We stayed very late at the inn and talked a lot. Su Ren did not blindly persuade Yu Shan to return to the Huns. He used indirect insinuations to guide Yu Shan's thinking bit by bit. Although this method is troublesome, it has the most effective effect.
Okay. Under Su Ren's step-by-step guidance, Yu Shan finally made up his mind to return to the Huns after he recovered from his injuries. He wanted to take back what belonged to him for himself and the Huns.
After being single, everyone took a breath, and when sending Su Ren out, the Hun leader's curve of bend increased a lot. Su Ren just smiled politely and didn't say a word.
Under the illumination of the moon, the carriages passed through the streets of Luoyang. The place of thoroughfares of the ten provinces is by no means in vain, and the traffic will not stop in the middle of the night. Occasionally, lights shine through the curtains, and there are oxcarts or horse-drawn carriages coming from Suzhou all the time.
Ren's carriage passed by. These were merchants transporting goods overnight, traveling north and south, taking advantage of the good weather to walk, in case it rained and it would be difficult to walk.
Su Ren leaned on the side of the car and fell asleep. He talked too much and was exhausted. His voice was not right. When he got in the car, he asked Chunyu Yi for a section of licorice. It felt much better to hold it in his mouth.
"Cough!" Chun Yuyi coughed, the sound was not loud enough that Su Ren in the carriage could just hear it, but there was no reaction at all. He still leaned against the side of the carriage with his eyes closed.
"Cough cough cough...!" A series of coughs made people panic, and they were worried that the old man would cough him to death.
Su Ren changed into a comfortable position, closed his eyes and said, "If you always have something to say, just say it. Stop coughing. Be careful if you cough up something."
"Haha!" Chunyu Yi chuckled: "So you didn't sleep?"
"Can you fall asleep? There are people coming and going outside, and I keep coughing inside. I can't sleep even if I want to."
"Uh..." Chun Yuyi tried hard to find a topic so that what he was going to ask next would be less abrupt. After thinking for a long time, he asked, "Is your throat feeling better?"
"Well! It's much better, not as uncomfortable as before." Su Ren sat up, looked at Chun Yuyi, and admired the old man scratching his head and ears.
There was silence for a while, and Chunyu Yi rolled his eyes at Su Ren: "You kid, you can even bully my old man?"
"Hahaha..." Su Ren laughed: "Who told you to be ungrateful? If you have anything to say, just ask me directly. If you have to hide it, I want to see how long you can endure it."
Chunyu Yi smiled bitterly: "Well, let me ask you, why did you try so hard to persuade the Hun prince to go back?"
Su Ren smiled and said: "The old gentleman is also a Taicang order person. You can't see through this trick?"
"Tell me about it first!"
Su Ren whispered softly and spat out the licorice in his mouth: "The Xiongnu served as chanyu for several generations. They first unified the various tribes, then attacked Yuezhi and Donghu, and took away Hetao and other places, forcing Dingling, Hunyu, and Qushe in the north to
The tribes such as Kunkun, Xinli and others surrendered one after another. The power of the Xiongnu was unprecedentedly high, and the area they occupied was also increasing. Now they block the Hexi Corridor, collude with the Qiang people in the west, and join forces with Fuyu and other countries in the east to form an attack on our Han Dynasty.
The force of siege.”
Su Ren spoke and gestured at the same time, and his words were so conclusive that Chun Yuyi was stunned for a moment.
"Since the founding of our country, I, a great Han Dynasty, have fought against the Xiongnu many times, with many defeats and few wins. Gaozu almost became a prisoner of the Huns. If Jianghou Zhou Bo had not rescued him in time, the consequences would have been disastrous. Moreover, Mao Dun insulted Empress Lu's orphans and widows, so that I
The Han Dynasty has no shame. How many beautiful women from the Han Dynasty have married the Huns over the years? How many Han people have been enslaved and massacred by the Huns? How can we forget such blood feuds?"
Chunyu Yi's beard was trembling wildly, as if he had gone back fifty or sixty years ago, wishing he could wear armor and carry sharp weapons to avenge the big man's previous humiliation.
"The Huns are strong and the Han are weak. If you want to defeat the Huns, you should use clever tactics to defeat them. I heard that a strong fortress is easiest to break from the inside. As long as the Huns are in civil strife, I, the Han, will have the opportunity to take advantage of it. This Yu Shan is the prince of the Huns, but
Being forced by his uncle, King Zuo Guli, to flee to the Han Dynasty, such a thing has to be said to be the tragedy of the Huns, and of course it is also an opportunity for us."
"As long as Yu Dan is allowed to return to the Xiongnu, even if the military minister Shanyu can live a few more years, the division of the Xiongnu has already appeared. Yi Zhixie is strong and Yu Shan is weak. This is better. Support the weak to resist the strong, and let the Huns fight among themselves.
It’s a brutal killing, wouldn’t it be nice for me, a big man, to reap the benefits of being a fisherman?”
Chun Yuyi changed three moods in a row. At first, he felt that Su Ren was very knowledgeable and seemed to know everything about the world; then he felt a burst of impassioned grief and indignation, which made people feel excited; and finally, he tried to remove the fuel from the bottom of the cauldron and wipe out his dirty plan.
He spoke so righteously that people applauded his strategy and praised Su Ren for his conduct.
After calming down a little, Chun Yuyi asked tentatively: "Did you come up with these in the past two days? No, it was only yesterday that you learned that he was the Hun prince. You prepared such a huge plan overnight?"
Su Ren shook his head: "How can I be so powerful? Sooner or later, the Han and the Xiongnu will have a battle. The family teacher was thinking about this problem back then. After several deductions, he felt that no matter what we do, there must be something wrong within the Xiongnu, otherwise I, the Han, will never
There is no chance, but when I met this Yu Dan a few days ago, I seemed to see some hope."
"Your teacher? Wen Dang, the prefect of Shu County?" Chun Yuyi didn't know Wen Dang, but he had heard of his name.
Su Ren shook his head: "It's not Mr. Wen, it's Master!"
Chunyu Yi nodded: "With such knowledge, there is no one like you in the world. Your teacher is really a great sage. If he can serve the country, why worry about the Huns not being destroyed and the Han not prospering?"
"Hehehe!"
Su Ren smiled bitterly, which made Chunyu confused: "What's so funny?"
Su Ren sighed: "It's a pity that the great sage the old gentleman mentioned passed away five years ago. Even if he wants to serve the country, he can no longer do so."
"Oh! That's it! I was the one who was rude." Chunyu Yi apologized again and again: "It's the same with you."
The residence of Su Ren and others was not too far from the Huns' inn, and the old man and the young man chatted without feeling that the late night was too difficult. Chunyu Yi was getting older, so when he arrived at the residence, he went back to his room to rest, and his disciples were waiting on him.
Su Ren sent Huang Shisan, Huo Jin and Shi Bao away and entered his house. The house was dark, looking for something to light the oil lamp. The walls were empty and very uncomfortable.
I was lying on the couch, tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep. Before I got married, I thought it was good to be alone. I ate and slept, and ate after sleeping. If I wanted to work, I would work. If I didn’t want to work, I would move a table and chairs under the big tree in the courtyard.
It was so pleasant to sit, sip tea and chat. But it’s different now. I feel very lonely when sleeping alone. I drank some wine tonight, and my lower body lifted up to the sky. When I closed my eyes, I saw the white body of Dong Qian or Leng Yue.
"Dong dong dong..." The rapid knock on the door woke Su Ren up. Before Su Ren could get up, the door latch had been broken. A large group of people crowded into Su Ren's house.
Gongsun He shouted: "Something happened, something big happened!"
Hawking chirped: "Someone, someone wants to take action."
Shi Bao was busy looking for clothes for Su Ren. Huang Shisan had already prepared face wash. Only Wei Qing and Li Danghu were standing behind with deep thoughts. Su Ren was a little irritated and reached out to cover the mouths of Gongsun He and Huo Jin:
"Stop, tell me one by one, what's wrong?"
Gongsun He took a bamboo slip and handed it to Su Ren: "You will understand when you see it, someone just sent it."
Su Ren took it. There were not many words on the bamboo slips. The bamboo slips were not paper. They could not be folded and many words could not be written. There were only five words written on this bamboo slips, "Assassination of Hengshan Kingdom". There were no punctuation marks, but the meaning was expressed clearly.
Clearly.
"Where is the person? Where is the person who sent the bamboo slips?" Su Ren asked quickly.
Huo Jin shook his head: "The people from the prefect's mansion sent it today. They said that someone put it in the prefect's bedroom last night. There is another bamboo slip like this one. Ask the prefect to send this one."
Li Danghu pondered for a moment: "Could someone do this on purpose, to make us change our route, and then take the opportunity to attack?"
"What are you thinking about? That blind thief dares to fight with us?" Gongsun He glanced at Li Danghu: "Not to mention your and my martial arts, we only have two hundred elite men. The bandits will hide far away when they see them.
Even the soldiers of the princes can only look at it."
Wei Qing shook his head: "Hengshan Country is the place we must pass through on our way south. If we take a detour, we will have to walk a lot of roads. But if someone is warning us, wouldn't we just do what we want by diving in?"
Gongsun He sneered: "What are you afraid of? What happened to the Hengshan Kingdom? I don't believe that the King of Hengshan dares to attack the ministers of the court? If this happened on the border of the Hengshan Kingdom, he, the King of Hengshan, would not be able to eat and walk around!"
Li Danghu said: "This matter has to be guarded against. If someone blames the King of Hengshan, we will fall into the trap and kill two birds with one stone!"
Wei Qing nodded: "This doesn't make sense. Hengshan Kingdom is the fiefdom of King Hengshan. How many troops and horses are needed to eliminate these two hundred of us? With so many soldiers and horses, King Hengshan doesn't know anything about it?"
"That's right!" Gongsun He agreed with Wei Qing's judgment: "Although King Hengshan is a bit stupid, he is not a pig, right?"
"Don't shout, listen to what my elder brother has to say?" Hawking interrupted the argument of several people loudly.
Su Ren has been looking at the bamboo slip. It's just five words. Is it a warning or a threat? When he was in Chang'an, there was news that the King of Huainan sent people to have contact with Han Yan, but he didn't take it to heart because he and Han Yan
There is no deep hatred, but on the contrary, there is a deep hatred towards Princess Guantao. Why did King Huainan's people not look for Liu for prostitution, but instead approached Han Yan at the expense of the near and far away?
Everyone was waiting for Su Ren to speak, but Su Ren lowered his head and walked around the room. He took a few steps to take out the bamboo slips and looked at them. He walked a few more steps and looked at them again. Suddenly, he stopped and separated from the crowd and rushed out.
room.
No one knew what Su Ren was doing, and everyone looked at him stupidly. Su Ren ran all the way, rushed into Ying Guangji's courtyard, threw the bamboo slips in his hand in front of Ying Guangji: "Any suggestions?
?”
Ying Guangji glanced at the bamboo slips, then looked up at Su Ren: "Are you scared, or still undecided?"
Su Ren glared at Ying Guangji: "If you want to say something, say it. If you don't say it, I'll leave!"
"Then let's go?"
Without saying a word, Su Ren grabbed the bamboo slips and walked out the door. Ying Guangji's laughter came from behind: "Hahaha... you begged me this time! Everyone is smart, and Liu Ci is not stupid either."