That night, after handing over the long-lost public rations, Yaoguang told Ren Hong about the origin of her titles."
You mean, the Empress Dowager Wusun named you the Marquis of Xixī?"
The Marquis of Xi is the noble title of the Cypriot tribes such as Wusun and Yueshi, which means the chief, Ren Hong heard that the Da Yue clan has five major Marquis, divided into Hezhong and Bactria, among which the Marquis of Guishan is the strongest.There are also a lot of Marquis in Wusun, and the Marquis of Ruoa who assassinated the Fat King and was stabbed to death by Ren Hongyi with a meat fork is one of them."
What the queen mother gave me is the territory of Joa before."
Yaoguang told Ren Hong that her territory was on both sides of a river that joined Atami from the west, and was called the Chu River "Broken Leaf Water", hence the name Broken Leaf Xihou."
It's a good piece of land, with a suitable climate, plenty of water, and good farming and grazing."
And when Ren Hong learned that the fief that Yaoguang had obtained from his mother was hundreds of miles wide, much larger than his "Marquis of Xi'an", he was speechless.It's okay now, even if the descendants of the Ren family mix badly, there is one more way out, there is no need to do involution in the Central Plains to love and kill each other, you can jump out of the world and embrace a new destiny."
That left general" Yaoguang said with a smile: "Wusun Xingguo is also divided into left and right departments like the Huns, and the queen mother arranges for the right general to guard the right wing of the border Yileshui, so as to slaughter the pseudo Kunmi when Wu."
Because there was no suitable candidate, he made the concubine the general of the left, sat in the broken leaf water, and became Dawan and Kangju. ”Yaoguang, as the Wusun royal family, is known as a brave and sharp name in China, and has also led the Wusun people to destroy the turtles and relieve the Luntai Siege.She was afraid that Ren Hong would not be able to accept it, so she broke a bigger news: "Do you know who is Wusun's Dalu now?"
”Dalu is equivalent to the prime minister of Wusun, and according to the style of relieving worries and being wild in politics after the death of the fat king, Ren Hong guessed a candidate: "Could it be Mrs.
Feng?"
”"Exactly!"
Yaoguang said with a smile: "Now the queen mother personally teaches my brother Dale, and handles state affairs in Chigu City with Mrs.
Feng, and the concubine and the right general are in charge of the army, plus a thousand Han soldiers Tuntian to garrison Atami.Wusun has stabilized from the chaos and is no longer afraid of Wu's slaughter colluding with Kangju and the Xiongnu to go south. ”After all, Wusun is still in the split stage, the heroine is in power, the foundation is not stable, and the Han court is also worried that the whip will not be able to reach.Let Ren Hong be the protector of Anxi, hoping that he will cooperate with Princess Xie Wu to consolidate the fruits of victory, and even wait for an opportunity to counterattack Qihe and unify Wusun.Anyway, Wusun is now the queen mother, except for Kunmi and the right general, women occupy half of the court, and they really hold up half of the sky in Wusun, Ren Hong only said secretly: "The female queen and the female general Wusun can not become the prototype of the daughter country in later generations." ”At the end of May, leaving the country of Shache and heading northwest, Ren Hongneng felt more and more that they were already walking at the foot of the Pamirs."
There is a proverb in the Western Regions, the navel of a man is on the belly, and the navel of the world is on the green ridge."
Looking at the towering snow peaks in the distance, Ren Hong couldn't help but sigh with emotion.The Tianshan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains, which span thousands of miles, are knotted here, and the Pamir Plateau is not only the knot of ten thousand mountains, but also the source of ten thousand waters, and its eastern water flows eastward, and the Han envoys unanimously believe that this is the source of the Yellow River.Ren Hong not only did not correct this erroneous geographical understanding, but instead vigorously agreed, and even drew it on the map of the world of the subject country, hoping to mislead more people, the imperial court has a certain complex for the source of the river, the emperor sacrifices to the famous mountains and rivers, in addition to the five mountains, but also to sacrifice the four desecrations, as the source of the river If the Western Regions are not included in the territory, it is simply intolerable.Kashgar, Xinjiang, Shule State, is located to the east of this mountain knot, and the valleys are criss-crossed, which is easy to generate a passage for people and animals.This unique geographical location has achieved the status of the crossroads of the Western Regions of Shule Kingdom.It can really be said that five mouths lead to eight countries, all the way to Europe and Asia, where the north and south of the Silk Road converge, and then fork again.To the west, you can cross the Uzbek pass to Dawan, when Zhang Qian looked for Dayue's family, it was from this road to go out.To the south, you can go to the royal court of the Great Moon clan, which occupies Afghanistan, through the southern Wajiji Daban, or take the Ming Tiegai Pass, bypassing the Hindu Kush, and you can go to the gateway to North India, Gandhara and Popin.To the north, they will pass through the Turgat Pass to Wusun Kingdom, which is also the way they will go next, Ren Hong will visit Wusun, take a look at the territory of Yaoguang, the female marquis, and then discuss with the Empress Dowager Xie Wu about the cooperation between Wusun and the Duhufu to eliminate the "Northern Wusun".Therefore, Shule is located as a state-owned transportation hub, which is a place where Sogdian Hu merchants must pass through, and is naturally prosperous in commerce and trade, and is located on the largest oasis plain in the Western Regions, with a large wealth and a population of nearly 20,000, and the capital is built on the high port at the junction of two rivers, which is easier to defend and difficult to attack than the river city.Fortunately, although King Shule and the Han were not as close as King Shanshan and King Shache, they were extremely enthusiastic about Ren Hong.King Shule was wearing a golden lion crown, and when he met Ren Hong, it was extremely unusual for him to come over and hold his hand, and then he began to bow his head and kiss the back of Ren Hong's hand.made Ren Du's hair stand on end, and he almost slapped King Shule with a slap!
If that would turn into a serious diplomatic accident, Ren Hong would have jurisdiction over fifty countries with different languages and customs in the Western Regions, and he would have to learn to smile no matter how strange the other party's meeting etiquette was.The Sogdian merchant Jia Shibadao, who translated for the two, explained that this was the etiquette of the Shule people to receive guests from afar, and that men had to come when they saw men."
Shule customs, if women of the same generation meet each other, they should kiss each other on the lips.When a man and a woman meet, the woman kisses the man's palm, and the man touches the woman's head with his hand. ”Ren Hong couldn't help but smile in his heart: "If Huan Kuan and other Confucian scholars who pay attention to whether men and women are intimate or not, come here, I am afraid that they will be frightened by the Shule people." ”He remembered that in history, the wife of Ban Chao, the Marquis of Dingyuan in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was the princess of Shule Kingdom, maybe Ban Chao met Princess Shule for the first time, and the two did this strange etiquette?
And the child they gave birth to, Ban Yong, inherited his father's will and continued to protect the Western Regions.Thinking of this, Ren Hong couldn't help but have a little more affection for Shule, in the history of the Han Dynasty, Shule has always been a hardcore pro-Han faction.And the reason why King Shule is so enthusiastic about Ren Hong at the moment is because of religion.According to Shi Bodao, Shule was the only one in the fifty countries in the Western Regions who believed in the Fire Zoroastrianism except for Yanqi.The title of King Shule in Shule language means "son of Hu Tian", and the Shule nobles and secular shrines even began to use Sogdian characters to describe trade.The city of Shule was not only well-organized, but also had a commercial area reserved for the Sogdians, which was a transit point for caravans to the Western Regions.After the last war, the Xiongnu completely withdrew from the Western Regions, and the Sogdians believed that the Han was the embodiment of light, and wanted to expel the darkness on the Silk Road for them, make trade easier, and of course lick the new Dadu Protector vigorously.So King Shule, who also believed in the Fire Zoroastrian Sect, believed it to be true, and when he met Ren Hong, he opened his mouth to be the title of the Great Long String of Honorifics, which was much longer than the four in Yaoguang District.What is the defender of the Silk Road, the friend of the Sogdian caravan, the hand of the ox spirit Gulsuwan, the guardian of the blood family's holy marriage, etc., in the end, this one should be removed, I can't afford it.Ren Hong used the Sogdians and the Zoroastrian religion for use, but he had no intention of spreading them among the Han Chinese."
It seems that Shi Sabao preached for me well in the Fire Zoroastrian Sect, anyway, why did you come to Shule to wait for me this time?"
Ren Hong knew that Shi Bodao was going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing.Sure enough, Shi Bodao came here in the hope that the Imperial Protectorate would be able to loosen its mouth on the city tax that the Sogdian caravans passed.He said cheekily: "Isn't there an old saying in the big Han?
The market is not taxed, and the market is ridiculed but not collected. ”I don't know where he learned it, is it human language?
How do you know how much silk is exported by Dahan every year without taxation?
Without taxation, the capital protectorate took the head to set up a county in Loulan, built beacons along the road, and raised tens of thousands of cavalry in the north courtyard?
This matter was not negotiable at all, but Ren Hong still relented to Shi Bodao and promised to reduce taxes only for the Shi family, but there were also prerequisites."
Szabao, do you remember the Old Testament when you and I were on the Peacock River five years ago?"
Of course, Shi Bodao remembered that it was the biggest and most successful deal he had made in his life.According to the dualistic belief of the Zoroastrian religion, Ren Hong put forward the theory that "the Xiongnu were the destroyers of the Silk Road and the slaves of darkness, and the Han stood on the side of light", and asked the Sogdians to stand on the side of the Han and spy on the intelligence of the states in the Western Regions and the Xiongnu for the Han army.With Sogdians all over the Western Regions as spies, the Han army was able to succeed so smoothly in the following years.Shi Bodao said cautiously: "But now, hasn't the light defeated the darkness, and the Han expelled the Xiongnu from the north and south of the Western Regions?"
”Ren Hong said meaningfully: "Your eyes can't just stay in the Western Regions, you have to look to the west of the Green Ridge, the servants of darkness, not to mention the Huns?"
”"Du Hu means" Shi Bodao was startled, and sensitively felt that someone in the Western Regions was going to be unlucky again, who could it be?
Is it the "Northern Wusun" who slaughtered in Wu?
Ren Hong said meaningfully: "Shi Sabao, west of the Green Ridge, relying on wine and good horses, which country likes to compete with the Sogdian city-states for profits on the Silk Road?"
”Shi Bodao lowered his head, and his palms were sweating: "Could it be Dawan?"
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