Mythical Version of the Three Kingdoms

When Fulward left, he was extremely entangled in his heart. On the one hand, he wanted to kill Masinde easily, but on the other hand, he also felt that Masinde had indeed done his best to him and Kushan.

"General, what should we do now?" After Masinde left, Sidney, who had been hiding in the back hall of the palace, came out and asked solemnly.

Since the last showdown between Fulward and Masinde, Fulward has already planned to summon his men. Although as Masinde estimated, Fulward can only summon some of them. After all, it took so long for him to gather his men. It's not like Hinde didn't do anything. He actually assimilated many Kushan elites into his own people. Fulward was more or less prepared for this after realizing what Mashinde had done.

"Continue to gather people. After three days, those who have not gathered here will be left alone. We will take the northwest passage back to the Kushan Empire." Fulward said calmly.

Many of what Masinde said are correct. For example, in the current situation, it is difficult for the Kushan elites who have fallen into the rhythm of the Qiang people to withdraw. After all, dozens of people suppressed a large tribe, leaving tens of thousands of people afraid to move. , not because dozens of people are all tough men fighting one against a hundred, just because under the inertia of the organization, not many people directly resist, but on the other hand, when the inertia of the organization collapses...

We have no choice but to give up. Unless everyone is a five-level smelting super elite, facing this situation, we have no choice but to give up on this path.

But if everyone is a five-level smelting super elite, why does Fulward have to squat on the plateau for so long? Just lead these super elites straight to Chang'an.

Although Chang'an cannot be captured, it is absolutely impossible to stop it with so many elites from the fifth level of smelting, the blockade of the Qiang people, the blockade of Xinzhou, Yizhou, Hanzhong, and the garrison from Chang'an to Hanzhong, etc.

Why did Fulward follow Masinde's suggestion? Isn't it because he also realized that it was basically impossible for him to break through the outermost blockade of the Han Empire and that he would not be able to break into the vicinity of Chang'an.

For Fulward, there is no need to attack Chang'an. As long as his army can reach Chang'an, it will cause a stir in the world. When the time comes, he can casually kill some Han elites, and he will be able to give General Guishuang a spirit beyond the military. Blessing.

Just like General Wei's victory at Longcheng, the elite Han army that attacked together suffered losses of more than 20,000. However, because it beheaded 700 Huns, it was called the first great achievement of the Han-Hungarian War. It represented that the Han Dynasty officially began to counterattack the Xiongnu.

Therefore, as long as Fulward can rush to the vicinity of Chang'an, even if he cannot go back at all, he will be famous forever. However, under Masinde's explanation, Fulward clearly realized that he simply could not do it. The Qiang blockade caused him to His soldiers could infiltrate at most several hundred people.

If thousands of people really cross the Qiang front line on a large scale, a battle will occur no matter what. Once a large-scale battle begins, there will be no way to continue to conceal his movements, and the people of Xinzhou, Yizhou, Hanzhong and Yanbian Those garrison regiments are not just watching.

As long as the Qiang people bite their main force, the garrison closest to Fuwode will really rush forward and fight Fuwode. Therefore, unless Fuwode quickly overthrows the Qiang people and is entangled by the Qiang people, Only if they still have the ability to suppress the Qiang reinforcements, can they truly enter the Han Dynasty mainland.

As for the Tibetan area, Fulward did not think it was the homeland of the Han Dynasty at all.

"Northwest? Going along the ancient Silk Road?" Sidney frowned. He was one of the deputy commanders of Camel Riding, so when he went to Tibet, Fulward had discussed it with him. They have also considered the Karakoram Corridor.

But after they sent people to conduct on-site inspections, they realized that this road is currently unreachable. The snow cover caused by the Little Ice Age has greatly increased the difficulty of traveling on this road. This is why people have walked this road in recent years. There is basically no reason for the merchants on the road.

Otherwise, this road alone can lead directly to the inner side of Kushan. Those smugglers in the Han Dynasty who were not afraid of death would definitely be willing to take this road to make some money.

After all, no one does a loss-making business, but a group of people want to do a beheading business. It makes money, and it is not shabby at any time.

In addition, although Chen Xi managed the business dealings between the Han Dynasty and Kushan, it would be difficult for later generations to completely solve the problem of smuggling.

Taking into account the widespread use of bill redemption and the difficulty in completely eliminating smugglers, Chen Xi's last choice can only be to coexist with the smugglers. It is not that it is impossible to completely kill the smugglers. After all, this is the feudal era, and it can be completely eliminated. Regardless of human rights, if the Imperial Iron Fist is big enough, it can easily kill anything it can't stand.

But for Chen Xi, this solution was just like swatting mosquitoes with a cannon, and it was not worth it at all, so he created official smugglers who were licensed by the state. Well, those who paid taxes were certainly not considered smugglers. As merchants, Management businessmen. If big businessmen enter this industry and make a lot of money, they will naturally suppress other people from entering and making money.

Therefore, as long as he manages the types of goods sold by these merchants, Chen Xi can generally maintain stability. These are also nominally Han smugglers. The most sold by these merchants are actually salt and sugar, because these two things are produced by the Han Dynasty. The quality is good and the price is much lower than that in Kushan.

Especially salt, the price of salt in the Han Dynasty was so low that the Kushans felt it was outrageous. For this reason, the Kushans also secretly learned the Han Dynasty's salt drying. Unfortunately, the Kushan merchants who smuggled the Han Dynasty's refined salt at that time, that is, those local lords backed by large states and super smugglers of top Brahmins, decisively strangled the guys who set up salt fields in Kushan. Set up salt fields by ourselves? Then how can we make money from official corruption?

In short, it's very awesome. Chen Xi felt that Dong Zhao's investigation was too outrageous after reading it, and even didn't know what to say. When these top wastes of Kushan were messing with their own people, it really highlighted the diversity of a species. It was outrageous, super outrageous.

So that now, when the salt drying technology of the Han Dynasty's salt fields has long been popularized in Kushan, Kushan still smuggles refined salt from the Han Dynasty.

After all, whether the country can make money and stabilize people's livelihood has nothing to do with the Kushan local lords and Brahmins. Anyway, our offerings cannot be less.

In this regard, Chen Xi can only admire it, and Rome is not much better.

The relationship between the Han Dynasty and Rome has always been good. Even steel mills allowed Romans to visit. Things like salt fields, which are more related to people's livelihood, would naturally not be blocked. Therefore, Rome obtained the technology of drying salt earlier than the Kushan Empire.

Of course, there is a very important point here. Chen Xi did feel that the Roman Empire was far away and it was difficult for the two sides to have a substantial conflict of interest, so he followed the Roman Empire.

Then the Romans who got the high-level salt drying technology of the Han Dynasty also started to dry salt in their own country. After all, compared with boiling salt, the cost of drying salt is lower and the output is more. Moreover, after multiple treatments, the quality of brine is also better, and the bitter taste will basically be dealt with.

So after the Han Dynasty's salt drying technology arrived in Rome, Rome dealt with the troublesome things before. Then, the official salt field was not solved because of the Senate's wrangling, interest distribution, big fish eating small fish, etc., and the official salt of the Claudius family was already sold everywhere.

What is a cancer? This is a cancer. Pompianus was so angry that he was about to explode. Although the official salt field of the state was opened later, the official salt field could not beat the other party because the Claudius family had taken the lead and made a name for themselves.

Sometimes the salt sold by the Claudius family was more like official salt.

There was no way. The Claudius family, who had coexisted with Rome and had you in me and me in you, could always find land in the core area of ​​a big city, and then build a salt field, and then put up a sign saying it was official salt. However, the Roman official had to go through procedures to buy land. Even if the government sometimes wanted to find a place in the core area, it would be very embarrassing if there was no room for demolition.

So much so that the fake official sold salt in the core area for two years, and the real Roman official got the land at the edge of the core area and built a store. How can this be compared?

In short, just selling salt alone, Chen Xi witnessed the diversity of the nobles in the feudal era. They were almost all beasts, but the beasts had different postures.

By the way, the Claudius family has become more famous in the past two years. A very important point is that Pompianus's acquisition plan allowed the Claudius family to acquire Rome.

That's right, although it was said that Rome acquired the Claudius family, in fact, in Chen Xi's opinion, it was actually the Claudius family that acquired Rome. A large number of industries that are in urgent need of people's livelihood are in the hands of the Claudius family. What a joke!

After Pompianus completed his own blending, the price of grain and salt dropped by 15% overnight. It seems to be very beneficial to the country, but as long as you have a little brain, you will know what it means that the price of such daily necessities dropped by 15% nationwide with a nod from the Claudius family.

In short, it's a cancer, a complete cancer.

But again, at least in name, Rome after the acquisition does look like a complete imperial country, which is much more normal than the Kushan Empire. At least it won't be an official opening a salt field privately and being assassinated by a larger official.

To be honest, Chen Xi estimated that if the Kushan Empire wanted to open a few salt fields that were truly official, only Oswin could do it, and it would only open a few, not completely control the refined salt of the whole country.

After all, the merchants who could touch this all over the country were all super bosses with backstage. Take the Shurak family as an example. Is that smuggling? That was asking the warship to help bring some cargo stones for ballast. Check? Investigate? This is not a matter of shooting from behind. This is a matter of finding out something and everyone will be in trouble.

If you want to make this money and can make this money, can the Kushan high-level officials really not know? Isn't this a comprehensive consideration to let the lower-level Kushan people sacrifice again? Anyway, the animals can still hold on. Besides, the salt of the Han Dynasty is so good, why make it? Just buy it directly!

So every year, the Han Dynasty clearly produced refined salt far exceeding the needs of the empire, but it was still consumed, just because there were so many amazing smugglers.

However, even with so many smugglers, the Han Dynasty basically did not go through the Karakoram Corridor. Needless to say, the situation there was natural. Even if the army was superior to the merchants in terms of quality, it would be difficult to pass through the Karakoram Corridor, which was completely covered with snow and glaciers.

"So where do you say we go?" Fuward looked at Sidney and said calmly.

It is impossible to go south. The road south is easy to walk in the early stage, but after entering the Tibetan area and entering Yizhou, the difficulty will rise sharply. After entering Zhongnan, the difficulty will explode directly. It is very likely that you will face it directly. The Han Dynasty mobilized the elites who had conquered the country from the Ganges River.

Compared with the pursuit of the Qiang people and the ice and snow in the Karakoram Corridor, the elite of the Ganges Army under Guan Yu are truly unsolvable, and compared with Fulward, they are really numerous. , the strength is strong, if Fulward has the ability to escape and ascend to heaven when Guan Yu calls the Ganges Army to encircle and suppress him, then the tenth knight's strongest position will have to be given up.

Not to mention passing through directly, just escaping and ascending to heaven requires a tough fight of the level of the Tenth Knight, and a lot of luck.

"It's better to go west and cross the Himalayas than to take the Karakoram Corridor. The difficulty is not much different between the two sides." Sidney said after being silent for a long time.

"We have no way to go west, and we can definitely cross it, but we have no way to calculate the time, and we don't know how much food and grass we need to carry. We have no plan." Fulward said calmly, "In terms of time, it is too hasty. , we simply don’t have time to verify the road heading west across the Himalayas, so we can only choose a path that we have verified.”

Sidney was silent for a long time after hearing this. Indeed, although it is extremely difficult to walk through the Karakoram Corridor, they have at least verified it. As for the difficulty, it is high or high, but it has not reached the level that makes it impossible for them to pass. Giving up at that time was the result of comprehensive considerations.

But if you go west through the Himalayas, the difficulty may be no different from walking along the Karakoram Corridor, but they have not verified the roads going west and do not have accurate times.

"It's too hasty," Sidney said after a long silence.

"We don't have many choices." Fulward said calmly, "Organize the manpower. We will set off in three days. This is the last chance."

The Qiang people in the northwest of Tibetan areas, the Qiang people in the central area, the Qiang people in the Qiangtang Plateau, and the Qiang people in the south have launched a comprehensive counterattack at this time. The Kushan Empire's servant army system composed of elite backbones faced this large-scale , the counterattack on all fronts had no effect at all.

Led by the tribal leader of the Shang Shung Dynasty, the Qiang people who were ready for a decisive battle marched straight into the core area of ​​​​Fuwod's rule. During this period, it was not without the Kushan main force organizing a servant army to fight, but they faced It is difficult to achieve the desired results by pushing tens of thousands of people on a front, so that everything that Fulward built in the Shang Shung Dynasty quickly collapsed like a sandcastle under the tide. Under the wave of Qiang people.

"Yang Servant, clean up the garbage of the Shang Shung Dynasty." After attacking the next large tribe of the Shang Shung Dynasty again, Zhang Ji, who followed the army, looked at the thin and disabled native people in the tribe, as well as all kinds of strange magic. It is said that many of the utensils were even taken from living bodies, which made Zhang Ji's originally indifferent expression become much colder.

"Okay." Although the Qiang people also use some bone bowls and other things, to be honest, the exaggerated situation like that of the Zhangzhong Dynasty is indeed a bit outrageous. All kinds of strange magical weapons, whether they are strong or not, are thrown aside, but It is really too curious, even the Qiang people are not so outrageous.

No, to be precise, all the barbarians are not that outrageous. Even the more violent barbarians would try their best to make the boss on the opposite side into a wine glass, so as not to produce such a large-scale human bone magic weapon. This kind of rosary was obviously made of white bones, and it was even covered with pulp. Yang Pu felt that it was a bit outrageous.

"Of all the so-called magic weapons, there is only one like this. I can reluctantly admit it." Zhang Ji watched as Yang Pu led the Qiang people to launch a search in the Xiangxiong tribe, and then found a large pile of magic weapons made of human bones. The weapon has some own understanding of the barbarism of the Shang Shung Dynasty. It is indeed bloody and barbaric.

What's more important is that among the large number of magical artifacts made of human materials, only one has etching patterns, and the others are basically just names. Zhang Ji's eyes turned cold when he saw them.

Even though he has seen many wars and even seen Jingguan, Zhang Ji still feels disgusted by things like this. At least things like Jingguan are just for shock and have no special meaning. And these magic weapons, Zhang Ji's eyes were gloomy and he was completely fooled!

"Kill them all." Zhang Ji said to Yang Pu very calmly. He really needed the nobles of the Zhangxiong Dynasty as insiders, but if he wanted to rule the Tibetan areas as the governor of the Tibetan areas and assimilate the Tibetan areas, then these cancers must be To be pulled out.

When Pu Yang heard this, without saying a word, he directly pulled out the nobles of the Xiangxiong tribe and beheaded them in front of the people of the Xiangxiong tribe.

This brutal behavior caused some turmoil, but for the Qiang people who had already gained a military advantage and violently drove away the Kushan elite, even if the Xiangxiong tribe rioted, they could still suppress it. After all, They are not like the Kushans. In such a rear position, a tribe only deploys dozens of Kushan soldiers to suppress them.

Zhang Ji's order was quickly circulated to all Qiang tribes. After receiving the order, the leaders of each Qiang tribe quickly began to execute the order. They even executed the opponent with their hind legs as soon as they freed the opponent from Kushan's hands. .

The turmoil was happening, but Zhang Ji didn't care much. He had received Masinde's message that Fuward was ready to leave. Since Fuward was leaving and there was no power to stop them, what was the point of compromising with such a disgusting guy?

"You will not die well, you will not die well!" The Xiangxiong nobles who were dragged out cursed at Zhang Ji. He originally thought that the Han Dynasty was here to help them restore their country and help them regain the power of the nobles. Unexpectedly, the Han Dynasty was more ruthless than the Kushan Empire. The people of the Kushan Empire at most took them down and sent people to watch them, but did not execute them. As a result, the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was executing the nobles.

"Execute them in front of the people of the Xiangxiong tribe." Zhang Ji said calmly. He didn't care about the other party's curse or their collusion. If these Xiangxiong nobles were open-minded enough, if they were willing to accept the rule of the Han Dynasty, and stop making so-called magic tools and obey the Han Dynasty's decrees, Zhang Ji could let them go, but...

After the Han Dynasty took action, the Xiangxiong nobles who regained power not only did not feel grateful to the Han Dynasty, but also had some intention of being domineering, and even preached the so-called sectarian ideas, as if they wanted to override the Han Dynasty and fool the Han Dynasty's heavenly soldiers.

What, Qiang people? They are also the Han Dynasty's heavenly soldiers, fuck!

In short, this group of people disgusted Zhang Ji. He originally planned to endure it, but as the magic weapons collected became more and more weird, after a certain Xiangxiong noble jumped in his face, Zhang Ji directly issued a killing order. To be honest, if Zhang Ji had not been rational enough, just this wave of Xiangxiong nobles jumped in his face, Zhang Ji would really let these people feel why the saints said, do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you.

"Governor, we are almost at the core area of ​​the Xiangxiong Dynasty. The resistance here is much stronger than the previous area. Why don't you retreat first." After Lin Dai and Yang Pu joined forces, they came to see Zhang Ji as soon as possible. The Qiang people from all directions joined forces to strangle them. Under the premise of unity, they successfully broke into the core area of ​​the Xiangxiong Dynasty. You know, if the population of the Xiangxiong Dynasty is really to be talked about, it is more than the Qiang people in the Tibetan area.

However, facing the attack of the Qiang people, the Xiangxiong Dynasty had almost no resistance and was quickly penetrated into the core area.

Even in the core area, there was only some resistance.

"Sydney, retreat." Fuward looked at the Xiangxiong nobles who were hastily arranging the battle line at the foot of the mountain, and a sneer appeared on his lips. Fuward also felt relieved by the Han Dynasty's treatment of the Xiangxiong nobles. He had killed some Xiangxiong nobles who made him feel disgusted before, but in order to facilitate management, he finally stopped and let his elite troops under his command monitor these people.

However, after the Han Dynasty came, the Xiangxiong nobles finally suffered the punishment they deserved, which made Fuward very happy. If he could not continue to delay here, Fuward would definitely see how these disgusting nobles of the Xiangxiong Dynasty would be destroyed.

"There is a large group of young Qiang people in our northwest." Sidney informed Fuward of the intelligence he had collected.

"We can attack directly. With the situation in Tibet, we can take a detour, but if we don't take action when we leave, we will never get out of the Karakoram Corridor." Fuward said calmly, "Have you told the soldiers who are willing to follow us about the difficulties they will face along the way?"

I got up late, miserable. The high temperature holiday is really happy, but I can't get up