"According to what you said, if the road to marriage is not feasible, then... war?"
Liu Ji held it in for a long time and spoke without confidence.
"Sooner or later, there will be a battle between the Han and the Hungarians." The queen's tone was surprisingly decisive, her fair face showed no anger and no authority, and the Bodhisattva's low brows contained the glaring Vajra eyes, which made people dare not look at her.
“It’s just that the time for war is not now.
I understand His Majesty’s consideration of the trade-off between fighting against foreign aggression and keeping the country at home, but have you ever thought that fighting against foreign aggression and keeping peace at home can be done at the same time? "
"Together? If we want to fight on both sides, how can we get so many soldiers? How can we get so much money?"
Liu Ji was shocked, thinking that this woman must be crazy and talking nonsense.
Lu Pheasant twitched the corner of his mouth and slowly reminded him,
"You know how to deal with all the princes and kings by uniting vertically and horizontally to defeat them one by one, but you didn't expect that you are so single-minded when it comes to the Xiongnu.
On this prairie, there is far more than just the Huns. Why have you forgotten the principle of making friends from far away and attacking close by? "
Lu Pheasant was familiar with historical records in his previous life and knew that in history, more than 60 years ago, the young Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who had newly ascended the throne, had great ambitions. He realized that the marriage strategy started by the Gao Emperor Liu Ji only treated the symptoms but not the root cause, and could not stop the Xiongnu at all. Humans frequently harassed the border areas, and the scope of the Xiongnu's southern invasion continued to expand and deepen.
Therefore, the young and energetic Emperor Wu planned to change national policy and determined to show off with the Huns who had long bullied the Han Dynasty.
At that time, he also referred to the method of distant friendship and close attack, and sent Zhang Qian, a young official with the same high spirits, to break through the Xiongnu's blockade of the territory for the first time, hollow out the Western Region, and found Dawan in the hinterland to the west of the desert grassland. Wusun found Kangju and Da Yuezhi.
"Distant friendship and close attack? Attack the Xiongnu from close quarters, make distant friendship——
Are you saying that besides the Xiongnu, there are other countries on the grassland that can be united? "
Lu Pheasant's words awakened the dreamer. Liu Ji felt that one moment he was in a cave where he couldn't see his fingers, and the next second he suddenly saw the bright sky and suddenly became enlightened.
Yes, on the Mobei Prairie at the moment, although the Xiongnu family is the only one, and it seems that layers of dark clouds are rolling over the top, but if you think about it carefully, it took several years for the Xiongnu Empire to expand its territory and dominate the grassland. They fought for hegemony and drove away more than ten rival regimes, large and small.
Grassland tribes have similar customs. They all live in pursuit of water and grass, and migration is the norm.
Those nomadic regimes that were driven further and deeper into the grassland by the Huns did not exterminate their tribes. Most of them just fled as a result of heavy losses and migrated to a more unfamiliar pasture and mountainous area with a worse climate and environment.
Do they simply not want to regain their homeland, or return to the Mobei grassland they have been familiar with since childhood?
Liu Ji, who was enlightened, couldn't help but feel suspicious. He glanced at Lu Pheasant and said,
"How do you, a reclusive woman, know these things?"
***
Where did I know this?
Lu Pheasant chuckled, recalling that in his previous life, after Tang Taizong came to power through the Xuanwu Gate Incident, his father, Ying Guogong warrior Xun, as a loyal veteran who had followed the great ancestor Li Yuan in starting an army, naturally became a thorn in the new emperor's side.
As a loser in the political struggle, my father had no hope of promotion. He was ignored and neglected for a long time, and was casually thrown into one idle position after another outside Beijing.
He was disheartened and simply idle from time to time. He claimed to be recuperating at home, but he devoted all his efforts and lifelong ambitions to the education of his three daughters.
She still remembered that in the study room on a warm spring day, her father forced the sisters to read "Historical Records", memorize "Biographies of the Huns" and "Biographies of Dawan", and learn the strategies of the Mingjuns in governing the country and Pingbian.
Three childish female voices echoed one after another in the deep courtyard, frightening the colorful butterflies flying from the hibiscus flowers in the garden——
"Dawan is located southwest of the Xiongnu and directly west of the Han Dynasty. It is thousands of miles away from the Han Dynasty and hundreds of thousands of people..."
"Wusun is two thousand miles northeast of Dawan, and has tens of thousands of people who can control the strings..."
"Kang lives two thousand miles northwest of Dawan. He is of the same custom as the Yuezhi, and has eighty or ninety thousand people who can control strings..."
"The Da Yuezhi can live two to three thousand miles west of Dawan. They travel the country and move with their livestock. The number of people who can control the strings is one or two hundred thousand..."
She suddenly missed her parents and sisters. At that time, she was tired and tired, so she always worked with her sisters to find ways to escape from her father's harsh teachings. However, even her wise and invincible father probably never expected that this knowledge would actually come in handy. use.
Lu Pheasant Wan'er, God's arrangement was a mistake. In his previous life, he married an emperor and later became an emperor. But in this life, he might be able to take the lead in competing with the Huns before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was born.
"Oh, how did I know that?" Seeing Liu Ji still staring at her doubtfully, Lu Pheasant casually said,
"The heroic story of Maodun Chanyu of the Xiongnu going to the Yuezhi Kingdom to act as a hostage and resorting to tricks to defeat the Donghu Kingdom is well known to women and children among the people. In these stories alone, the two countries of Yuezhi and Donghu have been mentioned.
The grassland is so big, so naturally there will be more than just these three kingdoms, there will definitely be more nomadic kingdoms. Why is it so hard to guess about this little thing? "
Liu Ji completely believed her explanation. After all, the life story of Modun Shanyu was well-known even in Han Dynasty.
***
The world-famous Maodun Chanyu was originally the prince of Touman Chanyu, but the position of the Hun prince was not easy to occupy.
More than ten years ago, Qin Shihuang inspected the northern counties and ordered General Meng Tian to attack Man Shanyu in the north, completely driving his tribe out of Henan. He merged Jiuyuan County and built the Great Wall in an effort to keep the Xiongnu out of China.
The beaten Touman Chanyu could only lead his remnants to move north. Unexpectedly, he had a territorial dispute with Donghu and Yuezhi (ròu Zhī) countries:
The powerful Donghu lived in the east, and the vast Yueshi lived in the west. The Huns' territory was squeezed into the bitter cold land of Mobei, and their living environment was miserable.
In order not to be attacked from both sides, Touman Chanyu chose to compromise and make good friends with the Yuezhi Kingdom in the west, and sent his young prince Maodun to the Yuezhi State as a hostage.
The method of using princes as hostages has appeared since the Shang Dynasty. According to historical records, King Zhou used Boyikao, the eldest son of King Wen, as a hostage. This is an example.
Later, in the Spring and Autumn Period, exchanges between vassal states, especially the unilateral behavior of weak countries sending hostages to powerful ones, became common practice.
The Qin Dynasty was powerful but short-lived and had no opportunity to engage in confrontation with surrounding ethnic minorities. However, on the northern grasslands outside Qin, exchanging hostages between nomadic regimes has long been a common practice.
Although Modun Shanyu was the prince of the Huns, he was not favored. His father Touman was very partial to his half-brother, so he sent a young prince Huanghuang to the Yueshi as a hostage.
The humiliating and burdensome life of hostage was not easy to endure. Just as the young boy Maodun was gradually getting used to the life in the Yuezhi country, Touman Chanyu did not know whose slander he had listened to, and suddenly sent troops to attack the Yuezhi on a whim, without any scruples about Shang Shang. The life and death of Yuezhi's son.
When the two countries were at war, they killed the proton first. Faced with the threat to his own father's life, Maodun made a quick decision and stole a fast horse at night. He traveled day and night, shook off the Yuezhi's pursuers, and escaped alone to the death. The Huns.
The grassland nation is a nation that worships heroes. Prince Maodun was able to escape the pursuit of the enemy and return home unscathed, which immediately became a rising myth on the grassland.
This also made Touman Chanyu look at his son seriously for the first time in his life, and ordered him to command ten thousand horses and take charge of his own affairs.
However, this hostage incident made Mao Dun clearly realize that family ties are as fragile as cicada wings. Only when he becomes the leader of the grassland can he have real safety.
So he invented a sounding arrow called "Mingdy".
