Volume 16: The strange and treacherous

While worried about the incident in Xiliang, the Western Regions in the west also sent an urgent report. This time, it was written by Guan Yu, which actually asked for a petition to start a war with the Wusun Kingdom.

Guan Yu mentioned in his letter that in winter, the Wusun Kingdom repeatedly sent troops to cross the Tianshan Mountains and attacked Wulei and Kucha, which were closely connected with Yanqi, causing heavy losses to the local people. Wulei and Kucha are now frightened birds, and the king fled to Yuanqu City with his family to chase and could not even chase them back. They cried and shouted, asking King Pingxi to give the same treatment as Yanqi's king Long Kui'a, and willingly hand over their country's destiny.

According to Guan Yu's analysis, although Gumo, Wen Su and Weitou have defected to Wusun, they are envious of Yanqi and Che Shi. They secretly sent envoys to visit Liu Yu, as if they had the intention of "abandoning the dark and turning to the light". At this time, it is time for King Pingxi to show his strength, so that the wronged brothers can be comforted, and the brothers who want to defect to see hope or strengthen their confidence.

In view of this, Guan Yu suggested that a comprehensive combat plan against the Wusun Kingdom be launched immediately, and there was no need to wait until the weather was warm in summer and autumn before launching troops to attack Wushu.

The urgent reports came from all directions, making Zhao Xing increasingly feel that it was urgent to form a cabinet, otherwise he might not even have time to hold his wife in the future.

No matter what, Zhao Xing must first handle everything at hand before he can rest assured to operate the matter of forming a cabinet.

In accordance with the order of priorities and geographical distance, Zhao Xing first replied to Guan Yu, agreeing to launch a spring offensive against the Wusun Kingdom, with the combat goal of taking over the entire Wusun territory when winter comes. The specific combat plan and action are decided by Guan Yu himself, and the required action funds can be withdrawn from the Western Regions Branch of the Agricultural, Military and Commercial Bank in batches. This time, Zhao Xing planned to allocate 4 million taels of silver to attack the Wusun Kingdom, which should be enough to support the war to continue until this winter.

If Liu Yu's unparalleled internal affairs ability is considered, perhaps the Pingxi army fought against the Wusun people in front, and Liu Yu could find a way to make money later, and it would be possible to give Zhao Xing a surprise in the end.

Zhao Xing did not worry too much about the war in the Western Regions. He could not think of the 120,000 well-trained Pingxi Army, plus 20,000 Yanqi reserve cavalry. Under the leadership of Guan Yu, Ma Chao, Tian Yu, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Pang Ji, Lu Xun, Ma Dai and others, what other reasons might lead to failure? Zhao Xing is only concerned about whether to write "optimal" or "good" to the performance evaluation book of the generals of the Western Regions when the year-end is settled.

After finishing his work, Zhao Xing did not dare to delay the reply to the Western Regions at all. He immediately wrote a reply to Jia Xu, and made some analysis and explanation on the plague that the Shadow Team members encountered.

In his letter, Zhao Xing emphasized that plague is different from other plagues and is extremely contagious. Once improperly dealt with, it may cause the people and animals in the neighboring areas such as Liangzhou and Yizhou to be empty, and even directly affect the Sili area and Shangjun area.

According to the epidemic prevention knowledge he learned when he went to Heizhou where wars were frequent, Zhao Xing focused on demarcating isolation belts and timely clearing the corpses of infected animals, especially animals that resemble giant rats (actually marmots, the carrier that is most likely to carry and spread by the plague, similar to civets), various places established epidemic detection stations, tried their best to reduce the entry of people into the southeastern area of ​​the West Sea, prepared a large number of protective masks, carried out temporary sanitation campaigns, and eliminated a large number of rats in the areas where people live. These measures are carefully considered and well-intentioned.

In fact, even if Zhao Xing didn't say this, Jia Xu could still respond correctly. After all, Bingzhou alone blocked the rare plague that had been raging on the northern grasslands for seven years. In terms of how to prevent and fight large-scale infectious diseases, all officials who went out of Jin had extraordinary vigilance and response capabilities, and Jia Xu even participated in the "anti-epidemic campaign" that year.

After writing the letter to Jia Xu, Zhao Xing felt that there was something else he didn't expect, but he couldn't think about it for a while, so he let it go and asked someone to send the written reply to Gaoping City first.

In order to support Liang's defense against the plague, Zhao Xing also appointed Hua Tuo's two most complacent apprentices, Guangling Wu Pu and Pengcheng Fan A, to lead a 50-person epidemic prevention team to Gaoping, Liang's country and Nanzheng County in Hanzhong County to strictly prevent and defend the plague. There were also two large-scale transportation teams accompanying the work team, carrying various emergency rescue equipment and a batch of valuable epidemic prevention drugs.

Although Zhao Xing has not intercepted Sima Yi's sinister conspiracy to use the plague to disrupt Liang Kingdom, he has made a complete plan to deal with the plague with a high vigilance and responsible attitude towards the people, which can be said to have eliminated a huge disaster before it happened. Regardless of whether Sima Yi will take action in a while, the secret preparations of Liang Kingdom and Hanzhong are enough to deal with various emergencies.

So what did Zhao Xing forget to mention in his letter to Jia Xu? He forgot to attack the spread of the Five Dogs of Rice Cult in Liang Kingdom when the plague broke out and to win over the hearts of the people and increase prestige!

It’s no wonder that Zhao Xing was not considerate enough and missed such a great opportunity, just because he was more concerned about epidemic prevention itself, so he naturally had less interest in such things that took advantage of the situation to speculate.

However, Zhao Xing did not expect that it was not the case that the chief adviser Jia Xu could not have imagined. This great military advisor who Zhao Xing, who held the etiquette of his disciples, and the prime minister of Liang, had been following Zhao Xing for more than ten years, and often helped Zhao Xing make a ruthless decision. At that time, Jia Xu designed to burn the gourd mouth, and later used Han Sui to eliminate Ma Teng to command Ma Chao and Zhang Xiu to wash the Xiliang and burn the Qiang Qiang. Last year, he bombed Yi County with gunpowder. Every decision made showed the style of a "poisonous warrior". Although his methods were ruthless, they were all for the purpose of fulfilling Zhao Xing.

After receiving urgent reports of the destruction of the two expedition teams, Jia Xu immediately isolated the other two teams that had returned from the Qiang Gou brought back. If it weren't for the extremely close relationship between the Shadow Team members and Zhao Xing, Jia Xu would probably order the secret execution of the expedition team members who came back alive.

While waiting for Zhao Xing's reply, Jia Xu had sent someone to secretly investigate the specific situation of the Wudou Rice Sect in the Sili area going deep into Liang Kingdom, and registered all the wealthy families who believed in the Wudou Rice Sect to prepare for what he wanted to do next.

Jia Xu had long been disliked by the Wudou Mi Cult, because he felt that letting it continue like this would likely cause chaos to Liangguo in a good situation. As an authentic Guzang native of Liangzhou, he did not want a group of people who danced gods to mess up his hometown that was developing vigorously.

Jia Xu never believed that people would be able to cure all diseases after they locked themselves in a small dark room and prayed to God. This time he planned to let these wealthy families who were full and supported to set an example for the people of the world, to see if it was the Five Doks of Rice Cult, or the Jin State's epidemic prevention methods were useful.

If Jia Xu really wanted to do this, Zhao Xing couldn't say anything, because in fact, Zhao Xing also began to itch at the Five Doks of Rice Teaching Teeth.
Chapter completed!