Chapter 261: The Chinese Dream of Love
After walking around Wuzhou City with Wuzhu, Lu Chen soon returned to the post house. It's not that he doesn't want to accompany Wuzhu, it's just that Wuzhou City is too small, and it's not even as good as a remote town in later generations, and it's really boring to visit.
The invitation to ascend to love arrived soon, and Lu Chen took the exquisite Shu brocade invitation and had fun for a long time. No matter how you look at it, the father and son of Hesheng Ai are not under the orders of Luan Tihu Chuquan, the mountains inside the Southern Xiongnu are numerous, and they have never been monolithic, and in the Xiongnu, they have always been the size of a fist.
Lu Chen thought a lot, judging from the texture and style of the invitation, as well as the fluent and exquisite official letter above, although Liu Qubei's son Hu Shengai did not continue to be surnamed Liu, he was still deeply influenced by Han culture. This guy didn't come to see him, but he just sent an invitation, is he planning to tear his face and set up a banquet? Or is there some conspiracy to collude in secret? Hell knows what he had in mind!
couldn't figure out the reason, Lu Chen still chose to go to the appointment to explore the reality of this Hesheng love, so he automatically skipped Wuzhu's previous admonition to him. Seeing that Lu Chen insisted on going to the appointment, Wuzhu was worried, so he ran to the side and counted the number of his cattle and sheep with his fingers, as if he was looking to see if she could repay the gambling debts owed to Heshengai.
IQ is a good thing, and Wuzhu really should have a little!
Lu Chen rolled his eyes, lay on the collapse, and asked Lu Zhan to beat his legs, he had been riding a horse these days, and he was very tired.
It's hard to walk, it's hard to walk, it's hard to get to the sky!
In this era when communication is basically backward, heating is basically shaking, and transportation is basically walking, the distance of 200 miles is as difficult as climbing to the sky. It is not far from Yanmen to Meiji, and it is only half the distance to Wuzhou from Yanmen Road to Meiji, but Lu Chen and his party were stunned and walked for eight days in the snowy weather, this is the reality.
Who left the world without Didi and Uber?
Although this road is as unbearable as a snail's crawling, Lu Chen is the one who led the team to migrate from Xuzhou to Yanmen, and he can be regarded as having some experience. Therefore, it is not too difficult, he is just more eager to restore the Qin Straight Road built by His Majesty the Great First Emperor, which will greatly alleviate the traffic problem, increase the ability to control the border passes, and of course, facilitate the development of the Flying Dragon secret spy.
Speaking of the Flying Dragon Spy, this nameless guy hasn't come to report yet, probably there are too many things worth studying about this Ascending Love, right?
Lu Chen thought so.
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To the southwest of Wuzhou City is a Xiongnu military tent, where the heir of the leader of the Tiefu Tribe, Hu Shengai, is located.
He Shengai is very young, only twenty-two years old, very handsome, with typical Xiongnu aristocratic blood. His slightly dark face is full of three-dimensionality, with a straight hooked nose and deep-set eye sockets, thick and curly long black hair is not tied, and is tied by a headband floating behind his head, full of wilderness atmosphere, coupled with a thick beard, it looks heroic and domineering.
However, at this time, this handsome guy was sitting in the big tent, but he was a little unrelenting, and even a little restless.
Just a temptation or provocation, that guy actually agreed to come to the appointment? Could it really be as rumored, Lu Wenhou's only son, the fierce man who rescued Gongsun Chan from Yuan Shao's knife, is really a fool?
The answer was no at the time!
This answer has been clear since I came back from a visit to Yanmen half a year ago. His father never told Hu Sheng Ai about Lu Chen, but the iron armor, steel knives, gunpowder and other ordnance he brought back for the Huns really made all the Hun knights frightened. And the initiator of all this is Lu Chen.
On that visit, he pretended to be crazy and stupid, and easily obtained gunpowder and other things by selling other people's daughters, and made enough money, but Hu Chuquan did not suffer a loss, he got a good son-in-law, or a quasi-son-in-law.
Liu Qubei, who has been playing a shaman for decades, said to Hu Shengai after being drunk: Lu Chen is the alchemy immortal among the Han people. Of course, Hu Shengai doesn't think that Lu Chen is a god, and Liu Qubei doesn't think so either, the more they pretend to be gods and fool people, the more they don't believe in ghosts and gods, but this does not prevent them from attaching importance and curiosity to Lu Chen.
Therefore, Yu Shengai received the task of escorting Lu Chen to Shan Yuting.
Liu Qubei's real task for Yu Shengai was to control Lu Chen, because they knew that Lu Chen's soldiers and horses were only three hundred, so they thought that it would not be difficult to control Lu Chen. There are many and good motives for them to do this, first of all, to prevent Hu Chuquan, who is far away from the throne, from receiving assistance from Lu Chen, secondly, to use Lu Chen as a bargaining chip to take Yanmen, and finally to obtain Yanmen's secret techniques such as gunpowder, coal mining, and iron smelting.
There is no doubt that this is a profitable deal, once successful, the Tiefu clan will dominate the Southern Xiongnu, and Yu Shengai will become the heir of Da Danyu - King Zuoxian.
This is easy to understand, because of historical reasons, Hu Chuquan Shan Yu was originally a puppet who was set up by everyone to disgust Fu Luo, and now Yu Fu Luo is already dead, and his son Liu Bao has also become a mourning dog, so there is no longer a need for a puppet. Everyone is busy competing for the position of Shan Yu, after several years of open and secret fighting, the most powerful Tiefu Department is overwhelming, and the leader of the Tiefu Department, Liu Qubei, has naturally become the actual Southern Xiongnu in power. At this moment, the cowardly Hu Chuquan suddenly had a powerful foreign aid - Yanmen Lu Clan. For Liu Qubei's father and son, who are committed to seizing the throne, of course, it is undoubtedly the best choice to cut off Lu Chen, a thorn in the side, and hold him in his hands as a bargaining chip.
It seems that a bloody palace struggle has begun? Brothers in the same room?
However, this is not the case at all, Hu Chuquan is Liu Qubei's eldest brother, which is true, but the two of them do not have the slightest blood relationship, to be precise, they are half-brothers. It's a bit of a twist, but it's not surprising, at least it's a common occurrence in Xiongnu society. Everyone knows that the steppe people are very thrifty, and they have the fine custom of inheriting their father's wife to continue farming, and they also have the good deeds of possessing the enemy's wife and daughter to communicate repeatedly. So, in a certain case, Hu Chuquan is still Liu Qubei's second uncle, and from another perspective, Hu Chuquan has to call Liu Qubei his uncle. Let's be a kiss and a kiss?
Well, it's sauce purple.
Anyway, such a complex and alienated relationship makes it impossible to usurp power or seize the throne or something, and there is simply no psychological burden.
Having been nurtured by Han civilization since childhood, he is wise and ambitious, at least, more ambitious than his father. Liu Qubei's goal is clear and simple, to become a Xiongnu Shan Yu, that's all. And Hu Shengai is different, his ideal is to restore the Xiongnu's former majesty, and then wave his troops south, enter the rich Guanzhong Plain, live like the Han people, and be as powerful as the Han people! Perhaps, you can also follow the example of the Qin State back then, and swept Liuhe from the northwest.
The Chinese dream of love originated eight years ago. After careful calculation, it still has something to do with Lu Chen's father.
That year, Lu Bu didn't know whether it was for the right to mate or something else to kill Dong Zhuo, and his old department Li Yu and Guo Yan raised troops to besiege the Beijing division, Chang'an was in chaos, and the Son of Heaven ran east. That year, tens of thousands of Xiongnu horsemen went south to Guanzhong, looting countless mountains of gold and silver, rice and grain, and many white and tender Han women. That year, when he was fourteen years old, but he was already a knight, and this was the first war, or plunder, in which he participated, and he saw the richness and beauty of Guanzhong, where there were endless fertile fields, where there were towering cities and passes, where there were countless farmers who were as tame as sheep.
The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny.
The Southern Xiongnu, who fell apart, could only take advantage of the chaos to make a profit, but did not have enough strength to occupy Guanzhong, and even returned from looting for a long time in a civil war, just because of the uneven distribution of spoils.
Therefore, Hu Shengai felt that if he wanted to enter the main pass, he first needed a unified and powerful Xiongnu, which was what his father had to do. He felt that as long as Lu Chen was placed under house arrest and then taken Yanmen, all the technology and resources of Yanmen would be used by him.
It was getting dark, and it was already dusk.
A slave came to the tent with more than a dozen loaves of cow dung to make a fire, and the blazing flames soon danced arrogantly.
Only then did he come back to his senses from the firelight, and he found that he had been sitting and thinking about it for two hours, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, he rarely had such a gaffe. And this is due to Lu Chen's too readily agreeing to the banquet, after all, Wuzhu has been with Lu Chen for so long, it is impossible for him not to know about the factional struggle within the Xiongnu. He Shengai planned to pretend to be sick and delay Lu Chen's pace of going to Meiji first, and then wait for an opportunity to control Lu Chen. After all, he had also heard that Lu Chen's 300 Broken Captives Army was extremely strong, and if he didn't deploy it carefully, it would be easy to fall short and let Lu Chen's Dao die. But the strong personality of the Huns did not allow him to show weakness, so after pretending to be sick, he sent another invitation, which was regarded as a provocation, and he did not expect Lu Chen to agree.
Hongmen Banquet.
He Shengai is familiar with the history of the Han people, so he naturally knows this allusion, so he naturally plans to play with the gourd painting scoop. So, he quickly summoned his lieutenant general's personal soldiers, and after giving some orders, he began to let people kill sheep.
Happiness comes too suddenly, and it's easy to make people dizzy, and Hesheng Love has this feeling.
In the slanting sun, Hesheng Ai was pacing back and forth in the big tent, and before he had drunk, his face was already red, because he was too excited. From time to time, he felt that the bonfire was not strong enough, so he ordered someone to boil the mutton fat and splash it on the wood. Sometimes, he was disgusted that the sheep he had killed was not tender enough, so he had ten bleating lambs brought in. Sometimes, he was worried that the soldiers hiding outside the tent would easily see the figure and not hide it enough, so he called for the people to dig four holes around the tent and carry away the earth, and forty brave slaves hid in the holes and covered them with straw mats. From time to time, he was worried that Lu Chen would not make an appointment, so he hurriedly sent someone to take some gifts to urge.
In the anxious waiting for the gains and losses of the love of the Emperor, Lu Chen came, and Lu Chen wore a white robe and walked into the Hun military camp with the last ray of sunset.
When he saw the tall and handsome Lu Chen for the first time, he was amazed in his heart, and he really deserved to be the son of Lu Wenhou! Subsequently, Hu Shengai found that Lu Chen only brought two entourages, Yiwen and Yiwu, and the eighteen cavalry guards were only waiting far away outside the tent, and there was a burst of joy in his heart. Although he didn't know why Lu Chen was so defenseless, this guy killed himself, and it saved me a lot of trouble!
The moment Lu Chen walked into the tent, Yu Shengai almost couldn't help but throw the cup to call for someone to do it. He hid forty dead soldiers in the cave in the ground, and more than twenty warriors in the mezzanine of the tent, and it was easy for him to control Lu Chen before the eighteen guards ten zhang away from the tent could react.
However, Lu Chen's words made Yu Sheng Aisheng swallow the order back into his stomach, staring at him with big eyes as if he had seen a ghost.
Lu Chen picked up a bamboo tube of wine, walked over in a dashing manner, and said with a smile: "Why is the young leader willing to give up the daughter of the Zhao family in Puxian County, who has just arrived?" Drive 400 miles, this remote Wuzhou to guide me? However, as soon as that woman saw you, she came to the sunflower and caused you to have three days and couldn't do it, so it's no wonder to me! Haha......" (To be continued.) )