Hu Chuquan and Fu Gan were fooled by Zhuge Liang, but they were not talking and laughing and fighting, but they were confused and felt that the establishment of Yinchuan County between Beidi County and Lanzhou County was completely ruled by the Hanzhong King's camp. They should not have any doubts at all, so they confused to accept this matter.

However, the issue of this mission is obviously far from over. Zhuge Liang quickly put forward his second mission:

"The brother of Shanyu, the late Shanyu Yufuluo's only son Liu Bao, was ten years old. Three years ago, Yufuluo was mourned early, and his orphan was young and unable to take charge of the ministers. The king submitted a letter to the court to ask Shanyu to be the position of father and brother.

But now, Liu Bao has a little understanding of personnel. The King of Hanzhong wants to ask the Shanyu to divide Beidi County into Liu Bao’s fiefdom next year, so that his descendants and descendants will serve as county magistrates. However, the court and the King of Hanzhong will never treat Shanyu badly. They will continue to cooperate with military strength and materials to help Shanyu completely regain the other four counties of Hetao. At that time, your descendants and Liu Bao’s descendants can be called Shanyu and will never violate each other."

Once this request was put forward, Hu Chuquan's disgust was naturally inevitable. After all, it was distributed to his nephew from his direct territory.

But it was hard to refuse this matter directly. Although Hu Chuquan was a Hun and had a little study, he also knew that Liu Bei had the initiative in this matter. If he refused directly, Liu Bei might help Liu Bao get back his things at a discount and call on the old subordinates of the Southern Xiongnu to join Liu Bao.

At that time, it would be another round of self-killing within the Southern Xiongnu due to the struggle for power and throne, and it would be easier for the Han people to control them. Instead of this, it would be better to unite in the external world and destroy the fake thieves who usurped their father Qiang Qu Shanyu first, and then consider the possibility of brothers fighting against each other.

After all, it has only been more than three years since Yu Fuluo died of illness, and the Southern Xiongnu also developed under the surveillance of Liu Bei. In the past three years, Huchuquan could not even do the small actions of "purging generals who were loyal to their deceased brothers". As soon as Liu Bei did, he would interfere with him.

Therefore, it is also inevitable that it will gradually become a state similar to the fact that Cao Cao divided the five Hetao counties to the Xiongnu in history.

Liu Bei is only the first step now, and his eating habits are not ugly, and he also possesses the principles of law.

Moreover, because this problem is Hu Chuquan's family affairs, it is the distribution of interests between Hu Chuquan's branch and Yu Fuluo's branch, and Fu Gan is not good at talking too much. After both sides hesitated for a while, Hu Chuquan whispered a few words to Fu Gan. Fu Gan thought of a way and reluctantly negotiated with Zhuge Liang:

"Zhuge Lingshi, the order of King Hanzhong, is indeed reasonable. However, in this chaotic autumn, some things still need to be discussed in a long time. Now the Shanyu has only regained the entire territory of Beidi County and returned Beidi County to Liu Bao at once, which is not conducive to concentrating his efforts to continue to explore the north."

Regarding this question, Zhuge Liang instantly replied: "Of course not now. Isn't this saying that after the king helped the Shanyu seize more footholds, Is it necessary to redistribute the Beidi County? And my arrival this time also brought the king's kindness, because General Ma Chao, the Anxi general, will continue the northern expedition from Yinchuan County this year, assisting the Shanyu in sharing pressure and seizing more spheres of influence."

Zhuge Liang said this, Huchuquan's resistance temporarily subsided a little. In fact, after Ma Chao occupied the most plump grassland in Hetao in Yinchuan Basin, the Yinchuan Basin, offended the Xianbei, Hexi Qiang, and the pseudo-Huns. Even if Ma Chao wanted to "stop this", it would be impossible.

At that time, the three tribes will definitely join forces to take revenge, so no matter what, Ma Chao will have to fight another counterattack against the three tribes coalition forces to defend the fruits he swallowed.

But when Zhuge Liang said, the matter changed its flavor and became that Ma Chao was very righteous, helping Huchuquan to eliminate the enemy and allowing Huchuquan to develop into the northern desert grassland. Even if Huchuquan sends troops to fight the coalition forces at that time, he will no longer help Ma Chao, but to help himself.

In addition, some people may find it strange: "Huchuquan succeeded in the Northern Expedition with Liu Bei two years ago and was enfeoffed to Beidi County. Why did it take two years to farm and develop, but there was only one Beidi County?" He believes that Huchuquan has developed too slowly.

But in fact, this is not slow, because the Beidi County that was accepted when Li Jue was destroyed two years ago was only Beidi County that maintained the agricultural civilization rule in the Han Dynasty, and only a few counties such as Fuping County.

It is equivalent to the southernmost corner of Beidi County during its heyday, and its area is less than 20% of Beidi County's heyday. As mentioned earlier, Beidi County in its heyday state accounts for 40% of the entire Hetao area and is very large.

If we only count the area, the prosperous Beidi County is larger than Sanfu (Jingzhao, Fengyi, Fufeng), but they are all worthless grassland plateaus (the Loess Plateau in later generations. The Loess Plateau in northern Shaanxi belongs to Shangjun, and the Loess Plateau in Gan and Ning belongs to the North).

Hu Chuquan was indeed a little grateful for being fooled: it turned out that Ma Chao was here to help him.

He thought for a while and asked, "I wonder how General Ma will cooperate with our army to help us recover more lost territory? If this is true, we can help us recover the remaining four counties of Hetao within one or two years. The great kindness of the King of Hanzhong will never be forgotten. Even if our descendants will be county magistrates in Hetao for generations in the future and respect the king, we will never dare to have extravagant hopes."

Zhuge Liang: "Then you are ready to send troops. General Ma may launch further pursuit of the remnants of the Qiang tribes in Hexi, the Xianbei Bugendu, and the pseudo-Huns' Fortresses, Guduhou, the Marquis of Gudu, in May and June.

The Qiangs in Hexi have nothing to do with you, but Bu Gendu and the Marquis of the Lu Gu Du are in Shuofang, and Wuyuan will compete with you. As long as they are severely damaged, the Shanyu will continue to pursue the north and die in the north and recapture the Wuyuan of Shuofang. It is not a matter of raising hands? Even Yunzhong County may be involved.

However, Yunzhong County is the northeastern county of the five Hetao counties, close to Bingzhou and bordering Yuan Shao's territory. The King of Hanzhong can only guarantee that he promised you to go to Yunzhong, which does not mean that Yuan Shao will send Bingzhou Lu Bu to take advantage of the situation to rob. If the main forces of the pseudo-Huns such as the Marquis of the Lost Gudu are annihilated, you will be slow and will be robbed by Lu Bu, it will be nothing to do."

After being reminded by Zhuge Liang, Hu Chuquan also realized that this was not the only world where three parties competed for Hetao. Not only did Liu Bei send Ma Chao to come, but Yuan Shao might also have to further expand his territory.

After Yuan Shao fought with Cao Cao last year, he digested his new territory and there was no other war to fight this year. As long as Yuan Shao wanted to expand, he could only attack Yunzhong in the northeast corner of Hetao.

Hu Chuquan sorted out his mind and finally found that a county had been missed and said suspiciously: "Isn't there another county in the five Hetao counties? The Guizhang didn't mention it just now, so it can be considered that our army was allowed to recover it?"

Zhuge Liang: "There are orders and orders. The king hopes that you will pursue the Marquis of the Lotus Gudu at that time and take the Wuyuan of Shuofang first. As for Shangjun, perhaps General Zhang from Hedong will cross Hexi to help you recover from above Hukou.

The land of Shangjun is not as good as Shuofang, and it can still be farmed and cultivated. It is suitable for the Han people to farm. If you want to come, you must farm and pay taxes, obey the dispatch, and not over-grazing."

The last condition was actually what Li Su suggested to him talk about before Zhuge Liang set off.

Shangjun is the area of ​​northern Shaanxi in later generations. Strictly speaking, it can be used as an agricultural area. After all, Yan'an and Nanniwan can also be developed by farming.

However, the country must plan production in a restrained manner, and cannot over-cut and over-grazing cannot destroy the ecology. Otherwise, the consequences in history will be obvious

When the Tang Dynasty was destroyed, northern Shaanxi became the Loess Plateau. By the Song Dynasty, let alone the old place of Shangjun, even Fengyi County among the three servants and the northern half of Anding County in the west became the Loess Plateau.

The further impact of this destruction is that after the destruction of the late Tang and Five Dynasties in history, the entire Guanzhong became a barren and poor place for a thousand years, and the economic collapse caused by ecological destruction was too serious.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, Shangjun did not develop much, mainly because the border between Shangjun and Fengyi County was the Hukou Waterfall in the middle reaches of the Yellow River. Therefore, the Yellow River was shipped to the border between Fengyi and Shangjun. Just to get above the Hukou Waterfall, it was not cost-effective to rebuild ships and carry out inland shipping in the fields and agricultural settlements along the Yellow River in Shangjun.

Historically, in the middle of the Warring States Period, Shangjun belonged to the Hexi period of Wei State (Wu Qi helped Wei State develop), and was more prosperous.

Because the Wei people had a lot of fertile land to be developed on the other side of the Yellow River, and there were inland shipping such as Fen River in Hedong. After the ships of the Wei people drove from Fen River into the Yellow River, they could take into account the development of Hexi land above the Hukou Waterfall. Therefore, the Wei people's development of Shangjun is lower than that of the Qin people.

Nowadays, the Hedong land north to the Fenshui River Basin was recaptured by Zhang Fei, the culprit of the Baibo thief, Empress Dowager Guo, who killed the Baibo thief last year. Therefore, Zhang Fei had the base area before Wu Qi in history before the Wei Dynasty opened up Hexi. He imitated the story of Wu Qi and crossed the Yellow River to develop Shangjun. The rhythm was very perfect, and it was cheaper than any Han farming warlord who started from other bases.

Perhaps, the remaining four counties of Hetao County Hu people will be hit by Ma Chao's downstream from the upper reaches of the Yellow River, and Zhang Fei will be hit by the upstream from the middle reaches of the Yellow River. There is Huchuquan in the plateau grassland area where there is no Yellow River in the middle, and Huchuquan and all the cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu who are returning to the Han Dynasty will sweep north. At the east bank of the Yellow River at the northeast corner, Bingzhou defense envoy Lu Bu is here to grab the territory.

Bu Gendu and the Marquis of the Forbidden Gudu are waiting to face Ma Chao, Zhang Fei, Chuquan, Lu Bu's four-way beatings. Who made the Han Dynasty and the emperor live well? The princes have no excuse to launch a civil war? On the eve of the civil war, the only one vent of the anger of Liu Bei and Yuan Shao was left with the anger of the two strongest princes. Only this one can absorb "surplus investment". Being beaten is a little more favorable, and there is nothing to do.

The same thing is said: If you hit the wind, even a pig can fly into the sky. Excessive hot money and excessive military strength are the same. Companies with excessive hot money will be smashed by hot money, and the excess of hot military strength will be beaten by four armies.

However, when Huchuquan saw Zhuge Liang find excuses to take advantage of the land in the east and west, he felt depressed. If this continues, Liu Bao was completely transformed into an official of the Han Dynasty by Liu Bei. The Beidi County was equivalent to being transformed into a Hun. If Shangjun falls into Zhang Fei's hands, he will also be transformed into the Huns. At that time, the so-called five Hetao counties will continue to maintain the nomadic lifestyle of the Huns.

However, Zhuge Liang easily noticed his emotions and gave him another benefit, which was not in vain:

"Before I went on a mission, the king said that as long as you accept this condition, your subordinates can monopolize the privilege of trading scarce materials such as cotton and tea on the grassland in the future. Moreover, although General Zhang will fight in person at that time, in order to help you eliminate the main force of the enemy in advance, you can provide your subordinates with 50,000 sets of cotton jackets afterwards.

These things have improved the efficiency of winter pursuit after the summer and autumn battle. Last winter, the remnants of Guo Si were sprinting on the beach of Juyan and could not cross the country, which was not due to the harsh climate. However, Ma Anxi was able to rush for thousands of miles and chase Guo Si in the snow, which was not unrelated to the military's equipment and cotton jackets.

If you have this thing, then it will be winter, and Lu Bu's Bingzhou soldiers will not be able to penetrate Shuofang in winter, but you can cross Yinshan in winter. Isn't this advantage worth a promise from Shangjun? Besides, Shangjun was not defeated by your soldiers."

Zhuge Liang offered so many material assistance conditions, and Hu Chuquan finally accepted it in full.

But in fact, Zhuge Liang still used information asymmetry to take a lot of cheap cotton cloth was launched in the foreign trade market among the princes, and this was the first year. So the market price of cotton cloth this year is very exaggerated, three thousand yuan per piece.

Just like when Kuanbian Shu brocade appeared in the foreign trade market, it was obvious that it only sold six or seven thousand yuan in Shu, but it could be worth more than 10,000 yuan on Eryuan's territory. However, the current demand for cotton cloth is higher, because cotton cloth and cotton wool make cotton jackets can form a strategic advantage for winter strategic maneuver in the northern region.

However, if the production of cotton cloth increases or is put on the market on a large scale, this thing will still fall quickly. After all, the cost of cotton is very low. It would be good to have 30% of the low-end silk fabrics after popularization, and it will be even lower in the future.

If Li Su really bought the cotton cloth that could make 50,000 sets of cotton jackets, it would be about 20,000 pieces, and sold them all, the market price would definitely fall. At that time, a five-foot-wide cloth would not be able to be kept for two thousand yuan per piece.

But he did not put it on the market and used the current market price as aid to Huchuquan. A barbarian like Huchuquan who does not understand economics and mathematics just assumed that he had occupied "a pair of worth three thousand yuan" to evaluate his own profits and give exchange conditions.

This is just like Li Su sold 35,000 wide Shu brocade for Sun Jian and bought a Changsha County. It was just that Shangjun was poorer, and Yan'an was much cheaper than Changsha.

Hu Chuquan felt that he had taken a big advantage. Sheng Yi firmly expressed that he accepted Zhuge Liang's opinions and held a banquet to entertain Zhuge Liang. He was even higher than the negotiation base price that Zhuge Liang had received before coming, and Hu Chuquan didn't know it.

Dian Wei was alert to observing the movement outside the curtain of the big tent. He was so idle that he faded out of the birds. When the talk was finally over, he saw Hu Chuquan taking advantage of his expression and kindness to invite Zhuge Liang to drink and eat mutton. Dian Wei was also surprised.

"The level of Zhuge Lingshi's mission is no less than that of the Right General. Although he didn't hear what they were talking about, the Huns seemed to be very convinced... Fortunately, I didn't look down on him on the way." Dian Wei thought to himself, and also left the idea of ​​spreading Zhuge Liang's depressed joke after he went back, and pretended that nothing had happened.
Chapter completed!