Su Rui asked Zi Yang how much he knew about the history of Loulan Ancient City. Zi Yang did not know much about the serious history in moderation, but he had heard a lot of folk rumors.

Su Rui said that many unofficial histories in history are often more valuable for reference than official history. Anyway, the journey has been long, and telling stories can be regarded as an explanation for everyone's boredom.

Looking at Su Rui's encouraging expression, Zi Yang gritted his teeth and said: This Loulan is the name of an ancient country in the Western Regions. It was first seen in the "Records of the Grand Historian" in the Han Dynasty. At that time, the regime of Loulan was not in opposition to the Western Han Dynasty. He often plundered the caravans of the Han Dynasty and killed the envoys of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wu of Han was not a good person. After enduring for a while, he decided to send troops to attack, and finally surrendered. However, the rulers of Loulan at that time were standard fence-bearers, who surrendered to the Han and surrendered to the Huns. These two-faced people were also very skilled. As a result, they made both sides unhappy. They sent troops to attack many times. After you finish the fight, I will fight. No one in Loulan can beat him, and they can only get angry in the middle.

After the defeat, Loulan sent the two princes to the Huns and the Han Dynasty as protons (that is, the "hostages" that you Americans often talk about), hoping to get peace. Later, the Loulan King died of illness, and the Loulan regime asked the Han Dynasty to send the protons back, but the Loulan Prince was an incompetent guy with a bad temper and often violated the criminal law in the Han Dynasty. In order to cure his temper, the dynasty castrated him, which was cut off (as he said that, he gestured to Lao Wang's crotch).

How could this prince succeed to the throne and not be able to pass on his family line? The Loulan people had no choice but to re-establish the king. Later, the Loulan king was overwhelmed again. This time the Huns took the lead in sending the Loulan Proton back and told the Proton: I'll send you back to be the king. From now on, the Huns will be the best brothers.

When the Han Dynasty heard that Loulan had established a new king, he ordered the new king to come to worship the mountain. How dare this new king? You even cut our hostage cocks. Is it okay if I go there? So I thought of various reasons to refuse and said that I had just become king and I had to deal with more family affairs and would come and have fun again if I had the chance.

The Han Dynasty did not force it, so she ordered Loulan to be responsible for the food and drinking water of the Han envoy and the caravans passing by. This matter was gone like this, but the Loulan people became honest and started to make trouble again after a few days. With the support of the Huns, they sent troops to attack and kill the Han envoys several times.

The family of Loulan was not peaceful. The Loulan king had a younger brother named Wei Tuqi, who was not in the way of dealing with the new king, but he was weak and had no choice. Later, he was bullied so much that he surrendered to the Han Dynasty with gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and reported all the devastating matters of collusion between the Huns and Loulan to the Han court.

Seeing that the team was apart from the traitors, the Loulan officials simply did not do anything and completely turned to the Huns and continued to intercept and attack the Han envoys. At that time, the Western Han Dynasty was developing the Silk Road. Loulan's actions caused great hinderment of the exchanges between the Western Han Dynasty and the countries in the Western Regions.

Later, a hero from the Han Dynasty was the general Huo Guang. He sent a man named Fu Jiezi to bring two subordinates to Loulan, saying that the Hanting Temple wanted to reward him, and the Loulan King was also a brainless person. He was very happy when he heard that there were benefits and wanted to treat him to dinner. As a result, Fu Jiezi got the Loulan King drunk on the spot and then killed him with his two subordinates - his courage was nowhere to be considered.

Fu Jiezi is also a brave figure. He killed the king of the family and scared the Loulan people, saying, "The King of Loulan was guilty of the court, and the emperor sent me to kill him. Now he will be the brother of the king of the Han Dynasty, Wei Tuqi, who is also in the Han Dynasty, as the new king. The Han Dynasty's army will arrive soon. If you act rashly, it will be just a disaster for destroying the country yourself!" The Loulan people actually believed it after being awesome.

After Wei Tuqi was established as the new king, he became a puppet of the Han Dynasty and completely surrendered to the Han Dynasty. Later, the name of the Loulan Kingdom was changed to Shanshan and moved the capital to Hannicheng, which is now near Ruoqiang, where we are going today.

Zi Yang finished this unofficial history vividly, and the whole car of people, including Su Rui and Lao Wang, listened with relish.

Su Rui said, "I have heard people say more or less about the history of Loulan, but the first time I heard such an interesting statement!!"

Zi Yang touched his head and smiled, "Many people say that history is boring, I think it's not like that. The key depends on how you read history."

Su Rui nodded and continued to ask: "Realistically speaking, after Loulan surrendered to the Han Dynasty, he had the geographical advantage of the Silk Road. It should be the prosperity of development, but why did it suddenly disappear?"

Zi Yangdao, "Not only Loulan, but actually around 400 AD, many countries west of Loulan mysteriously disappeared one after another, including Niya, Kaladun, Milan City, Nilang City, Khan City, Tongwan City, etc. The disappearance of these cities was very sudden and very strange."

Lao Wang was also interested at this time, "How did it disappear? Did it happen to aliens? Tell me, tell me!" This guy also had a fight with aliens, and threw the blame on the aliens whenever something happened.

Zi Yang gave him a blank look: "Many historians define this large-scale disappearance event as the movement of Lop Nur, which leads to desertification in these areas and the migration of races one after another. However, I think there are many doubts here. If it is a race migration, how can you not leave any historical records? Besides, where have those migrants gone?"

Zi Yang coughed twice and continued: "According to historical records, in 1901, the 'foreign friend' Heding excavated the ruins of Loulan City, and obtained a large number of ancient Han and Wei and Roman coins, architectural wood carvings with Central Asian Hellenistic style, paper with Chinese characters, bamboo slips and several brushes... You should know that Loulan was influenced by the Central Plains culture at that time and had a certain level of civilization. It can also be seen from the text and information excavated by the Loulan site. At that time, there were already special administrative agencies such as historians. If there were any changes such as migration, it should be recorded more or less in history, but in fact, the records about this history were blank."

"The key is that from the original Loulan ruins, the ancient city disappeared very suddenly, and it can even be described as a mess."

"The monk Faxian in Chinese history traveled west to seek scriptures. When he passed by this place, he said in "Records of Buddha Kingdoms" that this place was already 'no birds above and no beasts below, and was everywhere, and only the dead bones of dead people were marked with the ears'. It is obvious that Loulan had disappeared at that time. It can also be seen from his records that this was a sudden incident, and many people died suddenly for no reason. The deaths of Chinese people are the most important. If it were not for some sudden incident, the bones of relatives would not have been stormed in the wild. Therefore, this is very likely a collective emergencies."

"There is another saying in recent years that the demise of Loulan was caused by unprecedented drought.

The main argument about drought is a record in "Shui Jing Zhu". The Loulan people built the ancient city of Loulan with more than 100,000 square meters beside Loulan. After the Eastern Han Dynasty, due to the diverting of Zhubin River in the middle reaches of the Tarim River at that time, the surface of Loulan Lake shrank and Loulan was short of water. Soler from Dunhuang led 1,000 soldiers to Loulan and summoned 3,000 soldiers from Shanshan, Yanqi and Kucha. They crossed the riverside and diverted water into Loulan day and night to relieve the water shortage of Loulan. Later, Loulan also promulgated the world's first environmental protection code."

"But this statement also has great flaws. The ancient city of Loulan is next to Lop Nur. It is logical that it will not be too late to have enough water and food. After all, Lop Nur in history was the largest lake in the arid area of ​​northwest my country. The lake area is as high as 12,000 square kilometers. Even after many river reflows, the lake surface shrinks, and it still reached 500 square kilometers at the beginning of the last century. It was not until 1972 that it finally dried up. Obviously, the saying of water shortage is not tenable."

"The 'foreign friend' Swen Heding, mentioned above, believes that the disappearance of Loulan is related to the north-south migration of Lop Nur. The cycle of north-south migration of Lop Nur was about 1,500 years. More than 3,000 years ago, a European tribe lived in the Loulan area. More than 1,500 years ago, Loulan entered the prosperity era again, which is directly related to the wandering of Lop Nur.

"However, later geologists proved that judging from the address structure at the bottom of Lop Nur Lake, there was no free phenomenon."

"There are several other statements about the demise of Loulan. One is that it disappears from war. After the fifth century AD, the Loulan Kingdom began to decline, and the northern powers invaded, and the city of Loulan was destroyed and it was abandoned.

There is another saying that Loulan was destroyed by plague and disease.

A more bizarre saying is that it is defeated by creatures.

There are too many unexplainable secrets between the Loulan civilization and the Lop Nur civilization, including the Sun Tomb, the Loulan Female Corpse, and the Little River Cemetery. There have been too many records, novels and rumors about this. There are countless scholars who have studied it for more than a hundred years, but no one has enough evidence to uncover the secrets here."

As the car was rushing forward, Zi Yang also told the various history, legends and wild legends of Loulan to everyone.

After hearing Zi Yang say this, Su Rui exclaimed, "What a professional, I don't know much about the archaeology department."

Zi Yang said modestly on the surface, "The things in the textbooks are very rigorous, so sometimes unofficial history and folk legends are more abundant." But I thought to myself, if it weren't for studying twelve pieces of paper, I wouldn't have spent so much effort to study these. For your investigation, I did a lot of homework in advance. Is it easy for me to memorize so many things!

At this time, Alexander, who had been sitting in the front row, also looked back at him and said that I admire your meaning very much - it seems that he had been listening just now.
Chapter completed!