Section 223: The Turks March (13)
King Xia looked at the area pointed out by Liu Shan’s fingers, and then carefully looked at the large area next to him.
"If this is the Turks and the Central Plains, then this should be Hexi." King Xia pointed his finger to a region and then said the name of the region. Liu Shan looked towards the direction of King Xia's finger. Liu Shan was not only a little surprised when he saw it. It was actually not difficult to point out the locations of Turks and Hebei. After all, he has not seen much of the world map. Not to mention these two places, it is very common to ask himself to point out where Beijing is.
But King Xia is different. He has no idea of the significance of the world map. He pointed out the location of Hexi based on experience or speculation. However, Liu Shan saw that the place where King Xia pointed out was not wrong at all.
"Yes, this is Hexi. Walking through the Hexi Corridor and leaving Yangguan, it is the Western Regions. Brother, please see!" Liu Shan pointed to a large area west of Yangguan and drew a circle on the mainland.
"Is there such a big place to go west?" Seeing the large area circled by Liu Shan, King Xia was not only shocked, but also to the west of the Western Area, was there really a big place to go west? So, where is there, is there someone living there, and what is the situation there? Of course, Dou Jiande didn't know at all at this time. This is not to say that Dou Jiande was ignorant, but that the understanding of people in this era was originally like this. Ordinary people don't even know the Western Regions, let alone the Western Regions going west.
"Yes, after the Western Regions passed, there were still large areas of land, and those lands were also inhabited. Brother still remembers the Huns in the Han Dynasty?"
"Of course I remember this. However, the Huns had long been destroyed."
"Maybe the Xiongnu country was destroyed, but have you ever thought that maybe there are still people in this country who survived, and they might run to or escape to other places." Although Liu Shan's words were ambiguous, Dou Jiande still heard that Liu Shan specifically said that the Xiongnu must mean that these Xiongnu people moved westward after the country was destroyed, and the place they moved to should be a large area of land west of the Western Regions at this time. Could it be that this large area of land really exists, and there are still people living there?
Neither of them spoke anymore at this time. For Liu Shan, it is normal for people with different civilizations, different cultures, different customs and appearances in the world. This knowledge was something he had come into contact with and learned since childhood, and for him, these are truths that need not be considered. However, for Dou Jiande in the early Tang Dynasty, these things were not so easy to accept. Perhaps, these things were tantamount to the hot air balloons and gunpowder packs faced by the Turks in the north of Liangzhou City.
"Brother, look at this place. This is Tubo. Brother, look at this place again. This is Goryeo, and this is Tianzhu, and this is Dongyang." Liu Shan pointed to several places on the map, and then said a few names that were not very unfamiliar to Dou Jiande. But Dou Jiande had only heard of these names, but Dou Jiande didn't know what it really looks like and where he was in his own direction. At this time, Liu Shan said this, and Dou Jiande gradually felt that the map in front of him might be real. There is really a large area of land in the west of the Western Regions. So, what does Liu Shan mean?
"What are your plans?" The doubts about the map are obviously not something you can figure out in a short time. No wonder, after all, this was the early Tang Dynasty. During this period, talking about the world, and the world of the Tang Dynasty known to people in the 21st century, for Dou Jiande, it was like a chat about the heavenly book. However, Dou Jiande also wanted to clearly know what Liu Shan's next plan was. At this time, whether this map was true or not was nothing for Dou Jiande. What Dou Jiande was more eager to know was what Liu Shan showed him what this picture meant. Or, what Liu Shan planned to do next.
"I brought 70,000 troops from Liangzhou. At this time, the Turkic people I could control were about 100,000 troops, and the eldest brother had more than 200,000 Hebei troops. If these forces were gathered together, the scale of soldiers we could control was already very large." Liu Shan said this, and Dou Jiande also understood that the more than 400,000 troops were indeed a very powerful force at this time. There were not many countries with such a scale of armed forces. The Western Turkic was one, and after ** was defeated in Liangzhou and then borrowed troops from Liu Shan, his power had dropped significantly at this time, and the other one with such power was Li Tang.
"My brother means that we rely on the troops we control now to advance to the Turks, and then after the civil strife of the Turks, we will then rush our troops to the west. But do you know what the current military strength here is?" Dou Jiande naturally refers to the Turks or the Western Regions, but a continent called Europe in later generations.
"If the military power here is over a few centuries, the military power here will be enough to shock the whole world, but at this time, their power is not very strong." Liu Shan thought to himself, indeed, since the Age of Discovery, Europe's power has been continuously strengthened, and even relied on large ships and cannons to ravage several countries in the ancient East for several times. However, in the early Tang Dynasty, Europe's military power was not very strong. Originally, the world should have developed in the original direction, just like the history written by Liu Shan.
But when Liu Shan returned to the early Tang Dynasty, could history develop in its original direction? When Liu Shan first came to the early Tang Dynasty, Liu Shan did have the idea of not changing history. Even Liu Shan thought of his mediocre life, and died in vain. After his death, a pile of loess was covered. No one in the future would know that a person from the 21st century came to the early Tang Dynasty, and everything would be hidden in the dust of history. No one would guess that there was a person named Liu Shan in history who actually came from the future world.
But Liu Shan was constantly washed away and trained in the torrent of history. When Liu Shan woke up one day, Liu Shan was shocked to find that he had actually changed history.
Sometimes this kind of change is not even linked with human will. It is not that you will not change if you don’t want to change. In order to survive, Liu Shan must fight and fight. These struggles and struggles push Liu Shan to a height. When he reaches this height, Liu Shan will naturally change history. Just like the few wars around Luoyang, like the Turkic war outside Liangzhou City.
Sometimes, whether the time traveler will change history is not entirely determined by the time traveler.
And one day, when Liu Shan discovered that relying on his own strength, he could even prevent many tragedies from happening again, Liu Shan naturally had the idea of not allowing these tragedies to happen. In fact, this idea is very normal.
Just like a person who just died of a car accident, but he accidentally returned to the day before his biological mother died. He knew that his mother would die in a car accident the next day. He was a normal person and would naturally prevent this from happening.
The motherland is about Liu Shan, or the Yanhuang bloodline, and Liu Shan is about this kind of mother-son relationship. He clearly has the ability to change the tragic fate of Yanhuang bloodline in the future, so Liu Shan will naturally change it. Some people think that time travelers should not change history, maybe they have many reasons for them. But when a person really returns to the past, will he not change the fate of himself, the nation, and the country? Let me ask, will people with a little bloodline not change?
Chapter completed!