Three Kingdoms

Jia Xu has been a little annoyed these past two days.

For Jia Xu, whose biggest dream is to eat and die and wait for death, well, let’s add a prerequisite, to eat and wait for death. Nothing bothers Jia Xu more than when he received an order from his boss to work overtime during Mu Xiu.

Doing something in the Western Region?

What kind of bad order is this?

Do you need to go out of your way to do anything in this poor place like the Western Region?

It’s something every day!

Jia Xu sighed and returned to the political hall in Youfufeng. He either approved and issued the document in hand, or had it transferred to Chang'an for Fei Qian to judge. After a few strokes, he finished it, then put down his pen and took a paper. He unrolled the scroll, then frowned and lowered his head, seeming to be reading the scroll seriously, but in fact, Jia Xu was in a daze...

Seeing this, Jia Xu's subordinates tiptoed carefully and walked by as silently as possible, for fear of affecting Jia Xu's thoughts.

If the entire Han Dynasty is compared to a large national company, then Fei Qian is the regional president, and Jia Xu is the general manager of the regional branch. Although ordinary people may not have much feeling for the general manager of a branch. , but for small officials within the company, not to mention branches, the general manager of a branch company is already the pinnacle of their career, so naturally they will not easily leave a bad impression in front of Jia Xu. .

To be honest, Jia Xu had no choice but to defect to Fei Qian back then. However, after all these years, he found that he was very comfortable here in Fei Qian. As a result of his late-stage laziness, he immediately didn’t want to think about changing jobs. .

When he joined Dong Zhuo, it was just because of Li Ru. As for the trouble in Guanzhong, it was also because he felt that Li Ru had suffered injustice and vented his anger on Li Ru's behalf. As for his loyalty to the Han Dynasty, Jia Xu did not have it, but it was not much. , probably belongs to the type where there is more than enough than above.

Therefore, on the whole, Jia Xu generally felt that he was doing well under Fei Qian, the regional president. Therefore, after receiving Fei Qian's order, although he was somewhat unhappy about having the plan disrupted, he still behaved obediently. I interrupted my vacation and returned to the political hall.

The Western Region is in chaos.

The chaos was so great that even after three to four hundred years, the Han Dynasty still had not fully figured out how many countries there were in the Western Regions.

During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, in the third year of Jianyuan, Zhang Qian went on a mission to the Western Regions and reported back that there were thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, such as Qiuci, Yanqi, Ruoqiang, Loulan, Qiemo, Xiaowan, Ronglu, Mi, and Qu Le, Pishan, Xiye, Puli, Yinai, Yarkand, etc...

But in fact, when describing numbers in ancient times, imaginary numbers were mostly used. Therefore, in fact, there were not only thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, but also more than double. This is just because some of these Western Regions countries are really too small. It is small, and it is still there today, but may disappear tomorrow. Therefore, overall, only a few relatively famous national names remain.

Perhaps for other people, it would be quite difficult when facing the numerous countries in the Western Regions, and they would not know how to intervene, or even have no clue at all, but for Jia Xu, this matter is actually not too difficult.

The Western Regions cannot be developed country by country according to ordinary people's concepts...

Because all these countries have is one city! Or think of the Western Region as the Warring States Period of Japan. Those who occupy one city can be called a great name, and those who occupy several cities can be called a powerful country. Therefore, we must really do it country by country. It's simply too much trouble.

Therefore, Jia Xu decided to put aside these cumbersome and chaotic countries in the Western Regions and start from another angle. For the Western Region, countries may rise and fall, but when it comes to race, it is relatively simple.

The first is naturally the Yuezhi, the big Yuezhi and the small Yuezhi. The Yuezhi people were more active in the Hexi Corridor of the Western Regions during the Warring States Period. They were also very powerful during the Qin Dynasty, and even despised the more barbaric and low-end Huns. After all, the famous Xiongnu Chanyu, Maodun, was once a Xiongnu. The hostages were detained in Yuezhi.

The Yueshi also attacked the Wusun, and after killing their king, it was difficult for them to occupy the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains. The overall power was once strong, but the good times did not last long. Then Wusun killed the Yueshi, and then the Xiongnu took the opportunity to attack the Yueshi again, and After killing the Yuezhi King, the Yuezhi people had to migrate away. It was not until the Daxia generation that they gradually controlled the land of Daxia and became relatively stable.

After the Yuezhi, there is naturally the Wusun.

Wusun was originally just a small country huddled next to the Yueshi. After King Wusun was killed by the Yueshi, his son was still in infancy and was adopted by the Xiongnu Chanyu. When Prince Wusun grew up, he staged a scene of revenge. With the support of the Huns, he led Wusun to move westward to pursue the Dayue clan in order to avenge the murder of his father. As a result, the Yuezhi were defeated and forced to move south. Wusun then occupied the Ili River Basin, replacing the original position of the Yuezhi.

Then in the Western Regions, those who have loved and killed the Han people for many years are naturally the various Qiang people.

This part is not a big problem. Now that the hussar generals have strong troops and horses, these Qiang people who are closer to Longyou are obedient, pretending to be good babies, and turning their bellies out to show their goodwill. As for those who are relatively remote, they may still feel that they are far away from the emperor and the Han people cannot control them, so they are still somewhat arrogant...

Of course, there are still some Huns left in the Western Regions, but these Huns have generally either joined other tribesmen, or have abandoned the name of the Huns, and belong to the empire. The glory is no longer, the sunset The end of the road type.

However, for Jia Xu, since he wants to do something, he naturally has to pick someone with a big problem to do it...

It's like a child throwing firecrackers during the Chinese New Year. What's the point of throwing them on the ground? How much attention can it attract?

Jia Xu suddenly thought of something, so he picked up the pen, pulled a piece of paper from the side, and wrote a large piece of eloquent ink with the pen and ink. Then he lifted it up and gently blew the ink dry. Then he took a special bamboo tube, packed it, filled it with wax to seal it, and used a seal to cover the wax while it was hot...

"Come here! Send this horse to General Hussars quickly!"

After Jia Xu finished giving the instructions, he shook off his sleeves and stood up, preparing to go home first to make up for the unfinished vacation. After all, if he really wanted to implement it, he would have to go to the Western Regions...

But this is not bad, at least you can travel at official expense, and you can also meet Li Ru. Do you know that there is no difference between the beef and mutton in the Western Region and Longyou?

Jia Xu swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and a smile appeared on his face...

...Here is the dividing line for struggling to code...

"Yunrong?" Fei Qian saw Jia Xu's report and had some doubts about Jia Xu's plan to use the Yunrong people as leverage to leverage the entire Western Region.

Is Yunrong a branch of the Rong people?

Or an alien race?

Fei Qian turned to look at Pang Tong, waved and said, "Come on, Pang Shiyuan, who is known as a knowledgeable and powerful memorizer, does he know what a 'Yunrong' is?"

"What cloud and what dragon?" Pang Tong had been curious for a long time. After hearing this, he took Jia Xu's letter and looked it up and down. He generally understood what Jia Xu meant, "Yunrong? Wait... um , I seem to have seen it somewhere... Let me think about it, think about it..."

Fei Qian waited quietly, watching Pang Tong raise his head upward, open his mouth slightly, and his eyes were dull, like a fat black bird waiting for food...

The fat black bird suddenly trembled, "Come here! Go and fetch Ban Dingyuan's "Inviting Soldiers to Conquer the Western Regions" from the third row on the C shelf in a certain study room!"

The attendant waiting outside the political hall had just received the order to leave, and Pang Tong shouted again: "Wait! Forget it, bring "A Letter to Ask for Sui" and "A Letter to Comfort Wusun" together, and that one Ma Jichang's "Ban Ding's Notes on the Far Western Regions" on the T-stand is also brought here!"

The attendant took the order again and hurried away.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is moving, because although Fei Qian began to build a papermaking workshop because he obtained the bamboo resources in Sichuan and Sichuan, naturally all the previous books and documents have not been completely transformed into paper. Most of the books are still bamboo slips. Such a roll is naturally heavy and cumbersome.

In fact, Yanhuang was also a minority at the beginning, separated from the Shaodian clan. Huangdi lived in the Jishui basin, and Yandi lived near Jiangshui, which was a branch of Weishui. Later, Huangdi Yandi's tribe and the surrounding tribes The tribes mixed and merged, and some ancient tribes that did not follow the Yan and Huang migrations eastward gradually formed the Di people, Qiang people, Rong people, and Di people...

The records of the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty are indeed sparse, and even in later dynasties, there are very few detailed descriptions of the Western Regions. On the one hand, these countries in the Western Regions are complicated and difficult to sort out, and on the other hand, because regardless of the Spring and Autumn Period, The Warring States, the Han Dynasty, and even the Tang and Ming Dynasties were all busy reunifying from division, and then falling into the vicious circle of division. The nobles of these aristocratic families in the Central Plains were also busy fighting for power and annexing the population in the Central Plains. Very few people would Their eyes have turned to the more distant Western Regions. Therefore, among most Chinese dynasties, their understanding of the Western Regions is limited, and they even have an attitude of giving up completely.

Each of the three attendants came holding a lacquer plate and lined up in the hall.

Pang Tong stepped forward, opened the bamboo slips, and searched quickly. After a while, he held a roll of bamboo slips in one hand and said with a smile: "Found it! Haha, it's right here!"

What Pang Tong found was Ban Chao's "Shangyan Yi comforts Wusun" and Ma Rong's description of the relationship between Wusun, Yuezhi and Yunrong in Ban Chao's article, "... Wusun Lei attached to Yueshi at that time, and later rebelled. But if they occupy it, the Yueshi will be defeated and run westward, swallowing up Yunrong's land..."

Fei Qian looked back and forth several times and said: "So, Yun Rong is to the west of the Yueshi? Although it is a distant relationship and a close attack, what about this Yun Rong... exactly?"

Pang Tong thought for a while and said: "Yunrong first started in Saidi, and was later divided into four tribes. Dayuan and Daxia were two of them... The other two tribes were called Kangju and Yancai... Yancai was also Call Alan and chat..."

Fei Qian listened and thought, so Yun Rong should be regarded as an indigenous person who originally lived between Asia and Europe in the early days?

In fact, Yunrong was the name given to the Sai people by the Han Dynasty people.

Because nomadic peoples cannot live in a fixed place and have relatively fixed output to ensure a relatively fixed life like farming peoples, most of their time has to be consumed in the process of nomadic life. Therefore, people who climbed on branches such as early science and technology culture The speed is very slow.

The same goes for Yun Rong.

In the early days of Central Eurasia, there was not much competition. On the contrary, in China, on the one hand, science and technology were rising rapidly, and on the other hand, there were more wars. Therefore, in terms of combat effectiveness, or how to conduct wars, On the Internet, a domino effect often occurs. A typical example is that the Han Dynasty drove away the Huns, and then the Huns ran all the way, crushing Asia and Europe, and crushing them all the way to the Mediterranean...

Just like Wusun defeated Da Yuezhi back then, and then Da Yuezhi backhanded Daxia. Then Daxia was forced to move west and south, and then Daxia slapped the Bidaxia people again. A group of small countries in the more comfortable Kashmir region.

They influence each other during war and merge with each other under war.

The collision between barbarism and civilization has always been the most significant conflict in war.

"In this way, this Yunrong can indeed be used as a seesaw to stir up all the things that have settled down between the countries in the Western Region..." Fei Qian laughed and said softly He patted the table and said, "Wen He made a good choice..."

Whether it is distant friendship or close attack, everyone seems to understand it when talking about it, but the specific choice cannot be solved with just four words, and Yunrong is undoubtedly with Dayue, Wusun, and even more distant Central Asia. A board with connections to many countries is indeed a very appropriate choice.

"Although most of Yunrong has moved away, but..." Pang Tong also nodded and said, "There are still many people left among the Yuezhi and Wusun... So if it works properly, these people... Haha …”

Fei Qian nodded, "In this case, Wen He's plan is approved..."

Anyway, according to Jia Xu's plan, the investment is not actually very large, but it is still the same old thing, just dividing and instigating, but things are often like this, the simpler things are often the more effective.

"By the way... Anyway, I am idle now..." Fei Qian said, "For the west side, we will generally follow Wenhe's policy first... For the north side, I think you can also think of something to do it. Are these guys moving?"

Since the Han Dynasty has no way to settle down for the time being, how can they let the surrounding nomads squat quietly and watch the show?

You always have to find something for these guys to do, and you can’t let these energetic guys idle...