Chapter 360: Split-seal Restructuring

Wang Ze established the state of Zhao in the feudal state of Broken Leaf City, and Wang Yu established the state of Tang in the Ili River Valley. Since then, there have been five vassal states in the Western Regions: Liang, Zheng, Wei, Zhao, and Tang.

Wang Ze and Wang Yu brought 300,000 nobles and heroes exiled to the Western Regions from the Central Plains, and some of these people were distributed to Zheng and Wei, and eighty percent of them were divided equally between Zhao and Tang.

With the arrival of these cadres, the proportion of the population of the cadres in the Ili River Valley and the Broken Leaf City immediately increased.

About one-third of the Ili River valley occupied by the Tang State was abundant in water and grass, and the land was fertile, and the rough cultivation method of the Hu people in the past, plus grazing, could feed hundreds of thousands of people, but in the hands of the Qianren, the same land and pasture were not a problem to feed a million people.

The water system around Broken Leaf City is developed, the land is fertile, and it is also conducive to farming, and it only takes a few years for the Zhao and Tang kingdoms to gain a firm foothold.

The five countries of the Western Regions help each other, and the Western Regions can be said to be as stable as Mount Tai.

In order to open up the Western Regions, the imperial court drew a lot of money and hundreds of thousands of people to migrate thousands of miles, which was a big move in any dynasty in ancient times.

The Luoyang Imperial Court harvested a lot of money, grain, grass, and land, but these things were spent in a blink of an eye.

Although the nobles, heroes, and officials exiled to the Western Regions don't have to give too many things, they must be given food, and the imperial court wants to enrich these populations in the Western Regions, not to starve them to death.

In addition to the exiled population, there were also 100,000 people who migrated, including a large number of family members of the Great Qianjingqi, and some people recruited by the imperial court to go to the Western Regions.

These people are all in the court to give money and grain, and these people will divide the land after they arrive in the Western Regions, and seriously speaking, they are the foundation of the current cadres in the Western Regions.

Since the imperial court established that it wanted to develop the Western Regions, it would encourage the people to go to the Western Regions every year, but there have not been many people who have been willing to migrate to the Western Regions, on average, there are about one or two thousand households a year, and more people are willing to go to the four counties of Hexi.

In particular, the Silk Road has become more and more famous in recent years, and the caravans traveling to and from the Western Regions have brought a large number of Western Regions goods, such as silver, gold, war horses, leather, grapes and wine, precious stones, jade, spices, and so on.

These commodities let more and more people know about the wealth of the Western Regions.

But after all, the Western Regions are thousands of miles away, and the people prefer to go to the four counties of Hexi. After more than ten years of governance, the four counties of Hexi have become more and more prosperous, coupled with the construction of Chidao, so that Hexi and the Central Plains are more closely connected.

The passage of caravans to the west of the river also brought a lot of income to the local people, so that many people lived relatively wealthy.

In the thirty-fifth year of the Mandate of Heaven, the eldest son of Princess Dawanguo, the side concubine of King Wei, was already six years old. Wang Fu, the king of Wei, gave Yu Chengcheng of the Great Wan Kingdom to his eldest son and made him the lord of the Eastern Dawan Kingdom. The area around Yucheng City is divided into the Eastern Dawan Kingdom.

The population of the Eastern Dawan Kingdom is 100,000, and the last time the Great Commander broke the Dawan City, these people were greatly shocked, and these Dawan people did not dare to resist. In addition, the lord of the Eastern Dawan Kingdom is also the son of Princess Dawan, and the people of these Dawan countries do not have much resistance to him.

After sealing the eldest son as the lord of the Eastern Dawan Kingdom, the Dawan Lord of Guishan City was very angry in his heart, but he did not dare to complain at all because of the military might of the Great Cadres, but he secretly instructed the merchants to raise taxes and increase the price of Dawan Tianma.

The last time the kingdom of Dawan was breached, the king of Dawan was killed. At the beginning, the king of Dawan established by the three kings of the Western Regions has controlled the government of Dawan after several years of rule, and he is very dissatisfied with Daqian's interference in the government of Dawan, and now after his wings are full, he begins to want to reject the power of Daqian.

If there was only Wei, Dawan might have to make some small moves, but since the establishment of Broken Leaf City, King Zhao specially sent an envoy from the northeast to Dawan Guishan City to tell the lord of Dawan the good news that King Zhao had established a state in Broken Leaf City.

After hearing the news of the establishment of the kingdom of Daqian Zhao, the lord of Dawan immediately broke out in a cold sweat on his back, and then hurriedly sent someone to greet the envoy warmly.

Broken Leaf City is in the northeast of Dawan Kingdom, about five or six hundred miles, Shule Wei Kingdom is in the southeast direction of Dawan, these two countries can be said to be the same breath, if the two families attack together, then Guishan City is afraid that it will be cool.

After the establishment of Shattered Leaf City, it gave him a chill in his back.

The price of Dawan Tianma has increased, and the tariff of Dawan has increased, and after it is sold to the Central Plains, the price of Dawan horse has more than doubled. Originally, the price of Dawan horses was expensive, but now it has more than doubled, which directly makes the court's already small money even more embarrassing.

Wang Jing had no choice but to increase the minting of copper coins, and at the same time issued an order to the kings of the Western Regions, asking them to teach Dawan a lesson.

"Tell the kings of the Western Regions, kill this lord of the Dawan Kingdom, set up a new one, and slaughter the nobles in the Dawan Kingdom who are hostile to the Great Qian!"

The imperial court's edict will be conscientiously implemented by the kings of the Western Regions, and I believe that in the next ten years, the political situation of Dawan will not change much.

There was no reaction from the court to Wang Jing's casual disposition of the life of a Yidi king. In their opinion, the life of the lord of Yidi is not much different from that of grass mustard.

Soon the edict was issued, and then sent to the Western Regions.

The imperial court's control over the kings of the Western Regions is still very high, and Wang's Xuanniao pattern can be passed down for three generations, and it will disappear after three generations.

It is equivalent to the countries of the Western Regions being under the jurisdiction of the royal family.

During the Spring and Autumn Period of that year, the Wang family used to divide the state and branch the Wang family, but it also returned to the family after the same few generations.

As for whether the children of the Wang family who were separated from the seal were willing to come back, there must be few who were unwilling. Just like the kings of the Western Regions now, do these people want power?

No, they just want to do something for the family, for the big Qian, and for Zhuxia.

Just like all the heirs of the Wang family want to be buried on the bank of Huaishui Nanshan after death, and want to be closer to the ancestors, but the only ones who can really be buried there are the children of the family who have made meritorious contributions for the family, for the great cadres, and for Zhuxia.

Even, the heads of the Wang family in the past dynasties have a tacit understanding, as the head of the family, they must lead by example, and they cannot bury their own cemetery in Huaishui Nanshan.

The royal family and the imperial court looked to the Western Regions, in addition to part of the reasons for the development, and part of the reason was that the benefits brought by the Silk Road in the Western Regions were getting higher and higher.

The benefits of the Silk Road have long exceeded the combined revenues from the Central Plains to Lingnan, southern Yunnan, Liaodong, and southern Fujian.

The proceeds of the Silk Road alone now account for 30% of the tax revenues of the Great Cadres. It can be said that it is the money bag of the imperial court, and the imperial court will naturally not allow any problems in the Western Regions.

(End of chapter)