Han Shizu

Chapter 2138: King Sejong Chapter 13: Storms in Central Asia (Part )

When the coalition forces were formed in the world of ysl, preparing for the Eastern Expedition for revenge, expelling the Han people, and retaking the Hezhong area, unexpectedly, within the Anxi Three Kingdoms, there was an irrepressible voice to continue the Western Expedition.

A large number of commanders, camp commanders, and captains under the Anxi system constantly requested orders from the King of Anxi, hoping to reorganize the army and continue to fight west and south, march to the Persian region, drink from the two horse rivers, and go to the core of the ysl world. Destroy and conquer those disobedient thieves and rebels.

Obviously, once the pace of expansion begins, it is difficult to stop. Everyone in Anxi is eager to fight, eager to expand, and arrogant and impetuous, almost to the point where everyone's brains are burning.

To be honest, when the Hezhong area has not yet been consolidated, public security is turbulent, and there are endless riots. When the rule is still in an early stage and a low level, it is really not a smart choice to start a war again.

There is a word in Han culture to describe this kind of behavior, which is called militarism. In the royal court of Anxi, there are many civil servants and talents from the mother country who have been deeply influenced by the Han civilization. Even if they conquer the entire river and develop and operate in foreign lands thousands of miles away, they will instinctively choose to adopt the traditional methods and rules of the Han family to implement them. rule.

And blind war, reckless war, is obviously contrary to this concept. Of course, far away in the river and even in the Persian region, it is no longer the traditional sphere of influence of the Han family. It is difficult to continue to follow the traditional methods of the Han country for a long time.

As for this, Anxi King Liu Min understood this as early as the late Kaibao period, and some appropriate changes must be made. This was also the fundamental reason why he chose to implement the "camp system" reform in the Anxi Dudu Mansion. The traditional Han system could firmly rule Kyushu China and radiate to the surrounding areas, but it was absolutely unable to establish an unbreakable rule in the vast area west of the Western Regions.

However, many of the Han's excellent governance policies and ideas on controlling the people are still worth learning from and promoting, and some unbreakable principles of governance are useful in any country.

Therefore, no matter how high the bellicose voices below are, there is also a strong voice at the top of the Anxi Kingdom, which strongly insists on recuperating, resuming production, implementing the Han system, and consolidating rule before making progress.

Under the "camp" system of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, especially the camp as the basic unit, these farming and animal husbandry combat units organized by military methods, their heads and heads are all thinking about how to increase wealth and expand land. , increase population.

It is true that the core ruling groups of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi are filled with low-level gangsters and untouchables from the original Han motherland. The people with innocent family backgrounds in the capital of Guizhou belong to a rare class, and more are businessmen, criminals, criminals, minors, and barbarians. people, and even rebels.

The Han Dynasty has a population of tens of millions, and most of them are for the private interests of one family. There are really not many people with lofty ideals. Even if there are, there is a small chance that they will appear in a barbaric land like the Three Kingdoms of Anxi.

The core ruling elites of the Three Kingdoms were either from the soldiers of the Western Expedition, or were relatives of the royal family, nobles who migrated to the west, or the official system supported by the imperial court in the early years.

These groups are the executors, defenders and beneficiaries of the "camp system", the core ruling system of the Three Kingdoms in Anxi. Among them, even those criminals who were demoted because of their crimes in the Han Dynasty, they are still in Anxi. Among the "elite" class, there are definitely people with outstanding knowledge and talents.

For the upper-class dignitaries, they also need a wider area to obtain resources. Through wealth exploitation and plunder, they can go east to the motherland of the Han Dynasty in exchange for enough resources to provide them with experience and enjoyment, such as silk, porcelain, tea, polished rice, fine salt, and various other resources. military resources. These things, as early as the Yongxi era, had to be replaced at a price.

The upper-class dignitaries also want greater power and more social resources, including territory, wealth, population, slaves, etc., in order to satisfy themselves and their clans and arrange a wealthy and comfortable life.

It can be safely said that there are very few stupid people, because truly stupid people will not be able to live long in the river area that is full of turmoil and violence, bloodshed and death. This has nothing to do with their origin.

The upper-class dignitaries of the Three Kingdoms, except for a small number of former Han soldiers who were left behind because of their participation in the Western Expedition, are more frustrated or even lost in the power field within the empire. Some people simply cannot make it in the country. After going down, I just followed the great flow of people abroad and made a living. This was just in line with the policy of the Three Kingdoms to open the country wide and expand their reach.

These goals can actually be achieved by restoring production and continuing the exploitation of the original people in the river under the rule, but how can it be as easy as plundering from outside? Where is the most elite and richest place in the food country? In Persia! In Baghdad!

On the other hand, during the "de-YSL" transformation of the Hezhong area over the past few years, the damage to the local area has been too serious. The population has been seriously injured and lost, the land has been barren, production has stagnated, and the economy has regressed. We want to slowly recover. Development takes a long time, and for many military leaders, large and small, who are eager for quick success and quick success, they cannot afford to wait.

But among this group, there are not a few people who support continuing the war. There seems to be a magic power in this vast area outside the territory directly under the empire. It injects a barbaric and wild nature into the gentle and moderate Han civilization. All Han people who step into this area seem to have evolved from docile sheep into With the powerful lion, everyone's ferocity and greed that were restrained by the Han family's moral culture were greatly released.

The upper-class core rulers of the Three Kingdoms, under the moral constraints of "loyalty, filial piety, integrity, propriety, justice and shame" at home, still committed many evil acts of the exploiting class, let alone outside the territories where restrictions were relaxed?

The ruling classes of many dynasties in Chinese history have proven how cruel and callous they are when they exploit and exploit without regard to the bottom line. When their instinctive evil is completely unleashed, the degree of barbarism and madness may not be lighter than that of the fanatical MSL believers they encountered along the way west.

The problems within the rule were internal factors, but the "expansionists" who insisted on continuing the war also had extremely important external factors. That is the "international environment" in which the Anxi Three Kingdoms are located. The core ruling classes of the Three Kingdoms are all Han people and affiliated tribes with profound Chineseization. They are outsiders in the river and even in the former Black Khanate.

When everyone comes to the northwest foreign land, although there is a part of them with the idea of ​​making a contribution, the core motivation is to get promoted and make a fortune. Here, you can obtain power, status, fame and wealth that you cannot enjoy at home. If life is not as good as at home, why bother?

This voice mainly comes from the upper ruling class of Anxi. To a certain extent, it belongs to the will of the national level and has the support of Anxi King Liu Min. After being a real king for twenty years, Liu Min also deeply realized that besides military conquest, political conquest, cultural assimilation and economic control were the more difficult and complicated things to do.

They are incompatible with local forces politically, economically, culturally, linguistically, and historically, and their conflicts are fierce, especially religious conflicts, which are even more irreconcilable.

As for the great food countries, even though they are full of conflicts and constant attacks, they at least have a strong unity of faith. However, the number of core ruling groups in the Three Kingdoms is very limited.

If we count from the time when Liu Min conquered the Black Khanate, in the past twenty years, through military dispatches from the imperial court, local policy immigration, etc., only about 500,000 Han immigrants have migrated westward. Around the eleventh year of Yongxi's reign, the core ruling group of the Three Kingdoms of Anxi was less than 700,000, even if the old Central Asian nobles and lower-class barbarians who were newly naturalized in the conquered areas were added together.

These 700,000 people have to rule a vast territory of millions of square kilometers, as well as an indigenous population and tribes that are several times or even ten times their size, and they are constantly fighting wars. Even in the first year of Jianlong's reign, the number of people who could be considered the basis of rule was only around one million.

As for the enemies that the Three Kingdoms need to face, in the vast Dashi area, those large and small dynasties, countries, warlords, and tribes have tens of millions of people under their jurisdiction. There may be many conflicts between them, one after another, and it is normal for them to attack each other when there is no external pressure, but the existence of the YSL faith allows them to at least be consistent in dealing with the outside world when facing threats from outsiders.

To the Great Food Kingdoms and the ysl world, the Three Kingdoms of Anxi are just three evil dragons that destroy states, destroy gods, and destroy religions. They are powerful enemies worthy of putting aside their prejudices and fighting together.

When entering the Yongxi era, the central mother country's support for the feudal states was only based on "moral family ties". For the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, it was equivalent to losing the most important source of "external" expansion power. A "rich second generation" who had no worries about food and clothing gradually evolved into a "rich generation" who worked hard.

As a result, the situation of the Anxi Three Kingdoms in the Hezhong area became "fighting alone". Even though they could still get some support from the Han motherland through trade and assistance, it was not as good as before. But what the Three Kingdoms are facing is the entire ysl world, a region with an ancient civilization and a population of over 30 million.

To be honest, the Anxi Three Kingdoms, which did not have the blood transfusion support from the Han Empire, were completely at a disadvantage in terms of overall strength when facing the YSL world.

In terms of war equipment, although the armies of the Three Kingdoms have used gunpowder on a large scale, and even artillery, the king of war, has mature methods and application scenarios, its power is far from sweeping everything. And the great cannibals are not just barbarians who know no flexibility. They are also thinking about the methods of defense, and at the same time, they are also learning and imitating them.

In the long war, with the passage of time, the iron cavalry of the Western Expedition that swept through the Western Regions, slaughtered the Black Khan, and displayed the majesty of the Han Dynasty in the early years have become old, dead, and gone, and have long since withdrawn from history. stage.

Instead, there are a few armies that are still elite, but their combat quality and combat effectiveness have undeniably declined. Although they are still strong and worked together to destroy the former overlord of the river, the Samanid Dynasty, the degenerative changes that have occurred among them are also real. Here I am.

Being small and powerful, outnumbering the many, is a situation that the Anxi Three Kingdoms need to face for a long time. Under such circumstances, it will never be possible to conquer the ysl world by relying solely on production and development. On the contrary, they will rely on the huge Population and material advantages, anti-consumption, anti-assimilation.

Recuperating and recuperating is certainly reasonable, but this is only to relieve the fatigue of soldiers and civilians and reorganize the power of war. The only way is to continuously expand and plunder outwards. While improving one's own wealth, it also weakens the hostile forces of the world and kills their teachers. people, destroy their production, and naturalize their population.

If we had followed the traditional Han family's way of governing the country, it would have been absolutely impossible to gain a foothold surrounded by a completely different and conflicting civilization. Looking at Black Khan from a distance and looking at the river from a closer look, the three countries of Anxi and Anxi are all implementing such a set of national policies of "expansion and plunder". This is the foundation of the country and the way to survive.

In order to achieve a long-lasting rule like that of the Han Dynasty, we must first spread the glory of the Han family's civilization to this land. At least, the "naturalized" population must have a sufficient number.

This point is also feasible. At least the experience of the past thirty years has fully demonstrated that those MSL believers are not made of steel. Arrows can penetrate their bodies, and their heads will fall off if cut off with steel knives.

Under the threat of force and the shock of death, there are always those who are willing to be obedient subjects and slaves of the Han masters. If they are given some welfare benefits, they can even become supporters of the new country and the new monarch.

At the time when the Anxi Three Kingdoms were arguing over whether to conquer and expand, Baghdad's harsh declaration of Eastern Expedition, the ySL world's noisy voice of revenge, and the large-scale troop deployment of the Ghaznavid dynasty from the southwest, which was clearly rising, Layers of sounds and various actions came one after another. When they spread throughout the Three Kingdoms of Anxi, the whole Three Kingdoms were equally excited.

In the more than thirty years since the Western Expedition, Anxi's view of the ysl world is no longer as vague as it was in the early years. Many detailed operations have been arranged along the Caspian Sea coast, the Persian Plateau, Baghdad and even more distant places. Intelligence and information cannot be said to be developed, but At least have basic functionality. Small trends cannot be grasped, but big storms can always be detected.

Therefore, the Great Cannibal recruited believers again and united with the East to fight against the power of our Han family. Naturally, such a big news cannot be hidden from others. After learning about this incident, the upper echelons of the Three Kingdoms were naturally angered. They were still arguing about "whether to fight", but the enemy wanted to take the initiative to provoke and stroke the tiger's beard. How could it be tolerated?

All disputes can be stopped. Internal conflicts and development issues can be discussed later. Recruiting troops, organizing armed forces, and making military preparations to counter those rebellious Western barbarians have become the first issues to be solved by the Three Kingdoms of Anxi.

Even after entering the Yongxi era, there were certain differences in interests among the three countries, but they were still unanimous in dealing with MSL.

Therefore, in the eleventh year of Yongxi, as the three kings of Anxi issued military orders step by step, the war machines of the three feudal states that dominated the river started to move at high speed again. Compared with the time when the Samanid Dynasty was destroyed, the three kingdoms gathered their troops this time. One hundred and thirty thousand, 60,000 of which are the kingdom's elite Han armed forces.

The enemy they faced was a coalition of more than 200,000 YSL troops personally commanded by Sultan Mahmud of the Ghaznavid Dynasty. In the autumn of the eleventh year of Yongxi's reign, they gathered in the city of Amol. A battle of this scale was unprecedented throughout Persia. It is rare in history. A bloody collision like thunder and fire also unfolded in the vast area on the south coast of the Caspian Sea...

(End of this chapter)