Chapter 910: Making Friends with Distant Countries and Attacking Nearby Countries
When Zhuge Liang had not returned to Luoyang, Guo Hao had not returned to Luoyang either.
The trouble in Japan had already been settled, and the puppet regime of Himiko had basically spread to all places in the four islands of Japan.
With the active cooperation of Susanoo, the people of Japan have recognized the fact that they have become one of the vassal states of the Han Dynasty and are on the same status as Goryeo to some extent.
Their status was even slightly lower than that of the Koreans. After all, they naturalized early and had die-hard Han supporters like Gao Xianzhi, so overall they were higher than the Japanese.
But the problem was that just when the internal troubles were settled and Guo Hao and others were about to return to the capital, Sun Ce and Gan Ning caused trouble again.
It's not that they took the initiative to cause trouble, but the pirates in the Indian Ocean began to move towards the Pacific Ocean on a large scale, and the two sides began to fight fiercely near Australia and Indonesia.
In themselves, these Indian Ocean pirates could not be a match for Gan Ning and his men, but during the battle, these pirates showed different professional qualities. Their overall level was extremely professional. They even had standard equipment, which, although very old, was definitely from the Kushans.
After Cecilion returned to Kushan, he was of course unwilling to let his youth slip away.
After returning, he immediately mobilized the Kushan Navy and all the Kushan nobles, gathered the pirates in the Indian Ocean together, gave them a intensive training, and then eliminated a wave of equipment to these pirates.
Then completely expel from the Indian Ocean and let them head towards the Pacific Ocean.
Then they ran into Sun Ce and Gan Ning. The two of them had teamed up to rob Sun Quan's fleet and were patrolling around when they ran into this group of pirates.
This matter itself is not worth making a fuss about, just fight.
But after the two sides fought, small countries near Indonesia began to come to Indonesia, crying and begging for national submission.
Their lives were not easy to begin with, and now seeing that they were caught in the middle of a war between two empires, a group of nobles from small countries naturally fled as soon as possible.
Of course Guo Hao accepted all the territory that was delivered to his doorstep, but after taking over all the territory, he realized that the business was too big.
Pirates may be weak when gathered together, but the most troublesome thing is that they can launch attacks at any time and anywhere.
In desperation, Guo Hao took the Japanese expeditionary force, sailed downstream on ships, arrived at various ports in Indonesia, and began to station troops there.
Then send Zheng He and Zhou Yu to start cleaning up the area around Indonesia, at least to eliminate all the large-scale pirate groups first.
During this process, Guo Hao and his team trained the local indigenous people, trying to enable them to have the ability to protect themselves within the city.
After the pirates came ashore, to be honest, their combat effectiveness was not much different from that of the miscellaneous soldiers. As long as Indonesia could shrink its range and then adopt the model of combining villages and strongholds, the various corps of the Han army could train a wave of militia for them, which would be enough for them to be self-sufficient.
The Han Dynasty could not spare so many people to manage the situation at once, so it could only adopt this extreme method of military control to force these natives who nominally belonged to the Han Dynasty to defend themselves.
After a while, I was dragged here.
All they could do was wait for Zhou Yu and his men to finish playing hide-and-seek with the pirates at sea and then return to the capital.
It’s a pity that this process is too long, so long that some people in the Central Plains began to have evil thoughts.
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"Huh? What is this?" Chen Xi looked at the document in his hand and felt it was ridiculous.
"Fengxiao, come and check if there's something wrong with my brain!" Chen Xi called out to Guo Jia with a pained look on his face.
"You want to run away again? If you don't take me with you this time, I will get mad!" Guo Jia took Chen Xi's documents nonchalantly, muttering to himself.
The last time, Chen Xi had agreed to sneak away with him, but he ended up tricking him at the last minute and nailed him directly to the Zhengzheng Office, and then he ran out to have some fun.
"Are you kidding?" Guo Jia looked over and over the document in his hand, with a puzzled look on his face.
"Descendants of the Huns and a coalition of mixed Hu people, is it really possible that such a thing would appear on the northern grasslands?" Chen Xi's face was full of confusion, but this document was submitted by the Baima Yicong, so he had no choice but to believe it.
"If this thing is true and I eat this document, how can the White Horse Volunteers still be unable to catch up with the Hu people on the grassland?" Guo Jia said with a sneer. He had already guessed what was behind this thing.
"What do you mean?" Chen Xi frowned, and couldn't help but think of the chaos in Luoyang before.
"It seems that some people are not behaving themselves again. They really think that no one can control them!" Guo Jia threw the documents in his hand and couldn't help but sneered.
"You mean the aristocratic family? So... the one who did it was Li Wenyou?" Chen Xi narrowed his eyes.
"Most likely. Who else but him could issue a document in the name of the White Horse Volunteers?" Guo Jia pointed at the documents in his hand with a sneer on his face.
"I guess in a couple of days, you'll hear news that a certain noble family was robbed and the whole family was killed." Guo Jia said expressionlessly. He always kept his distance from Li Ru.
"This excuse is so lame that some people might actually believe it is true."
"It's the restless season again. Since Li Wenyou has already started to take action, it is probably more than just a simple problem!" Chen Xi knocked on the table and couldn't help but have a headache.
Just like the other side of light is shadow, the parasites in an empire are endless.
After the position of a termite is replaced, the new person will face the same test, and if he fails, he will become a termite again.
Power is like the most tempting poison. Every promotion is a test. Chen Xi has seen too many examples of depravity over the years.
Most of the people are those who lack spiritual talent but have good personal intelligence, and they are most likely to go astray.
This is also a very helpless thing. The people above you are all spiritually gifted, and you can't replace them, and you can't sublimate yourself.
Finally, the road ahead is blocked and one cannot find the goal in life. Then one starts to degenerate, whether into alcohol, sex, or money. The ways of degeneration are nothing more than these.
There is another type of depravity here, but it is not complete depravity, which is the tendency to eat. Compared with other types of depravity, this type is the best.
After all, how much you can eat is just a drop in the bucket compared to other bad hobbies.
"Everyone in the world is busy seeking profit!" Chen Xi scratched his head. He has never advocated a one-size-fits-all approach.
"Send a document to Li Wenyou and tell him to be careful. Killing is not the best way to solve the problem!" Chen Xi sighed and finally decided to intervene.
Chen Xi knew that Li Ru was reliable, but he was too murderous.
Sometimes, killing can indeed solve the problem, but he always habitually avoids this because there is always other way.
If you are used to using a hammer to solve problems, you will keep using a hammer. If you use a hammer to solve all problems, the country will be in complete chaos.
"Forget it, let's not talk about this. It makes me upset just talking about it. Where are Kong Ming and the others? Why haven't they come back yet?" Chen Xi sighed and casually changed the subject.
"They should have reached Xiliang!" Guo Jia looked up and estimated. Someone had flown back to report the news before, so according to the approximate marching speed, they should have almost returned.
"Well, I don't know what Kong Ming and the others have gained this time. The battlefield is a good place for training!" Chen Xi thought expectantly.
"It should n't be a big problem. Lu Zijing is also on our side. With the two of them, there won't be any big trouble. It's just a matter of the size of the harvest." Guo Jia said with a smile.
Everyone has high hopes for Zhuge Liang. He is a genius who can take over Chen Xi's position. If he can grow up earlier, all of them will be able to relax a little.
"Prime Minister!"
Just as the two were chatting, Zhao Yun stepped into the Government Affairs Hall. After sending Zhuge Liang and Liu Chan to the hospital, he ran over without daring to stop for a moment.
"Oh oh oh, speaking of Zilong, here he is!" Chen Xi said with a smile, but seeing Zhao Yun's serious face, he couldn't help but become serious.
"What happened?" Chen Xi said seriously.
"There are Huns!" Zhao Yun said simply and clearly.
"See, I said Li Wenyu's reason was terrible!" Guo Jia shook his head and said to Chen Xi with disdain.
Chen Xi was also in a dilemma. He didn't know how to explain to Zhao Yun the inside story of the Huns' descendants looting the village. It would not look good to put this thing out in the open.
"We know about this and are already dealing with it!" Chen Xi scratched his head and finally told Zhao Yun .
"You already knew?" Zhao Yun was stunned. They all figured it out at the border of Pamir Mountains.
Chen Xi actually knew about it a long time ago. Did Zhuge Liang make other arrangements to pass on the message?
But in a flash, Zhao Yun's IQ broke through the limit for the first time, and he realized that what Chen Xi said to him was completely different.
"Kong Ming discovered that there were descendants of the Huns among the Parthian Empire's army, and traces of Hun technology were also found in Parthia's weapon secrets. For this reason, Kong Ming overdrew his own abilities and is now being treated in the hospital!"
Zhao Yun quickly explained the whole thing.
This time, Chen Xi and Guo Jia understood that they were the real Huns, not the Huns fabricated by Li Ru.
"You mean, the Huns are not extinct?"
Guo Jia was very upset. These Huns would never die out, right? This time everyone thought that the Huns had been crushed to ashes, but now you tell me that the Huns seem to have not died out and are still alive and well.
Chen Xi was also very upset, although there was once a saying that the Huns were descendants of the Xiongnu and inherited the Xiongnu's wishes.
On the one hand, they destroyed the Jin Dynasty in the east and launched the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China. On the other hand, they forced the barbarians in Central Asia to revolt, leading to the demise of Rome.
From this perspective, the Huns were indeed endless in history, and all nomadic peoples in later times seemed to have a certain Hun color, which spread the idea that either you are Han or you are Hu to every corner.
However, while Zhao Yun brought bad news, he also brought good news.
That means the enemy is in the open and they are in the dark.
"Zilong, go back and tell everyone not to spread the news. Now is not the time to start a rebellion!" Chen Xi knocked on the table and finally gave an order.
"The road to the Western Region has not been built yet, Tiangong-1 is also conducting an inspection in Africa, and the general and his men are at sea. It's a turbulent time!" Chen Xi tapped the table rhythmically.
I have to say that Zhuge Liang really played the empty city plan well.
Zhuge Liang's empty city plan made the people of Parthia unaware of the situation, but in fact the problem of the Huns had already been exposed to the eyes of the Han Dynasty.
The main reason was that young people were too confusing. Coupled with Zhuge Liang's three consecutive reductions in intelligence, even people like Lu Xun who were familiar with Zhou Yu's abilities did not notice it, let alone the Parthian officers who saw it for the first time.
"Who should we send to Rome?"
Make friends with distant ones and attack nearby ones. Since Parthia has become a stumbling block that must be eliminated, then the best strategy is to cooperate internally and externally.
Rome, which had a blood feud with Parthia, naturally became the first target of the Han Dynasty's alliance.
"How about sending Liu Hua and Ma Chao?"
Guo Jia started nominating people without thinking, mainly because these two were the only two people who had been sent out on diplomacy within the Han Empire.
The last time he established diplomatic relations with Great Britain was considered a success, so the first people he thought of were these two.
"This doesn't look good! We don't know where Ma Mengqi is right now, and Liu Hua is in charge of the inspection tour, so he can't get away for the time being!"
Chen Xi was somewhat tempted, but he rejected the idea. He couldn't drag a sheep to death with him. Besides, the two people who had been to Great Britain had subjective impressions and might be biased in their assessment of Rome. It would be more appropriate to send someone else.
"By the way, I have a candidate here, Sima Lang and Zhuge Jin, what do you think?" Guo Jia thought about it and gave two more candidates.
Both of them have a spiritual talent for diplomacy and, in a sense, are the best diplomats.
"That's right!" Chen Xi was very interested.
Previously, these two people had done an excellent job in assisting Ma Teng in dealing with the Qiang people’s issues. Now that they are being sent abroad for inspection and exchange, it is expected that they will also be able to do the job.
"As for the selection of the guard, let's spread the news and see who is willing to volunteer. Generally speaking, this matter is not very urgent. It won't be too late to discuss it after Kong Ming wakes up."
On the other side, Hua Tuo and Zhang Zhongjing were studying Zhuge Liang and Liu Chan.
"Qi and blood are empty, the body is exhausted, and the consciousness is dormant. How long can this last?" Hua Tuo frowned as he looked at Zhuge Liang's situation and felt that it was a bit tricky.
"This is normal. Just take a rest for a while and then replenish your body!" Zhang Zhongjing carefully examined Liu Chan and then glanced at him. There was nothing good to see. It was basically the same principle as kidney deficiency.
"The biggest problem is not consumption, but the brain!" Hua Tuo's face was a little solemn. He had done a lot of research on the brain, but it was still a problem that was difficult to solve perfectly.
"If things go wrong, we'll have to open his skull, but this guy's identity is not simple, and I'm afraid it will be troublesome then!"
They both knew Zhuge Liang, a rising star who had always been a workaholic and didn't take care of his body at all.
