A certain rare beast that was screaming crazily in Liuyi looked completely crazy.
Young Master Ba, who went to Gusu to continue "showing his merits", got a big benefit this time. His position as a doctor in Liuyi was considered stable.
Anyway, most of the remaining clans from the Six Kingdoms will not stay in Liuyi, and Young Master Ba has no psychological pressure at all.
Besides, he is not Mr. Ba now, but "Xia Liu", a Wu Guoxiang doctor. It's just that the actual power of this country doctor is a little bit big, just a little bit, a little bit...
"Shou Li!"
Shaha, who was busy fighting guerrillas in Huainan, had lost a lot of weight. The weather was too hot and he was exposed to the sun all year round, which made him look like a fat man.
He is strong and flexible, but not fat or slow.
"Shu Liao, Shu Jiu...and the legacy of the clan, what should I say?"
"These countries of miscellaneous fish naturally follow the wind."
While talking, Li Jie picked up a washed peach from the fruit plate on the coffee table and tossed it casually. After Shaha caught it, he opened his mouth and took a bite. After swallowing, he continued: "The small country of Zu'er is not as good as the Yihu people.
It's hard to come by. Shou Li, should we continue to fight or let Lao Yunzhen take care of it?"
"How busy is he, an old man?"
Li Jie himself picked up a peach, took a few bites, threw the peach core away after eating, washed it casually in the wash basin, shook the water on his hands, and then wiped it dry on his clothes over and over again.
Then he asked Shaha: "Shaha, what do you think of the war intentions of the Huainan countries?"
"It's not as good as before. Shou Li, I didn't say that. Lao Yunzhen and Ji Ba both said so." Shaha also finished chewing one peach, and quickly touched another one from the table. Seeing that it was a little dirty, he rubbed it on his body.
He rubbed it and stuffed it into his mouth again.
"That's what I said before I asked Xia Liu to go to Suzhou. This Li Caihua's intimidating power is indeed very strong."
After a long trip in the summer, the intimidation power of Li Caihua's family of three was more effective than hundreds of real brave men.
Sometimes Li Jie had to admit that this kind of method, which was similar to dancing with a master, was miraculous in dealing with those stupid men and women who were very primitive and backward.
"Shou Li, there are only a few places in Huainan where there are Chu people, so why not take this opportunity..."
Before he finished speaking, Shaha made a "suck" sound and slurped up the peach juice. He felt a little sick after eating it, but he continued to speak after eating, "Chang'an and Que'an, I saw it in person before.
After passing. Shou Li, you can build a lighthouse and then a water fort. Relying on Pengli Ze, the people of Chu will not be able to go down the river."
Shaha, who had a straightforward temper, sipped the peach juice on his fingers and looked at the boss seriously: "In the future, we will kill those Gusu dogs. If Shou Li wants to go down the river, won't it be easier than the Chu people?"
"
During the Wu-Chu struggle for hegemony, the people of Chu could not go straight down the river, and the problem lay in Pengli Ze. With the Chu people's shipbuilding technology, if a small boat entered Pengli Ze, it would directly cast doubt on life.
At first I thought it was the Yangtze River, but as I drove further, I thought I saw the "sea".
The north-south width of Pengli Ze is too exaggerated. The Yangtze River these days is all in Pengli Ze.
"Gusu still needs to fight?"
"Ah? Don't you need to fight?"
Shaha stood up and washed his hands. When he heard this, his eyes suddenly widened, "If you don't fight...how can you be the king if you don't fight?"
"How come I am the king and still need you to figure it out?"
"If we don't attack Gusu, then... Que'an and Chang'an still need people?"
"Did you send people to raid the Chu people's territory?"
"We sent troops to all five places: Diji Mountain, Huangpu, Beichao, Qianyi, and Yongpu."
When it comes to political bragging, Shah has little experience and does not have the talent.
But on the battlefield, Shah is really good at figuring out how to kill his opponent and do it completely.
He was eyeing these places, which were the last remaining strongholds of the Chu State in Huainan and Jiangbei. As long as the passage between the Dabie Mountains and the Yangtze River was blocked, it would be a dead end.
It's just that Shah didn't plan to attack by force. When the boss showed up with Li Caihua, he just sent troops to circle around and then sent envoys to contact them.
He has no verbal promises at all. Shaha is single-minded. This matter is not his business, so he will not promise Chu people to "surrender and let bygones be bygones."
As a result, the more Shaha was like this, the people of Chu felt that this young brother of Wu State was reliable, and he was indeed a five-step warrior who "can be killed but cannot be humiliated".
"What conditions do the people of Chu propose?"
"As long as you can save your life, if you can continue to be an official, that's naturally better."
"Well, I'm not crazy, I'm very sensible."
Li Jie was a little surprised. These remnants of the Chu State in Huainan were quite capable of dealing with them.
Not everyone has a big-picture view and is able to see the reality clearly in the current situation.
There are many unlucky people waiting for the price and the lion's mouth is wide open, and there has never been an end to it.
The reasons are nothing more than two points: one is overestimating oneself, and the other is underestimating the opponent.
"Shou Li, what does brain retardation mean?"
"It's just stupid."
"oh."
Shah scratched his head, and then said, "People from the UK and the UK are quite stupid."
"..."
Although what he said is correct, there is always a sense of violation when it comes out of this guy's mouth.
Just like it is obviously a joke or a witticism, this guy can always say it seriously, and then it creates a very subtle contradiction, funny but not funny, and extremely uncomfortable.
"Do the Chu people you contacted in Huainan still have contact with Chu?"
"How to contact us? We have all the passes in the Dabie Mountains. And I have heard what they said..."
Scratching his head, Shaha looked confused, "I forgot what they said."
"..."
"It's like saying 'Hengshan is forbidden' or something like that. Anyway, it means that you can't go back and you have to stay where you are and wait for death. Rather than wait for death, it's better to find your own way out."
"Fuck..."
Li Jie looked confused, thinking that this guy is okay, and he can think deeply and summarize deeply.
He had always heard that Tan Zhuangzi had given him some advice, but he still didn't believe it. How could this guy think like he did today despite his silent demeanor in the past?
But looking at it now, maybe Tan Zhuangzi really had a professorial relationship with him.
His words became much sharper.
"Hengshan is forbidden..." Li Jie nodded slightly, "The Dabie Mountain we are talking about is the 'Hengshan' in the mouth of the Chu people. According to what you said, the Huainan Chu people really have no passage through the Dabie Mountain. There is only one.
The valley southwest of Qianyi can only be passed by a small group of elite soldiers. You have checked on the spot and found that it is difficult for non-Jingman elites to enter and exit, right?"
"Yes, the valley is very difficult to walk, and there are rocks falling from time to time. Once it rains, the road is even more rugged and slippery. If you are not careful, you will fall to your death if you slip. Anyway, of the more than 20 guides I hired, several of them fell down.
None of them were seriously injured, and they all died on the spot."
"Can the road be built?"
"Definitely not. There are steep cliffs, Shou Li, and the bottom of the valley. It is possible to walk, but there are so many rocks and streams. It is not possible to walk in the mountains all year round. You can't walk much in a day. If this road is to be built, when will it be built?
?”
"Where's the plank road?"
"Plank road?"
Shaha knew about the plank roads, because the engineering team in Jiangyin City had experience in plank roads, but the scale of these plank roads was not large.
But Shaha thought about it, but he hesitated and said: "Plank road... If it is a plank road, it is not impossible. It's just that the plank road must be very long, Shou Li, it's not necessary."
"I didn't say we must build a plank road. I'll go straight to Handong. What do I care about the Dabie Mountains?"
"..."
Shaha wondered, didn't you say this yourself?
However, he dared not speak out in anger, at least his eyelids were drooped, revealing a pair of dead fish eyes.
When Li Jie saw what he was like, he raised his hand and slapped him: "Just answer my question!"
"yes!"
After being beaten, Li Jie immediately became energetic. Li Jie was speechless. This idiot's brain circuit is really a bit subtle.
"Since it is extremely difficult for us to cross mountains and build plank roads, even if the Chu people reconcile with the Jingman people, they will not be able to send large troops to cross the Dabie Mountains. We will calculate the Dabie Mountains as if all the Jingman people have been conquered by the Chu people.
, it’s only a dozen or two hundred thousand, which can support the distribution of 300,000 Jingman. Ten to one draws Ding, which counts as 30,000 elites.”
After a brief estimation, Li Jie calculated a number and said, "Do you think that based on the calculation of 30,000 horses, can it threaten the Huainan Jiangbei area?"
"Two thousand brave men are enough, and they will be stationed in Qianyi and Nangang respectively. Guard these two places, even if the British are added, there is no need to worry."
"Is two thousand warriors enough?"
"That's enough." Shah explained to the boss very seriously, "Shou Li, the terrain in Huainan and north of the Yangtze River is complicated, and chariots are completely useless. As for mules and horses, in the entire Huainan, we are the only ones with mules. The British only have ponies.
No way. As long as a large army travels, it is impossible not to be noticed. But if you want to use the terrain and disperse a small group of elite soldiers, wouldn't this be a loss of life?"
Based on Yongfu's equipment and experience in small-unit conflicts, troops with extremely backward weapons and equipment would really be doomed if a small group of elite soldiers came to steal chickens.
In Shah's words, it's like giving away people's heads.
In fact, Shah's method is nothing more than to block the main transportation road and occupy favorable terrain. In this way, a small group of troops can come without excellent military quality and equipment, and a surprise attack can only rely on dreams.
And if a large force advances and relies on siege to break through, it will be discovered before it gets close. At this time, as long as the front line sends a warning, reinforcements can naturally be sent from the rear.
It is a very simple way to garrison troops, but the main premise is that we must first have this rear area.
Without the rear, the front line is a lonely army and a lonely city.
"Then we can almost sign a peace treaty with the Huainan countries."
"Peace treaty?"
As soon as he heard the word "harmony", Shah felt uncomfortable all over and said quickly, "Shou Li, we can't make peace. I am strong and the other is weak. Harmony is nothing."
"You know nothing!"
He raised his hand and slapped Shaha on the head again, "Isn't it nice to be able to make people give up resistance with just one mouth? Besides, I'm trying to make peace with people. When did I give people a chance to stand up?"
"Then this peace treaty..."
When Shaha heard that he was not refusing to fuck people, he immediately became energetic. He obviously planned to learn advanced techniques of fucking people.
Fighting and killing is his profession and his personal hobby, but he is not really stupid...
"Invite all the countries on Huaihe River to determine the boundaries between Wu and Chu."
"Huh?" Shaha, who looked confused, didn't understand the meaning, "Boundary? Shou Li, sooner or later Shou Li's territory will be Shou Li's territory, why do we need to set a boundary?"
"We invited the countries in Huaishang and Huainan to determine the boundaries between Wu and Chu. We said that the Dabie Mountains would be the boundary, with Wu to the east and Chu to the west. Whether the people of Chu listened or not is not important. What is important is the people of Huaishang and Huainan...
…Not only must you listen, but you must also listen carefully.”
"..."
Shaha, who was completely confused, could only look at the boss angrily, "Shou Li, what do you mean?"
"The meaning is to completely cut off the thoughts of the Huainan natives and prevent them from returning to their country."
Although the separatist forces will still be able to stand on their own if they appear in the future, the future separatist forces will definitely have nothing to do with the current Huainan countries.
Finalizing the border is just an excuse, and is essentially "confirmation of sovereignty."
As long as the "sovereignty is mine", then I have the final say whether to build toilets or graves on this site. And as long as others urinate and defecate on this site, the tools for committing crimes can be confiscated.
On the other hand, Li Jie can also further expand the jurisdiction of the Huaishui Bo Mansion, and complete the last part of "legality" for the areas that were actually under the original jurisdiction but did not go through legal procedures, which is in line with the "ritual system" of this era.
As for those ambiguous territories, whether you own them or not, they are all mine.
With the sign of Wu Guo, anything can be put into this frame, it all depends on Li Jie's needs.
As for King Wu or Taishu Mao, there is no loss or loss. Anyway, the extra "territory" was gained by Li Jie, and it was a "remote area". Wang Tu's hegemony wanted these bird feathers.
What is the place for? It is so difficult for a group of indigenous people to communicate with each other, the cost of governance is too high, and it is a waste of food to cultivate the land.
For the princes of this era, any population that could not be effectively managed after their rule was a low-end population or even a garbage population. They could not pay taxes, were unruly and did not perform corvee work well, and also consumed food.
Is this kind of non-killing reserved for the New Year?
It's good to use it as a sacrifice...
Therefore, in the eyes of many princes, Li Jie, this Jiangdong beast, is simply mentally retarded. Or what are they doing with so many Huaiyi, Yihu, and Jingman? Is it fun to raise them?
But when I saw Li Caihua, Li Tiezhu, and many other weak nobles in Huaishang, I felt that I understood the truth.
Would a normal person raise an elephant for fun? If a normal person has Li Tiezhu, shouldn't he show it off everywhere?
It turns out that Li Jie is different from ordinary people. The elephant can fly when playing, and the elephant can be even more arrogant. As for Li Tiezhu, he has no regrets in his life as a donkey breeder!
"I will do whatever Shou Li says. I listen to Shou Li."
Shah still didn't understand why a peace treaty was needed and why the border between Wu and Chu was finalized.
In his opinion, after this territory is won, this damn territory does not belong to Shou Li, does it belong to King Wu?
But now it seems that this is what Shou Li means. The territory has been conquered, and the result is the border between Wu and Chu?
What about Huai Shuibo? Why is it not the border between Huai and Chu?
Shaha couldn't understand it and couldn't figure it out, so he simply stopped thinking about it.
Anyway, looking at the arrangement of the boss, it sets the boundaries and makes fighting easier and more enjoyable. When the time comes, he will be rich in armed struggle in Huainan, so he can't be a vanguard?
Thinking of this, Shaha felt pretty good. He was thinking about the hometown of the Chu State's Guoshi Fujian, which was just opposite the Dabie Mountains. When the time came, he would first raid the hometown of the Guoshi Fujian, and then hit the old Yunzhen's hometown... This is a great achievement.
, big drop!
"Hey……"
The more he thought about it, the more beautiful it became. Shaha couldn't help but laugh out loud. When Li Jie saw him like this, he knew that this guy must be thinking wildly.
"If you invite Huaishang and all the countries in Huainan finalize a peace treaty, you will be the envoy."
"Yes!" Shaha was full of energy and very excited. Today he is the messenger, and tomorrow he will definitely be the pioneer.
The qualifications are here, is that fake?
"Shou Li, can the peace treaty have a name?"
"What do you think is a better name?"
"If we use the Dabie Mountains as the boundary, we might as well call it the Dabie Mountains Peace Treaty."
"..."
"Is it not good?"
Shaha blinked, thinking, isn't this good?
"No, it's pretty good."
I want to complain, but I always feel like there are flaws all over my body, so there are no flaws at all.
President Li sighed inwardly: Dabie Mountain is just Dabie Mountain.
Two days later, news came out from Huaizhong City that the Wu Kingdom had allied with the Huaishang and Huainan countries to sign the "Wu-Chu Dabie Mountain Boundary Treaty".