The spread of majesty to the Han family began with the Han army's footing in the Western Regions, and the Han army's attack on Dawan as a watershed.
Before the Han army set foot in the Western Regions, the Silk Road had actually been opened to the west with Zhang Qian.
At that time, merchants carried goods from Hexi through the countries of the Western Regions, and everywhere they went, they would suffer from harassment and harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and in fact, there was no guarantee of safety at all.
The history books written by people record that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che did not hesitate to fight for a few horses, or it is recorded that Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty spoiled Li Guangli, the general of the second division, before launching the war against Dawan.
If we can find one thing from the history books, we can draw a fact from some pulses, that the Han army's attack on the Western Regions at that time was not the will of one or two people, or even the conspiracy of a single interest group, but an almost national desire.
What was the social mood at that time, the military group needed a battlefield to make achievements, the nobles and the noble clans needed to teach the people of the Western Regions a lesson because of the repeated losses of the merchants they controlled in the Western Regions, and the Confucian Ram faction, which was the most beautiful at that time, needed to prove the seriousness of its doctrine by slamming the Western Regions, and the people of the whole country also felt that the people of the Western Regions who had been killing their own clan needed to be taught a lesson.
The battle of Dawan was a new beginning for the Han people to step towards the Western Regions, and it was also a strategic layout of the Han Dynasty's war against the Xiongnu at that time.
That's because as long as a Han person dies, there will be a Han army roaring behind, and it is naturally best to hand over the murderer, if the murderer cannot be handed over, the Han army roars "revenge" and kills an entire tribe or town.
The army is so powerful, since then the Han people in the Western Regions are a special class, and the people of the Western Regions really regard the Han people as their ancestors.
The reason why "Han" changed from a country name to the name of a nation is the strength of the Han Empire's military force, and it is also the Han Empire's efforts to ensure that every Han person can be served by a foreign race as an ancestor in a foreign land.
It is precisely because of the pride of the Han Empire that later generations have nostalgia and pursuit, and the name of the nation was born.
A country that is unwilling to wage war for the people of the country will not get the slightest nostalgia, and even cruel and tyrannical at home, weak and incompetent externally, ignorant and ignorant of the people at home, and regarded the people outside as "outcasts", firmly believing that they are "thieves", how many people are willing to defend such a country in the face of survival Liu Yan knows one thing deeply, at least in the spirit left by the Han Empire, whether or not he controls the Western Regions is a "test".
The importance of the Western Regions to the Central Plains Dynasty is infinitely high, so that Cao Wei still gritted his teeth and marched into the Western Regions when facing the severe civil war, which also made Cao Wei further recognized by the people of the Central Plains.
In the following dynasties, those who can control the Western Regions are strong countries, and those who cannot control the Western Regions are weak chickens.
Facts have also proved the importance of whether or not you can control the Western Regions to the Central Plains Dynasty, and if you can control the Western Regions, you will be strong for at least one generation, and if you can't control the Western Regions, you will be a weak chicken in the real sense from the founding of the country to the death of the country.
In fact, not only the "Central Empire" has such an awareness, but the whole world evaluates the Central Plains Dynasty by whether it can control the Western Regions.
That is a very simple truth, the Western Regions are too far away from the core of the Central Plains, since the Central Plains Dynasty can control the Western Regions, it naturally means that the hinterland of the Central Plains Dynasty must be stable, and the national strength is strong to have the ability to stretch out its hand so far.
Another point is that the Western Regions are a window of exchange between East and Central Asia and even the far West.
To use a simple analogy, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty were not necessarily really weak in the real sense, at least they had strong economic and cultural strength, but at that time, many Central Asian countries did not know the existence of the "Song" state at all, because their exchanges with the "Song" were cut off by the Liao and Jin states.
Waiting for the Arabs to rise to master the sea route, Europa even regarded Liao as the "Zhengshuo" country of East Asia.
In the current generation, after enduring the misery of being inferior to the beast, the establishment of a new country belonging to the Han people is the most important time for self-esteem and self-esteem to be the most fragile.
At the same time of revenge, fame and fortune also follow, and people will only subconsciously forget the people who died in battle, and envy the people who have won military merits and changed their lives.
They looked around, as if those alien races who had oppressed them had either been killed, or there were only a handful left to survive, and for a while there was only one thought, but revenge could no longer be satisfied, and more enemies were needed, more frontiers where they could make contributions.
The war of the Han Dynasty against the Gupta Dynasty is a manifestation, under the premise of pursuing profitable military merits, what if you are not familiar with navigation, it is not a problem to fight across the sea for thousands of miles, we Han people are to learn from the ancestors of the Han Dynasty, that is, we are not afraid of hardships, we are not afraid of the long road, as long as there is a military function, anyway, it is to do it The use of troops against the Gupta Dynasty will be very limited, and it can only satisfy the pursuit of military merit by a very small number of people, and the one who has not been able to intervene is called eagerness, especially in the middle and lower classes.
This middle and lower class refers not only to the military, but also to countless ordinary people who want to change the trajectory of their lives.
The country is in ruins, and it is necessary to lick the wounds and restore internal affairs, which is something that the senior central ministers and civil officials who govern the country need to consider, and the military generals are not unaware of this, but they are military generals For military generals, they never need to think about the country's hardship or anything, what they want is to find the enemy, kill the enemy, and it is the highest glory to be able to destroy their country, and it is enough to focus on this.
"Opportunity" Xu Zheng couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart: "Persians, they are simply good people."
A group of generals nodded violently, for them, it was far from enough to use troops against the Gupta Dynasty, there would be more troops, and if they died, they would add another standing army to participate in the war.
And a standing army is far from enough for them, and they can only stuff in one general, three captains, and five military marquis, which is simply a wolf with more meat and less meat.
Not to mention the officers, a standing army of 15,000 people who can withstand the temptation of the expedition, they want to increase their own acres, want a few more slaves, want to take the title to the next level, honestly stay in the sky, except for rain and snow, nothing can be smashed on the head, there are too many wants are based on the expedition The reason why the Qin army in the past rejoiced when they heard the war was because everything they wanted to obtain could be obtained on the battlefield The first Han is basically the same as the Qin army, and it can even be said that the first Han attaches more importance to military merits and respects military merits than the pre-Qin Dynasty, among which there is a clause "non-military merits are not allowed to be crowned marquis", even if it is something from the uncle of the country, you need to at least go to the battlefield to walk, so that you will not be criticized and can get more respect.
During the period of Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty, the previous nobles could be swept into the garbage heap, but the heroes who made meritorious contributions on the battlefield appeared again and again, and they all got unimaginable benefits, and the result was that the whole nation rose up, and all of them became war maniacs.
"One division in the grassland, one army in the northeast, two armies in Longxi, and two armies in the Pingman Captain's Department" Ran Min picked his teeth after eating meat, and said very dissatisfiedly: "Too little, too little." ” Ran Min had just returned from the grassland, and before he came back, he personally took a song to the territory of Xigaoche and walked around, killing the one that made people's heads roll.
Following a song on the expedition, the living, the dead, and the crippled have at least one of the military merits of beheading, and more of them are to have a knighthood "second-level jump", if it is not for the relevant restrictions of the twentieth rank, if you only rely on the enemy's first-level merit, it will not be just a knighthood "second-level jump".
The king's inspection team has reversed and returned to Chang'an, and it is almost another year of debriefing, and those who should return to the center will come back one after another.
"It's not that the king doesn't want to recover the Western Regions, it's just" Ran Min said unabashedly: "It's just that those people point out that civil officials are too capable of." ” How could Liu Yan give up recovering the Western Regions, it is not so simple to recover the Western Regions.
If the army is only dispatched to march into the Western Regions, it is unknown to what extent the Han army will encounter resistance, but the countries in the Western Regions will definitely not be able to withstand the "reconquest" of the Han State, and the Han army will not be able to defeat it once, so it will fight a second and third time, until the Western Regions return to the embrace of the Han people.
The reason why it is said that the Han State is complicated to recover the Western Regions is that Liu Yan did not think that the Western Regions was the end of the Han army's conquest at the beginning, but on the contrary, the Han army's outward conquest.
It is precisely because the Western Regions were conquered by the Han army to the west, how to recover the Western Regions, and what actions should be taken after the Western Regions are recovered, that is, it is worth thinking about and deploying, and even related to the future national trend of the Han people.
Xu Zheng, Ran Min and some others, when they reached their level, they basically had to know the things they should know, including why Liu Yan delayed the recovery of the Western Regions.
"We didn't know what Sasanian was like before, but now it's a bit of a judgment."
Xu Zheng said one of the reasons why Liu Yan delayed the recovery of the Western Regions, and said: "The king's concern is that the internal affairs of the Han Dynasty are not repaired, and immediately after the recovery of the Western Regions, he will make enemies with Sassanid, and even war will break out. ” It's no nonsense, Liu Yan really had to think about it before, such as whether the recovery of the Western Regions would immediately break out a national war with the Persian Sassanids.
After all, he really didn't know that Persian Sasanid troubles were also a lot, and he didn't even know that there were Hunnites between the Western Regions and Persian Sasanids, but he remembered that the Tang Army ran into the Arab Empire because of the recovery of the Western Regions, and the two sides really fought because of the ownership of the Western Regions.
A country has not yet come out of the trauma of war, the domestic ruins are everywhere, and the fields are full of barrenness, such a country really has no confidence to break out any national war, especially with a powerful country.
Liu Yan's plan to recover the Western Regions should give the Han State ten years to deal with and build internal affairs.
It's not that nothing is done in the middle, such as completely sweeping Murong Xianbei and Tuoba Xianbei into the garbage heap of history, crippling Rouran or directly eliminating it, and even the Donggao car should be destroyed, completely cutting off the threat from the east, and then marching westward.
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Now, the Han State already knew that the Persian Sassanid itself had fallen into the mud pit, not to mention the continuous domestic rebellion, and the war against Rome was not going well, which meant that the Han State would not encounter a threat from the Persian Sassanid to the west.
In addition, the Persian Sassanids seem to be eager for the Han to go west, or at least welcome the Han state to regain control of the Western Regions.
On the one hand, it doesn't matter to the Han State, the Persians welcome it or not, the Han people want to take back the Western Regions and it is their business, and what the Han State is worried about is the outbreak of a national war under the premise of insufficient preparation. is as fierce as Ran Min, and he also knows that when the country is in a mess, he really can't fight with a powerful country, especially if he can communicate with each other by land.
Like the Gupta Dynasty, who took the sea route, it has to be said that the Han Kingdom was very unfamiliar with the sea, and because of the strangeness, I really didn't think about the defeat of the Han army in the front, and whether Ah San would kill him.
"The king has moved."
What Xu Zheng said was that Liu Yan ordered Xie An to deal with the enemy army in Xiqiang Mountain within a year: "But it is the opportunity I am waiting for." ” Liu Yan did not directly say that he was going to march into the Western Regions, but his order to Xie An had already explained everything, and if he did not solve the troubles of Longxi County, how could the Han army advance westward when there was a threat on the way.
"But we can't wait for us to make a noise."
Li Tan still spoke up on this occasion: "You need to be like a first Han." ” If you don't have any culture, you really don't understand what Li Tan means, it's nothing more than the old things of the Western Han Dynasty, and the war against the Xiongnu is the will of the whole country, not something that a few simple people can promote.
Xu Zheng nodded immediately: "That's exactly how it should be." ” Xie An didn't want to speak, but when it came time to say: "What is the limit?"
Xie An is talking about marching into the Western Regions, but how many troops to use, what is the scale, and what is the goal, that is because it involves the westward expansion policy of the Han State after the recapture of the Western Regions.
Except for Liu Yan, no one could answer Xie An, and everyone, including Xu Zheng, the captain, could only execute what Liu Yan wanted.
"Anyway, let's stop the crowd first."
Ran Min is so direct: "The rest is just as Ruicai said, and the momentum must be raised." ” The warriors didn't get dazed, they also knew that internal affairs still had to be built, but they couldn't wait that long.
Now that they have the opportunity to enter the Western Regions, even if they take back the excuse of regaining the bridgehead of the Western Regions to operate the west, it is definitely a reasonable reason, the problem is that they still need to clear the obstacles, for example, Liu Yan has made it clear that he wants to repair internal affairs and cannot change the order overnight.
"It's not enough to have a voice."
Xie An is destined to know more about it than everyone who is not from a family, and he said: "It is true that the king conforms to the will of the king, but it is still not enough. ” At that moment, Xie An said a little bit about the bends and bends, such as what prerequisites should be for the king to overturn his previous decision, and some people's eyes were straight, and many people really didn't know that a matter could be so complicated.
"It's just to let the people of the Western Regions jump up first, so that we have an excuse to do it" Ran Min couldn't help but complain: "It's so complicated." ”: