Nine hundred and thirty-seventh chapter westward Xiongnu
The rise of Legalism changed the entire political ecology of the Han Dynasty.
About ten years ago, in the entire court, there were only two or three people who were leaning toward Legalism, totaling two thousand stones.
But today, Legalism has completed the layout from local to central.
Chao Cuo, the imperial censor, controlled the supervisory power.
Tingwei Zhao Yu held the big stick of law enforcement.
He held the capital of Jinwu and watched with eager eyes all those who tried to bring trouble to the country.
Under Jinwu's big stick, the number of dead was no longer one hundred or two hundred.
But thousands.
Even the blood of four princes, five princes' descendants, and more than a dozen two-thousand-stone nephews bloomed under Jinwu's stick.
Blood can bring fear and power.
The momentum of Legalism is now catching up with the Huang Lao Sect, which is now aging and has almost no successors.
Now, in the central government, among the seats of the three public officials and nine ministers, the Legalists occupy three seats.
As for local areas, more than ten of the more than seventy Han counties have fallen under the control of Legalist ministers.
The most typical one is that Zhang Tang is based in Nanyang County.
In the past two years, Zhang Tang has managed the entire Nanyang in an orderly manner by relying on harsh laws or "doing what he says".
No official at the top or bottom dares to bend the law or act recklessly for personal gain.
Nanyang County was under great rule.
Don't pick up lost things on the road, don't close your door at night.
Regardless of whether they are bureaucrats, landlords, tyrants or knight-errants, they all behave with their tail between their legs.
Then, a miracle occurred.
Although Nanyang County has strict law enforcement, it is the best in the world.
However, the social economy and people's livelihood have caught up with Luoyang and Hedong, becoming the only wealthy county in Guanzhong.
Even ordinary people can actually afford well-made ironware.
In fact, Nanyang County is now one of the places with the largest number of cattle and draft horses in the world.
According to statistics from the Prime Minister’s Office.
On average, every fifth household in Nanyang County owns one cattle or draft horse.
The warehouses of every household are filled with grain.
Zhang Tang proudly reported that Prime Minister Zhou Yafu no longer died of hunger in Nanyang. The old had someone to rely on and the young had someone to support them. This is what Cheng Shang Jun called "the teaching of using the earth's strength".
Although, behind these glorious figures is the fact that Liu Che allocates more than 20 million yuan to Nanyang County every year to develop a crude steel smelting base.
Nanyang County's current situation actually relies on the central government's continuous blood transfusions.
However, as the smelting base gradually comes into operation.
Nanyang County already has its own hematopoietic ability.
At least, starting from this year, Liu Che no longer needs to spend money on Nanyang.
On the contrary, a large amount of fiscal and tax revenue can be obtained from Nanyang.
Zhang Tang used practical actions and actual political achievements to prove to the world that we Legalists have always been good at economics.
There is Li Kui and Wu Zi in the front, and there is Shang Jun and Shen Han in the middle.
Stimulated by this, counties and states all over the world turned their attention, and many "careful people" sent their children or retainers to Nanyang to learn from Commander Zhang's "advanced experience."
Legalist ministers and tycoons were jumping up and down among them, making it very lively.
In China, there has always been success and failure.
As long as it can be successful, everyone will be willing to learn the model and experience of Mohism, let alone Legalism.
I think back then, in the early years of the Warring States Period, the State of Wei was the first to carry out reforms, which set off a craze for reforms throughout the world.
Even the state of Chu, where the old aristocracy was extremely powerful and the local lords were powerful, invited Wu Qi to preside over the reform.
Qin, Zhao, Han, Qi, and Yan are even more stateless and unchangeable.
When the real benefits and clear situation are put in front of the people of the world.
Legalists naturally turn around and sing.
Only Liu Che, the emperor who had first-hand information and the most detailed information, knew the success of Zhang Tang, or the success of the Nanyang model.
Nanyang's prosperity was built on the blood and tears of more than 50,000 prisoners, slaves and criminals.
These prisoners, slaves and criminals used their own hands and hard work to build a large industrial base in Nanyang from scratch with an initial annual output of 200,000 jins of iron and 50,000 jins of crude steel.
They also dredged the rivers and roads throughout Nanyang, and used blood, tears and corpses to pave two rail transport roads that ran through the entire Nanyang.
More than 10,000 lives have been lost in the past two years during the construction of bridges and roads, disappearing into boiling molten iron and deep mines.
Now, Nanyang has become the largest slave buyer in China.
Every year, 70% of the slaves "exported" to Shu County from the southwestern Yi countries went to Nanyang.
Now, Zhang Tang has even set his sights on the savages in the jungles of Jiaozhi County, South Vietnam.
He sent envoys to Jiaozhi to have extensive contact with the local Yue nobles and officials, and offered high prices to acquire all the 'barbarians'.
He even set his sights on the Huns prisoners of war who were captured in the Battle of Mayi.
If not for Liu Che's use to those Huns prisoners of war, he would still be of use.
I'm afraid these poor guys are either working in shackles in coal or iron mines, or they are being forced to smelt ore in real burning blast furnaces by overseers with whips.
And with so much free labor.
If Nanyang County cannot succeed.
Liu Che couldn't think of anyone who could succeed.
Nanyang’s experience is of course very easy to learn from.
As far as Liu Che knows, it is now in Shu County, in the counties of Changsha Kingdom, and in the lands of Andong.
Everyone started a craze to learn from Nanyang’s experience.
Slavery, this terrible system, seems to be showing signs of a comeback after hundreds of years of being dead.
However, this time, Chinese officials and nobles chose to devote themselves to engineering construction and industrial construction.
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Liu Che walked out of the main hall of Xuanshi Hall, stood in front of the steps in front of the hall, and stared at the prosperous Chang'an City in front of him.
"The first batch of sacrifices have been delivered to the altar..." He thought in his heart: "But this is far from enough!"
How many people can be captured in the mountains of the southwest and the jungles of Jiaozhi?
It would be great to catch one million if you are exhausted!
Even if you include the Japanese slaves on the Neon Islands, it would only be an extra 100,000.
With such a small population, China wants to incubate capitalism and the bourgeoisie in such a huge country.
Some idiots are just dreaming.
At most, it’s just a sprout,
Amazing, two more young leaves have grown.
The real hope lies in the West, in the vast Indian subcontinent and Central Asia!
It was a vast world with a population no less than that of China.
Only the population and resources there can help China give birth to a real industrial revolution and bourgeoisie.
"I don't know where the military officials have gone in their Western Expedition?" Liu Che thought, "Is Dayuan still holding on?"
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Of course, Dawan Kingdom is still struggling to support itself.
However, this once glorious city-state kingdom is now on the verge of destruction.
In the spring of this year, Dawan still had more than 70 cities and a population of hundreds of thousands.
But now, only seven or eight fortified cities, including the capital Kasa, are still holding on.
The remaining cities have all fallen.
"Have the Aspirin gods abandoned us?" King Theodort of Dawan looked worriedly at the endless Huns' tents under the city of Kasa, and sighed: "The Kingdom of Great Ionia,
Will it be destroyed in my hands?"
In fact, Dawan is just a translation of Chinese.
The real name of Dawan, its Greek name, is Ionia.
In ancient Indian scriptures, they are called Yavanas.
Dawan is also the name translated from Yabana.
At this time, no Chinese arrived here.
Therefore, Dawan still exists in the world in the name of the Great Ionian Kingdom.
However, they lost contact with their mother country thirty years ago.
A hundred years ago, the world of Greek city-states in Central Asia underwent a series of earth-shaking changes.
First, the Seleucid governor of Bactria declared independence and established the Kingdom of Bactria.
Subsequently, the Kingdom of Bactria was aggressive and its power once reached the legendary Silk Kingdom.
But the good times did not last long. Thirty or forty years ago, a civil war broke out in the Kingdom of Bactria.
The kingdom was divided into two parts, north and south.
What's even more terrifying is that the Dayue clan from the east were defeated by the Xiongnu and moved westward. Their arrival brought complete changes to the entire Central Asia.
The most intuitive change is that, driven by the Yuezhi people, the Cypriot tribes active in Central Asia also invaded various Greek city-states and kingdoms.
Together with the Yuezhi people, they rewrote the history of Central Asia.
And separated many Hellenistic city-states, including Dawan, from the Bactrian kingdom of Antioch.
Since then, Dawan, or the so-called Great Ionian Kingdom, has gained independence.
But the taste of independence is bitter and difficult.
The Dawan people not only have to face the invasion of Cypriots, but also deal with terrible threats from all directions.
Now, we are facing an unprecedented crisis!
The barbarian cavalry from the east appeared again on the land of Dawan.
But this time, they didn't just cross the border.
They are terrifying conquerors who come with death and blood.
In all the cities that were conquered, almost all the men who dared to resist were killed, their heads were stuck on wooden stakes, and their scalps were even scalped alive and made into drinking vessels.
The men, women, and children who surrendered were all picked up by ropes by those terrifying barbarians and taken away to unknown distances.
In the past four months, the Kingdom of Dawan has lost more than half of its population and army, and most of its cities.
Now, we can only rely on Kasa and other fortified cities to survive.
"Your Majesty the King, I once heard that in the east, there is a powerful country that defeated these barbarians..." Dawan's deputy king, Okolati said: "Just like a few decades ago, those barbarian cavalry were defeated.
It’s the same as defeating someone…”
"Maybe we can ask them for help!"
"How can we ask for help? We don't understand the language and we don't know where they are!"
"No!" said the deputy king: "Your Majesty, we know where that powerful country is!"
"It must be the legendary Silk Country!"
"Please allow me, as a descendant of Alexander the Great, to go to the Silk Country as envoy to meet with the King of the Silk Country and ask him to lend a helping hand!"
Ocolati said: "I once heard legends that when the barbarians and Cypriots invaded, the people of a city-state, led by its nobles, fled to the Silk Kingdom, and received preferential treatment from the king of the Silk Kingdom!
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"Besides, we are facing the same enemy as the Silk Kingdom. I believe that the King of the Silk Kingdom will definitely help us..."
"But..." Theodore sighed: "We can't support it for much longer..."
"These barbarians are too cruel. Our soldiers and phalanx cannot defeat them at all..." Theodore closed his eyes and recalled the nightmare of the past four months.
The barbarian cavalry was overwhelming, cruel and brutal.
The Greek infantry and horse archers were like paper in front of them.
In particular, the longbows of these barbarian cavalry have a long range and strong lethality, and the archers are so skilled in shooting that they can even suddenly turn around and shoot arrows.
Many brave generals died under this tactic of these barbarians.
Now, the Great Ionian Kingdom has only 20,000 defeated soldiers left.
The soldiers didn't even dare to go out of the city to form formation anymore.
"Then ask Antioch for help!" Ocolati said: "We can even send envoys to the royal courts of the Yuezhi and Cypriots to ask for help!"
"These barbarians are obviously the mortal enemies of the Yuezhi people. Their slogan is also to go and settle accounts with the Yuezhi people!"
"Do the Yueshi and Sai people dare to face these barbarians marching westward?"
"They are the enemies of the entire world!" Ocolati said: "All descendants of Alexander the Great and Seleucid the Great, as well as all civilized nobles and kingdoms, should join hands to face this huge threat!"
"And I will still lead people to sneak to the east, looking for the direction of the Silk Country, in the hope of getting assistance from the Silk Country!"
At this point, Theodore had no other choice.
He could only nod and said: "That's it. I will immediately send people to Antioch and India to seek help from my compatriots. I leave the Silk Country in the East to you!"
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Unlike the Greeks.
The Huns are as happy now as they were during the New Year.
Can you be unhappy?
Last year, they suffered heavy losses at the foot of the Great Wall.
More than 50,000 strong men were killed or captured.
The foundation of the entire empire is almost on the verge of collapse.
but now……
when they attacked to the west.
The harvest exceeded their expectations and imagination.
"Great Chanyu... we are rich!" King Hushe of the Huns, who was lying on a box full of gold coins and couldn't bear to get down, said happily: "In just four months, we have grabbed more than 200,000 gold coins.
Slaves, including nearly 100,000 female slaves!”
“There is so much gold, silver, fine wine and delicious food that I can’t even count them all!”
"Warriors, everyone is already full of fighting spirit. We are just waiting for the Great Chanyu's order!"
This is exactly the case!
The Huns marched westward, and in four months they made up for all their losses in the east.
The amount of slaves and wealth obtained surprised the military officials.
"Well!" the military minister said somewhat reservedly: "This is all the blessing of the ancestors and gods. The ancestors and gods told this Chanyu that the future of the Xiongnu lies in the west!" (To be continued.)
