After Gaishun left, the Royal Army summoned the senior officials in Anding County and told them about the chaos caused by the Qiang people in the Dunhuang area!
Then Wang Guojun said: "Although I don't care about the life or death of the powerful men in Dunhuang, one thing Geshun said is right. There are hundreds of thousands of people in the four counties of Jiuquan in Dunhuang. They are the most innocent. We cannot care less about their life or death." !”
Li Ru also followed up and said: "Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Zhangye, and Juyan are the territories that the Han Dynasty took hundreds of years to open up. If the local people are massacred by the Qiang, we want to maintain this territory. The territory of the four counties will be very difficult. Even because of the situation in the Central Plains, it will be difficult for Daqian to spend energy on Xiliang. These four counties may completely become the territory of Qiang and Hu! This is very unfavorable to us in Xiliang, which is equivalent to The road to Xiliang is cut off, and Xiliang wants the help of the Silk Road to be prosperous!"
Niu Fu said: "Since the four counties of Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Zhangye, and Juyan are so important, let's go to the rescue! These Qiang people are our defeated generals, and it doesn't take much effort to defeat them! Now the Qiang people are like frightened birds. , I’m afraid that when they see our flag, they will run for their lives immediately!”
The war against the Qiang people during this period was an eye-opener for Niu Fu. The Qiang warriors who he thought were powerful were easily defeated by them. Each Qiang tribe was conquered by them without much cost. .
This reminded him of the time when fighting the Yellow Turban Army was even easier than fighting the Yellow Turban Army. After all, the Yellow Turban Army caused some trouble to Dong Zhuo at that time. However, when the Qiang people of Xiliang encountered the Dagan Army, it was easier than fighting the rogue bandits. As long as the Yellow Turban Army caused some trouble to Dong Zhuo at that time, They talked about beating up the chiefs and dividing the cattle and sheep, but the Qiang people couldn't even exert their fighting power to the fullest!
Lei Gong is so treacherous. He likes to disturb the enemy's morale during wars. No wonder no one has been able to defeat him in recent years. He uses land to buy off enemies. This is simply incredible!
Liang Xing ridiculed: "You can save us as long as you want. Dunhuang is 2,000 miles away from us, and it's winter now. If you ask soldiers to fight 2,000 miles away, do you know how many people will freeze to death along the way?"
Liang Xing, Hou Xuan, and Cheng Yin originally escaped with Han Sui. Later, after Han Sui surrendered, they also surrendered and now became subordinates of the Royal Army.
Niu Fu retorted: "Now that we have sleds, we can march faster than horses in winter. We have taken measures to protect ourselves from the cold. Why can't we march in winter! The governor has said that we will save the people of the four counties. If we don't go, we are not letting them go." Go to hell! All the people are dead, how about you go and garrison the four counties of Dunhuang?"
You must know that the seven counties of Anding County are still close to Guanzhong, and everyone still feels like they are in the Han Dynasty, but the four counties of Dunhuang are far away from the mainland, and are closer to the Western Regions, giving people the feeling of entering a barbaric land. The people of the Han Dynasty are basically No one in the world is willing to settle in Dunhuang counties! All the local people have died, and it is very difficult to immigrate.
Liang Xing no longer refutes Niu Fu's words. He dares to speak against Niu Fu, but he dare not speak against Wang Guojun!
Wang Dangdao: "Niu Fu is right, what we want to discuss now is how to beg these four counties, not whether to save them!"
Half a day after Han Sui sank, he said: "We don't know the specific situation in Dunhuang and other places at all. It is not the best idea to rush to send troops in winter just based on Gaishun's words! The Gai family can be said to cover the sky with one hand in Dunhuang. Their family
Wubao has been established for hundreds of years. There are records of the fall of Yumen Pass, but I have never heard of the Gai family’s Wubao falling. Moreover, they have connections with the Xiliang Qiang tribe and the Western Region forces. I don’t believe them.
How could they be wiped out by the Qiang people so easily?"
Wang Guojun looked at Han Sui and said, "I know Gai Xun fought with you back then. Does Chang Shi want to take revenge on the Gai family now?"
Han Sui calmly replied: "I want revenge. My subordinates took revenge a few years ago. Now I just express my concerns. There may be hundreds of thousands of Qiang people in Dunhuang, but I don't believe Gaishun."
They really can't resist these Qiang people. If their Wubao is really so easy to conquer, the Han Dynasty has been in chaos for more than ten years, and the powerful people of Dunhuang have been wiped out by the barbarians long ago! And they are still alive and well, which shows that
These powerful men like Gaishun are not bad and will not be easily killed by the Qiang people.
The subordinates think that we should first explore the situation in Dunhuang and other places, and wait until winter passes before sending troops to Dunhuang. Although this may cause Dunhuang and other places to fall into the hands of the Qiang people, it can guarantee the lives of our soldiers to the greatest extent! As for
The people of the four counties of Dunhuang are still the subjects of the Han Dynasty, not my subordinates! At worst, we can avenge them and kill all these Qiang people to avenge them!"
Obviously Han Sui did not agree with sending troops to Dunhuang at this time. They didn't know anything. If Gaishun and the Qiang people joined forces with them, the soldiers who rescued Dunhuang might be wiped out!
Wang Guojun is Lei Gong's confidant, and he can be punished with up to three drinks of wine if he makes a mistake, but Han Sui is a newcomer, and he is worried that he will become a scapegoat!
Li Ru thought for a while and said: "Brother Wenyue's proposal is the safest. We should still find ways to explore the situation in Dunhuang before considering sending troops. But if the governor wants to rescue Dunhuang quickly, we can also find a way to solve it. We only need to station troops in Wuwei City.
This saves half the journey. As long as we find out the situation in Dunhuang, we can quickly send troops to rescue Gaishun and the others! And it takes time to assemble an army. According to Gaishun, there are now hundreds of thousands of Qiang people in Dunhuang, including Qing Dynasty.
Even if we have the advantage of weapons and equipment, if we want to defeat such a large number of Qiang people, we still need to assemble an army of more than 50,000 people. It will take a month to assemble and prepare the food and fodder logistics for an army of 50,000 people.
, and by the time the army is assembled, the winter in Xiliang will almost be over! By then we will be able to advance and retreat freely!"
The Royal Army thought about it and found that Han Sui and Li Ru's proposal was the safest! So the Royal Army sent people to appease Gaishun, and at the same time sent spies to Dunhuang to wait for him to investigate the information, and ordered Jincheng County and Weiwu County to recruit 50,000 troops.
Gather in Wuwei City, ready to fight at any time!
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! At the same time, Gaishun came to Anding County and surrendered to Daqian. The news of asking for help spread quickly!
For ordinary people, they only sympathized with the suffering of the people in the four counties of Dunhuang, but for big businessmen like Zhen An, Gaishun's surrender was equivalent to the entire Xiliang falling into the hands of Dagan.
The gateway to the entire Silk Road is finally in the hands of Da Gan. As long as they defeat the Qiang people again, the trade route to the Western Regions will be opened! With the golden spices flowing in the Western Regions, their caravans can enter!
The hundreds of thousands of Qiang people were not noticed by Zhen An and the others. After all, they saw with their own eyes that Xianbei, which was as powerful as the Han Dynasty, was annexed by Lei Gong in a few years. Hundreds of thousands of Qiang people were nothing to Lei Gong. !
For Zhen An and the others, the most important thing now is to get tickets to enter the Western Region. They remember that Lei Gong only allows 10 caravans to monopolize the trade routes in the entire Western Region!
So Zhen An and the others went to Wang Guojun and asked him when the Xiliang Development Bonds would start to be sold. Their gold was already ready! They were just waiting to buy these bonds. Their actions even affected the local tycoons in Xiliang. They The land has been divided up by the Dagan, all the slaves have been forcibly disbanded, and all the private soldiers have been wiped out by Lei Gong. If they don't catch up with the development of the Western Region, their family will really decline.
Therefore, powerful family owners in Xiliang often come to Wang Guojun and ask him when will the Xiliang development bonds be sold?
Wang Guojun was dumbfounded, but he would not refuse to send money like this. If they prepare money and food now, it would be really good for the Xiliang army to enter Dunhuang!
So in mid-February of the second year of Xingping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD 195)!
Xiliang Development Bonds officially appeared in a money shop not far from the governor's office. People who buy bonds can use gold, silver, cloth, grain, war horses and cattle to buy bonds, and people who buy 1 billion bonds can get With an access permit, you can freely enter and exit the Western Regions to do business!
This news caused a sensation throughout Xiliang. Zhen An and the others were happy to get a pass to enter the Western Region. They were all wealthy businessmen in Daqian, and they had a lot of assets and deposits in Daqian Money Shop. They can transfer these deposits to the governor's office of the Royal Army immediately.
The powerful people in Xiliang happily brought their gold, silver, and copper coins into the money shop in horse-drawn carriages. The gold and silver horse-drawn carriages were lined up in a long queue, which made the people of Anding County stunned when they saw it. Unexpectedly, the local tycoons are so wealthy!
But soon these powerful and big businessmen encountered a problem. Although they were rich, they could not afford such a huge figure as 1 billion. Zhen An was now the richest businessman in Daqian, but his rise was Thanks to Xu Wei, counting from the time he opened the textile factory in Mayi, his rise did not even take 10 years. Although he is already a very successful businessman, his total family property is only a few hundred million dollars, most of which is Partially counting real estate such as factories, the money and materials Zhen An can really spend is only more than 100 million. And wealthy businessmen who are even worse than Zhen An can't even come up with 100 million dollars in supplies.
On the contrary, it was the wealthy noble families in Bingzhou, Youzhou, and Hebei. Although Xu Wei took away their fields, food, and privileges, Xu Wei did not touch their money, even because Da Qian restricted their entry into the military and political circles. They only use their own property to do business, and now these powerful men have quite a lot of property!
For example, the Wang family, Guo family, and Linghu family in Bingzhou joined forces and actually took out goods worth 2 billion yuan, and then obtained two tickets from Wang Guojun to freely enter and exit the Western Regions!
The actions of the Bingzhou clans awakened other people. It was difficult for them to obtain tickets to enter the Western Regions with their separate property, but they could join together to form a caravan. So Zhen An teamed up with his old friend Xian Yuying and other powerful businessmen to also raise funds. After spending 3 billion yuan, they got 3 tickets to enter the Western Regions. Then the powerful people in Youzhou and Hebei also joined forces and got 2 tickets to enter the Western Regions.
Although the local tycoons in Xiliang occupies a favorable geographical location, they have been in chaos for decades. Even the tycoons' families do not have much money. If the royal army had not allowed them to use war horses and supplies this time, they would not have been able to defeat 10 people in a row. They couldn't raise hundreds of millions of dollars. In this competition for financial resources, Xiliang's powerful people had the local advantage and only had to wait for a ticket to enter the Western Regions. This made Han Sui and others extremely depressed.
Han Sui and others were also surprised by Da Qian's wealth. It took less than 10 days to raise 10 billion yuan. This would have been impossible for the Han Dynasty back then! At the same time, they also lamented Lei Gong's strong reputation.
With just a monopoly system, the entire Daqian businessmen could spend tens of billions of dollars to purchase this admission permit. At that time, Emperor Ling did not have such credibility, and no one dared to hand over tens of billions of dollars to the imperial court. !No wonder Lei Gong has been able to conquer all battles in recent years. Just by working together, he has far surpassed the big man!
And Wang Guojun received tens of billions of dollars in money and food. It can be said that there is no shortage of money and materials for the development of Xiliang. He immediately asked Li Ru to formulate a five-year development plan for Xiliang.
At the same time, he began to purchase military supplies from the entire Daqian military industry system, such as woolen cloth, military uniforms and other supplies. There were also spare battle knives, armors, spears and other weapons.
Because the Royal Army was in urgent need, the Logistics Department specially mobilized equipment for 50,000 people from the Bingzhou arsenal to the Royal Army, and told him: "It will take a year to build new equipment, and we are worried that it will affect your future." battle, so I transported these second-hand equipment to you. Although these weapons and armors are second-hand, they are very well maintained, and the price is only half of the new weapons. You have saved a lot of money!"
For Wang Guojun, second-hand equipment is not a problem. What he lacks is time. These equipments are all equipped by him among the 50,000 troops in Wuwei County. The war horses used by the soldiers have all been replaced by Xiliang horses, and the army's logistics also purchased 5 Ten thousand horses of grain and grass supplies, and a large amount of grain and grass purchased from Bingzhou came to Xiliang.
It can be said that with these tens of billions of dollars, the entire Xiliang is like a money trap, with both military strength and infrastructure developing rapidly.
After the 50,000 troops in Wuwei County were fully armed, the spies also found out the news about Dunhuang. Basically, as Gaishun said, hundreds of thousands of Qiang people not only conquered Zhangye County, but also Jiuquan County.
The common people and tycoons from both places fled to Dunhuang County to protect themselves, and the tycoons from several Dunhuang counties also united to resist the Qiang's attack city by city, exchanging space for time, and carried out the same task of strengthening the walls and clearing the country, even if the city was occupied by the Qiang people. Even if we break through, we won’t let the Qiang people grab the food!
Therefore, although Jiuquan County was captured by the Qiang people, the Qiang people did not grab much food this time. Facing Dunhuang's strong and flexible defense, the Qiang people's military front was not as sharp as it was at the beginning. Now the battle line between the two sides is maintained in Yumen County.
generation!
After understanding the situation of the Qiang people, Wang Guojun asked Li Ru to stay in Anding County. He, Han Sui, and Wang Dang came to Wuwei County, and then led a mighty army of 50,000 to Dunhuang County to support them!