Section 167: The Ancient Kingdom of Loulan (2)
Wang Gongzi was generous, and after taking a small sip of water slowly, he continued to be like a storyteller, with a good appearance and relish, and said with gusto: "Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Bowang Marquis Zhang Qian to envoy to the Dayue clan and failed to conclude an offensive and defensive alliance. After that, he sent a large army to crusade against the distant Dawan Kingdom, and sent envoys to the countries of the Western Regions many times. When these envoys passed through Loulan, Loulan was overwhelmed by the heavy burden, but Loulan obeyed the Xiongnu's countermeasures, repeatedly stopped and killed the officials of the Han Dynasty, and even killed the envoys. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty finally sent troops to attack Loulan, and as a result, as evidence of submission, Prince Loulan was sent to the Han Dynasty as a hostage. At the same time, Loulan also sent a prince to the Xiongnu, indicating that he would strictly maintain neutrality between the Xiongnu and the Han. After that, when the Han expeditionary army attacked a subject country of the Xiongnu, the king of Loulan passed through the Xiongnu and stationed the Xiongnu in the country, which angered the Han court. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent troops to attack Loulan again, approaching the capital of the mud city, the king of Loulan was terrified, and immediately opened the city gate to apologize, and Emperor Wu asked him to monitor the movements of the Xiongnu. In 92 BC, when the king of Loulan died, the prince who had been a hostage in the Han Dynasty returned to succeed him, and the prince was very sad and did not want to return to China easily, so his brother succeeded to the throne. The new king died not long after, and the Xiongnu took this opportunity to inherit the throne with the eldest son of the former king who had been a hostage in his own country. In the following two or three years, there were no major incidents between the Han and the Xiongnu, and they were very stable on the surface. The border of Loulan is close to the Yumen Pass, and the Han envoys often go to the countries of the Western Regions through this pass, and they have to pass through the desert called Bailongdui in the territory of Loulan, where there is often wind in the desert, and the quicksand is swept into the air shaped like a dragon, and the pedestrians are lost, and the Han Dynasty constantly orders the Loulan Kingdom to provide guides and drinking water, because the Han envoys repeatedly abuse the guides, Loulan refuses to obey its orders, and the relationship between the two deteriorates. In the fourth year of Emperor Yuanfeng of the Han Dynasty, the general Huo Guang sent Fu Jiezi to lead several warriors to Loulan, designed to kill the king of Loulan, married a beautiful queen for the prince who was a hostage in the Han court, and sent him back to Loulan to inherit the throne. But the king trembled and feared assassination. Emperor Zhao of the Han Dynasty sent troops to garrison Tunloulan in the name of protecting the king, thus gaining the initiative in the crusade against the Xiongnu and the Western Regions. However, the Han Dynasty did not relax the management of Loulan, set up the capital protection, placed the army, opened wells and canals, and accumulated valleys in Tuntian, and Loulan was still very prosperous. After that, the power of the Han Dynasty weakened, and Loulan once again went into decline and even later perished. But why it disappeared suddenly, I don't know for a long time when people go to the empty building, but I remember that the ancient book is gone here, which is really regrettable. Hu Jiaojiao said curiously: " Wang Gongzi is so good, so powerful, the little woman is really admired, your story is really good, it is told vividly, in simple terms, it is really good, I completely understand, yes, in fact, I also heard earlier that this Loulan ancient country is a strong small country on the ancient Silk Road, Loulan as the most important country on the Silk Road, once very rich and beautiful, the ancient city of Loulan used to be a paradise for people to live and reproduce, surrounded by the vast Lop Nur, people in front of the door around the clear blue waves of boating fishing, hunting in the dense poplar forest, living in the garden of nature's gifts。 amazed the world, but this good ancient country of Loulan disappeared into the yellow sand inexplicably, which is really incomprehensible, and it is really regrettable.
Garfield said thoughtfully: "During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Regions Long History was also set up in Loulan City, and it continued until the Wei and Jin Dynasties. During this period, the long history of the Western Regions established various systems for the residents of the Loulan area, which made the social life at that time have obvious Han colors. Judging from the traces of the artificial channels outside Loulan City that we have found now, Loulan at that time was also a vicissitudes of life, with a considerable scale of agricultural production, and we clearly recorded more than 20 Tuntian will cultivate hundreds of acres of fields from the wooden tablets found in the Xiaohe cemetery just now, and in the late Eastern Jin Dynasty, the Central Plains region fought for power, and the war continued, and the imperial court ignored the unification of the Western Regions, and Loulan gradually lost contact with the imperial court. Around the 4th century AD, there is no record of Loulan in Chinese history books. However, in the Tang Dynasty of the previous dynasty, the Central Plains region was strong, and the Tang Dynasty and Tubo met in Loulan. You can listen to these poems, you can get a glimpse of the leopard, this is Li Bai's "Plugged Song" - in May, the mountains are snowy, there are no flowers and only cold. The flute smells the willows, and the spring has not been seen. Xiao Zhan followed the golden drum and slept with the jade saddle. I am willing to put the sword down my waist and cut Loulan directly. This is Wang Changling's "From the Army" - Qinghai Changyun Dark Snow Mountain, a lonely city looking at Yumen Pass. The yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will not be returned if it is not broken. These well-known poems that are well known to women and children can be seen that Loulan was still an important border town in the Tang Dynasty. But in just a few hundred years, this once-thriving town has mysteriously disappeared. Xuanzang also described Loulan as a majestic city in "The Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", and the population was cut off. What a puzzle is this: why did such a prosperous and powerful little country disappear overnight? Why did Loulan City, which had been prosperous for a long time, disappear, why did the oasis become a desert and the Gobi, and why did the sand enter the city and bury it? Why did the oasis in the past become a desert now? Why did the border towns of the former merchants and merchants go to the city empty? In the end, even the city was annihilated under the vast yellow sand and was silent in the long history? It's really incomprehensible, especially the legend of the beautiful and incomparably beautiful, incomparably desirable, intoxicating, and fascinated Loulan woman, where is she going today? As soon as Quicksand heard the beauty, he suddenly came to his senses, his blurry eyes widened a lot, and he was full of luster, and said excitedly: "I heard that the beauty of Loulan is beautiful and beautiful, and it is better to see it than to see it, it's a pity that I couldn't see their moving and beautiful figures with my own eyes." Zeng Lu was a little unhappy, and said with a pout: "Hmph, you know women all day long, hum, what are they good-looking, not all of them are women, what is worth looking at, what is different, it's not two eyes, one nose, it's just that!"
Quicksand had no choice but to whisper and say with a hippie smile: "I was wrong, I reviewed it deeply, only you are the best looking in this world, okay." Zeng Lu smiled slightly, it was really bright and moving, looking like a little woman in love.
She also asked curiously: "Then why did this Lou Lan Ancient Kingdom disappear out of thin air for no reason?"