In the spring of the 2nd year of Yuan Ding (BC115), the Bailiang Terrace for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to pray to the gods and worship the immortals was completed. There is a huge 20 zhang high, 7 circumferences, copper for the dew plate on the www.biquge.info platform, there are cacti on the plate to undertake the dew of the sky, and jade crumbs to drink it, it is said that it can live forever. History book comment "The repair of the palace has flourished since then"

In February, Zhao Zhou was appointed prime minister. On March 15, Shi Qing was appointed as the Imperial Doctor.

In spring, heavy rain and snow. In summer, big water. Two natural disasters left thousands of people dying of starvation in the Kanto region.

In this year, Liu Che appointed Kong Wei as a big farmer and Sang Hongyang as a big farmer, set up a leveling officer in the capital, and set up an average loss official in each county, and began to carry out state monopoly business activities to compete with the people for profit. At the same time, Liu Che also ordered: abolish the use of platinum that has only been used for five years, and then order to prohibit all counties and states in the world from minting money privately, nationalize the coinage rights, and specially order Shanglin Sanguan to mint money, and the non-Sanguan money in the world is not allowed to circulate and use.

Back then, Zhang Qian was familiar with geography, so Liu Che sent him to fight against Hungary with Wei Qing. Zhang Qian gave full play to his professional advantages and made a great contribution to Wei Qing, and was also named Bowanghou. Unexpectedly, he later cooperated with Li Guang to fight against Hungary, but he missed a major event. As a result, the marquis lost and almost lost his life.

Since then, Zhang Qian has had nothing. It's not scary to have nothing, it's scary to have no ideas. Where there is an idea, there is power. With power, it is possible to achieve the future... War made Zhang Qian understand: war requires adventure, he is eager to take risks, but he is not suitable for war. And his dreams, in the desolate distance, in the distant sky...

Zhang Qian seemed to hear the call of the distance again, as if he saw the distance again in a dream. He knows: to fall in war, it is not necessary to get up in war. If he wants to turn around in this life, he has to make another great trip.

This year, Zhang Qian begged Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, that he wanted to go out again. Finally, Zhang Qian was able to take advantage of this trip to make a comeback and climbed to the highest peak of his life, and it was also ranked with Zheng He's voyage to the West in the Ming Dynasty to become the two unsurpassable monuments of the Han nation's outward development!

Where to get there? How to go? At this time, Zhang Qian already had a perfect plan in mind:

Zhang Qian believes that in the past, the Xiongnu grasped the pass, but the Western Regions were not connected, and now there is no such problem. The Han Dynasty had already surrendered to the Xiongnu in Mobei, and the Hun Hun Evil King surrendered again, just giving the Han Dynasty a road to the Western Regions. As long as I am given a pair of shoes and a road, I will be able to reach the Western Regions again. This is one of them; The second question is where to go? Zhang Qian initially established several goals, focusing on Wusun Kingdom.

The current king of Wusun is named Kunmo. The previous generation of Wusun King and Kunmo's father was killed by the Dayue clan, Wusun lost the country, and the Wusun people died and left the Huns. At that time, Kunmo had just been born, and he was also taken to the Xiongnu to feed. After many years, Kun Mo has become a brave warrior, and he asks the Huns to kill the enemy to avenge his father. Xiongnu Shan Yu agreed. So Kun Mo took a team of brothers to the west to attack the Otsuki clan and regain his own land. What I didn't expect was that Kunmo would be disobedient after he returned to China. He has been lying on his own land and refuses to invite the Huns. The Xiongnu sent troops to teach him a lesson, but he didn't expect to be taught by him. Later, the Han-Hun war became more and more tense, and the Xiongnu had to give up King Wusun...

Summarizing the above history, Zhang Qian believes that barbarian people have always been greedy for the property of the Han Dynasty, so we might as well use money to bribe Kunmo, the king of Wusun, and persuade him to move. Where to move to? The old land of the Evil King. Since the surrender of the Evil King, a large area of land has been vacated. Anyway, being idle is idle, so it's better to use this big idle land as the new residence of the people of Wusun Kingdom. As long as Kun Moken comes, he will form a brother with the Han Dynasty. Then, this is no less than creating a strong enemy for the Huns and cutting off the right arm of the Huns. In the long run, it is also beneficial to resist the harassment of the Xiongnu again. In the longer term, as long as Wusun is dealt with, then the ethnic minority brothers in the Western Regions will be easy to bribe. Deal with the countries of the Western Regions one by one and make them vassals, and the whole world will belong to the Han Dynasty...

Zhang Qian's plan is not a trick made by a third-rate liar to cheat money; Nor is it a dreamer who proposes a utopian bubble pattern; This is a great idea made by a great Han people for our great nation and country!

China's 5,000-year history, no matter how many life and death separations it has passed, has finally come to a unified state. The premise of this unification is because in our glorious history, there has been an unchanging dream for thousands of years: the world!

Sincerity, righteousness, self-cultivation, family, governance, and peace in the world. This was the lifelong dream of Confucius, and it was also the common dream of later generations of Confucian scholars. And Zhang Qian wants to tell the world: China's world is not only made by fighting, but also by coming out!

Fight out, go out, this is the strongest voice in the era of strong men! This voice resounded through the sky and infected the earth. At this moment, Liu Che, the 42-year-old Emperor of the Han Dynasty, who had passed the age of no doubt, was moved.

It's better to act than to move. Liu Che, the giant sponsor, was once again persuaded by Zhang Qian. Immediately, Liu Che worshipped Zhang Qian as a lieutenant general, led a group to set off, and went to explore the Western Regions for the second time. The members of the mission consisted of 300 retinues and a number of deputy envoys. In addition, Liu Che also prepared generous gifts for the countries of the Western Regions: 600 horses, tens of thousands of cattle and sheep, and tens of millions of gold coins and silk.

After a long journey, Zhang Qian and his entourage finally came to the first stop of this money public relations - Wusun Kingdom.

According to the "Hanshu Western Regions Biography", Wusun had 120,000 households, 630,000 people, and an army of 188,800 people, and the capital Chigu Castle was 8,900 miles away from Chang'an, the capital of the Han Dynasty. Its living customs are no different from those of the Xiongnu. They all chase water and grass with the animals, and wherever the cattle and sheep eat, they will go. Wherever people go, they stay. As the so-called vast grassland, the four fields are also home.

The strength of this Wusun country is not small. And Zhang Qian's trip to the Western Regions is most important to get rid of Wusun Kingdom. If you get Wusun, other countries are easy to say; If you can't do it, it's hard to say in other countries...

Whatever you worry about, you can come. It stands to reason that there are friends from afar, and it is not happy? However, this Wusun king, Kunmo, was not only unhappy, but a little proud. When a person is proud, he becomes ignorant. As soon as he was ignorant, he was rude to Zhang Qian. The so-called rudeness refers to the fact that the specifications of Kun Mo's hospitality to Zhang Qian and his party are too low, which does not meet the requirements of the Han Dynasty at all.

So, when King Wusun put on an ignorant hospitality ceremony, Zhang Qian decided to teach Kun Mo, the frog at the bottom of the well, a good lesson. In fact, to say that Kunmo is rude, that is the saying of the Han Dynasty. If you use King Wusun's words, there is nothing wrong with it. Because King Wusun was modeled after the Xiongnu Shan Yu to receive foreign envoys to entertain Zhang Qian.

However, Zhang Qian believes that diplomatic ceremonies should be commensurate with national strength. The Xiongnu were not a big leader on the steppe at best, and King Wusun was only a small leader with a population of 630,000. And the emperor of the Han Dynasty, alias the Son of Heaven, is the biggest leader in the world in layman's terms!

Whether it is the Xiongnu or Wusun, compared with the Han Dynasty, it is not an order of magnitude at all. Zhang Qian came to see King Wusun on behalf of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, so King Wusun could not meet him with the ceremony of the Xiongnu Shan Yu meeting the envoy. So Zhang Qian said to Kunmo, the king of Wusun, "The Son of Heaven gives it, and if the king does not worship, he will give it back" This sentence translates as: I am here to reward you on behalf of the Son of Heaven, if you don't meet me according to the rituals of the Han Dynasty, please return the reward to me!

This is the charm of money and the power of the state! Do you want to take the money? You have to be obedient; Otherwise, don't want to get one! For the sake of money, Kun Mo immediately bowed to Zhang Qian as requested.

After the worship, the specifications of other clothing, food, housing and transportation are still in accordance with the rules of Wusun Kingdom. Zhang Qian doesn't care about this problem. Immediately, the two moved on to the second procedure: negotiations!

The condition given by Zhang Qian was that "the Han Dynasty is willing to return the entire Hexi Corridor to the Wusun Kingdom." Please Kun Mo and all the people to move eastward. The Han Dynasty was also willing to give a princess to become a brother with King Wusun, and the two countries rejected the Xiongnu "To be honest: Zhang Qian's condition is really harsh." Cattle and sheep, gold, silk, and princesses are really valuable, and it is really difficult to make the 630,000 people of the Wusun Kingdom move! So, Kun Mo immediately vetoed Zhang Qian's proposal. Here's why:

1 said how powerful the Han Dynasty was, it was just what you Zhang Qian said. No one in Wusun has ever been to the Han Dynasty, and they don't know how big the Han Dynasty is. 2. You let us move to the old land of the Hun evil king. But that ghost place is too close to the Xiongnu grassland, in case the Xiongnu look at me unpleasantly one day, kill it, and the Han Dynasty Yuanshui can't save the near fire. So what to do?

In contrast, it is safest to stay on your own turf. But in fact, the above two points are not a big problem. The biggest problem Quunmo faces now is that even if he wants to move, he doesn't have to say it alone. The reason why this is the case is that at this time, the Wusun Kingdom has been divided into three, and not all of them are under the rule of King Kunmo.

The reason why Wusun Kingdom became like this was completely forced by the situation: Kunmo had more than ten sons. According to the rules, the eldest son was made the crown prince. But the prince died early, and before he died, he said to his father, "After I die, please make my son Cen Chen the prince" Kun Mo felt that the prince who died early was very pitiful, so let it be fulfilled. As a result, Cen Chen was made the crown prince.

As soon as Kun Mo established a new prince, some people immediately denied it: Kun Mo's neutron Da Lu. Among all the sons, Dalu is the best. He can fight by himself, and there are tens of thousands of cavalry under him, so he is not afraid of heaven and earth. As soon as he heard that Cen Cheng had robbed him of the benefits he might get, he immediately sent troops to rebel and attack Cen Chen.

For Kunmo, the palms and backs of the hands are all meat. There was no way, for the sake of Cen Chen's personal safety, he had to give him tens of thousands of cavalry, and he also kept tens of thousands of defenses. Cen Chen is not easy to mess with, so he did it with Dalu. In this way, the appearance of the Wusun country is separated into three forces, and the king of Kunmo does not speak very effectively...

Based on the above three reasons, Kun Mo really couldn't agree to Zhang Qian's conditions. People are not as good as heaven, Zhang Qian had no choice but to admit it! There is no Wusun Kingdom, and there are also Dawan, Kangju, Yueshi, Daxia, Anxi, Shenfu, Khotan and other countries. So, Zhang Qian himself returned to China with dozens of Wusun envoys and dozens of horses, and was crowned a big bank. At the same time, Zhang Qian sent his deputy envoys to the above countries to continue the great cause of hollowing out the Western Regions!

More than a year later, the deputy envoys of the countries of the Western Regions returned one after another. And with them were the messengers of the nations. These foreign envoys, like the Wusun envoys, saw the legendary Han Dynasty with their eyes. The countries of the Western Regions came from afar, and Liu Che would not let them return empty-handed. As a result, these emissaries who had benefited returned to their hometowns in the Western Regions and spread the fame of the Han Dynasty with their mouths. Under the fame, it is difficult to resist the temptation. More and more countries are trying to contact, exchange, and interact with the Han Dynasty...

At the feet of Zhang Qian and his deputy envoys, the Silk Road, a well-known road of trade and cultural exchange, was finally opened! After leaving the Yumen Pass and Yangguan in Jiuquan County, to the west, to the east of the Green Ridge, is the territory of the entire Western Regions. In the time of Liu Che, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, there were a total of 36 countries. Don't be intimidated by the numbers. Most of the countries in the Western Regions are a city, which is equivalent to a Greek city-state. Because the country is small, it is easy to be bullied by the Xiongnu, and it was once a subordinate of the Xiongnu and was under the control of the Xiongnu. The king of the Xiongnu set up a servant commander in the Western Regions, who lived in the kingdoms of Yanqi, Weisu and Weili, and ruled 36 countries and collected taxes and horses from each country. However, now, Liu Che wants to tell the countries of the Western Regions: The Xiongnu, as the former king of the northwest, should abdicate!

After leaving Yumen Pass and Yangguan Pass, the Silk Road was divided into two routes, north and south, and the end point of both roads was Green Ridge. The southern road passes through the countries of Wuqiang, Loulan, Jimo, Xiaowan, Jingjue, Ronglu, Humi, Qule, Khotan, Pishan, Xiye, Puli, Yinai, Wulei, Wuxi, and Nandou, and continues westward through the Green Ridge, passing through Yueshi, Daxia, Zhengbin, Anxi, Tiaozhi, and Lijing, until it reaches the border of the Roman Empire; The northern road passes through Cheshi, Shan, Huhu, Zai, Jimi, Pu, Shan Huan, Yu Lishi, Beilu, Wu Greedy Zili, Yanqi, Weixu, Yuli, Quli, Wulei, Qiuzi, Wensu, Gumo, Weitou, Shule, Shache, Donating Poison, Xiuxun, Taohuai, Wusun, Dawan Zhuguo, and continues to the west through the Green Ridge, passing through Kangju and Xiancai, and can reach the Black Sea coast of present-day Russia.

In the winter of the 3rd year of Yuan Ding (BC115), Liu Che ordered the Hangu Pass to be moved 300 li eastward and set up a new Hangu Pass in Xin'an County, Hongnong County. The original Hangu Pass was changed to Hongnong County, and the county seat was located in Hongnong County.

In the 3rd year of Yuanding (BC114), Zhang Qian died. Regarding Zhang Qian's great achievements, there are endless books in history. I don't want to waste too much ink here. If I had to conclude this great man, I would only paraphrase what Armstrong, the first American astronaut to land on the moon, once said: "Zhang Qian, every small step in life taken by Zhang Qian to the Western Regions is a big step for the Chinese nation"