157 The Shape of an Empire
The process that Dongying is going through is the history of China before the centralization of power in the Qin Empire, and the expansion of the Huaxia clan from the Loess Plateau to the current scale is obviously impossible to give away in vain. The vastness of the country allowed the Central Plains regime to constantly seek more land in the relatively closed East Asia in order to resolve the contradictions caused by excessive land annexation at the end of each dynasty. For example, Qin Xiabashu and Jingchu, Hanke Lingnan and Western Regions, Tang Kai Tubo and Lite, Ding Dynasty into Dali, Northeast China, Annam, and Goryeo, although the Ji Dynasty was lazy and military, the water conservancy projects built were enough to allow the Han people to take root and multiply in these new territories. If it is the Song Dynasty that Gu Ci knows, although it is so weak that it is as weak as the late Qing Dynasty to cut the land and seek peace, it is rich and prosperous, and there is a food revolution, the introduction of Zhancheng rice, 'the lake is wide and ripe, the world is full', naturally there is no power to occupy the land; The Qing Dynasty, which was not liked by the literati, drew back the whole of Mongolia, Northeast China, the Western Regions, Qinghai-Tibet, and Taiwan, and even if it cut off a lot of meat under the idea of 'giving friends to domestic slaves', at least a complete 'chicken' remained.
In the ninth year of Shenzong, the eighty-first year of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Dayu was on the rise, and the most noble family of the empire had the honor to personally create and experience this period of history.
Ah Shuang rushed to sort out the domestic history, after all, there was Professor Gao Dai as a backup, just flipping through the information, it was not difficult at all, Ah Sang was very excited to start tossing Western history, Gu Ci deliberately did not limit their delivery time, and wrote a paragraph and handed over a paragraph.
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The Western Zhou Dynasty was divided into the beginning of King Wu, eighty-one years was the twelfth year of King Mu of Zhou, the west expedition to Yangxu, a small victory returned, but it intensified the conflict with the dog Rong, "from the beginning of the desert to the person who did not come", after the two battles decided on the dog Rong. In the second year, the Eighth Division went to the east to attack Huaiyi, and later went to the west and hooked up with the Queen Mother of the West. This emperor, who likes to run around and fight wars, turned out to be a relaxation of the government, and the world of Zhou turned from prosperity to decline.
In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, it was the eighth year of King Zhuang of Zhou, the alliance of Qi, Lu, Song, Chen, and Cai attacked and defended, and sent Wei Huigong to restore.
The Qin Dynasty was too short, and the eighty-one years of the Western Han Dynasty were the second year of Emperor Wu's Yuanjia, and the hussar general Huo Quai's glorious Hexi campaign began. In the first year of Yanping in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was mired in the dispute between Qi and Eun, and two emperors were changed within a year.
After the Three Kingdoms, the eighty-first year of the Jin Dynasty has reached the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and the three years of Yonghe, which can be regarded as a major event, is also a feat of Huan Wen and Shu, although it is divided, it even crosses thousands of miles of the Western Regions, and establishes diplomatic relations with Fu La, which is also a feat.
The Southern Dynasty is the first year of Qi Zhongxing, and Xiao Yan, the ancestor of the Xiao family, is shining, about to get the throne and establish the Liang Dynasty. The Xianbei regime of the Northern Dynasty began in the first year of the Northern Wei Dynasty, that is, in the first three years of Emperor Tai of the Song and Ming dynasties, and was spent in the invasion of the south by Emperor Xianwen Tuoba Hong and the general Murong Bai, as well as the counteroffensive of the Northern Expedition of Emperor Song and Ming.
After the short-lived Sui Dynasty, the eighty-first year of the Tang Dynasty was the second year of the Holy Calendar of the Empress Zetianshun in power, and there was the remnant of the Tuyuhun Division, and it was connected with the ten tribes of the Western Turks.
The first year of Tianyou was followed by Tang Zhaozong's Tianfu four years, and the eighty-first year was the first year of the succession of Shunzong, the son of Mu Zong and his father of Liezong, and Shunzong, who had been the prince for twenty-eight years, finally survived the strong father and changed the Yuan Guanning. Although this era name only lasted for one year, Shunzong died, but in just one and a half years, he did several major things enough to go down in history - open the port to welcome the big cannibals, and the ensuing corn, sweet potatoes and other grains originating from the 'source of the Nile' have since been listed in the Chinese recipe, and at the end of the year, they made persistent efforts to introduce Lucheng rice and Zhancheng rice, so that there was the prosperity of the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and it also allowed Liezong to deal with the two-front battles of the Qianyi and Xiongnu all the year round, and attack the Tianshan Mountains, but still be able to recover quickly.
The Ji Dynasty inherited a solid family background, it is said that when the Yuan Dynasty changed the Yuan, the number of people has exceeded 100 million, and when it enters the year of the ninety-nine reincarnation, the Ji Jian Sect has been unifying for 14 years, and the country that should have gone to the next level has been crumbling. For the first time, the Yiyi broke through the northern defense line and invaded Shanggu County, and now Shangjing, the army and the people were in an uproar, scrambling to flee south across the Zhuan River, and almost no chief official remained. At that time, the Hexi Corridor was lost, and the imperial court requisitioned and transferred the indigenous people of Southwest Yi and the people of the Sichuan Kui border to build the three passes, dredge the Caoyun, and repair the mausoleum, which aroused the anger of the people. The literati led the army, dealing with the fierce mountain people, completely helpless, coupled with the sluggishness of the government, drought, plague, and the Bashu earthquake, the sky could not tolerate Jian Zong, and before the moon arrived, he had a glorious curtain call. Then began the border uprisings that lasted for more than ten years, one after another, and the Xiongnu and Qianyi who came to rob on time every year, as well as natural disasters for many years, snow, waterlogging, drought, and locusts took turns, and the Ji Dynasty never eased up.
Now in the eighty-first year of Dayu, the Western Regions, Northeast China, Kangzang, Tubo, Goryeo, Xinnaannan, Piguo, Ryukyu, Srivijaya, Chenla, Longmen, and the power of the navy and the prosperity of the cavalry, the appearance of the empire has begun to take shape.
The eight-year-old second prince Yuan Xuan didn't think that his father would stop there, and now there is no internal friction in the country, and after several years of smooth wind and rain, political harmony, rich people's livelihood, and military superiority, there is no reason not to learn from Liu Yezhu and Dingliezong. If you pay attention to recuperation, you can let the eldest brother take care of the people, he followed the Zhenbei Army or the Jingxi Army to fight the country, and to fight to support the war, even if he threw all his money into it, he did not hesitate!
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Ahsan's research on Western history has not gone too well, mainly because there is no systematic chronicle of Anxi, Daqin, Fula, etc., but these countries and cultures have aroused his interest. As long as he has time, he will soak in the Translation Department of Honglu Temple and Professor Gao's study to check materials and take notes, and then take them back to discuss with his brothers and Gu Ci.
These small collisions like sporadic sparks can sometimes give a lot of inspiration to Yuan Yi or Yiqing who are playing soy sauce on the side. For example, the children commented on the form of the 'Delian League' created by Athens in ancient Greece, which changed the 'alliance money', which should have been paid and jointly determined by the city-states of the alliance, into an annual tribute tax, in the form of collecting 'protection fees' to escort the maritime security of the city-states. This kind of alliance, which should have been equal, has become a loose 'empire' model because of the dominance of one family, allowing Yiqing to learn from the business of Dongying.
Dongying was a good testing site, supplemented by a treaty to take over the customs revenue and military rights of the port in the name of fighting piracy or protecting Chinese merchants. With Dayu's existing commercial penetration, it is preferable to experiment with the issuance and control of treasure banknotes there, importing large quantities of their gold, silver, and fishery products, selling surplus soybeans, wheat, and other agricultural products, and dumping rice if necessary, so that the lifeblood of its economy is completely controlled by the royal industry. Taking 10,000 steps back, if the Dongying regime is completely not controlled by Da Yu, according to the degree of close trade ties between the two countries, even if the murderous Mughal emperor is replaced, it will not affect its subordinate status in commerce, and Da Yu can still dominate the position.
Yuan Yi agreed with this proposal, and after the cabinet deliberated, when the time was ripe, the imperial court planned to issue an official letter of state, clarifying Dongying's 'territorial' status, at best, to give a 'vassal' treatment, in place of the previous common 'vassal tribute'. The feudal state was canonized by China, and was given a seal by China to show its obedience with annual tribute. The Chinese side took an inactive attitude towards the vassal states, and even in order to show the wealth and generosity of the 'Celestial Empire', in line with the principle of 'thin and generous exchanges', the rewards given to the vassal states far exceeded the value of the tribute, but they were doing business at a loss. The seeming inequality between the clans and vassals is actually a friendly relationship between superiors and subordinates, and in many cases does not have the substantive content of ruling and being ruled. After all, if China really wants a certain place, it will generally garrison troops, transfer officials, emigrate, and reclaim after it is defeated, and allow it to exist as a vassal state, which is basically not cost-effective to maintain, such as Annam, Goryeo, and Pyu before the naval expansion. In the future, this kind of 'territorial' relationship of giving priority to commerce and full control of military taxation will also replace the relationship between clans and vassals and become the national policy of Dayu to control overseas territories from a distance.
As for the Indochina Peninsula and Goryeo, there is a connection and support of the land, so let's talk about it first.
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Hundreds of years later, some historical books divide the Warring States period into three periods: the front, middle and the back.
Before Daiyu fully intervened, the struggle between the daimyo and the shogun led to the change of shogunate, and the Fujiwara, Genji, Taira, and Uesugi clans all fought for the formation of the shogunate in Kamiraku.
The second stage was the fighting between the daimyos, and the Uesugi shogunate's generals after the Hiroshi, like the emperor, were ornaments that were put up or snatched around, and this stage was characterized by a complete separation of soldiers and peasants, as a large number of peasants became samurai wielding swords and crossbows, cash crops such as soybeans, cotton, corn, and meat were heavily dependent on Daiyu imports, and treasure banknotes became currency.
The last stage was very short, and Nobuta Yukata, who inherited the Nobuta family and the Uesugi family, became the first 'Tianxia man' in the Warring States period. Under the slogan of 'Tianxia Buwu', he vigorously promoted talents from all walks of life to become retainers, firmly controlled the huge team of retainers through the distinction between fiefs and trade rights, and strict promotion rewards and punishments, and introduced the bow and crossbow of Dayu, successfully subdued the daimyo of the entire Honshu Island, forced the surrender of the two feudatories, formed a shogunate with full control of public office and the emperor, ceded Oki Island to Dayu, and fully opened up the seven ports of Chukyo, Yokohama, Namba, Hakata, Tsuruga, Aomori, and Toyama except Kagoshima and Okishima. The coastline of Dongying is all open to Dayu.
Under Yukata's power, the suppressed retainers were at peace, but his death split the Shinda shogunate into several factions, especially the daimyo who held the right to trade in the port but did not have much land, and they all supported different heirs. At this time, Dayu intervened in the dispute on the condition of 'garrison protection of Qigang', and voted for the governor of Youding, the son of Fang, who was headed by the name of Qigang, and completely abolished the post of general, while other inland daimyo who occupied a wide area jointly elected one person to serve as the regent of Guanbai, one military and one civil, and each other no longer used force easily. Under the supervision of the Daiyu embassy district in Shichiko and Kyoto, the nearly 200-year-old period of the Toei Sengoku period came to an end, and Mishima ushered in a long-lost peace.