After sending Zhou Yafu and Gongsun Kunxie away, Liu Che couldn't help but laugh.
"What a beautiful misunderstanding..." Liu Che inexplicably remembered the 'Great Mother Ansha' in later generations.
Daxia and Zengmu Ansha should be considered to be in harmony for a while.
but……
"Who translated the name Daxia?" Liu Che thought in his mind.
Obviously, it is probably impossible to translate it into Bactria, whether it is the Greek language spoken in the Greco-Indian Kingdom (Bactria), the Indian language spoken, or the ancient Huns pronunciation.
But now, twenty or thirty years have passed since the time of Emperor Taizong, when the Han Dynasty monarchs and ministers first came into contact with the refugees fleeing from Western Daxia.
Such little things have long been forgotten.
Therefore, Liu Che had no way of knowing who first translated the home countries of the refugees into Daxia.
It is even less clear why it should be translated into Daxia.
But Liu Che was able to infer the origin of the translated name ‘Daxia’ from another incident.
"Hehe... Da Qin..." Liu Che laughed so hard in his heart that his mouth twisted.
At the beginning, the Roman envoy Curitios came to China, and then, inexplicably, the officials of Dahonglu called the place he came from "Daqin".
Liu Che didn't find it strange before.
Because in history, the Han people also called Rome, the overlord of the distant Western world, this way.
But now, Liu Che has come to his senses.
This is simply not right!
Although the officials of Dahonglu said in their memorials that it was because "according to the envoys: the people in the country are all grown up and are in the middle level, similar to China, so it is called Daqin".
But the question is, why Qin?
Just because others say that the height, appearance and physical quality of its people are similar to those of China, do you call it "Great Qin"?
Aren’t Dahonglu officials afraid of being sprayed to death?
Looking at the history books of later generations, especially the history books of the Song and Ming dynasties, are there any similar records of forcibly imposing the names of ancient Chinese countries or places on distant foreign countries?
In other words, why did officials of the Han family give a name to an unknown foreign country far away that was extremely Chinese, or even the name of a Chinese vassal kingdom?
Any political behavior must have its political demands.
Just like, the current Han Empire proudly calls all the worlds that are not within the scope of the Great Wall "Yidi".
By the Tang Dynasty, they were barbarians.
In the Song Dynasty, they were Tatars.
In the Ming Dynasty, they were northern captives.
In the Manchu Qing Dynasty, there were Western barbarians at first, then foreigners, and finally there were specific American foreigners, French foreigners and British foreigners.
The change of this kind of title changes with the rise and fall of the country's power.
Just like that Napoleon joke.
Corsican monsters land in Port Joan...
The man-eating devil marches towards Grasse...
The usurper enters Grenoble...
Bonaparte captures Lyon…
Napoleon approaches Fontainebleau...
His Majesty the Emperor will arrive in his loyal Paris today...
Politicians, rulers and countries cannot be without aim.
What’s more, it’s aimless on so many things.
Liu Che looked up at the world map hanging on the wall of his bedroom.
In the far reaches of the world, outside the map, at the edge of the Xiongnu's sphere of influence, the names of countries continue to light up.
These are the names left by the generals and politicians of the Han Dynasty to the local kingdoms.
Cross the Ile River and head west.
Dayuan, Daxia, Yuezhi, Kangju, Tiaozhi, An'an, and Daqin were arranged in a row.
And south of the Yinlie River.
The names of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions recorded in the Han Dynasty were also highlighted one by one.
Gaochang, Gushi, Cheshi, Qiuci, Xiuxun...
Now it seems that in Liu Che's eyes, these place names, country names and even the names of mountains and rivers are all very interesting!
Gaochang and Qiuci are completely interchangeable words or synonyms for Gaoyang and Jiuci.
Others are more or less close to Qiong Sang, Kong Sang and Yu Shi in terms of speech.
Maybe future generations will not have much impression after seeing it, but in the eyes of the Han people at this time, they would subconsciously connect them with ancient countries and place names such as Gaoyang and Jiuzi.
Just like the students of later generations who saw Great Mother's Ansha in their textbooks for the first time.
Regardless of whether others believe it or not, I am convinced that my ancestors arrived there thousands of years ago and left them to future generations.
In the world known to the Han Dynasty, there are many similar records.
There are even more exaggerated ones.
Liu Che's eyes passed over the Amu Darya River Basin currently occupied by the Yuezhi people.
In Hanshu and Shiji, this river in Central Asia has a very familiar name: Guishui.
If you open the history books, you will find that there is also a Guishui River in China.
There is the Yu family, which originates from Guishui.
Emperor Shun's father was named Gui.
One similarity is a coincidence, two similarities are a coincidence.
Those three or four, countless names of countries, places, and even rivers and mountains in the ancient Xia kingdoms spread all over the world that the Han people had just opened their eyes to.
Is this still a coincidence?
"Little pig, little pig, watch your brother carefully and see how you can fulfill your ambition that you will never be able to achieve in your lifetime!" Liu Che withdrew his gaze.
He already knew that in this country and in the blood and marrow of this nation, the pioneering and adventurous spirit inherited from the previous kings still flows.
Whenever possible, they will conquer the world passively or actively.
Of course Liu Che must learn from such advanced experience and superb technology.
Moreover, we must study hard, strive to innovate and come up with better tricks.
"Come here, please add for me the record that Daxia lived in Guishui on the map..." After thinking about it, Liu Che added: "The Queen Mother of the West is in Daqin, and I will also add this..."
In this way, whether the Greeks, Macedonians and Romans believed it or not.
Anyway, Liu Che and his descendants should believe in the myth that the Queen Mother of the West lived in Da Qin.
…………………………
The next day, Liu Che personally held a banquet in Xuanshi Hall and followed Bo Shi to Chang'an to pay homage to the kings of his foreign vassals.
Compared with two or three years ago.
The king of Han, Yu Zhun, the king of Zhenfan, Liu Zhonghan, and the king of Canghai, Jin Xin, have undergone earth-shaking changes.
Liu Che still remembers that when he was still a prince, King Liu Zhonghan of Zhenfan and King Qi Zhun of Han came to Chang'an with a group of young men to pay homage to the Emperor of Han.
At that time, they were like a group of wealthy locals who came from the countryside. They were all rustic, and some even had some traces of Yi and Di life.
For example, tattoos, or colorful paint on the face.
But now, these people and their aristocratic ministers are all dressed in gorgeous clothes and robes, with neat crowns and belts.
Many people have already tied wide ribbons around their waists, and the ribbons are decorated with gold and jade.
Canghaijun Jinxin even decorated the ribbon on his waist with a row of pearls.
These are treasures produced in the Blackwater River and are valuable.
In Chang'an, one piece costs ten gold.
But Jin Xin fastened dozens of them on his waist in one go.
Moreover, each one is as big as a pebble, round and lustrous, and is the best among Eastern pearls.
The King of Han, Chu Zhun, did not fall behind either.
He was wearing a large court dress produced in Shu County, woven with the best Shu brocade and the best workers.
The beads under the crown are all shiny and made of silver.
This is much more expensive than gold!
You know, in China, although gold is a listed currency and hard currency, silver is more precious.
Because China produces almost no silver!
Since the Warring States Period, the price of silver has been twice that of gold.
What's more, he also had a whole row of sea beads inlaid on his feet, and 'trench' was written all over his body.
And the real king Liu Zhonghan is no less generous.
He seems to love gold more than King Qi Zhun of Han and Lord Jin Xin of Canghai.
He was equipped with a long sword made of gold, and he was also playing with a jade turtle made of pure gold in his hand. The court clothes on his body were even made of gold thread.
And their ministers also showed their "trench" side.
Almost everyone wore expensive Shu brocade and used jade and pearls as ornaments.
Compared with them, even the most prodigal dandy in Liehou in Chang'an is far inferior in terms of trenches!
As for the noble ministers, including these kings and chiefs, now everyone has a big belly.
Especially Canghaijun Jinxin, he almost became a big fat man.
That waistline can't even be restrained by the ribbon...
Liu Che looked at these guys and took a sip of wine.
In today's Korea, Zhenfan and Yiren, even if the Han Dynasty drove away with sticks, they would cry for their fathers and mother's demands to stay in China and become the concubines of the Han Dynasty.
There is no other reason.
Just because of the word profit.
It is said that all the bustle in the world is for benefit, and all the hustle and bustle in the world is for benefit.
When the Han Dynasty extended its power and army to the entire territory of Andong, and brought advanced farming technology, developed social systems and civilization.
These tribes and kingdoms that used to live a semi-primitive and semi-slave life suddenly entered feudal imperialism.
This is tantamount to cheating.
That's all.
After all, doctrines and the like cannot be eaten as food.
The key to the problem is that the arrival of the Han Dynasty completely changed their way of life and destiny.
The agricultural technology and farming technology of the Han family were comprehensively ahead of these small countries and tribes.
Things that were completely impossible and mythical in the eyes of these people in the past have become reality in the hands of the Han family.
Apart from anything else, the annual Blackwater River fishing is a huge feast.
The catch of the Han family's Louchuan Yamen in one summer is almost equivalent to the catch of the Han family in the past ten or even twenty years.
Even if they only eat some offal and leftovers, the Yiren tribe will not go hungry.
What's more, the Han family also taught them advanced farming techniques and methods, and taught them to build sturdy houses and warm firehouses.
It kept them away from the cold and hunger of winter.
The arrival of the Han caravan turned furs, ginseng, Dongzhu, etc., which they had no use for in the past, into wealth.
Even the poor at the lower levels have benefited from this process and can live a life that they could not even imagine in the past.
Let alone the upper-class nobles, even the most unpromising one can live a life without worries about food and clothing by packing up his ancestral beads and furs.
South Korea and Zhenfan Kingdom also benefited a lot from the arrival of the Han Dynasty.
Firstly, the spread of advanced tools and technology greatly increased their land output. Secondly, the strong demand for "dispatched slave labor" in Anton made their nobles and kings rich overnight.
Who wouldn’t want a day when you can count money while lying down?
As for the life and death of the mud-legged people and slaves below, they masters don’t bother to care!
Anyway, in the past, these mud-legged and slaves had to work and serve the masters day and night in their country.
Now, it is normal to help ****'s father build a better Anton.
Now, tens of thousands of "dispatched slave workers" are sent every year, creating countless profits for Shinban, South Korea and even people.
So much so that even if the nobles were sitting at home and doing nothing, they would still be full of food.
Liu Che looked at all this with a smile.
If you say it, you may not believe it.
Now, in the entire Andong Protectorate, except for Liu Ming's Korean Kingdom, in fact, the annual financial subsidy from the Han Dynasty central government to the Andong region is only tens of millions.
Most of it went to military spending and bureaucratic maintenance.
You have to ask why the cost of developing Anton is so cheap?
The answer lies in the invisible hands working behind the scenes.
Four years ago, when Anton was still a wilderness, outside the sight of the Han family.
The most civilized state here is the regime of Wei's North Korea.
At that time, the entire nation and kingdom in Anton were struggling in the abyss of a semi-primitive and semi-slavery system.
At that time, not to mention the slaves and commoners below, even the nobles often did not have enough to eat.
However, the arrival of the Han Dynasty, especially the arrival of caravans, immediately activated local resources, turning them into wealth and making it flow.
More importantly, the influx of goods from the Han Dynasty formed a kind of dumping on local tribes and kingdoms.
Originally, under normal circumstances, dumping would be enough to destroy everything they depend on for survival.
High-quality and low-priced Han products will destroy all local economic and social structures.
But the problem is that they have no so-called economic and social structure in the first place, so how can they talk about destroying it?
On the contrary, because of the dumping and acquisition of the Han Dynasty and the subsequent investment in developing Anton, the resources that had been accumulated in this area for countless years were released and revitalized.
Tribes and kingdoms were able to turn pearls, jade, furs, wood and even manpower that they had no use for in the past into food, cloth, salt, iron, gold and copper coins.
This is like a person who lives in the mountains and never interacts with the outside world, but the underground of his house is full of oil.
However, he could not rely on the oil to fill his stomach and often went hungry.
But one day, the trenchers from **** came.
A check slapped on his face and countless zeros helped him escape poverty and become well-off.
Now, the same is true for these tribes and kingdoms in Anton.
In the past, ginseng and pearls, which were no different from weeds and stones, became wealth.
Even the slaves of the past have become mobile wealth.
In today's Han Dynasty, the cost of slaves has reached an unattainable level.
A male slave requires at least 20,000 yuan.
In Anton, hiring a "dispatch slave worker" only costs a few hundred dollars a year.
It's just the price of a few stones of corn.
Use a few stones of corn to exchange for a labor force.
What a great deal!
You can’t find such beautiful things in mainland China!
Not to mention, these slaves never need to pay taxes!
Because they are dispatch workers...
Therefore, in Anton, not only the government now employs a large number of people, but also private individuals, such as the military personnel of the Huhao Army, and various settlement regiments, are also hiring cheap "dispatch slave labor" one after another.
But the slaves were happy with this kind of life.
Although working for my father in the Han Dynasty was quite hard, tiring, and dangerous.
But it can fill your stomach!
Therefore, in fact, the Han family's rule in Anton relied on the scissor gap created by the advancement of productivity and stronger physical and digestive capabilities.
Just like those fur dong beads and beautiful jade, ginseng.
In the local area, in addition to fur, Dongzhu, Meiyu and ginseng may be of some use. What other uses can they have?
But once the Han people arrived, they turned into wealth.
Moreover, the Han Dynasty's huge body and vast market were enough to absorb things that the locals could not sell at all.
On the other hand, because the labor cost of the Han Dynasty is much higher than that of the tribes in Anton (for these tribes and kingdoms, the labor cost is approximately 0), therefore, both the official and private officials of the Han Dynasty pay tribute to slaves from all countries.
Full of interest.
As long as you are willing to buy, I will definitely be willing to sell.
And the ‘dispatch system’ can avoid heavy calculations, which makes people even more happy.
Of course, the more important reason is that the local Han people already have a certain base and can create wealth and produce food.
In addition, the explosion of human resources and wealth brought by the gold rush also eased the Han Dynasty's development costs for the Andong region to a certain extent, and further increased the centripetal force and cohesion of these tribes and kingdoms towards Chang'an.
The explosion of local wealth and released resources further attracted Han merchants.
In this way, the scene that Liu Che saw today was formed in the core area of the Andong Protectorate.
Almost all of these nobles and kings became rich overnight.
Their money comes too easily and their lives are too comfortable.
Therefore, naturally, the temperament of the nouveau riche is also evident.
All kinds of comparisons and showing off wealth are endless.
They don't even think of money as money.
To be honest, in fact, no matter it is Yiren, Zhenfan or Korea.
They were all pigs raised in the Han Dynasty.
If Liu Che wanted to kill him, he could kill him at any time.
Take all their wealth, slaves and land to the central government.
They may not even be able to resist. Can you expect these fat-bellied, gold-clad, and squandering people in the palace to go to war again?
Impossible!
but……
Liu Che didn't want to do this.
The reason is simple.
Liu Che and the Han Dynasty were not short of money, and it was impossible for them to be so careless about food and appearance.
not to mention……
“Isn’t it easy to squeeze money out of the nouveau riche?”
"Do you need such a rough method?"
If you can make money by standing still, why bother being a villain and ruining your credibility and reputation?
With this in mind, Liu Che raised his wine bottle and said to the vassal kings and noble ministers sitting on the left and right sides of the palace: "You have come all the way from afar, and you have worked hard all the way. I will be preceded by Shun, and you preceded by Qingyang."
, or Jintian, is from the same origin as me, and to some extent, it can be regarded as my clan!" (To be continued.)
