[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

The human brain is designed to be more sensitive to images than to words, so it is easier to remember pictures.

At the same time, everyone sitting here...whether they are members of Daming's royal family or the courtiers invited to participate in the royal family banquet, are all outstanding figures in this country.

For them, nothing catches their attention more than a map.

It must be said here that not everyone in this country has read history books. Most people know the history of the first two dynasties. It is already good. Farmers living in the countryside or people in remote areas may not even know today. neither knows.

This is also the reason why the emperor had to change his name at the beginning of his succession. In addition to expressing the new year and new atmosphere, he also wanted to announce his existence to the domestic people.

In this era, those who can read are already masters, and those who can spare time to study history books that are not included in the examination items and have no great status and meaning [huang1] are either rich or leisure, or true love .

And even for these people, most of them were specialized for a while, and ordinary people would not have the energy or ability to read history books thoroughly.

After all, although there are historians in China all the year round, after many catastrophes and changes in recording tools, history books, especially those before the Han Dynasty, are in disarray and cannot be obtained without great Confucianism.

Even great Confucians rarely put their knowledge of history books on the map.Therefore, they never knew that when history falls on the map, it is so cruel and so soul-stirring.

It’s just a few words of a child, a sentence or two of a major historical event, like a pair of invisible hands touching lightly on a picture, and the traces of a country, a city, or a group of people are wiped out. Gently wipe away.

"Three thousand Yue Jia swallowed Wu, Wu King Fu Chai killed himself in the palace." The child's finger gently wiped off the word [Wu] on the picture, and the once-destroyed Yue State swallowed up the mighty Wu State's vast territory in an instant. down.

The last of the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons also appeared on the map. At the same time, [rice] also replaced [hemp] in the ranks of five grains.

The transformation of rice from supplementary food to staple food also means that the paddy field planting industry in the south has begun to develop vigorously.

With the march of the southern overlords to the north, the rice with higher yield and better taste, the ginger that dispels the cold and the fishy smell, and the delicious but difficult-to-preserve lotus root gradually moved northward, and entered the field of vision of more and more people.

North and South opened the first fusion of taste.

At the same time, because of the invention of a thing, a figure that has existed for a long time has gradually embarked on its own road to become king.

As if it was a fate destined by heaven, when rice gradually became popular, its old enemy in the future—wheat, which was introduced to China through natural steps as early as more than a thousand years ago, also met the noble person who was hit, that is The stone mill invented by Lu Ban, a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period.

This meeting is no less than the meeting of Jinfeng Yulu—the taste is rough, and the wheat that only inferior people and livestock can eat has been processed by stone milling into flour that is easier to preserve and better processed.Relying on its cold and drought tolerance and unlimited cooking methods, wheat gradually developed in the north.

Since then, the pattern of rice in the south and wheat in the north has been basically formed.

The two little boys each carried a lantern and looked across the Huaihe River to the north and south. When their figures disappeared, the word "Warring States" appeared on the map.

Those who don't know the history are also tense in their hearts. The appearance of these two words seems to mean the beginning of a bloody battle. Those who know the history clenched their fists, their eyes burning.

The Warring States Period was the best of times and the worst of times.There is no enlightenment in this era, and people bite each other like wild beasts. Conspiracy, conspiracy, betrayal and killing have written this period of history in blood.

But it is during this period of history that people's wisdom, humanity, strength, scheming, and luck have been brought to the extreme. There is no weak person in the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, and there is no absolute strong person. That is what a conspirator most yearns for This era is also the era most feared by the mediocre.

The so-called "one thought strengthens the country, one evil destroys the country" is nothing more than that.

But now, there are less than two digits left in the densely packed hundreds of vassal states in the past, and some familiar names have gradually appeared on the map.

"King Wuling of Zhao changed the Hu suit, changed the military system, and learned to ride and shoot." Two boys came hand in hand, one was wearing a Hu suit with short sleeves and narrow sleeves, and the other was a familiar long robe with wide sleeves.

In the eyes of everyone, the long-robed boy turned around, quickly took off his robe and threw it on the ground. At the same time, he turned over and rode on the back of another boy, and raised the longbow in his hand high.

Before the lights went out, the silhouette of his bow and arrow remained in everyone's eye sockets.

Hufu cavalry and archery was the first time the Central Plains Dynasty learned from foreigners, and it was also a decisive move to move the war from infantry warfare to cavalry warfare.Relying on the invincible cavalry team, Zhao Guo, who was already facing a desperate situation, won several victories in succession. "Break Loufan, destroy Zhanlin, take Linhu, He Zong, and break Zhongshan." As a small country, Zhongshan Kingdom, which went from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period, finally disappeared on this map.

With the disappearance of its name, Zhao Guo became the overlord of the north in the continuous conquests. own strength.

King Wu Ling was wise when he was young, and vigorously reformed, pushing the country to its peak. However, he was a fool in his middle age, and made a mess of one country and two masters in the matter of setting up heirs. In the end, he was starved to death in the sand dunes by his own son.

But after this father-son fratricide and brothers killing each other, the national power of Zhao State gradually declined, and its momentum was also sluggish. Although Lian Po Lin Xiangru tried his best to turn the tide, he was finally defeated in the battle of Changping, and his vitality was seriously injured. , eventually fell.

At this time, the Qin people, who were originally guarding the land of Xirong, got the feudal land because of Zhou Tianzi's meritorious driving. They were exposed to frost and thorns all the way, and gradually grew from a small clan.

From the tribe to the princes, and later became the king himself, when Qin Wang Yingzheng came to the throne, the survivors of Qin Fen VI destroyed the Duke of Western Zhou.With the death of King Zhou Nan, who was heavily in debt, the Zhou Dynasty, which had been in Guozuo for nearly 800 years, finally perished.

"Qin unified the world, and Qin Wang Yingzheng was called the first emperor. Qin Guozuo unified writing, weights and measures, and ruts, built galloping roads, and repaired the Great Wall in the 14th year of Qin Guozuo."

The unification of the Qin Dynasty also meant the official establishment of the first unified dynasty in the history of China. History has entered a new era, and China has changed from feudalism to monarchy.This is an unprecedented new attempt, and it is also a road that no one has traveled.

At this time, the light on the curtain dimmed, and when it was turned on again, the map had changed into a larger map, and the vast Chinese land was only a small part of it. What is even more shocking is that, The Great Qin Dynasty, which used to be invincible among the heroes in fierce battles, only occupied a corner of the picture.

That was the first time Chinese people looked at the world.

With the Xiongnu in the north, Yuezhi, Wusun, and Western Regions in the west, and Nanyue and Yelang in the south, the Great Qin Dynasty is like a piece of fat surrounded by wolves, and there are people ready to move at any time.

"Destroy them, destroy them." A military general murmured sincerely. In the process of erasing the dividing lines on the map with his hand to connect the countries, he had already fallen in love with this kind of territorial planning. hapiness.

Especially when Qin ruled the world in the end, the territories of each country were merged and the names of each country were erased. This feeling is really cool.

But the person beside him raised his eyelids, and sure enough, the next moment, a clear and pure child's voice read: "The soldiers call, and Hangu lifts up; the people of Chu are torched, and the poor scorched earth... posterity mourns without heeding it." , and make future generations mourn for future generations."

Following the words of "A Fang Gong Fu", the newly unified map of Qin State was instantly torn apart like an explosion.

Before everyone had time to think back to the words just now, they suddenly saw a fiery red on the map, and that point of vermilion, like a small flame, gradually spread from the Jianghan River Basin.

The Han Dynasty, which originated on the banks of the Han River, started its expansion. When the Western Han Dynasty gradually unified the country, the Hun Dynasty in the north did not stop its conquest. The maps at both ends of the north and south were gradually expanding. Thus, the two young forces finally met for the first time.

The Han Dynasty, which had just ended the civil war and had not yet had a breather, was defeated.

The siege of Baideng caused the Han Dynasty to suffer a great loss. In the following five years, Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, passed away, and the fifth emperor of Han Fen accumulated step by step until Emperor Wu.

The young emperor who succeeded to the throne at the age of 16 was majestic and heroic. With a big wave of his hand, the crimson front came out from the Han Dynasty and penetrated deep into the Xiongnu. This was the first time that the Central Plains Dynasty took the initiative to attack northward across the Great Wall.

At the same time, a red line appeared on the west side—it was the Silk Road dug by Zhang Qian, and it was also the first time that the Han Dynasty connected with the Western Regions under the eyes of the Xiongnu.

At that time, the powerful Xiongnu Dynasty had penetrated most of the north, and its area was almost twice that of the Han Dynasty.

is it scary?fear?Facing a seemingly invincible foe, surrender?

Do not!

The sound of plucking strings is like a sharp soldier unsheathing. From the time when the national strength is still weak, he can only focus on defense, but the "fly general" Li Guang, who has beaten the Huns for several years, dare not attack, to leading troops out of the country for the first time, turning passive defense into active On the attack, he defeated Wei Qing, who won seven battles and seven victories, and then Huo Qubing, who led the army to rush into the Huns' royal court and sealed off the wolf in Xushan.

Stars are rising slowly, shining in the sky on the grassland.

After Wu, Zhao, and Xuan, Zhao Chongguo, who stepped onto the battlefield at the age of 73 and resisted the continuous attacks of Hu and Huns as an old man, had a troubled official career with constant ups and downs, but shouted, "Those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away." "The Chen Tang... The red lines extending from the Han land and rushing into the center of the Xiongnu map appeared on the map as if they were the answers to their questions from the Han people thousands of years ago.

Those soldiers and soldiers thousands of years ago told these younger generations with their will:

"No!"

Although weak, but never shy away from battle.Subsequently, the small southern countries such as Nanyue Kingdom and Yelang Kingdom were also included in the territory of the Han Dynasty, and Dianyue was attached to the Han Dynasty.

Just as the Han and Hungarian countries on the white cloth were in a stalemate with each other, a bright light fell on the map laid on the ground.

Wearing an exotic and damaged robe, wearing straw sandals, and holding a broken scepter, Huang Bazi appeared in the northwest corner of the map. He didn't hold a lamp, but just carried a camel bell, and behind him, he brought a string of small lanterns .

The little princes and princesses carrying lanterns of various colors followed their starlings through the Western Regions, through the Hexi Corridor, and came to Chang'an bouncingly.

The lanterns in the children's hands are colorful and have different shapes.

There are garlic, which has become a daily seasoning, and pepper, which is still very expensive. There are pomegranates that are loved from palace walls to courtyards, and spinach, which children hate most. Naturally, there are also good products for relieving summer heat. Courgette (cucumber) widely grown in the South.

Not only crops, but pipa, suona, Buddhism, wine, etc. have added a lot of color to people's lives. Court musicians also changed into exotic instruments in due course and used them to tell their own stories.

"This... Suona, I know, but the pipa is from outside?" The courtier whispered, even the prince was surprised, "Spinach is from outside? No wonder it tastes so bad! Why are you stupid to buy this stuff? "

"Brother...my brother likes spinach very much."

"..." This was very embarrassing, the young prince toasted a glass of water and wine to express his apology, but...: "I still find spinach unpalatable."

Aesthetic hobbies, even if you may be beaten by your brother, you have to stick to it.

However, compared with these crops, what attracts everyone's attention is the most popular Wusun horse in the army. The two little emperors put themselves in the pony's lantern, and their short legs were tossing back and forth inside, running fast It's steady and fast, full of tacit understanding, and full of cuteness, making the palms of those who watch it itchy.

The names of these properties appeared on the map one by one. With the last word falling, the children scattered away with a whoosh. Their lanterns rose in Chang'an City like fireworks, and then landed on the map in a patchwork pattern. every corner on.

What did the powerful, prosperous and stable Han Dynasty leave for people?

Relying on the Chidao of the Qin Dynasty and the waterways further developed by the Han Dynasty, the north, south, east and west gradually communicated.

All kinds of crops and food, along with the footsteps of human migration, went everywhere. The jujubes in the north went south, the lychees in the south went north, and the tea trees in the mountains in the southwest settled in the east. An unprecedented stable dynasty also brought unprecedented species abundance. fusion.

Some species have mutated in order to survive, and some species have met their destined partners and reproduced more varieties.

The orange family is one of them, and Mubai's favorite lemon was born through the fusion of species again and again.

However, nothing in this world is eternal, and so is the mighty Han Dynasty.

The more powerful the dynasty, the more grand the scene of its destruction. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Three Kingdoms divided the Han Dynasty, and the heroes competed for the world. Together, they wrote a heroic hymn.

The grand dynasty came to an end in the midst of the chaos of war. In the midst of the chaos of war in the Central Plains, the Hu people in the north quietly rose up, and a large number of northern residents moved south.

The influx of labor force and advanced technology brought opportunities for the rise of the south, the war promoted the development of technology, the land route in the north was blocked, and people stretched out their tentative steps towards the sea.

Heroes have been born in troubled times since ancient times.

"Since ancient times, China has been valued, barbarians and di people have been valued, and I love them all as one." Tang Taizong was born. The prosperous Tang Dynasty welcomed visitors from all directions with its confidence and tolerance. A large number of foreigners established diplomatic relations with Datang on an equal footing and exchanged students.

Anyone who passed the imperial examination, regardless of their origin or blood, could be an official in the Tang court. The name of Tang resounded throughout the continent along with the pace of businessmen and students.

If Tang's influence is on land, Song's influence is on the sea.

The loss of the sixteen prefectures of Yun during the founding of the country had a huge impact on the Song Dynasty, which also made it the smallest country in the unified dynasty.

And what it faced was the most powerful nomadic force after the Huns-Mongolia.

Worse than Han, their enemy is also a unified country.

Did Song give up?No.

They introduced higher-yielding Champa rice from Champa, traded the ancient tea-horse road in the southwest for high-quality horse breeds, earned wealth through sea transportation to maintain huge military expenditures, and tried their best to balance various forces as a weak country.

Although the country is small, it may not be without the heart of striving for strength.

It's a pity that what they encountered was the Mongolian cavalry at their most powerful, and they were powerless to return to heaven.But even so, they were the last of the Mongol conquests.

With a jump on the cliff, although the country is destroyed, the backbone of the people is like a lamp in the heart.

Yuan's founding land was the largest ever, as far as Hainan Island in the south.

People in Yuan Dynasty learned the method of kapok weaving from the Li people on Hainan Island, and cotton cloth began to appear in the eyes of people in the Central Plains.

However, although the Yuan Dynasty had a powerful leader, it had no power to succeed. The land area gradually declined, and rebellions were frequent.

In the 12th year of Zhizheng, a coolie dug a one-eyed man from the Yellow River, and the rebels rose up, and a small vermilion appeared in Haozhou City.

The fire of anti-Yuan and Song Dynasty was ignited, and a crimson flame ignited in the land of western Zhejiang.

It was the rebel army belonging to Zhu Yuanzhang. The red mass burned quickly, swallowing left and right, and soon changed from the rebel army to the king of Wu, and finally proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtian, and the country was named Daming.

It was the sun and the moon reopening the Great Song Dynasty.

The courtiers present finally couldn't bear it anymore, they made noise frequently, and their voices were full of excitement, even the princes couldn't hold back, they kept twisting their bodies in their seats to change their angles to see more clearly.

Among these people, only Zhu Yuanzhang remained motionless. He sat on the spot and looked at the map with reminiscence in his eyes, as if he wanted to walk his youth again with the development of the map.

The territory of the newly born Ming Empire was very small, but none of the courtiers objected to this, because they were very clear about the subsequent development.

In the first year of Hongwu, Fujian was captured and Dadu was attacked. Emperor Yuan fled north, and the sixteen prefectures of Yanyun, which had been lost for 400 years, returned to Han.

In the third year of Hongwu, Emperor Hongwu made a northern expedition and won all three routes.

Four years, Kecheng.

In five years, the Northern Expedition to the desert, although there were no results, Gansu was taken back by the way.

In the sixth year, the capital guard was set up on the snowy plateau, and the church and state were separated.

In 13 and 14, successive Northern Expeditions achieved great results.

In the 15th year of Hongwu, Liang Wang, the last Northern Yuan power, was pulled out from Yunnan, Fu Youde Lanyu broke Yunnan, Liang Wang killed himself in Dianchi Lake, and the Dali Duan family surrendered.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty has finally unified the north and the south, expelled the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and restored the glory of China.

At the same time, under the active promotion of Zhu Yuanzhang, grass cotton was spread all over the Yangtze River and Yellow River Basin, and it was likely to replace silk and linen.

"Cotton is easy to grow, and it is not as delicate as silk. It can be worn by traffickers and pawns. After it is widely planted, its price gradually decreases. Since then, the general public does not have to worry about having no clothes to wear. The number of people who freeze to death in cold winters drops by [-]% every year. This data is unprecedented."

The little boy's voice was already a little hoarse, he paused slightly, and said again: "It has been more than 3000 years since the beginning of China, and in the 3000 years, there have been countless heroes, generals and masters. Together they have forged the soul of China and built China's future. spine."

The little princes and princesses walked out in a line. They held a scroll several meters long and showed it to everyone. The names of many people were written on the scroll.

Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river in despair on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Liu Che who said "the enemy can go, and I can go", Fan Zhongyan who was worried about the world's worries, Yue Fei who served the country loyally, Wen Tianxiang who said "no one in life has died since ancient times"... many, many The names and their "screams" appeared here, in the palace of Daming.

At the same time, many names appeared on the map of Daming.

The courtiers exclaimed, Chang Yuchun, Zhu Wenzheng, Hu Dahai, Deng Yu and many other names they were familiar with or not familiar with appeared on the current map of Ming Dynasty.

A small figure came out from the darkness, and he also had a small scroll in his hand. Obviously, the names of those who died for the founding of the Ming Dynasty were written on the scroll in his hand.

These little princes and daughters stood together, their backs straightened, and they said in unison: "Counting the romantic people, let's look at the present."