Chapter 8: Ready to Fly, Verse 19

In April, Jinyang.

The eldest princess sat in the carriage, looking at the happy little Tianzi in her arms, with a smile on her face.

She kept kissing the delicate little face of the Son of Heaven, and kept calling the name of the little Son of Heaven, "Xiaolong, Xiaolong, are you happy today?" Are you happy to see the kings of the Hu tribe bow down at your feet? ”

Xiao Tianzi was amused by the eldest princess and couldn't stop laughing, and after a while, he seemed to be impatient, and a pair of small hands opened hard to Xiao Lan, who was sitting opposite, and shouted indistinctly, "Mother, mother......"

"Your Majesty is hungry and wants to drink milk." Xiao Lan smiled and stretched out her hand to Xiao Tianzi. Xiao Tianzi was so happy that he jumped and jumped in the arms of the eldest princess, and his little hands waved more powerfully.

"It's so big, and you still have to drink milk." The eldest princess handed Xiao Tianzi to Xiao Lan and said with a smile, "Since you gave birth to a child and had milk, he has never drunk the milk of the two nurses again, pestering you every day to drink your milk, it's really strange." ”

Xiao Lan opened the placket, and as soon as the bulging ** was revealed, Xiao Tianzi impatiently threw himself into Xiao Lan's arms and bit the nipple. Xiao Lan lovingly touched Xiao Tianzi's little face, which was flushed by sucking hard, and smiled without saying a word.

"After Your Majesty was born, you hugged him the most, and often bathed him, told him stories, and coaxed him to sleep, and I ......" When the eldest princess said this, her expression looked very jealous, "The first time he spoke, he called his mother, and he kept shouting at you......"

Xiao Lan couldn't help but laugh when she saw the aggrieved appearance of the eldest princess, "Your Highness, Your Majesty, I bring a lot, of course you are more intimate with me, are you also jealous?" ”

"He's been calling you for months, but I haven't heard her call me aunt. How can I not be jealous? ”

"Your Majesty speaks late, and in a few months, he will be able to call your aunt every day." Xiao Lan smiled and comforted, "You don't have to be busy with political affairs day and night, and you have to take some time out every day to accompany Your Majesty." Women, they always have to ...... in the end" Xiao Lan suddenly realized that she had said the wrong thing and hurriedly closed her mouth.

A hint of gloom flashed in the eldest princess's eyes, and the smile gradually faded. She leaned over to look at Xiao Tianzi, who was eating milk contentedly, and sighed softly, "Xiaolong, the sooner you grow up and be sensible, your aunt will be able to get married." Then she slowly sat up straight, looked out of the car with a pair of eyes through the veil, and whispered to herself, "I was already old at that time, and who else would marry me?" ”

Xiao Lan looked apologetic and persuaded softly, "Your Highness, even after more than ten years, will be as beautiful as a flower now, and there will be no change." ”

The eldest princess closed her eyes, her long eyelashes trembling violently, apparently forcibly suppressing the sadness in her heart.

Xiao Lan was very apologetic. In the past nine years, this is the happiest day for the eldest princess, and the bright smile on her face makes the entire Jinyang heart bloom, but her unintentional words accidentally touched her sadness and made her sad.

Today is the day for the Hu people to worship the Son of Heaven. Xiongnu Dadan Yu Liu Bao, Youxian King Liu Ming, just became the step of the Xianbei King of Moxi, the Xianbei King of Mobei, the Xianbei King of Monan, the King of Monan Xianbei, the King of Baishan Karasuma Heiling Wang Loulu, the Dongqiang King of the Wind and Sand, the Hexi Qiang King Nie Xiao, as well as the Arc Ding, Qi Shen, Mu Tao, Mu Li, Lu Huanyang and other more than a dozen Hu kings rushed to Jinyang together, loyal to the Han Emperor, and paid tribute to the Han Imperial Court.

The kings of the Hu clan faced the little emperor in the arms of the eldest princess, all of them looked respectful, without the slightest contempt and arrogance.

Since the gradual decline of the Han Dynasty, the tributary of small foreign countries has decreased year by year, especially after the civil strife of the Han Dynasty and the turmoil of the society, this kind of worship has also become extinct.

However, more than ten years later, Dahan once again enjoyed this supreme glory.

Although today's glory cannot be compared with the strong and prosperous period of the Han Dynasty in the past, it is enough for the Han and the Han court to gain self-confidence and see the hope of the prosperity of the society.

The ministers who participated in today's foreign worship ceremony seemed to have returned to the past, as if they had seen the powerful Han Dynasty again. Zhao Qi, Cai Yong, Yang Qi, Wang Han, Chun Yujia, Cui Lie, Yuan Peng, these old ministers had tears in their eyes and were excited, and Xu Rong, Liyi, Zhang Yan, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Yushi, Yan Liang, Wen Chou, these generals in the dynasty thought of the conquest of more than ten years and countless heroes and martyrs buried in other places, and they were also full of thoughts and emotion.

The kings of the Hu nationality presented their household registration to the Han Dynasty, pushing the ceremony to the first place.

Since then, although the Hu kings still enjoy the treatment of princes and kings, and enjoy military and political power in their own fiefdoms, they and their tribesmen have been the people of the Han Dynasty in the true sense, and they really belong to the Hu people, not the Hu people of the vassal state. The Hu people, like the ordinary people of the Han Dynasty, were naturalized, paid taxes to the imperial court, and served as conscripts.

In the last scene of the ceremony, when the Son of Heaven, the eldest princess and the ministers stood on the viewing platform and accepted the cheers of tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Jinyang, the great general with great achievements was nowhere to be found.

After the court meeting the next day, more than 20 ministers rushed to the Phoenix Pond to discuss the matter.

The ministers were immersed in yesterday's joyful atmosphere, and one by one they looked excited, and they spoke freely about how to weaken the strength of the Hu nationality and maintain the continued stability of northern Xinjiang.

Liu Fang believes that the Hu kings obeyed the will of the imperial court and compiled the household registration in accordance with the provisions of the land judgment policy, the number of households was seriously false, and all the slaves who occupied more than 70% of the population of the Hu tribes were regarded as the private property of the nobles of the Hu tribes and were not registered. The law of this dynasty prohibits the sale and mutilation of slaves. When Emperor Guangwu was alive, he also issued nine edicts to free slaves. The existence of slaves is definitely a hidden danger, and the imperial court should take various measures to force the nobles of the Hu tribe to release the slaves. If these slaves could also be included in the household register, it would help the imperial court to govern northern Xinjiang.

Shangshu Zuo servant Zhang Fan believes that although the Hu kings took the initiative to lower their vassal status, their status and power were not actually harmed. On the contrary, since the Hu tribes became belonging to the Hu people, they could justifiably ask the Han court for money, grain, and relief. In addition, even if the nobles of the Hu tribe released all their slaves and incorporated them into the Han household register, the northern Xinjiang and the desert were barren, and the imperial court not only could not collect their taxes, but also posted more relief. This is simply a matter of losing money and buying face, and it can't be done.

Now the imperial court is asking the nobles of the Hu tribes to send their sons and daughters to Jinyang as hostages, which is too naïve. There are so many of these people that they are children, and it is inconsequential to grab a handful and kill a dozen. It is impossible to restrain the Hu people in this way, and it is better to find ways to weaken and restrain the military and political power in their hands.

The enthusiasm of the ministers was not appreciated by the eldest princess.

The eldest princess's face was as cold as frost, and she gave them a blow to the head.

"Why did the kings of the Hu tribe come to worship? Is it because Dahan is strong? Is it because of Jizhou's victory last year? Is it because today Ziwei is in the world? A few words of flattery from the kings of the Hu clan actually made you so excited that you didn't know the north and south, did you ...... Isn't it ......" The eldest princess swallowed back the harsh words in her heart and swallowed back the harsh words on her lips.

"Last year's Jizhou victory does not mean that we are now able to calm the world, you should not be too self-righteous." The eldest princess snorted angrily and asked loudly, "Where is the great general when you stand on the viewing platform and accept the cheers of all the people?" He is in the desert, and he is working hard for the stability of the northern Xinjiang and the war in the Central Plains. ”

The ministers looked ashamed.

The eldest princess glanced at the ministers coldly, and said sharply: "If what you said just now spreads, the kings of the Hu clan in the pavilion will leave Jinyang immediately. ”

"Do you know why they came to Jinyang to worship? It's because of the general, it's because the general asked them to come to Jinyang. ”

"Do you know why they submitted their household registration to Dahan?"

Taiwei Xu Rong coughed lightly, and the eldest princess glanced at him and shook her hand, "We must make it clear today, otherwise they will get carried away and may ruin the plan to conquer the Central Plains." ”

"The imperial court wants to pacify the Central Plains as soon as possible, but our troops are not enough. The general once said that in the Central Plains War, he needed 200,000 troops. In order to raise troops, after the general returned from Jizhou, he immediately went north to the desert without stopping. ”

"The general wants to recruit the Hu iron cavalry to go south to the Central Plains?" Shangshu Chen Gong's face changed, and he hurriedly said, "The Central Plains War is an internal matter of the Han Dynasty, how can Hu Qi be recruited to go south?" The hatred between Han and Hu lasted for hundreds of years, and Yuan Shao and these rebels would definitely take advantage of this golden opportunity to slander the imperial court and the generals, stimulate the fighting spirit of the rebels, and divide Hebei. The bitter hatred of the Han and Hu generations may lead to a shocking reversal of the war in the Central Plains. ”

Shangshu Sima Lang also shouted: "Your Highness, even if we defeat the rebels with the Hu Iron Cavalry, in the history of Zhongxing in the future, we will leave the stain of colluding with foreign tribes to destroy the lives of people. ”

"Now they are not the Hu Iron Horsemen, they are the Great Han Iron Horses." The eldest princess waved her hand vigorously, "The kings of the Hu clan came to worship and submitted their household registration to the Han court to show their belonging, which is to prove to the people of the world that they are no longer vassal states of the Han Dynasty, they are the people of the Han Dynasty, and their army is the army of the Han Dynasty." ”

"The general is anxious to go north to the desert to visit the kings of the Hu tribe, just to solve this matter."

"We only ask the kings of the Hu tribe to lower the status of their vassal states, and only ask them to submit their household registration to the imperial court to show their belonging, and other things are the same as in the past, and nothing has changed." The eldest princess explained, "After losing the status of a vassal state, the nobles and ordinary people of the Hu tribes became the subjects of the Han Dynasty. Although the common people were poor and could not pay taxes, they were strong soldiers, they could replace taxes with conscription, and they could redeem their status as slaves with their military exploits. ”

The eldest princess stared at Sima Lang and asked in a coquettish voice: "Lord Sima, in the future, if you are the imperial court Taishi Ling, you will also record in the history books that these iron horses are all foreign iron horses, and the imperial court borrowed foreign iron horses to pacify the Central Plains?" ”

Cai Yong and other ministers already knew the ins and outs of the matter, and the expressions on their faces were very calm.

Zhang Fan, Chen Gong and other ministers knew about this for the first time, and they fell into contemplation for a while. Is it really okay to do this? When the people of the Han Dynasty saw tens of thousands of Hu iron horsemen slaughtering into the Central Plains, could they understand? At the time of the Jizhou War, the Huns and Karasuma people together were only 10,000 people, and at that time they were sandwiched between tens of thousands of Han iron horsemen, and they did not attract much attention, but this time...... If it backfires and arouses the anger of the people of the Central Plains, so that the rebels in the Central Plains are afraid of the same enemy and unite with the outside world, then the matter will be complicated, and the consequences will be unpredictable.

The silence of the ministers made the atmosphere in the Central Prison very oppressive.

The superintendent of the Chinese book ordered Xun You to stand up, "Ladies and gentlemen, everyone should look farther, not just for now. ”

The hatred between Han and Hu will not disappear because we have temporarily conquered the desert. If we keep using the old methods to deal with the Hu people, it will be impossible to occupy the desert forever, and the conquest and vendetta will continue for generations to come.

The ancestors fought hundreds of years of war against the Huns, Xianbei people, and many Hu tribes of different sizes in the frontier, and exhausted all methods. Thousands of miles of pursuit, coercion and temptation, separation, harmony, and building the Great Wall, all the methods that can be used have been used, but the frontier is still full of wolf smoke and beacon fires.

The Han Dynasty is stormy today, pacifying the world is only the first step of ZTE, and the reconstruction and revitalization will be more difficult in the future, and there is a long way to go, and it is far from enough to rely on our generation. Therefore, we must do our best to take advantage of the opportunity that the desert is still in our hands to minimize the threat of the Hu people to the Han as much as possible, so as to stabilize the frontier and give future generations more time to revitalize the community.

Reducing the status of the Hu people as a vassal state to a subordinate status, and incorporating the Hu population into the Han household register, is only the beginning of our control of the Hu people.

At present, the Han Dynasty is still in a period of rebellion, and in order to appease and take advantage of the Hu people, we have pulled their army into the battlefield while satisfying their demands as much as possible, so as to consume their strength little by little.

The armies of the Hu tribes are less numerous, weaker, and no longer have the ability to compete with us, and they will rely on us even more. At this time, we can sit down with them and talk about indoctrination, about abolishing slaves, about changing the territory into counties, and even about whether the kings of the Hu nationality can move to the capital.

While pacifying and using part of the Hu people, they also killed and split another part of the Hu people, and on the basis of using Hu to control Hu and requisitioning Hu iron horses to pacify the world, they consumed and weakened the strength of the Hu tribes, and then achieved the ultimate goal of controlling, educating, and taming.

Of course, this may be ten, twenty, or even thirty years from now, but this is the current policy of the imperial court towards foreign races.

The ministers left the Phoenix Pool with different moods.

The eldest princess, Prime Minister Cai Yong, Taiwei Xu Rong, Imperial Historian Liu He, Shangshu Ling Li Wei, and Zhongshu Supervisor Ling Xun You walked into an elegant side hall and continued their deliberations.

"The ministers don't seem to understand the decisions of the imperial court." Imperial Doctor Liu He said worriedly.

"Your Excellency, take the trouble to continue to talk with these ministers in charge of the court on different occasions." The eldest princess said disapprerovingly, "The decisions of the imperial court, they must carry them out. ”

"Your Highness's timing today is not good." Li Wei said with a smile, "As soon as the kings of the Hu clan said that they belonged, His Royal Highness said that they would recruit their troops to fight in the Central Plains, and the ministers were a little difficult to accept for a while. ”

"Hmph......" The eldest princess sneered, "If I say it's too late, these people will definitely be arrogant, looking up at the kings of the Hu clan, and they have to run away from Liu Bao's popularity." Now I said, just give them a warning, let them sober up, don't see the Hu people whispering, just their little tails to the sky. ”

"It's already up to the sky." Prime Minister Cai Yong smiled helplessly and said, "Didn't Your Highness hear Liu Daren's words?" He is going to force the kings of the Hu tribe to release the slaves, it's just nonsense. ”

"Let's not talk about it." The eldest princess said, "Take advantage of the few days when the kings of the Hu clan are still in Jinyang, try to persuade them to send more children from the clan to study in Jinyang University Hall, the younger the better." ”

"Your Highness, that's a good idea." Xun You said with a smile, "Let these children learn the scriptures of the Han Dynasty from an early age, which will have an immeasurable impact on their lives. In a dozen years, when these children grow up, the situation in northern Xinjiang may change dramatically. ”

After several people agreed on the details, they talked about the Guanzhong battlefield.

After receiving Han Sui's letter, Pang De went south to Jingshui again and threatened Chang'an. Yang Feng and Hua Xiongbing divided into two routes, one to threaten Kansai, and the other to cross the river from Pubanjin to threaten Feng Yijun. Xu Rong said, "Now, Han Sui's crisis has passed, and he should be able to get his hands on Fufeng County." ”

"This Han Sui, the old ** giant, jumped up and down with a broken western frontier and took advantage of it." The eldest princess pushed aside the scroll on the desk and said hatefully.

"Your Highness, if it weren't for Han Sui's hard work there, that place in Western Xinjiang would have been impossible to hold for a long time." Xu Rong persuaded, "Han Sui's merits are greater than his faults, and the imperial court should understand him." ”

"As long as he keeps his promise and guards the western frontier, he will be considered a hero in the future when the Han Dynasty will prosper." The eldest princess pursed her lips, looked at Xu Rong and said, "If he breaks his promise, you go to the Western Frontier and kill him." ”

Xu Rong smiled and nodded.

"Cao Cao and Liu Bei's army has rushed to Xiapi City, and it is estimated that they are now fighting with Yuan Shu." Xun You looked at Xu Rong and asked, "Should Lord Xu send someone to contact Zang Ba in Qingzhou?" ”

"Sun Ce's betrayal has greatly damaged Yuan Shu's vitality, if Qingzhou can't attack in time, Yuan Shu is afraid that there will be more than one luck." Liu He added next to him, "I really can't figure it out, with Yuan Shu's shrewdness, how could he deceive a nameless boy?" He was a disgrace and threw himself home. ”

Li Wei looked serious, "Yuan Shu is shameless, Sun Ce should beat him." ”

Liu He glanced at him, shook his head self-deprecatingly, and did not speak. Li Wei and Sun Ce's father Sun Jian are both disciples of Zhu Jun, and they have a very good personal relationship.

"I'm already in a hurry to read Lord Gaoshun." Xu Rong said, "Since Zang Ba handed over several county towns in the south of Pingyuan County to us, Gao Shun's camp has moved to Gao Tang City on the south bank of the Yellow River. He had close contacts with Zang Ba, and believed that Qingzhou would soon send troops. ”

"How's the relocation of people to Qingzhou going?" The eldest princess's gaze turned to Prime Minister Cai Yong.

"It is estimated that by July, nearly one million Qingzhou people who fled to Jizhou in the past will return to their hometowns one after another." Cai Yong replied, "If you add the more than 100,000 displaced people who have descended from Mount Tai, the population of Qingzhou is estimated to reach more than two million. Of course, compared with the nearly 4 million population in Qingzhou's heyday, it is still half the population. In troubled times, the lives of the people are not as good as a dog. "Jump to