Of course, this year it can't be played.

Because, the main force of the Huns, there was no westward expedition this year.

According to the information currently available, especially the information provided by the extraordinarily large Hungarian.

The Xiongnu did not go west this year, mainly because they ate too much in Dawan last year.

This is understandable.

The Huns were a people on horseback.

It can even be said that from birth to death, most of the time they spent on horseback.

Hundreds of thousands of slaves were eaten at once, especially hundreds of thousands of women of childbearing age.

This posed a huge challenge to the gastrointestinal function of the Xiongnu Empire.

Even slaves need resources to support them.

Of course, the Huns regarded everything as tools and property, and did not have any compassion and mercy at all.

However, even the common people of China cherish their own farm tools.

If it's broken, it needs to be repaired, and if it's rotten, it will be distressed.

Not to mention the fact that slaves, which are slightly more advanced and expensive than tools.

After all the hard work to get them back, you can't just watch them starve to death, right?

Cheese and meat could not be eaten by slaves.

The by-products and bones of the cheese must be thrown to fill the slaves' stomachs, so that they have the strength to help with the grazing and work, right?

Not to mention, there are so many female slaves of school age.

Female slaves though are slaves.

However, the children they had with the Xiongnu men were the Huns' own species.

Tiger venom does not eat children.

He will take care of his own children, even the most vicious ones.

And all of this requires a huge amount of resources.

However, the problem is that the Huns lost too many livestock in the Battle of Mayi.

The Han army captured millions of livestock alone.

And the number of scattered and dead livestock is probably not less than the capture of the Han army.

The loss of so many livestock, for the Xiongnu, was almost equivalent to the loss of a major grain-producing area in China.

Without the milk of cattle, sheep and horses, the Xiongnu Empire was almost on the verge of famine.

Although there are a lot of resources looted from Dawan.

However, no matter how much food is stolen, it will be eaten one day.

So, for now, the engine of the Hun Empire, all of a sudden, lost power.

Fortunately, the Huns were people.

If you are human, you know how to be flexible and can trade.

Therefore, the trade at the foot of the Great Wall is now unprecedentedly prosperous.

The Huns took a lot of looted gold and silver, like gluttony, and frantically bought a large amount of Han grain, cloth, and even everything they could buy.

From the beginning of summer and April, to now, just one month.

The Han dynasty sold the Xiongnu 500,000 stone corn and wheat products, more than 100,000 horses of cloth, silk, and thousands of stone of salt.

This is still something that the Han government can control and count.

As for those merchants who secretly smuggled China's rice, wheat, silk, salt, iron, and even weapons to the Xiongnu at the risk of losing their heads, driven by profits, they can't count them at all.

Han-Hungarian relations, so there was a situation that made Liu Che and the entire Han monarchs and ministers cry and laugh - although the Han monarchs and ministers had decided to start a war against the Xiongnu, all kinds of war preparations were carried out in an orderly manner.

But the Han-Hungarian trade reached its peak.

Through trade with the Xiongnu, it was only through formal channels.

The Han Dynasty obtained tens of thousands of gold from the Xiongnu!

In addition, there are silver products, in the thousands.

The story of the Spanish colonizers who worked hard to kill, set fire, and rob in the Americas, did all kinds of evil, but the fruits of their labor were sucked away like a sponge by the Ming Dynasty, seems to be playing out in this pre-AD world.

Even, Liu Che has no doubt that between the Han and the Hungarians, such a trade momentum will continue for another three or five years, and perhaps, the Han family will be able to lie down and rely on the Han and Hungarian trade to complete the gold reserves necessary for the reform of the gold standard.

However, whether it is Liu Che or the ministers of the Han family, they all know that such a situation must not be maintained!

This war, up to now, in fact, even if the Han family does not want to fight.

The Huns will definitely fight too!

Once the Huns took a breath and walked out of the effects of the defeat in the Battle of Mayi, then the war would definitely break out.

Therefore, in a sense, Liu Che is planning the Battle of Hetao and the Battle of Hexi.

In fact, it was a war of self-defense.

For the needs of national defense, and also to protect the mountains and rivers of the Han family, from being trampled by the cavalry hooves of the Huns.

The Han family must recover the Hetao, occupy Yinshan, and then move out of Hexi.

Only in this way can we keep the enemy out of the country and protect the lives and property of our own people and subjects.

With the ministers of the Shaofu and the eunuch attendants, Liu Che turned a corner and entered the Shiqu Pavilion.

At this moment, the Shiqu Pavilion has been requisitioned by the generals and marquis.

The officials of the Taishi Department could only take refuge in the east lane of Shiqu Pavilion to work.

The main building is occupied by sand tables and groups of officers.

"Your Majesty!" Seeing the arrival of the Son of Heaven, the generals and officers who were discussing strategy and deducing the battle situation in Shiqu Pavilion straightened their waists and saluted.

"Excuse me!" Liu Che carried the sword of the Son of Heaven and returned with a military salute.

As the supreme commander of the three armed forces and the supreme ruler of this country.

After the Battle of Mayi, Liu Che announced the abolition of the military kneeling under the pretext of 'being a warrior and a minister of the country'.

Even in the face of the king, the soldiers only need to salute.

Except for the court, 'the armor has no kneeling'!

This incident caused a little wave, and then disappeared without a trace.

The reason is simple.

At this time, the minister worships the king, and the king also worships the minister.

The status of each other is quite equal.

The emperor's labor and management changed the ministers to worship the king, and the king to worship the ministers, to the ministers to respect the king, and the kings to respect the ministers, in essence, there is no change.

What's more, back then, Zhou Yafu insisted on discipline and did not worship Taizong, so that the world admired him.

This shows that, at least in the Han Dynasty, kneeling or something is a kind of etiquette, rather than the order of feudal society, the foundation of the country.

Even, the sons of the Liu family in the past dynasties took the 'free worship' as an honor and gave it to the three elders.

For this order of the emperor, the scholars, and even some people thought that it should be so.

Worship you, this is the honor of the scholars.

The hiccups are dead!

However, this policy allowed Liu Che to completely rein in the army's morale, so that even a small pawn knew that their ruler was very good to them.

As for the generals, they are even more completely at home.

Can a boss who respects and treats employees preferentially, and takes employees out from time to time, can he not be embraced?

"Your Majesty, Gaoque's operational deployment, the ministers have already made preliminary plans!" Qu Zhou Hou Liji and Gong Gao Hou Han Yandang stepped forward together, saluted and said.

"It's hard work!" Liu Che was overjoyed when he heard this, and said, "Please give a speech for me!" ”

"No!" Han Yidang bowed his head slightly, smiled and invited Liu Che to a huge sand table.

Since the deployment of the strategic objectives of the Gaoque Campaign, the generals of the Han family, Liehou and Wuyuan's students, have taken Gaoque's maps and intelligence and repeatedly deduced.

Up to today, the geography of the Hetao before Gaoque has basically been thoroughly understood and understood.

The people in the palace, even Liu Che, the eunuch beside the emperor, more or less, understood the strategic situation of the Han and Hungarian countries near Gaoque.

Li Ji took a few young officers, holding a baton, stood in front of the sand table, and introduced to Liu Che: "Your Majesty, this is the current garrison of the Xiongnu near Gaoque!" ”

He put his baton on Yangshan in the southeast of Hetao: "The Xiongnu are near the Gaoque fortress, and all the troops of the Luhou tribe are stationed!" ”

"According to intelligence and reconnaissance, the Luhou tribe even brought the old, weak, women and children to Gaoque, and according to the spies' report, at least in the Yangshan area, more than 14,000 domes were found, and at least 200,000 cattle, sheep and livestock!"

"The ministers speculate that the Lu Hou tribe is in Gaoque, and it can probably mobilize about 30,000 combatable troops at most!"

"Among them, including more than 15,000 people in its headquarters, more than 3,000 horsemen in its affiliated fox sting department, and its flanks, there are more than 10,000 horsemen in the command of the Zhangqu people, Hugh Tu, Hun Evil and Tuntou Commander!"

Liu Che listened to Li Ji's interpretation and nodded.

As the spies and envoys of the Han family went deep into the hinterland of the Xiongnu, they carried out reconnaissance of the hinterland of the Xiongnu under the banner of checking and rescuing the captive Han people.

The Han family also learned more and more about the Xiongnu.

Now, the Han family has clearly and understood, what is the foundation of this huge nomadic dynasty of the Xiongnu Empire?

It's the Dome!

The Huns lived together in a dome unit.

A dome is a big family.

Twenty or thirty men, women, and children, and slaves, and seven or eight of the smallest, lived together.

Therefore, later historical records said: The Xiongnu father and son lived in the same dome.

But the historical records forgot to tell future generations that the Huns did not just live with the dome.

In fact, the Xiongnu Empire counted its own population, and it was also counted according to the dome.

A dome is a fall.

Dozens or hundreds of settlements form a clan.

More than a dozen clans, large and small, make up a clan.

According to the tradition of the Xiongnu, a settlement must have an adult man, ready to listen to Shan Yuting's orders, and go out with the army.

When Liu Che and the monarchs of the Han family understood this.

The strength of the Xiongnu Empire, in the hearts of Liu Che and his generals and ministers, has been reversed from the previous estimate.

In the past, the Han family had always believed that the total population of the Xiongnu was about 500,000 young and strong.

This is based on the data disclosed by the Bank of China that year.

However, it turned out that the BOC theory deceived the Han family.

The adult males of the Xiongnu, in fact, are at least half more than what the Bank of China said!

And the current Xiongnu population has also been preliminarily estimated.

This data has more than doubled compared to the two million or so that the Han family thought and estimated!

The Xiongnu Empire, even if only the population of its own part is counted.

The total should have reached between five million and six million.

If you add the vassal and ruling kingdoms of the Western Regions, its total population should be close to 10 million!

Although, it is still less than one-fifth of the Han family.

But such a base is enough to pose a serious threat to the Han family!

And these brand-new data also prove that Liu Che has been wondering a lot of questions.

In history, Huo Qu was sick and healthy, and the total number of beheadings in his career was close to 200,000.

The number of captives is twice as large as the number of decapitations.

If you count the losses of those battles that were not cut off on the battlefield or the Han army was defeated.

The Huns arrived in Yuanshuo to conquer peace, and the total battle loss ratio should be more than 1.5 million young and strong.

In the Han-Hungarian War, the Han household registration was halved in history.

The Huns, of course, would have been reduced even more.

At least, during the war, the Xiongnu lost two-thirds of their traditional pastures.

But in the history books, the Xiongnu still have the ability to fight back and resist.

If the total population of the Xiongnu is only a county or a country in the Han Dynasty.

Well, the bug can't be explained.

Moreover, from a practical point of view, the grasslands and wetlands controlled by the current Xiongnu Empire are enough to support a population of 10 million.

And such a huge Xiongnu Empire, after it surfaced.

It stimulated the generals and princes of the Han family, and made them warlike and enthusiastic--if the population of the Xiongnu was only 2 million, and the young and strong were only 500,000, there would be no great gain in fighting it.

However, when the total population base of the Xiongnu reached about 10 million, the young and strong exceeded 1 million.

The oil and water of this war have suddenly increased.

Now, this cake is already huge.

It's enough for everyone to go up and take a bite, and it can also share a lot of oil and water for your cronies and henchmen.

Of course, the strength and difficulty of the Xiongnu also increased.

This is also the reason why the Han family did not choose to go to war this year.

The current Xiongnu are still too strong.

If its main forces do not leave and start a war rashly, the losses may be very large.

In today's world, wars are fought against materials, resources, and population.

The Huns, of course, could not afford to lose their population.

But in fact, the Han family also couldn't accept too much population loss.

Especially young and strong.

Today, a young man, in his prime, can raise at least three children.

In other words, the death of one young man is equivalent to the reduction of three future adults.

With the current size of the Chinese population, one million dead and wounded is enough to bring the population into negative growth.

Yes, for the Han family.

Now, it's not just about winning or losing the war, it's about trying to avoid losing too many soldiers.

Not to mention millions of casualties.

A war, with 100,000 dead and wounded, is enough to break the bones and muscles.

So how to solve this problem?

Liu Che raised his head and looked at Dahonglu Gongsun Kunxie, who had been watching from the side, with a smile: "Dahonglu, how is the contact with the Hun Evil King and the Hutu King?" ”

If, in the Hexi region, that is, the Hun Evil Tribes and the Hutu Tribes behind the Hetao, could turn against each other, even if it was just to remain neutral.

Then, the pressure on the Han family's Hetao battle will also be drastically reduced by half!

At least, it will be possible to immediately lose 30,000 combatable troops to the Huns on paper.

Although the combat power of the Hun Evil and Hutu tribes is still a joke.

Even the Huns themselves did not look down on it.

However, being able to reduce 30,000 enemies is a thing worth celebrating for the Han family, no matter what.

"Returning to Your Majesty, the minister sent his courtier He to preside over the surrender in the middle of the clouds...... It's just ......" Gongsun Kun Xie bowed his head and said: "The price offered by the Hun Evil King and the Hutu King is too high!" ”

"What are they offering?" Liu Che asked.

Price is not the key here.

Sincerity and attitude are the key! (To be continued.) )