Three Kingdoms

The human heart itself is unstable and may change at any time.

Whether it is in Jiangdong or in the Western Regions.

The Western Region is undoubtedly a magical land full of contradictory but unified contradictions such as wealth and poverty, beauty and ugliness, barbarism and weakness, heat and bitter cold, etc.

However, no matter how magical the land is, if there are no humans, it will be meaningless to humans themselves.

This may be a bit idealistic, but it is also a certain reality.

Just like the Western Regions, no matter how good they are, if they are not beneficial to the Han people, then they are just like waste.

What Fei Qian needs to do is turn waste into treasure.

In other words, brush away the dust that originally shrouded this pearl in the Western Region, and fish out the nugget gold that settled under the water...

"If you want to obey it, you should know it." Fei Qian said slowly, "If you don't know what the Western Region is like, then what about the Western Region?" 』

Fei Qian was right about this.

Fei Qian's understanding of the Western Regions is deeper than that of all the Han people in the world, even more than the people of the Western Regions.

White clouds float slowly in the sky.

The troops on the ground marched slowly.

The tricolor flag trembled lazily in the wind.

Fei Qian looked around.

The Western Region in the early morning is undoubtedly very suitable for marching. When the morning sun rises slowly from the distant horizon. The creatures in the grassland and desert also woke up. The dew shines beautifully in the sun, like pearls falling on the earth. The mountains in the distance began to take off their gray-black robes, revealing their graceful figures.

Although it is winter, the soldiers wearing leather robes and cotton coats will not feel so cold.

What's more, it's not even the coldest time yet.

In the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, there was more vegetation than in later generations, especially the vegetation on the mountains. There are also more oases, shoals and water moorings in the Gobi...

The blue sky is completely blue.

White clouds are absolutely white.

This is a beautiful and magnificent scenery no matter what angle you look at it from, but the words between Fei Qian, Taishi Ci, and Zhang Liao are not so pure and flawless.

The more pure and pure the scenery, the more it sets off the filth of the human heart.

Because humans themselves grow by eating corpses, whether they are animal corpses or plant limbs. Perhaps only when humans can photosynthesize on their own can we match true purity and purity...

"There should be people in the Western Region. If there is no one, even if the land is rich, it is useless. Fei Qian still said slowly, "There must be Han people in the Western Regions." If there are no Han people, even if the land is filled with gold and silver, it will be of no use. 』

Taishi Ci and Zhang Liao nodded.

There is no doubt about this.

All human standards for judging whether things are beneficial or not, in this era, are basically based on whether they are beneficial to humans themselves. It will not be until later generations of humans open Pandora's box...

Who could have imagined that in future generations, humans would be extremely short-sighted? As long as he doesn't leave tomorrow, he can still sing and drink wine today, no matter how bad his next job is.

At the moment of the great Han Dynasty, Fei Qian can set a standard for Tai Shi Ci and others.

A standard that is more in line with the interests of the Han Dynasty.

In fact, it is not that no one has thought about this problem. It can even be said that not only Taishi Ci and Zhang Liao may understand it, but also the dozen or so governors in the Western Regions may have realized it. However, due to political reasons, They can only stay in the idea and cannot do it at all.

For example, when trying to win over people from the Western Region, the first priority is to win over people's hearts. Although the population brought by force or robbery can be used for a while, in the end it will only become the fire of destruction and the cornerstone of decline.

Excessive taxation and expropriation were the fuse of turmoil and rebellion within the Han Dynasty. Excessive occupation of the superstructure and misappropriation of the means of production and living was the fundamental contradiction of the periodic turmoil in the feudal dynasty.

Of course Fei Qian could not tell Taishi Ci and Zhang Liao what productivity they could say. He could only change it in a direction that was relatively easy for them to understand, "Whose land is the Western Region?" 』

"Of course..." Tai Shici responded subconsciously, but halfway through, he hesitated, "My lord, the Western Region should be the land of the Han Dynasty." 』

Fei Qian smiled and said, "The strong Han Dynasty means the land of Han Dynasty." 』

Taishi Ci and Zhang Liao looked at each other in silence.

On the other hand, if Han is weak...

Fei Qian pointed to the back of the queue, where there were some monks, or rather monks.

“Look, these people are just waiting for the big man to weaken. They are waiting, and the next generation is also waiting. Generations will continue to wait, but will the Han Dynasty be strong forever? How can we ensure permanent prosperity? ” Fei Qian said with a smile, “They seem to be well-behaved now, and they will even welcome death calmly... They are not afraid of death, and if you just kill them like this, it will actually make them successful... Do you know why? 』

Fei Qian did not kill these people.

Fei Qian had never seen Semu Ren as a monk before among the Han people. Now that he has arrived in the Western Regions, he has broadened his horizons. And similar to most feudal dynasties in history, these monks are obviously more knowledgeable and cultured than the average people in the Western Regions.

The old monk who called himself Busen could even speak more than a dozen languages, which made Fei Qian think he was an amazing talent. At least in terms of language talent, this old monk is extremely powerful. At the same time, this old monk not only understands various languages ​​in the Western Regions, but also knows many "secret scrolls"...

Religion, to some extent, at least here in the Western Regions, seems to have become another kind of Confucian scholar of the Han Dynasty.

Preserve knowledge, spread knowledge, and gain faith in the process.

Confucian scholars did almost similar work.

So in a feudal dynasty, after Confucianism became a religion, would it be useful to kill a few Confucian students?

Now in the Western Regions, it is the same. When the teachings of these foreign monks have become deeply rooted, can killing these few monks destroy the "religion" of these foreign monks in the Western Regions?

Obviously impossible.

It's like cutting the weeds in the desert of the Western Regions. Even if it is set on fire, it will look like a large area of ​​desolation. But wait until next spring, you will see fresh buds growing among the ruins and debris.

"Non-my family, its heart must be different. Zhang Liao whispered, "My lord, but I always feel that this sentence seems..."

Fei Qian nodded and motioned for Zhang Liao to continue.

Zhang Liao looked at Fei Qian, then at Tai Shici, and then said, "The distinction between good and evil is not so simple and direct." It is not my race. The difference between this race is more about the customs and the corresponding laws of the country... For example, in the Han Dynasty, murderers must pay with their lives, but in the grasslands and Gobi, killing people is just an ordinary thing... …This is the difference in customs and laws…”

Fei Qian laughed and nodded.

The sentence "If you are not of my race, your heart will be different" obviously has certain limitations, and it can even continue to evolve. For example, for Li Shimin, this sentence can be expressed as "If you are not my parent, your heart will be different." "Brothers will still be killed when they need to be killed, and some will go further. For example, Wu Zetian said, "If it's not me, his heart will be different." Even his own children can be killed...

Those who can only kill aliens will never become great.

Because there are so many "differents", even if they are killed for a while, no one in this generation dares to offend them, and then what about the next generation?

Different countries naturally have different struggles, and different regions naturally have disputes in different regions. Even within the same family, husbands, wives, grandparents, and other generations will have differences in cognitive perspectives. Is it possible that as long as they are "different," They all raised their swords to kill?

All unity is the product of compromise!

Don't think that compromise is dirty, and talking about politics is despicable. If there were no compromises in this world, only disputes, then there would be no basis for coexistence between Yan and Huang, and there would be no basis for China's existence.

"What Wen Yuan said is wonderful..." Fei Qian smiled and gestured to Taishi Ci and Zhang Liao, "Therefore, the road to the Western Regions is the four-character method, "seeking common ground while reserving differences"!" 』

Those who are not me must have different minds, but people must cooperate to achieve great things together, so they must "seek common ground."

I am Yan and you are Huang. Both of us hate Man You who wields a stone ax and chops or chops all day long. This is our "common", so we come together and take turns with him with a big stick!

Manyou was naturally unable to bear the bullying when Yanhuang attacked men from both sides, so he cursed and fled to South Vietnam with an axe.

Great victory for Yanhuang!

And from now on, China will have people of the same country, race, clan, hometown, classmates, and friends...

If there is no "sameness" on the so-called "physical" level, China can still create some "sameness" on the spiritual level, such as a common vision, the same ideals, etc.

Eventually, the highest form of "tong", the Tongdang, was formed among the Chinese feudal dynasties.

Talking about relationships is for talking about money and interests.

The purpose of party unity is to fight against differences.

Therefore, the more "difference" between powerful opponents, the closer the "sameness" can be promoted. Of course, after being "same", "differences" appear, and that is a matter of generation after generation. Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Guangyi were closely united brothers of the same race during the founding of the People's Republic of China. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, they became rivals in the struggle for power.

People who always believe in "sameness" will be treated like fools, and people who always believe in "different" will be beaten like fools. There are not many people who really believe in these "samenesses" who have a wonderful ending in history, while most of the people who don't believe in these "samenesses" at all have done nothing great, or are not even qualified to be on the stage of history. No.

After Fei sneaked into the Western Region, the Western Region Allied Forces collapsed instantly, like a snowman melting under the scorching sun. It looked a bit like something, but it was so soft that he couldn't lift it up. Even the head was carried by the old monk. in front of him.

If it is said to be a "conquer" in the Western Region, then it is already a success and it is over.

Because even the targets of Fei Qian's "conquest" are dead now. But just like that, I really feel that everything is fine, and the master has returned to the court. I believe that in the near future, a new Tashasa will appear.

The fire in the Western Region has been lit. Even if it cannot be seen now, this fire will spread like weeds in the Western Region, and it may eventually burn some people one day.

And now Fei Qian wants to let this flame burn in another direction...

To change the direction of a flame, you must first understand the structure of the flame. Know its origins, development path, and final evolution.

“First of all, who are you asking for agreement with? Fei Qian looked up at the green that appeared on the distant horizon, some panicked herdsmen, and the shadows of city walls and buildings farther away, and smiled, "We are here..."

This is Shanshan territory.

Although the Western Region Allied Forces had gathered a so-called 300,000 people and seemed to set the entire Western Region on fire, in fact, behind the front, many Western Region people still lived a life that was no different from usual, grazing and planting. .

The Han Dynasty was the first to open up the Silk Road in the Western Regions. Although the history of the Han Dynasty is written in black and white, well, the black characters on the wooden tablets describe how difficult, how difficult, how unswerving, and how persevering the Han people were, and finally created the Western Region Silk Road. Along the way, prosperous commercial exchanges and trade exchanges have developed.

Well, the butt is on the big man's side, of course you can say that.

But in fact, you must know that all official texts will have some written and unwritten things...

According to the Han Dynasty for three to four hundred years, farmers who clamored to be farming-oriented and did not cultivate the fields were considered refugees. They were beaten to death and ignored by the social structure of the highly agricultural and small-scale peasant economy. How many people would have such a strong Business spirit, heading to the distant and unknown Western Region? Therefore, the real Silk Road in the Western Regions was not taken by the Han people on their own initiative. It was a route pioneered first by the Tocharians, and then a large number of Li Te people traveled back and forth. Compared with the local Chinese farming people who do not like to stay away from their homeland and want to return to their roots when they die, the Tocharians may have been constantly migrating throughout the millennium, while the Lite people seem to have been doing business forever...

It can even be said that these have become a habit and a way of life for the Tocharians and Lit people.

Of course, that doesn’t mean that no Semu people stopped to settle down.

During the thousands of years of migration, many Tocharians stopped and formed different tribes or states, large or small.

Therefore, on the Silk Road in the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, in fact, more of these Western Regions people grabbed the camel hair and brought the goods to the Han Dynasty, and then returned to the Western Regions with the goods, or went further to places, such as Jiangdong and so on. of……

So Sun Shiwan’s blue eyes and purple beard...

Cough cough cough.

Obviously, it does not make much sense to talk about human race on the time scale of geological time, because no matter what their skin color is, black, white, brown or yellow, they are actually the children and grandchildren of "mitochondrial Eve". No matter where the future generations are distributed, most of them are one hundred thousand years old. Descendants of human ancestors who left Africa before. On a time scale of thousands of years, it is also meaningless to talk about the nation and its righteousness.

Moreover, there is a "conjecture" from later archeology that the rise of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the tyranny of the Zhou people are actually related to the Tocharians. This archaeological conjecture somewhat makes China, which claims to be the center of the world, a little uncomfortable mentally, so many people are reluctant to mention it, but bronzes and chariots are a bit embarrassing to really study...

Of course, the above so-called conjectures may also be pure nonsense.

Fei Qian didn't know what the real situation was during the Zhou Dynasty. He just knew that China was just a concept, that is, the largest "sameness". To make this "sameness" become bigger and bigger, what needs to be done It is to maintain this concept and spread this concept to more people.

Fei Qian looked back at the Fan monks in the queue. Perhaps from a certain perspective, what Fei Qian was doing now was actually similar to what the old monk Fan was doing.

sowing.

Look at the clouds rolling and relaxing.

Waiting for the flowers to bloom, fall, and bear fruit.

To sow seeds, of course you have to find a good place, dig, dig, dig...

The first person Fei Qian found was Shanshan.

Fei Qian smiled, like a farmer wielding a small hoe, eyeing a piece of fertile land.

This land is the kingdom that will disappear in the future, Loulan. Of course, it is now called Shanshan. The oasis kingdom in Loulan is the most powerful... well, maybe it can't be called powerful, it can only be said to be unique. After all, in a region like the Western Region, surrounded by mountains and desert in the middle, to have such a large oasis and successfully establish a country, from a certain perspective, Loulan was enough to intimidate the surrounding areas at the beginning.

Whether Loulan or Shanshan, when it was the earliest and largest, it was said that the entire oasis stretched for nearly a thousand miles, but now it is at least more than 800 miles. After another hundred or two hundred years, this oasis will gradually shrink and eventually disappear.

It's just that the decline of the Shanshan country was reflected earlier than the shrinkage of the topography.

Just like the little prince of Shanshan now, he is trying to pretend to be a pure little lamb in front of Fei Qian.

The reason why it is called "pretending" is because Fei Qian knew that when the little prince stared at the monks in Busen, his eyes were full of naked hatred. The reason was that the monks chose to support his uncle Tong Geluojia. not him.

This may be just the first time that the flowers in the greenhouse have suffered such a big storm, so they are completely disappointed with the world, but then the little prince's attitude towards his own people made Fei Qian see an opportunity to poach.

In today's era, ordinary people are often not regarded as human beings. Whether it is the Han Dynasty or the Western Regions, the upper class people often regard ordinary people as ants. This is also true for the little prince and the noble children of the noble families in the Han Dynasty. There is not much difference, except that the children of the noble families in the Han Dynasty still know how to package themselves and put a layer of kindness on themselves, and the little prince may have lost his parents early, or his own education may have appeared. The major inheritance deviation makes the little prince's attitude towards the lives of his men basically completely materialistic.

Perhaps his men had done something wrong, perhaps he was just angry at being abandoned, or had some other emotional attack. The little prince simply killed his men, peeled off their skin, and Made into leather goods…

The key is that it was done in front of everyone.

The attitude of admiring the strong and bullying the weak reminded Fei Qian of certain people.

Fei Qian didn't want to be the little prince's parent, nor did he want to bother educating and correcting him. However, it was acceptable to use the little prince's own shortcomings to implement the grand strategy of "seeking common ground while reserving differences" in the Western Regions.

"Have you thought about the Chinese name you chose?" Fei Qian called the little prince from Shanshan and asked with a smile, "Unlike your uncle Wang, whose name is Tong or something like that. It's not nice to hear and hard to remember..."

If the old monk Busen were here, he would probably know Fei Qian's sinister intentions.

This set of methods was actually learned by Fei Qian from later generations of companies...