Chapter 393: Time Flies 2/4
Lu Bu went to the Western Regions, and in recognition of his past achievements, Chen Cheng gave him a legion, that is, the Fourth Legion. Lu Bu named him the "Iron Warrior" and set out on his way west.
With the expansion of the Western Regions Changshi Mansion, the Han Dynasty finally collided head-on with the Kushan Empire, which was in its heyday. The Kushan Empire was founded by the Kushan Marquis tribe in the Yue clan and occupied Afghanistan, India and other places. However, at this time, the Kushan Empire had begun to decline from prosperity, and Kangju, Dawan, Khorasan, Huathornzimo and other places had broken away from the rule of the Kushan people.
After Guishan cheered up a little, he wanted to restore his homeland, but he was stunned to find that he didn't know when the Han people were already so close to them. After the two sides came into contact, the aggressive attitude of the Western Regions Governor's Mansion made the Guishan people very dissatisfied. They believed that the places occupied by the Han Chinese had been Kushan territory and that they had the right to claim them.
And the people of the Western Regions Changshi Mansion believe that "the sun and the moon shine, and the rivers go are all Han soil", and you still want to go back to the places that we occupy? Dream! There were also Shinrikyo and powerful people from all walks of life who immediately jumped down and flitted, instigating a war with the Kushans. What Khorasan, the thorn of the thorn submodel, has been robbed by them almost, sometimes run more than a hundred miles, and catch dozens of people, you say you can't be angry?
It's good to fight, only by fighting can everyone be promoted and make a fortune, and only then can we catch more Hu people and sell them for money. In addition, everyone has no other ideas for the time being, the ghost place in Afghanistan, except for some Qiang and Huns who like it, everyone else doesn't like it, the terrain there is really bad.
As for the Indian part of the Kushan Empire, it is very fertile, but unfortunately, the current Han people cannot reach it. Chen Cheng would only launch a great expedition when Jingzhou, Jiangdong and other places had not yet been pacified. From Jiuquan to India, it is farther than from Tongguan to Hujiaoguan, I don't know how many times, and without supplies, even Chen Cheng is not willing to try.
Because the imperial court had already issued the "General Nothing Order", in the fourth year of Jian'an, there were no major wars between the Chinese princes. There were quite a few small-scale conflicts, and there were still many bandits and rebels in various places, and they also fought with the princes' soldiers and horses several times.
But now the princes were able to use their power to suppress internal revolts without killing each other. The thieves and the rebels were defeated by the princes' soldiers and horses, and many people simply ran to Sili or Yuzhou, Yanzhou and other places. There, as long as you register and make a register, you can get land to cultivate, and it is also a good choice to farm when you are tired from fighting.
There was a group of thieves who came out of Shu, went down the river by boat and defected to Yuzhou Mulu Fang. The leader is called Gan Ning, who is quite armed and good at water warfare. After Lu Fang tested his skills, he felt that this general might be useful, so he let him go to Luoyang.
Chen Cheng heard that it was Gan Ning, Xu Sheng, Ding Feng and others, so he gave them the titles of some naval generals and asked them to train the naval army with Tai Shici. Regardless of whether Jiangdong and Jingzhou are defeated or not, we will first train the naval army. Even if they don't fight, they can be sent to Taiwan, Penghu, Ryukyu and other places.
In the fourth year of Jian'an, the war that once spread all over the world suddenly stopped. Although the common people everywhere are still being squeezed very much, they can finally stop and take a few breaths, without worrying about being dragged to war, and they don't have to worry about being slaughtered in an organized and planned way.
The imperial court's actions to clear the fields and population in Yanzhou, Yuzhou, Jizhou, and Qingzhou were met with an expected revolt, and rebellions broke out everywhere. But how are those local tyrants the opponents of Zhao Yun, Xu Rong, Lu Fang, and Zang Ba? The rebellion was strangled in its cradle as soon as it showed its signs.
For those rebels, the attitude of the imperial court did not change, "the first one is dead", and the remnants of the party and their families were exiled to the Western Regions. In other words, the proportion of Han people in the Western Regions is getting higher and higher, and the number of white-skinned and Han Chinese and black-skinned Han people is also increasing. Every time someone just goes to the Western Regions and meets some black-skinned guys who speak fluent Chinese and claim to be Han, they will feel messy in the wind.
Nima, is this bullying our lack of knowledge? Where do Han people look like this? But if one of the parents is Han, then of course they are also Han. It is said that Sun Ce's younger brother has a pair of turquoise pupils, and is he still recognized as a Han Chinese?
What if the skin is a little whiter or darker? Why don't we see who can memorize the verses of Shinrikyo better?
People who are new to the Western Regions are often bluffed. People who can fluently recite "Principles of Geometry", "Advanced Mathematics" or other books can be regarded as a scholar in the Central Plains, right? Could it be that this place in the Western Regions is particularly fostered and specializes in producing all kinds of talents?
After staying for a long time, they will realize that most of the locals can only memorize one book or a piece of content, and most of them do not understand the reason. The mechanics, after building all kinds of machines, will send people to recite a large section of the three laws of thermodynamics and the like, saying that this will make the "clever" feel happy.
The medical school here is even more terrifying, often disemboweling dead people and studying various structures inside. He also made a specimen of Bai Huahua's bones on wood, which shocked people who saw them for the first time, thinking that they were all crazy. However, the people of the medical school are very good at treating diseases and healing injuries, and many of them have retired from the Xiliang Army.
People who fight in war are easily injured, and many people in the Western Regions were rescued from the death line by people from the medical school, and then naturally joined the Shinrikyo religion. Therefore, the medical school is actually the most capable of fighting among the eight major factions of the Shinrikyo Sect, and there are more than 1,000 people directly under the force alone.
The Western Regions were intensively planning a war against the Kushan Empire, and the various princes of China were thinking about how to have more cheap and good cannons, and Chen Cheng was living a very comfortable and comfortable life in Luoyang. After his eldest son Chen Sheng and second son Chen Zhen, he had several more children, and it took a lot of time just to deal with his wife and concubines and children every day.
The whole empire is like a carriage that is about to fall apart but has been put back together, stumbling towards the future.
Winter comes, then leaves, and in a blink of an eye it is spring, and then it is a cycle of spring, summer, autumn and winter.
This is already the seventh year of Jian'an, and three years have passed, the court has become stronger and stronger, and the princes have tried to catch up, but it seems that they will never be able to catch up. Not to mention that he can't catch up, the gap between him and the imperial court is getting bigger and bigger. In addition to Liu Bei, there were also many people who made bronze cannons, and at first, the princes rejoiced about it, but soon, they found out that it was a big pit.
Artillery is the god of war, and those who have used it say that it is good. But it's expensive! Even if you don't count labor and loss, fuel and other messy things, a tiger squat cannon will cost dozens of catties of copper, which is a lot of money. Two or three tiger squat cannons are definitely not enough, why do you have to have twenty guns?
The princes' ability to accumulate money is too far worse than Chen Cheng's, and it is unlikely that they will complete the land reform in their own territory, and how much money will they receive by collecting land money? Either reduce the number of troops, or ask for a few fewer cannons. But although the tiger squat cannon is very good, in front of the Napoleonic cannon is the share of being beaten.
What's the use of those trots in your hands? Of course, we still have to continue to use the cannon. Otherwise, the previous investments would be useless. gritted his teeth and continued to throw money into the military industry, then there will be more money to be burned, and hundreds of thousands of dollars may not be able to produce results.
Every time the test fails, it is an earth-shattering explosion, but can't it just be heard?
In addition to cloth, there are now iron nails and other steel products, as well as soap, paper, buttons, and other things. After making cloth directly into clothes in Guanzhong, and then transporting it to Jiaozhou to sell, it will be cheaper than local cloth. As a result, industry and commerce everywhere were crushed.
Although people of insight in various places do not understand the theories, they can also see the harms. For this reason, they shouted and ran around, but to no avail. The rulers of the upper echelons are living more and more comfortably, so where do they care about anything else?
Although the imperial court has not used troops abroad, according to the envoys sent to Luoyang, the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are becoming more and more majestic. The garrisons in various places began to be reorganized, the number of crossbowmen was reduced in the army, and the number of artillery was increased. Every year during military exercises, the number of cannons that appear on the field is increasing.
Anyone who sees the scene of dozens or hundreds of cannons firing together will be so shocked that they can't afford to fight at all.
In Jiangdong, Sun Ce has given up seizing Jiangxia, annexing Jingzhou, and completing the strategic plan of "reaching the extreme of the Yangtze River" over the years, and instead used a knife against the Shanyue people in the territory. The Jiangdong Army, which was equipped with artillery, even if it was just a monkey version of the Tiger Squat Cannon, had easily swept away the barbarians everywhere, and then resettled these people in a unified manner, and forcibly carried out sinicization.
In addition, according to the map brought back by Zhang Zhao, Sun Bofu also sent a fleet to the South China Sea, landed in Taiwan, Hainan and other places successively, and set up a stronghold on it. However, there are too many infectious diseases in the South China Sea, and even if a priest from the Shinrikyo School of Medicine is invited from the Western Regions, the mortality rate has not been reduced.
Sun Ce's high-pressure policy on the inside aroused a lot of dissatisfaction. Once, while hunting, he ran into several Assassins, and the unsuspecting Overlord was shot with an arrow in the face, and although he fought hard to kill the Assassins, the poison had already begun to spread. After hanging Sun Ce's life with medicine, the Shinrikyo priest said to Mrs. Wu: "If you want to save the life of the envoy, you have to take the action of the general himself." ”
Mrs. Wu was stunned and asked, "Can you still invite the general to come?" ”
The priest said indifferently: "Mrs. Tai thinks too much, I mean to send Sun Yuanjun to Luoyang as soon as possible." ”
"But he's been seriously injured, how can he stand the bumps?"
The priest shook his head and said, "Then prepare the coffin earlier, and depending on the extent of this wound, it will be delayed for another five or six days." ”
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