Taiyuan City, busy with traffic, full of flowers.

Merchants from the north and south passed through the ancient city, carrying countless goods to the land of wealth they wanted to reach.

Occasionally, there will be blond and blue-eyed exotic merchants who arrive here with the flow of people.

Sometimes, coins from distant and unknown exotic countries can even appear on the market in Taiyuan - some coins minted in gold or silver, with human figures carved on the front and back.

Although, most of the Han people don't know very well, what's the point of these barbarians engaging in this kind of trick?

But this did not prevent people from accepting these gold coins.

Anyway, it's all gold, right?

But today, a strange mission came to the city of Taiyuan.

These people have a completely different appearance from China.

Most of them, with black hair and brown eyes and high noses, wore wolf fur coats and wore a tipped felt hat, which was large, triangular in shape and almost completely covered the wearer's head and extended to the sides, completely covering the ears.

They usually carry a bronze melee knife strapped to their waists.

To be precise, it should be a bronze short spear.

In the Western Regions and the Xiongnu, this weapon was called 'collar', and its main use was as literally as it is understood, when encountering the enemy, it was pulled out and then thrown out with force, and if used well, it often produced miraculous effects.

After all, the main mode of combat of contemporary cavalry is nothing more than a white-knuckle hedge right away, or dismount and shoot on foot.

In white-knuckle hedging, this short-range long-range throwing weapon can indeed help the cavalry gain a certain advantage.

However, the current Hun cavalry generally no longer carries this kind of weapon.

They switched to a smaller, pointed knife.

This is because, in the battle of the Han army, the bronze collar of the Huns never played a role!

A large number of foot crossbows equipped with the elite of the Han army dispelled the idea of throwing spears at the enemy in a matter of minutes - it is better to rush hard!

"This is Taiyuan......

"Han Dynasty in one of the largest cities in the north......"

In the center of the mission, inside a standard official car, a noble man wearing a fox fur whispered to the young nobleman sitting in the middle of the carriage: "As you can see, this city is said to have a permanent population of 100,000, and there are hundreds of thousands of people farming for the Han ......Dynasty within hundreds of miles around."

"One hundred thousand?" When the young man heard this, he was slightly surprised: "Akaya Castle plus slaves, there are only 100,000 people!" ”

"You're right!" The Fox Qiu nobleman sighed with emotion: "But this is only a county town of the Han Dynasty!" ”

"It is said that there were more than 100 counties ...... the Han Dynasty"

"It's huge!" The young man sighed: "No wonder the Han Dynasty was able to defeat the Xiongnu!" ”

The fox fur nobleman listened, bowed slightly, but did not answer.

But a smile flashed in his blue eyes.

"Kun Mo asked me to come to the Han Dynasty, just to tell me that the Han Dynasty is very strong?" The young man picked up a glass of wine, then looked at the yellow liquor in the wine glass, and said with a smile: "I now know that the Han Dynasty is very powerful......

"Not for the Han Dynasty, I know this too!"

The strength of Han is not described in words or words.

It's a famous name forged by a lot of corpses!

Since more than 20 years ago, when the countries of the Western Regions first came into contact with this powerful empire that emerged from the east, they had already tasted the cavalry of the Han Dynasty.

Zhao Ponu rode 800 to destroy Loulan, and directly aunted him.

shook the whole world, and countless people knew from that moment that the world ushered in a new master.

And the Dawan War told everyone that as long as the Han Dynasty was willing, their horses' hooves could ignore the limitations of physical distance.

Moreover, the determination of the people of the Han Dynasty was greater than anyone could have imagined!

As a result, although the Dawan War has ended for more than ten years, the Dawan Kingdom still submits to the Han Dynasty and sends an embassy on time to send the tribute to the Great Wall.

Even if the Xiongnu blocked the road, they would send tribute to Wusun and give a humblely worded letter to the Han princess in Wusun.

Five years ago, King Dawan Yanliu died of illness, and the Wan people did not dare to set up a new king privately, so they immediately sent someone from Chang'an of the Han Dynasty to welcome back Yanliu's nephew Chanfeng, and then sent one of Zenfeng's younger brothers to Chang'an.

Therefore, for the countries of the Western Regions, the Han Dynasty was a giant that could fall from the sky at any time, carrying thunder and anger, although far away from the sky.

Everyone knows that rashly offending the Han Dynasty is tantamount to looking for death!

But......

"It is precisely because of this that Wusun should be pro-Huns, shouldn't he?" The young man whispered, "Xiankun Mo Hunting Arrogance once said: If you get too close to the sun, you will be burned to death!" ”

"Therefore, Xian Kunmo decided to break away from the alliance with the Xiongnu and turn to friendship with the Han in order to maintain the independence of Wusun!"

"And now, too!"

"Han is the sun, and it is much more than the Huns!"

"Much stronger than the Huns!"

"Too close to such a sun, can Wusun still be independent?"

As he said this, a hint of fierceness flashed in the young man's eyes.

For Wusun, in fact, his living environment is very bad!

Don't look at Wusun, now it is a big country that both Han and Hungary are vying to get along with, and it controls eighty or ninety thousand, independent of the Western Regions, controls the vast grassland, and has a decisive voice in the entire region.

But......

Wusun's roots are too shallow!

Even, even the concept of the Wusun Department is built on duckweed, just like the willows in the Gobi, which may be buried by the desert at any time!

After all, in the end, the kingdom of Wusun is just a fictitious kingdom made up by powerful powers.

The real Wusun has been completely annihilated in more than a hundred years.

The current Wusun is just a remnant of the Wusun tribe, a bloated giant who has pieced together people from all sides with the support of power!

This can be seen in the demographic structure of Wusun.

Among the 300,000 males in the Wusun Kingdom, a quarter are of Yueshi blood, a quarter are of Cypriot blood, and the remaining half of the population is a mixture of Xiongnu, Donghu, Yue, and Cypriots.

Even he, the heir, has half of the Hun blood!

Therefore, in Wusun, the sense of identity is really thin!

Yue's Waits and Cypriots' Waiting, often not birds Akatani Castle is the norm.

Between the various departments, they are filthy to each other, and it is even more daily to play dog brains!

Even at the beginning, the founding king, Xiankun Mo, who was jointly supported by the Wusun tribes, did not have absolute power.

And for such a kingdom, if it wants to survive, the first goal is actually to maintain its independence.

We must not be interfered too deeply by external powers.

Just like at the beginning, Wusun was oppressed by the Huns, almost suffocating!

It was not the appearance of the Han Dynasty, and now Wusun may have been annexed by the Huns!

It's just that the front door drives wolves, and the back door enters the tiger!

Compared with the Xiongnu, the Han Dynasty people were even more terrible in the eyes of this young man!

It's also more terrifying!

The Huns, at most, could only use force to coerce Wusun.

As long as the ministries remained united, the Huns had no chance!

But the Han Dynasty was different, very different!

The horseshoe of the country is fierce, but the culture is even more ferocious!

His uncle, Weng Guimi, was a famous warrior and wise man in Wusun, who was very intelligent and brave since he was a child, and even the Huns were afraid of him.

However, such a warrior has been fascinated by the women and culture of the Han Dynasty.

Opening your mouth all day long is Zi Zi, and closing your mouth is Mencius......

He abandoned the tradition of the Wusun people, and instead ordered people to build the palace of the Han Dynasty and live in a comfortable stone house.

In just ten years, this original warrior has tripled in weight, and he is so fat that he can't walk.

The domestic aristocracy called him the 'Fat King'.

It's a shame!

And it doesn't matter!

The important thing is that because Kun Mo took the lead, the nobles in Akatani City followed suit.

Now, in Akiti City, everyone has a wide robe, likes to wear silk as clothing, and eats meat.

They even followed the example of the Han Dynasty in cultivating fields, growing crops, and building estates outside Chigu Castle, leading a settled life, leaving behind the traditions of Wusun.

They play like this, and in a few years, in Wusun, I am afraid that everyone will learn the culture of the Han Dynasty, wear the clothes of the Han Dynasty, and live the life of the Han Dynasty.

In that case, will the Wusun Kingdom still be able to maintain itself?

Just thinking about these things, and looking at the bustling city fortress outside the car, the young man's expression became even more solemn.

"The Han Dynasty will definitely suffer from our country!" The young man whispered, "The stronger it is, the more jealous I will be, and the more alienated I will be from it!" ”

"Grandma is right!" He lowered his head and touched the bronze collar on his waist: "Wusun is close to the Han Dynasty, and there is a dead end!" ”

"Today, it makes me even more convinced of that!"

"Uncle Wang's policy is not advisable!" He raised his head and looked at the nobleman and said categorically: "When I am Kunmo, I must be close to the Xiongnu and stay away from the Han Dynasty!" ”

Hearing this, the Fox Qiu nobleman bowed his head deeply, bowed, and said, "Your will, great Kunmo!" ”

The young man just smiled.

He also knew that this was actually just a nice thing to say.

Stay away from the Han Dynasty and get close to the Xiongnu?

How easy it is to say that!

In order to win over Chigu City, the people of the Han Dynasty made a bloody investment.

Not only did they provide a large amount of silk to Wusun, but they also handed over the supervision of the area west of Dawan to Wusun.

Not to mention, just by making Dawan pay tribute to Wusun at the necessary moment, many nobles in Wusun felt that the people of the Han Dynasty were really generous.

But......

But young people know that it is not generosity.

Just poison wrapped in honey!

The closer Han is to Wusun, the easier it will be when it annexes Wusun in the future.

If the Wusun people all speak Chinese, wear Han clothes, and live in Han houses.

Well, Han annexed Wusun, and maybe not even bloodshed!

The reason is very simple, this is like the result of the war between the Xiongnu and Donghu and Yue.

After the Xiongnu defeated Donghu, they easily annexed most of the tribes of Donghu and turned them into Xiongnu.

The Yue clan was not, and after the defeat, they left for a foreign land.

Why could the Xiongnu annex Donghu but not Yueshi?

The answer is that the Xiongnu and Donghu Dong customs and common language.

For most of the Donghu people, they didn't feel anything wrong with submitting to the Huns.

On the grassland, the strong are respected, and the Xiongnu Shan Yu proves that he is stronger than the King of Donghu, so everyone will be the Huns together, and follow Shan Yu to rob money, food, and women!

And the Yueshi people, whether in terms of skin color, customs or religious beliefs, are completely different from the Huns.

Therefore, after the defeat, the remnants of the Yue clan began to move west.

They would rather move thousands of miles than be enslaved by a foreign race.

Even the remnants of the Yue clan who remained did not give up resistance.

It is precisely in view of this that young people are very worried about the growing trend of sinicization in their own country.

The traditions and customs of Wakawusun have disappeared.

Then Wusun no longer exists.

First of all, he only hunted arrogance and his father's army, and struggled for a hundred years, and only had the Wusun Kingdom, and he didn't want to be cut off from his own hands.

It's just that he knows what he knows, but he doesn't know how to do it.

Especially after coming to the Han Dynasty, he realized how powerful this empire really was!

He had been to the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu were also very large, stretching from the desert to the North Sea, and they were so vast that they didn't know where the border was.

However, there was no one in the Huns!

I often trek dozens of miles, hundreds of miles, and there is only a piece of yellow sand and desert in front of me.

It is not uncommon for three days and three nights in a row to find no water source.

But this Han Dynasty is different! It's not at all!

From the Yumen Pass into the plug, all the way through Juyan, Jiuyuan, Shuofang, Yunzhong, all the way to this Taiyuan City.

The further south, the more populated!

The dense villages, the rivers, the neat roads, and the cavalry that passed in front of him, intentionally or unintentionally, all used silent language to tell him about the horror and horror of this southern empire.

This city called Taiyuan alone has a population of 100,000!

And in Wusun, even if you count slaves, women and children, the total population probably doesn't add up to more than one million!

Not to mention, the majestic Great Wall that stretches for countless miles!

The young man closed his eyes and remembered the terrible Great Wall defenses.

It was a memory he would never forget.

Terrible barriers, one after the other, stretched thousands of miles away.

To fight against such a powerful empire, the Wusun people, how much price will it take?

Moreover, if they offended the people of the Han Dynasty and let them launch a large army expedition like they did when they attacked Dawan, would Wusun be able to resist it?

Thinking about these two questions, the young man's heart fell into a dead silence like despair.

He knew that from the perspective of national strength, Han was crushing all countries and forces!

The population of Wusun is actually only one county in Han.

And Han has more than a hundred counties!

Just thinking about this terrible balance of power, the young man shuddered.

The only good news, perhaps, is that now this eastern dragon has been tripped by the Huns.

He had no time to look westward, nor did he show ill will towards Usun.

"Perhaps, the only correct thing Wusun did was to give the Huns a blood transfusion......" the young man thought to himself.

It's a pity that it is his uncle who is now giving orders in Akatani City, Weng Guimi, who is known as the Fat King!

And he, at best, is only an heir, the leader of half of the forces of Wusun.

The other half of the tribe did not listen to him at all.

Even, there is no respect for him!

The thought of this makes the young man's heart even more dead.

Where does Wusun go in the future?

He doesn't know now, really doesn't!

He even wished he hadn't come to the Han Dynasty!

Because if you don't come to the Han Dynasty, you won't understand how powerful the Han Dynasty was, you won't know these terrible facts, and you won't see these prosperous cities, crowded populations, rich lands, and brave people.

Then he and his country can still live in a dream!