Chapter 877: The Strange Western Regions
The trade among the four countries improved the economies of Northern Greece, Parthia and Great Britain, but one cannot get fat in one bite, and the improvement was just an improvement.
The obvious economic gap between the Han Dynasty and the other three kingdoms caused many foreigners to flow into the Han Dynasty and want to settle down there.
After all, compared with the Han Dynasty, only the countries in these empires are better, and the average level is too poor.
"Military Advisor, more refugees are entering the country! The number of refugees is still huge!"
Li Ru flipped through the notebook in his hand, looking at the densely packed records on it, a look of frustration emerged on his face.
He had heard about what happened in Luoyang. The Identity Law was brought to the Western Regions by Lu Zhi, and the impact it brought was far beyond his imagination.
In the Western Regions, especially for the slaves of Parthia and the barbarians of Great Britain, the Han Dynasty was simply a paradise for them, which was completely different from the place where they lived.
Large numbers of refugees migrated towards the Han Dynasty, causing unimaginable impact on the Western Regions under the rule of the Han Dynasty.
The original plan to return to Luoyang in three months was repeatedly shelved. Even if Li Ru put aside the past grudges and re-employed Lu Zhi, it would be of no avail.
Conflicts and contradictions occurred almost every day, and Li Ru was so angry that he just wanted to impose martial law.
However, that was the last step that could only be taken when things were out of control. Even if it was tedious, he had to do it now.
"Pass the order down. Move to the buffer camp first for inspection. After review, gradually move to the new city!"
Li Ru pinched his eyebrows with his hands. There were too few people available and he needed help.
This kind of cross-border matter must be handled by a wise man of his level, otherwise it is likely to cause turmoil in the trade market, and that's all hard-earned money.
However, they had to accept refugees. At this stage, the Han Dynasty really needed a large number of foreign workers. Those who could flee thousands of miles away were the best labor force.
Especially in the Western Regions, there were very few Han people willing to migrate there. Only a few were willing to migrate to Liangzhou, let alone the Han people who wanted to migrate to the Western Regions.
They also had to absorb the population to occupy the land and develop the land.
But things are far from that simple. Among these refugees there are spies from various countries, criminals, and even some hawkish minions.
There had been several outbreaks of riots in the previous gathering place, but they were all suppressed by Li Ru with a strong iron fist.
However, the pressure brought to the administration of the Western Regions was not unanimous, and even Li Ru felt the pressure.
In desperation, Li Ru could only set up buffer zones and new cities to accommodate these people, at least temporarily separating them from the Han people for further screening.
After all, what the Han Dynasty wanted were laborers and good citizens, not bandits who deliberately caused trouble, nor did it need spies or undercover agents.
"Tell the shadow guards in the new city that if they find any imperial spies or troublemakers, they will be killed without mercy and I will bear all the consequences. I would rather kill a thousand by mistake than let one go!"
Li Ru put down the records in his hand, and his cold words made his men sweat.
After Li Ru came to the Western Regions, he was truly possessed by the god of death, and the blood of the people he executed almost dyed the entire desert red.
The heavy cavalry and the Xiliang cavalry are the sharpest butcher knives in Li Ru's hands. As long as Li Ru gives an order, these killers will kill people without blinking an eye.
Di Qing, Xu Huang and others stationed here had many complaints. Once the butcher's knife was raised, it would not be so easy to stop, and the scope affected was not just as simple as the countries in the Western Regions.
But Li Ru held the sword of the imperial envoy and enjoyed the power to execute first and report later, so he didn't care about the complaints of Di Qing, Xu Huang and others at all.
The only person who had a say was Xu Rong, who was once a member of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. He wholeheartedly supported Li Ru. In addition, Li Ru had always killed foreign barbarians, so Di Qing, Xu Huang and others only complained. In the end, no one stopped Li Ru.
Under such circumstances, Li Ru really used the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to plow the entire Western Regions, killing people and causing rivers of blood.
Many tribes wandering on the edge of Parthia, or those small countries that surrendered to the Northern Gui, or forces like the former Dingling people, were directly massacred by Li Ru.
Li Que and other four kings of Xiliang were killing like crazy. The heavy cavalry was limited by manpower and many things were difficult to do. But when Li Ru came, he asked the Government Affairs Office for military orders and brought the Xiliang cavalry from Liangzhou with him.
That's 200,000 Xiliang cavalry. Under the leadership of the heavy cavalry, they are enough to launch a war to annihilate a country. Even if it's a war between empires, they will have to be the main force.
It's too tragic, especially in the area which is almost entirely plains, this number of Xiliang cavalry would be an invincible legion.
After all, their legion has more than 200,000 soldiers, and they also have more than 100,000 Qiang auxiliary cavalry. So it can be called a legion, but in fact it is a large army.
As Parthia, Kushan and Great Britain did not want to step forward, these forces quickly turned into ashes, and in the process contributed a lot of labor and money to the development of the Western Regions.
But the effect was very significant. After Li Ru killed them all, the originally turbulent Western Regions was quickly stabilized, and many of the problems that Xu Rong and others had faced before disappeared.
In fact, this was the purpose why Chen Xi and his team sent Li Ru here.
To be honest, when Chen Xi and his companions first heard about the unrest in the Western Regions, they simply couldn't believe it. You have to know that at the beginning, Li Que and his companions alone led several thousand Xiliang cavalry to take over the Western Regions.
Now they are told that the Western Region is in turmoil. When Chen Xi first got the information, he even thought it was a joke.
But after reviewing the intelligence, Luoyang realized the crux of the problem. The Western Regions was no longer the same as before. Too many minions of various forces had infiltrated the region, and it was actually in danger of collapse.
Everyone in Luoyang discussed it and decided to send Li Ru to deal with the problem.
They all knew Li Ru's working style very well, and the Western Regions needed someone like him to govern it. In addition, the Xiliang Iron Cavalry respected Li Ru, so it was most appropriate for Li Ru to come and handle it.
Li Ru did not disappoint everyone's expectations of him. On the first day he arrived, he chose the most enthusiastic one from the intelligence, who was once one of the rulers of the Western Regions.
Without any evidence, the Xiliang Cavalry directly massacred the other side.
Evidence? I came here to talk to you about evidence?
I'm just here to kill people, that's all.
Relying on the evidence obtained through torture and seizure, Li Ru massacred every family according to the list. As for whether the evidence obtained through torture and seizure was true?
Who cares? Li Ru doesn't care anyway.
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
Li Ru, who was said to have the fate of Seven Killings, had the same style of doing things. After a bloody massacre, the Western Regions stabilized and Li Ru began a policy of appeasement.
After all, politics is like this: kill a group of people, win over and support a group of people, and then suppress a group of people to achieve harmony.
However, the recent refugee problem caused Li Ru's murderous intent, which had finally cooled down, to boil over again.
But Li Ru finally held back. It was easy to kill, but the subsequent images left behind would be terrible.
The Han Dynasty's subsequent plan was to advance westwards, so maintaining a superficial image was extremely important.
Although victory is justice, the governance difficulties brought about by a just victory and a brutal victory are different.
This is also the reason why every ruler needs to whitewash the situation. Li Ru was well aware of this, so he tried his best to deal with the problem in other ways instead of adopting a one-size-fits-all policy and killing all these refugees.
"Li Wenyou!" Lu Zhi drove the chariot straight towards Li Ru's mansion, roaring loudly.
The roaring sound of chariots stopped abruptly not far away. The three hundred cavalrymen outside Li Ru's gate had no pressure in ramming the chariots head-on, but they could not stop Lu Zhi.
On average, great Confucian scholars practiced internal energy to the point of forming a powerful Qi. However, Lu Zhi had achieved the level of internal Qi leaving his body at an early age. Even if he entered the Tao through literature, he could not be stopped by a group of soldiers who could not even form a battle formation.
Lu Zhi pulled the rope with one hand to make the chariot stop in front of the human wall. Lu Zhi jumped off the chariot, stretched out his hand to open the door of the soldiers who served as the human wall, and ran angrily towards Li Ru's office.
"Mr. Lu, what's going on today?" Li Ru said helplessly.
This was the third time this month that Lu Zhi had come to him angrily to cause trouble. Lu Zhi was not annoyed, but he was.
Ever since Lu Zhi left Luoyang and marched here armed with chariots, his demeanor has changed from that of a gentleman to that of a grumpy old man.
In addition, the old man Lu Zhi was originally eight feet two meters tall, with a voice like a bell, and combined with his current violent temper, people who didn't know him would think he was called Lian Po.
"Send me some troops! I'm going to chop those unruly beasts into pieces!"
Lu Zhi slammed a piece of information on the table, and the table was immediately broken into pieces. Fortunately, there was nothing on the table.
Li Ru reluctantly ordered his servants to clean up, then picked up Lu Zhi's intelligence and glanced at it.
"Huh?" Li Ru straightened up. He thought that Lu Zhi was just provoked by his temper like in the previous times, but he didn't expect that there was really a reason this time.
"Your disciple Li Zheng, if I remember correctly, is the one from the Luoyang Government Affairs Office, right?" Li Ru put down the information and asked slowly.
"Yes, he is the most promising disciple among my disciples!" Lu Zhi's face was full of pride when he mentioned Li Zheng. He was willing to give up his official position in Luoyang to follow him on the journey. He had absorbed the essence of Confucianism from him, so it would not be a problem for him to be the patriarch.
"How could he be kidnapped?" Li Ru looked confused.
"Is it strange that something happens in this land?" Lu Zhi asked back.
Li Ru shook his head. That's right. Nothing can happen in the Western Regions now, otherwise there wouldn't be three hundred cavalry soldiers guarding him.
"How many people do you want?"
"Just transfer Xu Huang and Yu Jin to me. I can teach them something as well!" Lu Zhi said after thinking for a while.
"Okay, this is a military order, go and mobilize the troops yourself!" Li Ru thought about it and agreed, "Since you want to train the troops, why not go on a long journey and deal with these families!"
"They are all jackals, leave it to me." Lu Zhi took the information, glanced at it, then patted his chest and agreed.
A region with such developed commerce will naturally attract some vultures. Although most of their activities are concentrated in the west, there are also some brave ones that directly come to the Han Dynasty's territory to rob caravans.
Even if no one was killed, the image was extremely horrific and must be dealt with seriously.
Li Ru originally wanted to wait for Li Que and others who were out on business to come back and let them handle it, but since Lu Zhi took the initiative to volunteer, it would be the same to let Lu Zhi handle it.
Lu Zhi excitedly rushed out of the door with the military order, and then the roar of chariots was heard outside the door again.
Ever since Lu Zhi started the armed parade, he had no way of putting down his chariots. He carried them with him almost everywhere he went. Coupled with his development of literature and art, his combat power was much stronger than that of immortals.
The beasts pulling his chariot were no simple creatures. They were wild beasts he had captured along the way from Luoyang. All of them had internal energy that could leave the body, so they had no problem pulling a chariot.
Moreover, the chariot was not an ordinary thing. It was a treasure given by the Taoists when Lu Zhi left Luoyang.
On the one hand, it was to provide Lu Zhixiu and his Taoist colleagues with cutting-edge technology, and on the other hand, it was to show respect to these great Taoist scholars who traveled to remote areas to educate people.
The tank is equipped with the technological applications of Tiangong-1, so it can fly by itself. Once the reactor starts running, it will make a thunderous sound. The so-called roar of the tank comes from this sound.
Lu Zhi couldn't let go of this thing, and he threw the carriage and other things directly into the bottomless abyss.
A real man should drive a chariot. No wonder Confucius listed driving as one of the six arts. It has a profound meaning.
Feeling that he was one step closer to becoming a sage, Lu Zhi secretly studied the talent composition of chariots.
Speaking of this, Lu Zhi also has the ability to rub double talents by hand, and is better than Zhu Jun . At least he can ensure that what he rubs out is what he wants, and at most the effect is slightly worse.
Especially after seeing the environment in the Western Regions , Lu Zhi felt that this was simply a paradise for chariots, and immediately planned to reproduce a wave of chariot legions.
However, he is not the commander of a large army now, and he is embarrassed to ask the court directly for military funds. After all, he came here to educate, not to fight.
However, in order to promote his chariot corps, he decisively came up with a good idea, which was to accept two more students.
After some inspection, Xu Huang caught his eye. The talent of the legion that could march straight ahead was a perfect match for the chariot legion.
Once he has Xu Huang by his side and gives him instructions, would he still worry that no one would inherit his chariot corps?
As for Yu Jin, he simply admired his talent. He felt that Yu Jin had the potential to become the commander of a large army, and it would be a pity to waste his talent, so he planned to pass on all his experience in command to him.
The levels of the three military gods were too high, to the point that Yu Jin and his men simply could not comprehend them. Huangfu Song was in Yizhou and had no time to spare, so he thought that if he could teach Yu Jin everything he knew, he would be able to train him to be the commander of a large army.
Compared with the actual assessment of the God of War and others, the best way is to let Yu Jin and others find the problems themselves and have a good teacher like Lu Zhi to train them.
