The green grass is dwindling day by day, and the cavalry of many tribes have returned to the west.
Today, the area where Shan Yuting is located has only 30,000 to 40,000 cavalry.
The rest either followed King Hujie to Nanchi or had returned to the west.
The military minister stood in the king's tent, looking at a map, several tied slaves, and a bag of gold coins that had just been sent to him.
These were among the trophies brought back by King Luhou from the West after he raided a village after penetrating deep into the Kingdom of Dawan.
"These Dawan people are really strange..." the military minister stroked a gold coin and said with a smile.
This kind of gold coin is different from all the coins that military officials have seen in the past.
The gold coin is engraved with a naked male figure who seems to be holding a stick-like object and sitting on a slave. There are unknown letters on both sides of the gold coin.
On the reverse side of the gold coin, there is the same naked man, holding the same utensil, but this time he has changed his sitting position, seeming to be sitting on the head of a slave?
Looking at the man with short hair and a lush beard on the gold coin, the military officer snorted. Then, he grabbed the gold coins in the bag and let them fall down, making a jingling sound.
"There is a lot of gold in this country..." the military minister said with a smile: "This is a good place for my great Huns to make a fortune!"
"The great plow Gutu, this country is not only rich in gold..." A Xiongnu nobleman bowed and said with a smile: "There is also a lot of food and wine. King Luhou only captured three or four villages.
There were thousands of slaves, including four to five hundred female slaves. In addition, there were countless grains and wines. The warriors couldn't move them all, so they had to drink them... As a result, many people were drunk for a whole day and night..."
In the entire tent, many nobles immediately started swallowing their saliva.
Gold, food, slaves, wine.
These four things are what the Huns yearned for.
Many people can't wait to go to the country called Dawan to grab it.
At the foot of the Great Wall, spending a boring time staring at people from the Han Dynasty and getting nothing. It is simply breathtaking!
"What is their combat capability? How many cavalry do they have?" the military official asked.
"Da Chanyu, from what my servant has seen, this country is basically dominated by infantry, with occasional cavalry, and the horses are tall and handsome, like divine horses!" The nobleman replied: "It's just... this combat ability...
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The nobleman chuckled and kicked the prisoners who were tied up. The prisoners were immediately frightened to death and screamed, seemingly begging for mercy.
"Da Chanyu, these people are the noble officials of the Dawan Kingdom!" The nobleman said with a smile: "Look at how cowardly they are..."
"King Lu Hou wiped out hundreds of people they led with just one charge. After beheading more than fifty people, the rest all surrendered..." He laughed and twisted the hair of one of the nobles. That was
You can see the beautiful curly hair. Its owner loves it very much. Even if he is in trouble, he still takes good care of it. There is almost no dust between the hair.
In the past, this beautiful curly hair fascinated many ladies and made them crazy.
But now, it is being grabbed by the Huns arrogantly, like playing with turf.
"Da Chanyu, we know that after this man was captured, he told King Lu Hou to beg for mercy and said that his father could give him a hundred bags of gold coins to redeem him!" The nobleman patted the nobleman's beautiful cheek and laughed.
: "However, King Luhou feels that it would be more valuable to dedicate him to the ancestors!"
"A hundred bags of gold coins?" The military minister's eyes widened, and other Huns nobles also stared in disbelief.
Some people even kept licking their lips.
"Yes, Great Chanyu!" said the nobleman: "One hundred bags of gold coins, each bag contains fifty!"
The military minister picked up a gold coin and weighed it in his hand.
This gold coin is very heavy!
The weight is almost five times that of the copper coins of the Han Dynasty!
And gold is much more expensive than copper coins, at least a hundred times more expensive!
In other words, can such a man be worth the wealth of a Han Dynasty county?
The military minister and his ministers looked at each other.
But the nobleman didn't intend to give up like that.
He took out a bag of coins, spread it out in front of the military officials and said: "Great Chanyu, in addition to gold coins, the slaves also found this kind of coins..."
As soon as these coins are exposed to sunlight, they immediately reflect a silvery white luster.
As soon as they appeared, they immediately attracted the full attention of military officials and other people.
Even the color of gold is covered by this cute little brilliance.
"Are these silver coins?" The military officials picked up these coins as if they had found a treasure, put them in the palm of their hands, and cared for them like treasures.
Silver is much more precious than gold!
Especially in the Han Dynasty, one pound of silver was worth more than three pounds of gold.
Moreover, merchants and officials of the Han Dynasty were eager for silver.
They will do their best to collect all the silver they can find, and then make these silver into exquisite vessels as offerings to their ancestors and gods.
"These silver coins are more than gold coins in Dawan!" The noble official grabbed the crying Dawan nobleman and said, "I asked this man, and he told me that if it were silver, this man's father would be willing to use him.
I’ll redeem you with an equal weight of silver!”
When the military minister heard this, he took a deep breath.
Gold, silver...
Dawan is so rich!
"This Shanyu should have gone to the west a long time ago..." The military minister regretted in his heart, feeling deeply saddened by his reckless decision last year.
Grab the south side, if you can grab it, of course it will be good.
But the problem is that Nan used to be a hedgehog, but now he has become a tiger.
Decades of facts have told the Huns that seizing the south is not worth the gain!
Now, it is even more necessary to lose everything and suffer a huge loss!
The other nobles were all breathing heavily and said one after another: "Great Chanyu, please allow us to return to the west..."
Almost everyone can't wait to go to the country called Dawan, rob and kill, and vent their grievances and resentments at the foot of the Great Wall in the south.
"What's the hurry?" the military officer yelled angrily: "It's going to snow soon. Even if we return westward, we won't have time to send troops. What's more, I don't know what the attitude of the Han emperor is.
The ancestral mausoleum and the altar of the gods must not be lost, and the tribes in the south of the curtain must not be lost. If it is difficult to come back, I will make a decision after asking clearly!"
Before the military official finished speaking, a voice came from outside the tent: "The Great Chanyu, the envoy to the Han Dynasty, Qi Qu Qie Diao, has returned and is looking for an audience outside the tent!" (To be continued.)
ps: The Dawan people do use gold and silver coins as currency, and there are a lot of them!
In history, when Li Guangli captured Dayuan, each Han soldier received an average of three kilograms of gold...
