This successful return to the Western Regions convinced Liu Bei that under his painstaking management, the strength of the Third Han Empire had extended far beyond the existing territory to exert a powerful influence on more distant regions.

The power of the Third Reich has spilled over on a large scale, and it is not only satisfied with the existing territory, but if it is only satisfied with the existing territory, then the existence of a powerful army will be meaningless.

The existence value of 300,000 elite Han troops is by no means just to control the current territory, according to the calculation and planning of the Privy Council, if it is only to defend the existing territory, 150,000 to 180,000 troops are enough.

But the Han army now has more than 300,000 troops.

What should we do with these hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers?

Do you farm in your hometown?

That's a waste.

It is precisely because of this that Liu Bei is even more sure that the future of the Third Reich of the Han Dynasty is not limited to the land of Shenzhou, but should move towards a more distant place, sailing towards the sea of stars.

In the subsequent operation of the Western Regions, because of various circumstances and the governance of the four newly established counties, Liu Bei not only transferred a large number of skilled officials to serve in the four counties of the Western Regions, but also carried out a new wave of distribution of the garrisons of the Western Regions Military Region.

Considering the needs of strategic defense, Liu Bei decided to arrange the headquarters of the Western Regions Protectorate in Dawan County, and Zhang Fei, the Protector of the Western Regions, led the troops of two armies to garrison Dawan County, so as to strengthen the governance of Dawan County, and carefully guard against the external Kangju Kingdom and the Kushan Empire.

On the other hand, the second station of the Western Regions Protectorate was set up in the Qiuzi Kingdom and the former Western Regions Protectorate, and Zhao Yun, the governor of the Western Regions, was stationed here, and Zhang Fei was in the center.

Of the six armies of the Western Regions Military Region, except for two armies arranged in Dawan County, the rest of Yusha County and Shule County each arranged one army to garrison, Qiuci County and Yuli County shared one army to garrison, and the remaining one army remained in Dunhuang County.

After this arrangement, Liu Bei decided to implement the construction plan of the coalition forces of the Western Regions for a more long-term purpose.

He put forward requirements for all countries, asking each country to devote a part of its army to the construction of the Western Regions Protectorate, and set up a garrison base for the Western Regions Alliance Army in Qiuzi State, with Zhao Yun responsible for managing and training the Western Regions Alliance Army.

Due to various considerations, Liu Bei believed that it was enough to use only 60,000 troops to defend the Western Regions, but if he fought with the Kushan Empire, the Parthian Empire, and the Kangju Kingdom in the future, and wanted to compete for hegemony in Central Asia, it would obviously not be enough.

The countries of the Western Regions have already submitted, and some of them also have good military strength, such as Wusun, so it is not good for the Han Empire to rule in the Western Regions to keep all these population and military potential to themselves.

The Han Empire not only needed nominal claims to the Western Regions, but also increased its control over the Western Regions in practice, but it was not enough to exert some political and economic influence, and its influence on the military should also be strengthened.

Liu Bei thought that in the future, the Western Regions would be built into the interior, so he must start preparations in advance, and the governance of the new four counties would be regarded as administrative preparations, and then military preparations should also be made.

Therefore, he put forward the plan of the Western Regions Alliance, requiring all countries to take out a part of their troops according to the proportion of population and soldiers to gather in the country of Qiuci, and accept Zhao Yun's training and preparation, so as to enhance their combat effectiveness and prepare for future wars with Kangju and Kushan.

Liu Bei also has a good reason for this.

First, he is the emperor of everyone's suzerain, and there is no problem in fully exercising his suzerainty, everyone is nominally his courtiers, and he feels that it is okay to mobilize the army of his courtiers to serve him.

Second, he believes that in this Dawan war, the performance of the armies of the Western Regions countries is not very good.

For example, the army of the country of Qiuzi.

In the siege operation, the army of the Guizi country showed a stretch, and it also showed a very stretch in the subsequent street battles, although it took the lead in the attack, but it was actually pushed back by the palace guards of the Dawan country, and the losses were serious, and it did not give full play to the advantages in combat.

The will and ability of the armies of various countries to show in the march and combat operations are all lagging behind the Han army in all aspects, which is a bad situation, if there is still coordinated operations in the future, it will inevitably drag the Han army back, and the Han Empire does not want to let such rich military resources be wasted.

Therefore, Liu Bei made a decision to do some "military training" for the armies of various countries in the Western Regions to enhance their combat strength.

Give them a good reinforcement to avoid dragging the Han army back in the future.

And this is mandatory, not a joke with everyone, every country must come up with enough troops to participate in military training.

For example, although Wusun Country has lost a lot of population as a whole, it can still come up with 50,000 or 60,000 combatants, so it is necessary to allocate at least 20,000 troops to Qiuzi Country to participate in military training.

The same is true of the country itself, which, depending on the size of its population, is also required to send at least fifteen thousand troops to receive special training from Zhao Yun.

The rest of the small countries in the Western Regions were required to send 500, 1,000, and 2,000 soldiers to join the special training and receive training in the advanced military system of the Han army.

To tell the truth, the attitudes of all countries in the Western Regions towards this "military training" are quite complicated.

First of all, they really admired the strong combat effectiveness of the Han army, and in the joint operations, the leaders of the countries in the Western Regions could see the Han army's combat ability and combat will that absolutely surpassed them, as well as an extremely powerful logistics support system.

But after all, there is no precedent for this kind of thing, and they don't know if Liu Bei has some other intentions in it, handing over his country's army to the suzerainty for training, is there really no meat bun beating dog and no return?

But in the end, the countries of the Western Regions still accepted the request of the Han Empire and the suzerain, sent many troops to the Qiuci Kingdom to participate in the training, and provided a part of the rations and training funds according to the requirements.

After the Han Dynasty returned to the Western Regions, it was the first time that such a request was made to the countries of the Western Regions, and if they did not comply with it, they were very likely to be defined as anti-thieves, and at that time, it would be difficult for their countries to escape the fate of being turned into a "county" by the Han army.

The seven destroyed nations and their leaders are the end.

Under the strong deterrence, the military training of the Western Regions Combined Army began in the winter of the fourth year of Zhenguan, and the estimated time was two years, in order to better train them, Liu Bei directly arranged for Gao Shun to send experienced trainers from the training department to Qiuzi to help Zhao Yun engage in military training.

Of course, this military training is definitely not only about increasing the combat capability of the armies of the Western Regions, and Liu Bei will not do such a simple "good thing".

Under the guise of military training, he exerted political and cultural influence to train and edify the soldiers sent by these countries according to the Han military system, so that they inadvertently turned their hearts to the Han Empire, respected the Han Empire, and were accustomed to accepting the military command of the Han Empire system, and completed the reform of the military system of the Han Empire from top to bottom.

Before training, they were the primitive armies of the countries of the Western Regions.

After training, they will be a Han-style army full of ideas about the military system of the Han Empire.

It is important to know that the military training system of the Han army includes a large number of non-military subject training, including reading and writing Chinese characters, reading books, obedience to Chinese-style military regulations and military discipline, and the teaching of traditional concepts of the four seas.

Liu Bei attached great importance to the ideological and cultural work of the army, and in addition to technical and tactical training, the daily life of the soldiers of the Han army was full of ideological and cultural content.

Traditional excellent concepts such as loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness were not eliminated by the collapse of the ideological environment of Confucianism, and the concept of family and country was also reinterpreted by Liu Bei and added to the army's ideological education.

This new set of ideological education has achieved great success in the army, so it was even used by Liu Bei in the teaching system of the government-run government to replace the ideological vacuum after the collapse of Confucian hegemony.

Among them, the publicity of Liu Bei's military and political exploits is also the top priority.

Liu Bei can fully believe that after the end of the two-year military training, these primitive armies will become advanced armies that are incompatible with the actual situation of their country, and their overly advanced style of conduct will be difficult to adapt to the low-level environment of their country, and they will involuntarily miss and yearn for the life of the Han Empire.

And, yearn to become a real Han Empire army, a Han Empire people.

The highest level of military training is to train one's own army with the grain and straw soldiers of other countries.

Liu Bei is still very satisfied with this.

From the end of the fourth year of Zhenguan, this special military training was launched.

At the same time, the kings of the Western Regions and their retinue also arrived in Luoyang, accepted Liu Bei's summons and canonization, and officially obtained the "King Certificate" given to them by the Son of Heaven of the Han Empire.

From then on, their inheritance of power needed to be canonized by the Emperor of Han, and only the canonization of the Emperor of Han could justify them as the rulers of the land and maintain their rule, without the canonization of the Emperor of Han, their rule would have become unjustified and unjust.

This is the most crucial point in the relationship between the suzerainty and the vassal state.

Birthright.

This thing can be said that there is no ruler in ancient and modern China and foreign countries who can not care at all, no matter how strong your personal strength is, you must always rule at the same time, clear your ruling law, and be widely recognized, if you do not get this ruling law, your rule is rootless duckweed.

When the army is strong, you can use the army to forcibly stabilize the rule, but your army cannot be strong forever, and your descendants cannot be fierce forever.

And this time the Luoyang assembly is to let these countries in the Western Regions give up their respective legal rights to rule, and transfer all this legal power to the Han Emperor, who will inherit everything, own everything, and allow and oppose everything.

At the same time, the Emperor of Han will also assume a series of responsibilities, if the monarchs of these countries perversely do wrong things, making the people dissatisfied, then a considerable part of this dissatisfaction will also be invested in the Emperor of Han, damaging the honor of the Emperor of Han.

In essence, if the relationship between the suzerains and vassals is clear and stable enough, as in the past between Obimei and Joseon, then it is the suzerain-vassal relationship in the legal theory of the ruling power, and the weak find a backer for themselves, and if they are deferential enough, then if there is a challenger to power, they can find the suzerainty to help solve the problem.

Therefore, for this kind of thing, relatively weak and small countries do not have too many entanglements, and it is not difficult to reach the relationship between clans and vassals.

The same is true of the small countries of the Western Regions.

They rushed to pay tribute to Liu Bei, obtained the title of suzerain-vassal relationship, and obeyed the Son of Han as the only Son of Heaven, and they were all courtiers of the Son of Han.

They can only be "kings", and only the emperor of Han can be the only "emperor".

Liu Bei's requirements for them are not limited to these.

Liu Bei also asked them to fully adopt the era name of the Han Empire, that is, to use the Zhenguan era name as their own country's chronological name, and from then on, regardless of the people, the official caliber must use the Zhenguan era name for the chronology.

At the end of the fourth year of Zhenguan, these suzerain-vassal relations were fully reached, and the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty officially inherited some of the relations between the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty towards the Western Regions, and carried forward the past and forged ahead into the future, promoting the further development of this relationship to a greater extent.

Then at the New Year's meeting of Zhenguan for five years, Liu Bei officially announced these news, and held a grand ceremony in the main hall of the palace, welcoming the kings of these vassal states to enter the palace one after another under the gaze of the officials of the entire Luoyang court, and pay tribute to Liu Bei.

Basically, the pursuit of many emperors of the Central Plains Empire ended here.

Not only the emperor, but even some officials are proud and proud of this, feeling that their country has a high status and a big face, that's all, and there are not many places that can really be used in these small countries.

This time, however, the Third Reich's needs for these small countries were not so simple.

On the first day of the first month of the fifth year of Zhenguan, Liu Bei set up a banquet in the main hall of the palace to entertain the kings of small countries, entertained them with the most handy dishes and drinks in the palace, and gave them a stunned meal, and said that they had never eaten such exquisite food, and everyone was full of praise for the food they had eaten.

After the feast, several kings expressed to Liu Bei that they wanted to know how such delicious food was made, and they were very interested in it, and they wanted to eat such delicious food after leaving Luoyang—to remember His Majesty Liu Bei, their supreme king of kings.

It's not greedy, it's not that I'm captured by this delicious taste, I just want to see things and think about people.

In all fairness, this is not a big deal, but Liu Bei already plans to fully promote the "luxurious" Han court lifestyle within them, so he introduced his full set of life team to these kings, looking at their eager eyes, Liu Bei is very satisfied.

For the kings of these small countries, they must not be short of money, regardless of the size of the country, rich or poor, they are the kind of people who will not be short of money, and they usually do not have too many pursuits, except for power, that is, the pursuit of a more extreme life, if there is anything good and new, they must always be the first to try.

This time, too.

Liu Bei then arranged for Zhang Rang to take these kings to visit the daily life of the Han court.

Of course, there is an ulterior motive version.

(End of chapter)