The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 502 Arrival in the Western Region [Please subscribe*Please vote]

"It's up to us next!" Han Tan didn't doubt that Qiang Xi and the others couldn't do it. They had already written the script. If it didn't work well, it would be Qin's own problem.

Li Xin and Qiang Xian led the Qiang and other tribal chiefs to send the Bingzhou army to Wuwei, and watched as the army entered the land that had never been walked in the Central Plains.

"There is only one feasible road in high mountains, ravines, and deserts." Han Tan and others had already thought about the difficulty of this trip, but they did not expect that the road would be so difficult and dangerous.

If they hadn't had a Qiang guide to guide them, they would have easily gotten lost in the Danxia landform's loess plateau surrounded by mountains and ravines.

"I finally understand why Your Majesty named this corridor the Hexi Corridor!" Han Tan sighed with emotion. This terrain does not look like a corridor.

Their next stop is to conquer the various tribes in the middle section of the Hexi Corridor, and then merge the villages into villages to establish Zhangye County.

"I see." Luo Bing had been observing the terrain, and finally understood why Yan Yan gave Jincheng and Wuwei to Qin, leaving Zhang Ye alone.

Because the terrain of Zhangye is very similar to that of Hangu Pass, with mountains on both sides, Zhangye is the only way for Qin to go west.

However, after exiting the Zhangye corridor, it can directly connect to the Bingzhou Hetao area to the north.

"The army will stay and build the city, and the envoys will follow me!" Han Tan spoke.

There were not many of them, less than a hundred people.

In response to the arrival of Bingzhou's army, the tribes around Zhangye even took the initiative to come closer. Don't the people of Qin want to run away to the mountains? The people living here don't want to either.

The establishment of Zhangye was also extremely simple and quick. Han Tan and others only left a team of a hundred people to gather the people and supervise the construction of the city, and then moved on.

Dunhuang is their last place to capture, and they must once again build the westernmost pass in China, Yumen Pass!
The establishment of Yumen Pass means that from now on, the west of Yumen Pass will be called the Western Regions, which provides the most accurate boundary division.

This pass also has a name, Jiayuguan!
The entire Hexi Corridor is a road that runs through the Qilian Mountains and is opened from the mountains, so it deserves the name of the corridor.

As for resistance, all of them combined may not be as large as the army.

Therefore, the emergence of Bingzhou is simply a godsend benefactor for them.

This pass is now said to be used to prevent counterattacks from the Western Regions, but in the future it may become an important western town for Bingzhou to resist the Qin army.

Luo Bing led his army to guard the exit of the Qilian Mountains, and began to set up camp, gathering nearby tribal people, supervising the construction of cities and establishing passes.

In this era, although the Western Region is still a desert Gobi, it is not yet a thousands-mile no-man's land. Although deserts are everywhere, there are also many oases.

There are very few people here, and there are very few tribes. Even if a county is established, the population will not exceed tens of thousands. It may be the county with the smallest population in the entire world.

If Bingzhou falls out with Qin in the future, as long as they hold on to Zhangye, it will be difficult for Qin to leap forward.

In addition, beyond Zhangye, the terrain becomes much wider, and it is there that Bingzhou will set up Jiuquan County and build a pass.

This is not only the case in Zhangye, but also in Jiuquan and Dunhuang. However, after leaving Dunhuang, the terrain has changed again. It is no longer mountains and ravines, but endless wilderness.

Han Tan took Jing Ke and the envoys and continued westward.

"Take care, sir, and wish you a triumphant return!" Luo Bing did not follow.

If a foreign army casually enters the territory of another country, it is easy for an avoidable war to break out.

"As long as the general is here, we can live well!" Han Tan said with a smile. As long as Luo Bing and his army keep guarding here, those countries in the Western Regions will not dare to kill them even if they are angry again.

This is the confidence brought by the army.

After leaving Dunhuang, passing the Yumen Pass where the army was temporarily stationed and not yet established, and walking for three hundred miles, Han Tan and others finally saw a huge oasis, which was also the first country they arrived at - Cheshi Weidu Kingdom .

Cheshi Weidu is actually just a subordinate country, belonging to the easternmost subordinate country of Cheshi Country. The king is also a fiefdom of the heir of King Cheshi who did not know how many generations ago.

It's just that as time passed, Che Shiwei no longer had to obey the orders of Che Shiguo.

"Is this the legendary exotic customs?" Han Tan was a little surprised.

Even after walking through the Hexi Corridor, even foreign ethnic groups such as the Qiang are not very different from the Central Plains people in appearance, but after entering the Western Regions, their appearance changes greatly.

The bridge of the nose is high and straight, the eyes are large and deep, and the eye sockets are concave. Men have more body hair, while women generally have better figures. They look exotic at first glance.

Che Shiwei Duguo was also surprised by the arrival of Han Tan and other envoys. It was not that they had never seen caravans traveling before, but their caravans had only ever gone east, and never such a large caravan had gone west.

Therefore, the king of Cheshi Weidu directly ordered people to invite Han Tan and others into the city.

"A city is a country?" Han Tan was even more shocked.

Cheshiweidu is a city built on an oasis. It has a large population, about thirty to forty thousand people, and business is very prosperous. After all, it is the first stop to the Central Plains.

The caravans make their final supplies here.

"Envoys from the great Eastern countries?" The king of Cheshi Weidu was even more shocked by the identities of Han Tan and others.

They have many business travelers going to Xianyang, and they also know to some extent how big some eastern countries are. Although they don't know exactly what kind of country this so-called Bingzhou is, it is definitely bigger and stronger than them.

Che Shiweidu warmly received Han Tan and others and entertained them with many fruits and vegetables that had never been seen in the Central Plains.

However, Han Tan's thoughts were not on these. As the first stop, he needed to understand the intelligence of the entire Western Region. It would be better if he could get the map of the entire Western Region.

Che Shiwei never thought that the Central Plains would launch a war against them, so he was extremely enthusiastic and continuously introduced them to the features of the entire Western Region and the relationships between various countries.

To put it simply, the Western Region is actually divided into several large power groups.

Although they usually work independently, some countries are natural allies because of some blood relationships.

For example, the Cheshi Alliance is divided into Cheshi Weidu, Cheshi Qianguo, and Cheshihhou Kingdom, with Cheshi Qianguo as the center, which is also the oldest suzerain.

To the north of Cheshi is the Pulei Alliance, which is divided into the Pulei Front Kingdom and the Pulei Back Kingdom.

To the south of Cheshi is the Loulan Kingdom, which is now the most powerful country in the entire Western Region. The Loulan Alliance also includes Shan Kingdom, Qiemo, Xiaowan, Ronglu (lu), Qule and other countries, and it is also the most powerful.

To the west of Cheshi are small countries such as Shanhuan, Wutan, and Beilu, as well as the east and west Qiemi of the Qiemi Alliance.

To the west of Loulan are Qiuci, Gumo, Jieguo, Wensu and other countries.

Further west is Wusun, one of the goals of their trip.

(End of this chapter)