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The Evolution of the Three Kingdoms Volume Chapter 163 China

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    The Western Expedition was an important part of Li Zhe's national strategy in the Three Kingdoms. Now that Li Zhe's internal situation has stabilized and his industrial capabilities are increasing at a rapid rate, he must find an outlet for his ever-expanding military capabilities.  , otherwise it will not only be a huge waste of military capabilities, but also cause a continued shrinking of industrial demand!  It may even harm the development of steel, cement and other industries that are taking shape under Li Zhe's rule.  In this era where military industry is equivalent to industry, war itself is the biggest need of society.

    Arrows have been piled up in the craftsman camp, weapons and armor have begun to show a large surplus in the warehouse, and the scale of large carts of steel, cement and other material reserves continues to expand. This is a bad sign and means that it must be done again.  Troops were sent out.  In this small industrial society established by Li Zhe, everything is abnormally tilted towards military needs.  At a time when Li Zhe's adjustment of the layout of national industry is far from being in place, continuous military operations are the best catalyst to promote industrial development.

    Although the time is not yet ripe to completely unify the world, the time has come to unify the north and suppress the southern half of the Yangtze River.

    As mentioned above, for Li Zhe, what troubled his speed of military expansion was not military issues, but environmental issues.  The road conditions and environmental conditions in the Three Kingdoms time and space are really bad, which greatly affects the army's marching speed and logistics. In this era, the logistics preparation time for a battle with a scale of 100,000 people often takes half a year or even a year. For  The long-range arms like Li Zhe have a very fatal impact on troops that rely heavily on logistics.  Even with cement now available, this situation will be difficult to change in a short time.

    In the south, water networks are crisscrossed, rivers are everywhere, land transportation is very poor, and many infectious diseases that people at this time do not understand are prevalent.  Without a suppressive naval force and professional-level medical and health capabilities, leading a large army to conquer Jiangnan would be a protracted war.

    The north is different. The further north you go, the better the traffic conditions are. After a long period of development, Guanzhong and Jizhou are places with crisscross roads. If you go to the grassland, you can drive off-road vehicles anywhere.  For Li Zhe, this environment is the most suitable stage for Li Zhejun to display his combat power.

    Therefore, Li Zhejun¡¯s short-term strategic goal is to use the relatively convenient transportation conditions to unify the north in a short period of time.

    Among the heroes in the north, Yuan Shao is powerful and relatively organized. Although it is difficult to recover from his illness, it will take some time to swallow him up.  Therefore, Yongzhou and Liangzhou entered Li Zhe's horizons.  Guanxi has fertile land, thousands of miles of fertile fields, and sufficient strategic depth. It has been the best capital for the Chinese region to dominate since ancient times. It has always been said that whoever wins Guanzhong will win the world. It is not unreasonable.

    Once you get this place, you can go south to Hanzhong and get a glimpse of Shu; go west to the Western Regions, you can open up the Silk Road to connect the east and west; and go north, the prairie is vast, and you can use it to surround Yuan Shao. That is the hero who changed today's world.  Encirclement, the best strategic path to the four battlefields.  Not to mention that Liangzhou was also the main producer of excellent war horses during the Han Dynasty. The famous cavalry horse of later generations, the Hequ Horse, was produced nearby, and the legendary Pegasus in the Western Regions - the Khan-blooded BMW.  Origin, in the long run, the earlier this place is acquired, the more conducive it will be to the overall progress of the entire society under Li Zhe's control.

    Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, the current Western Expedition strategy was implemented.  As for Ma Teng, Han Sui, the Qiang people, and Xianbei, they are just minor scabies on Li Zhe's great road to unifying the world.

    After staying in Luoyang for three days, the base camp logistics preparation center was established, leaving Liao Hua to sit here and coordinate the material supply of the main force of the West Route Army led by Li Zhe and the partial division of Zhang Yan's North Route Army, and then continued to set off.

    Going west, the traffic situation keeps changing.  After all, Luoyang has been the capital for hundreds of years and its surrounding transportation environment is the best.  After entering Hongnong County, slightly to the west, the situation began to get worse.  This is the starting point of the Weihan Ancient Road, the main road connecting Chang'an and Luoyang. After passing Xin'an and Mianchi, the road begins to be rugged and dangerous, passing through the mountains. There are often primitive horses along the road that can only accommodate eight horses.  official way.  The Privy Council coordinated the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of War and the Tianshi Taoist organization, mobilized hundreds of thousands of road construction troops, continuously blasted mountains to clear roads, widened the roads, and roared all the way to Tongguan.

    As November enters, the northwest becomes even more bitterly cold.

    Li Zhe¡¯s Wang Jia finally arrived at the foot of Tongguan.  Now, tens of thousands of troops and logistics teams are crowded here. Along the lines of Shaanxi County, Caoyang, and Hu County along the Yellow River, hundreds of thousands of militia and logistics personnel have gathered here, gearing up, waiting for Li Zhe  Wang Jia arrived and broke through Guanxi in one fell swoop.

    With hundreds of thousands of people gathering here, supply is a very important issue. Fortunately, there is an area rich in coal, bauxite and limestone resources nearby. The militiamenMachines blasted mountains and opened mines nearby, fired cement brick kilns, carried out large-scale projects, renovated roads, and built permanent military buildings. On the other hand, they also burned coal for heating, large fire cellars, and small and medium-sized stoves, which are now very popular in Li Zhe.  The convenient briquette stoves for heating are also very popular here, solving the winter heating problem of the entire army.  The conditions were completely different from those in Runan County before.

    This is what ancient marches were like. A large army is a mobile country, a real battle. It conquers not only the enemy, but also the cruel and cold nature itself.  Among the army's ranks, there are various craftsmen, medical, construction personnel and astronomical logistics support forces. Without a strong and rich country, it is absolutely difficult to support an expedition of this level.  In comparison, the so-called centuries-old wars between several countries in ancient Europe were actually on the scale of China's internal state-county wars.  As for Japan, the so-called Warring States Period, if compared to the land of China, most of the battles can only be described as township-level fights.

    ? Alexander the Great, the God of War who was highly respected in European history, had an expedition that shocked world history in his life. If placed in China, it would be similar to Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, or even worse.  Because the national power of the Macedonian Empire at that time was simply unable to support the intensity of a long-term, large-scale cavalry war like the one between the Han and the Huns.

    The war between Macedonia and Persia had poor tactics, simple arms, and poor coordination. It was incomparable to the Han Dynasty, which had experienced hundreds of years of high-intensity national wars in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.  It is for this reason that the remnants of the Huns who were driven to the west by the Han Dynasty were able to completely change the history of the entire west with their minimal national power.  Attila, the king of the Huns, who was hailed by the West as the whip of God and played the role of destroying the decadent Roman Empire, was nothing more than a lost dog escaping in a hurry under the iron hooves of the Han army.

    Speaking of opening up territory, in China, as early as the Qin Dynasty, there was a history of generals leading hundreds of thousands of soldiers to trek long distances to open up the jungles and wild areas of the southern region. That famous general, named Ren Xiao, was unknown in Chinese history. After his death,  , and his subordinate Zhao Tuo even proclaimed himself emperor.  It opened up the civilization history of millions of square kilometers of land in the entire Lingnan region.

    This is the great China!

    The only history in human history that has lasted for thousands of years!  The only country that can be said to record the cultural prosperity and social phenomena throughout human history!

    In the history of the planet Earth, China has been unified and prosperous for a long time.  It has always acted like a cumbersome and conservative elephant. With a casual wave of its hands and a lift of its feet, the aftermath and butterfly effect will completely change the direction of social evolution in other parts of the world!

    The Silk Road has given birth to generations of merchant nations in Central Asia and West Asia. The history of their societies, even though they are thousands of miles apart, has been enduring the vague historical influence of the central empire.

    ??The prosperity of China will lead to the prosperity of Central Asia, and the collapse of China will lead to the collapse of Central Asia. Since the reunification of the Central Empire, it has prospered and declined every time.  It directly reflects all the countries and nations in this area and is closely related to their historical evolution path!

    The same is true in Europe.

    On the surface, the Ming Dynasty implemented a maritime ban policy, but in fact, it continued overseas trade half-covered for hundreds of years, attracting the inflow of silver from almost the entire world.  The huge profits from the East-West trade directly gave birth to the Western Age of Discovery, and early maritime nations such as Spain and Portugal explored the path of the Americas.  Its starting point was actually to find a way to break through the Ottoman Turkish Empire's monopoly blockade on East-West trade and find a way to trade directly with the Eastern Empire.

    The Ming Dynasty's trade surplus with European colonists devoured a large amount of silver, and directly affected the deflation of European countries, forcing them to adjust their financial policies. In this adjustment process, the first country to successfully adjust was  It obtained more abundant financial resources, cultivated a more complete modern industry, and gained a relative comparative advantage in the competition of economic and national strength, laying a solid foundation for its later domination of the world. This country was named Britain.

    It can be seen from this that China has always played such a pivotal role in the entire history of mankind. Even in modern times, when isolation and backwardness have made China riddled with holes, it can still serve as a pole of the world.  And existence is famous for its huge population and cheap labor force.

    There is no doubt that China has always made essential contributions to the entire history of mankind!  It will never change because of modern backwardness.

    Without China, human beings would never be able to understand how in that era of agricultural society, human beings used their wisdom and courage to conquer the vast and dangerous nature and the arduous struggle to create a prosperous living environment!

    The history of China?Not only did it leave a historical record for future generations, but it also left a complete inheritance for the entire human race. It showed how a complete culture can inherit the process of evolution under various difficult conditions, and provided a solid foundation for the overall development of humankind in the future.  Evolution provides valuable lessons.  It also records for mankind how in a relatively complete geographical environment, mankind constantly evolves, struggles, and unifies, constantly struggles and integrates with various surrounding forces, and how it struggles to maintain such a highly centralized and unified society.  environment.

    Only China has such a history, and only China can breed such a culture.  In comparison, none of the experiences and conditions other civilizations have experienced are as unique and perfect as China's.

    The land of China is vast, has four distinct seasons, is rich and full of vitality, and is the best cradle for human civilization.  Without such a vast world that allows human behavior and thoughts to roam freely, it is difficult to understand the profound, vast and inclusive culture of China, a great country with thousands of years of history.  This is why in ancient times and even in modern times, other countries rarely had such an endless stream of real politicians and strategists like in Chinese history.

    Vision determines height, and thinking determines perspective.

    Environment determines history, and history determines culture.

    This is the fundamental reason why Chinese civilization is great.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to (this site) to subscribe and reward. Your support is my biggest motivation.)

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