Xuande

Chapter 694 Restoring the Rule of the Western Regions
When he entered the General's Mansion with his head in his hands, Dong Zhuo still secretly felt that his pursuit of Jiuqing's position was too strong, so strong that he even lost his mind.

As long as you can think about gains and losses a little rationally before, you won't realize that you have lost all your freedom and right to choose when things are irreversible.

Right now, he has no choice but to apologize.

So he gave up his dignity in front of Liu Bei, bowed down to Liu Bei in a rather humble manner, and presented Li Jue's head as a sign of submission.

"Li Jue is the chief culprit of everything. I have already executed him. I ask the general to forgive me for my previous mistakes and give me a chance to reform."

Liu Bei looked at Dong Zhuo's low profile, and the corners of his mouth slowly curled up.

After a moment of silence, he stood up, walked up to Dong Zhuo, leaned over and helped him up.

"Why does Zhongying do this? This matter is a disaster for you and me. It's a sudden disaster. Everyone doesn't want to go to this point, but for the sake of the long-term and for your position as Jiuqing, this is a necessary sacrifice. There is no need to sacrifice yourself. responsibility.

But Zhong Ying, you have to learn a lesson from this matter. This is not Bingzhou, not Liangzhou, not Xuzhou, but Luoyang. On top of you.

You can be domineering in other places, but in Luoyang, even I dare not do it, let alone you?This time you dismissed the army and got their understanding, the position of Da Honglu was preserved, but if you commit another crime later, things may not be certain.

So, the more backward.The more cautious you are in your words and deeds, the more I came to Luoyang with great ambitions, but these years of polishing have also worn me out of vigor, and now I am just a vegetarian meal, barely maintaining the court. "

Dong Zhuo nodded with a sad face, while secretly thinking in his heart, I believe you, bastard, what you say is better than what you sing, if I believe you, I will be your grandson!
Are you still cautious?

Are you still losing your spirit?

Are you still a vegetarian?

How many local tyrants and wealthy households have been killed by a fucking slave restriction?
This is a national policy!

As far as this national policy is implemented in place, how many people died and how many people were frightened to death?
Do you really think I don't know anything? !
Dong Zhuo really wanted to slap Liu Bei hard—before he slapped me with envoys and generals, but now, he slaps Zhong Ying.

My special brew is more than 20 years older than you!I can be your father now!
Of course, Dong Zhuo only dared to think about this kind of words in his heart, and never dared to really say it, unless he wanted to die.

Facing Liu Bei's reassurance, Dong Zhuo showed the appearance of a good student who knew his mistakes and corrected them. He sincerely admitted his mistakes to Liu Bei, saying that he would be absolutely cautious in his words and deeds in the future, and would never violate any laws and regulations.

As long as he can continue to be this big honglu.

Of course, Dong Zhuo has now lost his army and lost his greatest support, so he more or less feels that he should be able to get some compensation.

He is more or less concerned about the embarrassing situation of Da Honglu's position until now, and he is more concerned about the situation without diplomacy. He doesn't want to be a middle-aged thousand stone who only takes money and doesn't do work.

This is of course very cool for people who lie flat, but Dong Zhuo doesn't want to lie flat now, even if he wants to lie flat, it will be something after being a Sangong, isn't it?

"General, it's the first time for Zhuo to be in charge of Dahonghe's affairs, so I don't know much about it. Please ask the general to explain to Zhuo, what should be done for Dahonghe's position?"

Of course Liu Bei could hear the subtext in these words.

So he smiled.

"Da Honglu is one of the Nine Ministers, the position is very important, and the authority is also very important. The world was in chaos before, and the communication between the big man and the foreign countries was gradually interrupted. There was no news, but sooner or later the big man will recover. Interrupted exchanges must also continue.

I thought, since Zhongying assumed the position of Dahonghe, Dahan will start to manage the Western Regions again. The contacts between the countries in the Western Regions and Dahan have been cut off for many years. These things made the countries in the Western Regions resume their tribute to the Han Dynasty. "

"Countries in the Western Regions..."

Dong Zhuo pondered for a moment, feeling that this was really a matter.

Because when he was young, he had served as a garrison captain in the Western Regions, participated in the management and rule of the Western Regions by the Eastern Han regime, and had some understanding of the Western Regions.

However, with the gradual decline of the Eastern Han Dynasty, starting with the Yellow Turban Rebellion, the Eastern Han Dynasty gradually lost its management of the Western Regions, and Dong Zhuo never returned to the Western Regions.

Especially during the Liangzhou turmoil, the communication channels between the Luoyang court and the Western Regions were cut off, thus ending the rule and influence on the Western Regions. Although Liu Bei later stabilized Liangzhou, revived Liangzhou, and subdued the Qiang people, but The rule over the Western Regions was not restored.

His energy and all his resources are used to reorganize the mountains and rivers.

The Western Regions is a good place, but the operation of the Western Regions needs to be based on the premise of internal stability. Only when the internal stability is stabilized and the Han Empire starts again can the rule of the Western Regions be restored.

The conquest, development, and rule of new territories are essentially a manifestation of the overflow of a powerful country's national strength. If the national strength is insufficient, it cannot overflow, and it is meaningless to slap a swollen face to fill a fat person.

From the Yellow Turban Uprising in the sixth year of Guanghe to today, for a full ten years, the Han Empire essentially did not have the ability to resume its management of the Western Regions.

But at this moment, in July of the fourth year of Jian'an, the Han Empire has gradually regained its vitality under Liu Bei's management, and has gradually shown signs of restoring its national strength. Therefore, the preliminary management of the Western Regions can actually be restarted.

Not only to reassure Dong Zhuo a little, but Liu Bei really wants to restore his rule over the Western Regions.

Not only can it expand foreign markets, earn more profits, and restore its rule over the Western Regions, but it can also facilitate his final genocide against the remnants of the Xianbei in the central region and the Xianbei in the west.

He will never let this group of Xianbei people go, and he will wipe them out no matter what, and clean up the entire grassland, laying the foundation for the stability of the northern border for the next few hundred years.

At the same time, if you can continue to extend the country westward to Central Asia, you can also contact the Parthian Empire and the Guishuang Empire, and even further westward to Rome.

That's a very interesting thing.

It is precisely because of such expectations that during Liu Bei's rule of Liangzhou, he still maintained the situation of maintaining trade with the Western Regions.

(End of this chapter)