The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

"It's over! It's over!"

Liu Bei advised: "Kushan is a great country. The Yuezhi people have lived and multiplied here for hundreds of years. Their population is more than tens of millions. Meng De should not act rashly!"

Millions.

Even in the Han area, it is an incredible number.

The Kushans are not on the same level as Shule, Wusun, and Cheshi, so we must not act carelessly!

"Besides, the emperor is on a southern tour now. If he launches a war in the future, he will definitely first deal with Jiangdong and then attack Kushan. If you send troops now, won't that put the court in a dilemma?"

When dealing with a force of the Kushan level, we must give it our all and win with one strike!
Otherwise, no matter how much national strength the Han Dynasty has, it will not be enough to fight with a big country with a population of over ten million in a place thousands of miles away from the heartland of the Han Dynasty!
"Xuan De, I just said that I would deploy troops on the border. I just wanted to intimidate, not really send troops to Kushan. Why are you so impatient?"

Cao Cao naturally also knew the size of the Kushan Empire.

Different from those small countries in the Western Regions.

The Kushans were truly capable of posing a threat to the Han Dynasty, and were even capable of defeating the Han Dynasty on a local battlefield.

If we provoke them at will, the Western Regions, which have just calmed down, will fall into the quagmire of war, which will not be worth the loss.

Therefore, Cao Cao’s purpose was not to start a war, but to intimidate!

"That's not OK!"

Liu Bei did not intend to support Cao Cao's decision.

"The ignorant are fearless!"

"Do you know that in Liaodong, Buyeo and Goguryeo... Don't stare at me! Let's talk business! The reason why Buyeo and Goguryeo dared to follow Gongsun Du and Yuan Tan to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble was because they had no idea about the interests of the court!"

"They have lived in the wilderness for a long time, and they think that they are the overlords of the area just because they have an army of a thousand people and a population of hundreds of thousands. They are the existence that the surrounding tribes are afraid of. They don't understand the power of the imperial court at all."

“The same is true for Kushan.”

"The last time the two countries clashed was when Ban Dingyuan was in the Western Regions."

"After so many years, they must have forgotten how powerful the Han people are and think they are supreme... If you go to intimidate them, they will probably really think you want to declare war on them and cause trouble!"

After all, the Han Dynasty only returned to the Western Regions in recent years.

Although Cao Cao executed several countries in the Western Regions that dared to challenge the Han Dynasty in a swift and almost cruel manner...but such a war was obviously not enough to intimidate the Kushan Empire, whose size had reached tens of millions.

When Ban Chao was in the Western Regions, his achievements were no worse than Cao Cao's, but the Kushans still wanted to marry a Han princess, and they only behaved themselves after being taught a lesson by Ban Chao.

The current Han Dynasty has not yet reached the point where it can intimidate the Kushans with just the troops in the Western Regions, so it needs to take a long-term view.

Cao Cao stared at Liu Bei: "Xuan De seems to know a lot about Kushan?"

"The Kushans are also human beings. I have seen many such brutal and arrogant tribes when I was in the Beiting Protectorate!"

During the period when Liu Bei was in charge of Beiting Protectorate, he encountered too many tribes led by Tian Lao and him.

The cognitive differences between them and the Han people, Xiongnu people, Xianbei people, etc. are so great that language or intimidation alone will not work.

The best way to deal with them is to "invite" them to Dragon City to see how powerful the Beiting Protectorate is, and then they will understand everything...

Therefore, for the overlord of a wild land like the Kushans, deterrence alone would probably not have any effect at all.

Even if we want to intimidate them, we must first let them know what the Han Dynasty is and how powerful the Han Dynasty is, and then we can intimidate them!
After hearing this, Cao Cao frowned.

Although he often felt that Liu Bei was too naive, he had to admit that Liu Bei's approach was indeed more effective.

"It seems that you have really gained experience in Beiting Protectorate."

Cao Cao wanted to praise Liu Bei, but looking at Liu Bei's old face, he didn't say anything that might make Liu Bei arrogant. "Then send an envoy to Kushan to invite the Kushan envoy to Han."

"Doesn't he want to see the emperor? Then let him go through the Central Plains and go to Qingzhou to meet the emperor."

Under Liu Bei's persuasion, Cao Cao did not go to the extreme of resorting to direct blackmail by force, but instead adopted a more gentle approach.

The two men's conversation was heard word for word by Guo Jia who was standing by.

Guo Jia also let out a "tsk" sound at this moment.

"Ming Gong and the Emperor's uncle really complement each other. No wonder the Emperor ordered you to manage the Western Regions together."

This kind of thing has actually not been an isolated case since Liu Bei came to the Western Regions.

This was also the case when we first planned to build a city in the Western Regions.

Later, when he officially started to manage the Western Regions, some of Cao Cao's overly extreme policies would be rejected by Liu Bei, and some of Liu Bei's overly presumptuous and gentle methods would also be sneered at by Cao Cao, who prepared corresponding measures to cover Liu Bei at any time.

Originally, Guo Jia also thought that the emperor sent Liu Bei to the Western Regions because he was worried about Cao Cao and asked Liu Bei to monitor Cao Cao... But now it seems that if Liu Bei is replaced by anyone else, he may not be able to achieve the effect of one plus one greater than two with Cao Cao in the Western Regions.

"of course!"

When Liu Bei heard what Guo Jia said, he went over and hugged Cao Cao: "Meng De and I are like-minded!"

"Who shares the same ideals as you? It's obviously you who keeps causing trouble for me!"

Cao Cao let go of Liu Bei's arm around his neck and said, "Now we need to decide who should be sent as the Han envoy to Kushan? Fa Zheng cannot go, as his reputation has spread..."

"Ah? That's a pity..."

"What a pity! Are you planning to wipe out all the Kushan nobles as well?"

……

What the two of them didn't expect was that Zhuge Liang had already done what they were going to do...

Rich lady Li.

That is the present-day Li Fu.

After bidding farewell to the emperor in Chang'an, Li Fu went directly to Shu from Guanzhong and returned to Kushan from the Annan Protectorate.

After witnessing the prosperity of the Han Dynasty, Li Fu returned to Kushan and felt that Kushan was too dilapidated and backward and was in urgent need of change!

Li Fu took out the paper and silk from the Han Dynasty.

He translated the Han Dynasty's classics into Kushan language and spread them around, telling everyone in Kushan:

"In the East, there is a truly civilized country!"

"The people there will not be troubled by hunger."

"The people there will not be treated as slaves by the nobles!"

"The people there are proud of their knowledge and civilization!"

"The Han people in the East are the beacon of civilization! They are the paradise of the world!"

Li Fu's propaganda did cause quite a stir in the Kushan Empire.

But after causing a sensation, several Kushan royal guards soon came to Li Fu and made a ferocious invitation to him -

"Come with us! The king wants to see you!" (End of this chapter)