When Fulward left, he was extremely conflicted. On the one hand, he wanted to kill Masinde easily, but on the other hand, he also felt that Masinde had indeed done his utmost to treat him and Kushan.
"General, what should we do now?" After Masinde left, Sidney, who had been hiding in the back hall of the palace, came out and asked solemnly.
Since the last showdown between Fulward and Masinde, Fulward has already planned to summon his men. Although as Masinde estimated, Fulward can only summon some of them. After all, it took so long for him to gather his men.
It's not like Hinde didn't do anything. He actually assimilated many Kushan elites into his own people. After realizing what Masinde had done, Furward was more or less prepared for this.
"Continue to gather people. After three days, those who have not been gathered here will be ignored. We will take the northwest passage back to the Kushan Empire." Fulward said calmly.
Many of what Masinde said are correct. For example, in the current situation, it is actually difficult for the Kushan elites who have fallen into the Qiang rhythm to withdraw. After all, dozens of people suppressed a large tribe, leaving tens of thousands of people afraid to move.
, it’s not because dozens of people are all tough men fighting one against a hundred, it’s just because under the organizational inertia, not many people directly resist, but on the other hand, when the organizational inertia collapses...
We have no choice but to give up. Unless everyone is a five-level smelting super elite, facing this situation, we have no choice but to give up on this path.
But if each of them is a five-level smelted super elite, why did Fulward have to squat on the plateau for so long? Just lead these super elites straight to Chang'an.
Although Chang'an cannot be captured, it is absolutely impossible to stop it with so many elites from the fifth level of smelting, the blockade of the Qiang people, the blockade of Xinzhou, Yizhou, Hanzhong, and the garrison from Chang'an to Hanzhong, etc.
Why did Fulward follow Masinde's suggestion? Isn't it because he also realized that it was basically impossible for him to break through the outermost blockade of the Han Empire and that he would not be able to break into the vicinity of Chang'an.
For Fulward, there is no need to attack Chang'an. As long as his army can reach Chang'an, it will cause a stir in the world. When the time comes, he can casually kill some Han elites, and he will be able to give General Guishuang a spirit beyond the military spirit.
Blessing.
Just like General Wei's victory at Longcheng, the elite Han army that attacked together suffered losses of more than 20,000. However, because it beheaded 700 Huns, it was called the first great achievement of the Han-Hungarian War.
It represented that the Han Dynasty officially began to counterattack the Xiongnu.
Therefore, as long as Fulward can rush to the vicinity of Chang'an, even if he cannot go back at all, he will be famous forever. However, under Masinde's explanation, Fulward clearly realized that he simply could not do it. The Qiang blockade caused him to
His soldiers could infiltrate at most a few hundred people.
If thousands of people really cross the Qiang's front on a large scale, a battle will occur no matter what. Once a large-scale battle begins, there will be no way to continue to conceal his movements, and Xinzhou, Yizhou, Hanzhong and Yanbian
Those garrison regiments are not just watching.
As long as the Qiang people bite their main force, the garrison closest to Fuwode will really rush forward and fight Fuwode. Therefore, unless Fuwode can quickly defeat the Qiang people and fight against the Qiang people,
Only if they still have the ability to suppress the Qiang reinforcements, can they truly enter the Han Dynasty's homeland.
As for the Tibetan area, Boward didn't think it was the homeland of the Han Dynasty at all.
"Northwest? Is it the ancient Silk Road?" Sidney frowned. He was one of the deputy commanders of Camel Rider, so when he went to Tibet, Fulward had discussed it with him.
They have also considered the Karakoram Corridor.
But after they sent people to conduct on-site inspections, they realized that this road is currently unreachable. The snow cover caused by the Little Ice Age has greatly increased the difficulty of traveling on this road. This is why people have walked this road in recent years.
There is basically no reason for the merchants on the road.
Otherwise, this road alone can lead directly to the inner side of Kushan. Those smugglers in the Han Dynasty who were not afraid of death would definitely be willing to take this road to make some money.
After all, no one does a loss-making business, but a group of people want to do a beheading business and make money, which is not shabby at any time.
In addition, although Chen Xi managed the business dealings between the Han Dynasty and Kushan, it would be difficult for later generations to completely solve the problem of smuggling.
Taking into account the widespread use of bill redemption and the difficulty of completely eliminating smugglers, Chen Xi's last choice can only be to coexist with the smugglers. It is not that it is impossible to completely kill the smugglers. After all, this is the feudal era, and it can be completely eliminated.
Regardless of human rights, if the Imperial Iron Fist is big enough, it can easily kill anything it dislikes.
But for Chen Xi, such a solution was just like swatting mosquitoes with a cannon, and it was not worth it at all, so he created official smugglers who were licensed by the state. Well, those who paid taxes were certainly not considered smugglers. As merchants,
Management businessmen. If big businessmen enter this industry and make a lot of money, they will naturally suppress other people from entering and making money.
Therefore, as long as he manages the types of goods sold by these merchants, Chen Xi can generally maintain stability. These are also nominally Han smugglers. The most sold by these merchants are actually salt and sugar, because these two things are produced by the Han Dynasty.
The quality is good and the price is much lower than that in Kushan.
Especially salt. The price of Han Dynasty salt was so low that even Kushans thought it was ridiculous. For this reason, Kushan secretly learned from Han Dynasty sun-dried salt. Unfortunately, the merchants who smuggled Han Dynasty refined salt in Kushan at that time were those who were backed by large-scale states.
The country's feudal lord, the top Brahmin super smuggler, decisively killed the guy who was running a salt farm in Kushan and started his own salt farm? Then how can we make money by taking advantage of the government?
In short, it's very awesome. After reading Dong Zhao's investigation, Chen Xi felt that it was too outrageous, and he even didn't know what to say. When these top-level trash in Kushan are killing their own people, it really highlights the diversity of a species.
Sex, outrageous, super outrageous.
So far, even though the salt-drying technology of the Han Dynasty's salt fields has already spread to Kushan, Kushan still smuggles refined salt from the Han Dynasty.
After all, whether the country can make money and whether it can stabilize the people's livelihood has nothing to do with me, the Lord of Kushan, or me, the Brahmin. Anyway, our offerings cannot be less.
Chen Xi could only admire this, and by the way, Rome wasn't much better either.
The relationship between the Han Dynasty and Rome has always been good. Even the steel mills allowed the Romans to visit. Naturally, they would not stop people's livelihood things like saltworks. Therefore, Rome got the sun earlier than Kushan.
Salt technology.
Of course, a very important point here is that at that time, Chen Xi really felt that the Roman Empire was higher than the Emperor and that it was difficult for the two parties to have a substantial conflict of interest, so he went with the Roman Empire.
Then the Romans, who had obtained the high-level salt-drying technology of the Han Dynasty, also began to engage in sun-drying salt in their own country. After all, compared to boiling salt, the cost of sun-drying salt was lower and the output was greater. Moreover, after multiple treatments, the quality of the salt brine was improved.
It’s also better, the bitterness and astringency will basically be dealt with.
So after the Han Dynasty's salt-drying technology arrived in Rome, Rome got rid of the troublesome things it used to do. Then, the official salt works were not solved yet because of the Senate's wrangling and profit distribution, big fish eating small fish and other issues.
, the official salt of the Claudius family has been sold everywhere.
What is a cancer? This is a cancer. Pompianus was so angry that he was about to explode. Later, although the country's official salt field was also opened, the Claudius family had already taken the lead and became famous.
, Guan Yan actually couldn't do it to the other party.
Even occasionally the salt sold by the Claudius family looked more like official salt.
There is no way, we have coexisted with Rome, you have me, and I have you. The Claudius family can always find a place in the core area of a big city, and then build a place to sell salt, and then put up a sign saying
It's official salt, and the Roman government has to go through the process to buy land. Even if the government sometimes wants to find a land in the core area, it will be very embarrassing if there is no room for demolition.
So much so that the fake official sold salt in the core area for two years, while the real Roman official just acquired the land on the edge of the core area and built a store. How can this be compared?
In short, just by selling salt, Chen Xi witnessed the diversity of nobles in the feudal era. They were almost all beasts, but the beasts had different postures.
By the way, the reputation of the Claudius family has become better in the past two years. A very important point is that Pompianus' acquisition plan allowed the Claudius family to acquire Rome.
That's right, although they talk about letting Rome acquire the Claudius family, in fact, in Chen Xi's view, it is the Claudius family that actually acquires Rome, and a large number of industries that are urgently needed for people's livelihood are in Rome.
What a waste of time in the hands of the Ladius family!
After Pompianus completed his own blending, the price of food and salt was reduced by 15% overnight. It seemed to be very beneficial to the country, but anyone with any brain would know that with a nod from the Claudius family, the whole country
What does it mean that the price of this daily necessity has dropped by 15%?
In short, it’s a cancer, a real cancer.
But again, at least after the nominal acquisition, Rome does seem to be a complete imperial country, much more normal than Kushan. At least there will be no such thing as an official opening a salt farm privately and being assassinated by a larger official.
matter.
To be honest, Chen Xi estimated that if the Kushan Empire wanted to open a few truly official salt farms now, Oswin would have to end up doing so, and he would only open a few, rather than completely controlling the country's refined salt.
After all, the businessmen across the country who can touch this are all super bosses with strong backends. Take the Shulac family as an example. Is that smuggling? That means asking the warship to help bring some cargo to pressurize the warehouse. Check? Check.
Shit, this is no longer a matter of illegal shooting, this is a matter of really finding out something and everyone will end up badly.
If you want to make this money and can make this money, how can the Kushan leaders really not know? This is not a comprehensive consideration to make the Kushan people at the bottom sacrifice again. Anyway, the animals can still persist. Besides, the salt of the Han Dynasty is so
Okay, whatever you want to make, just buy it!
So much so that every year the Han Dynasty produced far more refined salt than the empire needed, but it was still consumed all because there were so many admirable smugglers.
However, even if there were so many smugglers, the Han Dynasty basically did not use the Karakoram Corridor. Needless to say, what was the situation there? Even if the army was superior to the merchants in all aspects of quality, facing being completely covered by snow
and the glacier-covered Karakoram Corridor, which may also be difficult to pass.
"Then where do you want to go?" Fulward looked at Sidney and said calmly.
It is impossible to go south. The road south is easy to walk in the early stage, but after entering the Tibetan area and entering Yizhou, the difficulty will rise sharply. After entering Zhongnan, the difficulty will explode directly. It is very likely that you will face it directly.
The Han Dynasty mobilized the elites who had conquered the country from the Ganges River.
Compared with the pursuit of the Qiang people and the ice and snow in the Karakoram Corridor, the elite of the Ganges Army under Guan Yu are the real insurmountable problem, and compared with Fulward, they are really numerous.
, and he is very powerful. If Fulward has the ability to escape and ascend to heaven when Guan Yu calls on the Ganges Army to encircle and suppress him, then the position of the strongest tenth knight will have to be given up.
Not to mention passing through directly, just escaping and ascending to heaven requires a tough fight of the level of the Tenth Knight, and a lot of luck.
"It is better to go west and cross the Himalayas than to take the Karakoram Corridor. The difficulty is not much different between the two sides." Sidney said after being silent for a long time.
"We have no way to go west, and we can definitely cross it, but we have no way to calculate the time, and we don't know how much food and grass we need to carry. We have no plan." Fulward said calmly, "In terms of time, it is too hasty.
, we simply don’t have time to verify the road heading west across the Himalayas, so we can only choose a path that we have verified.”
Sidney was silent for a long time after hearing this. Indeed, although it is extremely difficult to walk through the Karakoram Corridor, they have at least verified it. As for the difficulty, it is high or not, but it has not reached the level that makes it impossible for them to pass.
Giving up at that time was the result of comprehensive considerations.
But if you go west through the Himalayas, the difficulty may be no different from walking along the Karakoram Corridor, but they have not verified the roads going west and do not have accurate times.
"It's too hasty." Sidney said after a long silence.
"We don't have many choices." Fulward said calmly, "Organize the manpower. We will set off in three days. This is the last chance."
The Qiang people in the northwest of Tibetan areas, the Qiang people in the central part, the Qiang people in the Qiangtang Plateau, and the Qiang people in the south have launched a comprehensive counterattack at this time. The Kushan Empire's servant army system composed of elite backbones faced this large-scale
, the counterattack on all fronts had no effect at all.
Led by the tribal leader of the Shang Shung Dynasty, the Qiang people who were ready for a decisive battle marched straight into the core area of Fuwod's rule. During this period, it was not without the Kushan main force organizing a servant army to fight, but they faced
It is difficult to achieve the desired results by pushing tens of thousands of people on a front, so that everything that Fulward built in the Shang Shung Dynasty is like a sandcastle under the tide, quickly disintegrating.
Under the wave of Qiang people.
"Yang Servant, clean up the garbage of the Shang Shung Dynasty." After attacking the next large tribe of the Shang Shung Dynasty again, Zhang Ji, who followed the army, looked at the thin and disabled native people in the tribe, as well as all kinds of strange magic.
It is said that many of the utensils were even taken from living bodies, which made Zhang Ji's originally cold expression become much colder.
"Okay." Although the Qiang people also use some bone bowls and other things, to be honest, the exaggerated situation like the Zhangzhong Dynasty is indeed a bit outrageous. All kinds of strange magical weapons, whether they are strong or not, are thrown aside, but
It is really too curious, even the Qiang people are not so outrageous.
No, to be precise, all the barbarians are not that outrageous. Even the more violent barbarians would try their best to make the boss on the opposite side into a wine glass, so as not to create such a large-scale human bone magic weapon.
This kind of rosary was obviously made of white bones, and it was even covered with pulp. Yang Pu felt that it was a bit outrageous.
"Of all the so-called magic weapons, there is only one like this. I can reluctantly admit it." Zhang Ji watched as Yang Pu led the Qiang people to launch a search in the Xiangxiong tribe, and then found a large pile of magic weapons made of human bones.
Qi, I have some understanding of the barbarism of the Shang Shung Dynasty, and it is indeed bloody and barbaric.
What's more important is that among the large number of magical artifacts made of human materials, only one has etching patterns, and the others are basically just names. Zhang Ji's eyes turned cold when he saw them.
Even though he has seen many wars and even seen Jingguan, Zhang Ji still feels disgusted by things like this. At least things like Jingguan are just for shock and have no special meaning. And these magic weapons,
Zhang Ji's eyes were gloomy and he was completely fooled!
"Kill them all." Zhang Ji said to Yang Pu very calmly. He did need the nobles of the Zhangxiong Dynasty as insiders, but if he wanted to rule the Tibetan areas as the governor of the Tibetan areas and assimilate the Tibetan areas, then these cancers must be
To be removed.
When Pu Yang heard this, without saying a word, he directly pulled out the nobles of the Xiangxiong tribe and beheaded them in front of the people of the Xiangxiong tribe.
This brutal behavior caused some turmoil, but for the Qiang people who had already gained a military advantage and violently drove away the Kushan elite, even if the Xiangxiong tribe rioted, they could still suppress it. After all,
They are not like the Kushans. In such a rear position, a tribe only deploys dozens of Kushan soldiers to suppress them.
Zhang Ji's order was quickly circulated to all Qiang tribes. After receiving the order, the leaders of each Qiang tribe quickly began to execute the order. They even executed the opponent with their hind legs as soon as they freed the opponent from Kushan's hands.
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The turmoil was happening, but Zhang Ji didn't care much. He had already received the summons from Masinde, and Fuwode was already preparing to leave. Since Fuwode was about to leave, there was no power to stop them, so with this
What's the point of compromising with such a disgusting guy?
"I won't die well, you won't die well!" The noble Xiangxiong who was dragged out yelled at Zhang Ji. He originally thought that the Han Dynasty was here to help them restore the country and to help them seize the power of the nobles again, but in the end
Unexpectedly, the Han Dynasty was more ruthless than the Kushan Empire. The most people from the Kushan Empire captured them and then sent people to keep an eye on them was not to execute them. As a result, the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty were executing nobles.
"I will put him to death in front of the people of the Xiangxiong tribe." Zhang Ji said very calmly. He didn't care about the other party's curse or their connection. If these Xiangxiong nobles are enlightened enough, if they are willing
Accepting the rule of the Han Dynasty, stopping the production of so-called magical instruments, and abiding by the decrees of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Ji could let the other party go, but...
After the Han Dynasty took action, the Xiangxiong nobles who regained power not only did not want to be grateful to the Han Dynasty, but also seemed to be domineering. They even preached so-called sectarian ideas, as if they wanted to dominate the Han Dynasty and fool the Han Dynasty.
The meaning of the heavenly soldiers of the Han Dynasty.
What, the Qiang people? Those are also the heavenly soldiers of the Han Dynasty, fuck!
In short, this group of people disgusted Zhang Ji to death. He originally planned to endure it, but as more and more magic weapons were collected, they became more and more evil. After a certain Xiangxiong noble made a fool of himself, Zhang Ji
A killing order was directly issued. To be honest, if Zhang Ji had not been sensible enough, Zhang Ji would have really let these people feel what the sage said, don’t do to others what you don’t want others to do to you.
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"Processor, we are almost reaching the core area of the Xiangxiong Dynasty. The intensity of the confrontation here is much stronger than in the previous area. Why don't you retreat first?" After Lin Dai and Yang Pu met, they came to see Zhang Ji immediately.
The Qiang people from all over the world joined forces to strangle, and with the premise of uniting and uniting, they successfully broke into the core area of the Shangshung Dynasty. You know, the Shangshung Dynasty actually had more people than the Qiang people in Tibetan areas.
However, facing the Qiang's attack, the Shangshung Dynasty had little resistance and was quickly pushed into the core area.
Even when they reached the core area, there was barely any resistance.
"Sidney, withdraw." Fulward looked at the Xiangxiong nobles at the foot of the mountain who were hastily arranging the battle line with a sneer on their lips. Fulward also felt relieved by the Han Dynasty's treatment of the Xiangxiong nobles. He had killed them before.
Some Xiangxiong nobles made him feel disgusted, but in order to facilitate management, they finally stopped and let the elite of their headquarters monitor these people.
However, after the Han Dynasty came, the Shang Shung nobles were punished as they deserved, which made Fulward very happy. If he could not stay here any longer, Fulward would definitely see these things about the Zhang Shung Dynasty that made people feel
How to destroy the disgusting nobles.
"There is a sizable Qiang force in the northwest of us." Sidney informed Fulward of the intelligence he had collected.
"Fight out directly. Given the situation in the Tibetan area, we can go around it if we have to, but if we don't take action when we leave, we will never be able to get out of the Karakoram Corridor." Fulward said calmly, "We are willing to follow us.
Soldiers, have you informed them of the difficulties they will face along the way?"
I woke up late, miserable. The high temperature holiday is really fun, but I can’t get up.