In the spring and February of 61 B.C. in the third year of Tian'an, the snow on Yanran Mountain was still there.Since the decisive battle between the Han and the Huns five years ago, Shan Yu was beheaded, the Xiongnu were divided and broken, and a piece of Xiong was carved by Han craftsmen on the red cliff near the Yanran Mountain Pass.The Han Li, which is deeply outlined by strokes, represents the defeat of the Xiongnu and the sacrifice and glory of the Han army.It's just that with the passage of time, the barren bones have been flattened, and the snow has covered the slaughter of the ancient battlefield, but after the spring every year, the grass here grows particularly lushly.Set up in the city of Mrs.
Fan, the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate will send a cavalry to inspect every year, but this year's scale is quite different, in addition to the Duhutangyi Marquis Zhao Han'er personally led the subordinate Guoyi to ride, there is also a Yuan Rong'an car from Chang'an.There was a red and yellow Han flag floating on the car, and the one who came down to pay tribute to the fallen soldiers was an old man with white hair who was holding the Han Festival.Su Wu is eighty years old, although he seems to be quite energetic, his walking is much slower than when he first landed in the North Que, Zhao Han'er stared at him tightly and did not dare to slack off, for fear that the prince and the prince would stumble and fall down.When he returned to the car after the sacrificial ceremony, looking at the old man's somewhat tired look, Zhao Han'er was a little unbearable, and said: "Mrs.
Su, why don't you go back to Mrs.
Fan's City to rest, and let the subordinates and Tongguo go to Beihai." ”Su Wu is getting older and tougher, and said with a straight face: "This is an errand that the old man is asking for from the Son of Heaven, how can he fake the hands of others?"
”This unusual sacrifice originated in the first month of spring, when the Son of Heaven Liu Xun Xing Ganquan Palace, the suburbs sacrificed to Taiqi, a whim, quite a story of Emperor Wu, the ritual of fasting, and wanted to send someone to sacrifice the four solstice of the empire for him.For the question of where the territory of the Han Quartet is, there was a quarrel in the court.There is no dispute between the east and the south, the imperial border, east to the east of the Dongwo Whale Seashore in Lintun County, Lelang County, that is, the east coast of later Korea; It reaches the south of Ri Nam County, which is the area of Hue and Da Nang in central Vietnam, and this place is deep into the south of the Tropic of Cancer, and the sun shines from the north for two months of the year, so the sun shadow is in the south.However, the western and northern territories were very controversial, and everyone led by Wei Xiang and Xiao Wangzhi thought that they could only take the place where the county was set up.But he has already cultivated martial arts, semi-retired and engaged in academics at home, and occasionally came forward to guide the production of the imperial court, and the big Sima Hussar General Prince Taishi Ren Hong, who was tinkering with some small inventions, insisted that the Sandu Protectorate was also the territory of the Han family!
There are no counties in Khotan, but the source of the river is wrong, and can it be counted outside the territory?
And Wusun ruled for the Empress Dowager to relieve worries, Kunmi Dale received the Han seal, called "Han Wusun Xiaowang", twice came to Chang'an to see him, gave the surname Liu, and regarded himself as a foreign country within the princes?
And the north is even more polite, the evidence of the Marquis of Xi'an is the "Feng Yanran Mountain Ming" five years ago, which contains sentences such as "Examination and inspection map, exhaustive view of its mountains and rivers to restore the realm, and revitalize the heavenly voice of the Han Dynasty" and "夐xuàn its Miao Xi Qi boundary" and other sentences, is not the proof since ancient times!
Every word was engraved to Yanran Mountain after the consent of the Son of Heaven that year, and the Confucian officials could not say that this was the emperor pretending to be too much, so they could only admit it.Therefore, the west pole of the Han Dynasty was set to the fiefdom of Princess Yaoguang of Xi'an's Hou in Wusun, and the north was mapped to Lake Baikal in the North Sea, far beyond the time of Qin Shi Huang and Han Wu.This familiar place name moved Su Wu, who had already been at home and only occasionally gave lessons to the crown prince.Ren Hong, who had always wanted to go to the south to see, robbed the errand to Rinan, according to Zhao Han'er, the hussar general was very interested in navigation in recent years, and even funded the recruitment of warriors from Nanhai County and Huiji County, encouraging them to explore the south by sea and find a route to the poisonous country."
As long as you follow the coastline to the south and further west, you will definitely find the body poison!"
This is what Ren Hong vigorously advocated after denying the poisonous path of Shu, and he also got a picture that is said to be a sea chart of the Han Dynasty translator to Sri Lanka by sea during the Han Dynasty."
The Silk Road should not only be opened up on land, but also connected by sea!"
This is Ren Hong's slogan, and now he has finally found an opportunity to go to the south to guide himself, and he can row as he wants.Guanglu doctor Feng Fengshi went to Shaye River, and by the way discussed with the Empress Dowager Xie Wei about her ending the weighing system and returning to Chang'an, and the subordinate Guocheng Lujia went to the Lelang Whale Seashore.And when the Son of Heaven picked a candidate to go to Beihai, Su Wu stood up, couldn't afford to bow for a long time, and after some presentations, forced the emperor to agree to his departure."
Why is my father so stubborn?"
At night, when he camped and rested by the Orkhon River in Anhou Shui, Su Tongguo, the deputy capital of Anbei, carefully covered his father with a futon, and was very worried about his physical condition.That's 5,000 miles out of the fortress."
The old man's days are numbered, and if he doesn't do some things, it's really too late."
This is something that Su Wu has noticed recently, his contemporaries, Jin Riyan, Shangguan Ji, Sima Qian, etc., have already left, Huo Guang also left with regret, and Su Wu also sent him on his last journey.Then there is Zhang Anshi, last year, the old Zhang who had been lying for half his life finally got married, nicknamed "Jinghou", and he was respectful all night, which was indeed very in line with him.Looking around blankly, Su Wu found that in the court, only the equally old Zhao Chongguo was still with him.Zhao Chongguo, the right general of the Great Sima, has always been worried that he will die early, so that no one in the imperial court can check and balance Ren Hong, and as a result, the more people live, the more they are tough, and they look like they can fight for another ten years.Su Wu is a few years older than Zhao Chongguo, and he knows that he can't compare with this one, and he won't be able to last a few years.Before he died, he wanted to go to Beihai, the place where he had stayed for nineteen years, and where he had dreamed several times in Chang'an."
The bitter cold of the North Sea, what's there to see?"
Su Tongguo didn't understand, he was born in Jiankun, which was as poor and barren as Beihai."
You don't understand."
Su Wu sighed: "That's the prison where the old man is imprisoned. ”"Now it's the northern boundary of the Han Dynasty, so you can't go and see it?"
Others can't understand that Su Wu has been imprisoned in Beihai for so long, and a part of his soul seems to have stayed there forever.He had to go back so that he could go to Huangquan to see Emperor Xiaowu completely.The next day, the convoy continued north along the Anhou River, a long river that meanders over the grassy plains, with hills rolling in the distance, and which eventually joins the North Sea.The Han Dynasty divided the Xiongnu into three, and the west of Yanran Mountain was the West Xiongnu, holding Yanqu and Shan Yu to rule, and Xiaoyue's and Hujie's right land.To the south of the curtain is the Southern Xiongnu, ruled by the grandson of Yu Dan who surrendered to the Han Dynasty that year, with the name of his grandfather, the name of Yu Dan Dan Yu, and Mobei picked the Ou Tuo King who surrendered after the defeat of Yanran Mountain as Shan Yu, and the number Ou Tuo Shan Yu.Mo Nan was completely dependent on the Han Dynasty, while Mo Bei's Ou Tuo Shan Yu had to face the endless looting of Xianbei and Ding Ling, and the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate was responsible for refereeing.Along the way, there is no lack of yellowed felt tents and sporadic herdsmen, and even groups of horses passing by, as if they want to attack the Xiongnu Xianbei and Ding Ling knights, regardless of their identity and ethnicity, even if the bow puller who is fighting in a melee, after seeing the red yellow Han banner from a distance and seeing the Han Festival swaying in the wind, they scatter in a hurry, and those who did not leave also dismounted, respectfully bowed to the ground, and did not dare to raise their heads.Sure enough, as Sang Hongyang said, Rong Di can be martial, but not moral.This is the majesty of Yanran Mountain five years ago, and those Xiongnu monarchs who belonged to Beidan Yu and pastored in Mobei heard that the Han envoy was coming, and even brought his subordinates to greet him, knelt down from afar to worship the chief, and shouted: "Support the plough messenger!"
”The Huns called the sky as "plough", the predicate as "lonely Tu", now, the three single Yu still call themselves "plough solitary Tu", which is the meaning of the Son of Heaven, but they unify the Han Dynasty Son of Heaven as "plough single Yu", that is, Tiandan Yu!
He also repaired the towering single road, paid tribute, and used leather and other things to pay taxes.Liu Xun was in Saibei, and suddenly had three more cheap sons, and Su Wu also became an angel.At the beginning of March, Zhao Han'er led the way for Su Wu and arrived at Guyan Mountain, where Shan Yuting used to be, where the once dense black forest was burned clean by the unscrupulous Ren Hong five years ago, and the tender green grassland was like leaving a charred black ugly burn mark.The gods of the Xiongnu were killed on the mountain, and their spiritual pillars almost completely collapsed, and neither the mountain gods nor their ancestors could save the Xiongnu.The grass in the vicinity has grown more abundantly, but the forces of Outuo Shan Yu have not reached this place, Ding Ling people have already grazed in the north of Yuwushui, and Xianbei's forces have expanded to the east of Wolf Juxu Mountain, and will attack this place at any time, so Shan Yuting is empty.Three is in the area where the three forces converge, and there is still a group of people living.Su Wu had heard Ren Hong mention that after coming to the grassland, he had also seen those believers known as "Futu".And this Guyan Mountain has become the holy place of this new faith.More than 1,000 believers lived here to escape the war, and its leader was a Zhengbin Shamen named Milanda, who went to the city of Lady Fan after the establishment of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and met with the Metropolitan Protector Zhao Han'er, hoping that the Metropolitan Protectorate would give these slaves and poor herdsmen a place to stay.Zhao Han'er didn't want to deal with it and let them fend for themselves, but after he spread the matter to Chang'an, Ren Hong was very interested."
That little Shamen didn't die?"
This Milantuo was thrown to the grassland, which was Ren Hong's idle chess in the Western Regions many years ago, but this little monk actually survived, and was quite revered by the Huns, and gradually there were also confused nobles and hundreds of horsemen who joined the ranks of believing in Buddhism.So Ren Hong pushed the boat down the river and decided to do a small faith experiment in Saibei.He hinted that Zhao Han'er protected these Futu believers, and set rules for King Ding Ling, Xianbei Zhuren, and Ou Tuo Shan Yu, demarcated the boundary pastures, and stopped fighting near Guyan Mountain.When Su Wu arrived, he could see that the Guyan Mountain Corner, which had been used by the Jinren people to worship the gods and ancestors, had been excavated by slaves and herdsmen with rudimentary tools.In the grottoes, there are simple clay statues of floating figures, and there are no statues in Buddhism, which is the form of Zobin and Daxia that gradually became popular.But unlike the Gandhara-style Greek appearance of the Buddha, this Buddha statue of Guyan Mountain has been shaped into a typical Han appearance, with a square face, slender eyebrows, and clothes have become right.This was the requirement of the Protectorate, and it was also the price that Milanda had to pay for the refuge of the faithful.This Buddha statue of Maitreya or Shakyamuni is sitting in the grotto, and hundreds of people are kneeling at the foot of the mountain, shouting slogans while worshipping.Su Wu saw this dramatic scene, and after hearing it, he who had experienced the sixty years of war between Han and Hungary, felt quite funny, and laughed dumbly for a while.That is the voice of the Xiongnu herdsmen who are struggling in the war-torn grassland, and it is also the only way out of their predicament in their opinion: "May I be born as a Han in the next life!"
”PS: Chapter 2 is before 0:00.