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If he is defeated, it is very likely that the western frontier will be occupied by the Qiang people in a few years, and if Li Yi wants to pacify the western frontier in the future, he will need to pay a price countless times higher than now. With Li Yi's cleverness and his style of doing things, he obviously won't watch the loss of Western Xinjiang, he can only spare no effort to help him capture Guanzhong.

If Li Yi promised to help him, the time for Hebei to restore its strength would be delayed for many years, so that Hebei's plan to pacify the Central Plains as soon as possible while the Central Plains was in turmoil would fail, and the pattern of the world would change again.

Western Xinjiang got Guanzhong, and its strength increased sharply. Under the circumstance that Hebei is temporarily unable to conquer the Central Plains, Western Xinjiang will surely become one of the forces vying for hegemony in a few years.

A few years later, perhaps he will lead the Western Xinjiang Iron Cavalry, and Li Yi, Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Cao Cao, Liu Biao, Liu Bei and others will compete in the Central Plains and conquer the world.

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In late December, Jicheng was covered with heavy snowfall.

The Spring Festival is approaching, and the auspicious atmosphere is full of people in Jixian County, and every household is busy sweeping the house.

On the twenty-fourth day of the lunar month, dust and sweep the house. According to the records of the Spring and Autumn Period of the Lü Family, this kind of dust-sweeping custom existed in the Yaoshun era. Sweeping dust is called "sweeping the house" in the north and "dusting" in the south. "Dust" and "Chen" are homophonic, and the New Year Sweeping Dust means "removing the old and the new", which carries people's desire to break the old and establish the new and the prayer to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, hoping to sweep away all the bad luck and bad luck.

While people were busy cleaning the courtyard of Liulu, dusting off the dirt and cobwebs, and preparing for the New Year, the ministers of the court gathered in the palace and debated fiercely about whether to support the attack on Guanzhong in the western Xinjiang.

The Zhongshu Supervisor is located in the Phoenix Pool in the palace, only a few dozen steps away from the forbidden middle school, which is very convenient for the eldest princess Liu Jing to enter and exit. Now that the general is going north to the prairie, the affairs of the court and the central government mainly fall on Liu Jing. She is the eldest princess of the Han Dynasty and the wife of the general Li Yi, with a special identity.

Because the battle situation in Guanzhong directly affected the future Central Plains War, the eldest princess arrived at Phoenix Pool early in the morning and convened Taifu Cai Yong, Da Situ Yang Biao, Da Sikong Zhenju, Shang Shuling Chen Qun and other ministers to discuss countermeasures.

Han Sui's recital has been sent for a few days, because the general Li Yi is now touring the various departments on the prairie, and there is a lack of a person in the court to take the idea, so the ministers have their own opinions, and there are great differences, but the opinions against aiding Han Sui obviously prevail.

Maybe the ministers have been tired of arguing in the court these days, but now everyone is sitting in the spacious hall, looking at the beautiful snow scene outside, and talking and laughing leisurely with the delicate small stove, and the atmosphere is very relaxed.

The eldest princess was on the throne, chatting casually with Taifu Cai Yong and Taichang Cui Lie.

"General Zhao Yun of Zhengbei arrives in ......" With the shout of the eunuch on duty at the door, Zhao Yun strode in with snowflakes all over his body.

The eldest princess Liu Jing waved her hand, invited Zhao Yun after the salute to sit on the table, and then said, "Today, I ask you not to quarrel." Everyone made their reasons clear, don't attack each other, and don't insult Sven to open his mouth and insult him, otherwise, I will drive him out of the Phoenix Pool. ”

Although the support for Western Xinjiang is mainly based on money and grain, it is mainly involved in military affairs, and it should have been the great Sima and the general Li Yi, who are now in charge of the military and political power of the whole country, to be in charge of this matter. But at this time, the great Sima and the great general Li Yi were far away on the prairie thousands of miles away, leaving only Shi Xunyu, the head of the Great General's Mansion, to deal with the affairs of the Great General's Mansion.

Under the gaze of the eldest princess, Xun Yu first expounded the opinion of the General's Mansion.

Xun Yu insisted on aiding Western Xinjiang and helping Western Xinjiang to conquer Guanzhong. He said loudly: "The outbreak of a major war in Guanzhong has many benefits for Hebei. The Battle of Guanzhong will contain Yuan Shao's main forces on the battlefield in Guanzhong. Yuan Shao's forces were insufficient to concentrate on attacking Hanoi, which helped Tai Shi Ci to hold Hanoi and gain a foothold in Hanoi and threaten Luoyang. ”

"As the Guanzhong War continues, Yuan Shao's influence on the Central Plains will also decrease sharply. Cao Cao and Liu Bei will inevitably take the opportunity to attack Yuan Shu, and the conquest between the parties in the Central Plains will be more intense, which will help us to take the Central Plains in the next few years. ”

"No matter what the outcome of the Guanzhong War is, Yuan Shao's losses will be very staggering, which will seriously hit Yuan Shao's strength. Yuan Shao's strength is not good, and the benefits to Hebei are obvious. ”

"The focus of your debate is not the benefits of the Guanzhong War to Hebei, but the harm of the Guanzhong War to Hebei." Xun Yu then changed his words and explained the reasons why the ministers opposed the support for Western Xinjiang in the past few days.

In the Battle of Guanzhong, it was not only Yuan Shao who was damaged, but also Hebei. Hebei has to pay a heavy price for this, first, because of the shortage of financial endowments, the time to attack the Central Plains will definitely be postponed, and the time to pacify the world will naturally be postponed, and second, once Han Sui occupies Guanzhong, the strength of Western Xinjiang will swell suddenly, which will inevitably fuel Han Sui's ambitions. In the case of the strength of all parties, he is very likely to betray the imperial court and take advantage of the benefits of Guanzhong to cut off the power. This move is purely for the sake of raising tigers.

"Your concerns are valid, but I ask you to look behind you." Xun Yu's expression was solemn, and he waved his hand and said, "Is the reason why the big man has come to this day just because of the traitorous eunuchs, Dong Zhuo and others who have caused trouble in the society?" Is it just because of the Yellow Turbans' successive rebellions? Some people may say that the peril of Sheji is related to the accumulation of disadvantages and weaknesses of the Han Dynasty, the disasters of the displaced people in the Han Dynasty for decades, and the natural and man-made disasters of the Han Dynasty in the past few decades, but why don't you say that the rebellion in Western Xinjiang, which lasted for more than 100 years, is also one of the important reasons why the Han Dynasty has turned from prosperity to decline? ”

"In order to quell the rebellion in the western Xinjiang that has been suppressed repeatedly, the imperial court has invested hundreds of thousands of troops and tens of billions of wealth, exhausting the national strength of the Han Dynasty, and several emperors of this dynasty have no choice but to increase taxes, sell official beards, and even sell their crimes cheaply. There is a great reason why the Han Dynasty has come to this crumbling predicament today, and the imperial court has resolutely advocated sending troops to suppress the rebellion in Western Xinjiang for nearly a hundred years. ”

"Why did the imperial court try so hard to maintain stability in the western frontier? Because Western Xinjiang is the gateway to Guanzhong and the gateway to Gyeonggi, Western Xinjiang is unstable, and the iron cavalry of the Qiang people will take advantage of the weakness to enter. Once the western frontier becomes the pasture of the Qiang people, Guan and Luo will become battlefields, and the Central Plains will directly face the attack of the Hu people. ”

When the general agreed to Han Sui without hesitation and was willing to provide relief for Western Xinjiang, many officials in Hebei did not understand, and the general also convened the officials for this purpose and made a special explanation. Although Han Sui is the leader of the rebels in Western Xinjiang, he is a Han Chinese, whether he is sincerely appeased or not, he is a Han Chinese, and he is still the Liangzhou assassin of the Han Dynasty, and he has to fight to protect Western Xinjiang. Looking back at what Han Sui has done in Western Xinjiang in the past ten years, we have to admit that it was Han Sui's efforts that allowed the Han Dynasty to keep the land of Western Xinjiang. ”

"What are our goals today? It is a Zhongxing man, not to dominate the world, let alone to lay a foundation for himself. Western Xinjiang is the territory of the Han Dynasty, in order to protect the territory of the Han Dynasty, in order to defeat the Hu people who invaded the Han Dynasty, even if Han Sui is a rebel, we must support him, because at that time Han Sui and our goal is the same, he is fighting for the Han Dynasty, fighting for every inch of the Han Dynasty. ”

"In the future, when we stand on that blood-stained land, when we see the bones of those who we once regarded as rebellious, do you still think they are rebellious? No, they are the heroes of the Han Dynasty, the heroes who defend every inch of land for the Han Dynasty. ”

"As long as the Han is here, the West Xinjiang will be there, and the West will always be a part of the Han Dynasty. We must not lose the western frontier, and we must not allow the western frontier to be ravaged under the iron hooves of the Hu people. ”

"That's why we helped Han Sui!"

"I believe you don't know very well what the situation is in Western Xinjiang today." Xun Yu stabilized his slightly excited mood and continued, "Please set your eyes on today's Western Xinjiang. Although the Dongqiang in the western Xinjiang has been submitted to the imperial court, there are still Xiqiang in the western Xinjiang, including dozens of large and small tribes such as the Baima Qiang in the south, the Ginseng Wolf Qiang and the Burning Dangqiang near the Xihe River, as well as the Xianbei people west of Zhuo Evil Mountain, as well as the countries of the Western Regions. ”

"Baimaqiang, Shenluoqiang, Yaodangqiang and other tribes took advantage of the chaos of the Han Dynasty to attack Jincheng, Longxi, and Wudu, threatening the hinterland of Liangzhou and containing most of the troops in Western Xinjiang. At the same time, some tribes of Burning Dangqiang crossed the Qilian Mountain and attacked Hexi to the north, while the Xianbei people west of Zhuoyi Mountain and the Cheshi, Shanshan and other countries in the Western Regions also took the opportunity to send troops to invade. Han Sui's strength was not good, and it was difficult to take care of both the beginning and the end, and he was gradually driven out of Hexi. Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, Zhangye and Zhangye Juyan in Hexi in Western Xinjiang were thus lost. ”

These five counties include three of the four counties of the original Hexi, which are the territories that Emperor Xiaowu, the general Wei Qing, the hussar general Huo Qubing and hundreds of thousands of soldiers have worked hard for decades. Today, our descendants are incompetent and throw it away. This is the shame of the Han Dynasty, and it is also the shame of those of us who are descendants of the Han Dynasty. ”

"However, the predicament of Western Xinjiang is far from that. In order to defend the western frontier, Han Sui has frequently used troops in recent years, and at the same time stationed heavy troops in the south, north, and west directions of Liangzhou. The financial resources of Western Xinjiang are limited, and Han Sui has to find ways to feed the people of Western Xinjiang, and he has to do his best to defend the border fortress, where did he get so much money and food? The barren people of Western Xinjiang are well known to be much poorer than Northern Xinjiang, and it has gone through more than a hundred years of war, and the government of officials was once corrupted to the extreme. Therefore, the land of Guanzhong has become the dream of the people of Western Xinjiang, whether it is the border chapter in the past, the kingdom, or today's Han Sui, they all regard the occupation of Guanzhong as their primary priority, and the land of Guanzhong has become a lifesaver for the people of Western Xinjiang. (To be continued.) )