The first thousand five hundred and ninety-sixth chapter begins to fight (3)
Hundreds of thousands of bachelors need at least an equal number of girls to match them.
Where to find so many girls?
Liu Che also has a headache!
"Munan should be able to mobilize a hundred thousand women..." Liu Che thought for a while and reluctantly found a stable source of girls.
The tribes in the southern part of the country have been fighting continuously for the past two years, and their lives have been reduced to nothing.
A large number of young men and women died in battle, which made the proportion of women in the southern tribes exceed the standard. In the war, women were the easiest and least likely to survive.
Under normal circumstances, the victor in the war will not attack women.
Even the Zhelan people, who were famous for their cruelty and ferocity, would not kill women and children after defeating their enemies.
Therefore, among the various tribes in the southern part of the country, there are now many girls.
According to the reports of Zhidu and Guanhe, the ratio of men to women in the settlements of the Han army in various parts of Munan has been completely imbalanced.
It might be a good choice to select about 100,000 girls of the right age from various settlements to match them with Han immigrants, or to give them as rewards to those young men who take the initiative to settle in Hexi.
It not only solved the problem of bachelors in the Han family, but also promoted national integration.
Simply amazing!
but……
There is a gap of at least 400,000 between the 100,000 girls of the right age and the 500,000 to 600,000 singles.
Where to find the remaining 400,000 girls?
Liu Che was also at a loss.
"Should I send a mission to the Northern Huns for purchasing?" Liu Che scratched his head.
Importing from the Northern Huns may be a good choice.
The girls from various countries in the Western Regions under the control of the Northern Huns, and even the girls from Kangju, Daxia and other countries that were under the control of the Northern Huns, were of good quality.
There are blond, blue-eyed, European-style girls, and there are also black-haired, brown-eyed, flat-chested girls.
In the past two years, the smuggling trade between the Han and the Northern Xiongnu allowed Han merchants to import nearly 50,000 slave laborers from the Northern Xiongnu.
These are just the registered numbers.
Those slave laborers who were quietly brought back to the Great Wall by merchants and then tied up in workshops to work day and night are not included.
Since the Northern Huns themselves are engaged in slave trade, it is quite normal to export some girls by the way.
War is war, trade is trade.
Since ancient times, capital knows no borders and interests have no species.
The worst thing is, just sell some iron tools to the Northern Huns!
Four years ago, whoever dared to smuggle iron weapons to the Huns in the north would have their whole family killed.
Until now, in fact, Han officials were encouraging merchants to smuggle pig iron ingots to the Northern Huns.
The reason is simple. With the advancement of technology, the pig iron production of the Han Dynasty has increased several times compared with four years ago.
The iron production volume of Nanyang Iron Smelting Base alone has exceeded 3 million kilograms this year.
Equivalent to the total national pig iron production eight years ago!
The output of private iron smelting workshops and Shaofu has not been included.
If in a few years, when the technological transformation of Nanyang's iron-smelting blast furnace is completed and the new blast furnace is put into use, Nanyang's iron production alone may be enough to basically meet half of China's agricultural needs.
If pig iron is abundant, of course it must be sold!
Anyway, even if you sell one million kilograms of iron to the Huns, the Huns will still be chickens!
Even better, maybe exporting a large amount of pig iron could destroy the Xiongnu's own metal smelting system.
Thinking like this, Liu Che made his decision.
But, who should be sent as envoy to the Xiongnu?
This has become a big problem!
In the past, few people were willing to go on missions to the Huns.
Many envoys often ran away halfway because they were worried that they might be killed by the Huns if they went there.
But now, the situation is different again.
Everyone no longer worried that they might die if they went to the Xiongnu. On the contrary, after the Battle of Mayi, the Han envoys who went to the Xiongnu all the time had a very comfortable life in the Xiongnu.
If you want women, you have women; if you want wealth, you have wealth and silk.
The Huns tried their best to win over and seduce the Han envoys, trying to bring them down and make them work for themselves or betray the information of the Han Dynasty.
In this process, many scumbags who were not strong-willed or could not control themselves were pulled down by the Huns.
Many people even became spies for the Huns and delivered some information to the Huns.
Then……
The stolen goods were confiscated by the Xiuyi Guards, and he was pushed to Dongshi Ming Zhengdian for torture.
And this person's entire family was humiliated because of this, and some old parents even committed suicide in shame for raising such a traitorous son.
As for Xiuyiwei...you know, under the shadow of spy politics, it is difficult to guarantee that sometimes unjust, false, and wrong cases will occur, and some spy leaders may even dislike someone and deliberately frame him.
As a result, sending envoys to the Huns gradually became a dangerous journey.
Normal scholar-bureaucrats and civil servants and nobles were unwilling to go on missions.
As soon as some people heard that they might be sent as envoys to the Huns, they took off their seals and ran away. If they couldn't escape, they drank a glass of poisoned wine and committed suicide.
Anyway, I won’t go to the Huns even if I die.
Because reputation is more important than death! Family honor is more important!
Because of this incident, Xiuyiwei gained a lot of notoriety and exaggerated stories among the people.
If it weren't for Liu Che's protection, I'm afraid they would have been disbanded and eliminated by the 'gentlemen'.
In short, it is too difficult to put together a normal envoy to go to the Xiongnu now!
I searched high and low and couldn't find anyone willing to go.
The officials below will also automatically refuse the option of sending envoys.
But when it comes to importing girls, you have to find a reliable person to discuss it quietly.
Liu Chesi thought about it and decided to simply send a eunuch to the Huns.
Anyway, there are many eunuchs in the palace who want to take the initiative, and these scumbags only have so much ability.
What's even better is that the information they have is only so little. Even if it is corrupted by the Huns, it is impossible to sell anything valuable.
So, Liu Che made a selection in the Weiyang Palace, and then selected a middle-aged eunuch named Zhang Chang from the Xuanshi Palace.
This person has always been quite diligent, relatively loyal, and most importantly, has a tight mouth. He is a good candidate.
In this way, Zhang Chang took Liu Che's credentials and Emperor's Day, led more than 40 envoys and retinue, and quietly set out from Chang'an in mid-September. He planned to leave the fortress from Langmengyi and go from Longcheng to Junji Mountain.
Junji Mountain, he could find local smugglers, and then connect with the Huns through these guys.
Liu Che believed that the Northern Xiongnu would definitely welcome and welcome the Han mission very warmly.
Because the last time Han envoys arrived in the Northern Huns was two years ago.
In addition to talking about the girl's affairs, Zhang Chang was also responsible for discussing with the Northern Huns about jointly exterminating the creeping horse bandits that haunted the desert.
Don't wonder why the Northern Huns would discuss such things with the Han Dynasty.
During World War II, the Americans and the Nazis fought bloody battles on the battlefield, but the Nazis and American diplomats in Switzerland were exchanging glasses of wine in a coffee shop.
And these creeping horse bandits are now the common enemies of the Han and the Northern Huns.
These scum not only attacked the border posts and caravans of the Han family in the northern and western parts of Munan, but sometimes also attacked the caravans and migrating tribes of the Northern Huns.
It can be said that they are the common enemy of Han and Hungarians!
