Chapter 181 The road ahead

Different from the Han Dynasty and Rome, the Kushan and Parthian countries, which started from a relatively young age, pursued a policy of the weak and the strong.

Anxi and Kushan are frantically plundering the land resources of the surrounding small countries. The one that can stop the empire must at least be a big kingdom, otherwise it will be impossible to stop the empire's invasion.

Just like the Tang Dynasty's foreign wars, after the army goes to war, what will happen even if you win this time?

Will the country still have enough resources to resist the next time the army comes?

The Tang Dynasty's winning rate in foreign wars was less than 30%, but it basically dragged on, and the small countries surrendered on their own. There was no way that the Tang Dynasty could lose countless times, but they could not afford the price of failure.

The two countries of Kushan and Parthia also used the same method to snowball, growing all the way until they became the first-order empires.

But if you walk along the river too much, your shoes will inevitably get wet, and both countries encountered shocking potholes.

An'an was frightened by the brutal war between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, and did not dare to attack the east. Therefore, the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions were preserved as a buffer zone.

As a witness to the annihilating war between the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty, An'an could not be more clear about it. The two world's top empires saw blood and blood, directly dyeing the northern prairie red.

The reason why An'an used 20,000 cavalry to greet the Han envoys was because they were afraid that they would be like the Da Yueshi. If the two ferocious guys felt that they were not a big threat, it would be terrible to just clear An'i's place first.

After the death of the grandfather and the death of the father, the generations of blood feud on the son made An An even dare not look east, so he could only set out all the way to the west.

There are indeed many small countries in the west, and Anxi is fighting all the way. Under this situation, Anxi found that trade and farming are far faster than making money from war. The war made their empire stronger and stronger, and each time they destroyed a small country, they could

Provide them with huge wealth and population.

Later, when destroying nations became a habit, Parthia finally hit the sinkhole - the Roman Empire.

The two countries fought fiercely. Unfortunately, Anxi was beaten into a Muggle. However, after his death, he also dragged Rome down from its peak, and finally became a historical memory.

In the game world, if it weren't for the kingdoms established by the Celts, Slavs and the like to unite into the United Empire of Great Britain and confront the Holy Roman Empire, causing Rome to go to war on both sides, Parthia would have been destroyed long ago.

You must know that the Holy Roman Empire is the ultimate suture monster of Christianity and the ancient Roman Empire, and its brutality is comparable to the Chinese region, which has been a hodgepodge for five thousand years.

Kushan was even worse. It didn't encounter a powerful empire, but it plunged into the sinkhole of the caste system.

There is still no way to deal with this thing until modern times. One can only imagine how pitiful this caste system is.

Listening to Chen Xi's eloquent speech above, a group of people had different thoughts, but they were all inevitably a little depressed.

"boom!"

Li Jue knocked his head on the table in despair, "It will take until the Year of the Monkey to defeat all these countries!"

Li Jue's words directly illuminated the hearts of the civil servants and generals present. Indeed, these countries are powerful, but if they can defeat these empires, what a sense of accomplishment it would be!

"Come on, rush on, the general gives the order, let's attack that country first!"

Lu Bu said excitedly. He also felt his blood boiling. How many strong men should there be in so many empires?

He was extremely excited when he thought that he could use the blood of these powerful men to sacrifice Fang Tian's painted halberd.

"General, give the order!"

The blood of all the generals was boiling. Even the subordinate generals like Xue Rengui and Yu Wen Chengdu were trembling. What their generals feared most was that they had no opponents. Suddenly they knew that there were so many opponents in the world, and they were so excited that they were shaking all over.

"Be calm and don't be impatient, be calm and don't be impatient!" Guo Hao pressed his hands to signal everyone to calm down.

"Everyone, we must go on an expedition, but before that we need to stabilize the country first. Now the overall situation has been decided, but there are so many bandits in the world, and the people of the world are not living well, how can we start a war ourselves."

Compared with the generals who are eager to lead their troops and start a conquest when their heads are hot, the civil servants have more to consider.

"How to solve the problem of food and grass? Food and grass should be sent before the soldiers and horses are used. For such a huge war operation, logistics is an unavoidable problem."

"How to solve the transportation problem? Although An'an and Shuanggui are still within the boundaries of the empire, they are still considered marginal areas. Just traveling will take a lot of time."

"How to deal with local culture? How to immigrate people from the mainland? How to accept local people?"

One question after another was swirling in the hearts of the civil servants. Even Guo Tu and Feng Ji, Yuan Shao's die-hard advisers, couldn't help but bring themselves into that situation to think about it.

The most important issues are actually transportation and food. In fact, it boils down to logistics and national strength.

The empire's jurisdiction is within a distance of forty to fifty days' march. Once the army fails to arrive within fifty days, there is nothing you can do even if there is a local rebellion.

Coupled with the consumption of food and grass, this fifty-day march may be more troublesome than attacking an empire.

Many times it's not that they can't defeat them, but that they are limited by the pressure of food and grass and have to give up the conquered land and withdraw.

Taking the Han Dynasty as an example, a full-time soldier needs about thirty people to support him. If horses and equipment are included, the supply rate is about one hundred to one. This supply rate is the shackles that limit a country's territory and the combat effectiveness of its troops.

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Eating from the wild is only suitable for destruction. Real conquest requires not only the threat of force but also sufficient care. Only in this way can a land be completely conquered. When the local residents agree with the empire from the bottom of their hearts, the land will be considered

Incorporated into the empire's territory.

Simple and crude force suppression can only last for a while, but not for a lifetime. Once the bottom rises, the damage caused cannot be eliminated by simple suppression.

"Okay, everyone, let's go back and think about it today. The Han Dynasty is not dead, and it depends on everyone working together in the future!" Guo Hao saw that everyone had their own thoughts, and began to issue orders to expel guests.

As for why you don’t analyze the power of the three kingdoms, you are kidding me. As soon as the word "Northern Xiongnu" comes out, there is no construction. He pulls out 100,000 elite soldiers on the spot and sets off towards Mobei. So what if he is a general?

?He can't even stop this group of people.

A group of people had different expressions after leaving the camp. After the original passionate atmosphere dissipated, it was replaced by a solemn atmosphere.

If you let unlucky guys like Xue Rengui, Yuwen Chengdu, and Gao Chong stay around people like Sun Ce, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei, wouldn't that create a solemn atmosphere?

If Xue Rengui and others hadn't been in a situation where their internal energy was suppressed, the two sides might have started fighting.

"Damn Zhang Junyi, is all your brain full of mush?" Finally the powder keg was ignited, and Gongsun Zan could no longer suppress the anger in his heart.

There were now less than two thousand of the eight thousand white horses left, and he didn't even understand how Zhang He did it.

He is also a master of military training, otherwise he would not be able to produce rogue units like white horses based on Yueqi. Elites with dual talents can run rampant on any battlefield. The speed of coming and going like the wind is the guarantee of his survival.

Zhang He didn't dare to fight back, the beating was so bad that even he couldn't understand why he did such a stupid thing.

"Haha, Zhou Gongjin, what a powerful spiritual talent, even we didn't realize it." The judge and matchmaker focused on Zhou Yu. Things that were originally unclear, after they were captured, they exchanged information. In an instant, Zhou Yu's mental talent was analyzed to the fullest.

The entire camp was full of gunpowder, and none of Yuan Shao's subordinates, including Ju Shou, hated Yuan Shu and Zhou Yu. The two of them really played backstabbing to the extreme.

Zhou Yu shook his head but didn't say anything. Being an undercover agent was indeed not very honorable, and his mental talent had also been analyzed to a fault. If he wanted to use his talent on these people in the future, it would probably be difficult. The only way left before him was to go abroad.

Otherwise, he might have suffered some kind of frame-up in the country. Wen Wu was the first and Wu Wu was the second. He, Zhou Yu, was in the first grade of junior high school, while others might be in the fifteenth grade. Who made him really a gangster with his spiritual talent?

Just by looking at the eyes of the people around him, Zhou Yu knew that his life might not be so easy in the future, and that overt and covert stumbling would be inevitable.

Gongsun Zan was extremely unhappy as he stared at Zhang He, but because he was also an undercover agent, he did not fight with Zhang He after all.

Gongsun Zan, who returned, confessed to Guo Hao, and then made a request to return to Youzhou with Baima Yicong.

Guo Hao, who was born in Liangzhou, naturally understood Gongsun Zan's thoughts and sent Zhao Yun to ask the eldest princess for an imperial edict so that Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu could live in peace.

Zhao Yun had no complaints. He admired Gongsun Zan's righteousness in protecting the country and the people, so he resolutely took over Guo Hao's mission and returned to Luoyang.

Anyway, at his speed, it only takes an hour to go back and forth. If it weren't for the procedures required to meet the eldest princess, he could go faster.

In Luoyang, Li Ru sneered and arrested all the spies from the aristocratic families. Anyone who dared to murder his family should die.

Li Ru imprisoned all the spies he caught and tortured them one by one, trying to find out the aristocratic family behind them. As for whether the spies were causing trouble, Li Ru didn't care at all. None of the aristocratic families were good, and they were all involved. They were all blacklisted. Liquidate afterwards.

"Wen You, if you arrest people like this, the people in Luoyang will be unstable." Jia Xu covered his head and looked at Li Ru.

His long-term overload of work left him in poor condition, so he left all these matters to Li Ru. Unexpectedly, Li Ru immediately started arresting people.

"No, there should be results at Hulao Pass, and these families should settle their old accounts." Li Ru didn't care. There was no way Hulao Pass could lose. As long as he used the momentum of victory to intimidate the major families, he would definitely win. Able to obtain maximum benefits.

If you lose, you should clean up these messes. There will be chaos in the front and trouble in the rear. It is not an exaggeration to kill them a hundred times.

If it weren't for Guo Hao's opinion, he would have chopped them all off as soon as he finished the torture.

"Just clean it up. There is no need to arrest them all. Many of them are caravans and can bring a lot of benefits." Jia Xu had a headache. If you are not a householder, you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, and the national treasury revenue is in deficit. If you don't

The country cannot afford to support so many people when it comes to the economy.

"Leave it to Chen Zichuan to take charge of this kind of thing. You should take some rest for now. It's easy for you to get into trouble in this state." Li Ru said flatly, not taking Jia Xu's words into account at all.

"Chen Zichuan? Do you think he can do it?" Jia Xu sighed, a little melancholy. At their level, they knew at a glance that Chen Xi's ability was far beyond theirs, but he was a little unwilling after all. He was obviously Guo

Hao's number one adviser.

As a result, Chen Zichuan came out halfway and became the prime minister directly. How did he deal with this?

"Let's go and report to the eldest princess. I heard that someone broke into the palace yesterday?" Li Ru saw Jia Xu looking disappointed, so he changed the subject.

"Well, a group of people broke into the palace and were stopped by Jiang Boyue. Jiang Boyue seems to have made great progress recently?" Jia Xu nodded and asked as if something suddenly occurred to him.

"Jiang Boyue, his state is quite strange, but he is indeed getting stronger and stronger. I don't know what's going on. I'll give it to the lord." Li Ru's expression was a little strange. He was also a legionnaire.

Commander, Jiang Wei's state is indeed very strange in his eyes.

He could see Jiang Wei's progress, as if he was making huge progress every time they met, one day at a time.

"After meeting the eldest princess, I took Hua Yuanhua to Hulao Pass. I heard him say that he could control the plague. A lot of people died there. It was estimated that the plague would break out. When I left

Chen Zichuan has made a lot of preparations, but if Huayuanhua was here, the losses would probably be smaller."

Jia Xu nodded without saying anything. He had seen Hua Tuo's ability before. A guy who was about to die could be revived by Hua Tuo with just one operation.

He had no breathing, no heartbeat, and his body was almost cold. Hua Tuo insisted that he was not dead. He went up to the hospital and gave him injections and medicine, and finally managed to revive him.

Those who can jump and jump on the ground are no different from ordinary people.

Even people like Jia Xu and Li Ru, who are used to seeing troubles, can't help but be shocked. Who doesn't have a headache and fever? They won't let this kind of miracle doctor go.

Without saying a word, they directly fabricated a third-grade false position and gave it to Hua Tuo. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, an era when Confucianism was dominant, Jia Xu and Li Ru were challenging the bottom line of Confucianism.

However, several big figures in Confucianism also knew Hua Tuo, so they turned a blind eye and did not pursue too much. After all, capable big guys like Hua Tuo could get away with it everywhere.

You must know that although the immortal can turn back time and save the people with a talisman, once the immortal's magic meets the fate of the country, it will basically be blind.

This is also the reason why the worship hall was crowded with immortals, but Liu Hong still couldn't be cured. The emperor was burdened with the fate of the country, and their magic had no effect on Liu Hong.
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