Father, there is news from Elena's mother. She had already led her army to conquer the Sogdians, and was wandering the northern frontier of the Kushan Empire, attracting Kushan armies to attack. And General Xie Ai also led 100,000 servants to camp in Dawan, and from time to time sent troops to raid the northeastern border of the Kushan Empire. ”

Sogdia is a nation and state located in the valley of the Zeravshan River.

Before the fourth century BC, Sogdia was part of the Persian Empire, and together with the Parthian Empire, ancient Khorezm, and Ariana formed a province of the empire. Later, the Sogdians rose up against the conquest of Alexander the Great of Macedon and were ruled by the Seleucid kingdom.

Around 255 BC, the Greek kingdom of Bactria was founded, and its influence also extended northward into Sogdia.

Later, the Da Yue clan moved westward, crossed Dawan, occupied the north of the Amu Darya River, and soon crossed the Amu Darya River to conquer Bactria . The five kings of Kangju also controlled the Sogdian and Khorezm regions.

After the rise of the Kushan Empire, he took control of Sogdia. After the third century, Kushan declined. Sassanid Shapur I made an expedition to Tashkent.

All in all, it's just a small country that's often controlled by powerful empires, and it's not a cause for concern.

Hearing Ran Cao's report, Ran Min bowed slightly and said, "Elena and Xie Ai have already restrained a lot of troops from the Guishan people. However, I believe that Jitara, who can revive the Kushan Empire, is by no means an idle person, and he must know about the destruction of the Gupta Dynasty and the Western Satrap and other poisonous states one after another. So at this time, the Kushan people must have retained a lot of soldiers and horses, and they are preparing to deal with us. ”

"It's nothing more than soldiers coming to block it, and water coming to cover it. Father, the emperor, and the sons think that the momentum of the Kushan Empire is not as good as before, and they are even often bullied by the Huhu people, and they were once destroyed by the Huhu people! This Hu man is a vassal of my Great Wei Empire, and the Kushan Empire is so unbearable! ”

"Although the Guishan people have returned to the country under the leadership of Jidoro, showing a thriving trend, but the soldiers are few and far between, how can they resist my Great Wei Wangshi? Wouldn't it be nice for my father to send an envoy to Fulousha to meet the King of Kushan, and force him to surrender to the empire, so that the Emperor could take down the Kushan people without blood. ”

Hearing this, Ran Min nodded and said, "Salute first and then soldier?" It's good. I am not afraid of fighting, but if I can avoid it, I will avoid it as much as possible. ”

"Father, Emperor Shengming."

Not long after, a junior colonel came to announce that the city of Peshawar had been opened, and that its lord had opened the city to surrender, and that the Kushan Emperor had announced that he would surrender to the Great Wei Empire.

Before the fight began, Totara surrendered?

Ran Min's heart was suspicious, and Ran Cao beside him frowned and said, "Father, be careful of deception." All the soldiers and horses of our Great Wei are entering the border of the Kushan Empire, and the momentum is huge, and the strength of the non-Kushan Empire can resist it. But it is suspicious that Totara gave up his resistance like this. ”

"Hehe, whether there is fraud or not, I don't care."

Ran Min pursed his lips and said, "I have hundreds of thousands of troops here. If Sendoro had surrendered, I would have been able to destroy him! ”

So Ran Min entered Peshawar City to rest for one night, and on the second day, he led his army to Fulousha, the capital of the Kushan Empire.

When the 200,000 Wei troops arrived at the foot of Fulousha City, Ji Duoluo really brought a group of princes and ministers out to greet them, and the people were also forced to come out, with gongs and drums in the sky, indicating that they welcomed the Wei army from afar.

What the hell am I ......

Ran Min was really speechless.

Is this a surrender, or is it a welcome for a triumphant return of the army?

Ji Duoluo is more than half a hundred years old, and his age is about the same as Ran Min, but he looks very old, with long golden hair coiled, a lock of yellow hair hanging down, wearing a crown, his face is full of rut-like wrinkles, his original blue eyes are slightly cloudy, and he looks a little haggard.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Wei Empire, please allow your most loyal servant to send you your most sincere greetings! The contemptuous ministers sent Doro, willing to lead the Kushan Kingdom and swear allegiance to His Majesty the Great Emperor! Long live my emperor, long live, long live! ”

With Jidora taking the lead, the subjects of the Kushan Empire who followed behind them knelt down in unison, shouting long live.

Looking at Jidora who was crawling at his feet, Ran Min nodded, and suddenly had a great sense of conquest. A soldier who surrenders without a fight is a good strategy for soldiers!

In the past, Ran Min used conquest to destroy his country, or destroy his main force, forcing his monarch to bow down to him. But now this Jiduoluo is very familiar with current affairs, and before the two armies have fought, he was frightened by the momentum of the Wei army and surrendered directly!

Well, this person can bend and stretch, and he has a future.

Ran Min was enjoying the fact that Jidora took the subjects of the Kushan Empire to bow to him, and Jidora suddenly moved, grabbing Ran Min's knee, and at this moment, all the generals who followed Ran Min drew their swords and faced each other.

But Totara made a shocking act.

He kissed Ran Min's boots...... Uh, this guy must want to kiss his toes, right?

Sima Xu smiled and said, "All the generals put away their swords." This was the etiquette of the Kushans, and it was not surprising that servants or courtiers would kiss the toes of their monarchs as a sign of loyalty. ”

“……”

All the generals showed a look of disbelief, but they didn't say anything, and they all put their swords back.

After kissing Ran Min's boots, Ji Duo Luo got up, lowered his eyebrows and said pleasantly: "Your Majesty the Great Emperor, please let your servant Ji Duo Luo take you to visit Fulou Sha City." Here, it is already your land, and the people of this land are all the subjects of Jitara, and they are also your subjects. ”

Through the words translated by the translator, Ran Min knew what Jidora was talking about, so he nodded and asked Jidoro to take him to visit Fulousha City.

However, for the sake of safety, Ran Cao had already taken the lead in entering the city with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and some of the remaining Wei troops were stationed outside Fulousha City, and some were following Ran Min into the city in case of accidents.

Located in the valley of the confluence of the Indus River and the Kabul River, Fulousha has been a distribution center for large and small caravans since ancient times, with a very developed economy and trade, and now it is the political, religious, economic, trade, military, cultural and artistic center of the Kushan Empire.

It has the densest population in the entire empire, with a permanent population of more than 100,000 alone, and a permanent population of no less than 300,000 or 400,000 all year round.

When he arrived here, Ran Min found that the alleys and alleys of Fulousha were full of people, crowded with people, tourists, merchants, monks, pedestrians, troops, caravans, citizens, small merchants and hawkers came and went, rubbing shoulders, cars like flowing water, and horses like swimming dragons.

After visiting the situation of Fulou Shacheng, Ran Min asked Jidora to take him into the palace of the Kushan Empire.

Ran Min called Jidora "King of Kushan", but in fact he should be the Emperor of Kushan. However, in front of Ran Min, the great emperor, he is not qualified to be called the emperor, he can only be called the vassal king.

The palace is located in the center of Fulou Shacheng, surrounded by a wide and flat green square, dotted with a variety of exotic flowers and plants, and full of vitality.

The palace is built on a multi-tiered trapezoidal pedestal and consists of eight complexes distributed in an octagonal shape, surrounded by a circle of colonnades; The main building is mostly six floors, and the front building has eight floors, each floor is in the same shape, all of which are arched floor-to-ceiling bay windows; All the buildings are topped with domes, much like the vaults of the Lingdong desert peoples.

The palace, temples, pagodas, civil buildings and other buildings here all show an ingenious combination of various cultural elements: the base has a high multi-layer trapezoidal pedestal, on which dense stone pillars support the corridor, and the corridor either surrounds the main building, or leads vertically to the main building, or shuttles between the main buildings; The main building is multi-storey overlapping and multi-top extending to the sky; All tops are crowned with domes.

The pedestal and colonnade are in the Roman architectural style, the multi-storey overlap is the local architectural style of Lingxi, and the dome is the architectural style of the desert steppe in Lingdong.

This perfect fusion of Eastern and Western architecture gave rise to a new and great art – Gandhara art, which was the birthplace of Gandhara art.

Under the leadership of Jidoro, Ran Min and his entourage passed through three magnificent arched corridors and entered the splendid palace.

It is a two-storey palace that runs through the top and bottom, spacious and high; There are three arches on each wall of the upper and lower floors, which are empty in the middle and solid on both sides; The floor was covered with a pink patterned carpet, and the ceiling and walls were painted golden yellow with delicate patterns, and the whole court was brilliant and dazzling in the light.

In the center of the palace there is a large golden couch.

"You're going to enjoy it." Ran Min visited the palace of the Kushan Empire and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.

And Ji Duoluo was terrified, and he saluted to Ran Min with a humble look: "Your Majesty, Honorable Emperor, I believe that your palace must be ten or a hundred times more magnificent than here!" This is already your home, your land. Your Majesty, you can live here whenever and wherever you want. ”

"Hmm. What do you think of my plan to unite Kushan, Huhu, Sogdian, and Khorezm, which has not yet been occupied, into a Kushan province? ”

"It's superb. But all the orders of His Majesty the Great Emperor will be obeyed! ”

"Good! Hahaha. ”

After receiving the oath of allegiance from Jidoro, Ran Min sent a delegation of thirty-six people headed by Sima Xu to Khorezm, wanting to make the Khorezm people, like the Kushan people, directly submit to the Great Wei Empire and be under the management of the Kushan Province, without having to make a big move.