Chapter 6660 Noble

Chapter 6660 Noble
When Fuward left, he was extremely conflicted. On the one hand, he wanted to kill Masinde, but on the other hand, he felt that Masinde had done his best for him and the Kushans.

"General, what should we do now?" After Masinde left, Sidney, who had been hiding in the back hall of the palace, came out and asked with a serious expression.

Ever since the last showdown between Fuward and Mashind, Fuward had planned to gather his men. Although, as Mashind had estimated, Fuward could only gather a part of them, after all, Mashind had done something for such a long time. He had truly assimilated many of the Kushan elite into his own people. After realizing what Mashind had done, Fuward was more or less prepared for this.

"Continue to gather people. Those who have not gathered after three days will be ignored. We will take the northwest passage back to the Kushan Empire." Fu Ward said calmly.

Many of what Masinde said were correct. For example, in the current situation, the elite Kushans who had fallen into the rhythm of the Qiang people were actually very difficult to withdraw. After all, a few dozen people suppressed a large tribe and made tens of thousands of people dare not move. It was not because the dozens of people were all strong men who could fight against a hundred people, but simply because of the inertia of the organization, not many people directly resisted. But on the other hand, when the inertia of the organization collapsed...

We have no choice but to give up. Unless everyone is a super elite who has reached the fifth level of smelting, we have no choice but to give up in the face of this situation.

But if they were all super elites of the fifth level of smelting, why would Fuward stay on the plateau for so long? He could just lead these super elites straight to Chang'an.

Although Chang'an could not be captured, it was absolutely impossible to stop them with so many elite troops of the fifth level of refinement, the blockade of the Qiang people, the blockade of Xinzhou, Yizhou, Hanzhong and other places, the garrison from Chang'an to Hanzhong, etc.

The reason why Fuward followed Masinde's advice was that he also realized that it was basically impossible for him to break through the outermost blockade of the Han Empire and could not even get close to Chang'an.

For Fu Ward, there is no need to attack Chang'an. As long as his army can reach Chang'an, it will shock the world. At that time, he can kill some elite soldiers of the Han Dynasty and bring blessings beyond the military spirit to the Kushan officers.

Just like General Wei's great victory in Longcheng that year, the elite Han troops who attacked together suffered more than 20,000 casualties, but because they beheaded 700 Huns, it was called the first great achievement of the Han-Hun War, representing the official start of the Han Dynasty's counterattack against the Huns.

Therefore, as long as Fu Ward could rush to the vicinity of Chang'an, even if he could never go back, he would be famous throughout the ages. However, after Masinde's explanation, Fu Ward clearly realized that he could not do it at all. The blockade of the Qiang people resulted in only a few hundred of his soldiers infiltrating.

If a large number of thousands of people really crossed the Qiang front line, a battle would inevitably break out. Once a large-scale battle began, there would be no way to conceal their movements. And the garrison corps in Xinzhou, Yizhou, Hanzhong and Yanbian would not just sit there and watch.

As long as the Qiang people get hold of their main force, the garrisons closest to Fu Ward will really rush up and fight with Fu Ward desperately. Therefore, unless Fu Ward can quickly defeat the Qiang people and still have the strength to suppress the Qiang reinforcements while being entangled by the Qiang people, he will have no chance of truly entering the Han mainland.

As for Tibet, Fuward does not think it is the homeland of the Han Dynasty at all.

"Northwest? Are we going to take the ancient Silk Road?" Sidney frowned. He was one of the deputy commanders of the camel cavalry, so when they went to Tibet, Fu Ward had discussed this with him. They had also considered the Karakoram Corridor.

However, after they sent people to conduct a field survey, they realized that this road was currently untravelable. The snow cover caused by the Little Ice Age made the road much more difficult to pass, which is why there have been basically no merchants taking this road in recent years.

Otherwise, just because this road can lead directly into the inner side of Kushan, those fearless smugglers of the Han Dynasty would definitely be willing to take this road to make some money.

After all, no one wants to do a business that loses money, but a lot of people want to do a business that can get them killed. Making money is never shameful.

In addition, although Chen Xi managed the commercial exchanges between the Han Dynasty and Kushan, smuggling is a problem that is difficult to completely solve even in later generations.

Taking into account the widespread use of bills of exchange and the difficulty in completely eliminating smugglers, Chen Xi's final choice can only be to coexist with the smugglers. It's not that he can't completely eliminate the smugglers. After all, this is the feudal era, and human rights can be completely ignored. If the imperial iron fist is big enough, it can easily kill everything that it doesn't like.

But for Chen Xi, such a solution was like using a cannon to kill a mosquito and it was not worth it at all. So he created official smugglers who were licensed by the state. Well, they paid taxes, so it was certainly not considered smuggling. With businessmen managing businessmen, the big businessmen entered this business and made a lot of money, so they would naturally suppress others from entering and making money.

Therefore, as long as Chen Xi manages the types of goods sold by these merchants, he will be able to generally stabilize the situation. These are nominally Han Dynasty smugglers. The most sold products by these merchants are actually salt and sugar, because the quality of these two products produced by the Han Dynasty is good and the price is much lower than that in the Kushan mainland.

Especially salt. The price of salt in the Han Dynasty was so low that even the Kushans thought it was ridiculous. For this reason, the Kushans secretly learned how to dry salt in the Han Dynasty. Unfortunately, the Kushan merchants who smuggled the Han Dynasty's refined salt at that time, that is, the local lords of large states and super smugglers of top Brahmins, decisively strangled the guys who opened salt fields in Kushan. If we opened salt fields ourselves, how could we make money from official corruption?
In short, it is very awesome. After reading Dong Zhao's investigation, Chen Xi felt that it was too outrageous and even didn't know what to say. When these top-level trash of Kushan were messing with their own people, it really highlighted the diversity of a species. It was outrageous, super outrageous.

To the extent that even now, when the salt-drying technology of the Han Dynasty's salt fields had already been popularized to the Kushan Empire, the Kushan Empire was still smuggling refined salt from the Han Dynasty.

After all, whether the country can make money and stabilize people's livelihood has nothing to do with us, the Kushan rulers and the Brahmins. Anyway, our offerings cannot be reduced.

Chen Xi could only admire this, and Rome was not much better.

The relationship between the Han Dynasty and Rome has always been good. Even the steel mills allowed the Romans to visit. Naturally, they would not block things related to people's livelihood such as salt fields. Therefore, Rome obtained the salt-drying technology earlier than the Kushan Empire.

Of course, a very important point here is that Chen Xi did feel that the Roman Empire was too far away and it would be difficult for the two sides to have a substantial conflict of interest, so he just went with the Roman Empire.

Then the Romans, who had obtained the high-level salt-drying technology from the Han Dynasty, also began to engage in salt-drying in their own country. After all, compared to boiling salt, salt-drying has lower costs and higher outputs. Moreover, after multiple treatments, the quality of the brine is also better, and the bitterness is basically eliminated.

So after the Han Dynasty's salt-drying technology reached Rome, Rome got rid of the troublesome stuff. Then, the official salt fields had not been sorted out because of the Senate's wrangling, profit distribution, big fish eating small fish and other problems, but the official salt of the Claudius family was already sold everywhere.

What is a cancer? This is a cancer. Pompianus was so angry at that time that he was about to explode. Although the state's official salt field was opened later, the Claudius family had already taken the lead and made a name for themselves, so the official salt was still no match for the other side.

Sometimes even the salt sold by the Claudius family looked more like official salt.

There was no way around it. The Claudius family, which had coexisted with Rome and was interdependent, could always find land in the core area of ​​a big city, build a salt-selling site, and put up a sign saying it was official salt. However, the Roman government had to go through procedures to buy land. Even if the government sometimes wanted to find a piece of land in the core area, it would be very embarrassing if there was no room for demolition.

So the fake officials sold salt in the core area for two years, and the real Roman officials only got the land on the edge of the core area and then built stores. How can this be compared?
In short, just by selling salt, Chen Xi witnessed the diversity of the nobles in the feudal era. They were almost all beasts, but their postures were different.

By the way, the Claudius family has become more famous in the past two years. A very important reason for this is Pompianus's acquisition plan, which allowed the Claudius family to acquire Rome.

That's right, although it was said that Rome acquired the Claudius family, but in fact, in Chen Xi's opinion, it was actually the Claudius family that acquired Rome. A large number of industries that are essential to people's livelihood are in the hands of the Claudius family. What a joke!

After Pompianus completed his own blending, the prices of grain and salt dropped by 15% overnight. It seemed to be very beneficial to the country, but anyone with a little bit of common sense would know what it meant that the price of these daily necessities dropped by 15% nationwide with just a nod from the Claudius family.

In short, it's a cancer, a complete cancer.

But the same thing goes, at least in name, Rome after the acquisition did seem to be a complete imperial state, much more normal than the Kushan Empire. At least there would not be such things as officials secretly opening salt fields and being assassinated by larger officials.

Honestly speaking, Chen Xi guessed that if the Kushan Empire wanted to open a few truly official salt fields, it would probably only be Oswald who could do it, and he would only open a few, rather than completely controlling the refined salt of the entire country.

After all, merchants across the country who can touch this are all super bosses with backstage. Take the Shurak family as an example. Is that smuggling? They asked the warships to help carry some cargo stones for storage. Investigate? Investigate shit. This is not a matter of shooting from behind. This is a matter of finding out something and everyone will be in trouble.

If the Kushan high-ranking officials wanted to make this money and could make this money, how could they really not know about it? Isn't this a comprehensive consideration to let the lower-level Kushans make more sacrifices? Anyway, these animals can still hold on. Besides, the salt of the Han Dynasty is so good, there is no need to make it, just buy it!
As a result, even though the Han Dynasty produced refined salt far exceeding the empire's needs every year, it was still consumed all because of so many amazing smugglers.

However, even with so many smugglers, basically no one from the Han Dynasty went through the Karakoram Corridor. Needless to say, what the situation was like there. Even if the army was superior to the merchants in terms of quality in all aspects, it would probably be difficult for them to pass through the Karakoram Corridor which was completely covered with snow and glaciers.

"Then where are you going?" Fu Ward looked at Sidney and said calmly.

Going south is impossible. The road to the south is easy to travel in the early stage, but after leaving Tibet and entering Yizhou, the difficulty will rise sharply. After entering Central and South, the difficulty will explode. It is very likely that you will directly face the elite troops of the Han Dynasty who were mobilized from the Ganges to destroy the country.

Compared with the pursuit of the Qiang people and the ice and snow of the Karakoram Corridor, the elite of the Ganges Legion under Guan Yu are the truly unstoppable tough guys. Moreover, compared with Fu Ward, they are really more numerous and stronger. If Fu Ward has the ability to escape when Guan Yu mobilizes the Ganges Legion to encircle and suppress them, he will have to give up his position as the strongest of the Tenth Knight.

Not to mention getting through it directly, just to escape requires a tough guy like the Tenth Knight, and a lot of luck.

"Instead of taking the Karakoram Corridor, it is better to go directly west and cross the Himalayas. The difficulty of the two approaches is not much different." Sidney said after a long silence.

"We don't have a way to go west. We can definitely cross it, but we have no way to calculate the time, and we don't know how much food and grass we need to carry. We don't have a plan." Fuward said frankly, "In terms of time, it's too hasty. We don't have time to verify the road to the west across the Himalayas. We can only choose a road we have verified."

Sidney was silent for a long time after hearing this. Indeed, although it was extremely difficult to walk through the Karakoram Corridor, they had at least verified it before. As for the difficulty, it was high, but it was not to the extent that they could not pass through. Giving up at that time was the result of comprehensive consideration.

But if we go west through the Himalayas, the difficulty may be no different from taking the Karakoram Corridor, but they have not verified the routes to the west and do not have accurate time.

"It's too hasty." Sidney said after a long silence.

"We don't have many choices." Fuward said calmly, "Organize the people. We will set off in three days. This is the last chance."

The Qiang people in the northwest of Tibet, the central part, the Qiang people in the Qaidam Plateau, and the southern part of Tibet had already launched a full-scale counterattack at this time. The Kushan Empire's vassal system, which was composed of elite backbones, had no effect at all in the face of this large-scale, full-front counterattack.

Under the leadership of the tribal chieftain of the Zhangzhung Dynasty, the Qiang people, who were ready for a decisive battle, marched straight to the core area ruled by Fuward. During this period, the main force of the Kushan organized vassal troops to fight back, but facing the momentum of tens of thousands of people on a front line, it was difficult to achieve the desired results. As a result, everything that Fuward had built in the Zhangzhung Dynasty, like a sand castle under the tide, quickly collapsed under the waves of the Qiang people.

"Yang Pu, clean up the garbage of the Zhangzhung Dynasty." After attacking another large tribe of the Zhangzhung Dynasty, Zhang Ji, who was with the army, looked at the thin and disabled local people in the tribe, as well as all kinds of strange magical instruments. It was said that many of them were even taken from living people. Zhang Ji's originally indifferent expression became much colder.

"Okay." Although the Qiang people also used some bone bowls and the like, to be honest, such an exaggerated situation as the Zhangzhung Dynasty was indeed a bit outrageous. All kinds of strange and bizarre magical instruments, whether strong or not, were thrown aside, but it was really too curious. Even the Qiang people were not so outrageous.

No, to be precise, all the Hu people are not so outrageous. Even the more brutal ones would at most turn the boss of the opposite side into a wine glass, and would not create such a large-scale human bone magic weapon. Looking at this rosary that is obviously made of bones, and even has been polished to a patina, Yang Pu also feels that it is a bit outrageous.

"Among so many so-called magic weapons, this is the only one I can barely acknowledge." Zhang Ji watched Yang Pu and the Qiang people search the Zhangzhung tribe, and then found a large pile of magic weapons made of human bones. He had some understanding of the barbarity of the Zhangzhung Dynasty. It was indeed bloody and barbaric.

More importantly, among so many magical instruments made with human materials, only one has etched patterns, and the others are basically just names, which made Zhang Ji's eyes turn cold.

Even though he had witnessed many wars and even seen Jingguan, Zhang Ji still felt disgusted by things like this. At least things like Jingguan were just blatant deterrents and had no special meaning. As for these magic weapons, Zhang Ji's eyes were gloomy. They were completely fooling him!

"Kill them all." Zhang Ji said to Yang Pu very calmly. He did need the nobles of the Zhangzhung Dynasty as insiders, but if he wanted to rule Tibet as the governor and assimilate Tibet, then these cancers must be eradicated.

Upon hearing this, Yang Pu did not say a word and directly dragged the noble of the tribe out and chopped him off in front of the people of the Xiangxiong tribe.

This brutal behavior caused some unrest, but for the Qiang people, who had already gained a military advantage and had violently driven away the elite Kushans, they could suppress the riots even if the Zhangzhung tribe members revolted. After all, they were not like the Kushans, who only deployed dozens of Kushan soldiers to suppress the riots in such a rear-end position.

Zhang Ji's order was quickly passed on to all the Qiang tribes. After receiving the order, the leaders of the Qiang tribes quickly began to execute it. Some even executed the enemy just after they freed them from the hands of the Kushans.

Unrest was happening, but Zhang Ji didn't care much. He had already received a message from Masinde that Fu Ward was ready to leave. Since Fu Ward was about to leave and there was no force to stop them, what was the point of compromising with such a disgusting guy?
"You will not die well, you will not die well!" The Zhangzhung nobles who were dragged out cursed at Zhang Ji. He originally thought that the Han Dynasty was here to help them restore their country and to help them regain the power of the nobility. He did not expect that the Han Dynasty was more ruthless than the Kushan Empire. The people of the Kushan Empire at most captured them and sent people to keep an eye on them, but did not execute them. As a result, the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was executing the nobles.

"Execute them in front of the people of the Xiangxiong tribe." Zhang Ji said calmly. He didn't care about the other party's curse or their collusion. If these Xiangxiong nobles were open-minded enough, if they were willing to accept the rule of the Han Dynasty, and stop making so-called magic tools and obey the Han Dynasty's decrees, Zhang Ji could let them go, but...

After the Han Dynasty took action, the Zhangzhung nobles who regained power not only did not show gratitude to the Han Dynasty, but also showed some domineering attitude, even preaching so-called sectarian ideas, as if they wanted to override the Han Dynasty and fool the Han Dynasty's heavenly soldiers.

What, the Qiang people? They are also the heavenly soldiers of the Han Dynasty, fuck!

In short, this group of people really disgusted Zhang Ji. He had planned to endure it, but as the magic weapons he collected became more and more evil, after a certain Zhangzhung noble jumped on his guard, Zhang Ji directly issued a killing order. To be honest, if Zhang Ji had not been rational enough, with just this wave of Zhangzhung nobles jumping on his guard, Zhang Ji would really let these people feel why the saints said, "Do not do to others what you do not want others to do to you."

"Governor, we are almost at the core area of ​​the Zhangzhung Dynasty. The resistance here is much stronger than in the previous areas. Why don't you retreat first?" After Lin Dai and Yang Pu reunited, they came to see Zhang Ji as soon as possible. The Qiang people from all directions joined forces to kill Zhang Ji. With their unity, they successfully broke into the core area of ​​the Zhangzhung Dynasty. You know, in terms of population, the Zhangzhung Dynasty has more people than the Qiang people in Tibet.

However, facing the attack of the Qiang people, the Zhangzhung Dynasty had almost no ability to resist and was quickly penetrated into the core area.

Even when they reached the core area, there was only some resistance.

"Sydney, retreat." A sneer appeared on Fu Ward's lips as he looked at the Zhangzhung nobles who were hastily arranging the battle line at the foot of the mountain. Fu Ward also felt relieved by the Han Dynasty's treatment of the Zhangzhung nobles. He had killed some Zhangzhung nobles who made him feel disgusted before, but in order to facilitate management, he finally stopped and let his elite troops under his command monitor these people.

However, after the Han Dynasty arrived, the Zhangzhung nobles finally received the punishment they deserved, which made Fuward very happy. If he could not continue to delay here, Fuward would definitely want to see how these disgusting nobles of the Zhangzhung Dynasty would be destroyed.

"There is a large group of young and strong Qiang people to our northwest." Sidney told Fu Ward the intelligence he had collected.

"We can attack directly. Given the situation in Tibet, we can take a detour if we want to. But if we don't take action when we leave, we will never get out of the Karakoram Corridor." Fuward said calmly, "Have you told the soldiers who are willing to follow us about the difficulties they will face along the way?"

I got up late, miserable. The high temperature holiday is really happy, but I can't get up