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Liu Che waved his hand, and Taichang Dou Pengzu, who was at the bottom of the steps, immediately understood, walked to the hall, bowed to Liu Che first, and then turned around and faced the east.
Zongzheng and Liu Li also stood up and stood in the opposite direction of Dou Pengzu, facing the west. They both held a silk book that had been drawn up long ago and started reading: "The Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager pardoned: Madam's honor,
The Emperor Xiancheng... Now there is a Xiongnu girl named Xia, with excellent morals and etiquette... The two countries of Han and Hungary have been brothers for generations... I have made you my wife, flattering the emperor, working hard and sleeping day and night, and never forget it!"
Under the hint of the maid next to her, although Xia Yanzhi didn't understand, she kowtowed three times docilely, and then accepted the letter of pardon.
The moment she received the letter of pardon, all the courtiers in the palace, except Liu Che, bowed their knees and bowed to her: "I will pay my respects to you, Madam!"
In the Han system, the wife's position is higher than that of the princes and kings, she is regarded as the prime minister, and her status is higher than that of the princes.
In fact, the status of a driver who drives a carriage next to the emperor is no worse than that of Jiu Qing.
The woman next to the emperor's pillow, even if she is just a minor envoy or a foreign minister, must bow before her - not to respect the woman's status, but to respect the master she serves.
When the process reached this point, Liu Che stood up and ordered: "Come here, take Mrs. Xia to Yongyan Hall to rest!"
"No!" Wang Dao immediately accepted the order.
As a wife, Xia Rouge has the right to enjoy a complete separate palace as her private territory.
In addition, maids, eunuchs and various servants have been prepared for her in the palace.
And the Yongyan Palace is Xia Yanzhi's future residence. If nothing happens, where will she spend the rest of her life - unless she can live longer than Liu Che and then have a son who is crowned king.
After watching Xia Rouge disappear outside Zhangde Hall surrounded by maids and eunuchs, Liu Che turned his attention to the Hun nobleman standing in the hall who had been ordered by the military minister Shanyu to serve as the ambassador for marriage and marriage.
Liu Che flipped through the Xiongnu credential that had been handed to him a long time ago and found the person's official rank and name. He smiled and said: "Guduhou has worked hard all the way, please Guduhou to replace him."
I would like to convey my greetings to your lord!"
At the same time, Liu Che was also quite surprised.
Hou Gudu?
This is the noble official position at the top of the pyramid in the Huns!
His status is equivalent to the Nine Ministers of the Han Dynasty, and he is a close confidant of the Xiongnu Chanyu. The most powerful nobleman with a different surname in the Xiongnu country has always been appointed.
More importantly, Guduhou was in the Xiongnu and was the minister in charge of the Shanyu Guards.
This time the Huns sent a Marquis of Gudu to the Han Dynasty to marry him, which shows that they attach great importance to this marriage!
As for this Xiongnu nobleman named Lan Tuoxin, Liu Che could also guess from his appointment as Lord of Gudu that he must be a core member of the Lan clan, one of the three strongest surnames in the Xiongnu country besides the royal family.
, and may even be the current or next chief of the Lan clan.
This is interesting!
Gao Shi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, once wrote a poem: The silver saddle and jade are embroidered with candid arcs. Every time Yao goes to court, his bones are broken.
It may be the poet's rhetorical technique to equate hussar and bone.
However, at least it can be seen that the status of Guduhou among the Xiongnu.
Looking through the entire history of the Han Dynasty, only two of these heavyweight Xiongnu nobles had ever been to Chang'an.
One of them was Yu Shan, the son of a military minister. Yu Shan failed in his political struggle and fled into exile in the Han Dynasty.
The other person was a nobleman who was sent to Chang'an as a hostage by the Huns. He should probably be the brother or son of the Shanyu at that time.
However, this Xiongnu nobleman was short-lived just like Yu Dan. He died not long after arriving in Chang'an.
But now, at this time when the Xiongnu is powerful and the Han Dynasty is at a disadvantage, none of the top Xiongnu nobles like Guduhou have ever been to Chang'an!
In history, Yu Dan came to the Han Dynasty to seek refuge in exile, while another "nobleman" came to surrender.
From these two examples, Liu Che quickly thought: Is this Marquis Gudu coming to Han Dynasty just for a wedding mission?
If you say this, let alone Liu Che, I'm afraid even a three-year-old child won't believe it, right?
Therefore, Liu Che immediately labeled the other party as "having evil intentions" and planned to let Wang Dao keep an eye on this guy's every move in Han Dynasty.
Lan Tuoxin didn't know that he had been targeted by Liu Che.
He bent slightly and respectfully said in blunt Chinese: "The emperor's kindness will be conveyed to my lord by the foreign minister. In addition, the foreign minister also brought the greetings from our lord, Pengli Gutu, to His Majesty the Emperor!"
"Thank you for your greetings, Your Majesty..." Liu Che chuckled, but he was quite wary of the fact that the Huns' Guduhou knew Chinese.
Today, at least on the surface, the Xiongnu often beat the Han Dynasty.
Under such a situation where the Han Dynasty is weak and the Huns are strong, how can a top Xiongnu nobleman speak relatively fluent Chinese!
This is just like the early days of reform and opening up in later generations, when a high-ranking official from the United States who spoke fluent Mandarin swaggered into Beijing. Either this person was pro-China, or he was an extremely anti-China person!
Who but enemies and friends would bother learning a language that they may never use?
Perhaps this idea is a bit extreme.
But as an emperor, Liu Che has never been afraid to speculate on other people's actions with the greatest malice.
Liu Che looked at the Huns Guduhou and said with a smile: "Guduhou has been tired from the journey and must have worked hard. Come and prepare fine wine and food for Guduhou!"
In essence, this is an eviction order.
Of course Lan Tuoxin could hear it, but he didn't have any dissatisfaction. He bowed slightly and said: "I would like to thank His Majesty the Emperor for your kindness. I am willing to support you forever!" After saying this, he made the courtesy of the Huns, and then
They retreated under the leadership of the eunuch.
Liu Che watched him disappear into the palace, then turned around and said in front of the ministers: "Wangdao. Send someone to keep an eye on this Gudu Marquis. There will be people following him at twelve o'clock!"
As soon as these words came out, all the ministers in the palace felt a chill on their necks.
And this is exactly the effect Liu Che wants.
Only by cutting grass can one startle the snake! Otherwise, Liu Che would not be sure to know what kind of secret mission this Gudu Marquis was carrying to come to Chang'an.
Liu Che didn't believe that he was just here to get married!
Anyway, it was absolutely impossible for Liu Che to send a Jiuqing to the Xiongnu just to send a princess to marry for such a ridiculous thing!
Looking at the ministers, Liu Che was convinced that what he just said would definitely reach the ears of Guduhou!
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The night is already deep.
Lan Tuoxin, accompanied by several Han Dynasty officials, returned to the official residence arranged for him by the Han Dynasty.
As soon as he entered the official residence, Lan Tuoxin clapped his hands.
More than a dozen Huns of various shapes immediately ran over and knelt on the ground, vying to kiss Lan Tuoxin's toes.
In the eyes of the Han people, this may be behavior that should be despised.
But among the Xiongnu, this is an extremely serious etiquette.
Generally, only the master's trusted slaves are qualified to do this. In other words, those who are not Lan Tuo Xin's slaves are not qualified to do this.
"This is the territory of the Han people, don't do this anymore!" Landosin said to these slaves he carefully selected.
"Yes, great master!" the slaves agreed one after another.
At this time, just outside the door, a man dressed as a servant quietly put his ear to the wall, pricked up his ears and listened.
It's a pity that this person listened for a long time and didn't understand what the people inside were saying!
"They are not speaking the Xiongnu language!" This man was shocked. As an elite member of the Han Dynasty who had been to the Xiongnu and participated in the rebellion of the Xiongnu nobles, he judged it almost immediately.
"It's not Donghu or Yuezhi language..." he judged.
Donghu language and Yuezhi language are also common languages in the areas controlled by the Xiongnu. Even the Xiongnu language comes from the Donghu language family and is a variant branch of the Donghu language family.
As a veteran craftsman who had lived in the Xiongnu territory for several years, he was basically good at it.
But it is obvious that the other party is not using these popular languages, but another language that he does not know!
The Xiongnu were essentially a large collection of miscellaneous people. There were countless ethnic groups and tribes living in a vast territory, and these tribes spoke a variety of languages.
Especially the tribes in the west have one tribe and one language. Even the Xiongnu nobles have a hard time telling which tribe a certain language belongs to.
Only Lan Tuoxin knows where this language comes from.
This is the aristocratic language of Dayuan, a powerful country in the Western Regions. It is said that its ancestors brought it from the far west.
Except for the Dawan people, there are very few people even in the Huns who know this language.
In order to master this language, Lan Tuoxin spent three years studying.
Because he was the noble in the Huns who was responsible for dealing with Dawan, their enemies, and the Yuezhi. Lan Tuoxin learned this language so that he could communicate with the nobles of Dawan when he went to Dawan to plunder in the future.
As for those slaves, they were all loyal slaves who had served Lan Tuoxin since childhood.
Such loyal slaves were closer than brothers and more reliable than parents to the Xiongnu. Lan Tuoxin would take them with him no matter what he did since he was sensible.
In other words, if Lan Tuoxin can do it, they will naturally do it too.
Therefore, using this language to communicate, there is no communication barrier between master and slave.
Therefore, Lan Tuoxin did not have to worry about the matter of having ears across the wall. He said without any scruples: "My hounds, now, I need someone to lurk in the capital of the Han Dynasty to deliver news to Shan Yuting!"
It must be said that although the Huns are ignorant, they are not stupid.
As a successful nomadic empire, it has its own reasons for success.
In particular, after the Huns' royal family, the Yan family, who was married to Wusun more than ten years ago, actually helped the Wusun people to trick the Huns, the Huns no longer believed in the superstition that their women would definitely be their own.
There has been discussion in the Xiongnu country about the possible counterattack of Beihai Yan clan.
The final conclusion is: No matter whether the Beihai Yan family will backlash or not, marrying a princess to the emperor of the Han Dynasty will not result in a loss!
First of all, the huge dowry team can well place and arrange various spies, and can provide the Huns with many inside information of the Han Dynasty that they could not grasp before. These people may even learn the advanced smelting and casting techniques of the Han Dynasty.
technology!
The Xiongnu have always coveted the iron smelting and casting technology of the Han people!
Moreover, the Huns were also the beneficiaries of Han people's smelting technology - back then, Lu Wan and Han Xin betrayed Liu Bang and took a large number of people into exile with the Huns.
These people brought China's peak bronze smelting technology at that time. It was with the help of these people that the Xiongnu Empire was able to have an invincible army that could crush the grassland tribes - in a group of nomadic people who still used bones and stones as weapons.
In front of us, the Huns army using bronze weapons is really buggy!
However, after the previous Emperor Taizong Xiaowen came to power, the Han Dynasty began to eliminate chariots in the army. Iron weapons were popularized and all-iron weapons were used. Therefore, the Han army gradually began to have the ability to counterattack.
The knowledgeable people among the Xiongnu were naturally very concerned about these actions of the Han Dynasty.
Lan Tuoxin is one of them.
Lan Tuoxin always believed that invincible cavalry and sophisticated equipment were the foundation of the Xiongnu Empire.
It was Lan Tuoxin who finally persuaded the military official Chanyu to send five thousand slaves and three thousand cavalry as dowry to the Han Dynasty, almost like a gift. Of course, all the slaves were captured from the Western Regions, and the cavalry were also scattered from the grasslands.
Apart from those spies who were deliberately planted, there were no more than a hundred real Huns drawn from the small tribe.
And with such a huge investment, Lan Tuoxin’s plans are certainly huge!
"What I want is the Han Dynasty's iron smelting technology and corresponding casting technology!" Lan Tuoxin thought of Haikou, which he boasted in front of Shan Yu.
As long as the advanced smelting and casting technology of the Han people can be learned, then the Huns Empire can continue to grow strong.
For this reason, a worthless so-called Chan Yu's daughter, plus thousands of captured slaves and cavalry, is a good deal!
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The next day, in the early morning, Liu Che got up from Xia Yanzhi's healthy and charming ketone body, feeling refreshed.
Looking down at the exotic girl under him who still had some tears, Liu Che was filled with the pleasure of being a conqueror.
In particular, this girl is one of those beautiful girls who clearly have characteristics of European mixed race.
As for the language barrier and the inability to communicate, these shortcomings can be ignored in front of PaPaPa.
When a man and a woman have sex, as long as they can hear the gentle and sweet moans, is it necessary? Do they need to communicate through language?
But then again, in this era, the Serbian race, the Greek race and the ancient Aryan race with Europa race characteristics were very common in the grasslands, the Western Regions and India.
According to historical records, there are a large number of Serbian people in Wusun.
Archaeological discoveries of later generations can also confirm that there were many white tribes with obvious Europa characteristics living in Xinjiang and the Mongolian Plateau before the Christian era.
Complete mummies have even been unearthed.
In addition, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan was nicknamed "Blue Eyed Boy", which shows that there are not only European races outside China, but as the Han Dynasty grew stronger, these white people also gradually entered China...
What’s even more bizarre is that before Liu Che traveled through time, he had seen a piece of news that even white Europeans were found buried in the No. 2 pit of Qin Shihuang’s Terracotta Warriors and Horses...
Liu Che now confirms that all this is real.
It's not just the girl under him who has European white features.
Even the many slaves now placed in the young manor, according to the official reports below, are also very strange - blond, blue-eyed, with thick hair all over their bodies.
These slaves made Liu Che feel very happy.
Because these slaves, who are obviously exotic, can be sold for a good price!
Think about it, the Kunlun slave trade in the Tang Dynasty made the food merchants make a fortune!
Even the slave trade with the brown people in Southeast Asia and the third brother’s family has flourished!
As for these rare slaves that have never been seen before, Liu Che believes that many wealthy nobles and businessmen will be willing to pay a high price!
As for selling humans as commodities?
As long as Liu Che doesn't betray the Han people, he won't have any psychological pressure at all when he works!
Liu Che even thinks that a nation that cannot engage in slave trade is not considered a good nation!
This world has always been a world where the jungle prevails. If you fall behind, you will be beaten. The weak deserve to be destroyed!
No matter how dirty and limitless things you have done, you can always get clean, right?
"Only a dead Indian is a good Indian..." Liu Che walked down from the bed, and immediately a maid came forward and put clothes on him.
"Go and invite the Shaofu Ling and the internal history to the palace!" Liu Che told Wang Dao who came forward: "Let them prepare the files related to the examination!"
The first round of the examination has come to an end, and Liu Che naturally has to continue with the work of reviewing and marking manuscripts.
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