After rubbing his sunburn, Liu Che smiled at Wei Shang and said, "Mr. Meng Shu, please continue..."
Wei Shang nodded and continued: "There are distances between the Xiongnu tribes and Shan Yuting. The tribe of King Zuoxian is something I don't understand and have never been in contact with, so it is difficult to judge..."
"However, the veterans still know a little bit about the tribes below the Youxian King in the south of the curtain."
Wei Shang stood up and walked to the old wooden map hanging on the palace wall.
This map is a map of the distribution of the Xiongnu tribes drawn based on the memories of the Han envoys who were sent to the Xiongnu in the 14th year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's return.
For a long time, this map has been hung in Ganquan Palace, as something that encouraged the emperor of the Han Dynasty not to forget to avenge his shame.
"Kunxie tribe, also known as Hunxie tribe, is preceded by Yiqu! Your Majesty can summon Kunxie, the grandson of Dahonglu, and you will know after asking. As far as the veteran knows, Dahonglu's grandfather was once Yiqu.
The prince of the tribe fled to China due to civil strife!" (Note 1)
Listening to Wei Shang's words, Liu Che was also startled.
Yiqu?
Of course, Liu Che is no stranger to this ethnic group. Speaking of which, today's Beidi, Daijun and parts of Shangjun were all the territory of the Yiqu people in the early and middle stages of the Warring States Period.
King Zhao of Qin even relied on Yiqu's troops to consolidate his power.
But this tribe has long since disappeared in the smoke of history.
Until now, the only impression left on Liu Che by the Yiqu tribe was probably Gongsun Kunxie and his son.
But Liu Che did not expect that Gongsun Kunxie and his son had such a connection with the Kunxie tribe of the Xiongnu.
After thinking about it carefully, Liu Che slapped his thigh and murmured: "Gongsun Kunxie, Kunxie, Kunxie, I should have thought of it a long time ago!"
At this time, after the nobles of the northern nomadic people became Chinese or returned to Yiyi, they would take the tribal name as their surname or given name.
For example, the famous Jin Rixi is based on the symbol of the Xiutu tribe. Jin is the surname.
If it was the Kunxie tribe, Liu Che might not be able to understand the past, present and future of this tribe.
But as soon as Wei Shang mentioned Yiqu, Liu Che knew that he would immediately understand the past and present life of this tribe, as well as the social atmosphere, living customs, and power inheritance methods.
Because in Shiqu Pavilion, there are at least hundreds of volumes of Yiqu clan information recorded by Qin people.
These materials are very detailed, almost down to the smallest detail. There are even a lot of them that were originally written down by Yiqu people after they became officials in the Qin court.
"As for Xiutu..." Wei Shang frowned, as if this question was difficult to answer. After a long time, he said: "I don't know the origin of the Xiutu tribe, but one thing can be concluded that this tribe is not of Xiongnu descent.
, nor are they the ghosts and Quanrong that have been seen in Chinese history books in the past. It is said that their ancestors surrendered to the Xiongnu after being defeated by Maodun from the west. Maodun moved his clan to Hexi, and his race
Most of them have white skin and brown eyes, are tall and strong, and like to use gold and red gold to worship their ancestors. It is said that their tribe casts gold figures to worship their ancestors... From what I have seen, the Xiutu tribe should be similar to the Bai Di seen by Zuo Zhuan in the past.
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Liu Che nodded slightly after hearing this.
The history of white people in China is a tragedy!
Many people may not know or know that during the Spring and Autumn Period, white people invaded China along with other barbarians.
At that time, the Zhou Dynasty moved eastward, and the Zhou Dynasty could not even protect itself. In the hinterland of China, demons were dancing wildly, and the princes of various countries even entered the land of Yi and Di.
When you open Zuo Zhuan, you can see countless strange Yi and Di peoples.
Among them, Bai Di has a high probability of leaving the country.
Even, eventually, the Baidi people established their own political power after naturalizing in China, which was the Zhongshan Kingdom.
However, the so-called Bai Di at that time was actually completely Chineseized.
As for the Xiutu tribe, Liu Che remembered that there were a large number of historical records in later generations proving that this tribe was indeed Caucasian.
The Hou Zhao regime during the Sixteen Kingdoms period was established by the descendants of the Kunxie tribe.
However, no matter how much trouble these white people once stirred up, in the end, they were completely silenced in the long river of history.
"As for Loufan and Aries, there are records of these two tribes during the Warring States Period. Li Mu and Meng Tian even fought against them!" Wei Shang touched his beard and said: "From what I have seen, the habits of these two tribes are mostly from
Quanrong, a genus of the Qiang and Di, are the most vulgar, barbaric, cruel and tyrannical!"
Liu Che knew about this.
When the Zhao army opened up the Hetao and marched towards the Yinshan Mountains, they fought with these tribes more than once.
Aries, Loufan, and Linhu are the foreign races that appear most frequently in the history books of the State of Zhao.
Compared with these tribes, the Xiongnu at that time were nothing more than war scum.
"The Loufan tribe and the Baiyang tribe, as I know, were tribes that voluntarily surrendered to the Huns after Mao Dun raised his army. Therefore, Shan Yu Ting trusted them throughout the ages and entrusted them with important tasks, and even allowed them to travel from Henan to Hexi.
The vast pasture, its Aries King, was even called Henan Aries King!"
"Xiu Tu Kunxie's status among the Xiongnu is not as good as that of Baiyangloufan, but because his tribe has a large number of livestock, he should not be underestimated!" Wei Shang was talking eloquently, and then he seemed to think of something.
Regarding this matter, he solemnly said to Liu Che: "If one day, the country sends troops to the north, in addition to killing the four tribes of Kunxie Baiyangloufan, your Majesty also needs to be careful about the Hujie tribe three hundred miles west of Rouge Mountain. This tribe
According to my experience, the Xiongnu had been troubled by the Xiongnu for a long time. When Maodun was in power, they were unable to control them. It was not until the Shanyu came to the throne that he mobilized a large army to attack the Yueshi in the west to make them surrender.
The second son, named "Shezhe", was King Hujie, and his royal court was divided into thousands of horses as King Hujie's army. This was the only example of the Xiongnu deposing the royal family after conquering the enemy and replacing it with a Shanyu son!
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Hearing this, Liu Che also nodded and said: "Meng Shugong, I will remember it!"
Liu Che was no stranger to the Wujie tribe.
Nearly thirty years ago, in the second year after the end of the Han-Hungarian War in Henan, the Xiongnu’s boss, Shanyu, wrote a letter of credence that seemed gentle and courteous, but was actually murderous.
In that letter of credence, the old man proudly showed off his martial arts to the Han Dynasty: With the blessing of heaven, good officers and soldiers, and strong horses, he destroyed the Yueshi with barbarians, killed them all and surrendered, settled Wusun, and called Jie
, Loulan and its twenty-six neighboring countries, all the bow-wielding people are one family.
The power of the Hujie clan will not be any worse no matter how it can be compared to the two powerful countries of Wusun and Loulan by the old Shanyu, instead of being included in the "26 other countries".
go.
Not to mention a tribe that even an outstanding person like Lao Shang finds it difficult to deal with and must use his own son to rule and restrain the tribe.
I'm afraid he's not a kind person either.
Maybe it's a barbaric tribe more terrifying than the headhunters.
What Liu Che didn't know was that this Hujie tribe was more powerful than he imagined.
In history, in the later period of the Xiongnu period, there were five Shanyus standing side by side.
King Hujie is one of these five chanyus.
But he didn't know. So, he just wrote this thing down in his heart.
At this time, Wei Shang walked back to his seat, and with the support of his attendants, he slowly sat down and said to Liu Che: "As for the relationship between the Xiongnu tribes that your Majesty asked about, I don't know much about it. I only know that the Xiongnu
There are two factions in the country. The southern tribes of the curtain advocate going south to invade the Han Dynasty, and the northern tribes of the curtain advocate marching westward. The two factions have been fighting each other for decades. Three years ago, the military minister Shanyu launched a coup and bloodbathed the curtain.
The Southern faction killed its leader, King Youxian, and banished and exiled a large number of nobles and generals who were close to King Youxian. Because of their excessive killings, they aroused dissatisfaction among the noble surnames in the country, such as the Lan clan, the Xubu clan, and the Huyan clan.
So the military officials had no choice but to appoint Yizhixie, the son of King You Xian, as King of Sun Zhu!"
"The military officials have even killed King Youxian, how many nobles are they still afraid of?" Liu Che asked with some suspicion.
Liu Che had seen both the Huns from the Xubu clan and the Huyan clan, so it was no big deal.
Wei Shang smiled and said: "Your Majesty does not know something. In the Xiongnu kingdom, except for the left and right wise kings and the left and right kings of Guli, the other official positions, such as the left and right generals, the left and right high-ranking households, and the left and right bone princes, all come from Xu for generations.
Bu, the Lan family and the Huyan family have three surnames. The power of these three surnames is no less than that of the Luantang family. Moreover, their clansmen are scattered in various tribes belonging to the Xiongnu. They are nobles and hold great power. Even the Chanyu must also consider these three.
The position of the surname!"
Of course Liu Che knew who the Luantang family was.
The royal family of the Xiongnu, the Shanyu family, took Luotang as their surname.
After listening to Wei Shang's description, Liu Che had a rough idea of the power structure of the Xiongnu.
To put it simply, the Xiongnu is not so much an empire composed of a tribal federation, but rather an interest complex of tribal alliances.
The relationship between Chanyu Ting and other tribes below it is not so much that of monarch and minister, but rather that of the boss and the younger brother.
This loose imperial system was united to Shan Yuting's side only through the powerful army of the Xiongnu and the great prestige of Mao Dun.
It seems that Chanyu claims to be 'born of heaven and earth, placed by the sun and moon', but in fact Chanyu's throne is built on a sand dune.
A loose alliance, extremely fragile.
In order to maintain his dominance, Shan Yuting also imposed violent expropriations on the tribes below.
To use a Chinese idiom to describe the situation of the Xiongnu Empire at this moment, it is: The world has been suffering for a long time!
As long as someone stands up and raises the banner against the Huns.
Liu Che believes that there will definitely be countless responders.
Historically, when the Han army marched north, countless young people from various tribes in the Xiongnu country rushed to join the Han army, bringing their own dry food and equipment.
There are even examples of whole families coming to vote.
All we can say is that the level of civilization of the Huns is too low, and their cohesion and assimilation abilities are extremely poor!
It would take China, let alone sixty years, twenty years to convince all the tribes in the entire grassland that they were the direct descendants of the Zhuanxu clan, the Qingyang clan, etc. after the Yellow Emperor.
But what about the Huns?
They have dominated the grasslands for sixty years, but not a single tribe has assimilated.
Even the beliefs and customs of each tribe are very different.
but……
This is a good thing for Liu Che!
If the Xiongnu really had the ability to assimilate, it would be detrimental to Liu Che.
"Should I add some medicine to the Huns?" Liu Che pondered in his heart.
Now, it is obviously stupid to directly confront the Huns.
However, proxy wars and things like that might as well be played for fun.
Especially now that the Huns and Wusun are fighting bulls in the west.
Although the Han Dynasty could not directly support the great movement of the Wusun people against the tyranny of the Huns, there were still middlemen...
For example, where did the news about the war between Wusun and the Huns come from?
Liu Che would not believe that it was Lu Tazhi, the king of Donghu, who inquired about it.
If Lu Taizhi had this ability, he would not have ended up in history as he fled back to the Great Wall in embarrassment and returned to Chang'an to become a rich man.
Then the only possibility is that someone wanted to use this to seduce the Han Dynasty and stab the military ministers in the back.
There is only one person in the entire Huns who can have this motive and ability: Yi Zhixie.
Thinking of this, Liu Che asked Wei Shang: "Meng Shugong, I remember. Last year, I issued an edict asking Yunzhong County to collect all the ordnance exchanged in the county and put it into the arsenal. I don't know. Can those things be returned now?
exist?"
Yunzhong County was the first border county of the Han Dynasty that was fully equipped with iron weapons.
Due to the change of equipment in the county, a large number of bronze weapons and old equipment were eliminated.
According to Liu Che's intention, these obsolete equipment should be allocated to the militia and the county's township armed forces.
But even so, the quantity of these equipment still cannot be fully digested.
Therefore, Liu Che ordered that Yunzhong County collect all the discarded equipment and store them in the county's arsenal.
Originally, Liu Che's plan was to make farm tools or utensils.
But in that case, it will undoubtedly be a loss.
As a qualified ruler, Liu Che obviously could not accept such a situation.
Now, Liu Che suddenly thought that there was another place where these things could be sold to the Huns.
Especially selling it to Yi Zhixie and his friends.
Since ancient times, the profits from arms have far exceeded all other businesses.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, in accordance with the decree, those military weapons were distributed to the township pavilions in the counties for training the people's strength. The rest have been stored in the arsenal. There are two thousand halberds, five hundred spears and crossbows.
Eight hundred weapons, one hundred pairs of hard bows..." Wei Shang thought for a while and replied.
"Yizong..." Liu Che squinted his eyes, turned to look at Yi Zong, who had been a good student next to him, and ordered: "When you return to Yunzhong, go and contact the Huns. Tell them that you want to sell one
Give them a batch of weapons and let them ask for their price. The Huns can sell whatever they want for the weapons in Yunzhong's arsenal, except for the crossbows. I can accept all kinds of payment in terms of slaves, gold, war horses, and cattle and sheep.
Way……"
Originally, Liu Che even wanted to sell the crossbow machine.
After all, the crossbow machines made by the Han Dynasty were quite sophisticated high-tech weapons.
This bronze crossbow machine, inherited from the pinnacle of the Qin Dynasty, has strong adaptability and durability.
Its various parts are even fully interoperable.
This means that even if the Huns obtained the Han Dynasty's crossbow machine, they would not be able to imitate it.
Because he wanted to produce this kind of crossbow machine, the Xiongnu needed a high-precision manufacturing institution headed by the Shaofu. At the same time, he also needed a group of Mohist scholars to study and analyze the characteristics of bronze materials for him. Then he also needed a group of Legalist officials.
It promotes the animal name system and strict quality requirements.
These requirements are indispensable.
However, Liu Che couldn't sell it.
Because no one will care about selling halberds, spears, etc., but if you sell crossbows to the Huns.
Once someone discovers some clues.
The public opinion of both the government and the public could drive Liu Che to death.
Crossbows are strictly controlled weapons and equipment in China, especially military crossbows. Every military crossbow will be registered after it is produced.
In peacetime, hundreds of military crossbows suddenly disappear. Without even thinking about it, people from the imperial censor's yamen can immediately be beaten. (To be continued.)
ps: After diving into the pile of old papers and searching for a long time, I finally found the exact records and evidence about the origins and origins of the Xiongnu tribe.
Damn it, my eyes are dazzled~
Note 1: Kunye is Yiqu, which is recorded in the history of the Ming Dynasty. Both historical records and Han books give exact evidence and answers, and this matter is mentioned more than once, especially in the "Biography of the Xiongnu" in Han books.
Direct evidence is given in the "Chronicles of Prefectures and States" in the Later Han Dynasty.
The Xiutu tribe is of Caucasian origin. The historical records do not elaborate on this, but the unearthed cultural relics support this fact.
For example, the epitaph of Wang Zhenbao discovered in Gansu in 1972, along with the accompanying slips and the epitaph on the tombstone, accurately and without a doubt depict the history of the Xiutu people's changes during the Western Han Dynasty - Jin Dynasty, Southern and Northern Dynasties. Those who are interested
You can search for comrades. It’s very interesting. The white people think that they are the descendants of Hou Ji after the Yellow Emperor. I am so happy to see it.
