"Duhu" was the highest governor of the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, with a "rank ratio of 2,000 stones", which was equivalent to the "county captain" in the mainland. The "county captain" is the deputy position of the head of a county, Taishou, who is in charge of the military. Due to its special status, the Western Regions set up a "metropolitan protector", which is actually equal to the county-level division. Its main responsibilities are to defend the territory and secure the land, coordinate the contradictions and disputes between the countries in the Western Regions, stop the intrusion of foreign forces, and maintain the social order in the Western Regions, and the most important role is to ensure the smooth flow of the Silk Road. "Duhu" is in charge of more than 50 countries east of Dawan and south of Wusun, and each country "self-translates chiefs, domain chiefs, monarchs, eunuchs, officials, Dalu, Baichang, Qianchang, Duwei, and Qu, Danghu, generals, and even the princes, all wearing Han seals", confirming that they are Han officials.

Flip through the Hanshu. Legend of the Western Regions", such annotations can be found.

After the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the garrison of the Western Regions and their families became abandoned remnants. However, before they were completely assimilated by the ethnic groups of the Western Regions, the combat power of the Han people in the Western Regions was still strong, and they also became the objects of competition among the countries of the Western Regions. However, these Han people hated the Xiongnu, so they may be attached to other small countries, but they will definitely not serve the Xiongnu, mainly because of the psychological shadow planted by Li Ling who was captured by the Xiongnu for 10,000 years, in addition, there is also the influence of Su Wu's glorious deeds of shepherding sheep.

This is the deep-seated inertia of a civilization.

After Abraham's story, Lu Chen finally made it clear that the Han cavalry that had once attached to the Khorezm Kingdom, the leader was surnamed Li, and it was said that he was a descendant of Li Guang, so naturally, they did not dare to repeat Li Ling's route and could not defeat the Xiongnu. Ben fled west. And it is precisely because of the influence of this Han army that Fatima finally contributed to the eastward march of Fatima, they may not expect that the Han court will help Khorezm restore the country, but they hope to return to the Han land, and the nobles of Khorezm are also willing to move eastward, after all, the countries of the Western Regions, except for Wusun and Xiongnu, are very weak, and they hope to restore the country in the Western Regions for a generation. It doesn't have to be in the original country.

After understanding the approximately. Lu Chen pondered for a moment, and then said, "It stands to reason that our department is the weakest among the current princes of the Central Plains. You are willing to choose me. Probably because Yanmen is ahead of them in various technologies. And the most important thing. Probably my cavalry, as well as artillery. Is that right? ”

Abraham did not hide it, and said bluntly: "We believe that your artillery can be invincible." Therefore, we believe that you can achieve the Han world. So, we chose you. ”

Lu Chen said again: "There may be a chance, but it will take a long time, can you afford to wait?" ”

"Can't wait. Kangju won't let us live for long, and once they are discovered by the Sabbatarian Empire, they will also be under a lot of pressure. Abraham said, "So, we want you to send someone to communicate with the Xiongnu and Wusun, and let them let our nobles and Han army let us go east." Even, we are willing to sacrifice all our possessions and soldiers and horses to fight for you, until your strength can influence the Western Regions, and we will not restore the country. ”

"Hehe......" Lu Chen smiled, he already knew Fatima's true intentions, the so-called restoration of the country was just a luxury, she just wanted her family to survive, that's all, "I will buy off the Northern Xiongnu and Wusun nobles with a lot of money and let them go, please rest assured." However, I have another request, on the way back to the east, you will try your best to gather the remnants of my Han Dynasty, whether they are military or civilian. ”

Naturally, Abraham had no choice but to agree. According to his calculations, if Lu Chen immediately sent people to dredge the Northern Xiongnu and Wusun, then the Khorezm nobles and Han cavalry would only need three months to come to Yanmen, but if they still had to collect the remnants of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions along the way, I am afraid it would take about half a year. And the most difficult thing is Xiliang, Xiliang is now Ma Teng's handle, if there are too many soldiers and horses, will they let them go, it is not necessarily. Therefore, we can only make a detour to the northern Gobi and come to Yanmen through the territory of Xianbei and the Southern Xiongnu, so that because of the difficult and dangerous road, it will cause great losses.

Lu Chen also knew this, so he immediately called Nameless, he was a Qiang man who was familiar with the terrain and situation there. Therefore, the task of greeting and communicating with the visitors from the Western Regions was entrusted to him, and with the cooperation of his subordinate Feilong secret spies, Nameless patted his chest and took over the task, and threatened that he could lead a team of 10,000 people to get through from under Ma Teng's nose.

After it was confirmed, the matter was handed over to Nameless and Abraham to be responsible, and Lu Chen became the shopkeeper again. As for Fatima, because she knew her identity, Zhen Mi found Lu Chen and offered to give her a separate house and make her Lu Chen's concubine. Although Lu Chen was a little drooling, he was still a little reserved, and as a result, Wuzhu was furious, claiming that Xiaolan was her slave and would never hand it over. Lu Chen and Zhen Mi were a little embarrassed, while Xiaolan looked at Lu Chen with blank eyes. In the end, it was Zhen Mi, the daughter of a big businessman, who thought of a good way, she spent money to buy ten strong Hun slave girls, twenty little lambs, and exchanged Xiaolan with Wuzhu, and Wuzhu agreed.

During this time, Lu Su and Sun Quan both developed a strong interest in movable type printing, and lived in the courtyard of Pang Tong and Cai Zhaoji all day long, busy stealing teachers, and did not bother Lu Chen at all. Movable type printing was another invention after Lü Chen improved the technology of paper production, and when the two were combined, Lü Chen created a thread-bound book that was originally only available in the Ming Dynasty. This naturally surprised Lu Su and Sun Quan. And Pang Tong and Cai Zhaoji, the adulterers and adulteresses, are all ruthless from the big families, so naturally they will not tell the core secrets to Lu Su and Sun Quan, they continue to lose their appetites, and at the same time they also began to open schools, recruit students, and a set of thread-bound books were sent by them to Guanzhong Kanto and Jingzhou families, which greatly touched these families, so they sent their children to Yanmen to study. Even, Pang Degong was moved by Pang Tong to go to Yanmen Academy to teach apprentices, as soon as the news came out, more students flocked to Yanmen, and Yanmen became more and more prosperous.

Looking at the advantages of the paper books printed by Yanmen in the dissemination of knowledge, Lu Su and Sun Quan were naturally ready to move, ready to find Lu Chen to bring this technology back to Jiangdong. There are many clans in Jiangdong, and their rule has been greatly influenced by the clans, and if the introduction of wire-bound books and the establishment of schools to recruit the children of the poor families will be weakened in less than ten years.

However, Lu Chen shirked his busy official duties and did not receive them, which made Lu Su and Sun Quan extremely impatient, but helpless. They naturally knew that Lu Chen was pretending, just because the benefits they got were not enough, so they immediately sent a letter back to Jiangdong to ask for instructions, hoping to obtain greater authorization and promise Lu Chen more benefits in exchange for various technologies. (To be continued......)