Overlord!

There is no doubt about another arrangement for the Han Dynasty.

Sun Ce directly replied to Liu Xie: "The emperor can lead the Han Dynasty monarchs and ministers to return to Hanzhong, and then enter the southwest to open up the southwest."

Liu Bei was also attacking Yizhou anyway, so Sun Ce might as well let him go to the south of Yizhou as he wished.

Perhaps the biggest misunderstanding of Zhu Xia in later generations is that Zhu Xia is a peace-loving nation that never expands its territory.

The American Empire expanded from thirteen states to more than fifty states, and its territory was expanded.

So the 1045 million square kilometers of land in the Central Plains were brought to you by charging phone bills?

I'm afraid Tan Qixiang will bear 99% of the blame.

When he drew the territorial maps of past dynasties, in order to make future generations more familiar with maps, he drew the territory and border situation that only later nation-states had on the ancient maps.

It seems that the territory of the Qin Dynasty is not much different from that of later generations.

In fact, the territory that the ancient Central Plains regime could control was not such a complete large area of ​​land.

The most accurate image is that it is like psoriasis, distributed piece by piece on this large land. Just like Jiaozhou, outside the city, it is a land outside the city, a place controlled by Zong Shuai and Hu Yue.

Why is only Wu County prosperous in Jiangdong? It's because Wu County is the largest piece of moss. Beyond Wu County, other places are full of mountains and foreigners.

It took Soochow decades of persistent extermination and expansion to spread Han culture to every territory south of the Yangtze River.

The Central Plains' expansion into the south has never stopped since ancient times.

But there must be a strong political power before it can be promoted. The southeast is Soochow, and the southwest can be the remnants of the Han family, just like Jizi Korea.

After Liu Xie heard what Sun Ce said, he was also a little stunned and asked: "Southwest? South of Yelang?"

Sun Ce nodded and said: "I once heard from Yelang that he was older than the Han Dynasty. In the future, your Majesty may not ask who is older, the Han Dynasty or the Song Dynasty."

Liu Xie thought thoughtfully, then frowned and said cautiously: "The young cavalry in the southwest is indeed the place where our Han family can use their strength. If we plow hard and work hard, if given time, we will be able to defeat Hu Feng. How many troops do you want Duke Song to give me?"

Sun Ce immediately replied: "Your Majesty can take away the Imperial Guards of the Han Dynasty and Liu Bei's troops. There are no less than 20,000 people in total. If there are other men and women who are willing to go south with Your Majesty, I will not stop them. They will be given money and food. It fills the edge.”

The southwest and northwest directions are the places where Han wind can drive away Hu wind, which has been confirmed in history.

In the northwest direction planned by Sun Ce for the emperor, after the demise of the Liao Kingdom, the remnant army of the Liao Kingdom, led by Yelu Dashi, marched westward to the area of ​​​​the river and built a powerful Xiliao there. At that time, the survivors of the Liao Kingdom passed by and the enemy defeated them and surrendered. Those who are safe will do so. The soldiers marched thousands of miles and returned to several countries. They obtained camels, horses, cattle, sheep, and wealth, which was incalculable.

The crucial decisive battle of Katwan is a famous battle in the history of Central Asia. Middle Eastern historians believe that "there was no greater battle in Puritanism than this."

The Western Liao defeated the Seljuq Empire in one fell swoop and forced the Western Karakhanate and Khwarezm to belong to the Western Liao.

The Seljuq Empire was the powerful country that defeated the Byzantine Empire, captured the Byzantine Emperor alive, captured the entire Asia Minor, and forced the Crusaders to launch the Eastern Crusade.

Therefore, in Orthodox Christianity and Russian, the synonym for the Central Plains and Han culture is Khitan.

Not to mention the southwest direction. Until later generations, the Han culture and language still remained in the local area. As the descendants of the Ming Dynasty Expeditionary Force, the local Han culture was evident.

But the achievements are not limited to the Ming Dynasty. In fact, starting from the Han Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, the Xia armies had already begun to fight in the local areas and expand their territory. If you look at the maps in history textbooks, ordinary people would think that the basic territory of later generations was established during the Qin Dynasty. In fact, it took more than two thousand years to conquer.

Those who are good at fighting have no outstanding achievements, so people think that the southwest seems to belong to the Central Plains of course.

The emperor was also slightly surprised and asked: "Twenty thousand troops?"

He really didn't expect that Duke Song would be so generous and give him more than 20,000 followers.

It is already more than four times that of Jizi. Although the current population is far greater than that of the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, this four times the amount is indeed extremely generous.

Sun Ce said solemnly: "Don't underestimate the enemy. There are so many Southern Barbarians in the southwest, and they are located in the mountains and rivers of Yunnan and Guizhou. There are many races, so it is not easy to defeat them."

Even today's Bo people have the image of wearing two swords on both sides, loving fighting and killing, and despising life and death.

The foreign races here began to invade the Central Plains when the Five Husties invaded China. At the same time, they continued to confront the Central Plains dynasty and attacked and killed county guards and soldiers and civilians.

The Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties failed to conquer the southwestern barbarians and failed to penetrate deep into their territory to destroy their base areas.

Of course, this matter can also be viewed in reverse. The southwest was originally dominated by the barbarians, and the Central Plains forces had never penetrated here before.

But once the Central Plains began to grow stronger and expand its territory, barbarians appeared on the borders.

This is worth thinking about. Why do powerful dynasties always have no shortage of foreign troubles? New barbarians were always appearing on the frontier, many of whom were previously unheard of.

Is there a possibility that in the past, the border of the Central Plains was in Badong, and then it reached Brazil, and then entered Shu, and finally crossed Shu to Sichuan and Guizhou, and finally crossed Sichuan and Guizhou to Yunnan.

Anyway, the Bo people have lived in the mountains of the southwest since ancient times, but later these mountains and plateaus became the territory of the Central Plains from ancient times, but the Bo people disappeared forever in the long river of history.

Including Zhao Song, who was always believed by later generations to have relatively weak military force, they also fought at least fourteen or five recorded battles with the southwestern barbarians.

There were battles involving tens of thousands of people. In the most serious one, the Song Army mobilized its treasured and ace unit, the Northwest Frontier Army, to fight.

Seven thousand elite infantry and cavalry troops on Yongxing Road, Huanqing Road, and Jingyuan Road went south, and cooperated with more than 34,500 Sichuan troops to launch a large-scale strategic offensive.

They annexed two states, eight counties, and more than 30 villages from the southwestern barbarian lands, and seized a large area of ​​land suitable for planting.

In the Yuan Dynasty, because cavalry was not suitable for fighting in mountainous areas, the southwestern barbarians once reached their peak, claiming to rule southern Sichuan and overlooking Yunnan and Guizhou!

At least half of the territory captured by the Duzhangmen in the Song Dynasty was taken back by them in the Yuan Dynasty.

However, later the barbarians and the Yuan Dynasty turned against each other, and the two sides fought fiercely. In the end, the Yuan army believed that it could not fight the entire Duzhang barbarian area, so it adopted a policy of disintegration and disintegration. It ignored the blame for the four major tribes such as Dingzhou and Ayong, tried to appease them, and concentrated on fighting. Shandu Zhang Headquarters. After capturing the general manager of the Dam Military and Civilian Office of Shandu Zhang, he only killed about a dozen of the leaders and did not pursue any investigation into the Shandu Zhang area.

By the Ming Dynasty, the economic center had completely shifted from the north to the south, and the rise of the Maritime Silk Road had shifted the country's focus from the northwest to the southwest.

The conquest of the southwest has reached its extreme. The phrase "return to the land" covers up the countless chieftains and barbarian tribes that were wiped out in the southwest. I don't know how many teenage children were captured and worked as eunuchs in the palace, such as the most famous Sanbao. Eunuch Zheng He.

By the Chenghua period, the conflicts between the two parties could no longer be eased and they started fighting. The fight lasted for three years. In the Yuan Dynasty, Prime Minister Pingzhang Zhengshi You came to fight Duzhangman. In the Ming Dynasty, the lineup this time was quite powerful. Senior civil and military generals such as the Minister of War, the Bo of Xiangcheng, and the Bo of Nanning were mobilized to mobilize a large number of Ming troops from the Beijing camp and surrounding provinces. Then they defeated the southwestern barbarians, but even then they didn't completely conquer the area.

It was not until a hundred years later that the two sides fought again in Wanli Dynasty. In the three major Wanli campaigns, the Ming army entered the DPRK to fight against hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops, and only tens of thousands of them were used.

But facing the southwestern chieftains, the Ming army mobilized 240,000 troops until they completely invaded the three largest mountain cities of the barbarians. Finally, the remaining southwestern barbarians were dispersed and moved to northern Sichuan for education and settlement. Then they traveled thousands of miles from Hunan and Hubei to specifically recruit immigrants from southern Sichuan to fill the hometown of southwestern barbarians in southern Sichuan, northern Yunnan, and western Guizhou.

This was the complete demise of this ancient barbarian force that had been fighting with the Central Plains Dynasty at the junction of Sichuan, Yunnan and Guizhou since at least the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty did not have great ambitions for the southwest region, but how many times had it fought back and forth with the Duzhang barbarians from the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties? They had to use the elite cavalry troops from the north to go south. The prime minister and the Minister of War took turns to go into battle. Hundreds of thousands of people from both sides have been fighting for months and months in the plains of southern Sichuan and the ravines of the Yunnan-Guizhou mountains.

This completely established the concept of eighteen provinces in the Han Dynasty. If Sun Ce wanted to directly change the situation in the southwest, he would have to use a unified dynasty to push it directly. This was not difficult.

The southwestern mountains cannot be maneuvered, and even the barbarians in the later stages fought with heavy infantry phalanxes with iron armor and spears.

Now that they have insufficient iron resources, they may still be using rattan armor.

It is not difficult for the elite infantry of the Central Plains to defeat them in a majestic formation. Any unified dynasty can easily do it.

But it is not easy for the Central Plains to rule the local area for a long time.

That’s why Zhu Yuanzhang left his ancestral teaching: “The barbarians in the four directions are all isolated in a corner separated by mountains and seas. The land they get is not enough to provide food, and the people they get are not enough to command. If they don’t think about themselves and come to disturb us, then He is unlucky. He is not troubled by China, and it is also unlucky for me to raise troops to attack lightly. I am afraid that future generations will rely on China's wealth and strength, be greedy for temporary military success, raise armies for no reason, and cause loss of life. Remember not to do so. But Hu Rong and the northwest border , are close to each other, and have fought for many generations, we must select generals to train our troops, and be prepared for them at all times."

And he thoughtfully listed fifteen countries as countries that would not be conquered.

Of course, later results showed that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty knew that their ancestor was an old farmer and his understanding of the world was extremely limited.

Therefore, not only the emperors of the Ming Dynasty but also the elite ruling group of scholar-bureaucrats in later generations threw this ancestral precept aside as waste paper.

Fifteen countries that were not conquered can be said to have been defeated once.

It was under this circumstance that the Ming army completely established the separatist rule of eighteen provinces in Han Dynasty, opened up the southwest, and established three propaganda and six lieutenants. Officials and garrisons were often located in Malacca.

Therefore, Sun Ce needed the Han Dynasty to take root directly in the local area, rule on the spot, and promote Han culture.

As for the north, forget it. Sun Ce was a human being, not a god. In the era of cold weapons, the Central Plains Dynasty was destined to be unable to destroy the Huru on the grasslands. Being able to defend Monan is the ultimate in the prosperity of a dynasty's military virtue.

This is by no means overly cautious on the part of Sun Ce, nor does it mean that Eastern civilization has any limitations in pioneering and enterprising.

Rather, the establishment and development of any civilization must rely on the geographical situation in which the civilization survives.

The most fundamental truth in this world is that geography and environment create civilization!

Especially in the absence of industrialization, human civilization cannot transcend geographical limits.

The reason why I say this is because when talking about northern Hulu, it is inevitable to talk about Monan and Mobei.

In fact, the Mongolian grasslands are not all fertile grasslands. The living conditions there are a bit worse than the Central Plains people imagined.

If you only mention these two names, it is difficult for ordinary people to have an intuitive concept.

You can open the map, especially the terrain and landform map, and it will be clear at a glance.

On the East Asian continent, the Central Plains people have occupied all the civilized areas suitable for living. There is a huge wasteland in the north of the Central Plains, which is composed of desert and Gobi.

This wasteland is mainly located in the territory of Mongolia in later generations. There are five provinces in this country with the word Gobi in their names, namely East Gobi Province, South Gobi Province, and Central Gobi Province. Gobi Sumber Province and Gobi Altai Province. In addition, some deserts in the Central Plains and Inner Mongolia are the so-called yellow sand deserts.

Monan and Mobei are the north and south directions of this desert. Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia, is located on the Mobei grassland.

This means that not most areas on the grassland are suitable for grazing. Herders on the grassland either go to Monan or Mobei. In the middle area, they can stay as long as they can.

However, no matter how big the grassland is, it cannot withstand a large group of cattle and sheep eating there all the time. Therefore, nomadic herdsmen stay in one place for a few months and then quickly move to the next place.

The grass on the grassland is different from the crops. It is completely left to fate and is the lifeblood of the herdsmen.

After they finish eating this grassland, where the next grassland will be must be planned several months in advance.

But if you drive your cattle and sheep to the target grassland, you find that the grass here has been eaten up by other nomadic tribes passing by.

At this time, this tribe has no retreat at all. They didn't want to starve to death or be without any food source for several months, so they had no choice but to take up their sabers and fight to the death against the tribes who had robbed their pasture. Even if the other party does not intend to offend, there is no room for compromise.

Nomadic civilization is so fragile. When the grass disappears, everyone loses their food source for several months.

But the grassland is so large, and there are no navigation, boundaries and positioning. It is inevitable for nomads to invade other people's pastures.

And eating people on the pasture is equivalent to killing the whole family. The various feuds among nomadic tribes almost all occurred because of competition for grassland.

The talented and strategic grassland chanyus can only form a loose alliance and let them plan their pastures in advance.

When the weather gets cold, take the tribe for a walk to Monan. Maybe you will have a chance to enjoy the autumn breeze in the rich Central Plains.

When the weather gets warmer, I will take the tribe to Mobei and hide as far as possible from the unified government in the south, trying not to encounter that bad luck.

After all, it is really easy for the unified regime to deal with them. Any slight disaster caused insufficient forage on the grassland, causing heavy casualties to their herdsmen and livestock, and the troops of the unified regime of the Central Plains came in.

That's really killing them all.

On the grassland, there is also a rule of not killing those who do not exceed the wheel. The Han people absolutely do not care about this. All nobles will be executed, and all men and women will be taken away.

A casual sentence in the history books of the Han people states that tens of thousands of Hulu men and women were collected, and hundreds of thousands of war horses, cattle and sheep were obtained.

That is the nearly two thousand years of plowing and sweeping the Hulu caves. Countless tribes were dissipated in these attacks.

But the problem is that even so, we will never be able to kill all the barbarians on the grassland.

Because there is a huge desert of nearly two thousand miles in between, the Han army may go deep into Mobei again and again to sweep away the Hu people's court, but they will never be able to garrison troops in Mobei across such a wide desert.

As long as the Han family cannot fight across two thousand miles of desert every year, it will only take ten years for Mobei to develop a powerful nomadic tribe.

Ten years, or at most twenty years, is just a snap of the fingers.

This is doomed. Due to geographical reasons, the Hu people who went to Mobei were almost impossible to be wiped out by the Song army in the cold weapon era.

Unless a railway is built to reach Mobei.

With the railway, even without machine guns, the barbarians will find their talent in singing and dancing. (End of chapter)