The land south of the river!
When Li Shiqi called out this sentence in Xiongnu language.
In the Shanyu King's tent, there were Hu Yanzi who was originally full of anger and clamoring to roast the Qin envoy, or Wu Luxu who had a joking look on his face and regarded the scene in front of him as a good show, as well as many Xiongnu with different expressions. The nobles all changed their expressions.
Surprise flashed in Sugatha's eyes.
Touman Shanyu, who was sitting on the main seat, had his eyes wide open and was moved by these words.
Only the Hun warriors who entered the account still faithfully followed the Great Chanyu's last order.
The Qin envoy was dragged down and roasted.
They rushed towards Fan Kuai and Li Sheqi.
"A bunch of Hun dogs, come on!"
When Fan Kuai saw this, he roared like a lion and waved his sword in his hand to deflect the weapons of the two Huns.
He punched a Huns in the face with his left fist, causing him to fall to the ground.
Just as the long sword in his right hand was about to penetrate the chest of another Huns, Fan Kuai's heart moved and he gave up the killing move. Instead, he hit the opponent's face hard with the sword hilt with his backhand, knocking him over.
"stop!"
At this time, the dissuasive voices of Wu Luxu and other Xiongnu nobles were heard. They stood up and stopped the remaining Xiongnu warriors.
Seeing the two royal court guards who collapsed on the ground in the blink of an eye, many nobles in the tent had their eyelids twitching and looked at Fan Kuai in surprise.
This strong man has great skills.
"The Qin envoy cannot be killed!"
Wu Luxu's voice sounded a bit sharp, and he looked at Touman Shanyu anxiously.
"Da Chanyu, the people of Qin are willing to trade the land south of the river to us. This is a great thing. We should listen."
"Yes, Da Chanyu. The land south of the river is vast and fertile. It is a good pasture. If there is a chance to take it back, we can't give it up!"
"No matter whether the Qin people have any tricks or not, we won't lose anything if we just listen."
Following King Zuo Guli to intercede for the Qin envoy, there were also a large number of Xiongnu nobles.
These people may have been tribal leaders who originally grazed their cattle in Henan, but they crossed the river to seek refuge with the royal court due to the invasion of the Yuezhi people.
Or they were grazing at the foot of Yin Mountain. Because Wu Luxu and others came to seek refuge after losing their pasture, the Huns nobles were forced to give them pasture to live in.
The interests of these people have been harmed by the loss of Henan, so they are most urgent to recover the lost land.
Touman Shanyu looked at the royal court guard who fell limply at the feet of the Qin people, with a somewhat uncertain expression on his face.
For his own prestige, he should kill these Qin envoys.
And from a rational point of view, he felt that the transaction Li Shiqi said might be fraudulent.
This was what he thought in his heart, but Touman Shanyu finally shook his head, waved the other guards to retreat to both sides, and did not continue to attack the Qin envoy.
He had to consider the thoughts of Wuluxu and many Xiongnu nobles. If he insisted on killing the Qin envoy, these people would be dissatisfied and his leadership position would be shaken.
Moreover, he was still greedy for Henan.
It's better to just listen to what this Qin man has to say.
If there is any fraud involved, just refuse to agree.
Thinking of this, Touman Shanyu calmed down and asked people to carry the injured out first.
At this time, the Huns were seen arguing with each other and finally stopped attacking.
Fan Kuai curled his lips and looked at Li Shiqi: "You have some skills as a drunkard, but you just said that you want them to treat each other with courtesy, but now you are just using weapons, you don't count as a winner."
Li Shiqi chuckled and said, "This is just the beginning. You'll have to watch carefully from now on."
The two of them talked with Wei and Chu accents, but they were not afraid that the Huns in the tent who understood Qin language would see something.
At this moment, as the two injured Hun guards on the ground were carried away, calm returned to the tent.
Everyone looked at Li Shiqi with burning eyes.
Wu Luxu couldn't bear it anymore and said, "Envoy Qin, you just said that your general is willing to trade the land south of the river to us. What do you mean?"
Li Shiqi already knew the identity of this person from the conversation the Huns had just had. Thinking of the Huns slaves captured from the Yuezhi people, Li Shiqi quietly added a hint.
He smiled lightly and said: "It literally means that we are going to use the land south of the river and the Huns captured by the Yueshi to exchange cattle and horses with the Great Chanyu. If the Great Chanyu gives us a sufficient number of livestock, we will You can return to the fortress and hand over the land and the captives to you."
Gudong!
The sound of swallowing was heard.
Especially Wu Luxu and several Xiongnu nobles originally from Henan, their eyes were red.
They led a large army to the Yinshan Mountains to compete with Touman Shanyu for the position of the alpha wolf. The old, weak, women, children and a large number of livestock in the tribe were grazing in the Helan grassland.
The Yuezhi people attacked from behind and not only raided their home base and occupied the land south of the river, but also captured all their clansmen and reduced them to slaves.
That was equivalent to digging out the roots of their tribes, forcing them to bow to Touman Shanyu.
Now that the Qin army was willing to trade land and Xiongnu prisoners, for Wu Luxu and others, it was nothing less than a gift from heaven.
They all looked at Touman Shanyu longingly, hoping that he would agree.
But Touman Shanyu shook his head and showed a mocking smile to Li Shiqi: "The land south of the river is rich and fertile. You, the Qin State, sent out a large army, defeated the Yuezhi people with great effort, and captured this land. Now, But you want to sell it to us?”
"Such an incredible thing, Qin people, do you really think that I am a three-year-old child, letting you bully me?"
Touman Shanyu was deceived by Li Shiqi in Daidi, so he was naturally wary of this man's words and immediately picked out the flaws in his words.
Li Shiqi blinked and said with an innocent face: "Honorable Great Chanyu, what are you talking about?"
"The land south of the river is good pasture for you grassland people, but we Qin people are farming people who eat millet and wheat. This land is of no use to us at all, and these places are far away from each other. Our Qin State's fortress is very far away, with Gobi Desert in the middle and sparsely populated areas. We have left the good arable land in the fortress uncultivated, so what are we doing outside the fortress? Do you have any misunderstandings?"
Touman Shanyu was startled.
It seems to make sense.
Hu Yanzi stood up and sneered: "Don't be fooled by this guy, Li Shiqi. Since you said this land is useless to you Qin people, why do you send out hundreds of thousands of troops to attack? I see. What you said is inconsistent and cannot be believed!”
Yes!
Touman Shanyu and all the Huns all reacted and felt that there was something wrong here.
Li Shiqi laughed and shook his head: "That's ridiculous, that's ridiculous! We Qin are fighting against the Yuezhi for the purpose of grabbing land. It's because the Yuezhi people killed our Qin envoys!"
At this point, Li Shiqi stopped smiling, straightened his spine, and scanned the Huns in the tent with sharp eyes.
"We, the Qin Dynasty, rule the world and are the lord of China. Qin is mighty and virtuous. If barbarians from all directions dare to kill our Qin envoys, even if they live outside the Great Wall, the Emperor of Qin will conquer them with a large army and let their blood flow into rivers. Go across the wilderness to promote the power of our great Qin!"
"The Yuezhi killed my envoy, so the general led the Qin army with 500,000 troops to attack the country, captured its princes, killed its tribesmen, and built a mountain of heads to frighten the world. This was an act of revenge and revenge for the people outside the territory. , not greedy for its land!"
The tent became quiet for a moment.
Sugatha lowered her head, her expression a little complicated.
Although what Li Shiqi said is somewhat exaggerated, it is not pure fiction.
Before the war began, the Marquis of Guishan did kill the Qin envoy and threw the envoy's head outside the Great Wall to provoke the Qin people.
To a certain extent, this war was really caused by the Yuezhi.
In the subsequent war, the Qin army captured two Xihous but did not kill them. They also adopted gentle and recruiting measures towards the remaining Yuezhi people, but this does not mean that they did not take revenge.
Sugatha heard that the Qin army killed tens of thousands of the 20,000 Shuangmi cavalry, and the Qin army piled their heads into a mountain to commemorate the dead Qin envoys.
The Yuezhi killed a group of Qin envoys, but in the end they paid the lives of tens of thousands of people, and even three members of the Yuezhi became servants of the Qin people. Such a price was not heavy.
"Da Qin."
Sugatha murmured in her heart.
Compared with Sugatha's complicated heart, Touman Shanyu and other Huns nobles swallowed their saliva in embarrassment.
They were shocked by what Li Shiqi said.
It turns out that the reason why the Qin State attacked the Yuezhi people was because the Yuezhi people killed their envoy. Seeing that Sujiasha didn't show any rebuttal, it seemed that this was true.
Thinking that Li Shiqi had almost been roasted just now, small beads of sweat could not help but appear on their heads.
However, these words do explain why the Qin people traded land to the Xiongnu.
The Qin State attacked the Yuezhi not because they were greedy for their land, but for revenge. After they were defeated, they would be useless and might as well be sold to the Huns.
This logic makes sense.
However, Touman Shanyu still had an extra thought and continued to ask: "I believe you for the time being, but since you want to trade with us, you can only send an envoy here, why are you leading the army to approach the river. I see that you have gathered at least 100,000 troops on the south bank of the river, haha, what’s the explanation for this?”
Li Shiqi turned to look in the direction of Sujatha and said coldly: "Why should the Great Chanyu ask questions knowingly? Our army came to pursue these Yuezhi people. The general wanted to use the northern and southern armies to attack them in a pincer attack." They encircled and annihilated them. Unexpectedly, they broke through the siege and had to be lured across the river by the Great Chanyu, so they escaped. So our Qin army is gathered on the south bank of the river at this time. Is there any problem?"
"What Mr. Li said is, I think there is no problem."
Wu Luxu agreed.
All the Xiongnu nobles also nodded.
Li Shiqi's remarks are indeed reasonable and there is basically nothing wrong with them.
Since there was no problem, Wu Luxu couldn't wait to broker the deal.
Touman Shanyu had no expression on his face and stared at the two Qin envoys again.
Li Shiqi smiled and his opponent Man Shanyu nodded.
Fan Kuai didn't understand the Xiongnu language and didn't know what they were talking about. When Touman Shanyu looked over, he smiled at him, showing his yellow teeth.
At the same time, he was thinking about how many levels he would be able to upgrade if he could chop off the head of this Xiongnu Chanyu.
Touman Chanyu didn't see anything from the faces of the two men, and saw many Xiongnu nobles in the tent looking at him eagerly. Although he still had some doubts in his heart, he had no choice but to stretch out his hand and make a gesture of asking him to sit down.
"That being the case, Mr. Li, please sit down and tell me, General, how are you going to deal?"
