Dongdu, Luoyang.
In the solemn Royal Ancestral Temple.
"Everything in the world is the land of the king, and on the shore of the land, is it the ministers of the king?"
Amidst the powerful and majestic chanting voices, groups of prisoners dressed in strange clothes were escorted past one after another.
A prisoner presentation ceremony imitating the Zhou rites is being held here.
The prisoners being sacrificed today are mainly the princes and nobles of the countries in the Western Regions.
Some of these small countries in the Western Regions were vassals of the Central Plains Dynasty before, and some were in direct contact with them for the first time.
"Father, those people with curly hair and blue eyes must be relatives of Jiehu. They should be chopped off with a knife."
After the prisoner presentation ceremony, the crown prince Liu Zhi pulled the corner of Liu Yu's clothes and said childishly.
The surrounding civil and military officials laughed quietly when they heard this.
Except for a few sour doctors, everyone thought there was nothing wrong with this statement.
No one thought it was scary for a teenager to say this.
Because in today's Han Academy, the Jiehu people who once appeared are described as being no different from animals.
The crown prince Liu Zhi, who had received this kind of education since childhood, naturally saw the captured Hu people from the Western Regions and thought they were relatives of the Jie Hu people.
"Hahaha, my son is decisive in killing, and he will definitely achieve great things in the future!"
Liu Yu smiled heartily, touched the crown prince's young shoulder, and then said again.
"However, these prisoners today are not relatives of the Jiehu people. They are just neighbors of the Jiehu people's hometown in the Western Regions. They are not really relatives."
"If these people are counted, they should be somewhat related to our ancestors."
Upon hearing this, Crown Prince Liu Zhi immediately asked curiously.
"Father, is it true? The masters in the school said that the Western Region is thousands of miles away, how can it be related to us?"
"You have to know that these people are now called Kushan people. They once ruled the country thousands of miles away. Their ancestors were called Da Yueshi."
"I know that the Dayue clan was a tribe that once lived in Longxi, but was later driven away by the Huns." The Crown Prince said proudly.
"Haha, yes, that's the Dayue clan."
"If that's the case, then the descendants of the Dayue clan really have some connection with us."
Crown Prince Liu Zhi suddenly thought of it again.
"But, since they were once neighbors with us, why do they look like Jiehu and not similar to us?"
"That's because it has been more than five hundred years since the Dayue clan moved away from home. After so many years of absorbing marriages, their people have long since married many local Sai people. They have been assimilated a long time ago, and there are not many ancestors of the Yueshi at all."
"Oh, so that's it! If that's the case, Murong, Ran Liang and others in the Western Regions are now leading hundreds of Xianbei tribes. In a few days, won't they also become like the Great Yuezhi, and they will never be able to It’s no longer what it is now?” Crown Prince Liu Zhi said.
When Liu Yu heard this from a child of several years old, he was greatly surprised and couldn't help but feel proud of his son's intelligence.
"Well said! To be able to think of this at such a young age is enough to comfort the ancestors of the Ancestral Temple."
Liu Yu was stunned.
"Today is different from the past. How about leaving Murong's tribe alone? The ministries led by Ran Liang are re-establishing the foundation of the majesty of the Western Region Protectorate. It is inevitable to marry and mingle with the locals, but no matter how they look, they are treated But the human heart is more critical.”
"Father, what does it mean to heal people's hearts?"
"To control people's hearts is to divide them into groups and treat them one at a time!"
At this time, the prisoner presentation ceremony in the Imperial Ancestral Temple has been basically completed, and all that is left are some chores that Yusi has to finish.
Several close confidants and others also followed.
As if to reiterate his philosophy of governing the Western Regions, Liu Yu began to explain it to the crown prince in detail.
"Accept, that is to use both kindness and power to let the countries in the Western Regions know the powerful force of our Han Dynasty today and the rich civilization of the Central Plains, so that they can be driven by us with fear of power and virtue."
"As for 'governance', it means establishing our control locally, not only the control of power, but also the control of people's hearts."
The Central Plains Dynasty has made great achievements in the governance of the Western Regions since Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty established the Protectorate of the Western Regions.
However, in Liu Yu's view, he made a mistake in the inertial thinking of the Central Plains dynasty.
The Chinese people in the Central Plains were really smart too early. They got rid of the shackles of religious gods and developed their secular civilization to the extreme.
When encountering frequent exchanges of ideas in the Western Regions and all kinds of monsters and monsters having their place, it is difficult for those backward small countries in the Western Regions to understand with rational and restrained secular thinking.
Naturally, the road to assimilation is also full of difficulties and ups and downs. "Accept, that is to use both kindness and power to let the countries in the Western Regions know the powerful force of our Han Dynasty today and the rich civilization of the Central Plains, so that they can be driven by us with fear of power and virtue."
"As for 'governance', it means establishing our control locally, not only the control of power, but also the control of people's hearts."
The Central Plains Dynasty has made great achievements in the governance of the Western Regions since Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty established the Protectorate of the Western Regions.
However, in Liu Yu's view, he made a mistake in the inertial thinking of the Central Plains dynasty.
The Chinese people in the Central Plains were really smart too early. They got rid of the shackles of religious gods and developed their secular civilization to the extreme.
When encountering frequent exchanges of ideas in the Western Regions and all kinds of monsters and monsters having their place, it is difficult for those backward small countries in the Western Regions to understand with rational and restrained secular thinking.
Naturally, the road to assimilation is also full of difficulties and ups and downs. "Accept, that is to use both kindness and power to let the countries in the Western Regions know the powerful force of our Han Dynasty today and the rich civilization of the Central Plains, so that they can be driven by us with fear of power and virtue."
"As for 'governance', it means establishing our control locally, not only the control of power, but also the control of people's hearts."
The Central Plains Dynasty has made great achievements in the governance of the Western Regions since Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty established the Protectorate of the Western Regions.
However, in Liu Yu's view, he made a mistake in the inertial thinking of the Central Plains dynasty.
The Chinese people in the Central Plains were really smart too early. They got rid of the shackles of religious gods and developed their secular civilization to the extreme.
When encountering frequent exchanges of ideas in the Western Regions and all kinds of monsters and monsters having their place, it is difficult for those backward small countries in the Western Regions to understand with rational and restrained secular thinking.
