Xu Wei replied to the Roman Emperor and sent Liu He as an envoy to the Roman Empire, asking Liu He to find ways to promote the Roman Empire to open the waterway between the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, paving the way for subsequent large-scale goods to enter the Roman Empire!
It is a great thing for Daqian to become their commodity market. The only trouble is that this waterway is a bit too far!
At the same time, news of the Roman Empire began to spread widely throughout Jidu, and it began to become a hot spot among Daqian merchants. They had long known about the existence of this empire, but because of the obstruction of the Parthian Empire, Daqian's Maritime traders had always had difficulty getting to the Roman Empire.
But now Zhen Xing has returned from the legendary city of Rome, and he has also brought a letter from the Roman emperor, which means that they are ready to establish diplomatic relations with the Romans, especially when these merchants know that the Roman Empire has A large empire with a population of tens of millions is even more exciting. If the people of the Roman Empire were like the people of Daqian, buying one piece of silk a year, they would want 30 million to 40 million pieces of silk a year. How big is this? One market! Enough for all of them to work in textile mills for three years.
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So all the maritime merchants in Daqian started to have relations with Zhen Xing, hoping to get the waterway to the Roman Empire from Zhen Xing!
Because according to their experience, the earlier the fleet goes to Rome, the more it earns. The first ship going to Rome can even make hundreds of times the profit. In this way, there is only one headache, and the more ships go later, the more profit it will make. The lower the profit, so time is money!
Zhen Xing did not hide it. After all, the imperial envoy ship was about to leave, and concealing it would not be of much use. Moreover, he did not want to continue going to the sea, so he told these maritime merchants the route to Rome!
Then there were dozens of ships in Daqian filled with silk, sugar, porcelain, and tea, and then headed for the Roman Empire!
But Rome, a new hotspot, only lasted less than half a year in Jidu, and the new hotspot replaced Rome.
But this hotspot is the Kushan Empire from the Western Regions!
The Kushan Empire fought two major battles with Liu Bei. As a result, they were defeated in both battles. More than 100,000 soldiers were killed and captured!
The two defeats greatly weakened the Kushan Empire. They no longer dared to attack Liu Bei. However, due to Liu Bei's lack of cavalry, the two sides were in a stalemate.
But Liu Bei didn't want to stop like this. He tried his best to buy war horses and form cavalry, hoping to completely annex the Kushan Empire.
The top leaders of the Kushan Empire also understood Liu Bei's idea. On the one hand, they blocked the source of Liu Bei's war horses, and on the other hand, they tried to recruit troops and horses to restore their strength. They also wanted to eliminate Liu Bei, the invader.
While the two sides were fighting, Duan Peng and the others in the Western Regions were not idle. They took advantage of the war in the Kushan Empire and absorbed a large number of refugees to develop their own territory. Even the new Governor of the Western Regions, Zhang Xiu, tried to absorb them. He added some people to enrich the city under his rule.
In less than three years, Zhang Xiu and Duan Peng absorbed millions of people from Guishang, and the people in the northwest of Guishan were almost sucked dry by the Western Region.
At that time, when Guishang was dealing with Liu Bei, their great enemy, they dared not speak out about this situation. But after they ceased war with Liu Bei and wanted to restore the country, it would be difficult to tolerate such things.
The Kushan Empire had the smallest population and the weakest strength among the four empires. Their population at this time was only over 11 million. Due to the war with Liu Bei, they lost almost 10% of their population, and now Zhang Xiu and the others More than 10% of their population was annexed.
This makes it difficult for the senior officials of Guishang to tolerate such a thing. Of course, they also understand the power of Daqian and know that their current enemy Liu Bei was once defeated by Daqian. The senior officials of Guishang do not want to face Liu Bei. At that time, he also provoked a powerful enemy.
At first, the emperor of Kushan sent envoys to ask Zhang Xiu and others to return the population!
But how could Zhang Xiu and the others return it, not to mention that this Guishan was the defeated general of Liu Bei's army. Zhang Xiu and the others paid no attention to the warning of the Kushan envoy. Duan Peng even mocked the Kushan people for not knowing how to return it. In a battle, he had the advantage of cavalry and was defeated by Liu Bei. What a waste!
After Duan Peng's words reached Guishang, the entire high-level officials in Guishan were furious. They no longer cared about the powerful Dagan, but tried to raise an army of 100,000 to defeat the Dagan and annex the Western Regions. to enhance the strength of their country.
As for war, how could Zhang Xiu and Duan Peng be afraid? They all united and formed an army of 30,000 people to fight the Kushans!
The armies of both sides met in Dawan!
Then the war was about to break out. Zhang Xiu used hundreds of artillery pieces to bombard the Kushan army. However, the Kushan soldiers also had experience in dealing with artillery. They attacked Daqian's army in scattered formations and quickly rushed through the firing range of the artillery when they met.
It's a pity that the Kushan people didn't expect that Duan Ou and the others also had a heavy cavalry with both men and horses wearing iron armor!
When the Kushan people's scattered formation encountered Daqian's armored heavy cavalry, the 100,000-strong army was directly overwhelmed by the heavy cavalry. Even the Kushan people's emperor died on the battlefield. A few of the Kushan people's 100,000-strong army came out and escaped. Shengtian and the rest were captured by Zhang Xiu and others.
This war directly destroyed the Kushan Empire. After the emperor died in the battle, the entire Kushan Empire was completely divided into several forces.
However, Zhang Xiu and the others did not show mercy to others when they gained the upper hand, and led their army directly to attack Guishang.
When Liu Bei in southern Tianzhu heard the news, he was not willing to miss such a good opportunity and immediately led an army of 300,000 to the northern expedition to Guishang!
In this way, the news about the Kushan Empire occupied the hot spot of Daqian for more than three years. Some good people even hung up the areas of the Kushan Empire to see which areas were occupied by Daqian and which areas were annexed by Liu Bei.
If the news of being annexed by Dagan comes, the whole city will be hotly debated. If it is occupied by Liu Bei, everyone will curse Liu Bei, thinking that Liu Bei is a hypocrite who takes advantage of others' danger. If Dagan hadn't killed the emperor of the Kushan people, How could he have such an opportunity to occupy Kushan territory?
Especially in the past six months, everyone can clearly see from the map that Liu Bei occupies more territory than they do! It has made Liu Bei's reputation fall to the bottom. Everyone calls Liu Bei a hypocrite and a real villain. All he knows is Get a bargain!
There is nothing that can be done about this. Liu Bei can send an army of 300,000 to capture Guishang, but Zhang Xiu and the others have tried their best to recruit 50,000 people. The Western Region with only 2 million people cannot compare with the Western Region with a population of tens of millions.