Han Dynasty and became the subjects of the Han nation, which was unprecedented in the past.

Even many of the Xianbei population has now been moved to Hebei by the Han Dynasty, and most of the people have obtained the household registration of the Han Dynasty, and they will be completely sinicized within two or three generations, which is clear to dig up their roots of these foreign races.

The aristocracy of many regional countries, ruling the Li people of these small countries, they are powerful, enjoy the preferential treatment of the upper class, and enslave the lower class people, and now if the Han Dynasty wants to use the policy of treating Xianbei, Wuhuan, Xiongnu and other foreign races to them, then how should these nobles survive in the future?

What the Han Dynasty wants to seize is the foundation of a country on which they are based.

The great changes in Liangzhou have brought earth-shaking changes to the entire overseas region.

It can be said that dozens of countries in the Western Regions are now a little restless.

Some of them are soft-boned, hoping not to annoy the Han, while others are determined to die and resolutely not let the Han Dynasty come to plunder their resources.

However, no matter what kind of mentality they hold, this is a good thing for the Han Dynasty led by Liu Jian.

Because this means that the current Han Dynasty has become an important existence that the countries in the Western Regions have to pay attention to and have to care about.

And of course, these important news from the countries of the Western Regions can't escape the supervision and listening of the school government.

Liu Jian knew that if the Han Dynasty and the Han nation stood on top of the world, his generation would definitely not be able to do it, but he must lay a good foundation for future generations, and first of all, it is a very important infrastructure for the ability of foreign countries to seek retribution.

Liu Jian was committed to the construction of overseas retribution for the countries of the Western Regions, which was very beneficial to the future diplomacy and wars of the Han Dynasty.

At this moment, Zhang Fei was reporting to Liu Jian the news that the latest batch of overseas school officials had brought to the center of the Han Dynasty.

"Qiuzi, Yanqi, Ruoqiang, Loulan, Jingjue, Jimo, Xiaowan, Ronglu, Mi, Qule, Pishan, ......"

Zhang Fei said to Liu Jian while snapping his fingers: "According to the news brought back by the school affairs of the school office, these countries seem to welcome our Han Dynasty to regain control of Liangzhou, they are already preparing envoys, and at the same time preparing gifts, they want to send people through our Liangzhou to pay tribute to the central Chang'an, hoping to restore the diplomatic relations between the countries and the Han Dynasty, and also hope to resume trade with our Han Dynasty." ”

"However, there are still some countries that do not take any action, but the country is fighting on the hour, and it seems that they are intending to expand their military, such as Xiye, Puli, Yinai, Shache, Shule, Weitou, Wensu, Yuli, Gumo, Beilu, Wu Greed, Beilu Houguo, Shan Huan, these countries ......"

Liu Jian listened to Zhang Fei silently reciting these situations to him, and couldn't help but smile a little on his face.

"Yide, I don't think it's obvious which of these countries want to send people to help us now, and which ones are guarding against us...... Those who reorganize the soldiers and horses may not be our friends in the future, and those who send messengers to bring gifts now may also be our enemies in the future. ”

"The situation between countries is still different from the situation of the princes in our territory."

"As the capital protector of the Liangzhou Production and Construction Corps, you will inevitably drive troops to the Western Regions in the future."

"How to deal with the priorities of this, you still need to think carefully for yourself."

Zhang Fei replied with a smile: "My brother often says that the root of this use of soldiers is politics,"

"We have a vast land and a large population, while the countries of the Western Regions, although their power is much inferior to ours, they are far away from us, and their culture is very different from ours."

"It's not enough to take their land and take their population, but what use do we want their land if it's so far away? It's useless to ask for their population, and the materials and money that are put on them every year, I'm afraid that the drag will bring down our Han Dynasty, so just blindly exterminating and attacking is not the best strategy for us. ”

"If we can't win the greatest interests for our country, then we need to move them with emotion, understand them with reason, grasp their lifeline, or use military action to control their lifeline."

"In short, the way to treat the use of troops by all countries, hehe, brother, it is not so simple to use troops in the territory."

Liu Jian was very satisfied with Zhang Fei's answer.

Sure enough, his good brother is no longer the Zhuoxian Six Tigers of the year.

Zhang Fei was already a tiger in the Han Dynasty.

A cunning fox tiger.

Any beast in this world will become vulnerable in front of him.

Speaking of this, Liu Jian turned his head to look at Zhang Ren on the side.

"Xingchen, what do you think of what Yide said?"

To be honest, the conversation between Liu Jian and Zhang Fei, Zhang Ren understood it as soon as he heard it.

But there are events of such a high standard, and he never thought of being able to participate.

After all, over the years, he was just an ordinary warrior in Yizhou.

He followed Yuan Yi's side, and the events of the big picture that he could hear the most on weekdays were nothing more than how Yuan Shao was in Jingzhou, how Liu Jian was in Chang'an, how we should intersect with them, or how to fight with them, in order to protect the interests of the major families in Yizhou...... Or is it the interests of the Yuan family......

Turning over and over again, anyway, I have never jumped out of the circle of these families in the Han Dynasty fighting for their own interests.

Zhang Ren has always felt that this may be the whole of his life, and this may be the world he should see.

But now, he feels that the conversation between Liu Jian and Zhang Fei seems to have opened a new window for him.

And on the other side of the window, there seemed to be a vast world that he had never touched on and had never seen.

Zhang Ren hesitated slightly, and then said cautiously: "Prime Minister Yizhou is not peaceful, the world is undecided, is it too early for Prime Minister and Zhang Dadu to discuss these things?" ”

Liu Jian said with a smile: "Yizhou will be settled sooner or later, and the world will be peaceful sooner or later, for the country, the division within the territory is just a trivial matter." And how to make all the people of the country able to obtain the greatest benefits from the outside world, so that the people of the Han Dynasty will always be above the top of the world, and everyone can live a better life, this is what we, as the backbone of the DPRK, really need to ponder and study. ”

"How can it be said that it is too early to study these things?"

Zhang Ren's heart was deeply shaken by Liu Jian's words, just a few simple words, he could feel that the person in front of him was not a little different from his old master Yuan Yi's pattern...... It's like a firefly compared to Haoyue.

Zhang Ren's heart was unconsciously excited.

"Prime Minister, I'm just a general in Shu, with a narrow vision, how can I talk about such important matters with the Prime Minister and Dadu Hu?"

Zhang Fei said: "Why don't you deserve it?" ”

"Cheng and I were both from Zhuo County for many years, but we were just military households in the army."

"We have come to this day step by step, if we talk about our origins and the insights of those years. We don't deserve to talk about this more than you do. ”

"The big husband has the world in his heart, how can he rest on his laurels because of his temporary background and pattern?"

"Prime Minister, I came to you today because I think you are a talented person, and I want you to plan with me under my command after the war in Yizhou is over."

"Don't you want to?"

When Zhang Ren heard this, he couldn't help but tremble.

"Prime Minister, you!"

Liu Jian just raised his hand and said with a smile: "Do you want to, don't say anything superfluous." ”

"If you want to, just say yes!"

"I don't want to, I can let you be a general in Shu forever, and guard a county for the imperial court, it's okay."

After listening to Liu Jian's words, Zhang Ren immediately said: "I am willing to serve the prime minister." ”

Liu Jian nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, let's continue." ”

……

Three days later, Liu Jian received a battle report, and the morale of the three armies was greatly improved!

Liu Bei of Huainan, Guan Yu is a great victory!

(End of chapter)