Sure enough, at the turn of autumn and winter, Liu Che's envoy came to the Hexi Corridor and passed on four holy decrees in Rouge City.

The first holy decree is naturally to praise Huo Quzhi, Yang Chuan, and Cao Xiang, in addition to promoting Huo Quzhi's champion Hou to the Marquis of the Han Dynasty, rewarding the three of them with 2,000 catties of gold, 800 hectares of fertile land, and 30,000 heads of cattle and sheep, and giving a grace that can support 3,000 people.

The second holy decree was to transfer Huo to go to illness and Cao Xiang's class to return to the court.

The third holy decree appointed Yang Chuan, Marquis of Changning, as the Taishou of Hexi, responsible for the tuntian, military and political, people's livelihood and the affairs of agriculture and mulberry crops in the entire Hexi Corridor.

The fourth holy decree was specially passed on to Li Guang and Li Kang, father and son.

Li Guang was named the Marquis of Longxi of the Han Dynasty and transferred to Yanmen, where he continued to serve as his Yanmen Taishou; Li Dang was named the Xihou of Dahan Town, and the position of Yulin Lieutenant remained unchanged, with a rank ratio of 2,300 stones.

The marquis of the Li family and his son is the lowest level of the Guanwai Marquis of the Han Dynasty, and in the eyes of Yang Chuan, Huo Quzhi, and Cao Xiang, the three marquis of the Han Dynasty, they are considered marquis who have not entered the stream, but in the eyes of outsiders, the father and son are crowned marquis at the same time, which is a great event.

For a time, the world was a sensation, and it was rumored to be a good story.

It's okay, right?

After all, in the original script, the old Li family in Longxi couldn't flutter a few waves in the palm of Liu Che's palm, and they were defeated several times in a row, from Li Guang, Li Dang to Li Ling, they all became unlucky, and they didn't end well, which is embarrassing to think about.

Under Yang Chuan's operation, he forcibly changed his life against the sky, which made him feel very satisfied.

In addition, Liu Che also gave Yang Chuan a secret decree, ordering him to pass through the Hexi Corridor well, hoard grain and grass for the next attack on the Western Regions, collect high-grade military horses, and continue to clear the remnants of the Hun Evil King and the Hutu King, and wait for the Hexi Corridor to be guarded.

All in all, everything was expected.

The only thing that surprised Yang Chuan, Huo Quai, and Cao Xiang was that the emperor clearly stated in the holy decree that the three of them could each raise 3,000 parts and subordinates.

Also, the emperor's envoy turned out to be Zhu Maichen......

……

"It's clear that my uncle is disgusting."

After receiving the holy decree and settling down the emperor's envoy headed by Zhu Maichen, in a secret room in Yang Chuan, three people secretly poked and poked and drank and ate meat, Cao Xiang couldn't help but scold: "What kind of thing is Zhu Maichen, doesn't my uncle know?" ”

"Above the court, is there only one Zhu Maichen left who is qualified to pass on the decree? This dog thief attached himself to Gongsun Hong, not only robbed Yang Chuan's Shuofang County Taishou, but also snatched the credit of Shuofang County through Shuofang County if he picked up a big bargain and did not need to worry about it. ”

"Moreover, he also robbed Yang Chuan's position as a big farmer, from a small Chang'an county order, stepping on Yang Chuan's face, he became an important minister of the court in three or two years, and entered the list of the three princes and nine secretaries, is there any reason for this special mother?"

Huo Quzhi didn't say a word, just drank bowl after bowl, his face was indifferent, and he looked very unhappy.

Yang Chuan's face was as usual.

Even, he smiled and brought a bowl of wine: "Go sick, Cao Xiang, come, my three brothers drink this wine together to celebrate." ”

"Congratulations!"

Cao Xiang scolded indignantly.

Yang Chuan couldn't help but laugh and scolded: "Do you think Shuofang County was snatched by Gongsun Hong and Zhu Maichen?" They snatched my Great Farm Order? Also, is the position of the emperor the emperor of Longxi County? ”

Cao Xiang: "Otherwise? ”

Yang Chuan shook his head, chuckled, and said: "I told you a long time ago that things in this world often need to be carefully taken care of and laid out, just like making a meal, the ingredients are ready, and all kinds of seasonings, sesame oil, and side dishes are complete before you can cook it by hand."

Let's put it this way, in fact, I found a way to get people to take away those things......"

Huo Quzhi and Cao Xiang's eyes widened, and they stared at Yang Chuan in a little circle.

Yang Chuan rubbed his cheeks a few times, and said with a smile: "A big fart Shuofang County, crossing the Yellow River...... Well, across a big river, you can reach Chang'an City in seven or eight days, and to the north is the vast grassland, desert, and Gobi Desert. ”

Huo Qu's sick urn said angrily: "Speak human words." ”

Cao Xiang also hurriedly echoed: "Yes, yes, yes, talk about people." ”

Yang Chuan groaned once or twice and said, "I am a cook, so I naturally have the idea of a cook." ”

He continued: "In my eyes, this world is so big, so big that it is boundless, the so-called four seas are not those shallows in the eyes of the emperor, that is to say, our current territory of the Han Dynasty is just a big place in this bullshit world, you are willing to fight in that shoal, but I, Yang Chuan, disdain it."

These words, you can listen to them as for the time being, or you can treat them as my Yang Chuan's drunken words, nonsense, and nonsense.

However, when the New Year is turned, the emperor will inevitably make you Huo Quai's second expedition to the west and sweep the Western Regions, and at that time, you will understand that today's words are not made up by me Yang Chuan. ”

Seeing that Yang Chuan said solemnly, Huo Quzhi and Cao Xiang couldn't help but restrain themselves.

"You mean to say that the so-called Shuofang County, Danong Ling, and Longxi County are too small for you?" Huo Quzhi frowned and asked.

Yang Chuan smiled noncommittally and picked up a bowl of wine: "After you sweep through the Western Regions, you will naturally understand what I said today." ”

There was a word he didn't utter.

There is an old saying in the Han Empire, which says, 'The temple is small and the demon is windy, and the water is shallow', and those bullshit emperors, after sweeping the 'world', one by one became stupid kings, not thinking of progress, drunk and dreaming of death, hiding in the backyard of the deep palace, fighting with their own courtiers and the people of the world, one by one is more stupid......

The fundamental reason lies in the vision and pattern.

In his eyes, there is only a place as big as the Central Plains Dynasty, and he dares to call himself the first in the world, isn't he a fool?

Moreover, Yang Chuan knows it clearly.

There are some emperors here, their fate is not good, even if he knows that in addition to the Central Plains Dynasty and the surrounding barbarian Di Rong Nanyue or something, there are endless kingdoms and territories overseas, and he has no ability to fight them.

But Liu Che is different.

Although it is said that several major wars against the Xiongnu consumed too much money and grain, and the economy of the Han Empire was on the verge of collapse, as long as the ideas and methods were right, they ate the enemy and fed the war with war, and under the devastating blows of Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, Li Guang, Li Kang, Su Jian, Gongsun He, Li Xi, Lu Bode and other fierce people, they did not dare to say that they swept the world and unified the world.

At least.

The Land of the Western Regions is all right, right?

Central Asia, West Asia and the Mediterranean are all right?

Beat that bullshit Roman Republic into a cripple in advance, nip the so-called Roman Empire in the bud, and don't let that Julius Caesar have a chance to develop obscenely, no problem, right?

Also, Goguryeo, small days, north of the North Sea.

By the way, Ah Tie, Ah Mu and a few other bad boys have personally explored, and the Bering Strait is not completely broken, and in the middle of winter, the ice in that place is five or six feet thick, and it can enter the American continent in a short distance of more than 100 miles......

Syllable!

Yang Chuan thought of the happy place, slapped Huo Quai's thigh suddenly, and smiled: "Okay, let's do it!" ”

Huo Quai's face was bitter and he scolded: "Yang Chuan, every time you think of a proud place, you slap the root of my thigh, it's not human!" ”

Yang Chuan laughed: "Go sick, don't worry, I have experience in this matter." ”

Have a fart experience.

Huo Quzhi muttered, but he wasn't too angry, who made him his brother, and Yang Chuan was the younger brother......

……

So, half a month later.

In Chang'an City, in Weiyang Palace, looking at the huge case in front of him, the 'Heavenly Golden Man' that had been demolished, Liu Che fell into deep thought.

Huo Quzhi and Cao Xiang returned to the dynasty and brought the evil king and a large group of unworthy of the name, the generals, and the household, and also brought more than 1 million cattle, sheep and livestock, more than 20,000 catties of gold, and more than 3,000 Hunu and Xiongnu women from the Western Regions.

More importantly, it was the people who brought the Huns to sacrifice to the heavens.

This is the 'holy weapon' of the Huns.

It is said that the people who worship the heavens and the gold are the magic weapons of the Huns when they worship the heavens and the earth, which can communicate with the Tengger heaven, can divinate the success or failure of the war, can predict the future, and can ...... Let all the Huns unite and unite with the outside world.

"Oh Nagato, this thing...... Is it really a person who worships the heavens? ”

A one-armed woman cast of gold, plump, full, round, lifelike, vivid, not an ordinary thing at first glance.

The problem is, when its gold casing is opened, a ball is revealed inside......

And what does that mean?

Moreover, this ball can also be rotated, on a tilted stand made of pure gold, slowly turning, there are some mountains, rivers and messy symbols on it, and I don't know what kind of magical thing it is, so that Liu Che is stunned.

Cui Jiu clasped his hands in his sleeves and said expressionlessly: "This thing was seized by Huo Quai's own hands, and it was obtained in the underground palace of King Hutu, so it should be true." ”

Liu Che tilted his head: "Wasn't it captured by Yang Chuan and Cao Xiang?" ”

Cui Jiu shook his head: "The area of the underground palace of King Hutu is very large, there are eight hundred warriors guarding it, and there are some sacrifices, goddesses, and three hundred orphans in the forest who went to the sick relatives, and after forcibly breaking through, they got this thing on a blood-colored altar, it is said that on the night when they took down the sacrifice to the heavenly gold, it snowed heavily, and countless cattle and sheep were frozen to death, and some Hun women ran out of the tent inexplicably and were frozen to death in the snow.

Therefore, the Huns wept and sang a song. ”

Listening to the rare 'tirade' of the big Changmen Cui Jiu, Liu Che almost believed most of it, but still asked: "What are you singing?" ”

Cui Jiu: "Losing my Yanzhi Mountain makes my women colorless." The loss of my Qilian Mountain will make my six animals restless. ”

Liu Che was stunned.

He has heard this song, just last night, Huo Quai, Cao Xiang's three thousand Hun little women, in a certain palace room in Weiyang Palace, mourning and singing, the song they sang is this so-called 'Hun song'.

At the beginning, Liu Che thought that it was because Huo Qu's illness penetrated the Hexi Corridor, destroyed the two divisions of King Hutu and King Hun Evil who were entrenched here, and made the Huns lose Qilian Mountain.

Liu Che looked at Cui Jiu, and after a long time, he said indifferently: "Double the rewards for Huo Qubing and Cao Xiang." ”

Cui Jiu nodded and didn't say anything more.

The old thief just stood not far away, staring very intently at the round ball above the emperor's desk, and in the depths of his light gray eyes, he seemed to be quite confused and dazed.

After all, in the Huns' 'Heavenly Gold Man', there is a 'globe' hidden, which is more or less a bit of a bully......

……

Winter is coming.

The wind in the Hexi Corridor was very cold and hard, and after a few heavy snowfalls, countless cattle, sheep and livestock were frozen to death, and as for the Huns who died of freezing and starvation, Yang Chuan's cold and hard heart softened slightly.

Then, he was very calm and calm.

The war on the surface is over.

However, the war between the Han Empire and the Xiongnu had only just begun.

This is a war between two ethnic groups, either you die, or I live, in the long years, this attribute has never changed, because he knows the cause and effect, therefore, Yang Chuan was ready to exterminate its species from the beginning.

Of course, taking advantage of natural and man-made disasters to wipe out the Huns on a large scale, this is just taking advantage of the trend, and it is not any planning and calculation at all.

"Ah Tie, Ah Mu, you have to go back to Luding City."

On this day, Yang Chuan went out of the city under the pretext of inspecting, and secretly met with Ah Tie and A Mu on the front line of Longshou Mountain: "There is still a lot of time to do here, and it will take at least one or two years to take effect. ”

Yang Chuan received a secret letter from Cao Xiang, saying that the contest between the general Wei Qing and the Xiongnu Dadan Yu Yizhi Xian had almost been decided.

Yi Zhi was defeated.

Wei Qing won completely.

Yi Zhixian led 30,000 main forces to escape into the vast desert grassland, and since then there has been no news, Yang Chuan estimates that the cunning and cruel old wolf will either escape to the Beihai line and retreat to the ancestral land of the Huns.

Or, as Sima Qian recorded in the historical records, he fled to the west.

Yangchuan is more inclined to go north.

You must know that the Xiongnu were originally some loose tribal alliances, among which the most powerful tribes gradually conquered and cannibalized other tribes, thus forming a cruel and murderous ethnic group such as the 'Xiongnu', among them, the most prominent are the ancestors of Yizhixian.

At the military level, Yi Zhixian only lost the Mo Nan and Hexi corridors, and it was far from harming its origin.

Therefore, Yang Chuan concluded that the group of wolves was largely divided into two routes, moving westward all the way, intending to recuperate in the Western Regions and wait for an opportunity to seize the Hexi Corridor.

On the other hand, it should be far away from Beihai, while gathering the remnants of Mobei, while developing obscenely, when the Han army and the westward migration of the Xiongnu fought in the Hexi Corridor, quietly detoured to Beiping, Yanmen, Yunzhong, Dingxiang, causing a big trouble to the Han Empire.

Facts have proved that in the next one or two hundred years, the Xiongnu will still be a behemoth dominating the north, and they will drag down more than half of the Han Empire......

Yang Chuan did not want to see these two consequences.

What he wanted was a decisive effect, either to completely exterminate and wipe out the Huns, or to drive all the way to the west and create a small trouble for the humans in Central Asia, West Asia and the Mediterranean region west of the Great Snow Mountains.

Of course, it would be best to drive the Huns to the distant Roman Empire.

In the book "Historical Records", the red-faced Sima Qian not only called the Chinese people the descendants of Yan and Huang, but also said that the Qin people, Chu people, Wu people, Yue people, Shu people and Southwest Yi, Xiongnu, and ancient Korea were the descendants of Yan and Huang, and believed that the ancestors of the Xiongnu 'the Miao descendants of the Xia Hou clan were also called Chunwei; Above Tang Yu, there are Shanrong, Lynx, and meat porridge, which live in the northern barbarians and move with animal husbandry. ’

Regarding Sima Qian's statement, Yang Chuan was always skeptical.

Because, up to now, even if he fought several battles with the Huns, and had 'friendly exchanges' with no less than a hundred Hun tribal leaders and high priests, he could not find any evidence of 'the descendants of the Xia Hou'......

Of course.

None of this matters.

For Yang Chuan, it was imperative to expand the Western Regions through the Hexi Corridor and extend the tentacles of the Han Empire to the west.

After sending Ah Tie, Ah Mu and others back to Luding City, Yang Chuan calmed down and began his own strategy.

Huo Quzhi, Cao Xiang, and Li Dang led the 3,000 Yulin army back to Chang'an City, but Li Guang and his more than 3,000 Longxi veterans, as well as the 5,000 servant army that originally belonged to the Hun Evil King, stayed.

In addition, Yang Chuan temporarily recruited more than 8,000 county soldiers, his own 3,000 troops, and the growing 'infrastructure battalion' that has now exceeded 50,000 people......

Roughly calculated, he, the county guard of Hexi, has a lot of power, but he is of no use.

The Hexi Corridor is too vast, about three thousand miles long, hundreds of miles wide to dozens of miles, traversing the Han Empire and the Western Regions, the south is the Qiang people, the north is the unwilling Huns, once a little wind and grass, this little bit of troops under his hands, not even pepper noodles.

In the face of such a difficult situation, how did Liu Che do it back then?

That is to say, in the original script, after Huo Qubing penetrated the Hexi Corridor, how did the Han Empire pass through the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions?

After a long period of reminiscence and consideration, Yang Chuan finally determined that back then, Liu Che was also painstaking in the strategy of the Hexi Corridor, and adopted many methods, such as all the way to the west, along the long Hexi Corridor, without stopping to build the city, build a lot of Great Wall, and move the prisoners, sons-in-law, and merchants of Guanzhong into this place, open up wasteland for farming, and garrison the border tuntian.

At the same time, Liu Che also allowed the descendants of the Hun Evil King and the Hutu King to continue to exist in order to stabilize the hearts of the Huns......

The possibility of turning the Huns over, absolutely zero.

This is Yang Chuan's bottom line.

So, in the face of such a huge and vast mess, how should he, the county guard of Hexi, manage?

Yang Chuan was busy all day and night, exhausted his efforts, and presented a table to the imperial court, recommending Sima Qian, Zhang Tang, and Dongfang Shuo, and wanted them to come to the Hexi Corridor to help him.

Unexpectedly.

Half a month after the court was listed.

On a snowy evening, a group of emperor's envoys with clear banners and fresh clothes arrived in Rouge City, and a middle-aged man with white skin, wearing a scarlet court robe, proudly pronounced a holy decree to Yang Chuan:

"Fengtian carries the emperor, and the edict says: Ordering the prince and the prince, the great farmer, and the Longxi County Taishou Zhu Maichen, and also leading the assassin history of Hexi County......"

(End of chapter)