Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1426

Indochina Peninsula, Lishui Road.

Near the mouth of Lishui (Ayeyarwady River, Myanmar), Ruiguang City, the harbor of Lishui Bay (Madaban Bay).

The port is busy, and it is October at this time. For a place that only has three seasons of summer, rain, and coolness, it happens to be the most comfortable cool season of the year. The cool breeze is neither too hot nor too cold.

Although Ruiguang Port is not at the mouth of the Lishui River, it is not far from the mouth of the river. It is a natural and excellent port, but before the arrival of the Qin people, it was just a small fishing village.

However, after nearly 20 years of development, it has grown from a small Qin military commercial station 20 years ago to the Great Qin Concession, a colony, and now the capital of Zhongnan Lishui Road, which is directly under the Central South Peninsula, and has become an important maritime trade center in the Indochina Peninsula. big port.

Lishui is a large river originating from the Daxue Mountain at the junction of Yunnan and Xishan Road. Although it was not the longest and largest river in the original Pyu Kingdom, it has become an important golden waterway today because of its important value for irrigation and shipping.

In the north of the fiefdom of Ruili Wang Jiacheng, the ninth son of the upper reaches, Jinbao City, where the two tributaries Dulong River and Longquan River meet, is the northernmost place where treasure ships sail on Lijiang River. Campbell Harbor.

The river surface of the Jinbao Port Wharf has a width of one mile to one and a half miles during low water level seasons, and the average water depth of the main channel is at least [-] feet.

What is especially rare is that this big river flows southward, with high mountains and valleys in the north, high mountains in the west, plateaus in the east, and low-lying plains in the south.

The upper valley, the middle valley, the lower valley, and the most fertile estuary delta plain,
The bottom mouth of the estuary delta plain is even more than [-] li wide, and the large river basin is full of granaries.

The navigable Lishui River system in the Lishui Basin is more than [-] miles long, and the Lishui River is more than [-] miles long in total. It is not unique to have such an excellent navigable channel.

Because of this, as early as the Han Dynasty, a route from Yunnan along the Lishui River and down the Lishui River, sailing out of the Bay of Bengal to India, was opened up, connecting with the Indian Ocean waterway.

"Wei Lue Biography of Xirong" records that the waterways of the Great Qin State lead to Yongchang County, Yizhou.

It refers to this route, which landed on the coast of Myanmar and arrived at Yongchang County, Yunnan.

At this time, due to the Great Qin's conquest and colonization of the Indochina Peninsula, especially the imperial court's nearly 40 years of development of the southwest, the route from the southwest to the sea is no longer a difficult route to the blue sky. There is also the Mino River along the west.

Shu brocade, hemp paper, silk embroidery, tea, and porcelain from the Shu region were transported to Dali, Lijiang, and Ruili via the Tea Horse Road, and then entered Ruili Jinbao Port.

Jinbao Port in Ruili has also become an important inland canal port. Gemstones, jadeite, kapok produced in the former Pyu country in the Lijiang River Basin, as well as teak wood, a high-quality shipbuilding wood, are traded here in large quantities.

There are even rhinoceros horns, ivory, gold and silver from Taixi, spices from the South China Sea, and sugar cane from Tianzhu brought from Tianzhu, as well as slaves from all over the country who are very popular in Daqin, all gathered here.

It is precisely because of this that the ninth son of the emperor, Ruili Wang Luo Jiacheng, is also a very powerful one among the princes.

Of course, from Jinbao City to the south, because the whole journey can be carried directly to the Hekou Bay by treasure boats, the Ruiguang King of Ruiguang County is also a powerful vassal.

This place was established by the second son of Luo Cunxiao, the king of Lijiang. Originally, a vassal king could grant favor to the third son, but it only split the original fief into three.However, after Luo Cunxiao became a vassal in Lijiang, Yunnan, he made great contributions to the conquest of Wuman and Baiman in Yunnan, especially in the battle of conquering Pyu. Therefore, the emperor finally granted Luo Cunxiao's The second son of the direct line established the king alone in the fiefdom at the mouth of the Lishui River.

At this time, the weather in Ruiguang Port is pleasant, cool and comfortable, and the port is busy and lively.

Spices and slaves in the Kunlun Sea, gems, grain, cotton, sugar, and slaves on the Indochina Peninsula, slaves, sugar, and jute from Tianzhu, as well as gold, silver, and various ores from Taixi, etc. Such as Arabian horses, camels, Persian noble ladies in distress, unlucky Roman prisoners of war slaves and so on.

Accompanied by his second son Luo Cunxiao, Luo Cunxiao sat on the castle tower of the port and had a leisurely breakfast. Luo Cunxiao, who was over [-] years old, had gained a lot of weight, his belly was as big as a ball, and his whole body was obese. Like a ball.

But this fat man who looks like a meat ball has a great reputation in the Indochina Peninsula, especially in the original hometown of the Pyu Kingdom in the Lishui River Basin. Back then, the Pyu Kingdom desperately resisted the Qin army's attack. What elephant soldiers, cavalry, and mountain infantry They emerged one after another, and even went deep into the deep mountains and old forests to resist, but under Luo Cunxiao's ruthlessness, Pyu and many tribes were wiped out one after another. Luo Cunxiao showed no mercy to those who resisted.

In the Lishui River Basin, he has the name of "Children Stop Crying".

It is said that once he led an army to chase down the rebel army led by the prince of the hussars into the jungle, and finally got lost in the deep mountain jungle. They also killed the Pyu people they captured and ate their meat. They didn't even give up the siege.

Until finally he surrounded Prince Pyu, beheaded him with his own hands, and roasted and ate Prince Pyu. The prince's head was also made into a wine vessel by him.

In that battle, Luo Cunxiao became famous in Central South, and since then no one dared to resist, and one after another surrendered.

"It's better to be here, kid. Your elder brother came back last time and complained to me when he went back, saying that I was biased, that he should have been allowed to come here in the first place, how cool it is to eat seafood while blowing the sea breeze, and look at this Surrounded by hundreds of miles of estuary plains, large natural granaries, and this harbor, what rich fishery resources, especially this Ruiguang Harbor, how prosperous and rich it is.”

Luo Luofang smiled and said, "At the beginning when he was asked to come to Luode Xiu, he was unwilling to live or die. This is a small fishing village, tens of thousands of miles away from the Central Plains. Now my son has been operating here for more than ten years. With the glory of the imperial court and maritime trade, he has also become rich. Yes, he's jealous."

"You boy, don't act obedient if you get a bargain. Your elder brother is just joking. Lijiang is no worse than you. Although it's a bit colder in winter, it's still a good place. Your younger brothers are really envious."

"What are you envious of, especially the fourth child, if I hadn't come here to entrust Ruiguang, father, your fief, and he would not have his share in the future."

Originally, the enfeoffment of Tween was only divided among the three sons of Tween. Whoever was reincarnated early would take advantage.

The fourth child was originally not eligible for enfeoffment, but it happened that the second child was allocated separately, so the fourth child made up for it.The real losers are the elder brothers, the elders and the sixth. They are unlucky. They don't have titles and fiefdoms, but they can share a share of the family property.

(End of this chapter)