A huge map of Dali was hung in Zhang Yan's study. Standing next to him, in addition to Zhang Xiancun, were Guo Rong, Zhang Fei and others.
This was Zhang Zhou's usual practice, hanging up the map before talking. It can also be said that this is the advantage of Zhang Zhou Dynasty, because there is definitely no one in this era who knows maps better than Zhang Yan.
You must know that when I, Zhang Shengren, was in school, I was very good at history and geography. When I was in junior high school, I filled up three homework books with maps of Kaijiang. Later, after I became a friendly P club player, I became more familiar with these.
Therefore, as long as a map of this era is brought to him for a look, Zhang Shengren can change it into a map of mountains and rivers that seems extremely detailed at this time.
Guo Rong touched his chin and was looking carefully at the mountain and river geography map of Dali Kingdom given by the emperor. Although he was appointed as the pacifier of Dongchuan Road in Jiannan Sichuan Province, the prefect of Nanxi Prefecture, and the military supervisor of the prefecture, he In fact, he has been traveling back and forth between Hedong, Henan and Guanzhong.
Because he knew why Zhang Yan appointed him as the pacifier of Dongchuan Road. Isn't it just to prepare for the eldest prince Zhang Xiancun beside him to enter the Dali Kingdom.
Even the pro-army Zuobao Taowei and the imperial army currently concentrated in Nanxi Prefecture and a large part of the Forbidden Army in Pingnan Town will eventually stay in Dali Kingdom and become Zhang Xiancun's basic team.
But this job is not easy, because Zuo Bao Tao Wei and the 7,000 people in Pingnan Town are composed of many people, each with their own ideas.
Some thought it was an opportunity and were willing to follow the eldest prince into the Dali Kingdom and become emperors in the mountains.
Some people still think that after winning the battle and being rewarded by the eldest prince, they can return to the Central Plains to enjoy themselves.
Of course, most of them are waiting to see how much reward Zhang Xiancun can give and whether the battle to pacify Dali goes smoothly before making a decision.
However, one good thing is that the Pingnan Town of the Forbidden Army has just begun to be formed. Guo Rong can easily gather the candidates who are willing to stay in Dali in advance when recruiting warriors from all parties to enter Pingnan Town.
As for Zuo Bao Tao Wei, they were basically recruited by the emperor with the help of Guo Wei, Guo Congyi, Guo Chongwei, and Bai Wenke after the Hedong soldiers were defeated.
Although they have become pro-army members of the new dynasty, they naturally know who they want to be loyal to, but after all, it is Guo Rong who has always led them, and ideological work is much easier to do.
So these days, Guo Rong did not go to Nanxi Mansion, nor did he take care of Zuo Bao Tao Wei. Instead, with the assistance of several people from Zhongshu Province, such as Luantai Fu Kan, Bing Ji, etc., they ran around together, everywhere. Select and win over warriors.
The purpose is to ensure that the generals selected for the Forbidden Army in Pingnan Town are willing to stay in Dali Kingdom as much as possible.
The standard set by the sage for Zhang Xiancun, the eldest son of the emperor, is Zuobao Taowei and Pingnan Town. In addition, after the Dali Kingdom is captured, local warriors will be selected to form a forbidden army. With this, one guard and two towns will have an army of 10,000 people. Zhang Xiancun's confidants.
As for other government affairs in Nanxi Mansion, Zhang Yongde, the Dongchuan Road Observer, is now in charge.
Zhang Yongde also went to Nanxi Mansion, which was Guo Wei's intention. In the small circle of Guo family, Guo Wei's son-in-law Zhang Yongde will serve as the main general and follow Zhang Xiancun into Dali Kingdom.
Originally, Guo Wei wanted Guo Rong to go, and he also wanted Guo Rong to serve as Zhang Xiancun's minister of state, but Zhang Xi thought about it and refused after thinking about it.
Throwing Guo Rong to Dali was still a bit overqualified, and Zhang Yan planned to use it himself in the future.
So there were only two options left, Zhang Yongde and Li Chongjin, and Zhang Yan finally chose Zhang Yongde.
Because from a historical point of view, Zhang Yongde was able to sit in a high position and die in all the glory and wealth after Zhao Da usurped the throne. Whether it was military talent or political acumen, it was better than the procrastination in launching an army in Huainan. Li Chongjin.
However, this can also explain from the side that after Zhao Da usurped the throne, he chose to be brave and set himself on fire with his family, shouting before his death, "I am ashamed of Taizu's kindness!" ' Li Chongjin is more upright and kind-hearted.
Therefore, Zhang Gao chose to keep Li Chongjin by his side, so that he could be trained to become a general of the bodyguard or a general of the imperial army in the future. Zhang Yongde, who was very sensible, just let him go and let him help Zhang Xiancun govern the Dali Kingdom.
Most of the knots in Zhang Xiancun's mind have been solved. Just as Dong Shaojian said, the smarter the person, as long as he doesn't get into trouble, it is still easy to figure out the problem.
In the past, Zhang Xiancun simply believed that because his mother was not a queen, he was destined to miss the throne.
In addition, he felt that his maternal ancestors were from the Yuchi family, a royal family for thousands of years, and had the blood of the emperors of the great dynasties. They were much nobler than Zhang Xianjing's maternal grandfather, the Cao family, a small local tycoon who had just emerged.
Therefore, he was still a little upset in his heart, but he didn't react until Zhang Hao made the truth clear to him.
His inability to be a prince has little to do with his birth, concubine, or ability.
The only person who decided that he could not be the prince was his father Zhang Yan, who was a king like Emperor Shizong Xiaowu of the former Han Dynasty and Emperor Taizong Wen of the Great Dynasty.
Therefore, for the first time, Zhang Xiancun began to regard himself as the future king of Dali wholeheartedly.
Prince Zhang looked over and over at the map that the emperor asked him to observe carefully, and suddenly realized something was wrong.
After he and Guo Rong and Zhang Fei, who were also observing the map, looked at each other, they looked at the old sage Zhang behind in surprise.
Zhang Xiancun was the first to lose his composure. He pointed at the map and asked Zhang Yan: "Everyone, is your Dali Kingdom so close to Tianzhu? It seems closer than Jingzhao Mansion."
Indeed, from the map, the distance between Dali and Tianzhu does not look very far.
But in Zhang Xiancun's impression, Tianzhu should have to walk through the entire Hexi, then cross Anxi, and finally have to make seven turns and eight detours. The total distance is at least 10,000 to 20,000 miles away.
It can be said that it is on the horizon.
But looking at it now, the distance from the capital of Dali, Yangju City, to the Rashidhara Kuta Kingdom in Tianzhu seems to be shorter than the distance to Jingzhao Chang'an Prefecture.
The Rashtrakotta Kingdom was roughly the same generation as Assam and northern Bangladesh. It was originally the territory of the Pala Dynasty.
But before Zhang Chang entered Tianzhu last time, Rashidhara Kuta had already become independent from the control of the Polo dynasty.
"It's not that it's closer, it's that it's much closer. It's only about 1,600 miles from Yangjume City to Rashidhara Kuta, but it's a full three thousand miles from Yangjume City to Jingzhao Chang'an Prefecture. "
Zhang Xiancun felt that the world was a little unreal. In his imagination, Tianzhu, which was far away in the horizon and tens of thousands of miles apart, was actually closer than Yangju City to Chang'an, and even closer than Yangju City to Chengdu. This completely shattered his imagination. The world geography view that Prince Zhang had just formed.
As soon as he said this, the big and small black bears and Zhang Fei behind Zhang Gao also widened their eyes.
Barbarian Bear walked to the map and observed it left and right, "The last time we went to Tianzhu, we walked on the road for more than a year. Actually, it was because we didn't know the way!"
Zhang Xiancun and Zhang Fei thought that the gradual prosperity of Longyou in Hexi Province was due to the support of large trade routes.
If Tianzhu is so close to Dali, can we directly open a trade route from Dali to Tianzhu? Then Dali will soon become the next Hexi?
Zhang Xiancun almost laughed out loud. It turned out that his father finally loved him the most and chose such a treasured land for him.
Zhang Yan saw Zhang Xiancun's little expression and knew what the boy was thinking, but before he could interrupt the fifteen-year-old boy's dream, Guo Rong spoke first.
Worthy of being a famous and promising king in history, Guo Rong said, pointing to the Hengduan Mountains on the map and the Naga Hills and Arakan Mountains further west.
"Before Dali, there were countries such as Nanzhao, and Tianzhu had a powerful country in the pre-Han period.
But I have never heard of much contact between Tianzhu and Dali. Is it because the two mountains are blocking the way? It must be difficult to pass through the two mountains. "
Zhang Gao glanced at Guo Rong approvingly and nodded heavily, "It's not that it's difficult to pass, but it should be said that it's as difficult as climbing to the sky! These two mountains, especially here."
Zhang Gao pointed to the Hengduan Mountains in the area of Jiangxinpo and Yeren Mountain in later generations and said: "This mountain is vast and almost uninhabited. The difficulty of walking through it is higher than the road to Shu in the pre-Qin Dynasty. It is basically impossible for large groups of people to pass through."
Zhang Gao smiled as he spoke, then looked at Zhang Xiancun and said thoughtfully: "Unless there is a talented and strategic king in the future, who can open this road like the ancient King of Shu who opened the Golden Bull Road, and how Tang Meng did in his military expedition to the southwestern Yi.
By then Tianzhu will be the center of Shu, the capital of our Central Plains dynasty! "
Zhang Xiancun was still very disappointed, but after hearing Zhang Hao's words, his face suddenly shone with surprise.
In fact, with his background, he doesn't care about glory and wealth at all.
Because these things were destined for glory and wealth when he was reincarnated into Li Ruoliu's belly, and they were as ordinary to him as eating and drinking.
What Zhang Xiancun really cares about is whether he can accomplish great things, whether he can leave his mark in history, and whether, thousands of years later, future generations will be able to read his biography and clap their hands and exclaim, "This is what a real man should be." also! '
"Come! Come! Come and see!" After Zhang Yan finished speaking, he summoned everyone closer to the geographical map of mountains and rivers.
His fingers went all the way down to Dali Kingdom, and everyone could see that it was still a large area of undulating hills and valleys.
“About the end of Zhenguan and the beginning of Yonghui in the Great Dynasty, the Bailangqiang who existed on the Qingtang Plateau before the Han Dynasty migrated to the territory of Nanzhao because they could not bear the oppression of Tibet.
Later, around the second year of Emperor Qianfu of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty (875), Situ, the inspector, and Gao Pian, the governor of Jiannan and Xichuan, defeated the Nanzhao at the Dadu River.
At that time, the White Wolf Qiang who were sent as cavalry by King Shilong of Nanzhao suffered heavy casualties and were afraid of King Nanzhao's liquidation after the war, so the whole clan moved south again. They are probably here now and are conquering the local indigenous people. "
The place where Zhang Zhi pointed was the valley of the Yinrawaddy River in Myanmar in later generations.
All the things he said are true. The Bamar people in Myanmar in later generations were actually a nation formed by the White Wolf Qiang from the Qingtang Plateau who went south to conquer the Mon people and the Pyu people.
In terms of ethnic affinities, the Burmese are the closest to the Han and Tibetans. The ancient Qiang people were divided into three branches.
Those who stayed on the plateau were the Tibetans.
The Qiang people who went east to the Central Plains and merged with other tribes in the Central Plains became part of the Han people. At least among the Zhou and Lao Qin people, there are many people with ancient Qiang blood.
The rest went south to Southeast Asia during this era and became the Bamar people of later generations.
After hearing this, Zhang Xiancun suddenly realized, "No wonder my father is so fond of the Eight Tribes of Xishan. It turns out that one of them has already arrived south of Dali.
Do you want me to conquer the White Wolf Qiang with the Eight Qiang from Xishan as the vanguard after Dali is pacified, and then bring them under your command, then recruit the local barbarians to dig a road to Tianzhu, and then build another Guanzhong and Shuzhong for our people? "
Is it difficult to pass Savage Mountain? Is it difficult to pass Jiangxin Slope?
Sad indeed! But the main reason for the inconvenience of transportation here in later generations is the international situation, that is, both Myanmar and India are afraid that we can open up this area.
Because if the transportation here is as convenient as in Yunnan, will the chieftains in northern Myanmar really not know who to hang out with?
After the natural chasm here is turned into a road, can India still be able to defend southern Tibet? I am afraid that they cannot even defend Manipur and Assam in the northeast.
Therefore, it is not geographical factors that limit the development of this generation, but international factors.
But there were no such disadvantages at this time, and Zhang Yan did not need the good transportation conditions of later generations.
He only needs a small road through which three to five thousand troops can be dispatched at any time to completely revitalize the entire Dali Kingdom.
Think about it, if it is faster to go to Tianzhu from Dali than to Guanzhong, then the place where Dali is located is not a poor border area, but another Hexi.
The people of Dali are blessed!
Zhang Shengren stroked his beard proudly. Tianzhu is such a wonderful place. There are more than 30 million people. How many people are needed to become masters?
As for the Bamar people, they should simply stop showing up and directly merge with the White Wolf Qiang, which is currently growing.
Since the Western Han Dynasty, these people have surrendered and rebelled against the imperial court, rebelled and surrendered again. They might as well solve it all at once this time and assimilate completely.
Zhang Yan explained everything, and finally he looked at Zhang Xiancun, "My son, do you understand? This is the mission of you and me, father and son!"
Since the Chu general Zhuang Qi entered Yunnan, the Tang and Mongols of the Han Dynasty had conquered the southwestern Yi, and King Zhuge Wuning of the Ji Han Dynasty had pacified Nanzhong, it has been repeated for hundreds of years. In the twenty-sixth year of Kaiyuan (738), Piluo Pavilion Self-reliance, and from then on it finally became big, so much so that Nanzhao rose up and troops surrounded Chengdu.
At this time, it is exactly 210 years since Pi Luoge was crowned the King of Yunnan. My son obeyed the fate and became the great hero of Nanzhong to the country! "
The fifteen-year-old boy liked to hear such words the most. Zhang Xiancun was trembling with excitement. He wished he could run to Yangju City right now, kill the Duan family directly, and then conquer Tianzhu.
In fact, not only him, but also veterans like Guo Rong and Zhang Fei were stirred up by Zhang Gao's words.
For Chinese people, it is of course important to have high-ranking officials and good salaries. But what is the most important thing, isn't it the rich and colorful mark in the history behind you?
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Guo Rong looked up to the sky and sighed, "Chu general Zhuang Qi was originally an unknown person, but he has been praised repeatedly for thousands of years since the Yuan River entered Yunnan.
Tang Meng was no more than a small minister of the previous Han Dynasty, with a rank comparable to five hundred stones. Once he succeeded, even today's saints would regard him as a sage.
I am not talented, so I would like to follow the example of these two sages and implore the saint to appoint Rong as a general. He will be the forerunner of Shanshanhou, establish Dali, expand the borders, and write two or three words in the history of Qing Dynasty. "
If Guo Rong is willing to go, he is naturally better than Zhang Yongde, but Zhang Yan is intended to be used after training Guo Rong. It is a pity to use it in a place like Dali.
Besides, this person did not live long in history, so it would not be worthwhile if he died in Dali.
"Dalang and I like each other, and we will be of great use in the future!" Zhang Gao thought about it, but still refused.
Unexpectedly, Guo Rong suddenly came out and prostrated himself on the ground, "Today the Holy Emperor is on the throne, the court is full of talents, and there is no shortage of a certain martial artist.
It only takes ten years for Qirong to stabilize Nanzhong. When the time comes, it will not be too late to return to the court and listen to the teachings in front of the saint. "
All right! Seeing Guo Rong's attitude, Zhang Yan stopped insisting. I hope you are in better health and can live longer in this time and space.
When Zhang Xiancun heard that Guo Rong was willing to go in person, he was even more happy. He immediately came over and saluted Guo Rong, "I have to trust you to help me, and I will be even more powerful than a tiger!"
Then he quickly walked over and held Zhang Fei's arm. The age difference between the two was not very big. They knew each other in Hexi, so they were closer and didn't have so many worries about talking.
"Zhang Sanlang, would you like to follow me to Dingnan Middle School?"
Zhang Hao nodded with a smile on his face and affirmed that this was the good thing about his eldest son. Although he lacked social experience and suffered some hardships before, he could still win people's hearts, build a team, and know people well and make good use of them.
At least he knew Guo Rong's abilities, and he didn't think that Zhang Fei wouldn't be of much use just because he was a cripple.
When Guo Rong and Zhang Fei saw Zhang Zhang nodding, they raised their hands, bent down to the ground, and said in unison: "I am willing to serve Shanshan Hou and leave my name in history."
"Hahaha!" Everyone in the room laughed heartily, even Mr. Dong who was waiting outside laughed.
As for opening the road to Tianzhu, how many local indigenous people on both sides of the Yinlowaddy River and Naga Hills would have to die, but they were brutally ignored.
