Chapter 935: Sticks and Turnips

"Report ....... Playing the emperor, Yongchang people went to the city to ....... ”

"What?" Hongwu Emperor Qin Feng frowned, "Liu Xuande followed Meng to the barbarian!" ”

Guo Jia was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "Congratulations to the emperor for unifying Xichuan!" ”

"Congratulations to the emperor for destroying Shu and unifying Xichuan!" Wenwu bowed together.

Liu Bei ran away, there was no longer an enemy in Xichuan, and it was an indisputable fact that Emperor Hongwu Qin Feng destroyed Shu to unify Xichuan.

Jia Xu shook his gray beard, "Congratulations to the emperor, there is only one step left before the world is unified." ”

Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Xu Huang and other generals did not hide the joy on their faces. Great Qin now has only one enemy left, and that is Soochow, which is trapped south of the Yangtze River. With the strength of the whole country, it is easy to eliminate Soochow. The real domination of the world is stirring just to think about!

However, Qin Feng was very calm, "What do you mean, don't chase anymore?" ”

"Dominate the world, Your Majesty!" Guo Jia said loudly, his thin body shaking in the voice.

Eminence! Xin Xianying in the back curtain of the throne wrote hard: In the third year of Hongwu, the puppet emperor Liu Beinan fled into the barbarians, and the Hongwu Emperor unified Xichuan, and the enemies of Great Qin were only Eastern Wu. "Domination of the world is just around the corner!" Her jade-like face was full of joy, "I, Emperor Hongwu, will become the third true emperor in the history of China to dominate the world after Qin Shi Huang and Han Gaozu!" ”

In everyone's eyes, dominating the world is the most important thing.

Qin Feng smiled, "What is the world?" ”

The ministers were stunned.

Jia Xu played: "The book. Da Yu Mo": "There are four seas, for the king of the world". ”

Guo Jia said: "The six countries are all in Qin, and the world is unified." This is the territory under the direct control of the emperor. For the world! ”

Qin Feng had a different opinion and said: "The world is under the whole world. Is the land of the Southern Barbarians outside the sky? ”

"It's ......." Guo Jia and Jia Xu glanced at each other. They have understood the will of God.

Qin Feng got up and said, "Although Liu Bei is gone, he still has 30,000 soldiers and horses, and he is bound to become a hidden danger on the border. If we don't get rid of it today, we will invade our border in the future, and then we will go on an expedition with a large army, which will consume the national strength even more. On the contrary, it is better to enter the land of the Southern Barbarians and eradicate this scourge. ”

Qin Feng walked out of the big tent, and the ministers followed behind. He pointed to the sky from afar, and said to the left and right in a serious voice: "There is still a long way to go before the unification of the world, and the heart must be peaceful, and the worries must be far away......." ”

"The Emperor Shengming!" Guo Jia and the others bowed behind them in shame, if they left huge hidden dangers on the frontier just to speed up the achievement of unifying the world, it would really outweigh the losses.

"Spread my will, and the army entered Yongchang. Supervise the grain and grass in the rear and take a rest. Soldiers march into the Southern Barbarians! ”

When Qin Feng led the army to Yongchang County, he found Zhuge Liang's early arrangement. Entering the only entrance to Yongchang City, there are three trenches more than three feet deep on the left and right mountains. Behind each ditch, a two-zhang high earthen wall was built in the ditch, if it was really an attack. Filling the three trenches may require the sacrifice of tens of thousands of people.

Qin Feng sighed, "It's a loss for Liu Bei to leave." If he holds on to this city, it will cost us a great deal of our army. ”

Jia Xu smiled and said: "The emperor is blessed." That Liu Xuande built a southwest frontier fortress for the emperor. ”

Qin Feng's fingers pointed at Jia Xu, and he also smiled.

That's when it happened. A group of people came out of the city, bowed their heads and bowed, "The criminal minister Wang and his wife, the criminal minister Gao Ding, see the emperor's ......." ”

Yonghong, Zhu Bao, and E Huan followed Liu Bei, while Wang Yan and Gao Ding, like most Shu generals, chose to surrender to Daqin.

Qin Feng accepted the surrender of the two, and after all the matters in the city were dealt with, Qin Feng specially summoned the previous Yongchang Taishou Wang and asked: "I plan to enter the Nanban and capture Liu Bei, you must be familiar with the situation in the Nanban if you have been in Yongchang for a long time, right?" ”

For Wang Yan, Emperor Hongwu accepted him, which made him grateful. He also has to work loyally to repay the emperor's kindness, and bowed: "The emperor is enlightened, and the ministers are shallow in their learning, and they dare not speak lightly." Now there is a Gao Shi in this Yongchang City, surnamed Lu, named Kai, and the word Jiping, this person will be able to solve the emperor's doubts. ”

Qin Feng loved Coats the most, and as soon as he was happy, he summoned Lu Kai.

After a while, Lu Kai came to the temporary palace hall. Liu Bei invited him when he came to Yongchang, but he had a different concept from Liu Bei, who practiced tyranny, and did not come out. However, this time Emperor Hongwu summoned him, and he came happily and paid a big salute.

Qin Feng gave him a flat seat, and said: "I heard that Aiqing is a Yongchang master, and I want to level the Nanban, what does Aiqing think?" ”

Lu Kai got up and bowed again, took out a picture from his pocket, presented it and said: "A certain puppet emperor Liu Bei has never been with him." When he was idle at home, he heard that the greater the power of the Nanban, and after thinking about it for a long time, there would be trouble. Therefore, a few years ago, he secretly sent people into the Nanban territory to check the places where the troops could fight, and drew a map called "Pingban Finger Map". Now I have the courage to dedicate it to the emperor, if the emperor finds it useful, he can help the barbarians. ”

""Plain Barbarian Finger Map"!" Qin Feng had only seen this thing in the later games, and he was overjoyed, so he hurriedly ordered the guards to take it and watch it. I saw that the topography of the mountains and rivers was drawn in great detail, and it was obvious that Lu Kai was very attentive. Xi said: "It is precisely with a master like Lu Aiqing who serves the country and the people that my Huaxia can rise again." I have temporarily granted you the five-grade guide officer, and it will be reused after it is calm, I don't know what Aiqing wants? ”

"I am willing to serve the emperor with death!" Lu Kai hurriedly bowed.

As a result, Emperor Hongwu gathered rear materials in Yongchang City, and ordered the soldiers to practice day and night to get used to the Nanban environment. In January of the fourth year of Hongwu, Qin Feng raised 200,000 troops and went deep into the Nanban border, that is, the border between Yunnan and Myanmar in later generations. 1,800 years ago, there were no roads at all. The Qin army was marching through the tropical rainforest, and the speed of the march could be imagined.

"Logging, trees tied together and placed side by side on damp, rotten ground to form a road."

Qin Feng can only cut down trees to open the way, otherwise, the logistics will not be able to transport it at all. The trees are not as good as bluestone, but they can last a year or two. He didn't plan to win the battle and withdraw, so building a simple road now could also lay the foundation for the construction of a regular bluestone official road in the future.

As a result, the 200,000 Qin army became an engineer corps and built a large number of buildings. Give full play to the revolutionary spirit of our army's later generations of the Great Northwest Army, which is not afraid of hardship and tiredness, and advances at a speed of more than ten miles a day.

In a blink of an eye, in March, Qin Feng finally approached Meng Huoben Cave: Wuxi Cave Boundary.

On this day, Qin Feng summoned Guo Jia and Jia Xu to discuss the matter.

In March, it was already very hot in Nanban, Qin Feng was only wearing single clothes, still sweating profusely, wiping his sweat, and then said: "It is not easy to conquer Nanban, we must fight a battle, if it is capricious, it will consume national strength again." What do you two think of this time? ”

Guo Jia shook his sleeves and said, "The minister has a word, and the emperor listens to it." The southern barbarian land is far away from the mountains, and it was disobeyed by the Han Dynasty more than 100 years ago. In the previous dynasty, troops were also sent to quell the rebellion. However, it is almost peaceful today, and it will rebel the next day. The emperor's expedition must be able to be pacified, but he is afraid that after leaving, the barbarians will make trouble again. Since ancient times, the way of using soldiers: attacking the heart first, and fighting the heart first. If the emperor can subdue the grassland and the heart of the Southern Barbarians, he will be able to maintain peace and stability for a long time. ”

Qin Feng nodded in kindness, "Fengxiao knows my heart very well, but we have never been in contact with Nanban. When I first met Meng Shu, I made a bad relationship, and I am afraid it will be difficult to put away my heart. ”

Guo Jia also knew that things were difficult to do, so he thought about it quietly.

At this time, Jia Xu had a little gain and said: "Your Majesty, it is not difficult to say that this matter is difficult. Lao Jia Xu's eyes flashed with cold light, raised his hand into a knife, and when he fell, he said: "Kill a hundred examples, shock the brute heart, and then show grace, grace and ......." ”

Qin Feng smiled when he heard this, "That Nanban is rabbit paper, I have a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other!" The disobedient rabbit paper gave him a stick, and the obedient rabbit paper raised a good carrot. In the future, the rabbit paper with the mallet will make trouble, and the obedient rabbit paper will clean him up. ”

"A stick in one hand, a carrot in the other!" Guo Jia and Jia Xu glanced at each other, and bowed down in shock: "The emperor Shengming, this fable of the stick and the radish is really the words of the sage!" ”

Qin Feng was very embarrassed, and said in his heart that this remark would be rotten in the future, and it turned out to be the words of a saint.

A red-faced woman Shi Xin Xianying hurriedly recorded it: In the fourth year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu proposed the fable of "The Big Stick and the Radish", which became the guiding ...... of the barbarians.

On the other hand.

The news that the Qin army was about to enter the territory was reported to Meng Shu in Wuxi Cave by the forest patrol Xiaomanfei.

After Meng got the news, he learned the experience and lessons of the previous time, and he still needed to discuss it with Liu Bei and others, who were familiar with the Qin army's side.

When Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang came to Meng Huo's cave, Meng Huo said: "Qin Zi invaded my territory, and the people recruited by the Quartet did not return. There are only 100,000 soldiers and horses in the hands of the master of this cave, do you have a good building? ”

Liu Bei was not happy when he heard it, and said in his heart that you only have 70,000, and you say 100,000, and you don't mind being your own soldier with the 30,000 people in my hands.

Zhuge Liang had no choice but to follow Liu Bei to the barbarian land, desperately eager to be able to fight back to Middle-earth. He has been coming to Nanban for several months, studying Nanban materials day and night, and he has also gained at this moment, shaking his feather fan lightly and saying: "We are newly defeated, and we cannot defeat the Qin army." I look at the Wuxi Cave after there is a lushui, the shore terrain is dangerous. It's better to defend Lushui, most of the Qin army are northerners, and they can't stand the heat in May and June, so they will inevitably retreat, let's take advantage of the situation to pursue, Qin Feng can be captured! ”

So Meng Shu followed his words, gave up Wuxi Cave, and came to the south side of Lushui to set up camp. And Liu Bei is next to the barbarian village, an independent Shu military camp.

In the days that followed, Meng Shu gathered the chiefs of the caves and gathered the barbarian soldiers released by the Qin army, and there were more than 100,000 people. Meng Shu told Zhuge Liang's words to the chiefs, saying: "We are guarding the danger of Lushui, and all the ships are concentrated on the south bank. Build earthen cities and barriers along the river, and see how Qin Zijin crosses the river! ”

The chiefs acted in accordance with the words of Meng Shu, built earthen cities along the river, built watchtowers on steep heights, and arranged bows and ballistas and stones. Meng Huo occupies a favorable location and has plenty of grain and grass in his own territory, so he thinks he has a plan and has no worries from then on.

On the other hand, the barbarians retreated, and the Qin army followed. Emperor Qin Feng of Hongwu implemented the policy of sticks and radishes along the way, and used both grace and power to collect the scattered barbarians from all over the country, and gradually had the heart to help his native people in the Southern Barbarians. (To be continued......)