When the Han Empire was seizing the opportunity to continuously earn profits from the Kushan Empire, arrest the nobles of the Kushan Empire, influence the thinking of the people, and disintegrate the Kushan Empire's regime, Kanishaka was fully aware of all this in Furousha City.

How much Kanishaka hoped to have a decisive battle with the Han Empire as soon as possible, let the nobles of the villages and towns outside Fulousha City regain control of their power, and exclude all propaganda from the Han Empire that was not conducive to his rule, but he even refused to allow the Han caravan to enter Fulousha City.

There is no right to walk inside.

The nobles in Fulousha City became more and more anxious, but the people in Fulousha City began to express their indifference to the arrival of the Han Empire's army. The people laughed and talked about the war between the Han Empire and the Kushan Empire, thinking that it was the high-level officials fighting for power, as long as it did not affect them.

good.

Everything seemed to be tilting towards the Han Empire. After discussing with the four chiefs and all the nobles in the imperial capital, Kanishaka sent messengers to leave Fulousha City, dispatched more troops to fight the Han Empire, and began to summarize the history of the Kushan Empire.

and culture. Let the nobles promote the history of the Kushan Empire in Fulousha City. They even list the national history and culture of the newly occupied areas as their own. Many people choose the cultural traditions of Fulousha City every day and soften them to

This was to counter the cultural propaganda of the Han Dynasty in the Kushan Empire.

As this series of events continued, Jia Nisejia was exhausted both physically and mentally. The Han Empire's army had become increasingly aggressive in the past few days. Yesterday, Ma Chao even attacked the north of the city, allowing Zhao Yun to personally lead hundreds of Han's first-rate generals into the city.

, the defenders of Fulousha City sent more than 30,000 people, and many nobles in the city even led their own tribesmen to participate in the battle. They paid the price of 6,000 lives to repel the elite Han Dynasty.

The Han side only paid the price of a few injuries. This battle made the entire Fulousha City realize the powerful strength of the Han Empire. If ten heroes from the other side came to kill them at the same time, they would be completely unable to resist.

And why didn't the big Han attack them? Naturally, they didn't want to lose too much. Now that they can slowly win over the people of the Kushan Empire and disintegrate the rule of the Kushan people in the empire bit by bit, why bother fighting the Kushan Empire? Now

The one who is equally desperate is Jia Nisejia. Even if he loses, it is worth it to make the people in the country build hatred towards the Han Empire. Even if they are afraid that they will lose the final battle, the people's support will be gone, and the Kushan Empire will also come to an end by then.

perished.

I'm afraid they are desperate, but now the chance has not come. With only the 70,000 troops in Fulousha City, plus the nobles' soldiers, they can only have about 100,000 troops at most. They are completely unable to compete with the elites of the Han Dynasty. They must hold on to King Qin's army no matter what.

arrival.

"Now it is very unfavorable for us from all aspects. First of all, our current strength is not the opponent of the Han Empire. The other party is trying to win over the hearts of the civilians of the Kushan Empire. They do not want to lose too many troops here, so they did not choose to really attack.

We must abide by the rules made by the Han Dynasty and use military force to solve the problem. We cannot involve civilians, nor can we attack the Han Dynasty caravan. If we do not abide by the rules, the other party will probably not wait for the final battle with us, but directly attack Fulousha City.

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Second, when we must carry out this all-out battle according to the rules of the Han Dynasty, we have actually lost all initiative. The Han Dynasty has now launched an attack on us from all aspects of trade, economy, culture, and ideology. We are now very difficult to deal with it.

Difficulty can be said to be barely resisting.

The nobles in Fulousha City are naturally still on our side. In response to Zhao Yun's attack yesterday, all the major families lost their elite combat forces. We can work with the nobles of the Kushan Empire to offset the influence of the Han Empire among ordinary people.

When encountering common people who secretly collude against the nobles, we must not be lenient in killing them all. We cannot deter them at this time and make them listen to the instigation of the big man. We will be in danger.

Third, we must not attack the Han caravan. If we attack the Han Empire, the Han Empire will probably not give us any more time. We must wait until September to have the final decisive battle with the Han Dynasty. This decisive battle is a fight to the death for us. All nobles

Both the nobles and common people of the Frost Empire must participate. Let all nobles do this now. In September, we must rely on our superiority in military strength to defeat the Han Empire. There is no other way.

Fourth, we must prepare in advance for a cultural war with the Han Empire. The other party has now imported various Han books to the Kushan Empire. We still don’t know how to make the paper they use. Our books are still made of bamboo slips.

There are too many things. We must now understand as soon as possible how the Han Dynasty made paper and then produced our books. We can find a way from the Han Dynasty caravans.

The Han Empire used caravans to earn our gold and silver, and we can also use the Han caravans to get what we need. Such methods are within the regulations of the Han Empire." Kanishaka said to the four chiefs who were sitting there.

The representatives of the nobles said.

With intelligence exceeding one hundred points, Kanishaka and the five great priests have been studying the Han, their current situation, and the purpose of their trip. There is nothing difficult about this. The difficulty is that they cannot find that the Kushan Empire has a huge advantage.

A place where they can take some initiative in this struggle that transcends previous war methods.

"Will the Han Dynasty really allow us to steal their advanced technology?" A chief couldn't help but ask. Everyone is afraid of angering the Han Empire and causing them to attack Fulousha City with all their strength. If the attack is like yesterday, the Han Empire will be attacked by the Han Empire.

If the empire organizes a few more times, their high-end combat power will probably be lost. Before the decisive battle with the Han Dynasty, they must not anger the Han Dynasty.

"Liu Xin doesn't care about this. As long as it's within the rules of the battle, he won't take any more measures against us. Liu Xin is the greatest emperor from Eastern China. In just six years, he led the Han Empire

It surpasses all the glory of the past, but he is only in his forties now. As an extraordinary existence, he still has at least a life span of more than 100 years." Kanishaka couldn't help but frown when he said this.

Kanishaka once thought that he was the most talented person, the favored son of heaven and destined to conquer everything. But now looking at Liu Xin, he found that Liu Xin was the darling of heaven and earth. Many things that once made him proud are now compared with Liu Xin.

He is absolutely inferior to Xia Cheng.

Others couldn't help but fell silent when they heard this. Under the leadership of Liu Xin, the Han Empire will definitely become stronger in the future. Unfortunately, they are in the same era as Liu Xin. Facing Liu Xin's overwhelming pressure, they have to survive if they want to.

becomes difficult.

"News of the southern army has been sent. On September 1st this year, a million troops will gather in the south and come to Fulousha City. However, the gathering of the western army is not satisfactory. Many lords refused to send troops for various reasons. It was originally expected that one hundred and sixty-six troops would be sent.

An army of 100,000 may only be able to gather a little over 1.2 million in the end.

With the constant supply of food from the Han caravans, we don’t have to worry about food. I have ordered the commanders of the west and south to gather all the armies together before entering the Fulousha City area to prevent the Han Empire from defeating us one by one."

Kanishaka said this, and everyone understood that the next step would be a showdown between the elites of the two empires. The Han Empire allowed caravans to sell grain and even iron to the Kushan Empire, and neither side could take the initiative to attack non-military forces.

"Your Majesty, in addition to Zhao Yun and Ma Chao who have tightened their pressure on our Fulousha City recently, nobles in the districts outside the city are often attacked by the Han Empire's troops, and the Han Empire has begun to attack towns two hundred miles away from Fulousha City, in front of Peshawar City

It has been captured by the enemy in a few days, and all the soldiers and nobles in the city have been taken prisoner and have been sent to the Han Empire." The prime minister looked at Kanishaka and reported.

"The Han Empire captured our nobles and killed many of them. Now many places outside Fulousha City have begun to implement autonomy. With the tacit approval of the Han Empire, many people gathered together to manage the entire town, especially the city of Peshawar.

The Peshawar City Committee has been established, and all departments are decided upon by committee members.

These committee members are the people behind the Han caravan. The committee members actually obey the orders of the Han Empire. The Han Empire selects committee members who are not nobles, but only civilians and slaves. If we cannot recapture Peshawar City as soon as possible, we can take back our rights in the future.

It will be very difficult." A chief added without waiting for Kanishaka to speak.

"The national policy of the Han Empire is people-oriented, and all national interests must be biased towards the common people or the lowest level of society. Slaves are not allowed in the Han Empire, and everyone will have basic social rights, so it will be easy for them to win over the people.

We must now change our policies and come up with policies that are good to civilians and even slaves, so as to retain the hearts of the people. The Han Empire only had aristocratic families and no aristocrats. Except for the royal family, everyone had the same social status, unless you could become an official. Therefore, we did not have any objections

Use the means of governance and send news to all the nobles in the towns! If the Han army arrives, hide as soon as possible, appease the civilians and slaves in the territory, and don’t give the Han Empire a chance to fool the civilians." Kanishaka could only say this after thinking about it.

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Everyone present nodded slightly after hearing this. Although compared with the Han caravan, they could give very little to their people. The nobles were born to rely on their people to live and benefit from their people. But now that they encountered such a big man, they

He can only bite the bullet and try to please the people under his rule and win the hearts of the people in the city to the empire.

Regarding the Dahan Caravan, everyone present felt very complicated. They had obtained a lot from the Dahan Caravan, including food for survival and information about the Dahan. However, now the Dahan Caravan has become their opponent.

You can do anything for profit. Nowadays, the books of the Han Dynasty have been circulated in Fulousha City. Although the government has strictly prohibited all people from buying all the books from the Han Dynasty, how can this be prohibited?

The books of the Han Dynasty have exquisite paper, and there are many exquisite picture albums. There is never anything bad said about the Kushan Empire in them. The people in Fulousha City are very curious about everything about the Han Empire. Even everyone sitting here is buying it.

They read the Han Dynasty's books and learned a lot from them.

Now they need to establish another relationship with the Dahan Caravan. While getting more from the Dahan Caravan, they can resist information that is not beneficial to them. This is very difficult.

The time has entered August, and it has been three months since the Han Empire launched its eastern expedition against the Kushan Empire. The people in Fulousha City have become accustomed to the rhythm of the Han elite occasionally attacking the city, and the nobles in the city forming elite troops to stop the attack.

Although Zhao Yun and Ma Chao often chose to attack the city, they used various methods, such as diverting the tiger away from the mountain, attacking with grenades, and bombing the city wall through tunnels outside the city. They battled wits and courage with the defenders of Fulousha City every day. Both sides seemed to be fighting in full swing, but in fact the casualties were not counted.

Too big.

Kanishaka also summarized the offensive method of the Han Empire. He summoned more than 300 people with first-class strength and above and more than 2,000 people with third-class strength and above from all the nobles in the city as emergency troops. They were only dispatched when the Han Dynasty was about to break the city.

, which greatly reduced the defensive pressure on the city wall, but the elites in Fulousha City suffered very heavy losses.

The nobles in Fulousha City are united like never before. They know that this war with the Han Empire is not the same as the previous wars. If they surrender, they will retain their noble rights and all the territories. The Han Empire wants to take them away.

All the privileges of the nobility were given to the poor people and slaves, and their privileges and territories were left behind by their ancestors. How could they be abandoned?

Although the high-end combat power of the major nobles in Fulousha City has been greatly reduced, they still sent out all the elites in their families to resist the muskets, grenades and heroes of the Han Empire. While the elite elites of the nobles in Fulousha City continued to decrease, the court's response to

The people's control over the slaves was also getting weaker and weaker. Many people secretly went out of the city with the Han caravans. After they arrived at the border of the Han Dynasty, they did business with the caravans. The news they brought back made the people in Furousha City dispersed. Thanks to Kanishaka's discovery,

A group of people were executed in time, and those voices gradually disappeared.

Only the nobles in Fulousha City can understand the pain of holding on for three months. Now the entire northeastern core area of ​​the Kushan Empire has been almost completely eroded by the Han Empire. Most towns have adopted people's autonomy, and some nobles quietly returned to their own territories.

They were all driven out by the people in the territory, and some nobles were even captured by the people and handed over to the Han caravans, or beaten to death.

Kanishaka sent people to explore the news of King Qin's army every day and urged them to fight a decisive battle with the Han Empire army in early September. Kanishaka sent the Kushan Empire's armored cavalry to various cities to urge the local nobles. Now,

The army was gathering according to the plan, so the nobles in Fulousha City felt a little relieved. All the nobles were eager to drive away the Han Empire. Their hundreds of years of accumulation had been transformed by the continuous efforts of the Han caravans.
Chapter completed!