Eight hundred and sixty-sixth chapter reached an agreement
"Your Majesty, please wait a moment. After the foreign minister returns to the country, he will do his best to facilitate this matter!" Qi Qu Qediao said immediately. He was afraid that Liu Che would go back on his word after discussing with the ministers, so he said: "The foreign minister is just talking empty words.
I'm afraid the Chanyu won't believe it, so please ask Your Majesty to write a letter of credence in your own hand..."
Liu Che nodded and said, "Of course..."
It’s just a few words, a piece of paper, and it doesn’t cost a lot of money!
If something unexpected happens or new changes occur in the future, Liu Che can directly turn his back and refuse to admit his fault.
If the Huns have the ability, come and file a lawsuit!
As for defrauding people, will it cause problems with the emperor's credibility?
Don’t worry about this!
The Han family had a system: any imperial edict that was not archived, even if the emperor himself acknowledged it, was still waste paper!
Historically, Dou Ying took the imperial edict written by Liu Che's father and stamped with the emperor's seal, but it was still judged as a "false edict".
What Liu Che bullied was that the Huns did not understand Chinese rules.
After receiving this guarantee, Qi Qu Qie Diao was completely relieved.
It is true that the reputation of the Han Dynasty in the past was too good.
After the two kings reach an agreement, they must fulfill the agreement.
"Then what conditions does Your Majesty need to release King Zhelan and King Aries, as well as the captured nobles of our country?" Qiqu Qediaonan asked.
This is also the most important mission of his trip.
Although, Qiqu Qiediaonan doesn't care about the life or death of King Zhelan and King Aries.
But Shan Yuting cared very much.
Whether it was for the sake of face or to revive Zhelan and Aiyang, the two former Huns thugs, Shan Yuting would redeem the captured nobles at all costs.
As for those pawns and lower nobles?
Both the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty would selectively forget them in such diplomatic occasions.
"When will the Chanyu return the last Han people who were kidnapped to me? I will release the last captured Xiongnu noble..." Liu Che blinked his eyes and said shamelessly: "It depends on the Chanyu
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Of course Qi Qu Qie Diao Nan knew this was nonsense.
The captured soldiers and civilians of the Han Dynasty were scattered on the vast grassland. The oldest group was already fifty-six years ago.
Trying to find them is like dreaming!
Even among the people who were captured and held hostage in the past twenty or thirty years, I am afraid that not many can be found in a short period of time.
The grassland stretches for tens of thousands of miles. Even if one tribe is found one by one, it will probably take at least twenty or thirty years to complete the search.
Will the captured nobles be released after twenty or thirty years?
It is estimated that these guys are already dead, and there is no debate whether the Xiongnu Chanyu and the current emperor of the Han Dynasty are still alive.
But this has nothing to do with Qi Qu Qi Diao Di Di.
At this moment, he was not considering the issue from the Huns' point of view.
He also did not consider the problem on the side of the Han Dynasty.
The place he stands on is his own side.
As long as it is good for him, he will do it with all his strength.
And now he urgently needs political achievements to prove to both Shan Yu and the Han emperor that he is indeed very useful!
How to prove it?
Of course, the purpose was to make both the Chanyu and the Han Dynasty comfortable.
To be honest, it is difficult to achieve balance and consistency in this kind of thing.
Fortunately, he didn't need the Xiongnu country to be comfortable, he just wanted to make the Chanyu comfortable.
When the Chanyu is comfortable, he will be promoted and make a fortune. When the Han emperor is comfortable, he will pay attention to his opinions and suggestions. This will help him continue to rely on the Han Dynasty and put pressure on the Xiongnu to achieve his goal of promotion and wealth.
Because, in Qiequ Qiediao's view, his current status was entirely due to the Han Dynasty's defeat of the Xiongnu, so Shan Yuting valued his "diplomatic talent."
What if, one day, the Han Dynasty can no longer defeat the Xiongnu?
Then he will lose value.
If it loses value, it will return to its original form.
This is like the kneeling office. If there are no more people to kneel and lick, the yamen will be abolished. If the yamen is abolished, there will be no establishment and leadership. Without establishment and leadership, there will be no kneeling office.
Therefore, the kneeling and licking office will definitely do everything possible to protect its kneeling and licking partner, treating him as a father. If there is a problem, it will only say: we must not kneel and lick hard enough, or the method of kneeling and licking is wrong. Change the posture and kneel again.
Give it a lick!
Then they shamelessly ask for funding, policies, staffing, and levels from their superiors.
The same is true for the canal and the difficulty of carving.
Therefore, Qi Qu Qie Diao Nan thought for a while, and then said to Liu Che: "Your Majesty, the foreign minister has a suggestion. I wonder if your Majesty is willing to listen to it?"
"Your Majesty, please tell me..." Liu Che said with a smile.
"King Aries, King Zhelan, and many nobles of our country were coerced and deceived by the traitor Yin Zhixie. They violated the treaty agreed between the Han and Xiongnu monarchs and entered the border of the Han Dynasty. According to the treaty agreed between the two monarchs, even if your Majesty is
It's okay to kill them..." Qiqu Qediaonan said flatteringly.
This is indeed true in theory.
According to the peace treaty between Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Xiaowen and the Xiongnu elder Chanyu, the Han Dynasty could kill the Xiongnu when they left the fortress, and the Han Dynasty could kill the Xiongnu when they entered the fortress. This was affirmed and confirmed by the monarchs of the two countries.
From the moment Yin Zhixie, Zhelan, Aries, and Loufan crossed Wuzhou Fortress, the Han Dynasty had the legal power to execute them all.
Liu Che also smiled and nodded.
Sure enough, everything has two sides.
The enemy's traitors and sycophants are our greatest arms.
Liu Che then said with appreciation: "If everyone in your country is a reasonable person like the envoy, then the Han and Hungarian countries will definitely be able to maintain permanent friendship and eliminate military conflicts!"
"Don't..." Qiqu Qediaonan said in his heart: "If the Han Dynasty stops stirring up trouble, attacking and defeating the Xiongnu, then what use will I have?"
But on his lips, Qi Qu Qi Diao Nan was full of smiles and said: "Your Majesty, you praise me..."
"Envoy, please continue speaking..." Liu Che waved his hand.
"What the foreign minister means..." Qiqu Qediaonan raised his head and looked at Liu Che and said, "Your Majesty might as well offer a more realistic price and conditions. As long as it is not too exaggerated, Shanyu will agree..."
This sentence immediately sold the Huns' bottom line and position completely.
Liu Che knew immediately that the Huns were eager to resolve the aftermath of the Battle of Mayi and step down.
Military ministers now urgently need a step to step down!
"The messenger might as well give me a warning..." Liu Che said with a smile: "What kind of conditions can Shanyu accept?"
Liu Che clapped his hands, and Wang Dao immediately understood. He immediately had someone carry a box to Qi Qu Qie Diao Nan, and then opened it, revealing the neatly stacked gold cakes inside.
A hundred gold cakes were placed in front of Qiqu Qiediao, and he immediately lost all ability to resist.
Gold is indeed the most effective hard currency used everywhere in the world!
"Your Majesty, the Chanyu is willing to pay your Majesty 10,000 horses or 100,000 livestock in order to redeem King Aries, King Zhelan, and nobles above Guduhou..." Qiqu Qediaonan licked his lips and swallowed.
Tumo said: "In addition, Shanyu also promised to do everything in his power to return the captured people and soldiers of your country to your country..."
As soon as these words came out, Liu Che himself was shocked.
Originally, Liu Che thought that the Huns would be able to keep their promise and return the captured Han people, and that would be Amitabha.
Unexpectedly, the military officials were willing to give war horses and livestock?
Holy crap!
Liu Che almost couldn't help shouting.
And this further proves the urgency of the Huns' westward advance.
If the military minister had not made up his mind to march westward, he would not have been able to do so.
This is ten thousand war horses or one hundred thousand livestock!
Calculated according to market price, a rogue horse today, even the worst one, is worth 10,000 yuan!
As for war horses, even Hun horses are worth 30,000 to 50,000. If they are in good condition, they cost at least 100,000.
In other words, the Huns were willing to pay at least 30,000,000 yuan in war compensation.
This amount of money has exceeded the value of the one million gold and five bahts ordered by Liu Che to be minted.
"Ma Dan, the Huns are really rich!" Liu Che thought in his heart: "No, they really have livestock!"
But thinking about it, it seems that this small amount of livestock is of no importance to the Xiongnu.
The Huns occupied the vast steppes.
It is tens of thousands of miles long from east to west and tens of thousands of miles wide from north to south.
The entire world from the Great Wall to the distant Western Regions, from Liaodong to Lake Baikal, was the territory of the Huns.
In addition to the Huns themselves, this empire also enslaved hundreds of nomads, large and small.
In the Battle of Nanchi, didn’t Xiliu Camp capture millions of livestock and hundreds of thousands of horses?
In history, Huo Qubing also had records of seizing millions of livestock many times.
Compared with these, a mere 10,000 war horses or 100,000 livestock are nothing!
"If we can reach an agreement based on this condition, I am willing to give 10% of the livestock donated by the Chanyu to the envoy as a thank you gift..." Liu Che said with a smile: "What does the envoy think?"
Liu Che knew very well that if he wanted the enemy's traitor to work for him, he had to fatten him up.
Qi Qu Qie Diao couldn't hear the words, but he kept swallowing his saliva.
10% livestock?
In other words, a thousand war horses or ten thousand livestock?
This is already owned by a medium-sized tribe on the grassland.
And he simply couldn't resist this temptation.
Because livestock on the grasslands, just like the land in the Han Dynasty, had a fatal attraction for people.
Nomadic people make a living by grazing, and each tribe relies on the meat and milk of livestock to survive and reproduce.
Dairy products, in particular, are the staple food of all nomadic tribes.
So on the grassland, all tribes exist around livestock.
Just like the Xia, they are maintained by the output of the land.
No Hun noble can resist the temptation of livestock.
And for Qiequ Qediaonan, with these livestock, he can raise a tribe of his own.
For nomads, manpower or tribes have never been the focus.
The focus is on livestock.
As long as there are enough livestock, there is no need to worry about no herdsmen and slaves coming to seek refuge.
The Qiang people, Fuyu people, Dingling people, Xiaoyue people, and escaped slaves from various tribes would immediately run to join them as soon as they heard that someone was recruiting herdsmen.
Therefore, in the history of the grasslands, we often see that a certain tribe had only a few thousand people a year ago, but in just a dozen years, it expanded into a large tribe of hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands.
Start the great cause of unifying the grassland.
It's not because this tribe is cheating.
Instead, they obtained enough livestock and pasture through plunder and conquest, and then the wanderers scattered on the grasslands and the barbarians in the ravines joined them one after another.
The Xiongnu rose in this way, and the later Xianbei, Rouran, Turks, Khitans, and Mongols also rose in this way.
There are no exceptions.
And from the moment he betrayed Shan Yuting, in fact, he was no longer willing to be a slave of the Huns.
But now he found that he had a better opportunity.
Wouldn't it be better to be a slave master yourself rather than being a slave to the Han Dynasty or the Huns?
Moreover, the Chanyu also promised to leave him a position as the king of the tribe in Munan.
Now, the emperor of the Han Dynasty was willing to give him a kickback.
This made Qi Qu Qie Diao Nan's heart beat unwillingly.
"If we continue to help the Han Dynasty people, continue to weaken the Luotang clan, and even destroy the Luantang clan..." Qiqu Qediaonan thought in his heart: "Then I can also have a taste of Chanyu in the future? Even if it is
It is better to be a Chanyu controlled by the Han Dynasty than to be driven and enslaved by others and be other people's slaves!"
Thinking of this, Qi Qu Qi Diao Nan's heart began to beat unsatisfactorily.
Who can say for sure what happens on the grassland?
Today's slaves, tomorrow's slave owners, changes in the world always catch us off guard.
For example, back then, the Xiongnu were so defeated by Meng Tian's Qin army that they no longer dared to stay in Munan, and their ancestral land was lost.
Who would have thought that a Chinese civil war would give the Huns an unprecedented opportunity. It was the retreat of the Qin army that gave the Xiongnu the opportunity and space to rise. The Huns seized the opportunity of Qin's Great Wall Corps to return to the country to aid the country.
Only by seizing the territory that the Qin people gave up did they rise.
Otherwise, how could the Huns, with their little strength, be able to defeat the powerful Donghu?
Before the Qin army retreated, the Huns were just a tribe enslaved by King Donghu.
There is not much difference from the current Xianbei Wuheng.
Even Mao Dun served as a hostage in Donghu.
"The foreign minister must try his best not to disappoint His Majesty..." Qiqu Qediaonan immediately said eagerly. He didn't even bother to cover up, and said nakedly: "Your Majesty might as well impose another punishment on Shan Yuting."
Some pressure, for example, let Yunzhong County conduct drills...or let the Han army from Shang County mobilize near the Great Wall..."
When Liu Che heard this, he looked at Qi Qu Qi Diao Nan in disbelief, then nodded and said: "The envoy's suggestion is very good, I will consider it..."
Sure enough, as long as a person takes the first step of betraying the country, he will continue to betray the country and eventually abandon all his conscience.
In history, all the leading parties and traitors may not have wanted to sell out so thoroughly at the beginning.
However, there is no turning back from this road.
Once it starts, it will continue to fall rapidly, like a stone falling from a high altitude. (To be continued.)
ps: There will be another one after 12 o’clock——
Tomorrow's battle strength list will depend on the situation. The cervical spondylosis has been severe in the past few days, so I may not have much fighting strength.
