Chapter 332: The History of the Expansion of China

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During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, on the land of China, with the gradual evolution of culture, the national consciousness of China also gradually emerged with the evolution of culture.

Since then, its national consciousness with Zhou Li, shape and Qi Heng was born, although the most preliminary colleagues above seem a little vague, but this does not erase the national consciousness of the Chinese nation, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and at that time, the ancestors of Westerners were still living in the forest, cloaked, defenseless, like savages.

If the princes of Qi Henggong and Jiuhe in the Spring and Autumn Period were born out of a blurred national consciousness, then the Western Han Dynasty officially further improved the national consciousness and evolved it from vague to clear.

At the beginning of the Western Han Dynasty, due to the strife and war at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the vitality of the Central Plains was greatly damaged, and the armed forces that had been powerful in all directions also fell into a trough, the siege of the Han Gaozu Baideng, the humiliation of the letters of the Empress Lu, and the marriage of the princesses during the period of Emperor Wen and Emperor Jing, for the long-term living in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Central Plains countries, even the weakest Yan State, were able to send a large army to suppress the barbarians, and even the people who won three thousand miles of land, it was simply a great shame.

However, just like later generations, the rebirth of China lies in the shame and humiliation again and again, the killing, defeat, and disappointment again and again, and the national consciousness of the Western Han Dynasty is also because of the aggressiveness of the Huns, and it is precisely because of the killing and plundering of the Huns that the Chinese people have abandoned all kinds of discord for the first time under the huge external troubles, and the discord between the people of various countries caused by hundreds of years of the former Warring States period has also disappeared because of this.

With the arrival of the second emperor in history, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the emergence of the Han nation seemed to be a matter of course. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was the first time that the farming people counterattacked the nomads outside the Saiwai, and after the Han Dynasty sent a large army to the north several times, it was once strong. The Xiongnu Empire, whose power reached as far as Central Asia, collapsed.

Wei Qing and Huo Quai, the generals who defeated the Xiongnu Empire, also became famous in history because of this, and they fled at night and sealed the wolf Juxu, which became the oral stories of the Han people, and these stories are not only the longing and distant imagination of the later people for their predecessors, but also represent the Han people. Since then, it has once again become the number one power in East Asia and the most powerful country in the world at that time.

You must know that the army of the Han Dynasty during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not only operate in East Asia, their footprints at that time even followed the path of the Huns, arrived in Central Asia, the heyday of the Han Dynasty, the entire Central Asia was already under the rule and control of the Han Dynasty at this time, the humiliation in the early stage, the glory in the later period, these are all conditions that stimulate the birth of a nation.

And when all of that comes along. The Han people have replaced the rest of the previous names, becoming the general name of the people in the land of China and the Central Plains, the people of the Zhou Dynasty when the Zhou Rite was founded, the princes of Qi Henggong Jiuhe, the Chinese people after the world, and then the Han people among the Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the national consciousness has become clear from the original blur.

The reason why many people in later generations thought that the Han people did not have the so-called national consciousness at all, in Cao Cao's view, the Manchu Qing Dynasty must definitely bear the greatest responsibility. If it weren't for the Manchu Dynasty's nearly 300 years of enslavement education, if it weren't for the Manchu Dynasty's 300 years of literary prison, or because of the Manchu Dynasty's 300 years of imprisonment and interruption, the once brilliant bloom in East Asia. How could the Han culture, which attracted the envy of people from all countries and nationalities, become what it was later.

Once upon a time, when it came to the old country in the east, the tone of Westerners was envious, longing, and awe, but because of the "work" of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for three hundred years. The tone of Westerners has changed from envy, longing, and awe to contempt, disgust, and teasing as if they were clowns.

Walking on the street, watching the people coming and going, from time to time because they know each other, they walk one by one that looks very pleasing to the eye, accompanied by the wide sleeves of the Hanfu, and flutters in the wind, which seems to be a bit fluttering like a fairy.

Looking at the Wuhuan people who were occasionally mixed in, although they were wearing Hanfu, but they could still be seen if they looked closely, the envy, longing, awe in their eyes, and the movements that seemed to be a little eastward, this qiē made the smile on the corner of Cao Cao's mouth undisguised.

"That's very good, Gongtai, after you go back, you might as well let some scholars teach these Wuhuan people a good lesson, teach them the etiquette of my Huaxia, and at the same time let them understand what Huaxia is."

"The minister is on order!"

Chen Gong did not have any objection to Cao Cao's order at this time, after all, the Han people didn't know how much they had done such a thing.

Throughout the history of China, before the Song Dynasty, the history of the Han people was actually like Europe after the Middle Ages, a history of expansion, of which the fastest expansion speed and the largest expansion of territory were undoubtedly the Xia, Shang and Zhou, Spring and Autumn Warring States eras.

The territory of the Xia Dynasty was limited to the Yellow River generation, the Shangchao expanded to the Long River, and the Zhou Dynasty expanded to the Zhejiang generation of later generations, and when the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were accompanied by the princes and them, the Central Plains itself did not have many princely disputes, and the territorial expansion of the south and the north also fell into a **.

Needless to say, the Chu State in the south, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi and other places in later generations were all developed by the Chu State, and the northern head of the Qin, Zhao, Yan three kingdoms, especially the Yan State, although in the Central Plains civil war, the Yan State is almost a "suffer" that anyone can come on, and the national strength is tired, but in the foreign war, it can be said that it is turned into an attack, and the famous general of the Yan State, Qin Kai, once led the Yan State army, and snatched more than 3,000 kilometers of land from the hands of the northern barbarians, which is the matter of Yan expanding the territory of 3,000 miles.

And Qin and Zhao, the two countries that can be called the boss in the Central Plains, are not only very powerful in the melee of the Central Plains, even externally, they are not much weaker than the Yan State, and they have won a lot of land from the Huns in the north, among which the Qin State seized the Hexi Corridor.

In the eyes of the barbarians in the north and south at that time, the Central Plains people were simply the spokesmen of disasters, wars, and deaths, and they were full of fear, hatred, envy, inferiority and other complex emotions for the countries and people in the Central Plains.

For the barbarians in the north and south at that time, since the people of the Central Plains were afraid and hateful, they made them envious, and the Central Plains, whether it was cultural prosperity, economic prosperity, or the strength of force, made them feel inferior from the bottom of their hearts.

It can be said that in the eyes of the barbarians at that time, the Central Plains region was like a mixture of heaven and hell! (To be continued.) )