On the bank of the water, after a new round of expansion, Meiji City has become larger again, and the city can accommodate more than 50,000 people. After ten years of development by Liu Yuan, this small city on the border has become more and more of a royal city, and has become the political, military, economic and cultural center of the Xiongnu.

At night, it was curfew, and the streets and alleys were silent, except for the occasional patrol of the city guards. In the attic of the backyard of Wang Rou's mansion, several candlesticks are placed on both sides, and the bright candle flames sway in the breeze, reflecting the interior of the house in a dim light.

Wang Rou and a middle-aged man sat on their feet, chatting happily, the relationship was obviously very close, and two boys were sitting under their knees, listening to the two talking.

The man was in his thirties, exuding the smell of a book, quite elegant, and his face showed a hint of the majesty of a superior person. This person is Wang Rou's younger brother, the former county guard Wang Ze.

"Ji Dao, I'm still burdening you for my brother! A few years ago, you governed the government and raised the people in the county, persuaded the farmers to teach the mulberry, but the strength was a foreign enemy, and the career should have been smooth all the way, if it wasn't for the brother to serve the Huns, you would not have been dismissed and cut off! Looking at Wang Ze with an indifferent face, Wang Rou couldn't help but sigh.

Hearing Wang Rouzhi's words, Wang Ze replied indifferently: "Brother doesn't have to blame himself, the daijun is not a small county, the eunuchs have taken a fancy to it, and they are just looking for a reason to remove me." Luckily, my head is still there. Besides, today's Han Dynasty is not easy to be an official. The younger brother doesn't have so much money to 'donate' to the Son of Heaven in Luoyang! ”

The more he talked, the more open-minded he became, and in the end, Wang Ze was a little sarcastic. "If it weren't for the white wave and yellow scarves to make chaos in Taiyuan to the party, wouldn't the younger brother be happy to study and study at home?"

"It's my brother, in this Huns, like a fish in water?" Looking at Wang Rou, Wang Ze played with taste.

Wang Rou smiled bitterly, shook his head, and asked, "Ji Dao is here, what do you think of today's Huns?" ”

"The literati are elegant, the merchants are endless, and the animals are thriving, compared to the turmoil in the states of the Han Dynasty, this place is a 'paradise on earth'!" Wang Ze's face returned to seriousness: "The Huns are only in the name of Liu Yuan, I have heard of it for a long time, and now I am close to Meiji, so I understand that he is the unborn male lord of the Hu people." ”

"It's just that the Hu people have such a leader, which is not a good thing for the Han. Over the years, he has repeatedly set off wars, expanded vigorously, and now has annexed Xianbei. I'm afraid that the next target is the big man! ”

"That's it! Don't mention this matter, since Ji Dao has defected to his brother, what are his plans? Wang Rou asked tentatively: "If you want to be an official in Meiji, I can recommend it to Da Danyu!" ”

Wang Ze didn't answer, just raised his glass and invited him, drank it all, and obviously refused. Wang Rou didn't care too much, looked down at the two children who were sleepy next to her, and looked at one of the very smart children with a smile: "Chang'er, if you're sleepy, go down and rest with Ji'er!" ”

With both hands attached, a servant immediately entered the door and led Wang Chang and Wang Ji down to rest. And Wang Rou and Wang Ze brothers continued to talk.

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Winter is about to begin, and the weather is getting colder, but Meiji is in an unnatural restlessness, just because some news has flowed out of the palace, and Da Dan Yu has the idea of establishing a kingdom. As soon as this news spread, it immediately attracted the attention of the entire Meiji, from the nobles to Bai Ding.

Since ancient times, on the grassland, it has always been you singing and I appearing, tribes annexing, and ethnic replacement, extremely frequent. From Rongdi to Donghu, from Xiongnu to Xianbei, all the ruling regimes were formed by a mixture of nomadic peoples.

Everyone is enthusiastic about the "Xiongnu Kingdom" that Liu Yuan intends to establish, which is a "new thing", and they are very curious.

What is different from the past is that Liu Yuan wants to establish a centralized semi-feudal and semi-slave kingdom, rather than allowing the current Xiongnu to continue to exist in the form of a "tribal alliance". More than ten years of disdain for sinicization, in the Xiongnu, there is this soil, there is this foundation.

A few days later, when Meiji was discussing the situation, seeing that the fermentation was almost over, Liu Yuan summoned all the nobles, ministers and generals to discuss in the palace. On one topic, the founding of the Xiongnu.

On the top of the main hall, Liu Yuan unceremoniously conveyed his thoughts and details without much discussion, and conveyed his will to establish a new kingdom that imitated the Han Dynasty and was similar to the previous one.

Only revealed a state-building policy, "to seal the official into the knighthood, to harvest the land and eat the estate, and to replace the hereditary", it conquered the hearts of a cadre of aristocratic ministers and won their support.

Many people are clear that this is Da Danyu's response to the previous partition. They don't care about what kind of system the new country is, what the name is, they only care about how the titles are divided, what titles they can get, how many tribes, how many slaves, how much wealth.

"Haha, Da Dan is divided into the country, which is a compromise with us. This will, we must strive to get more people and strengthen our own clan! After leaving the palace, one person whispered to the few people gathered around him.

Although he tried his best to lower his voice, there was irrepressible excitement in his tone, it was the patriarch of the Dugu clan, one of the clans that had actively proposed the division before.

Not far away, Wu Yue stared quietly, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, his death was approaching, and he didn't know it, and he still wanted to be sealed. If it were so easy to compromise on a big order, would it still be a big order?

Thinking in his heart, Wu Yue couldn't help but step up, and was a little eager to go back to his house and gather the people in the clan to discuss. There are also those Han people who are supported to ponder carefully, sinicization has been carried out for so long, Da Shan Yu established a country, modeled on the Han dynasty to build, these Han people should be able to draw some useful conclusions.

There are many smart people in Meiji, and nobles and generals with a little status have begun to gather their cronies to discuss, wanting to get something from Liu Yuan's only words. Although most people's eyes are black, there are still people who taste the taste, even if they are hereditary, Da Shan Yu is afraid that he will not follow the "great feudal princes" of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

"Ji Dao, what do you think about the proposal of Da Dan Yu to establish a country?" In the palace, Wang Rou asked Wang Zedao.

"It's not easy!" Wang Ze smacked his lips and sighed a little: "This Xiongnu only wants to imitate my Han dynasty to build a country, and its ambition is not small, but I am afraid that its ambition is far more than being a son of heaven." ”

"Da Shan Yu just admires the king, loves the Han family system and etiquette, Ji Dao don't think too much!" Wang Rou's tone was a little embarrassed.

"I'm afraid my brother doesn't believe this!" The expression on Wang Ze's face was incomprehensible, but his eyes became brighter and brighter, and his tone was very firm: "The flower world of the Central Plains, the land of ointment, is what he covets!" ”

After staying in Meiji for a while, he looked around, and with the deepening of his understanding of the Xiongnu at this time, Wang Ze was more interested in Liu Yuan at the same time, but also more frightened.

It took ten years to build this highly sinicized city, and then think of Liu Yuan's expansion in Bingzhou over the years, Liu Yuan so actively and laboriously integrated the Han culture into the Xiongnu, and really had the heart to conquer the Han Dynasty.