"Why doesn't King Yan take charge of the command by himself?" Sima Yue, the King of Donghai, asked, looking at Sima Ji, who was calm and composed.

"I just went south to fight and now I have to return to the fiefdom to manage the fiefdom. There are many kings in the royal family, and I don't have to go to the battle myself if I become the commander!" Sima Ji said calmly that he wanted to return to the fiefdom.

It's really a waste of time! This sentence can't help but appear in the minds of the kings. How can a mere ban country be compared to leading troops out of the town and taking charge of the center? If you return with a complete victory, this is a big capital. Even the Nanzheng incident can make Sima Ji progress, which is a pity...

"Why didn't Qingxuan stay in Luoyang? With your achievements this time, it is enough to stay in Luoyang." asked Sima Xu, King Fanyang.

"Ji is still too young, and he really doesn't have the ability to enter the dynasty." Sima Ji waved his hand and said, "It is Ji's biggest goal to stay in Luoyang if he doesn't intend to stay in Luoyang."

"Age is not a problem. It can be seen that Gan Luo was in ancient times. He took office at the age of twelve, and Zhou Yu transferred troops at the age of seven! Qing Xuan is already eighteen years old, so don't belittle himself." Sima Gan persuaded Sima Ji at this time.

Sima Ji frowned slightly, but when he saw that Sima Gan was a mentally ill person, he pretended that he had not heard it. What example is this? Gan Luo was right to be a Shangqing at the age of twelve, but he seemed to have been beheaded that year.

"Ji, I have decided to leave. When I realize I have the ability, I will naturally come to Luoyang." Sima Ji said, "Don't talk nonsense. Why don't you quickly talk about how to recover Hetao? Will the royal family not need to make contributions? There are also many idle royal family members?

"I think about it, this matter is not easy to deal with. Those eight counties have been lost for more than 80 years. Now it is not a matter of taking it back overnight. We don't know anything about Hetao. Now there are all Hu people." King Sima Yong, the King of Hejian, pondered for a moment and shook his head slightly, "It's not impossible to fight it down."

"It is not necessarily true that all Hu people are. No matter where they are, there are people who are hard to leave their hometowns. There should be quite a few people in the Central Plains. It is impossible for Cao Cao to throw away that place, and all the people in those places will follow Cao Cao. We should send a detailed look first." As soon as King Sima Xu of Fanyang spoke, the kings nodded, "If you find the inner support, it will not be difficult to capture Hetao."

"Hetao is not in our hands, and it is not safe to sleep. Luoyang is too close to the Hu people. Once chaos occurs in Bingzhou, Luoyang will be as dangerous as it is!" Sima Ji sighed and joined the discussion. "Hetao is in our hands, and the grassland is our retainer. Hetao is not in our hands. We are hostages of the grassland. Fortunately, there is no large tribe on the grassland now like the Xiongnu and the Xianbei later, but is in a melee."

"But we cannot expect the Huns to appear. The Great Jin can unify the world, and of course the Hu people can unify the grasslands. We cannot wait until the grasslands are integrated before capturing Hetao. At that time, the situation we faced was not much stronger than Liu Bang facing Maodun!"

Faced with the difficulties of the Huns, the Sima kings and other kings nodded when they thought of it. They were not ordinary people, and they had a good understanding of historical books. They really thought that the Han Dynasty defeated the Huns in just a few strokes. If the collapse was made, it was the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it had nothing to do with the Western Han Dynasty.

The advantage of establishing the Western Regions Protectorate was Emperor Xuan of Han. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, it was just the time when the Han Dynasty began to take the initiative. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, the Han Dynasty still had the advantage before Emperor Wu of Han was old. When Emperor Wu of Han became old, it became a balance of power. After Emperor Wu of Han was old, the Han Dynasty suffered three consecutive defeats. It was not Yi Zhixie who was always defeated, but the military minister Shanyu. After Yi Zhixie became the Shanyu, the Huns actually withstood the Han Dynasty's delayed attack and restored the situation to a balance of power.

"If we can find a reinforcement on the grassland that we are willing to cooperate with in the Qiang and Hu land, it will not be difficult." Sima Yue, the king of Donghai, thought for a while, "You can follow the old story of the former Han Dynasty in contacting Wusun and attack them together, and this matter can be determined."

Wusun was extremely important in the war between the Han Dynasty and the Huns. Wusun stood on the side of the Han Dynasty and directly made the Western Regions controlled by the Huns unstable. The Xiongnu's own metallurgical technology was extremely poor, and many weapons were built needed to be provided by the Western Regions. Without the Western Regions and comparing weapons and equipment with the Han Dynasty alone, the Huns were like beggars.

"Do you want to marry? No, it's just some Qianghu tribes, not the Huns!" Sima Xu, King of Fanyang, laughed and said, "As soon as the imperial edict is received, there will always be someone willing to cooperate with our Great Jin."

"Since it's Qianghu, we only have one foreign aid, the Xianbei people. The Tuoba clan north of Hetao." Sima Ji nodded, "I have some friendship with the Xianbei, but Youzhou and the Tuoba clan are not much bordered by them, and the friendship is quite average. I left this matter to me. In fact, as long as I have financial support, the Tuoba clan will not go against us. My Jin Dynasty itself has troops, but I just let the Tuoba clan send troops to restrain me. I can see that some money can make the Tuoba clan send troops."

"Then how many troops are appropriate?" King Sima Yong of Hejian calculated, "It is estimated that 50,000 troops should be enough. If the Bingzhou direction can also send troops, it will be sure."

"It's better to let Qinzhou and Liangzhou go east and attack three times, and let the Tuoba clan seal the north. Major events can be decided. If everything goes well, half a year is enough. The key is not to let the Qiang and Hu run away." Fanyang King Sima Xu added all the way, which was considered to have another insurance for the capture of Hetao.

Of course, the troops were sent from the Central Plains to the south, the two states of Qin and Liang to the west, and the Bingzhou to the east. Now it seems that only the north is possible for the Qiang and Hu to escape. As long as the Tuoba clan can seal the north, the Qiang and Hu will be unable to escape.

When the kings heard this, they nodded. Of course, this plan was the Southern Army, and the east and west routes could only serve as surprise weapons.

"Once Tuoba family disagrees, we still have to think about this possibility. Fortunately, the Qiang and Hu are south of the river, so we must not send troops in winter, because once the river water freezes, they may run away. In summer and autumn, it is the best time." Sima Ji made a statement to supplement this plan to capture Hetao.

It seems that this battle should start after June next year. The Jin Dynasty itself sent three troops, Qin and Liang provinces to the west to block the river, and Bingzhou to the east to block the river. The main force was the Jin army on the south to capture Hetao. The north to see if the Tuoba family can be told to cooperate. If the Tuoba family cooperates, it will be attacked from all sides.

The Southern Army's main attack cannot be less than 50,000 people, and the Qiang and Hu were suffocated to death in Hetao. As for what to do after the victory, it is still too early to think about it now.

"I want to recommend two kings and princes to lead the army. I wonder if you have any candidates in your heart. Before the title of the country, Qingxuan is willing to decide on this matter with the queen." Sima Ji looked at these royal kings. Basically, the matter of conquering Hetao was decided among the royal family.

Whoever leads the army is obviously not the leader, and seniority also exists among the royal family. If they knew that Sima Ji Nanzheng would come back in this current attitude, not only would he increase his prestige and make the queen value it. He also plundered so much wealth, then how could Nanzheng have the turn of King Yan to take charge? The royal family would have rushed to go long ago.

Because Sima Ji's precedent was the first, the royal family has now developed some unusual enthusiasm for leading troops to fight. Now Sima Ji is about to return to Youzhou, and it is impossible to become an official in Luoyang. So will the next vassal king who leads troops to fight victory become a royal family that the queen values?

Even for the royal family, there are not many positions with high positions and powerful positions, and the vassal kings are willing to seize this opportunity. There is currently no candidate for Emperor Wu's son, and the King of Chu died, and the King of Changsha was demoted. The King of Qin was the governor of Guanzhong, and the King of Huainan was in Huainan. None of the rest grew up, so this candidate could only be among the royal family that was not so close.

After a while of discussion, King Sima Yong of Hejian and King Sima Xu of Fanyang were elected as the commander of the capture of Hetao.

The next day, Sima Ji entered the palace and came back to report with the opinions of the royal family. Of course, the decision was still in the hands of Jia Nanfeng. He just made the royal family highly motivated and was willing to support the capture of Hetao, but the suggestion of the candidate for the leader was put forward.

"Qingxuan thinks who is more suitable to be in charge!" Jia Nanfeng asked Sima Ji after hearing this.

"Anyone except me," Sima Ji said bluntly, "Ji hasn't visited the new fiefdom of Liaoxi County yet. If he fights again in a few years, Ji can lead his troops to fight."

The King of Yan believed that nothing was more important than his base camp. If it weren't for the fact that the troops had to come to Luoyang, he would not have come after getting off the ship in Tianjin. Who knows how the situation of the ban on the country would be like in the past year?

How was the cotton? Has the iron ore been found? What was the situation of the new fief? Sima Ji was unwilling to let Yan Yan report it, for fear that he would still be thinking about it when he came to Luoyang, so he simply ignored it.

"Qingxuan seemed to be anxious to return to his fiefdom, which is very different from ordinary princes." Jia Nanfeng asked with great interest, "Don't you want to stay and assist in the administration? When will you leave!"

Please stop lying to me! Sima Ji thought to himself, can you let someone assist in the administration? Especially a royal family?

"Ji Mingtian wanted to leave, and the female family in the mansion missed me. However, because he brought some rewards, Ji wanted to send some imperial guards to protect him. The emperor's sister-in-law also knew that dozens of people could have such a long journey, anything could happen." As soon as Sima Ji said, she let Jia Nanfeng know that he was worthy of being the son of the King of Yan and was absolutely impossible to be wrong.

"Okay, I'll send five hundred soldiers back with you!" Jia Nanfeng stopped trying to keep him, but in fact he didn't.
Chapter completed!