Wuwei City, Yongzhou Governor's Mansion, Wing Room.
The light screen in front of Ma Su flashed.
It’s time for an exciting experience session again.
After learning that his carefully crafted plan to "earn money from Longyou through poisonous tactics" failed, he was not too disappointed. He just sighed slightly and switched his target to the five western counties of Liangzhou.
People make plans, and God makes things happen. Even Zhuge Liang and Sima Yi, who are extremely resourceful people, cannot guarantee that their strategies will be 100% effective.
Therefore, whether the situation in Wei is good or bad ultimately depends on external factors, and the key is whether it is strong enough.
As long as it is hard enough, there is no gap that cannot be inserted.
If it is not strong enough, even if the Wei State collapses now, the ones who will take the greatest advantage will definitely be Soochow, Gongsun Yan State, Kebi Neng Xianbei Tribe, and the Southern Xiongnu who are attached to Bingzhou.
It will definitely not be Shuhan.
Fortunately, the Shu Han Dynasty has become much stronger than before. Ma Su has now grown into a feudal official who is in charge of one side. He has not yet opened a government, but in fact he has all the power to open a government. The size of his department has also grown from the original three to Zhao Yun, Zhang Xiu,
Zhao Guang, Dai Ling, Fei Yao, Qu Bu, Qu Shang, as well as Huang Xi and Li Sheng, who had escaped from Wu in embarrassment.
If you include the great wizard, there are ten people.
If we add Axiu, Hezhi Meng and Egu who stayed behind in the Qiang land, there will be thirteen people.
Apart from Zhao Yun and A Xiu, the current most powerful military commander is the nine-foot-tall strong man Qu Bu.
Ma Su checked the attributes of Qu Bu and found that his force value was 85, which was barely enough to reach the level of a second-rate general. He was slightly more powerful than Zhao Yun's second son, Zhao Guang. He was a useful talent.
The increasingly large lineup under his command also gave him confidence.
The slight flaw is that there is only one counselor, that is, Qu Shang, a scribe of the Qu family who is better than Jiang Ziya + Guo Jia + Zhuge Liang.
In addition, the Wuwei Youjia have not yet sent any members of their clan to serve as officials, and are still in a wait-and-see state.
Ma Su has a clear understanding of the current situation. Only by unifying Liangzhou and connecting it with the Xiqiang base area in the shortest possible time can he completely gain a foothold in Liangzhou.
At that time, we can advance to Longyou, retreat and take over the Western Regions; serve the later master in the south, and attack Cao Wei in the north.
When that time comes, external pressure and calculations from the Wu State will inevitably follow. After all, with the Wu State's capricious behavior, they will definitely not sit back and watch the Shu Han become stronger and remain indifferent;
Internally, the struggle for power from the court will inevitably become more acute. In the entire Shu Han, no one is willing to see a general who conquers the west with monopoly power.
Therefore, while strengthening yourself, you must also treat the powerful enemies Sima Yi and Wei accordingly.
As long as strong external enemies still exist, we will not fall into the dangerous situation of "the cunning rabbit dies and the lackeys are cooked".
Ma Su calmed down and gently poked his finger on the light screen.
[Do you want to challenge the copy of "Double West", the second sub-map of "Domination of Xiliang"? 】
"Yes Yes Yes!"
[Please select accompanying persons: 1. System default personnel; 2. Self-selected personnel (self-selected personnel require an additional cost of 300 stability points). 】
"Choose!"
Ma Su pondered for a moment and entered the names of Qu Bu, Great Wizard, and Zhao Yun.
[Congratulations, your selection is successful, your current balance is: 123146 points.]
[Fantasy experience, why not fight, wow~ hahaha...]
When the scene changed quickly, Ma Su sighed.
I haven't heard such a high-pitched opening voice in a while.
The curtain slowly unfolded, the light turned from dark to bright, and the strong wind blew in my face.
As soon as he opened his eyes, Zhao Yun's worried voice came to his ears: "Youchang, we are going to Xihai now. Is our lineup a little thin?"
Ma Su looked around and found that the sky was yellow and vast, and the ground was rustling with dust.
The ancient road is winding in the west, with four people and three horses wearing hunting clothes.
Thin? Where is it thin?
Ma Su smiled slightly: "In the battle of Changbanpo, General Zhao used to come and go freely among 830,000 Cao troops. Today, there are only a few hundred thousand Xianbei people. What should we be afraid of?!"
"Old general, I have confidence in you!"
"..."
Zhao Yun was silent for a moment and said: "At the time of Changbanpo, I was not forty years old and my strength was in full swing. Now I am sixty-three years old..."
"Old general, don't panic." Ma Su laughed, took a step forward, and looked proudly to the west: "If you don't accept it, just fight it!"
Zhao Yun curled his lips.
He also thought that Ma Su was very resourceful and could come up with a workable plan, but it turned out that he had said it as if he hadn't!
In what age are you still using brute force and recklessness?
He also knew that brute force was the best and fastest way, but the bald Xianbei had a hundred thousand troops and more than ten thousand people who could control the strings.
How can four people fight against each other?
If he really had to rush in and fight hard, a hundred lives would not be enough to kill him.
"Youchang, have you thought about it?" Zhao Yun was even more worried.
"I've thought about it."
Ma Su turned around and got on his horse, rode with the great wizard, and headed west first.
Zhao Yun urged his horse to follow.
Qubu fell at the back and waved his whip. He found that his mount was just spinning in place. He was suddenly sweating profusely. He turned over and grabbed the four horse hooves. He bent down and picked up the horse, which weighed nearly two hundred kilograms.
Come and chase Ma Su.
While chasing, he shouted from behind at the top of his lungs:
"General, wait for me!"
In the evening, when a group of people arrived at the northern foot of a big mountain, Ma Di suddenly reined in his horse, turned sideways and stretched out his finger and asked, "Where is this place?"
Everyone followed his fingers and found that the southwest was high and the northeast was low. The terrain was flat and open, with sparse vegetation. A raging river ran from north to south, and ended up converging into a large lake. The shape was long, narrow and curved, like a crescent moon.
There are dense bushes and abundant water and grass along the lake. A huge village lives along the lake, with smoke curling from cooking stoves and chickens and dogs smelling each other.
"This is Juyanze, which is the boundary of Juyan County, Xihai County. The name of this river is Ruoshui, which stretches across Liangzhou for three thousand miles. This mountain is a branch of the Qilian Mountains." Qu Bu replied breathlessly.
"Good mountains and good water!" When Ma Su heard this name, he praised it repeatedly and couldn't help but feel proud.
"Let's go up the mountainside and take a look."
So a few people rode up the gentle hillside on the south side. There were few trees on the mountain, but the grass was luxuriant, more than a foot high. It was lush green and exuded a fresh and natural grassland atmosphere.
The group of people soon reached an open area halfway up the mountain. As soon as they came up to the mountainside platform, everyone was surprised.
From what you can see, the Xianbei villages scattered around Juyanhai look just like Han villages.
Wooden houses and earthen houses are scattered in an orderly manner, windmills and waterwheels are placed one after another, people are working in the fields, and people are riding horses on the plains, creating a scene of prosperity.
At this time, the sun was setting in the west, the sky was half-opened with burning clouds dyed red, the sky was gorgeous and colorful, the mountains in the distance were majestic, and the Juyan Sea nearby was sparkling with golden light.
Everyone looked down from the mountainside and suddenly felt a feeling of "the sun is setting and the road is over". Their emotions were agitated and they could not control themselves.
"As long as we conquer this place, Liangzhou will be within our grasp." Ma Su nodded secretly, raised his head and looked to the sky beyond his sight to the west, with a smile on his lips.
Taking the village as the unit rather than the tribe as the unit indicates that the Xianbei tribe is evolving towards higher productivity.
In this era where "the people regard the earth as their heaven", the more fragmented the tribes are, the more land resources each person can use.
Sufficient food has always been a prerequisite for an ethnic group to have a population explosion and become strong quickly.
Therefore, when the Xianbei people began to cultivate land and accumulate grain, the threat to the Central Plains was no longer as simple as robbing the border areas.
This situation was a mixed blessing for the Central Plains dynasty.
The good side is that the Xianbei tribe is on the road to sinicization. The bad side is that once such a tribe loses control, its lethality will be huge.
Earlier, due to the frequent civil strife in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, many Han people fled to the border areas to join Xianbei, bringing them advanced technology and productivity.
At the beginning, the Xianbei tribe did not make good use of these advanced technologies and still relied on the old nomadic customs. They relied on light cavalry that "came like a flying bird and went like a string" and continuously invaded the border counties of the Eastern Han Dynasty, killing and plundering officials and people.
At the most, they plundered Han land more than 30 times in a year.
During this period, although the Xianbei tribe gained a lot of wealth through war and plunder, due to its low productivity, agriculture was extremely underdeveloped. Military plunder as a means of survival gradually failed to meet the needs of the rapidly increasing population, and they were constantly attacked by the Han Dynasty.
Targeted attacks by various warlords.
After Tanshihuai's death, Xianbei fell into pieces, with various ministries attached to each other. They began to pay attention to the advanced technology of the Han people. While maintaining their nomadic customs, they actively learned about farming, breeding, and iron smelting to improve the tribal industrial structure, which was single and had extremely weak risk resistance.
shortcoming.
Tuoba Xianbei is one of the best among them. Tufa Xianbei, which has the same origin as Tuoba Xianbei, began to prosper after migrating to Juyanhai.
Ma Su would not sit back and watch such a powerful and uncontrollable group grow silently under his nose.
Therefore, he came to Xihai County this time only to do three things.
