After the opening of Fusu, Qin once again had a rare stability on the surface, but in fact, Qin's strategic resources had begun to move towards Beidi County.

Heavy snow fell one after another, and the Qin State entered the time of recuperation, until the spring festival of the following year.

Ying Zheng led the hundred officials and the people of Xianyang to open the mighty spring festival on the bank of the Weishui River, and after the spring festival was over, the Qin State ushered in the first great court meeting of the new year.

The content of this great court meeting is very simple, that is, let people take command of the right Xianwang department, after the discussion of the courtiers, the candidate for this expedition was handed over to Meng Wu, Meng Wu is the main commander, Meng Tian is the vanguard, leading a total of 20,000 cavalry in Beidi County and Lishan camp, and 80,000 foot soldiers sent troops to the right Xianwang department.

On the grassland outside the Northland County, the spring turned away from last year's snow, and everything was a situation of recovery, a large number of Huns drove the cattle and sheep out of the enclosure through the cold winter, the cattle and sheep ate the tender green grass, and the leisurely Huns rode horses and looked at the snow-capped mountains in the distance.

In the camp where the tent of the right Xianwang is located, the soldiers of the Huns are patrolling closely, the drums and cheers are rising and falling in the camp, the brazier is placed in an orderly manner, and the leaders of the large and small tribes of the Youxian Wang Department are holding the Huns' sacrifice to heaven under the leadership of the right Xianwang.

Under the sacrificial platform, a row of captives were pressed to their knees by the Xiongnu soldiers, and these captives were to be sacrificed to the Xiongnu god Changshengtian.

The high priest of the Right Virtuous King's Department led several priests to dance strangely on the altar, shouting some words that others could not understand, and the Right Virtuous King and the leaders of the large and small tribes below prayed sincerely that the Immortal Heaven would bring them good luck this year.

There were all kinds of people among the captives who were pressed, there were people from the Central Plains, people from the Western Regions, and there were also Huns from some conquered tribes within the Xiongnu, one of the Central Plains people looked at the situation around him with cloudy eyes, and as the high priest raised his head and screamed at the sky, the Huns around him knelt down one after another.

A gleam suddenly appeared in the eyes of this Central Plains man, and he knelt down as he watched the Huns around him, suddenly burst up, flipped the Hun soldiers behind him to the ground, grabbed the sharp weapon that was about to fall with one hand, and then shouted

"Run!"

Then the Central Plains people ran towards the place where there were few Huns, and the other captives also rose up when they saw this scene, knocked down the Hun soldiers behind them, and fled in all directions. This scene came very suddenly, so that the Youxian King and a group of Hun soldiers who were immersed in the ceremony did not react, and when they reacted, these prisoners who were originally on the stage were already in a mess with the Hun soldiers who reacted.

"Catch them all!" King Youxian said angrily.

Suddenly the scene of the sacrifice became chaotic, the captives who wanted to escape and the Hun soldiers around began to fight, and the high priests and priests on the altar did not disturb, but continued their rituals.

Although the captives cut the ropes on their bodies, this is the base camp of the Youxian King after all, surrounded by countless Huns, and after a panicked fight, the turmoil caused by the captives was still quelled.

Looking at the corpses on the ground and the remaining captives, King Youxian's eyes were full of anger, just as the importance of the Spring Festival to the Central Plains, today's sacrifice is the most important day for the Xiongnu, and they can only offer sacrifices for the Immortal Heaven today in exchange for protection, so as to ensure the abundance of water and grass this year, the health of livestock, and the invincibility of foreign wars.

The Huns' belief in immortality was far more loyal than the belief in ghosts and gods in the Central Plains, and now there was a problem with the sacrifice, which made it impossible for King Youxian to keep calm.

"Immediately send a new batch of people from the captives, replenish the number of sacrifices, and press the first person to escape, I will personally send him to see the Immortal Heaven!!" The Right Virtuous King said angrily.

The Hun soldiers around you look at me, I look at you, no one dares to speak, a commander looked at the angry Youxian King and said in a low voice

"King, the man has fled!"

"What!?" The Right Virtuous King kicked the commander in the stomach and said.

The leaders and soldiers of the Xiongnu tribes around them did not dare to gasp, and King Youxian pulled out the scimitar on his waist and said

"What are you doing? Send for him to be captured, and for his captors to be sacrificed! ”

"Yes!"

The commander got up and said hurriedly. The sacrificial ceremony could not be interrupted, and as a new batch of captives were brought up, the sacrificial ceremony began again. The high priest on the platform raised his head and shouted again to the sky, and the Hun soldiers around him immediately cut off the captive's head, and the blood was sprinkled on the sacrificial platform, and the Huns around him let out an excited cry.

The high priest also stepped down from the stage, and King Youxian hurriedly greeted him and asked

"What is the situation with the high priest? Will the Immortal Heaven bless our Right Virtuous King? ”

The High Priest shook his head and said

"The escape of the sacrifices in the sacrifice just now angered the Immortal Heaven, if you can't recapture the escaped captives, go to the Holy Mountain to sacrifice to the Immortal Heaven, and pray for the Immortal Heaven's forgiveness, otherwise our Right Virtuous King Department will usher in divine punishment."

"I know, I will send someone to do this, and ask the high priest to pray a lot, and help me pray for the forgiveness of the immortal heaven." King Youxian said.

"It's my business."

"Thank you, High Priest."

After the high priest left with a group of sacrifices, King Youxian said angrily to the commander

"Do you hear that? Mobilize the entire Youxian Wang Department and arrest people for me. If the person is caught, you can go and ask for the forgiveness of the immortal heaven yourself, and when the immortal heaven forgives you, you will come back! ”

"Yes!"

With a flick of his cloak, the Right Sage King led the tribal leaders into the king's tent.

The Right Virtuous King sat on the throne, and the tribal leaders below looked at the Right Virtuous King with strange faces and different eyes. Of course, the Right Virtuous King knew what these people were thinking, it was nothing more than the problem that had arisen in the sacrifice just now, which made them feel a little frightened in their hearts.

"Don't worry, the high priest also said, just capture people and send them to the holy mountain to sacrifice to the Immortal Heaven." King Youxian said.

"Venerable Right Sage King, it's not that we're afraid, but we have encountered such a thing at the beginning of spring this year, and I'm afraid that spreading it will cause problems in various tribes." A tribal leader said.

"A radius of thousands of miles is the territory of my right Xian Wang's department, that person has neither horses nor food, he will definitely not be able to run far, you can rest assured, if you can't catch that person, this king will personally go to the holy mountain to atone for his sins to the immortal heaven." King Youxian said.

The tribal leaders below, you look at me, and I see that none of you are talking. King Youxian looked at the tribal leaders below with some irritation, originally today he wanted to inform his tribe to prepare for good life, so that they could prepare for battle in this spring, and when summer came, they would attack the Xiongnu royal court with King Zuoxian, but there was a problem with today's sacrifice, and now they are talking about attacking the Xiongnu royal court, it is easy for these people to think crookedly, thinking that they have the idea of attacking the royal court, which will cause Changshengtian to be dissatisfied, so that the captive will escape, in order to warn the right Xianwang department.

This is not the random conjecture of the right Xian King, but a very normal thing in the Xiongnu, the belief in Changshengtian was vigorously supported by the Xiongnu royal court in order to maintain the rule, and when Touman was alive, he once declared that he was the messenger of Changshengtian on the grassland, in order to help Changshengtian unify the grassland, and the Xiongnu's successive dynasties were the attendants of Changshengtian, and this sentence has been circulated in the Xiongnu for a long time.

Seeing that King Youxian didn't speak, the tribal leaders below looked at each other, and one of them stood up and said

"Venerable King, I wonder what else you have to say?"

Irritability flashed in the eyes of the Right Virtuous King, and he immediately said

"It's nothing, you go back and restrain your own tribe, graze in your own pasture, and don't go to the pastures of other tribes without permission, which will cause a fight. Graz well, cultivate war horses, cattle and sheep, and don't waste the training of warriors, once there is a war, this king needs you to follow this king to fight. ”

"Yes!" The tribal leaders below said.

"Let's all go back." King Youxian waved his hand and said.

After all the tribal leaders were gone, King Youxian slammed his fist on the throne with some irritation, and let him lead his troops to fight, but let him say these words to stabilize people's hearts, he was a little weak. At this moment, King Youxian thought of the ram order of the Xiongnu royal court and the prime minister Zhihuan of King Zuoxian, although he felt that the Central Plains people were inferior to their Xiongnu warriors in bravery, but in this kind of toying thing, he was still ashamed of himself.

The powerless ram Ling relied on his own ability to help Mao Dun stabilize the position of Da Shan Yu, which King Youxian still admires very much, and can worship the strong in the Xiongnu, so that a doll in his teens becomes a big Dan Yu, this is the first time in the Xiongnu.

"Maybe I should find a Central Plains person to use it. In the words of the Central Plains, they are called staff and think tanks. The Right Virtuous King muttered to himself.

In the court of the Xiongnu king, Mao Dun, who had just finished the sacrifice, also gathered the tribal leaders below him.

Mao Dun sat on the throne, there were two seats below him, Ram Ling and Wei Zhuang sat on them, Wei Zhuang leaned on his seat with high spirits, and the Ram Ling on the side was already old at the moment, his hair was completely gray, and his eyes were no longer as full of light as they were at the beginning, but a little more turbid.

In this era, still on the grassland, the ram that does not practice martial arts is already a very small minority in his sixties.

The tribal leaders below looked at Mao Dun, Ram Ling, and Wei Zhuang above, and their eyes were full of respect. It's just that compared to the clothes made of beast fur by the tribal leaders of the Youxian Wang's department, the clothes of these tribal leaders have more or less the style of the Central Plains, and even their behavior has the appearance of Central Plains etiquette.

Mao Dun looked at the tribal leader below with a satisfied smile on his face, in the past two years, relying on Weizhuang to lead troops to conquer the tribes near the Xiongnu royal court, the declining Xiongnu royal court once again appeared as the original dominating grassland, and those tribes that had different intentions were completely swallowed by the Xiongnu royal court.

Mao Dun glanced at Wei Zhuang gratefully, he now likes Wei Zhuang more and more, Wei Zhuang's style of leading troops has made him, a Hun Dadan, establish an unprecedented prestige, but if any tribe does not listen to him, Wei Zhuang will take the soldiers to pacify as soon as possible.

"The sacrificial ceremony is over, you go back and prepare, and when the spring is over, it will be the time for our royal court to dominate the Huns again."

"Yes! Long live the big order! ”

After the leaders of the tribe were gone, Mao Dun got up and came to Ram Ling's side and asked with some concern

"Prime Minister, how is your health?"

The importance of the Ram Order to the Xiongnu royal court, Mao Dun is very clear, the Ram Order is not only the prime minister who helped him govern the Xiongnu royal court, but also his personal wisdom and teacher. After conquering the Zuo Xian Wang and the Right Xian Wang, Mao Dun needed the Ram Order to help him absorb the two tribes and completely build the Xiongnu into a country like the Central Plains.

"Da Dan Yu rest assured that the old man's body can still hold up." Ram Ling waved his hand and said.

"That'll be fine." Mao Dun let go of the ram order's hand and continued to ask, "General, do you think Hei Qin will fulfill his promise?" ”

"Of course, the Youxian Wangbu is also a big threat to the Qin State, not to mention that we provided the map, gave the cattle and sheep and the Yongzhou Ding, and the Qin State will not refuse." Wei Zhuang said.

"Hopefully, the intelligence that our spies are investigating on the side of King Zuo Xian, King Zuo Xian may have formed an alliance with the Great Moon Clan." Mao Dun said in a deep voice.

The Da Yue clan and the Zuo Xian Wang Department are old enemies, but in the face of the strong Xiongnu Zuo Xian Wang Ministry, the Da Yue clan has always been on the weak side, and the land and population are constantly occupied by the Zuo Xian Wang Ministry, and the war between the two sides has lasted for hundreds of years, and now there is suddenly news of an alliance coming out, Mao Dun is still very surprised, and at the same time doubts the authenticity of this information.

"Do you know a word? Only those who dare to fight can make peace! The Great Moon Clan has been scared by the Zuo Xian Wang, and the current Great Moon Clan needs a chance to breathe, but the Zuo Xian Wang Department has not given them a chance, and now the Zuo Xian King wants to send troops to us, so naturally they can no longer levy on the Great Yue Clan, but the Zuo Xian King is also worried that the Great Yue Clan will take the opportunity to counterattack them, so it is likely that the Zuo Xian King will propose a proposal and form an alliance, and the Great Moon Clan will naturally readily agree, after all, this is a rare opportunity, once the Great Moon Clan has a chance to breathe, they will be able to regain the lost land again. Ram Ling said.

"Will the prime minister be too worried? Can that stupid guy in Arut have such intelligence? Mao Dun said with some disdain.

Perhaps because of the lack of those tribulations in history, coupled with the assistance of the Ram Ling and Wei Zhuang, his position is becoming more and more stable, and the brainwashing of Mao Dun by Wei Zhuang and the Ram Ling makes him think that he is the grassland eagle selected by Changsheng, in order to unify the grassland, which leads to the current Mao Dun is completely without the patience and calmness of the plough who dominated the entire grassland in history, but has some arrogance and arrogance.

"King Zuo Xian doesn't, but his prime minister Zhihuan does, so we have to be careful." Ram Ling said.

"So what are we going to do?" Morton asked.

"King Zuo Xian can unite with the Great Moon Clan, then we can too, as long as the Great Moon Clan is promised some land and benefits, they will naturally be more willing to form an alliance with us." Ram Ling said.

"Okay, I'll send someone to the Otsuki Clan." Maudon said.

When Mao Dun got up from the royal tent to find someone, Ram Ling and Wei Zhuang looked at Mao Dun's back, and the corners of his mouth rose, and his eyes were full of coldness.

(End of chapter)