Silver Fox of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 490
In the middle of the morning, the Xiongnu Shanyu Huchuquan entered the palace with some anxiety.

He is over 50 years old this year.

This is also an old birthday star. According to historical records, he inherited the position of his elder brother Shan Yu in 195 AD. When Wu Guo went to Wei Guo as an envoy in 265 AD, when Sima Zhao received the envoys, Liu Chan and him were also among them.

Although Hu Chuquan was originally detained in Luoyang, Cao Wei treated him well. During Cao Pi's time, he gave him a seal, a green-covered chariot, and a sword, and he was enjoying the glory and wealth.

But this kind of life in captivity is always unsettling. The wealth and life are not in their own hands but in other people's hands, which makes people feel scared.

Therefore, after Liu Xuan found him secretly, hoping that he could support the Huns to vote for Han, Hu Chuquan hesitated again and again, and finally decided to accept this matter, and planned to take advantage of the chaos and leave when Cao Wei moved the capital.

In fact, the Huns were not completely single-minded in thinking of surrendering to the Han. When Liu Xuan sent the Han army, the condition he put forward was that the Han army should attack the Cao army first, and then the Huns would send troops to cooperate with the Han army.

The fundamental purpose of doing this is also very simple, that is, they will help whoever wins. There is no Huns who did their best to help the Han army or Cao army from the beginning.

Although it seems that this kind of thing is very immoral, there is no loyalty and shame at all.But if you look at it from the perspective of the Huns, it is easy to understand.For weak and small nations, it is difficult to survive in the cracks, and if they make a wrong bet, they will die.

So Liu Xuan swayed from side to side, hoping to wait until the Han army and Cao army fought to see who won the victory before announcing to help one of them.

It's just that Hu Chuquan didn't realize that Cao Rui's summoning of him today might be an accident, but he was thinking that Cao Rui might be trying to force him to let the Huns send troops.

He is now full of thoughts about how to refuse. After all, the population of the five tribes of the Southern Huns is only 30 to [-], and the combined strength of tens of thousands of troops cannot withstand such a toss.

Soon, under the guidance of the eunuch, Hu Chuquan came all the way to the Jianshi Hall in the North Palace. Cao Rui seldom summoned ministers to discuss matters in the West Garden, because it was a place where he relaxed, and discussing affairs in the main hall could also give the other party a sense of oppression .

When Hu Chuquan entered the hall, Cao Rui sat majesticly on it and looked down at him. The guards on the left and right sides stood with their hands on the knives at their waists, which seemed to give him some authority.

Seeing this situation, Hu Chuquan was a little surprised, then stepped forward and bowed his hands in salute: "Luan Lin Hu Chuquan, I have seen Your Majesty!"

"Get up."

Cao Rui raised both hands, and then motioned: "Sit down, Shanyu."

Hu Chuquan looked around and saw Chen Qun, Wei Zhen, Dong Zhao and other ministers sitting in Cao Rui's hands, so he had to find a seat at the bottom.

After he sat down, he asked, "I don't know what your majesty is calling the minister here?"

Cao Rui pondered for a moment, and then said: "Shanyu should also know that Wei has encountered some setbacks. The rear is training new troops, and the rebel army is about to attack Bingzhou. If Shanyu is willing to send troops to help, Wei will definitely treat Shanyu favorably. "

Hu Chuquan knew it, and he thought of a way on the way here, and quickly declined: "Your Majesty, there are few soldiers and major generals, and these years, the tribesmen have been grazing cattle and sheep every day, providing meat and war horses for the Wei army. Time to train, I am afraid that if we really fight, we will not be able to fight the Han army at all."

"Oh?"

Cao Rui's attitude became cold. After thinking for a moment, he sneered and said, "Shan Yu is too modest. Who doesn't know that the Huns are brave and good at fighting. There are tens of thousands of horses in your tribe. If you can fight the Han army, how can the Han army be so powerful?" Shan Yu's opponent? Isn't Shan Yu willing to serve Wei?"

"Of course not."

Hu Chuquan hurriedly said: "I am willing to contribute to the great Wei. The people of the Naihe tribe are really lazy in training. Besides, your majesty also knows that the weapons and equipment of our tribe are all wrought iron or even pig iron, while the weapons and equipment of the bandit army are far away." Far stronger than us, marching and fighting without weapons and equipment, wouldn't it be death?"

Cao Rui's face showed a completely unhappy expression. The other party either used the excuse of lack of training or poor equipment. Obviously, he didn't intend to send troops at all, so he was not polite at all, and said coldly: "Shanyu really can't send troops? "

Seeing his complexion, Hu Chuquan was naturally clear, hesitated a little, and had no choice but to say: "If your majesty wants me to send troops, I can only do so, but please give me some time, let me go back to the tribe to train soldiers, and then ask The general supervisor of the Great Wei sent a batch of better weapons and equipment, so that we can fight against the bandits."

"Oh."

Cao Rui nodded, then slapped the table and shouted: "Shan Yu has done a great job at home."

Hu Chuquan was startled, he quickly got up and saluted, "Your Majesty, I have nothing to do at home every day, and I didn't do anything."

"is it?"

Cao Rui sneered and said, "Then why did I hear that someone is looking for you?"

Hu Chuquan bit the bullet and said: "Your Majesty, sometimes the tribesmen need to go to Luoyang to buy some things, and it is also a common thing to drop by to see the ministers."

"Then according to your opinion, Liu Bao went to Bei and others to conspire to surrender to Han, and it has nothing to do with you?"

Cao Rui narrowed his eyes and said.

He actually didn't know that Hu Chuquan was not involved, because the information they got was that Liu Bao and Qu Bei were conspiring to surrender, so he wanted to test it from the beginning.

One is to see if Hu Chuquan is willing to serve Cao Wei, and the other is to determine whether Hu Chuquan has participated in the matter of the Huns throwing Han.

But now it seems that even if Hu Chuquan didn't participate, with his pushy attitude, even if he didn't participate, he still had to participate.

Cao Rui had a sneer on his face.

Hu Chuquan's complexion changed drastically, his eyes widened and he knelt down hurriedly and said, "My two nephews are plotting to surrender to the Han? Your Majesty, I really don't know. Think about it, Your Majesty. If I am in Luoyang, if I plot to surrender to the Han, Isn't it a dead end? How could the minister agree?"

"Oh?"

Cao Rui looked at him coldly: "But I heard that Shan Yu is also among them?"

"Never mind!"

Hu Chuquan bit the bullet and said: "If Your Majesty does not believe it, I am willing to hand over Shan Yu's seal and ribbon, and the Xiongnu soldiers and horses. I would like to hand over all to Your Majesty."

"Ah."

Cao Rui sneered in his heart, counting you as acquainted, and then said with a kind smile on his face: "Of course I can trust Shan Yu, but Liu Bao is so humble and disregarding Shan Yu's life and death. What is the use of such a traitor? Shan Yu So give me the seal ribbon, and I will help Shanyu clean up the house."

After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu was defeated by the Han Dynasty and has since been divided into two parts.One fled north to Mobei and called it the Northern Huns.The other part still lives in Monan, but it is attached to the Han and is called the Southern Huns.

The branch of the Southern Xiongnu received the seal of the Han Dynasty, with "Xiongnu Shanyu Seal" engraved on it.By the time of Wang Mang, Shan Yuxi of the Southern Huns had been taken away by Wang Mang.After the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu re-granted the seal to the Rizhu king who split the northern and southern Xiongnu. Since then, this seal has also become a token of the Southern Xiongnu Chanyu.

After the establishment of Cao Wei, Cao Pi re-granted a new jade seal to Huchuquan to replace the original seal given to him by the Eastern Han Dynasty.But its meaning has not changed. With this seal, all the soldiers and horses of the five Huns can be controlled in the name of Shanyu Huchuquan.

Cao Rui took away Huchuquan's seal, so it goes without saying what he was thinking.

The two exchanged a few more pleasantries, and after a while Cao Rui let Hu Chuquan leave. Looking at his back, Cao Rui said coldly to Chen Qun, Wei Zhen, Dong Zhao and others: "You think Hu Chuquan knows Don't know about this?"

Chen Qun smiled and said, "Whether he knows or not is not important anymore."

"Yes."

Wei Zhen sighed: "The most important thing now is to use his Shanyu seal to mobilize the five armies of the Xiongnu."

Cao Rui said in a deep voice: "When he gets his seal, send it to Zhong Gong immediately, and ask Zhong Gong to send Liu Bao to wait for the sage kings of the left and right, and all the relatives and family members of the king of the left and right Guli will be detained and sent to Luoyang. , I don’t believe that with so many protons, they dare to rebel.”

"only!"

Everyone bowed their hands and should be.

But here Hu Chuquan left the Luoyang Palace in a daze, and after returning to his mansion, he felt trembling in his heart.

When Liu Xuan came to look for him, Hu Chuquan was reluctant at first, after all, his own life was at stake, and if the Huns turned to the Han, he would be dead.

But it is also an indisputable fact that Cao Wei's situation is declining now. Liu Xuandong finally convinced him with emotion and reason.In this way, the Southern Huns can also find a future backer to avoid future genocide.

As a result, it was never expected that the Dongchuang incident would happen.

Hu Chuquan had no choice but to be held hostage in Luoyang. If he didn't hand over Shan Yu's seal, he might lose his life. Therefore, he could only hand over the seal to the palace guards who were called escorts, but were actually escorts.

After the guards left, a clansman came out from behind the Huchuquan mansion and asked, "Shanyu, what's going on?"

This clansman is Huchuquan's nephew. Liu Xuan brought him with him when he came, and left him to be in charge of liaison when he left. Now that Cao Wei's attendant came to take away Shan Yu's seal letter, he was very puzzled .

Hu Chuquan had no choice but to tell his nephew about the matter, and the man turned pale with fright, and said, "If this is the case, wouldn't the clansmen suffer disaster?"

"Ugh."

Hu Chuquan sighed and said, "Now that Cao Rui already knows Shize's plan, what should we do? He took away my Shan Yu's seal, probably to harm them."

"I'll go back right away!"

The nephew said without hesitation: "We must pass the news back, Shan Yu, Cao Wei is declining day by day, if you can't vote for Han, I'm afraid it will be dangerous."

"so what should I do?"

Hu Chuquan said angrily: "I am in Luoyang, you have gone to surrender, am I doomed?"

He thought that his nephew would go back and tell Liu Xuan, Liu Bao, and Liu Qubei, so that if there was an early incident there, he would be in danger.

The nephew thought for a while and said, "Shanyu's seal has been handed over, Emperor Cao Wei will definitely not care about uncle anymore, if we still follow the original plan and escape while they move the capital, uncle should not go back to Bingzhou at all, just go straight Fleeing from the south to Nanyang, they must have never thought of it."

Escape to Nanyang?
Hu Chuquan was stunned for a moment, and then he started to think about whether it would work.

It wasn't that he was smart enough to think that this matter could be considered, but that his ancestor, Shan Yu Luo Shi Zhu Shan, did just that.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when the Xiongnu became more and more powerful, Hu Hanxie Shanyu unified all the tribes of the Xiongnu, leaving behind the tradition of brothers and brothers. As a result, his successor, Yu Shanyu, did not want to pass the throne to his younger brothers, but killed several younger brothers if he wanted to pass the throne to his sons. , making the Huns gradually split.

In the generation of Yu Shanyu's son, his successor, Punu Udada Hou Shanyu, didn't want to give up the position to his younger brother, so at that time, he was the king of Zhuri, and he split the eight tribes of the Xiongnu, and established himself as Shanyu. Nantou Dahan.

Since then, the Xiongnu began to split between the north and the south. Even with the help of the Han army, the southern Xiongnu defeated the northern Xiongnu, drove them to Mobei, and occupied the rich Monan by themselves.

Therefore, Nantou Dahan is also an old tradition of the Huns. If you can't beat it, join it. This is the best choice.

The current situation is that Han is strong and Wei is weak. If you follow Cao Wei, you will be in danger of losing your head if the future is not good.What's more, now that Cao Wei is almost at the end of his life, forcing the Huns to fight on the front line, if they don't want to find a way to join the enemy, then not only themselves, but also the tribesmen will die.

But Cao Wei already knew their plan to surrender to the enemy, so what should they do?If the news is passed back, Liu Xuan and the others will launch a rebellion in advance if they say it is not good. Even if he escapes in Luoyang, Cao Wei will definitely strictly control the road to Bingzhou in the north.

Once caught, it is dead.

Then it's better to do the opposite. If you think I fled to the Hui tribe in Bingzhou, then I will go to the south and join the big man.

"Ah."

Thinking of this, Hu Chuquan couldn't help thinking that this was a good idea, and said happily, "It makes sense, you don't go out during the day, there may be people watching outside, it's too dangerous. Go at night, find a place to hide at night, wait Leave tomorrow when the gates of Luoyang City open."

"Ok."

The nephew complied.

At present, Cao Rui and Hu Chuquan have their own plans.

More than ten days later, outside the county seat of Gaodu County in Bingzhou, there were tents all over the vast grassland.

In the Han Dynasty, Shangdang County in Bingzhou was still very prosperous, but unfortunately, after the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Dong Zhuo Rebellion, the population gradually withered, and the Han people suffered a lot.

In order to make up for the lack of population and control the southern Huns, Cao Cao moved the Huns who originally lived outside the Yanmen Pass in Monan to the inside of the pass, where the Huns lived and multiplied.

Gaodu County is the later Jincheng City of Shanxi Province. It is surrounded by mountains, but outside the city is the main urban area of ​​later generations. At this moment, it is a vast plain with lush water and grass.

Several knights galloped towards the largest tent in the middle like flying. After they approached, they dismounted beautifully and rushed into the tent.

At this moment, Liu Xuan and Liu Bao were discussing matters in the tent. When they saw the person, they were surprised and said, "Ba Li, why are you back?"

This man was Huchuquan's nephew, and his name was Luan Tibali.

Luan Tiba said anxiously: "Cao Wei already knew about our plan to join the Han, so he took away Shan Yu's seal."

"what?"

Liu Xuan was shocked and said: "What's going on?"

"I don't know how the news got leaked. Now Cao Wei's people may have arrived in Bingzhou. We are in danger."

Luan Tibali said anxiously, "Why don't you start the incident now."

"Da da da da da!"

There was the sound of galloping horseshoes outside.

The guard outside the door hurriedly came in and said: "King Xian, it's not good, suddenly thousands of Cao Wei cavalry came outside."

Liu Xuan said coldly: "I'm afraid it's too late, Ba Li, I have something for you, you should go to Hedong County immediately and tell the matter to General Hushi."

"Then what do you do?"

Luan Tibali sweated like rain and said: "Cao Wei will definitely be unfavorable to you."

"Will not."

Liu Xuan shook his head: "If they dare to kill us, the clansmen will definitely be furious. They still need our clansmen to help them fight, so I guess they will detain us or our family members at most. Before Cao Wei escorts us or our family members to Luoyang, he persuades General Hussars to send troops!"

"it is good."

Luan Tibali turned his head and left.

Now it has come to the juncture of the life and death of the Huns.

Cao Wei's broken ship will sink if it stays any longer, and they can only choose to leave.

(End of this chapter)