The two strategies proposed by Lu Pheasant are really appeasement measures when recuperating and recuperating, and she saw that everyone accepted the first plan happily, and her confidence doubled, and she said loudly,

"My first strategy is to reclaim the solid border to prevent a small group of Hun soldiers and horses from plundering.

The second strategy is to open and close the city, in order to delay the southward movement of a large number of Xiongnu soldiers and horses, and buy time for our dynasty. ”

Guanshi, that is, the "city" set up under the "guan" of the city, this tradition has a long history, and most of you are not unfamiliar.

Thinking back to the Spring and Autumn Period, Ji Ran, a strategist who traveled all over the world and knew everything, once accepted the Yue doctor Fan Li as an apprentice by chance, and taught him the famous "Seven Strategies of Ji Ran".

According to legend, Fan Li only used five of the seven plans of Ji Ran, and he had successfully helped the king of Yue Goujian to gather for ten years, and the national strength was prosperous, and finally Wu Xingyue was destroyed, and the shame of Huiji was restored.

After Fan Li resigned and went into hiding, he also used the remaining two of the seven strategies, three to his daughter, and became a model of a good death who bravely retired from the rapids and achieved fame.

What are the two strategies that Fan Li hid, the folk have different opinions, confusing, and in the five strategies he successfully carried out, there is a "profit at the end of the farm, there is no shortage of closed markets", which is intended to persuade Goujian to attach importance to commercial trade and bring it under the unified management of the imperial court.

At present, Empress Lu Pheasant's proposal is a step further on the basis of the traditional customs market, and it is actually intended to carry out trade with foreign Fanbang for mutual benefit.

"You mean to open the door to do business with those Huns?" Liu Ji's eyes widened.

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Border markets, this is the most accustomed thing for people 900 years later.

Lu Pheasant clearly remembers that in the previous life, when she was seventy-eight years old, she finally completely exterminated the Western Turkic State, and all the ten Turkic tribes were restrained, she unified the Western Regions, and set up the Beiting Protectorate in Tingzhou, the original base camp of the Western Turks.

Tingzhou is really a good place, the south pillows the Tianshan Mountains, the north looks at the grassland, the west leads directly to the tooth tent of the Tuqishi, and the south passes through the Tianshan Mountains, it is connected with Gaochang, Yanqi and other countries, to the north can reach the center of the grassland people, Jinshan, and to the east can go directly to the territory of the Mobei Uighur Khan.

Since she sent 20,000 troops to guard Tingzhou and shocked the Quartet, the remnants of the Turkic forces also collapsed, and the countries in the Western Regions north and south of the Tianshan Mountains broke away from the rule of the Turks for a hundred years, and the trade road from Chang'an to the Western Regions has once again restored peace, smoothness and hustle and bustle.

In my impression, it was a thoroughfare full of silk, wine and aroma, with Sogdian and Persian caravans, envoys and proton groups from all over the world, and monks and performers drifting in all directions.

I remember that at that time, for the first time in her life, she saw a strange flower called tulips, which was paid tribute from the distant western kingdom of Kavi, and the branches and leaves of the flower were fat, like Maimendong, and the flowers were like hibiscus, and their color was purple and blue, dignified and full, and it was lovely.

Later, she repeatedly tried to transplant in the palace, but always ended in failure, which can be regarded as a little regret in daily life.

There are also those colorful parrots from Persia, with bright coats, wingspans of four feet, flying like neon, brilliant and dazzling, in the west market of Chang'an, they can even be sold for 30,000 yuan a feather.

I don't know if those Kavi and Persians have lived in the Western Regions at this time, and if so, she also wants to see tulips passing through Tingzhou and colorful parrots flying in the newly built Chang'an City in the future.

It's just that the people in front of them, except for her, no one knows about the existence of Tingzhou, and for them, it is just an unheard of place name hidden outside the layers of the Huns' iron hooves.

Therefore, the premise of achieving all this is to completely subdue the Huns and make them obediently relinquish control of the steppe.

And subduing them, it takes strategy, but also long-term patience, she suddenly came back to her senses, and secretly warned herself that at present, external worries and internal troubles coexist, and if you want to hurry, you can't reach it, and you must not underestimate the difficulty of this.

The Han Dynasty in history, but after 70 years of Taoguang cultivation, it was exchanged for the confidence of a decisive battle with the Xiongnu, although he was reincarnated and reborn, but he could not be in a hurry.

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At the beginning of the Han Dynasty at this moment, the exchange of official trade with the Kabi people or the Xiongnu was a groundbreaking initiative.

"According to what the minister has seen and heard, the areas of Daijun, Changshan County and Yanmen, because of their proximity to the border of the Xiongnu, are often infested by smuggling border merchants.

When the world was undecided, the defense of the Huns was relatively lax, and the merchants of the two countries gathered around the Daidi every few months, which could be regarded as a closed city by itself.

From this point of view, doing business with the Huns is not unreasonable to seek skin with the tiger. ”

Zhang Cang was born in Beidi County, and in his opinion, the queen's suggestion sounded whimsical at first glance, but it was not unreasonable after thinking about it.

Xiao He also came back to his senses, his eyes suddenly lit up,

"Exactly, the merchants are mercenary, and since they gather regularly, it shows that both the Han and the Hungarians have their own needs.

Rather than allowing the merchants to make a lot of money from it, it was better for the imperial court to run the market, which could not only ensure safety and properly manage the merchants of all ethnic groups, but also draw some taxes from it to fund the treasury. ”

"So, your second strategy is to stop the Hun army from plundering southward from the source?"

Liu Ji turned his head to look at Lu Pheasant, his face was cloudy, as if he was approving, but also implied a little awe, perhaps, and a trace of imperceptible fear.

Lu Pheasant didn't have time to respond, but he heard Liu Jingzan,

"The Queen's plan is wonderful.

The Huns were not good at farming, did not know how to smelt iron and weave, could not make wine, and had no raw materials, even a copper needle and a horse of linen were rare, not to mention our rice and silk.

The products of the Han land on which they relied for their daily life were either purchased from the merchants of the border areas or plundered, and the leaders who could lead them to grab the most wealth were good leaders.

Therefore, those who can gather a large number of people to disturb the border are mostly high-status Xiongnu leaders. ”

Everyone is a business minister who fought out of the mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, and the truth that the thief captures the king first is self-evident.

Since it was impossible to resist by force in a short period of time, he simply opened the city in the border city, sold half of the materials they needed at a parity price, and bribed the leaders with more luxury goods from the Han land, so as to eliminate their motivation to lead the army south.

"At the very least, let them come a few times less before we go into battle."

Lu Pheasant said in conclusion, there was no unwillingness in his tone, only extraordinary calmness.

Before we have the ability to win a great battle, we can only endure it, as if we have broken our teeth and swallowed blood in the darkness, and we can gather strength and wait for the right time.

The taste of enduring humiliation is indeed difficult to swallow, and the audience is silent, everyone silently digests the humiliation that comes to their faces, and their chests are full of excitement but they can't find an outlet.

Or was the emperor the first to break the terrible silence,

"By the way, it's useless for us to agree here, we have to find someone who can speak well, go to the Huns, and talk to Mao Dun Shan Yu in person."