Chapter 531: Xianbei Winter Plunder
Who gave them the courage? Not to mention Liang Jingru, even the lyrics of "Courage" are not born yet?!
For this matter, Liu Tao had to summon all his ministers to hold a court meeting. Seeing everyone coming, the atmosphere was a little serious. In order to ease the atmosphere, Liu Tao casually said: "Isn't the Kebi Neng Ministry's life difficult for the recent days?"
When everyone heard this, their expressions calmed down, and they obviously tasted it.
If it is not difficult or even difficult to survive, how could they risk being completely destroyed and go south to plunder? Is it because the Han army has no warm facilities, or will they have a bonus for combat power when fighting in winter?
"How did General Zhenbei arrange it?" Regarding the war in the north, Liu Tao of course had to understand Lu Bu's plan first.
"General Zhenbei said that Yanmen is the defense range of General Anbei, so he handed over the war over there to General Anbei." The envoy who came to send the message replied, "If there is a need, he will naturally go to support him."
That is, he gave the dominance of the war to Zhang Fei. On the one hand, the defense zone is one hand, and Zhang Fei has never fought a war, and he feels a little uncomfortable.
He was clearly named King of Yanmen and stationed in Yanmen. The prime minister had already chosen it, and in his spare time, he would also manage his own vassal state a little, but this guy seemed to prefer war than to govern.
After becoming a family, he married Wang Li, the palace queen whom he had assigned to him, which was considered a marriage to the Wang family in Taiyuan. At the same time, Wang Ze, the prefect of Yanmen, was Wang Chang's father, and he also invited him to be the prime minister of the country.
There is another child named Zhang Bao, who was born last year and is almost two years old this year (Xiao Sui).
Liu Tao sometimes thought that now Xiahou Yuan is also under his command. Whether to introduce his niece to Zhang Fei, at least it would be good to promote the marriage between Zhang Fei and the Xiahou family. He just thought about the age of Xiahou family, so he would just forget it in the end.
Girls in the Flower Season, don’t harm the sloppy uncle. It’s better to introduce them to Zhao Yun than him, and at least you can get a real wife.
"Where is General Anbei?" Liu Tao asked afterwards.
"I have ordered all the troops and horses and can go to war at any time, but the materials are only needed, and the court's support is needed." The envoy replied.
Sure enough, people were sent to ask for food and supplies. The other two people were responsible for guarding one side, which meant that they could only defend and counterattack, and could not take the initiative. Even if they were defending and counterattacked, they would need to ask the court for instructions.
Even if the war has begun now, the procedures will have to be gone, just like Guan Yu's time.
"Print an order and send General Zhang Fei of Anbei to lead his army to attack the invading Xianbei thieves, and at the same time, he can pursue the north for 300 miles." Liu Tao looked at Qian Fu, who immediately arranged for the eunuchs to start preparing the imperial edict.
Liu Tao then looked at the Ministry of Revenue: "The Ministry of War began to allocate food and grass to the front line and supervise it."
"Abide by the order!" Zhu Yan came out of the list to receive the order.
The current Ministry of War is actually a combination of the General Logistics Department and the General Staff Department.
In particular, the separation of military and political affairs is necessary. The Ministry of Revenue’s regular warehouses and other granaries are mainly used to deal with natural disasters and calm grain prices. In contrast, part of the grain must be transported to military warehouses in various places for combat preparations.
Because of this military warehouse, even if Zhang Fei does not have the support from the rear, he can fight independently against the enemy army for more than a month.
In this month, enough supplies and arms will be delivered to the front line.
"I don't understand why the Kebineng troops didn't go to the East Xianbei or Bu Dugen, but chose to go south instead?" Liu Tao asked immediately.
The Kebien Neng Division is almost equal to Budugen. However, in recent years, Budugen has obtained a lot of supplies through border trade with Liu Tao. This not only makes the lives of the people rich, but also makes the morale of the army gather a lot.
In addition, using wine, rhubarb and tea to win over some ethnic groups in the Kebineng tribe, and the root of the step has begun to be stronger than that of the Kebineng tribe.
The comparison is insufficient, but the comparison is more than that. Although the Kebi Neng troops gradually could not defeat Bu Durou, they attacked the Dongxianbei east, which was a joint army composed of Mijia, Yugui Ni, Jueji and others.
At the same time, the United Army fought with Wuhuan, but they were actually fighting for the ranch. In contrast, the number of times they went south to the Han Dynasty was not very large.
Unless you succeed in going south repeatedly and the profits are too high, you will consider going south every year, or even increasing the scale of going south.
Liu Yu from Youzhou made a lot of profits through border trade. At the same time, he also met the needs of the Wuhuan and the Xianbei eastern alliance. Basically, unless they were in the internal victory or defeat, they would generally not go south to invade with all their efforts.
So the question arises. Who gave Ke Bineng the courage to send 30,000 people south. As expected, if these 30,000 people were killed, he would definitely be injured and might even be annexed by Bu Dugen.
Liu Tao couldn't figure it out when he took such a risk to go south.
"Is there a drought on the grassland this year, or is it a sudden snowstorm?" Liu Tao asked jokingly. Most of the Hu people went south because of these reasons. They couldn't eat enough, so they could only take the risk of going to their neighbor's house to grab some back.
In the end, there is no habit of storing grain, nor the conditions for storing grain. The livestock raised is the lifeline, and it is also military ration. The key is that a little blizzard will freeze a few times, and the only thing that brings to the entire tribe is despair.
Finally, it is greed, because it is found that it is too easy to make money by robbing south and it is very safe, so fools do not rob.
When Liu Tao was playing games, he found that he developed his internal affairs, had a long period of money making and did not make much money. Then he found that his neighbor was not only weak, but he could get taxes for half a year after robbing, so the fool would not rob.
As for the life and death of the neighbor, how could he pay attention to it? It was just a game anyway.
But how come that sentence is said, games come from life and are higher than life. Some things that happen in reality are so bloody that they dare not even write them like that.
The other party really came to rob because he was easy to bully. The loss was not only money and food, but the loss of the people was not cold numbers.
"This year is indeed colder than in previous years, but it will not be a snow disaster... It will not be a drought..." Zhu Yan was not very clear, so he could only analyze it for a little while, and at the same time he gave a look to Guo Jia and Xun Yu for help.
"Your Majesty, the next border trade will be in these few days..." Seeing this, Xun Yu stood up and pointed out the key point.
Because the court did not have any relationship with Kebien's border trade, there was no supply there. As the border trade with Budugen was about to proceed, of course, he had to go south to rob.
Even if it is just a mess of the border trade, it will be beneficial to him. If he can grab all the goods from the border trade back, then he will make a profit this time.
If he continues to trade with Liu Tao and Bu Dugen, his life will be difficult and he will even be in danger of destruction.
"So that's it..." Liu Tao suddenly realized that it was this reason. "I planned to order General Zhenbei to protect the goods of border trade and make the border trade smoothly."
According to Xun Yu, Ke Bineng has regarded border trade as a major concern.
On the other hand, it can also be seen that he is gradually becoming disadvantaged. If he does not want to be eliminated, he must find a key to breaking the deadlock. Destroying border trade is his idea of breaking the deadlock.
But so many soldiers have been wiped out, but they dare to come over. Isn’t this a big heart?
"My dear friends, you said, if we use Ke Bineng's power to exchange the Baiyun area as territory, will Bu Dugen agree?" Liu Tao thought for a while and asked the ministers.
Come again!!!∑(?Д?ノ)ノ
Unfortunately, reality is not a comic, otherwise the ministers would probably have black lines on their heads at this moment.
It has been a long time since Liu Tao valued Baiyun. Many people know that it is said that there are rich iron ore there. Yunzhong Railway is actually serving that iron ore to a large extent.
"If you use Ke Bieneng's power to exchange for a Baiyun area, it will be a little loss." Guo Jia came forward. He is now a doctor in the Ministry of War, and after all, he is working in the General Staff Department.
This is very consistent with his identity as a "military advisor" and he is also Liu Tao's most trusted military adviser. As for the other one, Jia Xu, deputy commander of the Jinyiwei.
But the one who is currently in the court deliberately reduces his presence and makes him less noticeable.
"Of course, this is also an assumption. We have no obligation to make a force that may become an enemy in the future stronger!" Liu Tao also agreed with this statement.
Hearing this, the ministers immediately breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that Liu Tao had not ignored the consequences for an iron ore.
But they didn't know that Liu Tao really valued the iron ore. These ministers didn't pay attention to it because they didn't know how much reserves there were.
Or, as iron ore in Yinshan has been discovered one after another, many people think that these iron ore are enough. There is no need to go to the grassland to dig iron ore.
After all, this is not just a matter of digging iron ore. There are two or three thousand troops stationed. Since it is a long-term garrison, it is also necessary to ensure the logistics and safety of these 3,000 soldiers and miners.
This means that a docking fort may be built there, at least a docking fort, and generally a city will be built. A large mining city built with Baiyun Iron Mine as the foundation.
There are a lot of manpower and material resources involved, and officials need to be arranged to go there to manage. What is the difference between going to an official in that kind of place and being a servant?
"So, we will only inform Bu Dugen directly." Liu Tao looked at everyone, "We will help them defeat these 30,000 soldiers of the Kebineng division, or even stay all of them. They even sent troops into Kebineng's territory and chased them for 300 miles.
How he plans to take the opportunity to expand his territory is his business, but the area of Baiyun must belong to us!"
The result is that the Baiyun area is still there... When the officials heard this, they all complained silently in their hearts.
"Your Majesty is wise!" Guo Jia immediately came forward to agree.
He just issued an order to take care of the border trade, and at the same time sent Zhang Fei to lead the army to fight back. Now he gave Bu Dugen a notice, yes, the notice had no intention of asking the other party to agree.
Chapter completed!