In this world, there is always a saying that this is King Su's world.
Both Zhuxia people and grassland people know the existence of this sentence, and many people believe it firmly.
Ji Zhao's popularity on the grassland may be higher than he imagined.
On the grasslands in the north of Zhuxia, there are many Hu people. Some of them are born as barbarians, and have been here for thousands of generations. There are also many losers from the Central Plains who were driven to the grasslands.
The oldest ones were driven to the grasslands from the time of the Yellow Emperor, and the most recent ones entered the grasslands in order to avoid war in the late Han Dynasty.
Farming cannot be done on the grassland, so we have to embark on the path of nomadism. What is nomadic life?
History books say that they lived in pursuit of water and grass. They drove livestock all year round. After eating a piece of pasture in the spring, they moved to the winter pasture to continue eating. This is called changing the pasture.
Even if the best farmer from the Central Plains comes to the grassland, he will become a grassland man.
Because there is no land for farming here and can only be used for grazing, geography plays a huge role in determining people.
But the grassland eventually changed. Countless Han people who chanted King Su's name integrated into it, and the grassland's traditional belief in the god of the sky, sun, moon, mountains and rivers changed.
This change is slight, or in other words, the Suwang of the grassland is different from that of the Central Plains.
Moreover, even if they have the same beliefs, it does not delay the hostility between the grassland and the Central Plains, nor does it delay the completely different cultures of the grassland and the Central Plains.
Don't talk about pure grassland, just say that the Yan Kingdom, which has been transformed by the Luo Kingdom, has been a complete Zhuxia culture since its birth.
However, after more than a hundred years of development, due to the way of survival of fishing and hunting, both the political atmosphere and cultural characteristics of the country are very different from those of the Central Plains.
For example, in the Yan Kingdom, the Murong family was strong enough to threaten the royal family, but the royal family did not eradicate the Murong family. This is unimaginable.
This is why most of the Central Plains nobles are unwilling to surrender to the Yan State. They have adapted to the political rules of the Central Plains, and they are unwilling to rebuild the political ecology of the Yan State.
People in the Central Plains don't like to distinguish the tribes on the grassland who have blood feuds with each other, and they don't like to distinguish the different races among them. As long as they live on the grassland, they all call them Hu.
Although this method is relatively stupid, it caused the grassland tribes who originally had conflicts with each other to identify with each other. Not only the barbarians, but also other barbarians were treated in the same way.
But the advantage is that it sets a target for the Han people in the Central Plains to attack the grassland tribes. You don't have to worry about being unable to attack the grassland tribes because they were once Han people. It can only be said that there are advantages and disadvantages.
The living conditions of the barbarians on the grasslands have been very poor since ancient times. Only the defeated will go to the grasslands, while the victors will stay in the sacred land of the Central Plains.
You can imagine what kind of living environment it is like on the grassland.
Natural disasters have been prevalent in the Central Plains in recent years, but natural disasters of this level are nothing to the grasslands.
The white disaster and black disaster on the grassland are disasters that can destroy everything. Luoling was sowing white disaster on the grassland, which resulted in the death of countless Huns.
Throughout the pre-Han Dynasty, the barbarians on the grasslands either worked as dogs for the Han Dynasty, or they would be beaten to death by the Han Dynasty.
The generals of the Han Dynasty twice executed the Xiongnu Chanyu on the edge of the North Sea, which will always be a nightmare in the minds of the heroes of the grassland.
After entering the Later Han Dynasty, this situation changed somewhat. Although it was still impossible for the grasslands to invade the Han Dynasty, at least they could fight back and forth on the border.
This is the case with grasslands and farming. The power of one is declining and the other is increasing. The grasslands are endlessly killing, and the killings are endless. As long as the grassland is still there, there will always be tribes on the grassland.
People cannot be regenerated on the grassland, but people from the Central Plains will flee to the grassland to avoid exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes.
Many people may not understand why farmers have fled to nomadic life, because exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are as fierce as tigers.
Just as many people cannot understand why it is so easy for aristocratic families to conceal their population, censusing the population always requires strong promotion by the court and cannot be coordinated with the hidden people.
Because most people always think that people who are sold as slaves in aristocratic families and live miserable lives have to work for the aristocratic families. But in fact, exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes are more severe than tigers. It is easier to survive by cultivating land for aristocratic families than by cultivating your own land. .
The grassland may die and you will regret it later, but the Central Plains will really die now. This is the reason for fleeing to the grassland.
After many years of accumulation, today's grassland has finally begun to flourish again.
Driven by the fate of the sky, it has ushered in its own prosperous period. If there is a real master of the grassland now, maybe he can really call himself the descendant of the sky, surrounded by the sun and the moon.
Just like the late Han Dynasty when talents were at their peak, the Hu people began to usher in their own era.
When Ji Zhao saw the fate of the Hu people in Tianzhu, he was thinking about a question. In his era, in the post-Three Kingdoms era, looking at the history books, how many names were there?
How many are from the Hu people, how many are from the Han people, this is part of the rules of the world. The game that I have traveled through is a game of family survival. The game does not change history, or history is a background board, and the children of the family also It was just a line of data, but after traveling through time, those words turned into living people, so he was immersed in it. He didn't want to see Wu Huanhua appear again.
Of course, the most important thing is that he does not want to see the emergence of the Yuan and Qing Dynasties. There are people like Fu Jian and Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty in Central China. The Han and Xianbei finally created the prosperous feudal empire of the Tang Dynasty. , Zhenguan and Kaiyuan are the eras Ji Zhao longs for most, but he really can't find any advantages in Yuanqing.
The Central Plains people are thinking about how to ensure the smooth operation of the country, and the Hu people are also thinking about how to let their tribes survive such a horrific natural disaster.
Of course, these nobles on the grasslands do not really want to make the lives of their herdsmen better, just as there are only a few emperors in the Central Plains who regard the people as their own responsibility, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty.
But even if they are treated as resources and livestock, they do not want their tribe to be hit.
No matter who it is, they will definitely set their sights on Southland in the end.
Only by occupying the warm environment where land can be cultivated can the entire ethnic group survive. This is completely consistent with the reason why Yan State went south.
The Yan State has been able to achieve great success for so many years with a much smaller population compared to the Central Plains, because the Yan people are determined to occupy the southern land.
In the early Han Dynasty, soldiers were mobilized to attack the Xiongnu for a similar reason. Only life and death can best stimulate people's potential.
This group of barbarians who have always been thinking of fighting for their lives, if they don't fight with them equally hard, the final outcome is really hard to say.
There are many people among the Hu people who can be called geniuses. After the geniuses of the Central Plains gradually began to wither, the sky can't wait to reveal those familiar names among the Hu people.
Especially after Ji Zhao appeared at the Tianzhu and began to unite, this was probably the last time that the sky directed the world to move forward.
Over the years, some books from the Central Plains have gradually spread to the grasslands. The existence of the Yan State has greatly enhanced the exchanges between Hu and Zhu Xia.
The destructive power exerted by these barbarian heroes, who were not only as fierce as the barbarians, but also read Han Chinese books, and who were not bound by tradition, was frightening.
Between the white mountains and black waters of Liaodong, there emerged the Yan Kingdom, which is now one of the most numerous princes in the world.
The single combat effectiveness of Yan's cavalry is unparalleled in the world. To a certain extent, even Xiliang's cavalry is not as powerful as this group of knights who came out of the ice and snow.
But before the existence of the Yan Kingdom, the number of Hu people in Liaodong was very large. Perhaps it is not appropriate to use the word "many" to describe it. After all, with the production methods of the Hu people and the environment in Liaodong, it is unrealistic to have a large population. .
But it has to be said that the Hu people living in Liaodong are very powerful in fighting. Whether it is Wuhuan or the Xianbei tribe that has a feud with the Yan Kingdom, these Hu people called the Donghu clan are very strong.
This group of fishing and hunting tribesmen are quite brave. Fishing and hunting have given them superb archery skills and physical fitness. The scarce and hard-to-obtain food and the cold environment have pushed their endurance and physical strength to the extreme.
There are many Hu people in the Yan Kingdom, but there are more Hu people lurking in the white mountains and black waters. The Yan Kingdom naturally does not have the ability to encircle and suppress every Hu person. That is absolutely unrealistic. Even if the Yan Kingdom is destroyed, it cannot be done. .
Not to mention the Yan State, even if the Central Plains devotes all its efforts, it is impossible to kill every barbarian in the White Mountains and Black Waters. After all, the Central Plains has not been able to wipe out all the barbarians in Jiangdong and the southwest until now, let alone Liaodong, which has a stronger fighting capacity. .
There is a mountain in eastern Liaoning called Daxianbei Mountain. The ancestors of the Yan Kingdom were exiled here, so they each took many place names as their surnames.
These surnames spread to the surrounding Hu tribes, so many Hu tribes had their own surnames. Those surnames had the pattern of the Han people, but they were not among the traditional surnames of the Han people, but were surnames that belonged exclusively to the Yan people. Such as Murong.
Among the many tribes known as Xianbei, there are many surnames of the Yan State. In the eyes of the Hu people, the Yan State is also a Hu person.
Because the Yan people are not Han people, they live outside the Great Wall, and their culture is different from that of the Han people, so most of the Hu people call the Yan country Yan Hu.
The Hu people believed that Yan was also a branch of Xianbei, and everyone lived near the greater Xianbei Mountains.
This is not a problem regarding Yan's beliefs. As mentioned before, the beliefs of the people in the grasslands are very complicated. The belief in King Su's Immortality is not uncommon on the grasslands.
The only difference is that the Yan State is more educated. These barbarian tribes do not understand how the Yan State brought so many books to a bitter and cold place like Liaodong, but it is indeed very powerful.
During the tribal wars, when the Yan State was fighting the Hu people, the Hu nobles liked to rob the books in the hands of the Yan State. These nobles all knew Chinese characters. It can even be said that many of them had a deep understanding of the Han culture. Already quite familiar with it.
In the end, the more organized Yan people won the battle for the land in Liaodong, but the Hu people who were driven away by the Yan people were not complete losers.
The Hu tribe that came out of the meat grinder in Liaodong has almost a complete national system. Such an existence is almost a complete dimensionality reduction blow to other tribes on the northern grasslands.
These barbarians are more fierce, their archery skills are more superb, and their riding skills are not inferior to those of nomads.
The grasslands that had been somewhat neglected by the Central Plains had the meaning of being unified. When the Central Plains had just moved from unification to division, a unified regime seemed to be emerging on the grasslands.
Moreover, this regime is not just relying on picking up the slack. More and more geniuses are appearing in the clan. Geniuses are emerging in an endless stream, criss-crossing the grassland.
At their peak, the Xiongnu actually did not completely surrender the tribes on the grassland. During the years of confrontation between the Han court and the Xiongnu, there were always countless Hu cavalry serving under the Han court, especially in the later Liaodong capital. There are many Hu people serving under the Hufu, and there are still many Hu people serving under the Wei State on the border.
Needless to say, Yan's subordinates are nearly half of the Hu people. However, the Hu people's regime on the grassland now has the idea of unifying all the people who lead the bow. They not only have military capabilities Genius, even political genius, sought to unite loose tribes into a cohesive nation.
They first chose a resounding name for themselves, that is, the word "Xia" is different among the Hu people, which means ancient and noble.
Then these Hu people began to study how the Huns lost to the Han Dynasty back then, and analyzed countless reasons. For example, the equipment of the Han Dynasty was more powerful, the national power of the Han people was more powerful, and the generals of the Han people were even better. In the end, It was their Great Chanyu Khan who told the real reason.
The original Xiongnu was not a country at all, but a loose tribal alliance. On the surface, the kings obeyed the orders of the Xiongnu royal court, but in fact they did their own thing.
In the end, Wushuang Hou, Champion Hou and Changping Hou were able to defeat the tribal kings one after another in the Xiongnu's territory of thousands of miles. Otherwise, with the strength of hundreds of thousands of bow-drawing people during the Xiongnu's heyday, how could they have done it? It may lose consecutive battles, be weakened by the Han Dynasty again and again, and finally be defeated in one battle.
The words of Xianbei Chanyu Khan naturally have a lot of truth, and it can even be said that this is indeed one of the main reasons. It is strange that tribes like the Xiongnu can win head-on against a serious country like the Han Dynasty, but it is just a grassland regime. The country was directly destroyed by the Han Dynasty, and even Shanyu was beheaded twice. This is really outrageous.
Now they have learned this lesson. These barbarians who came out of Liaodong are highly organized. Although they do not have as many official offices as in the Central Plains, their military organization is extremely integrated.
In other words, the entire grassland is transforming into a military empire. The tribes in the past were gathered at will, but now the tribes on the grassland are being reorganized, with soldiers as the basis, with teams of hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands. The newly conquered tribes were broken up and regrouped according to the soldiers. Coupled with strict military regulations, the scattered grassland tribes were beaten as soon as they appeared.
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After Cao Cao and Liu Bei proclaimed themselves emperors, they each established their own countries and had their own reign titles.
Cao Cao was defeated in Jizhou, and the Wei state suffered heavy losses. In a short period of time, he was completely unable to move eastward. After he established himself as emperor, he believed that Luoyang was not safe enough. Once the eight passes of Luoyang were breached, there was a possibility that all of them would be captured at any time. , so he put all his thoughts on moving the capital to Chang'an. Those nobles who followed him also moved to Chang'an, including Luo Yan at the time, to prevent him from having any contact with the Han Dynasty. They also moved the main branch of the nobles in Hebei to prevent They helped the Han State stabilize Hebei's rule, and also used these people to control Hebei.
Without this group of big gentry in Hebei, the remaining gentry would take the opportunity to establish rule. Hebei might not be able to help Liu Bei within a few years. After doing all this, Cao Cao exhausted all his energy and when he had a headache The pain was unbearable, and the bed collapsed after nearly a month.
Prince Cao Ang naturally succeeded to the throne without any disturbances. A new emperor was established in Wei State, and the handover of Wei State was considered smooth, but in the end it caused some changes and created some instability.
Liu Bei took the opportunity to attack the Eight Passes of Luoyang, Wei State. The capital of Wei State was beyond Chang'an, and they had to be prepared for the attack of Xia State in the Western Regions. After all, they saw the lessons learned from Ma Chao very clearly.
Cao Ang considered that if he kept mobilizing food, grass and troops from Chang'an, he would be in a state of exhaustion, which would be detrimental to subsequent recovery.
So Cao Ang used Xiahou Dun as his envoy, General Chijie to conquer the east, to lead the governor of Sanhe, and became the de facto commander-in-chief of the eastern theater of Cao Wei's regime, leading all wars east of Weihan.
This is de facto rule by dividing Shaanxi, but Xiahou Dun's family and family are all in Chang'an, so there are still checks and balances.
In past history, the first person to have this status was Ji Zhao.
The advantage of dividing Shaanxi and governing it is that it greatly reduces political costs. Although Xiahou Dun is not good at fighting, he is good at governance. Wei's generals guarded the Xingyang defense line and resisted Liu Bei's attack with difficulty.
Wu State was still encroaching on land step by step, so it decided to take advantage of Wei State's weak situation to attack Nanyang and capture the last large stronghold in the west. After that, facing the Central Plains, it could advance, attack, retreat and defend.
Cao Wei, who was already in a state of exhaustion, was naturally no match for the two countries, so he suffered heavy losses again, and both Henan and Nanyang were on the verge of collapse.
But no one in this world can always be successful. When a person succeeds, heaven and earth work together, and when his destiny goes, he has no control over it.
Liu Bei died in the army. Before his death, he appointed Guan Yu, Zhuge Liang, Lu Shen, Liu Ye, and Fazheng as auxiliary ministers to jointly assist Liu Chan, a clan with a foreign surname, an heir of Luo Qi, a foreign relative, and the original shareholder. , a clan, a representative representing people like Ma Chao who later joined him, and he was also a talent that Luo Qi told him to reuse. It was a foolproof arrangement.
At that time, the Yan State went south to invade the Han State in Hebei, and the Han State withdrew its troops from Xingyang. The crisis in Guandong of Cao Wei was resolved. Faced with this situation, the Wu State could only withdraw its troops as well, and no one was willing to make wedding clothes for others.
A few years later, King Xia of the Western Regions was assassinated, causing chaos in the Western Regions. In order to eliminate its worries, the Wei State fought for the horse farms in the Hexi Corridor and attacked the Xia State brazenly. The Xia State retreated steadily, and all four counties were occupied by the Wei State. Threatened, the Wei State began to accumulate national power. A hundred years later, although Guanzhong was not as prosperous as the Han Dynasty, it was a land of abundance, and the land conditions were no problem. Cao Wei moved all the people from areas bordering other countries, and a large number of Guandong people Move in and let this place thrive again.
A few more years later, the Han State, which had the deepest foundation, finally settled the affairs of Jizhou and had enough troops and food. It invited Wu State to attack Wei State again. Han State attacked Xingyang, Wu State attacked Nanyang, and Bingzhou attacked Hedong.
The State of Wu had been preparing for a long time and took the lead in breaking through the barrier. Nanyang finally fell into the hands of the State of Wu. However, at this time, a large number of the population of Nanyang had been moved away by Cao Wei, and Cao Wei was still shocked.
When Wu State got Nanyang, it stopped attacking. In addition, the governor Zhou Yu died of illness and turned to peace talks with Wei State. Wei State could only hold its nose and admit the matter. Lu Su succeeded as the governor general and stationed troops in Huainan.
The Han army was not allowed to advance before Xingyang. It was separated by a ferry in Hebei, and Yan and Wu were holding it back. They failed to break through and returned to Luoyang. Fa Zheng refused to accept the siltation, but had no choice but to retreat. The old group of Han The general began to wither.
Liaodong is getting colder and colder, and a large number of people from the original Yan Kingdom are migrating southward, and the population of Liaodong is gradually declining.
Yan Lin tried to prevent the Yan people from going south in Liaodong and established a military area in Liaodong. The Yan people said angrily: "It is difficult to survive in the extreme cold in the extreme north. Our ancestors have been determined to go south for a hundred and fifty years, but now they are blocked. The emperor built a palace in the southern country and the people are happy. How unfair it is to live an ignoble existence in the far north."
Yanlin was killed in a mutiny, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne. No one dared to stop the Yan people from returning south. A large number of Yan people entered Youzhou, and the population of Liaodong became increasingly sparse.
A few years later, the new emperor of the Yan Kingdom was killed by his ministers. In the Yan Kingdom, Murong and the Gongsun clan jointly took power and suppressed the Yan royal family. The Yan Kingdom was in chaos.
The Han State took the opportunity to conquer the whole territory of Jizhou through the Northern Expedition. The Yan State moved away the people of Jizhou and fled into the territory of Youzhou. The Han State's power reached its peak. It suppressed the Yan State in the north, conquered the Wu State in the south, and invaded the Wei State in the west. It prospered like all other countries. The country was number one, and the capital was moved to Fenggao.
Lu Bu had passed away, and Bingzhou was separated. Zhang Liao's prestige was not enough to completely overwhelm everyone, so he fell into internal disputes. Now Bingzhou not only owns Bingzhou, but also gets part of Hedong, and is very powerful.
The Han State broke off an arm and wanted to form an alliance with the Wu State, but the ministers of the Wu State did not agree and believed that the Han State was the number one enemy. So when the Han State was at its strongest, it became enemies with Wei, Yan and Wu. , the Han Dynasty was in awe.
A few years later, Luo Chu, with Lu Su as the governor and Lu Xun as the general in charge of the north, led the Wu army to attack the Huaisi and Xuzhou areas of Han State by land and water. He wanted to complete the last piece of the puzzle of Wu State. Faced with the great achievements of the Northern Expedition, All families actively contributed. Wei State had been preparing for many years and mobilized a large number of troops from Guanzhong to send troops to Guandong to attack Yanzhou from Xingyang. Yan State sent troops to Jizhou. Han State had to fight on three fronts.
Guan Yu guarded Jizhou, Lu Shen guarded Yanzhou, and all the generals gathered in Xuzhou. After several years, Yan State had insufficient food reserves and retreated, but some of Han State's generals fell.
Cao Ang died in Chang'an. He was not very old, but also suffered from a headache. His son Cao Rui succeeded to the throne. Cao Rui's prestige was insufficient and he was worried about the danger of the army outside, so he withdrew the army to protect his throne.
The army led by Lu Su met Fazheng head-on and did not achieve a big victory. However, no one expected that Lu Xun of Wu State won a great victory when the Huai River flooded the Han army, and even led the army to conquer Pengcheng. .
Under Lu Xun's command, Gan Ning was unstoppable. In the Huaihe River Basin, which was crisscrossed by waterways, the two were unstoppable. After learning the news, the Wei State Governor who succeeded Xiahou Dun to guard Luoyang led the army of Sanhe to send troops again. Yan State also took advantage of the situation and faced the situation. For a greater threat, the Han Dynasty could only retreat temporarily and stationed in the north of Xuzhou. However, the undefendable situation in Xuzhou had become a foregone conclusion. The two countries faced off in the Huaihe River Basin, and neither of them had the means to completely resolve the other.
But Wu State has the advantage. Wu State can invest all the power of the entire country, but Han State has to face enemies from the other two aspects. At this time, Han State's undefendable weakness is fully reflected, just like During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the State of Wei, like the State of Qi, could not defend itself once it was besieged by several parties.
The Han State realized this and began to build key cities in several directions. In fact, it was mainly the Yan State in the north. It was not easy for Wei and Wu to attack the Han State.
However, Wu State was not willing to directly unite with several countries to defeat Han State. Wei State, which occupied Guanzhong and Luoyang, was also a formidable enemy.
The Wei State also has its own strategic plan and will not let the Wu State defeat the Han State. Now the main strategic direction of the Wei State is to take over the Shu State from Guanzhong, and then completely recapture Hedong. That is the complete victory of the Western Qin Dynasty. The situation is strong, and facing Wu State, it will have a strategic advantage.
The Yan State's military strength is still very strong, but its war potential is insufficient. However, facing the Han State with few cavalry, it can withdraw even if it cannot defeat it. The situation in the Yan State gradually calmed down. After the Yan State reached a balance, the domestic situation The nobles reached an agreement that they should capture the southern part of the country first.
One is Jizhou, waiting for other countries to attack Han to see if they can find an opportunity. In front of Yan, Jizhou is completely undefended. Yan's cavalry can rush to the north bank of the Yellow River. If it freezes in winter , then you can rush directly to the north bank of the Huaihe River. Another option is Bingzhou. Yan State can enter Bingzhou from Daidi without going through the Eight Paths of Taihang. To capture Bingzhou, Jizhou is easily accessible.
King Zhang Lu of Hanzhong had died in Hanzhong, and there was chaos. Wei State began to attack. King Liu Zhang of Shu watched the emperors in Chengdu with strong soldiers and horses, trembling. The ministers of Shu State were debating whether to surrender to Wei State or not. As for the Kingdom of Wu and the Kingdom of Shu, no one believes that they can defend it.
After the Wei State conquered Han China and occupied Hanzhong, the King of Shu Liu Zhang sent people to the Wu State. After all, the treatment for surrendering to the Wei State was unknown, but the treatment for Liu Cong to surrender to the Wu State was quite good.
I can finally write the main text, and two chapters will be posted tomorrow at 12 noon!
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