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Wang Chong rode his horse over, and as he looked at that stele, a complicated expression appeared in his eyes

"What is this?&8221;

A curious voice ca, Xu Andun, and a few other officers had ridden their horses up fro stone to be set up in a place like this, and for a stone stele to be placed next to it was even stranger

More ie, twisted None of the stone fro Era!&8221;

Wang Chong sighed at this stone and stele

"Al’s words instantly elicited a change in expression fro shock in their eyes It wasn’t that Wang Chong could judge that this was a horse-hitching post from the Great Han

But for hi Era was truly astonishing

"This is the Han Dynasty’s Stele Seal Script, specifically used for carving on steles Given all the tinize it&8221;

With a coer onto the stele and began to read it out

"The Hu-Seizing General Guo Chang received the edict of the Great Han’s Son of Heaven, E to the north! I tied my horse here and established this stele as a record!&8221;

The writing on the stele was bold and full of energy, naturally exuding a high-spirited aura, an attitude that disdained the coaze over the crowd, and finally said the most important words

"This stele has another name: The Edict to Open Dian!&8221;

Buzz!

Everysone seetong and Wang Yan

They finally understood why Wang Chong had looked upon this stele with such a grave expression

Hu-Seizing General Guo Chang was a ‘titled general’, a general with incredible achievements and extraordinary status

Perhaps this person’s na of it, but in the south, especially the empire’s southwest, almost no one didn’t know of it The reason was very sieneral in the history of the Central Plains to break through the Erhai and subdue the Six Zhao

In the Yuanfeng Era of the Great Han, Hu-Seizing General Guo Chang2 was returning with Great General Wei Qing fro their army south to pacify the rebellion of the Nanyue While on the way back to the north, Guo Chang received an edict from the Emperor Wu of the Great Han to pacify Dian On his journey back, Guo Chang turned his head to look back at the south and established this stele This was how the stele ca Dian’ and also ‘Wu of Han’s Edict to Open Dian’

When Guo Chang was opening Dian, Mengshe Zhao was not called Mengshe Zhao, and the Erhai was not called the Erhai This place was called the Kingdo General Guo Chang that the dynasties of the Central Plains were able to expand their power out of the interior and to the Six Zhao of Erhai

It was for this reason that in future dynasties, all the powers of the Erhai acknowledged their allegiance to the Central Plains

One could say that this Hu-Seizing General from the Great Han was the first pioneer of Dian!

Without this Hu-Seizing General, the Great Tang would have never been able to expand its influence to the Erhai

The Annan Protectorate ararrison of the southwest, was extreht about how the ancient general from the time of Emperor Wu of Han led his ar away everything before it, and then thought about their own ar to the north with all haste, all their hearts sank in shame

"Our Annan Protectorate ar the southwest Not only are we betraying the i If General Guo were still here, he would probably feel a deep sha raised his head up to the sky and gave a long sigh, many emotions in his heart

As the Annan Protector-General, he carried inescapable blame for the current state of the southwest Now that they were standing before the stele set up by their predecessor, how could he not feel the greatest shame?

The Central Plains had commanded the Erhai for almost one thousand years, but now the Erhai was about to be lost along with the rest of the southwest, with the 180,000 elites of Annan being completely wiped out as the price As the Annan Protector-General, Xianyu Zhongtong could not bear this price

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1 The second year of the Yuanfeng Era was 109 BCE Eht hundred years have passed, though it ood century longer in this universe↩

2 There is actually very little of Guo Chang’s deeds recorded in the primary source of Chinese history froh it does report that he defeated Qie-lan, as starting a rebellion that was blocking the route between Han and Dian It also states that in the fourth year of Yuanfeng, 107 BCE, Guo Chang was given the title of Hu-Seizing General Afterward, he was apparently ordered to take the city of Kun, but failed, after which he returned and was demoted However, in 109 BCE, the Han Dynasty did in fact annex Dian, converting it into the commandery of Yizhou↩