Three Kingdoms: Cao Cao and Liu Bei help me to ascend the throne

"Boom, boom!"

The sound of horseshoes resounded in the direction of Lulongzhai, and then...the horseshoes stopped at a group of Wuhuan herdsmen.

Wei Yan slowly raised the big knife in his hand, his eyes were extremely cold... His voice was not loud, but his words were extremely cold.

"Not a single one!"

Those herdsmen were still talking...

They drove the sheep, intending to send supplies to the king on the front line.

Some Hu wives were holding their children, and some older children were playing happily with their long braids tied up.

only…

One of the children found a black spot in the distance, and then more and more black spots appeared in the direction of Lulongzhai.

At first they were very curious, thinking that their father and uncle had returned, and they must have brought back the delicious food of the Han people... wine and food!
But as these shadows approached, they realized something was wrong...

Because every black shadow held a sharp halberd in their hands, sharpening their knives... like a god of death!
"Run..."

As the old man shouted, all Hu people realized that these are not their compatriots, but... but Han Chinese!

The children who were playing didn't run away, they looked at their A Weng and A Niang with puzzled eyes... I don't understand, why are they so flustered?
As the adults said, isn’t the homeland of the Han people their hunting ground for the barbarians?
Isn't the grain grown by the Han people the granary of their barbarians?

Both a hunting ground and a granary?So... what are you running?

Rumble!
As the sound of horseshoes became louder and more urgent, these barbarian children looked at the knights, curious about how different their costumes were, and even at a young age, they had already given birth to the idea of ​​snatching them and wearing them for themselves.

"call out…"

I never thought that a big knife flashed by... a child's body flew up in an instant, boom... boom...he hit the ground heavily.

The rest of the children who dreamed of snatching strange clothes were picked up without exception...

Countless Han court knights used the sharpest war halberds to slaughter the herdsmen in front of them.

The barbarians fled in all directions, their cattle and sheep were all gone, but...they couldn't run far at all.

No matter what, two legs can't run with four legs... Just like those villages where Wuhuan people killed big men.

"Woooooooo..."

There were shouts of killing and crying everywhere.

A pretty bearded girl was holding a child, and another child was crying beside her.

She wanted to meet her husband while delivering food to the front.

Her husband once promised him that if Youzhou fell, their family would become aristocrats, that they could have three Han slaves in the family, and that Han children could be used as cows and horses for his son!
Even, as long as his child is unhappy, he can kill him at any time...

But now...

"Shhhhhh!"

After a few knives, countless barbarians...whether they were old people, children, women or children...all died under the sword of the Han Tingbei Army.

This seemed to ignite Wei Yan's bloodthirsty nature...

He has always been such a person who does whatever it takes to achieve his goals!

"Ha ha…"

Wei Yan was smiling. There was a little boy in front of him. The knight beside him wanted to kill the boy with a knife, but Wei Yanyan stopped him.

He knelt down and looked at the little boy. Under the little boy's terrified gaze, Wei Yan handed him a pancake.

"Tell Uncle, which direction are the rest of your group?"

Touching the little boy's head, Wei Yan's smile became brighter and brighter.

This is a barbarian grain transport team...

And the family members of the Wuhuan people must not be far from here.

The little man seemed terrified, pointed to a place, and said a few names, but... Wei Yan put away his smile, and slowly raised his knife...

call out!
A thick stream of blood spattered onto his face.

Wei Yan didn't wipe it, he just felt the blood... very hot!
"They all cut off their heads and tied them to the necks of horses!"

Wei Yan ordered... "Didn't Wuhuan go south to Youzhou to invade our Han border? Then... we can stop the bleeding with blood, and the Han Ting and Northern Army can slaughter Wuhuan's lair and family!"

call…

Hearing Wei Yan's words.

Guan Yu and Xu Huang were silent...

Although seeing the tragic death of countless Han people along the way made them determined to slaughter this group of barbarian dogs, when they really saw these old and weak women and children, Guan Yu and Xu Huang were silent. They did not wave their knives, but watched silently. The scene in front of me.

It seems that at any time, Guan Yu and Xu Huang's creed...the only one is "don't cut the young and old under the sword!"... But in fact, they know that Wei Yan is doing the right thing!
It really hurt Wuhuan, those Hugou who made troubles in Youzhou...how could they return!

The heads of women, children, old and young among these Hu people are the indispensable price.

"Gongming..." Guan Yu's immutable paralyzed face was as cold as paper at the moment, "I finally know...why Liu Guan mainly entrusted this mission and the map to Wei Yan, not you or me!"

Xu Huang was silent...

It seemed that You Zi hadn't gotten out of this bloody killing.

After a while, he murmured, "Wei Wenchang... yes... he is a born devil!"

Yes, even for Hulu...

It is possible to be so unscrupulous and kill, at least... he Xu Huang is ashamed.

Smelling the smell of blood in the air, Xu Huang took a long, deep breath. He remembered Liu Yu's words before:

——If you want to be a good person in this troubled world, you must be more familiar with great evil and great poison than the evil ones!

Guanzhu Liu... I'm not deceiving you!

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Luoyang, Yulin Temple.

One study room, one table case... Liu Yu and Xun Yu sat on both sides.

"A few days ago, I heard that Brother Xun came here? He came at Shifen at night, and brought someone with him?"

Liu Yu spoke first.

Xun Yu nodded. "Brother Liu, don't ask me about his identity..."

This sentence is almost equivalent to Xun Yu telling Liu Yu who is here?

"At that time, I was chatting with Meng De, Miao Cai, and Yuan Rang, why didn't you come in?" Liu Yu asked.

Xun Yu shook his head. "During your conversation, he heard what he wanted and naturally stopped knocking on the door!"

"want?"

"Horses and... logistics supplies!" Xun Yu whispered... "The national power of the big man is far greater than that of Wuhuan, but because of the redemption policy, Wuhuan is given countless money and food every year... These are all because of combat power, and the national power of the big man cannot be converted into Equivalent combat power, and horses and logistical supplies are the key to hinder Hu Han's battle."

This is what Liu Yu told Cao Cao, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun that night...

But I never wanted Xun Yu and that person to listen.

only…

Talking with Cao Cao and others can be understood in this way, but with Xun Yu... and that person, you have to think about it from another angle.

"Actually, that's just one aspect..."

"On the one hand?" Xun Yu was taken aback.

"That's right!" Liu Yu replied solemnly: "Actually, whether it is Wuhuan, Xianbei, Qiang, or Southern Huns, for so many years, the big man has always been on the defensive. Horses and supplies are one aspect of the constraints, but On the other hand, it is because for the big man, the war against Hu is one that cannot be fought, and the other is that the vast majority of people in the court do not want to fight!"

Well…

Xun Yu suddenly heard a new insight, and immediately asked:
"Why is this?"

"It's a simple answer." Liu Yu explained carefully, "Hu people live as nomads. Each of them has been a warrior since childhood, and they don't need food and grass to march. Wherever the horses go, there is their pasture. Because of this , They don’t need any capital at all to rob their houses, but the big man is different. If the big man wants to gather an army and horses to attack them in the north, what he needs is a continuous grain team and the support of many forces such as generals and clans.”

Liu Yu took a deep breath, and continued: "The barbarian went south to rob us once, and it may be more food than their horse and sheep herds for a year. The prosperity of the world is all for profit, so for them, going south to plunder is a big deal. It's a thing that has all the benefits but no harm, but what about us big men? Every time we launch a Northern Expedition, aside from the innumerable money and food, there are more than tens of thousands of strong and strong men. These are precious Once they go to war, it means that they can't produce, and the court has to take money to support them, but even if they win, so what? During Emperor Wu, the champion Hou Huo Qubing swept the Xiongnu and restored the Western Regions... But what happened later?"

"Except for plundering some cattle and horses, and moving Wuhuan to the vicinity of the White Wolf Mountain on the border of the Han, the Han has gained nothing... The spoils of the Hu people are not attractive at all to the Han, and the soldiers and horses of the Han are discarded like dross. Then... the problem arises!"

"Even if it is a Hu-Han duel, if the big man wins, he actually loses... The big man is like a wealthy family, and the barbarian is like a beggar. A beggar can get countless benefits by robbing a rich family once, but a rich man beats a beggar ten times or a hundred times. , except for a bad breath in my heart, I can't get anything. Over time, the court...including the generals, are no longer keen on conquering the barbarians. Instead, they are content with the status quo, just guarding the border step by step! "

"Let's just rob, at least... It's much cheaper than the Northern Expedition, and this has become a vicious circle again and again!"

Liu Yu talked so much at once...

How clever Xun Yu was, he understood everything at once.

He patted his forehead with his hand.

"It turns out that everyone only knows about Hu Han fighting for hegemony, but only Brother Liu sees its inner meaning through this incident."

"According to what Brother Liu said, Wuhuan's Liaodong, Xianbei's Beyond the Great Wall, and Qiang's desert land are not suitable for farming. Even if we can follow the example of the champion and drive out the Hulu again, it will be in vain! They can still make a comeback , It’s just that the former Huns have become today’s Xianbei, and today’s Xianbei will become another ethnic group tomorrow, endlessly, endlessly…”

"Yes!" Liu Yu nodded. "So it's useless for the big man to defeat the barbarians once, twice, a hundred times, or two hundred times...unless they can hurt them thoroughly and make them dare not go south for decades because of fear. Otherwise...they will always be frontiers hidden danger!"

Xun Yu frowned... "It seems that it's not just a matter of horses and logistics supplies. The most important problem is that the barren land outside the Great Wall... is too unattractive to the Han people!"

Before Qin, and even before Shang and Zhou.From the perspective of anthropology, the human races living in China at that time can be roughly divided into the following types:

Ancient North China category, ancient Northeast category, ancient Mongolian Plateau type, ancient Central Plains type, and ancient Northwest type.

Among them, the Xiongnu, Donghu, and later Mongolia and Khitan belong to the "type of ancient Mongolian plateau".

From ancient times to the present, the closer to the Central Plains, the more prosperous the development of commerce, economy, agriculture, and culture, and these types were not divided from the beginning of human beings.

Instead, it has gone through countless battles...

The ancestors of the Han people were more powerful and took over the most fertile territory in a daze, while the ancestors of the Hu people settled in a corner.

This is understandable, but with the changes in the natural climate and the lack of food...

The Hu people on the border had to approach the Central Plains because of lack of resources.

This is why the Qin Dynasty built the Great Wall to resist the Huns...

Why at the turn of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Xiongnu and Donghu would make a comeback...

In the final analysis, it is nothing more than a robbing of resources!

From this perspective, the big man will always be passive in robbing resources...

In this world, only the barbarians rob the resources of the Han people, and the Han people will not rob the resources of the barbarians. In the final analysis, it is because they look down on them.

This is also why, going north to fight against Wuhuan, there will be such great resistance in the court!
Ugh…

Having figured this out, Xun Yu frowned and fell into deep thought. "Is there really no way to find a long-term stability?"

Liu Yu gave Xun Yu a meaningful look. "Unless, my big man can use the resources outside the Great Wall and in the desert..."

"You mean that food grows in the desert?" Xun Yu hurriedly asked...

But he blurted out those words, and he shook his head. How could food grow in the desert?
Liu Yu smiled lightly and said, "Resources are not necessarily food! As long as valuable things can be produced in the desert, countless clans and generals will flock to the desert, and they will recruit tribes to defend their own industries in the desert." , has really come to this point, only one victory is needed to completely... drive the barbarians out of the Great Wall forever! Let the barbarians have nowhere to go!"

"Then..." Xun Yu asked curiously: "Beyond the Great Wall and the desert, what resources... can the clan and generals flock to?"

"Ha ha…"

Hearing this, Liu Yu smiled, "Wen Ruo, I'm afraid you don't know yet, if I hadn't shown the blueprints of several 'Nirvana' mining sites in Nanyang County, how could these Nanyang generals support me for [-] yuan in the future?" Many soldiers and horses? How can they listen to my orders?"

Speaking of which...

The corner of Liu Yu's mouth opened, her smile became brighter and brighter.

"Don't worry, who said that there are no resources in the desert... It's just that they haven't been discovered or excavated!"

As Liu Yu said...

Like the ocean, there are extremely rich mineral resources buried in the vast desert, and the desert itself is also a kind of mineral resource.

Even, there are oil, natural gas, uranium, iron, manganese, phosphate in the desert...

It's just that the industry in this era cannot be mined!
But... if it is said that the desert is useless, it is not entirely true.

"Brother Liu seems very confident!"

Seeing Liu Yu's happy smile, Xun Yu frowned.

Liu Yu's expression became serious, "The urgent matter is not the time to discuss these things. Now...the Wuhuan people must retreat first!"

This is out of the way...

It wasn't just Liu Yu who had a serious expression.

Xun Yu's expression also became serious, yes, all counterattacks... all the major premise of expelling the Hu people from the north of the Great Wall is that Youzhou can be preserved... Zhuojun can be defended!

otherwise…

That's when the tide is about to fall, and the building will collapse!
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