Chapter 1442

Su Xuan was not surprised that Song Que would ask such a question.

Even though Kou Zhong now occupied Bashu and controlled the key passages of the Yangtze River, allowing him to use the river to confront the Northern forces, since ancient times, unifying the North from the South has been extremely difficult. In fact, throughout history, including later generations, it has only happened a few times.

The first was the war between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu, despite having the advantage, ultimately lost to Liu Bang, who launched his army from Bashu. But that could only be considered an accident. Firstly, during the Qin Dynasty, the North-South confrontation pattern had not yet fully formed, and secondly, Liu Bang had a Han Xin under his command.

Throughout history, military geniuses like Han Xin have been few and far between.

As for the others, during the Shu Han period, although Liu Bei occupied Bashu and formed a tripartite balance with Eastern Wu and Cao Wei, even until Liu Bei's death, he never achieved the unification of the North from the South.

The Shu Han's several Northern expeditions all returned without success, and even Zhuge Liang died at Wuzhang Plains, leaving behind only endless regret.

The only true unification of the North from the South in history was achieved during the reign of Zhu Yuanzhang.

When Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, because the Yuan Dynasty in the North was already weak, his real enemies were Zhang Shicheng in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and Chen Youliang in the lower reaches. However, having said that, Zhu Yuanzhang still accomplished the feat of unifying the North from the South.

That is why it is said that the Ming Dynasty obtained the country most legitimately.

After that, in modern times, there was another unification of the North from the South, but that time is not worth mentioning.

If following normal history, in the current world, wanting to carry out the unification of the North from the South is truly extremely difficult.

First of all, the South has not been developed, and whether in politics, economy, etc., it is lagging behind the North.

During the Sui Dynasty, the entire political, economic, and military core was in the North. In the eyes of the Northerners, the South was nothing but a land of barbarians. The foundations of the two were vastly different. It was not until the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, when Emperor Gaozong of Song, Zhao Gou, fled to the South and established the Southern Song, bringing a large amount of resources from the North, that the South truly achieved a catch-up in politics and economy. Of course, being able to catch up was also thanks to the fact that the barbarian outsiders who occupied the North had no economic sense, which gave the South the opportunity to catch up.

Under normal circumstances of North-South confrontation, it is fundamentally impossible for the South to surpass the North.

Excluding political and economic factors.

In terms of geography, the Central Plains trend from high in the North to low in the South. Southerners marching North need to attack upwards, which is unfavorable for reinforcements. Moreover, the Hetao region is the best producer of warhorses. Northerners marching South, as long as they can overcome the natural barrier of the Yangtze River, can hold all the advantages, making it difficult for the South to resist.

Furthermore, the Northern armies have long fought against outsiders, making them even more fierce, especially the current Northern forces, all of which are related to the Hu people. The Hu people are skilled in mounted archery, which is an even greater advantage.

In the past, it was because of King Wuling of Zhao's "Hu-style clothing and mounted archery" that Zhao's cavalry suddenly became the best in the Central Plains. The current Northern forces have armies that are just like the Zhao army after the reform—fierce and invincible.

It is also because of these various factors that the pattern of the North unifying the South has persisted since ancient times.

Although Song Que thought highly of Kou Zhong and believed that with Su Xuan's support, Kou Zhong would surely achieve great things, even Song Que, faced with so many examples of the North unifying the South throughout history, still lacked confidence and certainty about whether Kou Zhong could accomplish the unification of the North from the South.

If it were normal history, after seeing through this pattern, Su Xuan, wanting to accomplish the unification of the North from the South, besides establishing a strong foundation in the South, would only be able to use out-of-spec force to break the situation to make up for the gap between the two.

Even if the North is stronger than the South, as long as the force is sufficient, one can still push across the world with one's own strength.

However, this world is, after all, not a normal historical world.

The Datang world is an extremely special world.

The experts in this world come and go in the air. Although the level of top experts is not as high as in the Qin world, in some aspects, it is actually more out-of-spec than the Qin world. For example, the city walls here are dozens of meters high, because if they weren't high enough, experts would just leap over them easily.

For example, this world also has a place called the Flying Horse Ranch. The Flying Horse Ranch replaced the Hetao region as the best warhorse producer in the world, and it is not located in the North, but near Dongting Lake.

Although Su Xuan had never been to the Flying Horse Ranch, Kou Zhong and Xu Ziling had stayed there, and their relationship with the Flying Horse Ranch was extraordinary, so in terms of warhorses, there was basically nothing to worry about.

With the supply of warhorses from the Flying Horse Ranch, this point could already be compared to the North.

And besides warhorses, the best arms dealer is the Dongming Sect, located on the Ryukyu Islands. The Dongming Sect's Lady Dongming, Shan Meixian, is the daughter of the Demonic Empress Zhu Yuyan. Although for some reason, Shan Meixian eventually left the Demonic Sect and hated her mother Zhu Yuyan to the bone, they were mother and daughter after all, and some hatred could still be eliminated.

Su Xuan only needed to send Zhu Yuyan to the Dongming Sect to clear up some misunderstandings, and the Dongming Sect, this massive arms dealer, would also become an asset for Kou Zhong's side.

Based on various reasons.

The gap between the South and the North was not as large as imagined.

Therefore, after facing Song Que's question, Su Xuan quickly gave his answer: "I can tell the head of the Song Clan that unifying the North from the South is not an impossible task. Although there have been few successful ones throughout history, someone has succeeded in the end."

"If Kou Zhong cannot accomplish this, I can only say that he has disappointed me, and I have placed high hopes on him in vain. At that time, to prevent this world's mountains and rivers from falling into the hands of the Northern Hu people and being controlled by those forces related to the Hu people, I would not mind taking action personally to sweep away everything."

"This might be unfair to those people in the North, but for the sake of rebuilding the Han people's mountains and rivers, I am happy to do such a thing!"

With these words from Su Xuan, Song Que felt inexplicably more at ease, perhaps because Su Xuan's strength was sufficiently strong. At Su Xuan's place, he learned about the realm of the Shattered Void, although he did not see Su Xuan go all out.

But just based on the supreme martial Dao that Su Xuan revealed, such an expert, when going all out, would certainly be earth-shattering.

Under the heavens, there is nowhere Su Xuan cannot go, and under the heavens, there is no one Su Xuan cannot kill.