As a young man who is seventeen years old, Liu Yi has a lot of experience in the circle of friends.It's not just getting married early.Also because his footprints are all over the Sanfu area, he has gone up and down the five tombs many times to pay tribute to the demeanor of the ancestors.Buried in Changling is Emperor Taizu Gao, I heard that he was the same as himself in the first half of his life, he was a good traveler, wandering around, but in the second half of his life, he was a golden iron horse, majestic and heroic, and created a great cause of covering Qin in three years and destroying Chu in four years.And Emperor Taizong Xiao of Baling is also the object of Liu Ai's admiration, in addition to slander, to corporal punishment, to punish lightly, Qianshou is rich.In the process of wandering Sanfu, Liu Yi has consciously or unintentionally observed the sufferings of the people and the gains and losses of the officials.He had seen men who had been tortured in prison for minor trespasses and had lost their arms and legs, heard the heart-rending cries of women whose husbands had been lost by war, and the poor people of Luzuo who were hungry and shivering in the cold wind.And what these people never forget is the world of filial piety, I heard that at that time, everyone could eat a full stomach, and there was no war in the world.Leave Baling, return to the north bank of Weishui, and then go all the way to the west, you can see the majestic Maoling in the distance, this mausoleum is really magnificent, I heard that it took 53 years to build.However, every time he came here, facing his great-grandfather, Liu was already a little painful.The name of the emperor's great-grandson comes from him, and the destruction of Prince Wei comes from him, he brought glory and pinnacle to the Han Dynasty, and also made the world fall into the abyss.Among them, the merits and demerits are debated endlessly.This is also the reason why more than ten years have passed, but the imperial court has not given Emperor Xiaowu a temple number.And between the east side of Maoling and Wei Qing's tomb, there is a vacant land, which should have been where the Houling Tomb is located, but the "Empress Xiaowu" who later accompanied Emperor Xiaowu was Mrs.
Li, not her great-grandmother Empress Wei.Liu Ai has gone to the south of the city to find the tomb of Empress Wei, no sealed soil, no tombstone, simple as a common people, buried in a small coffin in the Tongbai Pavilion less than five miles away from Chang'an's Gate, the location is opposite the Changle Palace where she lived before her death.The emperor's mausoleum everywhere allows him to find the past of his bloodline, but Liu Ai has loved to go to the place between Du County and Ju County, where the family is a good gift, the rich are businessmen for profit, and the heroes are rangers and adultery, he has contacts with the three, and there are also festivals in Lu, Ming Zhu and Zhao Xuan, wearing masks, mixing in them, which can make people forget their identity and have fun.It is probably the experience of being locked up in prison for five years when he was a child, so that Liu Ai has the same nature as his ancestor Liu Bang, and he is good at traveling.He has been to Xiayang Longmen as far as possible, just to take his bride Xu Pingjun to see the spectacular waterfall, holding his wife's hand in the roar of the waterfall, and vowing that the mountain is edgeless and the sky is together, and he dares to be with you.But now, Liu Yi was stunned to find that the places he had walked over the years were just a small circle the size of a palm on this huge map.Chang'an City, which takes a whole day to walk around the city wall, is directly a small box, and countless roads start from here, leading in all directions, extending a vast world that Liu Yi has never imagined."
It turns out that the world is really so big."
This map is two zhang long and eight feet wide, and it is still just a sketch, according to the habit of Han Dynasty cartography, it is up to the south and down to the north, left to the east and the right to the west, and the opposite of later generations, so Ren Hong always feels a little awkward, but he can only follow the local customs.Although I have also heard some rumors about the Western Regions, it was not until those unfamiliar place names were actually implemented on the map, and compared left and right, that Liu Ai had already realized: "I didn't expect that the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions combined, the area is about the same size as the Central Plains." ”After all, the future generations are also one-sixth of the country, can it not be big, often a county tops the interior of a province.At this time, Han Dangdang and the two also came in, and every time Ren Hong pointed to a place, Lao Han began to blow up the adventures and deeds of the past.The white dragon pile with the dead man's skeleton as the road signpost, the assassination of Loulan City, the liking of Shanshan King, and the miracle of the iron gate building the city overnight.The dangerous escape in the city of Qiuzi, the strange customs of the Sogdians, the cold miasma on the Tianshan Mountains that strangle people's necks and make you unable to breathe.There are also the vast Wusun grassland, the Atami Basin that does not freeze in the harsh winter, and the fearless charge outside Luntai City, each of these stories is a bloody adventure, Liu Yi has been fascinated by it, and can't help but say: "I have always admired the ranger, and now it seems that his generation is just a thief and a resident of the world."
Like Yiyang Hou and Xi'an Hou, who are rampant in foreign lands with swords, they are real heroes!
That's how it should be!
”Hey, hey, hey, that's nonsense.This sentence "the husband should be like this" almost made Ren Hong laugh out loud, and said forcibly: "Actually, the place I have walked through is only a corner of the world."
To the west of the Green Ridge, it is more extensive than the Western Regions.Turning over the green ridge, it is the Dawan of the second division of the general's conquest, the northwest of Dawan is Kangju, the west is the Dayue clan, the west of the Dayue clan is rest, the south is the place where the Han people have explored the place, far beyond the imagination of later generations, Zhang Qian took the two people of Tangyi and the father of Tangyi, and has run to the Dayue clan and the Indian Greek kingdom known as "Daxia", that is, the area of Afghanistan and Pakistan in Central Asia in the later generations.After that, the envoys sent by the Han Dynasty also went to Iran, the resting country, just in time for the war between the resting people and the Cypriots, to recover the Mulu Oasis.In order to show off his strength, King Anxi let the triumphant 20,000 cavalry directly escort the Han envoy into the country, and its capital was named "Fandou City", which went to Chang'an for 11,600 miles.I heard the last envoy say that more than ten years ago, the capital was moved to Ctesiphon, which was located near Baghdad, Iraq, which was the farthest place that the Han people had ever visited.As for the poison of India, the Aral Sea and the Caspian Sea, the Tiaozhi Syria, and the Lixuan Ptolemaic Egypt, because of the long distance, the Han envoys did not arrive in person, and only heard of their names in Anxib and Bactria .Further west, because of the many small states in Asia Minor, the Han people had not yet come into contact with Rome, but the silk of the Han Dynasty had already rested in the hands of the people and was sold first.These places were all specific to the map by Ren Hong, and only left some blanks in the "West Sea" west of Tiaozhi and Lixuan, which has not yet been drawn, which will be one of the two traps that Ren Hong buried on this map.Looking at the north of the map again, in addition to Wusun and the right part, there are the Xiongnu and their northern Ding Ling and Jiankun two departments, which are vast for more than 10,000 miles, as well as the Beihai Baikal Lake that is like a scimitar."
The North Sea is so far away."
When he heard that the map of the north was drawn by Su Wu, Liu Ying couldn't help but be moved: "Su Gong, a vassal country, should be the Han who has gone the farthest north?"
”"Nope."
Ren Hong shook his head, pointed to the northwest of the Xiongnu and said, "Li Ling has gone further. ”Jiankun is far away in the Tangnu Ulianghai in later generations, and the Yenisei River flows north into the coniferous forests and tundra of Siberia, and I don't know if Li Ling will miss Chang'an Qiuyue as the king there.As an era of great geographical discovery belonging to the Chinese, the exploration of the Wudi Dynasty was not limited to the west and the north, but was carried out in all directions."
Tang Meng and Sima Xiangru started to open the southwest Yi, digging more than 1,000 miles of mountain passages, and taking Guangba Shu; Yan Zhu, Zhu Maichen and others recruited Donou, and the matter was two Guangdong; Peng Wu wore filthy clothes, North Korea, and placed Canghai County. ”The origin of the opening of the Southwest Yi of the Han Dynasty was that Zhang Qian saw the Qiongzhu cane of Shu County in the Great Xia Kingdom, which was said to have been sold from the body poison, which made Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty very excited, and in order to find a shortcut from Shu County to the body poison, Great Xia, and Da Yue, he began to send envoys and troops to explore the southwest.Although by the way, the Dian Kingdom was included in the rule, but it was difficult to subdue the unruly Kunming Department that lived on the shore of the Erhai Lake, and this road was never explored.I only heard that more than 1,000 miles to the west of Kunming, the region is hot, there is a country of mourning, a country of elephants, Ren Hong set its location in the area of Baoshan in Yunnan and Shan State in Myanmar in the later generations.The possibility of hitting a wall in the process of exploration is far greater than smooth, this road is obviously unreliable, and after 2,000 years, the Yunnan-Burma Highway will have to be piled up with a lot of white bones.However, the west did not shine in the south, and after the destruction of South Vietnam, the Han Dynasty really found a smooth road to the poison: the Maritime Silk Road.After the destruction of Nanyue, the counties of the empire were established along the sea and expanded to the south of the Tropic of Cancer in one go, and the southern border was guarded by Ni Nam County, which was located in the middle of Vietnam in later generations.The discoveries on the sea are also exciting, with the Hainan Island of Dan'er, Zhuju County, and Xuwen Port of Hepu County as the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road, and the Han envoys marched to the sea with the mission of finding immortals for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, leaving their footprints in the original port of the Bang people.According to the information in the canonical state, what "Duyuan State", "Fugandu Lu State" and "Huangzhi State" all sent envoys to pay tribute, and the names were awkward, Ren Hong went through his tributary records and the simple descriptions of the envoys countless times, and lost a lot of hair, before they were placed in the later Cambodia, Malaysia, and southern Burma locations, and he did not know whether they were allowed or not.This map looks at the overall situation and approximate location, who will go out and take a world map to find the way?
Ren Hong pondered in his heart: "In the future, we must set rules in the subordinate country, strictly control the envoys, and require a deputy envoy with excellent literacy skills, and write a thousand-word masterpiece to describe the local customs and geographical location every time I arrive in a country." ”However, the farthest place that the Han envoys arrived at was "Cheng Buguo", which was described as a large island with lions and cinnamon, which may be Sri Lanka in later generations.In just a few decades, all-powerful Han envoys have struck out from all directions, trekking through the snow-capped mountains of the desert of the Western Regions, shepherding sheep on the shores of the North Sea, shuttling through the tropical rainforests of the south, or standing on a boat facing the raging waves and tasting the salty waters.The west, north, and south have been explored to the limit of the times, and the Han people's understanding of the world is about the same level as before Zheng He went to the West in the early Ming Dynasty 1,500 years later.The only thing that has not made much progress is the east, there is no way, after the destruction of Wei's Korea, only the sea and the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast are left in front.After setting up Xuansu and Lelang counties, they began to have contacts with the three Hans in the south of the peninsula, and there were even thousands of Lelang overseas people in the east who came to see them when they were young, but the Han envoys had little interest in the extreme east that was divided into more than 100 tribes, and no one set foot on it.As a result, the map is narrow from north to south, long from east to west, and the countries west of the Green Ridge account for half of the map, while the east comes out of Xuansu and Lelang County, and two or three feet to the end.In this way, this map has become extremely awkward in Liu Aiji's eyes."
Xi'an Hou, this map is really eye-opening, but I don't know a little."
He couldn't help but point to Yutu and said: "The master who taught me to learn poetry is the great Confucian Weng of Donghai County, he told me that benefiting this China, with Sui Quartet, the Han Dynasty is often called China, in the world, and the four Yi Rong Di surround it. ”"But on this map, why is the big man in the corner of the east and not in the middle."
Ren Hong wanted this reaction, and immediately patted his thighs and laughed."
Hahahaha, I knew that the emperor's great-grandson would ask like this."
This is the second trap that Ren Hong has planted on the map!
Shiqu Pavilion is in the north of Weiyang Palace, you can see it when you enter the north and pass the bus Sima Gate, different from the noisy Jiuqing official office, it is very quiet here, but there are always small officials holding bamboo slips tend to walk quickly.This pavilion is built by Xiao He, and the stone outside the pavilion is a canal, so that the flowing water surrounds it, which is to prevent fire.Because this Shiqu Pavilion is equivalent to the royal library of the Han Dynasty, it originally collected the Qin Dynasty books that Xiao He rolled away after entering the customs, and the ancient scrolls of the Western Zhou Dynasty and the Six Kingdoms were mostly hidden in it, which was a huge historical treasure house, and Sima Qian relied on the many books in it to write a historical record.On the first day of November, the sketch of the Kunyu Wanguo map has been prepared, but before it is presented to the Winter Solstice Dynasty, it must be tested in the Shiqu Pavilion.Su Wu sat down in the hall of Shiqu Pavilion, Dahonglu Wei Xian sat in the west with a few knowledgeable doctors, Zongzheng Liu De, who had received many books from Liu An, the king of Huainan, also participated, and Taishi Ling, who was in charge of Shiqu Pavilion, presided over and saluted the three ministers.After Su Wu greeted Wei Xian and Liu De, he said, "Daoyuan, open the map." ”"No."
Ren Hong led a few people into the hall carrying the map and slowly unfolded it on the ground.Liu De, Wei Xian and Tai Shi Ling all stretched their necks to look at the map.Before he could take a closer look at the names of the countries painted with different colors above, Dahonglu Wei Xian felt strange, so he frowned and asked the same question as Liu Aiji: "Xi'an Hou, this picture is not right, Shiyun: Benefit this China, to Sui Quartet."
Yu Gong also regards the country of the Son of Heaven as China, so why is the Han Dynasty not in the center of the map?
”PS: The second chapter is in the evening.