The First Military Division of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 386 Difficult!Disaster!Disaster!
Chapter 390 Eight Difficult!Disaster!Disaster!

"Prime Minister, the person sent to the Changshi's Mansion in the Western Regions has returned."

Not long after Chen Ziming entered Jincheng, he received news from the Western Regions. Last year, he sent someone to follow the Western Regions to the messenger to the Western Regions Changshi Mansion, which is Loulan.

"Prime Minister, Chen Ji, the governor of the Western Regions, now only has a thousand soldiers and horses, of which there are only [-] Han soldiers. They are all Han Chinese who migrated there before or descendants of soldiers who settled in the Western Regions. The rest of the soldiers and horses are all from the Western Regions."

"Oh?" Chen Ziming was puzzled, and asked, "He can control the Western Regions with just three hundred Han soldiers, and control four forces?"

"The prime minister doesn't know that the foreigners in the Loulan area return to their hearts. Many people regard themselves as Han people and are proud of the Han people. Moreover, Chen Ji Changshi won over several local leaders of the alien races and appointed them as Han officials, so he took control of the Loulan area. "

"As for the four factions controlled by Chen Ji Changshi, they only have more than [-] troops in total, and the population is sparse, and they are close to Loulan, so they are mostly influenced by the Changshi Mansion."

The people sent by Chen Ziming were quite capable, and they could find out the general situation of the Western Regions in one trip, and they had some information about Chen Ji.

It's just that Chen Ziming is still waiting for more accurate news, that is, the news of the hidden guard.

Chen Ziming not only sent this envoy to go back with the envoy of the Changshi Mansion of the Western Regions, but also secretly sent secret guards to investigate the specific situation of the Western Regions.

The Western Regions are very important to the Han Dynasty. Located in the northwest direction, the forces are complex, and it is the buffer zone for the Han Dynasty to the forces outside the Western Regions.

Moreover, the Western Regions are also an important part of the Unicom Silk Road. Controlling the Western Regions is equivalent to controlling the situation in the entire northwest direction.

"Teacher, are you going to send someone to take down the Western Regions?" Pang Tong, who returned to Chen Ziming's side, asked suspiciously.

After Chen Ziming's influence, both Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong have a kind of invasion thought, which can also be said to be a thought of external expansion, and they both have a long-term strategic vision. They will center on the Central Plains and then expand around until they establish A huge empire so far.

"That's right, the Western Regions are too important to the Great Han..." Immediately, Chen Ziming talked about the influence of the Western Regions on the Great Han and the strategic significance of the Western Regions.

"Although the Western Regions are known as a hundred countries, those so-called countries are nothing more than small clan-style forces. As far as I know, the strongest has only about [-] soldiers, and the weakest has only a few hundred soldiers."

"However, don't be inferior. Hundreds of forces add up, and there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses. Of course, the biggest shortcoming of the Western Regions is that they are scattered and fight on their own. No matter how big or small the forces are, they are all called kings and cities."

"So that's how it is." After hearing this, Pang Tong thought for a while, and then said: "Teacher, it is not difficult to deal with the forces of the Western Regions. The difficulty lies in the remoteness of the Western Regions, which makes it very inconvenient for the army to mobilize, and even if the Western Regions are taken, it is very difficult for the government to govern. The local forces are too complicated, and there are too few Han people there."

"That's true, that's why I didn't rashly send troops into the Western Regions, otherwise Zilong's [-] troops would have gone to the Western Regions long ago." It will take half a month, and we are talking about the army, not Chongzi.

If it is to transport food, it will take double the time, let alone some heavy weapons. For these reasons, it is impossible for Chen Ziming to send a large army to attack the Western Regions. To no return.

The big Han in the strongest period just sent hundreds of soldiers and horses there, and it was just to establish a nominal government office there.

Fortunately, the Western Regions are in chaos and there is no unified political power. Otherwise, the Western Regions will be a nightmare for the big men, even greater than the threat from the grasslands.

"Now is not the time to attack the Western Regions. Let's talk about it after we fully control Liangzhou. At least Liangzhou must have enough grain and grass output. Otherwise, it is really unrealistic to mobilize grain from other places."

"Besides, the Qiang people have not yet fully returned to their hearts. Although millions of Qiang people have moved inland, if the remaining hundreds of thousands of Qiang people are not well managed, it will be a big trouble. The most important thing is that the Di people in the west are also a trouble."

Now there are still dangers to the big Han. Apart from the grasslands, they belong to the Western Regions in the northwest and the Di people in the west.To the west of the Di people's territory, Chen Ziming could not reach out.

It's too far away, and Liu Zhang and the Di people are separated in the middle. The most important thing is to continue westward, and will border on another powerful empire, the Frost Empire. The current big man is not ready to wrestle with such a huge strength. At least Cao Cao and Sun Quan must be killed, and the Central Plains will be unified before they will be able.

"Teacher, the Qiang people and the Di people are actually indistinguishable from each other. Now that the Qiang people have begun to Sinicize, why not send the Qiang people to appease the Di people and send people to manage the Di people? As a backing, and then march to the Western Regions, and finally completely control the Western Regions." Pang Tong stood in front of the map, pointing to the territory of the Qiang and Di people to plan.

"Difficult." Chen Ziming shook his head. This was indeed a reconciliation plan, but Pang Tong valued Liu Bei's strength too much. Now he has not even digested the territory of the Qiang people, let alone the Di people.

"The Di people are in the west of Yizhou, and they have many contacts with Yizhou, and even paid tribute to Liu Zhang." There is another point that Chen Ziming did not say, that is, the terrain. Most of the places where the Qiang people live are hills and plains, which are easy to control. The transportation is also convenient.

However, the places where the Di people live are mostly high mountains and complex terrain, which is completely like the terrain of Yizhou. Of course, the Di people do not have a large plain such as the Chengdu Plain that is suitable for food production, but they also have their own food sources.

"In fact, the Di people have a heart for the great Han. They have been in contact with the Central Plains since ancient times. When we take Yizhou, it should not be difficult to subdue the Di people." Chen Ziming never thought about using troops against the Di people. It is not cost-effective and unnecessary , Di people are the same as Qiang people, as long as they are treated well, they are Han people.

"Now your main task is to collect information about the Di people and the Western Regions. I will ask the dark guards to collect information for you, and then plan a strategy for the Western Regions. I need a complete and feasible strategic plan..."

Chen Ziming became the hands-off shopkeeper again, and Pang Tong's ability was there, so it was useless.

"Yuan Hao, take control of the Qiang people's territory as soon as possible..." Tian Feng is based in Liangzhou, and another task is to digest the large area of ​​land left by the Qiang people.

"Population." Tian Feng said in embarrassment: "The area left by the Qiang people is too large, the population is too small, especially the proportion of Han people is too small..."

(End of this chapter)