According to Dong Zhuo's news report, Liu Bei learned that there was not much difference between the current Western Regions and the time when the Eastern Han government was forced to withdraw from the governance of the Western Regions during the Guanghe period.

At that time, it was the Xianbei people who took over the ecological niche of the Huns, and engaged in the east and west in the Western Regions, making the Han Empire really unable to promote the decree in the Western Regions, and then the Liangzhou Rebellion broke out, and the Han Empire had no possibility of operating the Western Regions.

But after that, Liu Bei showed his might, and the Xianbei people were beaten with heavy losses, and basically died in the war, and the group that survived did not dare to stay for a long time, and all ran away, and in the case of a great loss of strength, they could not maintain enough influence on the countries of the Western Regions.

So whether it should be said or not, after Liu Bei fought the Northern Expedition in the Jian'an period until now, almost all the countries in the Western Regions are in a golden age of independent development, and there are no big forces to intervene in them, they have to make their own decisions and deal with their own affairs, which is quite a bit thriving.

At the same time, the so-called no tiger in the mountains, the monkey is the overlord, because the countries of the Western Regions have no suppressors, the old order has collapsed, and some relatively large countries have tried to be the rule-makers themselves, thus abandoning the order created by the Eastern Han Empire, using troops to fight, and wanting to be the ruler of the Western Regions.

Anyway, this stage was the golden age of independent development of the Western Regions, and it was also an era of war and chaos when there were many military conquests between each other, and some small countries with weakened national strength were destroyed during this period.

Up to now, there are naturally a lot of countries that still exist in the Western Regions, and the relatively large countries include Pu Country, Shanshan Country, Qiuci Country, Khotan State, Wusun Country, etc., and there are still many other small countries distributed in the vast Western Regions, each with its own affairs, each with its own splendor.

However, in the case that the Han Empire did not return to the Western Regions and the Xianbei forces were driven away, these great powers were the hegemons in the Western Regions, and for a period of time, they seemed to have become accustomed to the absence of tigers, and seemed to have thought that there would be no more tigers to come back to deter them.

However, some countries are still wiser, such as Pu and Shanshan, which are closer to the Han Empire, these two countries are considered to be the big countries in the Western Regions, and they are relatively close to the border of Dunhuang County of the Han Empire, so when Liu Bei started the Western Regions business plan, he aimed at these two countries.

Because of the lack of strength at that time, Liu Bei did not think about returning to the Western Regions immediately, so he planned to sell his goods to Pu and Shanshan, and then let these two countries act as second-hand dealers, sell more goods to other countries in the Western Regions, and earn a transfer freight, and Liangzhou can also make a sum of money to subsidize some military spending.

Over the years, the goods sold by Liangzhou to these two countries are mainly salt, lacquerware, porcelain and silk and other things, and Liu Bei did not let the ironware be sold, so there is less input, but specifically, it still earns a lot.

This business originally belonged to Liu Bei's personal control, and when Liu Bei arrived at the central government, he handed over this business to Shaofu.

Then after Zhen Yan was transferred to the head of the household department, Liu Bei handed over this foreign trade matter to the household department for management, and the money earned was classified into the treasury except for salt and Shu brocade, which was clearly distinguished.

Because there have always been commercial contacts with the Han Empire, Shanshan and Pu have a better understanding of the situation of the Han Empire.

They knew that the Han Empire produced a fierce man from the sky in Liangzhou, and he was obedient to the Xianbei people and the Qiang people in Liangzhou, and he was very capable of fighting, so they were a little afraid of Liu Bei, even if they heard that the Han Empire was unstable, they didn't dare to make a mistake.

Later, Liu Bei went to Luoyang and did not return to Liangzhou, and the relevant news learned by Pu Shiguo and Shanshan Guo was a little lagging behind, until Liu Bei ascended the throne and became emperor for a year, and when Zhenguan was two years old, the leaders of these two countries learned that the Han Empire had changed the news of the emperor, and learned that Liu Bei had become the emperor.

Then these two countries knew the news that the Han Empire would definitely return to the Western Regions, so they were ready to send an envoy to Dunhuang County to inquire about the news, if the news was reliable, they would hurry to Luoyang to hug their thighs, and strive for the first batch to hug Liu Bei's thighs, so as to become Liu Bei's earliest dog legs to change a good first impression, and it is also convenient for future work.

But before they could send an official envoy, the official envoy of the Han Empire came.

Dong Zhuo was sent by Liu Bei on a business trip, and after figuring out the situation, he was ready to take back the "sovereignty" of Pu and Shanshan as the first step, and let them assist him in completing the task, so he sent envoys to these two countries, and asked them to send people to Dunhuang County to meet him Dong Dahonglu, and he had important matters to discuss with these two countries.

Although in front of Liu Bei, Dong Zhuo was already obedient and did not dare to make a mistake, but his identity as a Han still made him naturally appear superior to others when facing the countries of the Western Regions, even if the other party was the king and he was a courtier, he still thought that he could order the kings of these two countries to take the initiative to send people to meet him to show his submission to the Han Empire.

Seriously, this is not a big problem, the officials of the Han Empire should have been the identity of the Emperor Taishang in the Western Regions, Dong Zhuo had been a captain of the army, and he knew some things about the Western Regions, and Pu Zhiguo and Shanshan Guo also happened to know a little bit about Liu Bei, the new emperor's abundant martial virtues, so in the face of Dong Zhuo's call, the two countries that had some insights did not dare to slack off.

At the end of the second year of Zhenguan, the envoys of King Pu and King Shanshan sent people to Dunhuang County to meet Dong Zhuo and express their submission to the Han Empire at the first time.

Dong Zhuo was very satisfied with the attitude of the two kings to understand the current affairs, and then conveyed his purpose to the envoy.

The Great Han is returning to the Western Regions.

Liu Bei, as the emperor of the Han Empire, felt that it was time for the Han Dynasty to return to the Western Regions, reorganize the jurisdiction of the Han Empire over the Western Regions, and regain the power that had been lost.

Now it seems that the attitude of these two countries is relatively clear.

Surrendered directly, and did not feel that the Han Empire was not good because the Han Empire had left the Western Regions for more than ten years.

Dong Zhuo was very satisfied with the tidying up, and discussed with the deputy envoy of the envoy, and decided that Dong Zhuo would take the north road and the deputy envoy should take the south road, and announce the news that the Han Dynasty would return to the Western Regions to the countries in the north and south respectively, and further declare sovereignty to see who is a loyal minister and who is a thief......

Of course it's done!

As soon as this matter was mentioned, Zhang Fei became interested.

"How? Has Your Majesty decided to take action against the Western Regions? War against whom? When will the war start? How many people can I mobilize? ”

Looking at Zhang Fei with an excited face, Dong Zhuo was a little depressed.

Although he used to be such a battle maniac, shouting and shouting to kill every day, if he didn't kill a few people every day, he always felt uncomfortable.

But firstly, he was old, and secondly, he became an official in Luoyang, and he polished his mind, and felt that he was somewhat like a central official, and he couldn't shout and kill at every turn, so he was somewhat uncomfortable with Zhang Fei's behavior of shouting and shouting and killing at every turn.

In a trance, Dong Zhuo himself didn't know his former self a little.

Could it be that Luoyang's life is too comfortable, allowing him to forget the past?

But he soon came to his senses.

"General Zhang, Your Majesty sent me here this time to inspect the Western Regions and announce the news of the return of the Han Dynasty to the Western Regions, not to start a war."

When Zhang Fei heard this, his face suddenly pulled long.

"Don't let you fight yet? How long have I been here? There has been no fighting! If I stay like this, my knife will rust! ”

Dong Zhuo sighed helplessly.

"During the tour of the Western Regions, His Majesty ordered General Zhang to send cavalry to accompany him, if the countries are obedient, naturally there is no need to use swords, if the countries are anti-and disrespectful, then naturally they will send a large army to pacify, so General Zhang may have the opportunity to go out to fight, Shao'an is not impatient, Shao'an is not impatient."

As soon as these words came out, Zhang Fei's mood suddenly improved again.

"Is this really the case?"

"That's nature."

Dong Zhuo nodded and said: "If the Western Regions countries are disrespectful, they will naturally send troops to exterminate them, although I don't want to be disrespectful, but after so many years, it is inevitable that there will be some disrespectful, at that time, the news will reach Luoyang, and then it will be the order of the Privy Council." ”

Zhang Fei looked Dong Zhuo up and down and nodded with satisfaction.

"Then I'll borrow your good words."

Ji Yan?

Is it auspicious to start a war?

I'm afraid that the household department and the Shaofu don't look at things like this.

Dong Zhuo reacted quickly and smiled dumbly.

In order to better inspect the Western Regions and declare sovereignty, Zhang Fei sent two captains, each leading the elite cavalry of a thousand tiger cavalry to escort Dong Zhuo and his deputy envoy.

So Dong Zhuo led the team to Pu Country, starting from Pu Country and taking the North Western Regions Road all the way to the west, while his deputy envoy Yu Tian set off from Shanshan Country and took the South Western Regions Road, all the way to the west.

The two agreed to finally meet in Dawan.

So in December of the second year of Zhenguan, Dong Zhuo and his deputy envoy set off together, and the two went separately and received good treatment and a lot of gifts in Pu and Shanshan, respectively, and when they left the border, they also got the troops sent by the two countries to accompany them, and they also received a large number of supplies.

After Dong Zhuo left the Pu country, he entered the territory of the Yizhi country.

As a small country with a particularly small power, the Eigrated State was also economically affected by the Han Empire, and at that time the whole country was eating salt provided by the Han Empire, and not only that, but their standing army in the whole country was not as large as Dong Zhuo's escort cavalry.

So after seeing the Han envoy and the elite cavalry of the Han Empire, he didn't say a word, and directly knelt on the ground and sang about conquest.

Before Dong Zhuo even said anything, he knelt down and obediently sent money and food, and entertained the Han envoys and Han troops with good food and drink, expressing his approval of the Han Empire's strategy of returning to the Western Regions, and after that, the king personally escorted Dong Zhuo out of the country and into the territory of Cheshi Kingdom.

At that time, the Cheshi Kingdom had been divided into the former Cheshi Country and the Cheshi Hou Kingdom, and Dong Zhuo first entered the territory of the Cheshi Houguo, where Dong Zhuo began to encounter not so friendly treatment.

When entering the territory of the country after the chariot division, Dong Zhuo remembered the days when he used to leap on the horse and raise the sword, so he personally led a hundred cavalry to open the road in front, and the main force followed behind with supplies.

As a result, the road was opened at such a time, and there was a team of official or civilian bandits in the country after the car division, and I didn't know whether he felt that Dong Zhuo had few people or what, so he actually took the initiative to attack Dong Zhuo's team.

Seeing a group of horse bandits of about three or four hundred people rushing over to rob him, Dong Zhuo felt that he was hallucinating in a trance.

Who is it?

So bold, you dare to sneak up on me?

Then, there is no need for Dong Zhuo to retrieve his past when he once pounced on a horse and raised his sword, the active army will naturally help him complete this matter.

The soldiers of the Tiger Cavalry Army, who had been holding back on the training ground for a long time, were about to go crazy when they saw that the enemy was finally coming, and they were immediately even happier than the enemy.

One hundred against three or four hundred, a stick of incense or so in a time or so, this group of guys who didn't know whether it was the enemy or the horse bandits were cut to pieces, and in the end they didn't run away if they wanted to, and they were chased by the hungry Han cavalry and killed one cleanly.

Dong Zhuo was stunned in the back.

He has seen Liu Bei's cavalry strong and good at fighting, he has seen it on the battlefield in Liangzhou back then, but he didn't expect that after so many years, his cavalry would be more capable of fighting than back then.

After this little trouble, Dong Zhuo sent a guide sent to him by the king of the transfer branch to deliver a message to the king of the Cheshi Hou Kingdom, asking the king to welcome him to the Cheshi Hou King City, and asking him to explain why there were horse bandits attacking the Han envoys.

As a result, I don't know if the king floated or if there was a mistake in communication, this guide was actually beaten and driven out of the royal city, crying to Dong Zhuo, saying that he was beaten badly, and the other party didn't pay attention to himself or something.

Dong Zhuo was angry at that time.

To hit my messenger is to slap me in the face!

To slap me in the face is to slap the face of the Han Empire!

Slapping the Han Empire in the face is tantamount to declaring war on the Han Dynasty!

Round it off.

This bastard has declared war on the Great Han! He's going to rebel!

him for Lao Tzu!

Dong Zhuo was furious, instantly retrieved the memory of the prancing horse and the sword, and discussed it with Zhao Qi, the captain of the Tiger Cavalry Military Academy, and the two unanimously decided that this was a rebellion, not an ordinary rebellion, and they had to punch hard!

The guide sent by the king of Yizhi cautiously told Dong Zhuo and Zhao Qi that there were tens of thousands of people in the country after the Cheshi, and at least five or six thousand people could join the army to fight, and there were more than 2,000 standing soldiers in peacetime, and the number of Han troops was not enough.

"With fewer enemies and more enemies, even if it is a great Han heavenly soldier, it should be difficult, right?"

Who knew that when Zhao Qi heard this, he instantly turned red.

"What? Only more than 2,000 standing soldiers? Who to look down on? At this point, people still dare to defy the Han envoy? Look for death! ”

Zhao Qi immediately agreed with Dong Zhuo's opinion, and together with Dong Zhuo, he directly led his troops to the King City of Cheshihou, starting the first battle of annihilation after the Han Empire lost its control over the Western Regions.

(End of chapter)