Waves at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 58 Cake
Protectorate of the Western Regions.

There was a heavy snowfall here yesterday, and the people in the mansion, who were originally calm, began to float again...

The main reason is that the snow fell very strangely, and it’s not yet winter in October, so such heavy snow can be regarded as very rare...

After the snow stopped, some rumors spread out of the Protectorate's Mansion, which was still in the adaptation period.

Most people in the Han Dynasty believed in prophecy. As long as there is a vision in the sky, there is room for it to be used. The rulers also love and hate it...

But the current new protector, Dong Zhuo, only hates this...

His predecessor, Zhang Wen, not only took away many civil servants, he didn't even leave him a single cavalryman!

The Western Region is vast, and if we want to manage the countries well, cavalry is indispensable, but now there are only [-] infantry of various types in its dry city, and the only [-] cavalry were brought by Dong Zhuo himself...

Not only are the countries in the Western Regions now ambiguous, but even the cities that the Han people have garrisoned are out of control!

Dong Zhuo even regretted coming here to protect the Western Regions...

"Who exactly said this! Go and find out!"

After Dong Zhuo read the investigation of rumors in the city reported by Li Su, his veins sprang up and he shouted loudly.

"My lord, don't worry, this matter is easy to solve!"

Dong Zhuo's long-lost familiar voice came from outside the door, which greatly relieved his restless mood.

"Hahaha, Wenyou came just in time, and the government is in a hurry, so I have to trouble Wenyou to handle it with full authority!"

"These are all matters of Confucianism, the lord has no worries, but there are other important matters now, and the lord urgently needs to decide...!"

After Li Ru finished speaking, he asked Li Su to leave the house with his personal guards, and waited until Dong Zhuo sat down before telling him what he discovered recently...

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This discovery can actually be regarded as a major mistake of Li Ru. After all, this is a situation that he did not realize and did not expect before planning Dong Zhuo to seize the post of the Western Regions. This situation will even be so serious that Dong will quickly lose the entire Western Regions...

Li Ru had originally dealt with the remaining matters of Wuwei County, so he asked Li Jue, Guo Si and others to take more than a thousand Feixiong troops and two thousand Qiang victory soldiers to escort a large amount of logistics supplies and set off to the Western Regions first, while he himself was left behind. In the end, slow action.

This is also to hide in the dark and observe the movements of all parties.

But after entering the Western Regions, he learned a great anecdote, coupled with Dong Zhuo's repeated urging, Li Ru hurried to the Duhu Mansion...

Of course, this anecdote is that he discovered the huge "cake" that has been hidden in the Protectorate of the Western Regions...

After arriving in Gancheng, before he had time to meet Dong Zhuo, Li Ru immediately interviewed several clerks who had been working for a long time, and only then did he know the exact number of this "cake"...

Only last year, the Duhu Mansion received money, food, goods, horses, gold and silver, etc., which after conversion was about 20 billion yuan!And this number is increasing every year!

But as far as he knows, the Duhu Mansion only pays hundreds of thousands of dollars in various materials to the imperial court every year...

With such a big gap, where did Zhang Wen, the former guardian, get it quietly...! ?

It's no wonder that Li Ru didn't notice it at all before, because the Han court had never benefited from the Western Regions, at most it had obtained some fine-bred war horses.

Even after General Ouyang set off to restore the Silk Road in the Western Regions, Li Ru believed that the interests of the trade routes had been taken up by merchants, and of course there were some local forces who cleverly set up checkpoints.

The result was unexpected...

Shocked, Li Ru continued to press and learned that Zhang Wen, the former general who conquered the West and the guardian of the Western Regions, had built a cavalry army of [-] cavalry by imitating the formation of the Dragon Cavalry Army with his huge income for more than ten years!
But now these cavalry troops have completely disappeared... What does this mean...! ?

After Li Ru told Dong Zhuo the information, Dong Zhuo almost dropped his jaw in shock...

"It can be said that God has helped me! This is the time when my Dong family is flourishing, hahaha!"

Dong Zhuo laughed wildly after realizing it, but he didn't notice where Zhang Wen's cavalry was going.

After all, he himself has a Flying Bear Army similar to the Dragon Cavalry Army. He knows that elite cavalry with luxurious equipment like this would consume about 84 stones of grain per year during wartime. Money, about twenty-one thousand dollars a year.

If there is no war, the cost can be reduced by half...

Even if you need to deduct various expenses from the income of 20 billion yuan, only half of it is enough to raise more than [-] elite cavalry!
At that time, even if he can't sweep the world, he can become the strongest local power of the Han... How can Dong Zhuo not be very excited!
"My lord, don't be too happy... Zhang Zhengxi had previously recruited [-] elite cavalry, but now he has disappeared, so we have to be on guard..."

Li Ru poured a basin of cold water on Dong Zhuo face to face.

"Furthermore, if the imperial court finds out about such great benefits, my lord may become a target of public criticism... Confucianism did not expect to know about this before. Please forgive me, my lord!"

"Now the imperial court doesn't know about it, but Wen You managed to keep hiding it. How can there be a theory of guilt...!"

"Your lord, you need to guard against extreme joy and sorrow. Zhang Zhengxi has been dormant for a long time, and now he resigns silently with just a piece of edict. It is very suspicious. We should investigate his plans carefully..."

Li Ru also calmed down while talking.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, but now the lord doesn't seem to care much about it. Such a big "cake" will naturally attract others to fight for it. If they are unlucky, their small boat will not be able to withstand strong winds and waves...

But now everything is relatively calm. After thinking about it for a while, Li Ru didn't make any progress, so he could only take a step forward.

Then he suggested to Dong Zhuo to send Li Su, Niu Fu, and Zhang Ji back to Wuwei, recruit Han soldiers and victorious soldiers to the Western Regions in order to expand the size of the Feixiong Army. After all, to stabilize the Western Regions and keep the interests at hand, force is necessary of.

In addition, everyone in the Western Regions is now waiting and watching, and there is no news about the income from previous years. Li Ru has to find out the specific situation, and then report to Dong Zhuo, so that he can lead the army to recover.

At present, the Feixiong army brought by Dong Zhuo plus the Qiang victorious soldiers also has tens of thousands of cavalry. If it is not for the few big countries in the Western Regions, Li Ru feels that force oppression is completely sufficient.

And isn't there still two thousand guest troops from Tongsi Kingdom?

"Hiss, by the way, there is still the Tongsi Kingdom! Is the Tongsi envoy that the lord met a few days ago still in the city?"

When Li Ru was planning his military power, he suddenly thought of Tongsi Kingdom, and he had an idea.

"It must still be there. I made an appointment with him yesterday, and I will have a banquet in the mansion a few days later. He has already agreed..."

Dong Zhuo was a little confused, but he still answered Li Ru.

"That's very good, Ru will go to meet him now, if there is an emergency in the future, Tongsi can be a big help...!"

(End of this chapter)