Chapter 336: The Real Power Is in the Hands of the Empress Dowager Dou (21)
Hearing the reply of those ministers, Liu Che, who was still joking as an arbor, and the rest of the ministers and princes on the side were also a little surprised, and hurriedly sent a few more people who had seen Shan Yu to recognize people.
As a result, everyone said that the head was indeed exactly the same as the one they had ever seen, but it was uncertain whether it was exact.
Because people are similar.
No one can guarantee that this is true.
"Imperial Grandmother, is this true?"
Although Liu Che was asking, he actually believed it a little in his heart, after all, the Empress Dowager had really never lied over the years, she would do whatever she wanted, she never played falsely, and at the same time, her face became very ugly, quite embarrassed and annoyed.
At this time, whether it is true or not, he is very ashamed.
If it is fake, wouldn't it prove that the Empress Dowager has a bad relationship with him, and she also took out the head of the fake Shan Yu to humiliate him and humiliate Guan Neihou.
But if it's true, then it's not a matter of humiliation, if you want to make all of them shameless and shameless, and lose their faces cleanly.
Think about it, your side is happily having a banquet because of the death of nearly 10,000 people and the killing of 700 Hun cavalry, and then someone came over with the head of the Hun Shan Yu.
How can they not be ashamed.
"Can the mourning family still fake and coax you?
If you want to worry, you can go outside the city and have a look.
The heads of 60,000 Hun cavalry are there.
100,000 war horses are also on the way, and they will probably start to be sold after a while, and if you want, the mourning family can sell them to you cheaper. ”
Qiao Mu raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.
It's one thing for her to do this in order to slap Liu Che in the face, but the main thing is to reduce the losses of the Han people and soldiers, don't look at Liu Che's martial arts in his reign for decades, and the small countries such as the Xiongnu and Nanyue that he fought could not be stable, or even perished directly.
But the losses are also quite numerous.
In the early years of Emperor Wu, the total population of the Western Han Dynasty was more than 50 million, and when Emperor Wu was in the last years, the total population was only more than 20 million.
This loss does not always evaporate out of thin air.
Moreover, this does not take into account the natural population growth rate over the past 50 years, and if the natural population growth rate is also included, the loss of more than 20 million people is far more than 20 million.
The total population of the Xiongnu is not known to be much.
It can be said that the success of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was completely filled in with the heritage and population of the Han Dynasty.
If it was done in the early days of the Western Han Dynasty.
All the populations combined are not enough.
If it weren't for Emperor Xuan's revival later, restoring part of Huang Lao's rule and resting with the people, it is estimated that the Western Han Dynasty would have been destroyed by Liu Che long ago.
Qiao Mu has said this, and the ministers and princes below are not good to question anymore, besides, some things can't be done by lying at all.
True or false.
Just look it up.
Therefore, the scene suddenly cooled down.
Wei Qing was also a little overwhelmed with the wooden box, not knowing what to do next, whether to thank him or what to do?
"Okay, let's do what we have to do.
It's just that the soldiers of the firearms battalion of the mourning family will probably all arrive in Chang'an after three months, and the emperor will not favor one over the other, and the hearts of the soldiers of the firearms battalion of the mourning family will be cold, and he will not be able to make such a great contribution, and he will not even be able to get a few lieges. ”
Qiao Mu saw that everyone was silent and continued.
The soldiers of those firearms battalions have been following her for a long time, and she, as the empress dowager, is not very good at directly dividing the title, so she has to pass through Liu Che's side, and take advantage of the opportunity for Wei Qing to seal the Neihou today, and put it forward to remind Liu Che that the reward for canonization of the marquis given by Liu Che should not be too low.
Whoever kills 700 Hun cavalry can be sealed as the Marquis of Guannei, and if he kills 60,000 cavalrymen, and at the same time even Shan Yu and some Hun kings are killed together, the reward cannot be lower than that of the Marquis of Guannei.
Liu Che pulled the corners of his mouth and smiled hard:
"The imperial grandmother laughed, if the matter is true, the reward will naturally not be less, but didn't the imperial grandmother's talisman give me? And what about the firearms battalion? How can it be so powerful?
Isn't there an army of millions?
You don't have that qualifications......"
"Where did the army of millions come from?
If no one knows if I can mobilize an army of millions, then what is the use of this great Han soldier.
The mourning family has its own private soldiers, and the private soldiers of your aunt and the nephews and grandchildren of the mourning family have also been borrowed from the mourning family to help them train, and now it is worth eight or nine thousand, and the firearms battalion of the mourning family, with eight or nine thousand soldiers, is enough to sweep the Huns.
When they return, it can also open your eyes to the elite firearms.
As for the firearms battalion.
Naturally, it is the army that uses firearms.
Specifically, wait for someone to come back.
However, the Hun was hit by a firearm on the head alone, and you can see that the power of those firearms is probably like this. ”
Although Qiao Mu didn't think that if he took things out and showed them them, they would be able to imitate them.
But out of caution, I still didn't say it directly.
I didn't even show them the real thing.
just said that the wound on Wei Qing's head just now was made by a firearm, what it looks like, let them guess for the time being.
When the firearms battalion turns back to the firearms battalion to completely exterminate the Huns, move the division back to the dynasty, and then let them see what things look like, as for whether the firearms battalion soldiers will be co-opted by Liu Che, heh, Qiao Mu mainly controls the manufacturing method of firearms, and is not the soldiers of the firearms battalion, these soldiers are co-opted in the past, if there is no firearms to use, it is better to be normal ordinary infantry, besides, the current firearms do not have too high requirements for technology, and you can get started with a little practice, even if you are co-opted by Liu Che in the past, it is a big deal to train again.
To put it mildly.
Some researchers in the ordnance manufacturing department may use firearms more accurately than some soldiers, if it weren't for the fact that most of the firearms currently used are flowering cannons and flowering shells, combined with some biological gas bombs and fuel, how could they be so quickly pushing the entire Xiongnu tribe.
After Qiao Mu finished speaking.
Some of the liehous and Liu Che were very curious and worried, and carefully observed the head of Shan Yu.
When they saw the hole wound on his head, which was obviously different from the arrow shot, they were all a little puzzled, not knowing what kind of weapon could cause this kind of damage, let alone what weapon with fire could cause this kind of damage.
It's not going to be a rocket.
Of course, the rocket in question here is an arrow with fire, not a modern and futuristic rocket.
However, no matter how much they asked, Qiao Mu just smiled and shook his head, indicating that they would see it in the future and not explain too much.
But it was precisely because Qiao Mu did not explain that it brought them more doubts and worries.
Puzzled, worried about the empress dowager with such an army, is it really something they can fight against?
If the Empress Dowager wanted to emulate Empress Lu, could they, the princes, be the Empress Dowager's opponents?