How Ma Chao, Zhang Fei and Lu Bu will fight against the barbarians and barbarians in the remaining four counties of Hetao have nothing to do with Zhuge Liang.

Zhuge Liang, who had just turned 16, did not understand the field scheduling strategy in this area, and was so arrogant that he inquire about tactical details. What's more, if this battle is about to happen, it will be prepared for one and a half months at a fast time, and two and three months at a slower time.

As for whether Lu Bu will pick peaches and rub some fruits after he reacts, he will be even slower, at least two months later than Ma Chao's move. If Lu Bu doesn't come, it's best.

Zhuge Liang followed Master Li on his graduation trip, traveling thousands of miles to see the vast mountains and rivers. It is enough to accumulate some experience in everything. He can definitely not be busy with everything he has to choose the most technical knowledge.

So after convinced Hu Chuquan, he did not stay in the Southern Xiongnu camp for too long, so he stayed for two or three days, and by the way he found out Hu Chuquan's strength and material trade needs, and then took Dian Wei back.

Hu Chuquan was very grateful to Zhuge Liang and was not worried about Zhuge Liang's spy on military affairs. Who asked Zhuge Liang to hide it well? Every inspection and understanding of him was covered by the purpose of "I want to know what you lack most when trading with you in the future, what is the best selling, and how to make the material ratio of goods."

It was equivalent to a mission, which not only did the work of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but also the work of the Ministry of Commerce. The Zhuge Liang family itself was already a wealthy businessman, and he was also very knowledgeable about foreign trade.

The aides under Huchuquan who are similar to the household resident Cao are also not Zhuge Liang's opponents, so the specific details do not need to be too heavy. Anyway, they are the kind of mediocre talent who is not as talented as Fu Gan, and Zhuge Liang won the other party in seconds and was defeated without any force.

On the eighth day of the April 19th, Zhuge Liang left the Southern Xiongnu camp and was about to return to Yinchuan County on April 12th. Dian Wei was also cautious in these four days on the way, changing his arrogance when he came before, and sincerely said some admiration:

"Although Zhuge Lingshi was young and had extraordinary talents, he already had the style of a right general, and Dian was convinced."

Zhuge Liang was not proud of himself. After all, the other party's rank was much higher than his, and he did gain a lot of money on this trip. There were many things that adapted to the previous negotiation plan, so he said sincerely:

"General Dian is too good. To be honest, before I came, I felt that these small things were not learned much, and I felt that Master Li's decision was not perfect enough. After personally executing the lobbying, the key was to investigate Hu Chuquan's strength, and I realized that Master Li was more steadily and persistent than me."

Dian Wei didn't understand, so he had to ask directly: "Oh? Why did you say this?"

Zhuge Liang slammed the reins a little, slowed down a little, and made the sound of the wind in his ears lighter, making it easier to talk about the leader in a lighter voice:

"General Dian, I'll ask you a question. You said, if you have a way to let Huchuquan and Bugendu, the Hulu Guduhou and others get fire first, and after both are injured, General Pingxi and General Anxi attack and seize Shangjun, Wuyuan, would you choose to do this?"

Dian Wei didn't think much: "How can this be done? I heard that after Bugendu and others suffered losses, they rushed to find Ma Chao to take revenge. But if they could do it, Hu Chuquan and Bugendu both suffered losses, we would not have to spend any cost, and we would take at least two counties in Hetao. Why not do it?"

Zhuge Liang shook his head helplessly: "Actually, when I came, I thought of a trick to lure Hu Chuquan to the first before General Anxi and Bu Gendu fought to the decisive battle, so that they could both lose money.

However, after looking at Hu Chuquan's military appearance and his prestige among the various tribes of Hu people and herdsmen in Hetao, I realized that Li Shi's idea was more correct. We should not overdraw Hu Chuquan, and we should not destroy the credibility of the Han court in order to let some Hu people kill each other for a while.

When Hu Chuquan first arrived in Beidi County two years ago, he fought with Li Jue's last decisive party, Bei Ligudu Hou, in Chang'an City. At that time, the remaining Shanyu's personal guards were probably less than four or five thousand. But what did we see after our in-depth investigation? Hu Chuquan's headquarters could gather at least 15,000 cavalry! Maybe there were 20,000 people!

How many of them are Hetao's original surrender from the pseudo-Huns of the thief? It can be seen that the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu's signature is very useful. Whether it is Huchuquan or Liu Bao, their greatest value is not the thousands or more cavalry they have on hand, but their appeal to the remaining hundreds of thousands of Hetao Xiongnu herders who are currently hostile to the Han Dynasty.

There is no end to the Hu people on the grassland. There is meat porridge in the summer (xun-yu, also written as "王yu"), there is Guifang in the Shang Dynasty, there is xian-yun in the Zhou Dynasty, there is Xiongnu in the Qin Dynasty, and there are Xianbei now. Whenever the Huns are in the Wuhuan, and they become farming people, new savages will be grazed in the empty grassland.

Therefore, controlling the power of the Hu, and defending the prestige of the court, and trying to make the Hu as convincing as possible to fight the Hu in a long-term way for the Han Dynasty to maintain its prestige and trust.

In the rhythm of Master Li, Huchuquan will take half of it to Yinchuan County when he takes back a northern land. When he takes back the second county, we will let him be willing to vomit out a whole county. He takes back four and then spit out two more. No matter how much Huchuquan expands, it will be distributed to us half in vain. He continues to play the role of evil people to subdue the pseudo-Huns and massacre the Xianbei. This is the best."

This is the biggest gain of Zhuge Liang's personal growth this time. The achievements made before were only valuable to the court to the King of Hanzhong, but in fact it was too easy for Zhuge Liang himself. It was similar to killing a gray-name monster by playing games and having no experience value.

Although what he just summarized was not a meritorious or not a task achievement, it was his biggest "leveling experience" and also helped Zhuge Liang establish a more stable view of Hu Han and national integration, knowing how to control the Hu Lu in the future.

Of course, many viewers in later generations had bad impressions about the word "ethnic integration" and were mainly because they were played with it. For Li Su and Zhuge Liang, fusion must be the barbarians admire the interests of sinicization, actively cultivated the Chinese version, and gave half of the meeting, without any other potential meaning or form of existence.

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Zhuge Liang returned to Yinchuan City with full of contributions and experience, bringing the good news to Li Su and Ma Chao.

Li Su naturally welcomed him grandly, so-called practiced dumplings and wind noodles, and used salt ponds to catch the beach sheep and garlic leaves and radish noodles to entertain Zhuge Liang, and also invited him to drink a few low-grade celebration wine. Considering Zhuge Liang's age, he must not drink too much.

After receiving the show, Li Su also wrote a letter to send someone back to inform Liu Bei for the follow-up strategic plan of Hetao, so as to facilitate overall coordination.

Ma Chao learned about the conditions for Zhuge Liang to help with the battle after he talked about the conditions for Zhuge Liang to help with the battle, and began to prepare for the combat power accordingly.

Next month, Guan Yu was planning to mobilize some elite cavalry from Lanzhou City, even some young soldiers who were recruited from Guo Si's cavalry prisoners of war last year. At that time, he would join forces to show weakness and lure the enemy to find Bu Gendu and others to fight.

Zhuge Liang took a break in Yinchuan City for two or three days, and roughly enjoyed the beautiful scenery of Sai Shanghu City. His fatigue gradually faded and the things here were almost the same. Li Su asked him to clean up and prepare to return to Lanzhou first, and then continue this year's Western Regions Star.

When Zhuge Liang first arrived in Lanzhou, it was only two or three months of the lunar calendar, and the north and plateaus were still relatively cold, so the places further northwest than Lanzhou were not suitable for going. What’s more important is that Zhuge Liang may be able to endure hardships and be willing to bear the cold and heat, but how can a arrogant, extravagant and lewd person like Li Su tolerate it?

Therefore, Li Su's travel must be arranged according to the most comfortable climate in the tourist season.

Li Su ordered Zhuge Liang: "Closing it out. After returning to Lanzhou, we will continue to take a boat west. It will take only one month for Di Wang Lei to surrender to Wang Ping. The local area should have completely cleared and stable. We are now back, and we will probably arrive in Lanzhou on April 20th and will be able to arrive in Qinghai Lake in Huangzhong in early May.

President Yun just came to report a few days ago that Wang Ping sent an urgent messenger to return the reward. He sent people to explore the mountains along Huangyuan, and indeed discovered many huge salt lakes. If developed and rectified the road, the entire Xiliang could get rid of the demand for salt use in Guanzhong or Shu.

We took a look along the way, and finally went to Zhangye to inspect the opening of the Western Regions trade routes. This year's trip to Xiliang was also a complete success."

Of course, Zhuge Liang had no objection, but he understood geography very well, and just asked curiously: "Don't we go directly to Wuwei after we arrived in Lanzhou? If we went to Huangzhong, wouldn't we go deep into the southern foot of Qilian Mountains? At that time, we would have to follow the Hexi Corridor to Wuwei, Zhangye, and Jiuquan, and we would have to take a detour of one or two thousand miles, first follow the Huangshui River to Lanzhou, and then go north to Wuwei along the Langshui River from Lanzhou."

Li Su: "No need to be so troublesome. After we arrived at Qinghai Lake, we went north to find the relatively low valley of Qilian Mountains, and went directly to Zhangye County. I have been visiting it for someone to explore the road. The Daduba Valley north of Qinghai Lake and southeast of Zhangye County is only 3,000 meters above sea level, and we can cross the Qilian Mountains.

Compared to the snow-capped mountains at an altitude of 5,000 meters, this valley is very suitable for summer. It is cool and snow-free, but you can't ride a car, and everyone can only ride a horse. That place is also the source of weak water. The weak water flows out of the Daduba Valley, passes through Zhangye County and Zhangye County, and goes all the way to the northwest of 1,800 miles, and finally injects into Juyanhai."

Of course, the road chosen by Li Su must be guaranteed to be safe first. This place is modern and belongs to Biandukou, Doudan County. As for the high cost, it is nothing.

Because Zhangye County is already the territory of Liu Bei's camp, Li Su will ask people to prepare supplies in Dedan County. Li Su and others just need to bring dry food supplies during the mountain climbing, and transportation is not very difficult.

The plateau valley with an altitude of 3,000 meters is the best season in summer in May and June. If there is a snowfall, Li Su dare not take risks.

The reason why Li Su was so relieved was because he knew that there was a famous tyrant in history who was also known for his extravagance and also walked this path during the Western Tour - that is, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui four hundred years later in history.

After Yang Guang attacked Tuyuhun on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in history, in order to show his martial arts of the Great Sui Dynasty, he personally brought an army of 100,000 followers to the palace maids and eunuchs to the west. He walked to the Huangshui River first to Qinghai Lake, and then crossed the Qilian Mountains from Qinghai Hubei to Zhangye County.

Anyone who is so extravagant and afraid of death can leave, Li Su's extravagant and fear of death is incompatible with Emperor Yang of Sui, and of course he can leave. Li Su is already much more conscientious than Yang Guang. Yang Guang has to bring 100,000 people to turn over the source of the weak water to show the emperor's show. Li Su only brings at most one percent of Yang Guang's manpower.

At worst, Zhangye County will be allowed to build a batch of new iron caravans for Li Su to continue traveling west after arriving. The caravan that Li Su took the first half of the caravan will be thrown by Qinghai Lake and will be given to Wang Pingai as he will do whatever he wants.

No one dared to take it. At worst, Wang Ping would send labor service to Li Su to build a plateau snow-capped villa manor on the edge of the Chaka Salt Lake in the "Sky Realm". Then the car would be left there. If the world was peaceful in the future, Li Su would still want to see the sky Realm in the Snowy Plateau and be a hiker, come here for a walk.

Who made this era underdeveloped transportation and underdeveloped infrastructure? A luxurious person like Li Su had to build vacation villas and manors in scenic spots across the country. Anyway, he would never spend much money in his lifetime.

The group followed Li Su's guide to the hikers and took a caravan from Yinchuan County along the Yellow River. Looking at the snowy scenery of Helan Mountain, they first returned to Lanzhou, and then prepared to step into the snowy plateau.

When he arrived in Lanzhou, Guan Yu was too lazy to care about Li Su, but Zhuge Liang stayed around for a few more days. Because he found that there were many changes in the past or two months since he left, and the industry and commerce were developing rapidly.

What surprised Zhuge Liang even more was that he actually met his second sister Zhuge Zhi in Lanzhou City - this strong woman seemed to have smelled the future of money. After getting the business opportunity information of his younger brother at the beginning of the year, he came from Chengdu, Yizhou to see if there is any business such as cotton pool salt wine in Xiliang.

It just so happened that Zhuge Zhi and his daughter wanted to take their servants to visit the west, so they made some preparations and walked with their younger brother and Huang Yueying.
Chapter completed!