Divide the land and become king?
It turned out to be the King of Splitting the Land!
Mr. Dou was so excited that his whole body was shaking, and he crawled on the ground and cried bitterly.
It turns out that he really split the land and became king!
Hahaha……
He wanted to laugh out loud, but he also wanted to cry bitterly.
He beat the ground and cried loudly. While he was crying for himself, he was also excited for the Northwest Army and the Marquis of Lu.
Pei Meng's eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at the Western Regions. Xiliang was only a tiny part of the vast Western Regions. West of Xiliang lay vast expanses of land, countless riches, and even the legendary Shendu, where the ground was paved with gold...
His chest heaved and his face flushed, but it was not noticeable because of his dark complexion.
His excitement was no less than Mr. Dou's.
Divide the land and become king?
Will the Pei family really have the day to carve up a kingdom?
Without having to rebel, without having to kill your entire family or clan, you can not only continue to hold military power but also divide the land and become a king?
He felt like he had been hit by a pie in the sky.
Is all this really not an illusion?
He remained silent, his eyes fixed on the Western Regions on the map. It took him a long time to calm down his excited mood.
"What happens after I'm crowned king?" His voice was soft and gentle, as if he was afraid to shatter this fragile dream.
Gu Jiuze said loudly, "After you are crowned king, Xiliang, including the land west of Xiliang, will all be the territory of the Northwest Army. You will manage it on your own, establish your own systems, collect taxes and support your own army. You will decide for yourself whether to continue westward or just muddle through with your own little piece of land."
Pei Meng shook his head violently and calmed down.
The desire to split the land and become king is real, but the difficulties are also real.
If you just keep dreaming and ignore the difficulties, you will probably die on the way before you even conquer Xiliang.
"Please allow me and Mr. Dou to discuss this privately."
"Yes! You two can settle down in the villa. If you need anything, just ask the palace servants to do it!"
"Thank you, my lady!"
Mr. Dou rose from the ground, acting like a counselor. He wiped his face and said, "I'd like to ask why Your Majesty built a villa in such a remote place. On the way here, I noticed that the only way in and out of the villa seems to be a double-track road."
Gu Jiu smiled and said, "Because this place is quiet and not far from the horse farm. If you two are interested, we can have someone take you to the horse farm for a visit."
"Thank you, Your Majesty! I won't go to the horse farm."
They rode horses every day in the northwest. The horse farms in Beijing were like a small pond compared to the ocean; there was no comparison.
Pei Meng and Mr. Dou settled down in the villa.
Splitting the land and becoming a king, a huge pie is right in front of you, and you can't wait to take a bite.
However, this bite could also be fatal.
The two of them sat in the guest house, guzzling tea to calm their overly excited mood.
Mr. Dou stroked his beard and said, "Your Majesty is right. Your Majesty and the Empress really are planning to split the land and crown a king. It's hard to imagine that a few years ago, when the Empress chose to cooperate with the Northwest Army in business, she was already planning to split the land and crown a king."
"The plan was gradually refined and matured. Back then, Empress Gu probably couldn't have foreseen today; she was more focused on accumulating capital for Liu Zhao's enthronement."
Pei Meng didn't believe that the Queen had planned everything from the very beginning.
If that's true, it's terrible!
Mr. Dou breathed a sigh of relief. "Fortunately, the Marquis had anticipated all of this. Otherwise, you and I would have been led around by the Empress."
Pei Meng suddenly laughed.
Mr. Dou followed suit and started laughing.
The two of them laughed louder and louder, unable to stop laughing.
"Sir, your acting is so good that even my uncle was almost fooled."
"I'm just average. Uncle acted the best, his expression and movements looked like he was hearing about this plan for the first time."
Pei Meng lowered his voice and asked quietly, "Do you think we can hide this from the Empress?"
"Maybe the Queen is also playing a trick on us."
The entire conversation was a test, with many methods and different intentions.
As the saying goes, all is fair in war. Without deception, how can you hear the truth?
call!
Mr. Dou exhaled, "Today is just an appetizer, the main course will come later."
The Duke of Lu had already made the decision to divide the land and make him a king.
However, what happens after he is crowned king? How will the Northwest Army survive?
He was the chief military commander of the Northwest Army, but he had little experience in people's livelihood and economics.
How to manage and obtain supplies after occupying the territory? How to deal with the soldiers' homesickness?
Who governs the occupied territories?
The Northwest Army does not have an academy specifically for training civil affairs talents.
Mr. Dou said solemnly: "We must buy more time, at least three years."
Pei Meng shook his head. "I'm afraid the Queen wouldn't agree. She wants to drive the wolf out of the tiger, and at the same time, she has to be on guard against the wolf pack's backlash. If it were me, I wouldn't give her three years either."
"Master, do you think the Queen can give us a few years?"
"Let's give it a try tomorrow. My uncle hopes for two years, and that's where you need to work hard. But the results may not be as expected."
"I understand."
The two of them stayed at the villa.
There are obviously many people in the villa, but it seems unusually quiet.
Gu Jiu was in the flower hall and called Qian Fu, "Send someone to keep a close eye on them and record everything they say and do."
Qian Fu bowed and accepted the order.
Then Gu Jiu asked, "What did you gain from taking them to visit the capital?"
Qian Fu pondered for a moment and said, "Mr. Dou acts like a good old man, never in a hurry, and likes to casually test things. As for Uncle, he seems very impatient and anxious. However, he has many military achievements. I once heard that in a sniper battle, he personally led his men to lie in ambush on the grassland for ten days and ten nights. Such a person cannot be really impatient. I think Uncle is pretending, pretending to be a brainless reckless man to paralyze those around him. If you underestimate him, you will fall into his trap."
Gu Jiu nodded repeatedly, "That makes sense! Marquis Lu sent Pei Meng to the capital precisely because of his image as a 'reckless man'. As for Mr. Dou, he might just be a smokescreen."
Qian Fu really wanted to ask, what is a smoke bomb?
Gu Jiu didn't want to say more, waved his hand and sent Qian Fu away.
Liu Yu came down from upstairs, "Mother!"
"Did you hear everything?" Gu Jiu pointed at the soft couch and motioned him to sit down and talk.
Liu Yu nodded, "I heard everything."
Gu Jiu asked, "What do you think?"
Liu Yu sat down on the couch, thought for a moment, and said, "I think the biggest difficulty in dividing the land and becoming king is population. The Northwest Army has tens of thousands of people. After successfully occupying Xiliang, they can only use their own people for a few years for safety reasons. Xiliang has a large population, while the Northwest Army has few, and the personnel are limited. Using only tens of thousands of people to control a population dozens of times larger is a big problem."
"Do you have a solution?"
"My son thought about it and came up with an immature idea."
"Tell me about it."
"The Northwest Army will be in charge of military affairs, but in the initial stages of civil affairs, they will continue to follow the Western Liang system. They will use Western Liang people to govern Western Liang people. In this way, the Northwest Army only needs to control the upper class of Western Liang, intermarry with them, and strictly control the Western Liang army, and they will be able to smoothly control Western Liang."
"Using Xiliang to control Xiliang is a very good idea, very good! Do you have any ideas on how to do it specifically?" Gu Jiu encouraged.
Liu Yu shook his head. "It's too short a time to have any concrete ideas. Son, I need to look up some information about Xiliang first."
Gu Jiu laughed, "There's no rush for this. Have you ever thought about it? The Marquis of Lu must have already thought of everything you can think of. He might even have started to secretly recruit talents in civil affairs."
"I've thought about this. The Duke of Lu was a powerful figure of his time. As far as I know, he had at least ten advisors around him. Yet, only Mr. Dou is known to the world; the other advisors never make an appearance. Clearly, the Duke of Lu did this on purpose; he must have a hidden agenda."
"I don't know if he's hiding one trick, but several. During the years of trade with Xiliang, the Northwest Army made a fortune. The Marquis of Lu held a large sum of money, but never made any large purchases on the market. Where did all the money go?"
"My Queen Mother, do you mean that the money is in Xiliang?"
"It's possible!" Gu Jiu smiled. "Splitting the land and becoming king, haha, I'm afraid Marquis Lu has been preparing for this day for a long time."
"So what are we going to do?"
Gu Jiu tapped the armrest lightly. "The Marquis of Lu is a tyrant, and it's not surprising that he has three burrows. The plan to divide the land and crown him king remains unchanged. For the next ten to twenty years, the Northwest Army's main goal will be to advance westward. Twenty years from now, whether they will turn back is uncertain. However, even if they do turn back, the court must have the confidence and strength to force them to continue to occupy the west and force them to completely sinicize the west.
After a generation, they will forget the East, and the West is their root. We must let them take root in the West, generation after generation. Even if one day the descendants of the Pei family establish a country and become emperor in the West, it will not matter. As long as they remain Han Chinese, that land will belong to the Han people, and this palace can accept it.
Liu Yu pointed at the map and asked, "Such a large area of land?"
"The Northwest Army may seem numerous, but after entering the Western Regions, that small population is simply not enough. Furthermore, the Western Regions countries are not without combat capabilities."
As long as the Northwest Army continued to advance westward, they would soon encounter a group of brainwashed fanatical warmongers.
If you want to win, you have to pay the price of blood.
And even if you pay a price, you may not necessarily win.
Gu Jiu didn't expect the Northwest Army to be invincible.
In her plan, the Northwest Army is like a sharp knife, fiercely inserted into the Western Regions that generations of dynasties have been unable to control.
She wanted to muddy the waters of the Western Regions, using the promise of splitting the land and becoming a king as bait, and drive a nail into the Western Regions that no one could pull out.
She wanted to fundamentally put an end to the history of grassland tribes becoming a major threat to the dynasty every few decades.
The vast grassland should belong to the Great Zhou Dynasty and be a territory under the rule of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Xiliang is a barrier.
In line with the southward march, Gu Jiu's hand moved from the top of the map to the south. "If we don't occupy such a rich land, others will. After they occupy it, they will ride on our heads and run wild! I can't stand being bullied. Instead of letting others run wild, I'd rather do it myself."
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If a major bug occurs, you can only delete and rewrite it.
My head feels dizzy.
Crying!
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