Chapter 674: The Silk Road

The zombie and lonely village does not mourn, and Shang Si is the national military wheel. ---------Southern song dynasty. Lu You "November 4th Wind and Rain"

It is said that Cheng Gongying's true purpose was to ask Huaiyang's secret army to assassinate Li Ru, and introduce Huang Yan, the former Jiuquan Taishou, as the echo of the Haiqing Gang.

Li Ru used to be Dong Zhuo's chief think tank, and he almost became a famous minister of the Han Dynasty, and he naturally schemed the world, and he was an authentic Han person, which was better than Li Ru, who was a Hu person. This is also the reason why Han Sui greeted Li Ru. Cheng Gongying empathized with him, the power of the Xiliang Army was about to be taken away by Li Ru, how could he sit still and wait to be killed?

It's just that Cheng Gongying didn't dare to use any of the forces in his hands, who knows how many inside lines Han Sui has planted in the Haiqing faction. Therefore, Cheng Gongying had to encircle a civil and military all-rounder like Huai Yang, not only to eliminate Li Ru, but also to leave any evidence.

Of course, if necessary, Cheng Gongying would not care about tricks such as unloading the mill and killing donkeys, killing people and destroying mouths, how could a tribe of Lu Shuihu be compared to the army that controlled Han Sui.

Huang Yan is the right protector of Cheng Gongying of the Haiqing faction, and his status is especially above Chen Long's left protector, which shows that he is Cheng Gongying's confidant. Chen Long was very interested in his previous identity, Jiuquan was still thousands of miles away, but Jiuquan, as an important town on the Silk Road and a satellite launch base in later generations, was indeed famous. If you want to unify the Silk Road, you will inevitably need a guide like Huang Yan.

The Silk Road, referred to as the Silk Road, is broadly divided into the overland Silk Road and the ******. The overland Silk Road originated in the Western Han Dynasty, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions to open up the land passage from the capital Chang'an, through Lanzhou, Gansu, Urumqi, Xinjiang, to Tehran in Central Asia, and then through Istanbul to Moscow in Western Asia, and then to Duisburg and Rotterdam, and connected to the land passage of Mediterranean countries.

It is a sea passage for transportation, trade and cultural exchanges between ancient China and foreign countries, and the road is mainly centered on the South China Sea, so it is also called the South China Sea Silk Road. Formed in the Qin and Han dynasties, developed in the Three Kingdoms to the Sui Dynasty, flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties, and changed in the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is the oldest known sea route. The approximate route is Quanzhou, Hanoi, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, Nairobi, Athens, Venice.

At that time, the territory of the so-called Han Dynasty, near Urumqi, Xinjiang, in the later generations, belonged to the scope of activities of the ancient Cheshi people during the Warring States Period, and was part of the six countries of the Cheshi during the Eastern Han Dynasty; During the Western Han Dynasty, there were more than ten nomadic tribes in Urumqi and the surrounding areas, known as the "Land of the Thirteen Kingdoms" in history.

During the period of the Three Kingdoms, the Cheshi Houguo built the city of Silai in the southern suburbs of present-day Urumqi, which was the first city in Urumqi. Later, the Jin and Sui dynasties opened up the new north road of the Silk Road, and Urumqi was in the key place of the new north road.

During the Tang Dynasty, Tingzhou was set up at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and now Urumqi is called Luntai County, which still belongs to the important town of the Tang Dynasty's frontier, and the famous poet Cen Shen of the Tang Dynasty once left popular poems such as "suddenly like a night of spring breeze, thousands of trees and pear blossoms". In the later generations of Lu You's "November 4th Wind and Rain Masterpiece", there is a famous sentence: "Lying in a lonely village does not mourn, Shang Si is the national military wheel." Lying down at night and listening to the wind and rain, the iron horse and the glacier fell into a dream. ”

Of course, the main trade varieties of the Silk Road were never only Chinese silk, but tea, porcelain, spices and slaves accounted for the largest share of trade, especially Hu slaves, who were the most popular, and also made the Hu people oppressed by the Han aristocracy. The blood and dirtiness in it are on a par with the black slave trade, and the famous Later Zhao founding emperor Shi Le, who was born as a slave of the Qiang nationality.

Other important commodities also include new weapons, horses, salt, wool textiles, glass products, etc., such as the cavalry horses of Chen Longqing's army were trafficked from Central Asia by horse dealers.

And Jiuquan, where Huang Yan once served as a Taishou, is an important town on the Silk Road. The four counties of Hexi set up here in the Han Dynasty, namely Wuwei County, Zhangye County, Jiuquan County, and Dunhuang County, are almost arranged in a straight line according to the distance from Jincheng, becoming a large corridor leading directly to the Western Regions. The corridor is set up with Jiayu Pass, Yang Pass, Yumen Pass and other famous steep male passes, I don't know how many times there have been many times the Central Plains defense battle, thousands of years later still make future generations admire, when the pillow knife lies down to listen to the wind and rain night, when the iron horse glacier into a dream, think of it can always make people's blood boil, never cool down with time.

Jiuquan County is located at the western end of the Hexi Corridor, between the Altun Mountains, the Qilian Mountains and the Horsehair Mountains, and has been a transportation fortress leading from the Central Plains and Northeast to Xinjiang and the Western Regions since ancient times. And the so-called "there is a spring under the city" and "its water is like wine" is the immortal legend of the Jiuquan area.

Therefore, Jiuquan and other four counties of Hexi were of extraordinary significance to Chen Long's unification of Xiliang, and the army crossed the Yellow River from Jincheng to enter the only passage of the four counties of Hexi, and it had to be fought one by one. Since the period of Emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the five counties of Hexi were too guarded by Liangtong (Wuwei), Kujun (Jincheng), Shi Bao (Zhangye), Zhu Zeng (Jiuquan), Xin Tong (Dunhuang) and others to promote the flowing water general Dou Rong to "go to the military of the five counties of Hexi" and establish the Hexi secession regime.

Chen Long was quite polite to Huang Yan, but Huang Yan was quite absent-minded, probably because Chen Long got the token of Dharma Protector without much effort. And this precious token can mobilize the military power of the Haiqing faction in an emergency, and it can be said that the role is not trivial.

Chen Long cherished the token in his arms, and wanted to say goodbye, but suddenly remembered something, and couldn't help but say tentatively: "Sir, there is still an unknown thing below, General Han De, who has 80,000 Qiang soldiers, is he of the same heart as us?" ”

Cheng Gongying didn't expect Chen Long to ask this question, so he obviously hesitated, but Huang Yan spoke first: "If you don't need to know, you should ask less!" ”

This was quite polite, but Long Chen instantly understood in his heart that Han De was by no means a person that the Haiqing faction could control, otherwise Huang Yan's attitude would not be so direct. Also, if Han Sui was completely at ease with Cheng Gongying, why did he send Han De to garrison here, it was obvious that he wanted to contain each other. Sure enough, Cheng Gongying glanced at Huang Yan with golden eyes, and said with a calm face: "Huang Protector, Huaiyang Protector is his own person, but it doesn't hurt to ask." General Han De bravely crowned the three armies, and there were heavy troops under his command, so he was naturally the pillar of our Xiliang army. ”

This sentence is insincere, it can be regarded as an answer, but it is actually ambiguous and avoids Chen Long's question. Chen Long smiled slightly, and immediately bowed his hand. Huang Yan inserted his hand as a farewell, but Cheng Gongying personally sent it to the gate of the hospital, so that he could say goodbye and show his love for talent.

Chen Long sneered slightly in his heart, whether it is Tianshui, Jiuquan, Jincheng, or Huangzhong, I, Chen Long, vow to dispatch the Qinglong army, sooner or later, one day to sweep away all careerists, abolish slavery, lightly punish the meager endowment, return the government to the people, dredge the fortress, unify Xiliang, let the Silk Road shine forever, and become the golden strip and pillar backbone of Sino-Western trade.

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