sweeping the world

Chapter 574 Time flies
In Guanzhong, where winter is approaching, there is no war.

I don’t know whether it was because of the season or something else. Zhang’s Liang army and the Di, Qiang, and Zahu all retreated at the end of autumn. They not only retreated from the Qinzhou line, but even gave up on Longxi and Longdong. Back to the end.

Xie An's troops were limited and he only regained lost ground after the enemy retreated proactively, but did not launch a threatening attack on the coalition forces.

After waiting for the snow to fall in Guanzhong, it was confirmed that the Di, Qiang, Zahu and other groups had disappeared. Zhang Liang's army assumed a defensive posture. Xie An planned the defense area and went to Chang'an.

Chang'an began to sort out the city in the third year of Yuanshuo, mainly to clear the ruins of buildings in the city and repair the roads to a certain extent.This is because Liu Yan has set Chang'an as the future imperial capital, and the preliminary cleanup is for subsequent construction.

After more than a year of cleaning up, the ruins in Chang'an City are still not completely cleared away, and even the old palace city is motionless.This result was of course due to the extreme shortage of manpower. Under normal circumstances, only slaves worked. When the time came for the people to pay their taxes, the population in Guanzhong was scarce and could not provide much corvee labor.

Xie Anhui came to Chang'an because he received instructions from the central government that a group of reinforcements would be included in the command system, and Hussar General Ran Min would also send people to escort as many as 18 slaves.

Ran Min was about to completely conquer Shuozhou, and the killing of the Jie people did not stop for a moment, leaving a way for the rest of the people to survive.

The so-called survival of the various ethnic groups is that men and women are treated as slaves no matter how old they are, and women of the right age are rewarded to meritorious soldiers according to the requirements of the center.

There is still a big gap in the ratio of men to women in Han. It is probably three men compared to one woman. If there is no way, two out of three men will become bachelors, or men can only marry younger than themselves when they are older. A woman is a wife.

In order to improve the gap between men and women, the fastest way Han could think of was to obtain women from abroad. In addition to robbing women from hostile ethnic groups, there were also constant marriages and abductions of women from subordinate countries.And the vassal states of the Han State are not the Northeast, the Korean Peninsula, and the Japanese Islands.

Among the many vassal states, Goguryeo was the one that suffered the most from the large gap in the ratio of men to women in the Han Dynasty.

Goguryeo was repeatedly taken care of by Murong Xianbei, and several defeats caused a large number of young and strong to either die in battle or be captured.Then the number of men in Goguryeo must have decreased. As the suzerain country, the Han Kingdom is of course obliged to help, and the explicit and secret methods have never stopped. From the second year of Yuanshuo to the present, the number of women in Goguryeo who changed their native place to the Han Kingdom exceeds eight Ten thousand.And Goguryeo's total population is only 80 million, which means that the marriageable women in Goguryeo are almost snatched up by Han.

It would be an excellent idea to eliminate a nation and give priority to integrating their women. After all, men alone cannot give birth to offspring, and the more women suitable for childbearing mean that a nation can increase its population at any time.

Goguryeo has an almost crazy attitude towards the Han Dynasty’s wanton acquisition of women from its own country. The high-level officials know very well that Goguryeo cannot turn against the Han Dynasty now, but the bottom-level people do not have so many concerns. As a result, Goguryeo society began to reject the Han people. The soldiers in the Goguryeo army also became more and more hostile to Han.But it has to be said that from top to bottom in Han, no one took Goguryeo's anger seriously.

In addition to Goguryeo, women of the right age in the countries of Baekje, Silla, and the Wa Islands are also the goals of the Han Dynasty, but they cannot be as unscrupulous and excessive as Goguryeo.In view of the situation in Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla are a kind of resistance of internal propaganda, and later they ask Han not to take more than a certain number of women from the two countries every year.The Wa Islands are incomparably strange. The countries in the archipelago seem to have noticed nothing wrong. Not only do they not exclude the Han people from accepting Wa women, but they try their best to offer them.

In fact, the male-to-female ratio in Han is really very different. The result is that Han men dote on their wives very much. When the shortage of women reaches a certain level, no one cares about blood or other things, so there is no need to look down on foreign women. It is even said that because of the wealth gap between countries, the natal families of women who marry Han men are often able to receive support.For example, the reason why the Japanese islands tried their best to seduce Han men with women was because they could obtain the scarce supplies on the Japanese islands from the Han sons-in-law.

Xie An waited in Chang'an until late winter, when the first batch of troops came via Tongguan. A standing army brought more than 2 county and county soldiers, and about [-] slaves.

"Uh, we are the garrison, mainly to supervise the slaves to speed up the cleanup of Chang'an." When Ma Yuan was asked by Xie An, he first explained, and then said: "The higher-ups think that the surrounding enemy countries will probably be resolved within two or three years. , the capital city should enter the construction state as soon as possible.”

Xie An was extremely disappointed when he heard that there were no reinforcements.He just knew that there would be reinforcements, but he didn't actually know how many reinforcements it would be and what types of troops it would be.

"Two or three years?" Xie An seemed to have just reacted: "The center...has such confidence?"

Ma Yuan just smiled. He was not even a lieutenant general, and what he knew was actually very limited. Those words just now were heard through the war zone where Ran Min was responsible.

Xie An, who was in the middle of the Guanzhong, had little news. He didn't know that Xie Ai had broken the alliance of kings, let alone that the state of Zhang's Liang Kingdom advocated that Chonghua was captured alive.It's not just Xie An, it should be said that the vast majority of people don't have that smooth news. Maybe the Zhang Liang Kingdom doesn't know about the capture of their lord. After all, it happened in the depths of the grassland and no one went there. Notification of ignorance is a matter of course.

It has been nearly two months since Xie Ai destroyed the alliance of kings to the deep winter season. Many things have been changing. Tuoba Shiyijian and Murong Jun fled back respectively. The two countries are fully aware of what happened. It is bound to make its own reaction.

Tuoba Shiyijian made two preparations. About a month and a half ago, he sent envoys to Jicheng where Liu Yan was located, and his request for repair was rejected, and his request to become a vassal state was rejected again; It is to continuously shrink the army and herdsmen in the southern part of the Tuoba Dai Kingdom, and to abandon Shengle, which is very close to Hetao, and continue to gather people in the depths of Monan.

The reason why Liu Yan refused Tuoba Shiyijian's repair was very simple. The war was fought by Tuoba on behalf of the country, so the Han country should have the final say when the war will come.The reason why he would reject Tuoba Shiyijian as a vassal state is simpler. Tuoba Shiyijian clearly has no sincerity. If you want to fight Han, you can fight, and if you can't, you can become a vassal. How can there be such a good thing in the world.

The two sides have actually entered a state of war. The Han State still has enough ability to wipe the Tuoba Dai Kingdom off the map. There is no need to achieve false peace. The current Han State does not have so much energy to play IQ games.

The center of the Han Kingdom learned that Tuoba Daiguo concentrated the army and population to the north, but for a while he didn't know what Tuoba Shiyijian wanted to do. It didn't matter much if he couldn't guess, so he went directly to Xie Ai. Tuoba Daiguo wanted to invade Rouran, so Xie Ai asked Xie Ai to fool Bati quickly, trying to get the two countries to kill them quickly.

In view of the new action, the mobilization of the imperial guards under Xie Ai's command has not been executed for the time being. The Han army may need to break into the northern part of the Tuobadai country to stir up chaos, or it may be another blow to Rouran. Xie Ai naturally needs a strong army at hand.

After a series of ups and downs, Murong Jun returned to his lair more than a month later than Tuoba Shi Yijian. The first thing he heard was the news that Murong Hao had died of illness. What he was facing was that the military and political power of the entire Murong Yan Kingdom was controlled by Murong. Domineering hands.

Murong Hao, who had been ill for several years, died at the beginning of winter. At that time, Murong Jun, the prince of Murong Yan Kingdom, was missing. There is no such thing as a king".

Murong Ge, who returned to Dragon City, couldn't bear it. His handsome face was green with envy. If he had been with a sword, he would have stabbed Feng Yi to death on the spot.

Later, Murong Zun, Murong You, Murong Li and other princes, including many generals from the Hu family, expressed their opposition or hesitation one after another. Only a few civil officials and military generals from the Jin Dynasty supported it. It can't be done, but Murong Ba still has the title of supervising the country and governing on his head.

Murong Ba, who became the governor of the country, did not get angry at first. He just urged that Murong Huang be buried, but he encountered strong opposition from Murong Ge.

Murongge objected on the grounds that Prince Murong Jun was not present when he returned home. Others did not side with Murongge this time for various reasons.Murong Ba, who seemed to be alone and alone, made Murong Ba deeply hate him. Murong Ba would have taken some action if he had not considered relying on Murong Ge to fight against the Han army.

Waiting for Murong Jun to return to Longcheng in embarrassment, Murong Ge was ordered to stay in his mansion and not be able to take half a step.

Murong Jun's return finally allowed Murong Hao to be buried, but the ceremony for Murong Hao's burial was changed from being presided over by him alone, to being presided over by him and Murong Ba together.During the memorial ceremony for Murong Hao's burial, Murong Ge, who was grounded, was not present.

Murong Hao has been buried, and Murong Jun has returned. As the prince, Murong Jun should be on the throne of King Yan after the memorial service is over?
However, the enthronement of the new king was delayed for nearly a month. Murong Jun became the new King of Yan, but Murong Ba's title of Supervisor and Governor was not removed. Feng Yi was changed from Prime Minister to Taiwei. In addition, some civil and military official positions have also changed quite a lot.

What happened to Murong Yan State is a secret, and the process of compromise between Murong Jun and Murong Ba has not been made public. What is commendable is that no large-scale bloodshed occurred in Murong Yan State, that is to say, no army was mobilized to fight. For a period of time, dead bodies of unknown origin were often found in the gutters and on the roads.

Some time later, Feng Yi's eldest son, Feng Qi, died while he was out hunting, but Murong Ba announced how he died, saying that he was killed by a deer with its horns.

By the way, who would go hunting when the weather is freezing?But Feng Qi really went out to hunt, but fortunately he was killed by antlers.The way he died makes people have to think of Li Gan in the Western Han Dynasty, and Li Gan was shot to death with an arrow by Huo Qubing in revenge.

The death of Feng Qi, the dignified Taiwei's eldest son, was a death without even a single ripple.Less than half a month after his death, Murongge was released from confinement, was canonized as Taiyuan Duke by Murong Jun, and was ordered to go to Lingzhi City to continue leading the army against the Han army.

When Murong Ge was ordered to return to the battlefield, Murong Ba also received Murong Jun's order to go to the north.

When Murong Ba left Longcheng, he took Feng Yi with him, and many civil and military officials also accompanied him. Nearly 13 people left in a mighty manner.They are going to the Xianbei Grassland, which is the birthplace of the Xianbei people. It is on the east side of the Rouran Tribal Alliance, on the southeast side of Donggaoche, and not far from the northwest side is the North Sea (Bagar Lake).

Xie An, who has been staying in Chang'an, only learned about the big and small things that happened in the latest issue of the mansion newspaper at the end of winter.While waiting for reinforcements, he also received a group of envoys sent by the central government to go to Zhang's Liang country, and he also knew that Zhang Chonghua had been escorted to Xiang country.

Previously, there were many secret agents of the Han Dynasty who went to Zhang's Liangguo first. They were going to confuse Zhang Zuo and Zhang Tianxi to do big things.

The day after the envoys arrived in Chang'an, Xie An looked forward to the stars and the moon, and at last he was looking forward to the arrival of reinforcements, which were two cavalry corps and one infantry corps that belonged to the Hussar General's shogunate.

Han sent envoys to Zhang's Liang Kingdom, and they would stay in Chang'an until the ice and snow melted before continuing on their way.Their mission is very simple. If Zhang's Liangguo doesn't know the news of Zhang Chonghua's capture, they will spread the news in Zhang's Liangguo. They will also spread rumors based on the speed of Xie An's troops. The false news of the decision to surrender the whole country would make the Zhang family believe that it was the best, but otherwise it would cause panic in the Zhang family's country.

Zhang Chonghua was escorted to Xiangguo, but he never surrendered, let alone demanded that the Liang army of the Zhang family surrender in the name of the king immediately after the arrival of the Han army.

On the contrary, Zhang Chonghua went on a hunger strike after being forced. Of course, the Han government could not let him starve to death and force-fed him.He can be regarded as staunch. If he cannot die on a hunger strike, he will hit his head against the wall or bite his tongue to kill himself. In the end, the caretaker is forced to tie up and stuff his mouth. He will only pull out the things in his mouth when he is forced to feed him. But it was immediately blocked by the bamboo tube.

Knowing what happened in the country recently, and what happened in the surrounding area, Xie An suddenly found that the pressure hanging over the Han country was lifted, and after some thinking, he confirmed that it would take two or three years for the center to at least weaken the surrounding area. The countries are very well-founded, and it is definitely not based on a kind of conjecture.

[We may encounter some troubles when going to Xiliang, but they are only troubles, and we cannot prevent Xiliang from ending after the king is captured and leaderless...] Xie An certainly has confidence in his command of the army to fight Zhang's Liangguo , What he felt was: 【Unexpectedly, the king really took a few short years to restore most of the old land of the Han family, and he would definitely be able to restore the prosperity of the former Han? 】

(End of this chapter)