Chapter 1008: The Joke of Extra History

The emperor's patrol seems to have been criticized miserably since the establishment of Confucian Taoism.

There is no way, mainly because Qin Shihuang, who had set a precedent for many years, did not take a good start, which eventually caused the people to suffer money and the world to suffer Qin, which also led to the critical crisis of passing on the throne.

Historically, later generations were the regimes established by the barbarians such as the Yuan and Qing dynasties. In this regard, they were more able to suppress the Confucian scholars and officials under the banner of saving. After all, they could forcibly promote "become the world immediately", and the Han emperors were more restrained in these aspects.

However, to be fair, it is necessary for an empire whose territory is just in the stage of rapid expansion, to be deterred by the emperor himself.

In history, whether it was Qin Shihuang or Emperor Yang of Sui, they did not only do it for fun, but also needed to scan faces among the powerful literati and the people in the newly conquered areas to demonstrate the emperor's majesty and sense of existence.

However, these two guys spend too much money. Judging from their style of conduct, they are probably all "historical end" in their hearts. They feel that they have created an eternal system that will never change again in the future, so they become more and more crazy, taking nothing seriously, and treat humans as tool people.

(Note: Qin Shihuang, Emperor Yang of Sui, has political value and can scare many people. From this perspective, they are not considered to spend money entirely for personal enjoyment. For example, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Gaochang State in the Western Regions sent envoys to Chang'an during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. After seeing Emperor Yang of Sui, he was impressed for decades and did not dare to move.

Later, when the Tang Dynasty was in the Sui Dynasty, Gaochang's envoy came again during Li Shimin. The original intention was to see if he wanted to turn his original tribute to the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty. As a result, Li Shimin was frugal and had no prestige at all. Gaochang directly rebelled arrogantly. However, Gaochang was revenged by the Tang Dynasty for this reason and was destroyed in the tenth year of Zhenguan.)

Li Su still sees this issue clearly and has repeatedly helped Liu Bei analyze it. Just live within his means and save people's strength, without over-interpretation.

From Liu Bei's own perspective, he chose to inspect the world and conquer the new frontiers at the age of fifty-seven, and there were two more detailed considerations:

He knew that the prince's majesty must be much weaker than him. Although he was assisted by the Fourth Duke of Zhongxing, people from faraway people may not know the inside story. While he was still able to move, he could show off everywhere.

Another consideration is that Liu Bei is also worried about his health. After all, it is hard to travel far, and if he really delays his trip until he is over 60 years old, it will be unsatisfactory if he has a good person along the way.

Qin Shihuang died in the sand dunes, and Liu Bang also failed shortly after returning to Chang'an in Pei County. This was the result of traveling far away when he was too old.

Liu Bei is a bit judging his physical health. He is still healthy now, so he has to take the opportunity to do what he didn't do when he was young.

He himself thought about trying to survive Emperor Wu of Han, but because of his excessive lust and severe strain, it is estimated that it is unlikely to exceed it.

In history, Liu Bei was originally alive for 63, which was due to the collapse of Yiling's mentality of defeat. If he was not sad about defeat, he would still be expected to be 70 years old.

However, in history, Liu Bei had only three sons, and he basically only had them after he settled down after he was over 50 years old. After he got older, his desire naturally decreased, so it was not surprising that he had fewer children.

But now Liu Bei was 34 years old and took over some harems abandoned by Liu Xie. He became emperor at the age of 36 and unified the world at the age of 42. In such an environment, the number of concubines is naturally extremely huge, and his sons are already more than Cao Cao in history.

Originally, Cao Cao should have 17 wives who gave birth to his son, and gave birth to a total of twenty-five sons.

Now Liu Bei also has about twenty sons and more than thirty daughters, which is simply terrible. Who made Liu Bei also a "good voice" person? This is not something to be cleansed. In this regard, he is the same as Cao Cao, but in history, Cao Cao has the conditions and he has no conditions.

Fortunately, Li Su also advised Liu Bei to control the treatment of the royal family. Some low-level concubines and even palace girls should not be named kings, just be appointed as marquis. Liu Bei himself realized that the problem was serious and did not insist on this matter, and lowered his title level to his humble son.

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In 217, shortly after the first month of the year, Liu Bei's plan to go on a tour was finally released after many plans.

At least the budget has been made, so he decided to only bring 30,000 troops with escorts, not too many, but mainly cavalry. In addition, other technicians and auxiliary soldiers who provide services, staff members, and family members of the palace maids, the total number of people is controlled within 50,000.

Of course, in order to save horsepower and reduce unnecessary logistics expenses, there is no need to let all the cavalry ride horses when marching. You can bring more horses to rotate, and try to use fleets and schooners. Cavalrymen take cars on areas with good road conditions and let the horses follow. In this way, the number of horses used can be controlled within 100,000.

The entire tour period should be completed in about one and a half years, and it will not exceed two years anyway. We will definitely return to Luoyang before the end of 218.

In terms of route planning, we also fully consider going to the north when it is hot in summer and going to the south when it is cold in winter.

Around April, after the spring plowing ended, he went north from Luoyang and first visited the emperor's hometown again, from Yecheng to Zhongshan County, and then to Zhuo County. Then he went out of the pass and inspected Chifeng County and Liucheng County, which Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun had captured a few years ago.

Then, along the places where Guan Yu and Lu Bu fought, they set up new counties on the southern desert grasslands all summer. Guan Yu would preside over the local government, and Liu Bao, who was sent to manage the herdsmen in the country, would be honored to take over.

Before the autumn, the army would cross the grasslands and arrive in Yinchuan County, and then to Lanzhou to let Ma Chao come to pick him up, and just like other prosperous emperors inspecting the Western Regions, all the ministries of the Western Regions came to pay their respects.

After spending autumn in Xiliang, I will return to Chang'an before winter, and then go south to Jingzhou and Jiaozhou to meet representatives of the conquered areas in the south, including the barbarians of the South Island who traveled to Han, as well as Funan Kingdom and Langya Cultivators.

After arriving in Jiaozhou, there will be a fleet of sailing there waiting, and the subsequent itinerary will be easier. You can take a large ship to head north along the coastline and not go deep into the far sea, so the whole journey is safe and labor-saving. The cavalry troops can also repatriate some of them in advance without having to follow them all to the south.

The itinerary that Li Su planned for Liu Bei at the beginning was to follow the coastline and go to the Yangtze River Estuary to see the Juzhang Port, Shipyard, and Lighthouse Miracle that Li Su planned a few years ago.

Then when you go north to the Yellow River and the mouth of the Yishui River, you can take a look at the Tianjin city that Zhuge Liang later planned, which led to the Westerners later calling Venice "Western Tianjin".

After watching the harbor wonders created by Li Su, Zhuge Liang and his disciples over the years, they will basically be able to come back.

However, Liu Bei was quite brave. He later offered to voyage in moderation. After arriving at the Qingzhou Peninsula, he could cross the Yellow Sea and go to northern Sanhan or Liaodong. He wanted to inspect the newly conquered areas of Sanhan and the northeastern border, and it would be best for the Goguryeo people to surrender and come to the court.

Considering that Dahan's navigation technology has become relatively mature, especially in recent years, private shipping investment has been very developed, and the shipbuilding level is changing with each passing day, and there is no need for government investment. Therefore, there is definitely no risk in crossing the Yellow Sea, just avoiding the typhoon season.

The final result is that the Fuso Islands will definitely not go to, but the Sanhan Peninsula can be taken a detour and then asked Gan Ning Zhou Yu to prepare some giant dishes for the rye, and the Fuso people's Sado Jinshan output, and pose for the inspection.

This two-year tour, the total budget is about 5 billion yuan... This is still the expense after transportation by using the logistics of the Zhuge family. If the court was allowed to leave the state-owned account, the price would not be settled.

Although it does look huge and a bit exhausting the people and money, it is still valuable for spreading the majesty of the great man and increasing the centripetal force. Anyway, Liu Bei and Li Su formed a tacit understanding in private. Liu Bei only did this one time in his life, so let him do it.

Finally, Li Su himself also had a little selfishness. He also hoped to take advantage of Liu Bei's tour to make Liu Bei more intuitively realize that the current national economic form and industrial and commercial development potential are far from what the emperor living in the deep palace could understand.

The outside world is changing with each passing day, and advanced productivity is also growing spontaneously. The court's strategic materials and precious metal reserves are also entering the fast lane.

Therefore, it is time to carry out some monetary reforms, fully utilize the strategic value of the gold and silver of Fusang and the Tongshan Mountains of Han, and raise the national policy positioning level of the navigation and development cause, and then provide a further optimized education and official selection system.

With the opportunity of the emperor's tour, these reforms are easy to make excuses and have a smaller resistance - this kind of thing has been like this throughout history. Go south to see the newly developed places, and understand the real needs of the people in a realistic way, so that they can be targeted.

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Liu Bei's patrol operation was quickly implemented step by step. Since the year of Cao Cao's demise, Liu Bei returned to his hometown in Zhuo County and his hometown in Zhongshan, and drank for more than a month. Later, in fifteen years, Liu Bei had never traveled far away.

I went back at the age of forty-two and came out again at the age of fifty-seven, and I was also very sad and moved.

However, Liu Bei had a great time and nostalgia for the itinerary in April and May, but he could not help the country's major policies. This was a private goods brought by Liu Bei.

What is worth mentioning during the period is meaningful, that is, the unity of Chifeng County and other places, gathering Liu Bao and other guys together to drink wine, and giving them both kindness and power. Let those herder tribes that have newly joined and newly developed Han nationality have systematically seen the majesty of the Han Dynasty.

During June and July, Ma Chao was hosting. It was the first time that Liu Bei saw a prairie that stretched for two thousand miles east and west in Yinshan, Hetao and other places. He walked from beginning to end, but he soon got tired of it. Apart from hunting for eagles or large-scale hunting of beasts, there was nothing else to be fun.

Only at the end of June, when he left the grassland and passed by Yinchuan County, Liu Bei was surprised. He did not expect that there would be such a scenery in the world that could be seen in Jiangnan.

It is clearly surrounded by arid and desolate land in the northwest, but Yinchuan County actually has large lakes and oasis. Even the crops grown in the military farm are the same as those grown in Jiangnan, and they are used to grow rice.

Even though he had been frugal for many years, Liu Bei couldn't help but stay in Yinchuan County and ate mutton ramen for a few more days, alleviating the fatigue accumulated by parading on the prairie before.

In July, when the weather was the hottest in summer, Liu Bei's team went west through Wuwei, surpassing the expected route planned at the beginning, and actually followed the Hexi Corridor to Dunhuang County.

Liu Bei also personally climbed to Yumen Pass and stayed there for nearly a month. He also met all the small Western Region countries and tribal leaders who were attached, and selected to inspect some foreign business trips.

Along the way, Liu Bei met the "Lanzhou Branch of Lanzhou", which was the library established in the local area when Li Su and Zhuge Liang first launched the "Pathia and Roman Translation Movement" more than ten years ago, and was originally built by Xu Shu.

Some things are shocked only when you see them with your own eyes. Especially books, books cannot be read without borrowing them. Liu Bei would not cherish them at all on the Lantai station in Luoyang, and he did not have an intuitive impression to think about "what are the works that Lantai itself exists, and which are imported from outside."

After arriving in the Western Regions, the Lantai Branch here specially stored imported works, which looked spectacular, making people feel urge to open their eyes to the world.

Liu Bei is old this year and is reading less and less. This time he actually took a batch of them. When the convoy was on the road, he could rush on the car while reading. Every time he had common news, people would find ways to find foreigners with similar national cultures to the book, come to interview and ask those messengers to explain the customs and customs.

Liu Bei had no hope of dealing with this matter easily, but he just said it casually. But the result also made him very satisfied, because the land trade in Liangzhou is obviously relatively rich, and no matter which country you want to find, you can find it.

The development level of this onshore "Silk Road" has obviously far exceeded the same period in history, and even reached the level of the western and peak trade period of the Tang Dynasty in later generations.

During the process of summoning foreign business travelers, Liu Bei happened to receive a lot of important military and national information - although it has little to do with the Han Dynasty, it can only be said to be "very important international news."

Because at the end of July, a large number of aristocratic business trips came to the west, even more disturbing than when the old Roman emperor Severu died and the new emperor Caracala took office, the elimination of the vassal Armenia was eliminated.

So not only Liu Bei was curious, but even Li Su and Zhuge Liang who were accompanying him were a little curious. After sorting it out from multiple sources, they finally learned the full picture of the west:

Karakara, who ascended the throne in "Yinghuo Shuxin" six years ago, is now dead. However, when he launched a war against the Parthians, he fought onto the Parthian territory. As a result, when he crossed the Tigris River, he was stationed for one day and was murdered by the Roman Imperial Guard officers who were tired of war and had a grudge against him.

As a result, the Parthians thought they had seen a counterattack opportunity. They ignored the fact that they were still fighting a civil war in the throne (the civil war between brothers and brothers), and drew a large number of troops, concentrated almost all the iron-armored cavalry and iron-armored camel soldiers in the country, counterattacked Rome, and fought a decisive battle with heavy losses by the Tigris River. It is known in history that the Battle of Nisipis, and both sides fought to the death and suffered a loss.

After all, Parthia was originally beaten to the point of danger. In the past six years, the Mesopotamians were all lost. The Parthians were the Iranian Plateau and the territory of Turkmen and Uzbek in later generations, and a small part of Afghanistan. If the natural development of history is based on the history of history, the Parthians will have the last six or seven years of national destiny, and it will be time to enter the garbage dump of history and the country will be destroyed.

But the Romans actually had civil strife at the level of regicide, and the so-called "Emperor" Macrinus, who was temporarily newly supported by the Imperial Guards, was just a slave without noble blood. Such a temporary emperor was destined to be a short time, and the Roman provinces in the rear would definitely re-establish a new emperor with the blood of the late emperor.

In fact, this Macrinus is indeed not good, because he only worked for one year in history, and his only deed was to fight the Nisipis battle with the Parthians. After his defeat, he was immediately liquidated and executed by the new king with orthodox blood.

It was this chaotic situation that made Parthian King Altabanus IV dare to fight back. After all, around 220 years in history, the three empires of Rome, Han and Parthia were almost all competing for the bad. They all had serious internal problems and had civil wars for the throne.

However, there is no civil war or usurpation of the throne on the Han side, which looks cleaner, forming a sharp contrast.

At first, Liu Bei only listened to the chaos in the Western Regions as a story, but in the end, he learned that "Rome and Parthia were fighting to the death, and both had to fight both civil and foreign wars at the same time", which made Liu Bei feel a little excited.

Fortunately, he discussed with Prime Minister Li Su, but Li Su was calm and immediately extinguished Liu Bei's unrealistic ideas.

"Your Majesty has no idea that the rest of the Han Dynasty is 15,000 miles away from the Han Dynasty, and even from Liangzhou, there are 10,000 miles. The heart of Rome is 30,000 miles away from the Han Dynasty, and even Mesopotamia, which was stolen from the Han Dynasty six years ago, was 20,000 miles away.

In the western front of the Han Dynasty, if we can stabilize in Shule, the Yibohai Sea (Balkhash Lake) is already the limit. Now Bo Qi has not done it completely. Your Majesty really hopes that his descendants will expand westward, and they will rely on sea and water transportation to the south sea to the west. The sea and land transportation is inexpensive, and the difference is more than dozens of times."

After thinking about it, Liu Bei finally gave up.

The opportunity is really good, but it is a pity that I can't catch it. Liu Bei learned for the first time that the other two of the three empires in the world were in a crazy civil war and foreign war, but unfortunately the cost of crossing the desert and the Central Asian grasslands could not be afforded.

The Prime Minister is still far-sighted and should have developed sailing long ago! He made a concession to Funanguo to sail west. He heard that he could also reach the Bay of Babylon, the frontier area where the war between Anxu and Rome was at war.

Unfortunately, the scale of the Han sea ships still could not support an army of 100,000 people, carrying baggage and ordnance for a thousand miles of expedition.

Li Su finally comforted the emperor like this: "Your Majesty, the best time to build a navy was ten years ago, but the second best opportunity was now."
Chapter completed!