Chapter 706

The Han family began to spread its majesty to the outside world when the Han army set foot in the western regions and took the Han Army's attack on Dawan as the watershed.

Before the Han army set foot in the western regions, the silk road was actually opened to the West with Zhang Qian. At that time, merchants carried goods from Hexi to western countries. Everywhere they went, they would suffer difficulties and heavy taxes. In fact, there was no guarantee for their safety.

The history books written by people record that Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, did not hesitate to fight for several horses, or that Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, spoiled Li Guangli, a second division general, and launched the war against Dawan.

If we can find something from the historical books and draw a fact from some pulse, it was not the will of one or two people or even the conspiracy of a single interest group that the Han army attacked the western regions at that time. It was an almost national desire.

What was the social mood at that time? The military group needs a battlefield to make achievements. The nobles and noble families need to teach the people of the western regions a lesson because the controlled merchants have suffered heavy losses in the western regions, DA 1 Fu 1 Qiu 1 Zhu 1 Yi (the most beautiful Confucian Gongyang sect at that time) needed to prove the seriousness of his theory by beating the western regions. The people all over the country also felt that they needed to learn a lesson from killing their fellow western people. It was almost needless to say. Anyway, it was fucking.

The battle of Dawan was a new beginning for the Han people to move towards the western regions, and it was also a strategic layout of the Han war against the Huns at that time. After all, it benefited all the Han people. The new species brought by controlling the western regions still exist in modern times, and no western people dare to kill the Han people at will.

That's because as long as a Han is dead, there will be a Han Army roaring behind. It's best to hand over the murderer. If you can't hand over the murderer, the Han Army roars "revenge" and kills an entire tribe or town. It really doesn't need to be too much. The army is so awesome, since then Han people in the western region are super class, and the western people really regard the Han people as ancestors.

Why did "Han" change from a country name to a national name? It is the strength of the Han Empire's force, and it is also the Han Empire's efforts to ensure that every Han can be served by foreign ancestors in a foreign country. It is precisely because of the pride of the Han Empire that later people miss and pursue, and the name of the nation was born.

A country that is unwilling to launch war for its people will not be remembered at all, even cruel and tyrannical at home, weak and incompetent at abroad, fool the domestic people, treat the outgoing people as "abandoning the people", and firmly believe that it is a "right thief". How many people are willing to defend such a country at the moment of survival?

Liu Yan is deeply aware that, at least in the spirit left over by the Han Empire, whether to control the western regions is regarded as a "test".

The importance of the western regions to the Central Plains Dynasty has an unlimited height. Only when Cao Wei was still gnashing his teeth to enter the western regions in the face of severe civil war, did Cao Wei get further recognition from the people in the Central Plains. The Sima family behind insisted on controlling the western regions is also a relevant consideration.

In the following dynasties, being able to control the western regions was a powerful country, while being unable to control the western regions was a weak chicken. Facts have also proved that whether we can control the importance of the western region to the Central Plains Dynasty, and whether we can control the western region will be strong for at least one generation. If we can't control the western region, it is a weak chicken in the real sense from the founding of the people's Republic to the subjugation of the country.

In fact, it is not only the "central Empire" that has such awareness, but also the whole world evaluates the Central Plains Dynasty based on whether it can control the western regions. That's a very simple truth. The western regions are too far from the core of the Central Plains. Since the Central Plains Dynasty can control the western regions, it naturally means that the hinterland of the Central Plains Dynasty must be stable and strong, so it can stretch its hand so far.

Another point is that the western region is a window of exchange between East Asia and Central Asia... And even the Far West.

For a simple example, the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty may not be really weak in the real sense. At least they had strong economic and cultural strength. At that time, many Central Asian countries did not know the existence of song because their exchanges with song were cut off by Liao and Jin. After waiting for the rise of Arabs to master the sea route, Europa even regards Liao as the "new year" country in East Asia.

In the current generation, after suffering the tragedy of being inferior to even wild animals, the establishment of a new country belonging to the Han people is the most important and fragile time for self-esteem. The whole country is firm in its teeth and continues to fight with Liu Yan's will. It is not to kill those alien races who have bullied themselves. Then they can't get out and can't get dignity.

At the same time of revenge, fame and wealth also follow. People will only subconsciously forget the people who died in the war and envy the people who obtained military merit and changed their lives. They looked around, as if those who had oppressed themselves were either killed or a small group of them were surviving. They had only one idea at a time, but revenge could not be satisfied. They needed more enemies and more fields to make achievements.

The war of the Han Dynasty against the Gupta Dynasty is an embodiment. On the premise of pursuing profitable military skills, what if we are not familiar with navigation. It is not a problem to fight across the sea from afar. Our Han people just want to learn from the ancestors of the Han Dynasty, that is, we should not be afraid of hardship and the long way. As long as we have military function, we will do it anyway!

The military service to the Gupta Dynasty is very limited, which can only meet the pursuit of military achievement of a few people. Those who can't intervene are eager, especially the middle and lower classes. The middle and lower levels not only refer to the military, but also countless people who want to change their life trajectory.

The country is full of ruins and needs to lick wounds to restore internal affairs. That's what the senior central ministers (civil servants) in charge of the country need to consider. The generals don't know this, but they are generals!

For military generals, the hardship of the country never needs them to consider. What they want is to find and kill the enemy. It is the supreme honor to destroy their country. It is enough to focus on this.

"Opportunity!" Xu Zheng couldn't bear his inner joy: "Persians are really good people!"

A group of generals nodded fiercely. For them, it is not enough to use troops for the Gupta Dynasty. There are more troops there. If they die, they will add another standing army to participate in the war. A standing army is far from enough for them. They can only put in one general, three school lieutenants and five military princes. It's like more wolves and less meat.

Not to mention officers, who can withstand the temptation of a standing army of 15000? They want to increase their fields, to have more slaves and maidservants, to have a higher title, to be honest in the sky, and nothing can hit their heads except rain and snow. Too many wants are based on going on an expedition!

Why did the Qin army rejoice at the war? Because everything you want can be obtained on the battlefield!

The first Han Dynasty is basically the same as the Qin army. It can even be said that the first Han Dynasty paid more attention to military merit and respected military merit than the Pre-Qin Dynasty. Among them, there is a "non military merit can not be granted Marquis". Even if it is the national uncle's stuff, it also needs to go to the battlefield at least, so that a marquis can not be criticized and can get more respect.

During the period of Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the previous nobles could be swept into the garbage, but those who made meritorious achievements in the battlefield repeatedly emerged and received unimaginable benefits. As a result, the whole nation rose up and became war maniacs.

"There is one division in the grassland, one army in the northeast, two armies in Longxi, and two armies in pingman Colonel's Department..." ran min picked his teeth after eating meat and said discontentedly, "too little, too little."

Ran min had just come back from the grassland. Before he came back, he personally took a song to the territory of xigaoche and killed the head. Following a song of the war, living, dead and disabled... One of them has at least one level of military merit of beheading, and more is to have a title "second-class jump". If the 20th rank has relevant restrictions and only depends on the enemy's first-class merit recording, it is not just a title "second-class jump".

The king's inspection team has reversed and returned to Chang'an. Almost one year's reporting period, those who should return to the center will come back.

"It's not that the king doesn't want to recover the western regions, but..." ran Min said undisguised, "it's just that those people (referring to civil servants) can pull too much."

How could Liu Yan give up recovering the western regions? It's not that simple to recover the western regions.

If only the troops were dispatched to the western regions, the extent of resistance the Han army would encounter is unknown for the time being, but the countries in the western regions can never stand the "recovery of the lost land" of the Han country. If the Han army can't fight down at one time, it will fight for the second and third time... Until the western regions return to the embrace of the Han people.

The reason why it is complex for the Han state to recover the western regions is that Liu Yan did not think that the western regions was the end of the Han Army's conquest at the beginning, but rather the starting point of the Han Army's outward conquest.

Precisely because the western region is the starting point for the Han Army to conquer the west, how to recover the western region and what action should be taken after recovering the western region is worth thinking and deploying, and even related to the future national trend of the Han people.

Xu Zheng, ran min, etc. at their level, they basically need to know everything they should know, including why Liu Yan delayed the recovery of the western regions.

"Before, we didn't know what happened to Sasan. Now we have a little judgment." Xu Zheng said one of the reasons why Liu Yan delayed the recovery of the western regions, and said: "the king's worry is that the Han Dynasty did not repair its internal affairs. After recovering the western regions, he immediately made enemies with Sasan, or even broke out in war."

No nonsense. Before, Liu Yan really had to consider a point, such as whether the recovery of the western regions would immediately break out a national war with Persia Sasan. After all, he really didn't know that there were a lot of troubles in Persian sassanne. He didn't even know that there were hunites between the western regions and Persian sassanne. Instead, he remembered that the Tang army met with the Arab Empire because of the recovery of the western regions. Both sides really fought because of the ownership of the western regions.

A country has not come out of the trauma of war, its domestic ruins are everywhere, and its fields are full of desolation. Such a country really has no confidence to break out any national war, especially with powerful countries.

Liu Yan's plan to recover the western regions should give the Han state ten years to deal with and build its internal affairs. It's not to do nothing in the middle. For example, completely sweep Murong Xianbei and Tuoba Xianbei into the historical garbage dump, maim Rouran or directly destroy it. Even Donggao car should be destroyed, completely cut off the threat from the East, and then March to the West.

Now, the Han state already knew that Persian sassanne had fallen into the mud pit, so it stopped talking about the continuous domestic rebellion, and the war against Rome was not smooth. It was equal to that the Han state would not encounter the threat from Persian sassanne to the West.

In addition, Persian sassanne seemed to hope that the Han state could move westward, at least welcoming the Han state's re control of the western regions. On the one hand, it doesn't matter to the Han country. The Persians welcome or don't welcome it. It's none of their business for the Han people to take back the western regions. What the Han country is worried about is the outbreak of a national war on the premise of insufficient preparation.

He is as fierce as ran min. he also knows that when China is in a mess, he can't fight with powerful countries, especially on the premise of land.

People like the Gupta Dynasty who traveled by sea were very strange to the sea. It was because they were strange. I really didn't think about whether ah San would kill the Han Army if it was defeated in the front.

"The king has moved." Xu Zheng said that Liu Yan ordered Xie an to solve the enemy in Xiqiang mountain within one year: "it's our chance."

Liu Yan did not directly say that he would march into the western regions, but his order to Xie an has explained everything. How could the Han Army advance westward when there was a threat on the way without solving the problems of Longxi County.

"But I can't wait to make a noise." On this occasion, Li Tan still said, "need is like the first Han."

If you don't have some culture, you really don't understand what Li Tan means. It's nothing more than the old events of the Western Han Dynasty. The war against the Huns is the will of the whole country, not a simple few people can promote it.

Xu Zhengzheng nodded, "that's right."

Xie an didn't want to talk, but it was time to say, "what's the limit?"

Xie an is talking about how many troops should be used to march into the western regions, what the scale is, and to what extent. That is because it involves the western advance policy of the Han state after recapturing the western regions.

Except Liu Yan, no one can answer Xie an. Everyone, including Xu Zheng, the Taiwei, can only perform what Liu Yan wants.

"In short, let the group of people stop croaking." Ran min is so direct: "the rest is like ruicai said, and the momentum is going to get up."

The soldiers are not confused. They also know that internal affairs still need to be built, but they can't wait that long. Now they have the opportunity to enter the western regions. Even the excuse of recapturing the bridgehead of the western regions is definitely a justifiable reason. The problem is to clear up the obstacles. For example, Liu Yan has made it clear that he wants to repair internal affairs and can't change day and night.

"It's not enough to have a voice." Xie'an is destined to know more about the twists and turns than people who are not from noble families: "the king's compliance with public opinion is true for the king's way, but it is still not enough."

At present, xie'an said a little about the twists and turns. For example, even if the king overturned the previous decision, what preconditions should he have? Some people's eyes were straight. Many people really didn't know that a thing could be so complicated.

"Let the people of the western regions jump up first and let us have an excuse to do it!" Ran min make complaints about Tucao: "it's so complicated."