Past and Present of the Overland Silk Road
In the sixth year, the end of the month.
Yun Chuchu, one of the five saints, came to Chang'an City to meet the Later Tang Emperor Li Ketian under the order of Zhou Zetian.
I would like to ask if he was willing to gather the power of the Later Zhou, Later Sui and Later Tang dynasties to restore the former Tang Dynasty, and once every ten years, the land of Ganges and Europa to conduct cultural and trade exchanges, and to restore the Silk Road in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms during this war period.
In the sixth year, on the late month of the harvest, Li Ketian recalled the past and present of the Silk Road on the road with Yun Chuchu.
The land of China was about a thousand years ago in 190 BC.
This year, Khan Shanyu, who was on the grassland, began to attack Xizhao City, the four wilderness countries at the foot of Kunlun Tianshan Mountains.
The Iron Feather Knight led by Khan Shanyu and the Beishan family, the lord of Xizhao City, began a decisive battle in the vast desert near the Kunlun Tianshan Mountains.
In the end, the Iron Feather Cavalry of the Grassland led by Khan Shanyu defeated the Beishan family, the lord of Xizhao City. In the end, all the people from the Four Desolate Kingdoms became slaves of Khan Shanyu on the Grassland.
About decades later, Emperor Wu of Han, Liu Che, of the Han Dynasty, ascended the throne at Ganquan Palace in Chang'an City.
In Ganquan Palace, Liu Che was staring at the territory of China. Thinking of the nation's invasion from the grassland north of the Great Wall for thousands of years, he planned in his heart how to completely eliminate it. The Khan Shanyu tribe continued to invade.
So, Zhang Qian was sent to lead a mission of 100 to the Four Wasteland Kingdoms and unite with the remaining forces of the Beishan family, the lord of Xizhao City. What Zhang Qian didn't know was that this force had completely surrendered to the Khan Shanyu.
In order to realize Emperor Wu of Han’s vision of digging through the Kunlun Tianshan Mountains and realizing his ambition to serve his family and country, Zhang Qian walked westward and walked out a road from nothing to something. A road that connects the civilization of the land of China on land and with other civilizations on the Blue Planet.
The mission of this hundred people walked for more than half a year and broke into the territory of the Khan Shanyu tribe. The young Zhang Qian was full of ambitions, but became a prisoner of the Khan Shanyu.
Khan Shanyu asked Zhang Qian about the purpose of this trip, and Zhang Qian said, "Look for the Beishan family, the lord of Xizhao City, to the Four Desolate Kingdoms."
Khan Shanyu said lightly: "The four wilderness countries are in my north, how can the Han Dynasty go? If I go on a mission to the Sixteen Islands in the South China Sea and join forces with the capital of Crescent Island, will the Han Dynasty Liu Che be willing to listen to me."
After Khan Shanyu met with Zhang Qian this time, Khan Shanyu admired Zhang Qian's perseverance and courage very much, hoping that Zhang Qian could stay on the grassland.
Khan Shanyu sent people to force, tempt, or persuade them to surrender, but Zhang Qian was never moved.
Later, Khan Shanyu gradually lost his patience and sent someone to drive Zhang Qian into the grassland. As long as Zhang Qian still held a flag symbolizing the identity of the Han Dynasty envoy, the people on the grassland would not give him a drop of water, a grain of food, and a safe place to sleep.
In this grassland with extremely harsh living environment, Zhang Qian held the flag in his hand and did not drink a sip of water or eat a bite of food. When he was tired, he lay on the whistling grassland of the north wind and fell asleep until the howling cold wind woke him up.
Zhang Qian held the spiritual power given by the flag in his hand, and kept gritting his teeth and persevering in the vast grassland for seven days and seven nights.
Until the afternoon of the eighth day, Zhang Qian finally couldn't hold on anymore and fainted in front of a yurt on a grassland.
Seeing that Zhang Qian still held the flags in his hands, the herdsmen of the Khan Khan tribe were afraid of the Khan Khan’s edict:
"As long as Zhang Qian still holds the flag in his hand, he will not be allowed to take him in."
As a result, the herdsman's family did not dare to rescue Zhang Qian, who was already dying.
On the ninth day, Zhang Qian slowly woke up from the verge of dying and dying death.
Since then, Khan Shanyu has firmly believed that Zhang Qian must be blessed by the heaven of immortality.
So he canceled the edict and allowed Zhang Qian to hold the flags of the Han Dynasty.
However, Khan Shanyu was still unwilling to let Zhang Qian leave the grassland. Khan Shanyu asked the daughter of the herdsman family to marry Zhang Qian, and since then, Zhang Qian stayed in the grassland, married and gave birth to a son on the grassland.
For more than ten years, Zhang Qian still held the Han Dynasty flags in his hand, lived in the vast grasslands and faced the vast desert. Even the Khan Shanyu tribe almost forgot that he was a Han man.
But Zhang Qian himself never forgot that he was a Han man and he wanted to find the Beishan family, the lord of Xizhao City.
On a dark night, Zhang Qian finally found a chance to escape, but when he found the Beishan family, everything was not what he thought. All the Beishan family had surrendered to the Khan Shanyu.
But at this time, Zhang Qian was just disappointed, but he was not desperate, but went west again and walked the desert in the second half of the Kunlun Tianshan Mountains.
He traveled westward with yellow hair, cracked lips, vicissitudes of face, and ragged clothes.
His strange outfit and special accent attracted the attention of Xishan Kingdom. With the help of Xishan Kingdom, Zhang Qian saw the sweat-blooded BMW.
On the way back to Chang'an from Xishan Kingdom, Zhang Qian decided to change the route he came from and crossed the Pamir Plateau from the other end of the desert to take a long way back to Chang'an in order to avoid the controlled area of the Khan Shanyu tribe.
This time, he finally returned to Chang'an where he was dreaming of.
Starting from Shenzhou Dadi in 138 BC, and then returning to Chang'an at the end of Shenzhou Dadi in the end of 126 BC.
Zhang Qian took this road to dig a gap in civilization for thirteen years. When he set out, he was the only one left when he returned.
After returning, Zhang Qian has gone from a young man with a radiant figure to a middle-aged and weathered middle-aged man who is nearly ill.
Zhang Qian's magical actions made the entire Chang'an City sensation.
What Zhang Qian saw and heard in the past thirteen years has greatly expanded the vision of the Han Dynasty, located in the core area of China. Through Zhang Qian's vivid narrative,
For the first time, the people in the core area of China's land can turn their eyes through the towering mountains and ridges, through the vast desert Gobi, and see the Xishan Kingdom and the Four Wilderness Kingdoms on the northwest edge of China's land.
But what Zhang Qian didn't know during his lifetime was that the road that he had dug through the civilization gap in the past thirteen years has become the Silk Road that countless descendants have been walking on countless times in the land of China for thousands of years and countless descendants.
Through this Silk Road, silk, porcelain, tea and other items from China were pouring in, and the distant land of Europe and the Ganges. In particular, silk and porcelain became the luxury of people on the two lands at that time.
Sweat-blooded BMWs, grapes, walnuts, carrots and other items also came to the prosperous Chang'an City.
In particular, the sweat-blooded BMW introduced from Xishan Kingdom has made great contributions to the several battles between the Han Dynasty army and the Khan Shanyu's Iron Feather Cavalry.
The cavalry formed by the Han Dynasty general Wei Qing, Huo Qubing and other four generals with sweat-blooded horses began to ambush the Khan Shanyu's iron-feathered cavalry from the northern border country, opening the prelude to the full-scale war between the Han Dynasty and the grassland.
Thus, the people from the grassland and land were completely expelled from the land of China, and the Beishan family and the lord of Xizhao City were restored. From then on, the Four Desolate Kingdoms belonged to the Han Dynasty.
After thinking overnight, Li Ketian decided that even if the imperial court saved money, he would restore the former Tang Dynasty and go on a mission to the Ganges and the Europa land every ten years to conduct cultural and trade exchanges.
However, it is now the five dynasties and ten countries. During this period of war, it is necessary to gather the power of the Later Zhou, Later Sui and Later Tang dynasties to accomplish this great thing.
So, in the last few days of the late moonlight, Yun Chuchu went to find the Later Sui Emperor Zhu Yitian. During this period, the two talked about some cultivation matters about the Europa land and the Ganges land.
Yun Chuchu learned from Zhu Yitian that on the earth of Europa, all combat skills and practice techniques are divided into three levels, namely the Templar, the Soul Palace, and the Temple. Each level is divided into three levels: primary, intermediate, and advanced, with a total of nine levels. Those who become nine levels are the head of state.
On the land of the Ganges, all combat skills and practice techniques are also divided into three levels, namely holy warriors, soul warriors, and god warriors. Each level is divided into three levels: level one, level two, and level three, with a total of nine levels. Those who become level nine are the emperor level.
Those who practice on the land of Europa cultivate the holy energy of the immortal spirit; those who practice on the land of Ganges cultivate the fighting spirit of the immortal spirit; while those who practice on the land of Shenzhou cultivate the true energy of the immortal spirit.
In the sixth year, on the last day of Huoyue, Zhu Yitian carefully analyzed several days that if he set out from the interests of the land of China, the Sui Dynasty would have to do his best to fund the matter.
Therefore, Yun Chuchu, one of the five saints, joined forces with the three dynasties to restore the former Tang Dynasty, and sent a mission to the Ganges and the Europa land every ten years to conduct cultural and trade exchanges, and achieved success.
Of course, this time, the highest envoy was naturally the representative of the initiator of the Later Zhou Dynasty: Yun Chuchu.
Li Ketian mobilized all the high-quality silk in Chang'an City and handed it over to Yun Chuchu, and sent his most capable young general, Baili Xuance, to escort it.
Zhu Yitian sent a hundred Tingce Iron Cavalry from the Northern Kingdom, all of which were chosen from thousands. The horses used by everyone were all sweat-blooded BMWs selected by Zhu Yitian from the Western Mountain Kingdom.
It is said that this Baili family originated from Baili Xi during the Spring and Autumn Period of China. Later, it became an important minister of the Qin Dynasty. It assisted Duke Mu of Qin to advocate civilized education and implement the policy of "friendly and beneficial to the people", revise the national affairs internally, seek hegemony outside, open up thousands of miles of land, dominate the Western Rong, unify the northwest region, and promote the rise of Qin.
In the idioms, the hardships and the mighty conquer Di Rong are all allusions from Baili Xi.
In the first year of the beginning of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, due to Huang Chaoge's Wuyue Uprising, he was beheaded by Li Yu, the last emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and the Baili family beheaded in Chang'an City (in the end, only Baili Fusu was taken away by Shangshan monks and lived alone). The Baili family in Chang'an City was one of the branches that originated from the Great Qin Empire and Baili Xi.
Baili Xuance, who followed Yun Chuchu on his mission to the Ganges and Europa, was also another branch of Baili Xi, the Great Qin Empire.
Baili Fusu and Baili Xuance were blood ties belonging to the same family more than a thousand years ago.
Seven-character summary:
Yun Chuchu was ordered to go on an envoy, Li Ketian went back to the Silk Road,
Zhang Qian has experienced many difficulties and dangers and has opened up a channel for civilization.
Zhu Yitian discusses the cultivation of the true sects, the practice of the three schools of True Saints,
Chapter completed!