Chapter 4104: What is an Empire?

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However, the situation in Kushan is different this time. When Vesutiva I came out with the king, the heads of the various sects of the Dayue clan had to show some kind of expression. Apart from anything else, when the princess came out, each sect had to at least take some action. When Vesudeva I came out to support Rahul in the last wave, the Kushan branch supported Vesudeva I strongly.

That's right, during the decisive battle with the Han Dynasty in Brahmas, the backbone elites led by Barkol, Atele and others who could fight head-on with the Han Dynasty elites were actually the Kushan branch and the Shuangmi line who supported Wei. The headquarters of Sudeva I.

This time Vesutiva I created the princess, and the five great Yuezhi clans also consciously expressed their intention. The big sect sent out two to three thousand elite soldiers with complete armor, and the small sect sent out 3,500 well-equipped soldiers and armor. What's the point? Yes, after all, Da Yuezhi's Scimitar Riders usually have a batch of three to five hundred people.

The Han Dynasty actually knew this well. The people fighting against the Han Dynasty were actually the Kushan lineage, one of the five branches of the Dayue clan, and the Brahman lineage, which was entangled with the Dayue clan. This is why the fight has continued until now. Kushan is still not the cause of the injury.

The overall system of the Kushan is somewhat close to that of the Xiongnu and the Chu State of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period. Regarding the other branches of the Dayue clan, the Kushan's attitude is close to that of the Chu royal family. It is also the so-called feudal system. It gives you the power to let You are under the royal family, with territory, troops, and taxes.

It's just that the Da Yuezhi themselves are not very good at farming and rely entirely on robbing Nangui for grain. As a result, the core independent economy under this system has not developed. Furthermore, the large and small sects under the jurisdiction of this sect have not developed into the Chu State. Monarch mode.

The Chu State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was a magical country. The strength of the Chu royal family often no longer had the strength to compete for hegemony due to various reasons, but the overall strength of the Chu State was still abnormally strong, even at the end of the Warring States Period, when Wang Jian destroyed Chu. , the feudal lords of Chu State can still use half a million troops together, and their strength can be described as extremely powerful.

This is the so-called monarch model. This model is actually very magical. As an orthodox royal family, it may not be stronger than the monarch. In the past, the Zhou royal family was beaten by the Quan Rong, and then the Qin Kingdom was defeated by the Quan Rong as the monarch, and later the Ba people Attacking Chu, the king of Chu State directly fought back to Bashu.

However, this thing also has many weaknesses. The feudal lord pretended to be dead when doing things, and forced the ruler and abused the people. As a result, the poor country and weak soldiers were directly recorded in the annals of history. It can be said that this thing is a cheat. There are also many places. When Wu Qi launched his political reform, the main thing he did was this group of Chu princes.

Needless to say, the result is that people like Wu Qi have never done anything to these Chu kings. This shows how powerful this group of people is. However, Wu Qi’s actions were not all in vain. At least they did shake the people. The foundation of the Chu Kingdom's lordship can really be said to be the limit.

The feudal system means that the local military power, political power, and financial power are all in the hands of the feudal prince, and this is completely different from the fiefdom of military meritorious denominations. The military power, political power, and financial power of the former belong to the feudal prince himself, while the latter actually only has Partial rights, and military power is basically the Achilles heel.

The only system comparable to the feudal monarchy system is probably the feudal state system of the Jin Dynasty. The kings were divided into counties and counties. The three armies of large countries were 5,000 people, the second army of minor countries was 3,000 people, and the first army of small countries was 1,500 people.

However, relatively speaking, the feudal system of the Jin Dynasty still clearly restricted the military strength. Although the Eight Kings Rebellion proved that the so-called restrictions were nonsense, at least there was such a restriction. The feudal system How many people you want to support depends on your ability...

This also led to the fact that the feudal kingdom of the prince was stronger than the sect. It often happened that the Zheng Kingdom and the Zhou royal family fought each other. The Qin Kingdom and the Jin Kingdom were stronger than the Zhou royal family. The Qi Kingdom forcibly supported the Zhou royal family, and the Chu Kingdom aspired to the throne. What, logically speaking, these countries are all vassals of the Zhou royal family.

Therefore, the feudal system is extremely cheating. By the way, the system used by Chen Xi during his current external expansion is actually the feudal system, because although this system has many shortcomings, it is really very effective. Nine out of ten monarchs can be defeated. He can fight, and there is another one who can fight very well.

Because the lord who cannot be beaten has long been beaten to death by other lords.

The Dayue clan used this kind of system for their own royal family. So far, no one has been killed. One very important point is that although the large and small clans of the Dayue clan have obtained military power and the local political power to do whatever they want, their food is completely The boss imports it from Nangui.

Therefore, even if the Dayue clan's large and small sects have some special ideas, they are basically unable to show them. So overall, it seems that the Guishang monarchy system has developed very well.

"Next, we will mobilize 40,000 backbones under your command. More than half of them are real guards. The rest have also reached dual talents. They are all the main force contributed by the royal clan. You will train and adjust them to join the royal clan. Among the Praetorian Guards." Vesutiva I said nonchalantly, while Oswin looked shocked after hearing this.

"This is just the first batch. If necessary later, if you squeeze, you can still squeeze out another batch." Vesudeva I said calmly.

What is the royal clan? If you can't get 5,000 main backbones, then what is the name of the royal family? What is a small royal sect? If you can't get 500 main backbones, then you are just a hammer!

There are more than 70 such large and small sects in the five branches of the Great Yuezhi. Even though the Kushan branch has been consumed a lot in the previous war, and the other four branches are mostly small sects, there are only 40,000. As the main backbone, it doesn't take much effort to take out the five Da Yuezhi branches.

Unlike the Parthian Empire, which was almost beaten to death by Rome, the Kushan Empire itself was at its peak when Vesutiva I was alive in official history, and Kushan still had this foundation.

Just like Chongzhen lowered his face and asked officials to donate, but only donated 200,000 taels. King Chuang went to the capital and started pinching people with a big pincer, and easily got tens of millions of taels. There is money, but it depends on how you go about it. Go out and do it, are you qualified to go out and do it?

Similarly, there are elites in Kushan. But in the past, when Vesudeva I wanted people, the big and small sects he was close to would give some, but they would weigh too much. Anyway, the Kushan Empire can still survive, and the Han Dynasty will also give some. If you haven't penetrated into the Indus-Ganges Essence Area of ​​Kushan, just deal with it.

As for the big and small sects that are not very close to each other, just smile and pretend to be poor, just pretend to be poor.

But things are different now. Vesutiva I came to the door with Wangzhao, and all the big and small sects of the five great Yuezhi clans had to weigh it up. Unless you really got into it like Wang Ziqi, with only a thousand elites, then you go up No one will talk about you among the three hundred people, and the rest must be given to the entire five hundred backbone at least. valley

Therefore, recently Vesudev I has no shortage of elite backbones, nor is there any shortage of centurions from the Yueshi family. These are all contributions from various large and small sects.

The small sect contributed seven or eight, and the large sect contributed thirty or forty. Altogether, there were thousands of people. The backbone of the legion and the middle and lower-level commanders were all solved. What is an empire? Do you understand?

At this point, Vesuthiva I actually no longer panicked, and instead began to focus on the navy, because Liu Hao's attitude was very clear, he wanted to kill Sun Ce, and since Sun Ce was at sea, Vesuthiva I's goal was naturally Stayed at sea.

Oswin left the palace with an order to mobilize troops and Anar looked excited. When he came, he was mentally prepared to be scolded by Vesudeva I. Oswin knew very well that this time it was indeed him. If he hadn't been greedy for success, after severely damaging Cao Cao in the Helmand Valley, he would have been greedy and continue to attack, and he would have returned with a great victory.

As a result, due to operational errors in the Battle of Kandahar, Kapil, Selona and Abhitan were killed. These were the backbone of Kushan. More importantly, the imperial scepter was crippled. Oswin thought that even if Wei No matter how mentally prepared Sudiva I was, she would never let him go easily. However, she never thought that Vesutiva I would actually hold her up high and let her go gently.

"Oswin, Your Majesty didn't do anything to you." As soon as Oswin came out, Urdu was the first to surround him and asked eagerly.

What Urdu is most worried about is that Oswin will be captured by Vesuthiva I, because Urdu is living quite comfortably under Oswin, and the other party really treats everyone equally. Once Vesuthiva I is cut off due to the previous incident Without Oswin's duty as commander in chief, Naourdu thought that he might not have to go to the battlefield again.

"It's okay. This is a troop deployment order. I will add two thousand men under my command. The remaining guards will be supplemented by you and Falgon first." Oswin looked at Urdu, who looked a little anxious, and the people who were surrounding him at the same time. Falgon said with a smile, "Not only did your Majesty not pursue the case, he also gave me more than 40,000 elite members of the royal family. The worst ones are all dual-talented, and half of them are imperial guards."

Urdu and Falgun were both stunned when they heard this. They both knew how heavy the losses were in the battle of Kandahar, but they didn't expect that Vesutiva I did not pursue the case at all.

"This is Anal, a member of the Sisi family who succeeded Kapil." Oswin pointed at Anal and said, "I will still be the commander-in-chief from now on, and this is the deputy commander-in-chief who will assist in command."

Urdu, Falgon and others quickly bowed to salute, and Anar also saluted several people calmly. After all, Oswin's group of people really fought in the north and south, and fought fiercely with the Han Dynasty. He fought several times and was extremely powerful.

"Oswin, I don't think it's necessary to replenish me first. It's better for me to reorganize the archers I need. Let's replenish Urdu first. His recovery of strength will be good for all of us." Farr Gon suggested, "Give him all the scimitar knights he needs."

"Don't worry, we really have added 40,000 elites this time, and if it's not enough, there will be more later. These are the backbones from the royal family and the big sects, the real elites." Oswin glanced at Anar, and then said: Anal opened his mouth to explain.

"Is that so?" Falgon nodded after hearing this and stopped arguing.

"First clean up the respective legions and restore the combat effectiveness of the headquarters. The most troublesome now is probably my subordinates. If I want to add three talents here, even the most elite cores of the royal families and large sects may have some problems. Forbidden It doesn't make much sense for the Guards to make up for it." Oswin sighed, then waved to Barras and others, and led these people to the military camp.

After Oswin arrived at the military camp and arranged the elite backbone supplemented by Vesutiva I, the Great Yueshi secret family pressed many people who were blocked by various secret techniques to the military camp.

"Who are these people?" Oswin was in a good mood after completing the first wave of legion purges. He was a little strange when he saw members of the royal family pressing down dozens of people who were blocked by secret techniques.

"This is the lawless god and Buddha who came to the world some time ago. Because of His Highness Selian, the Xiumi family has long speculated that there may be reverse operations in the visualization of gods and Buddhas. It is a pity that His Highness Selian failed to wait until In this era, as soon as the gods and Buddhas came into the world, we started to counterattack and arrested a large number of gods and Buddhas." The old man from the Xiumi family looked a little sad.

Selian, not counting the naval system he built, is no worse than Huangfu Song in terms of ability alone. He can be said to be at the top of this era, and is also the backbone of the Xiumi family of the Great Yuezhi. He has left a lot of knowledge and heritage.

However, it is a pity that Selian died half a year before the Heavenly Change. He died half a year later. By capturing the gods and Buddhas of the same origin, the Xiumi family was able to pile up Selian into a state of internal energy separation, which would last ten years. In the coming year, it was a pity that Zhou Yu's Shadow of Misfortune, fighting for the fleet, trapped Salian to death in the southern part of the East China Sea, so that Salian did not wait for the arrival of a new era.

However, the Xiumi family still relied on the legacy left by Selian to immediately counteract a large number of incarnated gods and Buddhas. They even extracted a lot of the origins of the gods in reverse, and created many to store the inner energy. Evil creatures with body essence.

"These gods and Buddhas?" Oswin looked at the old man with a gloomy expression in confusion. What do you mean? Why don't I understand?

"The essence of a Buddha's inner energy separated from the body has a chance of creating a new inner energy separated from the body for the peak of Qi Liancheng Chenggang, but this probability is not high. In turn, the inner energy can be condensed into Qi Liancheng Chenggang. If so, we can make five or six." The old man from the Xiumi family said with a sigh.

In fact, this method is loss-making. Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and others have done this, but a loss is a loss, and it can be regarded as waste utilization, so Zhang Liao and others are very happy with it.

"And if it is used to create inner energy condensation, it can produce more than fifty." The old man from the Xiumi family looked at Oswin and said with a bit of helplessness. This loss is even greater. This is inner energy separated from the body. , can actually only create more than fifty inner energy condensations.

"You first select the physically powerful soldiers from the Imperial Guard, and then we consume the gods and Buddhas to pour into you two thousand inner energy to condense." The old man from the Xiumi family gritted his teeth and said.