Chapter 42: Thin Shoulders

The surging river, nine twists and turns. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info its song is big, and it is not to cross the river loop. The river flows out from Kunlun, winds eastward, absorbs the crowd of streams, and suddenly turns to Yuzhong (near present-day Lanzhou), enters the desert and goes straight north, thousands of miles of swamps, crosses Lingzhou (near present-day Yinchuan), and Dawoye (present-day south of Hangjin Right Banner in Inner Mongolia).

In the Han Dynasty, the Yellow River diverged from the fertile field, and its branch line turned eastward, extending for hundreds of miles; The main stream still goes north, turns right to the adjacent river, detours 500 miles and then goes south, meets with the tributaries, and then passes through Linwo (now Baotou City), arrives at Yangshou (now Inner Mengtuoketuo), the east is blocked by the Taihang Mountains, so it turns sharply down, carries the dust and sand, falls into Jinzhong through Yangqu, and then travels south for thousands of miles, to the foot of Huashan Mountain and merges with Weishui; It flowed east to Hanoi (now north of Zhengzhou, Henan) and went north, passed through Puyang and Huaxian and then went northeast, and then flowed into the Bohai Sea from Fuyang Zhongyi (now Huanghua City, Hebei). From the north of Zhengzhou, the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River are very different from the route of the Yellow River today.

Chang'an, the capital of the Han family, is on the shore of Weishui, more than 300 miles northwest to Yuzhong, and only dozens of miles away from Tongguan in the east. The Yellow River traveled thousands of miles north and south, just encircling Chang'an. After Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Seven Kingdoms, he immediately sent Meng Tian, a general who had invented the brush, to send troops to the north, to attack the Xiongnu in the meanders of the river, drive them to the north of the desert, and establish 44 counties on both sides of the river, showing the first big stroke in Chinese history of the Han people fighting against the northern ethnic minorities, cleaning up the Hetao, and defending Gyeonggi.

That is to say, in this battle, the Central Plains people found that in the northernmost part of the Yellow River, the big river is divided into two, between the two major streams, there are hundreds of miles of fertile soil, water and grass fertilizer, cattle and sheep are strong, and breeding horses are good. So Meng Tian moved the people of the mainland to multiply here, and because of the terrain, he built the Great Wall and built the city, creating a fascinating Saibei Tianfu.

After the death of Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, first fought with Xiang Yu for many years, and then fought with the rebellious princes, and the civil wars were frequent, how could he still control the Xiongnu in the north. The Xiongnu prince Mao Dun, who has long been regarded as a treasure by Lao Dan Yu Touman, mortgaged everywhere, arrived in Donghu today, and went to the Yueshi in the west tomorrow, all as hostages.

And this Hu'er who flows east and west is not wasted, he pays attention to the customs and customs of various places and the skills of all parties, so he knows that the East Hu River is fertile for thousands of miles, and the West Yue's horse is strong and artistic. He came to a combination of things and everything, and he was proficient in all kinds of martial arts, and the most good thing was the invention of the Ming Di arrow. This whistling arrow, where it flies, his own soldiers will attack, although the moon is dark and the wind is high, it is also a hundred responses. Lao Shan returned late from a hunting trip, and was finally targeted by his son's arrows, and immediately became a dead ghost under the Ming Di, and Mao Dun ascended to the position of Shan Yu, and soon became the new overlord of the unified Eastern and Western Erhu and defeated the Yue clan in the Western Regions.

When Liu Bang eliminated Liu Xin, the king of Han who had rebelled in the north, and learned that some of the rebels were hidden by the Xiongnu, he led his invincible army of 220,000 to Baideng (now Datong, Shanxi) to attack the Xiongnu. Unexpectedly, the sword of Mao Dun Shan Yu was sharper than Xiang Yu's, and their Donghu Liangjun and Yue's divine horses were far faster than Xiang Yu's black horse, and overnight, 400,000 iron horsemen surrounded the Han imperial army. At this time, the chief of the Surabaya Pavilion knew what the Northern Country Bi Xiao was, so he had to beg the ghost Chen Ping to quickly use a strange plan. Chen Ping, who had cheated Xiang Yu and Han Xin, couldn't think of a good solution, so he resorted to three indiscriminate methods, sent people to take out the best jewelry in the army, bribed Shan Yu's favorite concubine, and falsely claimed that the Xiongnu attacked the Han Dynasty, but he wanted to ask for a beauty, and attached a picture of the ideal beauty in Chen Ping's life. The favorite concubine, of course, wanted to get jewelry, not "beautiful enemies", so she blew a soft wind on the side of the pillow, and she had to be forgiving and forgiving, so Liu Bang was able to escape in disgrace.

From then on, the Han family was either jewelry, or money and food, and if it didn't work, they would send the most beautiful woman of the royal family, and finally did not completely provoke the Huns. Mao Dun died of old age, and his son succeeded him, called "Lao Shangshan Yu", and Emperor Wen still offered to this old man.

Emperor Jing, the old Shangshan died and the military ministers were single, of course, Emperor Jing followed suit according to the law, and did not dare to slacken, but because the Xiongnu Shan Yuting had a defection from the Han Court, the Han Dynasty's tribute policy failed to work, and the Bank of China said that he lived in Shan Yuting, and often blew the wind around the military ministers Shan Yu, saying how rich the Han State was, and how the population was large, if the blood of the Han State was not slowly released, the Han State would definitely threaten the safety of the Great Xiongnu in the future.

As a result, the military ministers began to send troops south frequently, led the army to loot and burn, and the Han State was also tired of civil strife and could not resist effectively, resulting in the arrogance of the Xiongnu, and there were two direct troops under the city of Chang'an, and repeatedly let the emperor of the Han State take it easy, and obediently send tribute and beauties.

Emperor Jing died, young and vigorous, as early as his infancy, he was determined to eradicate the threat of the northern threat of the Han State Emperor Wu ascended the throne, in the case that Emperor Wu wanted to do something, first the great loss of the country, the Huns and tribes waved their troops to the border, Emperor Wu was furious but there was no way.

In other words, the house leak is rainy again, the northern Xiongnu Koubian, the south also began to be unstable, the newly ascended Emperor Wu received the news that the war between Minyue and South Vietnam was about to break out, as the suzerain, Emperor Wu always had to say, he went to see the Empress Dowager Dou, and asked Dou for permission to intervene in the war in the south with a low profile, but he never thought that Dou was angry about the death of King Liang, and he didn't like this grandson who 'robbed' his beloved son Liang King Liu Wu on the throne, and replied with a salty and indifferent sentence, "Have you done your own thing?" Under the pretext of teasing the crickets, he flicked his sleeves and flashed people......

Emperor Wu knew that the Dou clan was asking about the pro-Xiongnu affairs, and he was aggrieved, but he did not dare to be disrespectful to the Dou clan, so he could only hide the grievances in his heart, and respectfully bowed and sent off the Dou clan, who had mastered the mobilization of the national soldiers.

"I'll always have a way!" Emperor Wu found Wang Wan again, but did not get any help from Wang Huan, Wang Wan asked Emperor Wu to find his uncle Tian Wei, so Emperor Wu thought about it for a while and decided to ask for help from his uncle who had taken care of him since he was a child.

Tian Wei told Emperor Wu: "Aren't you going to change? Go to Gillian first, let Gillian go to Mrs. Dou to blow the wind in her ears, and then go to taste silk with the princess Liu Yan, the chief princess of the pavilion, and this matter will be done. ”

Emperor Wu is a very stoic person, he doesn't like Gillian who is like a crazy monkey, which is why he has not made Chen Gillian the queen for a long time, but in order to realize his ideals, he is willing to give up some insistence, such as relaxing his attitude to win the support of the princess Liu Yan, the chief princess of the pavilion.

In this way, Emperor Wu used the empress position in exchange for the support of the chief princess Liu Concubine, and then the princess Liu Concubine pleaded with the old lady Dou, and the Empress Dowager Dou finally relaxed her attitude, and delivered a message to Emperor Wu through the mouth of the eunuch Chuntuo, "If you want to do anything, try to do it." ", but still refused to intervene in the wars of the countries of the South.

Emperor Wu also knew the truth that he couldn't eat the whole cake in one bite, so he decided to implement the recruitment policy first, recruit talented people from the people, and cultivate several descendants first. For the first time in history, the central government implemented the decree to recruit talents, and Emperor Wu himself personally inquired and selected talents to become officials. In later generations, the imperial examination system was also copied from this decree.

The first punch after Emperor Wu came to power was finally punched, and history began a new starting point.

At the same time, Princess Nangong's friendly team also passed through Shangjun and was about to arrive in Hexi County, the northern border of the Han Court, and there was a weak woman in history who was about to use her thin shoulders to provoke the power of a nation's survival!

On the day that the team arrived in Hexi County, Lin Bin and others also crossed Yanmen County, which had almost become a hell on earth, and arrived at Meiji County in Hexi County before dark, looking at the ruins in front of them that had been ravaged by the Huns into a sea of corpses and blood......

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