Chapter 129 Strategize and decide to win thousands of miles away!
Chapter 129: Strategize and win from thousands of miles away!
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"Prime Minister, how is the situation now?"
"The mood of the barbarians is quite stable."
"Prime Minister, how are my acting skills?"
"A little exaggerated, a little artificial. When you were dragged away by the soldiers, your expression was not shocked or sad enough, and the secret joy at the corner of your mouth was too obvious."
"...Prime Minister, what is the situation now?"
In Jianning County, in the wing of the prefect's mansion, Ma Su asked anxiously.
Zhuge Liang sat down at his writing desk and was silent.
This is a red-faced and white-faced drama that has not been rehearsed in advance. Ma Di is the white-faced treacherous minister, Zhuge Liang is the red-faced good prime minister, and the audience is the leaders of the Southern Barbarians.
However, although the drama of red face and white face is a play, it must be done in real life.
In order to appease the frightened and angry barbarian leaders, Zhuge Liang gave them two choices.
First, punish Ma Di severely and stop road construction, and all donated grains will be used to prepare for the Northern Expedition; second, return half of the grain and use the other half to build roads; punish Ma Di slightly, and at the same time kill the eight tribes whose leaders
Tribes and territory were equally divided among all tribes.
If the barbarian leaders choose one, they will die and be left empty-handed; if they choose the second, they will only lose some food, continue to build roads, and evenly divide the tribal power vacuum created by the death of Liu, Meng, and the six chiefs.
Such a simple multiple-choice question, normal people know how to choose.
Hatred is not a problem, power is truth; between people, love and hate can change, only interests are always supreme.
Zhuge Liang took a deep look and said in a deep voice: "Youchang, I will raise your wife, and you can go..."
Having said this, he paused deliberately to observe Ma Su's reaction.
Isn't it?
Prime Minister, are you serious?
These barbarian leaders are abnormal. They would rather not have food, not build roads, not have free tribes, but they would kill me?
Ma Su was a little panicked for a moment and said incoherently: "Prime Minister, I have done great service to the Shu Han!"
"Prime Minister, I blocked the knife for you..."
"I haven't been married yet."
"I don't have to be the governor of Yongzhou or the general of Zhenbei"
"I don't want to die..."
Ma Su burst into tears instantly, clutching Zhuge Liang's sleeves tightly, and greeted him with tears and runny noses.
"Prime Minister..."
After half a stick of incense.
After Ma Su had finished his performance, Zhuge Liang slowly broke away from his arm and said expressionlessly:
"Youchang, I will take care of your wife. You can just go and build the road in peace, don't worry about it."
Hearing this, Ma Su quickly collected his magical power and said seriously: "Okay, Prime Minister."
You have so many dramas...
Zhuge Liang looked at Ma Su with numbness and asked, "Youchang just said that you blocked the knife for me?"
When did this happen?
How come you don’t know the truth?
Ma Su had a look of embarrassment on his face and hesitated: "Well, I mean I am willing to defend the Prime Minister."
Zhuge Liang nodded slightly and asked again: "Did you just say that you have never been married?"
Then your wife...
Then the origins of your five sons are worth pondering.
"Prime Minister, you heard wrong, I mean I haven't married a concubine yet, concubine, concubine!"
Zhuge Liang nodded and changed the subject: "Youchang, can the remaining three roads be repaired within this year?"
Ma Su huffed and said: "Yes, it should be possible."
The most embarrassing thing in life is having your bullshit blown.
Previously, Ma Su had confidently told Zhuge Liang: Before the end of the year, the "meter" shaped transportation network in Nanzhong will definitely be repaired.
The start was just as he expected. The Jianjian Avenue (Chengdu-Jianning), which is a thousand miles away, was repaired in fifteen days.
It's incredibly fast.
But the next Jianyong Avenue poured cold water on his head. This thousand-mile road was particularly difficult to repair. It was necessary to open mountains and widen roads and build bridges across rivers. From April 15th to August 15th,
It took four months of repairs before it was finally completed.
If this progress is followed, the Jianning-Yunnan section alone may not be completed this year. Not to mention the other two main roads that run through the three counties, it will take another two months.
Based on this calculation, when the construction period is completed, it will be March or April next year.
Although the speed was still considered superb, Ma Su still had a bit of a look on his face.
The seven counties in Nanzhong are all large counties, and each county has a large territory. Although the population is not as large as the eleven counties in central Sichuan, the territory is much larger than the twelve counties in central Sichuan.
Especially considering that the Shu Han has only completed superficial control over the seven counties in Nanzhong, and is still a long way from real rule.
In order to rule the seven south-central counties as quickly as possible and deeply integrate all tribes of the barbarians, these five arterial roads must be built.
Even for a long period of time thereafter, the engineering team would be stationed in Nanzhong to build branch lines to various tribes around these five main roads.
This is also the main reason why Ma Su brought his "eldest son" Ma Wen.
The purpose is to train a successor in road construction.
From now on, the road construction work will be handed over to him.
However, the most important thing right now is how to appease the many barbarians living in Yunnan County.
After getting back half of the food, more than 300 barbarian leaders respected Zhuge Liang even more like a god.
Not only did he preach Zhuge Liang's kindness, fairness and righteousness everywhere, he also claimed that as long as Zhuge Liang was around, the murderer Ma Su would not dare to mess around.
They were really afraid of being killed by Ma Su.
For barbarian leaders like them, Zhuge Liang, who is highly respected and fair, is much easier to get along with than the ruthless Ma Di.
Moreover, there are rumors that Ma Su is a four-dimensional general. He is as cruel as a tiger, as bloodthirsty as mad, as lustful as life, and as murderous as a chicken.
They had never seen the first three scenes, but they had actually experienced the last scene.
I was so scared that I burst into tears on the spot.
But if Zhuge Liang is around, Ma Su will be restrained no matter how wild or fierce he is.
Zhuge Liang had promised them that as long as they obeyed, he would never send Ma Di to govern Nanzhong to manage Yunnan County.
So all the leaders felt very lucky about this, and secretly made small calculations, weighing the pros and cons.
Listening to the Prime Minister's words equals security and autonomy; not listening to the Prime Minister's words means facing the ruthless Ma Su.
Which one is better or worse is self-evident.
After thinking about this clearly, everyone was happy and contented to lead everyone back to the tribe.
They feel they have earned it.
Not only did they get half of the food back, and they got a promise of safety, but they also got someone to build the road for free, and they also got the population and territory of the first eight tribes for free.
Zhuge Liang also felt that he had made a profit. Not only did he make a lot of money, but he also had the opportunity to control Yunnan County in a deeper way. He also got hundreds of thousands of grains of grain in vain. Even if Ma Di was allocated 120,000 grains of grain to build roads, there would still be something left.
50,000 to 60,000 stones were taken down and reserved for other uses.
Ma Su also felt that he was not at a loss,
So everyone was happy.
In this way, with the joint efforts of Zhuge Liang, Ma Di and other barbaric leaders, the food problem was quickly solved. After a short rest, the engineering team worked hard again and started working hard.
Jianning-Yunnan's artery-level national highway is advancing toward Yunnan County at a speed of dozens of miles a day.
Wherever the road went, the barbarians and common people all applauded and stepped forward to help.
After building a road to Yongchang, everyone realized the importance of a good road.
In the blink of an eye, it’s September and late autumn.
Ma Su took some time off and squatted in the Qiang Nu's tent to look at the topographic map of Shuhan Prefecture.
The two have been living together in a tent for a long time.
But nothing happened in the meantime.
Ma Su frowned and stared at the map in a daze.
It turned out that after the Shu Han lost Jingzhou, its territory shrank sharply from twenty-three counties to thirteen counties. Not only did it lose the three counties in the eastern part of Han Dynasty and the three counties in Jingzhou, but even the four counties in the south and middle rebelled.
But under Zhuge Liang's governance, after six years, Shu Han returned to its state of prosperity.
With the Shu Han taking over the two counties of Yinping and Wudu, pacifying the Dong Qiang and Xianling Qiang, and splitting the four Nanzhong counties into seven counties, the Shu Han now has twenty-four (six) counties again, that is, the six counties of Hanzhong.
There are five counties in Badong, six counties in Shu, seven counties in Nanzhong, and two huge Qiang tribes (the population is about the same as two counties).
The total national power has exceeded that of the Shu Han Dynasty at its peak.
Such a basic plan is exciting.
Judging from the map, the Shuhan Empire stretched for more than 3,000 miles from north to south and more than 1,800 miles from west to east.
In terms of population, excluding the Nanman tribes, the current population of the Shu Han is about 1.7 million.
The army is about 210,000.
In order to verify his guess, Ma Su opened the system and spent 1,000 points to check Liu Chan's attributes.
[Congratulations: You spent 1,000 points to obtain this permission. Your current balance: 1,179.]
Name: Liu Chan (own)
Occupation: Emperor (Shu)
Hidden position: none
Age:22
Intelligence:5(55-50)
Force:3
Prestige:5(55-50)
People: 1.69/2.46 million (note: there are still 770,000 barbarians who have not been activated).
Army: 210,000 (15+3+3).
National power: 169/246 (Note 1: There is still some national power that has not been activated; Note 2, the full national power in the current era is 1000).
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good!
After looking at the basic base of the barbarians, Ma Di was filled with joy.
If the 770,000 barbarians can be completely brought under control, the Shu Han family will suddenly become much richer.
The population alone is not much different from that of Wu State.
War is actually about population and resources.
If this momentum continues, the population of Shuhan will inevitably exceed four million within ten years.
However, among the four million people, it is estimated that a considerable number of them will be children.
It will take more than ten years for them to grow up and become ready combat forces (reproductive machines).
Of course, population development and wealth are both long-term goals.
There is no need to rush, you have to take your time.
There are only two short-term goals, one is to build roads and completely dominate the Southern Barbarians; the other is to slow down the development speed of Wei and Wu.
How to drag?
Naturally, it provoked a war between the two families. The Shu Han sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight, allowing the two countries to fight against each other and develop silently.
The Wei State did not regard the Shu State as its opponent. It only disliked the State of Wu and would send troops to attack the State of Wu at every turn.
During the reign of Sun Quan alone, from 208 to 251, in 43 years, Wei and Wu had twelve large-scale wars, with an average of one fight every three and a half years. In these twelve wars, Wu won seven and lost five.
, slightly gaining the upper hand.
This shows that the hatred value of Wei State towards Wu State is full.
What Ma Su has to do is to add fuel to the fire and let the two families fight happily and consume each other's national strength.
