Chapter 331: Pahindi, Lord of the Gods
In the Anyang Palace in Dunhuang, in the study of the King of Anyang, Huo Tang put a roll of brocade on the desk, and there was a paper letterhead in her other hand.
"This is the emperor's edict, and here is the emperor's recent deployment of the court and the border passes. I don't know which one do you want to see first, my second brother? Huo Tang looked at Huo Guang with a strange expression, even though the entire Anyang Kingdom from the queen to the people of Li called Huo Guang the king or His Royal Highness, but Huo Tang still called him second brother in private.
"Let's talk about the emperor's deployment of the court and the border passes." Huo Guang only glanced at the brocade edict and letterhead, but did not take it himself.
Hearing this, Huo Tang unfolded the letterhead in his hand and put it on the desk, the handwriting was just in the direction of Huo Guang, and then he said: "Our Yangwu Marquis is terrible now, not only was he named the general of the Great Sima Zhenjun by the emperor, but he also recognized his relatives with the queen, and now this Yangwu Marquis is a real relative of the emperor." ”
"Wang Yuanyou has the style of a famous general, and the emperor has the wisdom to reuse him, and the queen recognizes his relatives..... It's really a good move, but I didn't even expect it. Regarding the fact that Wang Yuanyou and Wang Weng had to recognize their relatives, Huo Guang was a little surprised when he heard it, and at the same time he also appreciated the emperor's move.
"Hmph, it's not that the second brother reaped the consequences, he directly brought Wang Yuanyou to Anyang Kingdom that day, at that time he would definitely follow the second brother without hesitation, and now he will give the emperor a general for nothing. Does the second brother know where the tens of thousands of troops under Wang Yuanyou are now? Huo Tang said to Huo Guang with some dissatisfaction, she couldn't figure out why her brother left Su Wu Wang Yuanyou and others to the emperor.
"Where?" Huo Guang asked casually.
"Anding County" Huo Tang replied word by word, but there was a murderous aura in his eyes.
Anding County is only separated from Wuwei County in Hexi. At that time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty at most let Li Guangli garrison troops to support the wind, and there was no such obvious intention to directly garrison troops to stabilize them.
"Oh? The northern border counties don't have to defend anymore? Huo Guang was also slightly surprised, he knew that there were not many troops available in the center of the Han Dynasty now.
When Huo Guang left Chang'an, Youfufeng and Shangguan Ji brought back 70,000 or 80,000 troops, when Huo Guang's 80,000 cavalry returned to Juyanze, Wang Yuanyou deployed 30,000 elites of Shu County in the northern defense line, and the armies of Liang and Zichuan naturally returned to their own countries. Later, Liu Jin implemented the policy of rest and recuperation, and disbanded the army of Youfufeng again with 30,000, and all the rest were transferred to the north under the command of Yangwu Marquis. This army of nearly 80,000 people has also become the only standing army of the Han Dynasty, and after several battles and Wang Yuanyou's training, this is still a real elite, and its strength in foot combat is unprecedented.
"There are only 20,000 elites left in the northern Yunzhong Shuofang and other counties, all of whom are led by Wang Yuanyou's henchmen, and these people are the captains under him when he was the first lieutenant of the right auxiliary capital. The other 60,000 troops were all stationed in Andan, and Yang Wuhou was still the supreme commander of this army. And the north of the Outer Great Wall in the area of Shuofang Yunzhong has now become the pasture of Ershan Yu, which is a strategy called 'Hu people stationed on the border' by the emperor, and it is estimated that your Queen Wuya will soon have news to be delivered! ”
"The emperor accepted Wushilu as a minister? Darn...... Let the Hu people be stationed on the side? Who came up with this? "At the beginning, when he heard that the tens of thousands of troops of Yangwuhou were deployed to defend Anding County, Huo Guang didn't pay much attention to it, but the last sentence of 'Hu people stationed on the side' made him angry and slammed his fist on the case.
"Tingwei Bingji....." Huo Tang said lightly, she couldn't realize the far-reaching impact of the Hu people stationed on the border, compared to this change that was not much attention by the world, she cared more about stabilizing the 60,000 army.
"The Hu people are stationed on the border..... It's really a hero of the Han Dynasty..... The great benefactor of the emperor's family....." Huo Guang sighed, he never thought that what he had repeatedly emphasized would be ruined in the hands of Bingji, the benefactor of the Liu family.
"Forget it...... The left part of the Xiongnu has migrated, and the matter has become impossible to change, so send an order to Wu Ya and let her bring a large army to Dunhuang. I'm afraid that there will be two parts of the Northern and Southern Huns in the future! Huo Guang sighed and said, he knew that once the emperor accepted Wushilu as a vassal, Wuya would not be able to directly attack the left of the Xiongnu.
And all this is just as Huo Guang said, for a long time in the future, the Xiongnu did form two parts of the north and the south, the Northern Xiongnu is relatively independent, is a ***** country, and the successive popes are the queen of the Northern Xiongnu. The Southern Xiongnu were close to the northern part of the Han Dynasty and became a foreign vassal state of the Han Empire, which was still ruled by Shan Yu, and gradually evolved into a half-pastoral civilization while gradually accepting the Han culture. The Xiongnu in the north and south have been fighting against each other for a long time, and the history is known as the dispute between the north and the south of the Xiongnu.
"Then the second brother take a look at this edict, but it has something to do with the second brother? Little sister, congratulations to the second brother! Huo Tang looked at Huo Guang with a strange expression, and pushed the brocade edict on the desk forward, this time she didn't plan to tell Huo Guang directly, but asked Huo Guang to read the content on it herself.
"What's the joy of?" Huo Guang also picked up the edict with some curiosity, muttered a sentence in his mouth and unfolded the edict and read it.
Huo Tang didn't continue to answer, just looked at Huo Guang with a smile on his face, and Huo Guang looked at the edict, and the changes on his face were extremely exciting.
"Nonsense...... Are they so uneasy to be alone? Huo Guang put down the edict, his expression was a little ugly, but more disappointed. This is the edict of Liu Jin to marry the eldest princess of Jiangdu to the king of Anyang.
"From the point of view of the little sister, I am afraid that this is the masterpiece of your proud disciple Liu Xijun, and the second brother is not shallow....." Huo Tang said in a strange tone, she guessed that this was what Liu Xijun came up with. When Huo Guang was still the governor of the Western Regions, Liu Xijun often went to the Hou Mansion to inquire about Huo Guang's news, and often asked Huo Tang some questions. Huo Tang had already discovered that although Liu Xijun was well disguised, he paid too much attention to Huo Guang.
"I didn't expect that...... After all, she can't escape the fate of being close to her. Huo Guang said with some emotion, Liu Xijun changed the fate of Wusun because of his relationship, but in the end, fate still made her embark on the road of harmony, but the object of friendship became Huo Guang.
"This is different, this is her own choice, and she is the eldest princess, and only the second brother in the world is qualified to marry her, maybe the little girl is still happy in her heart?" Huo Tang seemed to be able to fully understand Liu Xijun's thoughts, and there was some envy in his expression.
"Since the eldest princess is already on the way, let's go and prepare the etiquette for marrying the princess." Huo Guang put down the edict, he couldn't see whether he was happy or unhappy, he just gave a faint order, and he also admitted to marrying Liu Xijun. As a courtier of the Han Dynasty, there are many things, and he still needs to take care of the emperor's face, and the matter has become a fact when the edict is issued.
Outside the west gate of Chang'an, the huge guard of honor slowly marched westward, which was the team of the eldest princess of Jiangdu to get married. In the gorgeous car, Liu Xijun was dressed in a costume, she was holding a self-made Ruan in her arms, and her eyes looked at the far west through the car curtain, as if there was really some expectation in her eyes.
The eldest princess's guard of honor marched very slowly, and when her huge guard of honor crossed the river and set foot on the west side of the river, the queen of the Northern Xiongnu had already arrived in Dunhuang with 50,000 elite horsemen.
Without any welcome and guard of honor, Wu Ya, the queen of the Northern Huns, took a seven or eight-year-old girl into the Anyang Palace, and no one stopped or greeted her, just like an ordinary person going home. And Huo Guang, the king of Anyang, met the queen of the Northern Huns directly in the garden of the palace and by the crescent spring.
"Nian Jun, don't you want to meet His Royal Highness King Anyang?" Wu Ya took the hand of the little girl behind her and motioned for her to meet Huo Guang.
"The courtiers Nianjun greets the king." The little girl was a little timid, but under Wu Ya's reminder, she still had the courage to bow to Huo Guang, and the little girl with pink carvings and jade was also using standard Han etiquette and standard Chinese.
"Nianjun? Who is she? Hearing the little girl's name, Huo Guang chuckled in his heart. He looked at the little girl in front of him carefully, fortunately, this little girl had a standard Hun appearance, and there was no Han characteristics, which made Huo Guang feel a little relieved.
"Hehe, His Highness seems to be a little scared? Rest assured..... She is a Hun child, her parents died in the war, I raised her, and now she is the holy daughter of the Lunatic Cult, and she will also be the queen of the Northern Huns after me. Wu Ya saw Huo Guang's expression change, and a smug smile appeared on her face. But after the joke, she solemnly introduced this little girl named Nianjun.
"I see..... It seems that you have already thought about the path to take in the future of the Northern Huns! Huo Guang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but he could only smile bitterly in his heart when Wu Ya gave this little girl such a name.
Huo Ye has never thought of how to solve the problem of the inheritance of the rule of the Northern Xiongnu, and now Wu Ya brought this little girl named Nianjun to meet her, it seems that she has thought of the future path of the Northern Xiongnu.
"Your Highness, take a look at this." Wu Yawan smiled, took out a book from his bosom and handed it to Huo Guang.
Taking the book, Huo Guang was slightly stunned, this is exactly what he wrote with his own hands two years ago, and wrote to Wu Ya after Luo Xia Hong calculated the lunar eclipse, the plan to establish a country with education.
The book is still the same book, and even the main content in it is still written by Huo Guang, but there are more small character annotations in many places, and in the second half of the book, all the lines of text written by Wu Ya Ziji.
Huo Guang looked at the extra handwriting, he didn't need to read the original content, he just needed to know Wu Ya's thoughts. At the same time as Huo Guang was flipping through, Wu Ya's voice also sounded beside Huo Guang.
"I have revised the doctrine, and under me, the Pope, there is also a holy woman. This holy woman is to be elected at the beginning of each pope's succession, since she became a holy woman, she needs to come to Anyang to serve Painsti, and when the previous pope is about to die, the holy woman will be welcomed back to the Xiongnu to become the new pope, and automatically become the queen of the Huns. ”
"Panessi? What does this mean? Huo Guang closed the book, and he found that except for those relatively simple doctrines, he didn't understand anything else, and it was better to listen to Wu Ya directly.
"Naturally, it's you, Your Highness, King of the Gods!" Wu Ya walked in front of Huo Guang, the two were only three feet apart, Wu Ya bowed her head slightly to Huo Guang, and the bun she pulled up almost touched Huo Guang's chest.
Huo Guang probably understood what doctrine Wu Ya had modified, which was nothing more than adding another existence called Painsti to the doctrine. Regardless of whether this so-called king of the gods exists or not, anyway, once it is recognized in fanatical religion, then what does not exist also exists, and even these fanatical believers will not doubt where the holy woman lives in the religion, let alone have any dissent because the holy woman is not in the Huns, this is the difference of the religious regime!
Wu Ya is no longer young, her age is even comparable to Huo Guang, a woman who is nearly forty years old, she has long passed the prime of life, and even the charm is no longer suitable to describe Wu Ya, but the unique noble temperament of the queen on her body is not possessed by other women in this era.
"You mean to let Nian Jun live in the palace? What an alternative way to get married..... Let her follow the prince in the future. Huo Guang stretched out his hand to help Wu Ya, and then glanced at the little Hun girl named Nian Jun.
Huo Guang could see that Wu Ya let the Xiongnu saint live in the Anyang Palace since she was a child, which was an alternative way of marriage. This is not that Wu Ya is really loyal to him or to Anyang Kingdom, but in Wu Ya's plan, in this way, a certain generation of Anyang King may even be the descendant of the Xiongnu Holy Maiden. The inheritance of the Xiongnu queen is not based on blood, so the Xiongnu is still the Xiongnu, and the king of Anyang is very likely to become the son of the Xiongnu queen in a certain generation.
This is not a hidden layout, but even if Huo Guang knows, he must accept this method, because in the same way, Anyang State can also control the power of the Northern Xiongnu from generation to generation in this way. Whether the Xiongnu saint is raised as a daughter or a woman, she can continue to control the Northern Xiongnu after the future saint succeeds to the throne.
This generation of Huo Guang can make Wu Ya loyal, but when Wu Ya dies and Huo Guang is not there, Anyang will completely cut off the connection with the Northern Xiongnu, and it will be good to be friends with each other at that time, and it is impossible to mobilize tens of thousands of Northern Xiongnu cavalry with the will of the King of Anyang as it is now.
Huo Guang no longer needed to cultivate a relationship with this little girl named Nianjun, so he directly let Nianjun live with Huo An. Because these two children are of the same age, whether they develop the relationship between brother and sister or husband and wife in the future, it will be a good thing for Anyang to continue to control the Northern Xiongnu.
As for whether the Northern Xiongnu will continue to be a vassal in the future, or whether Anyang will become a vassal of the Northern Xiongnu, Huo Guang doesn't care much anymore, he believes that as long as his descendants are virtuous, they can naturally ensure the prosperity of the family and country, and if the descendants are dumb, even if there is no Northern Xiongnu, the country and family will not survive, and those things are not Huo Guang's control!
This is actually a mutual calculation, and some artificial bets in the future.
"I heard that His Royal Highness is about to marry the eldest princess of the Han Dynasty, won't the concubine be able to stay and drink His Highness's wedding wine this time?" Wu Ya saw that Huo Guang had agreed, but her face suddenly showed a strange look, and when she mentioned the marriage a few days later, Huo Guang found that Wu Ya's expression was somewhat similar to Huo Tang.
"Another political marriage...... You can stay here for as long as you want! Huo Guang smiled lightly and said a little indifferently.