Summer is coming, and the vast grassland is full of vitality again.

One tribe after another, which migrated south in the winter, returned to their familiar pastures.

The brain of the Xiongnu Empire, Shan Yuting, also moved to the foot of Helan Mountain.

At this time, in the big tent alone, the giants of the Xiongnu Empire gathered together to discuss the changes in the empire to the east.

"The emperor of the Han people is dead again, and now, in Chang'an City, it is only a hairy boy who is less than seventeen years old!" Aries Wang Jinmi waved his hands covered with thick body hair, and shouted loudly: "Da Danyu, please give an order, our Aries tribe is ready, as long as you give the order, two thousand horsemen, ready to be dispatched at any time!" ”

Wu Ligu, the king of Lou Fu, also said: "Da Dan Yu, the 30,000 elite horsemen of the Lou Fu tribe are also ready to go, just waiting for Shan Yu Mingdi!" ”

King Hutu and King Hun also echoed and clamoured.

For a time, in the entire king's tent, there was only the sound of shouting and killing.

As the brain of the Xiongnu Empire, Shan Yu was a military minister, but as if he had not heard the voices of these main battle factions, he closed his eyes slightly and did not give any reply.

Kneeling beside the military minister, Su Bu Dian looked up at the lord of the side who was clamoring for war.

He sneered twice in his heart.

Let's see who these main battle factions are, right?

King Hugh Tu and King Hun Evil?

Damn the remnants of the Right Virtuous King!

If it weren't for the fact that these two tribes are in the Xiongnu country, they also belong to the big tribes, and their strength should not be underestimated, hehe, I'm afraid, now these two guys should go underground to accompany the Right Xian King!

As for the Aries King and the Lou Fu King, they don't have much to do with the dead Right Sage King!

But, let's see where the two guys are?

Their traditional pastures. All of them were in the Hetao area that the Qin people took the initiative to give up!

And, Shan Yu's lineage. The giants in the west and in the north are largely silent.

Even if someone occasionally speaks. It's all ridicule, too.

The double-headed eagle policy formulated by the old Shangshan Yu has evolved into two groups with different interests.

Especially after the defeat of the previous Youxian King in the political struggle, this contradiction became more and more intense.

For the tribes that were originally close to King Youxian, Shan Yuting had always been looking at it with colored glasses.

Especially, the right virtuous king, and his son are still alive!

Under such circumstances, how could Shan Yu loosen the collar around the neck of the eastern tribe?

What's more, the current national policy of the Xiongnu is to expand westward.

Those small countries to the west. Rich and weak.

Just send 10,000 horsemen to it, and you can grab a lot of wealth and people.

These nobles have already enjoyed all the benefits of robbing the west.

How could any movement that might lead to the eastward direction of the Xiongnu's power could be tolerated?

And these people are Shan Yu's basic plate and descendants, and it was with their support that Shan Yu ascended the throne and eradicated the Right Xian King.

Let's ask, in such a situation, how could Shan Yu rashly change the established strategy and go to the east to fight the Han people to the death?

Sure enough. The military minister Shan Yu stood up, waved his hand, and said, "I know what you mean. However, this Shan Yu had an agreement with the Han emperor, and Lao Shangshan Yu also made an alliance with the Han emperor. Inside the Great Wall, there is the room of the crown belt. Emperor Han Dynasty rule, outside the Great Wall. It is the country of bow hunting, and this is a big single rule, as long as the emperor of the Han people still adheres to this covenant, then, the matter of invading the Han will not be mentioned again! ”

"Big Order!" When the Aries King heard this, he immediately became anxious.

The sons and daughters of the tribe are all waiting for his good news!

Everyone is counting on this southern invasion, grab it well, and this winter, life will be better!

King Lou was also anxious, but he was smarter than Jin Mi, kneeling and pleading: "Da Dan Yu Mingjian, since Mao Dun Da Dan Yu, the tradition of my Great Huns is that the Han people change the emperor, and they will send troops to beat it, one is to show the military prestige of my Great Huns, so that the Han emperor can obey and send more silk and food treasures, and the other is to unite the eastern tribes, so that the eastern tribes will always be under the rule of Da Shan Yu, and will not be separated from ......virtue because they are far away from Shan Yuting."

"This ......," the military minister hesitated.

In fact, it is not true that the military ministers are completely opposed to the active invasion of Han.

For him, grabbing the west is also grabbing, and grabbing the east is also grabbing, there is not much difference.

As for the so-called contradiction between things, this kind of thing is nonsense.

He was first of all the Xiongnu Shan Yu, and then he was the co-leader of the western tribes, and he was too partial to the west, which would inevitably make the eastern tribes feel cold.

Therefore, he has always grasped a degree, and has been deliberately balancing the power of things to make the two parties hostile to each other, but he will not really tear his face, let alone let one party dominate.

As for the Right Virtuous King?

People are dead!

What else could it be?

The tradition of the Huns has always been the naked law of the jungle.

The weak eat the strong, and the strong survive.

Back then, Mao Dunshan killed even his father! turned around and appointed his brother as the king, and even entrusted him with important tasks, and in accordance with tradition, he took over Touman's wife and concubine.

How can a teenager who has lost his father and most of his livestock population turn the sky upside down?

The military minister thinks that since he has even killed the right virtuous king, a little wolf cub who is struggling to breathe will be pinched to death with one finger!

The reason why he really opposed the initiative to invade the Han land was that when the Xiongnu Empire developed to this day, its territory was unprecedentedly vast.

Before, no steppe people had ever been able to expand their territory to the size of the Xiongnu.

The entire Xiongnu Empire stretched from the Western Regions in the west, the Great Wall in the east, the Beihai Sea in the north, and Korea in the south.

Spanning tens of thousands of miles, all the regions that could be conquered by cavalry were conquered by the Huns.

Although the military minister has not read a book, let alone any cultural knowledge, he is a great man who has experienced countless political struggles.

He knows very well that the current Xiongnu is no longer the small tribe that trembled under the hooves of the Qin army and was in danger, let alone the period of Maodun Shan Yu and Lao Shang Dan Yu. A regime that fought in the East and the West, and expanded for its own survival.

It is now de facto the hegemon of the entire known world.

It needs stability to maintain its hegemony. Instead of going around lighting fires and provoking wars.

And there was a war with the Han Dynasty. It is possible that the Hun Empire will lose its hegemony!

This is not just his personal opinion.

His father, Lao Shangshan Yu, also thought so.

The reason is simple, the Xiongnu completely lagged behind the Han Chinese in terms of population.

The Han Dynasty had a population of tens of millions, while the Xiongnu had a population of only a few million.

Not even a tenth of the Han Chinese.

It doesn't matter if the Han people in the east are weak, cowardly, and powerless to resist like the countries in the west.

But they weren't!

The Han Dynasty, from the emperor to the common people. There are almost no soft eggs.

Every time the Huns invaded, the Han people almost would mobilize.

From the emperor to the peasants, from the seventy-year-old man to the ten-year-old child, as long as they could hold swords and guns, they would go to the front line and fight the Hun cavalry.

Once on the battlefield, tens of thousands of Huns besieged a city with only 2,000 defenders, and as a result, they fought for a month. The city did not move, the Han defenders, the father died, and the son continued to fight with his father's weapons. The elder brother died, and the younger brother stood at the head of the city with tears in his eyes. The husband died, and the wife took filial piety with her. Hold on to the city.

That incident shook the entire Huns back then.

Lao Shangdan Yu therefore decided to enter into a genuine peace pact with the Han Chinese.

Even if more than a decade has passed since then. However, the military minister still remembered the name of that city and that guard.

"I am too guarded by Wei Shang in the clouds, a Hun dog thief, can you dare to fight?"

"Do you dare to fight?"

The military minister recalled what he had seen and heard at the time, and the muscles on his face twitched a little.

"Why did the Han people resist so stubbornly?" The military minister became irritable in his heart: "Obediently like those small countries in the west, isn't it okay for our Huns to plunder?" ”

Facing that country with a large population and strong combat effectiveness.

The military minister gave birth to an endless chill in his heart.

After all, he is not a determined and decisive hero like his father, Lao Shangdan.

On the contrary, for the military minister who was born with a golden key, maintaining the status quo, and preferably forever, is what he likes best.

It's just that the Aries King and the Lou Fu King have always been Shan Yuting's two loyal dogs, and they are the two-stirring sticks that Shan Yuting placed in the east.

And both tribes are very strong in combat.

If the uneasiness soothes them, if they are careful, it will shake Shan Yuting's control over the east.

Driven by such thoughts, the military minister thought for a while, then patted his thigh and asked, "It is difficult to carve a carve!" Last year, didn't you go to the Han Dynasty as an envoy, and you can see the new emperor who is now sitting in Chang'an, tell you, what kind of person is the new emperor? ”

Well, suppose the new emperor of the Han is a soft egg.

So, what's wrong with grabbing it?

For the Huns, they are weak, and they deserve to be bullied and robbed!

Only the strong can win their respect!

The Han Dynasty made the Xiongnu jealous because in the past few decades, no matter how dilapidated their army was, no matter how bad their equipment was, no matter how small their numbers were, and no matter how big their disadvantage was, they would grit their teeth and fight desperately.

Even the emperor of the Han Dynasty will personally go to the front!

Therefore, the Huns will pretend to say that the crown and belt room, the country of bow hunting.

The western countries have never enjoyed such treatment!

Even the allies of the Wusun have never been looked at by the Huns!

Su Budiao heard the words unpleasantly, and hurriedly said: "Back to Da Danyu, the slave was ordered to go to Chang'an as an envoy, and he did meet the current new emperor of the Han Dynasty......

He looked at the big people who were sitting in their positions, motionless, shrunk their necks, and said, "In the opinion of the servants, this new emperor of the Han Dynasty is not much different from the previous emperors of the Han Dynasty......

So those big people have a look of appreciation for the difficult to turn on the carving.

And for the military minister, it doesn't make much difference that it's a smelly, hard, and thorny guy again!

He didn't want to, like that fool of King Youxian, he didn't eat the meat, and finally broke his teeth!

Speaking of which, he was able to clean up the great enemy of Youxian Wang, and he really had to thank the Han people, if it weren't for the Han army three years ago, he taught Youxian King a hard lesson, and he wouldn't have been able to clean up such a powerful political enemy so easily.

Not to mention the execution of those who put his wings to death. The exiled was exiled.

Thinking so, the military minister said: "The emperor of the Han Dynasty last time. Didn't you mention that you want to buy all kinds of plant seeds and specialties of our Great Huns at a high price? It is difficult to carve a carve, you go to Chang'an again. Take all kinds of rare products of my Great Huns, go to trade with the emperor of the Han Dynasty, what rhubarb and peppercorns, this single Yu, I like it very much, called the emperor of the Han Dynasty, give more this year, and ......"

The warlords looked at the Aries King and the Lou Fu King.

He knew that these two loyal dogs. Must be fed.

So he said: "Sue the emperor of the Han Dynasty, this is to ask the emperor of the Han Dynasty to open a few bazaars by the Great Wall, and allow the merchants of my Great Huns to trade with the merchants of the Han Dynasty and exchange ideas!" ”

"Yes!" It is difficult to kneel down and kowtow.

Then the military minister said to the Aries King and the Lou Fu King: "After the markets are opened, the management power will be handed over to the Aries King and the Lou Fu King!" ”

When the Aries King and the Lou Fu King heard this, they were immediately overjoyed.

These years, between Han and Hungary. There are also bazaars for trade in the store zài.

Each of these bazaars is a good industry that is full of fat!

If you can get a share of these bazaars, whether you can grab the east or not, you can give an explanation to the sons and daughters of the tribe when you go back.

Especially recently. The new rhubarb and pepper of the Han Dynasty have swept the entire Xiongnu, if you can take this opportunity. Get rhubarb, pepper and other products, then ......

As for the king of Hutu and the king of Tuxu......

The Aries King and the Lou Fu King glanced at each other. invariably scolded in his heart: "The remnants of the Right Virtuous King, don't want to get involved in such benefits!" ”

After pacifying the Aries King and the Lou Fu King. The military minister Shan Yu said a little tiredly: "Okay, let's discuss it here!" I have heard it clearly to this single Yu, without my order, you are not allowed to attack the Han land without permission! ”

Today's Xiongnu have also begun to try to learn the ruling methods of the Han Dynasty.

One of its characteristics is that Shan Yuting began to consciously rein in the power of the tribe and restrict the tribe's freedom to fight.

The Xiongnu Empire began to develop from a loose collection of tribes, like a feudal slave nomadic state.

I have to say that this is indeed a manifestation of the progress of the Xiongnu civilization.

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Wait for the order to be in the big account.

King Hutu and King Hun Evil are both decadent.

It can only be said that in the Huns, standing on the wrong team, the price is very strict!

The two of them and their tribe are already very lucky to be able to keep their pasture and life!

Last year's Shan Yuting, but he was bloodied.

Most of the nobles and tribal leaders who are pro-Youxian King are either eating wind and snow in Beihai now, or going to see Youxian Wang.

It's just that people are always greedy.

Last year, King Hutu and King Hun Evil only thought that it would be very good if they could save their lives.

But now, when they know that their lives have been saved, they inevitably want more.

"Otherwise, we will quietly go and rob a border county of the Han people?" King Hutu asked cautiously.

If King Youxian is still alive, this kind of thing is not a big deal.

Grab it, grab it!

Even if they can't defeat the Han Chinese, the Xiongnu are all cavalry, and they can run out of the Great Wall in the blink of an eye.

But now, it's a bit of trouble.

Shan Yuting has sent people in various tribes to make small fights, and he can hide the past, but if he moves big, he will disobey Shan Yu's order, and the consequences will be very strict!

Therefore, the Kun Evil King shook his head.

He no longer had the courage to take this risk, and last year's coup d'état had made him lose all the courage to resist Shan Yuting.

"What then?" King Hugh Tu sighed.

If you can't grab the east, you won't get any benefits back, and the tribe won't be able to explain it!

The Huns have always had milk and mothers!

Population movements between each other are frequent.

If the conditions of a tribe are not good, the herdsmen in the tribe feel that they cannot survive, or if the conditions of other tribes are better, people ride horses to drive livestock and slaves, and they go directly to it

This is also the status quo of the nomadic people's existence.

For nomads, surviving and reproducing children and grandchildren is the first thing to consider.

As for what loyalty?

Can you eat it?

King Hutu and King Kun couldn't help but be depressed.

At this time, a Xiongnu nobleman quietly walked over. He said to them: "Hutu and Kunxie, two kings." The king of my family asked me to bring a message to the two of you, do you want to get rich? ”

As he spoke. The nobleman quietly handed over a token.

King Hutu and King Kun Evil suddenly changed their faces when they saw the token, and hurriedly said, "Is the young master okay?" ”

Who else can have that token, except for the son of the Right Xian King who they were loyal to and abandoned by them, and the current Yi Zhixian, the king of the Left Valley?

"My lord, life is not good now......" The nobleman remembered Shan Yuting's surveillance and suppression of his master, and he was also a little decadent. But he quickly perked up and said, "The king of my family said that he does not blame the two kings. A qiē is fate! The king still believed that the two kings were loyal ministers...... Therefore, now that there is a chance to make a fortune, I would like to ask the two kings, would they like to join in? ”

For the Huns, loyalty is not as important as a sheep.

Mao Dun killed his father Touman, and was still held up to heaven by the Huns and regarded as an idol.

Therefore. King Xiu Tu and King Kun Evil nodded without even thinking about it: "Yes!" ”

When the nobleman heard this, he said softly, "Afternoon." Wusun Guo Dalu will hold a banquet in the grassland to the east of Shan Yuting, please make sure the two kings go to the appointment on time! ”

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Yi Zhi stood at the door of the tent, looking out at the meadow in the sun. Silently, he opened the door and entered.

Yi Zhixian is very clear. In this big tent, at least half. It was his 'kind-hearted' uncle, the eyes and ears of the military minister Shan Yu.

As an adult, Yi Zhixian knows how to hide his hatred and thoughts.

As usual, he walked into the tent with a big grin, punching and kicking the guards and slaves, as if to vent his excess energy.

But in fact, the targets chosen by Yi Zhi obliquely seem random, but in fact, they are very purposeful.

For example, he now seems to be violently abusing a poor slave, but in fact, his eyes are quietly looking at a guard opposite, and when he sees that the guard has made a secret sign of success to him, his heart is finally relieved.

Finally......

I've contacted King Hutu and King Kun Evil!

Yi Zhixian is very clear, although, now in the Xiongnu country, there are many people who sympathize with him, especially his father's old department in the east, there are many tribes.

But in the Huns, sympathy could not bring anything.

He knew, and knew very well, that if he wanted revenge, he had to be like a poisonous snake in the grass, lurking quietly, carefully hiding his intentions, putting away his fangs, pretending to be a harmless green grass on the side of the road, waiting for the moment when the prey would relax.

During this time, he had to gather strength and develop wings.

And a signal that is extremely favorable to Yi Zhixian is that the current military ministers are single, and there are not many heirs.

The eldest son of the military minister died young, the second son had mental problems, and the third son died on the way to the expedition.

In other words, even if the military minister gives birth to a son now, by the day he dies, his son may not be able to reach adulthood.

Under the Xiongnu system, only members of the royal family who had reached the age of twenty could be named Zuoxian Wang.

This means that he still has a chance, and a big chance to turn the tables!

Thinking so, Yi Zhixian kicked the slave away, and then said, "Did you have any fun this afternoon?" ”

The guard who had just given him the code replied in a timely manner: "I heard that the Dalu of Wusun Kingdom will hold a barbecue banquet this afternoon, and at that time, there will be many female slaves from the Western Regions to help entertain......

Yi Zhi's eyes lit up, pretending to be a pervert, and he couldn't wait: "Okay, hurry up and prepare for this king, this king hasn't tasted the taste of a slave girl in the Western Regions for a long time!" ”

In his heart, Yi Zhi is slanted but very calm.

He had a very early connection with the Great Lu of Wusun Kingdom.

The two can be said to be in the same disease.

Da Lu's father, Wusun Kun Mo Jun Su Mi, disliked Da Lu very much, and excluded him from the sequence of heirs early.

But how could Da Lu be convinced?

Therefore, I have been trying to find a way to get rid of the clamp of the military beard and even learn to challenge the military beard.

And all of this requires a lot of money and resources.

Yi Zhixian is the same, if he wants revenge, he must also get a sufficient source of wealth to buy off the nobles of the court, cultivate wings, and army.

Da Lu went to the Han Dynasty once last year and got in touch with him when he returned.

The two agreed to jointly open up the smuggling trade routes of the Han Dynasty.

All kinds of rare products from the Western Regions and the Xiongnu were sent to the Han Dynasty. Silk, rhubarb, peppercorns, tea, porcelain and other luxury goods.

Then use the smuggling proceeds to recruit troops. Expand your capabilities.

The two even swore a vow to work together. Jointly obtain the power of Wusun and Xiongnu.

But in fact, Yi Zhixian has a plan now, once he takes the position, he will immediately start cutting off Dalu.

Because, Yi Zhixian felt that people like Dalu were too dangerous!

It's just that now, Yi Zhixian also needs Dalu's cooperation, as well as the specialties and connections and relationships he provides in the Western Regions. to operate and sustain their own power.

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At this time, in a pasture at the foot of Helan Mountain, Dalu, the prince of Wusun Kingdom, was watching the various Western Regions and Xiongnu specialties he had collected these days.

Among them, there are several plates of gorgeous flowers that are in full bloom, the most dazzling, and even Dalu thinks this kind of flower. It's really the most beautiful flower in the world!

"The people of the Han Dynasty should love this flower!" Da Lu thought to himself.

This kind of flower was obtained by him from Dawan Kingdom with great effort!

According to the Dawan people, even in the far west. Tens of thousands of miles away, there are also gods who use this flower to hypnotize their fathers.

The name of this flower. In Dawan it is called Diyaga, and there are some twisters.

Therefore. Dalu invited a man who surrendered from the Han Dynasty and gave it a name that was very rich in Han culture - hibiscus flower.

Dalu attaches great importance to this flower. I bought a bag of flower seeds at a high price, intending to exchange it for a lot of wealth with the Han people.

Well, at least a few hundred catties of rhubarb or peppercorns!

Now, rhubarb and pepper have become popular in the Xiongnu and Wusun.

The nobles in Wusun even bid a hundred slaves or ten war horses for a small piece of rhubarb!

A few hundred catties of rhubarb is enough for Dalu to arm hundreds of cavalry!

In addition, Da Lu also found many other good things.

For example, when it grows up, it will produce long strips of melons, and plants will produce white velvety fruits.

Of course, none of this is the point.

After all, these ornamental plants could not be needed in large quantities for a long time by the people of the Han Dynasty.

Moreover, the Huns may also stick a pole sideways to steal this business.

What Dalu really wanted to sell to the Han Dynasty and make a lot of money was a specialty of the Wusun Kingdom, a horse breed that even the Huns envied, and an excellent war horse obtained by the Wusun people after decades of hard work and continuous cultivation and improvement.

Dalu knew very well that the Huns, whatever they sold, it was unlikely that they would sell war horses to the Han Dynasty.

Especially this excellent war horse, don't even think about it!

However, Wusun is afraid of a fart!

Wusun and the Han Dynasty are separated by a Xiongnu, no matter how powerful the Han Dynasty is, it can't threaten Wusun!

Moreover, for the Wusun people, the Han-Hungarian war is the most wonderful thing!

Therefore, selling the war horse to the Han people, Dalu had no pressure, and was even quite proud.

As for whether the Huns would allow him to do so?

A smile appeared at the corner of Da Lu's mouth.

If you don't sell horses, why should Yi Zhixian challenge the military ministers?

By mouth?

I'm afraid, even if he doesn't do this, Yi Zhixian will force him to do it!

"Mess up, mess up!" Da Lu sneered in his heart: "Let's mess up!" If I don't mess up, I will be the Great Kunmo in the future, how can I lead Wusun, overthrow the Huns, and become the overlord and master of this world? ”

Dalu thought about the huge territory of the Xiongnu and recalled the prosperous Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty.

"It's all mine, it's all mine!"

"I want to be the king of the world!"

Da Lu remembered a legend he had heard in the Great Wan Kingdom.

Legend has it that many years ago, under the command of a king, the ancestors of the Dawan people crossed the sea, crossed the desert, conquered countless countries, established a world empire, and made hundreds of thousands of miles of the world all subject to the whip of that monarch.

"One day, I may not be able to do something like that!"

Da Lu screamed like a poisonous snake at this moment.

At this time, the next person came to report that the king of Hugh Tu of the Huns, the king of Kun and the king of Zuogu Li, came to attend his banquet together, and asked him to go out to meet him immediately.

Da Lu hurriedly threw away those thoughts in his heart, showed an extremely humble smile, and hurriedly went out to greet him. (To be continued......)