Chapter 299: You don't want to slaughter the country
As Han Yannian went north, Liu Ponu did not stay in Wusun for too long.
Although the scenery of the Western Regions is very good, it is still too desolate compared to the Han Dynasty, and the most unacceptable thing for Liu Ponu is that the temperature difference between day and night here is too great.
Every day he seems to be either getting dressed or undressing, and another reason is that he is homesick.
That's right, as a traverser, he was homesick, and he didn't think about the home of the future generations, even Liu Ponu himself felt very strange when he said this.
So, under the leadership of Liu Ponu, the 40,000 army first went south to Dawan, and Dawan did not add up to 40,000 troops, so you can imagine how much pressure they need to bear in the face of 40,000 troops to attack them.
And Dawan really did not disappoint Liu Ponu, and the ministers directly pushed King Dawan out.
In history, Li Guangli conquered Dawan for the second time, and Dawan did this when he saw that the general trend was inviolable, and no one could carry this pot except for the king.
And for the magical operation of Dawan's gang, it really made many people in the Han army feel magical.
"Brother Nu, although it is obvious that you can't fight, even if you can't fight, can't you surrender directly? Capture your own king and send it to us to vent your anger? What do you think this Dawan person thinks in his head? Rao is well-informed little mule was also stunned by the Dawan people's commotion, and he was surprised again and again.
"Bullying the soft and afraid of the hard!" Liu Ponu snorted coldly.
The Western Regions are very large, but the power of each country is not large, and although the population is also quite large, it is actually the same thing for each country.
And a country like Dawan, with a population of hundreds of thousands, is already a first-class country in the Western Regions.
Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, which is an eternal truth.
And where there are tribes, there will inevitably be exploitative and exploited classes.
In the Han Dynasty, in fact, it is just a family group with a larger scale, but here, because the living environment is not as good as the Han Dynasty, it is more difficult to breed the population than the Han Dynasty, which also leads to the fact that as long as a stable population base is maintained here, it is considered a great achievement.
Even if you can gather a hundred people here and let them listen to you honestly, then you will definitely be able to eat and drink spicy food in this country, and there will definitely be a place for you in the court, and the king will have to speak to you in a friendly voice.
If you can control 500 men and 1,000 men, then rest assured, if you say east, the king will never dare to go west.
So here, the king seems to be high, but it is the magnates under him who maintain his high position, and in order to maintain their own status and interests, the magnates must bring out a person to serve as the king.
At least you have to set up the forced grid first, and then set up the rules, for the king, to say something unpleasant, just be a good mascot, don't toss around.
Of course, there are always exceptions to everything, and meeting those assertive and powerful kings can turn the situation around.
But no matter how much it is reversed, it is only the current situation, a person's lifespan is limited after all, and after he dies, he will continue to repeat the previous days.
For many years, the entire Western Regions has lived this kind of life.
The magnates don't care who the king is, they only care if the king can care about their interests.
Obviously, now that the actions of King Dawan have touched their interests, it is normal to push the king out to vent the anger of the Han people.
Of course, after sending off a king, they will choose another king, and as long as the current crisis is solved, they will still live a comfortable life.
"If it was before, I wouldn't be too lazy to care about this kind of thing, but now it'......" Liu Ponu said and narrowed his eyes slightly.
"The geopolitical problems of the Western Regions determine that the kings of those small countries do not have much power in their hands, and many things are not done by the king, on the contrary, most of the time, the king has to obey the will of those magnates."
"The Han Dynasty has not been to the Western Regions for many years, and it is natural that his prestige has declined in the Western Regions, and the Huns are aggressive, in fact, the situation encountered by Dawan is similar to that in other places."
"It's just that Dawan is a little more radical, they feel that the Han seems to have lost the ability to return to the Western Regions, and they feel that they can sit back and relax here, so because of their differences, they refused to exchange high-quality war horses with the Han, and they even dared to kill the Han envoy directly."
"The two armies are still fighting, not to mention that there was no war at that time, such a big thing, if there is no instigation of those magnates, would King Dawan dare to do this?"
"Wasn't the Dawan people tough when Li Guangli came last time? This time, seeing that I couldn't beat it, I began to succumb? ”
Liu Ponu Balabala told the current situation of Dawan and the current situation of the Western Regions, and there was almost nothing wrong.
What is the identity of the Han envoy?
As the first generation of Han envoys, when Zhang Qian came to the Western Regions for the first time, he had only his wife and his retinue of his father, and after shoveling soil, he was in tatters.
But even if Zhang Qian came to the Western Regions with this image, he was still treated well by various regions here.
Later Han envoys appeared more frequently in the Western Regions, especially after the opening of the Hexi Corridor, the connection between the two places became closer.
But this relationship also changed with the westward migration of the Xiongnu.
Do you think the Xiongnu are just those nomads in the northern steppes?
In fact, it was only the early Xiongnu, after the Xiongnu moved westward, they continued to annex those indigenous tribes to expand their strength, in order to supplement their war losses in the Far East.
During this period, almost all the countries that lived by herding in the northern route of the Western Regions could be called the Huns.
Because Qingzhuang was dragged away by the Huns to fight, and at the same time plundered a large number of livestock.
What is left behind is only the old and young women and children, and the reason why these people are kept is also so that they can continue to graze here and do a good job as the logistics housekeeper.
"Brother Nu, you don't want to slaughter the country, do you?" The little mule was suddenly frightened, and Liu Ponu's attitude didn't seem to be joking.
"It's the magnates of Dawan who make mistakes, what does it have to do with those ordinary people?" Liu Ponu smiled slightly and continued: "First appease them, then set up a banquet to entertain them, invite all the powerful people over, and then take everyone down......"