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The fox deer wade led people to patrol around the wolf Juxu Mountain, and this winter, the Huns in the north of the curtain had a very difficult time.

Every day, women and children freeze to death and starve to death.

At all times, there were shepherds and slaves on the run.

In order to prevent these lowly herdsmen and slaves from escaping, the remaining cavalry of the Xiongnu tribes were all mobilized to catch fugitive slaves everywhere.

"Damn the Han Dynasty!" The fox deer took a mouthful of dry food and scolded in a low voice.

Of course, he had a reason to scold the Han Dynasty.

Because, most of the difficulties and disasters suffered by the Northern Xiongnu in the past winter were caused by the Han Dynasty.

Originally, Juli Lake alone in the western expedition, or left the basic grain, grass and materials for the use of the departments left behind in the north of the curtain, in addition, the Xiongnu could draw food and materials from the countries of the Western Regions, in fact, theoretically speaking, the Xiongnu could survive the past winter.

But......

Not long after Juli Lake Shan Yu led his army to the west, the Han Dynasty army in the Munan area conducted a large-scale drill in Junji Mountain.

The Loufu army, the loyal army, and the servants of various departments, more than 20,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers, practiced various tactics along the mountains of Junji Mountain.

Its scouts went deep into the Junji Mountains, and even crossed the Junji Mountains to find a way to the Gonglu River.

This puts Foxdeer in a terrible trap.

If he sent troops to take precautions, then the Han Dynasty people would go home after a drill, and the waste of grain, grass, manpower and material resources would be equivalent to a waste.

If he turned a blind eye, once the Han Dynasty discovered this fact, or they were ready to march north.

Then, the cavalry of the Han Dynasty could break through the natural danger of Junji Mountain, cross the Gonglu River, and enter the control of this river, which was a matter of life and death for the Xiongnu.

How important is the strategic position of Gonglushui?

You just need to know that the name of the bow water in later generations is the Krulun River.

It is the earliest base of Genghis Khan, and it is also the place where he called Khan.

In history, Huo Quai's great expedition was to cross the Gonglu River and go straight to the Wolf Juxu Mountain.

It is no exaggeration to say that without the bow of Lushui, the Huns will lose their lives.

Therefore, Hulushe didn't dare to gamble at all, he could only choose to mobilize the army and go to the south bank of Gonglushui and the area of Junji Mountain to be vigilant and vigilant against the cavalry of the Han Dynasty.

Although, he kept an eye on it and only mobilized 30,000 cavalry troops.

But......

30,000 horsemen is more than 10,000 people, plus war horses and slaves, people eat horses and chew, and thousands of stones of grain and grass are consumed a day.

If in the heyday of the Xiongnu Empire, such a small expenditure, the Huns would not blink their eyes.

But now, these expenditures are equivalent to a hippopotamus suddenly running in a small pond in the dry season, and in an instant, the water in the pond is drunk to nothing.

Now, Fox Lushi sadly discovers a fact - the Han Dynasty does not seem to need to send troops to really attack the Makubei now.

They only need to engage in a similar scale of acting a few times a year, and take money and grain to fight against the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu will not be able to bear it.

And this is precisely the fact that the Huns are facing now.

Even if the people of the Han Dynasty just took money and food to consume with them, they could not afford to consume it, and they might even be directly consumed to death.

Fortunately, the Xiongnu still have one last way to live.

"Da Danyu, you have to grab some money, food and slaves back......" Hulu thought to himself.

Now, the tone that sustains the Xiongnu Empire is the westward expedition.

As long as the Western Expedition can continue to achieve brilliant victories and bring back wealth and slaves.

Then, the Xiongnu Empire still had the capital and ability to confront the Han Dynasty.

Otherwise......

Just as he was thinking about these things, suddenly a cavalryman rode east, and a cavalryman shouted from a distance on horseback: "Tu Lu! Slaughter! Makunan Urgent! ”

The cavalry ran to Hulu She, turned over and dismounted, knelt on the ground and said: "Great Tu Lu, I just got the news that the people of the Han Dynasty are going to carry out the so-called 'household and people' politics in the south of the country, and the leaders and nobles of the south of the country are crying blood and asking Da Shan Yu to send troops to uphold justice for the ministry!" ”

"What's the situation?" When the fox deer heard this, he didn't react for a while.

He didn't even know what it meant to 'make up the households'.

Until Yang Yan beside him explained to him: "Tu Lu, the so-called household Qi people, is the Chinese system, which is not only for everyone to be registered as a family unit, but also to Tingli Township and County as the organization......"

"Different from the Xiongnu system, China's household is the government of the people, the people are the people, and the earth is the son of heaven, the so-called world is not the king's land, and the coast of the land is not the king's minister, which is the ......"

After listening to the explanation, Hulu immediately laughed: "Preside over justice? These Jianmin, it's best if they're dead! ”

In the eyes of Hulu Shi, the various ministries that are now in Munan and Hexi, no matter what their status was before, now there is only one identity left - Jianmin!

Because, these people are neither willing to follow the Hun masters, nor willing to fight to the death with the Han Dynasty.

In the future, if the Xiongnu can fight back to Munan and recover Hexi, all these scum will be captured as slaves by the Huns, and all their upper-class nobles will be killed.

Use their blood to scare others!

Of course, now Fox Deer Wataru will not think about such a long time ago.

On the contrary, he suddenly became interested in 'making up households and people'.

Turning his head to Yang Ran, he asked, "Mr. Yang, in your opinion, is there any possibility that this Qi people will succeed in the people of the bow?" ”

If there is, then you have to do it to smash the pot and sell iron!

For more than a year, the Xiongnu nobles lying in the north of the curtain can be said to have learned from the pain.

They are constantly reflecting on their past mistakes and constantly thinking about reform.

The banner of the reformists fluttered high, starting from Juli Lake and Hulushe, and the majority of high-ranking nobles set an example, and everyone put a few books of the Han Dynasty in their own vaults, and turned them over if they had nothing to do.

From the Book of Books to the Book of Poetry, from the Spring and Autumn Period to the Analects, the sound of reading was endless for a while.

The Huns now not only read Chinese books, but even the system began to copy the Han dynasty.

Before the western expedition of Juli Lake, the core area under the rule of the Northern Xiongnu, that is, the grassland in the area of the current Wolf Juxu Mountain and Jinshan, was directly classified as the pasture of the Xiongnu headquarters, called 'Makuzhong', corresponding to the Guanzhong of the Han Dynasty, and it was claimed that it would take ten years to build this area into the basic plate of the Xiongnu.

You can pull out 100,000 iron horsemen overnight and dominate the world.

Not only that, but the Huns also began to imitate the Han dynasty in the military system.

They abandoned the 10,000-cavalry system and began to imitate the Han Dynasty's tribal Shiwu system, and built two new cavalry units, one called Ma Yi and the other Gao Que.

In order to show that he does not forget the defeat of Ma Yi and Gao Que, he must be ashamed.

However, the name and the organization are easy to copy, but the organization can't copy it.

Under the nomadic tribal system, the Northern Xiongnu spent countless efforts to form these two cavalry units modeled after the military system of the Han Dynasty, and the total number was only 5,000.

If you want to move forward, it will be extremely difficult.

After all, now, the Huns only knew at the top that they had to learn from the Han and imitate the Han.

But the lower classes are not happy.

Especially the heads of those large and small clans, Shan Yuting wanted to deprive them of control and command of their samurai and armies.

How would they be willing?

It was this incident that made both Juli Lake and Hulushe deeply feel the shortcomings of the current social system and organization of the Xiongnu.

The Huns, at all, could not effectively mobilize and use their own forces.

The tribes and clans below are in their own way.

It is difficult to effectively implement Yu's orders.

Reform is necessary to change this reality.

In the eyes of Hulu She, this Han Dynasty's 'household Qi people' is very good.

The herdsmen and herdsmen were organized into households and county pavilions were established, thus depriving the middle nobles of their control over resources and population.

Shan Yuting has been in power since then, and he can control everything and have everything.

"Tu Luxury......" Yang Yan thought for a moment, and said: "In my opinion, if Tu Lu is like this, I'm afraid that tomorrow the whole curtain will be reversed!" ”

The fox deer listened and laughed.

And he knew so.

Now, the predicament of the Northern Xiongnu lies in this.

The high-level nobles, with him, the high-ranking nobles of the Right Xian King, Shan Yu, the Left and Right Guli Kings and the four major clans, all know deeply and understand the fact that the Xiongnu Empire will die if it does not change.

But the people below are all elm heads.

Especially those side clans and small tribes, they are not willing to surrender their power to death.

"However, why don't Tu Hao first choose two cronies in Tu Hao's headquarters and conduct a pilot?" Yang Yan raised his head and said to Hulu Shi with a smile: "In this way, it will not cause public anger, but also verify the power of this policy, and then implement it when the results are achieved, and the heads of the various departments will see the benefits, and they will not stop ......."

When the fox deer heard this, he immediately smiled, and paid more attention to impotence.

"This impotence must be contained...... fox deer thought in his heart.

The Xiongnu Empire is now short of intellectuals like Yang Gang.

But Yang Yan also laughed in his heart.

"In ancient times, there were Handan toddlers, and now there are Huns imitating Han ......" He was once afraid and fearful, and the Huns became strong after learning from the Han Dynasty.

But after staying in this steppe for so long, Yang Yan has been convinced that no matter how the Huns learn, they will only become dogs.

The reason is simple, the living habits and lifestyles of the grassland peoples are very different from China.

The way of thinking and the way of doing things are even more incompatible.

No matter how much the Huns learned the system and civilization of the Han family, they could not learn the essence and charm.

Of course, after learning from China, the Xiongnu have indeed improved a lot compared to before.

At the very least, under the rule of Fox Lu, the ties and ties between the various departments of the Makubei have become closer.

In the existential crisis, the various forces of the Xiongnu were also more united.

In addition, the utilization rate of resources has also increased countless times.

For example, those craftsmen captured from the Western Regions forged countless weapons for the Huns in this year.

Thinking of these craftsmen, Yang Yan became proud in his heart.

Because not long ago, at his suggestion, Hulu Shi ordered all the craftsmen to be gathered, imitated the Shaofu system of the Han Dynasty, and established a Xiongnu Shaofu, of course, the name was changed and called 'Dafu'.

The Huns felt that this name was good, and it was much more powerful than the Shaofu of the Han Dynasty.

And that's exactly what the Han family needs.

"The next day, the king of the northern expedition, only need to occupy the 'big mansion', and immediately obtain all the ......craftsmen of the Huns," Yang Yan thought proudly in his heart.

He had already passed on the specific location and information of the Mansion through his secret envoys.

"Mr. Yang, not long ago, there was a report from a slave that iron ore was found near Jinshan......" Hulu Shi bowed his hand to Yang and said, "Sir, do you know how to smelt iron ore?" ”

For iron-smelting technology, the Huns dreamed of it.

In the past two years, the Huns have experimented with the smelting method of iron ore everywhere.

All the tricks have been used, but some iron has been smelted.

But unfortunately, the production is too small and too small, and the cost is too high, and it is basically some inferior pig iron.

After all, the Huns did not even fully master the bronze smelting technology, so how easy is it to smelt qualified and usable fine iron?

That is, after bringing back a large number of craftsmen from Great Xia, the smelting technology of the Huns ushered in a leap.

However, it is still far from overcoming the difficulties of iron-smelting technology.

Yang Yan smiled and shook his head, and said, "Tu Lu, he is just a literati in the next generation, how can he know about this hundred skills?" If Tu Hao wants to smelt iron, he has to find an ink master of the Mo family......"

The fox deer listened and hung his head.

In the past two years, the Huns also learned about the specific situation of the hundred schools of thought of the sons of the Han family.

I know more about the existence of the Mo family, and the Huns salivate for the ink people, but unfortunately, until now, the Huns have not even touched the sleeves of the apprentices, let alone the ink people who have come into contact with the Mo family.

For the understanding of the Mo family, the only channel for the Huns is to have various Han jokes and stories.

Of course, there are also all kinds of divine weapons that show great power on the battlefield and make the Huns fearful.

"If you can get the help of a person who inks, this king is willing to give away the land of a country!" Fox Deer Wade sighed.

Yang Yan listened on the side, and nodded secretly in his heart, this right virtuous king of the Huns is indeed a masterpiece.

He is intelligent, wise, diligent and inquisitive, hungry for Chinese culture and knowledge, and is polite and virtuous.

He has only been in contact with Chinese culture for two years, and he can already memorize the books and poems backwards, and even talk to him about the history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the distinction between righteousness and benefit.

It's a pity that he was born in the Huns.

Yang Yan sometimes even thought about sacrificing his life to assassinate this Xiongnu masterpiece.

But Kitsune Wataru looks big on the surface, but in fact he is thoughtful, and wherever he goes, he is accompanied by a dozen loyal samurai.

Yang Yan couldn't find a chance to assassinate at all.

After Hulu Shi finished sighing, he suddenly remembered something: "Mr. Yang, since this policy of arranging households and people is not suitable for plugging, why did the people of the Han Dynasty want to take it to Munan to implement it?" The emperor of the Han Dynasty was not afraid of public anger? ”

"It's already caused the anger of the people...... Yang Yan said with a smile: "Didn't Tu Hao hear it?" All the ministries in the south of the Makunan are asking Tu Lu to be the master? ”

"I see...... Hulu Shi nodded, as if to react, he asked, "Then why did the emperor of the Han Dynasty implement such a policy that even I knew would inevitably cause public anger?" ”

"Without it, the armor is strong, and the iron cavalry is invincible...... Yang said leisurely.

"I see, I can't imagine that the gap between Han and Hungary today is as ...... as Si" Hulu Shi sighed. Today, the gap between Han and Hungary is so big that it is like a chasm.

The Huns were still worried about how to survive, and the Han Dynasty people could already ignore the resistance of the Munan tribes as if it were air.

This time, the Munan departments are about to suffer.

But this has nothing to do with the Northern Xiongnu, those minions, it is best to die, of course, if you can drag the Han Dynasty, it will be perfect.

It's just that......

It's impossible.

The Han Dynasty only needed to send his ace god horse, and the resistance of the various tribes would dissipate like ice and snow meeting sunlight.

Yang Yan looked at him and didn't speak quietly.

Because, Yang Gang knows that this fox deer is acting in front of him!

It was a trick I learned from books.

He has evolved from the realm of undressing and pushing food to a higher realm.

Human affection, feelings, and feelings have all become his means.

If it had been someone else, he might have been subdued by this Yidi monarch, and would have been willing to act as a lackey and eagle dog for him from now on.

But alas......

"I have already promised the three kings in my heart and ordered to serve the five emperors......" Yang Yan shook his head in his heart.

During his years in Lantai, his three views had long been influenced by strong Zhuxia nationalism.

As far as he is concerned, his allegiance is not to the Liu family.

And dating back to 3,000 years ago, the Zhuxia nation and the central empire inherited by the Zhuxia ancestors who held the torch of civilization.

This degree of loyalty to one's family and nation is naturally far greater than one's loyalty to the king.

And he is also one of the first nationalists in this world.

Therefore, the attraction and corrosion of the fox deer only caused a little ripple in his heart, and then disappeared cleanly.

Fox Lu Shi looked at Yang Yan and couldn't help but shake his head in his heart, but there was still hope.

Hulu wade doesn't believe it, is there really any hard-hearted person in this world? Who else can not be loyal to him under his all-round wooing?