sweeping the world

Chapter 640

Liu Yan has been listening to the "Song of a Beautiful Woman" composed by Li Yannian during the reign of Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty by chance recently, and the tune is difficult to repeat.

Hearing it once or twice is a coincidence, and hearing it more than three times is deliberate. Liu Yan only knew "Song of a Beautiful Woman" in advance, but he didn't know who created it, let alone the background of "Song of a Beautiful Woman".He asked about the relevant background stories and creators, and found out that more than one person was working, all he could do was sneer.

After the possible purge, the panic among the ministers can be imagined, especially since Liu Yan was not controlled by anyone at all, and he did not even have moral restraints. Everything was controlled by Liu Yan himself. Of course they were afraid.

Throughout history, the more ambitious the king, the more ruthless he must be. As long as he can achieve his goal, there is no one who cannot be killed or sacrificed in the eyes of the king.

A king who can sacrifice and kill all people to achieve his goals, as long as he upholds the ideals and aspirations that can strengthen the country, it will definitely be a good thing for the future of the country and the nation if he upholds the ideals and ambitions, but it is not the case for the contemporary people up.

In order to eliminate the scourge of the Xiongnu, Emperor Xiaowu of the Western Han Dynasty almost went to war again and again throughout his life. Countless Han family sons died in the battle.

During Liu Che's reign, the Xiongnu in the northern grasslands fell from their status as peerless overlords. The days when the Xiongnu could take whatever they wanted from any surrounding country were gone forever. The northern border of the Han Dynasty no longer had to endure the Xiongnu's annual hazing. There is no need to send a princess and a huge amount of dowry every few years.

The bloodshed of the soldiers of the Han Empire not only brought stability in northern Xinjiang, but also satisfied national self-esteem. Then Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty dealt a heavy blow to the Huns, splitting them into two parts. The northern Huns fled far to the west. The remaining Southern Xiongnu became vicious dogs raised in captivity by the Han Dynasty.

After more than 100 years of fierce fighting, the Han Kingdom has changed from an unknown country to a hegemonic country, but all countries that know the existence of the Han Empire are uneasy, and the Chinese civilization has also welcomed the tribute of other nations for the first time.This tributary system was born in the Western Han Dynasty and followed for nearly 2000 years.

Liu Che has become the emperor of the ages, and Liu Bing has become the decisive king. The martial arts they played during their rule made a nation appear in the world, and it has been passed down.

Liu Yan watched a series before time travel. The title of "Han Wu Da Di" commented on Han Wu Emperor in this way: he established a country with unprecedented dignity; he gave an ethnic group the confidence to stand up for thousands of years; The eternal name of a great nation. (such an evaluation is really hard to see)
And no matter how the series was filmed, when Liu Yan watched the opening titles every time, goose bumps stood up all over his body every time, and he even had the urge to cry when he watched it for the first time.

Looking back at the scenery of a strong man, and looking at the patience of the celestial dynasty, it is not surprising that Liu Yan has such a mentality.

Sure enough, if you are at a disadvantage and look at history, you can find confidence in the glory of your ancestors, and because of this confidence, you firmly believe that you will also reach that height.Therefore, the history of a nation is not dispensable. In addition to showing off the long history of one's own nation, history itself is the foundation of a nation.

There is a saying that "the merits of the present age will benefit the future", and another saying is "the disadvantages of the present age will benefit the future". In fact, the latter sentence explains everything. Liu Che of the Western Han Dynasty sacrificed a generation in exchange for his descendants to stand among the nations of the world. Lin's courage, Yang Sui's Yang Guang dug the canal no matter what the purpose was, it also made the canal benefit future generations.There are more things that are not widely spread, and some are deliberately distorted. For example, Emperor Xin of the Shang Dynasty has been committed to eliminating the barbarians.

Many things are obviously right, but under the influence of some unspeakable things, the right things will be interpreted negatively because of the inappropriate time.

Liu Yan knew that those ministers were afraid and began to hope that his ambitions would not be so big. After expelling the barbarians and regaining the old land of the Han family, he could take the lead in enjoying it and let everyone take a breather and let them do some work. Things like growing the family.

Nothing can wear down a person's will more than wine, sex and wealth. Among them, beauty is the most effective. When Liu Yan sneered, he was disappointed at the servants who couldn't keep up. No one who praises is so beautiful.

"If there is a beautiful woman who can overwhelm the city and the country?" Ran Min was fully armed, and his murderous words were very appropriate: "Kill her immediately!"

Standing outside the west gate of Xiangguo, Ran Min will be sent off by Liu Yan to Dingxiang, giving the final curtain to the Jie people.

Liu Yan knew that Ran Min had always been rejected by the majority of people, and only a very small number of people were willing to associate with him. He could say that, which meant that no matter who was planning anything, he had nothing to do with Ran Min.

"I'm going here, I will definitely kill all the Jie people I see." Ran Min's eyes were very firm, but behind him he asked with a grin: "How long has it been since you went to Longxi?"

"You can enter the basin." Liu Yan explained some things before, and when he said goodbye, Ran Min asked about the strategic goal, so he had to talk about it again: "There is a plateau above the basin, and Yong Zeng entered the basin to recruit savages who adapt to the plateau , explore the plateau first."

If Liu Yan remembers correctly, the plateau was not conquered until Yuanmeng. Later, the Ming Dynasty set up the Duo Gandu Division and the Wusi Zangdu Division. Any previous dynasty stopped under the plateau. Have been suppressed?
Because of the altitude, not everyone can adapt to the plateau. What Liu Yan knows is that the altitude of the grassland is about 3000 meters, but the altitude of the plateau is 4000 meters. Yuanmeng can conquer the plateau and grassland people are relatively adaptable to altitude. Altitude has something to do with it. Later, the Ming Dynasty also incorporated the plateau into its territory because it borrowed a lot of power from the grassland.

"When Yong Zeng goes to Longxi, I will send more troops." Seeing the obvious joy on Ran Min's face, Liu Yan said with a smile: "The follow-up troops are composed of captives from the grasslands. Yong Zeng can use them as the vanguard, but Don't forget that the standing army should do altitude training."

Ran Min has no concept of altitude. He has heard Liu Yan say more than once that the Han people may not be able to adapt to the plateau. He has long been extremely dissatisfied, thinking that as long as it is land, there is no place that the Han people cannot conquer.He had listened to Liu Yan's serious talk too many times, even if he refused to accept it, he would not dare to be sloppy. When he heard that there would be a slave army composed of prairie people, he couldn't help being curious.

"Hu people in the prairie also live at high altitudes all year round. Compared with the Han people who live at low altitudes all the year round, they are more adaptable to plateaus." Liu Yan saw Ran Min's frightening expression flashing past, and it was necessary to make it clear: " Among the follow-up troops, some troops use it with caution."

In the nearly ten years of war, whether it was before or after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liu Yan's army captured many prisoners. A large number of Hu prisoners of war are still used as labor, and later they accepted the surrender of nearly 30 people from Tuoba Xianbei, and nearly 15 soldiers were captured in the Battle of Yandi.

"I know."

Of course Ran Min knew that Liu Yan was just reminding others to spend it meaninglessly, especially for the group of people who belonged to Tuoba Xianbei.He was very depressed that Liu Yan treated Tuoba Xianbei differently because of Tuoba Xiu's relationship, but he didn't know that it was not the case at all. Liu Yan treated Tuoba Xianbei kindly only because they were self-sinicized later.

The Murong Yan Kingdom is gone, but the Murong family went to the Xianbei Grassland. After that, there will be Murong Xianbei without the Murong Yan Kingdom.

It is one thing for the Han army to capture the land of Yan, and it is one thing to capture and surrender soldiers in battle. After the siege and looting of land, they must have obtained non-military personnel. What Lu Tai is doing now is to distinguish ethnic groups, not only the old land of Murong Yan, but also Goguryeo, Baijiu, etc. Ji, Silla, and formerly belonged to Puyu, Quwo, Shen and other messy areas, and are under military control to conduct household registration in an all-round way.

After bidding farewell to Ran Min, Liu Yan returned to Miyagi.

Ji Chang did not go to participate in the farewell, but waited for Liu Yan in the Yizheng Hall with other central ministers.

On Xiangguo's side, almost none of the valuables that should have been removed from Miyagi were left behind. They were all taken to Guanzhong by various teams. There are very few places that have not been moved, and the Yizheng Palace counts as one.

Shihu was extremely extravagant when he built the palace city of Xiangguo, and he adjusted everything up if it was valuable. For example, the main hall where the court meeting was held, the bricks on the ground were all gold bricks, and the pillars were also inlaid with gold and silver. A lot of carvings Version.

Gold and silver are not currency in circulation now, but copper and cloth are the main currency in circulation, hence the name Caibo.In troubled times, the value of copper is second, cloth is more popular than copper, and the most popular is grain, so that all kinds of grain and fodder are the first choice for various clans to trade.

What Ji Chang wants to mention this time is about market transactions. He has only one opinion, which is to resume normal transactions, mainly using copper coins as the currency in circulation.

"The big man restored the five baht coin, and its fineness is comparable to the beginning of its birth." Ji Chang obviously made enough preparations. Before entering the topic, he talked a lot about the history, but later raised difficulties: "The big man has the method of water pressure, which can The least labor produces the most copper coins, but there is a shortage of copper."

It is said that the land of China is vast and rich in resources, but the vast territory does not mean that it is rich in various resources, it can only be said that it has a large living space.

The Chinese ancestors discovered the usefulness of copper, and after entering the Bronze Age, they explored copper mines extensively, and the copper mines that could be found were almost exhausted.Later, it entered the Iron Age, and the result was like the endless mining of copper mines, finding one is basically digging out one.

In fact, China's smelting technology has never been the best in the world. Whether it is bronze smelting or iron smelting, it lags behind other empires at the same time.

By the time of the Qin Empire, China's bronze smelting technology reached its peak, not to mention the Greek civilization, even the civilization of Asan had matured its iron smelting technology.

The Han Empire is quite famous for one thing, that is, Liu Che thought that the iron weapons of the Han army had no advantage in fighting the Xiongnu. He heard that the Da Yuezhi who was beaten and fled by the Huns had acquired good iron smelting technology. He intends to unite with the Da Yuezhi to fight against the Xiongnu, but Zhang Qian's instruction is that the alliance can fail, but it must bring back the iron smelting technology.

At the beginning of the war between the Han and the Huns, most of the weapons in the hands of the Huns were bronze weapons, and it was Maodu who opened up the Western Regions to obtain iron weapons.

The Xiongnu obtained the management rights of the Western Regions, and they really got too many things from the Western Regions. Others may be secondary, and enough metal weapons are the key.And it must be said that the short weapon in the hands of the Huns at that time was definitely not a scimitar, but a straight sword.

Where did the people of the Western Regions get their smelting technology?They learned the smelting technology from Ah San's civilization, and even the Dayue Clan got their smelting technology from Ah San.

Not only the Western Regions and the Great Yuezhi, but also the Greek civilization, which has smelting technology, also obtained technology from Ah San and improved it. As a result, the Western Han Dynasty obtained smelting technology from Da Yuezhi to improve itself. Speaking of the contribution of Ah San, this civilization It's not small.

Ji Chang is now facing a difficult problem. Due to the existence of the system, the Han country's demand for iron ore is not urgent, but the system has not produced copper mines.

The prime minister's government wanted to normalize domestic transactions on the premise that there were enough copper mines to make five baht coins, but Han's demand for copper could not be met at all.

"After exploration in the Indo-China Peninsula, rich copper deposits were discovered, and I requested to set up a mint there." Ji Chang was talking about the discovery in Laos in later generations: "It is also necessary to open up forests and mountains, learn from the pre-Qin Straight Road, and then set up a special Fleet for transport."

Isn't the gunpowder brought out?Not only can it be used in wars, but it can also be used in many places, including the opening of roads.

The straight road during the Qin Empire still exists until the 21st century. Research shows that the straight road in Qin has too many secrets. One of them is that it is difficult for plants to grow on the road after the construction is completed.

Liu Yan knows the importance of market transactions to the country's internal affairs, and has always been bartering without a formal economic system.He also knows that this is not a simple matter. Even in modern times, there is no standardized economic market in China.

To be honest, the phenomenon of bartering still existed until the Republic of China, even as the earth entered the global village.The current traffic is not smooth and well-developed, and many places cannot be effectively governed. How can we manage transactions?
Liu Yan didn't pour Ji Chang's cold water on it. It's a good thing to do it with the heart. In addition, the resources on the Indochina Peninsula should be plundered as much as possible, but the domestic resources can be saved first.

If you want to plunder resources, it is not enough for people to rob. To maximize the plunder, you must have mature transportation. Liu Yan's eyes are not only on the Indochina Peninsula, but the follow-up to the Ah San territory is more related to the great interests.

[Although it is found that the strait can be entered by sea, only the sea is not enough. 】Liu Yan nodded to Ji Chang, thinking: 【Arresting local savages for transportation construction is conducive to the population elimination plan, and can also make the colony more stable! 】

(End of this chapter)