svetikya Chapter 326
Chapter 326
In the first year BC, in a heavily guarded manor on the outskirts of Gaobu (present-day Kabul), the capital of the Kushan Empire, the atmosphere was depressed, and from a large house located in the center of the manor, there was a faint sound of sobs, and outside this large house, a large number of people kneeling in black oppression, all silent, with sad faces.
In the east wing of this large house, the old Li Guanghong lay quietly on the bed, and the bed was also full of kneeling people.
At this time, Li Guanghong is already 98 years old, which is an extremely rare high life in this era, and what is even more rare is that just two years ago, he was still deaf and clear-headed, although he handed over the authority of the Mo family as early as 10 years ago when he was 87 years old, but he still participated in the decision-making of major affairs and strategies of the Mo family as an elder.
As early as 60 BC, after the Xiongnu Empire "five singles in contention", and the Han Empire established the Western Regions Protectorate, the Mo family inherited Zhang Mingshan's legacy, began to continue to the west, after planning a series of events, the Kang Ju Empire (most of today's Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan) that was originally far away from the Central Plains, completely submitted to the Han Empire, even if the Han Empire later declined, the Central Plains was shaken, still did not shake its loyal attitude, until the Kang Ju Empire disappeared in the smoke of history, and the people who lived in its land, He still maintained a generational friendship with the central government of China, and even during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, he sent envoys many times to strongly request that they be incorporated into the territory of the Tang Empire, and after Emperor Taizong finally refused, his envoys wept and complained that the Han people disliked them and did not accept them.
As a powerful country in Central Asia, Kang Ju's ancestors have been active in this area for a long time, once beheaded the founder of the Persian Empire, conquered Medes, Lydia and Babylon, and was recorded in the book of Ezra as the king of ancient kings and claimed to be the king of the world, Cyrus the Great, can be regarded as the little overlord of Central Asia.
Kangju was also a country composed of a confederation of nomadic tribes, with similar customs and beliefs to the Xiongnu, so it was friendly with the Xiongnu for generations, and repeatedly sent reinforcements to help the Xiongnu fight against the Han Dynasty. When Li Guangli was begging Dawan, Kang Ju also tried to send troops to support Dawan; Chen Tang defeated the 10,000 cavalry sent by King Kang Ju to help the Xiongnu in the process of conquering the Xiongnu Zhi Zhidanyu, so why did there be a change in attitude towards the Han Empire by almost 180 degrees?
It is nothing more than a few reasons:
First, as a large number of Xiongnu were expelled by the Han Empire and the Huhan Xidan Yu coalition into the eastern region of Kangju, the Xiongnu culture and the Han culture behind it were also brought down here, quickly popularized and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and slowly, the Han Empire became the ideal country they imagined, and they could no longer be willing to fight.
Secondly, the Han Empire completely controlled the Western Regions, which was equivalent to strangling the neck of the East-West trade, an important trade route that was later known as the "Silk Road", which at that time could determine the survival of a country, once the Han Empire imposed a trade embargo on Kang Ju, or other targeted policies, Kang Ju would be very sad!
The third reason is that behind them, farther west, a country stronger than them suddenly sprang up and repeatedly attacked them, forcing them to move closer to the Han Empire, which is the Kushan Empire!
At that time, when the Mo family decided to go west, there was a dispute about the direction of the march:
one group believed that it should follow the westward migration of the Xiongnu, enter the country of Kang Ju, and repeat the story of the Mo family in the Xiongnu Empire, forcing it to fall apart, some people belonged to the Han Dynasty and integrated into China, while the other part continued to move west, like a whip, instigating the westward movement of the nation, and completely sweeping away the countries that threatened the Central Plains.
The other group has a different view, citing the example of distant friendship and close attack, pointing out that the Kang Ju Empire is far from the Central Plains, maintaining its national integrity and the stability of the main nation, and bringing it close to the Central Plains Dynasty through various means, which is more conducive to achieving the strategic goals of the Mo family.
Through forty years of continuous exploration, Mojia has known that this world is very large, and in the far west, there is not only the Kushan Empire, but also the Great Food (Arab Empire), Rest (Persian Empire), Tianzhu, etc., and there is also the Daqin (Roman Empire) with millions of troops, and most of the countries are numerous.
Especially Daqin, especially made them feel worried.
"Daqin. The color of the people is red and white, the men are dressed in plain clothes, and the women are dressed in pearl brocade. ...... The royal city is eighty miles square, and the four sides are tens of miles apart. There are about a million victorious soldiers, and they often compete with the Great Food. "
The standing force is million, although the Central Plains Dynasty is not afraid of this force, but once it clashes head-on, it will inevitably be a ruins of life!"
Therefore, the view of this school is to establish a series of countries around the Han Empire to help the Han Empire resist the expansion of Western countries to the east!
Therefore, a complete Kang Ju Kingdom, a steppe country with nomadic tribes and Xiongnu as a whole, is more conducive to achieving this strategic goal, which is the essence of the policy of long-distance friendship and close attack in the Ghost Valley!
Finally, after Li Guanghong's deliberation, it was decided to carry out improvement and optimization on the basis of mainly adopting the views of the latter faction, integrating the proposal of "instigating the westward movement of the nation" into it, and formulating the centennial goal of the future Mojia:
that is, to fully enter the western region of the Western Regions, establish a relatively powerful, narrow north-south, fan-shaped empire, guard the western gateway for the Western Regions, digest and integrate the Western Regions for the Han Dynasty, and create a century-old peaceful and stable international environment. At the same time, it is also necessary to realize the threat behind the Kang Ju Empire, ensure that it does not become a threat to the Han family, and oppress Kang Ju to completely fall to the Han Empire.
In order to truly achieve this goal, it is necessary to let the Xiongnu, who are relatively familiar with the Han family, gradually occupy the mainstream of Kang Ju society, and the Scythians, who were originally the masters of the Kang Kingdom, let them further invade the West, thus driving the national echelon to the west, constantly turbulent, and ensuring that the Central Plains dynasty is always in a safe state from Western threats.
Li Guanghong's policy, after discussion by the Mexicans, was considered feasible, received the support of the absolute majority, and continued to be implemented in the following nearly sixty years!
The Kushan Empire was founded by the Kushan Dynasty tribe, one of the five marquis of the Great Moon clan.
From the 5th century BC to the early 2nd century BC, the Yue people were nomadic in the Hexi corridor, Zhangye to the Dunhuang area, powerful, were the old enemies of the Xiongnu, won and lost each other, and later with the rise and growth of the Xiongnu Empire, the Yue people were forced to move west. Around 160 BC, the Yue people were again defeated by the Xiongnu and the Xiongnu-backed Wusun, and moved west to the Amu Darya River Valley in Central Asia, later Central Asia's Afghan region.
Around 130 BC, the Yue people conquered Bactria (a state established by the Greeks in Central Asia), and slaughtered and expelled the local Cypriots, and then ruled the entire Amu Darya and Syr Darya valleys. Later, the Otsuki clan was divided into five, and Kushan was one of them.
After repeated trials and communication in advance, the Mo family finally chose the Gushan tribe living in the eastern mountains of the Dayue clan as the strategic target, so around 50 BC, the Moist group led by Li Guanghong, except for leaving a few people to control the situation of the Xiongnu Empire, most of them entered the territory of the Kushan tribe, and with them, there were several tribes loyal to the Mo family and a relatively high degree of education, as well as 10,000 elite Xiongnu cavalry.
After entering the territory of the Kushan tribe, on the one hand, the Moji Group helped the relatively weak tribe of Kushan consolidate its territory and build a city, and on the other hand, it once again took education as a starting point and launched the transformation of the Kushan tribe.
In 40 BC, after about 10 years of operation, the Kushan tribe had become the most powerful of the five tribes of the Taiyue clan, and had already annexed two of them, moved the capital to Gao, and selected a "scholar" from the descendants of the Kushan tribe to serve as the king of Kushan.
In 30 BC, Guishuang completed the attack on the remaining two northern Taiyue clan marquises, officially completed the unification of the Dayue clan, established the Kushan Empire, its king was changed to Dawang, meaning the king of kings, and sent envoys to Chang'an for the first time, but because of the heavy rain in Guannei and the uprising of the Daizong, the traffic was cut off, and he had to return halfway, and when he returned, he also brought back many Longxi people who intended to migrate, and enriched the Mojia Han members who were gradually scarce due to a long time.
In 20 BC, the Kushan Empire completely completed the reform, abolished the stereotypical customs of the steppe tribes, and established the core of the culture of the Kushan Empire with "simultaneous love", "non-attack", "shangxian", "shangtong", "tianzhi", "ming ghost", "non-life", "non-music", "festival burial" and "thrift" as the ten commandments, and modeled on the Han system, adopted a bureaucratic system combining the division of seals and the county system, and at the same time abolished the system of succession of princes, and divided the supreme leaders who managed the military and political power in various places. Known as the Prime Minister and Minister of Military Affairs in a certain area, or "Governor General", he began to attack the Khorezm and Kangju empires northward.
In this ten-year Northern Expedition War, Mojia reformed the old army system in view of the actual situation of the war, changing the pyramid command structure of the previous army and replacing it with an "umbrella" structure, the entire army was controlled by the imperial military department, and established major legions, the general and the legion were under the jurisdiction of the military department, and which legion the general commanded to fight was temporarily dispatched, rather than always subordinate, which partially solved the hidden danger of soldiers being generals and supporting troops with self-respect, and to a certain extent strengthened the authority of the center of the Kushan Empire.
At the beginning, the reform of the military system caused a lot of chaos, and there was a chaotic situation in which the generals did not know the soldiers and the soldiers did not know the generals, and the progress of the Northern Expedition was extremely unsmooth.
In this process, there were also differences within the Mojia on the reform of the military system, and the final solution was to establish a military academy and train a large number of middle and lower-level officers to facilitate the standardization of the army.
This measure began to show its power in the fifth year of the Northern Expedition, and the powerful heavy cavalry of Khorezm was helpless against the hedgehog-like spears of the Shangkushan Empire, and finally lost almost half of the country, and was forced to develop northwest, to fight with the more western Alans.
And the Kang Ju Empire was also beaten down, gave up the Dawan under its protection, retreated to the north, and finally forced by the situation, asked the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains for peace, and asked the Han Empire to help it defend the expansion of the Kushan Empire, and the countries of the Western Regions also felt threatened by the Kushan Empire at this time, so they wrote to ask the Han Dynasty to send the former capital Duan Huizong back to the Western Regions, and Wusun, who was originally vacillating between the Xiongnu, Kang Ju and the Han Empire, was completely included in the Western Regions territory of the Han Empire after several civil strife.
The Han Empire, whose national strength is declining day by day, is still majestic and prestigious in the Western Regions, and it dares not obey the Western Regions, and it relies on the might of the Xiongnu and the Kushan Empire, which can be called a miracle at that time!
The nobles of those countries in the Western Regions were also miserable in their hearts!
As long as you do not obey the orders of the Han Empire and cut off trade, it is light, the most important thing is that without the protection of the Han family, there will be Xiongnu cavalry who do not know where to come and rob, once they worship at the feet of the Han Empire, they will be safe and sound, which is really strange....
Until about 11 BC, the Kushan Empire has become a large empire in Central Asia, its territory is bordered by the Rest Empire in the west, the Western Regions and the Tubo Plateau in the east, the Thousand Li Gobi in Central Asia in the north, and the Sunga Dynasty and the Baicheng Dynasty on the South Asian subcontinent in the south, Li Guanghong's strategic concept of that year is basically half completed, and the Crescent-shaped Kushan Empire in Central Asia is beginning to appear!
In this year, Li Guanghong decided to retire from the position of the Mo family and re-elect the meritocracy, while he retired to the background, while he was still a director, he helped the horse and sent a ride!
It is said that his teacher was also officially handed over to him at the age of 88!
Since then, he has been hiding behind the scenes in the Hongyuan Manor on the outskirts of Gaofu City, while guiding the new Mojia Jiazi to conquer Central Asia, while diligently learning the Taoist health preservation techniques taught to him by his mentor Zhang Mingshan!
The reason why Zhang Mingshan was nearly seventy years old and was still able to cultivate on horseback and eat tender grass was because he practiced this Taoist health preservation technique, which was said to be passed down from the grandmaster of Ghost Valley.
After 10 years like this, until 1 BC, the 98-year-old Li Guanghong finally reached the day when the oil ran out and the lamp was about to die....
The new Mo family is named Han Bing, and there is also a Xiongnu named Turson, who was a closed disciple of Li Guanghong when he was 60 years old, and his father was originally Li Guanghong's chief guard, in an assassination against Li Guanghong, he helped him fend off three deadly poisoned arrows, leaving an orphan and widow!
Han Bing was less than 5 years old at that time, and he was accepted by Li Guanghong as a closed disciple, and he was always with him.
Han Bing is a Chinese-Hungarian mixed race, his mother is the daughter of a Han official, his father was once a Xiongnu aristocracy, and after learning the Xiongnu language, he was deeply attracted by the breadth and depth of Han culture, and was sent to Chang'an to study for five years, so as to get to know his mother!
At first, his mother did not know that this powerful and tall Taixue student was a Xiongnu, and then fell in love with him, so she decided to stay with him for life, regardless of his father's opposition, resolutely eloped with him, and since then he has followed the footsteps of the Mo family, from the Xiongnu to the Kushan Empire, and never gave up, until his father died in the line of duty....
Han Bing has been taught by Li Guanghong since childhood, whether it is the Five Classics of Poetry or military strategy, he has followed the ideas of Zhang Mingshan and Li Guanghong, although his learning and prestige are not the best among Li Guanghong's many disciples, but because he is humble and kind, he is harmonious, and he is deeply recognized by all factions of the Mo family, and his young age and prosperity in spring and autumn can ensure the stable development of the Mo family in the next few decades.
Because Moist thought advocates "shangxian", "shangtong", and "non-fate", so the Mojia are called brothers, which means that everyone is equal, and as a moment, it only has a slightly higher status, as well as the relative right to decide political affairs, Mojia is called "big brother" internally, although it has a certain honorable status and enjoys some privileges, but it is not enough to trigger internal struggles like the struggle for the throne.
The supreme power of the Mo family is in the hands of the meeting composed of 33 Mo scholars, and these 33 Mo people who have the qualifications to participate in the meeting are elected by the Mo family, and all the major issues of the Mo family are basically discussed by all the members of the Mo family, put forward opinions, and then brought by these 33 people to the meeting for decision-making.
In the face of such a decision-making process and system, the right of the moment is very restricted, and as the moment itself, it is necessary to follow the strict rules of the Mo family by example and set an example for the Mo family, so there are not so many people who have to focus on getting this position....
On the hospital bed, Li Guanghong felt that his strength was hollowed out, his consciousness was sometimes unconscious, sometimes awake, and even breathing became more and more difficult, let alone speak...
I don't know how long it took, Li Guanghong's consciousness cleared up a little, he vaguely heard the sobs around him, and understood that his life was not long in coming, and it was time to leave.
With great effort, he raised his hand to grab something....
His hand was quickly grabbed by a pair of warm big hands, and Li Guanghong squinted hard to see that it was his apprentice Han Bing.
"Master, the apprentice is here, what else do you have to explain, please lower your will!"
Li Guanghong tried to gather the last strength of his body, and said hoarsely:
"To the west... Continuous...... To the west... Until...... What you can see..." Before
he finished speaking, his eyes went black, and he fell into infinite darkness, and the last voice he heard before he died was a cry of sorrow....
Darkness, endless darkness!
Li Guanghong felt that his consciousness was constantly rising, and his experiences in this life were quickly recalled by him until his consciousness was completely dissipated....
Then I don't know how long it took, "Li Guanghong" regained his consciousness, felt his existence, and received information from the outside world. He seemed to feel the light through his eyelids, and he struggled to try to open his eyes....
Once again, he became a baby and came into the world....
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In the meditation room on the 33rd floor of the Demon King Building in Zhonghai, Magic Island, Minister Ding, who had watched the life of "Li Guanghong" in a fast-forward way, stroked the new generation of smart helmets in his hand, sighed, and asked Kong Bai on the side:
"Academician Kong, is this all real history?"
"Could it be that the Han Empire still maintained a high degree of control over the Western Regions under internal and external troubles, even in the chaotic Three Kingdoms era in later generations, all because of the merits of the Mo family?"
Kong Bai also put down the smart helmet in his hand and said with a smile:
"Maybe!"
"There are so many doubts about history, who can really explain it?"
"But that doesn't matter! For Sdikoe and the more than 300 agents of various countries who have experienced this 'history', what they have experienced, that is the truth of history, and this is enough! "