"What about the current situation of King Zhelan and King Aries?" Liu Che put aside the topic of the Anbei Protectorate and asked about the situation of the two captured leaders of the Xiongnu tribe.←,.
Although it is said that many Han generals, including Yizong, have reported the general situation of King Zhelan and King Aries to Liu Che through a letter.
However, the text, especially the memorials of the Han Dynasty, are often not too careful.
Therefore, Liu Che only knew that the captured Huns nobles were currently emotionally stable and could recognize the reality that they were captured.
After hearing the words, Yi Zong thought about it in his heart, and then replied: "Reporting to your majesty, King Zhelan and King Aries are now just like dogs..."
"Huh?" Liu Che asked: "How respectful is it?"
"For example, King Wu Fu Chai, a minister of King Gou Jian of Yue..." Yi Zong replied.
A sneer appeared on Liu Che's lips.
Gou Jian, the king of Yue, was defeated by Fu Cha.
Apart from lying on one's knees and tasting courage, the most common thing she did was to kneel down and lick her husband's wife without any limit.
Sending money to girls is a common thing.
According to historical records, Gou Jian even licked Xiang and drank urine in order to numb Fu Cha...
It's really the limit of human endurance.
Yi Zong obviously meant to tell Liu Che very bluntly: none of these people can be trusted.
"The Chanyu of the Xiongnu sent an envoy to discuss with me a month ago about the redemption of Zhelan and Aries..." Liu Che did not ask Yizong why he thought that the captured Zhelan and Aries kings were Gou Jian.
', he turned to mention the actions of Shan Yuting of the Xiongnu: "I have roughly agreed that if any of the generals in the army are restless, please go and comfort them, and do not make the generals dissatisfied..."
For Liu Che.
Since he can defeat the Huns once, he can definitely defeat them twice.
Since ancient times, whenever a Chinese dynasty rises and begins to humiliate the grassland peoples, as long as the dynasty does not have internal strife, it will not decline.
The nomads on the grassland. In front of this dynasty, no matter how hard they struggle, they will be completely defeated.
Although the Xiongnu were a little special, they had fiercely fought and resisted such a fate in history, and also caused a lot of trouble to the two Han Dynasties.
But the result is destined.
Wang Shi went north and defeated everyone.
Even in the Yuan Dynasty, there was still Chen Tang. He went on an expedition of thousands of miles, led an army to attack the country, took the leader of the Chanyu, and shocked the world.
What's more, today's Han Dynasty is on the right path to rise and become stronger.
The gap between the Han and the Xiongnu in all aspects is widening every day.
Apart from anything else, as long as the Han Dynasty can absorb the dividends of this war.
The next time the Han army goes out of the fortress, they will definitely attack Huanglong. They will break through the gap in Helan Mountain and ask Shanyu to blame.
In such a situation, a few prisoners are of little importance.
Not to mention, these prisoners can be exchanged for compatriots who were kidnapped by the Huns in the past few decades.
But Liu Che was still a little worried that the extreme hawks in the army were making trouble, so he asked Yi Zong to appease them.
The ideological and political work of the army, especially the ideological work of officers above the team leader, has always been the most important to Liu Che.
Because the Han army was actually composed of individual teams.
By controlling the thoughts of the team's leadership and winning over the team's leadership, Liu Che can firmly hold the barrel of the gun in his own hands and is not afraid of anyone taking advantage of him.
The so-called martial arts court system and the censor, military and judge system were all extended based on this idea.
"As for King Zhelan and King Aries, whether they are Goujian or loyal dogs, they have nothing to do with me..." Liu Che sneered and said, "If you want to worry, it's up to the military officials to worry..."
King Aries, King Zhelan and other captured Huns nobles were released back.
For Liu Che, it was more than just being able to get back those kidnapped people.
At the same time, it is also a good thing to cause trouble for the Huns.
Regardless of whether they wanted to fight again after returning to the Xiongnu, or they were discouraged and drank to drown their sorrows, it would be great for Liu Che's Han Dynasty.
The former will allow them to jump up and down within the Xiongnu, confusing the situation and affecting judgment.
It may even cause civil unrest.
Think about it, a group of nobles who had been "ashamed of the defeat of Mayi" all day long and vowed to wash away the shame with blood, forced Shan Yuting to turn back.
As for Shan Yuting, the westward policy has almost been determined.
It is very likely that when these people returned to the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu army had already marched westward.
by that time……
Shan Yuting's drama will probably continue.
Historically, a regime that cannot unify its internal opinions will fall into endless internal strife.
In the history of mankind, there has never been any country or nation that has been able to achieve something in the midst of internal strife when a powerful enemy is at hand.
If it's the latter, that's even better.
Send a batch of rice bugs to the Huns to consume their national power, and at the same time use their mouths to promote the might and power of the Han army. In this way, in the future, they may be able to defeat the enemy without fighting and collapse many possible resistances.
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After all, the nomadic people have the characteristic of being mothers if they have breasts, and their knees will weaken when they encounter strong enemies. This has been true since ancient times. For most tribes on the grasslands, they have no national or ethnic cognition and consciousness at all. For them,
In any case, there is no difference between being a slave and eagle dog for the Donghu people and being a slave and eagle dog for the Huns. Similarly, there is no difference between being a concubine and eagle dog for the Han Dynasty.
They are typical wallflowers.
"Have all the captured Huns soldiers been settled?" Liu Che skipped the topic of King Zhelan and King Aries, and instead asked about the situation of the captured soldiers and lower-class nobles: "What are their attitudes and thoughts?"
"Your Majesty, this person is very honest..." Yi Zong thought of his disciple, the Hun nobleman next to Tian Jian, and couldn't help but smile at the corner of his mouth.
Before the Battle of Mayi, to be honest, Yi Zong had always thought that the Huns, like the Han people, were generally full of blood, strong, loyal and unyielding people who would not surrender until death.
Even, maybe the Huns were better than the Han people in this aspect.
Barbarians, with well-developed limbs and simple minds, accept death!
But what Yi Zong didn't expect was that they actually accepted death.
But what they believe is the death principle of success and defeat, which is even more naked than China's.
The winner deserves all the rights to deal with the loser.
After the Huns were captured and surrendered, even the Zhelan people who used to be considered extremely ferocious and cruel suddenly became more docile than a kitten.
They tried their best and exhausted all methods to make the most naked and complete gesture of surrender to the Han army.
For example, most of the livestock and war horses captured in Xiliu Camp are these captives helping to herd and take care of them.
Their work attitude is extremely serious and meticulous.
Yi Zong and the Han army were all stunned and couldn't even believe that these people were Zhe Lan and the Aries Cavalry who had shocked the whole world with blood and terror.
Fortunately, King Lou Fan and other nobles who returned to Yi solved Yi Zong's confusion.
According to King Loufan, the grassland has no permanent owner since ancient times. Today, the people who draw the bow are Donghu. Tomorrow they will be the Yueshi, and the next day they will be the Xiongnu. Ridicule is the norm, so the people who draw the bow, when defeated and captured, all scramble to be the first.
The slaves of the new master, just to avoid being slaughtered.
Moreover, the people who use bows are afraid of being without a master. People without a master are like grass in autumn and cannot survive the winter!
To put it simply, the captured Xiongnu tribesmen and nobles worked hard for the Han army and actively contributed, just to show their attitude to the new master. At the same time, they were also looking for a new master.
For nomads, not having a master is the most terrifying thing in the world.
Even the Qiang people, Xiaoyue people and Ding Ling people on the grassland, who are low-status and wandering tribes that do not form a group, will try their best to find a master for themselves.
Because without a master, it means death and extinction.
But the Han military system was completely different from the Xiongnu system.
In the case of the Xiongnu, the victor's soldiers would immediately divide the captives and plundered population.
As for the Han army, they generally disarmed the captured Xiongnu tribesmen and centralized their custody and management, waiting for Chang'an's orders to deal with them.
This made the captured Huns panic.
Without an owner to claim them, they cannot determine their fate and live in fear all the time.
So, they immediately formed a consensus that we must find ourselves a master!
On the grassland, the way for a defeated prisoner to find his master is very simple.
That is to express yourself to your new master desperately.
Just like when animals are in heat, those males will use all means and methods to show their corolla, muscles and size in front of the female.
The Huns didn't know how to farm, they only knew how to herd.
Therefore, they desperately helped the Han army take care and manage the livestock, and tried every means to pass on the message: Master, I am very useful to the Han people.
I hope that a nobleman from the Han Dynasty will come up to them and say: Good slave, you are the one, come home with me!
But unfortunately, the system of the Han Dynasty decided that all power belonged to the emperor.
Rewards, punishments, rituals, music, and conquests all come from the Son of Heaven.
Without the emperor's order, these captives would remain captives forever.
Yi Zong told Liu Che what King Lou Fan said, as well as his own understanding and opinions, what he saw and heard, and tried his best to tell Liu Che in plain language, and then asked: "Your Majesty, how should these prisoners be dealt with?"
Liu Che nodded after listening.
In fact, he also understood something about the Huns, or the nomads on the grassland.
Three years ago, Xia Yanzhi came to the Han Dynasty with thousands of slaves as dowry. The behavior of these slaves had already told Liu Che what kind of group the nomads were.
They live on vast grasslands and make a living by grazing.
Their daily staple food is cheese and other dairy products.
This dietary structure allowed the nomads to evolve thick and short bodies and strong limbs.
It also makes their culture and beliefs full of primitive barbarism.
But at the same time, although dairy products are rich in protein, they lack sufficient vitamins and various trace elements.
This directly leads to the fact that nomadic individuals generally have short life spans and are prone to various diseases.
That’s why tea from China is so popular on the grasslands.
Because tea leaves are boiled with milk, added with salt and oil, and a handful of fried rice can supplement the vitamins and other trace elements they lack and balance their electrolytes.
This living situation that is different from that of farming peoples has led to the fact that over millions of years, nomadic peoples have gradually developed the two characteristics of surrendering to the strong and needing masters.
Surrendering to the strong is for the survival and continuation of your own tribe and yourself.
A master is needed because, on the grassland, individuals are fragile and dangerous and cannot survive at all.
Without the protection of a group, a single human being cannot survive even one year on the grassland!
Disease, attacks by wild beasts and other humans can kill people at any time.
Over thousands of years, these two concepts have been deeply ingrained in the bone marrow of every nomadic people, and have been passed down from generation to generation.
In their belief, having no master is as terrible and terrifying as China having no ancestors.
In China, a person without ancestors means he has no past, which is very sad.
On the grassland, having no master means that he has no future, which is even more sad.
Why were the slaves that Xia Rouge brought as a bride so well-behaved and obedient?
Because Liu Che once appeared in front of them with Xia Yanzhi, and admitted and approved that he was their master.
As a result, they instantly gained great satisfaction and comfort...
Maybe that's a bit of an overstatement.
But the fact is, it is indeed the case.
Especially now, those defeated Zhelan and Baiyang, as well as the captured cavalrymen of the Huns themselves.
The fear and uneasiness they felt in their hearts was probably the same as that of a Chinese scholar-official who was told that his family's ancestral tombs and ancestral halls had been demolished.
They are in tension and fear.
To be honest, in fact, the Han Dynasty had no experience in housing and dealing with so many Huns prisoners, and for a while, the government and the opposition could not come up with any specific measures.
After all, these are close to 20,000 prisoners of war!
Although someone once suggested that we might as well kill them all.
However, before this person could finish speaking, he was sprayed back by the officials.
Liu Che would not agree to such stupid things as killing prisoners!
The Xia people, from ancient times to today, have already broken away from ignorance and barbarism and embraced civilization.
On the battlefield, when two armies are fighting, killing is inevitable. In fact, the more enemies our army kills, the better.
But since the enemy has surrendered, killing prisoners will serve no purpose except to show his inferiority and incompetence.
Moreover, Bai Qikeng killed Changping prisoners of war and Xiang Yu set fire to Guanzhong. They had already used bloody lessons to teach the Han people that if they kill prisoners and refuse to surrender, they will be punished by heaven.
Fortunately, Liu Che is a cheating time traveler.
The biggest role of a time traveler is not that he is smarter than others and thinks more, but that he knows many things that others do not know.
For example, the treatment of prisoners of war and the arrangements for the surrendered Huns.
The experience of Emperor Wu's dynasty for more than forty years was enough for Liu Che to understand what he should do.
You must know that the number of Hun prisoners of war, surrenders and surrenders that Emperor Wu once disposed of and resettled was not one or two, one thousand or two thousand, or even ten thousand and twenty thousand.
In the entire Emperor Wu Dynasty, the total number of nomadic tribes exploited and conquered was almost over one million!
These experiences and lessons are all in Liu Che's mind at this moment, allowing him to know how to deal with current problems. (To be continued.)
