The war ended and the war began.

For a united, unified, and revived man, conquering the alien races entrenched in the north is really not a difficult task. Liu Xie's personal commander even had the intention of killing chickens and using a ox knife.

But it is really too difficult to manage ethnic groups outside the Frontier.

I really envy the kings of the Song Dynasty who don’t have to worry about such difficult problems.

It is necessary to give the rebels the most tragic pain to make them feel respectful. Drawing ten and killing one is already the most kind way of punishment for Liu Xie.

Otherwise, blindly comforting them will only make them more and more unscrupulous and play zero-yuan purchases for themselves again and again.

However, punishment brings hatred. Liu Xie, who has the lessons of the Bingzhou Huns, dared not kill them all. These hatreds will eventually be buried in the hearts of these Qiang and Hu people and become gunpowder. He is waiting for a proper opportunity to ignite the lead, and they will still explode vigorously.

The Han Dynasty could not always be extremely powerful, and even the invincible beautiful army would be beaten to pieces by religious organizations in the valley.

Liangzhou has many mountains and hills. He will have a headache when he is really at the point of fighting guerrilla warfare.

After thinking about it, I still feel that only the Silk Road is the final and the only way out.

Only development, a community of shared future for a country created through a community of economic interests, can people forget hatred and embrace development.

Only development can resolve all contradictions. Hate will be put aside because of development. If it is put aside for a long time, it will naturally fade, or even forget.

However, when Liu Xie thought of the Silk Road, he couldn't help but think of Han Sui's proposal, and he couldn't help but feel irritated again.

"Kong Ming, you are also an official who is about to go to the Western Regions. What do you think about the proposal of Wenfu?"

Zhuge Liang was also embarrassed when he heard this. After a long time, he sighed and said, "The original intention of Wenfu is correct. Everything has no end. It is destined to be great perseverance and great determination to achieve success. The most feared thing about this is to waste all previous efforts and give up halfway. I have a feeling that there will probably be no fewer people who oppose this matter in the future."

"Why?"

"Because it will infringe upon the interests of the vested superiors."

"You mean the vested interest group? Who? Where?"

"Not yet, Your Majesty is wise and the country's corrupt party members have been swept away. The adults in the court are also loyal and pillars of the country, but people will always be corrupt. In the above, managing the Western Regions will make the government unable to stabilize. The generals who return to the Western Regions will have no conflict with the court officials in the future. For the powerful and powerful gentry, the monopoly operations of the Thirteen companies will affect their own smuggling operations. The wealth they earn will continue to flow directly to the treasury, but the impact and changes on the entire society will definitely make them feel the same."

"So far these days, I have been thinking about the Western Regions, making many ideas, and worrying about Wenyou... I also have it. The Legalists believe that the privileged class will always be a cancer of the country. When the Silk Road is successfully opened in the future, will the privileged class find a way to destroy the monopoly status of the Thirteen Banks of Liangzhou? Will it advocate so-called peace? Will this power tightly held in the hands of the court be penetrated? I... I may not have figured out some things, and I can't explain them clearly."

Liu Xie was indeed confused when he heard this and felt a little confused, but Liu Xie quickly remembered Zheng He's voyage to the West in Yongle year of the Ming Dynasty, and he became more and more impressed by Zhuge Liang's far-sighted vision.

All reactionaries, both in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, have wrapped themselves up justly, and it is not easy to find out the reactionaries themselves. Sometimes bad and stupid are really a gap.

For example, after Zhu Di, the ministers opposed voyage to the West, on the grounds that they were wasting national treasury and losing money in the business. Everyone thought it was right, but they didn't know that Zheng He brought back a large amount of pepper, pepper and other spices in the West. Although these spices that were once priced at a price of gold caused the price to plummet and led to a loss in trade, isn't this loss beneficial to the country and the people?

For example, at the Salt and Iron Conference in the Western Han Dynasty, the virtuous and well-behaved stewards held high the banner of people's livelihood, believing that the salt and iron franchise and the people's profits had increased the burden on the people. The rulers once really thought what they were saying was right!

The result was that after the country gave up the salt and iron operation, the actual salt prices soared, and the powerful exploited the people much more ruthless than the imperial court.

Not to mention that Liu Xie's Liangzhou Thirteen-Level System was originally copied from the Guangzhou Thirteen-Level System of the Qing Dynasty. As early as the Qianlong period, the East India Company was trying every means to bypass the Thirteen-Level System and successfully colluded with the Jiangnan bureaucracy to open up the Ningbo port for trade, called free trade, which brought vitality to Ningbo, which was still poor at that time. It seemed to be of great merit, but in fact it was to transfer profits from the Thirteen-Level System that the state could not control.

Thanks to Qianlong's brain, he urgently stopped such nonsense. (In fact, this also proves that Qianlong was not a frog in the well who did not understand the Western world and foreign trade. There is a saying that Qianlong and Louis XVI were even pen pals, and they were clear about what happened in the French Revolution. The so-called arrogance was just a cover-up for fear of the introduction of revolutionary thoughts).

Without thinking, what happened to Zheng He and the Thirteen Tours in Guangzhou will definitely happen again in the Western Regions Protectorate.

The people who hold the right to speak in the court were the aristocratic class of the Central Plains headed by Xun Yue. Will they allow the huge economic interests and political discourse power of the Western Regions Protectorate have nothing to do with them? Even if they cannot be snatched, they may be destroyed.

The corruption and degeneration of the ruling class cannot be stopped at all. Even in modern society, the eldest brother of Su, whose thoughts and wills are like steel, finally fell under his corruption. He does not think that his great man can be more resistant to corruption than the eldest brother. Although he can suppress the voices of opposition when he is there, the opposition may not even dare to jump out at all, but how can he know that he will not become Zhu Di? Cao Chun and others will not become Zheng He?

"So Kong Ming, your opinion is to support the proposal of Wenfu, allowing the Western Regions Protectorate to intercept the income?"

Zhuge Liang was silent for a long time after hearing this and said, "All policies have two sides. If they allow interception, they are really not bad. Since this matter is related to me, it is hard to say whether it is in favor of me or not."

"Um."

Liu Xie had no idea either.

"Forget it, let's not talk about these things for now, let's go."

"Will the troops return to the court?"

"No, I changed my mind. Go to Dunhuang. I want to take a look there before talking about it."
Chapter completed!