Chapter 12 King Sejong 12 Storms in Central Asia (Part 1)
Chapter 2137 Sejong Chapter 12 The Storm in Central Asia (Part 1)
Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, a group of tourists came from the west. They were not many in number, around thirty, and had a miserable temperament. The one who enjoyed the core guard treatment was a young man. Although he was dressed in Chinese clothes, he obviously had a Hu style. Of course, Hu clothes
Hu Feng is very common in today's Han Empire. Even in the core ruling areas of the empire such as Gyeonggi, Hu Feng's trend has also been set off.
The majestic and majestic figure of Luoyang City came into view from a distance. It was too shocking to describe in detail. The tired face of the young man was full of hesitation and cowardice. After looking at it for a long time, he asked a middle-aged man next to him: "Wang
Uncle, is that Luoyang?"
The middle-aged man analyzed with some uncertainty: "If the information is correct, if you go eastward after Chang'an, there is no doubt that the first great city of the Han Dynasty will be Luoyang!"
Hearing this, the young man showed a little sadness on his face and said: "Now that we have arrived in Luoyang, can the imperial court accept us and make decisions for us?"
Regarding this question, after a short silence, the middle-aged man gritted his teeth and said: "Khotan regards small things as big things, and he has always been respectful to the court, and has continued to pay tribute without slacking off. Kang State bullies others, bullies the weak, destroys my ancestral temple, and kills my subjects. This is
Unjust conquests are even more contrary to Emperor Taizong's policies.
As the suzerain of the vassal states in the world, if the imperial court cannot make the final decision on Khotan and bring order to chaos, how can it face the vassals of the world, and how can it restrain its vassal states at home and abroad?"
When he said this, the middle-aged man's eyes were dancing with excitement, as if he was convinced by his own insights.
After listening to his narration, the young man pondered for a while and said sadly: "However, Kang State is connected by blood with the Han Dynasty, and King Kang is the son of the Holy Emperor. How can the current court ignore the clan and support us foreign vassals?"
In response to this, the middle-aged man's expression changed a few times, and finally he said extremely solemnly: "Your Majesty, you should know that although the world is big, Khotan is surrounded by Han on three sides, and the high mountains in the west are blocking each other, and they are feuding. The only place to go is
The Han Dynasty's only hope is the imperial court.
In the DPRK, there may be hope for restoration of the country, but in other places, we either live under the shelter of others or die without a burial place.”
From the conversation between the two, we can know their identities. The king of Khotan, Yuchi Jue, and his uncle, Yuchi Guanglin, are both the descendants of the former king of Khotan, Yuchi Baoxiang. And when they came to Xijing this time, of course
Not for tribute
Although Xijing Luocheng looked far away, it still took more than an hour to reach the city. We had to go around from the outside and enter from the south city. Then we were stopped by the guards of Dingding Gate.
dispute.
Facing the unreasonable Luoyang City Guards, the Khotan monarchs and ministers were greatly humiliated, but they had to bow their heads under the eaves. Yuchi Jue groaned and dared not speak. Yuchi Guanglin suppressed his anger and loudly declared that he and his party "
Khotanese mission”.
However, Dingding Gate is the pass that connects Tianjie to the Imperial City. It is the south gate of the imperial capital. Its gate officer is not something that ordinary people can be. At least, those who are well-informed and well-informed will laugh at his words.
The words "What are the envoys of the monarch and his ministers who have subjugated the country?" The face of the monarch and his ministers was severely torn off and trampled on the soles of their feet.
In the end, it was only with the coordination of the belated welcome envoy from the Lifan Academy that they were able to enter the city smoothly. Yuchi Jue and Yuchi Guanglin were even arranged to stay at the Concierge Hotel. As for the entourage, they had to find a place to stay by themselves. Luoyang
The rental market in the city is still very broad. As long as you have money, you will not have to worry about finding a house.
When the exiled Khotan monarchs and ministers dived into the "dragon pool and tiger's den" of the Imperial Capital of the Han Dynasty, the senior officials of the imperial center were actually having a headache for this group of visitors from the west. Obviously, the Khotan Kingdom was not worth mentioning, but due to its
The situation in Anxi and the issue of the vassal state had to be carefully considered by those in power in the empire.
The past twenty years have been a turbulent period of great fission for the Central Asia region. Everything was accompanied by the large-scale westward expedition of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi and the invasion and conquest of YSL civilization by the Han civilization.
In the seventh year of Yongxi (999), the three kingdoms of Anxi, Kangju, and Beiting formed a bloody alliance, jointly sent troops, and launched a large-scale western expedition. In that year, the Samanid Dynasty, which occupied the essence of the river, and was once a powerful Central Asian dynasty, was destroyed.
At that time, the expeditionary force of the Three Kingdoms reached as far as the Caspian Sea before withdrawing its troops. The weak Samanid Dynasty became the nourishment for the expansion and growth of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, and its remaining legacy was also divided among the Three Kingdoms.
In terms of territory, since Beiting did not border each other and only had demands for goods and population, it divided a large wave of spoils and more than 30,000 captives and slaves. However, after careful consideration, the King of Anxi, Liu Min, decided to allocate him a piece of land.
The Ahal region (central and western Turkmenistan), which originally belonged to the southwest of the Samanid Dynasty in the eastern part of the Caspian Sea, was assigned to Beiting, which is a traffic hub.
Of course, there is a premise, that is, the Beiting must leave an army to carry out guarding, public security, defense, and tax collection. Naturally, it has the power to do so. Regarding the reason why Liu Min, the uncle of the emperor, made such generous arrangements, the King of the Beiting, Liu Wen, was sincere.
Know it well.
But after careful consideration, we still agreed. The Beiting Kingdom at that time had a small land area. Only by expanding to the north could it bring the Balkhash Lake area under nominal control. The population was even more scarce. Compared with the Hezhong area, the gap was not small.
Looting through war, seizing wealth, population, and improving national power are the most important reasons why Liu Wenggong is willing to follow the two imperial uncles in the Western Expedition. Directly returning to the feudal country with war supplies is one option, but this kind of one-off
How to stay in business and gain long-term profits?
Therefore, Liu Wen was tempted and took his second brother Liu Wentao as the governor of Haidong. He built an administrative army with Mingcheng (probably in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan) as the center. He led three thousand troops and stationed them on the spot to establish rule.
This is not an easy choice to seize profits while lying down. The Beiting Kingdom garrison needs to face a protracted public security war, endless mob resistance, religious attacks, and rebellions by old nobles and tribes.
However, this situation is all too common when one civilization takes violent actions to conquer and assimilate another civilization.
Those who also faced these problems included Anxi and Kangju. In terms of the distribution of spoils, Anxi gained the most because it occupied the most elite area of the original Samanid Dynasty, the Jihun River (Amu Darya River) basin.
A vast area, including large cities such as Puhualuo (Bukhara) and Samadan (Samarkand).
The better the territory occupied, the more difficult it is to rule. After all, the traditional power is stronger and the groups of vested interests are denser. You must know that at the end of the Samanid Dynasty, Puhualuo had already controlled the local nobles and generals.
Such forces have lost their restraints, and under strong external pressure and internal centrifugal betrayal, they have long existed in name only.
The invasion from the Han Empire destroyed the Samanid Dynasty, but those who actually invaded were the powerful local factions. The Anxi system built by Liu Min was also a system full of expansion and plunder. Those powerful factions and old aristocrats
Their interests will inevitably be damaged, and they will certainly not be able to surrender easily. And the process of public security struggle is destined to be long and cruel.
In contrast, the burdens of Beiting and Kangju are much smaller, especially Beiting, which is just an enclave. Even if the strategic territory is lost, it does not matter. The vested benefits are the most important.
It is determined by the different fundamental interests of the three countries in Anxi.
The Kangju Kingdom was between the two countries. King Kang Liu Ye was assigned to the southern region of the Samanid Dynasty (including Tajikistan and part of Afghanistan). Compared with those big cities and fertile fields, the resistance forces were relatively weaker, but also more stubborn.
On the other hand, the area along the upper reaches of the Jihun River directly borders the Ghaznavid Dynasty in the southwest. The terrain between the two sides is intertwined and the situation is complicated. Without the obstacle (or the first target) of the Samanid Dynasty, it is directly
The above is something that can be expected.
In fact, during the Western Expedition of the Three Kingdoms in the seventh year of Yongxi's reign, the Ghaznavid dynasty, led by its third-generation monarch Mahmud, was in a period of strength. Politics, military, economy, and culture were all moving toward becoming a powerful country.
Some aspects of development.
Mahmoud was also a wise lord, outstanding in both civil and military skills. He conquered Saman in the north, destroyed Saffar in the west, and conquered India in the south. This emerging MSL dynasty, which is also rising and growing, is destined to be the biggest stumbling block for the Anxi Three Kingdoms in Central Asia.
, a roadblock, and judging from the subsequent development of the situation, that day is not too far away.
Before that, it took the Three Kingdoms of Anxi more than three years, until the eleventh year of Yongxi's reign, to initially stabilize the situation in the Hezhong area. Of course, this stability must be enclosed in double quotation marks.
In the newly occupied land, the Three Kingdoms only achieved the occupation of large and small towns, and established a new Chinese population management and taxation system (camp system) that was barely operational and functional. In terms of public security, the level was also poor.
It doesn't go very high, and it only uses strong force to ensure the stability of the town, and there are no large-scale rebellions under its rule. As for small riots, that is a normal thing.
In the process of admission and treatment, bloodshed and death are naturally inevitable. Conquests between civilizations and conflicts over beliefs can never be gentle. The end of killing and death is stability and prosperity.
In the past twenty years, what happened on the land of Hezhong, and what was still going on in the first year of Jianlong of the Han Dynasty, was that the "Han" civilization, with "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness" as its foundation of morality, was facing another strong civilization.
Barbaric rule and crazy plunder.
Many bloody and cruel things were beyond the imagination of the literati and gentlemen in the empire who had been at peace for a long time and talked about morality. Since the demise of the Samanid Dynasty, although the Anxi Three Kingdoms still have deep-rooted blood ties with the empire, the two
The two have actually taken different paths.
To be fair, in the Hezhong area, the invasion from the Han people is not completely unacceptable. In the past thousand years, various foreign tribes, large and small, have robbed and ruled this land.
The country was established on this land. Now, it seems that it is not a big deal for another group of Chinese people to come.
The biggest contradiction between the vassal states from the Eastern Han Empire and the Hezhong region and even the entire Central Asia, the entire Persia, and the entire Dashi region lies in their beliefs.
After all, ysl has long taken root in this land, is deeply rooted, and is spreading everywhere. The civilization of the Han Empire from the east hates this. This is something that has set the tone and direction since the time of the ancestors, and
After more than half a century of development, there is little room for entanglement, conflict, and compromise.
Races are diverse, nationalities can be integrated, and cultures can be intertwined, but faith is the only one. Because of faith, those devout believers still dare to draw their swords to resist even when faced with the sharp steel knives and artillery of the Han people.
Liu Min implemented a comprehensive "de-YSL" policy in Anxi in his early years. When it came to the Hezhong area, it was still firmly, comprehensively and thoroughly pushed forward. For example, Puhualuo, as the capital of the former Samanid dynasty, is a city with dazzling YSL culture.
city, however, shortly after the Western Expeditionary Allied Forces entered the city, all the temples, seminaries and related sacrificial places inside and outside the city were ordered to be demolished.
In the early days, the soldiers who carried out the Western Expedition still had the desire to plunder and collect treasures, but there were too many religious sites, and there were too many believers who opposed, resisted, and attacked. In the end, the Han soldiers lost their patience and
Started setting fires everywhere.
In order to extinguish the religion, Puhualuo, a famous city in the middle of the river, was almost half burned in the end. In order to protect the religion, tens of thousands of people died in and outside the city. Liu Min, the king of Anxi, also condensed a "pure" figure with a bloody fire.
A city ruled by the Han people.
"The Sorrow of Puhualuo" can be called a devastating blow to the YSL culture in Hezhong. Even if other areas are not as thorough, cruel and bloody as here, it is inevitable because of Puhualuo City.
After learning the lesson, the subsequent resistance was relatively weak.
However, when we zoomed in to the entire YSL world and learned about the "atrocities" committed by the Han people in the Hezhong area, we became excited again. Under the call of the Caliph of Baghdad, the voice of revenge for the Eastern Expedition resounded throughout the Dashi area. By around the 12th year of Yongxi's reign,
, after thirty years, another YSL coalition was successfully formed again.
It's just that this time, the Bweshi dynasty is no longer useful. Most of the other ysl countries are weak or have perished in the great changes. Therefore, the main force is the Ghaznavid dynasty, which is growing in power.
Before the formation of the coalition, its monarch Mahmud had just won a victory in the expansion of the Indian region and returned to the court victoriously. Mahmud was also extremely enthusiastic about the eastward expedition to the Three Kingdoms of Anxi. The issue of faith was certainly one aspect.
But the fundamental reason is that the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, especially the two Kingdoms of Anxi and Kangju, are too aggressive and pose a great threat to his dynasty.
In fact, it has caused serious damage to the ruling interests of the Bouveshi dynasty. Originally, he could obtain more benefits from the Samanid dynasty, but in the end, most of them were occupied by the Han people.
At the same time, as the Anxi Three Kingdoms continued to expand, the next one to face their invasion was the Ghaznavid Dynasty. Therefore, a YSL Eastern Expedition led by the Ghaznavid Dynasty was also inevitable.