Suddenly having a million-mile territory made Yang Chuan feel very pressured.

After several consecutive battles, Liu Che finished the massive heritage that Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing had painstakingly managed, which greatly damaged the vitality of the Han Empire.

Similarly, the Huns paid a heavy price.

Monan, Mobei and even the entire Hexi Corridor have long become a headache mess.

According to preliminary estimates, not counting the Western Regions where King Youxian is entrenched and the territory under King Zuoxian, the population of the nearly one million li territory controlled by Yang Chuan is less than one million; Among them, the vast majority are elderly, weak, women and children.

Yi Zhi is really a big soul.

In the previous wars, in order to preserve the strength of his tribe, he even recruited all the men over the age of fifteen from other tribes and became cannon fodder.

After the war, one snowstorm after another made the Xiongnu tribes, which had no men, annihilate and disappear one after another, and have since become history......

……

"Childe, do you want to fight on King Zuoxian's side?"

"Childe, give me 5,000 soldiers and horses, and I will go to the Western Regions to fight the Right Sage King."

“……”

Yang Chuan calendar, the first year of the Yuan Hunt, the thirtieth month of the lunar month.

Yang Chuan feasted the guests in the mansion of Luding City, and invited Ah Tie, Ah Mu, Ah Jiu, Ah Tu and other half-sized children to shabu mutton and drink soju, intending to spend a stable and peaceful Spring Festival.

While eating, these gangs began to make noise, and one by one they were gearing up, all wanting to go out to fight.

Morale is high, and that's a good thing.

But.

His million-mile territory is still a mess, but he always wants to go over the mountains and mountains to eat meat, which is not a wise move.

"You're just in a hurry."

Yang Chuan said with a serious smile: "There are many things in the world, it sounds like a lot of tricks, like what the Qi family rules the country and levels the world, leading troops to fight and sweep the world, it sounds very lofty, but in fact, its basic ideas and techniques are similar to cooking and cooking." ”

"For example, the matter of governing the country and leveling the world."

"With the help of means, we took Yi Zhixian by surprise and annihilated his last main force here, so as to destroy the country of the Huns."

"But the problem is that it's just a superficial thing, it's like if we hunt a big bulf, we have to find a way to strip it clean, cook it carefully, and then sit down and enjoy it."

"Mobei and Desert South, between our Luding City, thousands of miles in the wilderness, between the Western Regions of the Zuo Xian King and the Right Xian King, it is almost seven or eight thousand miles away, such a big cow, has it been peeled and cleaned?"

"Is the beef chopped?"

"Have you thought about what dishes you can make?"

"Which meats need to be stir-fried, which meats can be steamed, and which meats need to be marinated?"

"Also, if a whole big bullock can't be eaten in one meal, what will happen to the remaining bones and meat? Do you want to make beef jerky, or do you want to hide it in an ice cellar? ”

"These are all problems."

Yang Chuan was soaking the mutton while talking eloquently, in front of a group of half-grown children, he was like a 'confidant big brother', using the most simple words to tell the simplest truth, so that Ah Tie, Ah Mu and others quieted down.

Looking at everyone's painstaking meditation, Yang Chuan smiled with relief.

He wants to get rid of the quagmire of the Han Empire and have his own world, and the most important thing is to have a 'Changning Army' that only belongs to him, and at the same time, he must also cultivate a group of his own 'team'.

Otherwise, he, a big Han cook, would have become the 'king of the mountain'.

"Let's find a way to stabilize the fundamentals first, and then seek the next step of development."

In the end, Yang Chuan made a final decision and began to arrange tasks for the teenagers under his command: "We have more than 18,000 cavalry, 3,000 infantry soldiers, plus 30,000 people in the infrastructure battalion, firearms battalion and baggage in the later stage. ”

"Except for the land of Monan and Mobei left by Yizhi, let's take over and manage it well, and leave the territory of King Zuo Xian and King Right Xian to the Han court."

"In the next few years, our main tasks are logging, building cities, farming, fishing and hunting, mining, and exploding soldiers......"

……

The Marquis of Changning is missing.

In the city of Chang'an in the Han Empire, the dark tide is surging, the rumors are rumoring, and the second 'witch case' launched by Liu Che makes this winter seem extraordinarily long.

Unlike Luding City in the north of the desert, there is a snow every three or five days, making the vast grassland desert a vast snowfield...... In the winter of Guanzhong, the next snow will be sunny for many days.

It's cold, though.

It is difficult to melt the snow in some shady areas, especially in the area of Weiyang Palace, where tall buildings block too much sunlight, so the dirty snow is even more difficult to melt.

In a certain hall, Liu Che was lazily drinking and enjoying music, with no expression on his face.

Originally, there should have been a large hall full of civil and military officials, but now there are only seven or eight people, one by one, sitting upright, looking at the nose, nose and heart, without distractions, facing the mountains of food and wine piled up on the case, but no one dares to open their bellies to eat and drink.

The atmosphere was very dreary.

Liu Che's appetite was very good, he smacked a whole leg of mutton, drank three or four catties of wine, reached out and grabbed a few slices of sauced beef and stuffed it into his mouth, chewing slowly.

With another glass of wine, it's beautiful.

"Yang Chuan is gone."

Liu Che suddenly spoke, and the wine at the corner of his mouth made his beard a little messy, drenched, greasy, and looked terrifying.

"Go sick, Cao Xiang, you two have the best relationship with Yang Chuan, do you know where he went?"

Liu Che asked.

Huo Quzhi was stunned for a moment, and shook his head a little blankly: "I don't know." ”

Cao Xiang also nodded: "It can't be that he was captured by the Huns, right?" More than two months ago, when our squad returned to the court, he once said that the hundreds of thousands of troops of King Youxian were still in the Western Regions, eyeing the Hexi Corridor, and he had no soldiers and horses in his hands, and he didn't know how to defend ......."

Liu Che took a deep look at Huo Quzhi and Cao Xiang, and no longer paid attention to them, but looked sideways at Wei Qing who was at the bottom right: "Brother-in-law, where did you say that stinky boy went?" ”

Wei Qing arched his hand and said very seriously: "The Hexi Corridor is three or four thousand miles long, the terrain is complex, there are many Huns, Qiang people, Di people, and Hu people in the Western Regions, and there are only two or three thousand temporarily recruited county soldiers under Yang Chuan, and if there is a crisis, it will be difficult to deal with it at all." ”

Liu Che suddenly asked: "Is he dissatisfied with my arrangement and let Zhu Maichen go to the Hexi Corridor?" ”

Wei Qing, Huo Quai, and Cao Xiang hurriedly shook their heads: "No." ”

Liu Che sighed and said quietly: "Actually, the reason why Zhu Maichen was asked to go to the Hexi Corridor was not to send him a good helper, so that he could free up his hands and plan a good attack on the Western Regions.

That's right.

Liu Man: Are they okay in Longxi? ”

The last sentence is asking Dachangmen Cui Jiu.

The old thief Cui Jiu, who was leaning on the pillar and napping, slowly opened his eyes and said, "Princess Full Moon, Princess Zhiyue and Lord Naren Tuoya are all fine, and besides, all three of them are already pregnant with Liujia ......."

Hearing this, Wei Qing, Huo Quzhi, and Cao Xiang's faces changed slightly, but no one said a word.

Liu Che came to his senses and said with a smile: "So, Yang Chuan has a future?" ”

Immediately, he frowned slightly, and said very unhappily: "Look at this Yang Chuan, even if you want to expand your territory and go to the Western Regions to fight, you shouldn't be so anxious, you have to wait until after the spring of next year, and I will send the army to lead the army with Sick and Cao Xiang;

Now it's okay, he himself is lost in the Western Regions and there is no trace, and they are about to give birth when the full moon is full, but he ...... Alas! ”

Liu Che took a glass of wine, waved his hand very irritably, and asked those singers and dancers to retreat, then sighed and passed the order: "Cui Jiu, take Yang Chuan's family back to Chang'an." ”

Cui Jiu nodded, closed his eyes, and continued to nap.

Wei Qing, Huo Quai, and Cao Xiang hurriedly got up: "Your Majesty Shengming." ”

Liu Che waved his hand: "Let's all stand down, I'm a little sleepy......"

……

The banquet was dispersed, and the crowd was gone.

In the main hall, there were only Liu Che and Dachangmen Cui Jiu left, dozens of huge candles were burning beep, and the charcoal in the brazier was burning red.

"It's time for a snowfall."

Liu Che sat behind the desk, looking at the warm winter sun of white flowers at the entrance of the main hall with some distraction, and was inexplicably a little depressed: "Cui Jiu, has the snow in the area of Shanglin Yuan melted?" ”

Cui Jiu put his hands in his sleeves and said expressionlessly: "Some places have been localized, and some places have not." ”

After listening to Cui Jiu's nonsense, Liu Che didn't care, he reached out and took out an item under the desk, looked at it very boringly, and played with his hand, the tiredness in the corners of his eyes was difficult to hide.

But it's a globe.

This thing is the Hun sacrifice in the gold man dismantled out, there is a very delicate gold bracket, on the bracket, a ball slightly smaller than the dog's head, yellow, blue, red, green, purple, carved a lot of colors, gently plucked, it will be dripping and spinning, it is very good-looking.

"I've been looking at this thing for more than a month, but I can't see anything famous after all, Cui Jiu, what kind of treasure do you think this is?"

Cui Jiu frowned: "It should be a map." ”

"Maps?"

Liu Che frowned, and muttered several times before he spoke: "At the beginning, I thought it was a map, but ......"

If this is a map, it can be said.

After all, above this sphere, there is a place where the shape of mountains and rivers is very familiar, isn't it some places in the Han Empire?

The problem is, that's too big.

"What does Tai Shiling say?" Liu Che asked.

"Tai Shi Ling thinks that this thing is a geographical map of the world," Cui Jiu stepped forward slowly, stretched out a thin index finger, and pointed to one of the places, "Your Majesty, please see, this is a big river, this is a big river, and this piece of mountains and rivers sandwiched in the middle should be the Central Plains, Guanzhong and Qilu." ”

"In addition, this brown area should be the Ruoqiang Plateau west of Longxi, and the promenade canyon area north of it should be the Hexi Corridor that His Majesty just knocked down......"

Cui Jiu's old thief's voice was very soft, and he said a lot of words in a rare way, which made Liu Che a little surprised.

"Your Majesty, the Xiongnu people's sacrifice to the heavenly gold, the origin is mysterious, listen to the Taishi Lingyan, as early as more than 800 years ago, there is a legend of the sacrifice to the heavenly gold, but no one has ever seen it, some people speculate that it should be an object left over from ancient times."

"An object from ancient times?"

"This is my guess ......"

“……”

Liu Che leaned in front of the 'globe' and gently turned it to make it rotate slowly, but the doubt in his eyes never dissipated: "It's a pity that the thief Yang Chuan is not here, with his cleverness, he should be able to guess the purpose of this thing." ”

Cui Jiu's eyes flashed, as if he wanted to say something.

However, the old thief did not say anything after all.

Liu Che looked at the globe for a while, felt very bored, lay down on the embroidered couch, and waved his hand: "I heard that Dong Zhongshu has returned to Chang'an, you bring it over and let him take a look." ”

Cui Jiu nodded, packed the globe in a brocade box, and turned around and walked out of the main hall.

There were two snows some time ago, and in the past ten days, the warm winter sun and white flowers were a little dazzling, and the old thief paused for a few breaths on the steps of the main hall, and then slowly walked out of the palace......

……

Dong Zhongshu came back from Longxi and did not go to Chang'an City, but went directly back to Tai Academy opposite Zhuyuantou Village.

The Weishui is clear, half of the river is frozen, and in the sunlight, it is like a winding jade belt, and the willow trees on both sides of the river bank look very lonely, bare, gently swaying and swaying in the wind.

Take a sip of tea and sigh.

The great scholar of the Han Empire sat on a wooden couch near the window, holding a book in his hand, but he hardly bothered to read it.

I don't know how.

Looking at the Zhuangzi of Yang Chuan's family on the other side of Weishui, Dong Zhongshu felt very bored.

The smoke curls up, and the servants are busy inside and out, some are picking seeds, and some are adding grass to the cattle, sheep and livestock, which at first glance looks like a quiet landscape painting.

But.

The owner of the Zhuangzi, the little thief of Yang Chuan, disappeared in the Hexi Corridor.

What's the point of all this?

Dong Zhongshu sighed, casually threw the scroll in his hand on the desk, and served a bowl of tea, but drank one tastelessly.

Yang Chuan's thief is hateful, but even if he is black-hearted, he bullies the readers, and he is not ambiguous at all, which once made him, the first scholar of the big man, jealous and hateful.

However, when he heard that Yang Chuan had brought a cavalry of less than 800 people, left Rouge City, and went all the way west for two or three months without any news, Dong Zhongshu felt a little blocked in his heart.

"With that thief's prudence and cunning, it should be fine, right?"

Dong Zhongshu smiled bitterly, put down the tea bowl, unfolded the book, and read it with and without a match, and gradually, he felt a little sleepy.

However, as a reader, it is not allowed to sleep during the day......

At that moment, the door was pushed open.

"Dong Gong didn't go back to Chang'an City, he left the twelve beautiful girls in the family at home, but he ran to Tai Academy."

Cui Jiu entered the door and glanced at Dong Zhongshu: "Your Majesty asked me to send something over, so that your Dong Gong can distinguish the real from the fake." ”

Dong Zhongshu nodded slightly, stretched out his hand to invite: "Da Changmen, please take a seat." ”

Cui Jiu didn't sit down, but directly put the brocade box in his hand on the desk: "Dong Gong is the first scholar in the Han Dynasty, and he must have heard of the Huns' sacrifice to the heavens and gold......"

A lifetime of negative qi has become today, and no one in the four seas sees the sunset...... Inexplicably, I was a little depressed, I didn't want to cook, and I didn't want to write books.

Sure enough, there are always one or two days a month, and men will also come to relatives?

"Six Tales of the Floating Life" is really well written.

(End of chapter)