Chapter 179 The Road Ahead

Unlike the Han Dynasty and Rome, the Kushan and Parthian states, which rose from humble beginnings, pursued a policy of the survival of the fittest.
The Parthians and the Kushans frantically plundered the land resources of the surrounding small countries. The kingdom that could stop the empire had to be at least a big kingdom, otherwise it would not be able to stop the invasion of the empire at all.
Just like the Tang Dynasty’s foreign wars, after the army sets out, what can you do even if you win this time?
When the next large army comes, will the country have enough resources to resist?
The Tang Dynasty had a winning rate of less than 30% in foreign wars, but basically, as time went on, the small countries would surrender on their own. There was nothing they could do because of their lack of foundation. The Tang Dynasty could lose countless times, but they could not afford the cost of failure.
The Kushan and Parthian states also used the same method to snowball and grow stronger until they became first-order empires.
But if you walk by the river for too long, your shoes will inevitably get wet, and both countries encountered terrible pitfalls.
The Parthians were frightened by the brutal war between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu and did not dare to attack the east. Therefore, the Thirty-Six Kingdoms in the Western Regions were preserved as a buffer zone.
As a witness of the war between the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty to destroy the Han Dynasty, Parthia knew it all too well. The two world's top empires fought bloody battles and dyed the northern prairie red.
The reason why Parthia sent 20,000 cavalry to welcome the Han envoys was because they were afraid that they would be like the Great Yuezhi. It would be disastrous if the two brutal guys regarded them as a threat of some importance and directly cleared out Parthia.
The generations of blood feud between when the grandfather died and the father passed on, and when the father died and the son passed on, made Anxi dare not even look to the east, and could only head west.
There were indeed many small countries in the west, and the Parthian Empire was fighting hard all the way. Under such circumstances, the Parthian Empire discovered that trade and farming were far less profitable than war. War made their empire increasingly powerful, and every time they destroyed a small country, they could provide them with huge wealth and population.
When destroying countries became a habit, Parthia finally hit a chasm - the Roman Empire.
The two countries fought each other, and unfortunately, Parthia was defeated and turned into a Muggle. However, after his death, he dragged Rome down from its peak and finally became a historical memory.
In the game world, if the kingdoms established by the Celts, Slavs and the like had not united to form the United British Empire to directly confront the Holy Roman Empire, causing Rome to go to war on two fronts, Parthia would have been destroyed long ago.
You have to know that the Holy Roman Empire is the ultimate patchwork of Christianity and the ancient Roman Empire, and its brutality is comparable to that of the Chinese region, which is a hodgepodge of the past five thousand years.
The Kushans were even more miserable. They did not encounter a powerful empire, but fell into the pit of the caste system.
This thing still had no way to be dealt with until modern times, so you can imagine how bad the caste system is.
Listening to Chen Xi's endless speech, the group of people had different thoughts, but they were all inevitably a little depressed.
"Bang!"
Li Jue knocked his head on the table in despair. "It will take a long time to defeat all these countries!"
Li Jue's words directly illuminated the hearts of the civil and military officials present. Indeed, these countries are powerful, but if they can defeat these empires, what a sense of accomplishment it will be!
"Go, go, go! General, give the order. Let's attack that country first!"
Lu Bu said excitedly. He also felt his blood boiling. There must be so many powerful people in so many empires.
He was extremely excited at the thought of using the blood of these strong men to sacrifice the Fang Tian Hua Ji.
"General, give the order!"
The blood of all the generals was boiling with excitement. Even surrendered generals like Xue Rengui and Yuwen Chengdu were trembling a little. What they feared most was having no opponents. Suddenly knowing that there were so many opponents in the world, they were so excited that they were shaking all over.
"Be calm, be calm!" Guo Hao put his hands in the air to signal everyone to calm down.
"Everyone, we must go on a conquest, but before that we need to stabilize the country first. Now the overall situation has been settled, but there are so many bandits in the world, and the people are living in misery. How can we start a war ourselves?"
Compared with the military generals who rushed to lead their troops to start a war, the civil officials considered more.
"How do we solve the food and fodder problem? Food and fodder must be sent before troops move. For such a large-scale war operation, logistics is an unavoidable problem."
"How do we solve the transportation problem? Although Parthia and Frost Gui are still within the empire's borders, they are also the most remote areas. Just traveling there will take a lot of time."
"How do we deal with the local culture? How do we move people from the mainland there? How do we accept the local people?"
Question after question swirled in the minds of the civil officials. Even Yuan Shao's staunchest advisers like Guo Tu and Feng Ji couldn't help but put themselves in that situation and think about it.
The most important issues are actually transportation and food supplies, which actually boil down to logistics and national strength.
The empire's ruling area is within a distance of forty to fifty days' march. If the army cannot arrive within fifty days, then even if a rebellion occurs in the local area, you will be helpless.
Adding on the consumption of food and fodder, this fifty-day march may be more troublesome than attacking an empire.
Many times, it was not that they could not win the battle, but that they were limited by food and grass pressure and had to give up the conquered land and retreat.
Taking the Han Dynasty as an example, one full-time soldier requires about thirty civilians to support him. If horses and equipment are included, the supply rate is about one hundred to one. This supply rate is a shackle that limits a country's territory and the combat effectiveness of its troops.
Eating in the wild is only suitable for causing destruction. Real conquest requires not only the threat of force but also sufficient care. Only in this way can a piece of land be completely conquered. When the local residents identify with the empire from the bottom of their hearts, this piece of land will be incorporated into the territory of the empire.
Simple and brutal suppression by force can only last for a while, but not forever. Once the grassroots rise up, the damage caused cannot be dealt with by simple suppression.
"Okay, everyone, go back and think about it today. The Han Dynasty is still alive, and the future still depends on everyone's joint efforts!" Seeing that everyone had their own thoughts, Guo Hao began to order them to leave.
As for why he didn't analyze the power of the three kingdoms, what a joke, as soon as the word "Northern Xiongnu" came out, he didn't even build a fart, he just pulled out 100,000 elite soldiers and set off towards Mobei. By then, even if he was a general, what would it matter? He couldn't stop this group of people.
After a group of people came out of the tent, they had different expressions. After the original passionate atmosphere dissipated, it was replaced by a solemn atmosphere.
Wouldn't it be a heavy atmosphere if you let unlucky guys like Xue Rengui, Yuwen Chengdu and Gao Chong stay with people like Sun Ce, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei?
If Xue Rengui and the others had not been in a state where their internal energy was suppressed, there was a possibility that a fierce fight would have broken out between the two sides.
"Damn Zhang Junyi, is your brain filled with paste!" Finally, the powder keg was ignited, and Gongsun Zan really couldn't suppress his inner anger.
There are now less than 2,000 white horses left out of the 8,000. He doesn't understand how Zhang He did it.
He is also an expert in training soldiers, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to create a rogue army like the White Horse based on the Yue Cavalry. The double-talented elite can dominate any battlefield, and their speed as fast as the wind is the guarantee of their survival.
Zhang He did not dare to retort, because the fight was so bad that even he could not understand why he did such a stupid thing.
"Haha, Zhou Gongjin, what a powerful spiritual talent, even we are fooled without realizing it." Shen Pei kept his eyes on Zhou Yu. After they were captured, they communicated with each other and analyzed Zhou Yu's spiritual talent in an instant.
The whole camp was filled with gunpowder. There was not a single one of Yuan Shao's subordinates, including Ju Shou, who did not hate Yuan Shu and Zhou Yu. The two men really took backstabbing to the extreme.
Zhou Yu shook his head and said nothing. Being an undercover agent was indeed not a glorious thing, and his spiritual talents had been analyzed thoroughly. It would be difficult for him to use his talents on these people in the future. The only way left for him was to go abroad.
Otherwise, who knows what kind of frame-up he would have suffered in the country. There is no first in literature and no second in martial arts. If Zhou Yu can do it on the first day, others may do it on the fifteenth day. It's because his spiritual talent is so rogue.
Just by looking at the eyes of the people around him, Zhou Yu knew that his future life would not be so easy, and he would be inevitably tripped up by people both overtly and covertly.
Gongsun Zan was extremely annoyed with Zhang He, but because he was also an undercover agent, he ultimately did not engage in a fight with Zhang He.
Gongsun Zan turned back and apologized to Guo Hao, and then asked to return to Youzhou with the White Horse Volunteers.
Guo Hao, who was born in Liangzhou, naturally understood Gongsun Zan's intentions. He sent Zhao Yun to ask the princess for an imperial decree so that Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu could live in peace.
Zhao Yun had no complaints. He admired Gongsun Zan's righteousness in protecting the country and the people, and resolutely took over Guo Hao's task and returned to Luoyang.
Anyway, at his speed, a round trip only takes an hour. If it weren't for the procedures for meeting the princess, he could go even faster.
In Luoyang, Li Ru sneered and arrested all the spies from the aristocratic families. Anyone who dared to murder his family should be killed.
Li Ru imprisoned all the captured spies and tortured them one by one, trying to find out the noble families behind them. As for whether the spies were used to divert trouble, Li Ru didn't care at all. There was not a single good person in the noble families, and they were definitely involved. All of them were blacklisted and settled accounts later.
"Wenyou, if you arrest people like this, the people in Luoyang will be unstable." Jia Xu covered his head and looked at Li Ru.
His long-term overwork made him in a very bad condition, so he handed all these matters over to Li Ru. Unexpectedly, Li Ru started arresting people directly.
"No, the result from Hulao Pass should be out soon, and it's time for these families to settle old accounts." Li Ru didn't care. There was no way he could lose Hulao Pass. As long as he could threaten the major families with the momentum of a great victory, he would definitely be able to get the maximum benefit.
If we lose, we should clean up these scum. There is war in the front and chaos in the back. It would not be too much to kill them a hundred times.
If he had not taken Guo Hao's opinion into consideration, he would have chopped them all off immediately after the interrogation.
"Just clean them up. There's no need to arrest them all. Many of them are caravans and can bring a lot of profit." Jia Xu had a headache. If you don't manage the household, you don't know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are. The treasury revenue is in deficit. If the economy is not developed, the country will not be able to support so many people.
"Let Chen Zichuan take care of this matter. You should take a rest for a while. You may make mistakes in this state." Li Ru said calmly without listening to Jia Xu's words at all.
"What about Chen Zichuan? Do you think he can do it too?" Jia Xu sighed, feeling a little melancholy. At their level, they knew at a glance that Chen Xi's abilities far surpassed theirs, but he was still unwilling to accept the fact, as he was obviously the number one counselor under Guo Hao.
As a result, Chen Zichuan suddenly appeared and directly became the prime minister. How could he deal with this?
"Let's go and report to the princess. I heard that someone broke into the palace yesterday?" Seeing that Jia Xu looked lost, Li Ru changed the subject.
"Well, a group of people broke into the palace and were stopped by Jiang Boyue. It seems that Jiang Boyue has made great progress recently?" Jia Xu nodded and asked as if he suddenly thought of something.
"Jiang Boyue, his condition is quite strange, but he is indeed getting stronger and stronger. I don't know what's going on. I'll tell the lord about it later." Li Ru's face looked a little strange. He was also a legion commander, and Jiang Wei's condition was indeed very strange in his eyes.
He saw Jiang Wei's progress. It seemed that he made great progress every time they met, and he was different every day .
"After meeting the princess, I took Hua Yuanhua to Hulao Pass. I heard from him that he could control the plague. Many people died at Hulao Pass, and I think the plague will break out. When I left, Chen Zichuan made a lot of preparations, but if Hua Yuanhua was there, the losses would probably be smaller."
Jia Xu nodded and said nothing. He had seen Hua Tuo's abilities. He could bring a dying guy back to life with just a few operations.
The patient had no breathing, no heartbeat, and his body was almost cold. However, Hua Tuo insisted that he was not dead. He gave him acupuncture and gave him medicine, and finally brought him back to life.
He can jump and dance on the ground, just like ordinary people.
Even people like Jia Xu and Li Ru, who were used to seeing the ups and downs of life, couldn't help but be shocked. Who doesn't have a headache or a fever? They would not let this miracle doctor go.
Without saying a word, they fabricated a fake third-rank position and gave it to Hua Tuo. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, an era when Confucianism was dominant, Jia Xu and Li Ru were challenging the bottom line of Confucianism.
However, several big names in Confucianism also knew Hua Tuo, so they turned a blind eye and did not pursue the matter too much. After all, a capable big name like Hua Tuo could get along well everywhere.
You must know that although immortals can turn back time and save people with a talisman, once the immortals' magic meets the fate of the country, they are basically helpless.
This was also the reason why the temple was filled with immortals, but they still couldn't cure Liu Hong. The emperor was responsible for the fate of the country, and their magic had no effect on Liu Hong at all.
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