ps: The Shengrong on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is a branch of the ancient Rong, Qiang means that it is the shepherd of the Rong people, the Han people have not been on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, not that the Han people can't go up, but they don't know that there are good things on it, so our Qinghai-Tibet region is blank on the historical map, in that great ancient era, the glory of the ancestors has not passed away, it is very interesting. ［

"This is called the Hexi Corridor, an important passage to the Western Regions, this should be a boundless grassland and oasis, if we don't cherish it, it won't take a few hundred years to gradually be swallowed up by the desert."

Cao Shi recalled the bits and pieces of his previous life, went out of Yangguan in the west and walked on the desolate ancient road several times, recalling the traces left by the epoch-making Han and Tang Empires thousands of years ago, and in the blink of an eye, the river of time reversed for more than 2,000 years, he suddenly had a little throbbing, maybe one day he should re-step on the old road and see what the Western Regions looked like two thousand years ago.

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law!"

Liu Che's cry called back the divine thoughts beyond the nine heavens, and Cao Shi smiled: "The Hexi Corridor was once the grassland of the Dayue people, the era of the Great Zhou Dynasty was called the Yu family, and the nomadic tribe living in Longxi to Hexi was called Xirong, and the Dayue people have always been the main body of Xirong, and there were nearly 300,000 people who controlled the strings in the heyday, and the tribes such as the Hugh Tu King and the Hun Evil King who currently belonged to the Xiongnu were the Xirong branches, more than 30 years ago, the King of the Dayue Clan was killed by the Xiongnu's Mao Dun Shan Yu, and the Da Yue Clan's skull was made into a wine vessel for holding wine, It is still the most show-off trophy in the court of the Xiongnu Shan Yu. ”

"The barbarian Huns are disgusting! Back then, Emperor Taizu Gao did not treat Tian Heng, the king of Qi, who was too rude and barbaric. The little emperor had a disgusted expression.

Cao Shi shrugged and said, "The people of the Dayue clan were forced to move west and flee. Some of the Rong people surrendered to the Xiongnu and became the Xiongnu tribes in the Hexi Corridor, and some were unwilling to go up the mountain and find the Qiangrong who lived in the mountain to integrate. They are called Xiaoyue people, these Qiang Rong belong to the Shengrong, live in the Qianzhang Plateau all the year round to graze for a living, we are more vigilant, Xiaoyue people are familiar Rong, our vigilance is relatively small, and there is a bitter hatred for the Huns. These people can draw on. ”

"Raw and ripe? Interestingly, there is also a big Aral Sea here, and those small lakes are also salty lakes? ”

"There is a salt lake. There is also a natural alkali lake, the natural salt from the salt lake is boiled and filtered, which is the best salt in the world, except that the road up and down the plateau is not easy to walk. The transportation cost is much lower than that of Haiyan in Qi country. What's even better is that the natural salt reserves here are almost inexhaustible, and today, when the cost of boiling salt in Hedong Salt Pond remains high, it can be used as a new salt source for our Han people to eat, so that we Han people don't have to worry about the lack of salt. ”

Salt lakes, trona lakes.

Liu Che's eyes were shining with golden light, since the Duke of Qi Huan assisted Duke Qi Huan to dominate the Spring and Autumn Period, the benefits of salt and iron are the highest evaluation of the richness of a region, and the inexhaustible sea salt is the basis for Qi to dominate, and the supply of salt in Han has never kept up with the market demand. Many poor families in remote areas do not have access to salt, so they can only buy some salty sauce as a seasoning to survive.

Even so. Hermes-Epitek is still generally short of salt.

Because there was not enough salt to eat, Hermes-Epitek's body gradually weakened, and the Taishou in various places were struggling to solve the salt shortage.

Staring at the raised plateau on the map, at the foot of the crimson plateau is Longxi County, which is adjacent to Guanzhong Neishi County, and further west is the Longxi Plateau, where there are dotted with salt lakes and trona lakes, you only need to persuade the raw and mature Rong there to obey the rule of the Han Empire, and then spend a lot of money to build a strong gallop road, which will be the bridgehead of the Han Empire to control the Western Regions to the west.

"The Han family is short of salt, Chang'an needs more salt, this is the place we have to take, what can be done?"

Cao Shi thought for a while and said: "We can go to the Hehuang Valley to develop, where it is suitable for us Han people to live, we can let the Qiang women go to the salt lake to fish for salt, we exchange corn, the salt taken is boiled and filtered a few times is pure snow salt, less investment to obtain more cost is also the cheapest, and then go up to the plateau is more difficult, there are also many natural horse farms, pull the Qiang people down the mountain to exchange grain for their yaks and plateau horses is also a good deal." ”

"And horses? How about their warhorses? Can it be compared with the war horses of the Huns? ”

"Some kind of Cheng dù would be better."

Liu Che was curious: "What do you say?"

"Qinghai there has a medium degree of skull, strong endurance, resistance to rough feeding, strong disease resistance, and strong pulling force, which can be cultivated and used as a war horse, and can also improve the Xiongnu horse breed.

The little emperor's eyes lit up with golden light, and in his eyes, the plateau of the barren land was simply a gift from God, the salt in the lake, the horses running on the grassland, and the great warriors, although they still lived a primitive life counted by the withered grass and trees, but this was not his problem, and this could be done if he had a heart.

Cao Shi made persistent efforts to continue to agitate: "There are yaks on the plateau, the salt content in the meat is very high, and it can be eaten raw, the thick cow hair can be used as fuel in winter, and can be made into felt tents and felt blankets in summer, cowhide is the natural raw material for clothes and armor, and beef bone soup is a rare tonic in winter, as long as thousands of Han families are sent to live there together, and the children of Han and Qiang people are sent to Beijing for cultivation every year, and within ten years, it will be the inherent land of my Han family, and occupying the plateau can easily enter and exit the Western Regions, and deter the Xiongnu tribes in the Hexi Corridor." , to support the Xiaoyue clan entrenched near Qilian Mountain. ”

Liu Che danced excitedly: "You must master here, as long as you master here, you can attack the Right Virtuous King from the plateau to the north, and go northwest to the Western Regions, this place is too important!" ”

Cao Shi was taken aback, he just wanted to figure out the economic and cultural means to complete a great merger, but he never expected that the little emperor Liu Che would be even more crazy, he even whimsically wanted to build the Han Empire's version of the Qinghai-Tibet Highway, how could that road be so easy to repair.

With the current national strength of the Han Empire to fight the Huns, you need to be careful and careful, and now let go of the Huns to build roads on the plateau, and invest sky-high prices to build an unprecedented gallop road on the Longxi Plateau, I don't know how many years it will take to earn back the money invested.

Temporarily frightened the little emperor, Cao Shi had no choice but to be alarmist: "It is unrealistic for Your Majesty to build a direct road to the Longxi Plateau, at least with our current national strength, it is impossible to do it, it requires millions of people and hundreds of billions of money, and it may not be successful, because the air on the plateau is thin, we Han people can't stand the life there, and if the road is not repaired, people will almost die." ”

"And that?"

"The Huns are not willing to go to the Longxi Plateau, and we Han people are not willing to go, only Shengrong and Shurong can stand the plateau climate, if you don't believe it, you can ask Longxi Taishou, there are a few people on the plateau." Cao Shi's half-truths frightened the little emperor.

Liu Che was both surprised and disappointed, and finally got proud and unsuccessful, and was a little excited: "If you don't stand in such an important place, sooner or later it will become the weakness of the attack on Chang'an, and even if you invest more, you can't give up lightly." ”

Cao Shi admired his insight a little, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau was dark under the light of the Han Empire, no one thought about what was on the three-thousand-meter-high mountain, the Han emperors of the past dynasties would rather give up the near to control the Western Regions, no one has ever tried to control the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, not that he did not dare to try, but he did not think that this situation was not broken until hundreds of years later, when the Qin and Han people who fought side by side and were enemies of each other in the past.

It's not too late now, the main cadre of the Dayue clan was beaten away by the Huns, and the rest of the Shurong returned to the Huns, and a small number of Shurong ran up to the plateau to live with Shengrong, this is only the story of the last thirty years, the shame of those national enemies and family hatred is still imprinted in the depths of their memories, they are willing to do a qiē thing for revenge, even if they pay for their lives, just like the Huns revenge Donghu and revenge Dayue.

Historically, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty beckoned, and the people of the Xiaoyue clan of Shurong walked down the plateau and settled in Huangzhong in the Hexi Corridor, so they were called Huangzhong Yicong, and gradually they forgot the pain and shame left by the Huns, forgot that they were the proud king of Xirong, and forgot that their ancestors had followed the king of Zhou Tian to participate in the battle of Muye, and they were defeated and divided into Shurong and Shengrong by the strong Qin people.

Gradually, their descendants were called Qiang, Dangxiang or whatever, and the Shengrong Qiang people on the plateau evolved into Tibet, also forgetting the once great and sung and weeping legendary history.

This qiē is like a dream, in which you forget the glory and shame.

A dream, thousands of years of rise and fall, glory and disgrace, turned into a dream in a moment.

Cao Shi suddenly felt that he had been sent back more than 2,000 years ago by the power of the underworld, and was burdened with some unspeakable mission to save those declining Rong people who had lost their glory.

Dating back to 3,000 years, the Xia people defeated the southern barbarians to establish their own empire in the Central Plains, and the Rong people who fought with the Xia people were flesh and blood relatives who were constantly untidy and chaotic, and the Zhou people and the Rong people jointly destroyed the Shang and turned their faces into enemies, but they could not hide the identity of our relatives.

"Your Majesty, please rest assured! Even if you can't repair the road today, ten years from now, twenty years from now, you have to repair it, now the technology is not mature, and the national strength is scarce, and it may not be the same in another ten years. Cao Shi's eyes flashed with confidence and satisfaction.

Liu Che glanced at it suspiciously, just now he insisted that he couldn't repair, and he changed his words to support it after a while, and after thinking about it, he couldn't figure out his intentions, and he was embarrassed to break the casserole and ask in the end, so he simply pointed to the land west of the river and said to him: "You just said that the 300,000 Dayue clan people who controlled the string were beaten to the west to escape, and the declining Dayue clan people still have the strength to fight against the Huns?" ”

Cao Shi did not doubt him, and explained seriously: "The emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, according to the description of the surrendered Huns, the Dayue clan moved west to the grassland west of the Tianshan Mountains, defeated the local nomadic tribes and established a dynasty, presumably there should be more than 100,000 cavalry to kill the party, as for whether they are willing to come back is not clear, at least it is a hope that can be counted on." ”

"I hope so, you said that it is not enough to fight the Huns only with money, food, soldiers and horses, we need allies on the steppe, we need friends of the Huns, I hope that day will be faster." Liu Che turned to leave. (To be continued!)

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