"The Protectorate's control of the Blackwater barbarians is an unprecedented expansion of territory. Even if it costs some money and food, so what?"
Liu Yu waved his hand very generously, firmly confirming this idea.
"Your Majesty, I think those like Beifu Sushen and others, although they have some rare beasts, are just objects for viewing. After all, the poor mountains and rivers are not a long-term solution."
Seeing Liu Yu suddenly making this decision, Xi Jian, as the minister of humerus, immediately gave words of advice.
Although today's Han Dynasty has great military power, it has basically reached the limit of expansion.
The lack of human resources alone has made recuperation unshakable.
If we continue to run a barren and barren Protectorate, it will be a meaningless achievement.
"Do you really think that those solemn people only have rare birds and wild animals in their territory?"
Liu Yu expressed regret for Xi Jian's statement.
"I heard that the land of Sushen is only warm for four or five months a year, and it is bitterly cold for most of the year. Farming and grazing are not possible. Even the Qiang people were unwilling to operate this place." Xi Jian said.
His statement was immediately agreed by other courtiers.
These people are all well-read, not rotten Confucian scholars who don't know anything about outsiders.
When the Han and Hungarians fought, they did not fight for the Sushen and Fuyu areas, but fought for the Western Region and Longxi.
This shows that this place is so barren that even the Qiang people are unwilling to operate it.
"That was because the Qiang people were ignorant back then. I used to think that the local people were all barbarians who couldn't communicate with each other. But now it seems that they have many interactions with each other."
Liu Shu ordered his attendants to bring out a collection of hand-drawn maps from the back.
He pointed to the large area on the right side of Liaodong on the map, and then continued.
"As long as these people know how to trade, then they know how to order, then they can be brought under the rule of the Han Dynasty!"
"But Your Majesty, what can you gain by setting up the Protectorate here?" Xi Jian continued to ask.
Liu Yu had a greedy look in his eyes at this time.
"Gold! Fur! Pearls!"
"And there's a vast land!"
As he spoke, he pointed at the map behind him.
"Have you never thought about what is east of Liaodong?"
"Apart from Goguryeo, except Sushen, and except Northern Buyeo, aren't you curious about the customs of those savage tribes that ride on hounds and elk?"
Seeing Liu Yu seemed a little too excited, Xi Jian and others looked at each other in shock.
Obviously, they didn't get any emotional resonance.
However, among the people present, there was one person with wild eyes.
This person is Yin Xian, who was just regarded as a little transparent by everyone.
What Liu Yu got from the expressions of Xi Jian and others was disappointment.
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The living space of the Central Plains Dynasty today is very sufficient, and it can even be said that large tracts of land are waiting to be reclaimed when the population grows.
Officials like Xi Jian have long had no interest in wild places like Heishui Sushen.
They all think it is more important to bite off more than they can chew.
However, Liu Yu saw what he wanted on Yin Xian's face.
It is a desire for adventure and a fearlessness of the unknown.
"These things your Majesty mentioned are indeed scarce, but for the food, grass, weapons, staffs, armor, stomachs and other items that have been transported thousands of miles, how much gold and fur will be needed to make back the original cost?"
Xun Sui, who had just concurrently served as the minister of household affairs of Shangshu Province, immediately raised questions from his own position.
Today's imperial court still retains the culture of speaking freely. No matter what the question is, as long as it is concerned about one's own duties, even Liu Yu can be asked questions.
"You have no idea how rich the gold and furs are there. The amount of money carried in the vehicles is just a frog in the well. It may be one or two hundred years, oh no, it should be three or four hundred years. It is all inexhaustible. ." Liu Yu said loudly.
If you want to build a new Protectorate, the food, grass, weapons, armor, stomach and other items needed all need to be saved by Xun Sui and others from the tight treasury.
Therefore, Liu Yu must let them understand the pros and cons and naturally do things happily.
"Your Majesty, is this really the case?"
When Xi Jian, Xun Sui and others heard this, their eyes widened, and their expressions changed from indifferent expressions to greedy ones.
"Everything I said is true. Just talking about the furs of bears, foxes, minks and the like, there is an inexhaustible supply."
Liu Yu's words are definitely not nonsense.
In the history of Tsarist Russia's eastward invasion, one of the important profit points was the fur from the Outer Xing'an Mountains.
Because of the influence of the temperature and humidity of the ocean to the east, the living environment for various animals is much better than in inland Siberia. Naturally, there are more and better animals.
Tsarist Russia began to plunder all kinds of furs in the 18th century, and until the demise of Tsarist Russia, it still did not stop this profitable business.
In today's era when cotton and other cold-proof materials are not widely available, the value of fur is even more precious and necessary.
"Not only that, I also know that those savage tribes that ride on hounds and big deer still use bone arrows. They don't need too many soldiers and horses in the Protectorate. Just one or two thousand people can do it." Control a state, or even an area as large as two or three states.”
Liu Yu said and looked at Yin Xian again.
"Yin Xian, you have seen those barbarians, do you think what I said is right?"
When Yin Xian heard this, he immediately nodded desperately.
"Your Majesty is so talented. What you just said is absolutely correct. Those tribes are inferior to the Sushen people. Even the iron knives and bronze swords were sold to them by the Sushen people, and they were made of animal bones ground into arrowheads. "
After everyone listened to Liu Yu's description, they all nodded in agreement.
If we don't take care of such a weak and wealthy territory, we will be disrespectful to the sage's teaching that "the whole world is not the land of the king".
"Okay, then this matter is settled like this. As a native of Liaodong County, Yin Xian is naturally familiar with the lessons of Goguryeo. He established the Duhufu, Jisu Ministries, Sushen and the Far North Ministries. He must be kind and powerful to find out this land as soon as possible. The reality!”
Liu Yu said, pointing to a large blank space in the northeast direction on the map.
"I will live up to my mission if I am so messed up!"
Yin Xian was extremely excited.
He didn't say a few words from the beginning to the end, and then he got the important task of the Protectorate for nothing.
From a small Sima in a frontier state county, he became a big official in a border area.
Although the size of this Protectorate seems to be less than 2,000 sergeants, it can be said to be very small.
However, in terms of territory, it is very vast, even the largest existence in the Han Dynasty.
Because Liu Yu told Yin Xian at the end.
"From the east of Heishui Sushen, as long as you see the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas, they are all under your control."
The decision to establish the Blackwater Protectorate was finalized on the spot.
As a junior military attaché in a state or county, Yin Xian rose to prominence and became the first Protector of the Han Dynasty's Heishui Protectorate, and was given the privilege of holidaying.
When Liu Yu came out on this last holiday, everyone was shocked.
The privileges of the holiday are almost the same as Shang Fang's Sword in later generations' story books, and even its set of rules is much more advanced than Shang Fang's Sword.
However, everyone was surprised, but no one spoke up to object.
After all, the emperor has no doubts about employing people, and it is understandable to add some privileges to make things easier for him.
As for the person involved, Yin Xian was completely stunned.
Even when Yin Xian walked out of the palace, he was already in a daze and didn't know how he got in or how he got out.
After returning to the post house and lying down for a long time, Yin Xian finally recovered.
His blood boiled in his heart, and he stroked the sword with a pair of rough palms.
"I, Yin Xian, am just a humble man from a humble family, but I am able to win the favor of the emperor. Once I am in a feudal state, if I cannot expand my territory as the emperor said, I will be regarded as a laughing stock by the world."
What Yin Xian was thinking about was not the benefits brought by this rise to the top, but the overt or covert jealousy, slander and rejection he would face after suddenly ascending to a high position.
He only thought that if he was not careful in the future, he would be accused by thousands of people of living up to his heavenly grace.
"From now on, if you don't put your whole heart into it, you really won't be able to stand on it."
Yin Xian was tossing and turning in the post house uneasily, and did not fall asleep until late at night. He was only thinking about how to set up the Protectorate in the future, how to recruit subordinates, how to treat the barbarians such as Su Shen with kindness and power, and how to make the recruited sergeants return to their homes.
A famous general destined to leave his name in history in the future began a legend in one night.
Of course, Liu Yu, as the instigator, could not see the look of Yin Xian who was hit by a good-luck pie.
In fact, compared with Yin Xian's preoccupied state, Liu Yu felt relaxed all over. He had not been so happy in many years.
In the flickering candlelight, Liu Yu stared at the map that he deliberately did not draw completely.
"With the Blackwater Protectorate in the Northeast, all the sources of threats around the Central Plains have completely fallen under my surveillance."
The current Han Dynasty, or the core area of the Central Plains, after hundreds of years of devastation, there is simply no pressure to expand outwards.
However, Liu Yu knew very well that whether it was the grassland, the Western Regions, the southwest or the northeast, it would be the source of all threats in the future.
In the Western Regions, Liu Yu used the Duhu Mansion and the westward-moving Di Prairie tribe as barriers.
On the grasslands, the military towns and castles set up by the Han army controlled water sources and pastures, and adopted the strategy of controlling the size of the tribes to restrict any tribe that had the strength to become the leader.
In the southwestern Yi, a force that could defeat the Tang Dynasty and kill hundreds of thousands of people has not appeared in history. Under Liu Yu's attention, it will be difficult to appear in the future.
Before today, only the vast north of Liaodong did not have a suitable opportunity for layout.
The news brought by Cui Ao today shows that the foundation for establishing rule has actually been established.
"As long as this Yin Xian is not a pure idiot, he can control the various tribes of Sushen, and then he can penetrate those tribes to the north. Later generations will give birth to the territory of the Mohe Jurchen. As long as he does not imitate the later generations of Daliao, it is basically impossible to overturn. There will be a strong threat."
While Liu Yu was thinking about it, he went through his layout of the surrounding area again.
However, after careful consideration, Liu Yu suddenly discovered the problem that he had ignored recently.
"There has been no news from these two groups, Qiao Lin and Wang Hu, for a full year. It seems that we need to send two envoys to announce my existence."
Ever since Wang Hu and Qiao Lin broke into the Tianzhu continent, one from the southeast and the other from the northwest, these two ferocious invaders bullied the original overlord of Tianzhu, the Gupta Dynasty.
The Gupta dynasty, which had just unified northern Tianzhu, had almost no success against Wang Hu's infantry, which was dominated by Han Di and Qiang. Chandragupta I could only completely cede the land in the Wenjia area to Wang Hu, and also gave Wang Hu a divine envoy. title.
General Wang Hu, who has always taken "loyalty, filial piety, justice" in his heart, originally did not want to accept the peace proposal of this foreign barbarian king. However, his soldiers had difficulty adapting to the hot and humid weather in Tianzhu. I had to make peace with the Gupta dynasty.
Regardless of the truth or falsehood of the matter, this is what was written on the timetable sent back by Wang Hu.
Liu Yu knew at a glance that ninety-nine percent of the reasons were excuses. How could Wang Hu and others who changed their families frequently care about loyalty, filial piety, and justice.
They just found that they did not dare to continue to advance forward, and they had to make peace with the Tianzhu people first. And behind them, Wang Hu and the others also relied on Ningzhou's weapons, Jiawei and other support.
After all, the Tianzhu and Mengjia areas are not a place rich in minerals, but there are many cows and many elephants.
Qiao Di, who crushed the remnants of Guishan from the northwest, approached the Tianzhu River area.
After dispatching his troops to block the dangerous pass in the northern mountain pass and temporarily blocking Ran Liang from pursuing him like a mad dog, Qiao Di could finally rest where he was.
The Tianzhu River Plain area occupied by Qiao Di was far more important to the Gupta Dynasty than the Wenjia Point occupied by Wang Hu.
It can be said to be the land of dragon prosperity in the Gupta dynasty.
Chandragupta I launched two military campaigns within two years to regain the left bank of the Tianzhu River.
As the "King of Kings", Chandragupta I not only had tens of millions of Indian subjects under his command, but also accepted brave barbarians such as the Kushans, Cypriots and Pule who were driven out of their homes by Qiao Di.
But it is a pity that the Buddha did not bless the pious Chandragupta I.
Qiao Di's cavalry and infantry combination did not give Chandragupta I the slightest chance. Not only did they smash the Gupta dynasty's offensive twice, they also engaged in massive plagiarism and harassment.
The erratic Di cavalry repeatedly raided the borders of the Gupta dynasty, causing chaos all over the Shangtianzhu area, the richest part of the Gupta dynasty.
There is no Great Wall in Tianzhu, so there is no way to effectively stop these Di people.
Under the threat of Qiao Di, the Gupta dynasty had to seek peace again.
Chandragupta I made peace with Qiao Di, married a princess to Qiao Lin, and also recognized Qiao Lin's rule on the left bank of the Tianzhu River.
Unlike Wang Hu, Qiao Di no longer has anything to be controlled by the Han Dynasty.
In other words, the facts of Qiao Di at this time were no longer under Liu Yu's control.
