Since the pacification of the Western Regions, the Liang State has been peaceful in all directions.

At the beginning of the third year of Hongxing, there was good news from the Western Regions, Murong Chui, Liu Gaozhi, and Zhuge Kan selected 8,000 Black Cloud elites, 13,000 powerful tribes, and 30,000 soldiers from all countries south of the Tianshan Mountains, and sent troops to the north of the Tianshan Mountains again.

The alliance with the Dai Guo army was broken, 7,000 were beheaded, and more than 10,000 were captured.

drove straight in, chased the dead to the north, chased from the Seven Rivers Valley to the river, and completely destroyed Yueban.

The countries north of the Tianshan Mountains and the west of the Green Mountains were afraid, and Kangju and Wusun sent envoys to surrender and became subject countries of the Great Liang, and each offered cattle and sheep to reward the Liang army.

Murong Chui left Gao Bi and the Liangzhou tribes to guard the Zhizhi City, and led the army back to Qiuzi.

This battle also allowed the countries of the Western Regions to see the formidable combat power of Middle-earth.

Countries have sent envoys to Luoyang to worship.

handed over the Han Dynasty's canonized Fu Jie and Lu Zhan, and asked Daliang to re-canonize it.

"Murong Chui is really a weapon of the country!" Li Yue looked at the small flags with the word "Liang" planted on the sand table, the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains have been controlled by the Liang State, and Hezhong has basically become the sphere of influence of China.

Since the construction of Buddhist caves and Daxing Temple in Guzang, Guzang has become the holy place of Shamen.

Countless monks from the Western Regions went to Guzang to bring paper Buddhist scriptures back to other countries.

Let the connection between Liang and the Western Regions become closer and closer.

"Now that the Western Regions have been flattened, it is better to transfer Murong Chui to return to the court, seal the country north of the Tianshan Mountains, and send the clan to guard it." Wang Meng never let down his guard against Murong Chui.

It's not that you can't trust him, but there are more and more Haoqiang and Haotou who have moved to the Western Regions, and a power circle will gradually form.

The confrontation between the local and the central has always run through the entire human society.

The larger the territory, the more pronounced this confrontation becomes.

When the local power circles rise, the interests will gradually become inconsistent with those of the imperial court.

"It is inevitable to seal the country, and it is not necessary to transfer Murong Chui back to Beijing for the time being, I still want to pass through the west of the Green Ridge." Li Yue pointed to the sand table.

Over the past year or so, the merchants, monks, and meticulous workers gathered in Guzang have gradually presented the situation in the west in front of Daliang.

At this time, the Sassanid Persian Empire was in decline, and five years earlier the Roman army had broken the capital Ctesiphon, and all efforts were focused on resisting the Romans in the west.

Now is the perfect time to project Chinese influence into the river.

Buddhism is also widely practiced in the countries of the river, which is a very useful bond.

"West of Green Ridge? Your Majesty is really eloquent. Wang Meng smiled bitterly.

"The river is full of cattle and sheep, suitable for farming, I am strong and the other is weak, why don't you take it? If it weren't for the thin foundation of the beam, I would have killed it a long time ago. Li Yue made no secret of his desire for land.

Thirty is like a wolf and forty is like a tiger, Li Yue's desire for land in the past two years is as great as his desire for women.

"If we don't occupy such fertile and fertile land, it will be taken away by others." Li Yue has his own set of logic.

Wang Meng stared at the sand table for a long time before he said quietly: "As long as it doesn't consume the national strength of Middle-earth, it doesn't hurt to pass through this place." ”

The benefits brought by the trade route are best known to Wang Meng, who is the leader of Shangshutai.

Since the previous year, trade in the Western Regions has flourished.

Silk, paper, porcelain, tea, lacquerware, and other goods from the Central Plains were shipped to the west, where they were almost equivalent to gold.

And the river happened to be at the intersection of two trade routes, and it was naturally a trade transit point, leading northwest to Rome, southwest to Sasansan, and due south, to the Tianzhu countries.

It can be said that the river plus the Seven River basins are the heart of this continent.

Li Yue's geopolitical understanding today can be called the leader of this era.

If it does not occupy the heart of the mainland, how can Chinese civilization rise?

Historically, some Central Asian countries have been strong for a while just because they are lying on the east-west trade route.

Even in later generations, the West controlled the choke point of shipping everywhere, which is essentially the same idea.

The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit.

Sima Qian, who was four or five hundred years old, had already seen through the essence of things.

In the more distant Spring and Autumn Period, Sun Wu had the saying "move in line with the benefit, stop if it is not in line with the benefit".

"In less than ten years, Jingluo will know how wise the decisions are today, and you and I will be listed in the history books of all nations because of today's decisions!"

Since there are huge interests in the river, it is impossible for Li Yue to let it go.

"Hahaha, the minister is waiting and seeing, but the matter of sealing the country should not be delayed sooner rather than later, otherwise the countries of the Western Regions will only know that there is Murong Chui but not the imperial court." Wang Meng arched his hand.

"Who does Jing Luo think he will be sealed?"

It's better to choose a day than to hit the day, and simply negotiate things today.

"It must be His Royal Highness."

"Li You?" Li Yue recalled his second child, who had stayed on the front line in Xiangyang and had not seen him for several years.

Among the sons, he and Li Fu are also fond of military strategy.

The boss Li Yi is a scholar and likes to be vassal.

There are no two brushes in the Western Regions, and they really can't suppress Haoqiang and Haoshen, and they have to deal with the delicate relationship between the feudal country and the protector of the Western Regions.

Li Yue thought for a moment, one Li You is definitely not enough, like the prince, he needs to have his own team, otherwise if he goes to the Western Regions, he will inevitably be disobeyed or overlooked.

"I'm going to seal Qin Biao and Mi Jin together, and then recruit three thousand elites, what's the matter?"

Transferring two more generals to the past can strengthen control over the Western Regions.

Wang Meng said: "The Western Regions are being appeased but not discussed, and the two generals are brave and good at fighting, which is also suitable, but it is also suitable to select feudal officials to stabilize the rich chiefs of the countries." ”

"What Jing Luo said is very true, then Shang Shutai will select the Minister of State, Changshi, Sima, and Zhu Cao to engage in and pun officials."

If a country is sealed, it is equivalent to a small country, and it must have its own administrative team.

"Please give your majesty the name of the country." Talking to Wang Meng is refreshing, and anything can be decided quickly.

Li Yue thought for a moment, "How about being called Qin?" ”

The feudal state was honored by Qin, Jin, and Wei.

The Jin character was defiled by the Sima family, and the Han was blackened by the Huns.

Qin still had great influence in this era.

The countries west of the Green Mountains still refer to China as Qin.

Second, these tribes who migrated from Qin Liang had a soft spot for Qin, and after Qin, there were Yao Qin, Western Qin, and later Xue Qin at the end of Sui, and even Li Er Emperor was the king of Qin.

Li Yue had three suitable country names in his heart, Qin, Xia, and Wei.

After Xia and Wei, they were ready to seal in Goguryeo or Mobei.

Wang Meng didn't care about this, it was just a feudal name, "The north of the Tianshan Mountains is very large, and it needs to be divided into counties." ”

The inner state and county, and the outer county are still implemented, which is convenient for differentiated management, but not too fragmented, and can resist the threat from the north.

Only when the counties are divided can it be considered as a real actual occupation.

Li Yue has always believed that the loss of the Seven River Basins is a great loss for China.

"From east to west, Qihe changed its name to Qin, Chu, Qi, Zhao, Yan, Wei, and Han, and opened into four counties, Kai, Xinglong, Futian, and Changyun." Although Li Yue is a martial artist, he also read a few books in his early years, and he still has a basic level of education.

I dare not compare with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's Wuwei, Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang, but at least it is stronger than the place names of Poqiang, Linqiang and Dingqiang in Hehuang.

(End of chapter)