The beginning of the Three Kingdoms Cheng Yuanzhi

Chapter 237 Why the Northern Expedition Must Be Necessary
After listening to Sugai's words, Wang Xiong finally understood the true purpose of the Northern Expedition.

But this is beyond his cognition, which makes him very incomprehensible.

Historically, the Central Plains dynasties could take the following four measures against the surrounding barbarians:
[-]. Assimilation. Assimilate the barbarian Rong and Di in terms of literature, language, learning, and service. In time, the books will be the same, and the cars will be on the same track, and the barbarian Rong and Di will no longer exist.

[-]. Divide up. Barbarians, Rong and Di will never be allowed to unite. Scattered tribes are always easier to deal with than a unified tribal alliance.

[-]. Military: If the Central Plains is strong enough to completely crush the barbarian troops on the border, then adopt a carrot and stick strategy. Those who are obedient will get good results, and those who are disobedient will be beaten at any time until they are obedient!

1. Marriage, at this point, the Central Plains Dynasty must be doing whatever it takes, No. [-] in strength, military, economic, and diplomatic mess, unscrupulous generals outside, sycophants inside, can only live by idly, of course, it can also be said It's trying to be brave.

These four strategies were used in both the Han dynasty.The effect is good-the Xiongnu, who were once in great power, were basically defeated.

But what Cheng Yuanzhi is implementing at this moment is the fifth strategy - genocide.

This strategy may work, but Wang Xiong has never seen it before, and at the same time, he feels it is unnecessary, uneconomical, and a waste of people and money.

With Ke Bi Neng's assassination and death, his efforts to unify Xianbei also failed.The tribes of Xianbei have returned to the era of bulk tribes.

This time is indeed the best time to wipe out Xianbei.

As for whether it can be cleaned, I am afraid that there is a high probability that it cannot.

After all, Xianbei people are good at horses, and when the Central Plains dynasty is really incompatible and they are driven to extinction, they will definitely ride on their horses and run away in a hurry.

You can run as far as you can.

Thinking of this, Wang Xiong cupped his hands and said: "Prime Minister, Xiong has something unclear, I don't know whether to ask."

It's up to you whether to ask, and it's up to me whether to answer. Cheng Yuanzhi vaguely guessed Wang Xiong's doubts, and said with a smile, "It's okay to be frank, there's nothing you can't say to others."

Wang Xiong thought about his words and asked: "With the prosperity of Hebei today, why didn't the prime minister take the opportunity to unify the world, instead he wanted to send troops to attack Hu?"

This move is really incomprehensible.

Twenty years ago, when Zhang Yang was still the governor of Shangdang, Cheng Yuanzhi used the former's hand to severely injure Wuhuan three times and completely cripple Wuhuan in Bingzhou.

For the next 20 years, rather than saying that he was fighting for hegemony in the world, it might be better to say that he was actually busy sweeping away foreign nations.

As for the current situation where the fourteen prefectures in the world occupy ten prefectures, it is more like the result obtained by Cheng Yuanzhi in the gap of mopping up foreigners.

But it happened that it was this kind of randomness, but it took almost no effort to occupy three quarters of the world.

This makes those princes who have racked their brains and dreamed of fighting for hegemony every day, but have been doing nothing.

For example, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Yuan Shu, and Gongsun Zan have long been annihilated.

Survivors, like Liu Biao and Liu Zhang, can only stick to one continent, like dead bones in a tomb, waiting for death to come.

For example, Sun Quan and Liu Bei lost all the foundations created by their father and brother; the latter struggled for 20 years and still only has one small county in Xinye.

As for Cheng Yuanzhi, it seems that he won three quarters of the world without any effort.

That being the case, wouldn't it be good to rule the world and be famous in history?Why compete with Beihu?

As we all know, Beihu can never stop sweeping. Today you scared him and drove him away.It wasn't long before he came back again.

Therefore, since the hero of Xianbei, Kebi Neng, is dead, why bother to mobilize people to attack?

This is the unresolved doubt lingering in Wang Xiong's mind!

Since ancient times, many foreign tribes have harassed the border, and have repeatedly plundered the Han people for hundreds of years. The Great Wall of Qin and the fortress of Han were built because of this.

Since they were helpless against these foreign races entrenched on the border, most of the Central Plains dynasties followed the principle of "If people do not attack me, I will not attack; if people attack me, I will convince them with virtue".

Therefore, except during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who fought with the Xiongnu for a lifetime, no one in power would make it their lifelong goal to wipe out many Beihu.

Cheng Yuanzhi, on the other hand, happens to be the person in power who regards eradicating evil troubles as the goal of his life.

I have to say something different!

Why?Wang Xiong wanted to know the answer very much.
Cheng Yuanzhi said solemnly: "Why do you give priority to beating Beihu? This is a good question!"

Wang Xiong hadn't read the Zizhi Tongjian, and he didn't know that the two sentences that appeared most frequently were "Sui Hu violated the border and plundered the border people", followed by "Sui was hungry and people ate each other".

The former sentence appeared 137 times in total, and the latter sentence appeared 33 times in total.

Wang Xiong may not be able to fully empathize with the feelings of the eight plain words in front of those people on the border who will face the fate of being slaughtered at some point.

In this era, they belonged to the most insecure type of people in the strong Han Empire, but in this era of rampant evils, the imperial court was powerless to sweep them away, so what could they do except wait for death?
Zi Zhi Tong Jian has recorded a total of 1300 years of history, that is to say, there will be a disaster of "Sui Hu violated the border and plundered border people" every ten years, and only once every 40 years will there be a "Sui Da Hunger, Yi Zi Xiang Cannibalism" "disaster.

For the Han Chinese who live on the border in this era and have an average life expectancy of less than 40 years old, ordinary people may not have the opportunity to see "year-old hunger and Yi Zixiang eclipse" in their lives, but they will definitely experience at least three to four "year-olds". Hu violated the border and plundered the border people."

But it is precisely at this time that the "Three Kingdoms, Two Jins, Southern and Northern Dynasties" are still in an era of endless wars, so the life of the people on the border is even more conceivable.

It's good to be miserable, but it's normal to be miserable.

Cao Cao once sighed that "the bones are exposed in the wild, and there is no rooster crowing for thousands of miles". At that time, he thought that it was the most miserable era for the people. It has been reduced to the "military ration" and "two-legged sheep" of the army, and has entered a more miserable era.

Although this period is full of legends of heroes and stories of gifted scholars and beauties, for ordinary people, this period is the darkest period in Chinese history. The "Wei and Jin dynasties" admired by many people in later generations are actually just ruling The "wind" of class, but for the common people, I am afraid that only "bones" are left in this era.

Thinking of this, Cheng Yuanzhi gave an example: "Imagine that you are at home having fun with your sweet wife and young son, sharing a family relationship. The barbarians suddenly come to your door, kill your children, snatch your sweet wife, and burn down your house. , and want to enslave you, what should you do at this time?"

"So, Beihu, fight at any time!"

Hearing this, Wang Xiong nodded, and instantly felt the same.

For the people living on the northern border of the Han Dynasty, the three mountains above their heads are: natural disasters, exploitation, and misdeeds.

Natural disasters and exploitation are as fierce as tigers, which will make the people fall into trouble and struggle to survive. But even if they are so cruel, the people on the border still have hope of survival.

And the plague of falsehood is a disaster ten times more ferocious than the previous two. It will instantly deprive the people on the frontier of everything.

Seeing that Wang Xiong seemed to understand a little bit, Cheng Yuanzhi continued, "For me, it is meaningless to involve at the expense of national strength. The old idea of ​​'to fight against the outside world, we must first settle down' is outdated."

"Prime Minister, I don't know what this introversion and thought are?"

Just as Wang Xiong resolved his doubts, two more doubts came up.

Cheng Yuanzhi smiled slightly, waved his hands, ended the topic, and instead dispatched troops, divided the troops into ten groups to go out of the fortress, and conquered Zhong Xianbei.

The course of the war is not detailed.

In short, with the death of Ke Bineng, the central Xianbei once again fell into civil strife, and the tribes conquered each other. Among them, the powerful tribes left Mobei, and the weak tribes either belonged to the Han, or fled to the east of Liaodong to defect to the Eastern Xianbei.

After the 12 cavalry left the fortress, good news spread frequently. By the spring of the [-]th year of Jian'an, there were no traces of Xianbei people on the grassland outside the Great Wall in the north of Bingzhou and northwest of Youzhou.

This battle lasted for half a year and wiped out more than 1000 Xianbei tribes. All the Hu tribes outside the barrier died if they did not surrender, and all those who surrendered were moved inland.

According to post-war statistics, more than 40 Xianbei people moved inland (excluding Budugen and Fuluo Hanbu who took the initiative to vote), and about 30 Xianbei people died in the war.

Zhong Xianbei has disappeared in smoke.

.........

Yecheng, the other courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Tang You curled up aside, silently wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, silent.

Seeing that she was silent, Su Gai dropped a white silk and turned to leave.

The two staged another "fierce confrontation" just now.

This kind of confrontation will be staged several times every time after returning from an expedition with Cheng Yuanzhi.

At first, Tang You only thought that Sugai was a rough person, and he made a normal operation because he cared about her. It wasn't until today that he realized that it was just a punishment.

It has nothing to do with feelings, and it has nothing to do with being a rough person.

She understood the meaning of leaving a white silk, but she didn't want to die like this.

Seeing that it was time to leave, Tang You suddenly reached out and hugged his thigh: "Don't go! I will never inform His Majesty again. I am willing to serve the prime minister and have children for my husband!"

Sugai glanced at her and said coldly, "Can I still trust you?"

With that said, Su Gai took out a ball of brocade silk from his clothes and threw it in front of Tang You: "Let's take a look."

Tang humorously picked up the brocade silk, and after reading the content on it, his face paled and his face was pale and pale.

On the brocade silk, she listed the small actions she had done behind the scenes over the years: conveying countless intelligence and facts about Ye City to Liu Xie, as well as the attitudes of the civil and military officials in Ye City towards the emperor, which ones could be drawn together and which ones could be divided. .The writing on the brocade silk is clear.

In addition, she was also secretly taking forbidden drugs to prevent pregnancy, and the assassination plan she was planning.

And the assassination target was Cheng Yuanzhi!
After Tang You finished reading, Su Gai said with a cold face: "The prime minister knew that you had different ambitions, but he thought that you had been married to me for many years, so he didn't want to punish you."

"But this time you went too far, and I can't keep you anymore. Even if the prime minister has the strength to support the boat, how can he keep a deadly assassin by his side?"

"If you don't want to implicate your master, just use this white silk."

"You are a decent person, this white silk can make you decent. Don't blame me for being ruthless when you are a husband and wife. You asked for everything."

Speaking of this, Su Gai ignored Tang You, turned around and went out, called two personal guards, and ordered: "You two are waiting here, if there is any movement in the room, please come and report to me."

The two personal guards were confused, but they still bowed to their orders.

.........

Next door, the backyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Cheng Yuanzhi was devoting himself to doing what Zhen Mi loved most.

During this period of time, he has really felt the changes in his body, and more often he appears in a state of "out of reach", rather than "on call" and "full volume" when he was young.

After all, he is 46 years old, not young anymore.

Although Cheng Yuanzhi still looks about 30 years old in appearance, but inside the body, the aging of various organs is inevitable.

Just like "the roots of a tree rot first", when a person gets old, it starts to show up from the roots.

The reason why Cheng Yuanzhi is so caring is because he still has no heirs except Xiaobai, and even Zhen Mi's pre-determined "mother is more valuable than a child" true son, has not moved yet.

There is no doubt about the specificity of the barbarian girl, so Cheng Yuanzhi is [-]% sure that Xiaobai is his son.

In this era, too few offspring is a common problem in every family. Many women cannot give birth to a child in their entire lives, or they cannot support them after they are born.

Therefore, the solution given by people in this era is to marry more, and three wives and four concubines are standard for wealthy families.

In this way, the problem of too few offspring is effectively solved.

But that's the crux of the matter!Because Cheng Yuanzhi has more than 100 wives.

Even if there are still more than half of them who have never touched them and are as guarded as jade, it also means that there are more than 50 wives who have touched them.

Impossible that there is no movement at all, right?
In this regard, Cheng Yuanzhi has made a detailed plan, and set a goal for himself every month, at least to have a pleasant exchange with the five wives.

In the actual communication process, Cheng Yuanzhi usually does not interfere and personally fulfills the responsibilities of a man.

From the perspective of professional medicine in the future, Cheng Yuanzhi must have suffered from a serious "low survival rate" disease.

It probably belongs to the situation where it is difficult to pick a living among thousands of troops.

Just like when she and Zhen Mi were newly married, Zhen Mi didn't have time to leave the room for the first half month.

But still nothing happened.

After finishing one task, Cheng Yuanzhi walked out of the inner room with his waist supported, came to the study and sat down.

Sugai has been waiting here for a long time.

Cheng Yuanzhi glanced at him, and asked lightly: "Is the matter settled?"

Su Gai also suddenly received such an order. In the previous twelve or three years, he had never doubted Tang You at all.

It can be seen that Cheng Yuanzhi controls an unknown intelligence organization.

The leader of this organization must be Rikiji who handed over the Jinjuan Mystery to him.

Cheng Yuanzhi is still not aware of this matter.

Su Gai came here to report the situation this time, and he said with some reluctance on his face: "Marshal, can you let Tang You go?"

Cheng Yuanzhi was surprised and said: "Of course, why do you ask?"

Sugai was silent for a while, and said: "She received a secret order from Liu Xie to assassinate the commander-in-chief."

Cheng Yuanzhi was startled when he heard the words, and was about to fly into a rage when he suddenly thought that Tang You had lived in the inner courtyard for more than ten years, and his martial arts had already degenerated from a master to the state of "only the power to bind a chicken in his hand", which was nothing to worry about. At the same time, Her figure is more plump than when she was young.

Occasionally, Cheng Yuanzhi would regret giving this girl to Sugai.

Cheap this brat!

Thinking of this, he quickly calmed down, and said in a mysterious manner: "You can forgive her, she is a wonderful person, you boy have enjoyed the blessings of old age for more than ten years."

Su Gai was shocked when he heard the words, and had no time to thank him, so he went out in a hurry.

As fast as a gust of wind.

(End of this chapter)