"Even if all the oasis city-states in the north and south of the Western Regions are added up, they are not as rich as half of Dawan, no wonder Taishi Gong is listed for him alone."
This is the emotion of Shi Zhong, the governor of the Imperial Protectorate, after passing through the Green Ridge Valley and arriving in Dawan.This Dawan is different from the states of the Western Regions, and it is not a capital protector and is regarded as a great state.The country is located in a large basin surrounded by mountains on three sides, with an opening to the Otsuki clan in the west and only one valley to the east, Dasaka, to the west.The climate is mild and humid, without the dryness of the desert, and the cold wind blowing from the Kangju grassland is also blocked by the mountains, and the rain is abundant.This makes Dawan an incomparably rich place, a land of thousands of miles in the country, with more than 70 large and small cities and hundreds of thousands of people, equivalent to a large county in the Han Dynasty.Everywhere there are farmlands, and according to Chung's observations, not only are they rich in wheat, but the vineyards are one after another, enjoying the sun, and there are plenty of wild alfalfa on the roadside, which are eaten by sturdy horses.Tadashi even saw irrigation canals and rice paddies along the river, and some black-brown slaves were working in the paddy fields with bare feet, and it was said that the Otsuki clan had taken slaves from the southern poison country and sold them to the Dawan people.There are two main inhabitants of Dawan, one is the Cypriot people who wear pointed hats and ride horses, and the language is similar to Shule, and the main activities are in the countryside, and the king of Dawan is also a Cypriot.The other is those citizens who live in the towns, mostly the merchant class wearing robes, with deep eyes and dark and curly hair, with thick beards, probably the same clan as the Popbin Shamen, the "Greeks" in the mouth of Ren Duhu, the good city Jia, the fierce baht, and the vulgar noblewoman.Dawan mainly produces agricultural products, and its surroundings are almost all countries, such as Wusun, Kangju, Yueshi, etc., so merchants come and go frequently, and communicate with each other.However, Dawan can be independent for a long time in the west of the green ridge where there are many powerful countries, and in addition to its unique geography, its armament is not weak.The cities were all made of stone, which was difficult for the nomads to break, and their soldiers were full of bows and spears, but unfortunately they did not see the Greek mercenary "Fish Scale Army" that is said to have defeated Li Guangli several times.What impressed Zhong the most was that every place he went, there was an inexhaustible amount of wine to be brought up to entertain the Han envoys, you must know that this thing is very expensive in Chang'an, and it is also a noble person in the Western Regions who can afford to drink, but it is a commonplace drink in Dawan, it is said that the rich people hide wine to more than 10,000 stones, and the long ones are undefeated for decades."
No wonder Du Hu said that Dawan is a fertile land with wine and honey."
Looking down all the way, Zhong found that no place in the Western Regions could compare with it, and neither could the Wusun Yilie River Valley, which was known as rich, and if it was moved to the Han Dynasty, the counties of Liangzhou would not be as good as it.Zhong Zaishu and Duhu parted ways to come to Dawan, the purpose of which was naturally to meet Tianma.Dawan and the Han Dynasty as early as more than 50 years ago, Zhang Qian fled from the Xiongnu and arrived in Dawan, and then through here, arrived at the southwest of the Great Moon and Daxia, and Dawan heard that the Han Dynasty was rich, wanted to get through, saw the Han envoy coming, deeply welcomed, and sent Zhang Qian.But the friendly relationship between Han Wan and Han soon came to an end, and in the early years of Taichu, Xiaowu wanted to get the sweat and blood of Dawan's specialty, and sent envoys to exchange for gold and gold made of gold and gold, which can be described as full of sincerity.But Dawan has always regarded Tianma as a forbidden object, and he is easily not allowed to go abroad.The Han envoy was furious, smashed the golden horse and left, leaving behind the threat of war.At that time, the Xiongnu were still strong, and the Han army had never arrived to the west of the Green Ridge, and the Dawan people thought that they could not threaten themselves, so they pursued and killed the Han envoys and seized their property.This can be stabbed the big basket, only in the first year of Taichu, four years of two expeditions, after paying a great price, Dawan finally surrendered before the inner city was breached, the nobles killed its king and sacrificed, and sweated more than 3,000 horses, and asked the Han army to withdraw.Although the pro-Han Wan King supported by Li Guangli was soon killed by the Dawan people, from then on, Dawan also saw the strength of the Han Dynasty and maintained the tributary relationship.It was not until the Han army withdrew from the Western Regions after the Luntai Edict that the exchanges between Dawan and the Han were interrupted for more than ten years, and the proton also went back.It wasn't until the third year of Yuanfeng that Huo Guang sent Fu Jiezi to Dawan to welcome Tianma, as a sign of returning to the Western Regions, that the two countries re-intersected.The year before last, the Han-Hun war was fought in the Western Regions, and the prestige of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry Seven Battles and Seven Victories also spread to Dawan, so the Wan people treated the Han envoy very respectfully, and was considerate of Zhong's hospitality, and even found a woman to warm his bed, but Zhong found that under the surface of respect, Dawan was also wary of the Han envoy.For example, he insisted on handing over Tianma in Yucheng City in the east of Dawan, rather than his capital Guishan City.For the Han Dynasty, Yu Cheng is synonymous with shame, the stone walls are tall, no wonder Li Guangli came here on his first expedition, but was broken by Yu Cheng, killing and injuring many people, really disgraced the face of the Han army, and finally had to return embarrassed in the ridicule of Dawan.If the war stops like that, the Han Dynasty will probably leave a reputation as a "weak soldier" in the west of the Green Ridge.In the second attack on Wan, more than 1,000 people such as Wang Shensheng, a captain of the Han Military Academy, wanted to come to Yucheng to find a place to recover.However, Yu Cheng attacked the Han army with 3,000 people in an early morning attack, and killed more than 1,000 Han troops, Wang Shensheng was killed, and several people escaped.In the end, it was Shangguan Ji who captured Yu Cheng, chased Yu Cheng to the vicinity of Kangju and beheaded him, so as to save some face for the second division army.But Li Guangli still didn't capture Guishan City in the end, which is the pride that Dawan people can't forget, and those two wars inadvertently elevated Dawan's status.Now they have formed an alliance with Kangju and the Dayue clan, and they are vigilant about the actions of the Han army in Wusun, and they are on guard everywhere, and even find various excuses to not let Zhong enter the city, as if they are afraid that the city defense will be snooped on by him.Loyal and not humble or arrogant, he raised his head and scolded the Dawan people who were angry with the little family: "First, hundreds of Dawan merchants went to Yumen to buy silk silk, did the Dahan ever stop them?"
Last year, the envoy of Dawan went to the Han Dynasty to congratulate, did the Son of Heaven refuse to allow the envoy to enter Chang'an?"
This is the self-confidence of a great country, the envoys of the Western Regions went to the Great Han, and what the Han Tianzi was most afraid of was that they didn't see enough, from the richness of the Chang'an neighborhood to the Han army array in the Xiliu Camp, they never hid.Zhong Zhengse said: "Isn't King Wan afraid that the Han envoy will covet Dawan?
What a joke!
Dahan is 50,000 miles away, sitting on the four seas, and is rich in the world; Wanzhi is 500 miles away, and the country is small and the people are poor.How can there be a person who wants to steal it?
Abandon its splendor, and the neighbor has a short brown and wants to steal it; Whoever gives up his meat, and has chaff and wants to steal it?
”Ordinary Han people hold the Heavenly Empire on their own, and naturally they don't look down on Dawan, the state of Rongdi.But Ren Duhu, as an outlier of the times, is just a guy who steals diseases, eating the dishes in the big bowl of the Western Regions, but his eyes are staring at the meat in the small bowl of Dawan, and the rich land is only too little, not too much.Wanren felt that they were wrong, and after confessing their guilt, they only agreed to hand over the Tianma in Yucheng City, and the reason they found was: "Guishan City has recently had a horse plague, and many Tianma have died, so you can't go." ”Probably afraid of offending the Zhonghe Protectorate, in addition to giving him some gold and silver utensils with Dawan characteristics as gifts, he also brought a sweaty horse with a shoulder height of eight feet in addition to the two tribute horses: "This horse of the King of Dawan, named Xianglong, is a good horse of General Anxi, and is willing to give it to Ren Duhu as a mount!"
”At this time, Ren Duhu had crossed the green mountains and arrived at the Chu River in Kyrgyzstan, where the grass and trees were flourishing.The impact fan of the Broken Leaf Water stopped the erosion of the Western Desert and brought a land of abundant water and grass to this place, hence the name Broken Leaf River.In later generations, it was outside the borders of the country, and the Chu River valley became the capital of Kyrgyzstan.The reason why Ren Hong knows this place is only because of a person, a figure that all Chinese are familiar with, who was born to chant poetry, long and moving the world, and died for thousands of years!
And now, this place has become the territory of Ren Hong's family.What does it mean to eat soft rice!
The property of the husband and wife is shared, and the wife's is his!
As far as the eye can see, the cattle and sheep are munching by the river, the horses are drinking in the clear river, and the herdsmen in high hats are galloping to and fro with whips, and when they see Yaoguang's banner, they come to pay their respects, offering mare's milk wine and cheese, and the men and women, young and old, are very respectful to their new lords, and Yaoguang will taste a little politely.As the eldest princess, Yaoguang was able to slaughter and beat her when she was young, and as Ren Hong's wife, the Han army's victory in Chigu City also brought her more prestige."
What do you think of this place?"
Yaoguang is a little bit of a show-off, as the princess of Anping of the Han Dynasty, she also has a county as a food town, but the number of households is not as good as that of Xi'anhou, but now with the addition of these hundreds of miles of grassland, it is suddenly not worthy.But how to govern this place, she still wants to listen to Ren Hong's opinion."
A kiln should be opened to produce the first brick embryo."
Ren Hong pointed to the flat Broken Leaf River: "Then let the craftsman pick a place and build a small city here." ”"It's called Broken Leaf City!"
Ren Hong knew what he was looking for along the way, Khotan and Shache were not the destinations he had demarcated for the jade diggers, but Shayechuan was.Among the basins sandwiched by mountains, Ferghana, where Dawan is located, is naturally the richest, followed by the Ili River Valley, and again the Atami Basin, where the broken leaf water to the west is less noticeable.But this is the northern route of the Silk Road from Wusun to Kangju must pass through, hundreds of miles to the west, is Zhizhishui, in history, a deputy lieutenant named Chen Tang will show his might there, that is the farthest place that the Han army can go.Now, not necessarily.This broken leaf city rising from the ground will provide water and safe shelter for travelers on the Silk Road, and will also become a bridgehead for the direct control of the Han Dynasty to the west of the Green Mountains.But this place is still not the end, maybe it is just the starting point of the stories of countless Han adventurers like Chen Tang, and it is also the beginning of their family epic!
Ren Hong got rid of the radish and walked on the land, after stretching out his hand, his fingertips could just touch the waist-high pasture, tickling his heart, and suddenly said to Yaoguang on the side: "My wife, I want to name the foal." ”"Finally figured it out?"
Ju'er is just a nickname, and Yaoguang has been waiting for a serious name for a long time.Ren Hong smiled: "Just call him Ren Bai!"
”PS: Chapter 2 in the evening.