Dahan first prince

Chapter 405

Back at Qu Zhouhou's mansion, Li Ji found his father, Li Shang, busy playing with birds in the backyard, as no surprise.

The "retirement" life in the past few years has obviously made Li Shang addicted to "enjoying life". Many habits that were impossible in the past have gradually appeared in Li Shang.

Although he was not at the point of cockfighting, but in the eyes of his son Li Ji, his father, Li Shang, had long since lost the charm of the past.

I thought that his father's sharp claws had degenerated, so he just asked the question with the mentality of trying, but Li Ji saw unexpectedly: on his father's lazy face, the previous years appeared again in an instant, which was awe-inspiring Dear sharp!

Then, it was Li Shang who answered all the doubts for Li Ji from the perspective of a founding father and a veteran of Zhu country.

"Your Majesty's move is a conspiracy;"

"And it's an overt plan that will benefit my Han family without any harm!"

Without hesitation in making a judgment, Li Shang sat up straight with excitement and analyzed the stakes for Li Ji.

"In today's grassland, the Huns are powerful, especially compared to the tigers and wolves of Qin back then;"

"Last year, the Marquis of Chang'an even sent back a letter, saying: The Huns are a country of hundreds of barbarians, and the Huns' headquarter is only tens of thousands of people. However, apart from the headquarter, there are also other tribes who have surrendered and surrendered, and the slave tribes are worthless! "

"So the Xiongnu fought against the Yuezhi, not 'the Xiongnu tribe fought against the Yuezhi tribe', but a hundred barbarians from the grasslands gathered together under Shanyu's account to conquer the Yuezhi."

"Therefore, the Yueshi's defeat will only happen sooner or later;"

"Don't say that today, your Majesty's help with the damaged and old armor is the power of our Han family, and it is inevitable that the Yuezhi will be destroyed by the Xiongnu..."

Speaking with a smile on his face, Li Shang's tone became more and more relaxed, and he looked at Li Ji with anticipation that was visible to the naked eye.

"That is to say, the death of the Yue clan is only a matter of time, but as far as our Han family is concerned, the stronger the Yue clan is, the safer the Han family will be."

"The harder it is for the Xiongnu to defeat the Yue clan, the more peaceful the border wall of our Han family will be."

"Therefore, even if His Majesty knows that the Yue family might do something to win the Han Bingjia, he is still willing to give it to him with the Bingjia."

"Why?"

"——The Yue clan is getting rid of every day, and Hexi is in a dilemma; the Xiongnu cavalry is pressing every step of the way, so they have to fight!"

"As for the Xiongnu, when they heard that the Yue family was helped by our Han, they would definitely attack them in anger;"

"The more fierce the Xiongnu's offensive against the Yuezhi, the more they will lose, and the Han family will gain more..."

"And now the Han family, veterans and heroes are withering, and emerging heroes are not succeeding;"

"My son may be ready to wait and wait for the opportunity..."

Hearing Li Shang's in-depth analysis and the last sentence'wait for the opportunity', Li Ji's face could not help but show a touch of excitement.

Li Shang was right.

For today's Yuezhi people, defeat is a foregone conclusion; a life-and-death battle with the Huns is also inevitable.

Under such circumstances, it is indeed as Li Shang said: the stronger the Yuezhi people, the longer they can resist the Huns, the more trouble they cause, and the more beneficial it is for the Han Dynasty.

As for the possibility that the Yuezhi people prostituted the weapons and equipment of the Han Dynasty for free, but did not follow the agreement at all, it was basically close to zero.

——Even if they don't fight the Huns for the sake of the Han Dynasty, the current situation of the Yuezhi people makes them have to fight the Huns!
Even if they knew it was a failure, the Yuezhi people had to do everything in front of the Huns' soldiers in order to survive.

In this case, why not provide the Yuezhi people with some weapons and equipment that are not of much use to the Han Dynasty, but can make the Yuezhi people more powerful?

Anyway, even if they were not given to the Yuezhi people, these outdated weapons and equipment would be useless;

It's better to use it to send the Yuezhi people away, let the Huns waste a few more years of effort, so as to gain a few more years for the Han family to develop.

But in this way...

"My lord just said: Wen Yueshi got the help of the Han, so the Xiongnu will be angry?"

Frowning slightly, he asked a question with a little worry, and when Li Shang nodded in relief, Li Ji continued to ask, "Since that's the case, how can we talk about 'benefiting my Han'?"

"——Wrath of the Huns, the Yue clan turned to our Han family for help;"

"However, apart from the Yue clan, the Xiongnu and northern barbarians will inevitably be angry with our Han family for 'helping the emperor to abuse'?"

"If because of this, the Xiongnu suspends the war in the west of Hexi, instead of going south to retaliate, wouldn't our Han family be trapped in a cocoon?"

Seeing that Li Ji had seen through the key so quickly, Li Shang's expression of relief grew stronger;

Full of approval, he nodded at Li Ji with a smile, and Li Shang stood up full of joy, and patted his son Li Ji on the shoulder.

"Of course."

"Your Majesty and the Yuezhi soldiers will make the Xiongnu angry;"

"This anger may reach the Yue family, but it is also inevitable that it is not as good as our Han family."

"It is for this reason that I wake up my son in a dialect: I am waiting for you..."

After saying this meaningfully, Li Shang patted Li Ji's head again, gave him a look of' think about it for yourself', and left the backyard leisurely.

But after Li Shang left, Li Ji sat there for a long time with a puzzled expression;

After he reacted, Li Ji's face finally had a look of joy that was exactly the same as his father Li Shang's, as if poured out of a mold!

"His Majesty!"

"OK······"

"it is good!!!"

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When Li Ji left his backyard with a look of joy and began to gather his own guards, Liu Ying finally completed a major event in Weiyang Palace.

——Response to the letter of credence of the Huns, and the drafting has been completed.

For the strong condemnation of the Huns against "Han Andong County", Liu Ying is presenting the facts and reasoning, from the Jizi Joseon period thousands of years ago to the Warring States period and the Qin Dynasty in the early years;
The old saying goes, in fact, it is just one sentence: The Korean Peninsula has been a sacred and inseparable part of China since ancient times!

The Han family will never tolerate any external forces that try to interfere in China's internal affairs!
As for Weiman, who briefly notified the northern half of the Korean peninsula, Liu Ying defined him as a "thief who steals the country";
However, the Xiongnu supported Weiman and robbed Jizi Joseon Sheji from Jizhun, the last monarch of Jizi Joseon, but was accused by Liu Ying of 'interfering in the internal affairs of the Han family'.

Of course, after speaking forcefully, diplomatic politeness is unavoidable.

What 'there must be some misunderstanding'~
What 'supporting Weiman North Korea, it must be a decision of one of Shan Yu's subordinates'~
Liu Ying didn't forget to bring things like "the matter in Andong County, someone must be bewitching Shanyu".

For Liu Ying today, speaking nonsense with her eyes open has long been a skill that has been perfected.

In the end, Liu Ying finally talked about the core of this diplomatic activity: out of the consideration of highlighting the friendly relationship between Han and Hungary and reaffirming the friendly covenant between Han and Hungary, the Han family is willing to open five more border markets as a mutual market between Han and Hungary.

And as usual, these five border cities are all located in the Han-Hungarian border buffer zone; within [-] miles of the border city, neither the Han nor the Hungarian sides stationed troops.

With the last condition, Liu Ying also believed that: the purpose of the Huns in this bilateral negotiation has achieved more than half;
As for other parts, such as food, tea, cloth and other gifts, or marriage, Liu Ying did not mention a word.

It's just that in the last part of the letter of credence, Liu Ying mentioned a sentence intentionally or unintentionally: Oh, I said brother~
Recently, the Yuezhi people have bought weapons from me a lot, right?
Why don't you buy some too?

After writing such a sentence, the depression in Liu Ying's heart finally dissipated.

Liu Ying knew in her heart: Even though the current Han Dynasty has achieved rapid development in the first six years after Liu Ying ascended the throne, its national strength, especially its financial resources, has been greatly improved, but in fact, it is not yet time for a decisive battle.

The reason is also very simple;
——In the past few years, rather than saying that Liu Ying was accumulating wealth for the Han Dynasty, it would be better to say that Liu Ying was paving the way for wealth;
Grain, rice, salt and iron, and even the "Golden Cloth Law" and "Jinguan Law" proposed by Empress Lu, Liu Ying's implementation, seem to have brought a lot of wealth to the Han Dynasty, but in fact, they are all just for the future. The economic take-off of the Han Dynasty laid a solid foundation.

To put it more bluntly, the money Liu Ying earned in the past few years was not used to fight the Huns, but was used to quickly strengthen the Han Dynasty in the future and accumulate the strength to fight the Huns as soon as possible.

If this start-up capital was used by Liu Ying for the war, it would mean that the past six years had been done for nothing, and everything would have to start all over again.

It's like no matter how hungry farmers are, they don't know how to eat grain: no matter how angry Liu Ying is, she doesn't want the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu to die.

So even if she didn't want to admit it in her heart, Liu Ying clearly understood: now is not the time to fight the Huns to death;
The strength comparison between the two sides, especially the military strength comparison, the Han Dynasty is still at a clear disadvantage.

Under such circumstances, it stands to reason that Liu Ying should have carried out the foreign policy of the Emperor Taizu Gao, stabilized the Huns with kinship and alliances, continued to strive for development time, and used the powerful personnel and resource mobilization capabilities of Chinese civilization to fight for foreign affairs. strategic advantage;
But even after living in this era for more than ten years, Liu Ying still failed to abandon some of the unique personalities of later generations.

——For the marriage, Liu Yingning refused to die!

Therefore, at the diplomatic level, Liu Ying changed the past marriage to "open border market" as a means of stabilizing the Huns;
Anyway, the Han Dynasty's control over metals, tea seeds, and weapons and ordnance is sufficient to ensure that no controlled items will flow into the grassland.

Liu Ying was also happy to temporarily stabilize the Huns by means of trade, using the living materials the Huns hoped to obtain, rather than through humiliating marriages.

As for Liu Ying flirting with the Yuezhi people, and inexplicably revealing this to the Huns, Liu Ying had another consideration.

"We have to fight..."

"It is necessary to fight a small and medium-scale battle that is not too big or too small, and can understand the shortcomings and combat methods of the Huns' cavalry..."

Sighing slightly sadly, Liu Ying lowered her head and looked at the few paper memorials in front of her;
Since Liu Ying launched the bamboo rice paper that can be used for writing on the occasion of "examination" in that year, Shaofu has made another contribution.

In Kanto, I don’t know how many wealthy families who want to be arty, or the “scholarly family” with strong family background, wave their five baht coins and want to buy a few pieces of bamboo rice paper produced by Shaofu.

As for the imperial court, although important documents and memorials were still carried on bamboo slips, the writing and letters in daily work have gradually been replaced by the lighter Xuan paper specially provided by the Shaofu.

As for the memorabilia in front of me, since rice paper is used as the writing medium, it should have shown that what this memorandum says is not too important;
But only Liu Ying knows: What kind of thing is it that made Yang Chengyan, that iron cock, not hesitate to pay a piece of rice paper worth [-] yuan, just to tell herself about it secretly... ·
——Shaofu's weapons and equipment urgently need actual combat verification!

Whether it is scale armor, plate armor and other types of armor, or weapons such as divine arm crossbows and mo knives, the performance needs to be verified through actual combat!

In fact, for other weapons, Shaofu can completely verify the practicability of these weapons through simulated exercises.

For example: the performance of armor can be cut with a sword, smashed with a hammer, or put on by two people, and then fight with wooden swords and hammers;
Another example is bows and crossbows, which can completely target the country to obtain effective range and destructiveness;
Another example is weapons, which can still be chopped on military stakes and dummies to see if they are sharp and smooth.

But the crux of the problem is: the weapons that the Shaofu is developing today, without exception, all use the 'Hun cavalry' as the imaginary enemy, with extremely strong pertinence as the core of research and development!
For example, plate armor, what needs to be verified is 'whether it can withstand the impact of the cavalry, and the chopping after the cavalry charge'!
Another example is Mo Dao, which verifies 'whether it can split the cavalry' or even 'whether it can split the horse under the cavalry'!
As for the God Arm Crossbow, it is also necessary to verify whether it can guarantee high accuracy and damage to cavalry and war horses before the mobility of the Huns cavalry.

And all of this, for today's Han Dynasty, is not a "simulation experiment", which can be concluded...

"Send some weapons to the Yuezhi people, the Huns should be able to be angered;"

"Um·······"

"It's best to play a game in Daibei after this fall!"

Thinking so, Liu Ying lowered her head again, and crossed out the last line on the already written letter of credence.

That sentence was originally: Yueshi sent an envoy to ask for the help of our Han. I can't bear the death of Yueshi, so I will give it to him with a soldier. I hope Shanyu can't blame it.

After thinking for a while, Liu Ying picked up the pen again, and wrote such a paragraph under the line that was crossed out at the end of the national letter.

——Wen Shanyu won the grassland with the help of the gods and the embrace of a hundred barbarians;

Only the Yue clan entrenched Hexi, and threatened our Han family with soldiers and armor by using fine horses as a threat.

I can't bear to have chaos in the border area, so I have to agree.

Today, the Yue family has won the armor and soldiers of our Han family, and Yu Shanyu is eyeing him like a tiger.

I only hope that Shan Yu will use his troops to attack the west and destroy the Yue clan, so as to eliminate the trouble of the Western Wall of our Han Dynasty.

If the Yue family dies, then I would like to offer food, grass, tea and salt as gifts, and He Shanyu as the lord of the grassland;

As for the armor and sharp blade obtained by the Yueshi, Shanyu Ruoxi, I, can also think about it a little bit...
(End of this chapter)