In the last few days of August, news came from afar that the Western Huns envoys had made a pilgrimage to Chang'an on Shanyu's orders.
The news spread and the world was shocked.
Even Liu Che almost staggered and couldn't believe it.
Although the small regime of the Western Xiongnu was regarded as a separatist regime by the Han and Northern Xiongnu.
The Northern Xiongnu publicly declared that the fake Chanyu in Heli Mountain was established by the Chanyuzi because of the rebel Qi Qiediao who could not capture him.
They even sent someone to send a message to the Han Dynasty. They came with a formal letter of credence and a lot of loyalty, filial piety and etiquette. They hoped that the Han Dynasty would not recognize the Western Xiongnu, let alone have any official relations with them.
touch.
The only thing they didn't do was tell the Han Dynasty explicitly: As long as the Han Dynasty did not recognize the Western Xiongnu, they could legally cede even the Munan region to the Han Dynasty.
Obviously, for the Northern Huns, the existence of the Western Huns is more hateful than the Han Dynasty!
They would rather make peace with the Han than destroy the Western Huns!
This is in line with the instinct of most meat eaters.
Before fighting the outside world, you must first make peace with the inside.
However, it can be said that this is not luck or knowledge.
At the beginning, the Xiongnu were divided and Qiqi was in trouble. With the support of the Xiongnu nobles in the Hexi Corridor, they took advantage of the opportunity of the Han-Hongyan-Yanji battle to strike back and hijacked Shan Zili.
And took advantage of the chaos to occupy most of the strategic points in the Hexi Corridor.
By the time the Northern Xiongnu was established, they had already occupied the Xingxing Gorge, locking this key pass between the Hexi Corridor and the countries in the Western Regions.
Faced with this natural danger, the Northern Huns were worried about the huge losses in the attack, and on the other hand, they were afraid that it would be difficult for them to surrender to the Han Dynasty. Therefore, they could only watch the Western Xiongnu's small regime separatist power until now.
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As for the Han Dynasty...
It was purely because he had some indigestion and hiccups after eating Mu Nan, and Qi Qu Qie Diao had trouble recognizing faces, so he made a prompt decision to make a marriage and cede Gaolan Mountain, which made Liu Che quite satisfied, so he gave up for the time being.
But now, Qi Qu Qi Diao Nan suddenly sent an envoy to visit, under the banner of "Chan Yu Shan Jing Dynasty to the Emperor of Han".
Liu Che was a little surprised.
"Are you ready to surrender or surrender to me?" Liu Che didn't quite believe this.
Is it difficult to channel and carve?
This person can be said to be a Huns traitor whom Liu Che deliberately supported. Liu Che knew this person very well.
He is a typical poisonous snake.
A purely selfish villain.
As long as something is beneficial to him, even if it means kneeling down to eat, he will be happy with it.
on the contrary……
Just to put this person into the ugly faces of certain interest group bureaucrats that Liu Che saw in later generations.
He then understood that this man was a villain who didn't care about propriety, justice or shame, had no moral integrity, and even had no credibility at all!
In the past, when he was a slave of the Twins, his character had already been well demonstrated.
If now, the Han army had marched into Hexi and approached the Qilian Mountains, he would probably lead the sheep, crawl on the side of the road, and surrender.
But now, he still sits high on the Qilian Mountains and rules over the entire Hexi.
He was the actual controller of the Western Huns.
What he wants and wants must be how to continue his rule as much as possible!
Just thinking about it for a moment, Liu Che understood the other party's intention, which was just to delay.
It would be better to delay it until the day he is about to die.
This is the most perfect!
only……
"It's probably because the master has been in charge for a long time and has forgotten the nature of the Huns..." Liu Che sighed. He had already foreseen the fate of this Huns traitor who had made outstanding contributions to the intelligence work of the Han Dynasty.
For the Huns, a cowardly master is not what they need.
There must be a coup!
It is even possible that the Northern Huns were involved.
However, the Han Dynasty, which had only discovered this matter now, could no longer interfere with the internal affairs of the Western Huns.
The Han family can only sit back and watch, and can only pray that the other party's coup can be delayed a little longer. It is best to wait until next spring when the ice and snow melt.
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But Liu Che's ministers didn't think so.
When the news spread that the Western Huns sent envoys under the banner of pilgrimage, the princes, ministers and scholar-bureaucrats in Chang'an immediately became excited.
Even the people in the market were celebrating.
Although the Western Huns were only a separatist regime, they had a small country and weak soldiers, and were in a difficult situation. They faced a pincer attack from the Han and the Northern Huns.
But after all, he was the Shan Yu Shan, the prince of a military minister, and the orthodox heir to the Xiongnu Empire.
In the minds of the Han people, the Western Huns are actually the orthodox ones, and the so-called Northern Huns are considered self-reliant people.
Although it is said that the Western Huns were an abnormal country in the eyes of the Han aristocrats and officials because of their difficult canals.
It is a country of constant chaos.
But, this is the Huns after all.
After all, they were the Huns under the rule of the descendants of Maodun.
From Pingcheng to the present, fifty-five years have passed since the two great powers of Han and Xiongnu were in opposition.
The Battle of Pingcheng ended with the Han and Hungarians retreating.
But there is no doubt that this battle exposed the pride and pride in the hearts of the Chinese people since the Warring States Period.
Once upon a time, any of the seven heroes of the Warring States Period could defeat the Yi and Di and chase them to the north.
The unified Qin Empire was even more invincible in the world. General Meng Tian's Great Wall Army defeated the prairie princes who did not dare to go south to herd horses or bend their bows to fight.
Until Maodun was born, the myth of Zhu Xia's invincibility was shattered.
In the next few decades, for the first time in Chinese history, the emperor of Zhuxia had to marry the Lord of the Barbarians and Di, and humiliatingly exchanged women's wealth and silk for peace.
The great shame and humiliation are deeply engraved in the marrow and blood of every noble scholar and official.
Over the past decades, the cities in the northern counties that burned under the hooves of the Huns, the dead people and the wailing elders, have deepened this sense of shame little by little.
In that autumn only eleven years ago, thirty thousand Huns invaded the North, beacon fires were lit on Ganquan Mountain, Guanzhong mobilized, and urgent matters in the North still seemed like just yesterday.
Eleven years ago, those young men and generals who were awakened by the news of the Xiongnu invasion were now at the peak and golden age of their lives.
Most of them have now embarked on their own paths.
The elite among them have even become the decision-makers of the empire.
Now, the Western Huns actually came to pay a pilgrimage to Chang'an?
Just like later generations, those born in the 60s and 70s witnessed the moment when the red flag fell from the Kremlin, the subjects of the Han Dynasty had mixed feelings in their hearts at this moment.
It even feels unreal and unreal.
The Xiongnu Empire, which my father and grandfather once regarded as a life-and-death enemy and had threatened the Xia Dynasties for decades, surrendered just like that?
Did victory come just like this?
Countless people were immediately confused, and then they caroused all night long.
And many veterans and generals were crying and laughing at the same time.
The tombs of generals and ministers in Changling and Baling were crowded with nobles and scholars who came to offer sacrifices and pray.
For the Han aristocrats, this day is indeed a historical dividing line.
The pilgrimage of the Western Huns represented that the Han family had completely gained the upper hand over the Yi and Di.
It also represents China, once again returning to where it should be, where it originally belongs.
The Celestial Empire and the Central Empire are back!
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However, we crossed Gonglu River and headed north.
At this moment, the world has begun to snow.
And it’s snowing heavily!
Winter in Muhoku has arrived.
Hu Lushe took King Zuo Xian's large banner, separated from the Xiongnu tribe who stayed in Guyan Mountain, and embarked on a journey to the Western Regions to overwinter.
In the past, the Huns usually went to Munan to spend the winter.
But now, they can only give up their traditional wintering places and choose to spend the winter in the equally cold Western Regions.
Fortunately, after the destruction of Dawan and Wusun, the Huns' wintering grounds in the Western Regions had become large enough.
only……
Staring at the increasingly blurred outline of Guyan Mountain, Hu Lushe recalled the experience of him and his father going south to Nanchi more than ten years ago, not long after the military minister ascended the throne. It was also the same season.
How powerful was the Huns Empire at that time!
It served the Han Dynasty in the south, reached Beihai in the north, Dawan in the west, and Korea in the east.
It can be said to be a true overlord!
In just over ten years, everything has changed.
The Xiongnu Empire not only lost its ancestral land, but also Shanyin Mountain, the mother of all twin clans.
Even the Dragon City was lost, and the tomb of Maodun Shanyu, the elder Shangchanyu, was occupied by the Han Dynasty.
Now, the entire Munan has been controlled by the Han people.
A month ago, he received news that the last Wei Wei Khan was found by the Han Dynasty cavalry in the Gobi Desert south of the Gonglu River, and was immediately beheaded.
At this point, there was no longer an organized resistance force in Munan.
Once this winter passes, the Han Dynasty's rule in Munan will be extremely stable.
"I heard that the Han Dynasty people used many new technologies to settle in Munan... According to legend, there is a creation called a green storage cellar, which can even store forage underground for several months and still be fresh..."
Hu Lushe felt a little frightened when he thought about this rumor.
Since ancient times, people who lead bows have feared and feared winter.
Because, in winter, everything is dead, and livestock have no fodder and can only survive on the fat accumulated in summer and autumn and the stored hay.
Even the Xiongnu headquarters would often starve to death in winter if they were not adequately prepared.
If you unfortunately encounter a snowstorm, it will be an even more terrible disaster.
Often leading to the annihilation of the entire clan!
Large-scale snow disasters are called white disasters.
Once a white disaster occurs, tens of thousands of people will die. In the following year, tens of thousands of people will die and millions of livestock will be lost.
The entire grassland has been unable to recover for several years.
But the Han Dynasty people seemed to have found a way to solve this disaster and even defeat it.
As for what the facts are?
We will see the results next spring.
If spring comes next year, there will be no rebellion in Munan under the Han Dynasty, and no herdsmen will flee.
So……
This will completely change the world!
It is even enough to shake the three views of the entire people who lead the bow.
"The Huns must also have corresponding skills..." Hu Lushe bit his lip and said silently in his heart.
To have similar skills or abilities, it can only be possible through the Xiawu Movement and full Chineseization!
Thinking of the Xiawu Movement, Hu Lushe felt a little relieved.
Although the blood of the Tellurium Forest Conference in May in summer has not dried up yet.
There is still resistance and resistance among the tribes of the nobles who were executed and exiled.
However, the reform was steadily implemented.
Zhebie Wang Yanggong has deployed several reform policies and strictly implemented three of them.
The first decree of the reform was: the grass-tuning order.
According to this decree, in the past summer and autumn, throughout Mubei and the vast grasslands of the Western Regions, various Xiongnu tribes actively stocked up fodder under the supervision of nobles sent by Shan Yuting.
According to the legal requirements, each settlement must turn in three stones of harvested hay every month.
Those who fail to comply with the order will be punished with five oxen and sheep each.
Under strict orders, all Xiongnu tribes actively harvested all the fodder they saw.
In just a few months, Shan Yuting controlled millions of stones of hay.
The piles of fodder are enough for the entire Xiongnu tribe to survive the winter!
The reform is bearing fruit!
The power of the Xiongnu has been greatly enhanced.
Shan Yuting's prestige was even more established.
Immediately, the second reform policy began to abolish old customs.
According to this decree, the Xiongnu tribes banned various bad habits in the past, including father and son Kunzhong living in the same Qionglu, private fights, and shamans using Huns as sacrifices.
This decree was severely resisted, but under the high pressure of Shan Yuting, it was strictly implemented, and violators were directly punished with the penalties prescribed by law.
In just a few months, more than a hundred shamans have been whipped to death!
Then, the ‘surname change order’ began again.
Starting from Chanyu, he took the lead in using Chinese surnames and Chinese names to speak Chinese.
Juli Lake itself was renamed: Xia Zhe. In the Shanyu Court, he insisted on using Chinese, Chinese rituals, and Chinese characters to communicate with people.
Hu Lushe also gave himself a Han Dynasty name: Xia Jiang.
Similarly, like Juli Lake, in his own royal court, he insisted on communicating with others in Chinese, Chinese rituals, and Chinese characters, and only spoke in Xiongnu language on a few occasions.
Under their leadership, the surname change order was implemented smoothly.
Now almost all the Xiongnu nobles have changed their Chinese names.
With the implementation of these reforms, the Northern Huns gradually took on a new lease of life.
Hu Lushe and Gulihu were surprised to find that although the reform had severely damaged the old aristocracy of the Xiongnu, it also led to the emergence of new aristocrats and new blood.
Many people who had been buried appeared.
The most important thing is that through reforms, Shan Yuting's power has greatly increased.
The armies directly affiliated with Julihu and Hulushe have been greatly strengthened.
According to the reform plan given by Yang Yi, next year, the Xiongnu will enter the most important year of reform.
It is not only necessary to carry out reforms among the countries in the Western Regions, but also to comprehensively promote the Xiawu Movement.
The military power of various ministries will also be taken away, allowing Shan Yuting to control the real military force!
Educational reforms must also be carried out, and an "academy" should be established in Chan Yu Ting to teach the children of nobles and leaders of various tribes various aspects of Chinese culture.
As long as this reform is completed, the Xiawu Movement will be able to see results.
In less than ten years, the Xiongnu will be completely new and have the basic ability to compete with the Han.
We might even be able to develop the Xiongnu’s ‘divine cavalry’.
Thinking like this, Hu Lushe felt very excited.
but……
Could the Han Dynasty give the Xiongnu ten years?
Hu Lushe didn't know, but he knew that if the Huns did not change the law, they would perish!
At this time, a horse suddenly rushed from the distance. Facing the heavy snow, he came to Hu Lushe. He dismounted and knelt down and said: "Great Zuo Tushe, something serious has happened! I just received an urgent report from Junji Mountain: The traitor is here.
It is difficult to send envoys to Chang'an to pay homage to the Emperor of Han!"
"Ah!" Hu Lushe felt a tightness in his chest when he heard the news, and almost fell off his horse. 8)
