Chapter 61: The Past

The Oghuz steppe, a place where heroes are born. The www.biquge.info of the Brush, Fun, and Pavilion is a long wilderness full of fertile pastures, and there is still this rich cultivated land near the river, which is called the river area. Many ancient kingdoms were born there, but with the change of climate, the rich river area has also become a place of grass. Oghuz, which translates to the land of warriors in the Huns. As early as the first unification of the Cyris Empire, it was a horse farm for the Huns. Later, as the Cyris Empire became stronger and stronger, it continued to send expeditionary forces of millions to the north to attack the Xiongnu, and the Huns living in the Kulun steppe gradually migrated to the Oghuz steppe.

The Xiongnu is the name given to the Goliaths by the Seris, they are a ferocious nomadic tribe, and in the process of migration, they bring many other nomadic tribes, among which there is a nation that makes iron for the Goliaths, and is called 'forging slaves' by the Goliaths because of their exquisite iron-making skills. After conquering the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, the place called the Western Regions by the Seris, and sixteen countries, the Goliaths used the Western Regions as a buffer against the Seris Empire, gradually recovered their vitality in Oghuz, and then began to attack Rome and Boyue in the west with the support of it・・・・・

With the disappearance of the Goliath power, the Oghuz steppe fell into a power vacuum, and the rest of the nomadic tribes who were originally slaves of Golia began to attack each other, among which the Cossacks, who were once the most trusted 'forging slaves' of the Goliaths, gradually unified the entire Oghuz with the sharpness of their weapons, and established another powerful steppe khanate, the Great Oghuz Khanate.

Just as the Oghuz Khanate was rising, a new dynasty was born in the Syrisian Empire in the east.

It was the Han Dynasty called Seris by the Romans, and the Seris conquered the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Western Regions and established the Imperial Protectorate, and began to communicate and understand each other with the Great Oghuz Khanate, and contradictions arose.

The contradictions have not been resolved and have been further deepened.

War broke out.

The Oghuz people continue to break into the gathering area of the Syuris people, looting and slaughtering, but the Syuris will be helpless here, sending troops from the central region to the Western Regions to the Oghuz steppe, the distance is more than twice as far as to the Kulun grassland, that is, the grain, grass and water consumed by only a few hundred thousand troops are an astronomical amount, the Syuris people have calculated that the loss caused by the Oghuz people's annual plunder is far less than 1/10,000 of the money and grain consumed by an expedition. The emperor of Seris hesitated again, he could not build the Great Wall in that kind of place in the Western Regions, and he did not want to spend national strength to do that kind of useless thing, the nomads on the grassland were like weeds, as long as the roots were not broken, they would never be killed, and when the spring breeze blew, they would give birth to new wolf cubs. However, if you don't fight, it will damage the majesty of the heavenly [dynasty], how can you still deter the four empires.

The imperial court chattered endlessly on the issue of levy or not, the more the emperor listened, the more irritated he became, the more unhappy he listened, he hated the civil officials, because those civil officials took advantage of this incident to blame Sang and scold Huai for not being able to achieve the heart of heaven and the good public opinion. thinks that he is not a good emperor, and thinks that he is not capable enough, otherwise how can a mere barbarian dare to be an enemy of the Central Dynasty. He hates the military attache even more, because the military attaché shouts every day to fight, but he doesn't know the state treasury of the imperial court, don't they know that the imperial court has spent too much silver taels? On the border of the Kulen steppe alone, an army of 200,000 is maintained, and endless money and food are spent every year. If he levies taxes on the world, the people of the world will first turn against him, the emperor. He thinks that he is not a Ming Jun of the ages, and he is also conscientious, there are not many concubines in the harem, and he usually does not dare to ask the treasury for money, nor does he build any palaces, and he will perform and fold until late at night every day before sleeping, but he just can't do what he thinks of in his heart.

Time has passed like water, and 800 years have passed in the blink of an eye. The dynasty in the central region is frequently replaced, today is this royal flag, tomorrow it is another royal flag planted high, the princes compete with each other, just to compete for fame and fortune, this period has brilliant achievements, talented people, but also has a dark era, the rebellion of the five yi. After the collapse of the Han Dynasty and the struggle for hegemony of the Three Emperors, the Seris region was unified again, this time in another great era after the Han Dynasty. However, the traditional enemies of the Central Dynasty, the northern wolves, have also become more powerful. The Kulen Grassland, the Western Regions and the Oghuz Grassland are connected, and the powerful Golden Empire cannot be seen looking down on this young dynasty that has just been unified, and the new Tang Dynasty may collapse at any time. The difference in strength is too great, the Golden Empire has two million cavalry, which is the most powerful army in Eurasia at that time, Rome and Boyue have begun to decline, and the Golden Empire is the most powerful force at that time.

The king of Tang made a move that was scolded by the literati at that time, and paid tribute to the Golden Empire, and gave the princess as a maid to the khan of the grassland. At that time, the civil officials and military generals were angry, and there were many literati who wrote documents and scolded the Tang king. How can the Central Dynasty surrender to the barbarians, even those who are most afraid of death feel humiliated, even if they cede land and pay compensation, how can they surrender to the barbarians. But the Tang king at that time insisted on going his own way, he suppressed the opposition in the south at that time, and also killed a lot of generals in the court, and then exiled a large number of civil servants, including the prime minister at the time.

During his reign, he did not do anything other than vigorously develop agriculture and economy, and the army basically did not expand, so he took out one-tenth of the money used as military pay to pay tribute to the grassland, and returned the rest to the people. In the infamy, the monarch who had been obscure all his life died, and he did not become emperor in his life. Before he died, he called the then prince to the head of the bed and said: "When you don't have the strength, you must not talk lightly, you have to reuse..."

In the years that followed, the Tang Dynasty grew from a babbling baby to a powerful man, and became a veritable empire. He let out his first roar at the steppe wolf, and with the help of the steppe civil strife, the Tang Empire took all the areas of the Golden Empire except for the Oghuz steppe, including the Kulun steppe, which became the area under the jurisdiction of the Central Dynasty for the first time. The Tang Empire became the undisputed and powerful empire of East Asia Minor, and his troops continued to point at the surrounding barbarian powers, expanding their territory and influence.

Almost at the same time as the rapid rise of the Tang Empire, the Goliaths in the West also expanded at an unusually rapid pace, conquering and establishing powerful states including the Roman and Boyue empires in just ten years. The Goliaths, under the banner of the Eagle Banner and in the name of the Supreme, slaughtered city after city and built it in ruins. They are both destroyers and rebuilders. In the war of blood and fire, a mighty republic rose to prominence in the midst of a war of conquest.

The newly rising Goliaths soon set their sights on the Golden Empire entrenched in the Oghuz steppes, which collapsed after nearly a decade of war. A large number of Oghuz people were slaughtered, the Oghuz people were divided, and in the time of the retreat to the period when the various tribes fought against each other, but this time there was no one tribe to unify the Oghuz, and the Golians focused on slaughtering the Cossacks, so that the Cossack tribes, which originally occupied most of the population of the steppe, quickly fell, and the Golliats supported the old enemies of the Cossacks, and the Magyars fought against them. A large number of Oghuz were seconded by the Goliaths to the Europa region as slave soldiers. These Oghuz had established the Magyar Khanate in the steppes of southeastern Europe at a time when the Goliaths were in civil strife, but they were soon wiped out by the recovering Goliaths, who slaughtered all the men of the Magyars.

The Oghuz steppe was firmly controlled by the Goliaths, but the Goliaths did not come into contact with the Cyris Empire. It wasn't until the first and only dictator of the Goliath brought the treasure from the East that the Goliaths brought from the East that all the councillors were stunned. Later they learned that the garment was woven from a cloth called silk brought from an ancient country in the East, and the name Seris spread, which was translated as silk.

The Goliaths tried to open up the trade route to the East, and they also wanted to see what that civilized country in the East was like, from the ancient memories of their ancestors, there seemed to be a huge moat-like wall. Some Goliaths have a vague impression in their minds that it is a majestic Great Wall. There seemed to be this huge grassland, where the weeds were as tall as a man. There is also the idea of spreading the supreme faith to the East. Curiosity, remembrance, religious fervor. These were the driving forces behind the Goliaths' relentless expansion towards the East. The Republic succeeded in suppressing the rebellion of Rome and Boyue, and just as they were about to complete the complete conquest of the Oghuz steppe, the Republic saw a military rebellion and a pro-emperor war, followed by the patriarchs of the nomadic tribes of Goliath, who did not adapt to the change of lifestyle, and launched a rebellion against the republican government in the name of the emperor. The Republic was busy quelling the rebellion, and after the rebellion was quelled, the national strength was far from being able to support hundreds of thousands of elite troops on expeditions. Even though Goliath's excellent wartime system could mobilize nearly 10 million soldiers, the war could not be fought without pay and supplies. The republic can only choose to wait.

However, with the decline of the Republic's power, the situation in the Oghuz steppe became more chaotic, and the entire steppe was full of heroes and battles, and small groups of cavalry continued to attack the borders of the Cyris Empire. Large-scale attacks have also continued to occur with the failure of some large tribes to compete for supremacy, and those who have lost in tribal wars generally choose to break into the western regions of the Cyris Empire.

Although the Republic's control over Oghuz has declined rapidly, it still has a very large influence and deterrence. There were also many tribes loyal to the republic in Oghuz.

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