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

Chapter 572 Competing in the Central Plains (58)

one year later
Yan Guo 370 Sixth Year Winter (586)
Nanze City (South Fuyu City)

Because it was originally a swamp, it was reclaimed into farmland by Yan people and Fuyu people, so it was renamed Nanze City.

As a city on the northwest frontier of Yan State, Nanze City is bounded by Wuji State to the northeast, Fuyu State to the north, Shiwei Tribes (ancestors of the Mongols) to the northwest, Khitan to the west, and Kumoxi to the southwest.

Nanze City has become a window for trade between the Yan Kingdom and the nomadic peoples, and the people of the Yan Kingdom here have a strong folk style.

Last year, other envoys from Yan State went to Khitan, Kumoxi, Eastern Turks, and Shiwei tribes, and proposed the idea of ​​building an "anti-Sui alliance".

This year, envoys from various countries went to the country of Yan, expressed their wishes, and signed an alliance agreement in Nanze City.

Since most of these forces willing to form an alliance with Yan are located in the desert, it can also be called the "Desert Alliance".

Eastern Turks, Kumoxi, and Khitan, although superficially surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, have always wanted to rebel, but they were afraid that if they were the only ones who rebelled, they would be wiped out by the Sui Dynasty. .

Shiwei is not a country, but a collective name similar to the Qiang people. It is divided into many tribes, and they conduct their own affairs and attack each other.

Now, the State of Yan sent envoys to invite more than a dozen tribes in the southern part of Shiwei to join the Anti-Sui Alliance.

In order to attract these Shiwei people to join the [Anti-Sui Alliance] of Yan State, Yan State promised that as long as the tribes are willing to join the alliance, the Yan State will send craftsmen to provide them with smelting technology and help them develop civilization.

There are many iron ores in Baishan Heishui, but the indigenous tribes there have not mastered the smelting technology, so they can only look at the iron ore in a daze. Buying ironware at a high price is inferior to Yan Guo's scissors in international trade.

Now, as long as they attack the Sui Dynasty with the Yan Kingdom, they can get the export of smelting technology. They are very active, and this is a good opportunity to realize a leap in civilization.

Yan Xu called his technology/capital export behavior "Nangong Wentian Plan", because it was a Yan State counselor named Nangong Wentian who proposed this proposal. To pass this plan, gain merit, and increase capital for the future inheritance of nobility.

Even, Yan Xu tried Goguryeo and invited Goguryeo, a feud, to join the [Anti-Sui Alliance], but Goguryeo ruthlessly rejected it.

It seems that Goguryeo was determined to embrace the thigh of the Sui Dynasty, and took the opportunity to fight Yan Guo.

At home, Yan Xu has also been doing propaganda, portraying the Sui Dynasty as winning Qin, claiming that the Sui Dynasty wanted to enslave the people of Yan, and calling on the people of Yan to unite and unite to defeat the Sui Empire!

In the propaganda of Yan State, Yang Jian seemed to be a tyrant even more terrifying than Qin Shihuang. Once he was ruled by him, his life would be worse than death.

"I know it's hard, but because it's hard, we have to stick together!"

"At this moment, whether you are a nobleman, a businessman, or a commoner, you are all Yan people. In order to preserve the precious freedom of our Yan people, we must have the determination to fight to the death!"

In order to be able to unite the Yan people at the bottom, Yan Xu, who was not interested in free thoughts these years, had to support the freedom of the people on the surface, claiming that he wanted to preserve the free life of the people, so that the people would be willing to support the decisive battle between the imperial court and the Sui Dynasty .

In recent years, with the development of the idea of ​​humanistic revival, the freedom of nature has spread more and more. Folk thinkers such as Huang Zongxi are spreading this idea.

At the beginning, Yan Xu was very wary of the spread of this kind of thought, but worried that once he suppressed the spread of this kind of thought, it would cause a major rebellion in the country.

If it was in the past, he certainly didn't care about the rebellion, and would suppress it if he dared to rebel.

But now, with the great enemy of the Sui Dynasty, he must care about the rebellion and stabilize the internal affairs of Yan!

Considering that many Yan people are influenced by the humanistic thoughts of natural freedom, in order to unite these Yan people, Yan Xu, as the king of the country, openly claimed to protect the free life of Yan people, even though he actually did not want to protect the freedom of Yan people at all. Life.

Yan Junxu, who is over 50 years old, is wearing plain and patched clothes and straw sandals. He delivered a speech in Yandu Square, calling on all Yan people to unite!
"In the Central Plains, a monster called Sui is appearing, and he will devour us!"

"Beautiful maidens are sent to the tyrant's court and abused by the tyrant."

"Men are whipped and toil all day and have nothing."

"A tyrant's army, wanton slaughter, kills every people who want to be free."

At night, in an ordinary private house in Yandu, it was snowing heavily outside. Yan Junxu entered this private house and personally helped up the owner of the private house who wanted to kneel down.

"At this moment, I am not a high-ranking monarch, but a Yan countryman just like you."

Sitting by the fire in a private house, Yan Xu asked this ordinary Yan country citizen about his life in recent years and his thoughts on the future.

"Everything is fine, food and clothing are good, my eldest son went to the spice workshop to process spices, spices have been selling well these years, and the guild has paid more wages."

"The second child went overseas to explore, saying that he was looking for the treasure of the One Piece, and then completely lost the news, and I don't know if he was in a shipwreck, alas..."

"Oh, by the way, what was the corvee you mentioned in your previous speech?"

As the old man talked, he mentioned it casually.

"Correage is a tyrannical government in the Central Plains. The tyrant of the Central Plains will let his people work for him for free. It's fine if you don't pay for the work. You have to bring your own food, and the journey is far away. If you get sick, no one will care. Throw it to the side of the road when it dies."

An official of Yan State on the side answered.

In the country of Yan, there is no corvee or military service. The common people have to be paid for work, and the common people have to be paid for being soldiers. The basic survival needs of the slaves must be guaranteed, that is, the slaves must not be starved.

"It's really scary. Fortunately, I live in the country of Yan." The old man shook his head. He is a native of the country of Yan. His ancestors immigrated to the country of Yan hundreds of years ago, so he doesn't know much about the Central Plains.

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The hegemony between the Empire on which the sun never sets and the Central Plains gave the surrounding backward nations a chance to realize a leap in civilization. In order to fight against the Central Plains, the rulers of the Sun Never Sets generously exported their technology and capital to those backward areas to help their civilization develop. Rapid development. ——"General History of the World Song Qin Hui"

(End of this chapter)