After the consultations with Li Su and Zhuge Liang were over, Guan Yu had to admit that although Zhuge Liang was young, he was really in stock and had everything in his military, political and foreign affairs.

Moreover, the cleverness of many of Zhuge Liang's suggestions is not reflected in military tactics, but mainly to win over the hearts of barbarian chiefs or stabilize various forces. At first glance, he is a natural diplomat.

This is not surprising. In history, Meng Huo's strategy of attacking the heart is obedient. Such a person has certainly been extraordinary since childhood.

(Note: There is no seven-game winning and seven-game winning in official history, and the conquest is relatively clean and neat. I always thought that seven-game winning and seven-game winning not Robben was not praising the prime minister, but rather a kind of smear. Especially in the eyes of people who have a little knowledge of politics, they are completely a pink-to-small, and many operations are too cerebral thrombosis.)

Therefore, the improvement opinions put forward by Zhuge Liang to help Wang Ping and Zhang Ren attack the Di tribe in Huangzhong were basically adopted by Guan Yu after a slight adjustment. On the same day, when sending reinforcements and food and grass teams to Wang Ping and others, someone sent new instructions to Wang Ping and others, so that Wang Ping and others could act accordingly.

However, Zhuge Liang's contribution that day was far more than providing advice to Wang Ping along the way. Zhuge Liang also gave several auxiliary remarkable and wonderful strategies for Ma Chao leading his troops to conquer the alien tribes in the Yinchuan Basin.

First of all, Zhuge Liang keenly proposed that the Yinchuan Basin was originally theoretically a division of the former Beidi County, and after the success of the Northern Expedition, the Dawang had already granted Beidi County to the Southern Xiongnu Shanyu Huchuquan, so it is definitely a problem to directly interfere in the business and breach the contract.

Of course, in fact, because the northern boundary of Beidi County is not very clear, this problem is not very obvious. On the map of the Eastern Han Dynasty, in addition to the Shuofang County in the north, its northwest boundary is actually blurred because it borders the territory of the Xianbei and Qianghu in Hexi and Qianghu, and it often changes.

But no matter what, if this issue is not handled politically, it will definitely leave hidden dangers of disputes and damage the prestige and credit of the court and Liu Bei.

The best way is to flow down the Yellow River from the former Jincheng County (now Lanzhou County) and draw a new county out of the narrow and fertile areas on both sides of the Yellow River to clarify its area.

In this way, the remaining ones from this new county and the west of the upper county are all considered Northland counties. In this way, Northland County has changed from a border county with a blurred northwest border to an inland county with other counties adjacent to all directions.

Guan Yu also thought this was feasible. The matter of "please ask Liu Bei to personally issue a Wang Ling to negotiate with Hu Chuquan" was already done without Zhuge Liang reminding Guan Yu. As for the later demarcation and establishment of a new county, Guan Yu quickly evaluated it and gave Liu Bei a statement that day, and it is estimated that there will be a reply by the end of February.

Guan Yu also discussed the new county name with Li Su, adopted Li Su's suggestion and called Yinchuan County.

In addition to these attempts to check and fill in the gaps that prevent the barbarians from quarreling, Zhuge Liang also suggested that further cooperation with Huchuquan. For example, when Ma Chao took Yinchuan County, Huchuquan also launched some northern expeditions to seize the grasslands in the east, and eliminated the pressure from the pseudo-Southern Xiongnu Chanyu on the Yinchuan Basin.

Hu Chuquan must agree to this kind of cooperation, because the two sides went north to seize territory together, and the military pressure on Hu Chuquan would be slightly restrained, and those troops dealing with Ma Chao can also be equivalent to the pressure that Hu Chuquan was less under.

During the cooperation process, Zhuge Liang also suggested that more profit exchanges could be carried out, but these are relatively long-term and may not be in a hurry to implement them at the moment. It is nothing more than Zhuge Liang's suggestion:

"Huchuquan's nephew, Liu Bao, the son of former Chanyu Yufuluo, is now ten years old. He can help Huchuquan continue his northern expedition. This year, he regained some of Shuofang, Shangjun, Yunzhong, Wuyuan and other places occupied by the pseudo-Southern Xiongnu Chanyu, and continued to move Huchuquan north to these counties. Then he assigned the Beidi county that he had occupied two years ago to Liu Bao to inherit his brother Yufuluo's lineage."

This suggestion is equivalent to admitting that the Southern Xiongnu could nominally restore more homelands, but in fact it was divided by the Han Dynasty's "recommendation order". Zhuge Liang's suggestion was actually similar to Cao Cao's policy of gradually eroding the Southern Xiongnu in history. Cao Cao finally divided the Southern Xiongnu into five tribes, actually occupying five counties in Hetao, one in each county, and then set up Han officials to serve as Sima to exercise the power to supervise the Southern Xiongnu tribes.

Guan Yu also admired Zhuge Liang's suggestion very much, but he felt embarrassed to implement it for a while, and believed that it was not a good opportunity to force Hu Chuquan to submit further, and he actually wanted to worship him, but whether he could put it depends on his strength.

Liu Bei is still incomparable to Cao Cao's sphere of influence in the late history.

In history, Cao Cao dismembered Hu Chuquan in 215. He killed Ma Teng and Zhang Lu. He was the peak of Cao Cao's prestige and power in his life, unifying the entire north. (That was Cao Cao's peak, because Liu Bei turned it back shortly after he conquered Zhang Lu's Hanzhong. Cao Cao's territory happened to be the largest at that point)

Now in the north, Liu Bei and Yuan Shao are still standing together, one east and another, Hu Chuquan is still sandwiched between Liu Bei and Yuan Shao. If Hu Chuquan is forced to act like "My father and my brother support the Han Dynasty for the sake of the late King of Yan Liu Yu" and surrender to the successor King of Yan Liu He, who was supported by Yuan Shao, will be troublesome.

Therefore, Guan Yu questioned this: It is good to further move the ban and Tuenhu Chuquan, but you can't act too quickly and be tempted. You should also give some benefits. At least on the surface it is equivalent exchange, and you cannot oppress him.

Zhuge Liang's answer to this question was also very straightforward: Huchuquan can monopolize the right to trade cotton in the grassland area, and induce Huchuquan to voluntarily give up Beidi County after conquering the new county. At the same time, production can be expanded this year. At that time, a batch of cotton jackets in Huchuquan are directly reinforced, and Mr. Ma Chao said that Huchuquan knows that the troops have cotton jackets in winter and how much combat capability can be improved in winter, which will help him to attack the remaining territory of the pseudo-Shanyu at that time.

In this way, cotton-padded jackets are "strategic materials to improve combat effectiveness and productivity", and can directly help Huchuquan expand its territory, and there is no need to worry that he doesn't want it.

After listening to this, Guan Yu thought about it again and again and adopted this opinion.

After adopting it, Guan Yu had to hold a banquet to show his feelings. He originally just welcomed Li Su, but now of course he treats with Zhuge Liang. Who makes Guan Yu admire those who have real talents and knowledge? He just doesn't like to learn from the second generation and the third generation.

Zhuge Liang knew how to behave and didn't take much credit. He just regarded it as a kind of life experience.

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A few days later, Li Su, Zhuge Liang and his party stayed in Lanzhou City temporarily, helping to counsel military aircraft every day to check for omissions and check the situation (for Zhuge Liang, it was a great experience). After all, I had been tiring from Chang'an after rushing thousands of miles, so I should take a break and do something.

Guan Yu adjusted the combat plans of Wang Ping, Zhang Ren and Ma Chao in accordance with the plans of Li Su and Zhuge Liang, and carried out the conquest operations in Huangzhong and Yinchuan Basins steadily.

Because the distance is different, Wang Ping was the first to open this journey.

On February 16th, the fourth day after Li Su, Zhuge Liang and his party arrived in Lanzhou, Wang Ping, with five thousand Qingqiang Mountain soldiers and three thousand cavalry (the cavalry was directly led by Zhang Ren), first advanced from Poqiang County in Huangzhong to Anyi County, and fought a little, defeating several small Di tribes to establish their authority, killing and injuring more than 2,000 Di militias.

The purpose of the battle is also very clear, to deter the local Di tribe and Xianling Qiang know that "the Han troops are back again, and last year's incident is not over", not to really attack the city.

The tribes that were attacked were also selected by the target of the vassal of the Di king Yang Qianwan who was killed by Guan Yu last year, and Zhuge Liang helped to advise. Anyway, if you offend them, you will offend them completely and use their heads to show your military power.

After a small battle, Wang Ping made a special channel and expressed his willingness to give a few days to give those tribes that had some trouble with the dead Yang Qianwan, and take the initiative to cooperate with the Han court.

At the same time, Wang Ping did not speak vernacularly, but really gave sweet dates. He brought a caravan caravan and caravans to directly give cotton seeds, and also provided some samples of cotton jackets and cotton cloth for purchase by the Di tribe, or took out a small amount as gifts to the chiefs and barbarian kings.

In just two or three days after the news was released, some Di tribes and Xianling Qiang tribes took the bait. The largest barbarian king was the chief of the second largest tribe of the local Di tribe, named Lei Ding.

This Lei Ding is also the number one figure in Huangzhong. In history, together with Yang Qianwan, he responded to Ma Chao when Cao Cao fought with Ma Chao, but the same thing is true. These barbarian kings actually encountered a Han force that wanted to establish a rule in the local area, and they would oppose who they would oppose. It is not said that they were loyal to the Han Dynasty because they opposed Cao Cao in history.

The relationship between him and Yang Ju and Yang Qianwan and his father and son is not good, but it is quite subtle. When there is no external threat, he will also compete for the status of the local Di tribe.

Now seeing how bad Yang Qianwan's tribe and his vassals ended, and Wang Ping brought almost three times the conquest force this time (Last year, because the main force was taken away by Ma Chao and beat Guo Si, Wang Ping had only 3,000 people along the way), of course, Lei Ding knew that he was at least willing to contribute to Xiping, the political center of the Huangzhong region.

Wang Ping also fulfilled Zhao'an's previous promise, gave Leiding a large number of cotton seeds, as well as some exquisite agricultural equipment made by the Han people, and also sold a small amount of amphibious caravan carrying these goods to Leiding at a discount.

Lei Ding knew the benefits of cotton. Before the spring plowing season ended in February, he hurriedly arranged for the elderly and women in the tribe to plow out suitable plots and plant all the idle land with good irrigation conditions on cotton.

In exchange, Lei Ding expressed his help to help Wang Ping as a front pawn, and used his subordinates to attack the vanguard, so that Wang Ping would continue to go upstream and pacify the upstream of the Huangshui River.

For more than ten days after that, Wang Ping fought steadily along the Huangshui River, and successively captured Linqiang and Longyi, and fought to the source of the Huangshui River, expanding the Han Dynasty's rule in Huangzhong to the best state in history, which was equal to the territory during the reign of Emperor Zhang of Han and Emperor Han.

During this process, Wang Ping's troops beheaded more than 4,000 levels, subdued more than a dozen tribes, annihilated three tribes, and Leiding's Di troops also helped kill thousands of dead-hard Xianling Qiang.
Chapter completed!