Chapter 11 Good offices
The great power rested in peace and fought with the Xiongnu, the battle was tragic, just as the Xiongnu were advancing, they suddenly retreated and quickly withdrew their troops.
The commanders of the rest looked strange, and they were busy with the rest of the army to counterattack and pursue twenty miles hard. At this time, the commanders received a report that the Wuhuan army of the Emperor Wai had left the Xubei and shocked the vast wilderness. The commanders all felt that the Emperor of Mourning, the Emperor of Divine Martial Arts, was like a god, and they bowed to the east one after another.
The Hun King Mao Dun once again found the wise man Lu Juan for advice, and Lu Juan said: "The vast Son of Heaven, my child, let the believer bring my letter and go to Xubei to find Yanren Weiman, he is now Dr. Xubei, and his influence is extraordinary!" β
Then a fast horse went straight to the Weiman mansion. Wei Man saw that there was a Xiongnu messenger from the wilderness, and he also pondered for a long time, thinking, "I have never had any contact with the Xiongnu, so I am afraid of mourning the emperor and sent a book!" As a result, it was written by Lu Xuan, the king of Yan, which means that he is willing to mediate between the two parties to mediate the misunderstanding between the vast number of emperors and the emperor of mourning, after all, the Xiongnu and the emperor have no long-standing grudges.
After Wei Man saw it, he smiled and said: "This old fox wants to fight the idea of mourning the emperor, what long-standing grudge can a fledgling tribe have, and now it has been rampant, and it will be in the future!" β
Wei Man wrote a letter according to the rules and asked the Wai Emperor to make a decision, and the Wai Emperor appointed Wei Man to handle the affairs ahead on behalf of the Wai Emperor.
So Wei Man went to the field as an ambassador to meet the king of the Huns, and before leaving, the right canal wanted to follow, Wei Man said: "There is no danger in this trip, the grandson guards the western boundary, and the grandfather is naturally at ease!" Right channel: "The vast number of sons of heaven of the Xiongnu are not in vain, the grandson has been to the far north, so he knows the cave merchant Bach, he said that the Xiongnu's territory now borders on Shenzhou in the south, and has reached the extreme north to the north, and its vastness exceeds that of Shenzhou, they want to make peace today is false, but they don't want to face the enemy at once!" Wei Man smiled and said: "Grandson rest assured, grandpa has his own opinions!" β
During Wei Man's trip to the wilderness, he did not see the king of the Huns, but only Lu Juan. Lu Juan claimed to be entrusted by the King of the Huns to discuss the current situation as an ambassador. Wei Man saw the old age of Lu Juan now, and thought of his hometown ancestral land, so he gave the old Yan country salute to King Yan, and sighed in his mouth: "Now that the old King Yan is in his old age, why bother to bear it again!" Lu Juan smiled and said, "Brother, get up quickly!" Where you live, you can run around! β
Wei Man hurriedly got up and sat down. Lu Juan asked: "What does the Mourning Emperor have for the King of the Huns!" Wei Man said: "First of all, Mao Dun can't be called the king, so he has to be alone!" Lu Juan laughed and said: "This is no problem, Mao Dun is a realistic leader, he will never be entangled in the title of words, the old mind of the emperor is not good!" Wei Man smiled and said: "Then we don't go around in circles, be pragmatic, I know that your Xiongnu's vast Son of Heaven is not in vain, he will still attack the Western Regions, because of the posture of the Emperor Wai and timid, but in other words, if there is no Western Regions, the Xiongnu may now invade Xubei, shake the Jizi Royal Court!" So the Emperor of Mourning decided to send troops! β
Lu Juan said with a smile: "The Void North is a holy region, like a natural big city, not to mention that the Xiongnu have always been aiming at Shenzhou!" Lu Juan paused and said, "Brother Weiman, I know that sooner or later Xubei will brew a great group of people to enter the Divine Prefecture, but I also see that sooner or later, a great group of people will brew in the wilderness to conquer the world!" You and I are both from Shenzhou, from the same ancestral land, from my heart, the two great groups of people should not wake up so early, the current thing, let the future generations do the rest, I will live my old age, you take care of your family, not very wonderful! β
Wei Man also sighed: "What the old Yan King said is the truth, and the Wuhuan people don't want to fight, unless they persuade the Huns to recuperate and stop fighting for the time being, then I have a reason to persuade the Emperor to withdraw his troops!" After hearing this, Lu Juan said: "I agree with my brother's statement!" β
After that, the two Yanren villagers said goodbye, Wei Man and asked Lu Juan to cherish it, Wei Man knew where the destiny of heaven was, and the old man in front of him might be the last time they met.
After the two ambassadors talked, they persuaded the Xiongnu Maodun and Emperor Wai respectively that the two sides would withdraw their troops, and a war would be avoided.
Not long after, the courtiers of the Jizi royal court launched a fierce debate, and some courtiers said: "The Xiongnu have rarely bartered in Wuhuan, but often run to the border of Shenzhou to plunder and seize what they need, such a cowardly Liu family regime, why don't my royal court raise troops to enter Shenzhou!" Emperor Wai said: "Taishi Qinan, Taifu Yanfeng, and Taibao Jianping say your opinion!" Taibao said: "I am the main battle, invading Shenzhou along the East China Sea, and the coastal defense of the Liu regime is weak!" Taifu said: "I am the main battle, but I advocate uniting the countries of the Western Regions to invade Shenzhou together, especially the United Rest Powers!" Taishi said: "Throughout the Han Dynasty, the most extensive territory is the Xiongnu, although their leader is called Shan Yu, but it is noncommittal to dominate one side. The richest is still Shenzhou, although there are some recessions at the moment, but the Shenzhou controlled by the Liu family regime is blessed, just waiting for full wings. The most influential is the Jizi Royal Court in the north of my Xubei, especially the Sabbatical Kingdom in the Western Regions, which responded to us, making us crisscross the east and west poles, all thanks to the ancient royal court left for us by our ancestors. The rest of the country is the most powerful in the Western Regions, a battle with the Xiongnu, full of bitter fruits, advanced tactics are so powerless in the face of the Xiongnu knights, and now they have to face the threat of the great power in the far west. When the four major forces are today, the only one who can rely on influence to fight is my Jizi Royal Court, and the army should be used in the final end of the war! β
Emperor Wai asked the Taishi, "What should I do now?" Taishi said: "The Huns are like steppe wolves, wild and unchanging, although he did not openly oppose us, and show weakness to us, we should still mainly resist the Huns, and then let our iron cavalry increase in size, whether the Huns suddenly attack us, or we start a war with anyone, our influence will be greatly reduced, the only thing that can win the world is to win the war!" Emperor Wai said: "We need more iron cavalry, the best place to develop iron cavalry is the western boundary and Wuhuan, order Wei Man and Yi to develop cavalry at all costs, and the people on both sides of the eight continents in the north of the void will jointly feed them!" β
This change of strategy, Emperor Ai completely turned the original deployment for Shenzhou to the deployment of the Xiongnu, and transformed the original vigorous development of shipbuilding into animal husbandry, Emperor Ai firmly believed that Xubei was the birthplace of herdsmen, how could it lose to the herdsmen in the wilderness.
The Xiongnu court changed hands, and Mao Dun was finally recognized by the Huns as the newly established Son of Heaven, because Lu Juan secretly changed the concept, claiming that the Mourning Emperor recognized that Mao Dun was the majority of the Son of Heaven, and many of the tribes that left returned to the Xiongnu. It is undeniable that Maudun is indeed a strong man, and his great achievements are also the reason why he is firmly on the throne. At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Liu regime could not see the Xiongnu disturbing in the north, and Gaozu led an army of 320,000 to conquer. At this time, Shenzhou Han Wangxin took refuge in Maodun, and was willing to join forces with Maodun, a total of more than 400,000 horses, the west as a white horse, the east as a green horse, the north as a black horse, the south as a horse, into the "five emperors" array, around the ancestor in the land of Baideng, a full seven days and nights, at this time the weather was bad and extremely cold, countless soldiers' fingers were frozen, both sides have their own intentions to retreat, after the minister Chen Ping to the beauty as a gift of peace, to the Hun military ministers, and said that this weather is God bless Liu, let the two sides not fight again, otherwise it violates the will of heaven, The Xiongnu believed that the victorious army with a strong shield like a wall in the past had never been afraid, not to mention the impoverished Liu family, and then the Han army was able to break the siege. Later, Gaozu gave up the policy of force, adopted a friendly strategy against the brave Xiongnu, and allowed the opening of the market, which was very important to the Xiongnu, because the Xiongnu were born merchants, and the reason why they developed strong and rich in materials depended on their business acumen, and they usually resold the specialties of Shenzhou to the great powers in the extreme west.
In addition, within the Liu family's regime, there was a courtier named Lou Jing, who advocated peace with the Xiongnu and married Liu Yuan, the daughter of the emperor, to the Xiongnu Shan Yu. After the Xiongnu has been busy with the war with the rest of the country, has been delayed the marriage, and later after the Xiongnu and the Emperor Wai reconciled, Mao Dun and the Liu family regime turned over the old accounts, to marry, to property, to be occupied by the Liu family before the Xiongnu cultivated land, for the city, Mao Dun let the Huns go crazy plunder, do not have to trade fairly.
In addition to being as strong as his father Touman, Mao Dun was more ruthless and scheming, and once killed his father, which led to his long-term rule over the Xiongnu, but he was not honored as the Son of Heaven. Until Lu Juan created momentum to help him. Maudun placed Shan Yu in the largest position, and set up kings under his banner to serve him.
In fact, the wilderness is vast, and there are still some strong tribes that do not submit to the Xiongnu, such as the Ding Ling Division, the Hun Geng Division, the Refractive Division, the Qi Kun Division, and the Xinli Division, all of whom know the prestige of the Jizi Royal Court, which is the Emperor of Shenwu. felt that the Xiongnu were strong and bullied, and the purpose was to embezzle the side. The Liu family is sour and mean, arrogant and unreasonable, and difficult to see. Anxi was busy with self-preservation, recuperation, and his strategy turned to deal with the countries of the Far West. These tribes weighed in the hope that the Great and Merciful Emperor of Lamentation would protect them and form an alliance.
Emperor Wai had long known that Shan Yu was not called a king, but he had many kings under his banner, which destroyed the influence of Emperor Wai, so he saw that those tribes wanted to form an alliance, and he agreed very happily, and Emperor Wai wanted to contain the Xiongnu even if there was no war now, so that they were uncomfortable.
On the one hand, Wei Man heard that the Xiongnu often robbed Shenzhou Guan City, so he sent a letter to Yi, saying: "The Liu family in Shenzhou is weak and incompetent, and at present, the people on both sides of the Xubei Eight Continents have a heavy burden on supplying Wuhuan, and I hope to organize people and horses to participate in the robbery of Guan City!" β
As a result, the Xiongnu and the court of Jizi launched a competition to seize the city, the first one can return with a full load, and the late one has already been looted and can only return empty-handed. Therefore, in order to better rob, both sides started early, or sometimes tacitly separated the two towns to rob, and sometimes met together in one city, and fought on other people's territory.
Wei Man made a covenant with the soldiers who went to fight, we can rob property, livestock, and women, but we must bring them back, and we can't throw them on the way, especially women, since we have entered the hero's body fluids into her body, that is the women of Xubei, they will raise the descendants of Xubei, marked with gold rings, and cannot be as ferocious as the Huns.
The guards and generals of the Liu family were also unable to guard against the robbery, but they did not dare to close the city without permission, affecting the national policy, and then wrote to Emperor Hui, which was still unresolved for a long time.
Wei Man's move accumulated a large amount of money and materials for the Wuhuan people, and was praised by the Emperor Mourning.
On the one hand, he was angry that the Liu family did not open the market, and after thinking about it for a long time, he still felt that he would get some benefits from the Liu family first, so he sent a messenger to Shenzhou and once again proposed the matter of harmony, because what Mao Dun wanted more was to marry, gold, silver, jewelry, grain, silk and satin, all kinds of application utensils and so on. At this time, Empress LΓΌ was in power in Jiayin. Mao Dun also wrote to Empress Lu: The two masters are unhappy, they have nothing to worry about, and they are willing to take everything they have, and exchange what they don't have.