During the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, the territory of the Tang Empire extended to the heart of the distant Eurasian continent.
This is an era of rapid progress, the Tang Empire has been founded for nearly 50 years, and this empire has brought the people of the Tang Dynasty an unprecedentedly vast world.
"Nine thousand nine hundred miles west to Anxi. ”
This is the inscription on a stone tablet outside the Kaiyuan Gate of Chang'an City, whenever the scholars who pass by here, they can't help but look west along here, imagining the territory of the Tang Dynasty 9,900 miles away. Master Xuanzang's dictation, debate machine collation of the "Tang Dynasty Western Regions", is the bestseller at this time, people rush to read this book, just to understand the customs of that land, people find that the original Western Regions is not all Gobi thousands of miles, yellow sand all over the sky, if through the vast Gobi, and then over the heavy mountains, you can also see the green grass, water and grass abundant paradise in the world. The country, language, customs, and culture there are very different from those of Middle-earth, but they are now all paradises on earth under the governance of the Tang Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.
In that world opened up by the Tang Dynasty, Broken Leaf City is under construction, it is built in imitation of the pattern of Chang'an City, with a circumference of fifty miles, Tang Ting wants to make it a new Chang'an City, and will become the base of the empire to pass through that new world.
Tang Gaozong Longshuo's three-year situation.
The Western Regions used to be the jurisdiction of the Western Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Western Regions Protectorate, and the Western Regions Changshi Mansion, but due to the chaos of the Five Wants, several generations of Zhongtu scholars have almost forgotten that it was once the place where the Han king's flag was planted. With the struggle of the two generations of Zhenguan and Yonghui, the Western Regions returned to the hands of the empire and became the Anxi and Beiting of the Tang Dynasty.
In Mobei, the Tang army re-created the feats of Feng Wolf Juxu and Yan Ran Legong. The world of the Tang people has never been so vast.
The Tang Dynasty inherited and developed the capital protection system since the Western Han Dynasty. The highest military and political institution in most of the Western Regions was the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. Below the prefecture, there are two sets of administrative and military institutions. The administrative body is to divide the former nomadic tribes or agricultural towns into prefectures and prefectures. The capital protector is directly dispatched by ***, and the governor and assassin are appointed by ** to serve as the local tribal leader. The Western Turkic homeland north of the Tianshan Mountains has Kunling, Luchi and Xunyan, Xianlu Prefecture, Xiaqu Prefecture and other prefectures, Kunling Prefecture and other prefectures, Kunling Prefecture governs the five Lu Department east of Broken Leaves, and Haochi Metropolitan Protectorate governs the five crossbow lost parts west of Broken Leaves. To the south of the Tianshan Mountains and in other places, there were also many prefectures and prefectures such as Bisha (Yuwen), Qiuzi, Shule, and Yan Province. Militarily, there are four towns of Qiuzi, Yuwen, Shule, and Shaye under the Duhu Mansion, as well as a complete set of military defense systems such as other armies, cities, and guards, to garrison troops and defend the border, such as the famous Green Ridge Guard, which is on the present-day Pamir Plateau. After the second year of Chang'an (702), the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate was set up in Tingzhou, north of the Tianshan Mountains, and the Kunling and Mengchi Prefectures under the jurisdiction of the original Anxi County Protectorate were placed under the management of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate mainly governed the southern parts of the Tianshan Mountains.
Located at the intersection of the two trunk lines of the "Silk Road", Broken Leaf City is not only a gathering place for Chinese and Western merchants, but also a necessary route for Eastern and Western envoys. When the Persian prince Nines returned home, he passed through the city of Broken Leaves. The big food was sent to the Tang Dynasty, and it was also transported to Chang'an through the Broken Leaf City. "The Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty", Suye City "Zhou.
Six or seven miles, merchants from all countries live together. On the avenue of Broken Leaf City, there are dozens of cities, all of which are quite prosperous commercial cities, and its center is Broken Leaf City, and people close to it say: "Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the cities west of Atami have been large in Broken Leaves. "Because Broken Leaf City has such an important position in the Western Regions, the Western Turks once used Broken Leaf as a tooth court, and it was one of the four towns of Anxi in the Tang Dynasty, during which it was once the residence of the Anxi Protectorate.
Since then, Broken Leaf City has been an important political center of the Tang Dynasty in Anxi for a long time.
The Tang Dynasty also had military institutions such as the Han Navy, the Tianshan Army, and the Baoda Army in Broken Leaf City, and a large number of troops were stationed. In the third year of the holy calendar (700 years), the general manager of the Pingxi Army, Ashina Xie Seluo, and the governor of Yaochi in the third year of Chang'an (730), Wu Zhile, once used Broken Leaf City as a station. In addition, castles were built, garrisoned by garrisons, and water conservancy projects were built in the vicinity for development.
If Constantinople is the "new Rome" of the Roman Empire, then Broken Leaf City is the "new Chang'an" of the Tang Empire.
In this city, the great poet Li Bai was also born.
Such a vast world is a stage for more people to display their ambitions. The Tang Dynasty blended the cultures of the Hu and Han ethnic groups, including Chinese articles and courteous literary quality, as well as resolute and heroic, free and unrestrained, and the culture blended and developed, and finally formed an enterprising atmosphere of the early Tang Dynasty.
Pei Xingjian is the widow of Pei Renji, a famous general in Wagang, who came from a family of generals, and was valued by Su Dingfang in his early years, and was taught by him the thaumaturgy he had learned all his life. Because he was implicated in the "Abolition of Wang Liwu" incident, he was sent to Anxi and served as the governor of Xizhou. On the battlefield of the Western Regions, he poured his heart and soul into the battlefield of Anxi, and was promoted step by step to the protector of Anxi, becoming a famous general of the powerful Western Regions.
In addition to Pei Xingjian, there are countless Tang Dynasty soldiers who sprinkled their blood on this hot land, and even paid for their own lives. In the twenty-second year of Zhenguan, Guo Xiaoke, the protector of Anxi, died with his son in the battle of defending Qiuzi City. In the second year of Longshuo, Tingzhou assassin Shi Laiji died in order to defend the Western Turks from entering Kouting Prefecture. In every battle and battle, there are countless Tang Dynasty soldiers who have spilled their blood on the battlefield.
The soldiers were born and died in the Western Regions, not only to make meritorious contributions and make themselves famous, but also to protect the glory of the Tang Dynasty. And their conquest has also become a new legend, inspiring more scholars and scholars to write from Rong to a more open world.
The snow is dark and the flag is painted, and the wind is mixed with the sound of drums.
Rather be a centurion than a scholar.
However, as powerful as the Tang Dynasty, there will be a day of collapse after all, and after hundreds of years of fierce competition with foreign races, the Tang Empire finally withdrew from Anxi. Shattered Leaf City eventually became a foreign country as well.
Five hundred years later, Yelu Chu, the prime minister of the Yuan Empire, once again came to the hometown of Broken Leaf City with the Mongol army.
He personally saw the water conservancy projects built by the Tang Dynasty in the Talas River valley west of Broken Leaves (i.e., the area around the city of Tang Talas). He recorded the clouds in "Journey to the West".
"Three hundred miles to the west, hundreds of miles are flat rivers, a gang leader is protected, even the situation, Sichuan is not the head of the twisted beautiful city, outside the city are plains can be fields. In the Tang Dynasty, the road to the South Mountain, the clamp is the stone to travel the water, the ridge crosses the solid bank, there are the Tang Jiedu staff officers, the inspection school criminal department member Wailang, the monument of the fake fish bag Taiyuan Wang Ji. ”
It's just that all this, along with the Tang Empire, has become a thing of the past.
Ruins of Shattered Leaf Castle.