Just from the name of this Xiongnu nobleman who called himself the 'chief envoy', it is not difficult for Liu Hong to judge his identity and the specifications of the mission sent by the Xiongnu this time.

At this time, the Xiongnu were still in a backward period based on bloodline: the clan system; And this Xiongnu envoy is out of one of the four most honorable clans in addition to the Xiongnu royal family: the Subu clan.

The Xu Bu clan, together with the Huyan clan, the Qiu Lin clan and the Lan clan, constitute the four most noble surnames in the Xiongnu headquarters; In the Xiongnu's unique double-headed eagle system, each of these four surnames had its own reservation: hereditary official positions.

Different from the official system of the three dukes and the nine kings of the Han dynasty, the Xiongnu implemented the 'double-headed eagle' policy that was common among nomads, and set up the left and right virtuous kings, the left and right Guli kings, the left and right generals, and the left and right big households.

Historically, these eight are usually called the 'Eight Pillars of the Huns'; the succession order of the great throne alone is also in the order of the Zuoxian King, the Right Xian King, and the Left Guli King, in order; Any one of the eight pillars of the Xiongnu is theoretically qualified to inherit the throne.

The left sage king is usually the son of Shan Yu, and the right sage king is the brother of the sand of the sand of the stinger; The king of the left and right valleys is served by the leader of the royal family: the Sulu clan.

The four positions with relatively low status in the eight pillars are hereditary by the four major surnames of the Xiongnu.

The left general is the suzerain of the Huyan clan for generations, and the right general belongs to the Qiulin clan; Lan's tenure as the left big leader···

In this way, the identity of the Xiongnu envoy is very clear: even if he is not the suzerain of the Xu Bu clan who serves as the right leader of the Xiongnu, he is at least the leader of the young and strong of the Su Bu clan and the candidate for the next right big household!

It should be mentioned that the reason why the power structure of the Xiongnu is called the 'double-headed eagle' policy is precisely because the 'eight pillars' are divided into four people on the left and right; The four members of the 'left' group were mainly responsible for the strategy of Central Asia west of the Xiongnu territory, and the four people of the 'right' group were mainly responsible for the strategy south of the Xiongnu territory, that is, the strategy of the Han dynasty.

This makes King Zuo Xian, King Zuo Guli, General Zuo, and Zuo Dadang become natural political allies, or direct superiors and subordinates; Vice versa.

And the envoy in front of Liu Hong is the Xu Bu clan, who has grown up in the past few generations to inherit the position of 'right big household', and it is even very likely to become the next right big head of the Huns!

This information is very important to Liu Hong - Xu Bu's ≈Right Big Household, Right Big Household = Anti-Han!"

As the right master who has followed the right virtuous king for generations and presided over the strategy against the Han Dynasty, the hostility towards the Han family will inevitably not be small!

This can be seen from the rather standard Chinese dialect of Su Bu Bald - as the only two big guys in the known world, the Han-Hungarian pattern at this time is almost the same as the two big guys in later generations!

In the twentieth century, the most feared officials of the Great Bear would definitely not be those Eagle Nation officials who clamored to occupy space all day long; It's the gentle-mannered, closed-mouthed 'Hara-less' councillors – the ones who know you best will only be the enemy!

And vice versa: only outright enemies will go to great lengths to learn about your language, culture, and everything that is valuable.

Full of vigilance, Liu Hong took the 'Hun State Book' presented by Liu Budo to the royal ranks, and studied it carefully.

At this time, the Xiongnu did not have writing, nor did they have the habit of recording words, so this square wooden slab with a length and width of one foot and one inch was actually written by Chinese characters.

At the beginning, Liu Hong had heard the official phrase several times from the Xiongnu envoy and the Han who was most likely the deputy envoy: The Xiongnu asked the Han Emperor if he was okay.

As for the content of the national letter, the wording is also very official: hearing the death of the Empress Dowager of Han, Shan Yu was also very sad, and the special envoy sent gifts to express the feelings of Han and Hungarian 'brothers'.

Regarding the Han and Hungarian as the 'state of brothers', Liu Hong has always thought that it was from the period of Emperor Wen in history, the decisive battle between the Han and Hungary that was caused by Liu Xingju, the king of Jibei, - when it was, Emperor Wen Liu Heng was full of wings, and the world initially got out of the predicament, so he drove to Taiyuan to fight a decisive battle with the Xiongnu.

In that battle, which spanned nearly two years, both the Han and the Hungarians paid a terrible price - the Han family was frugal, and all the money and grain that had been saved for decades were exhausted, and the following autumn harvest, at least half of the Han family's farmland was wiped out!

The situation of the Xiongnu is not much better - the Huns, who were already destitute and hoped to snatch rice and grain supplies from the Han family for the winter, left tens of thousands of corpses at the foot of the Great Wall all day long, and the empty rear was turned upside down by the remnants of the Yueshi and the Qiang people.

This decisive battle between the Han and Hungarians, which can be called comparable to the Battle of Baideng, finally ended with Liu Xingju, the king of Jibei, rebelling, and Emperor Wen praying for peace with money and turning back to suppress the rebellion.

This battle completely determined the overall strategy of the Wen and Jing dynasties, the Han family farming with peace of mind, exploding the cavalry, and first securing the interior and then the outside.

The Xiongnu also suffered heavy losses - within three to five years after the end of the battle, the entire Shan Yuting was busy cleaning up the Xiaoyue clan and Qiang forces on the grassland.

According to history, after the end of this battle, all the babies born in the second year of the Xiongnu were drowned (1)!

A big war, in which the Han and Hungarians each gathered all their elites, invested huge strategic materials, and stared at the front line of the Great Wall, and finally played with the internal order and ended in turmoil in the rear.

It was this battle that made Emperor Wen Liu Heng clearly realize that in order to win the battle against the Xiongnu, the internal princes and kings must first grind off their minions and form a stable rear.

Then Emperor Wen died, Emperor Jing succeeded to the throne, gritted his teeth with hatred for the Huns who had repeatedly invaded, and when he wanted to send a large army to crusade, the emperor Chao cried blood and persuaded him, which is also this: the first emperor's deathbed confession - the outside must first be inside, please let Your Majesty rest the wrath of the thunder, and specialize in cutting the domain...

In a sense, this is also the main reason why Emperor Jing couldn't bear the temperament at all, and he made drastic cuts to cut the feudal domain, and did not hesitate to force the princes to oppose the Kwantung princes, but also to sweep away the separatist forces of the princes and kings - internal instability, how can we talk about external conquest?

As a matter of fact, 'hatred of the Xiongnu' and 'passing through the Qin and respecting the Han' were both basic ideologies that ran through the entire early Han Dynasty and even the entire Western Han Dynasty; after the siege of Baideng, there was destined to be an all-out war between the Han and the Huns that would stake all the fortunes of the country.

The diplomatic tone of the Han and Hungarian 'brotherly states' is the result of the compromise between the Han and the Hungarians after the Battle of Baideng.

It's just that no matter how gorgeous the skin is, the diplomatic pattern of the Han and Hungarian still can't get rid of its 'oppressive' nature...

"When my lord Da Shan heard that the Empress Dowager of Han had died and the emperor ascended the throne at a young age, he ordered the foreign envoy to prepare a small gift to show the meaning of 'taking care' of friends."

As he spoke, Su Bu Bald took out a sheepskin from his bosom and read aloud: "My lord Shan Yu gave the Han Emperor a horse, three horses, ten cows, and thirty sheep; One golden rod, one crown; Three wolf leathers, a number of jade. ”

The sound fell, and the hall was suddenly silent.

What the courtiers and nobles in the palace thought in their hearts was that the Huns sent these gifts with a single digit as a unit of measurement, which was clearly a humiliation of the Han family!

And Liu Hong was already secretly clenching his teeth, barely maintaining his complexion from collapsing...

- Scepter, Crown!

The meaning of these two gifts alone is already an absolute fraud!

The golden scepter and crown generally appeared in medieval Europe in later generations as a symbol of kings; And this tradition was brought to the continent by the Huns who migrated westward together with the 'Whip of Attila'.

In today's Xiongnu royal court, it is through 'giving scepters and crowns' to implement the 'feudal king' similar to the Han family's feudal feuds.

Now, the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun added these two artifacts to the gifts sent to the Han family, and its intention can be said to be obvious!

I saw Liu Hong put down the piece of wood without a trace, stood up with his hands in his hands, and said with a stiff smile: "The beauty of the single Yu, I understand it with my heart; However, the rod and the crown are not in line with the gift of my Han family, and I ask the messenger to refuse the good intentions for me. ”

- What a joke!

Mao Dun's operation is equivalent to the Han family sending a prince's seal to the Xiongnu Shan Yu!

As long as you take it, it is equivalent to bowing down!

"This old immortal, do you really think that I am young and easy to deceive?"

Secretly slandering himself, Liu Hong picked up a light smile again, and said softly: "The meaning of single is what I know; I also ask the envoy to convey to your lord Shan Yu on his behalf: The friendship between the Han and Hungarian brothers is still the same. ”

"My Han room is a state of etiquette, that is, just to give such a heavy gift, but also as a return gift..."

As soon as Liu Hong's voice fell, Su Bu Bald naturally took over the conversation: "The matter of returning the gift, my lord Shan Yu also explained. ”

As he spoke, Su Bu Bald took out a sheepskin from his bosom that was obviously larger than the previous 'gift list', and said indifferently: "Since Han and Hun are brothers, they should have the reason to be polite and reciprocal, so my lord is only brave and asks the Han Emperor to give the following things." ”

"100,000 stones of grain and rice, 10,000 horses of cloth, 3,000 stones of salt, and 1,000 stones of tea; 500 gold vessels, twice as much copper; Fifty beauties, thousands of strong slaves; five thousand swords, five thousand bows; Ya 100,000...

Under the increasingly angry gaze of everyone in the hall, Su Bu Bald finished reading the incredible 'return list', and immediately said with a pale face: "In addition, my lord has two other things, and I want to ask the Han Emperor to agree. ”

"First, the so-called 'cloud' land of the Han invasion of the Xiongnu Munan, my lord returned it to Emperor Wanghan."

"The two, Han and Hun are brothers, and my lord is only young when Emperor Nian Han is young, and he wants to enter Yanmen with the Aries Department of the Huns, so as to protect His Majesty the Emperor of Han."

After speaking, Su Bu bowed without squinting: "Please also ask the Han Emperor to consider; If the gift is not as desired, my lord should take it for himself. ”

Listening to Su Bu's diplomatic request to get closer and closer to the style of fantasy painting, Liu Hong has changed from gritting his teeth at the beginning to a look full of ridicule.

On the contrary, everyone in the hall finally couldn't suppress the anger in their chests and burst out together!

"My Lord, though young, is also born holy; There is no reason to surrender to vulgarity and barbarism! ”

Liu Budo can be regarded as the gentle and elegant among the courtiers - the Wang Ling on the side has already thrown off the support of his nephew beside him, and came to the center of the hall with angry eyes.

"Eryidi! He deceived my lord to the point, and he really thought that there was no one in my Han room?!! ”

As he spoke, the old Wang Ling even picked up the dove staff in his hand, and was about to smash it on the head of Su Bu Bald!

The huge greenhouse hall was suddenly in chaos, and the Hun envoys threatened the angry Wang Ling, and everyone in the hall made a persuasive posture, but in fact, they fell to the ground in the chaotic battle and left their black feet.

Looking at the chaos in the hall, Liu Hong did not rush to stop it, but only watched the Hun envoys in the hall who were violently beaten by ***** Iron Fist.

- Sure enough, the essence of diplomacy, whether ancient or modern, Chinese or foreign, is a means for the powerful to play hooligans in civilization!

'Return the so-called land in the clouds' of the Xiongnu, like an island in later generations?

As for the latter sentence, 'leading the Aries Department into Yanmen and protecting the emperor is thorough, it is exactly the same as the 'military base' of the Freedom Tower in later generations.

In this regard, Liu Hong can only use the word 'hehe' to describe his mood at this time.

- Is it true that today's Han family is the cute girl who is light and soft and easy to push down in the nineteenth century?

Mao Dun is possessed by Chuan Jianguo, right?

Happily watching a 'reasoning' before the Western Yuan, Liu Hong barely suppressed the corners of his mouth, coughed lightly twice and cleared his throat, and then raised the paperweight on the plan and slapped it violently!

Bang!

With a loud bang, the hall suddenly paused like a movie that pressed the pause button, as if time was frozen, his hands gently pulled the royal tomb, and his feet kicked alternately in the hall of the Hun mission, and suddenly froze in place.

"Ahh

After Liu Hong deliberately coughed lightly, only half a second, everyone in the hall had returned to their positions and bowed to the top of the imperial steps: "The ministers and other kings are out of order, and your Majesty is the holy judge..."

Su Bu Bald Li also got up from the ground in horror, and bowed angrily to the royal steps: "The foreign envoy came with gifts on the orders of my lord Shan Yu, but he suffered such a situation, and asked the Han Emperor to be the master of the foreign envoy!" ”

As he spoke, Bald Li looked at the big footprints on his body, his eyes swept around fiercely, and he said gloomily: "In this matter, the foreign envoy will tell my lord Shan Yu truthfully!" ”

On the royal steps, Liu Hong, who had already sat back on the top of the royal collapse, heard this, and his face suddenly turned solemn: "Fengchang, the people who bullied the Hun envoys today will be recorded in the book, and Lu will be punished for half a year!" ”

After that, Liu Hong cast a Zanke gaze in the direction of the royal tomb without a trace, and then turned his face to Xu Bu Bald, and said apologetically: "Forgive me, the foreign envoy, my Han family started from the grass, and the courtiers and nobles are all martial, and they are in a hurry, and the wrong thing is wrong..."

As he spoke, Liu Hong's face straightened slightly, and he solemnly promised: "Today's matter, I will definitely give your lord an explanation!" ”

"Your envoy has been tired all the way, please rest for the time being, and wait for the elders of the court to agree, and then reply to your envoy."

Hearing Liu Hong's promise, Su Bubald looked at Han Zhang, the deputy envoy behind him, whose mouth and nose were already covered with blood, and said angrily: "The foreign envoy advises His Majesty the Emperor, don't provoke the ownerless Shan Yu, you need to know that my Huns control 400,000 strings..."

Listening to the naked threat of baldness, Liu Hong's face darkened, and he immediately returned to indifference.

"If what I have heard is correct, your lord Shan Yu should be seriously ill now, right?"

Indifferently spit out this information that made Su Bu bald look frightened, Liu Hong naturally stood up, revealing that harmless smile of humans and animals.

"Since your lord is alone, it is a gift because of the death of the queen mother of the Han family, and I should wait for your lord to return to heaven when it is not too late?"

·

·

·

PS: Unlike the Han people who drowned babies because they avoided the date of birth or could not afford to raise them, the tradition of the Huns drowning babies was mainly after the conquest of a tribe; Because the Huns attached great importance to bloodline, the Huns would choose to drown any baby who could not ensure bloodline.

For example, if tribe A conquers tribe B, it naturally gets the women of tribe B; But all the newborns born to these women in the second year will drown because of suspicious bloodlines.

What is written in the text is a different situation: the Xiongnu people were structured and composed of 'accounts' as family units, similar to the 'households' of the Han family, and the owner of each family had any rights to the whole family, as well as corresponding obligations such as protection and feeding; When the time comes, the head of the family will respond to the call of the tribe to go out to fight; When they go home after the war, most of them choose to drown their newborns in the second year - they have been away for a long time, and the grassland pursues the law of the jungle, and the head of the house who returned after the war has no way of knowing whether his woman has rolled turf with others.

What's more, the Qiang people who were similar to 'robbers' brought disaster to the rear.

Book Reading House