Chapter 41: A Sudden Betrayal
Wu Hechi's words were like thunder, and the Han monarchs and ministers in the palace were scorched on the outside and tender on the inside. The dog I raised was against me, and this is the most disgusting story.
Looking at the letter presented by Wu Hechi, Liu Xun took the letter with an iron face, opened the letter and saw that the letter read: Wusun Kun Mo Weng must be respectful, the world is in chaos, and all countries should deal with the chaos in the world with the same. The Han and the Xiongnu provoked the chaos of the world, and those who did not respect the orders of the two would lose the land at least and destroy the temple at worst. Small countries do not dare to do their best to serve big countries, but strong countries go to great lengths to exploit and oppress, and the people in the country are miserable. The Han and Hungarian lost morality, and it was the time when our generation united. If the Han is weak, it will attack the Han, and if the Han is strong, it will attack the Xiongnu. When the time comes, the world can be calmed down in one fell swoop. Wuhuan Wuyun Nian, Xianbei Dugu He, Yue's He Wen jointly respected.
Seeing this, Liu Xun threw the letter on the ground, took out the sword of the Son of Heaven and cut off the corner of the case, and shouted: "Is it tolerable or unbearable, Yi Di is bullied, and no one is deceiving the Han family." Liu Xun was so angry, because it didn't matter if it was Wuhuan, Xianbei or Yue's. The Liu family of the Han family was not thin on them, and allowed them to graze and cultivate in Monan, Hetao and other places, and did not impose heavy taxes. It can even be said that they have the same treatment as Sergeant Guan.
Wuhuan is nomadic in the narrow ribbon grassland area from the east of the Xilamulun River in the west, south of the Xinkai River of the Wuliji Muren River, west of the Taoer River, and north of the Xiliao River. Originally from Donghu, after the defeat of Donghu, the Wuhuan people who were slaves of the Xiongnu suffered cruel exploitation and enslavement, although they launched many small-scale uprisings, but they were suppressed by the powerful Xiongnu. Wuhuan has always held a grudge against the Huns, and he dared not speak out. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, nine large-scale battles were launched against the Xiongnu in succession, and after dealing a heavy blow to the arrogant Xiongnu state, the Wuhuan people gradually settled down under the protection of the Han Dynasty.
After the defeat of the Huns, the Wuhuan who hated the Huns simply dug up the ancestral graves of the Huns, which angered the Huns Shan Yu this time, and he sent 5,000 horsemen to attack the Wuhuan directly. After the Western Han Dynasty got the news, he immediately gathered 20,000 horses to kill the Xiongnu, and the Huns who had been frightened by the Han fled when they heard the news, and the champion Hou Huo went to the sick and allowed the meritorious Wuhuan, Xianbei, Yueshi and other departments to settle in Liaodong, and distributed the Nanchi pasture of the Xiongnu Youxian King to the Zhubu. The living habits and social customs of the Wuhuan people are basically the same as those of Donghu and Xianbei. "The vulgar likes to ride and shoot, and hunt birds and beasts. Grazing with aquatic grasses, living in an impermanent place. Take the dome as the house, and open to the sun in the east. Eat meat and drink cheese, and use wool as clothing". This is an ancient people who mainly used animal husbandry, supplemented by hunting and farming. The Wuhuan people are good at raising horses, cattle, sheep and other livestock, and they not only use this as a source of food and clothing, but also as a "coin" or "burial goods" during weddings and funerals. When paying tribute to the Xiongnu and Han and Wei dynasties, they often used animals and tigers, leopards, mink skins and other things as tribute taxes, and when worshipping ghosts and gods, heaven and earth, the sun, moon and stars, mountains and rivers and ancestors, they used cattle and sheep as sacrificial rituals.
The Wuhuan people knew how to determine the time of cultivation by the chirping of cuckoos, and they would grow two hardy crops: the green harvest and the eastern wall. The east wall is also called Shapeng, the plant is used as fodder, and the fruit is used to extract oil, make liquor or eat. The Wuhuan people also often mastered the technologies of copper casting, iron smelting, pottery making, and weaving
After the champion Hou Huo died of illness, the 81st Wuhuan rebelled, and Chang'an sent a large army to attack the Wuhuan tribes to quell the rebellion. Wuhuan was simply unable to parry the ferocity of the Han army, suffered heavy losses one after another, and chose to surrender. After this battle, Wuhuan and Han had a grudge again. In order to prevent accidents, the Han set up Wuhuan captains, Yueshi captains, and Xianbei captains in Liaodong.
Ordinary Wuhuan clan members do not have surnames, and often use the names of "adults" or heroes of the tribe as their surnames. The "Adult" is the supreme leader of the Wuhuan tribes, elected by the members of the tribe, and is often "a person who has the ability to fight duels and lawyers", and the "Adult" has "no inheritance succession" at the beginning, and the descendants cannot be hereditary.
After Xianbei and Wuhuan were both Donghu, Donghu was defeated by the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan Yu and divided into two parts. Wuhuan Mountain and Xianbei Mountain were surrendered respectively, and the name of the mountain was used as the clan name, forming the Wuhuan and Xianbei tribes, which were enslaved by the Xiongnu. Therefore, the customs and habits of the Xianbei people are similar to those of Wuhuan and Xiongnu. But in later generations, Xianbei became more famous, and the Xianbei people took advantage of the Xiongnu to move westward to completely occupy the Mongolian steppe. During the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the Xianbei tribes took advantage of the chaos in the Central Plains to establish countries one after another. In 385, the Tuoba tribe established the Northern Wei Dynasty and unified the north in 439. In 493, Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty moved the capital to Luoyang and Sinicized it on a large scale. In 534, the Northern Wei split into the Eastern Wei and the Western Wei. In 557, the Northern Zhou replaced the Western Wei. The Xianbei people established a total of ten states. In addition, in Qinghai and Gansu, there was also the Tuyuhun regime partially transformed by Xianbei Murong, which was not annexed by Tubo until 663.
The Yueshi who remained in the Han family were the Xiaoyue tribe who stayed in Gansu at the beginning, and they were neighbors with the Qiang people, but they were attached to the Xiongnu. During the Han-Hungarian War of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Huo Qubing once crossed the Xiaoyue tribe from Longnan, Qinghai to attack the Huns under the Qilian Mountain, and received help from the Xiaoyue tribe. After the collapse of the Xiongnu in Hexi, the Xiaoyue clan called themselves "Hu" (i.e., Xiongnu) and confronted the neighboring Qiang. During the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, in the conflict between the Han and Qiang in the northwest, the Han Dynasty repeatedly mobilized the Xiaoyue clan to attack the Qiang people, and it was not until after the Three Kingdoms that the Xiaoyue clan and the Qiang began to integrate. Disappearing from historical records, they eventually merged with the Qiang, Han and other ethnic groups in Gansu, Qinghai and eastern Xinjiang.
Wuhuan, Xianbei, and Yue's unreliability are the consensus of the government and the opposition, and there has always been a shadow of the Liaodong tribes in Hexi. In the final analysis, these surrendered tribes were to help the Han family warn of the enemies of the Liaodong Hetao, but now the Xiongnu have moved away from the north of the Hetao and go to Mobei.
Wuhuan, Yueshi, Xianbei in the Xiongnu's Longxing land of Monan, carefree in recent decades, the population has also increased several times, and the same has undeserved ambitions. But what made everyone in the court even more angry was that the captain of the Huwu did not even report the warning, and even the court issued many orders to let the three major captains thoroughly investigate why the various clans did not pay tribute for many years, and it was not possible to do so later.
Now it seems that the entire Captain Department of the Guardian has a different idea, and it wants to isolate itself from the world. Thinking of this, Liu Xun announced expressionlessly: Prime Minister, Tingwei, Daxing, and Jiuqing jointly tried the rebellion of the Wuhuan, Yue, and Xianbei clans. Thoroughly investigate the crime of dereliction of duty in the three lieutenants' departments, and detain relevant people in Chang'an. Tonight, I'm tired, the banquet is over, the prime minister stays, and the rest of the people retreat!
……