Hu Lushe was wearing a silk brocade dress imported from the Han Dynasty, with a fluttering crown. He was sitting on a soft bed like a Han scholar-official and aristocrat, holding a scroll of bamboo slips in his hand.
This is a set of treasures that Hulu She recently took out from the Xiongnu collection.
"The Book of Shang Jun", a work of great sages from the Chinese Legalists.
This may be a dowry item for a Han Dynasty princess who got married during the period of Maodun Chanyu or Laoshang Chanyu.
It was left to rot and moldy in a cave in Guyan Mountain by the Huns.
Until Hulushe dug it out, I immediately felt like I had found a treasure.
Unfortunately, this set of classics has been greatly corroded in that cave. Only two or three volumes can still be identified, and the rest have been blurred.
"It's such a famous saying of truth..." Hu Lushe put down the bamboo slips in his hand and was filled with emotion.
Every word on this bamboo slip touched his heart.
In his eyes, Shang Junshu is no longer just a book, a theory, and an idea.
It is a complete and rigorous social system that is tightly integrated from top to bottom.
It is still a rumbling war machine pointing to a prosperous future.
"If I, the Xiongnu, had obtained this book ten years earlier, changed it according to Lord Shang's words, and used Lord Shang's system to motivate the superiors and subordinates, how could we have suffered the humiliation of Mayi, the defeat of Gaoque, and the humiliation of Yanji?" He sighed.
Shaking his head.
The past cannot be recalled.
Today, the Xiongnu are trapped in the cold and miserable land of Mubei, relying entirely on the resources of the Western Regions and the victory of the Western Expeditions to survive.
The country is in trouble and weak.
Even many nobles are no longer willing to turn around and head south.
They just want to stay away from the Han Dynasty, stay away from the Great Wall, and stay away from that nightmare.
Hu Lushe had no doubt that as long as the Han army crossed the Hanhai or opened up the Hexi Corridor.
Then, the Xiongnu nobles in the Western Regions and Mubei will immediately lead their troops and people to rush for the road and flee to Kangju and Daxia in the west.
Because if you fight against the Han Dynasty people, you will definitely die!
But when you go to the West, you can be carefree and happy like a god.
Any fool knows how to choose!
I didn't see that the Xubu family had already placed their big banner in the "Chanyu City" in Kangju.
The Huyan clan did not do a bad job. Their main force of thousands of horses and tribes all migrated westward to the land of the old Wusun.
Other departments, large and small, are basically making similar plans.
Once the Han army launches a large-scale Northern Expedition or a Western Expedition, it will be fierce.
He threw the countries in the Western Regions and the land north of Mu to the Han Dynasty, hoping that these lands could fill the stomachs of the Han Dynasty people and prevent the Han Dynasty people from coming to hunt him down.
On the contrary, those "Zhebie Cavalry" recruited by Kang Ju in the Western Regions and Western Daxia were willing to live and die with their masters.
"Great Tushe, King Zhebie asks for an audience..." At this time, the voice of his trusted aristocrat who was guarding him came from the door.
"Pass..." Hu Lushe quickly arranged his clothes, sat upright, and sat upright.
Hu Lushe had always felt a little ashamed of himself in front of Yang Ming, especially when he read more and more books.
"I pay my respects to Tushe..." Yang Ye met Hu Lushe and bowed slightly.
"King Zhebie, please sit down quickly..." Hu Lushe immediately greeted with a smile: "Come here! Offer a tea set to King Zhebie..."
Not long after, a Daxia maid appeared, holding a fragrant tea set.
Although the Han and Hungarians are currently at war, the war cannot block trade routes, nor can it stop the pace of profit-seeking merchants.
In Junji Mountain, Shunde, and Punushui, there are Han and Hungarian merchants doing business quietly every day.
The Huns took the wealth, women, and slaves plundered from the west, and continued to import what they wanted from the Han Dynasty.
Including books, weapons, spices, silks, ceramics and even tea leaves and tea sets.
Driven by profit, the merchants even dared to sell the Han army's standard armor (leather armor and chain mail) to the Huns.
In the past month, the smuggling trade between Han and Hungary has been extremely prosperous.
For tea alone, thousands of stones flowed into the Northern Huns.
As a price, the Huns lost one-third of the gold, half of the gems, and all the silver they obtained from their conquests in the west.
In addition, tens of thousands of slaves were sent to Han merchants.
Yang Ming didn't know how much weapons, equipment and metals the Huns bought from which smugglers, but he knew very well that the Huns bought a large amount of silk, tea, and ceramics.
Nowadays, almost everyone among the nobles in the Xiongnu Kingdom has several sets of silk clothes.
There are ceramic utensils in the dome house, and iron pots and kitchen knives in the kitchen.
Especially those heroes of the Western Expedition who suddenly became rich and powerful, they spent money without blinking an eye.
For them, even if they spend it all, they can just go to the west to grab it again.
Anyway, the people in the West are extremely weak and the army has no fighting capacity.
The tea set in front of Yang Ming was extremely exquisite. It was cyan in color, smooth and delicate, and the exterior was engraved with patterns of birds and animals, which was beautiful.
Yang Ye found out that such a tea set requires an equal weight of gold or hundreds of slaves to buy it from a smuggler.
He gently picked up the tea cup, took a sip of the tea in the cup, and savored the fragrance between his lips and teeth. Yang Ye felt relaxed and happy, feeling like he was dreaming back to Chang'an.
"Tushe..." Yang Ye put down the tea cup, made a mental draft, and then said: "I heard that recently there was a slave who was poisoned by the body called the horse, and I offered advice to Shanyu and Tushe, in order to use his body to poison the so-called 'Var'
That system was used for the Xiongnu?"
"Is there such a thing..." Hu Lushe asked, "What does King Zhebie think?"
That horse is a trophy brought back from Daxia by Juli Lake.
It had nothing to do with him, but the system proposed by this slave was quite recognized by many Huns nobles.
Juli Lake has already been shaken.
After all, the current Xiongnu Empire is facing the most powerful empire and the strongest war system that mankind has ever created.
A terrifying army based on the Shang Jun's farming and warfare system, packaged with beliefs and ideas, inspired with honor and status, and tempered with iron and blood.
There is also a contemporary unsolvable bug army with cuirassiers sitting in charge as the mainstay of the Chinese army.
Apart from God, the Huns could not think of anyone else who could defeat the Han army?
Even at Gulihu and Hulushe, they did not dare to imagine that they could defeat the Han army in their lifetime.
The most they can do is dream about the reformed and reorganized Xiongnu cavalry, taking advantage of the natural dangers of the desert to wait for work, and thwart the Han Dynasty's attempt to advance northward or westward.
Buy time for the revival and development of the Hun Empire.
That's all.
As for Munan, Gaoque and the Great Wall?
All the Huns knew full well that they could never go back.
This is not only because the fighting power of the Han Dynasty army made them desperate, but also because of the inequality of national power between Han and Hungary.
The total population of the Xiongnu headquarters was less than one Han county.
Even if you include the slaves and the population of various countries in the Western Regions, it would only be 11 times that of the Han Dynasty.
With such a huge disparity in strength, what could the Huns do to fight the Han Dynasty?
Cavalry?
joke!
Now, the models and standards for cavalry in the world all come from the Han Dynasty.
Therefore, under this despair and lack of confidence in future victory, the nobles of the Huns were actually drifting with the trend.
At this time, the equivalent horse appeared and threw out the 'Varna' system that was poisoned by oneself.
It immediately touched the souls of countless people.
Many people believe that instead of going through all the trouble to learn from the Han Dynasty, the Xiawu Movement not only subverted the ancestral system, but also gave slaves and foreigners the opportunity to rise to power.
It may not necessarily have any effect.
Varna is better.
Nobles will always be nobles, and slaves will always be slaves.
People are divided into grades, and blood is divided into dirty and pure.
What a wonderful design, what a perfect construction!
Can there be anything better than this?
"Tu She..." Yang Ye looked at Hu Lu She. He knew that he had to convince the Hun noble in front of him. He took a deep breath and bowed to Hu Lu She: "Dare I ask Tu She: What does Tu She think?"
Will the Varna system be beneficial to the Xiongnu?"
"Of course there is..." Hulushe said seriously: "At least, implementing this system can ensure the eternal wealth of the noble leaders of various tribes, and even bribe the nobles and royal families of various countries in the Western Regions to make them do their best to serve us, the Xiongnu!
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This is the terrible thing about this so-called Varna system.
It is a perfect system designed for conquerors, superiors, and carnivores.
Institutionally, religiously, theoretically, and belief-wise, it ensures the absolute interests of the conquerors, superiors, and carnivores.
It ensures that the upper class nobles, even if they are just pigs, can be as stable as Mount Tai.
For the Xiongnu, the royal families and nobles of the Western Regions had an irresistible temptation.
Especially the Huns!
Since the Battle of Yanji, the Xiongnu headquarters suffered heavy losses, with almost one-third of their young men dead. The fall of Hexi caused the Xiongnu to lose another hundreds of thousands of its population.
The population size of the Xiongnu Empire had dropped to historical lows.
This forced Julihu to transfer a large number of other tribes and slaves to the Xiongnu headquarters, and strengthened the Zhebei system in the military ministers era, so that the Xiongnu Empire would not collapse.
But the disaster has also been laid.
When the population of the Xiongnu tribe as the backbone and main body, that is, the Jintang clan, the Xubu clan, the Huyan clan, the Lan clan and other clans, fell into the second or even third group in the population structure of the empire.
The foundation of the Xiongnu Empire's rule was already shaky.
Conquer a big country with a small number of people, and rule a large number of people with a few.
The Huns themselves were furious.
Who can guarantee that the alien slaves and Jebie cavalry, who make up the majority of the population, will always be loyal?
Who can ensure that the countries in the Western Region will not unite to rebel?
However, the population of the Xiongnu headquarters has been reduced to less than 300,000.
Do you think the Huns could sleep under such circumstances?
The Varna system of horses is equivalent to a poor traveler who sees a bonfire in the wilderness. Even if he knows there is danger, he probably has to get close and try it.
Because this system can at least solve the problem for the Huns of using a small number of people to conquer a large country and ruling a large number of people with a few.
This system is more in line with the interests of many Xiongnu nobles, especially those whose interests were harmed during the Xiawu Movement.
They have little reason to reject the system.
The shamans even jumped up and down, making a lot of noise.
Waving flags, cheering and applauding for the folding horse.
The ambiguous attitude of Juli Lake only caused the trend to expand infinitely, and finally accumulated enough noise before the Tellurium Forest Conference.
