Just when Xiao Ye spent several days dealing with the Dalai tribe and wanted to continue attacking the Wanyan tribe, King Xian sent him a letter.
There are two messages in the letter.
The first news is that Wanyan Khan died of illness in the Khan's tent, and the second prince took over as the leader of Wanyan tribe.
The second news was that the Wanyan tribe had surrendered to the Chu State, and immediately stopped attacking the Wanyan tribe and returned to the court.
Xiao Ye sat in the tent and read the letter, then looked at Xu Qing, with a puzzled face: "Brother Xu, as long as you give me another month and a half, I can wipe out the Wanyan tribe and unify the entire grassland. Father, this is
What do you mean?"
When Xu Qing read Xian Wang's letter, he was a little confused about Xian Wang's thoughts. A great opportunity to avoid future troubles was right in front of him, but Xian Wang had asked his teacher to return to the court the whole time. Everyone felt that there was something wrong with this matter, right?
Why not eliminate the Wanyan Department in one go?
Xu Qing couldn't understand things, and Xiao Ruxue, a science girl, was even more confused.
Xiao Ye thought for a while and said: "Father has always made great decisions in his life. There must be a reason for this decision. Brother Xu, I have decided to count the seizures and stop the attack. However, I have to release spies to Wanyan Department and monitor Wanyan Department.
How does Brother Xu feel about every move?"
Xu Qing nodded and said, "This is the safest method. Even if the Wanyan Department wants to do something small, we can detect it immediately."
In fact, Xu Qing is also looking forward to finishing this battle as soon as possible. He has been away from home for several months and is a little homesick.
It would be great to end the war now.
After a battle, three more people were added to the history of the Central Plains. No wonder so many people liked to follow Huo Qubing back then. The military exploits were so great!
He and Xiao Ruxue have also taken advantage of Xiao Ye. In a thousand years, maybe their names will become the answer to the question.
After several days of return journey, Chu's cavalry finally returned to the camp. Xu Qing, Xiao Ye and Xiao Ruxue naturally went to the commander's camp to resume their duties.
In the big tent, King Xian looked up at the three of them and said, "I have become tanned in the past few months, but I have become stronger. From now on, our Chu country will have three more generals who will seal the wolf and live in Xu! Okay!"
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Xiao Ye couldn't wait to take a step forward and said, "Father, our Chu country is obviously capable of avoiding future troubles. Why do we let the children's master return to the court when a big event is about to happen?"
King Xian said: "Because the Wanyan tribe has professed vassalage to our Chu State, from now on the Wanyan tribe will be our ministers of the Chu State."
Xiao Ye said: "If my father gives the child another month, Wanyan Department can become a part of our Chu Kingdom."
The wise king looked at Xiao Ye and said, "What will happen if Wanyan becomes part of our Chu country? Will our Chu country last forever? Xu Qing, you should have thought about it all the way, right? You have guessed it by now.
What do you mean by this king?"
Xu Qing pondered for a while and said, "I have a slight guess."
The wise king said: "Tell me about it."
Xu Qing guessed: "Raising bandits to respect themselves?"
Xiao Ye heard Xu Qing's words and asked doubtfully: "Father, do you also need to support the bandits to respect themselves?"
If the father is a general, in order to maintain his military power and stable status, he can leave the enemy alone and not destroy him. In this way, the court will not be able to replace the general and remove the military power. But the father is a person who appears to be a prince but is actually an emperor. He raised
What bandits/
Xu Qing said: "Mencius said: If you enter, you will be unable to fight the soldiers at home, and if you leave, you will be invincible against foreign patients, the country will be permanently destroyed. If the Wanyan tribe is eliminated, we in the Central Plains will have no rivals in the world. This may be able to exchange for two
Thirty years of prosperity, but if things go on like this, the country will inevitably be in chaos, and Chu and the Central Plains need to leave behind an ambitious enemy."
The wise king smiled and said, "Yes, sometimes being too powerful is not necessarily a good thing. All the dynasties in the world perished due to weakness, but the Han Dynasty perished due to strength. Our Central Plains, when united as one, there is nothing in the world between heaven and earth."
It can be rivaled, just like Chu and Zhou this time, but when there are no enemies to unite us, the Central Plains itself will become its own biggest enemy."
"This is why I, the king, know that Wanyan Khan is determined to be evil and want to keep Wanyan's tribe. There are not many people in the world who are qualified to be my enemies of Chu. Leaving behind an ambitious opponent is more arrogant than thinking that I
It is much better to be invincible."
No matter what Xianwang wanted to do, Xu Qing obviously felt that Xianwang's mood was much more stable after he came back from his trip.
It seems that this trip is quite worth it.
However, the words of the Xian Wang about supporting bandits with self-respect sounded more or less to Xu Qing, who wanted to save face and suffer the consequences. Perhaps he really wanted to leave an ambitious opponent for the Central Plains, but the court's money was almost exhausted by Xiao Qing.
It is probably true that Ye's expedition was over.
Withdrawing troops now will kill two birds with one stone.
It can not only stop losses in time but also leave an enemy in the Central Plains.
The wise king made this calculation, and Xu Qing could probably hear it in the Anding Marquis Mansion.
After the war was over and there was not much money left, it was natural for him to return to the imperial court.
However, before Banshi returned to the court, the wise king still completed the household registration of all the herdsmen on the grassland.
In fact, it is just to issue a small tag with your name, date of birth and basic characteristics engraved on it. This thing is called a tooth tag, which is equivalent to the ID card of this era.
Having a dental card is equivalent to being a legal citizen of Chu State, but if you don't have a dental card, I'm sorry, you are not a citizen, you are a refugee, a black household.
Things related to people in Chu State have nothing to do with you. You have to be careful not to get caught, otherwise it will be sour.
But don't think that you can live in peace with your ID card. It will have the mark of paying taxes every year. It will be equally painful if you evade taxes.
This is the household registration system for going abroad.
After the war, everything was fine everywhere, but the journey back to the imperial court was a bit boring.
Xiao Ruxue almost wanted to yawn on her horse.
The little girl was riding on the horse, rubbing one big eye with the back of her hand, turning her head to look at Xu Qing and asked: "Xu Qing, how boring."
Xu Qing had no way to relieve the little girl's boredom. He could only comfort her: "Just hold on for a few more days. We will soon arrive in the capital. Then you can have fun as you want."
Xiao Ruxue pouted dissatisfiedly and said: "Don't you say that the further we go to the border, the more bandits there are? We have been walking for such a long time, why didn't we see a single bandit? When we went to Liuzhou, there were obviously many bandits along the way.
Yes, they still want to rob us..."
Xu Qing said with a dark look on his face: "Can you expect dozens of bandits to rob an army of dozens followed by ten thousand? One against ten thousand? How can there be such brave bandits?"
"Wait a minute..." Just when Xu Qing finished speaking, King Xian suddenly came over on horseback, looked at Xu Qing and then at Xiao Ruxue; "Have you two been to Liuzhou together?"