Thousands of miles away, from the river to the letters of the tiger's ears, through the plains, through the mountains, through the desert, through the Gobi. Then go up to the snow-capped mountain pass several thousand meters high, and go down to the continuous hundred-mile valley.

The army was outside, and more than 100,000 herdsmen drove cattle and sheep with them, and the people everywhere had to hand over their grain. The Khitan Xiliao spared no effort to make up the wrong food.

The holy decree arrived at Dehu Si's ears, and the Xia Liao coalition army was already in Bancheng.

Bancheng is also known as Barihe, and there is also a name for Zhenba in later generations, which goes to the north is an endless desert, and goes to the southwest, straight into the territory of the Turks, and it is also the territory of Afghanistan in later generations.

The name of Bancheng, because of Banchao, is the name of the Han people, the place where the Han people recorded. But it's the name of this place, and the local people don't use it much.

Along the city of Bancheng, it is a place of settlement, about one or two hundred miles, many tribes live here, and there are also several cities. This was already the main border between the Turks and the Western Liao. The northernmost junction is Khorezm, and Pancheng is the southern junction.

The main force of the Turks was clearly in the west, the First Crusade of the people of God Jesus Christ, and the countdown to the end of the war had begun.

Behind the Turks, the Khitan Liao and Han armies suddenly came, which was already beyond the times, and it was something that no one expected.

War had to be fought, and the Turks and Jesus' people fought a great war for more than 40 years, and for two generations, the war never stopped. Most of the Turkic people at this time were not afraid of war.

At this time, the Seljuk Empire was just in its early 100s, and in previous years, the empire was still chaotic for a period of time, and it was in a state of disintegration, and now it has just been reunified, and it is a good time to have a good momentum.

The Han and Khitan people came to the west, and this young empire that has always been at war, the energy that erupted should not be underestimated. As soon as the city of Ban was broken, the army advanced in a northwesterly direction, and had officially begun to threaten the Turks.

A large Turkic army was also urgently gathering from all sides, ready to drive out the invaders to the east, just as the infidels to the west.

invaders from the east, and infidels from the west. Maybe it's really a little different, the first crusade, the number of people in the full count is not more than 70,000 or 80,000. The invaders from the east, the Han and Khitan coalition forces, have reached about 300,000 in number. The entire country of Western Liao is serving these nearly 300,000 people.

If it weren't for the arrival of Liu Zhengyan and Zheng Kai, Yelu Dashi would no longer be ready to fight the Turks again, and the territory of Western Liao would have been basically stabilized at this time.

The armies from the east are almost all higher in combat effectiveness than those in the west. From the westward migration of the Xiongnu to the westward migration of the Turks, these nomads were all driven out of the east by the Han Chinese. But they are all in the West.

Even in later generations, Hungary had a great relationship with the Huns and the Huns, although the relationship between the Huns and the Huns was also controversial. However, most of the Hungarian nation and people consider themselves to be closely related to the Huns, and this is also evidenced by history and culture.

And then to Turkey, Turkey is also a country that has been in the crossroads, and even in later generations, it is also a regional power. Turkey, both in terms of history and national identity, is clearly a descendant of the Turkic people. The Seljuk Turkic Empire was also unstoppable.

Khitan Yelu Dashi, two hundred Khitans started to establish a huge Western Liao Empire. Not to mention the Mongols, even the Russians have too many ties with the Mongols in terms of blood. Every Russian is a Tatar in his bones, and there is some truth in this sentence.

For a certain period of time, the decline of the invincible empires of the West was often accompanied by the invasion of the Eastern peoples.

This is a relatively intuitive comparison of the war capabilities of the East and the West in the period of cold weapons.

A great war has entered the gestation period.

The rise of an empire is often accompanied by blood, and when an empire rises, it is when the military is at its strongest.

The Goryeo mission had recently arrived in Hema, and the first thing to do was to pay homage to the letter, and the main errand was to formally demarcate the border.

Zheng Zhi was above the court meeting, and only briefly explained a few words to the officials of Honglu Temple.

The negotiation also began, saying that it was a negotiation, but in fact there was no process of negotiation, because at this time, Goryeo was already struggling to breathe, although the battle to destroy the country ended because of the sudden fight between the Jurchen and Zheng Zhi. However, in Goryeo, there are still tens of thousands of party members.

More than ten years have passed, and these party members have begun to emigrate to the peninsula with the tacit consent of Zheng Zhi, which is still a little too small compared to Tamna Island, and the living environment of millions of people is really too poor.

Most of these party members were still serving as soldiers in Great Xia, and at this time, there were more than 50,000 people on an expedition thousands of miles away.

Therefore, Zheng Zhi also appropriately appeased these party members, and immigrating to the grassland was one of them, but the number was strictly controlled within a certain range. Emigration to Korea is the second one. Even some people with greater merit can directly take their families to settle near the river.

The demarcation negotiations are only a conveyance of Zheng Zhi's intentions.

The mountainous areas in the northern part of the peninsula are all under the jurisdiction of Liaoyang Prefecture, and they are already the land of Great Xia. These places are not coveted by Zheng Zhi for a day or two, and the mountainous areas in the north of the peninsula are extremely rich in products, and it is difficult to count the coal mines alone.

In the southern part of the peninsula, three provinces were also set aside for the party to settle. The country of Goryeo has shrunk by almost two-thirds, and only one-third remains.

Even so, it is necessary to pay tribute every year and pay a certain amount of taxes to Liaoyang Mansion. The royal succession must also be recognized by Great Xia.

Zheng Zhi also slowly got rid of the idea of a unified world and began to be more pragmatic and foreign policy.

Foreigners, if they can, don't want to, because every foreigner seems to be a slave to be enslaved now, but in the future it will become a burden. The Great Xia Country, obviously, cannot put everyone under its own country and add endless burdens to the country. The country of Great Xia only needs to be responsible for the descendants of China, and even if it is the integration of the Dangxiang people or the Khitan people, it must be controlled within a certain range.

Obviously, more people is not always better.

In the land of foreign races, if you can't do it, try not to do it. In this era, the world is so big. There is land everywhere, and there is no need to fight for land without resources or geographical advantages.

Borderlands, such as Australia and the vast American continent, only need to wave a big hand and circle it on the map, and the future development will be done slowly by future generations. It is the land of the African continent, and it only needs minerals, not people.

Because of the jurisdictional issue, it is actually a very troublesome matter. Occupying resources is one of them, and occupying geographical advantages is the other. The reserve space for future generations to reproduce, Australia and America, is sufficient. Because this kind of place is relatively isolated from the outside world, it does not border others, and it will save a lot of trouble for future generations in the future.

And that vast Siberia, all the way to the North Pole. It's just a boundary line on the map. At this time, it is too difficult to develop. In fact, it is not a suitable place to live in the future. Resources are the only consideration.

The grassland protectorate is also busy. Because there are too many tribes in the grassland land, and the territory is vast, even the registration of each tribe is a heavy matter. Naturally, there were wars of all sizes.

The Murwei people in the northeastern steppe also faced the problem of imperial rule. The rule of the steppe today is a real act of rule, and it is no longer the same nominal rule as it was at the beginning. The resistance brought by the force is naturally not small, and many times there are only swords and soldiers.

Among them, the Dadan people played a great role, and the Dadan cavalry was the first to bear the brunt of the grassland battle. Countless iron armor and weapons, the grassland capital protectorate seemed to have done something stupid, and he was extremely generous enough to give the Dadan cavalry equipment.

The Dadan people were overjoyed, and the war was also extremely hard.

But it is inevitable that some people think about it a little more, thinking that they are lying on their salaries and trying their courage, thinking that they are smart and smart. The war was also fought hard in order to obtain more sophisticated ordnance, and when there were enough ordnance, perhaps there would be no need to grovel to the Han people anymore.

For a long time, people will always forget their fears.

Some new tribal leaders are often familiar with poetry and classics, and subtly, they all admire Wang Hua to some extent, and slowly get close to the Han people. Some long-lived old leaders, most of their children are studying in Yanjing, but they only feel humiliated, and they are bent on strengthening their strength and standing on their own, but it is understandable.

It is also the Han people in the depths of the steppe, who do not have many large armies, and mainly rely on the Dadan people to fight.

Zheng Zhi also knew that this matter was not so proper, but at this time, this was the only way. After Yue Fei settles the matter of the Jurchens, this grassland capital will be guarded by a large number of elites. Maintain the power of the army for decades, and the grassland will be completely settled.

A few middle-aged scholars with a lot of money entered from the Gubei Pass, which has already become a traffic artery again, and has even been renovated, and it is no longer the dilapidated appearance of the Great War more than ten years ago. If Zheng Zhi hadn't preserved this historical site, perhaps the Gubei Pass would have been demolished at this time.

Several middle-aged scholars, Bianliang, who was forced to leave when he was seventeen or eighteen years old, got out of the Great Wall from the naturalization pass, stayed on the grassland for several years, and then entered the land outside the customs from the grassland, and stayed for several years.

When I entered the customs again, more than ten years had passed, and I was full of spirit from seventeen or eighteen years old to a middle-aged man now. Some people have already married wives and had children outside the customs, some married Han women, some married Khitan women, and even some married Xi women.

There are also a few people who have not remarried, and are still alone.

Of course, there are also people who have a good future, such as the Marquis Yu clerk in the army, and some people are even directly the director of education in the government. There are also people who mix in the ordinary, and even abandon their pens and hoes to earn a ration to feed their stomachs.

But no matter what their status, the ban of the imperial court has not been lifted, and if these people enter the customs, it is a major crime to kill their heads.

The bloodshed in the former Bianliang Imperial City has long been dispersed with the wind, and only in the midnight nightmare can some scenes be dreamed of.

Time will eventually make people bow to fate.

These middle-aged literati are still dressed as Confucians, but their hearts are no longer as high-spirited as before. When they heard that they were free to return home, they were overjoyed. No matter what status, whether there is a family or not, they are all running around to tell each other, in groups of three or five, and they enter the customs with entanglement.

Kaifeng Bianliang is the hometown of the dream, more than ten years have passed, and I can finally go back. More than ten years have passed, and the guilt of that year has also disappeared. Even the Great Song Dynasty is gone, and the heyday of the Great Xia Dynasty has also made countless people look at it.

A few people rushed across the pass, with the ox cart beside them, but they did not get on the cart to sit, but a few people crowded in front of the ox cart, elated. Some people brought their families, and some people only went on the road.

"Brothers, this time I went back to Tokyo, have you thought about finding a living?" One asked, smiling all over his face. It seems that when you enter the pass, you have returned to your homeland.

"Brother Wang, Kaifeng is Kaifeng, but it can no longer be said to be Tokyo, and now there is only one capital in the imperial court." One person opened his mouth to remind that after going through so many things, caution has been engraved in the bones of many people. Wearing a crime for more than ten years, being cautious can live well.

"Thank you very much, but I won't talk about Tokyo anymore. I am alone, this time I went back to Kaifeng, when I no longer go out of the customs, but I still don't know how to make a living, I don't know how the imperial court stipulates the imperial examination, and I don't know if there is a chance to participate in the imperial examination again? ”

"I am naturally qualified to participate in the imperial examination, but I heard that I have to become a lawyer before I can be eligible to participate in the scientific examination. When I go back, I should be able to read through the Torah books a few times. This was said by another person next to him, who obviously knew something about the imperial examination of the new dynasty.

As soon as these words came out, he was overjoyed by the surname Wang, and asked: "We are all guilty bodies, so there is really no hindrance?" ”

"Those who are not guilty of the past are eligible as long as they are not guilty of crimes in the new dynasty. It's not a crime for me to wait, so there's no hindrance. However, I heard that the questions in this exam are very different from the past, so I should ask some people for advice. ”

The person surnamed Wang was even more happy, his face was full of longing, and he said with a smile: "It's not a problem, it's not a problem, it's just a different book, just reading a book." ”

This makes sense, no matter what you take the exam, as long as you can understand the book and prepare carefully, you will never go wrong.

The sage classics, in fact, are not unexamined, teaching people upward, educating morality, and philosophical thinking are naturally the essence of the Chinese nation.

Some people are elated, others are not so excited.

"You go to the exam, now I am in the army as a military clerk, the family is in Liaoyang, after marrying a wife and having children, I also seek a stability, this time back to my hometown, after looking for relatives, or go back to Liaoyang. The army is busy, and the logistics are heavy, so it is also loyal to the country, and if the children and grandchildren have the ability in the future, let the children and grandchildren go to the test again. ”

This man is obviously a good mix, and now he is treated very well and respected in the army. There is no shortage of sergeants and soldiers in the army, but there is still a shortage of people who can learn to write. Not to mention the reliance on official affairs, let's just say that in private, those who want to be admitted to the military academy or the martial arts academy have to come to the door to ask for advice, and the days of joining the military clerical are naturally very good. It can be content.

"Eh, I heard that now that the imperial court has opened a ban on newspapers, literati can run newspapers. Do we want to partner and set up a newspaper, mainly to report on border affairs, and maybe we can make money. "Just now, I was still thinking about the person surnamed Wang, who was taking the imperial examination as an official, and at this time he suddenly said such a thing.

When several people heard this, their eyes lit up and they were full of interest. Maybe that's a good idea.