July is the hottest month of the year.

As Sima Xu had predicted, the Wei army occupied the city of Harald, leaving a primeval forest to the east to the poisoners. These poisonous people are lazy and hardworking, and they don't know the power of the fire, so they all hide in this forest to escape the heat because they are afraid of the heat.

Seeing that the poisonous man really drilled into his trap, Ran Min couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately dispatched troops and horses, sent various troops and horses to ambush on the main road at night, and sent a team of 30,000 iron cavalry to attack the camp and set fire to the entire primeval forest!

The body-poisoned coalition army that hid in the forest to escape the heat was suddenly in chaos, and did not obey the orders of their respective generals at all, and made a mess like headless flies, spreading their feet and running away.

"Rush!"

"Kill!"

The escape of the poisonous man created a favorable opportunity for the Wei army.

In order to burn alive the hundreds of thousands of poisonous allied troops, the Wei army blocked various passages and shot their soldiers with arrows, forcing them to retreat into the forest. was further shot, took a step back and was burned to death, and the poisoned person can be described as a dilemma!

Many of the poisonous soldiers had already thrown their weapons and knelt down to beg for mercy from the Wei army.

"Why doesn't Your Majesty accept the surrender of the poisoner?" Sima Xu beside him asked tentatively.

And Ran Min chuckled lightly and said, "Accept the surrender of the poisonous person? It's easy to say, we don't have many soldiers and horses, and we don't have enough food, how to settle these prisoners of war? It's good that they're dead, it's good to be dead. For me, only a dead poisoner is the best poisoner! ”

“……”

Sima Xu's heart couldn't help but feel a chill, and he was sincerely afraid of this cruel and murderous monarch.

In fact, Ran Min doesn't like to kill innocents indiscriminately, and he doesn't like to careless of human life.

In his opinion, the life of the Wei people is life, and the life of the poisonous person is also the life, and there is no distinction between high and low human life, but the poisonous person is his enemy, and he can't properly place them, so he can only kill them all, one hundred!

This can't be blamed on Ran Min being too cruel, it is really forced by the situation.

If the Wei army is allowed to destroy the various states that are poisoned one after another, I don't know when this battle will be fought and how many soldiers will be killed or wounded.

Seeing that the fire spread to the entire forest, the soldiers who were poisoned also rose up to resist and rushed out one after another.

However, the Wei army held all the passages, and even in some remote places, the Wei army's iron cavalry could rely on their swift assault ability to shoot the enemies who tried to escape. But more of the poisonous soldiers had lost their minds, and they were screaming and scurrying around, walking like flying, but in this vast forest, in this sea of fire, they were completely lost, and they were all burned alive in the end!

"Ahh

Seeing that the poisonous soldier had been burned into a "fire man", his mouth let out a terrible scream like killing a pig, but no matter how he ran, how he danced, and even rolled on the ground, the flames on his body could not be extinguished.

Eventually, he was burned to a piece of black coal, but the growing fire engulfed him.

"Shoot the arrows!"

The Wei army would not be merciful to these poisonous people who were enemies of them, and threw a rain of arrows from afar, turning them all into hedgehogs, forcing them to retreat into the forest that had been burned into a sea of fire.

Left and right were all dead, these poisonous people were ruthless, howling and rushing out of the sea of fire, even if they were covered in bruises, they also had close contact with those cruel Wei soldiers.

But this kind of rebellion is as useless as a return to the light.

The fire burned for a day and a night, burning the entire forest. The 500,000 people of the Poison Coalition Army were all wiped out, and even if there were fish that slipped through the net, there were very few.

After this battle, Ran Min believed that although the Wei army had aroused the resentment and hostility of the local poisoners, to a certain extent, the poisoners had lost the most basic ability to resist, and the Wei army could conquer the South Asian subcontinent more quickly.

Since this crucial Battle of Harald, the Wei army has made another effort to destroy the most poisonous state in addition to the original Gupta Dynasty, Vaga Toga, and because of the hot weather, the Wei army had to temporarily station in the country's capital Nanti Vandana City to rest.

Ran Min summoned the three military advisors who accompanied him, Qin Mu, Xun Ji, and Sima Xu, to meet with him to discuss how to conquer the various states of the body.

"I want to discuss with you, how to govern this region after the empire has conquered the poisonous land?"

Hearing this, the three advisors all looked at each other, and finally Xun Ji lowered his hand and said: "Your Majesty, the ministers think that they can follow the system of the eight major protectors of the empire and set up the control of the body poison capital in the place where the body is poisoned. The poisonous land is thousands of miles away from Middle Earth, and it is impossible to set up counties to govern, not to mention that the poisonous people have their own culture, and the minister heard that the poisonous land has often been ruled by the Macedonians and Kushan people in history, and the people in the land are disordered and have different beliefs, so it is undoubtedly an excellent choice for them to govern their own states. ”

"In addition, although the various states that are now poisoned have lost the ability to resist, it is very difficult to get them to give up their desire to resist. If they can keep their wealth and let their respective states continue to exist, I believe that the poisonous people will not resist too much, and their princes and nobles will definitely be able to pass it on. ”

Ran Min bowed slightly, and said, "Xun Ji, your method is good, but it is not suitable for the current situation of the empire. The purpose of setting up the eight Protectorates of Andong, Anxi, Annam, Anbei, Beiting, Western Regions, Yizhou, and Yidao is to make these eight Metropolitan Protectorates a barrier for the Empire to ward off foreign invasions. At the same time, it also has the purpose of turning Hu into summer. But the poisonous people are different from other Hu people, the local situation is very chaotic, and it is impossible to govern the county, and if you set up the capital to protect the mansion, this place beyond the reach of the whip, the empire wants to control it, but I am afraid that it will be difficult! ”

"What's more, the establishment of the Imperial Protectorate does not have many tangible benefits for the Empire. The empire has consumed too much manpower, material and financial resources in order to set up the eight major capitals, the treasury is almost empty, and hundreds of thousands of armor soldiers have also been killed and injured! But what does the empire get? It is the submission of various small countries and the fact that they become vassals of the empire. In addition to regular annual tributes, they didn't even need to pay taxes to the empire. ”

"The empire needs to expand, and expansion requires a lot of manpower, financial and material resources, and without a strong national power, it is impossible to support the empire's armies to carry out expeditions. Therefore, the empire wants to plunder the resources of the local poison and use this resource to plunder more benefits for the empire! ”

Hearing Ran Min's thoughts, Xun Ji was silent, and Sima Xu beside him said: Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is unrealistic for the empire to set up counties in the poisonous land, and it is not ideal to set up a capital protectorate in the poisonous land, so it is better to divide the vassal states here. ”

"Divide the vassal states? How is a sub-sealing method? ”

"Your Majesty can divide the princes and even the meritorious ministers into the poisonous land, use the vassal states to replace the rule of the poisonous states, and then wantonly loot the people's fat and ointment to plunder certain benefits for the empire."

"No."

Ran Min immediately vetoed this suggestion.

Not to mention whether or not the sub-feudal system can be successfully implemented in the poisonous land, even if the poisonous people can accept the princes of the empire to establish a country here, Ran Min will not allow the meritorious ministers to be divided here.

The Great Wei Empire is the empire of the Ran family, and no one can be a king unless the surname Ran. This is the rule, and no one can break it!

Therefore, Ran Min said lightly: "Sima Xu, the empire divides the vassal states in the poisonous land, can the poisonous people agree?" Will they accept the rule of my Wei people? Perhaps in the future, after a certain national integration, they will be able to accept the rule of the empire, but not now. What's more, the empire divided the vassal states in the poisonous land, and these vassal states not only failed to govern their subjects well, but instead wantonly looted the people's fat and ointment, wouldn't it make the heavens angry and resentful? Once the poisoners rebel, the empire may be plunged into endless wars. ”

"This ...... Your Majesty, the minister's consideration is biased. ”

Ran Min waved his hand and said, "It's okay." Qin Mu, what do you think? ”

Hearing this, Qin Mu bowed slightly and said, "Your Majesty, the minister originally had the same idea as Lord Xun Ji, and the empire could set up a capital protectorate to manage it in the poisonous land. But now that I think about it, it may be a little impractical! Since Your Majesty wants to loot the people's wealth and colonize the poisonous land, you might as well support the puppet kings of the various states that are poisoned, and make them submit to the empire and become the agent of the empire in the poisonous region. ”

"Exactly?"

"I heard that there is an administrative region called a province in the West, which is similar to our capital protectorate. In order to distinguish them, why not ask Your Majesty to set up provinces in the land of poison, with the supreme governor as the governor, and to retain the kings of those states who are willing to submit to the empire, and let them take the place of the empire and extract the financial resources of their states for the empire? ”

When Ran Min heard this, he immediately clapped his hands and applauded: "Good! Then I will set up a province of body poison in the land of body poison. ”

"This ...... Your Majesty, isn't this province too big? Xun Ji said worriedly: "This poisonous place is different from Mobei, different from Gaoche, its place is tens of thousands of miles in circumference, and the population is still quite a lot, setting up such a province, if the governor of this province rebels one day, how will the imperial court deal with itself?" ”

"Hmm. Xun Ji, you're right! Then, let's set up two provinces in the land of poison. One is the province of Vagathadga and the other is the province of Western Satrap. The province of Western Satrap includes the places of the former Gupta Dynasty, Nibra, Yaodila, Western Satrap, and Abila of the Uttar Pradesh States; The province of Vagathaga includes the places of the original Vagatha, Pallava, Nara and other southern states. The two provinces each garrisoned 80,000 troops, and the military expenses were borne by each state, and each governor served a term of five years, which could be renewed once. ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"