Chapter Seventy-One: The First Year of Zhang Wu

It was the first year of Zhang Wu. After the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty perished one after another, the newborn Ji Han was born like a baby in the turbulent Yongliangyi Sanzhou.

At this time, Cao Pi enjoyed exclusive power in the East, according to Sili, Henan, Hebei, Yan, Xu, Qing, Jing, Yang, and, Youyou ten states, still the most powerful one of the three kingdoms, occupying the world's anointed land, many generals, unstoppable, although he had just defeated several of his brothers, became the king of Wei, and then completed the change of dynasty, there are some small instability inside, but as long as he straightens out the inside, this evil tiger will eat people;

Sun Quan owned Yang, Jing, and Jiaozhou, of which Jingzhou and Yangzhou were separated from Cao Wei across the river. At this time, because he took half of our Jingzhou, he had offended our army, and the alliance was dissolved, but he did not dare to rely on the Wei army completely, and everyone in the world knew Cao Wei's thoughts. On the one hand, he tried to ease the relationship with our army, on the other hand, he continued to recognize Cao Wei's suzerainty, and at the same time vigorously developed Jiangnan, in order to turn this former wild land into a granary, which could have the strength to resist the Central Plains;

Our army is beneficial to the three prefectures of Yizhou, Yongzhou and Liangzhou, 27 counties, 215 counties, and a population of more than 2 million, which seems to be not smaller than Cao Wei in terms of area alone, but it is only slightly stronger than that of Eastern Wu in terms of strength, and among these counties, more than half of the ethnic minorities and subject countries have fought wars, civil strife is everywhere, and ethnic contradictions have intensified.

Although my father's energy is getting worse and worse, his brain is becoming more and more useless, and he often forgets things, but when he ascended the throne, he seems to be more ambitious. This is not a good sign.

However, the external situation seems to be beginning to develop in a good direction, first of all, due to Cao Pi's seizure of the throne, it is inevitable to cause another turmoil in the hearts of the people, Zhang Gong of Dunhuang surrendered to our army in anger, and Liangzhou has all belonged to Ji Han so far. Su Ze and others who were still concerned about the "orthodoxy of the Han Dynasty" and regarded our army as "traitors" also gave up the original illusion in their hearts and sincerely surrendered. It can be said that Cao Pi's title to emperor is the second chance for us to recuperate after he seized the throne of Wei. Taking advantage of his internal instability, our army, under the leadership of his father and Kong Ming, quickly took root in the Yongliang land.

And because before the Northern Expedition, I sent a lot of meticulous work with Kong Ming to provoke the discord between the two families of Sun Cao, and at this time in Jingzhou and Yangzhou, all kinds of small-scale friction continued. Before Sun Quan attacked Jingzhou, he had surrendered to Cao Wei, but he never sent the surrender to Cao Wei after breaking through Jingzhou, and he had always refused to send protons to Luoyang as usual, which made Cao Pi extremely unsure of his sincerity; But Sun Quan felt that Cao Pi was too disrespectful to him, and Cao Pi's claim to be the emperor was not very authentic, although Sun Quan never took the Han Emperor seriously, it did not mean that he would not use the Han Emperor as a guise to accuse others. This is actually a good time, if the father can let go of the hatred of seizing Jingzhou, in fact, there can be a better way to provoke the fight between Sun Cao's two families - but this is impossible, the father's hatred of Sun Quan is not under Cao Pi, although Sun Quan had been kind to him (borrowed the land of Nanjun to his father), and he is also considered to be related, but Sun Quan broke the covenant to seize Jingzhou, and caused Guan Yu to commit suicide. In this case, his father will never have the slightest contact with Dongwu, he is not Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, his brother was killed, in order to protect himself, he can still drink for fun to harm his opponent; He is not Liu Bang, after his father was arrested, he dared to say to the overlord shamelessly, you and I are brothers, my father is your father, if you cook him, please share my piece of the pie; Therefore, my father is destined not to become the founding king of Gaozu and Emperor Guangwu, he is too emotional, he can actually say that he haunts his brother, what is the use of these thousands of miles of rivers and mountains? In the final analysis, although I always consider myself to be a person who attaches great importance to family affection, there is still a huge gap between me and my father, and sometimes, I am not as good as him in terms of family affection.

So one day, I dreamed that my father was perverse in the court, and then went out of Eastern Wu, and 800 miles of joint venture fire, before that sea of fire, I fought with my father. In my dream, my father's sword hung over my head, but it didn't fall, and I lowered my head and stabbed a dagger into my father's chest. My father smiled wryly and touched my face with his hand.

I was awakened by this dream of myself. For a long time, I thought that my father had no family affection, but at this time I suddenly realized that I was actually the one who had no family affection. I have always regarded my father as a hero, and I have not been impressed by his several abandonment of his wife and children and his practice of buying people's hearts, and even always feel that I am dispensable in his heart. However, this time, I did two big mistakes, and my father let me go. Whether it is because he still can't bear me because of his mother's love, or because I can inherit his career, or because I have ordinary fatherly love for me because I am his son, I have realized what a father is?

In this case, what else do I have to be weird about. Everything my father does is for Ji Han, as long as he does it, I should fully support it, even if he does it wrong for a while. Sometimes, I even think to the extreme, even if my father really has to go to conquer Soochow, for the warmth of him and me at this moment, I will fight for him!

My father's health deteriorated day by day. Miraculously, in the court, he did not once say or do anything wrong. But every time he went down to the court, he fell into a deep stupor or confusion as if he had fallen apart.

Kong Ming said worriedly: "Your Majesty's body, if it continues like this, it will not be able to support it." ”

"However, my father has first ascended to the throne and wants to show his life's will, who can stop him." I shook my head slightly.

Although my father's health was deteriorating, he was still gritting his teeth and persevering, and I found that with his seemingly casual deployments, they were all planned and arranged, and a government system of "rule by inaction" was being established as he said. He wants to take Gaozu as an example, take Gaozu's law as a law, and rebuild Ji Han.

And Kong Ming's policies in Yizhou are also being implemented in an orderly manner in the land of Sanqin.

When Yu Ding Kyushu, the land of Yongzhou was rated as the top, the Guanzhong Plain, the eight rivers around Chang'an, and it was a fertile land since ancient times. Guanzhong Mountain River is four stops, there are Qinling Mountains in the south, Longshan Mountain stretches in the west, there is Loess Plateau in the north, Huashan Mountain, Kunshan Mountain and the southwest mountains of Shanxi Province in the east, and there are also the Yellow River surrounding, it can be said that the mountains and rivers are surrounded, and the momentum is reunited. In terms of topography, Guanzhong is a towering position in the eastern plains. There are mountains and rivers on all sides of Guanzhong, and several important traffic channels are guarded by the passes. Its important position, Hangu Pass, controls the passage between Guanzhong and the Central Plains; Wuguan controls the danger of the eastern section of the Qinling Mountains, guarding the entry channel in the southeast direction of Guanzhong; The danger of dispersing the west end of the Qinling Mountains controls the traffic throat between Guanzhong, Hanzhong and Bashu; Xiao Pass chokes the danger of Longshan and guards the northwest passage of Guanzhong. The four stops are dangerous, the retreat can be self-defending, and the exit can be aggressive. If the situation is favorable, we will go out of the customs and forge ahead; If the situation is unfavorable, you will retreat and keep yourself. So that Guanzhong has a posture that can advance and retreat, and can attack or defend. Cao Cao had moved people from Liangzhou to Sanfu, and after his father arrived in Chang'an, many people who fled from Guanzhong to Hanzhong also followed, coupled with a series of good governance of Kong Ming, building water conservancy, reforming agricultural tools, promoting scientific planting methods, and developing commerce, Guanzhong is developing at a very crazy speed. This year was much stronger than the first year, when there was little food and clothing. After the annexation of Dunhuang, the goods from the Western Regions also came to Chang'an again, and we bought them all, which will prompt these merchants to work harder. We left behind the seeds, books, weapons, and other items of various plants in the goods, but we sold the orbs, beautiful jade, and other things to the east to earn Cao Wei's money. Cao Cao's life was not luxurious, his women had to weave by themselves, and Cao Zhi was reprimanded for wearing a pair of silk shoes. But Cao Pi is obviously not as good as his father in this regard. As soon as these goods enter the customs, some people will buy them and give them to Cao Pi, so they don't have to worry about their price. Similarly, our Shu brocade was also sold to Eastern Wu and Cao Wei at a high price through government control to replenish our treasury.

Cao Pi will definitely send troops to recapture Yongzhou, although he was negligent for a while and was exploited by us, but maybe this year, maybe next year, as long as he is ready, he will definitely send troops to the west, and then there will be a tough battle of the whole country. Until then, we have no other way but to continuously strengthen our forces and stock up on grain and grass.

Last winter, there was an invasion of the Hu people in Wuwei, Liangzhou. After I left Liangzhou, Jiang Wei made a great deal of might, leveling more than a dozen unattached Qianghu tribes, and obtained 5,000 men, women and children, and more than 10,000 miscellaneous animals. At the same time, Jiang Wei also sent envoys to bring food to make friends with various ministries. In a letter to me, he wrote: "The people of Qianghu are not particularly interested in plundering, and their land is not enough to give birth to their people. The snow fields were thousands of miles, hunger and cold were crying, and the people began to kill horses in order to survive. Our 500 people took grain as bait, and after ten years, they had to surrender more than 70,000 captives, and there were also remnants of the old Han land mixed in the meantime. ”

I was very shaken by this letter. For a long time, I always thought that it was not my race, its heart must be different, and even felt that the Huns, Xianbei people, these are some wolf cubs who are not well fed, once they are strong, they will run to invade and plunder, and then turn around and flee. I also thought about whether to attack the Mobei Hu tribe after it became strong, so that they had nowhere to escape. Now, however, I have some doubts. It is true that Jiang Weisheng is among the Qianghu, and it is inevitable that he will have compassion for the Qianghu people, but is there no other way to deal with these people? Moreover, this number also surprised me, 70,000, which is almost one-twentieth of the population of Jihan.

Another thing, but it gave me a hint. One of the tribes involved in the Jincheng League attacked a nearby tribe because of the heavy snow in winter, slaughtering more than 100 people and stealing all the horses and livestock. This kind of thing is common every year, but this time it provoked public anger, and Guan Ping, the captain of the Qiang Guard, issued a document stating that "treacherous thieves shall not be treated with courtesy", announcing that his ministry would no longer be protected by any kind. Within three days, the tribe was uprooted by the nearby tribes, all the men who were taller than the wheels were killed, and the women and children were scraped up as slaves, and for a time, the prestige of the court in Liangzhou reached its peak. The alliance of Jincheng has already had its initial effect, so can I use this as a lesson to solve the matter of aliens. Moreover, I know that in later generations, the blood of these tribes was integrated into the blood of the Han and assimilated by the Han with its strong cohesion. Who can guarantee that the blood of these tribes will not be in the people of the future? What, then, is cruel to them different from dealing with one's own people? So, what's the point of forcibly dividing races? If I use culture to invade, annex, and fuse with blood, and complete this great fusion as soon as possible, then my Ji Han's strength will definitely increase rapidly.

So, since the alien race can be solved without force, and Cao Wei and Sun Quan are both Han Chinese, can I solve their affairs in a different way?

Of course, these are just momentary flashes in my heart, and they are far from mature. In the era of the Three Kingdoms, mercy could not be used lightly, and even if it was used, it had to be used with swords and guns.

In the east, the Xiongnu also quietly contacted our army, trying to keep our army from attacking them. At this time, the Xiongnu were no longer the original terrible empire that could force the powerful Han Dynasty to bow down.

In 46 A.D., the Xiongnu internal strife because of the struggle for the inheritance of Shan Yu, Ji Hou Shan's grandson Ri Zhuwang Bi asked the Han Dynasty for help, in order to get support, after getting the support of the Han Dynasty, Ri Zhuwang Bi called Han Xie Shan Yu in 48 A.D., and the Xiongnu were divided into two parts of the Xiongnu in the north and south. The Southern Xiongnu were attached to the Han and moved to Senei, while the Northern Xiongnu continued to stay in Mobei.

In 89 A.D., the Eastern Han army and the Southern Xiongnu joined forces to break the Northern Xiongnu in Jiluo Mountain (the northwest of Mongolia in later generations), and Shan Yu fled, surrendering more than 200,000 people. In 91, the Eastern Han army once again defeated the Northern Xiongnu in Jinwei Mountain (later the Altai Mountains), the Northern Xiongnu suffered heavy losses, and Beidan Yu led the remnants to flee to Wusun, beginning its long ethnic migration and leading to the fall of the powerful Roman Empire.

The Southern Xiongnu were attacked by Xianbei many times, and had to further attach themselves to the Han Dynasty. Later, Cao Cao asked Liang Xi to serve as the assassin of Bingzhou as Sima of other departments. After Liang Xi arrived, he treated each other with courtesy and persuaded the powerful people of Nahu Dizhong to become officials in the court. After using soft methods to get rid of Hu Zhigui, he recruited Hu Di's elite to join the army. Later, these Hu soldiers were transferred elsewhere. So that the single is without claws and teeth, and is obedient to the tribute. This method is almost the same as Mr. Kong Ming's method of pacifying the Nanban in Yizhou, and it can also be seen that Cao Wei is able to have many people. Under these circumstances, Shan Yu took refuge with Cao Cao in 216. In order to weaken his power, Cao Cao divided his people into five divisions, each of which chose a noble person as the commander, and did not make the Han people Sima to supervise it. The left part is located in Fenyang, the right part is in Qi County, the south is in Xi County, the north is in Xin County, and the central part is in Wenshui County. At this point, the state power of the Southern Xiongnu was gone.

I still care a lot about the Southern Xiongnu, because in the future, when the Wuhu Rebellion was in China, it was these people who defeated the Jin Dynasty and established the first power. And what's funny is that they even beat me in my name - Liu Yuan, the grandson of Yu Fuluo, who posthumously honored me as the emperor of filial piety and raised an army against the Jin.

So, in addition to being wary, I am also a little curious about these "relatives".

I met Liu Bao in Weinan. At that time, I was ordered to tour the places and came to Weinan, and he quietly crossed the river and came to meet me.