The Han culture is spreading strongly in Southeast Asia

Chapter 651: What a Year of Worry

Asen fulfilled his promise. Before the Spring Festival, he once again went to the Zhaoling Mausoleum in Jiuyi Mountain with grand ceremony to pay homage to Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, and offered sacrifices and other tributes.

He also followed Mo Zibu's order and erected a stone tablet in front of Zhaoling Mausoleum to serve as an example for all ages and to ensure the eternal stability of his country.

These eight characters are written on the front of the stone tablet, and on the back is a latest and most accurate world map customized by the Ministry of Rites of Dayu, with the territory of Dayu marked out in red paint.

It can be considered as a kind of good news announcement with a sense of boasting.

Afterwards, Asen went to the Ba Mausoleum in Bailuyuan and the Mao Mausoleum in Wulingyuan to pay tribute to Emperor Wen of Han and Emperor Wu of Han, the grandfather and grandson.

As for my Han chess king, his abilities are quite good, but he is somewhat inferior to his father and son, and he did not receive the courtesy of personal worship from Arsen.

However, Asen also read out Mo Zibu's edict, ordering Shaanxi Province to allocate civilians to guard the tombs of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Wen of Han, Emperor Jing of Han, Emperor Wu of Han, and Emperor Taizong of Tang.

The Changling Inspection Office and the Zhaoling Inspection Office were set up at the Changling Mausoleum of Emperor Gaozu of Han and the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of Tang, with one ninth-rank inspector, fifteen patrol musketeers and fifteen capturers stationed there.

Among them, the patrol musketeers are drawn from the governor's standard-bearers, and the capturers are from households with more than 200 acres of land in Guanzhong. They are required to take turns on duty for three months to prevent tomb robbers from destroying the tombs.

Then, about one kilometer east of Maoling, Asen offered sacrifices to Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, who were buried in Maoling.

Since ancient times, the emperor was not allowed to offer sacrifices to ministers, including ministers of the previous dynasty. However, Asen was only the crown prince and could only be considered half a ruler, so there was not much problem in offering sacrifices.

To the east of Maoling, there are crowds of people.

More than two thousand years have passed since the end of the Han Dynasty. Things have changed and people have ceased to exist, including the people in Guanzhong. Apart from remembering names such as Emperor Gaozu of Han and Wei Huo, they have basically no impression of others.

Especially during the past hundred years of Qing rule, you can't expect them to provide patriotic education to the Han people.

Therefore, Wei Huo's tomb is extremely dilapidated, so much so that many people can't figure out who is buried there.

Asen stood in front of Huo Qubing's mausoleum, which was as big as the Qilian Mountains, and saw stone beasts, stone men, and stone horses lying on the ground in a mess. The stele pavilion in front of the mausoleum had almost completely disappeared.

There are traces of an earthquake on the left side, so that some of the ground in the mausoleum is cracked. I don’t know which dynasty the stone tablet erected for Huo Qubing fell into along this crack upside down.

All this made Arsen both uncomfortable and happy.

It is sad that the tomb of Wei Huo, a hero who made great contributions to the survival of the nation, is in such a dilapidated state.

Fortunately, even after two thousand years, later generations have not forgotten them, and their deeds are still inspiring future generations. The fact that Mo Zhousen came to the tomb of Huo Qubing at this time is a reflection of this.

"The fact that we are able to stand here today and are called Han Chinese is largely due to Huo Piaoyao's contributions. How could we allow such a desolate scene before the hero's tomb?"

After saying this, Asen called the magistrate of Xingping County, where the tomb was located, to come forward and "mobilize the people to repair the tomb of Wei Huo. The stone beasts, stele pavilions, sacred roads, and memorial temples must be completed.

All expenses will be paid from the treasury. Once you receive the funds, ensure that the civilians serving in the army are adequately paid and fed, and do not allow policies that harm the people. If there are any problems, prepare to go to Xinqi Prefecture and become a county magistrate."

The magistrate of Xingping was so scared that he was sweating coldly. Xinqi Prefecture was originally the Aceh Sultanate in Southeast Asia. The imperial court had just slaughtered all the natives there. Now there are only more than 30,000 people in the entire Aceh Prefecture.

If you go there to be a county magistrate, where will the people come to serve you as an official? Haha, I'm afraid you will be a savage there.

Asen threatened the county magistrate directly and directly because he was afraid that these local officials would embezzle the royal funds and then conscript laborers without paying them. The people would then curse the emperor and turn a good thing into a cause of complaints.

Then Asen said to Bi Yuan, who was invited to continue serving as the governor of Shaanxi in order to appease the people:

"I also ask the Governor to find five households each with the surnames Wei and Huo in Guanzhong and have them relocate here. I will exempt them from paying the land tax and land tax silver for each of their 500 mu of land, and give it to their ancestors to guard their mausoleums."

In fact, Asen knew that even in Guanzhong today, people with the surname Wei and Huo should have little relationship with Wei Qing and Huo Qubing.

But the matching surnames are always a consolation, what if they are really descendants of Wei Huo?

Moreover, in a civilization like China, which has both bloodlines and cultural traditions, these people who guard the tombs of Wei Qing and Huo Qubing should be very happy to call themselves descendants of Wei and Huo. Over time, they may really become their descendants.

After the arrangements were completed, Asen summoned over sixty of the heroes and leaders he had recruited from Guanzhong, and then pointed to the sculpture of a horse trampling over the Xiongnu in front of Huo Qubing's tomb and said:

"During the Chu-Han contention at the end of the Qin Dynasty, many Han Chinese fled the borderlands to escape the chaos of war, bringing advanced smelting and farming techniques to the Xiongnu, which helped the Xiongnu grow stronger.

It also defeated two powerful rulers, Maodun Chanyu and Laoshang Chanyu, so that the Xiongnu cavalry could penetrate deep into Guanzhong and the beacon fires could be seen from Ganquan Palace.

At that time, Wei Huo was sent down from heaven. He defeated the Xiongnu many times, defended Zhangye for our country, and protected our people. He is truly a hero of our Han nation.

Today, I gather here with you all, firstly to pay tribute to the heroic spirit of our ancestors, and secondly to ask you to take our heroic ancestors as examples and work together with me to strive again for our country and nation.

In today's world, the disciples in the west are becoming increasingly rampant, and you have all suffered greatly from them. For both public and private reasons, we must eliminate these harmful barbarians, so that our northwest can be peaceful and pacified, and not allow them to become a worry for future generations."

If Asen said these words to the people in Jiangnan, Lingnan, or even the people in Northern Zhili where he had many disciples, they probably wouldn't feel much because they didn't feel the pain deeply.

But it's different in Shaanxi and Gansu. The frustration of more than a hundred years, the constant invasions of more than a hundred years, and the fierce battle with countless casualties eight years ago have made them empathize with what Asen said.

This is also the reason why Asen assisted Li Xianwen in recruiting 20,000 warriors in Guanzhong after obtaining Mo Zibu's consent.

At this time, it was still a luxury to build a railway to Yili, but the battles in the Western Regions and Hezhong had become a matter of urgency.

Because Europe was in chaos at that time, England was preoccupied with its own affairs, and Ross was fighting the Ottoman Empire, so they had no energy to support the three Khanates in Central Asia. This was the best time for Dayu to deal with them.

But because it was difficult to build a railway to Yili, let alone Dihua, supplies still had to be supplied using the old method, relying on manpower and local fundraising.

However, the loss of manpower and transportation was huge, and as for local food supply, the people of the Junggar tribe were almost all killed, and the Hui tribe was fighting each other to the point of being brainless, so it was impossible to raise much food.

Therefore, even with Dayu's national strength, it could only send troops in batches.

That is, in the first phase, Li Xianwen's Northwest Mission sent out 8,000 standard bearers, the White Lotus Sect under the Northwest Mission mobilized 30,000 soldiers, and the 36 Huiliang clans in Hami provided 50,000 cannon fodder.

First rely on these 88,000 people to stabilize the Zunghar tribe, and then deal with the rebels in the Hui tribe one by one.

After completing this goal, we will once again draw 20,000 of these 88,000 people who are still willing to continue fighting after suppressing various places, and let them cooperate with the 30,000 soldiers from Middle-earth to complete the second phase of the battle.

At the same time, Dayu would also dispatch Mongolian cavalry from the south and north of the desert and a part of the vassal garrison troops to sweep across the Xianbei desert from east to west to block the retreat of the three khanates.

After this, Dayu's guards and the Beijing camp will dispatch at least 30,000 elite troops to launch a devastating attack on the three khanates.

These three steps are expected to take at least five years to complete. Only by extending the time span can there be no problems in the delivery of materials to Dayu.

In other words, Dayu's real elite troops were there to fight the final decisive battle, and it was impossible and unsustainable for them to fight periodic battles in the river for a long time.

Then, after the first phase of recovering the Western Regions, the main force of the second phase of combat would have to be the 30,000 troops drawn from the mainland.

And it is necessary to ensure that the combat quality and morale of these 30,000 troops can be stable, because they went to the river purely to explore the way, and they had to fight hard battles and burn, kill and loot along the way. It is not easy to do it without the murderous aura incited by hatred.

Only the Han Chinese in Shaanxi and Gansu, who had been severely harmed by the Sufi Order in Hezhong and held a deep hatred for them, could and would do it. Damn it, they had to bear the consequences of their own sins. Without the vengeful anger of the people of Shaanxi and Gansu, the Great Yu Dynasty would not have been able to deal with the Three Khanates in less than thirty years.

After all, those are regional strongholds with a population of five million, which are linked by religion and constituted by religious groups.

"When we, the men of Shaanxi, march westward in the future, we will use this as our banner. May Huo Piaoyao's spirit in heaven bless us and ensure our victory."

What Asen was pointing at was the sculpture of Huo Qubing riding his horse and trampling over the Huns.

"Thank you, Your Highness, for the flag. Please rest assured, Your Highness, we dream of revenge. We will definitely let those barbarians in the river taste the sword of the Han and Tang dynasties after more than a thousand years!"

Asen nodded in satisfaction, and then, surrounded by a group of scholars, he wrote on Wei Qing's tombstone: "The Tomb of Wei Qing, the Great General and Grand Marshal of the Han Dynasty, and the Princess Pingyang of the Han Dynasty"

The tombstone of Huo Qubing was inscribed with "The Tomb of Huo Qubing, General of the Cavalry, Grand Marshal, Champion Marquis of Han Dynasty." It was also specially signed with "This younger generation, Mozhou Sen, has written this on the stone."

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The Spring Festival came in a blink of an eye. Shaanxi men signed up enthusiastically, and the quota of 20,000 expeditionary forces was basically full. Asen took advantage of the eve of the Lantern Festival to reward 40,000 silver dollars and held a banquet in Xi'an.

On the 16th day of the first lunar month, just after the Lantern Festival, Asen left Xi'an under the escort of 500 guards and 3,000 Shenwei troops, and headed for Lanzhou, the last stop of his tour.

The imperial carriage did not take the northwest route through Binzhou, Jingzhou, and Pingliang Prefecture, but continued westward along the Wei River, taking the road through Fengxiang, Baoji, Tianshui, Longxi, Weiyuan, and Didao to Lanzhou.

This area is truly the main birthplace of the Chinese nation, the only one. The Zhou Dynasty and the Qin Dynasty both originated from here, and the Longxi Li family of the Tang Dynasty also came from here.

Asen walked and offered sacrifices along the way. After passing Longshan and arriving in Qinzhou (Tianshui), a feeling different from that in Guanzhong came over him.

The towering mountains and the river valleys and plains are all intertwined. The scenery everywhere is beautiful, but also a bit desolate and rugged. Even the food has a wilder taste than that in Guanzhong.

The people along the way have clearly only been here for six or seven years from Henan and Shaanxi, and certainly less than half of them are locals. However, you can feel that their temperament is completely different from that of the people from Henan and Shaanxi.

Whenever they arrived at a place, no matter how small it was, a few people on horseback, armed with guns, bows and arrows, would come out and kneel down on the roadside. After getting permission, they would happily go home, take their muskets, and follow the team all the way.

Asen looked quietly from the carriage. These young men, who were about the same age as him, had carefree expressions on their faces. They didn't seem to care where the carriage would eventually go. They only cared about whether they could guard the prince. They had expressions that showed they were proud to be royal guards.

Moreover, these young men are particularly able to endure hardships. If you give them food, they will eat it. If you don’t, they will just eat their own dry biscuits.

A piece of bread, a handful of pickles, and mountain spring water to drink when thirsty. No one complained about being tired. They would even hunt wild sheep, rabbits, and even wild boars to offer to Asen as a snack for him, the prince.

When he entered the Qinzhou Prefecture City, which was the Tianshui City in later generations, Asen was shocked by the scene before him.

Beside the gurgling Ji River, there stood five or six tall, black earthen mounds. Before I even approached, a guard came to report that they were Jingguan.

Asen walked over to take a look and found that the bones had been completely dried by the wind. The empty eyes of the skeletons were filled with flying mud, making them look like they had just been dug out of the ground.

Well, actually it’s not a Jingguan. Asen looked carefully and found that because there were not enough people, most of it was made of round stones to make it look like a Jingguan.

He remembered that it was his father who rejected the Northwest Envoy's request to build a Jingguan, but he did not expect that they would conceal the truth and build the Jingguan in another form.

Beside each Jingguan, there is a stone tablet with inscriptions on it about a certain year and month in which a certain person rebelled and a certain official or general led the troops to kill him. Among them, phrases such as "the thief XX was executed, and his entire family (clan) has been ordered to be executed" appear very frequently.

There were even some very blatant statements stating that hundreds or thousands of people with a certain surname in a certain place were all executed.

Not far from the stone tablet, there must be a temple that cannot be considered a temple, because people can basically not enter. There is only a temple the size of a land temple standing there.

Asen squatted down and took a look. He saw a ferocious statue enshrined inside, with the words "Vajra XXX, the guardian of the Dharma, who slays demons and exterminates ghosts, under the seat of the Buddha of Zhenkong's hometown, written on the altar."

Asen took a look and found that many of the names on the tablets should be the soldiers and generals of Dayu, because he actually saw the name of his distant cousin, Mo Shanzun of the Haikang Mo family.

Mo Shanzun once served as the commander-in-chief of the Zhen army under the famous Huang Han general Dong Jinfeng. He was only transferred back to the Beijing camp in the last two years.

Asen believed that Tianshui was not a severely affected area in the war. If it were in the severely affected area, he would definitely be able to see Dong Jinfeng's tablet.

Congratulations to our prince, he guessed it right, but there was no reward, only shock.

More than ten days later, the imperial carriage passed Weiyuan and walked along the Dongyu River to Didao Prefecture of Lanzhou Prefecture, which is near Dingxi, Gansu in later generations. A huge Jingguan stood on the bank of Tao River outside the prefecture.

Asen shook off the Gansu Provincial Procurator who came to greet him and went to the Jingguan to check it out. He not only discovered Dong Jinfeng's small "Land God Temple"

Well, according to the White Lotus Sect, this is called the Temple of Suppressing Evil.

Even more remarkable things were discovered from the inscription: 'In April of the seventh year of Guangzhong, the thief Su Ershisan gathered more than 70,000 people, claiming to have 200,000, and intended to attack Dingxi City.

The guardian arhat under the throne of the Buddha of the Incarnation, General Dong, the commander of the left guard of the imperial Beijing camp and the bandit-suppressing general, personally led 10,000 heavenly soldiers, destroyed 36 camps of bandits, killed countless people, and captured more than 35,000 old and young, all of whom were reborn.

The next month, the bandit leader, with the help of the religious group, asked Zhang Mengge of Hezhou to lead 100,000 people to seek revenge. General Dong defeated the bandits again, killing the bandit leader Su Ershisan, Zhang Mengge and more than 10,000 others, and buried the rest alive.

Unfortunately, the Beijing Army's guns and cannons were sharp, and the bandit corpses were all torn to pieces, not enough to show their merit.

What a jerk! You still complain that the body is smashed to pieces and the Jingguan is not built high enough? Asen is numb and knows why his father asked him to be mentally prepared.

Behind these strings of text are human lives, and it seems that not only men were killed, but all were wiped out indiscriminately. It seems that burning, killing and looting must have happened everywhere.

Asen had a strange feeling and didn't know what to say. Then he looked up and finally saw what was written on the colorful banners fluttering around the Jingguan.

"Wherever the rivers flow, wherever the sun and moon shine, they are all Han's subjects."

"All under heaven belongs to the king, and all the people in the world are his subjects."

"Any barbarian who dares to invade will have his country destroyed, his race annihilated, and his descendants exterminated!"

'The Han dynasty is majestic, the Tang dynasty is glorious, the Ming dynasty is brilliant, and the will of heaven never ends, yet there are dangers every year!'

Oh my god, Arsen suddenly realized that he finally knew where those people who had a weird expression on their faces when their father talked about them came from. This is where the emotions came from.

The term "Huang Han" did not exist at that time, but Asen was able to summarize it and give a rough portrait of this group in his mind.

"My father once said that he used nationalism to overthrow the Qing Dynasty. He benefited from this force, but he must also face its consequences."

Asen looked at Wang Zhenyi, who had mustered the courage to come with him, and whispered, "This is the Tai'a Sword. How to prevent it from being held upside down will be the biggest challenge I face!"

Wang Zhenyi was also able to face these things a little after recovering from the great discomfort, and she nodded in agreement.

"This trend, similar to the great revenge theory of the Qin and Han dynasties, can unite the people for a short period of time, but if used too much, it will create dependence and people will be swept up in it.

But Your Highness, don't worry too much. Overall, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages."

(End of this chapter)