Your Majesty, please beg for mercy. The prince's rebellion was successful.

The Prince of Zhou Dynasty is on a mission to the Yuan Dynasty!

Thousands of people were accompanied by an honor guard, and Lan Yu even sent five thousand elite escorts. It can be said that it is a huge force and attracts everyone's attention!

After leaving Hanguan, Zhou Zheng felt relaxed and happy as he saw the endless grassland.

"The sky is blue, the fields are vast, and the grass is blown by the wind and you can see the cattle and sheep!"

As far as the eye could see, almost all were fat sheep and strong cattle, galloping on the endless grassland, which attracted Zhou Zheng's admiration.

Such a scene is completely different from the territory of the Zhou Dynasty.

"The boss is the boss, he speaks in a straight line, he's awesome."

Zhou Ping savored the verses that Zhou Zheng blurted out, praised them, and quickly followed up with a series of rainbow farts.

Zhou Zheng disagreed with Zhou Ping's praise.

"Ok?"

At the end of the line of sight, dozens of figures on horseback quietly appeared.

Due to the distance, they couldn't see their appearance clearly, but they could still be barely seen being fully armed with long bows and sabers.

These people walked around the perimeter of Zhou Zheng's group before leaving.

"Your Highness, these are herdsmen from the Yuan Dynasty."

"They are tall and strong, and they always do things to rob families and homes on this road."

Lan Yu rode up to Zhou Zheng and explained slowly.

After guarding Hanguan for more than ten years, Lan Yu is very familiar with everything here.

At this time, they chose the official road of Dayuan, with flat terrain, fertile land and beautiful scenery.

But because of this, it is extremely easy for some powerful nomads to appear on this so-called official road.

The Yuan Dynasty was a dynasty on the grasslands, a dynasty on horseback. There were many nomadic peoples. They were born warriors and had extremely strong fighting power. Therefore, from time to time, herdsmen would gather together to rob the merchants coming and going.

Because this official road leads to the imperial capital of the Yuan Dynasty, Dadu!

"Our troops at the customs clearance sometimes provide some shelter and earn some extra money."

Smile, this is Han Guan's open secret.

As the most important distribution point for the exchange of goods between the Yuan Dynasty and the Great Zhou Dynasty, Hanguan naturally knew how much risk those merchants faced if they wanted to transport silk, tea, porcelain and even ironware from the Great Zhou Dynasty back to Dadu.

Therefore, providing protection can, on the one hand, allow the two countries to communicate with each other, and on the other hand, it can also increase the income of the soldiers crossing the border a little.

After all, in these years, the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Great Yuan Dynasty lived in peace and harmony. Although the border passes were peaceful, the soldiers and generals who passed the passes had no visible military merit.

How can we support the 30,000 elite troops in Hanguan with only meager military pay? ?

Zhou Zheng nodded slightly. He knew very well that the Zhou Dynasty always valued culture over military affairs. Unless there was a war, the treatment of soldiers and generals would not be very good.

The core reason why Zhenbeihou stationed troops in the northern border is that the northern border faces Daxia.

Over the years, the two countries were at war, and the imperial court had to allocate a large amount of silver, so that while guarding the border of the Zhou Dynasty, Zhenbeihou could continue to train his troops, support war with war, and gradually grow stronger.

Otherwise, if there is no serious war, even if we have 200,000 troops, it will be useless.

Whether it was Fancheng or Quancheng, in Zhou Zheng's opinion, the soldiers and generals were too weak and too poor.

"Raising troops for a thousand days and using them for a while. The imperial court should find ways to improve the treatment of soldiers and generals."

Taking a deep breath, Zhou Zheng looked solemn.

If a country wants to remain prosperous and not be bullied, it must not rely on the words of civil servants, but the combat effectiveness of its generals.

The saying goes, the truth is only within the range of the cannon. This is what it means.

Zhou Zheng's seemingly unintentional words shocked Lan Yu's heart.

Improve the treatment of soldiers and generals! ?

This is what millions of soldiers and generals of the Zhou Dynasty look forward to all the time.

However, the imperial court never cared.

Even if he carried out large-scale construction projects and spent extravagantly, Emperor Tianjing never mentioned the issue of improving the treatment of his soldiers.

"If His Highness ascends to the throne, perhaps this situation can really be improved..."

Secretly guessing in her heart, when Lan Yu looked at Zhou Zheng at this moment, there was a strange fluctuation in her eyes.

Having been in the army all year round, he knows the true situation of soldiers and generals very well.

Even the soldiers and generals who passed the pass had to act as escorts and bodyguards for the merchant brigades to earn extra money. It is conceivable that the situation of other soldiers and generals must be worse.

As a soldier, you can barely survive. Who is willing to go into battle and kill the enemy regardless of life and death for the imperial court?

"But your Highness, please rest assured that these herdsmen, numbering in the hundreds at most, will not pose a threat to us."

Seeing that Zhou Zheng was still looking towards the place where the herdsmen had disappeared, Lan Yu thought that Zhou Zheng was worried that the herdsmen would return, so she quickly explained.

Their group, not counting the honor guard, was escorted by five thousand elites.

Not to mention that these scattered herdsmen who relied on robbery for a living could not pose a threat to them. Even if they encountered larger tribes, they would only have to flee when faced with thousands of elites from Hanguan.

In recent years, in order to ensure the combat effectiveness of Hanguan soldiers and generals, Lan Yu would also let Hanguan soldiers and generals disguise themselves as businessmen, lure these herdsmen to take the bait, and then fight.

Using war to support war, although it is not as large-scale and powerful as Zhenbeihou, it still keeps Hanguan's reputation from falling.

After listening, Zhou Zheng's approval of Lan Yu became even stronger.

"In the Yuan Dynasty, it was not impossible for all the people to be soldiers."

"The peace between the two countries will not last too long. This is what I am worried about."

Taking a deep breath, Zhou Zheng finally expressed his worries.

"Your Highness, what does this mean?"

Zhou Zheng's sudden words caught Lan Yu off guard, her eyes widened with surprise on her face.

At present, the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Great Yuan Dynasty are interoperating with each other, and there is no large-scale war. This situation has lasted for a long time.

The world has long been accustomed to the relationship between the two parties, and some people even think that this will become the norm.

This is also the reason why the imperial court only stationed troops at Hanguan when the long borders of the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Great Yuan Dynasty met.

Because no one believes that there will be a real war between the two countries.

"You have said that the Yuan Dynasty was a dynasty on horseback, and the people on the grassland were like eagles."

"They are naturally warlike and fearless of death. How could they be bound by so-called rules?"

"The reason why the Yuan Dynasty did not take action against the Zhou Dynasty in these years is not because they love peace, but because they are not strong enough."

"The Yuan Dynasty was a dynasty composed of nomadic peoples. Although it was based on the Zhou Dynasty, it was actually a loose federal system internally."

"If I am not wrong about this, I am afraid that there have been many problems within the Yuan Dynasty in recent years."

"Once they solve the internal problems, when they look at me, Da Zhou, the greed in their eyes will be undisguised."

"At that time, countless iron cavalry will come down from the north, and the threat to our Great Zhou Dynasty will far exceed that of Great Xia Kingdom."

Zhou Zheng's voice was not loud, but it made the blue jade pierce his back like a thorn!

He stared blankly at the boy in front of him who looked to be only eighteen years old, with ripples in the depths of his pupils.

This was the first time Lan Yu heard these remarks.

Especially what Zhou Zheng said, the Great Yuan Dynasty brought the threat of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and was even more threatened by the Great Xia Kingdom!

"This time I am on a mission to the Yuan Dynasty. I also want to see how capable the current Yuan Dynasty is."

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