"What? Liu He is willing to surrender? This is really good news." Pei Qing was very happy after receiving the news. He quickly said to Pei Mao: "Enjoyed father, if we do this, we can get one more county, from the north to Hedong to Henoi, from Shangdang to Taiyuan to Yanmen, and finally to Dai County. We have built a complete line of defense against the Huns. This is the first step. When the situation gets better, we will lead our army to conquer the Huns and completely resolve the threat from the Huns to our Han Dynasty, so that we can deal with the heroes of the Central Plains without worries."

Pei Mao nodded repeatedly after hearing this. As the former Shangshu Ling in the court, he had read countless files, so he naturally became more aware of the cruelty of the Huns. He originally thought that it was a chaotic world, but he didn't expect that the Han Dynasty would have the strength to attack the Huns. This is really a blessing for the Han Dynasty. Otherwise, I really don't know when the people would be bullied by the Huns?

In fact, Pei Mao didn't know that the reason why Pei Qing decided to attack the Huns was not only because the Huns harmed the people, but also because the Huns had been betrayal before, suddenly closed the court and launched an attack on his Hedong. It was mainly because Pei Qing had fallen in love with the Huns' cattle and sheep. This was a huge amount of food. If hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep were plundered, it would be enough for the 100,000 army to eat half a month. It could be preserved for a long time after making bacon, and it was convenient to carry it. This was simply a magical existence for soldiers who were rushing to long distances. What's more, the Huns had abundant water and grass, and grazing was his natural profession. The number of cattle and sheep in the clan was more than millions?

Since he tasted the sweetness before, Pei Qing will naturally get this sweetness further so that his food problems can be solved, at least to solve the urgent need for insufficient food and grass.

However, when Pei Qing announced the news, it immediately sparked heated discussion among the civil and military officials under his command. The scholars represented by Chen Qun and Yin Hao and others believed that if they accepted Dai County, their front line would be too long and transport supplies would be difficult. In addition, they would face the threat of the Xianbei Xiongnu Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan at the same time. It was very difficult to defend it. Not only did they consume a lot of money and food, they might not be able to defend it in the end, and there was no need to agree to Liu He.

Xun You and Hu Zhao and others had another attitude. They believed that with the current situation, Yuan Shao and Gongsun Zan had a deep hatred and there was no possibility of reconciliation at all, so it was impossible to jointly launch an attack on Dai County. At most, they would be able to sit in the mountains and watch the tiger fight. As for the Huns, because the Huns led their troops to attack Hedong, but were repelled by Xu Huang, and their morale was now frustrated. There was no possibility of attacking Dai County in a short time. As for the Xianbei, there was no need to worry too much. After all, Dai County had the danger of the Great Wall. As long as they could not stand, the other party could do nothing. As for the transportation of food and grass, they did not need to work too much. The soldiers stationed only needed to implement military farming to ensure the supply of food and grass.

The latter's view is consistent with Pei Qing, so Pei Qing certainly supports the latter, and in the end he said firmly: "This matter is decided, Dai County must be taken back, so we must accept the other party's surrender this time. Liu Gong, the governor of Youzhou, has always been an alliance with Yuan Shao, but Mr. Liu was able to surrender to us regardless of his friendship with Yuan Shao. This shows that Mr. Liu can be open and forget his own selfishness and trust us in particular. How can we live up to others' kindness?"

Then Pei Qing submitted a letter to the emperor and appointed Liu He as the Marquis of Xiangling (County Marquis), appointed as the counselor, and served as the governor of Youzhou. Although all this was a false position, it also gave Liu He great honor.

In fact, it was not that Pei Qing was unwilling to give Liu He real power, but that Liu He himself was unwilling to be an official. Since Liu Yu was killed, Liu He’s greatest wish was to avenge his father. Later, although Yuan Shao defeated Gongsun Zan, he never took the next step after occupying several counties. This made Liu He disheartened, so he contacted his father’s old subordinates and surrendered to Pei Qing as a substitute for the county, hoping that Pei Qing could help him revenge. Besides that, he didn’t want anything. Even these false positions were persuaded by Pei Qing to persuade him to accept.

So Pei Qing appointed Pang Shu as the prefect of the county, and Wang Can as the military advisor, leading generals Wen Ji, Mushun and Pan Feng to take office. The main task was to stabilize the situation and do a good job in defense.

However, at this moment, a message suddenly came. After the news came, the world shook. It turned out that Duan Wei, the prefect of the North, was suddenly killed, and the Huns took the opportunity to occupy the North County.

Before this, because the Northland was isolated from Liangzhou, Duan Wei took the initiative to ask the Northland County to be handed over to the Sili School Commander's Office to be entrusted. Pei Qing agreed with the flow. Therefore, although the Northland was actually in a state of structure, it was nominally under Pei Qing's rule. Now such a thing happened. The actual local ruler was assassinated, and the Huns took the opportunity to occupy the entire Northland County. If it was said that there was no connection between the two, it would be absolutely impossible.

"The poor 20,000 soldiers from the north except for thousands of people fled, the rest were forced to surrender to the Huns, especially the people there, who were even more oppressed by the Huns, which made their already difficult days even worse. As the chief of the Han Dynasty, how could we watch the people suffer without being moved?"

After hearing the news, Pei Qing's face was full of worries. He summoned all the civil and military officials to express his opinions: "No matter how difficult the conditions are, we must attack the Xiongnu and recover the northern land. At least we must maintain the situation before Duan Wei's death and regain the two counties of Niyang and Fuping."

However, this move was opposed by many people. Chen Qun expressed his own opinions again and advised Pei Qing: "My lord, our food has been too tight this year. When we fought with Yuan Shao, our army had already barely supplied food and grass. Later, our army recovered the three counties of Shangdang Taiyuan and Yanmen. Not only did we need to spend more food and grass, but the transportation line also grew a lot. The food problem is now very urgent. If we attack the northern region again, we must cause a grain shortage again, so lord, there is really no way to fight this battle."

Regarding Chen Qun's statement, all the officials who were engaged in internal affairs nodded in agreement. It was not that they didn't want to do their best, but that the matter was too difficult to handle. The last time they raised food because of Yanmen, they racked their brains and discussed for a day before finally gritting their teeth and making a decision to open the only disaster relief emergency granary in Chang'an City. This was really urgent, because if there was a disaster in the future, they would really stare at me.

But unexpectedly, this problem has not been resolved yet. Pei Qing actually wanted to attack Beidi again. This is really unbearable, so these internal officials were all over the place and quickly opposed it.

However, Pei Qing said, "Longwen, you guys, don't be so nervous. We don't need to consume much food and grass in this battle. As long as you can help provide three days of food, I guess it's not difficult for you guys to do this, right?"
Chapter completed!