Power and Empire Chapter 3148: Great righteousness
Under the moonlight, the fat man’s fingers lightly held Yelvqi’s luminous white jade chin, and the fingers gently touched the rosy and attractive lips of the prairie beauty, before his voice slowly said, "You should know, even Wu It’s useless for wood to speak for you. The name of unifying the northern grassland can be given to the Yelu family, but you should be very clear that it is impossible for the empire to allow a powerful and unified grassland king to rise. The Yelu family must make a choice and move back to the north. The grassland replaces the Beiwang Court, and still retains the existing Imperial Capital area and runs its own Yelv Court"
The fat man's voice paused, and he put his hand down from Yelu Qiyeguang's soft and smooth lips, turned around, looked at the grassland in front, and sighed, "This is a unique vast area, the most precious thing." One is grass, and the other is water, which is the basic condition for survival, and one is indispensable. Whenever the water and grass in a place are exhausted, the pasture is transferred to solve the problem of raising livestock and form a nomadic life in which aquatic plants live. Livestock is Livelihoods and waterweeds are the basic conditions. The nation on the prairie is a battle for hegemony surrounding these two elements. The various tribes have become the overlord of the prairie one after another. Some tribes have been annexed and merged with the annexers. It is one, and some take refuge in the distant place. Once there is a powerful person to unify it, it will be a disaster for any neighboring country."
If the empire wants to fully control the northern grasslands, in order to maintain its military superiority in the Central and Biya region, it must increase its military strength.
The empire has stationed one hundred thousand troops on Dijing West Road. Even if Dijing West Road has recovered a lot, it will barely solve part of the army’s supplies. The entire army stationed must maintain sufficient combat power, not just food. It’s enough to eat, as well as the maintenance and repair of ordnance. Soldiers are rotated and rectified. Soldiers are also human. It is not realistic to stay in remote places. Just the annual rotation has caused the Ministry of Imperial Affairs to propose three increases in a month. The request for military expenditures for the garrison in the Central and Bahia region can be regarded as stabilizing the floating military aspirations.
Let the empire station tens of thousands of elite troops in the northern grassland area, even with the empire’s financial resources, it is a heavy burden. This kind of thing is not worth the loss in terms of strategy and economics, but just let the Yelv family unify the northern grassland. It is also not in the interests of the empire. A divided northern grassland is far more reassuring to the empire than a powerful unified court
"I understand what your majesty means,"
Yelü Qiyeguang's delicate body trembled slightly, twisting and twisting, breathless and delicate. "Unification of the North Grassland is the wish of two generations of my Yelu family, but the North Grassland has long been unable to accommodate the Yelu family and can get it. A name is very good. The Imperial Capital was beaten down with blood by the soldiers of the Yelu Family. If I really want to choose, I will choose to keep the existing Imperial Capital."
"I only ask your Majesty to get the North Grassland out of this crisis of cold people going south. In the final analysis, this is the ancestral land of the grassland people"
"A crisis? Where do you see the crisis?"
The fat man glanced at Yelu Qiyeguang and smiled at the corner of his mouth. As expected, Yelu Qiyeguang still cares more about what Yelu family currently owns. It is tempting to unify the northern grassland, but if you want Yelu family to abandon the Imperial Capital area, it is absolutely not. Possibly, not to mention the existence of the North King Court on the North Grassland, he said quietly
"Don’t look at the Northern Court’s defeat in the Cold War. Either the first battle was defeated, or the panic retreated. In fact, you know better than me, it’s not like that at all. Yelu’s family is anxious to enter the northern grassland. It’s not because the northern grassland was invaded by the cold people, but because if the Yelu family didn’t enter the northern grassland, they would never have this chance again."
"I don't understand your majesty's words" Yelu Qiyeguang's body trembled slightly
"At first I was aware of it, but in the north of Yanzhou, I heard something that reminded me of the fact that Wang Ting was borrowing from the cold people to go south to increase his strength." Fatty's eyes were a little cold. The voice slowly said, "For Wang Tingjun, defeat and evacuation is just a normal strategic arrangement, but the tribes in these areas are another matter. It is their home, facing the cold army that is behind the Wang Ting army. They can only stick to this path. At this point, it’s impossible for the North King Court to know that "fat guys are talking". For this reason, I paid special attention to the route of the King Court's retreat. As a result, I found that the pasture tribes swept by the cold people went south. It is a tribe that occupies the grassland on the northern grassland and possesses a certain power. The defeat of the northern court is basically to guide the cold people."
"It turns out that Your Majesty already knows"
Yelü Qiye had a pretty pale face, and suddenly knelt down in front of the fat man, gritted his teeth and said, "This Northward advance is indeed under the guise of saving the North Grassland. In fact, it is basically to seize the last chance, just like your majesty. It is said that if the Yelu family is waiting, there will be no chance again."
"With the impact of the cold people sweeping south, Wang Ting seemed to lose consecutively, but Wang Tingwei, the most powerful fighter, has never lost much. On the contrary, the Wang Ting army was defeated all the way, just like giving directions to the cold people. In the same way, these powerful tribes suffered heavy losses. The soldiers of several tribes were slaughtered by the cold people, and the women, children, cattle and sheep of the retreating tribes were naturally taken over by the royal court. This collapse is like a snowball. Increasingly, the effect is amazing. The royal court's strength has not decreased but increased in just two months. In just two months, the tribal slaves and wealth possessed by them have increased exponentially, and they are also forcing the forces. The weak tribe took the initiative to lean towards the northern court, and the situation that was ignored when the court just retreated was reversed in one fell swoop."
"The current military strength of the North King Court has already made all the tribes stranded on the grassland afraid to disobey the "Yelü Qiye Light" and said, "When the King Court withdrew from the Yanzhou of Zhongbia, there were only two tribes led by the army. There are more than 100,000 people, like dogs in the mourning family, the limelight has even been suppressed by the subsequent rise of the Fengtai Tribe. Up to now, the Wang Ting is no longer what it used to be. According to intelligence, there are already more than 500,000 grasslanders surrounding the Wang Ting. We must know that there was never more than 400,000 tribes near the former Khan King’s tent, but now the new Khan King surpasses the former Khan King. My steppe people have always gathered for the army and scattered for the people, that is to say, the king. The court seems to be defeated on the front line, but in fact, it has maintained the mobilization strength of nearly 200,000 grassland soldiers at any time. If it continues to grow, my Yelu family’s northward advance is a joke."
"It seems that my guess is correct. The people in the cold area must have a secret agreement with the king court. The king court deliberately gave up part of the land, and the people in the cold area are responsible for helping the king court eradicate the opponent. , What would happen if the empire didn’t attack?” The fat man’s black pupils like stars, staring at Yelu Qiyeguang kneeling in front of him, watching that beautiful waterfall-like hair draped over his shoulders, this situation was a bit too unexpected. Yes, it’s no wonder that the Yelu Qiyeguang has made such a big influence in the north of Yanzhou, and the people in the cold region may use Hona’s wrong plan to tell themselves that they obviously want to pull the empire into the water. Obviously, Yelu Qiyeguang It must have been known that the Northern Court had secretly joined forces with the cold people, and even deliberately lured the Cold Army into sneak attack on the rear. If that were the case, even if it was the power of the country this time, the Royal Court of Yelu would also attack the two. Underwent a fiasco!
"If your majesty really ignores Qiyeguang's life and death, then Qiyeguang can only admit his fate." Yelu Qiyeguang raised his head, his eyes cold and sad
"Why is this? Since you know that there is no danger in the North Grassland, you still have to take such a risk?" The fat man looked at the grassland woman in front of him with puzzlement. If he didn't see the problem by himself, he really didn't go there. In this regard, in the seven-night war of the whole country in Yelu, is it just a wedding dress for the empire to conquer the northern grassland?
"Does your majesty know Dongbo?" To the fat man's expectation, Yelu Qiyeguang said.
"Dongbo?" The fat man was stunned. The geographical name Dongbo, he had really heard of it. It was a narrow strip in the northeastern direction of the Central and Bahia continent, and the downward wave peak mountain range would be northeast. One is divided into two, the area to the west is the northern grassland with lush grasslands, and the area to the east is the land of relatively poor hills. The grasslands are called Dongbo. The terrain is towering and the mountains are rugged. There are thousands of them inside. Large and small lakes, the grassland people have crossed the Bofeng Mountain several times to start wars eastward. Although they have occupied some areas, they will often have to give up due to insufficient logistical supplies in the following ten years. In addition, the Dongbo area is barren. In the end it won’t matter
"My ancestors of the Yelu family are not the traditional prairie people here, but the Dongbo royal family who was captured by the grassland people more than 300 years ago. This Dongbo plate is the proof of the royal family." Yelu Qiyeguang looked calm He took out a dark disc from his cuffs. The surface of the disc was carved with some unknown lines, and he held it in both hands and delivered it to the fat man.
"Dongbo Royal Family?'
The fat man took a deep breath, took the engraving and looked at it. He didn't see anything special. After twisting his hand along the lines on the disc a few times, he heard the sound of Kaka, the disc It’s like a staggered surface, a roll of animal skins on one side, unfolded and glanced, the fat man is a little bit distracted, what? Isn’t it just a treasure map of unknown age, it is obviously painted with some topography? , I also drew a mark on a certain area in the upper right corner of the map. It should be a map of a certain area of Dongbo. Even if the Yelu family was once the identity of the Dongbo royal family, more than a hundred years have passed, and the current Yelu family has even been established. Wang Ting, what is a small Dongbo royal family?
"In fact, this is useless?"
Yelü Qiyeguang’s beautiful face was a bit embarrassed, and she smiled lightly. "At the beginning, King Dongbo was defeated by the King's Court of the Grassland and died in battle. King Dongbo's son was captured and came to the Northern Grassland as a prisoner of war. Used, humiliated in every possible way, and finally died of anxiety and anger. After more than a hundred years of hard work, my Yelu family got out of slaves and climbed to the position of the king's court. However, the northern king's court was still worried about my Yelu family. My Yelu’s family is over long ago. In addition to being the last chance to retaliate against the Northern Court, the Yelu family wants to open up the relationship between China and Bahrain and the East Strike.
"Now it is really the weakest moment for the Wang Court to blockade the Dongbo area in hundreds of years, and I have sent someone to Dongbo, and the other party promised that as long as my Yelü family can prove my strength, Dongbo Zhu The Ministry promised to join my Yelu family to declare war on the Northern Court!"
After listening to the words of Yelu Qiyeguang, the fat man is also considering the feasibility of uniting the various ministries in the east fight
The current North Royal Court is obviously dying. Although it seems to be accumulating strength, it is at the cost of shaking the foundation of the prairie people. Everyone is not a fool, just like what I heard in the Yanzhou North Army Camp. All kinds of discussions are the same. For the Northern Royal Court, the grassland people have been scornful. The aura of the Royal Court for hundreds of years has been lost. It is just the practice of gathering the tribesmen around them by various means. This is a falsehood. Once there is a major setback in the strength of the company, it will be a disaster
The opportunity in front of the empire is so obvious. As long as the last force of the Northern King Court is defeated, the three forces of the cold people, the Dongbo people and the grassland people will intervene in the chaos in the northern grassland. The northern grassland has not been for decades. Even for hundreds of years, it is impossible to gather a dynasty as powerful as the former royal court again. This is enough. Without the strong neighbor of the North Grassland, the empire can fully manage the Central and Biatian region~IndoMTL.com ~As long as there is a ten-year recovery time, the Central and Bahia region will inevitably become the largest commerce supply region in the empire
"Actually, you should have said it earlier, or you don't want to do that." The fat man pulled Yelu Qiyeguang up. "What did your majesty mean?" Yelu Qiyeguang's black beautiful eyes blinked
The fat man's eyes flashed, the corners of his mouth turned upside-down, and he said with a sly smile, "Since the North Royal Court can sacrifice some of the benefits to win over the cold people, why can't we? Anyway, the northern grassland is not owned by your Yelu family or my empire. It is precisely because your Yelu family and the empire don’t want to see the unity of the northern grassland. That’s easy. The cold climate gets colder, and people from the cold regions go south to take refuge. The main reason for this, that is, as long as anyone agrees to settle down on the northern grassland to avoid disasters, the cold people will unite with them. The Northern King's Court recognized this and allowed the cold people to agree to help him eradicate dissidents. , In exchange for a settlement site"
The fat man paused in his voice and continued, "I was wondering originally. From the battle of Duwu Guguchi, it can be seen that in fact, the fighting power of the cold people cannot beat the Wang Tingjun. I believe that from the wrong way around the dumb. The plan behind Wugukou was provided to the people in the cold areas by the Northern King Court, who is familiar with the terrain. The Northern King Court did not expect that you would win at Yawugukou. Now you are holding on to the great victory of Yawugu. There are still 20,000 captives of the cold people in hand. If they show that they are willing to negotiate with the cold people, the cold people will definitely agree. As long as the cold people agree not to go south, the tribes that are forced to surround the North Royal Court will do. It will disperse by itself. When the time comes, the North Royal Court will naturally be unable to sit still. You let the people in the cold region not go south, and you let the ministries return with peace of mind. The person who provokes the war again is the North Royal Court. As long as the North Royal Court If there is another friction with the people from the cold region, then the righteousness is on your side, and then there will be a reason to use force against the Northern Court!"8)