Waves at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 30

While Chen Wentian, Wang Yue and the others were busy, a grand celebration was being held in Tongsi City far to the west of the Western Regions.

For the people here, this day is equivalent to the Chinese New Year. Although there are indeed many Han people here, they obviously care more about this silk festival than other festivals such as the Spring Festival.

As the name suggests, Tongsi Festival is the day to restore the Silk Road. For this commercial city, the significance of completely opening up the Silk Road is indeed extraordinary.

It can be said that it is because of the Silk Road that the city is so prosperous today and the people here live a prosperous life. Therefore, the people here celebrate this festival from the bottom of their hearts, singing and dancing everywhere, and decorating with lanterns and festoons.

The name Tongsi City was actually taken by Wang Yang, the city lord who later occupied this place. It used to be an important city of the Guishuang Empire and the former capital of the Da Yue Clan, Lan Clan City.

At that time, General Ouyang led the Dragon Cavalry Army to fight against the main force of Guishuang, which dealt a heavy blow to the already turbulent empire. Almost all the elites in the country were buried. As a result, King Guishuang could no longer suppress the internal opposition forces, or even organize The effective force resisted the attack of the Han Chinese.

Fortunately, the general after the victory seemed to have no intention of continuing to attack. He only left behind a thousand dragonriders and thousands of troops from various countries in the Western Regions. Some loot that cannot be taken away.

Wang Yang is also worthy of the general's appreciation and promotion. Not long after he took office, he showed outstanding abilities, quickly integrated all kinds of forces and materials handed over, took advantage of Guishuang's weakness to use troops again, and adopted a cooperative strategy. The vertical and horizontal strategy divided the various forces in Guishuang, and soon gained a firm foothold in Guishuang.

After more than ten years of operation, finally 30 years ago, in the summer of 149 A.D., Wang Yang led the army to capture Lanshi City and expelled the forces of King Guishuang to the vicinity of Gaofu City, the southern capital, and established Tongsi National Ding It's all here.

Soon Tongsi Kingdom gradually ended the surrounding wars, and began to resettle refugees, liberate slaves, resume production, and open up commerce.

With the introduction of a series of novel and effective policies, benefiting from the key geographical location of China Unicom from east to west and the promotion of commerce and trade throughout the country, Tongsi's national strength has grown rapidly and its scope of influence has gradually expanded.

More than ten years after the founding of the country, the caravan of the Tongsi Kingdom arrived in the Roman Empire and completely restored the long-interrupted Silk Road, thus raising the prosperity of domestic commerce to an unprecedented height. To commemorate this hard-won achievement, the second On behalf of King Wang Da, he ordered that this day be designated as Tongsi Festival!
When it comes to the prosperity and happiness of the people, perhaps looking at the entire civilized country of mankind at this time, this place can be ranked first, because of the systems of equal distribution, equality, popularization of education, and state-owned land, the gap between the rich and the poor is not too large here. It was minimized, and the prosperity of commerce provided the common people with abundant material supplies and a large number of jobs with good income.

Therefore, despite the complex nationality of the Tongsi Kingdom, whether they are Han people, Yuezhi people, Daxia people, Persians, Huns, or people from other countries in the Western Regions, they all live relatively comfortably here, especially for those at the bottom of other countries. For the public, this place can be regarded as the ideal Garden of Eden.

Therefore, although the Tongsi country did not deliberately promote or guide, people in the surrounding areas who knew some situations came to resettle and settle down one after another, and the Tongsi country was also very open and tolerant to these people who came to attach themselves, so they decided to do so in a short period of time A population siphon effect was produced, which eventually led to these countries having to urgently and strictly control their borders and unite to resist the fatal attraction of the Tongsi country.

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The entire Tongsi City is divided into two parts, the inner city and the outer city, covering a huge area.

Especially in the outer city, there is no city wall in the unique and huge open structure. It is mainly a variety of commercial and service buildings, workshops, post houses, and residences for ordinary people.

The inner city is almost rebuilt on the basis of the original Lan's city, including the palace, the governing office, the forbidden army camp, some important facilities such as the academy, the library, and a huge celebration square.

The palace is located in the north of the center of the inner city. There is a tall tower made of huge stones, which is towering and magnificent. Standing on the tower, you can overlook the whole city, and outside the gate of the palace is the celebration square.

At this time, the sun is setting and the night is gradually coming. The official celebrations have ended, but the square is still crowded with people. The Tongsi Festival has become the most important festival in this rich country. People spontaneously hold torches and sing and dance. , And formed the custom of celebrating until late at night.

After today's celebration, there will be a half-month trade exhibition, a large number of various commodities will be exhibited here, and merchants will also release more powerful promotions in a timely manner
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The aging king Wang Da was talking to the crown prince Wang Cheng on the top platform of the tower with a peaceful expression.

Looking at the people celebrating in the square below, his mood seemed to be infected a little. He raised his wine glass and took a sip before asking, "I heard that the guard of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty is about to be replaced, and that General Zhang Wen will soon be What do you think about returning to Luoyang to take up the post?"

"My boy has sent Xicheng Jue to the Duhu Mansion to prepare congratulatory gifts and act according to circumstances. Let's find out the Duhu's political views before making a decision. I heard that Dong Duhu is going the way of an eunuch. Maybe it is a good thing for us. Now the surrounding area All the countries regard me as a tiger and wolf, but the children in the Han Dynasty think that it is better to befriend them as much as possible." Hearing his father's question, Wang Cheng answered after a little thought.

He is the third son of Wang Da, and his mother is a Persian woman. If he has two bloodlines, he will be regarded as a handsome man with a wild tension in later generations. After examining the talents and personalities of their brothers equally, Dacha chose him as the crown prince of Tongsi Kingdom.

"Well, yes, then do you know why countries fear me like a tiger?" Wang Da smiled and nodded, and continued to ask.

"This...boy thinks that besides our country's power and military strength, there is another more important reason is our system...under this system, we will only become stronger and attract their people to join us, As a result, their national strength is constantly weakening, and their ruling class also knows that under our system, they have no room to survive at all, so they must completely oppose us, but they can't fight, so now they can only unite to resist We..." This question made Wang Cheng think for a little longer before answering, but luckily he had thought about it before.

"Well, what do you think we should do?" Wang Da seemed to be in a better mood after hearing this, and continued to ask after taking another sip of wine.

"My child thinks that we need to try our best to maintain the status quo and continue to accumulate and grow our national strength. We must not be conceited. Although our system is very beneficial to the people, we have made many enemies. If we start a war again, although we can win, the consumption will not be low. What's more Defeating is different from fixing... In order to maintain the smoothness of the Silk Road and deter other countries, our national power has been spent on the army and war for decades. Now it is a little more stable, and education and medical popularization have just started, and it will be effective in at least ten years. , this is the time of hibernation!" Wang Cheng was clearly prepared for this question, and talked about it with eloquence.

"It makes sense. If Anxi unites with the surrounding countries with one heart, we may suffer. It seems that you have read that book with ulterior motives. Compared with other brothers and sisters, you are much better than other brothers and sisters. When it comes to governing the country, I have already Not as good as you, I called you here today to tell you about that book or the ins and outs of all of this...

(End of this chapter)