Zhao Weiwang in the Warring States Period

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Xian Shan smiled very humbly, and said to Li Mu: "Commander, I think I should know where Yi Qu Bo is."

"Oh?" Li Mu's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly said, "Quickly tell me!"

Although Li Mu has basically determined that Yiqubo is in the West Sea, the entire West Sea is also very large. If there is a specific coordinate, it will definitely save a lot of trouble.

Xian Shan took out a rather crude-looking piece of sheepskin land from his bosom and placed it in front of Li Mu, then pointed to a place specially marked with a red dot on the map and said, "This is it."

Li Mu observed it carefully, and finally determined that the location of this place was somewhere in the southeast of the West Sea.

Li Mu thought for a while and said, "Is this map real?"

Xian Shan said: "This map is from someone close to Yi Qubo, it is absolutely true."

Li Mu took a deep look at Xian Shan, and said after a while, "This time, you did a very good job."

Xian Shan saluted and retreated respectfully.

After confirming the location of Yi Qubo, Li Mu led Zhao Jun's cavalry formation and continued to march westward.

To some extent, Yi Qubo escaped so far, it was not too bad for Li Mu.

As long as he can defeat the coalition forces formed by Yiqubo and the Qiang in one fell swoop, Li Mu will be able to achieve his goal in one fell swoop and completely occupy the Hehuang area.

With the excellent horse farm in the Hehuang area, it is obviously very beneficial to the development of Zhao's cavalry.

Although Zhao Guo now has three major horse farms in Hetao, Monan, and Daijun, there is a good saying that eggs cannot be put in the same basket.

Every additional horse farm means that the strength of Zhao Guo's cavalry has increased by one point. As the most senior general of Zhao Guo's cavalry, Li Mu is naturally happy to see this result.

What's more, there is also the credit for opening up territories.

The nobles of the Zhou Dynasty were always very pioneering and enterprising.

When the Zhou Dynasty was founded, only Guan Zhong and Cheng Zhou Luoyi's generation could be truly controlled.

When King Wu of Zhou enfeoffed the Thousand Kingdoms, these Zhou Dynasty colonizers and princes who went out to expand their territories had to face various barbarians, such as Dongyi, Beihu, Xirong, Nanman, and those in the Taihang Mountains. Di people and so on and so on.

Thousands of years later, only a few of the thousands of princes were left, and the original barbarians were completely wiped out and assimilated by the princes of the Zhou Dynasty.

Although Zhou Tianzi has completely lost the authority of the past, the territory controlled by the princes of the Zhou Dynasty is many times wider than that controlled by Zhou Tianzi.

Everything that has advantages has disadvantages. The millennium war has brought great suffering to the people on the land of China, but at the same time, it has also allowed the princes to continue to expand in war after war, radiating the influence of China Ming to an unprecedented level.

But today, Li Mu, who is familiar with history books, will lead the [-] cavalry under his command to a new frontier expansion for Huaxia Ming, bringing another piece of barbaric land under the glory of Huaxia Ming!

To a certain extent, Li Mu is even a pious missionary now, and the target of his preaching is the Qiang people in the Hehuang area.

"Why, why did we clearly not offend your Zhao country, but your Zhao country traveled such a long distance to attack us!"

A captured Qiang patriarch's eyes were red, and he roared hoarsely at Li Mu in front of him, looking like he wanted to tear Li Mu's body to pieces.

Li Mu looked at the Qiang patriarch in front of him calmly, and answered after thinking for a while.

"Where the tiger roars can reach, how can you and other sheep be allowed to live here safely!"

After saying this, Li Mu waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to take down and behead the patriarch who cost Zhao soldiers more than a dozen lives to catch.

He still needs this head to hang on a stake for public display.

Persuading surrender is a feasible solution in Ming's world, but in this barbaric place, strong force is the guarantee to deter all Xiaoxiao.

Li Mu didn't mind killing or taking all the Qiang people he saw as prisoners.

Since you refuse to surrender, then you should die.

Li Mu was right. To the well-trained and well-equipped Zhao Jun, these Qiang people covered in fur and many of them held stone axes in their hands were no different from sheep.

Many Qiang women and children are completely naked, with a piece of fur wrapped around their lower body, and the entire upper body is completely exposed to the air.

Even a member of the Hu people, Xian Shan couldn't help shaking his head when he saw this situation: "The life of these Qiang people is really too hard."

Next to Xian Shan is Yi Qu Sheng, who is about to become the most professional slave-catching general in the Zhao army. Naturally, he has long been familiar with the situation in front of him. Basically, they are no different from beasts, even their Qiang people don’t like them very much.”

According to Dahl's theory of evolution, getting out of the mountains and living in the plains is actually a kind of progress for human beings, and these mountain Qiangs obviously did not achieve this.

In fact, according to Yi Qusheng's knowledge, these rough and blood-drinking mountain Qiangs were captured and conquered by almost all their neighbors.

Wusun, Yuezhi, and even the Huangzhong Qiang and Cizhi Qiang who came from the same origin, adopted the same attitude towards these mountain Qiangs as the Zhao army, arresting and besieging them.

Under such circumstances, it is not easy for these Qiang in the mountains to survive tenaciously.

Xian Shan sighed and said, "Is there no possibility of enlightenment?"

It can be seen that the Shanyu of the Huns is somewhat unbearable.

After all, thousands of bloody heads were hanging on the stakes all the way, this kind of scene is still very shocking.

Yi Qusheng looked at Xian Shan in surprise: "Why do you have such an idea? As a prairie man, you should know that wild horses are difficult to domesticate, and only foals raised from childhood are more suitable as lifelong companions." object."

Yi Qusheng felt that Xian Shan was not a qualified prairie man, how could the prairie wolf have sympathy for things?

In order to punish the Qiang tribe in the mountains who dared to block the way of Zhao's army, Li Mu used the most primitive conquest rules on the grassland. Men and old people who were taller than a horse's leg were all executed, and only women and children survived.

For this, Yi Qusheng was not surprised at all.

Adult men represent force, that is, the possibility of rebellion, and old people represent wisdom. When force and wisdom are ruthlessly deprived, what awaits this tribe is to perish and be annexed.

In many cases, those seemingly bloody rules on the grassland actually imply wisdom, wisdom that can allow a tribe to survive for a long time.

After beheading thousands of heads one after another and massacring six Qiang tribes in the mountains, the road at the southern foot of the Yin Mountain was finally completely opened up. All the Qiangs in the mountains chose to flee to the north in front of the powerful Zhao people. In the past, the eastern part of the Hehuang area was included in the scope of the Zhao army.

"To be honest, I don't think such an expansion is reliable." Tu Xie said to Yi Qusheng: "Although we have driven away these mountain Qiangs now, as long as we leave, they will definitely go. returned."

For some reason, Tu Xie always liked to discuss these issues with Yi Qusheng.

Yi Qusheng gave Tu a sideways glance: "Of course, no one will give up their territory, no matter if they are savages or Ming people. Those who say that such and such a place is not important so they simply give up are idiots. Remember to leave Stay away, idiots, or they will implicate you when they die.

As for your question, the answer is actually very simple, as long as the city is built. "

Tu Xie's eyes widened: "Do you want to build a city again?"

"Of course we have to build a city!" Yi Qusheng glanced at Tu Xie with a tone of hatred for iron and steel, and said, "If you don't build a city, how can you maintain control over this area? Only by building a city here will there be a steady stream of people. Only the slave hunting regiment will have a logistics base, and the army will also have a supply place when it goes to Hehuang or even further west in the future."

Tu Xie was a little puzzled: "You want to catch slaves again?"

"Of course you have to catch slaves!" Yiqu Sheng said angrily, "I found that you really can't turn your head around. If you don't catch slaves, how can you clean up this area, and how can there be migrant workers to build the city?"

Tu Xie chuckled, patted his head in embarrassment, and said, "I understand all your big principles, but I forget them after I sleep."