sweeping the world

Chapter 706 Conspiracy
The spread of the majesty of the Han family began when the Han army set foot in the Western Regions, and the Han army attacked Dawan as a watershed.

Before the Han army set foot in the Western Regions, the Silk Road had actually been opened westward with Zhang Qian.At that time, merchants carried goods from Hexi to the countries of the Western Regions. Everywhere they went, they would encounter difficulties and exorbitant taxes. Not to mention, their safety was actually not guaranteed at all.

The history books written by people record that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che did not hesitate to go to war for a few horses, or that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che pampered Li Guangli, a second division general, so much that he launched the war against Dawan.

If one can find out one thing by looking through the history books, one can draw a fact from some pulses. At that time, the Han army's attack on the Western Regions was not the will of one or two people, or even the conspiracy of a single interest group, but a desire of almost a national nature.

What was the social mood at the time?The military group needs a battlefield to make achievements. The nobles and prominent families need to teach the people of the Western Regions because the merchants they control have suffered heavy losses in the Western Regions. The Great Revenge 1 Revenge 1ism (the most glorious Confucian Gongyang faction at the time) needs to beat the Western Regions hard. To prove the seriousness of his theory, the people of the whole country also feel that the Western Regions people who have been killing their own race need to learn a lesson.

The Battle of Dawan was a new beginning for the Han people to move towards the Western Regions, and it was also a strategic layout of the Han people's war against the Huns. After all, it benefited all the Han people. The new species brought after the control of the Western Regions still exist in modern times. No one from the Western Regions would dare to kill Han people at will.

That's because as long as a Han dies, the Han army will roar in behind. It is best to hand over the murderer. If the murderer cannot be handed over, the Han army will scream "revenge" and kill an entire tribe or town. Really not too much.The army is so powerful, since then the Han people have been a special class in the Western Regions, and the people of the Western Regions really treat the Han people as their ancestors.

Why did "Han" change from a country title to a nation's name?It is the strength of the Han Empire's military power, and it is also the Han Empire's efforts to ensure that every Han person in a foreign country can be served by a foreign race as an ancestor.It is precisely because of the pride of the Han Empire that later generations miss and pursue it, and the name of the nation was born from this.

A country that is unwilling to wage wars for its people will not get the slightest nostalgia. It is even cruel and tyrannical at home, weak and incompetent externally, and treats the domestic people as ignorant people, and regards the people who go out as "abandoned people". "Thieves", how many people are willing to defend such a country when it faces life and death?
Liu Yan knows one thing deeply, at least in the spirit left by the Han Empire, whether or not to control the Western Regions is a "test".

The importance of the Western Regions to the Central Plains dynasty is infinitely high. Only when Cao Wei faced the severe civil war still gritted his teeth and marched into the Western Regions, it also made Cao Wei further recognized by the people of the Central Plains. The Sima family’s insistence on controlling the Western Regions is also a relevant consideration. .

In the following dynasties, a country that can control the Western Regions is a strong country, and a country that cannot control the Western Regions is a weak chicken.Facts have also proved that the importance of the Western Regions to the Central Plains dynasty can be controlled. If they can control the Western Regions, they will be strong for at least one generation.

In fact, not only the "Central Empire" has such an awareness, but even the whole world evaluates the Central Plains dynasty based on whether it can control the Western Regions.That is a very simple reason. The Western Regions are too far away from the core of the Central Plains. Since the Central Plains Dynasty can control the Western Regions, it naturally means that the hinterland of the Central Plains Dynasty must be stable. Only a strong national power can extend its hand so far.

Another point is that the Western Regions are a window of communication between East Asia and Central Asia... and even the far West.

To use a simple analogy, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty may not be really weak in the true sense, at least they have strong economic and cultural strengths, but at that time many Central Asian countries did not even know the existence of the "Song" country. It was because their communication with "Song" was cut off by Liao and Jin.Waiting for the rise of the Arabs to master the sea route, Europa even regards the Liao Kingdom as the "Zhengshuo" country in East Asia.

In the current generation, after experiencing the tragedy of being worse than wild animals, the establishment of a new country belonging to the Han people is the time when self-esteem and self-esteem are most vulnerable. The foreigners who have oppressed them cannot let go of their anger and gain dignity.

At the same time as revenge, fame and fortune also follow. People will only subconsciously forget those who died in battle, and envy those who have gained military merits and changed their lives.They looked around, and it seemed that those alien races who had oppressed them were either killed, or a handful of them were left lingering. They only had one thought at a time, but revenge was no longer enough, and they needed more enemies, more people who could The battlefield of meritorious deeds.

The war between the Han Dynasty and the Gupta Dynasty is a manifestation. Under the premise of pursuing military exploits for profit, it doesn’t matter if you are not familiar with navigation. It is not a problem to fight across the sea for thousands of miles. Afraid of hardships, not afraid of the distance, as long as there is a military function, it will be done anyway!

The use of troops against the Gupta Dynasty will be very limited, and it can only satisfy a very small number of people's pursuit of military merit. Those who can't intervene are anxious, especially the middle and lower classes.This middle and lower class not only refers to the military, but also to countless ordinary people who want to change the trajectory of their lives.

The country is in ruins and needs to lick its wounds and restore internal affairs. That is something that the senior central ministers (civilians) who govern the country need to consider. The military general class is not unaware of this, but they are military generals!
For generals, they never need to think about the country's hardships. What they want is to find the enemy and kill the enemy. It is the highest honor to be able to destroy their country. It is enough to focus on this point.

"Opportunity!" Xu Zheng couldn't hold back the joy in his heart: "The Persians are really good people!"

All the military generals nodded fiercely. For them, just using troops against the Gupta Dynasty was not enough. There would be more troops there, and if they were exhausted, they would add another standing army to join the war.And a standing army is far from enough for them. They can only stuff one general, three lieutenants, and five military lords.

Not to mention officers, who among the 5000 men in a standing army can withstand the temptation of going on an expedition?They want to increase their fields, want to have more servants, want to raise their titles to a higher level, and honestly wait for nothing to fall on their heads except rain and snow. They have too many wishes It’s all based on going on an expedition!

Why did the former Qin army rejoice when they heard about the war?It is because everything you want can be obtained on the battlefield!
The pre-Han was basically the same as the Qin army. It can even be said that the pre-Han paid more attention to and respected military merits than the pre-Qin. There is a rule that "non-military merits are not allowed to be a marquis". If you walk away, you won't be criticized and get more respect if you become a marquis.

During the period of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, all the nobles who could be swept into the garbage dump were swept in, but those who made meritorious deeds on the battlefield appeared again and again, and all of them received unimaginable benefits. The madman of war.

"One division in the grassland, one army in the northeast, two armies in Longxi, two armies from the Pingman School..." Ran Min was picking his teeth after eating meat and said dissatisfiedly: "Too few, too few."

Ran Min just came back from the grassland. Before he came back, he personally took a song to Xigaoche for a walk, and killed that man's head rolling.Following the song of the expedition, the living, the dead, the disabled... One of them has at least one rank of beheading military exploits, and more is a "secondary jump" for the title of title, if it weren't for the twentieth rank. Relevant restrictions, if you only rely on the enemy's head to record merit, it is not just like the "secondary jump" of the title.

The king's inspection team has reversed back to Chang'an, and it is almost another year's debriefing period, and those who should return to the center will come back one after another.

"It's not that the king doesn't want to take back the Western Regions, it's just..." Ran Min said unabashedly, "It's just that those people (referring to the civil servants) are too talkative."

How could Liu Yan give up on recovering the Western Regions? It is not that simple to recover the Western Regions.

It is temporarily unknown what degree of resistance the Han army will encounter if it is only to dispatch troops into the Western Regions, but the countries in the Western Regions will definitely not be able to withstand the "recovering lost ground" of the Han State. Three times... until the Western Regions returned to the embrace of the Han people.

The reason why the recovery of the Western Regions by the Han Dynasty is complicated is that Liu Yan did not think that the Western Regions were the end of the Han army's conquest at the beginning, but the starting point of the Han army's outward conquest.

Precisely because the Western Regions are the starting point for the Han army to conquer the west, how to recover the Western Regions and what actions should be taken after the Western Regions are recovered, that is worth thinking about and deploying, and it can even be related to the future national trend of the Han people.

Xu Zheng, Ran Min... and others, when they reached their level, basically knew everything they should know, including why Liu Yan postponed the recovery of the Western Regions.

"Before we didn't know what was going on with Sasan, but now we are more or less judging." Xu Zheng mentioned one of the reasons why Liu Yan postponed the recovery of the Western Regions, and said: "The king is worried that the internal affairs of the great Han are not repaired, and the recovery Immediately after the Western Regions, there was an enmity with Sassanid, and even war broke out.”

No nonsense, Liu Yan really had to consider something before, such as whether the recovery of the Western Regions would immediately lead to a national war with Persian Sassanid.After all, he really didn't know that Persian Sassanian had a lot of troubles, and he didn't even know that the Western Regions and Persian Sassanian were still separated by the Huns, but he remembered that Tang Jun met with the Arab Empire because of the recovery of the Western Regions. The two sides were really because of the Western Regions. The ownership of the company fought a battle.

A country that has not yet come out of the wounds of war, with ruins everywhere, and fields full of barrenness, such a country really has no confidence to break out any national war, especially a national war with a powerful country.

The recovery of the Western Regions in Liu Yan's plan should give the Han State ten years to deal with and build its internal affairs.It's not like doing nothing in the middle, such as completely sweeping Murong Xianbei and Tuoba Xianbei into the historical garbage dump, crippling Rouran or eliminating them directly, and even Donggao Che should be eliminated to completely cut off the threat from the east. Then it's time to march west.

Now, Han already knew that Persian Sasanian had fallen into a mud pit, not to mention the continuous domestic rebellion, and the war against Rome was not going well, which meant that Han would not encounter threats from Persian Sassanian going west.

In addition, Persian Sassanid seems to hope that the Han State can go west, at least they welcome the Han State to regain control of the Western Regions.This aspect is actually indifferent to the Han State. Whether the Persians welcome it or not, it is none of their business if the Han people want to take back the Western Regions. What the Han State is worried about is the outbreak of national war under the premise of insufficient preparation.

As fierce as Ran Min, he also knows that when the country is in a mess, it is really impossible to fight a powerful country, especially if the land can communicate.

Those who traveled by sea like the Gupta Dynasty, it must be said that the whole country of Han was very unfamiliar with the sea, and it was because of the unfamiliarity that I really never thought about the related issue of whether Ah San would come to kill the Han army defeated in front.

"The king has made a move." Xu Zheng was talking about Liu Yan's order to Xie An to eliminate the enemy forces in Xiqiang Mountain within one year: "But this is the opportunity I have been waiting for."

Liu Yan did not directly say that he would march into the Western Regions, but his order to Xie An had already explained everything. If the troubles in Longxi County were not resolved, how could the Han army march westward when there was a threat on the way.

"But I can't wait for you to make noise." Li Tan still said on this occasion: "We need it like the first Han."

If you don't have any education, you really don't understand what Li Tan means. It's nothing more than an old incident in the Western Han Dynasty. The war against the Xiongnu is the will of the whole country, and it cannot be promoted by a few people.

Xu Zheng nodded immediately: "It should be so."

Xie An didn't want to talk at first, but when he had to say it: "What's the limit?"

Xie An was talking about marching into the Western Regions, but how many troops would be used, what was the scale, and what was the goal? That was because it involved Han's westward policy after retaking the Western Regions.

No one can answer Xie An except Liu Yan, everyone including Xu Zheng, the Taiwei, they can only carry out what Liu Yan wants.

"Anyway, let those people stop yelling." Ran Min was so straightforward: "The rest is just as Ruicai said, and the momentum must be built."

The warriors are not in a daze, they also know that internal affairs still need to be built, but they can't wait that long.Now that they have the opportunity to enter the Western Regions, even if they use the excuse of taking back the Western Regions and operating the bridgehead to the west, it is definitely a reasonable reason. The problem is that they have to clear the obstacles. It cannot be changed overnight.

"It's not enough to have a voice." Xie An is destined to understand the twists and turns better than the people who are not born in the family: "It is true that the king obeys the will of the people, but it is still not enough."

Immediately, Xie An talked a little bit about the twists and turns, such as what prerequisites the king should have even if he overturned the previous decision, some people's eyes were straightened, and many people really didn't know that one thing could be so complex.

"It's just to let the people from the Western Regions jump up first, so that we have an excuse to do it!" Ran Min couldn't help complaining: "It's so complicated."

(End of this chapter)