sweeping the world

Chapter 757 In the Western Regions

Men and women of different classes have always had different criteria for choosing a mate.

For example, the criteria for choosing a mate for farm men is that a woman should look strong, not only strong but also with a big butt. Such a standard is of course that a stronger woman can work, and a big butt is also considered a sign of good fertility; farm women choose The standard for husbands is that the family does not necessarily have to be rich, but the husband must look strong and willing to endure hardships.

What kind of woman does the wealthy family like?Being a regular wife doesn't necessarily need to be pretty, but as a regular wife, she must not be an idiot. On the contrary, she needs to be shrewd to manage the house, and the husband can devote the greatest energy to the business outside the home.They don't need their main wives to be beautiful, naturally because they can take concubines.Concubines usually want to look soft and weak, and of course they also want to be beautiful.This is the so-called marrying a wife, marrying a virtuous, concubines and beauties.

That creates a completely different concept. Farm men think that beautiful women who can't work are a burden, while men from wealthy families look at strong women as if they were looking at monsters. Different concepts will make them have different thoughts.

In today's Han Dynasty, it is really not easy for a man to ask for a daughter-in-law. It is not simply because of poverty or wealth, but also because of the current social atmosphere.

The Hulu are raging not far away. Women have experienced too many tragedies when the Hulu were in power. What they want is a husband who can protect themselves.

Now the other half of a woman is not called her husband, but her husband was called her lover very early on. In the early Han Dynasty, she began to call her Lang, and later changed it to Langjun.From the pre-Qin period to the present, men who can be called husbands are basically all kinds of heroes, and these heroes have basically proved their worth on the battlefield, and they have become representatives of courage.

For deeply insecure women who want a husband who will protect them in times of need, there is no career that demonstrates courage more than the serving military.Furthermore, today's professional soldiers are not only representatives of warriors, but also have various social benefits. There is really no better spouse than soldiers.

Females from all walks of life who think they have good resources tend to marry soldiers. Human history has been changing, but the only thing that hasn't changed is the needs of both sexes.From ancient times, men who can get enough food can attract women. Later, it changes to men who can make money to attract women. Men usually struggle because of women's demands. Once women think that what kind of man is good, then men will fight hard. Work hard in the direction that women feel good.

For the current Han men, becoming a professional soldier is definitely the desire of most people. Not only is it driven by the criteria for women to choose a spouse, but also the various benefits and benefits of soldiers are really that good.

Of course, it is impossible for every male in a country to become a professional soldier, and the military is definitely not willing to accept everyone. Becoming a professional soldier is also a way of proving one's own excellence in some ways, so don't blame women for being more popular.

"It's precious because it's not easy!" Shi Bo gnawed on the mutton in his hand, and glanced at the dark distance from time to time: "The emperor kindly gave us this opportunity, and we should seize it."

This Shi Bo is the brother of Shi Zhong of Xingyang. He is located in the camp hundreds of miles away from Yangguan. The camp is located fifty miles southeast of Bailongdui.

Most of the people sitting around Shi Bo are also from Xingyang, and a few of them have the experience of going to Indochina Peninsula.They are from the same village, and they went to Yangguan together and left for the Western Regions together. During training, they were divided into a team according to their ancestry. Because of the tacit understanding during training, they were naturally still in the same team when they formally formed.

Zhuxia is a civilization that pays attention to father and son soldiers in battle. On the other hand, it is reflected in the fact that the township party forms an army. It believes that soldiers from the same place are familiar with each other, and if they are familiar with each other, they can have more tacit understanding.Furthermore, the fellow countrymen are more affectionate. If the war is unfavorable, even those who want to escape will have more scruples. Will he be scolded to death by fellow villagers after that?

"Beheading and getting a head can be regarded as military merit." Lin Mi grinned and said with a smile: "With military merit, you can also rob money and women. It's a great thing."

Lin Mi is a relatively short but very strong man. He was not originally called this name, and he was not even a Han Chinese.After he was naturalized, he heard that the surname Lin was derived from the surname Zi. The surname Lin was a descendant of the surname Shang Tangzi after Huangdi Gaoxin. Its ancestor was Bigan. When he heard it, he thought it was super tall, big and superior, so he used it.

The eyes of the people next to him lit up when they heard the words "robbing a woman".

It is not wrong that they are all registered in Xingyang, but in fact the situation is very complicated, just like Lin Mi is a naturalized Hu, and Shi Bo is an out-and-out Zhuxia Miao descendant. On the contrary, there are slightly fewer, but they migrated after Xingyang was restored to govern the county, which means that they all came from all corners of the country.

There were not many people in Xingyang before, and people from all over the place migrated here, and they only knew each other for four or five years, but they didn't care what they were like before.Because of the migration and convergence, they are basically single men, and only a very small number of them have families. As a result, there are very few women in Xingyang.

Last year, Uncle Shi snatched a princess from Indochina as a wife for his younger brother.Such an incident caused a sensation in Xingyang, and then a group of companions from Indochina either brought back women or made a fortune. This real-life example suddenly opened a new door for others.

That is a more beautiful thing than the Indochina Peninsula. The people who went to the Indochina Peninsula to beheaded were not counted as military merits. They were just looking for wealth, or capturing savages to sell for money.For those who go to the Indochina Peninsula, if a powerful family can not only make a fortune but also take care of themselves, those who have no strength will also make a fortune, and if they are willing, they can catch a foreign woman and bring them back for their own use.

Last year, the state took new measures. It not only encouraged Han people to go to the Western Regions, but also explicitly counted military merits. For ordinary people, it is undoubtedly the sound of nature.

"The Indochina Peninsula is a ghost place." Now that Shi Bo thinks that it rains most of the year, it is full of dense forests and all kinds of poisons, and his bones are itchy: "The Western Regions are good, there are no damn poisons, and you don't need to be old It was raining."

Needless to say, not just anyone can adapt to the environment of the Indochina Peninsula, especially some northerners such as Shi Bo, who are not acclimatized to the environment there.There were 37 people who went to Indochina together. Not long after they arrived, 14 people had to take a boat back because they fell ill. Four of them died of illness before returning to the mainland.Later, some people fell ill and died, and then died in battles with savages or bitten to death by poison... In the end, only 37 of the 11 people were able to return home safely.

Those who returned home safely showed the folks in the village that they were getting rich, and they also brought a woman with them. Of course getting rich is attractive, but the most important thing is being able to bring back a woman.They rarely describe the horrors of Indochina, which attracts more people to Indochina.

After the official announcement of the development of the Western Regions, people in the north who want to go to the Indochina Peninsula will choose to change their itinerary immediately as long as they are not on a boat, or no matter how far they are from the Western Regions.They will also deliberately disgust the southerners, saying that the beheading in the Indochina Peninsula is not considered military merit.

"The same is beheading a foreign race, why is it not counted as military merit?" Even if Liang Qu was angry, he didn't dare to show it.He wore more clothes than the others, and the following words also indicated his origin: "The air in the north is too dry, it is so hot in the daytime, but it is freezing cold at night."

Liang Qu is from the south and from Lingling.Lingling is an environment with many mountains, forests and rain. If he went to Indochina, he would be afraid of all kinds of poisons at most, but he really didn't think anything else. When he went to the Western Regions, he really came to another world. .

"Can it be different?" Lin Mi said with a 'hehe' smile: "The savages in Indochina are not skinny, they are all like monkeys, and fighting head-on is just for fun." Well, he didn't say that the savages over there are short , that's because he is also less than 1.6 meters tall.

Indochina is a barbaric wilderness, and there really is no decent civilization. Zhuxia has developed into the Iron Age. Although there are people of the same level of civilization there, there are more tribes living in the Stone Age and fully armed Han people. What you need to be careful of are all kinds of sneak attacks. In a real head-on fight, not only do you have a physical advantage, but you also have to be crushed by the level of civilization.

Liang Qu's cheeks twitched when he heard that, he was placed in a township party formation, and he could only complain that there were no other Lingling people in the team except him, and he was not rejected by the township party, but he couldn't behave casually.He thought and thought, and it seemed that there was really nothing to refute.

The Western Regions came into the view of Zhuxia during the Western Han Dynasty. Before the Han army brought the Western Regions into the scope of civilization, Greek culture was popular in the Western Regions.From a broad perspective, the Greek civilization is really not inferior to the Western Han civilization at that time, and even better than the Zhuxia civilization in some aspects, such as metal smelting.

Greek civilization will spread to the Western Regions, which is the legacy after Alexander's Eastern Expedition.The Persians, Arabs, and Asan suffered successively during Alexander’s Eastern Expedition. After Alexander died of willow disease, the huge empire fell apart. The problem is that those Greeks established their own countries in various places, with the largest and strongest territory. Not to mention the big Seleucus, the land of Asan and Central Asia are dominated by XXXX and the Kingdom of Greece.

The Greeks had a kingdom called Greece-Bactria in Central Asia. During the war between the Han army and the Huns, this kingdom was affected by the rise of the Persians in Central Asia and had civil strife. Dawan in the Western Regions was at that time independent and tied with Greece. Some of the kingdoms established by man lost contact.

The influence of the Han people did not enter the Western Regions until the Western Han Dynasty. Before that, it was the Greek civilization and the Asan civilization that influenced the Western Regions.Not to mention what happened to the Greek civilization, as a race, Asan is weak in military strength... especially in land warfare, but some technologies of Asan civilization are still leading the world.

The Da Yuezhi people who were driven to the west by the Huns obtained a lot of excellent technology from Asan. The Western Han Dynasty also obtained advanced smelting technology from the Da Yuezhi to improve their military materials technology. Before the Han people entered the Iron Age, their weapons had always been fragile.

Liu Yanjianguo took the name of the country as Han. Not many people knew what he meant by doing this. People became interested in the Western Han and Eastern Han. A lot of history was dug out, including the improvement of the metal smelting technology of the Han people. Zhang Qian brought it back from his envoy to the Western Regions.

People who go to the Western Regions in response to national policies, even if they were not interested in the Western Regions before, will learn about them from various channels later on. They don’t need to know everything, but the most basic things must not be ignored. For example, the Western Regions have their own civilization. It is not a wild place like the Indochina Peninsula.

The Han army came to the southeast of Bailongdui and camped fifty miles away, while the coalition forces of the Western Regions camped separately with Bailongdui as the core.This state has been maintained for nearly two months. The big war has not happened, but the small stocks are frequently testing each other, especially the scale of the recent battles has been increasing.

"Only by solving those coalition forces can we rush into the Western Regions." This is the news that Shi Bo got. Some Gaoche people arrived at Bailongdui?"

Of course, Fu Hong was the leader of the Di clan. He fled to the grassland at the beginning. First, he failed to seek refuge with Tuoba Daiguo, and then he switched to Rouran, but was still not accepted, so he ran to Xigaoche.

Gaoche people are Ding Ling people. They were already active in the grasslands in the pre-Qin period. Whether it was the prosperity of the Donghu or the establishment of the grassland empire by the Huns, they basically played the role of grassland thieves, or waited for the recent generation of grassland overlords, the Xianbei people, to go south. room for development.

The grassland is very vast, and the nomadic people are not like the farming people who live in one place, and they don't build cities like the farming people. Basically, once the grassland overlord shifts his focus to the southern part of the desert, a new tribe will flourish in the northern part of the desert. .This kind of cycle makes the Central Plains dynasty, as a farming nation, even if it solves the nomadic tribes going south, soon a new grassland overlord will appear as another threat.

"It would be great if it's true!" Lin Mi became excited instantly: "Their heads are more valuable, if you can kill the leader..."

The Han State has been liquidating the ethnic groups that once wreaked havoc across the Central Plains.Naturally, except for very few people with political significance, the Jie tribe will be captured alive, otherwise they will be killed if caught.For the Qiang, Di, and Zahu, it is a distinction between whether they are willing to integrate into the Han family, and insist that the aliens who are unwilling to integrate happily are either killed or captured as slaves.

Among the nomadic peoples who once raged in the Central Plains, the Jie people have become the characters in the history books. Many of the Qiang, Di, Xianbei and Zahu have been integrated, especially the Qiang, Xianbei and Zahu, but the Di people because Fu Hong did not Fuzhu resistance has always been relatively strong.

As ordinary people, they only know that the heads of the Di people who are still resisting are more valuable, so they don't think about why they are more valuable. However, the country wants to solve Fu Hong so that the Di people will lose their leader and be more easily integrated.

(End of this chapter)