This king of Zuogu Li naturally readily agreed, so he took the throne on the bank of Yuwu Water under the support of the Lan clan, the Xu Bu clan, and the Huyan clan.

For the first time in history, the Xiongnu appeared in the Yuwu River Basin at the same time.

This is unprecedented in the last 150 years!

But the effect was remarkable, An Mi was on the throne alone, and the cavalry of the three major clans found the backbone at once.

The will to fight and determination rose with a roar, and soon in the middle of Yu Wushui, he resisted Tu Qi's crazy attack!

This is the same judgment as the judgment of Subdangmi and others - the Huns must have a master with a whip in his back, roaring and roaring and lashing and scolding.

It's like what the Han Dynasty said - the Xiongnu were born a slave race.

Without the owner, they are miserable!

However, what they did was undoubtedly the last straw that was imposed on the camel.

Ten days after An Mishan ascended the throne, news reached the Hun River.

The Xiongnu tribes in the Hun River immediately split into two camps supporting An Mi and Tu Qi, and fought fiercely, and blood flowed like a river.

Half a month later, the news spread to the Pu countries at the foot of the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains in the Western Regions.

When Li Ling, who led his troops here, heard the news, he immediately supported Du Longqi, the youngest son of the sage, as Shan Yu, and then led his troops into Junji Mountain and advanced towards the private canal Bibi Hai.

Almost at the same time, in the Dragon City of Guyan Mountain, an enthronement ceremony was also being held.

Under the personal witness of the Mu Yan clan, the right virtuous king Haoli was under the auspices of the shaman, and Yin Zhixian and other orders ascended the throne in front of the mausoleum.

So far, the pattern of the four Xiongnu standing side by side has been formed.

The split of the Xiongnu is inevitable and unstoppable.

Shan Yu, who had four different forces and positions, occupying different regions, immediately tore apart the common cognition that the Xiongnu had spent 150 years forming since Maodun.

When the Xiongnu civil war was in full swing, Han Zeng had returned to Juyan.

In Juyan, he received the first indemnity sent by the Huns - countless dogs' heads, furs, and pearls.

Just the dog's head gold is enough to load seven carts.

The largest piece weighs more than 30 catties, and the smallest one also has a few taels.

These are the treasures of the Huns at the bottom of the box, and they are the treasures they have found in Jinshan, Tianshan Mountain, and the Jiduanshui and Jishishui basins for decades!

Now, in order to ease relations, all are here.

Once weighed, it weighs more than 8,000 pounds!

Han Zeng casually made an excuse and depreciated the value of these dog's head gold to six thousand gold.

The reason is simple - fire consumption.

Even if his reason could not stand scrutiny at all, the Huns could only admit it.

There is no way that the situation is stronger than people!

It's better to spend money to buy peace than to be taken to the nest!

However, Han Zeng also knows that he will accept it when he sees it, and if he is black, he will no longer be black.

The rest of the fur and pearl are calculated at the 'market price'.

Of course, this market price refers to the local market price in Juyan, not Chang'an.

As a result, thousands of high-quality furs of various colors sent by the Huns were accepted at a price ranging from a few hundred dollars to a maximum of ten gold.

This includes hundreds of tiger skins, bear skins, and leopard skins in perfect condition.

and more than 100 white fox skins that can cause a sensation in Chang'an!

So much so that the thousands of nitrated furs only paid a total of no more than 3,000 gold in compensation.

As for Jewel?

Since it is concocted in the same way, tens of thousands of pieces of jade in good condition are all calculated according to the general jade price.

The total value was suppressed at 4,000 gold.

That's it, the Huns are still smiling and happy.

The nobles who escorted him even asked Han Zeng if the furs and jade in the future could also go at this price?

Do you exchange these things for silk, salt, iron, and even armor?

Han Zeng smiled slightly and agreed.

The Huns were so happy that they almost celebrated with singing and dancing on the spot.

There is no way, it has been more than thirty years since the Han-Hungarian all-out war.

For more than 30 years, the Han dynasty completely cut off trade with the Xiongnu, which severely hit the economic resources of the Xiongnu.

Not to mention, in the entire known world, the only market that can eat the Huns' annual surplus of fur is the Han family.

And the dog's head gold and jade produced by the Huns were also sold to the Han family in exchange for things.

Otherwise, there is only one way to cross the mountains and sell it to Daxia, which is thousands of miles away.

Not to mention the time and effort, the profits earned may not be able to compensate for the cost of this hard work.

There is no way, although doghead gold and jade are hard currency.

However, after all, they cannot have ten or a hundred times the profit margin like silk.

And the local countries in the Western Regions, although they also want gold and jade, the problem is ...... Their needs are small and they can produce on their own.

Especially those riverside countries and mountainous countries have already saturated their own gold and jade production.

For more than 30 years, the Huns could only use these gold and jade as sacrifices, or as bribes to Han officials.

Help to the Huns themselves, about equal to nothing.

Now, can it actually open the way to Han-Hungarian trade?

It is equivalent to announcing that these things that used to be only consumables are finally useful!

How does this make them unhappy?

The nobles, in particular, were crazy with joy.

They finally felt that in fact, the agreement with the Han Dynasty did not seem to hurt?

Anyway, if it is to be damaged, it is only Shan Yu and Wang Ting.

But they can benefit.

The tribal skins, the gold and jade that they had found and dug up, had been exchanged for silk, salt, iron, cloth, and other goods.

Refreshing!

Han Zeng took this opportunity to hint at these Xiongnu envoys - in fact, Juyan and Hexi now have a great demand for slaves and maids.

If only someone could get some slaves......

Well, enough salt, iron, and silk pipes.

Even if it's armor, it's exchangeable.

When these Huns heard this, they immediately got their senses.

So, in half a month, they took furs, gold and jade, and slaves and maids across the Tianshan Mountains and came to the city of Qulicheng, the governing place of the Western Regions Protectorate.

And Wang Mang took this batch of goods very sincerely at a 'high price' according to Han Zeng's requirements.

This opened Pandora's box.

The Huns in the Western Regions quickly moved into action.

At the beginning, they hid from Li Ling, and only dared to quietly cross the Tianshan Mountains on a small scale and trade with the Han, and the trade volume was not large.

However, with the continuation of the war in Mobei, Li Ling also participated in trade in order to raise military expenses, especially military armor.

As a result, the Sino-Hungarian trade climbed to an all-time high in two months.

In April alone, the Huns in the Western Regions transported tens of thousands of catties of dog's head gold, more than 20,000 slaves and maids, and a total of more than 40,000 furs of various colors to the canal plow.

They exchanged more than 10,000 bronze knives, more than 7,000 bows, 1 million bronze arrows, more than 2,000 pieces of leather armor, and more than 3,000 bronze heads.

These are all things that Han Zeng got from the Chang'an arsenal.

It's basically grandparents' weapons.

Some weapons can even be traced back to the Qin Dynasty.

This is also the advantage of bronze weapons - they are corrosion-resistant and easy to maintain.

Not to mention losing the arsenal for more than 100 years, even if it is 1,000 or 2,000 years underground, it will not decay.

In addition to weapons, the Huns also exchanged a large amount of salt, grain, and cloth.

By May, in fact, the Xiongnu tribes in the Western Regions had completely relied on trade with the Han to survive.

At this time, the doghead gold and jade resources on the surface of the Western Regions have been basically exhausted.

The Huns had no choice but to order the countries of the Western Regions to make offerings.

At the same time, a large number of slaves were organized to search for jade and gold resources in the rivers and mountains of the Western Regions.

They even learned to pan for gold - in the tributaries of Yin Lieshui and Jixian Shui, find those sections of the river rich in gold sand, and then organize people to pan for gold and jade.

However, these are a drop in the bucket after all.

It is only enough to offset the principal and interest of the indemnity that needs to be paid to the Han Dynasty every month.

I have to say here that the imperial, nationalist, and righteous financial plan that Han Zeng copied at the beginning is really fantastic.

It seemed to be a loss, giving the Huns a chance to potentially tear up the agreement.

It's actually a bondage!

In particular, he offered a down payment plus a monthly repayment of principal and interest.

It was like a shackle, strangled on the neck of the Xiongnu in the Western Regions, forcing them to take out gold, pearls, jade, fur and fur slaves every month to offset the principal and interest.

Although it doesn't seem like much every month, it only needs to pay back a few hundred gold.

But the problem is that after a month, the Huns suddenly felt extremely uncomfortable.

However, the civil war in Mobei has intensified.

Even if Li Ling led his troops to join the battlefield, he quickly seized the private canal Bibi Sea, and subdued a large number of tribes in the name of the sages and fox deer gu.

With the help of Wei Law, he gained the upper hand on the battlefield.

There were also a large number of bronze armor purchased from the Han family to arm his army, and An Mi and Tu Qi were fighting with their heads.

But the problem is that it is precisely because Li Ling is too strong.

So, in an instant, all parties began to unite and target him.

Under the tandem of the shaman, An Mi, Tu Qi, and Lu Li reached an agreement to temporarily stop fighting.

The three sides jointly faced Li Ling's attack and had a major battle with Li Ling's troops at the Hun River.

He also sent troops to block the cavalry of Weilu in the upper valley area of Yuwushui.

For a time, the battle situation was at a stalemate.

Subsequently, Li Ling found that the enemy opposite him also began to be equipped with a large number of various weapons of the Han family.

What bronze swords, leather armor, and iron armor are all idle.

Among the cavalry of Tu Qi and extravagance, there were even a large number of cavalry equipped with horseshoes and heavy halberds.

The addition of these cavalry made Li Ling's progress slow.

From March to May, it was not possible to penetrate the Hun River for two months, and penetrated deep into Yuwu Water.

In desperation, Li Ling had no choice but to lead his troops to withdraw from the Hun River and enter the private canal Bibi Sea for repair.

There was no way, his cavalry, both horses and men, were exhausted.

The end of the strong crossbow cannot wear Lu Min.

And this retreat made the whole battle situation confusing.

Forced to have no choice, Li Ling could only reorganize his army for war on the one hand, and on the other hand, send people back to the Western Regions, and order the tribes that remained in the Western Regions to increase their trade with the Han.

After the gold and jade resources on the surface of the Western Regions gradually became scarce, the Huns were not very good at mining.

They have and only one

Choice - slave!

Fortunately, the Huns under the control of Li Ling were quite calm and did not extend their poisonous hand to the Western Regions Kingdom that they ruled and controlled.

Instead, they targeted those who would neither surrender nor die.

For example, the Cypriot people of Dawan, Kangju, and Jinshan, as well as some ethnic minorities scattered in the Western Regions.

Therefore, from the end of April, the number of slaves and maids of the Xiongnu through the Tianshan Mountains increased greatly!

In May, it reached an average of 500 people per day.

And soon surpassed this peak, and by mid-May, the number of slaves and maids entering the plough peaked at nearly a thousand!

A large number of slaves and maids, men and women, old and young, who were captured and plundered by the Huns, were tied up by the Huns with ropes and driven to the control of the Han family.

Then he was escorted by Wang Mang's cavalry from the Western Regions Protectorate and sent to Juyan.

As a result, the labor force in Juyan has increased rapidly.

Soon it was 50,000!

And the price that the Han family needs to pay is only some worthless bronze weapons that have been thrown in the arsenal and eaten dozens or hundreds of years of ashes, as well as some salt, cloth, and grain.

There were even many that did not need to be paid, and were used by the Huns as monthly reparations.

For these slaves and maids sent by the Huns, Han Zeng made careful arrangements.

First of all, the young and strong men used it to build water conservancy, river embankments, plant trees, and dig silt to fertilize the fields.

The rest of the parts were screened.

The young woman was taken by him as a pension and reward, as compensation for the orphans and meritorious soldiers of the Juyan Han army.

The decision was welcome.

In a civilian family in Juyan, there may be more than three brothers.

However, there is only one person who can afford to marry a wife.

The rest are singles.

Now, the country has sent girls.

As long as the person who has made meritorious service or is a relative of the fallen soldiers, he can choose to apply and use his sister as part of the compensation.

Moreover, General Yingyang is also very conscientious, a sixteen-year-old orchid from the Western Regions can be brought home with only six thousand yuan worth of military merits.

That's a bonus!

For a time, almost all the major life events of the military and civilians in Juyan were resolved.

The things that plagued countless parents disappeared overnight.

Now, the people of Juyan are even preparing their underage children in advance, exchanging military merit for orchids to bring home to be child brides.

As a result, Han Zeng was thoroughly supported in Juyan.

And some of the original small grievances and dissatisfaction disappeared in front of the girl.

The young Hu Nu married a border man of the Han family.

The rest, Han Zeng did not waste.

He organized these middle-aged women and children together.

Let them learn to spin and create profits.

As a result, in the summer and June, the entire appearance of Juyan has been completely renewed.

The slaves and maids sent by the Huns worked hard to repair and expand the roads.

On both sides of the river, they built dikes and planted trees.

They dig up the sludge in the river banks and swamps, then collect human and animal manure, mix the sludge, compost and ferment it, and transport it to various farmland areas in Juyan to be used as fertilizer.

More than a dozen large and small channels have been built.

So much so that when the messenger from Chang'an came to Juyan, he was stunned by everything in front of him.

Today's Juyan, the road is neat, and the road surface is wide and flat.

On both sides of the riverbank, the trees are verdant, the cottages stand side by side, and the smoke curls from the cooking.

In the fields, millet seedlings are oily, and people come and go.

Countless waterwheels, creaking and creaking, draw clean water into the channel.

Tens of thousands of cattle and sheep are scattered across the vast fields and hillsides.

The herdsmen who herded them, riding horses and calling hounds, chased hares in the mountains.

Everything is so harmonious and beautiful.

"Is this sure it's Juyan, not Guanzhong?" The messenger's face was full of confusion.

The accompanying people widened their eyes even more.

I couldn't believe what I was seeing!

The fault was that they soon saw thousands of ragged slaves and maids coming from afar under the watchful eye of the soldiers, and they were afraid that this was the legendary land of peace, heaven on earth.

"Go ask someone......" The envoy who had lived in Chang'an for a long time frowned and thought about it, and then made a decision.

He was now filled with curiosity.

You must know that before he came, he specially went to consult Li Guangli, who had been changed to a chariot general by the Son of Heaven.

Ask him about Juyan.

And the Juyan that Zhang Anshi said is a place of bitter cold and poverty.

With the exception of the elite field soldiers, most of the people here are ragged, aggressive and dangerous.

But......

The current situation is that the houses are neat, the roads are wide, the fields are deserted, the water wheels are turning, and the cattle and sheep are full of herds.

And most of the people were well-dressed, ruddy-faced, and looked very polite.

The messenger even heard the faint sound of reading in some villages.

With these doubts in mind, the messenger stopped, turned and led the man to the nearest cottage.

He wanted to find out, why did Ju Yan in Zhang Anshi's mouth become like this?