The big man has a living father

Chapter 254 (Big Chapter) Super Expansion

There is really nothing wrong with what Huo Hai said.

How was it discussed at the beginning? As the leader of Guliang School, Sima Qian fought for the benefit of Guliang School, which was the work of ambassador, and one had to learn Guliang School to do it.

Of course, these are civil servants among the ambassadors, also called Confucian missionaries.

The military officers among the ambassadors must be the sons of officials or ministers, and they can only take up the position after learning aristocratic etiquette.

These two jobs are reserved jobs intentionally.

One was left to the Confucian scholars of Guliang School, and the other was left to the useless son of the nobility.

To put it bluntly, "You are not good at anything, but here is a hard job. If you do it, you will not only maintain the glory of your ancestors, but even bring honor to your family. Do you want to do it?"

What? You can't do anything, and you still cherish your life when I give you a chance?

The Han Dynasty has no shortage of useless Confucian scholars and worthless aristocratic sons. You are timid, but there are many who are brave.

But don't say that the Han Dynasty didn't give you a chance. The Han Dynasty gave you a chance, but you backed down. Don't say that the emperor and the court didn't treat you well.

Therefore, anyone who is willing to go has already made mental preparations.

And those who didn't escape back along the way were able to truly walk out of the border.

I have already made up my mind.

These determined people are more desperate than those who throw everything into pieces.

Because it was too far from Chang'an through the Western Regions and over the Pamir Mountains.

These people who are used to a good life get angrier and angrier the further they walk. The angrier they get the more they walk.

It was OK when I was in the Western Regions. There were brothels opened by people who had gone there to make a living. There was nothing you could want in the entire Western Regions. But the prices were high. It was a complete den of money.

But after crossing the Pamir Mountains, there was no place to spend the money.

After crossing the Pamir Mountains, these people wanted to catch a few unconvinced foreigners on the spot and stab them to vent their anger.

However, this long journey was both a torture and a test for them.

As a true soldier, the deputy could persuade them with just one word.

"I have endured for a whole year. I only need to endure for a few more days and I will be able to make a contribution!"

"If you start trouble now, you will have wasted a year of hard work. Wait a few days until the time is right and then you can make a marquis, young master!"

After all, I have walked here from Chang'an, so I can hold back my anger no matter how angry I am, because I'm used to it along the way.

Therefore, from the very beginning, Huo Hai designed these two positions with a targeted purpose.

When they arrived at the place, these young masters suddenly realized that after they were accustomed to forbearance and had the skills taught by school, they crushed their opponents with their style and wisdom.

In terms of pure brain computing speed, I am naturally better than these people.

It will create a kind of pleasure, the pleasure of a cat teasing a mouse. The longer you hold it in, the more you can imagine how great it will be to succeed.

That’s right, they are all Guliang scholars trained in the Ambassador College with the “Morality” course. They are all the moral lowlands of the Han Dynasty and all of them are old coins.

The children of the nobility, who were trained in an aristocratic academy with only one "etiquette" course, are all psychopaths.

Who told them to be born with such conditions? Otherwise, they wouldn't be here.

Coming here is like going through several nets and screening out the right person. Even if you are not suitable, you will be a perverted and compatible Ditto.

So, these guys are actually pretty good at it.

Zhang Lei, the grandson of Zhang Cang and former Marquis of Beiping, sat with the local king of Parthia named Baoduo Yidun.

The other party sighed and looked around at his buttocks: "This stool is a good thing!"

Zhang Lei took a sip of tea calmly: "A stool is not a good thing, a seat is a good thing."

Bao Duoyi didn't understand: "What do you mean? Aren't they the same?"

Zhang Lei: "Your butt is sitting on a stool now, but you have been sitting in the position of slave owner and king of Mortar City for a long time."

King Baoduo Yidun understood now and laughed: "You were born a noble of the Han Dynasty, and I was born a noble of Anxi. What we have is not called a seat, but a crib."

Zhang Lei: "No, no, no, in our words, this is called being born with a silver spoon in your mouth. But this does not mean position, because your position is watched by everyone around you."

King Bao Duoyi's face suddenly darkened: "What you said is meaningless. There is no need to instigate. We, the Parthians, are now under attack from two sides. The nobles are united and will never be separated by any form of instigation."

"If we don't say this, we're still friends."

Zhang Lei didn't care at all. He took a sip of tea and then spoke leisurely: "What I told you is not to instigate, but a true story that I have seen. You'd better learn from this experience. I came here and you treated me to fun, so I told you, otherwise I wouldn't tell you."

Seeing Zhang Lei so calm, Bao Duoyi thought for a moment before asking, "True story? What does that mean?"

Zhang Lei: "Now, the Huns are frantically attacking the eastern part of Parthia. Do you know why the Huns are coming here?"

Bao Duoyi Dun Wang said disdainfully: "Zhang Lei, are you trying to show off the might of your Han army and force the Xiongnu to come over and become our enemy?"

Zhang Lei: "Wrong, you only see that the Xiongnu came to attack you because they lost their original land. You didn't realize that they had to attack you because they were cruel by nature and claimed to be kings. Otherwise, wouldn't it be enough for them to join you and become slave-owning kings?"

"You only saw that they were defeated by us, but you don't know that they were defeated by us not because we were strong, but because of their internal strife."

King Baoduo Yidun was puzzled: "I have heard about the internal strife among the Xiongnu, but I don't know the details."

Zhang Lei: "Let me tell you this, the princely structure of the Xiongnu is exactly the same as your Parthia."

"The Xiongnu have their Chanyu, and you have the King of Kings. The Xiongnu have their Xiongnu King, and you have their Parthian Slave King. The Xiongnu have their tribal leaders, and you also have tribal leaders."

"If there is no war, you, the slave king of the Parthians, can be king for life and enjoy the treatment of a noble. But when war breaks out, all the tribal leaders under you will be watching you."

When King Baoduo Yidun heard this new theory for the first time, he became alert: "What do you mean? How dare they plot? In our Anxi, rebellion is a serious crime!"

Zhang Lei glanced at King Baoduo Yidun and said, "When the Xiongnu fought against the Han Dynasty, the Chanyu conscripted all the Xiongnu kings' men, and many Xiongnu kings had no one around them."

"Some Xiongnu kings were killed directly by their tribal leaders. These tribal leaders claimed that their kings had died unexpectedly and that their heirs had died with him."

"What do you think the Xiongnu Chanyu will do in order to continue fighting and to continue to draw manpower from this royal court?"

King Bao Duo Yidun understood a little bit.

Zhang Lei: "The Chanyu clearly knew there was a problem, but he had no time to investigate and would appoint this rebellious leader as the new Xiongnu king."

"Some Xiongnu kings followed their own armies to fight, but the Chanyu directly sent them to the most dangerous places, let them die in battle, and then took the brave and elite soldiers they brought with them under his command."

"The Great Hun King will also use the same method to devour the army and tribes of the Small Hun King."

"Even if we escaped all this, after the war, the tribe's power would decline drastically. When winter came, there was no food, and other tribes would come and kill people and drink their blood."

Zhang Lei smiled slightly: "Yesterday's king's queen and princess are lying together in the new king's bed today."

"The golden cup that the prince drank from yesterday is too unlucky. Today it can only be used as a urinal."

"Others thought the old king had no offspring, but in fact the old king's son was standing trembling in the corner, becoming the castrated riding slave of the new king."

Zhang Lei: "After a great war, this is what happened all over the grassland."

"There are so many things like this. Who is going to put in the effort to fight the big guy?"

"So, the Xiongnu didn't lose because the Han Dynasty was good at fighting. Instead, most of the kings who were willing to send troops were killed by their own subordinates and superiors, and eventually they became a pile of scattered sand and collapsed."

Bao Duoyi suddenly heard all the true and false statements made by Zhang Lei, how could he tell clearly?

After giving examples, Zhang Lei even revealed the names of the original owners of some of the examples, and asked Bao Duoyi to go out and inquire about it himself, since the Huns had already hit him in the face anyway.

It is also said that the current Huns' Great Xia Chanyu secretly took most of his soldiers away during a war and sold out his father, and only then did he become the Huns' king.

Bao Duoyi, even though your son respects you now, the Huns' Khan of Daxia could even lick your hemorrhoids. Do you think your son is more filial than him?

If you don't believe it, ask a Hun prisoner.

Bao Duo Yidun was also a smart guy, so he just found a prisoner and asked him.

When asked if this was the case, the Hun captives nodded frantically.

Nonsense, how could someone who is willing to surrender be so tough? Isn't it normal to agree with the new master's words and curse the old master?

Isn't it just something you just say out of your mouth about the "Huns Collapse Theory"?

How can you believe this? What intelligence?
But sometimes people just deceive themselves and deceive themselves into believing what they want to believe.

Bao Duo Yidun had enjoyed aristocratic treatment for so long and had been accustomed to being a slave owner. How could he bear to lose these? How could he bear others peeping at his rights?

Of course he felt that all this was possible, and it would be abnormal if it didn't happen.

After just a few words, King Bao Duoyidun no longer wanted to send troops to the King of Kings.

Sending troops means death.

If you send too many people, and you stay where you are, the tribal leaders who stay behind will rebel.

If you send too many, and you follow them, the King of kings will directly slaughter you and reap the harvest.

The only solution is to queue less, fool around a bit, and deal with it.

After Zhang Lei came out from King Baoduo Yidun, he smoked a cigarette and then returned to his own yard.

In the middle of the night, a man broke in.

After Zhang Lei's men saw who was coming, they hid themselves and did not come out to stop them.

The visitor soon met Zhang Lei, and Zhang Lei took a look and found that it was Jacobi, the son of King Baoduoyidun.

When Jacobi saw Zhang Lei, he presented him with a gold-inlaid ivory cup: "I heard you like this."

Zhang Lei: "No merit, no reward."

Jacobi inquired, "I heard that my father often had a good chat with you, and I am also interested in the big man."

Zhang Lei was surprised: "But we are talking about rest, so I can't accept your gift."

Jacobi: "Ah! This is even more important. Although I am interested in the Han Dynasty, I live in Anxi after all. If you have any good ideas about Anxi, I would like to listen to them."

Zhang Lei smiled and said, "I don't have any high opinion of Anxi, but there is one thing I don't understand."

Jacobi: “Please go ahead.”

Zhang Lei: "Why don't the slave-owning kings of Parthia want to be the king of kings?"

Jacobi hurriedly said: "This is illegal!"

Zhang Lei: "If it fails, it's called rebellion. If it succeeds, it's called establishing new laws."

Jacobi was stunned for a moment.

My own father discusses this with the Han envoy every day? !
Jacobi suddenly became excited.

If my father becomes the king of kings, wouldn't it be my position sooner or later?
Zhang Lei: "What's with your expression? I didn't talk to your father about this. He is not interested in this. He just wants to preserve his strength and not send troops to the King's City of Nisa, so that he can be a king who starts well and ends well."

Jacobi: "But if the King of Kings does not send troops when he is conscripting soldiers, it would be rebellion! It is better to fight a battle than to rebel just to keep the status quo."

Zhang Lei smiled and said, "Give it a try, and the bicycle will turn into a motorcycle."

Jacobi: "What is a bicycle? What is a motorcycle?"

Zhang Lei: "With a little effort, the sheep will become a camel."

Jacobi: “Isn’t that the truth?!”

Zhang Lei smiled and said, "You'd better go back quickly."

Next, Zhang Lei only did one thing, which was to madly instill conservative ideas into King Bao Duo Yidun.

Crazy about instilling progressive ideas into other people who can get close to King Baoduo Yidun.

The further King Bao Duo Yidun retreated, the more he prevented others from making progress.

If others want to make progress, they must let King Baoduo Yidun make progress.

If King Baoduo Yidun doesn't want to make progress, he will scold them.

Their words were not pleasant, so King Bao Duo Yidun wanted to find Zhang Lei to say more.

When others were scolded by King Baoduo Yidun, they would go to Zhang Lei to talk and ask for advice.

This situation lasted for many days. One day, Jacobi confronted King Baoduo Yidun and asked him to help King Baoduo Yidun improve.

King Baoduo Yidun gave his stupid son a big fight.

Then I found out that it was Zhang Lei who instigated it.

So he ran to confront Zhang Lei.

Zhang Lei said, "I never instigated the prince to rebel. It was the prince who thought so and asked me if it was possible. I am an honest person and I can only say yes if it is possible. The previous Xiongnu Chanyu Yizhixie successfully rebelled. I know that and I cannot lie to the prince."

King Baoduoyidun ran to ask Jacobi again.

After careful recollection, Jacobi realized that Zhang Lei really did not instigate him, it was he who spoke and he agreed.

King Bao Duoyidun went back to apologize to Zhang Lei, saying that he had wronged Zhang Lei, and then asked Zhang Lei why he agreed with Jacobi.

Zhang Lei could only say: "Honest words are unpleasant to the ear."

"You are a smart person, I told you that you can tell the truth, but they are not smart, so I can't be too straightforward with them, so I can only agree with them casually. Who knew they took it seriously."

King Baoduo Yidun had originally disagreed with them, so of course he thought they were brainless.

Zhang Lei said they were stupid, and King Bao Duo Yidun wanted to jump up and say, "Yes, yes, yes."

After hearing Zhang Lei say that he was smart and could have real communication, King Bao Duo Yidun even felt proud.

I went back and did my own thing.

Jacobi found Zhang Lei again and asked: "Why do you agree with me but don't give any opinions?"

Zhang Lei: "There is a wise nobleman in our Han Dynasty who once said something. When you ask a question, you already have the answer in your heart."

"Why should I do this? I am here as an envoy, not as an aide."

When Jacobi heard this, he couldn't agree more: "Wise man!"

In the entire royal department, everyone was thinking about one question.

My king, I don't want to make progress.

But I want to improve.

How to do?
Huh?
Many people discovered the problem after they stopped to think.

In the past, everyone thought that the king would eat the lamb leg, and they would not have enough to eat by gnawing on the lamb leg bones. So they asked the king to roast the whole lamb so that they could eat the lamb leg.

Since the king doesn't want to eat the whole roasted lamb, can he just stay aside and I'll bring the roasted lamb leg over?

That’s awesome!

This useless king doesn't want to take action, so I'm going to do it!
at the same time.

It’s no wonder they have quick brains.

But what Zhang Lei said had also come true in Parthia. Even if Zhang Lei didn't know it, how could they not know it?
The story begins more than ten years ago.

After the Great Yuezhi conquered Bactria, they did not stop, but continued to sweep across Central Asia.

The Parthians were also affected by the unrest in 124 BC.

Having just barely repelled the attack of the Seleucid Greeks, they were forced to bite the bullet and fight the new opponents.

The natural result was that the Greek mercenaries turned against their own side, and King Artabanus I was killed on the spot.

Mithridates II was helped to ascend the throne in such a dangerous situation.

To put it simply, it was around the time when Nasus had not yet set out, and the last Greeks were at war with Parthia.

Then Greece surrendered to Rome. Rome then had friction with Parthia, but no real war broke out.

The Yuezhi, a small tribe that could only occupy a county within the Han Dynasty, quickly became the father of the entire Central Asia after leaving the Pamir Mountains.

That was a good beating.

Eventually, Mithridates II came to power.

Everyone thinks so.

But now, after Zhang Lei told the example of the Huns, everyone suddenly felt something was wrong.

That's not right. How did the old king die? You know, the old king didn't have any children, and the new king came to power by profiting from the war.

With this association, everyone can't help but think that Mithridates II might have found a way to kill the old king and then come to power.

Since he did it on the first day, how can I not do it on the fifteenth?
He, an ordinary king, can be the king of kings, so why can't I?
This is supported by facts, not theoretical basis.

As a result, the entire Baoduoyidun royal family had a change of heart.

And throughout the East, almost everyone is doing the same thing.

While drinking tea, Zhang Lei thought to himself: Little prince, you are a useless piece of shit. Back then, the population of the tiny Yuezhi came out and swept across Central Asia. Now you are having such a hard time establishing Parthia, and you still want me to waste my breath on it.

But it’s not the little prince’s fault.

On the Anxi side, when fighting broke out on the left, they ran to the right, and when fighting broke out on the right, they ran to the left.

Capitulationism is powerful.

After all, he is a slave owner, so it doesn’t matter which boss he follows.
Based on the experience of the Shang Dynasty, if the son of a slave owner can rebel against his father, what else is wrong?
But this time, Rome and the Huns attacked the Parthians together, and the Parthians were attacked from both sides and could not run away.

If you can't run, you'll be like a piece of iron, and of course your hardness will increase.

But now, hardness becomes a problem again.

Mithridates II was also having a headache at this time.

He now cultivated the kingdoms of Armenia and Pontus in the west to resist Rome.

In the east, he wanted to borrow the big man's power to attack the little prince.

In this situation, Mithridates II actually had his own ideas. When he came to power, the Parthian Empire was not like this.

The Parthians had been a nomadic tribe for so many years. When he came to power, the entire western Parthians became Hellenized, and many nobles began to live the life of city dwellers and no longer wanted to live the life of pastoralists.

To prevent the Parthian Empire from collapsing, Mithridates II pretended to be a Greek enthusiast.

Many reforms were carried out to bring Anxi and Xixi together.

But mud kneaded together will always remain mud, it is a little bit lacking in perfection.

If there is external pressure and fire, it will become pottery.

Therefore, Mithridates II believed that he could use the current war to restore the once glorious Parthia.

By then, it is still uncertain who will be stronger between Rome and himself.

East? I won’t go east.

After defeating the Huns, the next is the Yuezhi. After defeating the Yuezhi, the next is the Han Dynasty. Only a lunatic would go to the east.

However, with the desert there, it is not easy for the Yuezhi to come here. With the Pamir Mountains there, it is normal for the Han Dynasty to chase and kill the Huns here for a while, and they will not stay for a long time, so there is no threat.

Xiongnu Chanyu? He is far inferior to Dayuezhi.

If the young Xiongnu prince knew that he was considered far inferior to the county-level tribe of Dayuezhi, and far inferior to the Dayuezhi that he had taken three months to break in half, he would have given up the siege and marched straight to the city of Nissa to be taken over by Mithridates II.

……

In Chang'an, Liu Che looked at the report.

Pointing to the report: "What does this second in Mithridates II mean?"

Dongfang Shuo: "Your Majesty, that is, this... the people over there are uneducated and too lazy to name their sons, so they just use their father's name, so they call him the Second Emperor to distinguish him."

Liu Che suddenly realized: "Oh!"

"Then this... this, this Parthian king of kings Mithridates II, supported Mithridates VI of the Kingdom of Pontus..."

"Let me count, this... two sons, three grandsons, four great-grandsons, five great-great-grandsons..."

"Wait a minute, how old is this Parthian King of Kings? He supported his great-great-grandson to become the King of Pontus to fight against Rome?"

Dongfang Shuo: "Uh~ well... Actually, the king of the Kingdom of Pontus just happens to have the same name as the king of Parthia."

"The previous kings of Pontus were all named Mithridates. The second king died a long time ago, and the throne has been passed down to the sixth generation. He has nothing to do with the King of Kings of Parthia."

Liu Che was stunned for a moment: "Let me sort it out. For example, the Nanyue Kingdom, Zhao Tuo, Zhao Tuo II, Zhao Tuo III, Zhao Tuo VI."

Dongfang Shuo: "Yeah."

Liu Che continued: "Then, the emperor of his suzerain state, the Han Dynasty, was named Zhao Tuo II."

Dongfang Shuo: "Yeah."

Liu Che: "Don't show me the information about Anxi. Just destroy him."

"These uneducated people are the ones who are using the names of the minor kings of the vassal states as their own names. Is this kind of country really a great empire? If I had known that this was the situation over there, I wouldn't even bother to look at it any more."

"You're wasting my time. Come, bring me your Fengshan plan so I can review it again."

This is just like the Xiongnu Khan saw that the name of the King of Loulan was good and borrowed it for his son.

This guy is fucking insane.

Dongfang Shuo originally wanted to explain more, but after thinking about it, it seemed unnecessary, as it was not an important matter anyway.

In any case, the princes and nobles of Parthia quickly stopped wanting to send troops.

If you don't want to send troops, you must have a reason to your superiors and to your subordinates.

The reason is that the Huns have already attacked and there is no way to send soldiers to gather, so we can only resist on the spot. Great King of Kings, if you have extra soldiers, please send some over!
The king of kings was stunned! I heard that the Xiongnu Daxia Chanyu had 30,000 soldiers marching south. How come they attacked more than 70 cities at the same time? Were the 30,000 soldiers divided into 70 groups? What? Two more cities reported being attacked?

The reason for the following is even simpler.

The people of the eastern Parthia were not Hellenized, but were uncultured classical nomadic tribal slaves.

It is easy for them to promote religion.

Then promote Confucianism.

Confucianism believes that the world is one family and there is one common ruler, the Son of Heaven.

Why push this?
Because the princes were very sure that the Emperor of Han could not come to Anxi, and if he could come, he would have come long ago.

Therefore, if we promote belief in the Son of Heaven, the common people will no longer believe in the King of kings.

If you don’t believe in the King of kings, who would care whether to send troops to the King of kings?
The great Mithridates II, the King of Kings, upon receiving the news that seventy-two cities were attacked by the Huns, led his army eastward to prepare to rescue the important economic cities.

One of them was defeated by the main force of 25,000 Huns.

Mithridates II was stunned.

What I mean is... 5,000 Hun soldiers are divided into 72 groups? Each group has 69.444444 people, and they are so powerful that my great dukes can't spare any troops?
Mithridates II spent the first half of his life pacifying the Hellenization of western Parthia, and he could tell at a glance that something was wrong.

Ask around.

Good! The East is beginning to become more Chinese!
"I @￥#%!..."

What would happen if I told Your Majesty about these things? Is Your Majesty interested in how this so-and-so Second Emperor got angry and how he tried to reverse the Hanization?

I'm not interested. This question has no answer for Mithridates II.

In the first half of his life, he pretended to be a supporter of Greek culture in order to assimilate the Hellenized Western Semitic people.

Why, in order to reconcile the Han-influenced eastern half of Parthia, he spent the rest of his life pretending to be a Confucianist, and then mingling with the eastern Han believers, shouting "Long live the emperor"?

Then I'll take one? What? The standard procedure is to take three?

Outrageous!

'What a fucking piece of shit, trying to combine culture and education with politics and law, how shameless!'

Dongfang Shuo certainly would not tell Liu Che that Mithridates II had called him shameless.

There's no need for that. Anyway, he's not scolding anyone by name, so just let him scold. The big man has been scolded a lot along the way, and every time it's reported in the newspapers, there's not enough space to write about it.

If every time they are reported, the angry citizens of Chang'an will shout to kill them all!

Liu Che in Chang'an was really bored, so he threw the intelligence booklet to Dongfang Shuo and said, "Just take a look. After you take care of Anxi, I will make you a marquis."

Dongfang Shuo's eyes lit up: "Minister, I obey your order!"

After Dongfang Shuo retreated.

Liu Che stood by the window, not knowing what he was thinking.

Herein lies the problem.

At the age of fifteen, Liu Che, who had no power, was as busy as a dog.

The thirty-year-old Liu Che was in control of the Han Dynasty, but he could still find time to go hunting from time to time.

Now Liu Che, who is nearly fifty years old, controls a population that is five times and eight times the original Han Dynasty, and an organization that is a hundred times more complex.

But I have nothing to do.

Several major organizations have been collecting intelligence on Anxi for a long time, and are ready to roll up their sleeves and work hard to formulate a plan to eliminate Anxi.

Then open the information and take a look!
Found rest fragile like chocolate.

If you dare to drop it, he will break it.

If you dare to add a little heat, it will melt.

If you dare to pinch it even a little, it will be deformed.

There is no need to even look at it.

This made Liu Che very confused.

When he first learned about Parthia, he knew that it was a powerful country, although the Great Yuezhi had given Parthia a severe beating in the past.

But at that time, Liu Che did not think that the Parthians were weak, but felt that the Dayuezhi had become stronger after they left.

So he sent Zhang Qian to contact Dayuezhi and prepare to fight the Xiongnu together.

After so many years, I see that An Xi is so weak.

In fact, rest has not changed.

But... the big man is too strong.

It's so strong that there's no need to be too nervous about resting.

It’s best to keep a normal mind.

When Liu Che looked back at the road he had come, all he saw was Huo Hai.

Step by step, Huo Hai made the Han Dynasty as powerful as it is today.

He only did one thing, which was to put all the powerful tools that Huo Hai made into his own toolbox.

Holding the toolbox himself, Huo Hai had to give him new tools.

So, there are more and more things in the toolbox.

Now, for any difficult problem, you can find dozens of solutions in this toolbox.

The exploration of the unknown has now become something that can be solved without thinking, and everything has become boring.

After losing the fun, all that remains is the desire for possession.

Liu Che looked at the Taishan Fengshan plan in his hand, and handed it to Wang Nei Shi: "Pass it down, keep everything simple, let Sima Xiangru make a rule, and hurry up to Fengshan. If it's too late, I'm afraid I won't be able to catch up."

Wang Nei Shi shuddered: "Your Majesty, how can you not catch up? Your Majesty is in the prime of his life, please don't say such things!"

Liu Che: "I am afraid that it will be too late to capture Anxi, and then the plan will have to be revised."

Once Parthia is conquered, all the small countries near Parthia will be in our hands.

The Han Dynasty is not Parthia. Parthia can tolerate a bunch of small countries nearby, but the Han Dynasty cannot.

Once we conquer Parthia, the territory of the Han Dynasty will almost double its current size!
That means compared with the original Han territory, it has increased sixteen times!
If this is realized, the Fengshan ceremony must be changed.

Who would have thought that among all the achievements required for Fengshan, the most difficult one is... to make a plan?
Keep doing one book, and when you make a big progress, revise it.

Make one book, revise it once, make one book and revise it once.

When Liu Che was 35 years old, he set an ambition for himself.

"He, Qin Shi Huang, could tour the country, and so can I, Liu Che. The territory I want to tour cannot be smaller than his, and the border I visit cannot be closer than his!"

Okay, it's okay now.

Now I am less than fifty years old, and I will set off right away to travel around the world without stopping.

The faster he patrolled, the more encouraged the soldiers were.

The more inspired the soldiers were, the more territory they conquered.

The more territory you conquer, the more territory you have to leave unpatrolled.

The more territory you have not patrolled, the slower your patrol will be.

Therefore, the faster you patrol, the slower you will patrol.

Damn it, it’s never over!

"Hurry up and do it, we can't wait any longer, otherwise I'm afraid something might happen!"

As he was speaking, Gongsun He rushed into the hall: "Report!!! Your Majesty, great news!"

Liu Che's mentality collapsed: "I don't want to hear good news!!!"

Gongsun He was stunned, and changed his words: "Report! Your Majesty, I have received terrible news!"

Liu Che: "Hmm? Tell me."

Gongsun He excitedly recounted the bad news: "After the surrendered South Vietnamese army was reorganized into a navy, they searched day and night for opportunities to make meritorious deeds. They searched frantically in the South China Sea and finally found a giant island 30,000 miles away in the south!"

"That island is as big as three of our original Thirteen States! Because the entire island can accommodate ships, the entire island is called Ao, and it is temporarily named Ao Island."

"This Ao Island is all plains, perfect for raising cattle! There are iron ore mines everywhere! I just went ashore and found a mine that is ten times larger than the largest iron mine in the Han Dynasty. The purity is as high as the pig iron we make. There is so much iron that we can't dig it all!"

"We don't have enough herders and miners. This is terrible news, Your Majesty!"

Liu Che: "..."

Eunuch Wang looked at Liu Che, his eyes full of: Your Majesty, should we still submit this Fengshan plan to the Prime Minister's Mansion?

Liu Che snatched it away, then thought about it and handed the plan to Eunuch Wang.

Then he wondered: "It's strange, I actually had hallucinations today, I felt like I saw Gongsun He."

"Maybe it's because I haven't seen him for too long and I miss him so much."

Gongsun He: "Your Majesty, it's useless. It will be published in the newspaper..."

Liu Che snatched back the Fengshan plan: "Get out!"

(End of this chapter)