Chapter 508: The Silk Road
The Han Dynasty was newly established, and Cao De left the brand-new Han China to install a cross-era railroad. As for www.biquge.info Han China train, whether it can adapt to this track or not depends on Cao De's vigorous support.
Therefore, Cao De's main energy now is to wander around Liucao.
If there was a problem with any department, Cao De rushed to the battlefield as soon as possible with the newly established expert group. And this expert group, in fact, there are only three people, one is Cao De, one is Jia Xu, and the last one is Cao Shi, the problem.
And the places that Cao De goes to the most are Hu Cao and Gong Cao. It's not that Cao De doesn't trust Zhang Lu and Lu Gu. It's that these two Cao are very cumbersome. And Cao De's appearance is mainly a division of labor.
But despite this, Cao De is still as tired as a dog every day. However, although Cao De was so tired, he still stared at a very vague map in his spare time.
And this map, Cao De also found it from the corner of the Weiyang Palace in Chang'an.
And on this map, what attracted Cao De's attention the most was a few big words, "Western Regions Protectorate".
And it was precisely because of this map that Cao De's desire to rebuild the Western Regions Protectorate and restore the Silk Road.
At this end of the Silk Road, there is the Great Han, and at that end is the somewhat exotic Central Asia and the Roman Empire beyond! The purpose of Cao De's desire to restore the Silk Road was to get in touch with the Roman Empire.
In this era, there are countless large and small countries and forces on the entire earth. But only the Han and Rome can be called the most powerful overlords. However, due to the geographical relationship. These two overlords don't know about each other's existence, which is also a sadness!
Cao De, on the other hand, wanted to get in touch with the Roman Empire through the Silk Road. After having a connection, the Han and Rome were able to learn from each other, learn from each other, make progress together, and develop together.
Moreover, there is another thing that Cao De has to look at.
That is the recuperation of the Great Han.
It has been eleven years since the Yellow Turban Rebellion began in 184 AD.
In Cao De's previous life, the Yellow Turban Rebellion also began in 184 AD. However, the later Eighteenth Route Princes crusaded against Dong Zhuo, but there was a six-year buffer. Later, Cao De coerced the Son of Heaven to order the princes, and another six years passed. This was followed by the Battle of Guandu and the defeat of Yuan Shao. However, it was nearly two decades.
Yet, in this life. In just eleven years, Dahan has survived the ups and downs of his previous life for twenty years.
Although the people of the Han Dynasty were fortunate enough not to be tormented by plagues large and small in the past eleven years, they endured the pain of war exponentially.
In Cao De's war against Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and Dong Zhuo, what saddened Cao De the most was the desolate ruins and large barren fields.
It's not that there is no field, it's not that there is no people, but there is no seed for farming and the stability of farming.
Wars have always come so suddenly. It was not easy to save food rations and plant hope in the land, but the war came so suddenly! The people ran away, and the fields were left unattended, and they gradually became deserted.
Although Cao De, Cao Cao, Liu Bei, Sun Ce, Liu Biao and others were also vigorously encouraging farming, but due to the war, except for the relatively stable Han China, how could the rest of the places have all their strength on farming.
Especially Liu Bei and Liu Biao, their lives have been very worrying over the years. I am afraid that when I wake up, the Cao family's army will be killed at the doorstep. So, what should have been layers of farmland was built into a sentinel station.
It was none other than Cao De, Cao Cao, and the war that created this tension.
As everyone knows, Cao De is eyeing Liu Bei.
Who is Liu Bei? Speculative professor-level figures. What's more, Liu Bei is still from a poor background, and Liu Bei also understands what the people need. Otherwise, how could Liu Bei hold Xuzhou firmly in his hands within a year.
However, even so, it is still impossible for Liu Bei to devote himself to encouraging farming. Liu Bei's main attention was still on guarding against Cao De.
Therefore, Cao De needed to let Liu Bei's tense spirit relax. Let the people breathe a sigh of relief. Although doing so, Liu Bei will also have a chance to breathe. However, even if he let Liu Bei jump casually, Liu Bei would not be able to catch up with Cao De.
Therefore, Cao De is very relieved. Moreover, Cao Dena's matter in the Western Regions seduced Cao Cao, which was precisely this idea.
In fact, Cao De's purpose is not only that.
Fight back to the Western Regions, re-establish the Western Regions Protectorate, and open the Silk Road again. It seems that Dahan is carrying forward his advanced technology, but he is also bringing in some things from the outside.
Cao De's initial idea was not to introduce their technology, but to produce crops that could produce high yields.
Cao De's deepest memory is corn and potatoes. Maybe it's because Cao De often took vacations when he was in school in his previous life. Cao De only remembered that the corn and potatoes were brought in from outside, but he didn't know where they came from.
Therefore, every time Cao De heard that there was a famine, the first thing Cao De found was corn and potatoes! And when Cao De thought of Rome, he also hoped that Rome would have these crops that could solve the hunger of the Han Dynasty!
When Cao De was staring at the map of the Western Regions in a daze, Cao De was also thinking about a candidate. While I still have to pay most of my attention to Han China, I have to send someone to go to the Western Regions for a walk, inquire about the current situation in the Western Regions, and choose a good way to go when I stretch out my hand!
Cao De thought about the people under his command, except for overkill, it was slightly inferior. Cao De shook his head bitterly, and could only pick up a fold casually.
This is the excerpt of Liangzhou's request for another batch of grain seeds from the king of Hanzhong. Cao De didn't think about it, and directly wrote down a big "quasi"!
Cao De casually picked up another fold, which was the fold of the Huns' prayer for cattle in exchange for grain. Cao De thought about it, and just used this batch of livestock to improve the diet of the recruits in the army. So, "quasi"!
Cao De picked up an excerpt again, but Cao De was stunned for a moment.
This is sent by the state. After Ma Wan took office as the commander of the state army in Bingzhou, he released the news of recruiting troops to the whole state. However, there was a group of people who came to answer the call.
Horse Play knows these people. Ma Yu also knew that Cao De, these people, had also seen them before, and they had visited them. Moreover, they are very much in line with the criteria for recruitment, regardless of the conditions. However, they also made a demand, and they wanted to stand on their own. In this way, the horse play is a little worried. So, this is the fold of horse play. And the meaning of horse play is, to move or not to move?
After Cao De finished reading it, his eyes suddenly lit up. By the way, how did I forget these descendants of Rome?
"Brush, brush, brush!" Cao Delong Feifeng Wu wrote a comment for Ma To, and then this excerpt was sent back to Ma To's hands as quickly as possible.
Twenty days later, Chang'an welcomed a group of guests. A group of high-profile guests.
After several generations of reproduction and nearly three centuries of devastation, although they gradually assimilated with the Han and Xiongnu, they still retained some Roman characteristics.
Curly hair, a high nose bridge, deep eye sockets......