For this third prince, he obviously planned to attribute the reason for this failure to the other party's help from the other party's gods.

If this is not the case, then this failure would be a bit unreasonable. After all, he used a full 10 times of his troops to attack Zhennan Pass.

When shirking responsibility, everyone's minds are very flexible, and this third prince is obviously no exception.

After repelling this day's attack, all the military and civilians in Zhennan Pass were greatly confident.

At the beginning, they were actually a little worried, after all, the tens of thousands of Mauryan soldiers outside didn't look like they were going to joke with you.

But now, seeing the soldiers of the Mauryan Dynasty crying all over the world, after thousands of corpses were laid outside the wall, no one took these guys seriously.

As the saying goes, facts are better than words. If the corpses of one's own people fall densely there, it will definitely scare everyone, but when you see the corpses of the enemy fall densely there, everyone will even want to laugh out loud.

Living in this world is already very difficult. It was originally a very difficult thing to live on the plateau. Now these guys from the Mauryan Dynasty are coming to attack Zhennan Pass. Then the people in Zhennan Pass are of course eager to die.

After returning to the military camp, the third prince thought hard for a night and finally made up his mind.

"We will not believe that we can't trap them to death by surrounding such a pass."

The third prince has figured it out. In this case, if you want to attack actively, it seems to be a bit of a suicide. It would be better to let everyone slowly surround it and siege it to death.

However, some people still expressed some objections to the third prince's plan.

"Your Highness the Prince now has mountains on both sides of Zhennan Pass. We can only cover the exit from the west to the east of the Wuwei to the territory of the Han Kingdom at all."

When Sima Shang built this Zhennan Pass, he of course carefully selected the address, so it will become a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If an enemy from South Asia wants to attack, he can only attack from the southwest direction. The other directions are the tall Qinghai-Tibet Plateau mountains.

Only the road to the east leads to the Great Han Kingdom, the native of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

So the so-called offensive siege on the surface of this third prince is actually not the same thing.

Whose family surrounds only one direction and emptys the other three directions? This is quite nonsense.

But the third prince had obviously thought it through a long time ago, and said without blushing and his heart was beating: "What are you afraid of?

As long as we surround this place for half a month or a month, it will snow on this plateau. By that time, all the terrain in the high salt will be blocked and will be impossible to pass at all, right?

So although we cannot break their winter path, the heavy snowfall from Buddha can help us do this. Do you have any opinions now?"

With the help of Buddha's reputation, the third prince finally successfully suppressed all oppositions.

A destined to become very long, and the defensive battle begins here.

When Zhao Kuo knew what was going on here, it was already a month later.

There is no way, who made the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau too far from the Imperial Capital? Moreover, there were no planes in this era, and even trains had to be driven from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to Xianyang before they could start taking it.

After learning that the territory of the Great Han Kingdom was actually attacked by the Mauryan Dynasty, Zhao Kuo was not angry or even a little surprised.

"Is this Ashoka so bold?

I didn't even go to find him, but he dared to come to him on his own initiative."

So, Zhao Kuo immediately convened many ministers under his command to convene a military meeting. The goal of this military meeting was very simple, to deal with the attack of the Mauryan Dynasty.

After hearing that he had the opportunity to fight, the first person who jumped out was nothing but Li Mu.

Li Mo is definitely the most enthusiastic person under Zhao Kuo's command to fight. He can be said to be a war-crazy figure. So after hearing Zhao Kuo's words, he immediately made a passionate statement about his attempt to attack the Mauryan Dynasty.

"These guys from the Mauryan Dynasty are really hateful. Our Han Kingdom did not take the initiative to find them. Instead, they came to the door to cause trouble. They must destroy this Mauryan Dynasty so that they can prove the majesty of our Han Kingdom to everyone and let the whole earth know that our Han Kingdom is not violated."

When Zhao Kuo heard Li Mu's words, he couldn't help but feel a little funny, because he found that Li Mu's words were really similar to what he thought just now. Perhaps this was the tacit understanding between the king and the minister.

But no matter what, of course, Zhao Kuo could not have reached the conclusion of this matter alone. He looked at the other two prime ministers on the side and wanted to see from them what kind of attitude it was.

Simply put, is the current situation of the Han Dynasty suitable for launching a war to destroy the country?

This is more stable to get conclusions from the two prime ministers.

After all, in the past few years, the Han Kingdom has indeed expanded very quickly. This expansion is very fast, which will lead to the Archives Kingdom now using a lot of power to digest these lands that have just been conquered. So does the Han Kingdom still have the power to digest the entire territory of the Mauryan Dynasty?

This is a problem.

For example, it seems like the Former Qin Dynasty during the Five Barbarians and Sixteen Kingdoms in history. Although Fu Jian at that time unified the entire north, in fact, its north was very unstable.

Then under such circumstances, Fu Jian also rashly attacked the Eastern Jin Dynasty and wanted to directly steal the world. The result of this was that after the defeat in the Battle of Feishui, the Former Qin Dynasty collapsed instantly.

Although the current Han Kingdom is far stronger than the advancement of the past, no matter what, we should avoid this lesson. After all, the Han Kingdom is indeed extremely powerful. If it does not continue to develop, it will be far more than the level of strength that the Mauryan Dynasty can develop, so Zhao Kuo is not worried.

However, now that the Mauryan Dynasty is doing this, it really makes Zhao Kuo very unhappy, because Zhao Kuo originally planned to start a battle to destroy the Mauryan Dynasty after about two or three years, and then continue to attack the Rome in the west, as well as Carthage and other countries.

But what I didn't expect now was that the Mauryan Dynasty actually came to the door in an abnormal manner. This was obviously very unbearable for Zhao Kuo, who had long regarded himself as the leader of the world.

As for the situation, even if the battle to destroy the country cannot be launched this time, at least an elite force must be sent to attack the Mauryan Dynasty. Otherwise, how could it show the majesty of the Han Kingdom?

Now everything is waiting for the answer given to Zhao Kuo by these two prime ministers.

At this time, I thought these two prime ministers would think for a long time, but what he didn't expect was that Xu Li just looked at Pang Nuan and then quickly gave an answer.

I only heard Xu Li say to Zhao Kuo: "Your Majesty, this is asking, "Your Majesty is so powerful now. If we destroy a Maurya Dynasty, of course, it is something that can be done casually, so Your Majesty doesn't need to worry, just do it boldly."

After hearing this, Zhao Kuo was immediately shocked.

This time, Xu Li's attitude was too unexpected. Did Shirley clearly support Zhao Kuo to send troops to destroy the Mauryan Dynasty?

This is a measure that Xu Li, who has always been quite calm, will not take.

Xu Li obviously saw Zhao Kuo's surprise, smiled and said to Zhao Kuo, "Your Majesty may not know that our current Han Kingdom is no longer the same Han Kingdom as it was back then."

After saying this, Xu Li also counted a bunch of numbers for Zhao Kuo with his fingers.

First of all, in the Han Dynasty, the branches of those academies have penetrated into every county. Each academies have cultivated 100 scholars in a year. For example, with so many march lines in the Han Dynasty, tens of thousands of scholars can be cultivated in a year.

According to normal logic, as long as you can read and write, you can easily gain a place in the government in this era.

In other words, every year the Han Dynasty produces tens of thousands of scholars who can compete for official positions. This competition is actually quite fierce, because there are not many officials in the Han Dynasty. Therefore, when the Han Dynasty continues to expand to the outside world, more official positions will appear. Is this a burden for the Han Dynasty? Instead, it can allow more scholars who have just graduated to enter the government to do things.

From this perspective, the talents trained in the academy will definitely hold up their hands to support the expansion process of the Han Dynasty after hearing this news.

After all, some of the graduates in these academies have begun to complain, saying that they have to go to the businessmen’s housekeepers and managers for the sake of their lives, which is a relatively embarrassing behavior.

After hearing this, Zhao Kuo couldn't help laughing and said, "Actually, I want me to go to the businessmen's houses to be housekeepers and businessmen. Isn't it a very legitimate job to do it?

And they can actually apply for our listed companies, where there will be more complete welfare policies, right?”

Xu Li smiled and said to Zhao Kuo: "Your Majesty doesn't know about this. In fact, a few years ago, our listed company had become one of the best places for scholars in the academy after graduation.

After all, if you can work in a listed company, you can get a very generous salary, which is even enough for the employees of these listed companies to buy a house outside the suburbs of Imperial Capital, which can make their whole family live happily in the Imperial Capital."

Zhao Kuo understood as soon as he heard this, good guy, it turns out that among these listed companies now, they have begun to cultivate white-collar workers?

It's such a delightful thing.

But no matter what, this is indeed a very good phenomenon, which means that the Han Dynasty has actually been liberated from the predicament of insufficient talents in the past few years, and the continuous investment of scholars into the market will definitely play a very important role in promoting the entire society.

No matter whether these scholars are invested in the officialdom, shopping mall, or other fields, they are all people with knowledge after all. Knowledge is always beneficial to society. Only those who have mastered knowledge but have ulterior motives are the pests of society.

Zhao Kuo nodded with great satisfaction and said, "Now I finally know why the two prime ministers can agree so happily. It turns out that there are not too few officials in our Han Kingdom now, but that there are more and more people who want to be officials in our Han Kingdom."

Xu Li laughed and said to Zhao Kuo seriously: "What Your Majesty said is that this is the truth now. So even if Your Majesty does not want to start a war, then a large number of scholars will probably unite after a while, and write to Your Majesty and ask Your Majesty to launch a new war, which may not necessarily be necessary."

Zhao Kuo laughed and turned his eyes to Sima Shang, the Minister of Staff, who was standing aside.

"Sima Shang, you must have asked your General Staff to prepare a conquest plan for the Mauryan Dynasty. Let's talk about it now."

Sima Shang was the one who reached the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, the westernmost part and established Zhennan Pass, so for him, he should be the one who is most familiar with the South Asian subcontinent among the people present. Even Zhao Kuo did not say that he had been to that place himself, right?

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Sima Shang stood up confidently, walked to the familiar map, picked up the familiar baton, and began to point fingers on the map, explaining the policy that had been planned long ago from the General Staff.

"Please take a look. At present, if you want to attack this South Asian subcontinent, it is ultimately an attack on the Mauryan Dynasty. Because this Mauryan governs the entire northern plains of the South Asian subcontinent, we must destroy the Mauryan Dynasty to lay the foundation for the complete conquest of the South Asian subcontinent.

As for the ethnic groups on the Deccan Peninsula Plateau south of the Mauryan Dynasty, we don’t need to pay much attention to it, because those ethnic groups half up the plateau cannot be more difficult to cope with than the democratic parties on the Korean Peninsula or the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Moreover, our Han Dynasty has long had the experience of fighting on the plateau over the years, and the Deccan Plateau is far inferior to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

What's more, there are only a bunch of small fragmented states in it."

Next, Sima Shang talked about the plan of conquering the Mauryan Dynasty.

"First of all, we can see that if you want to enter the Empty Peacock Dynasty, there are actually four routes.

The first route is to start from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in the southwest of ours, cross these mountains on the east side of the South Asian subcontinent, enter this place called Bangladesh from the east, and then attack the territory of the Peacock Plateau all the way west.

The second route is to start from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, cross the Himalayas directly from a high place, and then attack the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty from north to south.

The third route is from the northwest of the South Asian subcontinent, a place called the Kaibor Pass by the locals, crossing the Hindu Kush Mountains and finally entering the vast plains.

The fourth route is to start from our Iranian Plateau, march along the Indian Ocean coast, and finally emerge from the southwest of the Mauryan Dynasty."

After this explanation, Zhao Kuo nodded. Although Zhao Kuo had already made a judgment in his heart, he still asked Sima Shang in front of him: "According to the opinions of the General Staff, which route should we choose be better?"

Sima Shang answered Zhao Kuo's question.

"If you go back to your Majesty, among these four routes, the first and second routes are actually very unsuitable for the army to advance, because it is too difficult to replenish supplies, and the terrain is too rugged and the altitude is too high.

As for the fourth route, it is also quite troublesome to cross the desert terrain along the way, so we recommend the third route, which is to directly enter the core area of ​​the Mauryan Dynasty through this Kaiboer Pass, which is relatively close to the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty."

After hearing Sima Shang's answer, Zhao Kuo nodded slightly and agreed with this.

Why did Zhao Kuo agree with this answer?

In fact, the reason is very simple, because Zhao Kuo knew that in history, the Aryans entered the South Asian subcontinent through the Khyber Pass and conquered the entire India. In fact, in the history of India, most of the invaders came in through the Khyber Pass.

Since so many emperors have chosen the route of entering the Khyber Pass, it is conceivable that this place is definitely a place that is very suitable for the operation of the army. Zhao Kuo himself can already copy the answers, so why not do it?

Zhao Kuo said: "If you have no objection, let's choose this Khyber Pass. We will order the gathering of troops from tomorrow. This time, we mainly focus on the local residents who have just been conquered by us in Central Asia and West Asia, and then bring 30,000 musketeers with us, which should be enough."

Of course, no normal person can have any objections to Zhao Kuo's arrangements. After all, everyone knows that Zhao Kuo is the most powerful military commander in the world.

What everyone is most concerned about is another question, that is, who is the coach who went to the battle this time?

As His Majesty the Emperor, would Zhao Kuo choose to personally lead the army?
Chapter completed!