Grandpa, let's finish this trip, and we won't come out in the future. ”

"Well, don't come out, retire at home with peace of mind."

In the long sand, a camel caravan is heading west.

It was a large caravan of about a hundred merchants and their men, carrying two or three hundred loadloads of goods. They set out from Chang'an and headed westward to the distant Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu.

The people who spoke were two Han businessmen with a head and a head, one with a white beard and a face full of vicissitudes, looking like they were both fifty or sixty years old, and the other was a tall and sturdy young man, who was about twenty years old.

"When we get to Kangju, let's get rid of this batch of goods, and then buy a batch of good Dawan BMWs and traffic them to Luoyang, where the children of the nobility like BMW horses the most, and they can definitely make a lot of money."

The grandfather is old, and he doesn't plan to go out again after this trip, they plan to put land in their hometown, build a few new houses, and then the young man and his fiancée will get married, and then have children, run a grange, and then do some small business in his hometown, while Grandpa can be at home with his grandson, and live for a long time.

"Grandpa, is Kangju lively?"

"Lively, on the Silk Road, how can there be anything that is not lively, especially since the Great Qin court defeated the Western Turkic Khan, all the countries in the Western Regions have paid tribute to my Great Qin, and the original Western Turkic ten departments have also been attached to the seal, so ah, this Silk Road is reopened, and the nine kingdoms of Zhaowu are also prosperous and lively again."

"I heard that the women of Shiguo can dance the Zhezhi dance, and the dance is beautiful." Young man.

"You kid, when you were in Chang'an City, didn't you already see Shiguo Dancing Ji dancing Zhezhi Dance, and you also saw Hu Xuan Dance." The old man laughed.

"Grandpa, you didn't even want to bring me here before, or I would have seen it a long time ago."

"In the past, this Silk Road was not so easy to walk, which time was not a gamble, there are many checkpoints on the road, you have to be filial piety along the way, you have to be lucky, you can't make much, I am reluctant to take you here."

The young man smiled, "Bring me earlier, you can also share more for Grandpa, just like this time, it's much easier to bring me." ”

The old man also stroked his beard and smiled, saying that this son is indeed very clever, he is old, and he is already a little powerless, and with his son with him, whether he sleeps in the open along the way, lives in a hotel in the city, drinks and feeds camels, or takes care of the goods, he has done a good job, which saves him a lot of worry.

This time, they set out from Chang'an, all the way through the west of the Guanlong River, arrived at Dunhuang, and then entered Gaochang, and then took the middle line of the Silk Road in the Western Regions, Gaochang to Yanqi and then Qiuzi to Gumo and then into Shule, and then crossed the mountain pass to the north and entered the Bahan and Shiguo in the Yaozhishui (Syr Darya) basin until the Mi, Kang, Cao, He, An, and Mu countries in the Nami River basin, a tributary of the Wuhu River (Amu Darya).

This is a long road, only from Dunhuang to Kangju, it is 6,000 miles.

From Dunhuang to Chang'an, there are more than 3,000 miles.

Even the fast horses of the imperial court take eight days, and they spent a full month on the road from Chang'an to Dunhuang.

Fortunately, from Chang'an to Dunhuang, this road is very safe, and the supply is also convenient. Out of Dunhuang, after passing the desert, there are three counties of Anxi of the imperial court, Yiwu, Gaochang, Yanqi, not only the big city has garrisons, official offices, and along the way there are Fengbao, Bingtun.

It's just that it's not so convenient to go to Qiuzi after leaving Yanqi.

The red Qin flag is rarely seen anymore, and when I came, I was used to seeing the red flag on the road, and I always felt steady, but now I can't see the red flag, and I always feel a little uneasy.

The old man remembered that when he used to walk this Silk Road, it was still the world of the Turks, and there were often Turkic cavalry coming and going, and from time to time they had to take away some things, and every time they passed through a city, they had to pay some taxes, and they might even encounter horse thieves.

"I heard that the Silk Road is quite smooth now, and I don't know if it's true or not, but I hope I don't run into horse thieves."

"Grandpa, now the entire Western Regions is our Great Qin's territory, how can there be horse thieves!" Young people don't believe in horse thieves, thinking that in the early years, bandits were everywhere in the Central Plains, but can you still see a bandit now? Don't talk about horse thieves and thieves, even thieves are hard to see now, not even beggars.

The local government is eager to catch some traitors, so that they can be directly sent to the frontier tuntian, and the provincial government will move some honest and good people who have been safe and secure from their own rule.

"This Qiuzi, it's not Yiwu, Gaochang and Yanqi, the three kingdoms have now become the three counties of Anxi of Great Qin, there are officials of the imperial court, and there are also garrisons of the imperial court, which can naturally ensure safety, but Qiuci used to be the Khan court of the Western Turks, and the king of Qiuci was already considered a Turk."

When the Western Turks swept Central Asia, joined forces with the Sassanid Persian Dynasty to eliminate the White Huns, and later set foot on Persia, the entire territory of Central Asia was ruled by the Western Turks, and even reached the Indus Valley for a time.

In the past, the Bada people moved west from the steppe to Central Asia, and later after destroying the Yueshi Kushan Empire, which also moved to Central Asia from the east, they concentrated on attacking the Indus Valley, and collapsed the Gupta Empire, the once unified dynasty of India, and occupied the Indus Valley.

But the Western Turks were not so simple, they directly sent nobles to control the countries.

For example, in the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea (southern Russia), the Khazarian Leaf Protector was divided, and in the southern part of the Uhu River (Afghanistan), the Tocharian Leaf Protector was divided, both of which were controlled by the prince of the Ashina clan.

The nine surnames of Zhaowu in Central Asia, including the countries north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, except for some small countries that are too weak and have no oil and water, many city-states have been forcibly seized by the Ashina clan and other Turkic tribes.

Therefore, even if the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu are still the same name, the royal family has long ceased to be the original Sogdians.

Originally, the nine kingdoms of Zhaowu were the same as the Kushan Empire's Dayue people, all of whom moved west from the Hexi area in the past, and were oppressed by the Xiongnu to move westward earlier, and later established a country in Central Asia.

After Guishan was destroyed by the disgusting people, Zhaowu Jiu claimed to be a descendant of Guishan.

But when the Western Turks were destroyed, they destroyed all these Kushan descendants and kings one by one.

The Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu, because they moved from Zhaowu City in Hexi, later settled in the Kangju area, and finally branched out to establish the Nine Kingdoms, all of which were named after Zhaowu, so they were called Zhaowu Nine Surnames.

But now, the nine kingdoms of Zhaowu are all Turkic kings.

For example, in Shiguo (later Tashkent), during the reign of Luo Khan of the Western Turkic Division, the Western Turks killed the king of Shiguo, and the nobles took the throne of Shiguo by the nobles.

And why the country of Bathhana is divided into the east and west of the country of Bathhana is also because the Ashina clan and the Khibi are unevenly divided, and in the end, the Khibi tribe ruled the West Bathhana, and the Ashina nobleman Kanmohedu led the Ratnis tribe to rule the East Bathhana.

And Anguo, another powerful country in the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu, was also established as the king of An by a small officer named Aboz, and later the Anguo people could not bear his brutal rule and went to complain to the Khan of Chuluo, and finally Aboz was deposed and his son became the king of An.

In the Tocharian countries south of the Wuhu River, half of the countries are Hu, and the kings and soldiers and horses are Turkic.

Only a few countries such as Kang and the original Gaochang were not directly annexed by the Turks because of their strong strength, but the Turks also controlled the two countries in disguise by marrying the princess to the king.

The two famous kings of Kang, Daibi and Qu Shuzhi, were both married to Turkic princesses.

Kang is also the only one among the countries in the Western Regions that retains its own little brother vassal state, the four small Sogdian states of Western Cao, Eastern Cao, Central Cao and Mi, because they are all held by the Kang royal family, they can barely keep the royal line.

After Gaochang was also set up as a county by Great Qin, now in the entire Western Regions, there is still Kangju or the original royal system.

"The king of Qiuzi, Su Vadei, although he is not a Turkic royal family, but the royal family is also of mixed blood with the Turks for several generations, and his wife is the Ashina clan. If you want to say, this King of Qiuzi is also interesting, it is rumored that his wife Ashina has been having an affair with his prime minister Nali, this king knows it, but he is helpless, and his life is also bitter. ”

The old man smiled and talked about a secret.

The young man didn't care and said, "Who called this Su Fa family used to be a minister Turk, and now he deserves to be cuckolded by the Ashina clan." ”

"Qiuzi still has some strength, don't look at the king being cuckolded by the queen and the prime minister, but Qiuzi can gather an army of 100,000, otherwise, why didn't the court directly merge Qiuzi last time, and leave them to do anything."

To the south of the Tianshan Mountains, there are mainly five large countries, including Gaochang, Yanqi, Qiuci, Khotan, and Shule.

plus some other small countries, and then there are the nine surnames of Zhaowu, as well as the Tocharian countries, but now many Western Turkic tribes have also been awarded the title of princes by the Son of Heaven of Great Qin, and their territories are feudal states, so for a time the Western Regions were full of countries.

But after Gaochang and Yanqi are now Qin counties, the three kingdoms of Qiuzi, Khotan, and Shule are all hard bones, and even Daqin will not easily move them, otherwise it is easy to move the whole body.

"There are more than 70 cities in Qiuzi, and the power is quite strong, and there are two Turkic departments to help each other."

"Grandpa, you also think too highly of this turtle, no matter how strong you are, can you be stronger than my Daqin? Don't look at them now, sooner or later, they still have to become a county in Anxi, Daqin. ”

A line of figure suddenly appeared in the distance.

"Cavalry, there are cavalry!"

There were people in the caravan shouting, with horror in their voices, on this trade route in the Western Regions, the most feared thing was the cavalry, and sometimes, it was difficult to tell the difference between a Qing soldier and a thief.

"Circle up the caravan, everyone."

The old man also hurriedly asked his son to lead the camel, "Don't be strong for a while, if the turtle soldiers want to pluck the goose, give them some." ”

The cavalry approached from afar, and someone spotted the banner held high in front of the cavalry.

"The red flag, it's the red flag, it's our Great Qin cavalry!"

Hearing the Red Flag Qin soldiers, everyone in the caravan breathed a sigh of relief and cheered together.

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