Volume 4 The Dragon Travels the World Chapter 1 The Shan Kingdom and the Hussars
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Between the northwest of Funan and Tianzhu, there is a plain surrounded by mountains on three sides and facing the sea on one side, and Yeosu (the Irrawaddy River in Myanmar) passes through the middle, winding for nearly 5,000 miles, and empties into the Andaman Sea. The banks of the www.biquge.info river are fertile alluvial plains, which are particularly suitable for habitation and have been inhabited for a long time. In the historical materials of the Han Dynasty, the earliest recorded was the Tai Duchy, probably established between the King of Zhou Li and the King of Zhou You, there is a saying that the people of the Tai Duchy were originally Zhou people, because they could not bear the rule of the Zhou Dynasty, they moved to this land, they hoped to have a virtuous minister like the Tai Gong Lu Wang to assist the monarch, the world was peaceful, so the country was established as the Tai Duchy. Of course, this is a legend, there is no information to confirm, and after four years, the Taigong Kingdom has long disappeared into the long river of history.
It is the Shan State that now occupies this land. The Shan State is a country established by the Shan people, and it is impossible to say when the country was founded, because they have no written language, and can only be passed on by word of mouth, so some say two hundred years, and some say four hundred years, which is very different. However, in the ninth year of Emperor Yongyuan, the then king of the Shan Kingdom, Yongyoudiao, had sent people to the Han Dynasty to pay tribute to the treasures, and later succeeded to the throne in Emperor An, after they got the news, they sent people to pay tribute, the then Empress Dowager Deng Sui and the general Deng Qiu were very happy, in the name of the emperor issued an edict, Feng Yongyou was transferred to the Han Dynasty. Yong Youtiao was very happy, and later sent people to pay tribute many times.
At that time, the Han Dynasty was a distant legend, and the Han Dynasty was able to get in touch with the Han Dynasty, and get the Han Dynasty's policy seal, which greatly helped the prestige of the Shan State, and when Yongyou was in power, the Shan State's national power reached its peak, and its power expanded to almost the entire Lijiang region, and even once clashed with the equally powerful Funan State at that time. The two countries have been at war for many years, and the feud is very deep, and the Shan State is not the opponent of Funan in the end, and the years of war have greatly affected the national strength of the Shan State, which is said to be weakened, and directly led to the Huren taking advantage of the weakness.
The Huren and the Shan people, like the Shan, are from the north of the mountains in the north, according to the customs, the Huren are also a branch of the Baiyue, called the Huyue, this branch of the Yue people still has remains in Yongchang County, and there are the Huyue people near the Ailao country.
Taking advantage of the Shan and Funan people's hard work, the Hu people gained a foothold in Lijiang and soon developed into a large clan, they occupied the city of Sri Chatamro (now the city of Pity, Burma), which was originally part of the Shan State, and constantly clashed with the Shan State, which caused the Shan State a great headache.
Sun Shao destroyed the Funan Kingdom and brought hope to the Shan Kingdom. According to the reasoning that the enemy's enemy is a friend, the Yue State, which destroyed the heart of the Shan State and Funan, should be the best ally of the Shan State, not to mention that the Yue State was still a vassal state of the Han Dynasty, the former suzerainty of the Shan State, so while being helpless against the Husren step by step, the Shan State thought of the Yue State, and they sent an envoy to ask the Yue State to intervene. Before Sun Shao destroyed Funan, both the Shan and the Huren bowed their heads to Funan, and now they can also be regarded as vassal states of the Yue State. It is a matter of course for the subordinate country to ask the suzerainty to come forward to resolve the contradictions.
However, this was just wishful thinking on the part of the Shan State, and the Huren did not think so, they had a good relationship with the Fan clan in Funan, and they were very disgusted with Sun Shao's drive out of the Fan clan and occupied the city of Temu, and the Shan State asked Sun Shao for help, and they simply asked for help from Chola on the other side of the sea.
Zhu Luo is the largest of the many countries at the southern end of the Tianzhu continent, there are dozens of large and small countries in the south of Tianzhu, and there are three of the strongest, Zhu Luo occupies the east coast, Pandia is in the southernmost point, and to the west is the Zheluo country. Because of their proximity to the sea, these three countries all have strong seafaring capabilities, and among them, Chola's sailors are the most powerful. With a strong sailor, Chola conquered Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), which was originally part of the Pandia sphere of influence, and controlled the trade from Tianzhu to Funan and Borneo.
There are not many products on Ceylon, but because this is a transit point for east-west trade, the commercial tax is a large income, and it is the economic source that Chula can always maintain its strength, but all this ended with the defeat of Funan by the Yue State, and the Yue State Navy not only controlled Funan, but also controlled Borneo, except for the merchant ships escorted by the Yue State Navy, even if they ventured through the Malagu Strait and entered Borneo - now the Han people called it Haizhou - it was difficult for them to buy spices, Because this sea area is also controlled by the Yue people, if they want to buy all kinds of spices and gems, they can only buy them from the Yue people.
The result of this is that they no longer have huge profits, and can only make a small amount of money, and the big money is all earned by the Vietnamese people.
Of course, King Zhu Luo was not satisfied, in order to pursue profits, he wanted to break the hegemony of the Yue people over Borneo, but he was not stupid, although he did not know the inside story of the battle of Jinou Island, but the Funan Sailor was completely annihilated by the Yue Navy, that is a fact, and the Funan Sailor had beaten him to the point that his nose was blue and his eyes were swollen. When the situation was unclear, he didn't want to provoke the Yue people rashly, so he could only test it first.
The Huren's plea for help gave King Chola a great opportunity. He immediately replied to the head of the Huren, expressing his full support, so that he could rest assured that he would boldly fight with the Yue Guo, and once the Yue Guo Naval Division was dispatched, the Chola Naval Division would cross the Bay of Bengal and support the Huren nearby.
I have to say that the Huren were really a bit of a frustration, and they didn't even see a Chola warship, so they believed the words of the Chola king, and became more and more aggressive to harass the Shan country, forcing the Shan king, the great-grandson of the male king Yongyoukai, to be cornered, and could only continue to urge the Yue country to send troops to intervene. However, the news that came back was that Sun Shao, the king of Yue, went to the Central Plains and did not return, and the big farmers who stayed behind made Shen Xuan and Funan Yin Gu Tan not dare to act rashly, and never sent reinforcements.
Seeing that the Huren were becoming more and more arrogant, and the Shan State, which had been inherited for hundreds of years, was about to be destroyed, the good news finally came, and Sun Shao, the king of Yue, led 10,000 sailors to the sea on the west side of the city of Sri Chatamara, the base camp of the Hus, and issued an armistice order to the Huren and the Shan State, asking them to accept negotiations under the supervision of the Yue State.
Receiving this news, the Huren were a little panicked, although they attacked the Shan country successively, but they have not been able to take all the Shan, now the Yue people are only a hundred miles away from their base camp, and the Chola people can not even see a shadow, the situation can be a little bad. While the Huren withdrew to the city of Murocha Tanra and prepared to hold on, they sent people to urge the king of Chola. In contrast, the Shan people were overjoyed, and Yong Youkai immediately sent the clan minister Yong Wujiang as an envoy to rush to the beach with treasures and twenty Shan beauties to meet Sun Shao.
Yong Wujiang is an old man of about fifty years, very rich, round face, white skin, in most of the black and thin crowd is very prominent, his grandfather used to be a tribute messenger, stayed in Luoyang for a period of time, can speak a few words of Chinese, but also do the etiquette of the Han people, as soon as he saw Sun Shao, he knelt down according to the etiquette of the subject country to meet the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Sun Shao was startled, and quickly let Tu Hu stop him, Yong Wujiang was a little surprised, looking at Tu Hu, who was a head and a half taller than him, staring at his eyes, I don't know what I've done wrong.
"I'm just a king of the Han Dynasty, not an emperor, you can't do the etiquette just now." Sun Shao said with a pleasant face: "This can't be messed up, otherwise, if it reaches His Majesty's ears, I will be criticized." ”
Yong Wujiang smiled knowingly, he knew that the rules of the Han people were big and the hierarchy was strict, although those powerful people were also nonsense behind their backs, but the rules on the surface still had to be talked about. He was not reluctant, and revisited him according to the etiquette of meeting the princes and kings. Sun Shao accepted it calmly, and then accepted the gift, he has seen a lot of good things in Funan for so long, although these are carefully selected by the Shan country, but he does not have a happy expression, which makes Yong Wujiang panic for a while, but fortunately, as soon as the next twenty Shan beauties came up, Sun Shao showed a satisfied smile, nodded again and again, and Yong Wujiang breathed a sigh of relief.
"The outstanding people of the Shan country not only produce talents like noble envoys, but also beauties." Sun Shao said with a smile.
Yong Wujiang didn't understand everything, but after the translation, he was very happy, and hurriedly said a few words modestly, but said with a smile in his heart, there are sages in the Han people who say that young people are good, and they are really good, just look at this King Yue There are still female officials by his side.
Sun Shao set up a banquet to entertain Yong Wujiang, talking and laughing during the banquet, Sun Shao's mood was very good, Yong Wujiang was full of praise for the lacquerware tableware on the tableware, Sun Shao immediately gave him a set of buckles, Yong Wujiang smiled happily, Yong Wujiang praised Sun Shao's ship, Sun Shao took him on board the Feilu by the wine, pointed to the huge fleet, and said in a slightly three-point show off tone: "Do you think my sailor is better than Zhu Luo's sailor?" ”
When Yong Wujiang came, he only saw the overlapping sail shadows, and did not see the whole picture of the fleet. He said with a smile on his face: "King, compared to you, Zhu Luo's sailors are really vulnerable. Not to mention the king's ship, even if it is a warship, it is not something that the Chola sailors can handle. With the king's help, we are saved in Shan. ”
"Hahaha......" Sun Shao laughed loudly, looked around proudly, and Cui Qian patted Yong Wujiang's shoulder angrily: "Then do you think the Zhuluo people will come?" ”
Yong Wujiang stroked his neatly trimmed beard under his chin, thought for a moment and said, "It will definitely come." The Zhuluo people are used to running rampant in this area, and they have not yet seen such a powerful sailor in your country, and if they don't suffer a little, they will not have long knowledge. ”
After listening to the translation, Cui Qian sneered: "That's the best, I'm afraid that they won't come, and we will rush to his door when the time comes." It's not far away, but it's troublesome. ”
Yong Wujiang was stunned, and then laughed again, with such a powerful Yue Guo Sailor as the backing, it seems that there is no need to worry about it anymore. He thought about it, and then asked cautiously: "Dare to ask the king, how to deal with the hussars?" ”
Sun Shao waved his hand disappreciatively: "Your envoy can rest assured, if the Huren know the severity, listen to my mediation, and withdraw from the Shan country, then of course they have nothing to say, if they don't know what to do, I can't say that I have to teach them a lesson." It's just that I don't know how much strength your country still has, can you respond from the side? ”
Yong Wujiang had already prepared, and hurriedly said: "The king went out to fight and contribute to my Shan country, how can I be a bystander in my Shan country?" It is also an honor for me to be able to go out in front of the king's horse. I heard that His Majesty the Han Dynasty named the king as the general of Fuyi, and my Han is also the hereditary Han captain of the Han Dynasty who was awarded by His Majesty the Han Dynasty, so he should obey the orders under the king's account. ”
Sun Shao smiled, very satisfied with Yong Wujiang's obedience, they went back and continued to drink, Yong Wujiang couldn't wait to ask about the plan to go ashore to attack the Huren, he said with great confidence, the Huren colluded with the Zhuluo people, they would definitely not listen to the advice of the king, rather than waiting for the Zhuluo people to come and then attack, it is better to destroy the Huren first, so as not to divide the troops to guard against it.
Sun Shao didn't listen to him, Yong Wujiang behaved too actively, and was suspected of dragging Yue Guo into the fire pit, he came to mediate, and without absolute certainty and necessity, he brazenly exterminated the Bi people and was not conducive to the situation in Funan, which had just stabilized. What's more, he doesn't have the heart to occupy this land now, once he takes this place, he and Tianzhu will be directly face to face, there are Shan countries and Pi countries competing with each other here, the conflict between him and Tianzhu is still on the sea, and he has enough advantages on the sea.
Sun Shao has another idea, Yong Wujiang wants to use the power of the Yue country to fight the Huren, not necessarily want to see the Yue people really come to occupy the territory of the Huren, if the Yue people come, I am afraid that the attitude of the Shan State will change again, rather than this, it is better to let Yong Wujiang rest assured, and attack the Hu people without fear, anyway, sandwiched between the Hu and Chuluo, it is unlikely that the Shan country wants to restore its former strength, he can only surrender to the Yue State in exchange for peace. The purpose of Sun Shao's visit this time was to deter Chula and achieve the effect of deterring the Shan and Huren at the same time.
Yong Wujiang saw that Sun Shao adhered to his principles and refused to destroy the Huren first, and he was happy and worried. At the same time, he was afraid that Sun Shao would not dare to really help them fight the Huren, and after thinking about it, it seemed that only beautiful women could attract Sun Shao, so he immediately sent someone back to report to the Shan King Yongyukai, and asked him to collect some young and beautiful women to give to Sun Shao in exchange for Sun Shao's help.
After half a month, the envoy of the Husmen came belatedly, and compared with Yong Wujian's graceful demeanor, the messenger of the Husren was simply an uncivilized barbarian, with no crown on his head, but his hair was tied up, and his face was painted with red and white colors, although he was draped with a piece of cloth, but most of his muscular chest was still exposed. Although his eyes trembled involuntarily when he saw the huge building boat, he still swaggered on the boat and went directly to Sun Shao's building boat to ask for a meeting.
Sun Shao was listening to a bhikshuni explain the Buddhist scriptures in the cabin, although this bhikshuni knew a little Chinese, but it was more difficult to understand than Sanskrit, Xiahou Hui, who was fluent in Sanskrit, did not come with him this time, although Qin Sai, the interpreter next to him, knew nothing about the Buddhist scriptures, and after translating a few sentences, the three of them stared at each other and couldn't go on. Originally, Zhou Yu, who was accompanying him, also knew Sanskrit, and knew some about Buddhist scriptures, but Sun Shao subconsciously just didn't want to invite her to come, and he couldn't help but feel a little annoyed, and then saw that the bhikshuni who was no more than twenty years old had a stubborn attitude that wanted to convert him to Buddhism, he had an indescribable evil fire in his heart, and he thought very evilly, the reason why this beautiful little nun entered the Buddhism door must have not tasted the wonderful taste of male and female acacia, if she was done, I don't know if she would be vulgar - in fact, he really thought wrong, Buddhism at this time did not prohibit marriage, and bhikshus and nuns could also marry.
As soon as he heard that the envoy of the Huren was very awesome, Sun Shao's evil fire that had nowhere to vent in his heart suddenly found an exit, and he didn't care about the beautiful bhikshuni anymore, he glanced at Tu Hu, got up and walked out of the hatch.
Tu Hu followed out of the cabin, grabbed two steps, and stood on the side of the board, just blocking the path of the hussar messenger. The messenger was climbing up with his head down, and suddenly felt that it was dark in front of him, and when he looked up, he seemed to see a wall in front of him, and he was immediately startled, and instinctively took a step back, if it wasn't for someone behind him, he almost fell into the water. He reacted quickly, grabbed the escalator with one hand, and pulled out the crescent-like scimitar at his waist with the other.
Tu Hu showed a sinister smile that did not match his honest face, watched the Husren envoy pull out the knife, and suddenly came out with both hands, pinched his wrist holding the knife with one hand, pinched his neck with the other, and lifted it up in the air like a chicken, took a step back, and smashed him on the deck with a "snap", and with a flexible twist of his wrist, the scimitar was in his hand.
"Bold, dare to draw a sword in front of the king, do you want to assassinate?" Tu Hu shouted angrily, and his voice was like a bell, almost shaking the husren messenger who had fallen into a daze. He rolled his eyes, looked at the sword light in front of him, and it took him a long time to come back to his senses. He raised his head and looked at Tu Hu with cold eyebrows again, his heart and gall were broken, and the arrogance just now suddenly disappeared, and he lay on the deck tremblingly, saying something in a row.
The frightened pale interpreter only rushed forward at this time, he wanted to rush to Sun Shao to explain, but he was blocked by Tu Hu, and it was difficult to advance an inch, so he had to use a trembling voice to repeat the words of the messenger loudly, nothing more than soft words such as begging for mercy.
Seeing the envoy's cowardice, Sun Shao's depressed mood was better, he waved his hand, signaled Tu Hu to retreat, slowly paced in front of the envoy, lowered his head, looked at the messenger's trembling shoulders, and said coldly: "Your country is still not a subject of my Yue country?" ”
The envoy glanced at the interpreter blankly, although he couldn't understand Sun Shao's words, but he knew from his eyes that the king of Yue in front of him was in a very bad mood, and if he didn't deal with it properly, the mountain-like man just now might tear him in half. When the interpreter stammered over the translation, he didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "Of course it is, of course it is." ”
Sun Shao sneered: "Of course? Then let me ask you, I have entered the city of Temu, have you sent a messenger? I have built a palace in the city of Temu, and many of the state-owned countries have donated timber and some carpets, and the smallest country has also sent a few rhino horns to make wine glasses for me. Do you want me to pick it up in person? Now that I'm here, you guys still have such a big shelf, and it took half a month to come. Do you know that if this king is willing, he will have already taken your Sri Chatama in half a month. ”
The messenger didn't know how to answer Sun Shao's voice well, but he only knew that he was lying on the ground and trembling. Sun Shao was angry and funny when he saw it, such a reckless man can actually be a messenger, either the hussars are all rammed goods with developed limbs and simple minds, or the hussars don't take themselves in their eyes, so they send someone to deal with it. He frowned, kicked the messenger lying on the ground, and shouted, "Say it quickly!" ”
The messenger took a few steps back and shook his head, he was already panicking.
"Come, hang him to the top of the mast, let him have a good look at the majesty of my sailor, and then come and speak." Sun Shao was in no mood to talk nonsense with him, and at the sound of an order, two tiger warriors pounced, dragged the messenger to the mast, tied his legs with cables, and hoisted him to the top of the mast. On top of the tall mast, the messenger only glanced at the whole view of the sailor, and then fainted. As for whether he was frightened by the size of the sailor or had a fear of heights, it is impossible to say.
Yong Wujiang, who rushed to hear the news, looked at the Huren envoy hanging upside down on the top of the mast, and his heart blossomed, so that Sun Shao and Huren couldn't talk about going together. He fanned the wind for a while, and tried his best to encourage Sun Shao to immediately launch an attack on the Huren. Sun Shao wanted to hang the messenger for two hours, but as soon as he hung it, he fainted, so he had to put it down again, doused him with cold water to wake him up, and in front of Yong Wujiang, he issued an ultimatum with righteous and solemn words, and ordered the leader of the Bi tribe to personally rush here within ten days to admit his mistake and obey mediation, otherwise, the Yue Kingdom would immediately go to Sri Chatama with the army of the Shan State, and immediately destroy your Huren, occupy your land, rob your women, and capture all the men as slaves.
After saying a cruel word, Sun Shao ordered the messenger's ear to be cut off, and then drove him out. The messenger who came with great might covered his bloody ears, and the wolf ran away, spilling blood all the way.
"What a fucking softass." Sun Shao scolded in disappointment, and when he turned around, he saw the little nun looking at him with a pale face. He furrowed his eyebrows and shouted: "Look at what to see, and cut off your ears if you look at it again." ”
Although the little nun couldn't understand what Sun Shao said, when she saw his fierce look, she knew that there must be nothing good to say, her legs were weak, her eyes rolled over, and she slowly fell on the deck. She didn't wear much clothes in the first place, and this fall couldn't stop anything, and her delicate figure was almost completely exposed in front of Sun Shao.
"!" Sun Shao rubbed his nose fiercely, blurted out a curse, glanced at the Hushi who stood straight, but couldn't help but want to laugh, his face was a little embarrassed, and he pointed to one of them and shouted: "Hold this little girl's skin in, don't think crookedly, otherwise you will be responsible for all the consequences." ”
"Whoa." The tiger shile responded, hurriedly ran forward, copied the little nun's armpit with one hand, and copied her leg with the other, hugged it lightly, and walked quickly.
"Great King, in fact, although this bhikshuni is a little annoying, she still looks good." Tu Hu said in a humming voice.
"Do you like it?" Sun Shao glanced at him: "If you like it, take it home and be a concubine." ”
(To be continued)