Tian Chou was entrusted by Liu He to quietly go to Juyong County to meet the side of the building, and brought some words for Liu He.

That building is still on the road, not only did not make it difficult for Tian Chou, but also treated him as a guest, attached great importance to Liu He's northern visit, and was willing to reach some secret agreements with Liu He, but put forward a request that made Tian Chou feel embarrassed.

Nalou said that in order to prove that Tian Chou was not lying, and also to prove the sincerity of the eldest prince, Liu He needed to go to the Wuhuan tribe in Juyong County without soldiers and horses to talk to him face-to-face about cooperation.

After all, over the years, Han officials have not harmed the Wuhuan people in the north, and Liu He's identity is noble, but out of consideration for the survival and continuation of the clansmen, it is not wrong to be cautious in the matter of Wuhan cooperation.

After all, it was obviously too hasty to put the fate of the entire clan on the chariot of Youzhou with just a few words from Tian Chou.

Tian Chou came back from Juyong County, reported what he had seen and heard to Liu He in detail, and then kept silent, and did not take the initiative for Liu He.

The authorities are confused, and the bystanders are clear. As a party to this trip, Tian Chou is already in the middle of the game, and if he rashly puts forward opinions to Liu He, it is easy to lose objectivity and accuracy, and it is not beautiful.

Guo Jia, who had never spoken, asked Tian Chou: "Zitai has seen that it is clear that the Wuhuan people in Juyong County are now engaged in farming, and what percentage of them are now engaged in farming?" ”

Tian Chou replied: "As far as I can see, it accounts for at least fifty percent." ”

"What is the prestige status of that building in the clan?" Guo Jia asked again.

"The age of that building is younger than that of the late Wuhuan Lord Qiu Liju, slightly older than the current Bunton, and he has a lot of prestige in the clan, and he has a strong control over the Wuhuan people in Shanggu."

Guo Jia pondered for a moment and said: "This trip should not be dangerous, I am willing to accompany my son to Juyong County." ”

The gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, since the ghost Guo Jia is willing to accompany Liu He on this trip, Liu He, who was already a little moved, agreed to the request of the building without hesitation.

As agreed. When Liu He and his entourage left Juyong Pass, they only took a hundred guards with them, and did not bring the 2,000 men and horses carefully prepared for him by Weidun to Juyong Pass. It's not that Liu He deliberately wants to be big, he has to show his courage to dare to enter the tiger's den alone, but the movement made by 2,000 people when he set out is too big, so it loses the meaning of secretly reaching an agreement.

Since the building intends to appreciate the demeanor of the eldest prince, Liu He simply paid a generous visit this time, saving the Wuhuan people who are bold and open-minded by nature to feel stingy!

Take 10,000 steps back and say, if Liu Hezhen encountered a danger to his life in Juyong County, not only that building. It is estimated that the Wuhuan people in the entire Shanggu County will be buried for him. Liu He still has a few hardcore generals who hold real power and will avenge him at all costs, if Zhao Yunqin on the Western Front leads a cavalry to come, it is enough to trample the Wuhuan tribe in Juyong County back and forth several times.

Nalou learned that Liu He really came to Juyong County with only a hundred guards, and hurriedly sent his eldest son Nawu Kangning to the border line to greet him, which was equivalent to taking the initiative to hand over a proton to Liu He, so that Liu He felt that he had no intention of making things difficult.

When Liu He saw Nawu Kangning, he was still thundered by the sturdy man in front of him who was dressed in Hanfu and spoke with a Youzhou accent.

Liu He asked Nawu Kangning: "Why did you wear Hanfu to greet my son?" ”

Nawu Kangning replied cautiously: "My tribesmen are dedicated to the Han family, and they are willing to regard themselves as the people of the Han Dynasty. So I wore Hanfu to greet Shangguan! ”

Liu He asked again: "Your father's name is Nalou, and your Han family's name is Nawu Kangning, but what do you say?" ”

"My father is willing to use the word 'that' as the Han family name, and at the same time he doesn't want to forget his ancestors. I thought that my brothers and sisters had taken the surname 'Nawu', and Kangning was a small name, which meant health and tranquility. ”

Liu He couldn't help but laugh after hearing this, he turned to Guo Jia and said, "I guess the chief of that building must have invited Mr. Han to help him choose his name." Otherwise, how could you come up with such a festive and auspicious name? ”

Everyone nodded and agreed with Liu He's analysis.

Nawu Kangning echoed and said: "We Wuhuan people have no writing, and the ethnic language is still Hu language passed down by word of mouth. My father felt that this was very inconvenient, so he wanted to invite some Han scholars to come to the county to educate the children, but after searching for several years, only three or five scholars from the south were willing to come, and the others seemed to avoid us Wuhuan people. ”

"Hehe, those guys from the south think that you are still wild people who drink blood, and of course they refuse to put down their bodies and come to serve." When Liu He said this, he was thoughtful, and he didn't care whether Wu Kangning's face could be hung up.

With more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, Liu Dagongzi doesn't need to deliberately care about the face and feelings of the son of a little Wuhuan chief, even if he comes to the area where Wuhuan people live now, he is as confident and calm, and he doesn't have the consciousness of being a guest at all.

Liu He was inspired by these inadvertent words of the U Kangning, and he was pondering how to divide and assimilate the Wuhuan people in the future.

The purpose of the division was to avoid the Wuhuan people from grouping together so that they could be easily managed and controlled. The purpose of assimilation was to completely integrate this ethnic group into the circle of Han civilization, so that they would further distance themselves from the nomadic peoples of the north.

After entering Juyong County, the scene along the road gradually changed, no longer the traditional northern villages like Changping and Jundu counties, but added a lot of nomadic style.

Although the Wuhuan people have settled in Juyong County and no longer live the nomadic life of living by grass in the past, the houses they live in are not the square houses with long rows of bricks or thatched mud walls built by the Han people in the north, but still retain the style of the dome, that is, the yurt with a round dome. Along the way, Liu He saw all kinds of domed yurts, large and small, and the strange thing was that the doors of the houses were all open to the east, which was very different from the Han people's habit of building houses and opening the doors to the south.

The custom of the Wuhuan people is to shave their hair, so they look completely different from the Han people with long hair. When the Wuhuan woman reaches the age of marriage, she grows her hair, then separates her hair in a bun and wears a tall hat made of birch bark, called "Judu".

Liu He didn't have dealings with the Wuhuan people at the beginning, and the Wuhuan cavalry under Zhao Yun followed him for nearly two years, so he still knew some of the customs of the Wuhuan people. However, when he saw the crowds of Wuhuan children, both male and female, each with a big bald head on both sides of the road and gesturing towards him, he had the feeling that he had become the monkey king on the monkey mountain of the zoo.

Na Wu Kangning was afraid that this group of bold children would annoy Liu He, so he hurriedly ran to the side of the road and drove them away loudly in Wuhuan language. I don't know what he said to the children, the eyes of a group of half-grown children who were originally innocent and lively changed from curiosity to fear when they looked at Liu He, and they quickly ran into the distance.

"What did you just shout at the kids?" Liu He asked Wu Kangning curiously.

"I'm just telling the kids that Kobineng was beaten away by your generals, and there are many such powerful generals under you." U Corning replied carefully.

"Ha Lu Ha ......, I like this statement! It's not that Ben Gongzi brags, if Na Ke dares to come again, the general under the command of Ben Gongzi will take his head this time! Liu He was also not modest, and shook out the "king's overlord spirit" to the fullest.

Liu He asked Nawu Kangning: "I heard that you Wuhuan men marry wives first fornicating with the women in the clan, and plunder the women you like back to their homes first, and stay for half a year and a hundred days." Only then did the matchmaker send horses, cattle, sheep and other livestock to the woman as a dowry? ”

Nau Kangning nodded and explained, "Although there is a practice of taking wives in our clan, once a man and a woman are married, the man will serve in the woman's house for two years, and after the two-year period is over, the woman's family will prepare a dowry to send the woman to the husband's house. In our tribe, except for war, all matters in the family are handled by the highest-ranking woman in the family. If the father dies in battle, the son may marry his stepmother. If the brother dies in battle. A younger brother may also marry a widowed wife; If the widowed brother-in-law also dies in battle, then the brother-in-law's son can also marry his aunt; If the uncle has no children, then other uncles can also marry widows. ”

When Guo Jia heard this, his face showed a slight disdain. This kind of thing seems unethical to him. It's incredible.

However, Liu He did not show any disgust when he heard this, and he remembered that those powerful nomads in later generations seemed to have this custom of intermarriage, which was probably related to the grassland tribes in order to increase the birth rate. The territory of the northern desert is vast. However, the living environment is so harsh that if such a system of intermarriage is not implemented, there will be no one to protect and care for women and children who have lost their husbands. This is a catastrophe for the entire tribe.

"How many years has it been since your tribe moved to Juyong County?"

"If you want to go back to your lordship, our tribe moved from outside the Saiwai to Juyong more than 70 years ago, and it has been living here for four generations."

"In your opinion, what are your people most looking forward to and expecting right now?"

U Kangning pondered for a moment, and then replied, "Our people hope that the mutual market will be more relaxed, and the prices will be fairer; Second, I hope that the government can send more people to the tribe to teach various skills and teach our children; Sanpan that the Lord of the Han family can be considerate and cherish the Wuhuan soldiers, and don't drive them like cows, horses and wild beasts. ”

When answering Liu He's question, Wu Kangning put the mutual market in the first place, the future of the tribe in the second place, and the sending troops to help the Han in the third place.

In other words, the Wuhuan people in Juyong County are now most concerned about how to change their living conditions, so they want the government to open up the mutual market and protect the transaction price. Then how to educate future generations, Wuhuan people are estimated to have tasted the sweetness of farming life, hoping that their descendants will learn farming, weaving, craft production and other crafts, and even learn Chinese characters, so as to improve the adaptability of future generations.

Sending troops to fight for the government is regarded by the Wuhuan people as a matter of course or a way to repay the government, so they only hope that the Han government will treat the Wuhuan cavalry well, and they can't blindly use people as cannon fodder.

Liu and Zhilu said that many of the words that Wu Kangning said must have been explained by that building, since the three expectations of the Wuhuan people are so simple, he is more confident and confident in his heart to take down the Wuhuan tribe in Shanggu. (To be continued......)

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