The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 370 Extra: The power map of the three powerful men

In the fifth year of Zhengguang, the Han Dynasty regained the Liaodong Peninsula

The whole of China was recuperating under the unification of Liu Tai. If there were any projects, it was only Liu Tai who kept spending money and food to build roads, but there were endless roads.

In comparison, all the large and small rivers from Xingyang to Yuhang were opened. The Yongji Canal in the north only took three years, but the communication of the rivers in the south took five years.

Of course, in the past five years, they have not only built water canals, but also more or less used this incident to allow the tax bureau to carry out large-scale punishments in the areas south of the Yellow River to re-breed the land of corruption.

In particular, the aristocratic families along the canal took a political iron fist and donated a lot of the land they had usurped.

With political clarity and abundant food, Liu Tai began to recover the Liaodong region with Zhao An as commander-in-chief and Tian Jin as deputy commander-in-chief.

Because Liu Tai's banner was to recover the lost territory of the Han family. If the local foreigners were willing to become Han people and rule under the Han system, Liu Tai would be happy to accept the foreigners and give them Han surnames to show their virtue.

The Duan Xianbei had been infiltrated for a long time, and there was almost no resistance. Even the leaders of the Duan Xianbei, Duan Shujun and Duan Wenyuan, took the lead in merging into the Han Dynasty, so the Duan Xianbei was easily annexed by Liu Tai.

But Murong Xianbei chose to rise up and resist.

As for Liu Tai's army, because Liu Tai had sufficient supplies and well-equipped armor, they also more or less contracted some bad habits, that is, they like to fight head-on, because they are strong enough and can be easily defeated. other side.

When Murong Xuan faced Liu Tai's attack, Zhao An and Tian Tian suffered a little loss in the fight with the advantage of the terrain.

After all, Murong Xuan himself had been preparing for this day for a long time, and at the same time, both Murong Huang and Murong Han were able to take charge of themselves.

The Murong tribe faced a double attack from the Han army. Although their farmland was burned and their pastures were destroyed, they managed to survive the snow season with great difficulty.

Liu Tai did not force Zhao An to continue fighting, but decisively chose to withdraw his troops, but this only gave Murong family support for about four months.

After replenishing the food, the soldiers and equipment of the Han army came again. Even though Murong Hui was a famous general and Murong Han was the god of war, facing the Han soldiers in armor who had re-supplied, there was no resistance this time. .

Liu Tai directly stated that Murong Xianbei refused to submit to the king's rule, and Murong's lineage was executed. The men went to the steel mills to do hard labor until they died of old age, and the women were all used as slaves.

Because their leaders did not accept kingship, they were lower than the slaves purchased from China through human trafficking.

Those slaves could also slowly obtain Han household registration and break away from their current status by learning Chinese and Chinese characters, but Murong Xianbei, who refused to become a king, lost this qualification.

What Liu Tai wants is to completely cut off Murong Xianbei's lineage, so that other foreigners can kill chickens and scare monkeys.

In the seventh year of Zhenguang, the Han Dynasty regained the Hetao Plain and reorganized the Yinshan defense line.

Zhou Ping, the general of the northern expedition, was the chief general, and Li Gu, the governor of Yanmen County, was the deputy general. They led an army of 100,000 to conquer the Hetao. They successfully captured the Hetao plain from Yuwen Xianbei and successfully reorganized the Yinshan defense line, so that the Hu people north of the Yinshan did not dare to return. Easily go south.

At the same time, animal husbandry technology began to develop in the Hetao Plain and spread to the grassland from the Hetao Plain. Liu Tai intended to transform the grassland people from nomadic people into animal husbandry people and maintain trade with the grassland for a long time.

This resulted in a large number of grassland tribes occupying the north of Yinshan Mountain. At the same time, due to the promotion of Liu Tai's policies, the north and south of Yinshan Mountain held many mutual trades. A large number of grassland specialties were traded with China, especially salt and tea, which were necessities for the grassland people. .

Because of long-term trade and mastery of animal husbandry technology, the nomadic peoples who originally wandered around began to live around a grassland. Although they were still a grassland civilization, they began to transform into a semi-agricultural civilization.

After all, the productivity of animal husbandry is higher than that of nomadism, which allows more tribesmen to survive, which is enough for many nomads who originally lived on the grasslands to start getting closer to the Han people who also master farming techniques.

Of course, the only difference is that what the Han people cultivate is grain, while what they cultivate is pasture. However, precisely because their places of residence became fixed, Han culture began to penetrate deeply into their customs and culture.

In the ninth year of Zhenguang, the Han Dynasty conquered the four counties in Hexi.

Liu Tai has been building roads since he got Xiliang. This road was built from Chang'an all the way to Tianshui.

It was originally built in the sixth year of Zhengguang, but because of the outbreak of the war to conquer Hetao, the stone that prevented Li Ju's westward expedition was suppressed.

But this momentum did not last long. After a year of rest and recuperation after the war to conquer the Hetao Plain, Li Ju submitted a petition to conquer Bai Qiang and recover the four counties in Hexi. Liu Tai agreed.

Although the so-called Bai Qiang have a large number of people, in the face of the war machine that has been turned on, they resist in every possible way, but in the face of the Han, they will either be dogs or migrate, because any enemy who blocks the path of the Yan Han's revival will be defeated. Crushed to death.

Even so, the Han army still did not stop. Li Ju once again became the Protector of the Western Regions who had been suspended for a hundred years. He was also the first Protector of the Western Regions in Liu Tai's dynasty.

Liu Tai has only one order for Li Ju, and that is to tell the countries in the Western Regions that the Silk Road, which has been closed for a hundred years, will be reopened. Your big father is back. Are you touched or surprised?

What a surprise, right? In order to thank dad for returning, you are willing to take the initiative to contribute money and effort to build the Silk Road, right?

Well, I know that you half-sons are very filial. Anyone who is willing to hang out with the Han will let you enjoy the dividends of the Silk Road. If you are not willing to hang out with the Han, naturally there is no need to appear in the Han. sphere of influence.

After that, Li Ju was completely stationed in the Western Regions, and it took almost twenty years to finally complete the Han Dynasty's re-rule of the Western Regions.

The sign is that the Han Dynasty worked hard with these countries in the Western Regions to build a physical Silk Road starting from Chang'an and running all the way to Daqing Pond, which is now Issyk-Kul Lake.

From then on, they began to have intermittent exchanges with the Sasanian Empire of Shapur II on this Silk Road.

There have been long periods of peace between the two sides, and there have also been wars involving more than 200,000 people.

Because the sugar, tea, silk and porcelain that circulated in the East were hard currency that circulated to the West, small countries that grew up relying on the Silk Road were often extremely wealthy.

This allowed Sassanid to simply want to plunder small countries on the Silk Road when conflicts arose in the country to make up for and transfer their own domestic conflicts. After all, victory and wealth could resolve conflicts in many cases.

Similarly for Yanhan, all the territory lost due to the chaos at the end of Han Dynasty was recovered in the hands of Liu Tai.

There were no longer enemies of sufficient size around the Han Dynasty, and those families who wanted to enfeoff themselves responded very strongly to the Sasanian Kingdom. In this constant collision, the small countries continued to fragment and merge into the Chinese territory.

Faced with the long-term suppression of Sassanid, the countries in the Western Regions decisively chose to integrate into the Yanhan. The actual power controlled by China gradually became wherever the Silk Road was built, the sphere of influence of China would be derived.

Although it was only a sphere of influence, Liu Tai also tried his best to leave as many traces of China as possible on the entire sphere of influence.

The Han Kingdom appeared on the territory of the Han Dynasty, stretching from Lake Baikal to the north, Indonesia to the south, Daqingchi to the west, and Fusang to the east.

Before Liu Tai's death, he ordered nine maps to be carved out of huge stones. One was placed in Chang'an City, one was placed on the top of Mount Tai, and one was placed in his tomb.

The other six are thrown into the six famous lakes in the world. If the Han Dynasty is destroyed in the future and a new unified dynasty emerges, the Yanhuang Dynasty will not be destroyed and the China will continue to be unbroken to inspire the subsequent courts. The country has not yet been unified and future generations will have to work hard.

(End of this chapter)