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

Chapter 686 The Great Voyage ([-])

Summer of the sixth year of the Republic 470 (686 years)
Chang'e City

Envoys from the country of Liugui came to pay tribute and asked the Celestial Dynasty to send troops to help them expel the Goguryeo people.

Speaking of Liugui Country, we have to start with the expulsion of the Goguryeo people from the Heishui Basin.

After expelling the Goguryeo people from the Heishui Basin, Yan Guo wanted to exterminate the Goguryeo people, but he didn't know where the Goguryeo people migrated.

Therefore, the State of Yan sent an expedition ship to sail northward along the coastline. Along the way, they saw many corpses abandoned by the Goguryeo people on the migration road, but they still failed to find the hiding place of the Goguryeo people.

Although the Goguryeo people could not be found, many indigenous tribes living in [Ice and Fire Land] were found, and they were named [Liuguiren/Liuguiguo (indigenous people of Kamchatka Peninsula)].

The expedition ship of Yan State did not go to the other coast of [Ice and Fire Land (Kamchatka Peninsula)], but returned to Yan State along the island chain of the Cowherd Islands (Kamchatka Peninsula).

So Yan Guo didn't know that the other side of [Ice and Fire Land] was also the sea, so he didn't know that [Ice and Fire Land] was actually a peninsula, and thought that [Ice and Fire Land] was a continent.

In the cognition of Yan Kingdom, [Ice and Fire Land] is a volcanic continent covered by ice and snow, so it is named [Ice and Fire Land].

Yes, the people of Yan State in this period, they think [Binghuodi (Kamchatka Peninsula)] is a continent.

For this kind of extremely barren land, Yan Kingdom has no ability to develop it for the time being, so it just went ashore and captured dozens of aborigines. Spread the strength and prosperity of Yan State in the ice and fire.

Sure enough, after more than ten years, the national prestige of the Yan State spread to many indigenous tribes in the Ice and Fire Land. They sent envoys to the place where the Yan State had captured the indigenous people, waiting for the Yan State expedition ship to arrive again.

In the end, five years ago, when the Yan State expedition ship went to the Binghuo Land for the second time to investigate, the indigenous tribes in the Binghuo Land sent envoys on board one after another, bringing some local products to pay tribute to Yan State.

They regarded Yan State as "the kingdom of heaven", and Yan State also conferred titles on their tribal leaders.

According to the number of tributes sent by each tribe, these indigenous tribes in the Ice and Fire Land will be canonized.

Like the Zhou Dynasty, the one who sent a lot of tribute was canonized as a duke, the one who gave a little tribute was canonized as a marquis, and the one who didn't bring tribute was canonized as an earl.

In fact, this is the case with the Shiwei Governor's Mansion in the Tang Dynasty.

There is no tax collection, no officials, no garrisons, but the titles of the local aboriginal chieftains, and then the Shiwei tribes are equivalent to the territory of the Tang Dynasty.

According to this standard, the Land of Ice and Fire can actually be regarded as the territory of the Yan Kingdom, and the Shiwei Dudu Mansion can also be regarded as the territory of the Yan Kingdom.

Because some of the indigenous tribal leaders of the Shiwei tribes only accepted the canonization of the Tang Dynasty, some only accepted the canonization of the Yan Kingdom, some did not accept the canonization of anyone, and some accepted the canonization of the Tang Dynasty at the same time. And the canonization of Yan State.

That is to say, a leader of an indigenous tribe in Shiwei is not only the vassal vassal of Tang Dynasty, but also the Duke of xx of Yan State.

So the question is, does this tribe belong to the territory of Datang?Or does it belong to the territory of Yan State?

The same situation also includes the "ten surname tribes" west of Congling, that is, ten tribal countries.

They paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty and the Umayyad Dynasty at the same time. On the one hand, they were vassal states of the Anxi Dufu of the Datang Dynasty, and on the other hand, they were also free emirs/autonomous lords of the Umayyad Dynasty.Now the Central Plains people have no time to expand westward and are busy dealing with the grasslands, and the Arabs have no time to expand eastward and are busy dealing with Rome (Byzantium). The matter of both sides and two sides has turned a blind eye to the matter.

When the Central Plains began to expand westward, and the Arabs also began to expand westward, these tribes with ten surnames who engaged in two-sided vassalage operations would have to stand in line.

"Should I submit to the Central Plains people? Or to the Arabs?"

"In the past, it was possible to have both sides and surrender at the same time, but now it's no longer possible. You must choose a side!"

The problems that the tribe of ten surnames might have to face in the future have now been faced by the Liugui people.

Liugui Country is not a country, just like Sushen Country is not a country.

Sushen, Liugui, Shiwei, and other names are imposed on them by outsiders. They are not a country, but a group of indigenous tribes. They were given a more convenient unified name by a civilization that is stronger than them. .

For example, if one day, a higher civilization from an alien planet, they will not specifically distinguish between Chinese, Japanese, and Indians, but directly call them [x-ball creatures].

In the same way, the Shiwei people are divided into countless tribes, and they even have blood feuds and irresolvable feuds with each other, and some even have completely different languages ​​and cultural customs.

However, the Central Plains people and Yan people who are more advanced than them simply refer to them as "Shiwei people".

The same is true for Liugui Country, they are collectively referred to as Liugui People/Liugui Country by Yan State, even though there are many tribes working independently within them, and they often carry out wars and massacres among each other.

There are some tribes in the Liugui Kingdom who profess their vassals to the Yan Kingdom, some tribes in the Liugui Kingdom claim their vassals to Goguryeo, and some tribes in the Liugui Kingdom claim their vassals to both Yan and Goguryeo.

This time, the person who came to ask for help from the Celestial Empire (Yan Kingdom) was a powerful tribe at the southern end of Ice and Fire Island.

In the past, this tribe surrendered to Goguryeo and Yan State at the same time, and Yan State did not know about it.

But now, after decades of development, Koguryo has expanded to the southern part of the land of ice and fire, and wants to forcibly annex those indigenous tribes.

Therefore, some indigenous tribes who were unwilling to be annexed thought of the distant kingdom of heaven (Yan Kingdom). After all, they were still dukes, marquises, and earls of the heaven (Yan Kingdom) in name.

The news brought by Liugui surprised Di Yu.

"I didn't expect that the Goguryeo people actually migrated to the east of the Binghuo Land. No wonder we Yan Guo went to the Binghuo Land twice to investigate, but we didn't find the Goguryeo people. It turned out to be at the other end of the Binghuo volcanic mountains."

"As for the Goguryeo people, they must be killed. They must not be allowed to grow up again. They must be killed in the cradle. This child must not be left behind!"

Emperor Yu convened a temporary parliament to explain the great threat of the Goguryeo people, and hoped that the parliament would approve his expedition to Goguryeo.

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Nowadays, most people believe that it was the Empire that never sets during the Great Navigation that first discovered the New World. However, the real history is that the Goguryeo people had to continue to migrate eastward under the pursuit of the Empire. , finally passed through the narrow strait and arrived at the New World. They arrived at the New World earlier than the navigators of the Sun Never Set Empire who discovered the New World. ——"General History of the World·Song Dynasty·Li Qingzhao"

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