"This Zhang Zixiang really gave me a big problem..."

Thinking about Zhang Yan's request, although he understood the other party's position, Li Shushi still couldn't help but shook his head.

It is not difficult to guess Zhang Yan's purpose, and it is precisely for this reason that Li Shushi could not find a suitable reason to reject Zhang Yan's request - even though Lu Zhi had entrusted Shuozhou and his unfinished business to him

At the same time, he also has this qualification.

After all, Lu Zhi helped Li Shushi a lot when he first came to power, and then he persisted in the cold and bitter frontier of Shuozhou until now. Now he has given up his considerable power for the sake of the country and his own ideals and still went to the dangerous place of Chang'an. Yu Qingyu

Li Shushi would always pay attention to the situation in Chang'an, even if Zhang Yan didn't take the initiative to bring it up.

However, agreeing to Zhang Yan's request forced Li Shushi to reconsider his previous plan.

Shangjun had a rather special status in Li Shushi's previous plan, because it was connected to a somewhat special piece of land - Beidi County. Although it still belonged to Liangzhou in name, it was actually as basic as most of the land in Shuozhou.

It has been abandoned by the Han Dynasty, and only a small area has been carved out among the three assistants, leaving a little bit of fire.

This should be the origin of the so-called "Qiao Zhi".

It was invented in the Han Dynasty and then brought to its extreme in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. It can be called a model of deceiving one's ears and stealing one's bells.

Some people may say that this was the government at that time expressing its determination to regain its homeland, but in fact the result of this basically failed to achieve the original purpose. The land was still being eroded. Even Ling Emperor Liu Hong planned to use Li Shushi's

The Great Victory of Xihe forcibly moved the Qiao-established government office back to its original location, but they could no longer walk as far as Anding County because the Qiang rebellion came again.

In desperation, the migrating army had to return to Sanfu, and finally took root near Zuo Fengyi's Pinyang County.

The seat of Beidi County was called Fuping, so the Qiaozhi Beidi County seat that settled in Pinyang County also inherited this place name. So more than 1,700 years later, the most powerful king of the Central Plains Dynasty was born here, and people have forgotten that place name in the past.

the meaning it represents.

Not to mention that if Li Shushi had not appeared, a certain Xianbei leader would have actually died under the city wall of Lian County, another important town in Beidi County, just like Pang Tong under the city of Luocheng and Zhang Jiao who was hit by an arrow in the knee in Mumendao

So full of melancholy and sadness.

The main reason why Beidi County, including Shang County, was abandoned by the northern and northwest border counties, apart from the harassment of foreign tribes, is that the terrain here is a typical Loess Plateau. Although it is not too lacking in water resources, the land with crisscrossed ravines is very

It is difficult to provide enough food and grass for the soldiers guarding the border fortress and their mounts. In order to make up for the food and grass gap, the fertile areas of the Central Plains must be used.

Transporting various supplies - Continuously provide blood transfusions to the frontiers at a ratio of one out of ten. After all, legendary artifacts such as Muliu cattle and horses are too difficult to achieve, so the supplies transported are still consumed on the road, regardless of [*

**] Deterioration or eating horse chews. The former may be tolerated for a while, after all, it can be dealt with after being steamed, but the latter is a loss that cannot be avoided at all.

Over time, this behavior of constantly bleeding the body without much benefit was gradually replaced by the method of controlling the beard.

As for later, it became the current situation, and it was difficult to return to the point where the Hu people could almost face the Sanfu and Sanhe areas.

Although Shangjun has gradually begun to regain its popularity under Lu Zhi's governance, the previous blood transfusion model has not completely changed. However, the target of blood transfusion has been changed from the hinterland of the Central Plains to Xihe. After all, Li Shushi was there not only

A military system was left behind. The important thing is that through Luo He's efforts, the food production there has been greatly improved. This gave Lu Zhi enough confidence to use this blood transfusion method to expand. After all, the two places are adjacent.

Supply losses will also be much less.

When Li Shushi wanted to take Shangjun into his hands, he wanted to use it as a base for his westward expansion.

Although in modern society with advanced technology, Shangjun and Beidijun are still plagued by various natural or man-made environmental problems, but Li Shushi still has a way.

First, let a certain beauty who besides being friends with all kinds of animals like to organize all kinds of flowers and plants, especially food crops, go to the other side of the earth to see if she can get some high-yielding crops. Anyway, even if the Arctic Ocean is there

It's nothing in terms of position. Anyway, according to her own statement, she comes from a place where it snows all the year round, so both the Arctic Ocean and the Bering Strait are nothing to her.

Another way is to ask for help from a middle-aged uncle who also likes to take care of flowers and plants (actual age and position, so only appearance will prevail. Although there is no fertilizer in hand, it is impossible for the land to provide much nutrients, but jointly

We can still talk about breeding and improvement, and by the way, we can also talk about climate issues. With some large and small water conservancy facilities, in this era when the vegetation has not been seriously damaged, Shangjun can maintain its 20

It can still be done with a population of 10,000.

If Shangjun can be self-sufficient, then it will be easier to enter the Northland in the next step. And if it controls the Northland, it can form a pincer attack on Wuwei and Jincheng with the three counties in Hexi controlled by Li Shushi. If Dong Zhuozhen

of

After a long time and two shortcomings, Li Shushi will have enough strategic advantages. When the time comes, whether to adopt a war or peace attitude towards Li Jue and Guo Si, the remnants of Dong Zhuo's army, will not depend on the other party's wishes, but on Li Shushi's needs at that time.

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Of course, all these strategic concepts require Li Shushi's plan to be thoroughly implemented in Shangjun. If it were Zhang Yan, Li Shushi was not sure whether the other party could do this.

Of course, if you want to reach Beidi County, you can't just take the county road. In fact, the northern part of Beidi County is not too far away from Shuofang County. It is just separated by Ulanbuhe and Kubuqi.

Just a desert...just a desert...just...

Li Shushi felt that he no longer had the strength to throw the cup and lift the table.

"Actually, Zhang Yan's trip to Shangjun is not too bad for my lord."

Even if there is no need to explain Huang Zhong's statement, Li Shushi has similar thoughts - after all, he doesn't know how long Dong Zhuo can live, so there is no need to make such an aggressive posture in the direction of Xiliang for the time being. On the contrary,

Zhang Yan can make some "radical" actions because of Lu Zhi, and can test Dong Zhuo's thoughts at this time for Li Shushi.

"But how do you plan to arrange the position of the prefect of Yunzhong? Since Zhang Yan plans to go to Shangjun, how about slightly modifying the previous plan and sending Ziyi to Yunzhong? Anyway, with Ziyi's ability, he will be very good anywhere.

performance.”

Speaking of which, Huang Zhong and Taishi Ci, a pair of good rivals, good shooters, and great enemies in history, were brought together and made them superiors and subordinates. This naturally contained some unknown evil taste of Li Shushi.

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Zhang Yan’s matter can be put aside. Anyway, the Yellow Turban Army still continues Li Shushi’s military garrison system. I don’t know whether to call them soldiers, farmers, or a compromise group called militia. How to judge the battlefield situation

Perhaps it is not as accurate and reliable as the judgment of land moisture and crop growth. Li Shushi's Bingzhou has provided good seeds to Shuozhou, especially his old friends in Xihe, for so many years. The promotion of crops is not too difficult.

The products produced by Luohe must be of high quality.

At worst, we can just try planting on a small scale in Bingzhou like before. As long as the data is good enough, those powerful families will definitely not be polite.

In fact, in Bingzhou, Li Shushi's fine seeds have gradually become the link between him and powerful families.

What we want to talk about now is the issue of the three counties on the northern border of Shuozhou.

"This... this is where I find it difficult, because I always feel that Ziyi went to Yunzhong to waste his political skills. But if you want Shuofang to replace Shangjun, with Ziyi's experience

But it seems a little lacking.”

Things in Wuyuan were the simplest among the three counties in the northern frontier. With little of the little emperor's authority left and the Huns being torn to pieces, Qu Yi finally couldn't endure it anymore. He had already fought with Lu Zhi before.

It was agreed that the main forces of the Hu people would be removed from the five

After the original was completely eliminated, Lu Zhi recommended him as the governor of Wuyuan. However, because Lu Zhi likes to advance slowly and steadily, he will not rush out of the hole unless he encounters a good opportunity, striving to kill him with one blow, so until now, he still "makes the Xiongnu angry".

The title of "Zhonglang Jiang".

Now that Li Shushi has been replaced, it is just to implement the pie drawn by Lu Zhi in advance. Anyway, Qu Yi has followed Li Shushi and Lu Zhi for so many years. Although he does not have much talent in governing internal affairs, he has done a good job in general and civilian settlement.

It still looks the same, no problem.

But Shuofang's situation became different from before because of the variable Zhang Yan.

In Li Shushi's original plan, the problem of Shuofang County was actually not big. Although Shuofang County is still in a state of dissociation, the main force there, apart from the Xianbei people, is the Huns who belong to King Youxian.

Among them, the power of the Xianbei people has been greatly weakened, and the troops of King Youxian... Ahem, just let Yu Fulo inform him.

Therefore, Li Shushi's original choice for the governor of Shuofang was Wei Yue, an old minister. Not only was he more familiar with Shuofang's situation, but Wei Yue also worked as a clerical official when he was young, and often had to undertake clerical work under Lu Bu.

, although his performance is not that amazing in terms of ability, but he is more stable and mature.

In addition, there are Qu Yi and Tai Shi Ci in the south as backup, even if they try to resist the invasion of the army, they can still leave enough reaction time for Li Shushi. As for the harassment by small groups, it is not a problem. It is quite historical that Wei Yan

The gesture of those bold words he made when he took office as the governor of Hanzhong.

But now the situation has become a little different. Because of the change in plans, Li Shushi hopes that the Shuofang Prefect can not only ensure the stability of the border fortress militarily, but also establish a stable and effective defense system and support base in the Hetao area, so that here

To the north, it became Li Shushi's rear base camp as he further moved deeper into the grasslands. To the south, he could go upstream along the Yellow River, exerting influence from Bingzhou on Beidi County and Wuwei County, and echoing the three counties of Hexi Province as horns.

As a result, the burden on the governor of Shuofang became extremely heavy, and Li Shushi did not have the ability of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to devote all the manpower and material resources of the country, so it would take a long time for the governor there to complete Li Shushi's plan.

The hardship and loneliness, hard work and watchfulness in this process make me feel numb just thinking about it.

If Lu Zhi's previous behavior was admirable enough, then what the Shuofang Governor had to accomplish was no exaggeration to say that it would be recorded in history, because his efforts changed the Central Plains Dynasty's ability to deal with the grasslands.

Of course, it also pushed the defense of the hinterland of the Central Plains nearly a hundred kilometers further north.

Under such requirements, although Tai Shici's ability is not weak, is it really okay to let him stay in such a place for a long time?

Whether Taishi Ci has the ability to complete Li Shushi's plan is one thing, and whether he is willing to endure at least five to ten years of loneliness is also another thing. At least there are such people under Li Shushi's command, but there are not too many.

.

Speaking of this, Li Shushi once again thought of Du Ji who followed Lu Zhi to Chang'an. If that person was still in Shuozhou, Li Shushi could completely hand over Shuofang to him and let Wei Yue focus on a military commander. They

Maybe they can work well together.

I just never expected...

"I do! A real man is supposed to carry a three-foot sword and achieve great achievements. How can a mere difficulty scare me, Taishi Ziyi!"

This decisive attitude and unquestionable tone really made Li Shushi not know what language to use to answer.

"Hey, hey, hey! Shuofang is not like places like Yanmen and Yunzhong. There is nothing there, just some ruins. You need to be self-sufficient and self-reliant for everything. And even if you are young, ten years of down-to-earth experience accumulation is nothing.

Bad thing, but what about your mother, do you take her with you or stay in Jinyang?"

"This matter is easy to handle. Ziyi is willing to go to the frontier to serve the country, and my mother also supports my idea. But since I am working for the lord, my lord should also solve my worries for me. Besides, my mother has always been very fond of Mrs. Su.

I like it, and with Mrs. Su's medical skills, compared to my careless son, Mrs. Su should be able to arrange everything properly."
To be continued...