Chapter 541: The Dragon Soul Awakens, and the World Shows Strangeness [Subscribe]

In history, the Kushan Empire lasted for about four hundred years.

It was during the later years of Bo Diao's rule that he became foolish and arrogant, and the country's strength declined rapidly.

At this time, the Kushan Empire was destroyed ahead of schedule. Although there were still some rebellious forces in some areas, they no longer posed a threat to the Wei Dynasty.

The Kushan Empire was a multi-ethnic state under the slave system, which controlled other tribes through plunder, occupation, and suppression by force to form a co-governance.

For example, in India, the number of people who had been forcibly ruled by the Yuezhi for hundreds of years numbered in the millions.

It was impossible for them to completely submit to the Kushans.

Therefore, when the Wei Dynasty conquered the Kushan Empire, the resistance to its rule was greatly reduced.

Cao Cao would later move part of the population to the Western Regions.

This was done to break up the Kushan's traditional ethnic groups and further enhance their ruling power.

Cao Cao needs these people to break through the barrier of over 100 million people and gain a mythical direction.

When the dragon soul awakens, the entry also gives a new hint:

[After Wei annexed part of the Kushan Empire, the actual territory of Wei exceeded 15 million square kilometers, ranking first in history]

The Yuan Dynasty had the largest territory in history, covering more than 13 million square kilometers.

The second is Tang, with more than 12 million.

The Great Wei is currently only carrying out a preliminary integration, defeating the main forces of the Great Yuezhi and incorporating the land centered on their capital into Wei territory.

After the subsequent annexation of all the Kushan borders and even the borders of island countries such as the Philippines, the territory of Wei will continue to expand.

Cao Cao thought that after all the borders were integrated, he would have something to say to Cao Ang.

With such a large territory, it is necessary to clearly explain how to attack, defend and rule, and which areas can form an outer barrier to maintain long-term governance.

[The country reaches its historical apex, and you gain a new mythological direction]

Cao Cao glanced at the entry but didn't rush to check it.

This myth points to staying and being of great use.

The dragon soul with its eyes open in the sea of ​​consciousness is breathing in the energy of heaven and earth.

He is only half a step away from becoming the Ancestral Dragon.

As He breathed in and out, the 180,000 pores on Cao Cao's body seemed to be communicating with the heaven and earth.

Countless dark gold spell patterns appeared and disappeared on the scales of the dragon soul.

There is a force flowing around Cao Cao because the dragon soul has awakened.

He had a wonderful feeling, as if he and the world were one, and his power was so great that it was beyond words.

"The unity of man and nature described by Laozi in the Daojing is nothing more than this."

Cao Cao stood up and walked out of the study.

He had just returned to Crescent Lake Palace and left the study when he heard clear laughter.

The heat of midsummer.

The children were playing in the pool in the inner courtyard.

Cao Cao came to a bedroom on the side of the study.

Diao Chan was ticking the abacus, while Zhen Mi was holding a booklet, recording the numbers Diao Chan had calculated.

The rich girl in the family is checking the accounts again.

The Chinese abacus can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. The first person who officially invented the abacus was Liu Hong of the Han Dynasty.

When he arrived in this world, Cao Cao slightly reorganized the abacus addition and subtraction methods of later generations and spread them among the people around him.

Diao Chan is like a housekeeper, learning these things very quickly.

Her jade-like wrists flew up and down, and her fingertips moved the beads, making crisp sounds.

The two women sat side by side, their backs were slender, their thighs were plump under their thin waists, and their calves were well-proportioned. When viewed from the side, their lines were beautiful.

The sunlight shone in from the window. The two girls' thick and straight eyelashes fluttered. They looked focused and didn't notice Cao Cao coming in silently.

Looking outside from the side hall where they were settling accounts, they could see a group of children playing in the water.

"Husband."

After the two women finished settling the bill, they turned around and saw Cao Cao, and stood up happily.

Cao Cao sat down in the main seat and waved his hand, asking the two women to sit over.

When they came closer, Boss Cao reached out and pulled the two of them over, sitting side by side facing each other.

The clothes were thin in summer, and the two girls looked at each other and couldn't help blushing.

Because of their sitting posture, their skirts were lifted up, revealing their delicate ankles and the smooth insteps of their feet outside their embroidered shoes.

Cao Cao's gaze fell on it and his eyes narrowed slightly.

The two women's feet were wearing thin white socks.

When Cao Cao saw silk fabric earlier, he thought it was light, thin and soft, suitable for lining, with a similar effect to stockings.

He asked the palace's female weavers to make a special batch of weavings, of various styles, for each palace.

The two women were wearing similar fabrics on their feet, which made the visual effect very vivid. They obviously knew that he liked it and wore it to please him.

Just as Cao Cao was about to speak, footsteps were heard outside the door.

The two women were startled and jumped up like rabbits and stood aside.

"I will come to see you in the evening." Cao Cao said with a smile.

As they were talking, Yu Qing and Bian Mei came in from outside arm in arm.

Ever since Bian Mei disguised herself as Cao Cao and saved Princess Cao Ning, Yu Qing was very grateful to Bian Mei after learning about it.

The relationship between the two is much closer than before.

Boss Cao's family is stable and he is very relaxed after returning from the battle. He is busy and happy every day.

At night, he went door to door as usual.

A few days later, Cao Cao gathered all his concubines and told them that he was going out again, heading west.

This time the walk will be longer.

At the end of July, Cao Cao left the Crescent Moon Lake Palace under the earnest instructions of his concubines.

With heavy cavalry escorting him, the emperor left Crescent Lake and headed west onto the official road, where he saw a troop of more than 10,000 people waiting for him.

The leader of this team is Gan Ning.

In May, Gan Ning received an order from Cao Cao to withdraw his troops from the southern coast.

The transfer order stated that the next move would require the cooperation of the navy, so Gan Ning led the Jinfan Army westward.

After years of pioneering and fighting at sea, today's Jinfan Army is much stronger than the historical Jinfan Army in terms of the number of troops, equipment, and combat experience.

Gan Ning entered Hexi and joined Cao Cao's team, continuing to travel west. Soon, the team crossed the Pamir Plateau and entered Kushan again.

In the car.

Guo Jia is reporting everything.

"Your Majesty, this is the situation after our Great Wei expanded its army this year. Please take a look."

Guo Jia handed over a memorial.

As the borders of the Wei Dynasty continued to expand, and due to factors such as the retirement of old soldiers, new troops were recruited every year.

Cao Wei implemented strategies such as tax cuts on military households to encourage them to join the army, and the number of recruits continued to increase.

At the beginning of this year, the total number of troops in the twenty-three states of the Wei Dynasty, including local standing troops, has exceeded one million.

Although the country has borders and a large population base, it is not a problem to support these soldiers.

But after reaching one million soldiers, Cao Cao ordered to slow down the increase in the number of soldiers to avoid continued expansion of the army and increase the financial and tax burden.

At present, Cao Wei's military system adopts the theory of adjustment to avoid staying in a fixed place for too long, forming different factions and fighting against each other.

"According to our prior analysis, we plan to send a total of 200,000 additional troops to Kushan territory to stabilize the local situation."

Guo Jia pointed out which parts of the booklet required Cao Cao to look carefully and reprint them.

The situation on the Western Front is currently the most tense, and additional troops are needed to suppress the unrest.

A few days later, Cao Cao arrived at the front line bordering Parthia.

At this time, various armies in the surrounding areas came together.

Guan, Zhang, Zhao, Ma, Huang, Pang De, Zhang Liao, Gao Shun, Qu Yi and others each had their own troops.

Wei Yan and Xu Huang were also sent together to defend Kangju and the Wusun line.

The Xiahou brothers, Yu Jin, Zhang He and other generals led their troops to be stationed in Hexi, the Western Regions and the plateau respectively.

The four directions of Wei's territory, both offensive and defensive, were like a solid wall of steel.

Some civil and military officials within the Wei Dynasty were also very curious. What exactly was Cao Cao going to do after he had gathered the most powerful and elite troops of the Wei Dynasty, including their wise counselors and wise advisers?
In fact, the purpose is not complicated.

The Han civilization nurtured in China has always emphasized humility and did not offend others unless they offended me. It rarely takes the initiative to attack.

But sometimes being too humble gave uncivilized Westerners a wrong perception that the Han people were not good at fighting and were even a little cowardly.

Throughout the dynasties of China, only a few emperors were keen on pioneering.

Cao Cao wanted to spread the might of Wei and the military power of China to the entire West.

He will lead the elite troops of Wei to break through the entire western defense line, not only Parthia, but also Rome!
Although the four great powers in the world during the Han Dynasty were ranked equally, the general view in the West was that Rome was the strongest, and China was ranked third after Parthia.

Cao Cao arrived to accumulate the last bit of evolution value for the Dragon Soul's Great Perfection.

Secondly, Parthia and Rome were also used as targets.

The so-called bringing peace to the world for all eternity is just like this.

Due to the constraints of the current era, if we want to continue to expand our rule westward, many difficult-to-overcome problems will arise.

But it did not prevent Cao Cao from breaking through their entire defense line and creating an invincible military force.

night.

Cao Cao sat cross-legged in the military camp.

After the dragon soul opened his eyes, he practiced again, breathing in and out, and the void around him fluctuated like ripples.

A dragon roar came from Cao Cao's body, and a Purple Emperor Star appeared beside him.

There was a dragon shadow swimming between his eyebrows, absorbing the vitality of heaven and earth. The emperor star turned into a dragon ball, which was actually guided by the dragon shadow and swallowed into the body.

The sky is filled with stars.

As Cao Cao practiced, the Purple Star in the night sky seemed to be inspired by the energy and shone with a light far beyond its previous brightness.

A ray of purple halo descended from the night sky, interacting with Cao Cao's practice.

An hour later at midnight, the Purple Star in the sky spread a purple halo, becoming more and more obvious, like a pillar supporting the sky, visible for thousands of miles.

At the moment Cao Cao finished his breathing, the dragon roar in his body sounded like a raging storm.

The dragon soul left the body and soared into the sky.

His body grew, one hundred feet, two hundred feet, three hundred feet...

The generals in Cao's camp were attracted by the boiling atmosphere between heaven and earth. They came out of their tents one after another and looked up.

The phenomena in the night sky continue to change.

Looking from below, the Ancestral Dragon was circling and swimming on the purple pillar of fortune hanging from the Purple Star.

His head and neck had already reached above the dome, as if he was breathing in the stars and the moon, offering sacrifices to the Purple Star.

"We, the Great Wei, have wiped out the barbarians in all directions, and the fate of our country has caused strange phenomena between heaven and earth!"

"What an amazing weather."

"It is your majesty's practice that has caused the heaven and earth to respond!"

All the civil and military officials were surprised.

From hundreds or even thousands of miles away, one can see increasingly obvious changes in the night sky.

The Purple Star dropped purple air into the world, and was closely connected with the emperor of the world. This kind of phenomenon had never appeared before.

A magnificent purple starlight stretching for hundreds of miles drags across the sky.

Looking eastward from further west, the entire night sky was covered with a purple halo.

"what is that?"

In Nisa, the capital of Parthia, Vologases walked out of the palace late at night, watching from afar!

Further west, the capital of Rome.

An old man wearing a white and gold robe walked out of their Senate Hall.

He is the contemporary senator of Rome.

Septimius Severus, the Roman emperor and founder of the Severan dynasty, who had been on the throne for twelve years, also walked out of the palace and looked to the east!
People in the east and west were simultaneously astonished by the strange phenomena between heaven and earth.

At this time, the Purple Star in the sky separated into a long flame tail, which fell into the earth like a meteor, and was immediately swallowed by the Ancestral Dragon.

"The Emperor Star enters the world!"

Zhuge Liang, Pang Degong, Mr. Shuijing, the court astrologers of Parthia, the fortune tellers of the Roman Empire, and the court astronomers all made similar exclamations and were inexplicably surprised.

At this moment, inside the Cao Wei camp, the roar of a dragon pierced through heaven and earth.

"I will make the entire West listen to my dragon roar and rise up in arms!"

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