Whether in terms of comprehensive national strength or military strength, the difference between the Han and the Huns is not big - the Han Dynasty has only been established for decades, and the Xiongnu have just risen on the corpses of Donghu and Yue.

It is true that the more fragile nomadic civilization is poorer than the stable agrarian civilization.

But anyone who has ever played board games knows that there is a relationship called 'restraint'.

Now the comparison of the military strength of the Han and Hungarians is in this relationship - the combat effectiveness is almost the same, but the attributes are unilaterally restrained!

In the face of the Xiongnu army, which consisted entirely of cavalry, the Han family's bulky infantry and chariot clusters had almost no chance of victory.

Half a month ago, from the moment the Xiongnu mission crossed the Great Wall, Liu Hongdi spent most of his time summoning the meritorious generals of Chang'an and deducing the possible Han-Hun campaign.

The result of the deduction is very not optimistic - according to the most optimistic estimation of the generals, the greatest advantage that the Han family can achieve in the face of the Xiongnu is nothing more than 'setting up an ambush with heavy troops, completely annihilating a lone Hun cavalry squad, and capturing horses'!

The most pessimistic result is that from Longyou in the west, to Shangzhi, Dai, Yunzhong, Yanzhao and even to Youbeiping in the extreme east, the entire Great Wall defense line is in a bloody battle; In the territory of the Han Dynasty, most of the territory north of the Yellow River has entered a state of war, and almost all of the country's resources will be used in this defensive war.

Compared with such a huge investment, the Han family could gain very little from the war: the horses that the Huns rode under their buttocks, and the uncertain whether there would be cattle and sheep with the army.

From this point of view, in the original history, from the siege of Baideng in the early Han Dynasty to the dispatch of troops by Emperor Wu out of the fortress, the policy of peace and proximity pursued for decades is the most cost-effective choice - rather than spending the wealth and national strength of the entire country to fight a war that is destined to be of no benefit, it is better to feed the Huns with some materials and farm with peace of mind.

That's right, humiliation, grievance - Liu Hong originally thought so.

In Liu Hong's original assumption, Mao Dun died in old age, the old man has not yet ascended to the throne, and the Xiongnu are in the transition period of power in the past few years, which should be the best strategic opportunity for the Han dynasty - if you miss this time, it is very likely that you will have to wait until more than 20 years later, when the old man dies, and the military minister is stupid, and the main strategy of the Xiongnu will be changed from attacking the Han in the south to entering Central Asia in the west.

However, another incident that happened some time ago changed Liu Hong's cognition and decided to reformulate his foreign strategy.

——When the Xiongnu envoy had just crossed the clouds and had not even set foot on the land of Daiguo, Liu Heng, the acting king, sent his maternal uncle Bo Zhao to Beijing to present a recital.

The general content of the song is the same as Liu Hong's prediction: Liu Heng was probably grateful to Dade for the transfer of the Liang Kingdom after the guidance of the Queen Mother Bo, and even said, "I was able to move Suiyang, and I didn't dare to ask for the luxury of regaining the land."

Although Liu Heng's sentence 'I dare not hope for one family and two kings' is similar in nature to the later sentence's 'come and come, and bring something', it can also show that Liu Heng said in a certain sense that he was transferred to the king of Liang.

What really surprised Liu Hong was that in addition to that sparse performance, the acting queen mother Bo alone in her own name, asked Bo Zhao to bring a message: If necessary, for the sake of the country, the acting king can pay any price!

At first glance, Liu Hong was confused; It wasn't until a few days later that I finally figured out what the Dai Wang's family could contribute to the Han family.

——After His Majesty saw it, Bo Zhao closed the door and did not come out at all, without the slightest posture of going back and forth to the high gate of Chang'an; After waiting for a team from Daidi to arrive in Chang'an, Bo Zhao placed a young girl in Daiwang's mansion and immediately turned back to Daidi.

After discovering the identity of the girl, Liu Hong was full of feelings: Empress Dowager Bo is the woman who has been by Empress Lu's side after all...

——The woman who was sent to Chang'an and was vaguely said by Bo Zhao that 'it can be used for harmony' is the eldest sister of Emperor Jing, the owner of the pavilion, and the eldest princess of Emperor Wen: Concubine Liu!

Liu Hong never thought that his arrival would make this strong woman who went down in history fall into the situation of being used to marry the king Xiongnu!

And this is also the main reason for changing Liu Hong's perception of the strategic relationship between Han and Hungary and deciding to re-plan the strategy against Hungary - when the Xiongnu mission was still thousands of miles away from Chang'an, the historical Empress Dowager Bo of Emperor Wen was already sure that the Han family would choose to make peace!

It's like a game at the beginning, before even the line is out, the enemy Ruiz reveals a 'faker' ID, and the four teammates have said that they are hang-up 15!

But if the probability of harmony is less than 100%, it is impossible for Empress Dowager Bo to make such a move as 'sending the daughter of the clan in advance' in the context of political isolation!

Empress Dowager Bo still did this, which can only prove two things - first: between the choice between the clan and the emperor, Empress Dowager Bo resolutely joined the camp of Emperor Liu Hong!

Second···

It is the final outcome of this Han-Hungarian diplomacy, which is almost destined to send the daughter of the clan to the Han family, and promise gold and silver in the name of 'marriage', and pray for peace...

Rao is two lives have lived for nearly forty years, and Liu Hong, who thinks that he has already matured his mind and is deeply afraid of weighing the pros and cons, also instinctively felt angry after learning the news - humiliation!

Undisguised, unmistakable humiliation!

But after calming down, Liu Hong combined the amount of knowledge reserved in later generations and consulted the archives collected by Shiqu Pavilion to realize that today's Han-Hungarian strategic pattern is not as optimistic as he imagined...

From the archives of Shiqu Pavilion, Liu Hong got the most important information, which made Liu Hong give up the plan of 'launching a foreign campaign within three years to achieve strategic superiority'.

——The siege of Baideng sixteen years ago was led by Liu Bang to lead an army of 320,000 to conquer in person; And in the archives of Shiqu Pavilion, the losses of the standing field troops of the Han Dynasty were as high as fifty percent!

That is to say, Liu Bang's sentence of 'reckless 320,000 troops' is actually the same as that of the infant some time ago, leading the '80,000 army' to Xingyang to guard against the army of King Qi - when Liu Bang went out of Chang'an, he actually only brought 20,000 standing soldiers of the Northern Army, and on the way to South Korea, he absorbed the rangers along the way, and finally expanded into a huge army of 320,000 soldiers.

- If it is estimated based on the material reserves of the Han Dynasty at that time, Liu Hong is even very skeptical: Among the 320,000 people, the people who are responsible for escorting materials, ordnance, grain and grass will not be less than 200,000!

The reason why the siege of Baideng was formed was that Liu Bang underestimated the enemy, led the vanguard team to go deep alone, and pulled too far from the follow-up infantry clusters; And the 'chariot pioneer' led by Liu Bang is the first generation of the Northern Army soldiers of the Han Dynasty!

Therefore, in the history of later generations, the siege of Baideng, which was 'only a few hundred dead and wounded, frostbitten, frostbitten, and frozen to death', actually caused the most elite forbidden army of the Han Dynasty, the Northern Army, to lose at least half of its members.

Since then, the Han family has never moved the mind of taking the initiative to start a war with the Xiongnu; Even after Liu Bang's death, the Xiongnu Shan Maodun humiliated Empress Lu with a letter of state, and he was as strong as Empress Lu, and he chose to pray for peace with his money.

The famous 'Oooo The allusion came from that time - for the insult of Mao Dun, Wuyang Marquis Fan felt humiliated, so he was furious and proposed to personally lead an army of 100,000 to fight a decisive battle with the Huns!

Fan Xu's quality of 'preferring to die and unyielding' was placed in any dynasty in later generations, and regardless of whether he could make it or not, Fan Xu could at least get a reputation of 'heroic', but in the early Han Dynasty, which was in the afterglow of classical *****, Fan Xu's fierceness was only exchanged for Ji Bu's sentence 'Hao can be killed'.

Could it be that the martial arts of the Han family are not strong enough? Or does Ji Bu have a personal vendetta with Fan Xu?

Neither.

The real situation is in Ji Bu's explanation: Emperor Gaozu led an army of 320,000 that year, and finally fell under the siege of Baideng; Today, Fan said that 'leading 100,000 troops can level the Huns', which is really arrogant!

After consulting various Wenzong archives in Shiqu Pavilion, Liu Hong had a clearer and more specific understanding of this matter: the time when Mao Dun passed on the national letter to humiliate Empress Lu happened to be not long after Liu Bang's death, Emperor Hui Liu Ying ascended the throne, and the world's economy was still in the Great Depression caused by the 'three baht money', the country was poor and weak, and the people could not have a full stomach.

At that time, the Han family was so poor that the treasury ran rats, and the officials could not distribute it!

That is to say, if Empress Lu really agreed to Fan Xu's suggestion and sent a large army of 100,000 to fight a decisive battle with the Xiongnu, the first question encountered by Fan Xu, the commander of the army, was: Where does the military rations come from?

For Liu Hong, even if other factors are not considered, just looking at the time of this incident is enough to make Liu Hong change his mind and reluctantly accept the fact that 'the Han family is out of strategic disadvantage' - it has only been more than ten years since Mao Dunshan was in the book!

More than ten years ago, Empress Lu held the power of the entire Han family, and she could only refuse the humiliation of Maodun's 'joy of fish and water' with humiliating words such as 'concubines are old', not to mention the Han family with a chaotic political situation and internal undercurrents.

Therefore, Empress Dowager Bo is right - today's Han family has no confidence to start a war against the Xiongnu!

Even if they do not make peace in the end, the tone of this Han-Hungarian diplomacy will inevitably be that the Han family prays for peace and the Xiongnu blackmail the Han family.

Although Liu Hong, as the Son of Heaven, cannot arrogantly admit that 'it is better to be light', he must also try his best to suppress the main battle faction in the court to avoid the outbreak of war between Han and Hungary in a short time.

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Under the gaze of Liu Hong, who was sitting upright in the imperial collapse, and the noble ministers who stuffed the greenhouse hall full, several people with sturdy statures, rings on their mouths and noses, and their hair in a handful of pigtails, under the leadership of Fengchang Liu Budo, entered the oath hall.

In an instant, the hundreds of meritorious ministers in the hall all opened their eyes angrily, made a fierce and vicious appearance, and glared at those people viciously.

"Is this the Huns?"

In Liu Hong's eyes, the Huns in front of him are completely different from those shown in later film and television dramas - they are generally no more than six feet tall, and their bodies are almost one to six heads; The face is wide and flattened, the nose is wide, and the cheekbones are significantly higher than those of the Han Chinese.

Judging from the facial features alone, the Huns in front of them are more like the pure Korean nation in later generations - high cheekbones, flat nose bridge, and big round face.

It's just that the faces of those Huns are all covered with criss-crossing scars; This is within the scope of Liu Hongdi's knowledge - Xiongnu customs: all close relatives, such as friends, fathers, brothers and others died in battle, the surviving Hun soldiers will use daggers to cut a scar on their faces, so that blood and tears are left together, and there is also the meaning of 'remembering this pain and hatred'.

Judging from these people, the habit of the Huns to grow beards is also different from that of the Han people.

Nowadays, the most popular beard in the Han dynasty is about six inches long and neatly built 'square face beard', while these Huns have thick beards on their lips that lead to their necks along the nasolabial folds, but only a handful under their chins.

Liu Hong is very familiar with this kind of beard - in the great northwest of the 20th century, the ethnic areas that are still in a backward period, the 'Bayi masters' all have such beards!

Looking at a few people in surprise, Liu Hongdi's gaze suddenly stopped on a figure that was obviously higher than the others, and the lips were almost beardless, and the curiosity in his eyes was gradually replaced by resentment...

"The foreign envoys and others are on the orders of my lord Da Dan Yu to ask the Han Emperor if he is okay!"

The Guanzhong accent with a round tone suddenly attracted the attention of everyone in the hall, looking at the white and pure face without the slightest scar, and the faces of the ministers in the hall turned red!

If it is said that the fierce gods and evil spirits of Fang Cai were forcibly pretended by the ministers in the palace for the purpose of intimidation and prestige, then the current anger is all heartfelt.

- Han Chinese!

A Han man who is more than seven feet tall, with a hint of bookishness on his face, but is dressed on the left side and braided with a shawl!

Rao is heart has already decided to bow his head for the time being, as far as possible to greet Liu Hong, the Hun mission with a kind atmosphere, but also can't help snorting heavily, angry!

- Liu Hong never thought that more than 2,000 years ago, before the Western Era, he could still see a living traitor!

The people in the hall who had just been "intimidated" because of the matter of the "Chehou Shizi" looked at Liu Hong's face that was visible to the naked eye, and they also swallowed the 'angry words' that had come to their lips.

There was a strange silence, and the face of the 'Hun envoy' from the Han people suddenly became embarrassed.

"The foreign envoy is my lord..."

"I have ears!"

With a cold snort, the traitor's face suddenly tightened, and he subconsciously glanced at the Huns beside him, then gritted his teeth and said, "I don't know Your Majesty the Emperor, what does this mean?" ”

"Do you have to be in my lord's big order..."

Bang!!!

Before the words fell, an abrupt loud sound came from the imperial steps, echoing in the already silent greenhouse hall for a long time.

At the source of the sound, Liu Hong lay on the desk with his hands, lowered his head slightly, and his face was gloomy; Slightly narrowed eyes stared straight at the bottom of the imperial stairs, full of coldness.

The sudden change made the traitor's chest rise and fall violently, and he was about to speak again, but he was stopped by the Huns who were wearing silk robes and beads and jade between their belts, and dressed as nobles.

"His Majesty the Emperor is angry, this is my master's slave, and he doesn't know how to pay respects..."

In a slightly blunt tone, he confessed to Liu Hong, and the Xiongnu nobleman waved his hand lightly, signaling the Han people to retreat, and then took out a one-foot-square wooden stump, and bowed his head: "The Xiongnu are making Xu Bu bald, and I will ask the emperor if he is okay." ”

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