Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

The two sons were taken aback by King Wusun's sudden appearance, and hurriedly said, "It's such a father, someone passed by here just now, and brought a message from the emperor of the Han Kingdom."

King Wusun's expression froze for a moment, and he asked, "What's the message from the Emperor of Han?"

The older second son hurriedly said: "It's like this. The emperor of the Han Kingdom said that as long as he can surrender, both the father and us can be appointed as officials of the Han Kingdom."

When King Wusun heard this, his heart skipped a beat.

Should we surrender?

After a brief hesitation, King Wusun's face suddenly changed, and he said viciously: "Surrender?

impossible!We've all come to this point now, why surrender?

Let me tell you, if we really surrender, we will have to let the people of the Han Kingdom ride on our heads and shit on us in the future.

Remember, the Yuezhi people can't knock us down, and these Han people can't knock us down either. We just need to continue to retreat westward, find the Seleucids, let them support us, and we will always make a comeback! "

For King Wusun, he himself thought very clearly.

Although it is said that the Seleucids have already failed, King Wusun knows the Seleucid governor very well. He knows that the governor will not accept it willingly. This failure will definitely try to make a comeback.

At that time, the Seleucid governor will inevitably borrow a very powerful soldier from the Seleucid Empire. From this, Seleucus may be able to achieve a successful counterattack and give this piece of land to another Take it back once.

In this process, King Wusun, as a guide who knows this area very well, can provide great help to the Seleucids, and in the future, the Seleucids will continue to consolidate their rule in this area in the war with the Han Dynasty , and will inevitably rely on and rely heavily on King Wusun.

In this case, King Wusun hopes to continue to maintain the rights he once obtained in this area. On the contrary, if King Wusun surrenders to the Great Khanate at this time, he will only become a small country at best. What is the use of an official?

Of course, it is impossible for King Wusun to tell these two sons about these thoughts hidden in the deepest part of his heart. After all, he just needs to know some things.

After reprimanding his two sons for a few words, King Wusun felt hungry, so he started to walk aside, ready to ask someone to get some food.

But King Wusun didn't notice that after hearing her answer of refusing to surrender, the eyes of his two sons suddenly became quite strange.

The two sons looked at each other and seemed to have made up their minds about something.

After a while, King Wusun finally found something that was still edible, so he sat there and ate it with big mouthfuls.

As a nomadic people on the grassland, King Wusun has long been accustomed to living without a fixed place. Although it is a long time since he has nothing to eat, he can barely get used to it.

Just when King Wusun was eating happily, he suddenly heard an exclamation not far away.

"Be careful, king!"

King Wusun recognized that it was the voice of his most trusted personal guard captain, so he subconsciously turned his head to see what was going on.

But I didn't expect that just as he turned his head, he saw an oncoming figure and the long sword in this figure's hand.

The long sword pierced Wusun King's chest without hindrance.

King Wusun's eyes widened, and he looked at the man who killed him in front of him unwillingly and confidently.

It was none other than the second prince born of King Wusun.

"You..." King Wusun wanted to say something, but blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, and his life was completely over.

Looking at the corpse of King Wusun lying on the ground, the second prince Wusun shook his head calmly.

"My dear father, maybe you don't know that the emperor of the Han Kingdom issued another order besides surrender."

If anyone can take the head of King Wusun and give it to Zhao Kuo, no matter who this person is, Zhao Kuo can immediately appoint him as a general of the Han Dynasty.

This is why the two sons of King Wusun had very strange eyes when they were discussing.

As people on the prairie, their moral concepts are actually quite weak. The killing between father and son is really a common thing on the prairie.

After the death of King Wusun, another small-scale battle broke out. This battle mainly used King Wusun's personal guard and the soldiers and horses of the two princes as the two sides of the battle.

After some fighting, all the guards loyal to King Wusun fell, and the two princes won the final victory.

The second prince looked at the messy corpses in front of him, touched the blood on his face, he also heaved a sigh of relief, and laughed loudly.

It's finally over, and the next thing to do is to go to the original capital and give this head to the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and then you can receive the reward.

Just when the second prince had started to dream about the future, suddenly his back hurt, and another long sword pierced his chest.

The second prince was also in disbelief. Looking back, he saw another accomplice who had just helped him kill King Wusun and all the fourth princes who were guards of King Wusun.

The fourth prince smiled at the second prince.

"Second brother, you may have forgotten one thing, that is, there is only one head of the father, and there is only one general position promised by the emperor of the Han Kingdom."

After the prince heard this sentence, an expression of anger and unwillingness appeared on his face, but he could no longer change anything.

The second prince also died.

The prince who became the final big winner smiled happily and said to all the remaining Wusun people: "I know that some of you were loyal to your father and some of you were loyal to my other brothers, but that it is not important.

Wu Shunguo has become history forever, all we have to do now is to attach to the new strong, so that we can continue to survive in this dangerous world.

I will take you to seek refuge with the emperor of Han, where we may become slaves or thugs, but I am sure that at least the emperor of Han will not kill us.

If we are lucky, the emperor of the Great Han Kingdom really fulfilled his promise, I will become the general of the Great Han Kingdom, and you will also become my subordinates, and we can all have a better future.

Tell me your answer now, are you willing to follow me to the emperor of the Han Kingdom? "

After a brief silence, hundreds of Wusun people present knelt down towards the fourth prince at the same time.

"Prince please guide our future path!"

Chapter 1136

Two days later, when Zhao Kuo looked at the fourth prince kneeling respectfully in front of him, and then saw the pickled head of King Wusun in the fourth prince's hand, a rather funny feeling came to his heart.

In this world, it is true that not every race can pay attention to father's kindness and filial piety like the Huaxia people, and pay attention to the kindness of a parent.

But this is actually understandable. After all, the living environment of nomads like Wusun is actually quite harsh.

In many cases, they could not even get enough rations to feed their families and were forced to abandon some of them.

In other words, it is not the young children who are most at risk among the Wusun people, because children represent the future.

Those who are most at risk are really the elderly, because the elderly often mean that they cannot catch food, but they have to continue to consume food.

Under such circumstances, many old nomads have a very miserable end when they get old. They are often driven out of the house by their young sons, and finally starve to death in the grassland alone.

In such an environment, it is actually quite difficult to count on the father and son of the Wusun people to help each other in the difficult situation.

This is why in the 2000 years of history, the ups and downs of the grassland empire have always been able to pose a threat to the Central Plains dynasty, but as long as the Central Plains dynasty recovers, or after a period of stalemate between the two sides, the grassland empire will always be cause of self-disintegration.

If a society wants to run smoothly, the most basic condition is that it needs morality or laws recognized by everyone in the society as the bottom line, so that it can maintain its operation.

But this kind of condition is completely absent on the grassland.

Zhao Kuo withdrew his thoughts, nodded to the somewhat frightened fourth prince in front of him, and said with a smile: "You are still doing very well, I appreciate your actions, and I will really seal you as our Great Han Kingdom as promised before." As for your generals, as for your subordinates, they should all be composed of those Wusun people who followed you."

After hearing the translation, the fourth prince was immediately overjoyed, and took out a rather simple looking token from his arms, which seemed to be made of bone or jade, put it on Zhao Kuo's face, and then squeaked Sun Ren's language said a few words.

Well, after the translation, it means that this so-called token is the national treasure of the Wusun people, which is equivalent to the status of a national jade seal. Now the fourth prince has given this token to Zhao Kuo, which is equivalent to Recognized Zhao Kuo's ruling power over all Wusun people.

At this point, Wusun Kingdom officially perished.

Since most of the small countries in northern Xinjiang had been mopped up by the Wusun people before this, it was convenient for Zhao Kuo.

To a certain extent, Wusun Kingdom is an aggressor to the aborigines of these small countries, and after the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty brought by Zhao Kuo wiped out Wusun Kingdom, these aborigines regarded it as a way to destroy Wusun Kingdom. Sun Guo's savior.

In this way, the Great Han Kingdom actually established a relatively good ruling foundation here.

Of course, we must know that the aborigines of these small countries are actually similar to the nomads on the grasslands. They belong to the kind of out-and-out fence-sitters. It takes a long time.

According to the information collected before, Zhao Kuo set up a total of 8 military towns in northern Xinjiang, which are located in the four directions of southeast, northwest, and north. As long as these 4 military towns are in control, basically, the entire north of Tianshan Mountain can be firmly controlled. The control is in the Han Kingdom.

The whole thing was unexpectedly smooth for Zhao Kuo. In Zhao Kuo's opinion, it would take a lot of effort just to integrate the many small countries in the Western Regions, but he didn't expect that the Wusun people would help very busy.

It was at this time that the messenger from Li Mu in the south finally arrived.

In the south, Li Mu was not as relaxed as Zhao Kuo.

This is mainly because the Tarim Basin is in the south, and there is the legendary Taklamakan Desert in this basin.

In the vast desert, there are countless unruly guys. These guys sometimes come out of nowhere to plunder the Quartet. Sometimes they establish a small country when they succeed. If they are defeated by others, they Then he retreated back into the desert, and took over the mountains as kings in those strongholds of unknown places.

Under such circumstances, Li Mu's initial siege went very smoothly, but soon he was harassed by a lot of small groups of soldiers.

Fortunately, all of Li Mu's subordinates are cavalry, so it is completely true to talk about the battle between the cavalry, but it will waste more time than before.

In the simplest terms, Li Mu might not be able to arrive at Yili City as agreed with Zhao Kuo on schedule.

After seeing Li Mu's situation, Zhao Kuo was not in a hurry, but directly gave Li Mu a reply and slowly figured it out.

For Zhao Kuo, this conquest of the Western Regions is the first war of conquest launched by the Han Kingdom outside the territory of China, so this time the war of conquest must be fought beautifully, and it must bring enough power to the Han Kingdom. Only in this way can the many subjects in the Han Kingdom know that conquest is such a thing that can obtain huge gains.

Let everyone know that when foreign conquests can reap huge gains, this country will inevitably become a country that strongly advocates external expansion.

More importantly, when a country can continue to expand externally and continuously reap various benefits from the outside, the ruling class of this country will be easily satisfied, and they will not need to collect benefits from the people at the bottom .

Conversely, if a country stops expanding, then they have no way to get more benefits from the outside, the gay class at this time.

In order to satisfy their own appetite, they can only turn their attention to the inside and grab more benefits from the people at the bottom.

To use a modern and popular term to describe it, it is involution.

When the involution reaches a certain level, the people at the lowest level can no longer bear such exploitation, so they will rise up and shout that very familiar slogan.

"Prince and general, I would rather have a seed!"

Therefore, this process of external expansion is actually a process that can alleviate internal contradictions.

This is why throughout the history of the world, when a country expands externally, there are often no major internal conflicts, but once this expansion is frustrated and forced to stop, internal conflicts soon begin to emerge up.

Now that Zhao Kuo has expanded to the Western Regions, he must firmly control this place, first control this place, and then use the Western Regions as a springboard to continue to attack Central Asia.

Otherwise, it will be like the Han and Tang dynasties in history. Although they were able to control the Western Regions at one time, they gradually lost control of the Western Regions as their power weakened.

After losing the control of the countermeasures, since the people in this place do not belong to the Huaxia Ming at all, they will not belong to Huaxia again, and can only wait for the next Huaxia Dynasty to come here and conquer this place again.

This is why China in history once lost control of the Western Regions for hundreds of years, because this place does not have the same centripetal force for China as other places.

What Zhao Kuo has to do is to establish this centripetal force of civilization in the shortest possible time.

How to build it?

In fact, the method is also very simple, that is to completely abolish the languages ​​and characters of all countries in the Western Regions, and replace them with the languages ​​and characters of the Han Kingdom.

Language and characters are the two most basic manifestations of a civilization. As long as these two can be firmly embedded in the minds of all the people in the Western Regions, then in time, this place will become a part of the Chinese civilization, and the people here will be free. It is considered an inseparable part of China.

In order to achieve this, Zhao Kuo can and can afford to wait.

In the next month, Zhao Kuo sat in the original capital of Wu Chunguo, watching the aborigines of this city renovate the city wall, and built an old city that was older than before. A new city that is several times larger.

Zhao Kuo was very satisfied with this.

If you want to control the Western Regions, you need a very huge commercial city as a transfer point and a radiation center for the Western Regions.

At present, Zhao Kuo needs to establish such a center point in the south of Tianshan Mountain and in the north of Tianshan Mountain. The center point in the south of Tianshan Mountain is not very easy to choose for the time being, but the center point in the north of Tianshan Mountain is completely optional. It's settled, that's the city right now.

Zhao Kuo also gave this city a very famous name Xijing.

The word "Beijing" is not something that can be added casually. Once this word is added to any city, it means that it already possesses part of the attributes of being the capital of a country.

Zhao Kuo wanted to use this place as an accompanying capital of the Han Dynasty, and let some senior officials be stationed here in the future to be responsible for managing this place.

Regarding this place, Zhao Kuo is not worried about whether it will become a big tail after it becomes powerful in the future, because the resources of this place in the Western Regions are too barren, and his resources and population are not enough to support this place as a place. A very powerful force threatens the Central Plains.

In addition, the first batch of officials from the Central Plains also arrived in Xijing City one after another.

Of course, this group of officials did not set off after Zhao Kuo defeated the Seleucids. If that was the case, it would definitely be too late.

In fact, after Zhao Kuo defeated the Yuezhi people, he sent people back to the imperial capital and ordered the officials to set off.

When Zhao Kuo arrived north of the Tianshan Mountains and started fighting the Seleucids and Wusuns, this group of officials had already arrived at Wuwei, Dunhuang, Jiuquan and other newly established cities in the Hexi Corridor.

And one month after Zhao Kuo defeated the Seleucids, this group of officials also crossed the vast desert and came to Zhao Kuo's Xijing City.

It is worth mentioning that, among this group of officials, there is also Pang Zheng, the eldest grandson of Pang Nuan, the deputy prime minister of the dynasty.

When Zhao Kuo saw Pang Zheng, he was also a little surprised, and couldn't help but said: "You are your grandfather's treasure, why is your grandfather willing to let you come to the Western Region, which is thousands of miles away?"

Pang Zheng showed a respectful expression on his face, and said to Zhao Kuo: "To tell you the truth, my grandfather believes that the most important thing in this world is to follow in the footsteps of your majesty, so we say that our Pang family Of course, it is necessary to be the first to charge forward and help His Majesty manage the Western Regions."

After hearing Pang Zheng's words, Zhao Kuo couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Many years ago, when I just met your grandfather, your grandfather chose to become my son without wasting any time. Allies, follow in my footsteps.

It has passed since then, more than ten years, your grandfather is old, but his eyes are still so vicious. "

For Zhao Kuo, what he needs is a courtier like Pang Nuan who can express his heartfelt support for Zhao Kuo's management of the Western Regions at the first time.

Only in this way can the Western Regions be developed more quickly, and everyone in the entire Han Kingdom can know why Zhao Kuo wants to conquer the Western Regions from thousands of miles away, and why Zhao Kuo must also expand the territory.