Destiny Only Han

Chapter 322 Liu Ying: Proxy War!

Sanchuan County, Luoyang City.

Liu Ying was squatting under the woods outside the west gate, digging earthworms with a small wooden stick.

It is now the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and the weather is getting hotter, so his pastime has naturally changed from hiking to fishing.

Of course, when you catch the last fish, the sheep are usually injured...

Well, at this time, Shusun Tong was busy revising the etiquette of the new dynasty, and he had no time for him. Basically, he just arranged one or two articles every three to five days. If he didn't understand, he would explain it next time.

After all, his teaching focus has always been Liu Ying, but Liu Ying has completely let go of the sheep in the past two years, so it is not bad for a year or so.

Learn to be old, live to be old...

And Zhang Liang was also so busy that he didn't have time to educate Liu Ying.

As for Xiao He?

Well, in order to complete his plan of establishing Luoyang as his capital, Liu Bang is now struggling with Xiao He to the limit.

To put it simply, Liu Banglai will not leave Luoyang, neither will let the princes and kings return to their fiefs, nor will they step into Guanzhong.

So Xiao He's temper also came up.

If Liu Bang doesn't go to Guanzhong, he won't take a step out of Guanzhong...

Therefore, Liu Bang will return to Li Shang, who is guarded by Longxi, and will be directly appointed Prime Minister You...

And Xiao He was demoted to Prime Minister Zuo.

Well, at this time, the right is the most respected, so the right prime minister has to overwhelm the left prime minister.

However, Liu Ying expressed that she was looking at the popsicle for the matter of the two old guys pushing each other...

The reason is simple, whether it is the end of the historical line or what, Liu Bang will inevitably be unable to hold back, and return to Guanzhong after being softened, and set his capital in Chang'an.

It's not that Luoyang is bad, but that in this era, the Guanzhong Plain can support more people than the Yiluo Basin. If the convenience of connecting Bashu is included, the advantage will be even greater.

And there is another point, that is, the enemy is coming from the northwest!

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Huns seized the Hetao Grassland and the Ningxia Plain.

After the defense line built by Qin State on the original Great Wall of Zhao State on the Yinshan line completely fell, the main force of the Han army needed to defend along the Great Wall of the old Qin State.

Not only that, the collapse of the defense line is chained.

After the fall of Jiuyuan County (Baotou), Yunzhong County (Hohhot) was immediately destroyed, and even the defense line of Yanmen County retreated to the front line of Pingcheng (Yanmen Pass), giving up half of Shanxi.

But this is not a defeat.

After the Han army took the initiative to shrink the line of defense in order to save troops, the vacated land was not occupied by the Huns.

Without him, the Huns are also afraid.

Compared with the population of the Central Plains, the Huns, with only three to four million people, could not control such a large territory at all.

Unlike what many people in later generations imagined, the Huns at this time, and even the Turks later, lived a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural lifestyle.

In other words, there are herdsmen who purely herd herds and farmers who cultivate the land.

That's why the Huns never forget the Hetao Plain and the Ningxia Plain.

Because of this, the current situation has become very delicate. The Han army was unable to go north to regain lost ground, and the Huns were also unable to go south in a large scale.

Well, the so-called Baideng Siege in the early Han Dynasty was not actually a defeat by the Han side.

At that time, Lao Liu was besieged in Baideng Mountain because he underestimated the enemy and rushed forward. However, the Huns did not break through Lao Liu's defense line under the circumstances of more attacks and fewer attacks.

As Mao Dun who killed his own father, he has nothing to do with "Women's Benevolence".

As long as he can win, he will never let go of this opportunity to kill Lao Liu.

The most important thing is that being surrounded by Bai Dengshan is a fart!
How many times have Lao Liu been besieged by groups during the years of fighting with Xiang Yu?

Can those Huns who are hungry and full on the grassland compare with the Chu army led by Xiang Yu himself?

In fact, the so-called records of "Gao Di envoys envoy Houyi Yanshi, and Maodun opened a corner" are largely a nonsense made up by Tai Shigong...

After digging earthworms and writing and drawing for a while, Liu Ying finally found the person he was waiting for.

Western Region Merchant Group.

But when the business group slowly approached from a distance, Liu Ying became restless for an instant.

Liu Ying didn't see much of the famous horse that he had agreed upon. What filled his sight the most were camels that kept chewing their cud and were moulting so they looked very broken...

Liu Ying strode forward and grabbed Xiao Tong, who looked like a savage with a scruffy beard, "Didn't I tell you to buy a good horse? Why did you buy so many camels?"

Xiao Tong is Xiao He's second son.

Xiao Tong gave a thumbs up: "The prince really knows the goods!"

Liu Ying spat at him: "Camels already exist! It would be strange if I didn't even know this!"

Well, camels, like donkeys, were introduced to China as early as the Yin and Shang Dynasties, but there were not many arid areas in the Central Plains, and because the roads to Central Asia were often monopolized, the camel, known as the ship of the desert, naturally It became an ornamental.

The Silk Road was not actually created by the Han Dynasty. According to European records, as early as the third century BC, silk that had been brought there from China appeared in the Mediterranean region.

Xiao Tong looked at Liu Ying, still maintaining a gesture of thumbs up: "I bought a good horse, but it was detained by my father..."

Liu Ying looked dull: "Why, why?"

It shouldn't be, Xiao He looks quite generous, he shouldn't be angry at his favorite student because of Lao Liu's coquettish manipulation!

Xiao Tong curled his lips and said: "My father said that horses with a shoulder height of five feet six inches or more are not allowed to go out...I heard that this is still your suggestion?"

Oops, I lifted a rock and shot myself in the foot... Liu Ying froze, thinking about the cause and effect in her mind.

Well, it's actually quite simple.

Chu and Han struggled for hegemony, and both sides had a great demand for horses.

The Han army has more food but less money, and the Chu army has less food but more money. Therefore, in order to prevent traders who sell war horses to Chu for high prices, it is forbidden for private individuals to take horses with a shoulder height of more than five feet six inches out of Hangu Pass. become very important.

This wave, belongs to the crown prince who committed the same crime as the common people...

Well, five feet six inches, approximately equal to 1.3 meters.

The horses selected by this standard can only be used to form very ordinary light cavalry. Don't even think about heavy cavalry like that.

After all, the weight of a horse should not exceed one-third of its body weight, preferably not more than one-quarter.

In the early days of the First World War, even if they did not undertake heavy armor, the shoulder height requirements for military horses in European and American countries were generally around 1.6 meters...

Liu Ying shook her head helplessly. If the horse he bought was impounded, it must have been impounded. Anyway, the person who ordered it was Xiao He. Liu Ying ran back to Guanzhong to look for Xiao He to act coquettishly and cute, and the horse was naturally still his!

So he took Xiao Tong and walked into the city: "How is it? Is there chaos over there?"

Xiao Tong nodded: "Chaos! The Huns supported the Wusun people, and they fought fiercely with the Yuezhi people, so the silk we brought couldn't be sold at all. Instead, those tattered leather armors were all sold by the Yuezhi people. I bought it..."

Well, the leather armor he was talking about was the Warring States Liangdang armor piled up like a mountain in the treasury of the State of Qin.

It is to sew pieces of leather armor on top of two large pieces of cowhide, and finally fix it on the chest and back with a few ropes.

In addition to being able to guard against flying feather arrows, swords, guns, swords, halberds, axes, axes, hooks and forks are all unstoppable...

And with Liu Ying's mass-produced iron armor, these junk things are completely useless.

Xiao He felt that it was a pity to be idle, so he forced Liu Ying to pay a low price to pay off the debt...

Based on the principle of only misplaced resources and no useless garbage, Liu Ying set her sights on the Yuezhi people who were bullied by the Huns next door.

Adhering to the concepts of helping those in need, love and peace, among the business groups setting out to the Western Regions, naturally there are so many more rubbish, bah, it's a powerful armor!

After hearing what Xiao Tong said, Liu Ying nodded secretly.

With the help of this group of armors, the Yuezhi people should be able to stabilize the situation in this kind of chicken pecking.

After all, the Han Kingdom at this time could not afford to set foot in the Western Regions, but after the Huns defeated the main force of the Yuezhi in World War I, they also shrank back and had no time to take care of the Western Regions.

So Liu Ying's idea is to stabilize the Qiang people on the southern line of the Silk Road, and then fight a proxy war with the Huns in the Western Regions by conducting arms trade with the Yuezhi people.

The Yuezhi people previously occupied an important node on the northern line of the Silk Road, that is, the Hexi Corridor where Jiuquan Wuwei is located. They ate east and west, and they were fat and oily, so there is no need to worry about them running out of money in the short term.

When Liu Ying and Xiao Tong entered the city hand in hand, groups of cavalry galloped out and galloped away along the galloping road.

And the soldiers of the Han army on duty on the top of the city also burst into deafening cheers.

Liu Ying pulled a hundred generals guarding the city gate and asked, "What happened?"

The hundred generals said with joy: "Your Majesty amnesty the world, allowing the people who fled to the mountains because of the war before to return to their counties and restore their original titles!"

Old Liu has started to buy people's hearts now... Liu Ying nodded, and then asked: "Then what does this have to do with you, is it worth shouting about?"

The hundred generals beamed with joy:

"Your Majesty also said that all officers and men in the army who rank below a doctor will be given the title of a doctor! Those who have a title of a doctor and above will be given a rank of nobility each! Those who are below the seventh doctor will be exempted from the tax and service of themselves and their families. servant..."

Liu Ying slowly opened her eyes wide, and was once again shocked by Liu Bang's generosity.

Under the military merit system, titles are linked to land.

Only with a title of title can one legally occupy the land stipulated by the title, otherwise it is illegal.

Liu Bang's big wave of his hand is equivalent to directly creating hundreds of thousands of landlords!
These landlords will be grateful to Liu Bang and bow their heads!
And this will be the White Jade Pillar of the Han Empire, and the Zijin Liang of the Sea!

In Liu Ying's heart, she couldn't help feeling a little uncertain.

The sacrifice to Songshan before, and after this wave of operations, wouldn't it really give Liu Bang the bargaining chip to make his capital Luoyang?

"No, I have to help Xiao He win!"

Liu Ying walked towards the city with strides. His Xianyang City reconstruction plan must not be put on hold!

　The time when the Huns completely drove the Yuezhi out of Xinjiang was about four years after Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty.

　　In the next year, Shan Yu left a Han book saying: ... Now because of the failure of the small official, the right sage king will be punished, and he will ask the Yue family to attack him.With the blessing of heaven, the officials and soldiers are good, the horses are strong, and the Yue clan is destroyed with the barbarians, and they are all beheaded and sent down.Dingloulan, Wusun, Hujie and the 26 neighboring countries were all considered Xiongnu.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)