Chapter 109
The fact that Liu Xie was happy to get the dragon son and daughter spread throughout Chengdu overnight. After Liu Xie's existence, it was equivalent to the Han Dynasty's continuation. This continuation symbol of this right was not only the ministers in the court, but also the ordinary people were also happy about it.
If a person who came here in later generations saw it, it would be hard to imagine that people in this period would have such strange thoughts. What does it have to do with the leader? Be happy! But people in this period would not think so, because Liu Xie brought them hope, and Liu Xie had it, then this is a continuation of hope. This kind of emotion is unimaginable to people in later generations.
Just like at the beginning, Liu Xie himself couldn't understand, we said that everyone celebrated together, that's just a talk. Whether you are happy or not, what does it have to do with me! But when he heard that someone in the market was so excited that he burst into tears and then invited guests in a big way, Liu Xie was a little confused for a moment!
He could only sigh that the people's thoughts during this period were so simple!
Just when Liu Xie was happy to get the dragon son and phoenix girl, Lao Yuan and Lao Cao finally set up a formation at Guandu, and they could not stand up.
At this time, Yuan Shao, two generals under him, Yan Liang and Wen Chou, were not killed by Lao Cao as in history. Perhaps because without the help of Guan Erge and the help of Xu Huang and Zhang Liao, in the war between Cao Yuan, Lao Cao was no longer as sharp as in history.
But no matter what, Lao Cao's 100,000 army still blocked Lao Yuan's 300,000 army, and is now in stalemate at Guandu.
There are constant small battles every day, and there are losses.
At the same time, Liu Xie's Han army also launched an attack on Wusun.
The relationship between the Wusun country and the Han Dynasty can be said to be quite complicated.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, in order to completely defeat the Huns, envoys were sent to contact the Western Regions, and they formed a political alliance with these small countries in the form of marriage to jointly deal with the oppression of the Huns. At that time, the largest kingdom in the Western Regions was Wusun, which was close to the Huns.
Wusun was originally active in Dunhuang and Qilian Mountains (i.e. Hexi Corridor), and later moved westward to the Yili River Basin and the area around Isek Lake. It is located in the western part of the Huns. Wusun mainly focuses on animal husbandry, with a population of more than 600,000 and a force of nearly 190,000.
Due to the long-term rule and enslavement of the Huns, as the national strength gradually increased, he tried his best to get rid of the control of the Huns in politics. The Hun nobles attacked Wusun several times, but were defeated by Wusun. In this case, Zhang Qian, who had been on a mission to the Western Regions, suggested that the Han Dynasty use generous bribes to attract Wusun, so that it could return to the old land of Dunhuang in the east, and marry the princess at the same time. He became brothers with Wusun. In this way, he could "cut off the right arm of the Huns" and attack the Huns together.
Therefore, Wusun and the Han Dynasty began to cooperate during the reign of Emperor Wu. However, as the strength of the Eastern Han Dynasty gradually weakened, the countries in the Western Regions became independent one after another, and the princes of the Central Plains fought, so who would still care about the countries in the Western Regions? Under such circumstances, Wusun, who had already had contact with the Huns, once again cooperated with the Huns.
It is precisely because of this that the Great Kunmi Moni of Wusun today does not accept surrender and intends to unite with the Huns to prevent the Han army from continuing to move north.
What the Han army did in the Western Regions had long attracted attention from tribes such as the Xiongnu Xianbei.
However, not all of Wusun's pro-Huns were pro-Huns, and they also had representatives of pro-Han. Their representative was Xiao Kunmimosa. While Lu Bu led the people to cooperate with Taishi Ci, Huang Zhong, Xu Chu and others to attack Wusun, Xiao Kunmimosa also led Moxia to make trouble in Wusun and stabbed Da Kunmimosa.
With the cooperation of the Red Dragon Guard, Dakunmimoni and his supporters were soon killed by Mosa.
Just as Wusun, led by the new Dakun Mimosa, surrendered to the Han Dynasty, Zhao Yun also led Mo to cooperate with his brother-in-law Ma Chao, Ma Dai, Pang De, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu and others to surround the Dayuezhi.
The Great Yuezhi Kingdom did not resist as hard as the Wusun Kingdom. After the Han army appeared, it surrendered directly. Even the King of the Great Yuezhi Kingdom was preparing to present the princess of the Great Yuezhi Kingdom to the emperor of the Great Han in order to achieve eternal success. This suggestion was rejected by Guo Jia and Jia Xu. Of course, the beauty could be accepted and sent to Chengdu to present to the emperor.
They dare not rob a beautiful woman in private, otherwise if Liu Xie pursues it in the future, they will not be able to bear his anger. As for the good of eternal communication, there is no need. The Great Yuezhi can retain its cultural heritage, but must accept Han culture, that is, Chineseization.
This is the tone under the Liu Agreement. Slowly Chineseizing these Hu Kingdoms can preserve the cultural heritage of their various ethnic groups, but Han culture must be learned.
Of course, this is a preferential treatment for small countries that surrender before the war begins. As for those small countries that fight to the end, there is no such good thing. Just don’t have a race to be exterminated. I also plan to retain my own cultural heritage, but I don’t even have any doors!
Although the Han army has done countless bloody things along the way, it has to be said that this method is quite intimidating.
Moreover, after returning to the Han Dynasty, as long as you have the ability, you can live in the Central Plains, either join the army as a general, or become an official. At this time, the Han Dynasty at this time, in the eyes of these small countries, it was the country of heaven, the Celestial Empire, and the Celestial Empire could enter the Celestial Empire as an official. This attraction is great.
Even many aliens want to have the identity of the Celestial Kingdom and take pride in having such an identity. They will never be proud of immigrating abroad like in later generations, and will throw away their national culture completely, but they admire foreign countries and fascinate foreign countries. This is too embarrassing!
Once Wusun and the Great Yuezhi Kingdom surrendered, the countries in the Western Regions were almost the same as taking them down, and the remaining small countries surrendered one after another.
Finally, the Han Army, which has developed from tens of thousands of troops to the current 200,000 troops, began to deploy against the Huns and Xianbei.
From this we can see that the enslaved troops, the nearly 200,000 additional troops were not only thinking about living, but also thinking about gaining enough benefits from it. Otherwise, how could they not rebel? If someone took the lead in rebelling, the Han army would have no power to fight back in this situation. But now, this army maintains a very strong combat power and morale.
This is the horror of fighting to support war. Drawing a big pie... In fact, it is not really a pie, because when sharing spoils after the war, basically whoever makes the most contributions can first divide the big one. The more military merits, the more spoils there will naturally be.
Under such stimulation, the others naturally worked harder.
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On the third day of the baby's birth, when Liu Xie held a banquet for his son and daughter in the palace, he finally received good news from the Western Regions.
When everyone saw Liu Xie laughing with a note, the ministers looked at him with a strange look. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!