It is said that the Xiongnu Shan Yuting was rescued by the Chinese Empire army in time before the fall of the Xiongnu, and Shan Yu was very fortunate to save his life.

Personally go out of the city to meet the Imperial soldiers and horses who have rushed to support.

Looking at it from afar, the main general who rushed to support him had a relationship with him at the Pope's enthronement ceremony the year before last, and it was actually the new hussar general - Guan Yu, the second brother of the Pope.

Qubei immediately respectfully stepped forward and gave Guan Yu a standard grassland salute, "If it weren't for the hussar general coming in time, I would have almost died at the hands of Kebi Neng and the Quwen dog thief." ”

Guan Yu smiled and replied, and Jia Xu, who was behind him, took the initiative to flatter him: "Just being rescued, it is not our own merit, it is actually only due to my own great blessings, and it is the result of the blessing of the Holy Mother." ”

"Thank you, Our Lady." Qubei drew a cross on his chest with a happy face, and then took a general look at the soldiers and horses brought by Guan Yu, all of them were cavalry with one person and two horses. He then understood that the army in front of him was just the vanguard, and there would definitely be people coming in the future, "Dare to ask the hussar general, but there are still reinforcements yet?" ”

Guan Yu smiled and said, "However, this time, Your Majesty will drive the expedition in person, and he and the Chinese army will arrive within five days." ”

"The Chinese army?"

Jia Xu added: "This time, Your Majesty mobilized a total of 120,000 troops in the Central Plains to save Shan Yu. His Majesty's friendship with Shan Yu is not deep, and other subject countries do not have this kind of treatment. ”

Tributary? Since the weakening of the Han Dynasty, although the Xiongnu were good-neighborly and friendly with the Central Plains, they did not actually bow down to their vassals, but established diplomatic relations on the basis of equality.

However, in his speech, Jia Xu actually said that the Xiongnu were a vassal state of the Chinese Empire. As a military advisor and senior strategist who led the army on behalf of the country, it was obviously impossible for him to make a slip of the tongue, but to imply an important message.

Qubei immediately linked to the current situation of the Xiongnu, more than 100,000 Xiongnu army fell apart in the battle with the Xianbei people, Shan Yuting in Kebineng after three days of siege, dilapidated.

Just when the military system of the Xiongnu had been completely destroyed by the Xianbei people, the army of the Chinese Empire came out.

Let's take an inappropriate example. The Huns are like a delicate and beautiful young woman, and the Xianbei people covet her beauty, so they choose a time when the night is dark and the wind is high, and they unite with the janitor of the young woman's house, Go Wen, and break into the beautiful young woman's room to complete the reluctance to do something, but the young woman resists hard.

When Xianbei and Quwen finally exhausted the young woman's strength, they stripped the young woman and tied it up with a rope to complete the last step. The officers and soldiers who maintained local law and order came, and Xianbei and Quwen fled in a hurry, leaving the beautiful young woman with the officers and soldiers.

Let the officers and soldiers not only maintain local law and order, but also earn the body of a beautiful young woman in vain.

Right now, Luan Yi is the leader of the officers and soldiers who kill two birds with one stone. He wanted to take the opportunity of the Xiongnu being crippled by Xianbei to subjugate the Xiongnu as his subject state in one fell swoop.

All right! Good...... Fate comes to Luan Yi with such an abacus! When he went to Beideng, he had a feeling of luring a wolf into the room, but in the face of the cruel reality, he had to admit that it was purely self-defeating to confront the Holy Chinese Empire with the current power of the Xiongnu. If you don't want the word Xiongnu to be completely erased in this world, you can only choose to recognize Luan Yi as the master and worship the Holy Chinese Empire as the suzerain.

Thinking about this, he squeezed out a smile and bowed to Jia Xu, "With the blessing of a powerful suzerainty like the empire, the Xiongnu can be guaranteed for a thousand years!" ”

"There's one more thing I almost forgot to remind Shan Yu. When you ascended to the throne, you did not receive the consent of His Holy the Pope. Of course, His Majesty has been friendly with you when Shan Yu was still King Zuoxian, and he will never refuse you to serve as Xiongnu Shan Yu, but the rules always have to be said, and the process that should be taken must be made up after all. In this way......" Jia Xu pretended to think for a moment, "when His Majesty's army arrives, I will appeal to Your Majesty, saying that it is unorthodox to be crowned alone." It is hoped that His Majesty will hold a coronation ceremony in Shan Yuting, and personally confer the throne on Shan Yu to prove Shan Yu's orthodoxy and establish that the Xiongnu are subjects of the empire. How is it? ”

"This ......" even though there are 10,000 reluctances in his heart, but at this moment when the Huns are in an absolutely passive position, he knows that he can't refuse no matter what. I had to grovel and reply against my will, "It is my honor to be crowned by His Majesty himself." ”

Jia Xu looked at him meaningfully and said, "It is an honor for the people of you and me to have such an awareness. After fighting for days alone, he must have been tired. Let's go back and rest! Our army would set up camp outside the city, and I would later draw up a proclamation, submit it to the slip for review, and sign it. ”

"It's good!" Somehow, after talking to Jia Xu, Qubei felt more tired than fighting with the Xianbei people for three days and two nights, and his legs were as if they were filled with lead, and he turned back in the direction of Shan Yuting in the next step with the support of his own soldiers.

"Brother Wen He, do you say that he is willing to bow down to the empire?" Ma Chao, who led the Templar army and Guan Yu together, asked.

"Of course not." Jia Xu patted the dust on his sleeve and said nonchalantly.

"Then will he be like the Qiang people in the past, who surrendered and rebelled?" As soon as Ma Chao spoke, he saw Guan Yu's slightly narrowed eyes suddenly open, and he snorted coldly: "He dares!" If he has such intentions, I will personally command the army to take his dog's life. ”

The thick murderous aura exuded from Guan Yu's body frightened Jia Xu for a moment, "Elder Brother Yun, don't get excited, Your Majesty is not a faint Emperor of Han." He would not give the Huns a chance to rebel. "What do you mean by that?" Ma Chao got to the bottom of it.

Jia Xu said: "I can't understand this thing in one sentence or two." When His Majesty comes, he will follow him one by one. You will know when the time comes. ”

Among the three, Ma Chao is the youngest and the most curious. Seeing that Jia Xu had whetted his appetite, but he didn't reveal the details, he remembered to scratch his ears and cheeks, and begged: "Don't talk about the details, tell us a rough idea!" Let's talk about it. ”

Jia Xu couldn't resist Ma Chao, so when the army was encamped, he sat on a tree stump and gave Guan Yu and Ma Chao a brief description of the empire's next policy towards the Huns.

In short, in order to further strengthen the domination of the steppe. After being crowned and bowing to the Empire.

Luan Yi will split the discus into five, and the tribal nobles will serve as the commander of the five divisions, and directly obey Yu Shan Yu's orders. This move was nominally intended to facilitate the Xiongnu to emulate the imperial state and county system in administering the tribes, but in fact it was dividing them.

At the same time, the Holy Chinese Empire, as the suzerainty of the Xiongnu, would place officials appointed by Han Chinese in the five Xiongnu departments - the official name was Sima, who was nominally responsible for assisting and guiding the commander-in-chief in his daily work, but in fact he was supervising it.

In addition, the empire will establish a total of 35 large and small military towns in the five ministries in the next few years. The military towns are large or small, the larger ones can garrison 3,000 soldiers and horses, and the smaller ones can only swallow hundreds of soldiers. Under the pretext of maintaining the security of the subject areas, the empire sent 30,000 soldiers and horses to garrison these military towns.

There is also a church in the military town, which is responsible for preaching to the grassland herders on weekdays. When the Huns on the steppe became believers in the Church of Our Lady, they only had the Pope in their eyes, as for Shan Yu...... As the appeal declines, it will drift to the edge of power. In addition to preaching, the military town was also a transit point for Central Plains merchants to penetrate deep into the grasslands, and on the basis of safer trade routes, it would attract a huge amount of wealth to the empire.

When there was war in the Xiongnu region, the military town became a place of protection for the imperial people living in the steppe. At the same time, the continuous military towns can quickly report the situation in the Xiongnu to Xiliang by passing the beacon fire, so that the local army can come to the rescue in time and strangle the danger in the cradle.

It can be said that the construction of military towns is the cornerstone of the empire's strengthening of the control of the grasslands, and for the current productivity of the empire, it does not take much money and time to build more than thirty small military towns with the help of cement materials. When the military town was completed, it was the moment when the empire firmly controlled the Xiongnu.

In addition to establishing military towns, according to the high-sounding statement, for the long-term stability of the Xiongnu and ensuring that the Xiongnu could be qualified for the position of Shan Yu in successive dynasties, the empire was willing to spend energy to cultivate heirs for the Xiongnu. From now on, King Zuoxian of the Xiongnu will go to Luoyang to receive systematic education since he was three years old.

said that he was receiving education, but in fact he went to the Central Plains to serve as a hostage. Of course, the empire will indeed educate him, but the education he will receive will be completely religious teachings of Our Lady, and the content of what he will learn will be based on the "Sutra of Our Lady", supplemented by a large number of Han classics. It can be said that when he was allowed to return to the Xiongnu from Luoyang as an adult, he was already a Chinese who had been severely sinicized - or Central Plains - dressed in the cloak of the Huns. The Huns, who were ruled by him, would only be loyal to the empire.

Listening to Jia Xu's narration, Ma Chao's eyes lit up, "Your Majesty's plan is clever!" In the future, won't the Xiongnu's Shan Yu become an ornament? ”

"It's not an ornament!" Jia Xu denied Ma Chao's point of view, "His Majesty will give him the power he deserves." It's just that his every move is under the watchful eye of the Empire. As long as he honestly commanded the Huns and obeyed the arrangements of the empire, he would be single. At the same time, the empire will also give him enough support and help to let the empire and the Xiongnu people live a good life together, if he dares to have different intentions, His Majesty can destroy him in a day. ”

"But the conditions offered by Your Majesty this time are not harsh, it is to divide the grassland and send hostages, if I am humble, I am afraid I will not agree." Ma Chaodao.

"I can't help him." Guan Yu's eyes opened again not long after they were closed, startling Jia Xu again. "If he dares not agree, I will take his head tomorrow."

"Brother Yun is right." Jia Xu wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and said, "Even if you don't agree, someone else will agree." His Majesty said: Hegemony comes out of the barrel of a gun. Right now, the empire has a heavy army, which is the sky on the grassland. It's a big deal to kill Qu Bei, and arrest Qu Wen to make him a single Yu. The result is still the same? To be humble is a smart person, and he will definitely not do stupid things. ”