Wait, please don't call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 344 Official: Our Han family is invincible in the world!

"Lord Yan, are you exaggerating and using empty words?"

"The Wuhuan and Xianbei tribes are numerous and spread all over the northern land of the Han Dynasty. They graze their livestock both inside and outside the Great Wall, and have not caused much trouble in the past hundred years."

"Since the Yin, Zhou, and Qin dynasties, the barbarians have harassed the border counties. The strong ones will always rob and rob, while the weak ones will always be submissive. Now that the king is worshipping the ancestral temple and reviving the country, he will surely usher in a prosperous era. Why should the dignified Han family be afraid of the barbarians?"

"No matter how strong the Xianbei are, they cannot catch up with the Xiongnu of the past. Anyone who dares to openly offend the mighty Han will be punished no matter how far away they are!"

The head of the Fanyang Li clan frowned and listened for a long time. Finally, he could not help but straighten his back. He first bowed to the King of Han, then turned around and spoke frankly to Yan Rou.

Having said this, he shook his head, looking quite complacent.

He is not bragging. Since the Han Dynasty established the world, it has fought against all the barbarians around it. When the Xiongnu was strong, they invaded the country repeatedly. Emperor Xiaowen and Emperor Xiaojing accumulated national strength. When Emperor Xiaowu came to power, the Han army attacked everywhere, swept the northern desert, defeated the Xiongnu, swallowed up the Baiyue, destroyed Korea, and threatened the Western Regions, making it so that no one in the world dared to look down on the Han Dynasty.

Just as Marquis Yi Yang said: The Han army is approaching, do not dare to move. If you move, your country will be destroyed!
With the deterrence accumulated by the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, which barbarian would dare to break away from the Han Dynasty and go to war with it? The reason why the Xianbei was so powerful was that they took advantage of the Han Dynasty's weakness.

Now that the King of Han has risen up and revived the Han Dynasty, it won't be long before he can unify the world again and restore the country.

If any Hu people dare to rebel, the worst that can happen is, as Duan Xing said, we can just send troops to cut off their roots and massacre all the Hu tribes we encounter. If we want to become a serious threat, we just need to see whether they reproduce faster or the Han army can kill them faster.

The head of the Fanyang Li clan spoke in a loud voice, so that everyone present could hear it clearly.

The powerful families such as the Zu family of Qiu County, the Yuan family of Gaoyang, the Xu family, the Suga family of Liwu, the Zhao family of Gu'an, and the Huo family could not help but nod in agreement.

They were not as pedantic as the gentry in the Central Plains. They were accustomed to bloody killings. Scholars all over the world were opposed to the massacre, but the nobles in the border counties thought it was normal.

It is also the most worry-free and labor-saving approach, and it saves the court money.

After all, the fortresses of the various powerful families in Youzhou were not built in vain. They could not defend against the Han army that was good at siege cities, but it was very easy to defend against the barbarians and Hu people who lacked means. If the enemy had the guts, they could just attack on horseback.

Hearing that everyone in the hall didn't care about the Hu people, only a few people, including the King of Han, were frowning and thinking.

This made Yan Rou feel relieved. It didn't matter much if others looked down on the Hu people. But if the King of Han also looked down on them, then it would be a big problem.

Yan Rou bowed to Liu Bei, then turned around and looked at everyone. He smiled gently, and bowed to the nobles of Zhuo County without being humble or arrogant. Then he explained loudly: "As you can see, the various tribes of the Hu people are greedy, fierce and cruel. They have been bordering China for a thousand years. Even a benevolent monarch cannot educate and tame their hearts."

"However, the barbarians could not be eradicated or killed. In the Yin Dynasty, the Guifang rebelled, and in the Zhou Dynasty, the Rongdi caused trouble. In the Spring and Autumn Period, there were also the Yiqu and Shanrong. When the First Emperor unified the world, he annexed the Baiyue in the south and drove away the Xiongnu in the north, so that he no longer had to worry about the four barbarians."

"It's a pity that the achievements were limited to one generation. In the early Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu rose up. Emperor Gaozu was trapped at Baideng. Emperor Xiaowen's army was at Bashang. The Hu people plundered everywhere, and the people suffered greatly."

"After Emperor Guangwu restored the Han Dynasty, he moved the barbarians to the empty lands inland to live with the Han people. Several decades later, the barbarians multiplied and relied on their wealth and strength to not change their minds, and often invaded and rebelled again.

To this day, the barbarians have occupied Liangzhou, Yongzhou, Bingzhou, and Youzhou. Apart from these, Yangzhou, Jiaozhou, Jingzhou, and Yizhou are all in trouble. If the Han family only kills them, the hatred will only deepen. There is Mobei to escape to the north, and there are steep mountains and miasma in the south. How can we kill them all?"

Having said that, Yan Rou paused for a moment to see if anyone would stand up and offer a good suggestion to refute him.

After waiting for a long time, no one responded, which made her feel disappointed. Yan Rou looked at the head of the Fanyang Li clan, but he turned his head away in embarrassment.

What solution did he have? If it could be easily solved, the Han people would not have thought of moving the Huns inland and keeping them under their own surveillance.

If too much killing was done, the Huns would surely flee upon hearing the news. At that time, they would have to go south to plunder the grasslands year after year. It would be too risky to counterattack outside the border. Just not getting lost on the grassland would be enough to stump a lot of generals and captains.

The Han army has not gone beyond the border for many years. Who has experience in grassland warfare?

If it were an ordinary general, the outcome would be failure at best, or even the entire army would be wiped out.

It is undoubtedly difficult to find the hiding Hu people in the vast grassland, not to mention that the transportation of food and fodder is extremely inconvenient. According to the previous experience of the Han army going out of the border, it is often when the food and fodder are about to be exhausted that they encounter the main force of the Hu people.

Who in the world today dares to compare himself to Wei and Huo and sweep across the northern desert for the Han Dynasty?

The head of the Fanyang Li clan cursed in his heart.

Why did this brat Yan Rou keep staring at him, attracting the king's attention?

Wouldn't this make the King of Han think that I have no ideas and no words to say?
Once the impression is ruined, how can Li achieve success?

Perhaps feeling that she was being a little aggressive, Yan Rou shook her head and looked away.

He took a few steps forward, raised his hand and said politely: "Your Majesty is a wise ruler of the Han Dynasty. You must take precautions against disasters. Since the Han Dynasty relocated the Xiongnu and Qiang peoples, they have suffered from their harm for a long time. You must not relocate them again. Otherwise, the enemy will attack from the heart and harm from the elbows and armpits, and the disease will be difficult to cure."

"For now, the Xiongnu are fighting among themselves, and so are the Xianbei. Only the Wuhuan have won the hearts of many tribes. Your Majesty should first attack the Wuhuan, destroy their Chanyu, recruit them for your own use, treat them with leniency and discipline them with strictness, and then order them to attack the Xianbei, destroy the most powerful Kebi Neng and Budugen, Suli, Mijia, Queji and other tribes, and support other Xianbei leaders."

"The Han Dynasty unified the scattered Xianbei tribes into a unified whole, and then treated them with leniency and relief, strictly controlled armor and bows, and then plotted against each other and made them enemies."

"At this time, we have already collected 100,000 cavalry from the Xianbei and Wuhuan. If we continue to conquer the Xiongnu and Qiang tribes, we will definitely make sure that they have no place to stand and no place to escape."

"All of the above are good strategies that Rou has devised for the king to conquer the border counties."

Yan Rou took a step back, bowed and said.

On his way here, he kept thinking about what strategies he could bring to the King of Han that would make the King of Han value him.

After much thought, he decided to use his expertise in the Wuhuan and Xianbei tribes to impress the King of Han.

In Yan Rou's strategy, although he dealt harshly with the Xianbei, he was more worried about the Xiongnu. He was afraid that they would escape from the outside of the Great Wall and revive. So he had to rely on the Wuhuan and Xianbei to wipe out the Xiongnu nobles together.

Both the Wuhuan and the Xianbei were descendants of the Donghu. They could use the barbarians to control the barbarians. When the Han cavalry became strong, they could turn around and register them as civilians, abolish the aristocracy, and make use of them.

(End of this chapter)