A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 540 Exploring Colonization

As more and more development orders were issued, more and more families began to expand overseas. Another period similar to the Bang Zhou period came when the Xia Dynasties opened up wasteland and spread civilization.

In the thirty-eighth year of the reign of Emperor Daqian, in the Western Regions.

With the rise of development, with the strong support of the imperial court, it began to continuously expand to the surrounding areas. In these years, although no large-scale war broke out, small-scale wars never stopped for a moment.

Pioneering nobles appeared in the borders around Daqian, and many pioneering nobles joined forces with each other. Many pioneering nobles were even willing to go to the Western Regions.

Through the efforts of the imperial court, the Protectorate of the Western Regions and the five countries of the Western Regions, stability has generally been restored in the Western Regions. However, due to more than ten years of war, the population of the Western Regions has plummeted, and many small countries in the Western Regions have perished.

There are also many pioneering nobles who came here.

Originally, many people in Daqian had the impression that the Western Region was full of yellow sand, arid and dry. But only when you actually come here will you find that although the environment here is worse than the Central Plains, it is far from the barren land that people imagine.

Especially in this era, when the ecological environment of the Western Regions has not been destroyed on a large scale, there are grasslands and oases in many places.

Daqian enfeoffed the five countries in the Western Region. This time, several families purchased the development order and went to the Western Region to develop. The development order given by the court was for a radius of fifty to one hundred miles.

This is also because the Western Regions are too far away from the Central Plains. If the scope of the expansion order is small, the court is worried that they will not be able to gain a foothold in the Western Regions, so they deliberately expanded it.

Going west from the Western Region, just a few years ago, the five countries of the Western Region united with the Western Region Protectorate and the Western Region Temple Army, with a total of 30,000 elites, to defeat the 100,000-strong army of the Dawan Kingdom. The vitality of Dawan Kingdom was severely damaged, the nobles in the country were in rebellion, and they were no longer able to control the entire territory.

The imperial court occupied part of the land, but due to years of fighting, the five countries in the Western Regions were unable to launch a large-scale western expedition, so they suggested to the imperial court that they enfeoff the pioneering nobles here and allow them to continue to expand westward.

The country of Dawan belongs to Central Asia in real history. The Tang Dynasty once fought a war with the Great Food Kingdom here. In the Battle of Talas, the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty and their servant armies, totaling more than 30,000 people, fought against the 100,000-strong army of the Dashi Kingdom.

In the end, the Tang army was defeated miserably due to the betrayal of the servant army. This also caused the Tang Dynasty's Western Region strategy to fail. From then on, the Chinese army never came here again.

And now the pioneering nobles who were enfeoffed in Daqian were enfeoffed here.

Because the land here is flat, there are rivers, and the climate is not too dry, it is suitable for farming. The imperial court enfeoffed three pioneer nobles here. This place is also known as Yizhou.

Yizhou, Wei State, Wanli City.

This Wanli City means that it is thousands of miles away from Luoyang, but in fact, Luoyang is already more than 16,000 miles away. Taking Wanli City is to tell future generations that my hometown is thousands of miles away.

Zhang Heizi was wearing a big dress and walking swaggeringly on the streets of Wanli City. It is said to be a city, but in fact, this city is more like a fort than a town in Daqian.

The town of Daqian also has city walls. Although the walls are not high, at most one foot, it has a population of about 10,000 people. It will be like this Ten Thousand Miles City, with a total population of only 7,000. Zhang Heizi himself was just a dubo, commanding a hundred armored soldiers, two hundred auxiliary soldiers, and two hundred serfs. He was just a refugee at first, he was hungry and full, and in the end he even fell into the hands of a bandit.

Later, Da Qian issued a development order, and nobles and powerful men from all over the country began to expand abroad. In order to obtain more soldiers and serfs, the imperial court began to clear out the mountain bandits and water bandits.

This sunspot was caught during a clearance. If it weren't for the fact that there were no lives in his hands, he would have been thrown into the mines long ago. However, this guy didn't settle well and directly held a court hearing in the county seat for questioning. A county lieutenant was sent from the neighboring county, and he convicted these people of their crimes in just a few sips of water.

Zhang Heizi was kneeling on the ground at that time. The ground was not yet warm, and the sentence was over. The one who was born on the day of a donkey was directly sentenced to a heinous crime of being exiled for ten thousand miles. This punishment, even for rebellion, would not be so severe.

After the verdict of the crime, Zhang Heizi didn't even have a chance to cry out for injustice. The subordinate clerk next to him quickly blocked his mouth and then signed and stamped it. The whole process was over without even taking a cup of tea.

Then they were sold to those nobles and powerful men, and together they headed to the Western Regions thousands of miles away.

Fortunately, Zhang Heizi was tall and strong, and he was brave enough to fight. He was favored by the family leader, who promoted him from a serf to a soldier. He then followed the family leader in battles and made meritorious service many times, so he was promoted to Du Bo.

After some training, these people become soldiers. If they go into battle several times and see blood and survive, they become elites.

After these places in the Western Region were defeated by the imperial army, their original strength was not as good as that of Dagan, and now it has declined even more. Just these soldiers of the pioneering nobles, with hundreds of auxiliary soldiers, beat the barbarians until they cried for their fathers.

And soon conquered some small tribes with two to three thousand people, and then it snowballed and grew rapidly. In the end, the pioneering noble Wu Chong succeeded in gaining a foothold here and controlled a large noble with a population of 70,000 indigenous people.

Backbones like his subordinate Zhang Heizi also became officials with 500 herdsmen households and a Dubo garrison. Even simpler is a tribal military leader of three thousand people.

Compared with the days in the Central Plains, when they were hungry and full, and had to be hunted down by large officers and soldiers, life now is infinitely better than before.

"Sir, my servant has already inquired. The Liu family's cloth shop will return to the Central Plains with the caravan in the near future. They can bring back the finest Wu silk and Yunxia Shu brocade."

Behind Zhang Heizi, a brown-haired servant with deep eyes and a high nose was speaking in a broken voice with a very respectful expression. These are after the Gan people came here to conquer the indigenous people, the indigenous customs and languages ​​were changing to the Gan people.

Because these servants are not Ganren, they are slaves, so they cannot be called Ganren. For example, Langjun, Junhou, and Alang are all titles that can only be addressed between Ganren, so these local servants began to be called Laoye. Fuck people.

Zhang Heizi is already thirty-one this year, and the head of his family, the Lord, has found a marriage for him with a concubine from the Zhang family of Zheng. In the Western Regions, high-status Ganren were looking for Ganren women as wives, while natives could only be concubines. If you marry a native, you will be laughed at.

Only those from a poor family or with a low status would be like this. Therefore, if you want to marry a Gan as your wife, you must have a decent betrothal gift, and Da Gan's Shu brocade silk is indispensable.

These things are not cheap in the Western Region, but they must be bought, not to mention that he has already reached a high level. You must know that women from the Western Regions are now in hot demand.

(End of this chapter)