Chapter 78： 78th

Xue Yuan walked to Chu Wei and stood still.

Chu Wei noticed him and pressed the corner of his lips. Instead, he had the courage to stretch out his hand towards the emperor, but when he reached it halfway, he was quickly and accurately stopped by Xue Yuan.

"Master Chu, you passed."

Xue Yuan lowered his voice, he let go, took a handkerchief from his arms and wiped his hands. He seemed to be smiling, and he had never done anything hurtful, but Chu Wei looked at him as if he had seen the cold warning in his expression.

Chu Wei put his hands behind his back blankly, his long and distinct fingers stiffened and cramped.

Xue Yuan looked at him like this, grinned silently, and whispered in a gentle and affectionate voice: "Chu Wei, just you, can you stand the emperor?"

Chu Wei's expression sank. He is not as good as Long Yang, but the point that is more dissatisfied than this turned out to be, "Why can't I stand it?"

He almost blurted out, but was speechless after blurting out.

Xue Yuan's smile was a bit more mocking. He walked to Gu Yuanbai's side, bent over and hugged the collapsed emperor lightly in his arms. Chu Wei couldn't help stepping forward, trying to stop his rebellious behavior, but as soon as he walked in, Xue Yuan held the hand of the sage, and lightly hit him on the face.

Chu Wei stopped.

The reason why the strength is very light is that Xue Yuan is reluctant to take care of Yuanbai's hand. The palms are soft and the flesh is delicate, but when these pampered hands are hit from the face, it will be even more humiliating.

Xue Yuan held this hand, inserted his fingers into the little emperor's fingers, and hit the handsome face of the champion man one after another. The face of the proud man of heaven changed and changed, but obviously, he couldn't bear it.

"If he treats you like this," Xue Yuan smiled, "how can you stand it?"

He seemed to be talking a secret, whispering, "You can't, I can."

Chu Wei was very arrogant. He was beaten to the side of his face. As a result, his jade-like face turned slightly red. It didn't hurt, but his expression was forbearing and there was a hint of anger.

"The Holy Master will not do this." He suppressed, retorting Xue Yuan's words.

Xue Yuan wiped Gu Yuanbai's hands, Gu Yuanbai's eyelids jumped a few times, and there was a vague sign of awakening. Chu Wei's heart jumped, as if he had seen some scourge, he stood up straight.

Xue Yuan looked at him, smiled contemptuously, put Gu Yuanbai's hand to his lips in front of him, and kissed him out of thin air.

Gu Yuanbai opened his eyes and saw this scene. He was confused, and he hadn't recovered yet. He had already slapped Xue Yuan on the face with his subordinates.

After recovering, Gu Yuanbai's face was condensed with frost.

Xue Yuan turned his head, he smiled slightly, and took Gu Yuanbai's hand smoothly, pulled it to his lips and blew it, and then sighed, "I think about this slap. I have been thinking about it for a long time."

"Look at you tender, the palms are red."

*

"Xue Yuan, did you start gangling again?" Gu Yuanbai's face was black, and the dagger was presented.

Xue Yuan's sudden sorrow made Gu Yuanbai intend to break his third leg.

Xue Yuan, who was kneeling on the ground, looked at the dagger, his face was pale. At a critical moment, an **** outside the door hurriedly said: "Report! Eight hundred miles urgent report!"

Gu Yuan quickly threw away the dagger in his hand, got up and strode out.

The **** who came to report from outside, knelt down on the ground and handed the urgent report. Tian Fusheng quickly took it, and after a brief inspection, he ran and handed it to Gu Yuanbai.

Gu Yuanbai opened the letter paper and looked at it, his face gradually serious. After putting down the letter paper, he immediately patted the table and said: "Let the Minister of War Shangshu, the Household Department Shangshu and the Secret Envoy come to the Xuanzheng Hall to discuss matters immediately!"

"Yes!" Tian Fusheng hurriedly sent people to summon two Shangshu. After sitting at the table, Gu Yuanbai spread out the pen and paper, and wrote the main points smoothly.

There was a locust plague in the north.

In ancient times, locust plagues, floods, and droughts were the three most prone to disasters.

In the northern eight hundred miles emergency report, only the phrase "locusts obscure the sun, and no grass grows wherever they go", Gu Yuanbai can imagine how serious it is.

The Bingbu Shangshu, Hubu Shangshu and the Secret Envoy rushed to the Xuanzheng Hall. Gu Yuanbai didn't have time to say more, and showed them the notes of General Xue directly.

General Xue led his troops to northern Xinjiang, one is to **** the caravan, and the other is to deter the nomads in northern Xinjiang and achieve the purpose of border exchange. The main purpose of this trip is to do business, not to fight war. But Gu Yuanbai gave him enough soldiers and horses, enough food and grass. General Xue brought enough of these things. He originally wanted to show his ambitions and teach him a lesson about the northern border nomads that have become more and more arrogant in recent years. When I went to the north, I found the plague of large locusts.

Wherever it went, the locusts had eaten up the turf and animal fur. General Xue sent people to protect the grain and grass day and night in time to manually capture these locusts. When they arrived in northern Xinjiang, the soldiers guarding the northern border were hungry to the limit. When they saw them coming with a large amount of grain and grass, they immediately collapsed to tears of joy.

The nomads were even more likely to gnaw at the grassland and cattle and sheep's fur because of the sudden locust plague. They attacked the border in advance and initiated several frequent battles.

What is more sad than this is that cannibalism has already occurred in the northern disaster area.

As soon as General Xue arrived at the border, he immediately sent people to defend against foreign enemies and burn locusts. A large amount of food and grass in the army was even transferred to relieve the people. The chaotic and cannibalistic areas were rectified with tough measures, and border soldiers were placed to resettle the people in the disaster area, and the news was spread so that the affected people immediately rushed to the border military garrison.

After several drastic policies continued, the hell-like border finally showed a glimmer of light. But General Xue's nerves were tense, knowing that this battle was not the nomads, but food and natural disasters.

The locusts are difficult to catch, and what is even more difficult is the amount of grain and grass that General Xue brought. Gu Yuanbai gave them enough grain and grass for the army, but these grain and grass would not last long for the affected areas.

After the three ministers finished reading the Zhezi, they understood why the expression on the sage was so solemn, and the Ministry of War Shangshu directly said: "The sage, do not delay, you should immediately send people to deliver food to northern Xinjiang, otherwise the northern part will suffer heavy casualties. There will be riots."

The Secret Envoy Shen Sheng: "It used to be September when the nomads entered the Central Plains. They had strong soldiers and strong horses, and the soldiers and horses were fat and healthy. But from the memorial of General Xue, it can be seen that the nomads have also been deeply affected by the locust plague. Their horses, cattle and sheep have no food to eat. This has allowed them to launch multiple attacks in advance. The nomads have always relied on their high riding skills, and now they have lost their powerful horses, which is what we suppressed. opportunity."

Gu Yuanbai's face condensed, "After the locust plague, there will be a series of disasters and disease emergencies, and the court must make all preparations to deal with it. The Ministry of Household Affairs, how about the national treasury?"

Hubu Shangshu's expression relaxed, "Going back to the Holy Spirit, the treasury of the rebel army's materials that were raided in Jinghunan and Hunan was already overcrowded. Later, there were rice noodles and grains donated from the north and the south, and the capital was hurriedly established. The two grain silos, these grain silos are already full. Due to the previous anti-corruption efforts in the Da Heng Dynasty, all the grain silos and meat silos where there is a lack of food have been transported to make up for it, and now it is the harvest season, and the weather is smooth everywhere. Even if more grain is transferred to northern Xinjiang, the granary will still pile up like a mountain after January."

As soon as he said this, the atmosphere suddenly relaxed.

The privy envoy had confidence in his heart and said, "At this moment, it is time for my Daheng soldiers to become strong."

Gu Yuan was a little slow on his face. Whether it was fighting corruption or dealing with rebels, he danced on landmines when he did these things. Unexpectedly, now, instead, he abruptly turned the disadvantaged situation of Northern Xinjiang to an advantage.

Yes, the locusts ate the grasslands on which the nomads depend. Their cattle and sheep were killed by them and dried into dried meat, which became the rations for the soldiers, but their horses could not eat their cattle and sheep.

And without the nomads with strong steeds, Daheng is really not afraid of them.

Gu Yuanbai suddenly realized that this was an excellent opportunity.

An excellent opportunity to attack the nomads in northern Xinjiang.

This is a big temptation. Gu Yuanbai began to seriously think, should he start a war now?

In Gu Yuanbai's original plan, he was going to start border exchanges first, in exchange for good horses, cattle and sheep from nomads, in order to train a high number of cavalry. Until a few years later, the cavalry was strong, traffic was built, and the post was developed, and then they went to annihilate the nomads in one fell swoop.

If war is started now, what will be the pros and cons?

Needless to say, on the positive side, the Daheng granary is overflowing, and the nomads are suffering from locust plagues and their soldiers are weak. If it were to attack now, it would naturally be an excellent opportunity, but to attack the nomads in advance, it would also be a sudden and huge pressure for Daheng's army logistics and for the civilian officials.

Road construction is in progress. If you want to have a well-developed traffic to northern Xinjiang, it will take two or three years. Let’s not talk about other things. If the huge grassland is really hit, traffic inconvenience and news are blocked, and locust plagues like this will be It will take a long time to reach Gu Yuanbai's hands, so why are you not afraid of their resurgence?

It is not difficult to conquer the world, but to guard the world.

Gu Yuanbai thought a lot, and his head moved quickly. The nomads in northern Xinjiang are not only the eight Khitan tribes, but also three tribes from the Uighur tribe, Gaochang, Ganzhou, and Huangtou. In addition to the Uighur tribe, there is also a weak tribe, and that tribe is Jurchen.

The number of nomads on the grasslands totals hundreds of thousands. This is a huge northern ethnic group.

However, these nomads have been in constant civil strife, and each of them regards the neighboring peoples as slaves. It is the Khitan eight tribes alone. The old leaders are about to be born, old, sick, and die.

Should I fight?

Once the court aggressively attacked, they were unprepared in the early stage, but afterwards they would definitely negotiate a unified resistance. The entire Da Heng Dynasty has not yet prepared for long-term combat, and there are always places on the grasslands where locusts cannot reach. Once they are unified, they will help each other. At that time, it will be the unity of a nomadic nation.

Gu Yuanbai opened his eyes sharply, and he said loudly and forcefully: "Hit."

The Secret Envoy and the Ministry of War Shangshu looked at Gu Yuanbai with piercing eyes.

Gu Yuanbai looked at the book from the Ministry of Households and said concisely: "You go to collect grain and grass and load the truck now, and to the greatest extent you can transfer the grain and grass that can be sent to northern Xinjiang."

The Hubu Shangshu took the order and hurried away.

The Bingbu Shangshu couldn't help but said, "Holy, do you really fight?"

"Fighting is for fighting," Gu Yuanbai laughed suddenly, "but the border exchanges must also be exchanged."

"I don't intend to step down the nomads by force now," Gu Yuanbai continued, looking at the puzzled eyes of the two courtiers, "What I want to do is to make them think that I want to send troops to them."

First, let the nomads who have gradually become arrogant and domineering in these years be scared, and show Daheng's abundant food and soldiers. When they were afraid to prepare to join forces, that was when Gu Yuanbai stopped the war and went to negotiate peace with them.

Give them a title at random, push one of the tribes to the leader of all nations, and then threaten and lure them, triggering civil unrest. Treating differently is the easiest to be centrifugal, and also the easiest to separate.

It would be better for the nomads to accept the imperial court to run a school. Aren’t they eager to learn from Daheng’s civilization? Daheng can teach their children for free, and when their children deeply understand what imperial power is above everything else, what is the Chinese characters and culture deeply rooted in their bones, they will be enlightened.

Children who have been educated, once their parents do something bad for the Daheng Empire, they will report to the garrison minister to expose their parents' evil deeds. Everyone is jealous of each other, and controlling thoughts is the most effective way to govern.

Of course, if they are unwilling to accept the imperial court to run schools, then wait a few years later, when Daheng's iron riders step on the grassland, their hundreds of thousands of people will become coolies and liberate the labor of the people at the bottom.

The privy envoy stroked his beard, glanced at Shang Shu of the Ministry of War, and said, "Holy, can someone choose someone in your heart to send food and lead soldiers?"

Gu Yuanbai paused and said, "Xue Yuan."

*

At the same time, the sound of the post was heard.

Xixia's prince Li Angshun asked, "Is the person on the carriage the same as the prince?"

His subordinates replied: "I saw the carriage parked in front of the Prince He's Mansion. The guards were so powerful that they must be the Prince He."

"I heard that the Prince and Prince have also been on the battlefield," Li Angshun thought for a while, and the person on the carriage showed a small chin, "I didn't expect the Prince and Prince to look like this."

He smiled meaningfully, "The Xixia beauties we brought, then send one to the Prince's Mansion. As an apologize, after all, in Daheng Capital, we can't offend such powerful and powerful people as the Prince and Prince."

"By the way, let's see what he looks like with the prince," Li Angshun couldn't help being interested, his slightly curled black hair fell down, and muttered to himself, "No matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a battlefield."

On the contrary, he was pampered, and his skin was finer than that of the Daheng official named Chu Wei.

Was it a mistake?