Massacred the city at Ecbatana, appointed and dismissed the surrendered city lord as governor in Persepolis, and soon these news spread throughout Sasanian territory.
Of course——
What was also heard was the loud noise.
The Han army is too terrifying.
The strong city could no longer stop the Han army's attack.
This is the result Liu Chan wants. Compared with Wei and Wu in the Central Plains, the various large and small city-states of Sassanid,
Without some conspiracy, they advocate force more.
Facing such a terrifying Han army, the large and small city-states that originally wanted to fight the Han army began to waver, and soon many weaker city-states began to send envoys to negotiate peace with the Han army.
Just——
The conditions for their peace talks were that the city-states treat each other as they did before the Sassanids.
They recognized the Han Dynasty as their suzerainty,
But they hope to be autonomous,
In other words, they are nominally a city-state affiliated with the Han Dynasty, but in fact, they are independent individuals.
But who is Liu Chan?
He is the emperor of the Han Dynasty!
For a time traveler who is already in his forties and has been an emperor for more than twenty years, facing the situation in front of him, it is easy for him to make his own choice.
Liu Chan chose to temporarily accept the city-states that were willing to rely on them, but of course directly annihilated those city-states that were still stubborn and wanted to compete with the Han army.
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November of the eleventh year of the rise of the Han Dynasty (AD 250).
The Han Emperor Liu Chan and the emperor's eldest son Liu Tan looked at the city in front of them that was surrounded by water. This would be their last battle in the Western Region.
The power disparity between the two sides was huge. The Han army dispatched 160,000 infantry and cavalry and hundreds of generals.
On the contrary, opposite them, although the city is large, the defenders in the city are
According to what was learned from previous investigations,
There are less than 30,000 people left.
160,000 people attack a city guarded by 30,000 people. Is this battle still necessary?
The destruction of the city is actually a matter of time.
Actually——
The three-year Sassanid Unification War ended a year ago. Not only those originally stubborn city-states had been annihilated by the Han army, but even those city-states that originally wanted to be autonomous were defeated by the powerful attacking power of the Han army.
We had to choose to accept the Han army’s policy.
Because they have discovered that the Han Dynasty is not the Sasanian Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty will not allow different systems under its rule.
By accepting the policies of the Han Dynasty, you can not only survive, but also be reused. If you want autonomy, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty will have 10,000 reasons and think of various ways to eliminate them.
Unite to resist the Han army?
Just think about it.
Don’t do it for real.
Because——
Those explosive packets of the Han army can blow a strong city to pieces.
The Sasanian cavalry of these city-states,
There is no match for the Han army's three-bow bed crossbow.
Dahan's policy is also very simple,
That is to go away from the city-state system and change it to the county system of the Han Dynasty.
The chiefs of counties and counties are county governors, county magistrates, and county magistrates; and these chiefs must be appointed and removed by the court.
Each county governor, county magistrate, and county magistrate can no longer be inherited hereditary like the previous city lords. Instead, each official in the same county has a term of only five years. After five years, he will be replaced.
Those who stand out may have the opportunity to be transferred to the capital or even to Chang'an in the Central Plains.
In addition, each county implements the separation of military and political affairs. The county warden, county magistrate, and county magistrate are in charge of administration, while the county lieutenant and county lieutenant are responsible for the defense and military affairs of their respective counties.
This is obviously different from the previous Sasanian Empire and Parthian Empire.
At the same time, in addition to selecting talented people from the original city-states for the appointment and dismissal of officials, in fact, as early as after the Han army captured Taixi Feng, Liu Chan had already begun to promote Han culture and open government-run academies in all occupied areas.<
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At the beginning, people only opened government-run academies for Han people, just to let people learn Chinese, so as to achieve communication between superiors and subordinates and facilitate people's communication.
But later people discovered that after studying in a government-run college for three years, you can take the exam held by the court. Those who pass the exam can obtain honors and even be directly appointed to official positions.
After this policy was promulgated, the people in the areas occupied by the Han army were all happy and excited.
Why?
Because before that, most of them were slaves, and their ancestors had been slaves for generations. But after the Han people opened government-run academies, they could pass the study and then take the imperial examination, and then they could become officials in the imperial court.
In other words, the people at the bottom have a way to rise.
It is no longer like before, where ancestors are slaves, descendants are slaves, and high officials and nobles are no longer the exclusive power of a small group of people. The Emperor of the Han Dynasty did what he said.
Everyone is equal.
After Liu Chan completed the unification of the entire Sasanian territory with three years of preparation and two years of attack, the Han Dynasty also held the first imperial examination in Sasanian and selected more than a thousand people as members of the imperial court.
Reserve officer.
Although Sassanid has hundreds of large and small cities and requires a large number of officials, even so, after more than a thousand people are selected, there are still more than 300 people who have no posts to send.
Because during Liu Chan's two-year offensive, many cities were appointed by their original city lords or deputy city lords, people who were sincerely willing to surrender after the city was conquered.
What to do with the extra 300 people?
The post-substitution system was born immediately.
For this idea, Liu Chan also learned from the Qing Dynasty's alternate Daotai method based on the memory of his previous life. All these extra officials were listed as alternate officials and unified into the Supervision Department. The court provided the minimum living allowance and only formal appointments.
Only if you hold an official position, the court will distribute salary according to your official position.
And if they want to become officials, they have to find out on their own, for example, if the officials in that city are too corrupt, or want to rebel, etc. Anyway, if the current officials are not qualified, then they will be the ones to fill in. A year ago, Slabik, the governor of Tarmena City, secretly defected to the Kushan Empire because he was originally the lord of Tarmena City, but Liu Chan led his army to seize the city. In order to survive, he had to pretend to surrender to Liu Chan.
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After the city was defeated, Liu Chan named him the governor of Talmena City, thinking that because of Liu Chan's grace of not killing him, he would be able to serve the court well.
But it turned out that Liu Chan thought too much.
Not everyone who surrenders sincerely surrenders.
Slabik openly surrendered to the Han army, but in his heart he was unwilling. He didn't want to just be a prefect, he wanted to continue to be the city lord.
Because the prefect cannot be hereditary and must be controlled by the court.
So, they sent people to secretly contact the Kushan Empire. At this time, the Kushan Empire was very afraid of the Han Dynasty because the Han army occupied the entire territory of the Sasanian Dynasty.
They were worried that sooner or later, the Han army would take action against the Kushan Empire.
Because in the past, they only had to be wary of the Han from the east, and the Han at that time did not care so much about the Western Regions. As long as the countries in the Western Regions maintained friendly relations with the Han, they were very satisfied.
But things are different now. The Kushan Empire borders the Han Dynasty on three sides, northeast and west.
Depend on the big man?
According to the practices of the Han emperors over the years, they could not believe that the Han emperor would accept a unified Kushan Empire mixed in with his territory.
As for the Kushan Empire, they prefer that the Han people return to the Central Plains. This large territory in the west is best ruled by another race, or the Yueshi people.
At this time, Slabik's people arrived.
Slabik was willing to cooperate with the Dayuezhi people, and then the two families joined forces to overthrow the Han Dynasty and drive the Han people back to the Central Plains. The Dayuezhi people were naturally overjoyed. This was something they had wanted to do for a long time.<
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Unfortunately, this matter was discovered by a later official named Bislar. He immediately reported the matter to the court. After Liu Chan learned about this matter, he originally completed the unification of Sassanid.
He is preparing to return to the imperial court with his troops. After all, it has been almost six years since he left Chang'an during this Western Expedition.
At this juncture, the Kushan people actually wanted to unite with Slabik.
As the saying goes, what is tolerable is unbearable.
The big man didn't want to take action against Kushan at first, but now they are forcing him to take action.
So what are you waiting for?
If it doesn’t work, just do it!
Liu Chan postponed his return to the Central Plains. A year ago, in May of the tenth year of the rise of the Han Dynasty (AD 249), he divided his troops into three groups to attack the Kushan Empire.
The Kushan Empire was a powerful empire established by the Yuezhi people who originally occupied Longyou generation. After hundreds of years of continuous defeat and migration, they finally defeated the Aryans.
At its peak, the Kushan Empire was once listed as one of the four great powers in the world at the same time, along with the Roman Empire in the West, the Parthian Empire in Central Asia, and the Han Dynasty in the East.
However, with the rise of the Sassanid Dynasty, the second generation of the Sassanid King Shapur expanded eastward and captured dozens of cities in the northern part of the Kushan Empire in just a few months. At the same time, within the Kushan Empire,
Another turmoil broke out.
It was only when the Han Dynasty replaced the Sasanian Dynasty that the Kushan Empire gradually came out of decline.
What a pity——
Just after they got out of trouble, they provoked the arrogant Han Dynasty again.
Liu Chan mobilized 300,000 Han troops and divided them into three groups to attack Kushan. Within a year and a half, the entire Kushan Empire fell. By November 18, 250 AD, only the capital of the powerful Kushan Empire was left.
Fulousha City.
"Father!"
Liu Tan, the eldest son of the Han Emperor, glanced at Fulousha City and said with a smile: "Let's attack the city!"
Liu Tan, who was 18 years old at the time, had been following his father Liu Chan in the conquest of Sassanid for the past few years. Although he is not old now, he is now a general who is good at fighting.
After taking Fulusa, the Kushan Empire, which has been in existence for more than two hundred years, will withdraw from the stage of history.
At the same time, it will also be announced that a large area stretching from Babylon in the west to the Taihang Mountains in the east will become the territory of the Han Dynasty.
As the eldest son of the Han emperor, Liu Tan naturally hopes that he will end the final battle.
Liu Chan naturally understood his son's thoughts, and also looked at Fulousha City in front of him, and then laughed loudly and said: "Okay! My father will give you 50,000 elites, and you have a ten-day deadline to break through Fulousha City and capture the king of Guishang Kingdom alive!" Liu Tan was overjoyed when he heard this and immediately promised: "My son, I obey your order!"