"Become him? Replace him?" Wanyan Khan thought for a moment and said, "Let's talk about the risks."
The greater the risk, the greater the reward. The price for the grassland to take over the Central Plains and obtain the Central Plains' orthodoxy must be high.
Wanyan Khan realized this truth very early.
Agula said: "While replacing the Central Plains, you will also bear the risk of being assimilated by the Central Plains."
Wanyan Khan couldn't help but ask after hearing this: "What do you mean?"
Agula said: "Thousands of years have passed since ancient times. After the Rebellion of the Jin Dynasty, many people in the Central Plains actually have the blood of our prairie wolf tribe, but..."
Wanyan Khan asked: "But what?"
Agula said: "But the people of the Central Plains never look at blood. They still worship the Yan and Huang emperors, and are still proud of the honor of Huo Qubing and Wei Qing. Many of them even want to be the next them."
Wanyan Khan quickly waved his hand: "Okay, okay, let's avoid this topic and continue talking."
Really, the more I talk about it, the more I feel sad. Is it because they are so incompetent in the grassland?
Agula said: "The key to defeating them is not whose bloodline they have, but their education and identity. Respecting Confucianism and Taoism, worshiping Yan and Huang, valuing China, and despising Yidi are their education. They have grown up since they were young.
If our grassland wants to conquer the Central Plains, it is useless to conquer it by force alone, otherwise the Central Plains would have ceased to exist hundreds of years ago."
"So, if we want to replace them, we must first learn to integrate with them."
Wanyan Khan said; "But it might also be replaced by them?"
Agula said; "Unless the cultural identity of our grassland can be better than that of the Central Plains, otherwise we must take this risk and learn from their strengths, so that we can in turn check and balance them and learn from each other's strengths."
Wanyan Khan said: "Are you sure that everyone in our descendants will not want to be like Huo Qubing?"
Agula: "There are indeed risks, but the rewards are also high, as long as we teach well..."
Wanyan Khan asked: "Are there any successful cases?"
"Uh... this..." Agula opened his mouth and thought for a long time but didn't know what to answer.
There are no successful cases yet, but there are indeed many successful cases throughout the ages...
Agula's dangerous idea was naturally rejected by Wanyan Khan. What he wanted was for his Wanyan tribe to take over the Central Plains, not to look back after a hundred or two hundred years after arriving in the Central Plains.
China is still the orthodoxy of the Central Plains, and by the way, it has also unified their grasslands...
Wanyan Khan looked at Agula and said, "Does it mean that our grassland will definitely lose this war?"
Agula shook his head and said: "Although the combat effectiveness of our prairie cavalry is superior, their morale, confidence, armor and weapons are all far behind the Chu army. Even after two months, their firearms advantage was completely lost.
Although, they still have a military formation that is not weaker than our prairie cavalry. Chu’s infantry warfare can, to a certain extent, compete with the horse warfare on our prairie.”
Agula's meaning is very clear. It is not easy to defeat the Chu State with only half of the army.
Wanyan Khan sighed and said: "I never expected that the Central Plains, which has not yet been unified, could become the enemy of our grasslands."
So far, no large-scale war has occurred between the grassland and the Chu State, but the people of the Wanyan Department can clearly feel the unstoppable momentum of the Chu State's army.
Especially last time when he was still in the New Royal Court, there was a sudden thunder in the middle of the road, which damaged the vanguard and made everyone in his Wanyan tribe think that the Chu Kingdom was a god descending to earth.
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After Agula's plan was formulated, Grassland moved very quickly.
Wanyan Khan's first step was to move the tribes south of the grassland northward to within the control of the three major tribes on the grassland, and sent a large number of sentries to closely monitor the Chu army's every move.
The second step is to establish strict patrols. Except for trade with traveling merchants, it is strictly forbidden to discuss any topics related to Chu State. You are not even allowed to say words such as "Chu" and "Central Plains". Any violation will be arrested.
Get up, it is wishful thinking for Chu State to try to instigate the grassland people to rebel.
The third step is to tell the tribal leaders about the examples of the Bones Division to dispel the unrealistic illusions in their hearts. Don’t think that just because they defeated the Wanyan Division, you people can take advantage of the situation and move to the Central Plains. It’s useless. Chu
When the country comes, the first people to deal with it will be you powerful people.
Originally, many problems would be exposed within the grassland. Even if the Central Plains invaded, these leaders would take a wait-and-see attitude. When the situation becomes clear, if the Wanyan tribe wins, they will continue to serve the Wanyan tribe. If the Chu Kingdom wins, they will also applaud.
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Anyway, the Central Plains treated the tribes that had surrendered in the past generations quite favorably, and they even had a better future than following the Wanyan tribe.
But now Wanyan Khan's words broke the illusion of these leaders. It was the powerful people who would be killed. The Chu State only wanted civilians, and the Chu army, which could not even kill civilians, would direct all its anger at these powerful people.
The leaders of these large and small tribes no longer had to wait and see, and all turned to the Wanyan tribe.
At this moment, the people of the grassland were united as never before. All conflicts were no longer important in the face of the invasion of foreign enemies. Wanyan Khan's control over the tribes in the grassland had reached its peak.
Misfortunes are where blessings depend, and blessings are where misfortunes lie.
Wanyan Khan was able to seize the opportunity to win over the grassland tribes, which was beyond his expectation.
If their entire grassland united as one, would Chu still be invincible?
Now that the rainy season is coming, when the rain is abundant, can the Chu State's firearms be discharged every day?
Zhou State still had half of their main force in the grassland, and Chu State's main force was also stared at by the cavalry in their grassland, unable to move at will.
Maybe their grassland will not lose this war.
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Zhouguo border pass
The Imperial Preceptor stood on the tower and looked at Su Zhong and said: "General Su, you can fight back now, because the things from the imperial court have arrived."
Su Chong looked at the black cans pulled on the carriages and said in surprise: "These are the firearms of my Zhou Kingdom?!"
The Imperial Master nodded and said, "After our Zhou State's Firearms Department worked around the clock and tried hundreds of ratios, the difficulty of firearms was finally overcome by our Zhou State. It's a pity that it appeared with the Chu State."
There is still a chasm-like gap in the latest firearms on the grassland battlefield. Chu State is still far ahead of Zhou State in terms of firearms. We still have a lot to learn."
Su Chong said with a fierce look on his face: "It doesn't matter if we are far behind Chu State, as long as we can deal with these wolf cubs that are constantly harassing us every day."
The national master smiled and said, "Yes, although such firearms are still unable to deal with the Chu State, they are enough to deal with wolf cubs like the grassland who are brave but have little armor."
Su Zhong couldn't help but ask at this time: "National Master, although we have firearms, how should we release them? We can't do it without any rules, right?"
The National Preceptor said: "Chu State gave the answer a year ago, five rounds of sky-shaking thunder and one round of fire oil!"