A thousand-year-old family begins with one fighting against ten thousand.

Now that the Wei family has personally led their troops here, even the Great Yue King dares not imagine what has happened.

What heinous and unforgivable thing did they do when they attacked the Yuezhi?

How did we provoke this scoundrel to lead his troops here?

"Great Moon King, you jest."

Wei Hou, seated on his horse, cupped his hands in greeting. After all, the person opposite him was still a king, and the Wang family had not yet gained a firm foothold; it was not the time to turn against them.

"I'm here this time to work as a security guard."

"Because of their great contributions to the country, the Prime Minister's family has been granted a fiefdom by His Majesty in the area west of the Yuezhi. They are not allowed to return to the Han Dynasty without an imperial edict."

"I was ordered to protect the Wang clan as they migrated here and to safeguard their safety."

Wei Hou was telling the truth in every word, but the Great Yue King didn't interpret it that way.

This statement sounds exactly like the Wang family being driven out by the emperor because of their abuse of power.

It was obvious that the emperor didn't want to kill anyone directly. In order to give himself a good reputation, he exiled the entire Wang clan thousands of miles away, forbidding them from returning to their homeland.

In recent years, the culture of the Han Dynasty has been extremely popular in this area. Influenced by the Han Dynasty, the idea of ​​returning to one's roots is also very prevalent among the nomadic Yuezhi people.

They were all banished, forbidden to return to their homeland, and even in death, their bones were to be buried in a foreign land.

What a vicious punishment!

Furthermore, having the Wei family lead troops to protect them was clearly a form of surveillance.

It seems that even after banishing the entire Wang clan, the Han emperor was still not at ease. He was somewhat curious about what the Wang clan had actually done.

At the banquet that followed, after several rounds of drinks, in order to ascertain her future attitude, she took advantage of Wei Hou's good mood and presented him with a generous gift, cautiously bringing up the topic at hand.

Wei Hou waved his hand dismissively and said, "It's not that serious. It's just that the Empress Dowager has been in power for more than ten years under the pretext of His Majesty's youth."

The Great Yue King instantly understood; he was also a king and knew very well what the young Han emperor was thinking.

When I was young, you took advantage of your status to usurp my rights. Now that I'm grown up, it's only natural that I must reclaim my power.

Avenge any wrongs, seek revenge.

However, given that he had some of the Wang family's blood in his veins and that there was an Empress Dowager, it would be inappropriate to simply exterminate the entire Wang family.

So they were banished to a remote, desolate land, so that they could never return.

It allows you to avoid killing anyone, gain a good reputation, and finally vent your anger.

"King Da Yue, I really dislike that general from today."

Wei Hou said in a deep voice.

He actually admired that person a bit; he was quite a character to be able to stop it under the dual pressure of the Han Dynasty and the Wei family.

But they are the enemy; their heroes are our adversaries.

With the death of such men, the Han army will have more men to survive on future battlefields.

So I had no choice but to ask him to die.

"Xiao Wang understands."

The Great Moon King already knew what had happened and felt a deep disgust for that general.

How dare they send the army led by the Wei family? Aren't they treating the life of the Great Yue King like a joke?

He was the king of the Yuezhi, how could he die alongside those lowly people?

Even if Wei Hou hadn't said anything, this general wouldn't have lived to see tomorrow.

And so, the last courageous general of the Yuezhi disappeared with a single sentence from Wei Hou.

It wasn't until Wei Hou led his troops to conquer the capital of the Yuezhi, and no one dared to confront them head-on, that the Yuezhi king began to regret his decision and killed the only person who dared to face the Han army directly.

The Wang family, the Shi family, and Prince Jing of Zhongshan led a large number of people to their fiefdom.

This left a large number of vacant official positions in both the imperial court and local areas. Some of these positions were divided up by other powerful families, while others were occupied by newly emerging heroes and powerful figures.

The entire court was full of vitality, giving people a sense of prosperity.

In the twenty-first year of Emperor Ping of Han, amidst the competition among numerous powerful families, the Chen family established by Chen Ping, the Zhang family established by Zhang Qian, and the Li family to which Li Guang belonged, for various reasons, won the remaining three seats.

The Han Dynasty began its second wave of enfeoffment.

Originally, it was just three families going out to establish their own states, which could be understood as a failure in a political struggle.

But this time, with a total of 18 fiefdoms, the neighboring countries outside the Great Han Dynasty all sensed something was wrong.

They drew a precise choice from history: the feudal system.

This was an answer they never expected.

This is tantamount to dividing one's own power and using one's own resources to cultivate an enemy that could potentially destroy one's own life.

Was the emperor of the Han Dynasty out of his mind? How could he do such a thing!

This is insane! Absolutely insane!

The surrounding states of the Wang family's fiefdom, the Shi family's fiefdom, and the fiefdom of Prince Jing of Zhongshan hurriedly mobilized their troops for defense, but it was too late.

The Han Dynasty had long anticipated that the second wave of enfeoffment would alert neighboring countries, and had already begun sending troops to attack neighboring countries before the news even spread.

They were already weaker than the Han Dynasty in terms of raw power, and had no defenses whatsoever.

In particular, the generals of the Yuezhi who once dared to block the Han army were killed for their obstruction, and the Han army was able to enter the Yuezhi territory almost unopposed.

When the Han army arrived, the generals guarding all the cities and passes led their soldiers out of the city and passes to welcome them, making the Han army's subjugation effortless.

Their advance was faster than the speed at which the enemy's news spread.

Before news of the Han army's attack reached the capital of the Yuezhi, the Han army arrived first.

Even more outrageous, ten years ago, in order to quell Wei Hou's dissatisfaction, the King of Dayue personally ordered that the Han army could freely enter and leave any city or place of Dayuezhi.

Therefore, the Yuezhi royal city garrison, having received no news from the front lines, naturally made the same choice as the garrisons of other cities and passes: to come out of the city to meet them, only to be captured in one fell swoop, and the city gates fell.

The Han Dynasty, no, it should be called the Xin Dynasty, conquered the Yuezhi, which had a population of over three million and an army of hundreds of thousands, in just half a month, with most of the time spent traveling.

Even Wei Hou hadn't expected things to go so smoothly.

The second wave of enfeoffment took away a large number of imperial troops, all of whom were leased by the new fiefdom. The new fiefdom not only had to pay the lease fees but also had to be responsible for the soldiers' wages and expenses.

However, the Han Dynasty allowed them to owe the lease fees first, and then pay them back slowly after the establishment of the country.

Nearly half of the entire Han army was dispatched, and the remaining troops were to guard the borders, leaving very few troops within the Han territory.

Taking advantage of this great opportunity, and at Emperor Ping's suggestion, Wang Kuang and Wang Feng, who had been cultivating their subordinates in the Green Forest Mountain, raised an army under the pretext of constant natural disasters and the presence of treacherous officials around the emperor!

Execute Wang Mang to restore order to the court!

Fan Chong, who occupied Gumu, used the pretext that the royal land system was to put all the land in the hands of the emperor and nobles to win over the local powerful families who were on the verge of being driven to death, and instigated a rebellion.

Local powerful figures flocked to respond, their core survival strategy revolving around land annexation. Now that Wang Mang had blocked this path, their situation had become precarious after so many years.

Now some people have openly declared their support, offering all their resources to aid Fan Chong's rebellion!

Local strongmen also supported uprisings by bandits and mountain thieves, and war raged across almost every part of the Han Dynasty.