"Born of heaven and earth, the sun and the moon put the Huns in Dadan, I respectfully ask the Han Emperor if he is safe."

Three days later, Weiyang Palace, the main hall of the Xuan Room.

After a few years, this sentence has repeatedly resounded in the sky above the Xuanshu Palace, making the Han monarchs and ministers grit their teeth, but the arrogant diplomatic rhetoric that they can't help but can't do anything will once again ring in the Xuanshu Hall and the ears of the Han family's monarchs and ministers.

As every time in the past: this time, the Xiongnu mission came to Chang'an, also with extremely rich diplomatic bargaining chips······

"Since the ancestor of the old Shangji porridge came to me, my Great Huns and the Han Emperor have become a country of brothers."

"Your ancestor Emperor Taizong Xiaowen even said in the letter of state that he replied to my ancestor Lao Shangji Congee Shan Yu: Han and Hungary are brotherly countries, with the Great Wall as the boundary;"

"—The nomads north of the Great Wall are governed by my lord Dadan;"

"—The people who ploughed south of the Great Wall were governed by the Han Emperor."

"I heard that His Majesty the Emperor is raising horses on the northern border, and my lord is really worried about this."

"My lord is worried: most of the emperor's servants may not know how to raise horses, and in the long run, it will inevitably make His Majesty the emperor's efforts go to waste."

"In order to help His Majesty the Emperor, and also to show the friendship of the brotherly country, my lord Da Shan Yu sent some retinues to pick up the horses of your country's Yanmen Garden."

"My lord Da Dan Yu asked the foreign ministers to play His Majesty the Emperor: The tens of thousands of horses in Yanmen Yuan were raised by my Lord Da Dan Yu for His Majesty the Emperor."

"When His Majesty the Emperor wants, you can send someone north out of the wall and go to Dragon City to get ······"

A fluent Guanzhong dialect that people can't hear the slightest accent only provoked hundreds of eyes in the hall to gather in the center of the hall;

I saw the Xiongnu mission in the center of the hall, composed of six Xiongnu nobles in different costumes, as well as two principal and deputy envoys standing in the front.

But what is a little surprising is that Fang Cai's words, which are so standard that they can't be heard, did not come from the mouth of the Han deputy envoy.

It came from the mouth of the richly dressed, scarred and ring-wrenched Hun nobleman, but pretending to be outrageous······

"Shan Yu's good intentions, I have received it."

"It's just such a big thing, but Shan Yu didn't even say hello~"

"Huh······"

"-There is an old saying in my Han family, called brothers, settle accounts."

"Even as a country of brothers, just doing this, there are always some~"

"Heh, there's still something wrong, right?"

It was gloomy, cold, and faintly mixed with a slight muffled whisper, which finally diverted the attention of everyone in the hall from the Hun mission in the center of the hall.

It was only at this time that the Han monarchs and ministers finally discovered what kind of changes the arrival of the Xiongnu mission had brought to the Han monarchs and ministers in the Xuanshu Palace.

——On the royal couch, the Son of Heaven is sitting upright, his face is like water;

Although the words are quite gentle, the stiff smile on his face reminds everyone in the hall all the time: Tianzi Qi at this time is very unhappy!

About three or five steps to the side of the imperial couch, Liu Sheng knelt on the extended seat, his face was neither happy nor sad.

But everyone in the palace, at least the courtiers of the Han family, the meritorious marquis and nobles, and the kings of Hejian and Jiangdu who were specially kept by Liu Sheng to this day, clearly knew that Liu Sheng at this time was unlikely to be in a happy mood.

The Son of Heaven and the crown prince were not happy, Liu Rong, Liu De, and even Liu Yu, Liu Fei and other clan princes were angry and angry.

As for the ministers and officials in the palace, the meritorious marquis and nobles, they were even more afraid that the Son of Heaven would not see it, so they scrambled to bare their teeth and grin, as if they were the pillars of the society.

It's a pity: Hundreds of monarchs and ministers of the Han family, although they all have a 'very unhappy' attitude, but none of them dare to really scold the Hun mission in the palace.

Even the Son of Heaven is the same······

"The matter of Yanmen, since I have such considerations, then I don't have to ask too much."

"As the envoy said: In the country of Han and Hungarian brothers, there are some things that do not need to be taken too seriously."

"The horse of Yanmen Garden, since Shan Yu wants it, it should be a gift from me to Shan Yu."

"It's just that after you go back, you'd better bring a word to Shan Yu."

"——According to the folk customs of my Han people, the gift should not be asked for by the guest, but should be given by the host himself······"

Although it was not a prestige, it was also humble enough to make the Hun Zheng laugh.

He only raised his head meaningfully, looked at the Son of Heaven at the top, and looked around the hall provocatively;

In his ears, a low sound from the clenching of the tooth socket began to sound, and the Hun envoy raised his head with a smile and bowed his hand to the Son of Heaven.

"Your Majesty's words, the foreign ministers will play my lord Shan Yu word for word."

"It's just that there is something that needs to be informed in advance of Your Majesty."

"- We nomads will not worry too much about 'you and me' with our brothers."

"My brother's things can be used by my brother at any time; The elder brother can also take away the younger brother's things at any time. ”

"Not to mention horses, or cattle, sheep, or goods;"

"Even women······

···

"The Han people have the custom of 'not taking the initiative to ask for gifts', and the foreign ministers will definitely make this matter known to my master."

"But I also hope that Your Majesty will know about the customs of my nomadic people."

"After all, according to the agreement between your ancestor Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and my ancestor Lao Shangji Porridge Shan Yu, Han and Hungary became a brotherly country, and I took the Great Hun as my brother······

！

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With just one word, it was like a spark that fell into a powder keg, completely igniting the entire Xuanmu Palace!

"Erbeiman!"

"There is no one in the Han family who deceived me?!

！ ”

In the blink of an eye, several figures had already rushed out of the courtiers' train, like cheetahs scurrying out of the bushes, and they were about to pounce!

Fortunately, most of the people who came out were old men with gray hair, and they were stopped by the 'young people' around them;

It's just that the Hun nobles stood in the center of the hall, holding their heads high, but it made everyone in the hall burn a raging fire in their hearts······

"I don't know, who is in front of you?"

When the atmosphere was scorching, a long, low inquiry came from the imperial steps, attracting everyone's attention again;

When the old men who were about to pounce, the 'young men' who stopped the old man, and the few Hun envoys looked at each other, they saw that on the side of the royal couch, a slightly immature, but by no means thin figure slowly straightened up.

After a while, he was still sitting on the imperial couch, staring straight at the Xiongnu nobleman's Tianzi Qi, and nodded his head lightly without squinting.

Then, it was Liu Sheng who paced forward, stood in front of the side of the imperial eucalyptus, and looked condescendingly at the center of the hall.

"Who's in person?"

Hearing this 'who is in front of you' again, the Hun nobleman only subconsciously squinted his eyes;

Judging the identity of the other party from the clothing, mannerisms, and Liu Sheng's seat, the Hun nobles had to take a step forward and arch their hands even if they were unwilling.

"The Huns are envoys, and Shan Yuting is the right big household: Lan Xuanxin."

"-Oh······"

——Lan's nephew, the son of the right big household... One of them? ”

"--If you can be sent as an envoy, shouldn't you be the next generation of right-hand leaders?"

Lowering his voice and saying this in as heavy a tone as possible, Liu Sheng raised his head slightly, revealing a 'Is that so?' 'The face of God.

It seems that at this moment, Liu Sheng is not ridiculing the Xiongnu for his low status, but he is really not sure whether what he said is the truth or not.

Sure enough, as Liu Sheng expected, after hearing Liu Sheng's sarcasm, the Hun nobleman immediately gritted his teeth, and even subconsciously grinned!

After a long while, I took several deep breaths before I finally pushed the anger in my chest a little.

Then, Fang Qiang endured the anger in his chest, and said angrily: "Foreign minister, it is indeed not the most powerful heir of the right big household. ”

"In the future, it is indeed unlikely that the foreign minister will become the right leader."

"But my lord only sent foreign ministers to envoys, not because foreign ministers were of low status and it was not a pity to die;"

"It's because the elder brother sent to visit the younger brother can only be a lowly slave."

"If your country is strong enough to 'have an equal relationship' with my Great Huns, then perhaps my father, the Right Great Danghu, will personally send the envoy."

"But according to the relationship between your country and my 'brotherly friend' of the Great Huns, the envoy to your country can only be a person who is not sorry to die like a foreign minister······"

Gritting his teeth, he had an almost curse-like tone, giving his 'response' to Liu Sheng, this Xiongnu nobleman from the Lan clan still did not forget to raise his head again to declare his lofty status as the 'Xiongnu envoy'.

At the same time, Liu Sheng's brain was running rapidly, and all the information about the Xiongnu royal family and nobles in his mind was pulled out of the dusty memory.

——It is different from the feudal whole of the Han family with the framework of the court, the sub-feudal system + the county system, and the ultimate goal of a high degree of centralization;

The political framework of the Xiongnu is different from that of every dynasty in Chinese history, and even from every political system in human history.

Anyone who has a slight understanding of history knows that the historical process of China is along the development process of slavery, feudalism, and feudalism, and finally develops into modern civilization.

As for Western civilization, although there are differences in some details, it is still generally along the path of slave society, royal society, and constitutional monarchy, and finally reaches the other side of modern society.

However, the political structure of the Xiongnu can be described as an extremely special example of this in the steppe and even in human history.

- Today's Xiongnu does not refer to a certain ethnic group or a certain centralized form of government;

Instead, with the Xiongnu headquarters: the royal family of the Sulu clan as the core, and the four aristocratic tribes of the Lan clan, the Huyan clan (Huyan clan/appeal clan), the Xubu clan, and the Qiulin clan as the wings, it brings together the nomadic tribes of the grassland as one of the loose nomadic civilization tribal associations.

Just like in the time of Zong Zhou, Zhou Tianzi was rich in the world, but he also allowed the vassal states to do their own thing: the status of the Xiongnu was similar to that of Zhou Tianzi in Zong Zhou.

What is different from Zong Zhou's 'division of the world' is that the Xiongnu, a loose tribal alliance of nomadic civilizations, did not expand outward by dividing the feuds, but strengthened themselves through pure military conquest in accordance with the eternal truth of the steppe - the law of the jungle.

For example, at the beginning, the Xiongnu were just a little-known small tribe in the grassland, and they were the same as the grassland tribes such as Loufu and Zhelan, and even slightly weaker.

It was only later, taking advantage of the war in the Central Plains at the end of the Qin Dynasty, that there was no time to look north, and the two overlords of the grassland, Donghu and Yueshi, were frightened by the Qin Black Dragon Banner for 3,000 li to the north (Donghu), and the other was cowering in the land west of the river (Yueshi), and the Xiongnu quickly became strong by annexing other tribes.

From the initial small-scale annexation and union, to the later large-scale conquest and annexation with the 'tribe' as a unit, and then to the murder of his father by Mao Dunshan Yu Mingdi, and the decisive battle of Donghu, in one fell swoop, he established the status of the Xiongnu as the 'new overlord of the grassland';

Up to now, the Xiongnu Department, which was once extremely weak and could only survive in the cracks of the grassland, has become the unique overlord of the grassland after the relay rule of the four Shan Yu, including the Tou Man, the Mao Dun, the Lao Shang, and the current Shan Yu military ministers.

Under the pressure of the Huns, the various tribes of the steppe either rose up to resist, but were conquered by force, or obeyed the principle of 'those who know the times are handsome', and took the initiative to surrender.

So much so that now, the Huns, with Shan Yuting as the core of the whole, can already be extremely arrogant and nostrils to show off to anyone: I am the Great Huns, and I am a country of barbarians!

All nomadic people, as long as they do not kneel down and submit, will be washed in blood!

With such a powerful force and such a staggering comprehensive strength, a 'son' of the Lan clan who has no inheritance rights can also say such an invincible thing in front of the prince of the Han family.

It's a pity: the owner of the East Asian monster house has always been a Chinese ······

"Lan's grassland is in the south of the Makunan, right?"

"Go west out of the north, and then turn north for hundreds of miles, it should be the territory of the Right Xian King, that is, near the salt pond."

"The Lan clan's camp should not be far from the headquarters of the Right Virtuous King?"

Regarding the boasting of the Xiongnu envoy: Lan Xuanxin, Liu Sheng did not respond positively.

On the contrary, it was Liu Sheng who accurately said the Lan family, that is, the camp of the headquarters of the right big household, which made Lan Zhenxin's heart sink to the ground!

"It must be the King of Donghu!"

"Humph!"

"When you go back, you must ask for a plough to drive this rat to the North Sea!"

Gritting his teeth and secretly making the decision to 'go back and complain to Shan Yu', Lan Shuxin stiffened his face and squinted at Liu Sheng.

"If I'm not mistaken, it should be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince of the Han family in person?"

"The foreign minister came with the good intentions of Shan Yu, out of the purpose and sincerity of 'not to let the brothers misunderstand', but His Royal Highness seems to be threatening the foreign minister with the location of our clan's station?"

···

"Does Your Highness think that I, the Lan Clan, live alone on the grassland?"

"Do you think that my Lan clan is on a business trip, and my master is alone, and will turn a blind eye and let it go?"

The gloomy and heavy voice only provoked everyone in the hall to grit their teeth again, and only then did the atmosphere calm down a little, and it also developed rapidly in the direction of the touch of fire again;

And Liu Sheng's next words made Lan Xin remember a name that he will never forget.

- Prince Han: Victory ······

"Your envoy said this~"

"Is it with Gu, with the crown prince of my Han family, who is stronger and more able to protect himself than whose backer?"

The tone was calm, but his face was full of jokes, which only provoked Lan Xin to be slightly stunned;

raised his head, but saw Liu Sheng holding his head high, his hands behind his back, standing in front of the imperial eucalyptus with a light smile, looking at himself condescendingly.

Behind Liu Sheng, Tianzi Qi was sitting on the imperial couch, his left hand propped up on the imperial eucalyptus in front of him, and his right hand was brought to his mouth, gently rubbing his chin······

···

I don't know if it's an illusion: Lan Bixin seems to have seen such a picture.

- A sub-adult male lion who has not yet grown a mane, but has already shown its edge, is looking at himself with his eyes proudly;

And behind this sub-adult male teacher, the old lion king, who has been baptized by the years, is lying on the ground leisurely.

From beginning to end, the old lion king never put on an offensive posture, and he didn't even bother to give him a look;

But Lan Zhenxin is very sure: in the territory of the old lion king, under the coercion of the old lion king, the sub-adult male lion in front of him is absolutely untouchable taboo for anyone······