"If the path of reconciliation is not feasible, then...... Going to fight? ”

Liu Ji held back for a long time, and said a little unconfidently.

"Between Han and Hungary, sooner or later there will be a war." The queen's tone was surprisingly resolute, her fair-skinned face was not angry and self-assured, and the Bodhisattva's low eyebrows were hidden in the angry eyes of King Kong, which made people dare not force their eyes.

"It's just that the time to start the war is not now.

I understand the trade-off between His Majesty's external and internal considerations, but have you ever thought that the external and internal security may be carried out together? ”

"All together? If we want to fight on both sides, why do we have so many soldiers? Where did you get so much money? ”

Liu Ji was shocked, thinking that this woman must be crazy and talking whimsically.

Lu Pheasant pulled the corners of his mouth and slowly reminded him,

"You know that all the princes and kings have to join forces and break them one by one, but you didn't expect that the matter of the Huns would be so tendonous.

On this prairie, there is far more than just the Xiongnu, how can you forget the truth of distant friendship and close attack? ”

Lü Pheasant was familiar with the historical records in his last life, and knew that in history, more than 60 years later, the newly enthroned young Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had grand ambitions, and found that the peace strategy started by Emperor Liu Ji of Gao only treated the symptoms but not the root cause, and could not stop the frequent disturbance of the Xiongnu by the Xiongnu, and the scope of the Xiongnu's southern invasion continued to expand and deepen.

As a result, the young and vigorous Emperor Wu planned to change the national policy and was determined to compete with the Huns, who had bullied the Han Dynasty for a long time.

At that time, he also referred to the method of long-distance friendship and close attack, and sent Zhang Qian, a young official with the same high spirits, to break through the blockade of the Xiongnu's territory for the first time, hollow out the Western Regions, and found Dawan, Wusun, Kangju, and Dayue in the hinterland of the west of the desert grassland.

"Outbred and close? Close attack on the Huns, distant inbred——

Are you saying that outside of the Xiongnu, there were other countries in the steppe that could be united? ”

Lu Pheasant woke up the person in the dream with a word, Liu Ji only felt that he was still in a cave with no fingers in his hand one moment, but the next second he suddenly saw the brilliant skylight, and suddenly opened up.

Yes, on the current Mobei grassland, although the Xiongnu family is dominant, it seems that layers of dark clouds are pouring over the top, but if you think about it carefully, the Hun Empire that rose from the ground was able to expand its territory until it dominated the grassland, and it also went through several rounds of hegemony battles and drove away more than ten opponent regimes, large and small.

The customs of the grassland tribes are similar, they all live in pursuit of water and grass, and moving and migrating is the norm.

The nomadic regimes that were driven farther and deeper into the steppe by the Huns did not exterminate the people, but most of them fled the country under heavy blows, and migrated to a stranger grassland and mountainous area with a worse climate and environment.

Could it be that they don't want to recover their homeland at all, and they don't want to return to the Mobei grassland that they have grown up in since childhood?

Liu Ji, who was empowered, couldn't help but be suspicious, and glanced at Lu Pheasant,

"How do you know these things, a woman who lives in a deep house?"

***

Where did I find out?

Lu Pheasant chuckled, recalling that in the previous life, after Tang Taizong ascended to the throne through the Xuanwu Gate Change, his father, Ying Guogong Wushi Tong, as a loyal old minister who followed Gaozu Li Yuan all the way to start a business, naturally became a thorn in the side of the new monarch.

As a loser in the political struggle, his father had no hope of promotion, and was ignored and neglected for a long time, and was casually thrown into one idle post after another outside Beijing.

He was disheartened and simply idle from time to time, claiming to be recuperating at home, but he devoted all his efforts and lifelong ambitions to the education of his three daughters.

She still remembers that in the warm study in the spring, her father forced her sisters to read "Historical Records", memorize "The Biography of the Huns" and "The Biography of Dawan", and the education of the Ming monarch ruled the country on behalf of the Taobian of the Ping Bian.

Three childish female voices rose and fell one after another in the deep courtyard, startling the colorful butterflies on the hibiscus flowers in the garden-

"Dawan is in the southwest of the Xiongnu, in the west of the Han Dynasty, to Han Ke thousands of miles, the public can be hundreds of thousands of ......"

"Wusun is 2,000 miles northeast of Dawan, and tens of thousands ......of people control the strings."

"Kangju is 2,000 miles northwest of Dawan, and it is the same as the Yue family, and there are 80,000 or 90,000 people who control the strings......"

"The Da Yue clan can be two or three thousand miles west of Dawan, and the country is also migrating with the animals, and the people who control the strings can be one or two hundred thousand ......."

She suddenly missed her parents and sisters, she was tired at that time, and she always worked with her sisters to find ways to escape her father's harsh teachings, however, Rao's wise and invincible father probably didn't expect that this knowledge would really come in handy.

Lu Pheasant, God's arrangement is wrong, he married the emperor in his last life, and later became the emperor, and in this life, maybe he can take the lead in competing with the Huns before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was born.

"Oh, where do I come from?" Seeing that Liu Ji was still staring at her suspiciously, Lu Pheasant casually said,

"The heroic story of the Xiongnu Mao Dunshan who went to the Yueshi country to be a proton and defeated the Donghu country is well known to the folk women and children, and in these stories alone, the two countries of the Yueshi and Donghu have been mentioned.

The grassland is so big, naturally there are more than these three kingdoms, there will definitely be more nomadic kingdoms, this little thing, why is it difficult to guess? ”

Liu Ji fully believed her explanation, after all, Mao Dun Shan Yu's life deeds can be said to be a household name even in Han China.

***

The world-famous Mao Dun Shan Yu was originally the prince of Touman Shan Yu, but the position of the Xiongnu prince was not easy to sit.

More than ten years ago, Qin Shi Huang toured the county in the north, and ordered the general Meng Tian to attack Mandanyu in the north, completely driving his tribe out of Henan, juxtaposing Jiuyuan County, and building the Great Wall, striving to keep the Xiongnu out of Middle Earth.

The defeated Tou Manshan Yu could only lead the remnants to move north, but he did not want to, but he had a turf dispute with the two kingdoms of Donghu and Yueshi (ròu zhī):

The powerful Donghu lived in the east, the vast Yueshi lived in the west, and the territory of the Xiongnu was squeezed in the bitter cold land of Mobei, and the living environment was miserable.

In order not to suffer from the enemy, Tou Mandan chose to compromise and make friends with the Yueshi country in the west, and sent the young prince Mao Dun to the Yueshi to think that he was a proton.

The method of taking the prince as a hostage has appeared since the Shang Dynasty, and the historical records of the king of Zhou taking the eldest son of King Wen Boyi as the hostage are an example.

Later, in the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the exchange of hostages between vassal states, especially the unilateral sending of hostages to strong countries by weak countries, became a common practice.

The Qin Dynasty was powerful but short-lived, and there was no opportunity to communicate with the surrounding ethnic minorities, but in the northern grasslands outside of Qin, the repatriation between nomadic regimes has long been a commonplace operation.

Although Mao Dunshan Yu is the prince of the Huns, but not favored, his father Touman is very partial to his half-brother, so he actually sent a brilliant young prince to the Yue clan as a hostage.

The life of the proton who endured humiliation was not easy, just when the young man Mao Dun gradually got used to the life of the Yue clan in the country, Tou Manshan didn't know who he had listened to, and suddenly sent troops on a whim to attack the Yue clan, without caring about the life or death of the son who was still in the Yue clan.

The two countries were at war, killing the proton first, and in the face of the threat to his father's life, Mao Dun made a quick decision, stole a fast horse at night, and traveled day and night, throwing off the Yue's chasing soldiers, and desperately fled back to the Huns.

The grassland people are a nation that worships heroes, and the prince Mao Dun was able to escape the pursuit of the enemy country and return home unscathed, which suddenly became a rising myth on the grassland.

This also made Tou Man Shan Yu, for the first time in his life, look at this son squarely, and ordered him to lead ten thousand horses and be in charge alone.

However, this hostage incident made Mao Dun soberly realize that the fragility of family affection is as thin as a cicada's wings, and only when he becomes the leader of the grassland can he have real safety.

So, he invented a ringing arrow called "Mingdi".