Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 468
Three years later

Yanhou 415th summer ([-] years)
In the past few years, the climate has gradually warmed up, and the strange thing that the upper reaches of the Liaohe River freezes in summer no longer occurs.

A few years ago, at the coldest time, the Yangtze River froze in winter, which once made the aristocratic families in Jiangzuo panic, fearing that the barbarian cavalry from the north would step directly across the ice to attack them. Fortunately, Liu Yu, the god of war, With the existence of Hu people, it is still difficult for the Hu people to protect themselves, so how can they go south to attack Jiangzuo.

However, the warming is only relative to the coldest point of the Little Ice Age, and the current climate is still very cold overall.

This is also the reason why Yan Houlan chose to attack Goguryeo in summer. In this cold little ice age, only this season is suitable for attacking a bitterly cold place like Goguryeo.

More than 20 years ago, in order to check and balance Fuyu, the royal family indulged Goguryeo's hero "Tande" to expand northward, and temporarily lifted the arms ban on Goguryeo, allowing some low-quality iron weapons to be sold to Goguryeo.

Now, Goguryeo's strength is expanding too fast, so the Wang family turned to supporting the dog-legged Fuyu people, and re-imposed an economic blockade on Goguryeo.

As for why this is done, the reason is also very simple: use barbarians to control barbarians.

The method of using barbarians to control barbarians is very common, and it has been used in ancient and modern China and abroad.

For example, Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu supported the Southern Huns and used the Southern Huns to fight against the Northern Huns. Later, when the Southern Huns grew stronger, the Han Dynasty in turn supported the Northern Huns and used the Northern Huns to balance the Southern Huns. National policy, forcibly beat the Northern Huns away.

Another example is that the Ming Dynasty supported Jurchen against Mongolia at the beginning, and when Jurchen became strong, it turned to support Mongolia against Jurchen.

Another example is that American used to support China against Maozi in the 80s, and when China grew stronger, he supported Ah San against China.

Leveraging strength and using one enemy to balance another enemy is a method that most regional hegemony or world hegemony forces will use.

When we wonder why the barbarians are so powerful and arrogant, it is actually because we have assumed the wrong role. In fact, we are the barbarians who want to learn the technology and culture of each other every day. The master of the world is on the opposite side. The "Central Plains Court" that used barbarians to control barbarians.

The other party is unwilling to release high-tech technology to us, so why is the Central Plains Dynasty willing to release iron-smelting technology to the grassland?
It's not that the times have changed, it's just that I took the wrong role.

When Chinese people are scrambling to immigrate to the other side of the Pacific Ocean and want big houses and steaks, why don't the prairie barbarians want to immigrate to the Central Plains? They also want the manors and rice in the Central Plains.

In the face of a growing Xianbei regime, even if the Xianbei regime really has no intention of invading the Central Plains, the Central Plains regime will find ways to suppress and blockade the growing Xianbei to prevent the Xianbei people from threatening the Central Plains one day.

Therefore, the experience process of the Xianbei people entering the Central Plains is very worthy of our study, and even for reference.

People with incompetence and low self-esteem can only go mad and angry in the face of failure. They miss the glory of their ancestors every day, nagging how glorious my ancestors were once. At that time, you were still a group of barbarians grazing on the grassland. This is the Great Jin Dynasty Sima royal family and aristocratic families.

Self-improvement people, in the face of failure, will sum up the lessons of failure, carefully analyze the reasons for the opponent's success, learn from the opponent and surpass the opponent, understand the opponent's weakness, and give the opponent a fatal blow at the critical moment. Goguryeo.

The Xianbei people were conquered by the Central Plains regime time and time again, they were controlled by barbarians again and again, and they succumbed to the Central Plains regime again and again as dogs. Living.

In the same way, the Wang family can support Goguryeo or suppress Goguryeo, everything depends on actual needs.

And Goguryeo also redeveloped in the Wang family's destruction again and again, surviving in the cracks, like a shrewd poisonous snake, looking for an opportunity to deal a fatal blow to the Wang family, and finally succeeded more than 100 years ago, taking advantage of the internal turmoil in the Wang family. revenge.

If one day, the Wang family is destroyed by the barbarians, it can only be blamed for the decay and degeneration of the Wang family. There is no one to blame. The competition among civilizations is so cruel.

If you don’t make progress, you will naturally be conquered and wiped out by other progressive and powerful civilizations. No matter how glorious your past is, it’s just yesterday, just like ancient Egypt buried in the desert.

No matter how brilliant and powerful our ancestors are, they are not as brilliant and powerful as we are in reality. Compared with remembering the glorious past hundreds of years ago, Yan Houlan is more yearning for the stars and seas in the future.

The gentry of the Central Plains are nostalgic for the good old days, while the nobles of the royal family are looking forward to the stars and seas in the future. This is the gap.

Conquering Goguryeo's Wandu City and developing it for 40 years is not enough. It is necessary to conquer Goguryeo's gate city and continue to expand the actual control area to increase its own living space.

When the family of the Jin Dynasty still missed the glorious years when they had owned the Central Plains, the nobles of the Yan Kingdom were expanding their living space to the north and overseas.

Zhacheng is located in the Namwoju area (North Hamgyong Province, North Korea), next to Wang Jiaxin's ancestral mausoleum (Changbai Mountain Tianchi). It was once the capital of the Namwoju people, and was later conquered by the Goguryeo people.

此次征伐高句丽，燕国一共出动兵力约两万，其中包括燕国禁卫军300、贵族地方兵700、行会志愿兵1500、肃慎土司兵1000、契丹盟友兵500、库莫奚雇佣兵300、扶余仆从兵3500，勿吉协从兵500、南沃沮复国兵2500、北沃沮独立兵1500、黑水土司兵1000、香料群岛土著部落农奴兵1500、高句丽带路伪军4000，88个随军医生文官使者等，一共18888将士，约为两万大军，对外号称20万大军。

Actually dispatched 20 troops, and then claimed [-] to the outside world, which is the consistent operation of the King Yan family.

Three hundred troops were sent to attack Goguryeo in the north, which is actually not a small number. In the period of Emperor Hanling, the Han Dynasty sent [-] troops to attack the Shule Kingdom in the Western Regions. Among them, the Han Dynasty had only [-] soldiers, and the remaining [-] were all They are servants provided by other countries in the Western Regions.

In this Northern Expedition, the Wang family's strategy was to divide the [-] troops into ten groups and form a siege of Goguryeo.

When Shi Le started, there were only 300 people in total, and then [-] Jiehu soldiers attacked Xuchang in [-] routes, and the [-] Jin officers and soldiers in Xuchang fled.

When Wang Jue attacked Luoyang at the end of the Han Dynasty, there were only [-] tiger and leopard cavalry in total. The [-] tiger and leopard cavalry attacked in four directions, and finally succeeded in capturing Cao Cao's Luoyang.

(End of this chapter)