People in the Three Kingdoms: Starting from Preaching

Chapter 592 Circle

The husband that Cai Wenji had been looking forward to is now on his way back to the capital. However, it will take a long time for an army of more than 100,000 to return. It will take at least a month for the army to return to Youzhou.

This battle defeated Wu and Shu, and completely resolved Xuanxia's current main contradiction and eliminated the main enemy that was hindering the cause. Naturally, it was time for the army to disarm and return home.

Of course, this does not mean that the Yellow Turbans will completely put away their weapons and stop fighting. The big battles are over, but there are still many small battles to be dealt with.

For example, the Ma father and son in Liangzhou are the big problem that the Yellow Turbans have to solve immediately. Also, the barbarians in Shuzhong also need to be subdued and governed. These things not only depend on the level of military strength, but also on the Yellow Turbans' governance skills. Naturally, Xu Chen already had a plan for this.

The army rested on the spot while marching. Xu Chen sat beside the campfire, opposite him was his capable subordinate Ju Shou. The two of them held a wooden stick and stuck it into the steamed buns to roast in the fire while talking about business.

"The decisive battle with Wu and Shu ended ahead of schedule. Although I asked Wuli and Lu Meng to return, they still have tasks to do. Lu Meng only needs to focus on governing Yuzhou, but Wuli's situation in Yizhou is much more complicated. The southwest border is mostly inhabited by barbarians, and the tribes in various places are complicated and difficult to educate. It may not be easy to stabilize them."

"What the leader said is true. The terrain in the southwest is complex and there are many tribes. They have little contact with the Han people. This matter is indeed not easy to handle. It is easy to let General Wuli fight, but asking him to sort out the situation in the southwest and stabilize it one by one is probably a bit too much to ask."

"Haha, what you said is exactly what I am worried about. I am afraid that it is not enough to deal with the affairs of the southwest by brute force alone. It also requires delicate actions. Therefore, I plan to let you go to assist Wuli to solve the border problems of Xuanxia."

Ju Su was not surprised to hear this.

It’s not that Wu Li doesn’t have suitable candidates around him, for example, Xun Chen is capable of doing this job, but Ju Shou also understands that the important thing about this matter is not to stabilize the southwest, but how to stabilize the southwest.

It is not difficult to stabilize the southwest. Many people know how to use the three basic methods of inviting guests, beheading, and accepting as a dog. The only problem is that Xuan Xia does not want a dog, but complete liberation, which is another matter.

What methods and means should be used to stabilize the southwest and what results should be achieved are not things that can be dealt with casually.

Therefore, there must be someone who has a deep understanding of the central spirit to handle this matter specifically. However, Xun Chen was far away and could not come over for a while. He also had to rush to Yuzhou to assist Lu Meng later, so it was not appropriate for him to do so. In the end, this matter fell on Ju Shou's head.

"May I ask, Master, how should we proceed with this matter?" Ju Su did not beat around the bush and asked directly.

Xu Chen knew that it was not that Ju Su could not do it, but that he was asking how to do it, so he said: "What I, Xuan Xia, seek is not hegemony, so the old chieftain strategy is not feasible. Even if we can subdue the leaders of the tribes by means of kindness and power, not to mention that there will be reversals in the future, the oppression of the minorities in the tribes will not be relieved. Therefore, to stabilize the southwest, we must liberate the minorities."

Ju Su was silent for a while, and suddenly felt pressure in his heart. This was not an easy task.

The leaders of the various barbarian tribes were actually the oppressors of their respective tribes. To liberate the majority of minorities meant that the Yellow Turbans would directly stand in opposition to the barbarian leaders. From the outset, the two sides were in a life-and-death position, with no room for easing.

The terrain in the southwest is complex and the environment is harsh. Forcing the tribes to surrender by force or favors is completely different from completely liberating them. The former only requires making the leaders of the tribes submit, while the latter requires entering the deep mountains and dense forests of the southwest and leading the ethnic minorities to carry out a long struggle. Just think about what a hard job it is.

Moreover, Ju Su understood even more clearly that even if the Yellow Turbans wanted to liberate the minorities, they might not pay attention to them.

Most of these tribes believe in primitive beliefs, and their social forms are backward, but they also give them strong cohesion and exclusivity. It is not easy for the Yellow Turbans to gain a mass base there. After calculating the situation in his mind, Ju Su said with difficulty: "If we want to achieve this, it may not be a short-term thing."

Xu Chen sighed, then took back the steamed bun, pinched it with his fingers and found it was baked just right, then he slowly started to eat it, without stopping to talk: "I understand the difficulty of this matter, and I know that this is not a one-day job. If we want to succeed in the end, we can only do it slowly."

Of course, Xu Chen could also think of the difficulties that Ju Shou could think of. This task was indeed not easy.

The difficulty of the Yellow Turbans is that there is no room for compromise in the positions of both sides. If they are forcibly suppressed by force and then reformed, it will most likely result in a thankless task with half the effort and twice the result.

During this era, the southwest was still undeveloped and was mostly a place of exile. The deep mountains and dense forests were difficult to enter. Even if the Yellow Turbans were powerful, it would be difficult for them to survive. The southwestern tribes were more adapted to fighting on their own land, so it was still uncertain what the final outcome would be.

Not to mention that once they choose to suppress the rebellion by force, the Yellow Turbans will immediately become invaders in the eyes of the people of all tribes.

This would instead force all the people of various tribes to join the ruling class of each tribe. The mass base would immediately fall into the hands of the enemy, which would make the battle doubly difficult. Even if they won in the end, the people of various tribes would basically be massacred by the Yellow Turbans, and liberation would become a joke.

After a while, Xu Chen finished the toasted bun in his hand, then he clapped his hands, and then said something to the guards around him.

The guard immediately left, and when he came back not long after, he had something in his hand, which was a world map.

Of course, this is not a real world map. It is just a crude map hand-drawn by Xu Chen based on his memory in the early days in order to open up the world perspective for his followers. It can only roughly show the shape of the continent and is not a reference.

Xu Chen opened the map, put it on the ground, and pointed: "Can you tell me what is the ideal territory of China in my mind?"

Ju Su took a short breath, then shook his head: "I don't know."

Xu Chen smiled and placed his finger on the land of Huaxia. There were lines on it that outlined the current scope of Xuanxia, ​​which was also the scope of Han territory in the past: "This is the territory covered by Huaxia now. Although it has not yet reached the limit of the radiation of agricultural civilization power, it is almost there."

Ju Su then nodded. In fact, although China is big, it is only a corner of the world.

Then he saw Xu Chen casually draw a huge circle. Although Ju Shou was unfamiliar with many places in the circle, he also knew how big the circle was.

According to the geographical division in Xu Chen's memory, this circle covers the entire East Asia, Southeast Asia and the exaggeratedly large tundra in the north, and of course extends a lot to Central Asia.

"The territory within this circle is the direct territory of our Xuanxia, ​​and the territory outside the circle is the overseas closed countries developed and maintained by the international system."

After Xu Chen finished speaking, he turned around and looked at Ju Shou: "The method of stabilizing the southwest can be regarded as a preliminary experiment for Xuanxia's future expansion of territory. If the southwest can be pacified, then in the future, this method can be implemented in this circle."

(End of this chapter)