In the first century AD, the Han Empire fought against the remnants of the Dian Kingdom in Ailao and the anti-Han struggle of the Ailao royal family, which led to the relocation of the people of Ailao to the west of the Nu River and the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

In 77 AD, the Ailao State failed to rebel against the Han Dynasty, and the center of its rule began to shift to the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River west of the Nu River, becoming the leader of the tribes in the west of the Nu River and the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River, and soon rose again in the upper reaches of the Irrawaddy River.

The rising Shan states began to clash with the southern state of Pyu, and the Pyu states continued to harass the Shan states. With the powerful Han Empire in the northeast and the invasion of the Pyu Kingdom in the south, the Shan Kingdom, which was attacked from both sides, chose to move closer to the more powerful Han Empire. According to the "Book of the Later Han Dynasty: The Biography of Southwest Yi": "In 97 A.D., the king of the Shan Kingdom, Yongyou, sent envoys to Luoyang through Yongchang to envoy to the Eastern Han Empire, and presented the treasures produced by the Shan Kingdom. In 120 A.D., Yongyoutiao sent envoys and a huge acrobatic troupe to the Han Empire. In 131 AD, Yong Youtiao again sent an envoy to the Han Empire via Ni Nam County (present-day northwestern Vietnam) and presented the Han Empire with an elephant from the Shan Kingdom.

After the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Shan State and the Han Empire, not only the military threat of the Han Empire was lifted, but also the support of the Han Empire, the people of the Shan State and the tribesmen in the territory of the Han Empire came and went frequently, and the envoys of the two sides also visited each other frequently, the Shan State absorbed the advanced culture of the Han Empire, introduced the calendar of the Han Empire, agricultural production was improved, the people began to become rich, and the military was also strengthened.

At the end of the second century AD, the Eastern Han Empire rose together, and some of them supported their own troops; Some recruit talents, occupy the state and county to wait for the good time......

At this time, Yongchang County of the Eastern Han Empire, which bordered the Shan State, existed in name only, and the tribes under the rule of Yongchang County became self-reliant one after another, which began to threaten the peace of the Shan State, and the Shan State lost the military support of the Han Empire.

All of the above is the surrounding news that Li Yi can hear.

In addition, Li Yi also learned some news about the South Asian subcontinent and more distant places.

In the 2nd and early 3rd centuries AD, there was a large empire in Central Asia, called the Kushan Empire, which stretched from Tajikistan to the Caspian Sea, the Khan and the Indo. What Dawan, Khorezm, Daxia, and Punza, they were all beaten and urinated.

The Kushan Empire reached its peak under the rule of Kasserga I and his successors, with a population of 5 million and more than 200,000 soldiers, and was considered one of the four great powers of Eurasia at that time.

However, during the reign of his son Hubisega, his control over Central Asia weakened, Kangju and Dawan were freed from their fetters, and Khorasan and Khorezm were also freed from Kushan rule. Signs of decay are already being revealed.

However, the current ruler of Kushan is named Bo Tiao, and is known as Vesudeva I in history. Under his rule, Kushan power expanded in Central Asia, regaining control of Khorezm and allied with Armenian Kusnois against the Sassanid Empire. The Kushan Empire under his rule reached its peak state, ruling over a population of more than 10 million, and its territory was extremely vast, and its sphere of influence once exceeded the Green Mountains to the east, that is, the later Pamir Plateau, which was called the Buzhou Mountains in the mouth of our ancestors.

Vesudeva I is also recognized as the greatest king of the Yue clan after King Ka I, ruling over more than 2 million square kilometers of land.

At this time in another time and space, the world's population was about 200 million. Major populous countries: The first place is the Roman Empire, with a population of about 50 million and a territory of nearly 6 million square kilometers.

The Kushan Empire, which ranked second, had a population of about 10 million and a territory of more than 3 million square kilometers.

In third place is the declining Eastern Han Dynasty, with a population of less than 10 million and a territory of more than 5 million square kilometers.

In fourth place is the equally declining Empire of Sabbath, with a population of about 8 million and a territory of more than 2 million square kilometers.

However, there was a thunderclap on a sunny day, and the Wude Emperor Li Yi crossed, and the world changed. He replaced the Han Dynasty and established the Tang Empire.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, with a population of about 45 million, it still could only rank second in the world.

Although Li Yi is very sad, this is also an indisputable fact at present. Aside from the number of days of change, if he hadn't adopted a series of policies to protect the population of the Han Dynasty and the speed with which he tackled the north and the Central Plains, the population loss would have been even more serious.

Li Yi believes that with the current strength and tranquility of the Tang Dynasty and the policy of encouraging population growth, it will surpass the Roman Empire and become the most populous country in the world in the short term.

However, the territory of the Tang Dynasty is the largest in the world, reaching a record of more than 15 million square kilometers after the pacification of the Nanban region.

In the absence of reunification in the country and the Dongwu region, there is such a territorial area, which is inseparable from Li Yi's pursuit of a multi-ethnic integration policy and the complete annexation of Liaodong and the desert region in later generations.

The endless steppes, the three eastern provinces of later generations, as well as the Russian Far East, the Tibetan Plateau and the Nanban region, provided the Tang Dynasty with the area of the two Han empires.

The rest of the world, with the exception of Egypt and Greece, which flourished before the third century, is barren and inhabited by indigenous people.

It can be said that at the beginning of the 3rd century, the earth was ruled by four empires.

At this time, Rome in the west ushered in a great emperor in history, and the people here affectionately called him Triumphant the Great, he was Septimius. Severu. This great emperor ended the long civil war in the country, and in 197 he defeated the Arshak dynasty and annexed Mesopotamia. The triumphant emperor, appointing loyal generals as governors of the provinces, stepping on the senate, appointing tribunes and consuls at will, brutally trampled on the "democratic" system of ancient Rome and raised the Roman imperial power to the supreme level.

The jurist of the Triumphant Emperor said that the Emperor was not bound by all laws, that he was the master of anyone, and that the empire was his property.

As for the origin of the name Triumph the Great, it is because in 199 A.D. the Triumphant Emperor sank Persia (Persia was a resting subject) and built the famous Arch of Severus in the magnificent Roman Forum.

The Roman Empire, ruled by the Triumphant Great, sank Persia, sank Arshak, taught its neighbors rest, and then defeated Great Britain. He ruled Rome as unified, open, powerful, and ambitious as to dominate the world.

The Kushan Empire, under the leadership of Vesudeva I, reached its peak.

The newly succeeded King Vologis VI was also angry and wanted to restore the empire's former power.

And the Tang Empire in the East is rising.

However, at this time, the South Asian subcontinent did not all belong to the Kushan Empire. Outside of this empire, the entire southeastern part of the subcontinent, was in the era of small principalities of slavery.

At the beginning of the third century AD, the Eurasian continent was vast and sparsely populated, and apart from the four prosperous empires, the rest of the world was a wild land, with only a small population of primitive aborigines.

Savage is not terrible, and it can be slowly transformed. Taking advantage of the wilderness, taking the opportunity to take it, and becoming the inherent land of China is the most important thing.

Li Yi thought that this was an opportunity, and these semi-civilized regions, which were in a backward and barbaric slave system, could be easily attacked. Spread the great Chinese civilization and rescue these people who lived miserably under slavery.

Therefore, Li Yi sent Xu Huang as the main general, Yue Yun and Wutu Gu as deputy generals, and took King Duosi as a part-time translator for the military division, leading 10,000 barbarian soldiers and 3,000 Tang light cavalry into the Indochina Peninsula in later generations.

Li Yi instructed simply and clearly that if the local slavery system does not need to be changed for the time being, these slaves should be used to supply grain and grass to build roads, and there is no need to annex, only surrender. These remote, sparsely populated places can be slowly cleaned up later.

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While waiting for news from Jicheng, Li Yi's life is not boring, because he has many things to deal with.

When the household registration information of Nanban and the location of the tribe are all counted, it has entered the final stage of merging into the Tang Dynasty.

On this day, Li Yi looked at the Nanban topographic map in detail, and pointed at it and said: "Here, here, and here, build three cities, and together with Sanjiang City, set up a total of four counties." Dispatch young, energetic, and capable officials from the country, and tell them that within five years, the Nanban Prefecture will be built for me, and I will give them additional officials and knights. ”

In Li Yi's plan, the northwest of Yongchang County, that is, from Yeyuze to Buwei as the boundary, including the Pu and Xuyue tribes, was established as a new Yongchang County; The remaining southern area of the original Yongchang County is also a county, that is, Nanban County; In addition, the newly surrendered Shan region was established as New Burma County; Finally, the area of the Pyu country that is about to be conquered is to be established, and Antai County is established.

At the same time, the four counties of Xisui, Jincheng, Wanwen and Rongfeng in the south of Qiqi County were divided and merged with the original Yizhou County to form Jianning County.

The new Nanban Prefecture was established with the above five counties, and the state seat was located in the administrative seat of Nanban County, that is, Sanjiang Castle. Appointed Meng Jie as the first assassin of the Southern Barbarian Prefecture.

On the first day of April in the fourth year of Wude of the Tang Dynasty (209 AD), the eighteenth state of the Tang Dynasty - Nanban Prefecture was officially established. So far, Datang has 18 prefectures, including Youzhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou, Yongzhou, Liangzhou, Sizhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Jingzhou, Yizhou, Liaozhou, Northeast Prefecture, Hanbei Prefecture, Mobei Prefecture, and Nanban Prefecture, with an area of about 16 million square kilometers and a population of about 46 million.

At the same time as the establishment of Nanban Prefecture, a major event also happened, that is, in order to show his attention to Nanban, Li Yi married the daughter of the Zhu tribe of the Nanban Dove Department as the twenty-first concubine of the Tang Dynasty, and the name of this concubine is Zhu Rong, which has the same name as the ancient fire god.