sweeping the world

Chapter 939 Big move?
If you want to have a rich family, a beautiful house, and a group of wives and concubines, everything is based on having a high enough title.

In the Han Empire, there is nothing more important than titles!
There are actually many ways to obtain a title. Farming the fields better, innovating some tools or inventing useful new tools, and achieving excellent results in a certain field of officialdom are all ways to obtain a title. , But for the vast majority of people, there is no more convenient way than going to the battlefield.

Farming to get results?For the vast majority of Han Chinese, farming is a necessary skill, but most of them only know how to farm, and don't know how to farm well.

Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer Han Chinese who are buried in the fields.

Among the Han people with titles, whose family does not have many slaves?The work of farming is handed over to the slaves, and they are more willing to exercise their bodies and martial skills so that they can go to the battlefield to win the future when they are called up.

The threshold for innovating or inventing new tools is not low. It takes a long time in that field to accumulate enough experience and knowledge. One out of a hundred people who can innovate or invent tools is considered too much.

Official civil servant?You must first have the opportunity to enter the officialdom, and you must have enough ability to do a good job in the field you are responsible for.

In fact, there are people who are capable of becoming officials. If they can choose, they will not become local officials. They are more willing to enter the military system and will try their best to make themselves a member of the military.

After all, being able to manage the place well means that the ability is not bad, and I must think that I can get better results on the battlefield.

Going to the battlefield is not absolutely safe, but you can even choke to death even if you eat. There is no real safety. You have to pay as much as you want, including risks.

"If I hadn't come to the Western Regions, I might have been a white man forever." Wang Mian is a high-ranking man now, and earned his title after arriving in the Western Regions: "The people in my hometown who have been waiting to be recruited, they regret it now."

Since the 11th year of Yuanshuo, the Han Empire has not issued a large-scale call-up order, and even the county soldiers are rarely mobilized to the battlefield.

County and county soldiers are one of the corvee services that adult men of the Han family must serve every year. Most of them serve in the county for some drills and training, and more often they emphasize discipline.

Although becoming a county soldier is laying the foundation for becoming a member of the standing army, in fact, not many people can really enter the standing army.

Ten years before Yuanshuo, county and county soldiers would be collected and dispatched to a certain battlefield.

Ten years after Yuanshuo, there were fewer and fewer county and county soldiers who had the opportunity to be transferred to a certain battlefield. Even in the 12th year of Yuanshuo, there was no record of county soldiers being transferred to the battlefield.

Once unable to go to the battlefield, the way out for the county soldiers will be cut off, and it will really become a simple corvee service, with no hope at all.

The Indochina Peninsula was opened up in the early years, and the Western Regions were opened up in Yuanshuo ten years ago. Those who had the courage and courage to fight all left their hometowns with their packages on their backs. real fool.

The people in the village do not come from the same place, they gather together from all over the world. There are people from Yanmen County in the north, people from Liaodong in the cold land, and Cangwu people from the far south. from the Northwest.

If it were in the hinterland of the Central Plains, people from different places would group together in different regions, and a small village would form an unknown number of factions.

For the Western Regions, which may be in danger at any time, it doesn't matter where they come from in the country.

In the eyes of people from the Western Regions, they all have a common symbol, that is, the Han people.

Talents from the Western Regions will not not kill someone just because they are from Liaodong, nor will they have varying degrees of hostility just because they are from the Northwest.

As long as you are a Han Chinese, you can enjoy more convenience or privileges in the Western Regions than the Western Regions, but that is based on the premise of exploiting and oppressing the Western Regions. One can imagine what risks there will be while enjoying the convenience and privileges .

The villages where the Han people settled down in the Western Regions faced raids from horse thieves in the early days. Even if all the horse thieves were wiped out, there were still many people from the Western Regions in the area, and they were often attacked by hostile people. The sneak attack by the people from the Western Regions triggered many follow-ups.

Hunting and arresting criminals who attacked Han villages happened every day in the land of the Western Regions. Since the Han people were indeed not easy to provoke, and the Western Regions people could not afford to provoke them, most Western Regions people did not dare to conceal or harbor them.

If there really is a case of harboring and concealing the report, usually a certain village will be removed from the list, and the Westerners in the village will either die or become slaves, which will be the outcome of that incident.

The Han people have never been soft-hearted, and they have effectively deterred the people of the Western Regions. Although they did not completely suppress their resistance and hostility, they did reduce the number of people from the Western Regions who dared to attack the Han people.

As for those people from the Western Regions who still dared to trouble the Han people, they gradually became the leaders or important figures of a resistance organization of the Western Regions people, depending on their fame, and united a considerable number of Western Regions people who had blood feuds with the Han people.

People from the Western Regions resisted?The policy of the Han Chinese Center has not changed for the time being. If you don’t resist, you will die later, if you resist, you will die sooner.

Whether the central government of the empire will change its policy is only for the executors to implement. For example, this time the Western Regions Protectorate once again recruited people from the people. It was an official document from Chang'an, asking the Ministry of War to sort out the Western Regions again.

The relationship between the Western Regions Protectorate and the Han people in the Western Regions is very harmonious. One side acts as a protective umbrella, and the protected side also tries its best to support them in return.They are an absolute minority in the Western Region, and are naturally somewhat different from those in the mainland.

"People who came later, they came late." Li Bing has already taken people away from five villages, distributed the supplies that should be distributed, and brought the people and goods that should be brought: "At the earliest time, A There aren't many soldiers, but at least there are. Now..."

Another point is that the sooner you come here, the more battles you can participate in. Even if you don't have the luck to kill an enemy soldier to get the title of duke, you can also be promoted by accumulating participation in winning battles.

At present, the countries that should be destroyed in the Western Regions no longer exist, and the remaining ones have no courage and guts to disobey the Han Empire. Some small-scale encirclement and suppression operations.

A group of people headed for Yancheng. First, they met another team in Shache, and new teams continued to gather along the way. Soon, the entire team had more than 5000 people.

"If you want to say that the princes in the court really deserve to be the great wise men who assist the real dragon." Su Ren said full of praise: "It is a good idea to recruit women from other races as wives and concubines."

Accepting women from the Western Regions in the Western Regions is not just for the sake of beauty or the continuation of incense. In fact, it is tantamount to making the Western Regions people behind the Western Regions women a group that is naturally close to the Han people.

Among the 5000 people, more than 500 are from the Western Regions. Their daughters or sisters are all married to Han people, and their status has become relatives of the Han family.

In the Western Regions, don't underestimate the identity of the relatives of the Han family. It can prevent the Han people from burning, killing and looting, and can also get some preferential policies in terms of taxation. The more important thing is that they can be selected to go out with the army.

With the identity of relatives of the Han family, they will not be shy in any way against the rest of the Western Regions. If they bully them, they can find the Han people to stand on the platform. If the Han people are threatened, they will lead to the Western Regions.

This is the situation now, maybe as a person from the Western Regions, but because a woman in my family is married to a Han Chinese, she can sing in two voices: We are different, different... different...

It cannot be said that people from the Western Regions went out with the Han army. The correct statement is that they followed the Han people.It is an almost omnipotent role, shielding the Han people from knives when needed, serving the daily life of the Han people, and rushing to fight with so-and-so when ordered.

People in the Western Regions can't get the title, but they have the opportunity to become a naturalized citizen. If they can become a naturalized citizen, it is a matter of smoke from the ancestral grave, which means that not only him, but also his descendants can proudly shout "I am "Han people", became a member of a powerful empire, and while being protected, they also became a wrist that can dominate other nations!

Of course, it is not easy to become a naturalized person. Two or three years have passed, and there are very few people from the Western Regions who have obtained naturalized status, but there are only a few people from the Western Regions who have obtained good citizen certificates.

People from the Western Regions went out with their Han relatives. For them, the most practical benefit was to be able to obtain goods. They could plunder as much as they wanted during the campaign, and they could also get rewards from their relatives later.

In the Western Regions where there is no national concept, even if the Han people show it so obviously, those who realize that their nation will disappear are still in the minority.

For example, people from the Western Regions who choose to marry their daughters to Han people have an extremely simple concept. Marrying their daughters can become a second-class privileged class, and they will no longer be harassed and robbed by Han people. will be appropriately reduced.

They see the most obvious benefits, and they are willing to be the dog legs of the Han people when they have benefits. As for what will happen in a few years or decades, they can't think so far.

Yancheng was once the royal city of Qiuci, and now it is the main residence of the Western Regions Protectorate. Another residence that is valued by the Western Regions Protectorate is Bailongdui.

Puchanghai has been considered a place that must be controlled since the Han people came to the Western Regions, not only because Bailongdui is the transportation hub of the Western Regions, but also because that place is an important salt-producing area in the Western Regions.

Controlling the salt can control the life and death of the surrounding people. The Han people have long mastered the trick. The Western Han Dynasty also relied on the control of the salt in the Western Regions to complete the suzerainty over the countries in the Western Regions step by step. It is a pity that there is not enough time to complete it. "Fusion".

The Eastern Han Dynasty regained control of the Western Regions by referring to the methods of the Western Han Dynasty. Cao Wei and the Western Jin Dynasty also used the same methods, but they did not really integrate the Western Regions.

The Han Empire of this generation would use violent methods in the Western Regions. The main reason was that they saw the limited results of the methods used in the Western Regions from the Western Han Dynasty to the Western Jin Dynasty. Instead, they got inspiration from some of Zhang's actions in the Liang Kingdom.

Zhang's Liang Kingdom did not expand eastward, but adopted a westward expansion strategy.Every time they captured a place in the Western Regions, they either killed or expelled (or captured as slaves) the people of the Western Regions, which really effectively controlled that piece of land in their hands.

The Han Empire established by Liu Yan was nothing more than treating the Western Regions according to Zhang's Liangguo's policy. Even if the Han Empire restored the entire Western Regions at once, it still needed to be divided into several steps, and it was not easy to take too big steps all at once.

The main residence of the Protectorate of the Western Regions will be located in Yancheng, which has a very important strategic position for the Protectorate of the Western Regions at this stage.

Yancheng is located in the south of Beishan (Tianshan Mountain), east of Congling Mountain, and the Khotan River is a basin to the east.

That basin is a rare area suitable for farming in the Western Regions. After modern times, it has become a swampy area, but now the landform is very good, and it has been developed by the Han people on a large scale.

"We will assemble here." Su Ren arranged the station area for Fang Lun's team and made the necessary explanations: "You have also seen the people who came here. You should understand that the scale of this operation will not be small. Restraint Good luck to the people from the Western Regions you brought, don’t make any trouble.”

The Han people who were recruited had a very good sense of Su Ren, the military lord of the Protectorate of the Western Regions. At the same time, they knew that they would serve under Su Ren's command, so they naturally obeyed his orders respectfully.

"Don't look at Su Junhou's name is Ren..." Wang Mian looked around and told the news he had heard: "He is a character who can stop children from crying at Yanqi."

Everyone who came to the Western Regions knew Yanqi, and had their own stories about what happened to Yanqi.

The resistance encountered by the Han people when they marched into the Western Regions was the most intense on the Yanqi side. As a result, the Yanqi people also suffered an almost devastating blow. The treatment of the Yanqi people was almost infinitely close to that of the Jie people. You can imagine what it was like. A scene where heads are rolling.

"It's strange!" Fang Lun thought he was someone who had never seen a big scene. Looking at the huge resident, he combined what he had seen and heard: "It doesn't look like a simple encirclement and suppression. The Shule people can't stand it." This kind of treatment is enough to deal with Shu Jie, but..."

"There are two divisions in the camp next to us." Wang Mian said mysteriously, "I reckon there is a big commotion."

One division of the standing army is 5000 people, and two divisions are 1 people.

Such a place in the Western Regions can allow the Han army to dispatch 1 people, plus about [-] Han warriors recruited, and [-] Western Region entourages, auxiliary soldiers, etc., it will not just destroy those guys.

"Could it be the Huns?" Fang Lun suddenly became excited: "I heard that the Shujie people ran to join the Huns. They must be dealing with the Huns!"

Wang Mian was stunned, and then became excited.

Today's Han people are afraid that there is no place to obtain military merit, and there are too few enemies to obtain military merit. Everyone wants to be able to join a certain battle!
(End of this chapter)