Liu Bang is right, so far there is still a certain amount of controversy about how to get along with Wusun, the attitude of the military generals group is relatively unified, it is nothing more than to use Wusun to garrison troops, as for whether to annex peacefully or destroy the country by force, that is the last thing; The attitude of the civilian clique is a bit chaotic, generally in favor of the annexation of Wusun, but there are different views on the use of force to destroy the country and peaceful evolution.

It was also the empire that succeeded in peacefully annexing several warring states to give an example, the reason why the civilian group is a civilian group is because they do not have a huge military apparatus, and almost all the credit comes from the civil government.

The result was that the military accounted for eight-tenths of the more than 800 nobles in the empire, and only a very small number of civilian officials made some money because they did something beneficial to the conquest, such as ensuring logistics and supplies, making successful decisions, placing prisoners of war, and so on.

What kind of credit would it be if the operation of the civilian government could allow Wusun to be annexed to the empire? It is absolutely possible to support a civil feudal marquis, and how can some auxiliary participants get the noble titles of barons and viscounts. What a huge foundation of merit that must be! How could the civilian clique not try to operate it?

The reality of the situation also seems to give the civilian clique room to operate, and the empire's henchmen are in the grasslands, although there are plans to conquer the Western Regions, but they will only do it after the grasslands are resolved. According to estimates, it will take at least ten years for the empire to completely conquer the grasslands, and under such a long buffer time, the civilian clique really doesn't believe that it can't do a big thing.

In fact, the empire currently needs Wusun to threaten the grassland on the flank, and perhaps it also needs an empire-friendly Wusun to ensure that there is an advance base before conquering the Western Regions, so how to make Wusun feel friendly to the empire, the civilian group thinks that there is nothing to do with the military generals. It should be handled by the civil service.

The first step is to let the dignitaries of Wusun understand the empire, and then promote the culture of the empire for those dignitaries and dignitaries, so that the aristocracy of Wusun likes all aspects of the empire, and subtly makes all classes of Wusun move closer to the empire.

It's hard to read a few poems. Among them, there are two poems, "The leaves are pale, the white dew is frost" and "My Fair Lady, the gentleman is good", although when he read it, he was implying that the women in Liu Bang's account can be picked at will, but it also shows that the civil officials who came to the territory of Wusun really did a little bit of success.

"Wusun is far away from the empire, we have to walk through the grassland, the Gobi, and the desert, and when we set off from Nanling, it was still high and crisp in autumn, and after leaving the border of the empire, it was goose feathers and heavy snow, and it took nearly five months." Liu Bang said a complete nonsense. Wusun has sent an envoy to Nanling, but he doesn't know that the road is far away?

It is precisely because Wusun is a little far away from the empire, and because he knows that the center of gravity of the empire is in the grassland, Bo Ximi will not hesitate to hug the emperor's lap. If Usun was on the edge of the Empire, Bo Ximi should have worried about whether Usun would become the Empire's next target.

The current situation is that Wusun can barely support itself with the support of all aspects of the empire, and this can be confirmed by the fact that the 80,000 cavalry of the empire came to Wusun, and the Maudun in the south of Wusun immediately stopped. Not only did Maudun stop continuing to invade the southern part of Wusun, but Hujie and Ding Ling in the north did not dare to enter the army easily. The Xiongnu in the northeast left 50,000 people in the early stage, and then withdrew cleanly. These things are enough to explain too much, the empire is not only a behemoth in the eyes of all parties, but also a powerful country, and anyone who faces such a country will have jealousy or fear.

The Empire is a very aggressive country, and there is no doubt that Bo Ximi wants to hug the emperor's thigh, and he needs to let Wusun through the current difficulties. In the long run, it is also hoped that the relationship with the empire will be well managed, so as not to become a target of attack.

The nomadic group values the blood relationship, and most of the royal court relies on blood relations to maintain their rule, that is, the leaders of the various tribes who are related to the royal family support the royal court, and the tribes that are not related by blood also rely on marriage to envelop them, and the thinking is that their own family will really help and support their own families. Then it is natural to want to become an in-law relationship with the emperor.

Originally, Bo Ximi wanted to ask the emperor for marriage and marry the princess of the empire to form a relationship by marriage, but the last time the Wusun envoy went to Nanling to ask for the princess, he was not hesitant at all. After most of the people in Wusun learned about the rejection, they were actually confused, they didn't understand what kind of idea the empire was, and they didn't even refuse so neatly at all. Later, they learned that the emperor's eldest princess was only six years old, and they smiled bitterly and had a self-explanation for the empire's rejection.

Since the emperor of the empire does not have a princess of the right age, Wusun thought about it and decided to change the way, the emperor of the empire does not have a princess of the right age, but there are many daughters of Bo Ximi, so it is better to marry the princess to the empire. But what happened next made the aristocratic class of Wusun not understand what the situation was, and the empire did not refuse again, but it did not agree, saying that it was to discuss.

The empire needs Wusun to threaten the steppe on the flanks, right? There is no doubt that Wusun knows this. The situation faced by Wusun also needs a strong help behind it, deterring Parthia and Bactria in the west from attacking and cooperating against the Hujie, Dingling, Xiongnu and other ethnic groups. With the same need, what could be more quickly built trust and partnership in the eyes of all the Usun people than by marriage?

"I don't understand a little...... "It's really confused, and he doesn't hide the confused expression on his face: "We have a common enemy and have come together, what doubts will they have?" ”

"Yes, common enemy." Liu Bang affirmed this, but said again: "The empire has mobilized 80,000 cavalry to support, except for some cattle and sheep supplies from Wusun, everything else needs to be transported from the empire itself. In fact, not only some high-ranking officials in the center, but if you might be offended, I feel that this business is really a loss. ”

"War horses, we have given no less than 30,000 horses to the empire before. After your army came to help, we supplied nothing but cattle and sheep. 20,000 horses were also presented. Nan Doumi said seriously: "We have also diverted the attention of Hujie, Ding Ling, and Xiongnu for the empire, and they have gathered troops to attack you. ”

"Huh!" Liu Bang immediately smiled, casually touched the buttocks of the maid who was close to pouring wine, and said: "The whole empire is looking forward to them coming to attack, and for this purpose, an army of more than 1.2 million people is waiting. ”

No joke, there was a time when the border counties in the northern part of the empire did have millions of soldiers. In order to carry out a siege and annihilation battle after the Hu people went south. In order to be able to fight a great battle, not only did the army continue to march to the counties in northern Xinjiang, but also the supplies transported from the hinterland were also uninterrupted. It's a pity that the people behind were timid and turned the finger to Wusun.

It was difficult to hear the words "1.2 million army", and his cheeks twitched uncontrollably, he knew that the empire had a large population, and there were more than 3 million soldiers in the army, and it was absolutely false to say that there was no fear in his heart. In addition, he said that it is true that the Wusunti Empire attracted the attention of the Hujie, Dingling, Xiongnu and other ethnic groups, but it was not a result that the empire was happy to see. Therefore, it is too far-fetched to want the Empire to admit it.

"I'm not going to tell you." Liu Bang's hand did not leave the maid's buttocks, and while looking comfortable, he said slowly: "We hope that those ethnic groups in Mo Nan and Mo North can gather all their forces to come over and fight a great battle. The Imperial Army is confident and determined to annihilate the invading enemy under the wise leadership of His Majesty, and clear the way for the steppe to be cleared in the future. ”

Nan Dou nodded his head more cooperatively, and his face was also extremely sincere, and said: "There is no doubt about the strength of the empire, and the wisdom of His Majesty the Emperor is as radiant as the summer sun. We do not doubt that your country will be able to achieve a big victory on the border. Just as the alliance leader of Hujie and Ding Ling after the defeat of Touman, and the current leader of the Xiongnu, Ji Tuo, were as convinced. ”

Liu Bang heard another meaning of the difficult to be around, and the difficulty was to say that the empire showed a strong side. The ethnic groups of Monan and Mobei will never be stupid to fight with the imperial army on the border of the empire, and will use the old method to attract the imperial army to the depths of the grassland, stretch the supply line of the imperial army, play games in circles when they don't have a chance, gather superior forces to eat a part of it when they have the opportunity, and gradually bleed the empire by cannibalization.

The advantage of the nomads is that they have a large number of horses to carry around. You can fight if you want to, you can run away if you want to, and when facing an opponent who lacks war horses, the tactics used for thousands of years have never changed.

Whether it is a nomad before or a nomad after that. The way the nomadic army adopted was basically to take the Chinese army in circles, stretch the overall force of the Chinese army longer and longer, use the mobility of the horses to drag the Chinese army to exhaustion, find opportunities to eat some again and again, and wait for the Chinese army to be tired and demoralized before turning around and attacking, and fighting is basically a chase battle.

The nomads did not fight with the Chinese army, that is, in addition to the advantage of war horses, their weapons and equipment and other aspects were all lagging behind the Chinese army. In the case of backward weapons and equipment, go with a hard shock? Stupid not stupid enough to be that share.

It was the first time that he had been taken from a high-ranking official of the empire...... Hey? Is Liu Bang of the envoy corps considered a high-ranking official of the empire? And sort of. It was the first time he had heard that the ultimate goal of the empire was to occupy the entire grassland, and while he was surprised, he was relieved in his heart, but also had a trace of fear.

The grassland is very vast, the area is a little unimaginable, and the "grassland" that the empire wants to occupy can be from the far east of Liaodong to the other end of the Western Regions, and it is difficult to hear how "ambitious" the empire should be.

"As far as I know, your country now has a much smaller population grazing than a settled population?" Nan Dou's hand holding the wine cup of Gao Jue shook for a moment, and only after holding it steady did he continue: "In addition to grazing, the grassland seems to be not suitable for farming, right?" ”

"I don't know too much what the grassland can do, but Your Majesty has to think about it, just ten years later, the empire has a population of nearly 60 million people. If it were more than ten or twenty years......" Liu Bang said in a dreamlike tone: "It is only a matter of time before tens of thousands of people are encouraged to continue to maintain childbirth. ”

"Tens of thousands?!" It was difficult to hear that he didn't hold the wine cup steadily, and the wine cup in his hand fell on the desk and didn't seem to notice it, and he was surprised: "So many!" ”

"So, not only Your Majesty, but even the common people know that they should get more land for future generations." Liu Bang said casually: "The empire not only wants to occupy the grassland, but also explores the south on the sea. Not to mention, there are so many big islands in the sea, and six very large islands have been discovered, some are rich in gold and silver, some are rich in fragrant wood and spices, and the most satisfying thing is that there are really a lot of natives on those islands, which can just be caught to fill the shortage of native labor. ”

It was difficult to look so surprised that he couldn't speak, but he thought in his heart: "The news is true, while the empire is brewing a war against the north, it still has enough manpower, material resources, and financial resources to conquer the sea, it is really a country that is unimaginably rich in any way!" ”

He knew that the empire had a large population, but he really didn't expect that there were nearly 60 million people at present, which was almost fifty times the total population of Wusun. And in a decade or two, the population of the empire will exceed 10,000,000, in this era when everything needs manpower, 100 million people will feel dizzy when they hear it, and it is conceivable that 100 million will not be capped, and there will be more people. And thus what? It was he who came to believe that the empire needed land in order to house more and more people.

"Forgive me for taking the liberty of ......" Puzzled by the face, he asked, "The larger the population, the more difficult it is to manage, and the various aspects required are beyond imagination, how should His Majesty the Emperor of your country face such a problem?" ”

"Hah!" Liu Bang smiled with a smile on his face: "I am only a baron of the empire, and I am only the chief envoy of the envoy group." A little lost, he didn't hide his unwillingness, and said in a dull voice: "That's something that more prominent people should think about, people like me still perform their duties first, hoping that one day the title can be promoted, and I also hope to be promoted." ”

It was difficult to stop talking, and he looked at Liu Bang with a lost face with blazing eyes. In his mind, where Liu Bang's mind can be used, if he does a good job, not only will the entire Wusun benefit, but he will also have unimaginable benefits personally. (To be continued.) )