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

Chapter 636 Competing in the Central Plains (88)

Autumn of the third year of Yan State 420 (633)
Buji City (Jilin City)
Thousands of Wuji people began to migrate north. They will go to the lower reaches of the Nan River, where the Nan River and the Black Water meet to survive.

This was because King Wuji had already sold Wuji City, Nanhe City, and the surrounding areas to Yan State.

Yan State paid Wu Ji State the spices, glass, silk, porcelain, etc. that could not be sold recently.

This is not considered cheating. After all, Wuji is vast and sparsely populated, and there is no way to reclaim as much land as you want. It is better to sell part of the land to the suzerain country Yan.

Although it is possible to seize it directly, it is still his younger brother's land after all. Doing such a thing will cause dissatisfaction among other younger brothers.

This is the benevolence and righteousness of the Yan Kingdom, which can be taken directly, but the Yan Kingdom chooses to spend money to buy it, so as not to betray their relatives.

After that, manpower, material and financial resources were recruited to transform the swamp forest day after day, turning the swamp into arable land, and cutting down part of the forest to turn it into a residential area.

"One day, this place will become the big granary for our country of Yan. The black water is to our country of Yan, just like Bashu is to the country of Qin."

Such renovations are often calculated over decades and decades. It takes an average of 30 years to transform a small area, and this small area can accommodate [-] residents.

It will take at least two to 300 years to completely transform the Heishui area into the rear granary of the Yan Kingdom, which will consume the lifespan of an entire dynasty.

The people of Yan State called the plan to transform the Northeast the "Dujiangyan Project", because Yan State really regarded the Northeast as its own Bashu.

Shanhaiguan is Hangu Pass in Yan State, Liaodong Peninsula and Korean Peninsula are Guanzhong and Hanzhong in Yan State, the Northeast Plain is Bashu Heavenly Land in Yan State, Que Island Islands (Wo Island) are Hetao Plain in Yan State, and Spice Islands are the Western Regions in Yan State Duhufu.

When Yan Guo was managing the newly bought Nanbuji area.

Chang'an City

This year, a large-scale locust plague occurred in the Central Plains, and the tragedy of cannibalism occurred in many areas.

Emperor Li Shimin issued an imperial edict to pray for God to forgive Datang.

Since the infrastructure of water transportation has not been repaired, it is difficult to transfer grain from other places to the disaster area. Therefore, Li Shimin called on the people to spontaneously go to the grain harvest area to eat.

Against this background, a monk named Chen Yi, whose dharma name is Xuanzang, took the opportunity to leave Chang'an City and headed westward to Tianzhu/Shendu, the birthplace of Buddhism, in search of more Buddhist teachings.

Because he was a monk in the Tang Dynasty, he can also be called Tang Xuanzang.

At this time, a civil war was taking place in the Western Turks, and the countries in the Western Regions took the opportunity to become independent. Tang Xuanzang's passage to Tianzhu through the Western Regions was temporarily opened.

The special system of the Turkic people led to their rapid expansion, but they also had very frequent civil wars. In ten years, five years of external expansion, and five years of civil wars, never-ending wars.

The Turkic system allowed them to expand rapidly in a short period of time, and at the same time quickly collapse internally in a short period of time. The political system was extremely unstable, except that the military expansion was fierce, which was really too hip.

"Everything in the world is suffering. Go west on this journey, seek the scriptures, and save the common people!"

The purpose of Tang Xuanzang's westward trip to Tianzhu is very simple, that is, to go to Tianzhu, where the people are said to be rich and live and work in peace and contentment, to seek the scriptures and find ways to make the people happy and healthy.

As the so-called distance produces beauty, because the distance is too far, people in Tang Dynasty do not know the dark side of Tianzhu, they can only see the glory of Tianzhu civilization from books. Only the glory of all nations come to Korea.

The people of the Tang Dynasty have experienced 30 years of war before, and the people's livelihood and economy have been completely destroyed, and the people are suffering. Therefore, Tang Xuanzang will go to the legendary Utopia to find a way to govern the country that can make the people happy.

another two months later

Spring of the fourth year of Yan State 420 (634)
A piece of news that excited Li Shimin came.

The Eastern Turks are fighting civil wars again and again.

In China, Changsun Wuji still suggested to continue to recuperate and not start a war. Fang Xuanling suggested to repair the Great Wall to prevent the Turks from going south again after reunification.

Li Jing and other generals, however, suggested that Emperor Li Shimin take advantage of the Eastern Turkic Civil War to conquer the grasslands in the north.

The military commander thinks that the opportunity will never come again, and the battle will be resolved quickly.

What Wenchen thought was that the country has gone through 30 years of war and has been dilapidated. It needs to recuperate and cannot take military risks.

"The Turkic people are about to perish, so there is no need to repair the Great Wall." Li Shimin first rejected the suggestion to repair the Great Wall, and then said: "We only send a small number of elite cavalry to assist the opposition forces in the Eastern Turkic people, and use the Turkic people to deal with them." Turkic people will not waste people’s money.”

Just like Yan Guo's dealing with the Central Plains, it never got on its own real main force, it was always a small number of elite and strong forces, and then let the Central Plains people fight the Central Plains people.

The Turkic civil war had to start with the snowstorm last winter.

Last winter, the snow disaster broke out, and many livestock on the grassland froze to death.

The Turkic tribal alliance has a characteristic, that is, when there are more social resources, there are fewer social conflicts, and when there are fewer social resources, there are more social conflicts.

In the past, when everyone could rob the Central Plains together, everyone could barely unite. Now that the Central Plains is unified, it is impossible to rob it, and suddenly there is a snowstorm that freezes the livestock to death, so we can only involve.

In order to survive, various tribes fought fiercely, trying to snatch the livestock of other tribes to feed their own tribesmen.

At such a difficult moment, if it is a unified regime, it will choose to sacrifice some people, and then save the rest. Everyone will unite to ensure the survival of civilization.

When tribal alliances like Turks encounter this situation, that is: civil war!

Those who win will survive, and those who lose will become corpses.

Originally, there were few livestock, but the Khan forced the livestock to be sold to the Yan State, and then bought goods from the Yan State.

Li Shimin finally made a final decision to recruit [-] cavalry to prepare for the northern expedition to the grassland at any time.

another month later

Envoys from the grassland tribes such as Xue Yantuo arrived in Chang'an, hoping to form an alliance with the Tang Dynasty and jointly overthrow Jieli Khan.

"The grassland suffered from snowstorms, but our Great Khan is still selling livestock to the Yan people in exchange for those extravagant spices and glass."

"Please His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to send troops to help us eradicate the brutal Great Khan. We are willing to surrender to the Great Tang and be slaves of the Great Tang forever."

Jieli Khan obviously did not regard the herdsmen of other tribes on the grassland as human beings. When there was a famine in the grassland, he not only refused to provide relief, but also signed the "Yan and Turkic Friendship and Mutual Assistance Trade Agreement" with Yan State, increasing the annual scale of livestock trade.

(End of this chapter)