The tourists looked at Xiao Bailong. On the beach in Jinning, Xiao Bailong told them about the bronze civilization unearthed in the ancient tomb.
"The Han envoys came to the ancient Dian Kingdom and inquired about the road to India. The King of Dian stayed with the Han envoys for a total of four years and sent people to lead them to find this mysterious passage more than ten times.
However, every time they arrived in the Erhai area, they were robbed and blocked by local nomads. It is said that these nomads often ranged for thousands of miles, and they were probably the earliest caravans.
Although the Han envoys were not able to go there, they heard from their mouths that there was a big country to the west of Ailao Mountain that was good at riding elephants. So it was called the Yunnan-Vietnam Riding Elephant Kingdom. This was the first time that the Ailao Kingdom appeared in history.
The poisonous route to Shu was not found, and the poor King of Dian was targeted by the Han Dynasty. The King of Dian did not expect that staying with the Han envoy and guiding the Han envoy would bring disaster to himself.
The Han envoys could not return without success. They said that the Dian Kingdom was good. They could surrender the Dian Kingdom to the Han Dynasty and use the Dian Kingdom as their base, and then slowly find this mysterious poisonous road to Shu.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was expanding his territory, so he readily agreed. Hearing that the Kunming Pool was 500 miles away, he would not fight an unprepared battle, so he dug the Kunming Pool in Chang'an and practiced water warfare. This is the Han Dynasty's building ship.
After training, he marched the army to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Many tribes resisted along the way, and the Han army beheaded hundreds of thousands. The army marched all the way to the edge of Yunchi. The King of Dian saw that although he had tens of thousands of people, it was not enough to kill him.
Yes? Forced to surrender.
The Han Dynasty said that since you surrendered, well, you can continue to take care of your land and people. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued the seal of the Dian King and established Yizhou County in Yunzhou area for the first time.
We talked about it when we were in Jinning. The strange thing is that it is strange here. Just after surrendering, there are no records of the ancient Dian Kingdom anymore and they have disappeared.
If it weren’t for the discovery of the seal of the Dian king in the Shizhaishan tombs in Jinning and the physical corroboration with the records in historical records, the ancient Dian Kingdom would have been just a legend and no one would believe it.”
Everyone nodded. At that time, they heard Xiao Bailong talk about the strange customs and customs of the ancient Dian country, the splendid bronze culture and the three great evil arts of Nanyang. To this day, they still feel sorry for this mysterious ancient country.
"Yunchi Ancient Tombs with Ancient Tombs, Chengjiang Bones on Bones, Fuxian Lake Ancient City Zombies, and Bronze Headhunting Witches have provided material and inspiration for countless tomb robbing novels and films."
The tourists were creepy again.
"The ancient Dian people and the ancient Dian Kingdom mysteriously disappeared together. Some say they were assimilated into the Han people, while others said they transformed into other ethnic minorities.
No matter what, it was because the Han Dynasty wanted to find the way to poison Shu, and conquered the Eastern Dian Plateau, and then the ancient Dian Kingdom disappeared.
This Southern Silk Road did exist in the ancient Dian Kingdom, because the cultural relics unearthed in the ancient Dian Kingdom include shells and pearls from across the ocean. Many South and Southeast Asian specialties, including some customs, appeared in the Dian Kingdom two thousand years ago.
But why did the King of Dian send people to take them to find this road? He obviously knew this road! Why didn't he tell the Han envoy?
In ancient times, people already knew the importance of trade. Didn't the Xiongnu control the Hexi Corridor? It is understandable that the Dian people did not want to tell the Han envoys about this road.
Even after being ruled by the Han Dynasty, the Dian tribes continued to resist. As a result, a large number of people died, and perhaps some people fled.
Today, across the Indian Ocean, the Badak people on the island of Sumatra have completely preserved the architectural styles and customs of the ancient Dian Kingdom. Even the costumes, dances and sacrificial customs are the same. They also say that their ancestors moved there.
This made archaeological experts very excited. The Badak people also proposed to do DNA testing to find out where their ancestors came from. However, after two thousand years, the DNA of the ancient Yunnan people has long been destroyed.
However, based on the exact same customs, it can be basically judged that they are descendants of the ancient Dian people. It can also be determined that the ancient Dian people had long known about this passage to India, otherwise they would not have been able to escape to the Indian Ocean.
The ancient Dian Kingdom did not tell the Han envoys about this channel until it disappeared! It is precisely because of the importance of controlling trade channels! Since ancient times, Yunzhou has been the channel to Southeast Asia and South Asia!"
Everyone nodded.
"After the disappearance of the ancient Dian Kingdom, the Eastern Dian Plateau belonged to the Yizhou County of the Han Dynasty. It was then used as a base to attack the Ailao Kingdom. The Han Dynasty's forces passed through Chuxiong and Dali and reached the center of the Ailao Kingdom."
Even though more than 2,000 years have passed, tourists have also become nervous.
"Six of the twenty-four counties in Yizhou are related to Ailao territory. Let me talk about three places that you are more familiar with. Xielong County is Weishan. Yeyu County is Dali. Buwei County is
In Baoshan, which is the ruling center of the Ailao Kingdom."
The tourists were shocked.
"It's interesting to talk about Buwei County. Do you know why it's called Buwei County?"
Everyone shook their heads.
"Buwei is Lu Buwei!"
"ah!"
"What do you think the Qin Prime Minister Lu Buwei has to do with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty? It turns out that Lu Buwei's descendant Lu Jia was also the prime minister of Nanyue and was unwilling to surrender to the Han Dynasty.
South Vietnam refers to the Guangxi and Guangdong areas. During the Qin Dynasty, Baiyue was conquered and the southeastern coastal area was called Baiyue. This is why the Ailao Kingdom is called the Yunnan Yue Chengxiang Kingdom, because anyway, these southern ethnic minorities that are unclear are all called Baiyue.
The more it gets.
After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty conquered South Vietnam with 100,000 troops, he sent the descendants of the Lu family to the border areas and personally named the places after their ancestors. Thus, Buwei County was born in the farthest border area at that time."
The tourists were greatly surprised.
"At that time, Lu Buwei's descendants came all the way. Judging from the geographical location of the Central Plains, it was called Fapei Frontier. Judging from the geographical location of Southeast Asia, it was the center of Southeast Asia and the capital of a large southwestern country.
Therefore, the border areas were not so miserable, but the journey to the center of Ailao Kingdom was difficult and dangerous. Therefore, they wrote Lancang Song: Handeguang, Kaibubin, Dubonan, Lanjin, Lancang, and others.
It opened up territory for the Emperor of the Han Dynasty and was the first to spread Han culture to the farthest areas. This was also the first time that the Lancang River appeared in the history of the Central Plains.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty didn’t even know that the criminals he had assigned to him were already standing on the poisonous path of Shu that he had worked so hard to find!”
"ah!"
"Bonan, the name of the mountain, is located in the west of Dali and on the east bank of the Lancang River. It is the west gate of Dali Prefecture. It is the transportation throat from Yunzhou to Baoshan, Nujiang, Dehong and other places, as well as to Southeast Asia and South Asia countries such as Myanmar and India.
Rush.
Bonan Ancient Road is the most important section of the Southern Silk Road."
Everyone nodded. Before coming here, they thought Yunzhou had no history. If you follow Xiao Bailong, you will see monuments and history everywhere.
Master Zhou listened while driving, and he was also impressed. It was rare for other tour guides to give a general introduction for thirty minutes, so he just kept talking.
"It was when the influence of the Han Dynasty penetrated deep into the heart of the Ailao Kingdom that the Ailao Kingdom gradually declined. Throughout our history, it is a history of migration. Migration is a characteristic of animals, including humans. From living in pursuit of water and grass to the present
Big cities are crowded.”
The tourists laughed, they were all from big cities.
"There are no restrictions on this kind of private migration. For example, no matter which city we go to, there are no restrictions.
This was also the case in ancient times. They were nomadic people and caravans. When they saw a group of strangers coming, they might help them.
The Western Han Dynasty adopted this method to allow the Han people to penetrate deep into the heart of Ailao Kingdom. This was a non-governmental exchange.
At the same time, disputes often occurred in the area bordering the Ailao Kingdom and the Han Dynasty, that is, around the Ailao Mountains. This was between countries, and it was not so gentle.
After fighting back and forth, the Han people have settled down in the Ailao Kingdom, but the Ailao people have never surrendered to the Han Dynasty.
In fact, this also shows that the people are relatively soft and blunt. For rulers, the whole world is the king's land, and the shores of the land are the king's ministers. This is particularly important.
But for the common people, since you have not affected me anyway, and you have not come to my house to grab food, you will not think so much. In fact, the earliest immigrants from the Han Dynasty have already integrated into the local ethnic group.
The people had already gotten together, but the countries were still fighting back and forth. The Han Dynasty had a strong military force. In AD 69, King Ailao Yilang, known as Liu Mao in Han history, led seventy-seven small countries, plus the big country.
, a total of seventy-eight countries, the whole country surrendered.
During the Han Dynasty, the whole country was celebrating. The great country in the southwest that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had not conquered, and the great southwestern country that had been fighting for more than a hundred years, suddenly thought about it and surrendered.
A big banquet was held in Luoyang to celebrate the great virtue of our king and the surrender of all barbarians. After the celebration, he quickly took over the area of Ailao State and established Yongchang County, which was the second largest county at that time.
They finally found the Shushen Poison Road. Because this passage is in Baoshan! It goes straight from Tengchong to South Asia and India!
This thing is so happy! Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty also imitated Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in issuing the seal of the King of Dian, and awarded Liu Mao the seal of the King of Ailao. But the Ailao Kingdom, like the ancient Dian Kingdom, disappeared not long after joining."
A tourist said: "It's so strange that these two countries disappeared! They were both ancient civilizations for hundreds of years, and they suddenly disappeared after surrendering!"
He Huandao: "Experts and scholars cannot criticize our ancestors from a certain standpoint. Since ancient times, they have been talking about enlightenment. But in such a big country, with hundreds of years of history, the customs and habits are completely different, and they are enlightened as soon as they surrender?
"
Visitors mused that history is written by the victors, as it has been since ancient times.
"I think there is a reason here, that is, this kind of tribal alliance is still relatively loose, unlike the centralized state like the Han Dynasty.
So at first, it was because several of the small countries surrendered to the Han Dynasty that they went to fight. After losing the battle, they led all the small countries to submit together.
We have said that ethnic minorities recognize their leaders. In the Central Plains, do you dare to call the emperor Big Brother? Some people called Big Brother were killed. Do you dare to divide the Central Plains into big kings and small kings? But they are just a group of kings, without an emperor.
Just like the heroes of Liangshan, it turns out that you are my eldest brother. Let's drink and eat meat together and dominate the mountain to defend ourselves against foreign enemies. You are a good fighter and I listen to you. Then if you surrender to the imperial court, are you still my eldest brother?
This boss was actually ignored, and other tribes naturally no longer obeyed him. Therefore, although Liu Mao surrendered, there were still tribes that continued to resist.
At that time, the alliance countries came together to exchange supplies and resist foreign enemies. Small countries did not need to pay taxes to big countries, and the big king did not have the power of life and death over the small king.
But in the Han Dynasty, whether it was the king's land or the king's ministers, they all had to pay taxes, and the emperor's orders could not be violated. So these tribes could not understand this, why should I pay tribute to you? Why can't they be violated?
I insisted on disobeying him! So I resisted one after another. Where there was resistance, there was suppression, and the tribal alliance gradually dispersed and perished. Therefore, some ethnic minorities called the king Liu Maung a traitor."
The tourists nodded, "Poor kid!"
"The Han Dynasty opened the southwest and established the southwest boundary of our country, but we can also understand them from the perspective of the Ailao people."