"If my subordinates were afraid of the dangerous journey and wanted to stay on the boundary of the Piao Kingdom, I wonder what would happen?"

Gou Xi asked tentatively.

When the messenger heard this, he narrowed his eyes. If it weren't for Gou Xi's favor just given the generous gift, he would have scolded him with a high attitude.

"General, I'm not to hide it. Your Majesty has already sent the military troops in Yizhou to Ningzhou in the south. There are at least 10,000 people, all of whom are well-armed military troops."

"Don't the general understand what this means?"

Gou Xi is not a fool, so of course he knows what this means.

Just like the messy situation in Ningzhou, there are only a few valuable cities in total.

More than 10,000 military troops were enough to guard them strictly.

Not to mention the Di Qiang tribes under Gou Xi, even if they all brought the people of the Piao Kingdom together, it would be difficult to threaten them.

If we cannot occupy several big cities in Ningzhou and only seize a few remote areas, we may not even be able to collect military supplies.

When Gou Xi thought of this, he immediately felt that the messenger in front of him was not an ordinary person.

It's definitely not as greedy as it shows.

I'm afraid it was Liu Yu who deliberately sent him to test him.

First, test your own wealth in the army, and second, test your intentions.

"After the envoy returns, he must report to His Majesty. I will lead his subordinates to spread their missions in foreign lands, and will never disappoint His Majesty."

Gou Xi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

The situation is better than others!

Even if I or my subordinates are unwilling to continue to recruit them, I have no way back.

Unless he completely turned against the Han army, he would become a barbarian like the Piao people.

And this is something Gou Xi and the others absolutely don't want it.

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It was two months later when Liu Yu learned about Gou Xi’s statement.

Liu Yu was still very satisfied with Gou Xi's statement of knowing the current affairs.

As for the situation on this road of conquest, Liu Yu is still relatively optimistic.

In history, many tribes of the Di Qiang went south from Longxi to Yizhou and to the northwest Yunnan, becoming an external force that merged into the local barbarians.

This shows that without strong logistics supplies, even if Gou Xi has a talented general, it will be difficult to resist the trend of extinction.

Only by obediently following the command can we have greater hope.

Liu Yu actually did not pay much attention to this matter.

After all, it is all on the border, and it is the border of a weak neighbor.

The Han army has always bullied people, not bullied them.

So naturally I don't care much.

What Liu Yu is most concerned about now is something that is called "large-scale construction" by all officials and scholars.

"Your Majesty, you have built a canal for thousands of miles along the way. There are hundreds of counties and counties that go by. It is really a waste of people. It is better to act slowly and build and dredge the water sections in Sili first?"

In the hall, Hua Xiu and other confidant ministers were admonishing each other.

"After Emperor Xiaowu sent someone to dredge, hundreds of years of experience have shown that if this canal that runs through the north and south is only built for a small section, it will be useless."

Faced with the doubts of a group of people, Liu Yu began to speak patiently.

That's right.

What Liu Yu called a large-scale construction was to build a canal that runs through the north and south!

In fact, it is just to build more ditches and waterways based on the predecessors.

Compared with the grand siege of the country that was built in history by the Grand Canal, Liu Yu's plan was just a small idea.

But even so, it is still shocking in the eyes of Gongsun Sheng, Hua Xiu and others.
Chapter completed!