Just like this time, Ako came with 5,000 troops, if it wasn't for Dahamu integrating all the Cheshi armies, would he be able to stop it?

Now that it is protected by the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate, the chariot master is a whole, and the Di people should not dare to violate the realm, right? Even if the Tianshan Protectorate can't defeat the enemy, won't the Han army still send troops?

The Cheshi people would not believe that anyone could defeat the Han army, and the previously powerful Huns were all destroyed, not to mention anything else.

There is no king who does not want military autonomy, and to have an army is to have everything, but the current situation is that there will be a lot of trouble with an army, and the Han does not allow himself to hold an army.

The weak have no dignity, even if they are reluctant, they can only hand over military power at this time, and with the comfort of those who have gained from losing military power, these people find that they are not so heartbroken.

What's more, Rokujo Enzheng is still very attractive to them, and when I think about it like this, my heart is a lot more balanced.

However, these royal families were afraid of being oppressed by Dahamu, and they were even more afraid of losing military power, and a general held back for a long time, and plucked up the courage to shout: "The royal decree said that the army of the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate is supported by various countries, what if the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate uses this to exploit our countries?" ”

"yes, yes." As soon as the military general said it, someone immediately whispered, which was also what they were worried about, in the final analysis, in addition to the army controlling the lifeline, the rest was this military spending.

The military general who read the edict was about to explain, but Liu Zhang stopped him and stepped forward in person and said: "This general asked a good question, but the edict has already said that the military expenditure is drawn according to the level of financial revenue of various countries.

In order to ensure fairness, the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate will go to various countries to verify the finances, and then draw them proportionally, and this proportion will be set by our Dahan. The Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate has no right to make its own decisions.

Any exaggeration or understatement of national revenues. Increase the extraction ratio without authorization. We, the Han Dynasty, will punish the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate, not only to compensate for the losses of the more extracted countries, but also to apologize to all countries. Anyone can report the illegal acts of the Tianshan Protectorate to my Han Dynasty.

However, if any royal family dares to conceal its finances, or bribe the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate to avoid extracting military spending, it will be severely punished, and the royal family can be punished, or the royal family can be banned, and in serious cases, the country can be destroyed. Anyone in any country can report fraud to the royal family. ”

The driver gasped and relieved at the same time, under such conditions, the possibility of being exploited is much smaller.

Under the powerful power of the Sichuan army to destroy Dahamu, under the rule of Liudao'en, the royal families of various countries ceded their military power, in fact, it was impossible for them not to give up, because because of the defeat of Dahamu and the fact that there was no army in hand, the army was captured by the Sichuan army. This is one of the reasons why they can give up the right to the military.

When the people of the Beilu Houguo knew that they still had more than 1,000 people from Yaowuzi who did not die, the men of the Beilu Houguo did not die. Even the country with the most strong men in all countries now, the people of the country behind the land are very happy.

Liu Zhang integrated 1,000 people from the Houguo of Beilu, as well as the prisoners of the Battle of the Houguo of Cheshi, the Battle of Beilu, the Battle of Pu, and the Battle of Wangfu Mountain, totaling more than 8,000 people, all of whom were mixed into the backbone army of the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate.

A general and 100 soldiers of the pro-army team were left to serve as the generals of the 8,000 army respectively, and set up a temporary Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate, responsible for the formation of the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate.

Among them, three edicts and six detailed rules of the enthronement must be completed by the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate, and Liu Zhang has already ordered the Xiliang Assassin Shi Wang to send civil officials over.

After integrating the army, when the Tianshan Protectorate settled in the King's Palace, Liu Zhang immediately led the army south, preparing to cross the Tianshan Mountains.

In fact, everyone didn't see that the real role of the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate was to assimilate the Cheshi, and the civil and military positions of the Tianshan Metropolitan Hufu were all open to the Cheshi, but they all had to go through the four imperial examinations.

For the four subjects of ethnic minorities, of course, you have to add a subject, that is, Chinese, although you don't add it explicitly, but you have to take the exam, and if you don't know Chinese, you don't believe that you can understand the test papers.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened the Western Regions, for hundreds of years, the nobles of the big countries in the Western Regions basically know Chinese, so there is no problem for them to participate in the Four Examinations to enter the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate, or even to go to the Han Land to participate in the Four Examinations to become Han officials.

The first batch of officials of the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate, in addition to the Han Chinese, Liu Zhang can be sure that they are basically nobles of the Cheshi countries, which is also suitable for the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate to control the Cheshi countries as soon as possible.

But over time, when it was discovered that these positions did not limit their status, anyone could take the exam, and the power of the Tianshan Protectorate was above the royal family, could the citizens of the Cheshi countries not be moved?

In history, since the imperial examination, how many poor children have studied hard for ten years, isn't it just to get to the top class? This temptation is absolutely fatal, and in ancient times being an official was almost the only route to get ahead, and anyone with ambition would take this path.

The Cheshi countries and other countries in the Western Regions have been controlled by the royal family for hundreds of thousands of years, and now there is an existence higher than the royal family, and it is also open to the poor and lowly people, Liu Zhang is sure that these Cheshi people will break their heads and want to take up the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate.

And in this way, first, the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate has absorbed all the talents of the Cheshi, and all those who have ambitions are under the control of the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate, and those who are determined to be disabled do not need the Internet.

Second, the Han Dynasty has won the hearts of the people, since the formation of the imperial examination system in history, it can no longer be overthrown, and the abolition of the imperial examination at the end of the Qing Dynasty has suffered much resistance, why, it is because the imperial examination is the hope of a large number of students, without the imperial examination, their half of their hard work will be wasted.

As long as a group of people who work hard for the examination are formed, not only can the four imperial examinations not be overthrown, but the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate and the Sichuan Army, which carry out the four imperial examinations, are also the objects of defense by the students.

The third point is Liu Zhang's ultimate goal, assimilation, to take the exam, you must be able to speak Chinese, and the study of Chinese will inevitably allow the people of the car master to buy various Han classics, understand the Han culture, and slowly be assimilated.

At least it is no problem to make Chinese the official language of the Cheshi countries, and those Cheshi students have taken on the heavy responsibility of spreading Chinese to the people, Liu Zhang believes that as long as the Han can continue to control the Cheshi, in the end, the language of the Cheshi will definitely only become a dialect like many modern minority languages, a hundred years later. Speak these languages again. Many of my own people do not understand.

Liu Zhang changed Wang Xu's soft attack policy. But the purpose is the same, now the Western Regions countries are at most Han vassal states, not national land, but Liu Zhang has always thought that it is a national land, as a modern person, Liu Zhang knows the disadvantages of pure military conquest, soft and gradual policy, and the combination of grace and might. is the way to really absorb.

It's just that Liu Zhang is worried about a little bit, the control of the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate, if the Sichuan army continues to conquer and defeats Shache, the Western Regions will definitely be reorganized, and Liu Zhang has already planned to establish some more Metropolitan Protectorates, and will not only need one Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate as before.

These prefectures are equivalent to the government of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions, and they are the same as the county states, so they must be controlled.

It is easy to say that this kind of county system will mature when it matures, but it must be completely controlled in the early stage. It is impossible for every Metropolitan Protectorate to be directly controlled by the Han Dynasty, so there is still a need for a Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate.

And the person in charge of the Western Regions Protectorate is a problem. Because there are too many relationships to be adjusted, contradictions to be resolved, and too many policies to be implemented, this requires a powerful person who has both civil and military skills, and grasps both foreign and domestic affairs and military affairs.

Liu Zhang easily thought of Pang Tong, I don't know if this guy is willing to serve as the protector of the Western Regions, which is different from the previous Western Regions Protector, the previous Western Regions Protector played a role in coordinating countries and ensuring the submission of countries and the smooth flow of the Silk Road. The position of the protector is only equivalent to the level of the county government of the Han district.

And the Western Regions Protector that Liu Zhang wants to set up is definitely not at this level, because of the addition of a military power, just because of this authority, the things that need to be increased and dealt with become extremely complicated, and the Tianshan Metropolitan Protectorate is already equivalent to the county level, and the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate oversees each separate Metropolitan Protectorate, which is at least equivalent to the state pastoral level.

Moreover, this state pastor still has the right to deploy troops, because there has been a change in this place in the Western Regions, it is impossible to report to the Han Central Committee for reprocessing, and it is completely different from the Dianzhou Mu Cai Wei, Jingzhou Mu Li Yan, Yizhou Mu Huang Quan, Liangzhou Mu Wang Yi, and Sili Captain Jiang Wan who are now deprived of military power.

Such a position, regardless of loyalty and ability, needs to be exquisite, coupled with the barren land of the Western Regions, Pang Tong is a child of a family, and he has gone into seclusion again, so he may not necessarily agree.

The Tianshan North Pulse is finished, but only half of the Che Division has been solved, and there is a Che Shi Qianguo in the Tianshan South Vein, which is not much weaker than the Che Shi countries in the Tianshan North Vein combined, and it has really taken refuge in Shache, which is much trickier than the Tianshan North Vein.

There is also Gaochang Kingdom, which was called Turpan in later generations, not only the garrison of the captain of Wuji of the Han Dynasty, but also the black wood forest that the girl of the Houguo of Beilu said, Liu Zhang has to go to see it, and Liu Zhang led the army to the Tianshan Mountains.

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The northeast desert of Loulan country, a beautiful desert landscape, the slanting light of the sunset sprinkled down, shining on the towering sand dunes to form a drunken golden brilliance.

It has been rated as one of the top ten most beautiful desert landscapes on the earth in modern times, and one of the three most beautiful Yadan landforms in China.

But don't be fooled by the beauty here, because this is the famous Death Desert White Dragon Pile in the Western Regions.

At this time, there was a group of people, about 10,000 men and women, men and women, who crossed this mound of death and reached the edge of the white dragon pile, and a group of camel teams poured out from behind, wielding scimitars and galloping in the swirling sea of sand.

Now this camel caravan is here to hunt down these people.

The people who fled were men and women, old and young, and it was the Loulan people who withdrew from Loulan City, because now dozens of cities of Loulan size, including the main city of Loulan City, and the second largest city, Haitou City, had all fallen, and the Loulan people had to cross the desert to seek refuge.

God favors Loulan, these Loulan people have not encountered terrible sandstorms in the desert, of course, this is also related to the season, it is only spring, and it is not yet the time for sandstorms to break out intensively.

However, although the Loulan people crossed the Bailongdui at the cost of the death of countless people, with their rich experience in the desert, they still faced the fate of being chased and destroyed, and the camel caravan of about 3,000 people chased after them.

"Father, you take people to go first, and your daughter leads the people behind the palace."

A girl wearing a veil like all Loulan women shouted to a burly man in his fifties beside him, if you look closely, you can see a golden mole in the middle of the woman's forehead through the white veil, which is the symbol of the Loulan royal family.

It is said that the royal family of Loulan is the only bloodline of an ancient ethnic group or an ancient country living in the area of Lop Nur, whether it is to paralyze the people or religious teachings, this golden mole symbolizes nobility.

This woman with a golden mole is Zhan Hailan, the daughter of the king of Loulan, don't think that a woman asks for orders to command the army, this is normal in Loulan, because the desertification is getting more and more serious, and the people of Loulan must shoulder more and more missions in order to keep the ancestral city.

But now that the people of Loulan have paid so much, they still can't avoid the fate of the country, as a member of the royal family, Zhan Hailan is ready to be martyred.

"Sea Blue." Loulan Wang Tong Grojia looked at his daughter, Zhan, which means the ocean, and is also the ancestral surname on the royal genealogy, which records that this was an ocean before, and the place of Loulan was an island.

"Hailan, our Loulan royal family is the only clan bloodline that has been handed down, and it is our mission to find the ancestral city, and we have not completed this mission for generations, and today's Loulan disaster is the punishment of our ancestors.

But we can't give up, even if we destroy the country, as long as there is still one person in our bloodline, we must not forget, my father is already in his fifties, and it is not a pity to die, your brother Tojakya died in Haitou City, and now you are the only one who can inherit the bloodline, you can't have anything, you know? ”

After Tong Geluojia finished speaking, he picked up a long knife and led more than 500 Loulan warriors and maidens, each holding a weapon in front of the Shache camel caravan, Zhan Hailan looked at his father's old back, and a tear slid down, but it was wiped away immediately.

The strength of the Loulan people, the inheritance of the times, we can struggle to survive in the sand sea, we can endure humiliation in the midst of the great powers, we can fight with the enemy in Haitou City at the cost of our lives, but the bloodline cannot be broken, because the Loulan people have this mission.

Zhan Hai Lan organized the clan to continue to cross the White Dragon Pile, this place is not as dry as the center of the White Dragon Pile, it is already the edge of the White Dragon Pile, Zhan Hai Lan can already see the green sea on the edge of the desert, but Zhan Hai Lan, who grew up in the desert since he was a child, knows that the green sea looks close, but in fact, it is still far away.

Tong Geluojia led his people to fight with the Shache camel team, although the Loulan people fought with their lives, trying to die with the Shache soldiers, but the other party was a desert cavalry, and the weapons were sharper than the Loulan people, plus the large number of people, the Loulan people could not resist at all.

The people of Loulan were constantly hacked to death under the scimitar, and Tong Geluojia was still fighting to the death with several knives in his body.

Zhan Hailan could hear the screams of the Loulan people being killed and the "whining" of the Shache people behind her, but she had to run away with tears in her eyes and urge her people.

Just then, suddenly a black line appeared on the edge of the Eastern Desert. (To be continued......)

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