Thousands of miles north of the grassland, icy and snowy.

The figure of Borage is as majestic as a mountain, standing on the top of the mountain, overlooking the stretching mountains and rivers.

"You still don't agree to go back to the Huns and take reins in the army?"

The Great Shaman is still in very poor spirits and languishing:

"The people and horses under the jurisdiction of my royal court have gathered on the south side of the icy lake, this time my Xiongnu royal department was defeated by the Han army, and the losses were extremely heavy, if you don't come out, my Xiongnu will be divided and melee soon."

"You, like Yi Zhixi, always only know how to stare at the grassland."

Borage stood there, his eyes dark as if they were void, and behind the endless darkness was an even thicker darkness, as if it contained a strange power.

His voice was muffled:

"The Han realm, further south of the grassland, is only a small part of heaven and earth.

To the north of the steppe, on the east and west sides, there is a vast land, population, and resources. ”

The old voice of the great shaman said: "Do you mean to let me be a Hun and develop in other directions?" Give up going south and confront the Han Chinese? ”

"The Han people have never been strong in their desire to invade, they think that they are the core of heaven and earth, and they are very satisfied to hold that small area. They had no ambition to take land and expand outward, and after defeating our Xiongnu headquarters, they at most pushed the border a little north to build a new line of defense.

The Han people built high walls to defend the city, and the cost of attacking was heavy. Why not take advantage of the flexibility of my Hun cavalry and take the other parties first? ”

"Take the north first, and even the east and west sides of the grassland, including the countries of the Western Regions."

There is no strong unified force in these places, which can resist my Hun soldiers, and they are all defeated by my Huns.

Take the above places, then our Xiongnu strength will be doubled, and the Han border will fall on three sides under our siege, the defense line is so long, how can they hold on? When the time comes, it will be much easier to break the Han people's defense line. ”

The Great Shaman: "You said this, Mao Dun Da Shan Yu also proposed it back then, but it was not easy to implement.

And those tribes who decided to leave the east and west sides at that time also had the intention of forming a buffer and protecting the tent of my Xiongnu king. ”

Borage said lightly: "You don't know how to conquer, you only know that you go south to take Han, thinking that the Han people are rich, and you will be satisfied with the harvest after plundering."

Don't you know that you can swallow things first, and then press the territory with heavy troops, so that you can seize the Han and let the Quartet be under the rule of our Huns. ”

"If you can do what you want, would you like to be born?" The Great Shaman.

Borage turned around slowly: "You go back and tell Yi Zhixian that I can serve him as a single Yu, but let me be born, you can't interfere with my use of soldiers."

I don't want the position of the Lord of the Huns, you should know. Commanding the army to break the enemy, constantly winning, and obtaining a breath of qi is what I need, and one day in the future, I will leave the Huns forever, and even ...... This is the world. ”

A ray of essence flowed out of the big shaman's cloudy old eyes, and his back was slightly erected:

"You left the Huns and came to the north alone. The 30,000 elites of your Heavenly Soul Department disbanded on their own, unwilling to be used by the king's account.

In the years that followed, they lost their tracks, and their whereabouts were obscured by a force, difficult to trace, but they were always in your hands? ”

Borage's gaze fell to the north.

The great shaman suddenly shook his whole body: "They are further north, helping you conquer the land?" You haven't been hiding from the world all these years, but have already made arrangements? ”

Evening.

In addition to the lords of the clans, there were also some officials who heard the news, people from the princess's mansion, and chamberlains in the palace.

The qi in the soldier's mansion was sometimes agitated, and sometimes it was unfazed.

On this night, Dong Zhongshu, who had returned to his residence in Chang'an, suddenly had a feeling.

He put on a robe, stepped out, and soon appeared outside the military mansion.

At the same time, under the Bingfu Jian where Wu Qi was, the void rippled, and a figure slowly appeared.

A circle of soldier formation patterns swayed under the figure's feet, staggered and disappeared, and slowly walked out from the secret realm of the military mansion.

"You...... Entered the formation level of the three realms of the soldiers? Dong Zhongshu was shocked.

The heads of the surrounding clans were also shocked when they heard the rumors.

It was Huo Qu's disease that came out.

He glanced around, the Zhuo family, the heads of the clans, Dong Zhongshu, and the people in the Prince Zhan Shi's mansion, obviously his mother Wei Shao'er also knew that he had entered the military mansion and had not come out, so he sent someone to wait.

Huo Quzhi asked Dong Zhongshu about his realm, but did not respond: "Master has been waiting for a long time, and he still has something to tell me?" ”

Dong Zhongshu snorted: "Let's ride back to the city together, let's talk on the way." ”

He also said, "The heads of the family may also come with you." ”

Li Zhao, the lord of the Li family, Li Zhong, Wang Qian of the Taiyuan Wang family, Dong Zhongshu and Huo Quai, got on the frame sent by the princess's mansion and returned to Chang'an City.

The others saw that Huo Qu's illness had come out, and they dispersed.

"Why did the master leave Chang'an back then?" Huo Quzhi spoke first after taking a seat in the car.

"Back then...... When it's time to cultivate yourself, you can go out and do more. Dong Zhongshu squinted at Huo Qu's illness.

In the perception, Huo Quzhi, who came out of the secret realm of the military mansion, seemed to have an indescribable change, and there was more unfathomable charm.

"Master, I would like to stay in Chang'an."

Huo Quzhi asked a little strangely, and Dong Zhongshu pondered for a moment:

"Champion Hou wants me to make a statement, the soldiers and Confucianism are compatible, and the government and the opposition are doing their best to help you conquer the city?"

"It can be understood that way."

"Why does Champion Hou think he can win every battle? Have you ever thought that no matter how powerful a general is, as long as he is careless on the battlefield, everything he has accumulated before may be wiped out.

What's more, the battle between the two armies is not just a battlefield battle! ”

After the other three heads of the family got into the car, they sat on the sidelines, listened to the exchange of words between the two, and were not in a hurry to speak.

"Champion Hou knows, how much does fighting consume national strength?"

Dong Zhongshu asked continuously: "It can be known that once a war starts, everything inside and outside the government and the opposition will be tilted towards the war, and the country will stagnate." If the war is lost, the national strength and national fortunes will be affected. ”

"I know, but there won't be the situation that Master Dong is worried about." Huo Quzhi said calmly.

Dong Zhongshu chuckled: "Champion Hou will not appear in a word, how can people believe it if he says it lightly?" ”

Huo Quai: "So the master and the heads of the family decided to be content with the success?"

We don't attack the main attack, we don't invade, but wait for the Huns to come back to their senses, reorganize the troops and attack us again, or other Siyi organizations to attack, and then we will defend and counterattack?

What you are thinking about is how to save national strength and reduce consumption, and you have not considered that if foreign races attack, we will be passively attacked by the enemy, and the loss will be greater?

In this case, why don't you take the initiative to attack, the four Yi who fought dare not raise their heads, and the dead race will be wiped out.

Let them never invade my big man! ”

Dong Zhongshu clapped his hands and said: "It's a good sentence that will never invade my big man." Champion Hou is bent on fighting just for the sake of the big man, isn't there any selfishness? ”

"Isn't the champion Hou for the sake of leaving a name for the ages, the general is undefeated, and grabbing cultivation for his personal march to the road of the military saint?" Li Zhao also asked, his eyes burning, staring at Huo Quai.

It's not clear whether it's public or private, and people won't believe it.

Huo Qubing didn't bother to explain, and said directly: "So you'd rather wait for someone to accumulate strength to attack than take the initiative to attack?" ”

Dong Zhongshu said coldly: "No, not taking the initiative does not mean passive. Instead, I use the time when I don't fight to develop, so that I can be stronger. If anyone comes, they will be given a head-on blow. We have taken advantage of the right time, the right place and the people, the country is strong and the people are rich, how can we be invincible?

You are sure that your main attack will be better than others, and our defensive situation is better?

If you suffer a defeat in the last battle, the pressure from all sides will be more than you can imagine. ”

Dong Zhongshu took out the bearing of Confucianism and eloquently:

"Champion Hou Nuo's ambition is to widen the country's borders. Who doesn't know that there are many benefits to a vast territory and a larger population, but how easy it is? What's more, as long as there is a slight danger in the process, if you don't advance but retreat, it will be too late to regret it. ”

Most people's views are caused by the long-term adherence to the idea of seeking stability, not to be greedy for merit, and to defend and counterattack when encountering foreign enemies, which is almost engraved in the genes.

"I came to you, I originally wanted to use the real secret of the military mansion, and agreed to work with you to promote military science, let military science enter my Confucian palace, and spread and educate the people together, so that Huo Hou will not make a big fuss about military affairs in the next few years, it seems that you will not agree?"

Dong Zhongshu saw Huo Quai's thoughts, and summarized his purpose in one sentence.

At this time, the frame had entered the city, and seeing Huo Quai's head, Dong Zhongshu brushed his sleeves and said:

"If you have to use soldiers, you must pour out the wealth of the country, and the people will serve the war and waste the people and money. Just because Huo Hou has a thought, he will succeed and his bones will wither, don't you feel sorry? ”

"Defeating the four razors is far from costing the people and money, not to mention the heavy casualties.

When this country is rich and the people are strong, they do not act, and when they are weak and powerless, how painful the lesson is, don't you know that the master learns Confucianism and history? ”

Huo Quzhi said in a deep voice: "From a long-term perspective, taking the initiative is less than letting others bully you." And fighting a war can transform contradictions, and use one's mind on the outside world to bully outsiders, isn't it better than internal strife? ”

"What do you say that once you succeed in success, all bones will wither, and those who die in war die to protect the people, and if you don't fight, there will be fewer people who die in internal fighting?

Before the unification of the Qin and Han dynasties, how many people died in the chaos of the countries?

If we don't attack the outside world, we will have internal friction, this is a lesson of history, there has been before, and there will be no less in the future. Throughout history, nearly half of the time has been fighting, so why can't we focus on attacking cities and taking land and sweeping away foreign tribes? ”

Dong Zhongshu suddenly got up: "You are stubborn, bent on raising troops, and you don't understand the teachings. Then he lifted the curtain and left.

Several clan lords barely spoke, and after Dong Zhongshu got out of the car, they glanced at each other and followed suit.

When Huo Qu returned to the Jade Garden, it was already night, and the night was deep.

There are personal soldiers on duty in the outer house, and when they see him returning, they all bow down and salute.

Huo went to the inner house when he was sick, and he looked at the sea inside.

Since shaking the fortunes of the Huns, after coming back, he became the chief priest of the military mansion and entered the secret realm of the military mansion, and the cultivation progress during this period was very fast.

After absorbing that array diagram in the secret realm just now, he grabbed the military theory he learned, and it helped him open the lintel of the next realm.

In the sea of knowledge, the drop of 'Dan Qi' in the eyebrows of the two soldiers is also full, and it may roll off at any time.

Huo Quzhi thought that if he attacked the Three Realms Formation Diagram now, how sure was he that he would succeed?

After he entered the realm of heaven and man, his breakthrough speed increased instead of decreasing, almost breaking through at the speed of one realm a month.

This speed is not without side effects.

In the past few days, every night, the negative effects from the Yin Body Realm that I heard in my ears, like the abnormality of ghostly whispering, have become more and more obvious. Sometimes it can even affect his solid consciousness, and there seems to be a dark aura in meditation or dreams, trying to get closer to him.

However, every time that kind of qi machine appeared, it would eventually be broken through by the white tiger talisman in his sea of knowledge, and it would be absorbed and swallowed.

The white tiger was the main kill, showing the soldier's spirit to the extreme, and it was right.

The impact he suffered in the realm of the Yin Body may have been the smallest, because of the suppression of the White Tiger.

The Yin Body Realm of the Soldier Family is actually a very dangerous cultivation process.

If there is a slight mistake, the realm may decline and the soul may be damaged.

The spirit pill that the emperor gave him before, and Liu Qing was worried that he would enter the Yin Body Realm and let Dao Zun stay to protect him, all out of concern about the impact he would encounter in this realm.

Huo Qu's sick thoughts swept over Liu Qing's coquettish face.

He had already arrived at the inner house by this time.

The two princesses' attendants stood guard at the door of the dormitory.

Huo Quzhi waved his hand and let the two of them go to rest.

He pushed the door open and walked into the dormitory.

The two maids glanced at each other and retreated into the distance, but did not leave.

It is their duty to guard the safety of the princess, and it is a dereliction of duty to leave.

However, Huo Quzhi is the princess's husband, and the emperor has already issued an order, so he entered the dormitory late at night, and the two did not stop him.

On the couch in the dormitory, Liu Qing fell asleep after taking a bath in the morning.

Her eyes with thick eyelashes are closed, her face is white and tender like porcelain enamel, and her bewitching body rises and falls under the thin quilt, and her roundness is plump.

Huo Qubing originally wanted to come and tell Liu Qing that he was back, but he didn't plan to leave now.

Liu Qing felt someone approaching in the haze, and the end of her nose lingered with a familiar and reassuring smell.

Then he felt that a warm breath was close at hand, and he opened his eyes shyly, and saw the handsome face and the compelling gaze, so he stretched out his arms and wrapped his arms around the figure in front of him......

One two three...... The rhythm is generally soft at first, and slowly presumptuous.