64. The haze of history (I)

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"Adults can rest here for a few days, after all, the next journey will be more difficult, so it's not okay to take a good rest."

"Zhang Juncheng's good intentions have been understood, but we have been delayed on the road for several days, and I don't know if the Wusun people can hold on. And the march during this time was easy enough, and I trusted the perseverance of my warriors. ”

"If you're worried about the Wusun people, you can rest for two days."

"What news did Zhang Juncheng receive?"

"I don't dare to boast about the new news, but Tai knows that the Kangju country has recently come out of the hands of the Guishan country with the help of the Wusun people, and the relationship between Kangju and Wusun has always been good, and even take a step back, the Kangju people also want to help the Wusun people in order to be able to resist the anger of the Guishan. Although Kangju's soldiers and horses could not be compared with the three major countries in terms of numbers, they fought bravely and were considered a strong army, so it was no problem to help the Wusun people resist for a while. ”

Obviously, because of his proximity to the Western Regions, Zhang Tai also knew more about some of the situation in the Western Regions, and judging from his confident expression, he was quite sure of the information he had, which made people who were naturally suspicious have a sense of trust in his words.

This may be the advantage of the head snake, you must know that even Jia Xu, who has some research on these things, has mentioned a similar analysis, but his tone is definitely not as sure as Zhang Tai is now.

In addition, Zhang Tai also had a subtext that he did not say, that is, to use the Xianbei people to consume the soldiers and horses of Kangju, the countries in the Western Regions are very strong, and it will naturally be better to have less resistance, otherwise God knows if the Wusun people who have the support of the Kangju people will have any different thoughts in the face of Li Shushi's troops, after all, for the Wusun people, the Kangju people they can still control.

"Thank you Zhang Juncheng for reminding me, you and Ma Taishou have a very good governance of Dunhuang, and after you return, you must play Ming Majesty Xià to give the two of them the rewards they deserve, and even the marquis is possible."

Although he said this, Li Shushi actually wanted to win over this elder who seemed to have a detailed understanding of the situation in the Western Regions, didn't Jia Xu remind him that he needed to find a good enough guide? Li Shushi thinks Zhang Tai is very good.

"I'm getting older, I'm not as good as I was then, and now I'm leaving more things to my son to deal with, so the reward doesn't matter to me anymore. However, compared to a personal reward, Tai hopes that the state pastor can agree to one thing, even if it is due to Tai's conscientious efforts for so many years to make this Dunhuang territory still Antai. ”

To Li Shushi's surprise, Zhang Tai suddenly knelt down unexpectedly after hearing Li Shushi's words, such a change made Li Shushi somewhat scrambled, but when he wanted to help the other party up, he found that his pitiful strength was really not enough for Zhang Tai, an old guy who had been on the side for so many years.

If it weren't for the need to pay attention to his image in front of outsiders, Li Shushi would have wanted to find a corner to grow mushrooms.

"Zhang Juncheng really might as well say it, as long as it is beneficial to the people, he doesn't mind going to the soup."

"Then, Tai hopes that Lord Zhou Mu will be able to take seriously the matter of reopening the Western Regions Protectorate after solving the war on the Wusun side!"

Zhang Tai looked at Li Shushi with a serious face, but this seriousness made Li Shushi feel a little uncomfortable...... Probably because behind this seriousness, there is a constant unsettling fanaticism......

Li Shushi wasn't sure if his feeling was an illusion, but after thinking about it, there didn't seem to be anything excessive in the other party's request or that it was his own idea, so Li Shushi nodded and agreed with peace of mind.

The Western Regions Protectorate originated in the Han Dynasty, and in order to fight the Xiongnu, the Han forces began to enter the Western Regions. Although he was the highest military and political chief of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions, at first, the position of Du Hu was only a title added to other official titles, and most of them were replaced by cavalry captains, and Yu Lu was ranked at 2,000 stones, which was no different from the cavalry lieutenants under Guangluxun.

The base camp of the Western Regions Protectorate is in Wulei City. At first, it belonged to the Luntai Kingdom, and in the second year after the destruction of the Luntai Kingdom in the third year of the Taichu Dynasty, because of the important military value of Wulei, the envoy lieutenant began to settle there to the field, which could somewhat alleviate the problem of grain and grass transportation and inconvenience, and of course, the troops of Tuntian could also be used to monitor the movements of the surrounding countries.

In addition to the capital protection of the highest governor, the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate also has another Tuntian Metropolitan Governor to cooperate with the capital protection. Although the Duwei later became more and more depreciated in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Tuntian Duwei of the Western Regions Protectorate has always been the second-in-command after the Duhu, and even in some special circumstances, the Tuntian Duwei still has the right to exercise the power of the Duhu on his behalf.

After all, in the Western Han Dynasty, Duhu and Tuntian Duwei are actually both Du Lieutenants, with the same military rank.

In the last years of Xinmang, when Wang Mang was in turmoil, the Western Regions, which was almost exhausted, could not hold it, and Li Chong, who was the protector at the time, was not in Qiuzi, and the Protectorate was forced to be interrupted. At one time, he even had to be managed by King Shache. In the twenty-first year of the establishment of the military, the eighteen countries of the Western Regions, such as Shache and Cheshi, wrote to request the restoration of the capital, but Emperor Guangwu did not agree because of the initial decision of the world. It was not until the sixteenth year of Yongping that Emperor Ming ordered Dou Gu, who was then the commander of Fengche Duwei, to conquer the Xiongnu and take down Yiwu, which reextended his tentacles to the Western Regions.

Subsequently, in the second year, that is, in the seventeenth year of Yongping, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty tried to send Chen Mu to protect the Western Regions. As a result, in the eighteenth year of Yongping, Yanqi and Qiuzi rebelled, Chen Mu was killed, and the setting of the capital protectorate was in trouble again.

However, in this way, he has fulfilled the immortal legend of one person, that is, the creator of the idiom "do not enter the tiger's den, but also get the tiger", and is also a rare genius strategist in Chinese history who is capable of both military and political diplomacy and is especially good at fighting to nourish war.

By the way, in fact, in the sixteenth year of Yongping, the battle in which Dou Gu captured Yiwu was Ban Chao's first battle, and it was precisely because of Ban Chao's good performance in this battle that Dou Gu handed over the task of reopening the Western Regions to Ban Chao and the other thirty-seven warriors, and it was during this visit that Ban Chao said the famous sentence that accompanied him.

From the eighteenth year of Yongping to the third year of Yongyuan, a total of seventeen years, after three generations of emperors of Ming, Zhang, and Hedi, Ban Chao relied on his own efforts to constantly move around in the Western Regions and gradually expand the influence and control of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions.

In the third year of Yongyuan, when the highly respected Ban Chao officially served as the protector of the Western Regions, almost all of the 36 countries of the Western Regions were included in the jurisdiction of the Protectorate of Qiancheng in Qiuci. And when Ban Chao, who had been in the Western Regions for thirty-one years, returned to Luoyang due to age, more than 50 countries in the Western Regions were attached to the Han Dynasty.

Unfortunately, the boom is often followed by a great decline.

After Ban Chao's death, successors such as Ren Shang, Duan Xi and others were all inactive. Only five years later, in the first year of Yongchu, the Western Regions were once again in chaos, and Duan Xi returned in disgrace. After another sixteen years, Ban Yong, who served as the chief historian of the Western Regions, inherited his father's will, restored the Western Regions, and protected the capital with the post of long history. It's a pity that creation makes people, and only five years later, the angry Ban Yong had to face the desolation of being dismissed.

For more than 60 years since then, the influence of the Han people in the Western Regions has existed in name only. Finally, in the second year of Jianning, in a rebellion of the king of Shule and De, although the rebel king and De were captured and killed, they also exhausted the last bit of strength of the Han in the Western Regions.

After that, even if Dong Zhuozhi is strong, he can only hold the border and not advance an inch, because if you let Lao Dong fight hard, it is naturally invincible, but the study class Chao played various means such as dividing and disintegrating those countries in the Western Regions...... Then a few years later, it was not Lao Dong's head that was hung on a wooden shelf, or the land of the Western Regions became a red land for thousands of miles.

"With the military strength of the countries in the Western Regions, it should be profitable to set up a capital protectorate. However, with the current situation, it is impossible for the Han to send a large-scale force for a long time. Can Zhang Juncheng sue me, how can I make the governor of the capital protectorate stable for a long time, so as not to be short-lived. ”

Now with the rise of the Xianbei people, in fact, strategically speaking, the Western Regions Protectorate has a reason to be established, not to mention that in Li Shushi's vision, its economic significance is actually huge, and if it is operated properly, it may not need a steady stream of blood transfusion from the central government as in history.

Of course, Li Shushi won't say much about these things for the time being, after all, his ideas are still very rough and need to be improved according to local conditions, but neither he nor Jia Xu is such a talent, and although Han Hao is good at this, he is completely blind to the situation in the Western Regions. Only with investigation can he have the right to speak, and Han Hao doesn't want to give away his name because of boasting.

"If the governor is asking what he thinks, then there are only eight words below: 'Deter people with force, and govern people with kindness.'" The people of the Western Regions are even more affected by Hu Feng than the Western Liang, only the strong can make them subdued, and blindly accommodating will make them get carried away. Similarly, for hundreds of years, there have been many rough and arrogant soldiers in our Han Dynasty, and there are many harsh officials, who have inevitably acted rudely, and those who have been resentful over time have become more and more numerous, so only with a sense of benevolence can they relieve their hesitation and let them return to their hearts. ”

"So what if I want the Western Regions to become like a state and county under the rule of the Great Han?"

Although Zhang Tai's answer is good, but there is nothing outstanding about it, Li Shushi doesn't know if he is cautious by nature or that he can't fully trust himself, so he doesn't want to say something to himself? So Li Shushi couldn't help but try it again. "If the state pastor really has this heart, then it will be beyond the reach of his efforts."

Unexpectedly, Zhang Tai answered more simply this time, but it was a simple refusal, which made Li Shushi feel like he was shaken.

"But......" Zhang Tai's appearance really makes Li Shushi have the urge to beat people. But I know of a person who can fulfill the wishes of adults. ”

As a result, Zhang Tai shook Li Shushi again.

However, compared to the mysterious capable man in Zhang Tai's mouth, this bad feeling of being molested by the elders is really not worth mentioning.

PS: Today is the day the Titanic sank. Although the Titanic was hailed as the most outstanding industrial work at that time, if it was careless, it would still be knocked down by nature's simplest iceberg, and eventually cause a huge disaster.

PS2: Today is the day of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, one of America's greatest presidents, whether it was the Homestead Act for the United States to gain the vast territory of the West, or the Emancipation Proclamation that provided a large labor force for American industrial development, or the fact that this man who was not a wealthy man and did not receive a high education became the president of the United States and realized the true American dream, There is also the famous sentence that can be called one of the definitions of modern fanning government: to make our country have eternal life under the blessing of God, so that this government of the people, by the people, and for the people will last forever. Lincoln's influence on American history is, in some ways, even greater than that of Washington, the founding father of the United States.

So on Rashmore National Park's Presidential Mountain, Lincoln's head appears on the far right of the four heads.

PS3: Today is the day of the death of Comrade Hu/Yao/Bang, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and former General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee. Let's just mention it here, I don't know anything about the rest, really, really don't know anything......

PSP: Today is also the day of the death of the famous movie star Garbo. All right...... Let's admit that if it weren't for a director's novel at a certain point, we really wouldn't have paid much attention to the queen of the silent film era, because we are more cute Hepburn......

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