Chapter 977: On That Distant Continent

The Qin army entered Sanjiang City.

The Qin army's four major disciplines and eight points of attention did not disturb the people, but helped the southern barbarians.

The Nanban people fully felt the enthusiasm of Daqin and were full of expectations for joining the Daqin system.

And the cave masters and chiefs of the various departments are also imaginative, so the Central Plains is so prosperous, when they get there, how do they start to enjoy the glory and wealth? Every day, they went to greet Emperor Hongwu and asked when they would be able to leave for their homeland in the Central Plains. The scorching heat and desolation of the Nanban, they couldn't stay for a day.

If it was his dynasty, these cave lords and chieftains would never dare to go to Yedu, but Daqin had already learned from the past of many ethnic groups such as the Di and Qiang peoples. People have already started to enjoy happiness in Yedu, so these people in Nanban can't wait to go quickly.

Qin Feng asked Meng Jie and Yang Feng to be responsible for the statistics and records, collecting the household registration information of all the Nanban tribes, the location and so on.

When Meng Jie came up with the statistics and was connected with the Yedu Military Aircraft Department, Xun Yu and others naturally made a specific merger plan. The dispatch of garrisons, the dispatch of officials, and the construction of town yamen are all things that come naturally, and all that is needed is time.

Qin Feng's current focus is on the question of whether to pursue Liu Bei, which may involve a huge empire in the west: the Kushan Empire, so it is extremely involved.

"Two Aiqing, what do you two think about this?"

Jia Xu didn't have to think about it at all, and said: "If you use troops outside the territory, you must first ...... the internal security." ”

Guo Jia nodded in agreement and said, "What Master Jia said is very true. ”

Qin Feng, who was high on the throne, shook his head and smiled bitterly when he heard that the two military advisors were of the same caliber. It's not because the military advisors are wrong, but because the military advisors have the limitations of ancient times. Qin Feng really wanted to go abroad. But he was also pondering the plans of the military advisors, so he was a little hesitant.

In the hearts of Jia Xu and Guo Jia. It is full of awe for Emperor Hongwu and a heartfelt pride in the Great Qin State. From ancient times to the present day. When the Han Dynasty was at its strongest, it was actually the land of the Thirteen Prefectures. There has never been a king who actually ruled over a land and a nation that could be compared to that of Emperor Hongwu.

The emperor of the Central Plains, Genghis Khan of the steppe, and the king of the Southern Barbarians, all have noble titles, showing the world the strength of Emperor Hongwu.

However, there is a huge regret in this, that is, there is no unification in the country, and there is also a Soochow entrenched in Jiangdong and Jingnan. There is no internal unity. No matter how powerful Great Qin is, it can't be called an empire. Assisting a wise king and creating an empire is an irresistible temptation for courtiers like Jia Xu and Guo Jia.

The real reunification of the country will be no less than the grand event of the founding of Great Qin, and no less than the grand event of Emperor Hongwu's accession to the throne.

"Soochow!" Qin Feng thought about it, but he was already in the southwesternmost part of China, and he stepped out of the temptation of going abroad for the first time. And he couldn't resist it. So, Qin Feng made a decision, "We should investigate the details of the South Asian subcontinent and pursue the rebellious Liu Bei." It is a good excuse to avoid many wars that could be caused. Immediately, the pigeon flew to the capital of Ye, and ordered the military aircraft department to collect information about the South Asian subcontinent. ”

Since the emperor has already made a decision. Jia Xu and others naturally do things loyally.

"In the South Asian subcontinent, then Great Qin is in the main continent. It's a good name. After Guo Jia walked out of the temporary palace, he began to wonder again. Jia Xu, how did you say that the emperor knew about the five continents and four oceans, and named them one by one. What Central Asia, Northern Europe, these names sound rusty, but they seem to contain a lot of truth ......? ”

Jia Xu was stunned when he heard this, and suddenly bowed to the sky, "The emperor is sage!" ”

This time it was Guo Jia's turn to be in a daze, he opened his mouth slightly, exuding an expression of disbelief, and closed it after a while, and said: "Yes, yes, the emperor is shengming!" ”

The words of the sages, the books they wrote, and the transmissions they established always contain great truths, which have been used by later generations. But no matter how much later generations pondered, they couldn't figure out how the saints at that time came up with this.

"We're all human, so why don't I know?"

"You're human, but you're not a saint, you know?"

To be able to do things in front of a saint king is really a blessing from reincarnation. Courtiers like Jia Xu and Guo Jia were full of mystery about Emperor Hongwu, and from this came a sense of awe, and it was easy to do things loyally. As for why the emperor knows so much, "The emperor is a saint, this is very understandable." ”

After Emperor Hongwu learned about these from the side, he was always very ashamed, and said in his heart what kind of saint is there, but he just stood on the head of the saint, and inserted a tube in the big blood vessels of the saints to absorb some nutrients. But this is the advantage of Emperor Hongwu, the advantage of crossing, how many billions of people in the world are unique. If you don't accept it, hit until you obey.

Waiting for the news of Yedu, Emperor Hongwu was not boring, because he had many things to deal with. When the household registration information of Nanban and the location of the tribe were all counted, it also entered the final stage of merging into the Great Qin system.

On this day, Qin Feng looked at the Nanban topographic map in detail, "Here, here, and here, build three cities, and together with Sanjiang City, set up a total of four counties." Dispatch young, energetic, and capable officials from the country, and tell them that within five years they will build the Nanban Prefecture for me, and I will give them additional officials and knights. ”

Jia Xu's vicissitudes of life were full of pride, and he said in awe: "Your Majesty, the fifth year of Hongwu is coming, whether it is in the spring, open a branch to take scholars, ......." ”

It is generally once every three years, and once a year in Great Qin, there is no way, Great Qin's territory is expanding too fast, and the number of officials is always insufficient. And once a year, there are many opportunities to become a scholar, which also allows the literati of Daqin to work hard to learn knowledge to supplement themselves, so that they can become a high school scholar. From the side, this has stimulated the enthusiasm of the people for learning cultural knowledge, which is of great benefit to the future of the Great Qin State.

This is indeed a happy thing for an emperor, and Emperor Qin Feng of Hongwu gave instructions, "We must be fair, open, and just, and those who engage in favoritism will be ...... decided." ”

In addition to the Imperial Procuratorate, Daqin also has intelligence guards and black-clothed guards, these two institutions are separated from the ministry and directly under the emperor, and the supervision of officials can be done. The officials of Great Qin knew this. Daqin's Yulu is incomparable to the previous dynasty, with a high salary and low salary. Officials are also self-conscious. Moreover, Daqin is still expanding. For the sake of a bright future, officials also have to dissociate themselves from corruption and perversion of the law.

As the saying goes, good things come in pairs, and there's another piece of good news.

I saw Dian Wei walk in, presented a roll of bamboo slips and said, "Your Majesty, there is a person named Tu Turtle outside, saying that he came to Shun with his toes." ”

"Turtle!" Qin Feng was startled, and said in his heart that there was still a name like this, he took the bamboo slip and opened it, and immediately became happy. scolded with a smile: "What kind of turtle, it's Shixie, I'll see it clearly next time." ”

Dian Wei was very embarrassed and muttered back. After going out, catching a first-class guard was to scold him, "Lin Dong, you stinky boy, you don't know how to read, but you came to scold me!" ”

Qin Feng looked at the bamboo slips here, and it turned out to be the Guishun book of Jiaozhi Taishou Shixie.

Let's talk about Shi Xie. When he was young, he was a teacher of Liu Tao, and he was gradually promoted to Jiaozhi Taishou. Later, he was added by the imperial court to the post of Suinan Zhonglang General, Qian Anyuan General, and Fenglongdu Pavilion Marquis.

The Shi family is a powerful local force in Jiaozhi. Shixie and his three brothers led four counties, accounting for more than half of Lingnan's territory. In the history of Lingnan and Vietnam, Shi Xie has a high prestige. Later, the Tran Dynasty of Vietnam posthumously presented Shixie Shan Gan Jiaying Lingwu King. It can be seen in general.

Shi Xie is a very intelligent person, when Sun Quan entrenched in Jingnan. He did not socialize with him, because he was not optimistic about Sun Quan. At the same time, he also knew that Sun Quan did not have the ability to attack Jiaozhi. However, when Emperor Hongwu became the king of the Southern Barbarians, after the unification of the eight and ninety-three dians. Shi Xie immediately made a choice and chose to surrender to the already bordering powerful Great Qin State. It is better to take the initiative to surrender than to surrender when the soldiers are in the city. No one in the upper echelons of Jiaozhi thought that they would be able to defeat Daqin.

Daqin can sweep through the jungle in the eight times and ninety-three dians, so it is even easier to get the southern barbarian soldiers to sweep the cross-toes.

Shi Xie was a talented man, familiar with the Spring and Autumn Period, and later generations were loyal to Sun Quan for decades until his death.

Therefore, Qin Feng accepted the surrender of the Shixie family and appointed Shixie as the Jiaozhi Taishou of Great Qin. However, Qin Feng was a policy of separating the military from the government, which was even more prominent in remote counties, so he dispatched Wu Ban as the general of Jiaozhi, led 5,000 troops to Jiaozhi, and disbanded the local army that the Shixie family had trained for many years.

At the same time, Qin Feng considered that Shi Xie had been in Jiaozhi for many years and must have known the situation of the Southeast Asian continent in the later generations, so Qin Feng sent Shi Xie to Shi Xie, ordering him to present detailed information on the Southeast Asian mainland in the later generations. As for the map of the islands in the waters of Southeast Asia, it was naturally drawn by the Great Qin Admiralty.

Half a month later, Nanban completed the merger into the Great Qin system, and the chiefs of each tribe became the heads of each tribe, and happily took the family to Yedu, and also recognized their ancestors and returned to their ancestors. At this time, Ye Du also had news feedback, and Jiaozhi also had news feedback.

When the Yedu Military Aircraft Department received Qin Feng's edict, it immediately took action. Xun Yu personally went to the Great Qin Geography Department to collect data, which was responsible for drawing maps and also collecting and compiling regional data. These subjects have a high auxiliary value for a country's foreign military, foreign politics, and foreign trade.

The merchants of Great Qin restarted the Silk Road, and while trading, they also brought back a lot of valuable foreign materials. Although the Silk Road was passed through Central Asia, and the Great Qin merchants did not actually go to the southern part of the South Asian subcontinent, they did gather some information.

Only then did Qin Feng know that the South Asian subcontinent did not all belong to the Kushan Empire. Outside of this empire, the entire southeastern part of the subcontinent, was in the era of small principalities of slavery.

The information is very scarce, but Qin Feng analyzed according to the memory of later generations, there is no country in the Southeast Asian continent at present, and the eight times and ninety-three dians of the Southern Barbarians are not as good. The southern part of the Later Dynasty is after the Mauryan Empire, after the invasion of the Greeks, the Cypriots, the Sabbatarians, and the Kushans, and is now in a state of secession of many small principalities.

"Playing the emperor, south of Jiaozhi, until the sea, is exactly what the emperor said...... Under that slavery, there were many small countries, and they didn't even have a single county of land to claim the ....... After Qin Feng accepted Jiaozhi, Shi Xie personally came to Sanjiang City to see the driver.

Qin Feng confirmed his opinion from Shi Xie's mouth, and he canonized the former Long Du Pavilion Hou Shi Xie as the third rank Long Du Bo of Great Qin. Daqin only has three titles, and even Jia Xu and others are only first-class uncles, which is already a great honor for Shixie. He swore loyalty and guarded the border for Great Qin.

And Qin Feng just smiled soothingly, in his eyes, Jiaozhi was just a temporary frontier.

Eighteen hundred years ago. The land is vast and sparsely populated, leaving aside the four prosperous empires and a few former empires like Egypt. The rest of the place is a wild land, with only a small population of primitive people-like aborigines. Savage is not terrible. It can be slowly transformed. Taking advantage of the wilderness, taking the opportunity to take it, and becoming the inherent land of China is the most important thing.

Emperor Hongwu Qin Feng thought that this was an opportunity, and these regions that were in a semi-civilized state and in a backward and barbaric slavery system could be easily attacked. Spread the great Chinese civilization and rescue these people who lived miserably under slavery.

So, Qin Feng sent Xu Huang as the main general. Ava was the deputy general, with the translator of Jiaozhi, leading 10,000 barbarian soldiers and 3,000 Great Qin iron cavalry into the mainland of Southeast Asia in the later generations. And the simple and clear instructions that if the local slavery does not need to be changed for the time being, these slaves should be used to supply food and grass to build roads, and there is no need to annex, only surrender. These remote, sparsely populated places can be slowly cleaned up later.

On the other hand, he sent Ma Chao to lead 10,000 iron horsemen, and selected people from the border of Nanban Prefecture who were slightly fluent in the language of the subcontinent. Go chase Liu Bei.

Liu Bei gathered a thousand soldiers, and Zhuge Liang had a firm foothold in the chaotic subcontinent. Zhuge Liang, this kid can live for fifty or sixty years, and it is difficult to guarantee that nothing will happen in the future.

Meantime. It doesn't matter if you can't catch up, it's also important to take advantage of the chaos in the subcontinent to occupy territory. The strategy is the same as Xu Huang. Slavery will continue to be maintained for the time being, so that foreign slaves can be used to supply the army with supplies to build roads, and all tribal principalities do not need to be destroyed, but only need to submit to tribute, and then slowly clean up.

And Qin Feng, who came from later generations, knew that the ancient subcontinent civilization had Buddhism thousands of years ago, and Buddhism was the foundation of the people of the mainland. So after thinking about it, Qin Feng made a decision: if he wants to subdue the subcontinent, he must subdue the hearts of the people in the subcontinent. Buddhism has been deeply ingrained in people's hearts, so it cannot be reversed, but must be followed.

The "Tao" of the East pays attention to going with the flow, and controlling people's hearts is not as rebellious as that of the West. However, at this moment, Emperor Hongwu must also begin to face the extremely important regions and people of the Pope. From this moment on, he also had the idea of religious management. To sum up, it is consistent with the concept of religion in a large country that was open to later generations: freedom of religious belief. Of course, cults must be combated.

However, everything is meant to be guided. Qin Feng respected those good sects, but in terms of secular appearance, he still needed some means to guide him. He instructed Ma Chao not to kill and abuse the common people, and if he met the Buddhist monk Xiao Shami, he should treat him with courtesy, "After you pass, there will definitely be people who oppose it, and you will preach the Buddha country in Daqin ...... like this." Eliminate those slave owners and aristocrats who eat people and do not spit out bones, and sincerely communicate with the monks about these ....... In this regard, Qin Feng instructed Ma Chao and gave him some information that he could recall in later generations, so as to use sectarian mobilization of the masses against the local slave owner rulers.

Ma Chao was very surprised, he almost didn't know what those Buddhas that Emperor Hongwu was talking about, but he still wrote them down.

When Great Qin's Iron Cavalry appeared in the subcontinent, the entire continent was shocked. The descendants of the great Mauryan Empire suddenly discovered that after the powerful Sabbatical, Kushan, Greek, and Cypriot peoples, an even more powerful nation appeared on the land of the subcontinent.

After experiencing many invasions, no one dared to fight against the more powerful Great Qin Iron Cavalry. Where Ma Chao led the army all the way, on the subcontinent, the lords of the principalities who only had more than a thousand soldiers and horses hurriedly wrapped the most respectful flower cloth turbans on their heads like foot wraps, and brought their daughters dressed in gorgeous "sari" to the front of the army to express their submission.

Ma Chao obeyed the instructions of the great Hongwu Emperor, and with difficulty rejected those very sexy girls with nails on their noses, exposed navels, and "sari", and just accepted the submission of the principality.

The lord of the principality breathed a sigh of relief and sent as much food and grass as he could. With the support of these materials, Ma Chao led the army to advance all the way, and inquired about Liu Bei's news all the way.

At first, it was indeed very smooth, until one day, Ma Chao's army came to Fancy City. Come to the capital of the Mauryan Empire, once the greatest country in the subcontinent, which has been extinct for many years. (To be continued......)