Liu Che very reluctantly suppressed his urge to curse.
He stood up and said coldly to Gongsun Kunxie: "Have you forgotten that I signed a treaty with the Xiongnu Chanyu last year? Outside the Great Wall, the people of bow hunting are ruled by the Chanyu. The covenant is established, and the Xiongnu Chanyu
If I don’t break my promise, I won’t break my oath either!”
When Gongsun Kunxie heard this, he felt cold sweat break out on his back.
Gongsun Kunxie has always wanted to get out of the big pit of Dahonglu.
Even if you go down to a local place and become a county guard, that would be great!
Especially after the New Year's ceremony this year, Gongsun Kunxie's idea became more intense and urgent.
In the current political structure of the Han Dynasty and the future development trend, Gongsun Kunxie discovered that Dahonglu's status will continue to decline in the foreseeable future, and one day Dahonglu, the current Jiuqing, will even be degraded to the point where he is not even qualified to be a courtier.
Gongsun Kunxie wouldn't be surprised if he was forced to do so.
Because nowadays people don’t think Dahonglu is of any importance at all.
But to get out of the big pit of Dahonglu, Gongsun Kunxie found that it would not be that simple.
According to the Han system, ministers at the Jiuqing level will not be demoted under normal circumstances.
Unless he committed a major crime such as deceiving the emperor, perverting the imperial edict, or even treason, under normal circumstances, if Jiu Qing was reported for corruption and bribery, the worst outcome would be to avoid old age due to illness.
As for other sins?
Under the tradition of honoring generals and ministers, there will even be people who help wipe the mess and maintain the reputation of the Nine Ministers.
For example, Zhang Ou, the former prime minister and former Tingwei, served as Tingwei for three years and did nothing. He even delegated all affairs to Tingwei Supervisor, Tingweicheng and even the subordinates below.
In the previous Qin Dynasty, Zhang Ou was considered derelict in his duties, and even if his head was not chopped off, he would still be relegated to the rank of commoner.
But in the Han Dynasty, Zhang Ou had nothing to do. He even had a taste of being a prime minister. If the new king hadn't come to the throne, I'm afraid, he would still be the prime minister!
In other words, it is impossible to get out of the Dahonglu trap by relying on inactivity and sabotage.
As for deliberately committing crimes, and even doing things that made the emperor intolerable and had to intervene, Gongsun Kunxie was not that stupid.
Therefore, Gongsun Kunxie was left with the only path of meritorious service.
But Dahonglu is now an empty frame, and his greatest authority is nothing more than serving as a guide and salute officer when Shinban, Mahan, and Mitsukoshi in the south approach Chang'an in the east.
In addition, there is only one power to collude with the barbarians and communicate with other countries.
It was this seemingly dispensable power that allowed Gongsun Kunxie to discover from the pile of old papers that King Donghu of the Xiongnu had been flirting and communicating with Chang'an.
This gave Gongsun Kunxie a bold idea. Now that the new king has just ascended the throne, he has not yet figured out the affairs of the country, and he probably cannot understand these things.
Furthermore, even the late emperor probably did not know about this.
Because Gongsun Kunxie discovered that the last time the Xiongnu King Donghu communicated with the Han Emperor was eight years ago during the reign of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen.
As soon as this thought appeared, Gongsun Kunxie could no longer hold it back.
He tentatively wrote a letter to King Donghu. A few days ago, Gongsun Kunxie received a reply from the other party. In the reply, King Donghu naturally congratulated the Emperor of Han on his ascension to the throne and said a lot of good things.
Among them, there are polite words such as "Your Majesty has ascended the throne, and foreign ministers are like Shengyin, and they wish they could go to Chang'an to pay homage to the Emperor."
But after Gongsun Kunxie saw this sentence and the many explicit flatteries that followed, his spirits were lifted.
In Gongsun Kunxie's opinion, this is really a great opportunity given to him by God!
Anyway, there are probably only a few people who know that King Donghu has contact with the Han Dynasty.
Today, the emperor is so young and energetic that he even raised an army in anger last year and destroyed Weiman Korea, which had existed for more than fifty years.
Now, there is another opportunity to regain the Yi Di and influence the rebellious officials.
Gongsun Kunxie felt that the young and frivolous emperor would not consider asking for other people's opinions and would just make the decision.
In the Han Dynasty, the emperor's words became the constitution, and his words followed the law.
Even if he knew the inside story later, he would recognize it even if he pinched his nose for the sake of face.
Gongsun Kunxie considered this matter countless times.
Deduced countless times.
From Gongsun Kunxie's point of view, even if this matter fails, he has no responsibility. Even if the inside story is exposed, he can still use the excuse that the inside story is completely unknown to him, and there is the talisman of the Han Dynasty's tradition of never disgracing generals.
, the worst outcome for him is just to be scolded.
And once successful, the benefits will be huge enough to last a lifetime.
It is even unknown that he will be able to serve as one of the Three Dukes in the future with this merit!
only……
Gongsun Kunxie raised his head and looked at the emperor with a stern expression.
He never dreamed that today, he would be so afraid of the Huns that he would even refuse to accept surrender from the Huns...
As for what covenant the emperor was talking about?
Gongsun Kunxie didn’t believe it!
Over the past fifty years, the alliance between Han and Hungary was not as strong as a piece of paper.
Not only would the Xiongnu break the contract, but the Han Dynasty would too!
In the past fifty years or so, as soon as the peace treaty was signed, the Han Dynasty took in the fugitive nobles, generals, and princes from the Xiongnu and gave them rewards. This kind of thing was not done once or twice by the Han Dynasty.
Today, among the ranks of the Han dynasty, seven of them are Guiyihou from the Xiongnu.
Gonggaohou Han Daidang is now even a special elder of the Han Dynasty, enjoying the honorable ministers who receive praise and worship.
Liu Che looked at Gongsun Kunxie and probably guessed what he was thinking.
An emperor who was afraid of war or who was timid might have been unanimously supported by officials during the Song and Ming dynasties, but in the Western Han Dynasty, he was destined to be cast aside!
Even back then, Empress Lu dared to hold an imperial meeting when the strength of the Han and Huns were seriously unequal, and she looked like she was going to fight the Huns.
And a second-rate emperor like Yuan Cheng Ping'ai, even a coward emperor, never showed any signs of cowardice when dealing with the outside world.
The entire history of the Han Dynasty was just a matter of doing things to the outside world.
The popular revanchism in society has further deepened this warlike sentiment.
If anyone dares to be cowardly on such a big issue of right and wrong with the outside world, even the emperor will lose the morale of the military and the people.
Historically, Liu Zheng, the prince of Xiaozhu, launched a mutiny and was ultimately defeated. This was also related to the fact that he advocated appeasement of the Huns and lost military support.
Otherwise, if either Ren An, the Northern Army guard envoy or the Southern Army guard at the time, joined Liu Zheng's camp, it would be enough to turn the tables!
But both of them chose to sit on the fence and wait and see.
In his previous life, Liu Che often went down to the grassroots level and had conversations with a large number of heroes from the grassroots level. How could he not know this?
Liu Che stepped down from the throne, looked at Gongsun Kunxie, then looked at the ministers, put his hands behind his hands and said: "I already know everything about the Xiongnu King Donghu, Dahonglu, please don't say anything more!"
As soon as Liu Che said these words, cold sweat broke out on Gongsun Kunxie's back.
At this time, Gongsun Kunxie remembered that today this emperor has another identity: the heir apparent designated by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen!
If this rumor is true, today's emperor was indeed taught and raised by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen.
So, today it is very likely that the emperor will know about King Donghu...
Thinking like this, Gongsun Kunxie felt like his whole body was shaking and his teeth kept chattering.
However, Liu Che did not intend to let him go. He turned around and looked at Gongsun Kunxie and asked with a caring look: "What's wrong with Da Honglu? Is it because he is sick? The king said, please send the imperial doctor to come and treat Da Honglu!"
"Da Honglu is so ill..." Liu Che didn't even give Gongsun Kunxie a chance to speak, and continued: "It is not a Han system to treat ministers harshly, so let me give you a sick leave, and you can go back to recuperate first.
It will take a year and a half!”
Now that the words have been spoken, the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty all knew in an instant: Gongsun Kunxie of Dahonglu was probably playing some trick and was exposed by the emperor!
Otherwise, how could Gongsun Kunxie behave like this?
So everyone quietly made up their mind to draw a clear line with this guy.
Some people were even prepared to add insult to injury if the emperor wanted to punish them.
But Zhou Yafu and others who knew the inside story were stroking their beards and felt greatly comforted.
But Liu Che didn't want to kill Gongsun Kunxie completely.
Keeping Gongsun Kunxie was a good material for Liu Che to anesthetize and deceive the Huns.
At this stage, Gongsun Kunxie is more useful to the Han Dynasty alive than dead.
More importantly, Liu Che wanted to know where the contact between Gongsun Kunxie and Lu Ta's father has gone now?
Regarding Lu Ta's father, Liu Che didn't care what his intentions were, but at least for now, his presence among the Huns was a very useful chess piece for the Han Dynasty.
Liu Che also believed that Lu Ta's father should know that if the Han Dynasty is good and the Han Dynasty is strong, his position in the Huns will be stable for a long time.
Of course, if the other party is truly loyal, Liu Che would not mind giving him the status and treatment he deserves in the future.
