Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 582 Competing in the Central Plains (65)

one year later
Autumn of the first year of Yan State 380 (591)
Lin Yiguo

Dian Chongcheng

The envoy from Yan State arrived at the capital of Linyi State, accompanied by a Brahman master of Yan State.

Yan State and Lin Yi State established a trade relationship very early, but it was limited to trade relations and did not have more in-depth exchanges.

Lin Yiguo originally belonged to Rinan County in the Han Dynasty, but at the end of the Han Dynasty, the local aborigines killed the county magistrate and established themselves as a country.

This kind of thing is actually quite normal.

The imperial army ran to occupy the homeland where the local aborigines lived for generations, set up counties in the aborigines' homeland, dispatched officials to rule directly, and then when the empire declined, the local aborigines rebelled and recovered their hometown, that's all.

From the perspective of the empire, it would be a pity, but from the perspective of a bystander, you would feel that this is just a game between the central empire and the border natives.

If the country of Yan were to do this, it would naturally not directly set up counties and counties, and it would not be directly governed as soon as it was occupied. This would make the local aborigines unacceptable, and their resistance would naturally be very high.

They can allow their chieftains to be autonomous, and then keep sending Confucian scholars to exert cultural influence on the local aborigines, and reuse the Sinicized aboriginals, in order to lure the aborigines to take the initiative to Sinicize.

100 years later, when the time is almost right, the royal family will be entrusted with the clans to establish a vassal state, and the locality will be further sinicized. This will take another 100 years, and after another 100 years, the vassal state can be taken back and changed into a county system directly under the jurisdiction up.

That is to say, for the newly occupied areas, don't rush to rule directly under the central government, you won't be able to grasp it.

The local aborigines are also people, and they will also resist. You will not let you change the customs and culture handed down from their ancestors at will. It can be subtly influenced. It takes 200 years, step by step, to slowly integrate into the native land. The result of rushing is that the local The natives often rebelled, and finally when you were declining, their rebellion finally succeeded, and then they completely broke away from the rule of the Central Plains Dynasty, and all the previous investment was in vain.

From the perspective of the empire, a group of barbarians captured the city of the empire and established a separate country.

But from the perspective of the local natives, they are just "expelling China and restoring the tribe". They are recovering the land of their ancestors, so why should they be guilty?

When we forcibly change the customs and culture of the local aborigines, we call it spreading Chinese culture, but when one day, a powerful indigenous tribe enters the Central Plains and forcibly changes our customs and culture, can it also be called spreading? Aboriginal culture?
Comparing our hearts to our hearts, we ourselves don't want to be shaved off by the barbarians, so how can those indigenous tribes want to be changed by China to change the customs and cultures handed down by their ancestors?

The same thing, when you do it to others, it is a great achievement, and the merit will last for thousands of years.

Also to conquer the natives, the means of the Yan Kingdom will undoubtedly be more mature and more streamlined, with a long-term plan to gradually integrate into the native land for hundreds of years.

Military control, chieftain autonomy, imperial vassals, prefectures and counties are directly under the jurisdiction. This is a process that takes hundreds of years. Like the Qin Dynasty, jumping directly from the first step to the last step in an instant, it is easy to choke yourself to death.

The purpose of the envoys from Yan State coming to Lin Yi State is also very clear, that is to persuade Lin Yi State to join the [Anti-Sui Alliance], so that Lin Yi State can harass the Jiaozhou area of ​​the Sui Dynasty and contain part of the power of the Sui Dynasty.

In fact, even without Yan Guo's persuasion, Lin Yiguo had already planned to conquer the Sui Dynasty in the north. After all, who doesn't have great ambitions?

Why, the emperor of the Central Plains is allowed to have the ambition to expand the territory, and the Lord of Linyi Kingdom is not allowed to have the ambition to expand the territory?

Yan State and Lin Yi State do not border each other, so there is no conflict of interest. On the contrary, because of trade exchanges, they are closely related.

However, Linyi State bordered the Sui Dynasty, and had long been eyeing the Jiaozhou area of ​​the Sui Dynasty. Now Yan State promised that it would provide Linyi State with the greatest help Yan State could provide when Linyi State attacked the Sui Dynasty. The Lord of Linyi State was very excited. I have already begun to fantasize about the bright future of moving the capital to Jiaozhi.

"Your country, please rest assured and boldly launch a righteous attack on Sui country. If Sui country dares to fight back, we, Yan country, will provide your country with the greatest help!" Emperor Chen Shubao said something similar.

"With the assistance of the Yan Kingdom, it is really like a tiger with wings added!" The Lord of Linyi Kingdom happily invited the envoys of the Yan Kingdom to enjoy the dance of Linyi's beauties.

Although Lin Yiguo was influenced by a little bit of Han culture, but not much, it was mainly influenced by Shendu culture, so Brahman is their state religion, which is why the envoy of Yan Kingdom wanted to carry a Brahmin mage.

The cultural composition of Linyi country is 10% Han culture, 20% Yan country commercial culture, 30% indigenous culture, and 40% Shendu Brahman culture.

Therefore, there are many Brahman temples in Linyi. According to the custom of Shendu, the statues are all plated with gold, and the bigger the better, there is even a small statue made of pure gold.

The dancing of Linyiguo dancers is also very poisonous. There are even Linyi dancers performing yoga in public.

When the envoy of Yan State was visiting Lin Yiguo and invited Lin Yiguo to join the [Anti-Sui Alliance].

Danzhou Island (Hainan Island)
Gaopo City

Dozens of warships from the Yan Kingdom came here and were throwing flints towards the only brick city on the island.

Although Danzhou Island is the territory of the Sui Dynasty, its control is very weak. There are seven cities on the island, but the other six cities are very simple. They are said to be cities, but they are actually soil enclosures built during the Han Dynasty. The defense power is similar to that of the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The wealthy Wubao family of the period was similar.

There is only one city that can really be regarded as a city, and it was built by Mrs. Xian of Nanliang, and it is also the administrative seat of Danzhou Island.

Rumble!
Dozens of flints were thrown at the same time, smashing Gaopo City, which was only the size of Zhongyuan County, to the point of collapse.

Accompanying them were dozens of troop carriers, on which were [-] Chen Guo troops.

The purpose of the Yan State is to capture Danzhou Island, establish a "Yan belongs to Chen State" on Danzhou Island, help Chen Shubao restore the country, let Chen Shubao fight hard on Danzhou Island, and be ready to counterattack the mainland at all times, which can also contain Yan State Part of the power of the Sui Dynasty.

Danzhou Island is located in a remote place, except for the occasional rebellion of the local aborigines who will attack the city, there are almost no foreign enemies invading.

The local aborigines have simple weapons, and they don’t even know how to build siege ladders, let alone catapults. Therefore, although Gaopo City is only a county town in the Central Plains, in the eyes of the aborigines of Danzhou Island, it is an indestructible city of gods. !
Because the natives did not have siege equipment, Gaopo City had never encountered too much danger, let alone that one day, he would be attacked by the most advanced siege equipment in the world so far.

After smashing for a day, the walls of Gaopo City collapsed.

"kill!"

Chen Guo's soldiers disembarked and went ashore, and rushed to the gap in the city wall.

There are less than 300 defenders in Gaopo City, and they have not changed their weapons and equipment all the year round. They are not at all the opponents of the well-equipped Chen soldiers.

In addition, they were originally soldiers of the Chen State, but after the fall of the Chen State, they were forced to surrender to the Sui Dynasty. Now that the Chen State was about to restore the country on the island, they stopped resisting and surrendered one after another.

"I... have returned to the country?"

After entering the official office in Gaopo City, Chen Shubao looked at everything around him in disbelief.

His Da Chen did not perish!
With the help of the friendly country Yan, Da Chen returned to Danzhou Island (Hainan Island)!
This time, in order to be able to stay with his concubine Zhang Lihua forever, he decided to work hard to govern, not to be a subjugated king, lest his concubine be snatched away by others.

(End of this chapter)