Chapter 1773: The Princes and the State
As a result, it was precisely because of the soy sauce that from the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 to the present, Sichuan and Shu have sent troops twice in the true sense, one was the three Lius defeating Yuan Shu, and the other was the Nanman. As a result, they set up a map and fought with the Kushan.
This also leads to the fact that Yizhou's combat effectiveness is actually a little neglected in terms of military forces, and it is also a loss that it only fought a big battle a few years ago. Moreover, before the war with Kushan, all the soldiers basically fought all the way from Chengdu and experienced a lot of wars.
Otherwise, this battle would be a little hard to say, but I have to admit that the group of Southern Barbarians who surrendered helped a lot. Zhang Su was wondering whether to give a reward to the other party and everyone in the other party's tribe.
Anyway, for Zhang Su, this is completely a pleasing to others. However, after all, the land climate here is indeed much better than that in the Nanman area. It is relatively more suitable for farming. Although it is a bit humid and hot, it is a plain after all.
"Hu, I have basically drawn the ancient map and the comparison map." At this moment, Qin Mi, who had not spoken before, spoke.
Everyone turned their heads and looked at the map in Qin Mi's hand, a little curious.
"This map is our Yizhou." Wang Lei said with some uncertainty. The map is a bit distorted. "Zi Chi, you can't even draw the map well."
"It seems that it is Yizhou, but it is a bit different from the map in my impression. Well, there seems to be a little problem here." Huang Quan looked at Qin Mi in confusion.
"There was an error here. After the Ailao Kingdom presented the map, this place and this place were not merged. How could this be here?" Meng Da pointed to the map and said.
The others also looked at Qin Mi's map and began to criticize them according to the impressions in their minds. In short, Qin Mi's map seemed to be a little problem to them, but fortunately it was not a big problem.
But to be honest, although Qin Mi is average in wisdom, he is equivalent to a living dictionary in terms of humanities and geography, and should not make mistakes.
"Are you finished talking?" Qin Mi looked at everyone with an unhappy look and asked.
"It's over." The others nodded and said, seeing that Qin Mi was not very happy.
"Is there any big problem?" Qin Mi asked as she looked at everyone.
"No, but there are constant small mistakes." Everyone replied almost in unison.
"How many of those small details can each person find with your talents and knowledge?" Qin Mi continued to ask.
"Six." Zhang Song frowned in confusion, and the others also answered this question, either three or five, or six or seven, not many.
"This map was made by me on the way to march, and I began to compare the current map and historical records. There are more than 200 unexplainable places in it. However, if you want to check the classics, you can even find records similar to the map I drew." Qin Mi said with a proud smile on her face.
"According to this map, there is also the mountain and sea meridian, the southern etiquette of the sea, our boundary can be pushed to where we are now standing, well, there is Fuyu." Qin Mi said with a smile. With this map and classics, they have the right to make a case.
Wang Lei, Cheng Ji and others were directly frightened by Qin Mi's words. What this means is that if this map is really searched for classics, there will be no loopholes?
"Just as you guessed, it's true." Qin Mi said with a smile, "If you really check it, you can't find it out at all. And the more you read the classics, the more you will feel that this map is real."
"Is it because ancient place names have problems with migration and vague records?" Zhang Su frowned and asked. He had guessed what Qin Mi used, but this method requires a large number of classics as support.
Just like the so-called Six Classics Notes, ancient history may lead to many different records of the same thing due to the records of different people, as well as the bias in concepts, or even the typos, directly due to typos.
Qin Mi's approach was to choose the record that was most beneficial to them. As for the so-called lonely evidence, how could it be an lonely evidence? History is like a wheel. There will always be people who will write down what they think is true because of political struggles, Spring and Autumn brushwork, songs and other means.
As for whether future generations will be deceived by this record or use this historical record to cheat people, it depends on personal ability. After all, "After I die, I will not care about the flood" characters are not uncommon in history.
"No, no, no, it's not because of ancient place names and migrations, as well as the vague historical records, but because of this fact." Qin Mi smiled cheerfully.
"Tell me, what's going on?" Zhang Song said helplessly.
"It's like this. Based on the ancient books I have read, as well as the mutual comparison and verification of local classics, referring to the principle of bold guessing and careful verification, we finally confirmed that the place where the Queen Mother of the West lived in the biography of Emperor Mu was written." Qin Mi said without any moral integrity.
Meng Da, Fei Guan and others immediately twitched when they heard this. To reason, Emperor Mu passed on the book earlier than the Shanhai Sutra. This was a thousand years ago, but after all, there is history to be found.
"Tell me, how did you verify it?" Zhang Song looked at Qin Mi speechlessly and said, "You can use this kind of trick, okay, it doesn't matter."
"The so-called emperor drove eight horses and traveled 35,000 miles westward. He went to the Queen Mother Kingdom of the West. When he met the Queen Mother of the West, he received ten beautiful cars of jade. He calculated the distance and the place where jade was produced. Don't you think it was just the place we passed by before?" Qin Mi said with a smile.
"That's just an imaginary number, and we all know that jade is produced on the Yongchang border (north Myanmar). It's just that the road is rugged and difficult to transport it back. If you like it, get you ten cars, and it's yours when you transport it back." Zhang Su waved his hand and signaled Qin Mi not to play with these nonsense things.
"No, no, no, no, no, no, there is this, there is a song about the Queen Mother of the West in the Classic of Mountains and Seas. "There are the lands in the west, and they live in the wilderness. Tigers and leopards are in groups, and they are in the magpies. My destiny will not move. I am the emperor's daughter, and I will leave my son again. I will play the flute and drums, and fly in the center. The son of Shimin is the hope of the heaven'." Qin Mi laughed and repeated it.
Zhang Su, Zhang Song and others immediately twitched. If they really explained this, it would be much more suitable for the southwest than the northwest, and this would really be more difficult to get on.
"Okay, stop making trouble. This is the part of the Xishan Jing. You are slapping someone else in the face. Don't go too far." Huang Quan turned his head and said. After all, he had read classics with Qin Mi for a while and compared them with the map, but he didn't understand anything.
"Tsk, in short, you can rest assured that I have almost made the history books. Even if I can't argue at that time, isn't there any more?" Qin Mi did not feel embarrassed after being exposed by Huang Quan, but instead waved her fists twice with a proud look on her face.
"If we deal with this group of small countries, do we need this kind of method?" Zhang Su curled his lips, "Sometimes Zichi thinks too much is not good. I will teach you how to rule this place. Although we have not managed this place for many years, we are the masters of it."
After saying that, Zhang Su turned his head and waved to his personal guard captain, and then the personal guard captain came over.
"Take a team of people to Manipur State and let them move a place. We will requisition their place." Zhang Su said to his personal guard captain.
The captain of the guard held his fists and rushed to the east with his men. The Han Empire could naturally do what the Kushan could do.
"Actually it's that simple. The meaning of your map is not to show it to those small countries. In fact, the greatest significance is to fool people in the country and make the people in the country think that we are justice. However, our Han Dynasty needs justice?" Zhang Su said with a lip.
"If you want to say justice, kill the envoys of another country in another country's capital, cut off the head of the national teacher in front of other countries' ministers, then throw it on the king's head, hijack the king of a country, summon the ministers of that country, and then kill the king, establish a new king, etc. These are not just justice." Zhang Song turned his head and echoed.
Wang Lei and others couldn't help but twitch the corners of their mouths when they heard Zhang Song's words. These were things that the Han Empire had done before. What kind of diplomacy, I'm so domineering, come and bite me!
I have done this kind of thing. The Han Empire cannot be just in the minds of other countries from any perspective. But what's wrong with injustice? There is a ghost of justice between countries, the hero, my devil, and when will the country and country speak based on justice?
"That's the case. Justice is not important to us. Although sometimes we do need some justice, who dares to say that we are unjust when dealing with internal matters of our country?" Cheng Ji shrugged and agreed.
"Is it internal matter?" Li Hui twitched. Well, from a certain perspective, the vassal states are indeed internal matters. Haven't you seen that the Ailao State soon enlisted the country?
Qin Mi pulled her mouth and looked at her map, "I spent so much effort, but unfortunately they were useless in the end."
"No, no, no, you are face, face can only be meaningful when you cooperate with your fists." Yan Yan, who had not spoken and smiled and listened to the arguments of several people, said, "Face is still very useful. Although it cannot be used as food, it can be used for others to see."
"That's the point, but some of this place is vast and sparsely populated. If you want to move people over, it's safe to go to Yongchang County. However, the road is not close, and the road is rugged. Even mountain people may not be willing to come." Wu Yi turned his head and asked the civil servants.
"Well, that's true." Zhang Su thought about it and couldn't help but sigh. There were many poor mountains and rivers in Yizhou, but if you want to move it here, just by way of travel, I'm afraid that many people would not be willing.
"This is indeed a very big problem." Zhang Song also frowned repeatedly.
It is obvious that although these civil officials had thought about moving here if they won the battle, they did not think carefully about how to move. Governing the world is obviously much more important than conquering the world.
"Or why not build a road, build a straight road from Chengdu to Yongchang, and then build a straight road from Yongchang here. In this way, it will be much more convenient to send troops. After all, if you really have to talk about the distance, walking the straight road for a few days is enough. We have been working for more than a month." Wang Lei thought for a while and said, "What about this proposal?"
"No money." Zhang Song spread his hands, "It's not cheap to repair such a long road."
"Zi Qiao, this is not a problem." Zhang Su said with a sneer, "If you copy one country and one country, you may still have rich money. Even if you don't have enough money, we can still recruit civilians on the spot. If we don't have enough money, it doesn't mean that the guys here don't have enough money."
"In this case, you are good at counting. Take people to calculate all the materials, manpower and other aspects, and give me a data back and I will spread the money to these countries. I have not paid tribute for so many years. This time I will make up for it." Zhang Song said to Fei Shi with cold light in his eyes. As for the small country that was dissatisfied with, he will be directly killed.
"Okay, I will come up with a plan and accounting data as soon as possible, but will there be no problem with our behavior?" Fei Shi said hesitantly.
Since their group of people slaughtered the Nanman in Yizhou and started to ignite ghost fire, they have joined forces to deceive their superiors and conceal their subordinates. But after all, there is a reason for Liu Zhang to curse and criticize his mother every day, and their purpose and methods are also good.
But now, tributes from small countries are intercepted, and not tributes from one or two small countries. In this era of imperial power, it is not something that can be said in the past.
"We are just fighting against those rebels who disrespected the emperor's orders. As for the seizure, I remember that 30% of the soldiers have always been sold, 30% of us, and 30% of the top. When we came out this time, we said it very clearly that all seizures are used for battle, so don't worry." Zhang Song made an ugly face with a scary smile.
Fei Shi looked at all the civil and military officials in front of him, including Wang Lei, who was extremely loyal before, and found that everyone was taking it for granted. He instantly realized that he had to keep the same pace as these people.
Because the power of this group of people is enough to do anything in Yizhou, and any Yizhou person who dares to fight against such a group will probably have a dead end.
"..." Fei Shi hesitated a little, and finally sighed and put the matter aside, "That's it." After getting on the pirate ship, he could no longer get off.
After the battle outside Yizhou, Zhang Song and others' minds and natures became significantly different. Even among them, Zhang Su, Wang Lei and others who were loyal to Liu Zhang, had a very clear concept of a country and a prince, while Liu Zhang was just a prince, not a country.
Chapter completed!