"Take Duan Yanqing, escort these surrendered soldiers, and return to the stronghold quickly!"
"Inform the military judge of Yongzhou, You Shixiong, about the Tibetan military gathering to invade Dali!"
"Ignore the other orders, wait until I come back!"
"yes!"
Huang Shang gave the order, and Wang Shunchen accepted the order without delay. He immediately led more than 500 forbidden troops and headed east.
Return to the Song Dynasty.
Yang Xingchen slapped his head. The Tenth Battalion of Forbidden Forces rescued Duan Yanqing, but the result was a loss of troops. The first batch of people who fled back was less than a thousand people. Even if this group was added, more than half of them would be killed or injured.
It is really not worth dying in the land of Dali.
But Duan Yanqing finally brought it back.
The prince of Dali originally had a dream of returning to the capital, immediately ascending the throne as emperor, and integrating all the ministries. However, the pressure from Tubo made him wake up from his dream and decided to follow the imperial army to the Song Dynasty to ask for support from the superior state to help him regain his throne. .
Huang Shang was noncommittal about this. After arranging everything, he turned to Qu Yun: "Miss, please elaborate!"
Qu Yun originally thought that the words "opening up frontiers and expanding the territory" would be a great temptation to the people in front of her. After all, it meant being famous and staying in history, which was the supreme glory. However, the word "don't want to" suddenly stopped the whole flow of seductive words she was brewing. He stopped and even broke into a cold sweat.
She no longer dared to lie: "A few months ago, the ghost master of Luodian was killed and various ministries attacked. Our Nanzhao remnants were not tolerated by any place, and they were even more miserable. So we wanted to use the Dali rebellion to split the east for survival. Where. Now that Tubo is attacking, Dali is not in a hurry, and can just destroy Luodian and bring it into the territory of the Song Dynasty!"
"Luo Dian?"
Huang Shang was a little surprised.
He originally heard that Qu Yun claimed to be a survivor of Nanzhao, and he felt that the Five Poison Sect led by this woman must be incompatible with the power of Dali.
How did Dali come to be?
It was Duan Siping who established the country after separatist power in the late Nanzhao period.
Duan Siping existed in history. His family had been military generals of Nanzhao for generations. However, when he grew up, Nanzhao had entered the last dynasty and was divided and controlled by three political powers, which existed in name only.
Duan Siping rose up, wiped out these three small countries one after another, and then established a country and proclaimed himself emperor, and then Dali was established.
In this way, in a sense, Nanzhao was also destroyed by Duan Siping, and the Nanzhao survivors naturally had enmity with the Duan family in Dali.
Therefore, Huang Shang refused to expand the territory.
How could he conquer this girl and be used as a weapon by his subordinates?
To take a step back, if there are no other interests at stake, destroying the country is just a good thing on the surface, and the benefits are the key.
Why has China, throughout its dynasties, never been interested in the small countries around it and never sent large armies to destroy them?
The reason is simple: the cost of sending troops is far higher than the benefits.
What's the use of a place with barren mountains and barren resources?
Just like Dali.
Can the Song Dynasty destroy Dali?
Of course.
But what happens after it is destroyed?
The people living here are actually Bai people and Wuman, and Song people are not willing to come to these remote places.
As for Dali's minerals and horses, they still need to be mined and domesticated by the local people. If you offend the local indigenous people, you will still be dumbfounded if you do it in disguise or in disguise.
The Hehuang Kaibian project that will happen soon in history is the best example.
Throughout the Northern Song Dynasty, this was the largest expansion of territory.
How glorious it is to expand more than 2,000 miles of territory and regain the old territory of the Han and Tang Dynasties!
But the real situation is that although you win, you lose even more.
The key reason is that the follow-up attack on Xixia was unsuccessful. Just winning the Hehuang land gave the conservatives something to say. Spending a lot of manpower and material resources to seize large areas of empty and uninhabited land from surrounding ethnic groups was just a way for ministers to gain merit. It’s not good for the country!
Don’t mention your position, just look at these words, right?
right!
The opening of the Hehuang border not only consumed a huge amount of manpower, material resources, and financial resources, but after the development was completed, the continuous resistance of the local Tubo people made the court very passive and was forced to invest more troops to maintain its rule.
There is also the issue of war horses.
The lack of enough war horses has always been a problem that plagued the Song Dynasty. However, the Tubo tribes, which were mainly nomadic economies, had more good horses, and the two sides started a tea-horse trade.
However, due to the conflict over Hehuang, Tubo lost tea and the Song Dynasty lost war horses. Who suffered more?
All these reasons led to the rapid rise of the Jin Kingdom in the north. Although they knew it was a serious problem, the Song Dynasty at that time did not have much energy and strength to contain it, so they could only sit back and watch it grow and eventually fall.
To sum up, it fails to achieve the strategic goal and simply expands the territory. It only has a good reputation, but the actual benefits are minimal.
This is true in Dali, and the same is true in Luo Dian.
Luodian at this time corresponds to the area in and around Anshun City, Guizhou Province in later generations. The area is not small, equivalent to one-half of the current Jiaozhi.
But even if we win Luo Dian, the benefits will still be too little.
Moreover, the ideas of the leader of the Five Poisons are also broken.
Even if King Luodian dies and all the ministries in the country are in chaos, he will still fight against foreign enemies in unison.
Don't look at such a small country. If it really resists, tens of thousands of forbidden troops may not be able to win it.
Huang Shang doesn't have time to spend in Luo Palace. If he has that time, it would be more practical to study the invisible sword energy.
Seeing that Huang Shang was still unwavering, Qu Yun suddenly bowed down and said: "The wind and clouds are felt, the stars are born, the young master can obey his gods from far and near, and make Luo Dian surrender without a fight!"
Huang Shang didn't understand for a moment and looked at her.
speak English.
Qu Yun's eyes showed awe: "Luo Dian worships ghosts and gods. The prince's power is immeasurable and he can overwhelm all the ministries. He elected the ghost king and surrendered to the Song Dynasty with the letter of state!"
"You have a very broad mind!"
Huang Shang raised his eyebrows, feeling surprised.
He was really limited, and he was awakened by a word.
Being a land god was originally just a compliment, meaning that he could do things that ordinary people couldn't do, just like a god.
But Wenquxing is indeed the only god in this world!
It is a god that he created with his own hands after condensing thousands of years of cultural energy!
Since it is a god, you should not only focus on its combat power. You can show your divinity in front of people who especially worship ghosts and gods!
The Five Poison Sect works with poisonous insects, and is good at training the most primitive animal nature, and has the most keen sense in this regard. Qu Yun was a bystander and was familiar with the situation in Dali and Southwest Yi, so she came up with this idea.
Huang Shang thought a lot in his mind instantly, not only Luo Dian, but also the situation in the world.
After a moment, he looked at Qu Yun, his eyes shining: "Looking at your behavior and conversation, you didn't grow up here, right?"
Qu Yun's expression changed slightly: "The little girl does have some past events that she doesn't want to recall."
In short, Rain Girl has no melons!
Huang Shang smiled and said: "Don't get me wrong, I don't want to explore your past, I just entrust it to someone who has seen the market, so you can rest assured!"
As the words fell, the hexagrams outside Wenquxing lit up.
landscape!
Going up the mountain and going down the water, this is the Meng hexagram.
Meng, there is danger at the bottom of the mountain, stop when it is dangerous. Meng to maintain righteousness is a holy skill.
Translated, it means that there is danger at the bottom of the mountain. Stop when you encounter danger. This is the state of ignorance. And the time of ignorance can be used to cultivate the right path. This is the achievement of creating a saint.
To simplify it, when you are ignorant, it is best to deceive when giving enlightenment.
At this moment, the power of Meng Gua fell into Qu Yun's body. Not only did the thread of connection between the two quickly become thicker and larger, streams of literary energy were also injected into her body.
This kind of injection is not integration, but relies entirely on the existence of Meng Gua, allowing her to mobilize part of her power.
"Success!"
When Huang Shang finished this task, he couldn't help but feel tired on his brows, but the feeling was unprecedentedly novel.
Is he creating a messenger of God?
No, we can't talk about it yet.
A true messenger should feed back to the gods.
His form can only give strength.
"Anyway, it was just a whim, so I should try it!"
With this attitude, Huang Shang took out the Zhuge pen and handed it to Qu Yun: "Go, in my name, spread the power of Wenqu and educate Wuman!"
Having said so much about the disadvantages of expanding territory, the benefits are also obvious.
After Taizong, the Song Dynasty never made any move to expand its territory, but instead lost territory one after another.
Under such circumstances, whoever can make the Song Dynasty expand its territory, even if it increases the territory of a few states, will be a great encouragement.
A supreme achievement!
Huang Shang would not specifically target small places like Dali and Luodian, and spend all his efforts to show off in front of the natives. But since Qu Yun has an idea, he can try it with her hands. Success is good, but failure is not a problem.
There will be losses.
Qu Yun would not regard it as an attempt.
Because this matter is related to the life and death of tens of thousands of people from her tribe, and it is also related to whether the Nanzhao survivors can live in a safe environment in the future.
Feeling the strange power surging in her body, she held the Zhuge pen in both hands and bowed it down, as if looking at a god: "Follow the text, and when I return, I will give you a territory of three hundred miles!"