In late February, Li He ordered Wei general Cao Yi to lead 3,000 soldiers to defend Chiyi, and Shaoliang general Duan Fu led 3,000 soldiers to defend Baiyi, leading the remaining more than 60,000 coalition forces of the three countries to Fushi.

At this time, after visiting his nephew Zhai Zhang, Zhai Hu had embarked on a journey back to Shaoliang. Although Xia Yang Jun is still here for the time being, he is not ready to stay for more.

After all, the reason why Xia Yangjun accompanied Li He to the expedition was mainly because he was worried that Long Jia and Fang Han's two Wei troops would not obey Li He's orders. Now Li He has established a considerable prestige among these two Wei troops and has also had some friendship with Long Jia and Fang Han. Therefore, Xia Yangjun planned to return to Wei to serve as the prime minister.

As for the next recovery of the entire Shangjun territory, he fully believed in Li He's ability.

However, before this, he had to confirm the settlement with Li He first so that he could report to the King of Wei when he returned to his country.

On the way to Kushi, Xia Yangjun brought up this matter to Li He and asked the latter to decide on the matter as soon as possible.

According to the map given by Xiayangjun, the land of Shangjun County in Wei State is roughly in the shape of a ‘y’, and the distribution of the fifteen towns in the county is also mainly distributed along the ‘y’ shape. The reason is that this high plateau is crisscrossing and ravines. The Wei State only built such an official road with a fork road according to local conditions. Therefore, the fifteen towns in the county are basically built near this official road, except Dingyang, which is hidden deep on the high plateau in the southeast of Shangjun County in Wei State.

Among them, Fushi, as the county seat of Shangjun, is located at the 'y'-shaped node. To the east are Baiyi, Chiyi, Baitusai, Yulin and other towns; to the west are Yangzhou, Gaowang and Zhenlin and Jilin. To the south are the 'Diao**' mentioned by Xiayangjun, which includes Wangsong, Ganquan, Huangling, Diaoyin and Qiyuan cities.

Although Xia Yang Jun once swears that Diao** is easy to defend but difficult to attack, in fact, the Qin army is easier to cross this road than to flow into water.

It is no wonder that after all, the front line of Diao*, which is Qiyuan, which directly borders the hinterland of Qin. The Qin State's Liyang, Xianyang, Jingyang and Yunyang are all in that area. On the other hand, Qiyuan and Wei State are separated by Hexi, which is one of them, and the other is growing. Qiyuan, which once threatened Qin, has been gradually oppressed by Qin. If Wei State had not stationed heavy troops in Qiyuan, Diaoyin and several towns, and these towns bordered Yiqu State, Qin State would not want to make too loud noises to avoid disturbing Yiqu Rong, Qiyuan, Diaoyin and the so-called Diao*, and even the southwest of Shangjun, they would have been defeated by Qin.

It is precisely because of Qiyuan that Diaoyin is too stressful that Xia Yang Jun is determined to throw it to Shaoliang, but unfortunately Li He is not fooled at all.

In late February, two days before arriving at Fushi, Li He and Hu Hai talked about this.

At that time, Hu Hai said excitedly: "In my opinion, you must take Gao Nu and Yang Zhou in these places. If you can, it is best to take Gao Wang."

Seeing Hu Hai so excited, Li He guessed a few points and asked with a smile: "Are these towns suitable for grazing?"

Hu Hai nodded and said solemnly: "These places are enough to support 100,000 Hu people."

He told Li He that when the Tahai tribe followed the Yizhan tribe to attack Shangjun, he fell in love with the vast grasslands in the area of ​​Fushi, but unfortunately, the Yizhan tribe could not give up such a high-quality pasture to others.

Sure enough, in the end, Fu Meng from the Yizhan tribe occupied the Fushi area.

Li He nodded, secretly remembered the situation of the skin in his heart, and then asked again: "Gao Wang, what's the situation?"

Hu Hai thought for a while and replied: "Gao Wang is the outpost of Wei State, which is closest to the grassland where we Hu people live. As far as I know, in the past, the army of Wei State often fought with the Yizhan tribe in Gaozhan... I am bluntly speaking, the local Wei army was not strong and was sometimes defeated by the Yizhan tribe."

"oh."

Li He nodded in a clear understanding.

Afterwards, Li He chatted with Xia Yangjun again.

To be honest, Xia Yang Jun had no idea about the situation in Shangjun before, but before accompanying Li He to the expedition, he had made up for the situation in Shangjun in China, so he knew more about the situation in Shangjun than Li He.

When Li He mentioned Fushi, he did not hide it and said with a smile: "Fushi is also known as Xianyu. During the Jin State, a Bai Di named Xianyu lived here and often fought with Jin State. Later Jin State defeated Xianyu and occupied Fushi to serve as the county seat of Shangjun. Since then, Fushi has been a famous ranch until our Wei State took over this land from Jin State.... If you want Fushi, I can agree, but I want to remind you that Fushi is the front line of the border of Shangjun, only ten miles away from Shangjun Great Wall."

The Shangjun Great Wall he mentioned was the border Great Wall built in Shangjun in the past decade. He originally planned to build it from Zhenlin in the northwest to Baitu Pass in the northeast. The project was expected to be thousands of miles long, but for various reasons, the Great Wall has only been built in Fushi, Yangzhou and Baitu Pass in several places, and the total number of places in Baitu Pass has not been completed.

It is precisely because this Great Wall has not been built that Lin Hu made a big attack this time, and the Great Wall has almost no effect. The invading Lin Hu easily bypassed it.

After hearing Xia Yangjun's words, Li He weighed the pros and cons, and finally decided to get a scourge, not only to let him get a grassland for Shaoliang to grazing war horses, but also to let the Hu tribe who surrendered to him Shaoliang live in.

In addition to the facial expression, Li He also proposed to Xia Yangjun that Yangzhou and Gaonu were both in the two places, and Xia Yangjun agreed.

However, if I agree, Xia Yangjun also put forward his request: "...I can make the decision and convince the king to give the three towns of Fu Shi, Yangzhou and Gao Nu to Shaoliang, but as a condition, Shaoliang will also accept Diaoyin, Qiyuan, Wangsong, and ensure that these cities will not be obtained by Qin."

What does it mean to buy one free? This is, even though Li He only needs to use his skin, Yangzhou, Gaonu, and Dingyang, but Xiayang Jun insists on blocking Diaoyin, Qiyuan, and Wangsong to Shaoliang again, with the purpose of transferring the threat from Qin to Shaoliang.

“No objection.”

Seeing that Li He wanted to speak, Xia Yangjun smiled and said, "No matter whether it is Dingyang, the sea, Yangzhou, and Gaonu are rich in grass. They are the most valuable towns in Shangjun. You will take over the most valuable towns and leave the most troublesome towns to continue to let our Wei Kingdom take responsibility. This is unreasonable."

Li He could not defend this. After all, if he was young Liang, he got the four lunarities of Yangzhou, Gao Nu, Dingyang, and the remaining eleven lunarities of Shangjun, Wei State, were like hollowed out, the most important part was leaked, and the rest was all troublesome, which was indeed unreasonable.

But the problem is that if you accept Xia Yangjun's conditions, the consequences will be really great.

For example, Qin State, Qin State would definitely express dissatisfaction. Although even if Shaoliang obtained Qiyuan and Diaoyin, due to the national conditions, the King of Qin would not be worried that Shaoliang would be unfavorable to Qin State, the problem is that these two towns fell into Shaoliang's hands, and Qin State would not have a way to attack Shangjun of Wei, which was equivalent to Shaoliang's disguised protection of Wei's remaining territory in Shangjun, which would undoubtedly arouse Qin's dissatisfaction and suspicion of Shaoliang.

"In this way, I'll give in."

Seeing that Li He was reluctant to let go, Xia Yangjun proposed another extremely tempting condition: "Fu Shi, Yang Zhou, Gao Nu, Dingyang, Qiyuan, Diaoyin, Wangsong Qiyi people, we, Wei Kingdom, will not withdraw our people, as long as you can convince them."

Li He couldn't help but feel a little moved. After thinking for a while, he tried Xia Yangjun and said, "Where is the local garrison?"

Hearing this, Xia Yang Jun was immediately happy: "You want to swallow the local garrison? You're so greedy, boy!"

You should know that as far as he knows, the Wei State deployed 200,000 troops in Shangjun - of course, this refers to the organization. As for the actual force, he estimated that there should be only 100,000 troops, mainly distributed in several key cities such as Qiyuan, Diaoyin, Fushi, and Yangzhou.

The land can be transferred to Shaoliang, and the local people can also be transferred to Shaoliang, but Xia Yangjun still has to bring back the local garrison to Wei. After all, if the army of more than 100,000 is also transferred to Shaoliang, how can he explain to the King of Wei?

After nearly two hours of negotiation, Li He and Xia Yangjun reached an agreement: to divide the entire Shangjun into two parts, north and south, with the southern part of which - Yangzhou, Gaonu, Ganquan, Diaoyin, Qiyuan, Dingyang, Huangling and Huanglong eight elements, to give Shaoliang a gift to Shaoliang to help the Wei State expel Shangjun and the Xihe Linhu.

In the north, namely Zhenlin, Gaowang, Baiyi, Chiyi, Baitusai, Yulin, and Fushi, still belong to Wei.

On this basis, Li He and Xia Yangjun decided to urge the two countries to sign the "Shangjun Alliance".

The main articles of the Covenant are as follows:

1. Wei State and Shaoliang did not set up defenses and did not invade each other in Shangjun;

2. The State of Wei allowed Shaoliang herders to grazle throughout Shangjun;

3. Wei State and Shaoliang jointly undertake the construction of Shangjun Great Wall and resist the invasion of foreign tribes;

Fourth, Shaoliang should prevent Qin from attacking Shangjun of Wei from Qiyuan and Diaoyin.

In addition, Li He and Xia Yangjun also discussed other things, mainly the two countries jointly defended Shangjun and resisted the invasions of Qin, Yiqu, Linhu, Xiongnu and other forces.

At first glance, Wei State suffered a loss of blood and gave up eight towns and even half of the Shangjun to Shaoliang. But in fact, Wei State passed on the threats from Qin and Yiqu to Shaoliang. From then on, he could concentrate on resisting foreign tribes in the north, and his once heavy burden was reduced by half at once.

No wonder Xia Yang Jun was very happy after discussing this matter with Li He.

Of course, Shaoliang is not at a loss. He has won eight cities in vain and the power to grazle in the entire Shangjun, from then on, the entire Shangjun is the pasture of Shaoliang. As long as Shaoliang can defend this land, he will definitely not lack war horses in the future, and the situation of lack of meat in the country can be greatly improved.

The only thing worth considering is Qin's attitude after learning about this.

As Xia Yangjun asserted, Li He gradually realized that the more than three-year honeymoon period between Shaoliang and Qin was mostly about to end with Xia Yangjun as the Prime Minister of Wei and the two countries signing the Shangjun alliance.
Chapter completed!