The World of Yellow Sky

Chapter 742 Those who dare to disobey will be killed immediately!

Now the development of Taipingdao has reached a bottleneck.

The world is divided into three parts, and the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty are also divided into three parts.

The six prefectures of Yan, Xu, Yu, Jing, Yang, and Jiao have now belonged to the Han court.

The Han court ranks second in terms of territory and population, but its financial situation is at the bottom.

Although the situation in Jiaozhou is complicated, Shi Xie is quite obedient. After all, Shi Xie has always wanted to unify the entire Jiaozhou, but there has been no way to completely unify it.

In the fourth year of Zhongping (187), Shi Xie was appointed as the prefect of Jiaozhi.

Zhu Fu, the governor of Jiaozhou, collected heavy taxes from all over the country, which caused resistance and was killed, and the order of the prefecture and county was chaotic.

Shi Xie planned secretly and made statements on the table, so that his relatives would take up more important positions in Jiaozhou.

One of his younger brothers, Shi Wu, served as the prefect of Hepu, his second brother, the county magistrate (yǐ) of Xuwen County, served as the prefect of Jiuzhen, and his younger brother, Shi Wu, served as the prefect of Nanhai.

It’s just that Jiaozhou has a large area and sparse population, and its population composition is complex. Like the southern border of Yizhou, many places are populated by indigenous people. They still exist in the form of tribes and are attached to the Han court.

Although the Shi clan has been in business for a long time, they have no rightful name after all. They are not qualified to control the entire Jiaozhou in terms of legal principles. Therefore, the natives, county guards, and county magistrates in many places are not willing to submit.

This situation lasted until the fourth year of Chuping (193), when Shi Xie was named Jiaozhou Shepherd by the Han court, and he was finally able to control the entire Jiaozhou based on legal principles.

But at this time, Rinan County at the southernmost tip of Jiaozhou was occupied by local natives, that is, Zhan people, named "Linyi Kingdom".

Although Lin Yiguo's soldiers are weak in combat power, they are extremely flexible and fast in walking through the forest.

Although there are many Han soldiers under the command of Jiuzhen Taishou, they can easily defeat the soldiers of Linyi Kingdom, but they have no way to catch up with the fled Linyi people. They are really not used to the local climate and terrain, and they are difficult to adapt to. .

The Zhanren tribe attached to them has similar customs to the people of Linyi Kingdom. They can catch up, but they are not very willing to pay attention when fighting, they just come to deal with it.

Therefore, the matter of Linyi country has been pending for a long time. Shi Xie intends to mobilize an army to go south to attack Linyi country, but the state has not yet settled down. The military expenses for management and management are high, so Shi Xie has been patient for the time being, and has not paid attention to the situation of Lin Yiguo.

Mingting occupies the four prefectures of Zhong, Bing, Liang, and Yi, and has the largest territory. After all, the entire Monan is now Xu An's power.

To put it a little further, the area occupied by Xianbei in the central part can actually be counted as Xu An's territory.

The registered population of Ming Court is also the largest among the Three Kingdoms, and its military strength is also the most prosperous.

Most of the slaves in the powerful families were rescued, but a few remained in their original places voluntarily.

The Taipingdao did not force these people to stay, but they were also recorded in the book. The trend of slavery was prevalent in the Han Dynasty. Excluding some desperate people, there were still many people who had been slaves for generations, and some of them were extremely hostile to their masters. There is no way for Tai Ping Dao to force his loyalty, because that would be counterproductive, and he would be hated instead.

So Xu An made a one-size-fits-all approach. For those families that still kept slaves, what Xu An did was to increase the taxes they collected, which was nearly half more than other families without slaves.

This also made many families overwhelmed by the confiscation of their fields and forest products, so they had to dismiss their slaves.

Among the Three Kingdoms, Wei Ting became the weakest instead of the strongest, and its elite army also suffered many casualties in several battles.

Its territory is the smallest, occupying only half of Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, and the Luoyang area of ​​​​Sili.

But although Wei Ting is the weakest now, its financial strength is the first among the three courts. Both Taiping Dao and Han Ting are far inferior to it, and they still cannot be underestimated.

When Yuan Shao was still in the upper hand, he reached an agreement with the Zhen family to let his son Yuan Xi marry Zhen Rong as his wife, and the Zhen family therefore fully supported Yuan Shao's great cause.

In the original time and space, Yuan Xi married Zhen Mi, but now Zhen Mi is only twelve years old, far below the age of marriage.

It was precisely because of the strong support of the Zhen family that Yuan Shao was able to arm a large number of troops and support several large-scale military deployments.

Although the Mi family is rich, it is far inferior to the Zhen family, not to mention that the Zhen family still has the status of an aristocratic family. Even if the Mi family flatters them, it is difficult to match the Zhen family. The two are not on the same level at all.

The war between Wei Ting and Han Ting should continue for some time. The Han Ting may be able to win in Qingzhou, but in the follow-up, the Han army must cross the Yellow River and win a major battle before completely defeating Wei Ting.

However, the cavalry of the Han army is scarce, and it is even more difficult to defeat the Wei army on the vast North China Plain, and it is the Wei army equipped with new-style riding gear.

In the thousands of years of ancient Chinese history, there was only one person who unified the world by conquering the north from the south.

Xu An looked at the territory map on the desk, and his thoughts diverged slightly.

The country that that person established has the same country name as the country he is now establishing.

It's just that Wei Ting is now limited to the land of Hebei and Youzhou due to the influence of the Taiping Dao, and even the land of Youzhou has not been fully collected, and the national power is still at a disadvantage.

I don't know if Sun Jian is really capable and ambitious to complete the feat of the Northern Expedition.

"The emperor and his ministers are not responsible for each other, Dongming's oath..."

Xu An shook his head, the current world has changed beyond recognition.

In the original time and space, Sun Jian, who died under the random arrows because of his recklessness, has now become the most dazzling general of this era and is deeply trusted by Liu Xie.

But Cao Cao, Liu Bei and other people who should have been famous all over the world have also become generals under his command.

Liu Xie is no longer a puppet, no longer coercing the emperor to order the princes, nor serving the emperor to order but not ministers.

The person who proclaimed the emperor was not Yuan Shu, but Yuan Shao. The Yuan family seemed to have an emperor no matter what.

The Wei State established by Yuan Shao is a bit ironic. Now Cao Cao seems to have no objection at all. In the Battle of Yanxu, it is said that Cao Cao even personally led the troops to the battle, and finally established the victory.

Xu An's eyes focused on the territory map again, this time his eyes fell on the Western Regions.

"Ziyuan, what is the reaction of those envoys from the Western Regions?"

Xu You stepped forward slightly, and replied calmly.

"The time for the founding of the country was a little rushed, so the envoys from the Western Regions who came to watch the ceremony excluded some small countries, and the only big countries were Shanshan, Khotan, Kucha, and Jingjue who were a little closer to our army."

The preparation time for the founding hall was only about three months. Although after the establishment of the founding of the country, the couriers reported urgent military orders and were rushed for [-] miles, but in more than two months, only some people were able to arrive.

After Xu An entered Chang'an, he read some articles about the Western Regions. He remembered that it was almost [-] miles away from Chang'an in Qiuci. mile, but not a short distance either.

"After the military parade, the faces of the several envoys were very dignified. Some small countries in the Western Regions have privately sent people to contact the officials of the Ministry of Rites, wanting to attach themselves to our army and expressing their willingness to attach themselves."

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been grouped under the Ministry of Rites, so Xu You also changed his name.

"Since the abolition of the original Protectorate of the Han Court, the Western Regions have been in war. Big countries annexed small countries, merged vertically and horizontally, alliances rebelled, and all kinds of things happened. The envoys of those small countries wanted to invite Ming Gong to pay attention. Set up the Protectorate of the Western Regions, and the envoys of Jingjue Kingdom will be in it."

"Reset the Protectorate of the Western Regions?"

Heaven obeys people's wishes, Xu An originally wanted to temporarily open up trade routes and open up a way to make money, but he did not expect that there would be countries in the Western Regions willing to take the initiative to help.

Now there are countries in the Western Regions that support the establishment of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, and there are even countries that are willing to belong to them. According to this calculation, the establishment of the Protectorate of the Western Regions should not receive too many obstacles.

Xu You still called Xu An Minggong. Although the court councilors called them kings, but in normal times, Xu An specially stipulated that everyone should be called by their original names. After all, he was used to it.

Xu You took a letter from his sleeve and held it up with both hands.

"This is based on some information obtained from the dictation of those envoys. It is the approximate number of troops, the size of the territory, and the number of cities of the countries in the Western Regions. Although it is not necessarily accurate, it is also of reference value. set."

Without Xu An's words, Xu Hong, who was standing under the steps as a guard, had already stepped forward, took the letter in Xu You's hand, and then climbed the steps to deliver it to the desk in front of Xu An.

Xu An unfolded the document, frowning slightly.

Seeing Xu An frowning slightly, several cabinet ministers in the Xuanzheng point also became curious about the information written on the document.

Of course, Yan Zhong was not among the suspicious people.

Seeing Xu An's expression, he knew that Xu An was just confused and didn't feel any pressure.

I have to say that Yan Zhong guessed right, Xu An is really puzzled now.

He had read the "Han Shu" written by Ban Gu, which described the Western Regions. It was the Western Han Dynasty. At that time, the population of the countries in the Western Regions was not large, and their military strength was not strong.

But what he didn't expect was that after hundreds of years, the development of the countries in the Western Regions was almost stagnant, and even regressed...

"Hanshu Biography of the Western Regions" records: "Shanshan Kingdom, whose real name is Loulan, Wang Zhinicheng, went to Yangguan for a thousand and six hundred miles, and went to Chang'an for six thousand and one hundred miles. The household was five hundred and seventy, and the mouth was four thousand and one hundred. Sheng Two thousand nine hundred and twelve soldiers."

The current Shanshan Kingdom only has more than [-] soldiers, so the population may not have increased much.

"Hanshu Biography of the Western Regions": "Jingjue country, the king ruled Jingjue city, went to Chang'an for [-] miles, with [-] households, [-] people, and [-] victorious soldiers.

The population of Jingjue Kingdom has increased a bit, and there are more than a thousand soldiers.There are almost [-] registered students.

And even so, Jingjue country only has more than a thousand soldiers, but in the Western Regions, Jingjue country is already considered a big country...

The rest of the small countries are even worse. There is even a country with only one earthen city and a population of less than a thousand people, but it calls itself a country.

The strength of the troops in Kucha and Khotan is unclear, but I am afraid that they will not be too much. Although the envoys of the two countries did not contact the officials of the Ministry of Rites in private like other countries, after watching the military parade, the envoys of the two countries are all His complexion is ashen, and he is submissive when facing the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

The ratio of soldiers to people in these countries is mostly ten to one, or even lower, and the quality of the soldiers is not high. Because of the conditions in the Western Regions, their armaments are not very good, and they don't have new harnesses.

Xu An now has some confidence in the caravan's trip to the Western Regions. Zhang Liao brought the five thousand Wuxiang Battalion, and he may be the overlord in the Western Regions.

However, the information from the Ministry of Rites made Xu An hesitate a bit. Since the power of the countries in the Western Regions is not strong, it can be considered to directly establish the framework of the Protectorate of the Western Regions this time.

Xu An picked up the document submitted by Xu You and asked Xu Hong to pass it on to everyone in the hall.

After watching it, everyone felt the same as Xu An. The power of the countries in the Western Regions is indeed not strong, so it's no wonder that those small countries wanted to join forces after watching the military parade.

They had never seen so many cavalry, and they were fully armed elite cavalry.

"What do you think about the re-establishment of the Protectorate of the Western Regions?"

One person judges the disadvantages, and two people judge the advantages. Xu An did not make a judgment alone.

As the cabinet is a consultant, Xu An naturally will not treat it as a display.

"There were originally [-] countries in the Western Regions, but now they are attacking and annexing each other. There are not many countries left. Years of wars have made their national strength not strong, and the western countries should not be strong."

Yan Zhong bowed slightly and gave a salute, then stepped forward and walked out of the queue. Although he was gradually getting old and his back was slightly bent, his eyes were still clear at this time.

"Although it is stated that the opening of the Silk Road is to increase the revenue of the national treasury. It is reasonable to say that it is not appropriate to go to war now to rest the people, but I think this is a good opportunity to open the Western Region Protectorate."

"The walls of the Western Regions are short and the ponds are shallow, so it is not difficult to attack. The countries in the East are weak in combat power. Even if they all unite, they will not be able to defeat the soldiers of the Wuxiang Battalion. The Wuxiang battalion protects each other and surrenders without fighting. You only need to reveal a little intention to reset the Western Regions Protectorate, and threaten them with force, and the countries in the Western Regions will never dare to refuse."

"The Western Regions are originally the land of China, and its country is nothing but a vassal of China in the past."

"Under the Putian, is it the king's land; on the shore of the land, is it the king's ministers."

Yan Zhong looked cold and said indifferently.

"The so-called countries are nothing more than a group of funny jumping beams. Our army is powerful. We can transfer soldiers from Liangzhou internally, and cavalry from Xianbei externally. It is easy to relocate the Western Regions. Why should we think about it?"

"The obedient will be rewarded, and the disobedient will be punished."

"Whoever dares to disobey will be killed immediately!"

(End of this chapter)