To be honest, Liu Mingqi wants to go to the Western Regions, although half of it is because he wants to experience the prosperity and exotic customs of the Silk Road, but half of it is for a purpose.
These countries in the Western Region have always been small countries, and none of them can unify the Western Region.
There are many reasons.
Differences in nationalities, complex intertwining of various relationships, interference from outside forces, etc.
Just like Lao Maozi, after dismembering it once in the early 1990s, the West felt that it was not enough and wanted to dismember it a second time.
Why?
Isn¡¯t it just that if a country is too big, has too many people, and is too rich in resources, it will be easy to create a powerful country?
No force wants to become more powerful after the Western Regions are unified.
Even Dakang is the same.
There will be an East Asian monster shop in the future. In fact, it is the same near the Western Region in this era.
The twelve countries in the Western Regions can maintain their own safety wherever they are placed in Europe.
But they are born with suffering.
To the west are superpowers like Persia or Dashi who have swept across three continents; to the northeast are superpowers such as the Xiongnu and Xiqiang; to the east is a unified dynasty with both civil and military capabilities; and to the southeast are the Uighurs, Tubos, etc. .
You tell me!
Look at it!
With such a hell difficulty, no matter who you change, they will all kneel down the same!
So after encountering the underground river changing its course, they quickly perished.
This is good, it also saves you from endless worries later.
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Everyone thought that a radical person like Liu Mingqi would definitely be willing to wipe out Shiwei, Uighur, Xiqiang and other countries in three to five years, allowing Dakang to dominate the entire continent.
In other words, this is not only what everyone thinks Liu Mingqi thinks, but also what many people in the Dakang court think.
In fact, Liu Mingqi is definitely not so radical, but Dakang¡¯s top and bottom are even more radical!
They have suffered for decades, especially last year when they were beaten by such a group of countries. It was a great shame and humiliation.
If there is no strength, then it goes without saying. The problem is that Dakang now has sufficient strength!
There is a war horse!
We have steel weapons!
There are wooden handle grenades, hell cocktails, and hot air balloons!
The food supply will soon be supported by sweet potatoes!
There is no shortage of population.
Tell me, how many people can endure this situation?
The Central Plains Dynasty has never been "conquering people with virtue" and "influencing people with benevolence" as claimed by those sour Confucians.
My Chinese ancestors came down from the Loess Plateau and accumulated such a vast territory for future generations over thousands of years. This is not what they relied on.
It¡¯s just that we were hindered by the terrain everywhere, so we didn¡¯t continue to expand.
If you look at the map carefully, we really stopped expanding after we conquered the known territory suitable for human survival.
So now that Dakang has become stronger, it is natural for him to want revenge.
Liu Mingqi took it for granted.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty once issued an edict: "The Emperor Gao left me with the worries of Pingcheng, and the Shanyu Shujue rebelled during the reign of Emperor Gao. In the past, Duke Xianggong of Qi avenged the hatred of the ninth generation, which was great in the Spring and Autumn Period."
In fact, this is what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did. The Huns, who were once the most ferocious in the world, fell apart under his tireless attacks for decades and never became a threat to our China again.
From this point of view, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty made great contributions, and later generations gave him a not-so-good posthumous title of "Wu", which was really a bit too mean.
Liu Mingqi is a fan of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty in terms of revenge, but he also deeply understands the painful lessons of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was definitely a fan of the First Emperor.
¡°Well, no need to guess, in fact the old Liu family are all fans of the First Emperor.
What was the biggest mistake of the First Emperor?
Did you do too many things at the expense of people's efforts?
yes!
But there is a reason for this.
The First Emperor was a man of great talent and strategy, and he knew that future emperors might not be like him, so he wanted to do everything by himself.
That¡¯s why I did so many things.
Afterwards, people will seem to think that he is in a hurry.
¡°If the First Emperor was not so anxious and divided what he wanted to do into three generations to complete, then there would be no problem at all for Qin¡¯s national destiny to continue for another two hundred years.
? ?During this period, the most important thing for Dakang was to develop production domestically, vigorously develop maritime trade business, and accumulate various strengths.
Prepare money, food, and horses so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and at least have enough to eat for every meal.
Then you talk about other things.
As for the outside, it is obviously a two-way street.
The first one is to knock down Nanzhao and run it well for five years before plotting against Piao, Luo and so on.
The second is to build more four-masted sailing ships at sea, and then equip them with cannons to firmly control the Strait of Malacca.
If you have the chance, you still have to go out to the Strait of Malacca to take a look. At least you have to swim in the Indian Ocean to know the depth of the enemy and fight with them in the future.
We are not afraid of temporary failures. As long as we can continue to make progress and firmly control the Strait of Malacca, Dakang will be invincible.
Therefore, under the premise of this clear goal, Liu Mingqi must try his best to prevent Dakang from attacking the Xiqiang, Uighurs, and Tubo.
These places are very poor now.
With today¡¯s productivity and technical conditions, they can¡¯t use much of their underground resources, so it¡¯s a waste of money.
Although he won¡¯t fight them, Liu Mingqi will not let them develop.
On the one hand, Dakang cut off business ties with them; on the other hand, Liu Mingqi had to cause them some trouble.
The countries in the Western Regions located to the west of the Uighurs and Western Qiang are a good chess piece.
As long as the turmoil continues here, the Xiqiang and Uighurs, who have always regarded the countries in the Western Regions as their back garden, will definitely have more headaches!
Of course.
How to arouse the resistance in these small countries requires Liu Mingqi to work hard.
Whether it can succeed or not, the young man doesn¡¯t know.
But you have to give it a try, right? !
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