The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Stationed in Funan Kingdom not long after Liu Zheng was defeated.

Speaking of Funan Kingdom, it really needs a general like Cao Cao who can expand the territory to guard it.

After all, the men and horses here are all uncivilized tribal savages.

Without some capable people guarding them, these savages would easily disobey discipline and cause trouble.

If someone like Cao Cao stays by Liu Zheng's side, it will easily make Liu Zheng jealous, so it's not bad to simply send him to Funan.

In the past few years, Cao Cao has been quite well-behaved in Funan, and he cooperated with Zhou Cang to manage Funan well.

Originally, Funan had a large population. Although none of them were Han Chinese, it was a good choice for these people to serve as soldiers. When Liu Zheng was short of soldiers, he could consider those Funan people.

According to Liu Zheng's instructions, Cao Cao used similar colonial ideas in Funan.

Use the local people to govern the local people, and then the Han people are noble nobles above the local people.

After a few years, the natives of Funan have now accepted the rule of the great Han. Although there are still occasional rebellions, Cao Cao has implemented a wave of language reforms and cultural reforms.

Now many children can speak Chinese fluently.

Funan's previous culture is gradually fading, and basically this kind of assimilation is almost done.

A few more years, when these children grow up, they will accept their fate and know their status.

In Funan, Cao Cao not only helped Liu Zheng manage Funan well, but also opened up territories and expanded land to help Liu Zheng expand his land.

The remnants of the previous Funan forces still occupy the surrounding area of ​​Funan Kingdom.

It's just that their strength is limited, limited by the backwardness of population and equipment. It is simply a dream to defeat the combination of Cao Cao and Zhou Cang in today's Funan.

Of course, that doesn't mean they don't have a chance.

After several years of pursuit, and the development of Liu Zheng's nautical trade in the past few years, the fleet from Jiaozhou to Funan gradually increased, and these people began to trade further afield.

They actually let them sail all the way to ancient India.

Of course, it's just that they are not called India at this time, but the Guishuang Empire.

Coincidentally, the territory of the Guishuang Empire is extremely vast, and it is directly connected to the Protectorate of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty.

In this era, the Guishuang Empire is one of the four great powers of this era.

At that time, the Han Dynasty, Rome, and Anxi, tied for the strongest four empires.

Speaking of the Guishuang Empire, as a modern person, Liu Zheng really doesn't know much about it.

But Liu Zheng doesn't understand, it doesn't mean that Cao Cao of this era doesn't understand, Cao Cao has checked a lot of information on purpose.

When talking about this empire with Liu Zheng, he was very excited, and soon described the ins and outs of the Guishuang Empire to Liu Zheng.

It turns out that the Guishuang Empire, if you really want to talk about it, has nothing to do with the Huns, the powerful enemies of the Han Dynasty.

Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, there was a nomadic tribe active in Central Asia called the Da Yuezhi.

This nomadic tribe has been active in the northwestern part of China since the second century BC, which is later the west of the Hexi Corridor, the area from Zhangye to Dunhuang. It is so powerful that even the Huns are a little afraid.

Later, with the rise of the strong Han, and the great Yue clan, like the Xiongnu, was a tribal system, and the country was divided into five major tribes.

In the pre-Qin period, the Xiongnu gave birth to a generation of Shanyu called Maodun, who was known as the world, and Maodun sent his own army to directly defeat the Yuezhi at that time.

Beheaded the king of the Dayue clan, forcing the tribe of the Dayue clan to migrate directly to the west.

The power of the Da Yuezhi once declined seriously, and was pursued by the sworn enemy Wusun, which led to the continuous southward migration of the Da Yuezhi.

When Da Yuezhi was fleeing, the geographical scope gradually moved away from the strong Han and the Huns, and lost the ability to fight with the big Han and the Huns, which caused the big Han and the Huns to fight in the following days.

The Da Yueshi took this opportunity to start their own development.

There were originally five tribes under his command, but amid successive defeats, one of the tribes named Guishuang grew stronger and established the Guishuang Empire.

The Guishuang Empire was established when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the Huns were in full swing. With this precious time to develop, the Guishuang Empire began to continue to expand westward, and even once reached the vicinity of Dawan Kingdom.

At that time, the Guishuang Empire was still in contact with the big man, and the King of Guishuang begged the big man to marry the princess in order to intermarry with the big man.

As a result, he was rejected by Banchao, the governor of the Western Regions at that time. King Guishuang became so angry that he raised [-] troops to attack Banchao, but was defeated by Banchao, and he had to offer gifts to seek peace.

Even at that time, Ban Chao didn't even know the name of the Guishuang King. Anyway, the strong man at that time was the hegemonic empire of the entire Asia.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, seeing that the east could not be fought, the soldiers and horses of the Guishuang Empire could only continue to expand their territory in the southeast direction, and they reached Tianzhu.

They once again conquered the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, expanded their sphere of influence to Khwarazm in Central Asia, annexed Sistan, and formed a huge empire in Central Asia.The territory of the empire starts from Patna in the east, Dakhrate in the west, Nabada River in the south, and the Aral Sea in the north.

As if, it is already a giant.

For the current end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Guishuang Empire is already an unrivaled existence.

After all, during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Regions were no longer under the control of the Han Dynasty. Without war horses, it would not be so easy for the Han Dynasty to fight these nomadic peoples again.

When Liu Zheng heard Cao Cao mentioning the Guishuang Empire to himself, he couldn't help laughing a little playfully.

He was worried about dealing with those Xianbei people at this time, and the next step was to deal with Liu Bei.

Unexpectedly, here came another object that he could conquer.

In Liu Zheng's heart, he already had a plan. After conquering Liu Bei and unifying the Three Kingdoms, he set his conquest target on the Guishuang Empire.

But before that, he still had to enjoy it first.

After fighting all his life, he should be comfortable.

Yuzhang County, Poyang Lake.

The newly built parade building here.

That is, later generations, the predecessor of Tengwang Pavilion.

In Changsha County, there is also a parade building, which was built by Liu Zheng to deal with Liu Biao and Ding Yuan.

The military parade building in Yuzhang County here was built for the training of these students in the military school.

This time, the court meeting chosen by Liu Zheng is here. ?

Chapter 1000 Two hundred and four Banquet in the Parade Building

The five tiger lieutenant generals under his command and the four major auxiliary ministers are all present.

Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, Xu Huang, Zhou Cang, Zhou Tai.

Lu Bu was originally under Liu Zheng's command and was not reused. After all, because he killed his adoptive father one after another in history, Liu Zheng was not particularly optimistic about his surrender.

However, with Lu Qiling in the middle acting as a link, and now that Liu Zheng has proclaimed himself emperor, no matter how strong and confident Lu Bu is, he will not openly rebel.

Gradually, Liu Zheng also gained some trust in Lu Bu. Coupled with Lu Bu's own military power, he has been following Liu Zheng in all the wars these days, and his achievements are here.

Naturally, Huang Zhong also said that he was under Liu Zheng's command, a powerful general comparable to Lu Bu, and a general guarding the Jingzhou area today.

Xu Huang is a veteran figure, and now he is guarding Jizhou to stabilize the north.

As for Zhou Cang and Zhou Tai, one guards Funan and the other guards Kyushu Island.

They are all guards under Liu Zheng's command.

However, after this year's battle, Liu Zheng promoted several lieutenant generals.

The first to bear the brunt was Tai Shici. This time the Northern Expedition, Tai Shici can be regarded as a hard worker, and his achievements are obvious to all.

Therefore, Tai Shici's promotion was not surprising.

The second is Wenpin.

The same is true for Wenpin. He also has a more direct contribution, which is that he directly caught Ma Chao, which is no small surprise.

And, Sun Ce and Zhou Yu who just came back from the northern grassland.

The two of them were able to take only 3000 people to kill the Xianbei grassland alone, and beheaded Ke Bineng, the leader of the Xianbei grassland. This feat is unprecedented and unprecedented.

He became a lieutenant general when he was weak, and he did have this ability.

And, the last person, Liu Chong.

Although Liu Chong only attacked Zhang Fei's territory in Yanzhou, but without Liu Chong's attack, this protracted battle might have lasted for a few more months.

At least with this attack, it is enough to prove that Liu Chong's refuge is sincere.

It can also make Liu Zheng feel more at ease with Liu Chong.

It is only natural to promote Liu Chong.

Liu Zheng has not seen these generals under his command for many years.

Even this time for the construction of the military parade building, these people were called to hold a grand banquet.

Since it is a banquet, it is natural to engage in some competitions to stimulate these generals present.

For example, Liu Zheng held an archery competition before.

At that time, Huang Zhongyong won the first place in the three armies.

But the situation is different now, Liu Zheng has many more generals under his command.

With their participation, there will naturally be more participants.

It is even more interesting, especially the arrival of Lu Bu.

Let everyone look forward to who is the real number one archery master.

There were more people participating in the last archery competition, and even small soldiers could participate.

This time Liu Zheng didn't let those little soldiers participate. After all, it was a duel of masters, and those little soldiers couldn't compete with Tai Shici, Huang Zhong and Lu Bu if they participated.

He only let the generals participate in this competition, but there are still many people who give up directly.

With Huang Zhongtai, Shi Ci and Zhu Yu in front, the rest of them knew that they had no hope of winning the championship, and if they hadn't made much progress in these years, the competition was just a foil for them, so there was no need to lose this person.

Finally after some competition.

The top three finally appeared.

There is no doubt that it is Lu Bu, Huang Zhong, Tai Shici and the others.

As for the three of them, who is better at archery.

Naturally, there is no doubt about Lu Bu.

Lu Bu was born with supernatural power, and the arrows he shot were even better than those of Huang Zhongtai Shici.

Not only can he shoot accurately, but he can also pull a stronger bow and shoot more powerful arrows.

It's just that Lu Bu has always disliked shooting arrows during battles.

What he believes in is to fight with real swords and guns on the battlefield, rather than the indecent method of stabbing people in the back.

After the top few in the archery competition, Liu Zheng rewarded them one by one.

Finally, in the afternoon, a banquet was held in the Parade Building for the generals and advisers who came this time.

In Yuzhang in November, there is a bit of coolness.

Liu Zheng hasn't enjoyed such a peaceful day for a while.

At the beginning of the banquet, many maidservants served Sanliangye, which only Liu Zheng had.

Looking at the beautiful scenery of Poyang Lake, Liu Zheng suddenly became interested.

Said something to these people present.

"I remember that many of you are good at literature, and your literary attainments are not shallow. Why don't we come to a poetry meeting, and you can write Fu at will. Today we will comment on a literary master."

Liu Zheng glanced at the people present. Among these people, many of them had very high literary attainments.

For example, Cao Cao in front of Liu Zheng.

They are the seven sons of Jian'an, and the poems they write must be recited throughout the texts of later generations.

There are also Gu Yong, Guo Jia, Liu Ye and others, all of whom are very talented.

Writing poems and prose is simply child's play.

For these bigwigs, it's just a matter of using a pen.

Liu Zheng was also on a whim, and wanted to see if among these people under him, there was any chance of becoming a writer in the future.

Anyway, the improvement of culture is what Liu Zheng attaches great importance to. This thing is useless at ordinary times, but when it really comes to use him, you can see that he can't do without him.

The reason why the Chinese civilization has been able to prosper and last forever, even if it is occupied by people, it can still maintain the rule of the Han people is because of culture.