Chapter 1182: Flourishing Buddhism! [1]

Cheshi Kingdom, Jiaohecheng.

From the first time there was a record, there were more than thirty small countries across the Western Regions.

And after hundreds of years of evolution, it has now split into fifty or sixty small countries.

The Cheshi Kingdom and the Loulan Kingdom are both the first countries to enter the Western Regions.

It's just that the Loulan Kingdom is on the southern line of the Western Regions, while the Cheshi Kingdom is on the northern line of the Western Regions.

Between the two countries is an endless desert and Gobi, and from ancient times to the present, no one has been able to cross this desert and Gobi.

As the capital of the Cheshi Kingdom, Jiaohecheng, it is famous because there are two rivers.

Jiaohecheng was built from north to south. The terrain on both sides of the city is low-lying, and two rivers flowing from north to south pass alternately on the east and west sides of Jiaohecheng, and converge into one river at the south gate of the city.

Therefore, this city is named Jiaohe, meaning the confluence of rivers.

Jiaohecheng, located between the two rivers, is like a dazzling gem. Its construction did not stick to the square rules of city building in the Central Plains, but ingeniously borrowed from this ravine that had been washed by river water for thousands of years.

On that loess plateau that looks like a giant ship, wide in the middle and pointed at both ends, this city stands like a majestic castle.

Looking from a distance, it looks like a yellowish-brown giant ship sailing in the river.

The ravines washed out on both sides are more than ten zhang deep, and the only way to enter the city is the south gate.

Besides the natural moat formed on both sides.

The city gate is built entirely on a slope.

High at the bottom and low at the top.

This terrain makes Jiaohecheng easy to defend and difficult to attack.

As long as you hold the south gate, you can basically achieve the feat of one man guarding the pass, ten thousand men cannot open it.

Since the beginning of the year, the Wuji Colonel's Office began to be established.

The hundreds of soldiers of the Cheshi Kingdom stationed at Gaochang Wall, which was the former Wuji Colonel's Office, were driven back by Qu Yi.

It was at that time that the King of Cheshi learned that the army was going to re-establish the Wuji Colonel's Office.

It was also since that time that the King of Cheshi, A Luoye, began to have sleepless nights.

A Luoye was the grandson of A Luoduo, the King of the Rear Kingdom in the first year of Yongxing of Emperor Huan. During the reign of Emperor Huan, he was only the King of the Cheshi Rear Kingdom.

The Cheshi Kingdom is divided into two parts, front and rear.

Although it belongs to one country, it has two kings.

In the first year of Yongxing of Emperor Huan, A Luoduo, who was the monarch of the Cheshi Rear Kingdom, surrendered to the Northern Xiongnu, intending to unify the Cheshi front and rear with the help of the Northern Xiongnu's military strength.

And the Han army at that time, in order to divide Cheshi and not let Cheshi unify, supported the Cheshi Front King, Beijun.

Because the geographical location of the Cheshi Kingdom is special, it is not only the key passage guarding the northern line of the Western Regions, but also an important exit connecting the Northern Xiongnu and guarding the Tianshan passage.

The Northern Xiongnu often went south from here.

This led to the fact that when the Han Dynasty was strong, the Cheshi Kingdom surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and when the Han Dynasty was weak, the Cheshi Kingdom surrendered to the Northern Xiongnu, repeating this repeatedly.

And Emperor Huan's Han Dynasty was no longer in a strong period.

In order to avoid the Northern Xiongnu going south to harass Dunhuang again, Emperor Huan finally pardoned A Luoduo for his crime of surrendering to the Northern Xiongnu and supported A Luoduo to become the King of Cheshi.

At this time, the night was deep.

But A Luoye, the King of Cheshi, who was about thirty years old, did not rest, but was on his way from the palace passage to the center of Jiaohecheng, accompanied by a team of soldiers and attendants.

Because Jiaohecheng was built on a loess plateau washed by nature, the buildings in the city were not built by accumulation.

Instead, they were carved out of hard loess.

That is, the "pressure ground convex method," carving downward from the ground, then building the outline and shape of the house, and adding a roof on top, which is a building that looks like it was created by nature, just like the principle of carving a seal.

Therefore, looking from a distance, the entire Jiaohecheng has obvious convex buildings only in a small part of the area that was originally on high ground.

And the remaining areas look like flat ground, because all the buildings extend downward.

And those buildings carved out of the convex high ground became the symbols of power in Jiaohecheng, as well as the resident of power institutions.

Such as government offices, palaces, and the most important Buddhist temples.

Because the Western Regions have very little rainfall, there are basically no rainy seasons throughout the year, which led to the existence of this kind of architecture.

The first group of convex buildings at the entrance of the southern city gate is the government office area of Jiaohecheng, which also includes the King's residential area.

But the most eye-catching buildings in Jiaohecheng, and the buildings in the best locations, are not government offices, or residential areas. ===== CHAPTER 1184 =====