In the eyes of those who are familiar with him, Abdul Helili is just a fairly shrewd businessman from the Western Regions. In addition to being able to find some good goods from time to time, he and other merchants who travel between the Western Regions and the Han Dynasty
There isn't much difference.
Although his caravan hired warriors from the Western Regions who were obviously different from the Han people in appearance, considering that he himself was not Han, it was not out of the ordinary to hire some people from his hometown. Not to mention the number of people in his caravan.
There are also some Han people, and his Chinese language is pretty good. Although he still has a thick accent, there is still no big problem in communication.
But just such a person has another unknown identity, that is, he is the minister of the powerful Wusun Kingdom in the Western Regions.
Wusun is a country with an extremely complicated relationship with the Han Dynasty. Of course, all the countries in the entire Western Region are sandwiched between the two behemoths, the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu. For the sake of personal safety and national survival, no country's policy is one-sided. Basically,
All countries are useless. As for the so-called loyalists, they were destroyed by the Han or Huns by sending troops or inciting their men before they had time to fall or misjudged the situation. It was really a wrong move and the whole game was lost.
However, Wusun is still a little different, because this country is the only country in the Western Region that has been divided and maintained its division for a long time. The other country with the same fate is the famous historical division into the front and the back.
The country of charioteers.
Another slightly different thing is that Wusun is one of the few countries in the Western Regions where the Han Dynasty sent clan princesses one after another in order to win over them. Of course, the Xiongnu also sent many princesses. So Wusun's Kunmi often appeared.
(The king) gave birth to a son with a Xiongnu girl and inherited the throne, and then the Han princess married that son in order to continue the marriage foundation (even if she did not want to marry from the country, she would just send an edict directly, and she was no longer a princess anyway.
If you have a girl, you can marry one and both. Besides, there are only exhausted cows and no damaged fields (I don’t know, they are all good boys, why are they so coy). Vice versa, it’s just because of Wusun’s tradition.
Similar to the Xiongnu (for the sake of the inheritance of the race, all moral issues should be left until the stomach is full, so Yasheng's sentence "You can only know the etiquette from the facts in the barn" is quite materialistic and dialectical), so this girl has no psychology at all
That's the pressure.
By the way, the split between Wusun and Sun was closely related to a certain princess of the Han nationality. That tough princess married Kunmi of three Wusuns in total, and they did not continue until the fourth Kunmi was her biological son.
.In this way, this princess can still have a son for her third husband at the age of forty or fifty. It is estimated that only Empress Xiao who gave Yang Guang a lot of hats during the Sui and Tang Dynasties can be compared with her.
Bar.
And it was this princess who had a bad relationship with her third husband (a young man married an aunt in her forties for political reasons. Even if she was as beautiful as Zhao Yazhi or Li Ruotong, she could still be used as a virgin after taking off her makeup.
Okay), this person is here
The princess who had been in Wusun for many years directly sent someone to assassinate her husband, but unfortunately it was not completely successful. As a result, Wusun, which was originally wavering between Han and Hungarians, was born into two factions, pro-Han and pro-Hungarian, because of the split between the rulers.
Completely opened up the posture.
It was already the era of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and the Huns who were driven to Mobei had greatly reduced their control over the Western Regions. Therefore, the Han Dynasty had absolute say in things here. But although the Han Dynasty wanted to help his relatives, he could not help them.
Li Lala resisted, but the influence of the Huns here was too deep-rooted. In desperation, the Han Dynasty had no choice but to divide Wusun into two parts. The son of the Han Dynasty princess would get the big head, and the son of the Hun woman would get the small head.
The nobles went to work for whomever they supported.
In this way, the most powerful country in the Western Regions, which was originally said in "Han Shu - Biography of the Western Regions" to have "120,000 households, 630,000 inhabitants, and 188,800 victorious troops", was divided into two.
Although the two countries after the division regard each other as old enemies, as long as there is an opportunity
It is necessary to give the other side a few blows, just like the current North and South Sudan, which makes the Han Dynasty, the suzerain country, very annoyed. However, precisely because of this, the Han Dynasty no longer needs to worry about Wusun, a behemoth in the Western Regions, who has the ability to subvert the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions.
rule.
Well, it sounds like Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union. When they were unified, they were countries that no one dared to underestimate and everyone tried to win over. But once they split, all that awaited them was the fate of being gradually eroded away. So let’s see.
History knows how important a unified country is now. It is precisely because of this that since the Qin Dynasty, national unity has become the highest criterion for the emperors of the Central Plains dynasties. It can be seen that the emperor Ying Zheng is really worthy of being the first emperor.
This title.
But the current situation seems to have a small problem. According to Abdul Heili, as the Han Dynasty relaxed its rule of the Western Regions, especially in the third year of Jianning, Meng Tuo, the governor of Liangzhou, appointed Shule who was involved in the civil strife.
The country was not captured for forty days, although the rebel leader was successfully decapitated by assassination.
, but in the end it failed to change the outcome of the matter. This was also the last recorded management of the Western Regions by the increasingly financially strapped Han Dynasty. After that, because the Western Regions were too far away from the Han Dynasty, the high cost of management was not as important as it was back then.
Due to strategic significance, Liu Hong immediately gave up his jurisdiction here.
However, the tasteless food of the Han Dynasty is not necessarily the same for other people. The first to bear the brunt is the Xianbei people who replaced the Huns as the overlords of the grasslands. After all, the Xianbei people know the story of the rise of the Huns very clearly. And Wusun's Kunmi
With the departure of the Han Dynasty and the intervention of the Xianbei people, the dispute gradually entered a new page.
Wusun Xiaokun Mi Lelasuo is an ambitious man. However, due to the existence of the Western Region Protectorate of the Han Dynasty, Wusun Xiaokun Mi Lelasuo has been fighting for a hundred years. Although he gnashes his teeth with hatred in his heart, he is unable to resist the rule of the great power.
.
But with the evacuation of the big man, things took a turn for the better. Lelaso found that the iron curtain that originally covered his head had disappeared. But after all, he was Xiao Kunmi, and his original strength was inferior to that of Da Kunmi. Even after a hundred years of fighting,
Medieval powers like Britain and France were struggling, let alone Wusun, which is located in Xinjiang and Central Asia. Therefore, even if the Iron Curtain disappeared, they would not have the ability to unify.
So, he was smart and found Tanshihuai in Xianbei, hoping to use the power of the Xianbei people as a backing, just like Wusun's ancestor Liejiao used the Huns' troops to restore the country and destroy the Yueshi. Of course, that Liejiao had strong wings.
After that, they naturally began to break free from the reins of the Huns, and in turn began to seek independence with the help of the strength of the Han Dynasty.
This story once again tells us that there are no permanent friends, only eternal interests. The so-called good friends and good partners will greet you with a smile when they need you, but kick you when they don't need you or feel that you are in the way.
Kick away.
Of course, the person who took this kind of thing to the extreme, which is comparable to the wolf in Mr. Dongguo's arms, was a guy from a country across the sea who said that all games in the "Warring States Period" must be full of intelligence and liked to bend arrows.
But in the face of the extortion request, Tan Shihuai was still tempted even though he knew the other party's true intention. After all, if a western passage could be opened for the Xianbei people, then the Xianbei people would have a greater advantage in the face of the increasingly tense economic blockade of the Han Dynasty.
There is room for maneuver. Besides, from Tan Shihuai's point of view, as long as Xianbei remains strong forever, the other party will not be able to pull off any tricks.
The extortion effort was successful. Wusun's Xiaokunmi faction, who was not fighting alone, easily defeated Dakunmi. Then, with the support of the Xianbei people, the reunified Wusun began a new round of expansion and annexation. And just at that time
At this time, Tan Shihuai died of illness, and Helian, a new and humble communist leader who united foreign tribes more than internal tribes, came to power.
This kind of leadership was obviously in line with Lelasuo's appetite, so Lelasuo also became a staunch supporter of Helian's policy. However, when Lelasuo felt that his wings were gradually growing, he found that Helian did not want Wusun to be too strong in the Western Regions.
At that time, the two sides naturally began to have some friction. However, because of Xianbei's strength and the Han's abandonment of the Western Regions, Lelasuo could not learn from his ancestors and become a qualified wallflower.
However, Lerasuo still thanked the big man, because the powerful man actually killed the Eagle Alliance in the grassland, causing Xianbei to fall into unprecedented civil strife. This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Lerasuo seemed to have seen an empire.
glory.
It's a pity that God always likes to joke with you, just like the tyrant who seemed to have unification at his fingertips but finally had to walk into the raging fire because of the betrayal of his subordinates, leaving behind a tragic and tragic song. Just met in Lelaso
When he had this opportunity to show off his grand ambitions, he suddenly contracted a very strange disease. Although this disease would not kill him for a while, it also made him age rapidly. In this way,
, the issue of heirs had to come to the surface.
Lelasuo has several sons with inheritance rights. Brothers, let’s not talk about it for the time being. This is their internal affairs. The problem now is that because Wusun’s strength has attracted the attention and vigilance of many people, in order to ensure their own interests
, it is necessary to support a successor with a good relationship with him to come to power, so interfering in the internal affairs of other countries is also something that the people like to see.
Among them, there are four that are most capable of participating in this feast. They are Kangju, which borders Wusun in the northwest, and Kushan, which borders Wusun in the southwest. There is a Kushan dynasty between Wusun and Wusun.
The Parthian Dynasty and Xianbei, the suzerainty of Wusun.
Of course, there are also some smaller or more secretive forces. Although Abdulhelili expressed concern, he could not tell who they were specifically. He only said that there were certain countries in the Western Regions and those from the west of the Kushan Dynasty.
certain forces.
Although Lao Kunmi is still very conscious, the internal struggle in Wusun is still at the stage of surging undercurrents, but after leaving Wusun's land, everyone has nothing to worry about. And Abdul Heili is one of the parties.
He is an important figure, so of course he has become a thorn in the side of other forces. The only thing I don't know is who will have such power.
As for which prince or prince Abdu Heili was supporting, Li Shushi was not interested in knowing. After all, he did not have the ability or interest to participate. However, he got a lot of things about countries other than the Han Dynasty from the other party.
Li Shushi still felt that it was very rewarding, and maybe one day he might be able to use this knowledge.