In fact, the western countries are already jumping. They needed to deal with the pressure of Zhang Liangguo before. They formed a coalition army and broke out a war with Zhang Liangjun in Shanshan for many times, especially the war in puchanghai (Lop Nur). The Western Coalition army successfully broke Zhang Liangjun's confidence in moving westward, and then had the follow-up of Zhang Liangguo stopping in Shanshan.
Nowadays, in the western regions, Wusun has been weakened with the continued demise of the Huns and the former Han Dynasty. Cheshi and kuci continue to rise, and kuci rises most rapidly.
It doesn't matter what kind of country Kucha was before. When the Sima family established the Western Jin Dynasty, Kucha has become a country of businessmen. They trade with the Central Plains Dynasty to the East and resell the goods purchased from the Central Plains Dynasty to the West. Usually, they change hands to obtain several times or even dozens of times of profits.
If the country has money, it must be able to build. Moreover, Kucha has implemented a national policy ahead of time. Kucha people can't fight and hire brakes, Luntai people and Shule people... Anyway, there are only people who don't accept Kucha's employment, and there are no people Kucha doesn't want to hire. As a result, Kucha's territory has been increasing because of the continuous employment of money.
At present, there are not as many as thirty-six countries in the western region, and there are only a dozen or so left. The territory distribution is relatively complex. It is normal to have "enclaves" separated from our own mainland. This situation was a strategy of the Western Jin Dynasty to the western regions, which was obviously successful.
Before Zhang Liangguo's westward advance, because of the shameful death of Sima's family in the Western Jin Dynasty, the western countries without the suzerain country were actually fighting each other, or did Zhang Liangguo's westward advance force the western countries to unite.
"Shanshan was originally Loulan. It fell to the Han Dynasty during the period of emperor Xiaowu. After the Huns United chariots to destroy the country and restore the country, it was renamed Shanshan." Xie AI is very familiar with the western regions. He has talked a lot about the western regions before. Later, he mainly focuses on the explanation of Shanshan: "Shanshan was destroyed twice after he surrendered to the Han Dynasty, one by the Han Dynasty and the other by the Huns."
It's funny to say that Loulan surrendered to the Han Dynasty during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. The territory of the country has also become a bridgehead for the Han Army to move westward. However, the proton sent by King Loulan to Chang'an was cut off by the Tingwei Department of the Han Dynasty because of breaking the law. When the old Loulan king was dying, the Hanshi naturally could not send back the Loulan protons without xiaodingding. As a result, the protons of Loulan on the Hun side returned home and inherited the Loulan throne.
The prince who was a proton in the Xiongnu became the new Loulan king, but he did not resolutely stand on the side of the Xiongnu against the Han Dynasty. He still adopted the strategy of the old Loulan king, riding the wall on both sides of the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu.
Once, the Loulan army was forced to invade the Yangguan pass of the Han Dynasty by the Huns and Cheshi, and was pushed back by the angry Han army. At that time, the Xiongnu happened to be old Shan Yu who died of illness. The Xiongnu had a civil war because of Shan Yu's throne. It was only the chariot division that sent troops to help Loulan. Naturally, it was impossible to resist the Han army. Loulan was destroyed by the Han Dynasty for the second time.
Loulan was renamed Shanshan after this time. The original important city, Wulei, became the residence of the capital guard of the Han Dynasty, which indirectly scared the tortoise to go to the south for obedience, but also scared the chariot master not to look south. Unfortunately, chaos broke out in the Han Dynasty at that time, which was the disaster of witches and insects.
In the chaos of the Han Dynasty, seven or eight out of ten officials from Prince Liu Ju to the country were killed by Liu Che. They had no spare power to continue to fight with the Huns. How could they have any energy to manage the western regions? As a result, Shanshan, which had just resumed the country and changed its name from Loulan, was unlucky. She was patted to death by the fox deer Gu who needed to prove her martial arts. This is the third time Loulan (Shanshan) destroyed the country.
"Shanshan once again established the country with the joint support of Cheshi and Shule. Since then, Shanshan has been the puppet country for Cheshi to deal with Kucha." Xie AI was thirsty. He raised his glass to drink water. Seeing that everyone was still waiting, he continued: "it is a national policy to ride the wall in Shanshan. This is the sadness of a small country and is unable to resist a big country. Then he fell to many countries successively for more than a hundred years. Emperor Xuan (Liu sick) was attached to the Han Dynasty until the first Han Dynasty lost his national throne."
It's not that Shanshan didn't ride the wall. The reason is that the Han people in the Eastern Han Dynasty were even more unreasonable. More than once, a few Han people dared to rush into a western region palace to kill. At least two kings of Shanshan were killed by the Han people.
After the replacement of Wang Mang's new dynasty in the Western Han Dynasty, the Han people were actually unable to manage the grassland again. The northern Xiongnu got the news and returned to zhuoye mountain to meet with the southern Xiongnu. If neither the northern Xiongnu nor the southern Xiongnu disagreed with each other, and the Eastern Han court responded in time and sent Dou Xian, Geng Bing and other Han generals to the war, the northern Xiongnu would probably swallow the southern Xiongnu and occupy the grassland again.
Dou Xian, Geng Bing and other Han generals led their troops to defeat the northern Xiongnu in zhuoye mountain and broke the intention of the northern Xiongnu to return to the East, Later, there was the famous stone carving Jigong (Yanran Legong) event. The leader of this event was Ban Gu, who was the brother of ban Chao. Dou Xian, Geng Bing and the accompanying Han Army also participated in this historical event. Their "stone carving Jigong" and the "fenglang juxu" done by the champion Hou and Hussars general Huo Qubing were praised as the highest honor of the Zhuxia army.
Later, a Han General named Geng Kui led the Eastern Han Army to attack jinweishan (now Altai Mountain) and defeat the northern Hun army. Beidanyu forced him to move west and led the remnant to flee to Wusun and Kangju in the West. It was the northern Hun's flight to the west, and Ban Gu made the highest honor that a soldier could do. Only then did ban Chao's "Jedi light riding expediting war cloud" completely recover the western regions.
During the game between the Eastern Han Dynasty and the northern Xiongnu, it was normal for the Han people to rush into a king's palace to kill the Xiongnu envoys. Even the king of the country dared to kill them, which frightened all western countries from inviting the Han people into the king's palace. However, many times they had to invite the Han people into the king's palace. Every time the Han people appeared in the king's palace, they had a delusion of being killed at any time.
How did the Han people at that time have the courage to rush into a country's palace and kill?
During the Western Han Dynasty, the countries in the western regions were beaten into trembling rabbits by the Han army. Dozens of ban Chao people could pull up tens of thousands of servants to kill the country by relying on the reputation of the Han Dynasty, so that the countries in the western regions have been living in the shadow of the Han Dynasty.
Then there is the prestige repeatedly played by the Han Army, which gives more Han people unimaginable courage, and Han people's superiority is a universal value, and then there are too many Han warriors who are famous all over the country.
With the previous example, there are too many Han people who want to be famous. In some people's opinion, death is nothing to be done in order to be famous.
"How magnificent!" Ran min really didn't know that there were so many things in the early Han Dynasty. After listening to Xie AI, his breath was thick. In addition to envy, he still envied: "our generation should be worthy of our ancestors!"
Not only ran min, but all of them were listening and breathing heavily. They felt that if they could achieve the great cause like the ancestors of the early Han Dynasty, even death would be worth it.
How important is a nation's history? What our ancestors did is one of the most inspiring things. It can encourage future generations not to fear difficulties and drive future generations to surpass. This is the history of a nation!
How brave were the Han people in the early Han Dynasty? It is also reflected in some things about Tianzhu national thieves, such as Li Ling and Weilu who surrendered to the Xiongnu. There are too many Han people who are not afraid of death. They are always not afraid of hardship, the distance of the road and the difficulty of trekking. They continue to kill these two national thieves, so that the two traitors live in the shadow of being assassinated all their lives.
At that time, the Han people would be like this. The biggest initiator was not others, but Confucian disciples, that is, the overall rise of Confucian Gongyang School, which was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
The Confucian Gongyang School is famous for its violent temper and revenge. It doesn't say it's not afraid of death for the sake of lofty ideals. If it can't revenge itself, it will make future generations have to revenge. Anyone who provokes the disciples of the ram school will live in fear that someone will come for revenge for generations.
It has to be said that compared with Gongyang School, whether it is Gu Liang school, Lu school, or Zuozhuan school that likes to fabricate and tamper with history, these same Confucian schools are really dregs, not to mention more subsequent Confucian schools, which are even worse than dregs.
"Why did emperor Xiaowu respect Confucianism alone? It is precisely because the Han Dynasty needs a unified voice and wants to unify the people's will to wage war on the Xiongnu. Gongyang theory is just right."
Before Liu Yanren entered the house, the voice had already spread. At that moment, everyone in the house was basically surprised. Behind them, they quickly stood up and prepared to meet him.
Isn't it the season to report every year? As long as the generals outside are not in the war, they have to return to the center at that time, and senior civil servants such as sheriffs also need to step back.
Every year's work reporting season is a rare opportunity for important officials to meet and visit each other, or who initiates a party. A gathering is a large group of people.
People will be surprised. There are not too many senior general gatherings. They have done this more than once, except that they have no ghosts in their hearts. They have nothing to do at all, but this party is really some "ghosts".
Liu Yan stepped into the house, looked up, swept around, found almost all the generals, smiled and motioned to the people to sit down.
Han people speak of etiquette and inferiority. After they salute Liu Yan, everyone can bend their knees and kneel down, that is, Xu Zheng, who sits in the first seat, needs to move his position.
Of course, Liu Yanli went to the first seat, lifted his clothes, put his sword on the table, knelt down and looked at the table.
There were no servants to serve in the house, and there was not much food on the people's table. Instead, there was a small stove warming wine next to everyone's futon, so that there was a strong smell of wine in the house.
Xu Zheng didn't need to arrange a new position by himself. Naturally, people with lower levels looked at the table and Futon from the side. As soon as he sat down, he immediately stood up and bowed his hands as a salute, saying, "I don't know the king is coming, but the ministers can't meet him. It's really frightening."
With Xu Zheng taking the lead, people naturally want to follow for a while. They don't plead for forgiveness, but that's actually the case.
What they were most nervous about was that the gathering was to discuss the matter of entering the western regions. The so-called consultation is how to make Liu Yan order to march into the western regions. It should be said that there is no truth in his heart because Liu Yan personally came and felt that it was false.
"You have a handful here..." Liu Yan glanced at Li Kuang, who had a good look to change the tableware on the table, looked at the people with embarrassing expressions, and said, "the prime minister is also a handful over there."
Not only generals like parties, but civil servants also like to gather together. It happens that the civil servants' meeting place is not far here. Liu Yan actually went to Jichang and others for a walk before he came here.
If you change to other dynasties, it is a taboo for ministers to have a party. Let alone several important ministers gather in private, it is also a taboo for two important ministers to have a private party, but it is not a thing at all in Liu Yan's generation.
Liu Yan expelled Hu prisoners to restore China and raised the Han flag again. He did not win the civil war and build the country, let alone usurp the throne. After expelling the Hu prisoners and raising the Han flag again, he still led Zhuxia to open up a greater living space for the Han and Miao people. In any way, he represents "zhengshuo" and can justifiably shout "Zhaozhao destiny".
Zhu Xia looked at the "great righteousness". If there is "great righteousness", it represents the aspirations of the people. Liu Yangen was not afraid of who connected to seek the country, let alone who rebelled and would be followed, so that his defense against his subordinates can be said to be the lightest.
Well, in fact, Liu Yan can use the system to judge the enemy and ourselves. As long as no one's tendency is judged as "red" by the system, he really doesn't need to worry. In that case, why doesn't he just show the magnanimity that a king should have and reap the loyalty from his followers?
"My Lord." Ran min waited for Li Kuang to sit back after he was busy. After looking at Xu Zheng, he said, "minister and others are planning the western regions."
At that moment, all of them breathed and looked at Liu Yan like a little daughter-in-law. They didn't know whether to usher in thunder or rain.
"Er, yes..." Xu Zheng smiled pleasantly before continuing: "it's a bit of a story. Ministers should write a case immediately and submit it to the king."
Although Liu Yan can judge the enemy and us from the system, he still needs to have his own ears and eyes. How can he not know what his subordinates are doing.
Many times I know, and I have to let my subordinates know that I already know. Before Liu Yan went to the civilian side, the civilian officials were discussing how to stop the generals from fooling around here, such as launching the war to recover the western regions immediately. This time, the civilian officials were unprecedented. After he arrived, Ji Chang said what the people were doing as soon as he sat down. He came to the military general, and someone came out to confess before he asked.
Liu Yan doesn't need to have too many facial expressions or even say a word. Just keep smiling properly is enough.
"Mingda." Xu Zheng looked at Xie AI and said, "hurry to talk about the past of the western regions."
Xie AI fully knows what Xu Zheng means. In fact, everyone who should know about Liu Yan's character already knows that Liu Yan is completely a great Han, a lord and a righteous person. It's always right to talk about the great achievements of the Han people.
After hearing what Xie aigang had just talked about for everyone, Liu Yan deeply felt: "how magnificent!"
On this point, Liu Yan's attitude was consistent with that of Ran min.
With only four words, all the generals in the house were relaxed and more confident in persuading the king.