I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

With enough time to speak, the grandfather and grandson walked out of the side hall door of Changxin Hall with slow steps.

Walking on the bare palace road with no green plants in sight, Liu Sheng carefully supported his grandmother, Empress Dou, and still did not forget to ask something.

"In this way, my Han family doesn't really have expectations for Lu Wan's lineage at all, but just bet on 'what if'?"

"What useful news can come from the Donghu Department when the bet is critical?"

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"If it's just like this, then why put up such a battle, and it's the Marquis of Chang'an, who has been accumulating taxes for the state for many years?"

"Throwing down such a chip, but only in exchange for one of Lu's 'maybe, if necessary, send back a message that is difficult to distinguish between true and false'..."

"Isn't it worth it?"

His face remained respectful, but his tone was full of doubts when he asked this question, Liu Sheng couldn't help frowning again.

How much 'special funds' has the Han family invested in Lu Wan's lineage since Emperor Taizu Gao up to now?
The answer is: Leaving aside the reign of Taizu, Lu Wan himself was conferred the title of prince and the rewards he received;

The Marquis of Chang'an alone has accumulated a wealth of tens of thousands of gold for the Lu family who is far away in the Xiongnu prairie and has been passed down to the third generation!
——As the undisputed "most special" among the founding fathers of the Han Dynasty, Lu Wan's Marquis of Chang'an has the following main differences from other feudal states of Chehou.

One: Lu Wan's "Marquis of Chang'an" is the only Marquis who used the capital of the feudal regime as the feudal city in the past and present, and even in the history of China for more than 2000 years.

That being the case, it is obviously impossible for Lu Wan, the Marquis of Chang'an, to exercise such effective control over his feudal kingdom like other Marquises.

——For a Marquis of Che, if he controls the capital of a dynasty with the help of "Fengtu Shiyi", what's the deal?

So in fact, Lu Wan, the Marquis of Chang'an, is not like other Marquis Che, who can exert influence on his fiefdom, or even control it almost completely.

Lu Wan, the Marquis of Chang'an, is actually more of an honorary title;
Say it out: A certain parent, Anhou, is awesome when he hears it!
But in fact, Lu Wan, the Marquis of Chang'an, could not exert any slightest influence on his feudal city—Chang'an City.

To put it more bluntly: what the title of Marquis of Chang'an can bring to Lu Wan is only a theoretical "ten thousand households" food town.

Why is it theoretical?
Because in Lu Wan's food town of ten thousand households, there are no real and specific ten thousand households of farmers who pay rent and tax to support Lu Wan;
Instead, after the autumn harvest every year, according to the average yield per mu in Guanzhong that year, the Shaofu will directly transport the money and grain equivalent to the agricultural tax that ten thousand farmers should pay in that year to the Marquis of Chang'an.

After Lu Wan sentenced the Han to the Hu, the rent and tax was very cleverly converted into gold by the Shaofu.

This is a very simple math problem;
——In the past few decades, the average yield per mu in Guanzhong has generally fluctuated around three stones;
According to the average output of [-] mu of land per household, the annual output of [-] shi of rice grain, and the average tax payment of [-] shi of agricultural tax and [-] shi of agricultural tax per household, in theory, the Marquis of Chang'an, who has "eating ten thousand households", Because of the rent and tax a year, it is one hundred thousand shi of grain and rice.

Everything that follows is much better.

According to the grain price of the year, how much is one hundred thousand shi of grain worth?

Counting from the death of Emperor Taizu Gao in the 12th year of the Han Dynasty, except for a few years of natural disasters and man-made disasters that caused an unreasonable increase in food prices, the price of food in Guanzhong in the past few decades has basically been at the same rate every day. About a hundred dollars.

There are tens of thousands of households in Chang'an Marquis Shiyi, and the annual rent, tax and grain is 1000 shi, and one shi of grain is [-] yuan. This is [-] million yuan.

And according to the default gold-copper coin exchange ratio in the market, the 1000 million coins can be directly converted into a thousand gold coins with a swipe of Shaofu's pen.

A thousand pieces of gold may not sound like much;
Let’s just say that now, Liu Shengzheng has a headache about the horse administration. Just three or five stallions can spend all the money, and it is even very likely that there is no market for it—waving the gold cake, you can’t buy yourself The desired horse.

But as the saying goes: small water flows long, and little accumulation becomes more.

More than 12 years have passed from the 195th year of the Han Dynasty (152 BC) when Emperor Taizu Gao passed away to the 40th year of the current emperor Qi Xinyuan ([-] BC).

In the past 40 years, almost every year after the autumn harvest, there will be a thousand gold cakes that will not be shaken, and will be stored in the cellar of the Marquis of Chang'an by the Shaofu.

And the more than 40 gold accumulated in the cellar of Chang'an Hou Mansion at the rate of one thousand gold per year for more than 4 years is the real investment of the Han family in the Lu family.

Compared with the more than 4 gold, what is "daily cleaning, keeping the Chang'an Marquis Mansion spotless"~
What utensils and things are intact, just like back then, when Lu Wan was not named the King of Yan, she was only the Marquis of Chang'an~
Even Lu Wan's abandoned children who fled from the grasslands to the Central Plains were all received by the Han family—mainly the proper placement of the Empress Dowager Lu, which is nothing worth mentioning.

And the investment of more than 4 gold was only exchanged for Lu Wan's descendants, who had an ambiguous attitude towards the Han Dynasty of "remind you when you are in a good mood, and do whatever you want when you are not in a good mood"...
"Not worth it~"

"Of course not worth it."

"—Don't say he is Lu Tazhi, he is just a 'smart man' with long sleeves and good at dancing, with snakes and rats at both ends;"

"Even if you are really determined to serve the Han, a mere king of Donghulu is far from worthy of my Han family's effort."

"It's just that there are some things hidden under the performance."

"Xiao Jiu is interested, listen to my blind old woman talk about it?"

Empress Dowager Dou said with a smile, causing Liu Sheng to nod his head hastily.

Seeing Dowager Dou smiled slightly, but she was not in a hurry to speak, but first knelt down in a gazebo with Liu Sheng's support;
After Liu Sheng also knelt beside her side full of curiosity, Empress Dowager Dou continued to talk about the embarrassing situation between the two superpowers of Han and Hungary, the Lu clan of the Eastern Hu King. .

"The Huns are different from my Han family."

"The people of my Han family are all Chinese nobles;"

"Anything that can be passed down to the present without cutting off the blood of the ancestral hall, going back ten or eight generations, is all descendants of the princes and nobles hundreds of years ago."

"—This is not to say that I, the Chinese nobles, were born noble, while the Huns and northern barbarians were born mean;"

"It's the people of China who have gone through thousands of years, and have long been tolerant of foreign races, as well as civilized and educated."

"On the other hand, the Huns were originally just an ordinary small tribe in the grassland. They were able to dominate the grassland with the help of the armory left by the defenders of the Great Wall in the north of Qin."

"If you go back to the bloodline of the Huns, let alone ten or eight generations;"

"If you go back three or five generations, you must be a slave who once belonged to the Donghu people."

"—Including the Xiongnu Shanyu who ruled over the Huns, and even the nomadic people in the grasslands, is no exception..."

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"What does that mean?"

"It means that my Han family is inclusive of all rivers and rivers. Whether it is the Huns and Yuezhi people in the north, or the Yelang people and the people of the country in the southwestern Yi, or the name of Baiyue in the south of the Lingnan, as long as there is real talent and learning, my Han family will surely Meeting is the only thing to do."

"But the Huns are different."

"The Xiongnu are originally barbarians and uncivilized people outside the Great Wall, and they have no inheritance or heritage at all."

"For foreigners, apart from killing, the Huns will only enslave."

"Under such a premise, the situation of the Lu family who was sentenced to the Han and joined the Xiongnu Shanyuting is actually not very good."

"If his Lu family was in the grasslands and he really received the courtesy of the Xiongnu Shanyu, then Lu Wan's wife and children would not have to go back to Chang'an after all the hardships and hardships during the Empress Dowager Lu... ··”

Following Dowager Dou's calm, gentle, and faintly sighing voice, Liu Sheng's brows also quietly showed a touch of thought.

At this moment, there is such a picture slowly unfolding in Liu Sheng's mind;

——In the 12th year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang, Emperor Taizu of the Han Dynasty, passed away. King Lu Wan of Yan, who knew he could never be forgiven, had to leave the foot of the Great Wall disheartened and head north into the grassland of the Huns.

For Lu Wan's contribution, the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun was very happy, but he didn't cherish Lu Wan's "talent" very much, but just felt that this matter was more face-saving.

Hey!
Check it out!

The Han emperor wore a pair of trousers, but all his brothers ran to the Shanyu king's tent of my Great Huns, bowed their heads and bowed their heads and bowed their heads to surrender!
After earning face, Maodun will of course show the hospitality of the grassland peoples—at least for a short time, in order to fulfill the political intention of "creating trust in logs".

——The high-ranking officials of the Han people all look at how chic Lu Wan is living when she comes to us!

——If there is nothing wrong with your brain, just sneak over here!

——Ben Shanyu, I can't treat you badly!

It's just that this situation only lasted for a short, short, short time.

Because I don't know: In Chinese culture, there is an extremely important core part called "Hua Yi Defense".

Regarding the (temporary) treatment Lu Wan enjoyed in the Shanyu Court of the Xiongnu, the hearts of very few officials of the Han family who were depressed and unwilling were indeed a little shaken;

But the word ancestor is greater than the sky, and the defense of Huayi is greater than the sky;

So even if these people were tempted, they still didn't make the decision to go against their ancestors.

Seeing that his daughter was a horse bone, but none of the officials and princes of the Han family followed Lu Wan's example, he expressed his displeasure.

Look at Lu Wan again, if you want to be capable, you have no ability, you have no ability, the grassland is already poor, and this guy is still eating fish and meat all day long, and is extremely extravagant...

He paused and endured it for a while.

In order to keep the promise she made to Lu Wan, and to create an image of "keeping her word", she endured until Lu Wan died of illness.

Almost at the moment of Lu Wan's death, the entire Donghu tribe immediately became a thorn in the side and a thorn in the flesh of the Xiongnu Shan Yuting;

Just when the entire Xiongnu Shanyu court was colluding and preparing to get rid of the "tumor" of the Eastern Hu tribe, Mrs. Lu, who had a premonition of the imminent danger, took Lu Wan's heirs and returned to the south of the Great Wall with difficulty.

That is, since then...

"Among the records that can be found today, the earliest Shanyu of the Xiongnu is called Tautouman."

"During the time of Touman Chanyu, the Xiongnu tribe was just a weak and small tribe in the grassland."

"Later, the proton Shuma Maodun Mingdi who returned from the Donghu royal court killed his father and became the second Chanyu of the Huns."

"That is to say, in the hands of Mao Dun, the once weak Xiongnu tribe became the master of the grassland step by step."

"It's just that the battle in Pingcheng back then made Mao Mao's mind come up with thoughts that every Hun would probably have."

"—Hate the Han people."

"From the bottom of my heart, I hate every Han Chinese who is not worthy of my admiration."

"And in this world, the only Han Chinese who deserves the admiration of Mao Modun, perhaps, is the only one, Emperor Gao..."

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"After Maudun established the status of the 'grassland overlord' for the Huns, the Huns began to implement the double-headed eagle policy."

"—King Zuoxian, King Zuoguli, Zuoda Danghu, and Zuo Dawei are a group, mainly responsible for attacking westward and exterminating the Yuezhi people;"

"The Youxian King, Youguli King, Youda Panghu, and You Dawei have a group of troops, who are responsible for going south to knock on the border and raise troops to invade Han."

"During the reign of the first emperor, Mao Dun passed away, and his son, King Zuo Xian, Lao Shangji Porridge, succeeded Shan Yu as the great throne."

"Different from the dislike of the Han people that Mao Dun had, Lao Shangji Porridge is very interested in everything about the Han people."

"With the help of the Bank of China and other traitors, Lao Shangji porridge single-handedly promoted the comprehensive Sinicization of the Xiongnu."

"The reason is to learn from the advanced system of my Han family to strengthen myself."

"—Old Shangji porridge, the hero;"

"——a hero who is wiser than Su Maodun."

"This is not my evaluation, but what the late emperor said personally..."

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"Old Shang Shanyu is in power, and the Huns' tribes are chasing the Han, and the status of Donghu King, Han Wang and other tribes is naturally rising;"

"Even the eunuch that Bank of China said was treated like a national scholar by the old Shangji Porridge."

"However, it was precisely after the old Shang Shanyu that the Xiongnu fought for the east and west, and the double-headed eagle policy implemented by Mao Dun Shanyu began to show its drawbacks."

"—According to the rules of the Huns, the first heir to the great position of Chanyu is the Zuoxian King who led the various tribes in the northern part of the Mu Dynasty to attack the Yuezhi people;"

"And King Youxian, who led the Munan tribe to attack Han in the south, is the second heir to the throne of Chanyu."

"This has led to an extremely bad consequence."

"—After the old Shangchan died, the Zuoxian King and the military officials succeeded to the throne;"

"After succeeding to the throne, in order to eliminate the threat of Youxian King to Shanyu, the military officials brazenly launched a mutiny, directly bloodbathed Youxian King's department, and wiped out all the forces of Youxian King."

"Without King Youxian, all the tribes in the south of the curtain have no leader. They invaded our Han family in the south, and they were always scattered. It was impossible to retreat with the attack."

"As for Shan Yu's military officer, he even simply denied everything about King Youxian, including his achievements in attacking the Han border in the south, and even the correctness of attacking our Han family."

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"In this way, after the military officials ruled out dissidents, the Han family is no longer the number one enemy of the Huns."

"In addition, in the past few decades, our Han family has always practiced the policy of marriage, which also made the Xiongnu Shan Yuting think more and more: Instead of fighting with our Han family, it is better to borrow the name of marriage every now and then, which is not expensive. One soldier and one soldier swindled away a lot of money."

"Only in this way, Lu's status as a 'Han Chinese' and a 'specialist researcher on Han Dynasty issues' became less and less valued by the Huns."

"——After all, in the eyes of the Huns and the military officials, even our Han family is already a weak 'small' country that does not need to be attacked, but only needs to send envoys to intimidate;"

"If my Han family is like this, he will not be treated by the Xiongnu Chanyu, and he will not be treated by the Xiongnu Chanyu himself..."