Chapter 172: Peace Talks II
If you want to defeat the enemy, you must naturally fully understand the enemy, although the Bank of China said that it has been away from the Han Dynasty for more than ten years, but in order to deal with the Han Dynasty, in the past ten years, it has done enough homework and explored the internal affairs of the Han Dynasty through various channels.
In terms of understanding the Han Dynasty, the Bank of China said that it was not much more than the ministers of the Han Dynasty............
Hearing this, Li Xin, who was originally right-handed, also seemed a little embarrassed, but Li Xin, as a Han envoy, naturally couldn't be speechless just because the Bank of China said so.
"However, the princess of my Han family and the Xiongnu is also the daughter of my royal clan and the bloodline of His Majesty Emperor Gao! How can you not be with Shan Yu and kiss him.
However, this time I was ordered by the Son of Heaven to send the Xiongnu, is to hope that Da Dan Yu can abide by the alliance with my Han brothers, with the Great Wall as the boundary, the north of the Great Wall is the land of the Huns, and my Han Dynasty will never set foot on it, but the south of the Great Wall is the land of my Han family, and I hope that Da Dan can restrain the tribes of the Huns and not easily disturb it.
Only in this way can we ensure the harmony between our Han and the Xiongnu."
Although Li Xin's words were impassioned, he was obviously still a little lacking in confidence, and the military ministers laughed when they heard this.
No matter when, which dynasty or generation, Lu Zhengxiang's sentence "A weak country has no justice, and a weak country has no diplomacy" is an unchanging truth.
Of course, in terms of the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, the Han Dynasty far surpassed the Xiongnu in terms of population, national strength, and political system.
In terms of population alone, when Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, the population of the entire China was about 20 million, but after the great chaos at the end of Qin, the war continued, the population withered, and the number of people dropped by millions.
However, since the founding of the Han Dynasty, it has tried all kinds of ways to encourage childbearing, and the whole of China has been stable for nearly 50 years, at this time, the population of the Han Dynasty has not only recovered to the number of the old Qin, but has far exceeded it.
When he was in Hedong County, Liu Rong ordered Cao Cao, a household in Hedong, to take the household registration of Hedong County and ascend to the throne.
Although Hedong is a wealthy county, and it is normal for the population to be larger, the growth rate is fast enough.
In this way, in less than 20 years, the population of the entire Han family will double compared with the Qin period.
Therefore, even if the Son of Heaven ordered the collection of soldiers, it is not difficult to collect millions of soldiers, and the Han Dynasty has a complete military industrial system, only with the bows, crossbows, ge, and swords stored in the Luoyang arsenal, it is enough to equip hundreds of thousands of troops, not to mention that there are more than ten arsenals in the entire Han family, and there is an unusually large Chang'an arsenal.
In the pre-AD era when everything was driven by manpower, it was natural to have more people, but if there were too many people, something big would happen.
The entire Han Empire and the people of the Han family had to rely on the crops that grew in the land to live, and the people needed food to survive, and the imperial court needed to collect grain as a tax to maintain the operation of the entire empire.
Of course, at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, because the population withered, the Son of Heaven of the Han family issued an edict, and the land of no one was cultivated, and the people reclaimed it as a field, and they could get its land.
It is also because of this policy that the Han family will be supported by the people at the bottom, but whether it is the rebellion of the king with a different surname, or the rebellion of the princes and kings of the Liu clan of the Han family, it is impossible to set off a ruling force that can destroy the royal family of the Han family, because the world is determined, and the people are on the side of the court.
But even if more land is cultivated, it is limited, and it is completely disproportionate to the rapid growth of the population.
In this way, there is only one way out to solve the situation of the people who have no land to cultivate - to expand outward!
Only by expanding outward can we obtain a larger land without affecting the foundation of the country.
In this way, whether it is to maintain the security of the Han border areas and the empire, or from other perspectives, war with the Xiongnu is absolutely impossible to avoid.
However, at this time, the strength accumulated by the Han family was still not enough, and after Liu Yu ascended the throne, he was able to fight head-on with the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu who fought were thousands of miles away, not only because the Han family had a strong cavalry corps and outstanding military wizards.
Rather, it is because it has the power accumulated by the four generations of emperors of the Han family, from Emperor Gao Liu Bang to Emperor Jing.
Even so, three large-scale battles with the Han Empire caused the chariot of the Han Empire to be riddled and crumbling, and the people suffered from unusually heavy taxes and forced labor.
If it weren't for the precipice in his later years, if he couldn't wait for Wang Mang to usurp the Han Dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty would have fallen apart after the death of Emperor Wu like the Qin Dynasty and would no longer exist.
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However, the Xiongnu were only a million people, and it was still an unusually loose alliance, and the Xiongnu were able to fight and win the Han Dynasty, not entirely because of its fierce combat power.
But because of its mobility, it is too mobile, taking the three large-scale invasions of the Xiongnu in the era of Emperor Wen as an example, as soon as he saw the border pass warning urgency, Emperor Wen ordered to gather hundreds of thousands of troops, to set up a position to fight with the Xiongnu.
Emperor Wen even found the Marquis of Yingyin, who was famous for his good use of cavalry as early as the time of Emperor Liu Bang, and made him a general, leading the only 80,000 cavalry of the Han army to the north to fight with the Xiongnu.
But every time the Han Dynasty made all the military preparations, the Xiongnu had already disappeared without a trace after a plunder, far away from the depths of the desert.
Since then, Emperor Wen has understood that if he wants to completely defeat the threat of the Xiongnu to the Han Dynasty, there is only one way out, and he ordered people to lead the army out of the fortress and travel far away in the desert to find the main force of the Xiongnu to fight him.
However, it was not until nearly 30 years later that Liu Yu Yuanguang made his first attempt in the sixth year of Yuanguang, and this year, after careful planning, Liu Yu gave the order to send four sorties to attack. With the chariot general Wei Qing straight out of the upper valley, the cavalry general Gongsun Ao sent troops from Daijun, the light car general Gongsun He sent troops from the clouds, and the cavalry general Li Guang sent troops from Yanmen. The generals of the four routes each led 10,000 cavalry.
However, Li Guang, the most favored flying general, was surrounded by the Hun army, and the whole army was wiped out after the first battle, while Wei Qing, the brother-in-law of the Son of Heaven, who had no one in the Manchu Dynasty, created a miracle, leading more than 10,000 men and horses, interspersed back and forth in the hinterland of the Huns, and rushed thousands of miles to end the dragon city, the holy land where the Huns buried their ancestors.
Seeing that the monarch and the minister just laughed and did not speak, Li Xin said: "Is there anything wrong with what the foreign minister said? The Xiongnu and our Han family have a brotherly covenant."
And after hearing the translation of Zhongxing's words, Junchen Shan Yu also said it in a muttering voice.
After hearing this, the subordinate who was proficient in the Xiongnu sitting on Li Xin's side stumbled, "Angel, just in words, so it is still early spring, and the grass on the desert is not yet mature, so the number of cattle and sheep in the Xiongnu tribes has plummeted, so the Huns will attack the border of our Han family."
Although they are brothers, but when they are hungry, they will do whatever they can, as long as the angel returns to Chang'an, he will report to the emperor of the Han Dynasty and give 50,000 cattle and sheep to the Xiongnu, and the Huns will be able to overcome this crisis."
For the insatiable temperament of the Huns, how could Liu Qi, the son of heaven, not know, so before Li Xin left, he summoned him into the palace, and he said that if the Huns asked for cattle and sheep, as long as the number was not too outrageous, they could respond to it.
When Li Xin was about to speak, the translator's subordinate said, "Shan Yu...... Shan Yu ...... He also said ......".
"What else is there, what else is said, everything is said."
I saw this subordinate wipe the cold sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, and then said, "No! , Angel, Shan Yu ...... Shan Yu Shicai also said that the Xiongnu's Yan clan died of illness, and Da Shan Yu hoped that the angel would inform His Majesty that if he remarried the daughter of the Han family to the Xiongnu, he could make the Han and Huns reconcile, and the daughter he married this time must be His Majesty...... Your Majesty's own daughter! ”。
Hearing this, Li Xin, who was shocked, almost couldn't sit still and fell to the ground, but it was this subordinate who hurriedly supported him on the side so that he didn't fall.
Seeing this situation, the Bank of China said with a smile: "I don't know if the Han envoy is willing to tell you the emperor of the Han Dynasty, Dadan Yu Shicai has made it very clear that as long as I marry the daughter and relatives of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, my Great Hun will live in harmony with the Han Dynasty."
After such a long time, Li Xincai sighed and said: "The meaning of Shan Yu is ...... This envoy will tell the Son of Heaven truthfully."
"It's so natural, it's very good", after speaking, the Bank of China said that he turned around and said something to the monarch and ministers.
However, after a while, the Bank of China said that it seemed to be a smile but not a smile: "The people who come are not drunk."
When he had finished speaking, he saw several veiled women serving wine and placing it in front of everyone.
Glancing at Li Xin, the Bank of China raised his glass and said: "Da Dan Yu Shicai said that he wants to drink this cup of wine with the Han envoy to celebrate the Han and Hun eternal marriages."
However, Li Xin couldn't hear the Bank of China saying that this was a sarcasm, or did not cover it up at all, and it was outright sarcastic.
But Li Xin, as an envoy sent by the emperor of the Han family, came here to negotiate peace, and completed His Majesty's entrustment, which is the top priority, and the rest of the things can be put down, Li Xin himself is also a person with a strong temperament, but for this, he had to break his teeth and swallow it in his stomach, swallow his anger, raise the wine glass with a trembling hand of anger, look straight at the Zhongxing in front of him and say: "Xie Shan Yu's beauty!" ”。 However, if the eyes can kill, at this time, the Bank of China said that it had already been cut by Li Xin with a thousand knives.
After speaking, Li Xin drank all the wine in this cup.
When Li Xin wanted to get up and leave the king's tent for a while, he walked away with the support of his subordinates.
However, the next day, Li Xin and his party left the land of the Hun royal court, and after walking for half a day, Li Xin rode on the horseback and cried, and even fell from the horse.
Seeing this, the soldiers on the side naturally immediately stepped forward to support him.
However, no matter how to help, Li Xin was reluctant to get up, but just knelt on it and cried.
The subordinates who accompanied him naturally felt uncomfortable in their hearts, and they all dissuaded Li Xindao: "Angels can't be like this, Your Majesty sent you here, and at this time, I still expect you to return to Chang'an and report everything to Your Majesty!" ”。
Hearing his mention of His Majesty, Li Xin wailed even more: "I have betrayed Your Majesty's trust and caused my great man to suffer such humiliation!"
Only by dying can we repay Your Majesty's kindness! ”。
After speaking, he actually handed over the scepter given by the Son of Heaven, who was willing to leave him day and night, to the person who wanted to pull out the sword at his waist and kill himself.
However, no one present reacted, and the subordinate who was sent to act as an interpreter in the Pawn Office reacted more quickly, and immediately dodged Chang Ge in the hand of a soldier and shot down the long sword in Li Xin's hand.
At this time, the rest of the people hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed Li Xin, and said in a gossipy voice: "How can an angel draw a sword to kill himself, this peace negotiation is in such a situation, it is definitely not the fault of the angel!" Don't forget Your Majesty who is still waiting anxiously in Chang'an.
If an angel kills himself, where will his majesty be?"
After a long while, Li Xin stopped crying, suddenly got up and stretched out his hand to point to the sky, "If God can make me see my Han family's wealth in this life, and I die on the spot, it can also be done!" This is an oath! ”。