I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 381 Negotiations between the two countries should be magnanimous

Even though he had been mentally prepared for the fact that the Huns came here "not being kind", when he heard that Huyantu expressed the demands of the Huns in this diplomatic negotiation word by word, in front of the Han monarchs and ministers, Liu Sheng Still can't bear the anger boiling in my heart.

Listen to what Huyantu is saying?
——The war in spring, the war that caused the Han Dynasty to lose soldiers and generals, tens of thousands of soldiers were killed, and the population of the four border counties dropped by [-]% in an instant, was actually just a "little friction"!
——Since Emperor Taizu Gao established Han Guozuo, the Huns who have always used the Han side as their back garden and storage warehouse, actually attach great importance to the "brotherhood with the Han family"!
——The Xiongnu Shanyu Suoda's military official not only wanted to marry another charming princess Liu Han, but also named the princess of the late emperor and the sister of the current emperor Liu Sheng!

Regarding this series of appeals, Liu Sheng can only say: This is a certain scholar surnamed Li in later generations, and he absolutely dare not sign such a treaty that humiliates the country and loses power.

Let’s not mention the war in spring, how was it defined by Shan Yuting of the Xiongnu;

It was a series of follow-up requests, and just picking one out was enough to make Liu Sheng pissed off, and Hu Yantu, a Hun nobleman, was killed on the spot and abandoned in the Xuanshi Palace.

Marrying the late emperor's princess, what do military officials want to do?
To be Liu Sheng's brother-in-law?
There is no need to mention the dowry of the relatives - there is no need to look at it, Liu Sheng can predict that the Huns will definitely open their mouths like every time in the past.

What made Liu Sheng feel ashamed and indignant the most were the gifts from the military ministers: the scepter and the crown.

——Liu Sheng is a dignified Chinese nobleman, the body of the emperor, why do you need the scepter and crown bestowed by the northern barbarians outside Fangwai?
If you really want to accept it, wouldn't you become the emperor of Liu Han, accept the canonization of the Xiongnu Shanyu, and become the "Han King of the Huns"?
Liu Sheng didn't even hear a single word of the follow-up part, such as "Shan Yu hopes to meet His Majesty at the border".

The son of a daughter can't sit down.

Liu Sheng didn't intend to give the military minister a chance to stage the siege of Baideng again just because of his hotheadedness.

Military ministers, not Naizu Maodun;
Liu Sheng is not the great-grandfather Liu Bang...
"Oh······"

"Take the Huyan Department and come to pick up your envoy in person..."

After thinking for a very short time, Liu Shengman's childish voice with sarcasm resounded in the Xuanshi hall.

On both sides of the hall, all the officials, ministers and officials who were still able to move had basically rolled up their sleeves, as if they were going to pounce on Hu Yantu and the deputy envoy of the Xiongnu who were born in the Han Dynasty as soon as Liu Sheng gave an order.

"Your envoy, do you know what will happen if my hand falls and I return to the envoy and the deputy envoy?"

As he spoke, he saw Liu Sheng raised his hand leisurely, with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and looked playfully at Huyantu who was still standing in the center of the hall.

Beside Hu Yantu, the deputy envoy of the Han people, who was still faintly indignant and resentful, finally gradually showed a look of fear after Liu Sheng's words reached his ears.

——This is the Han Dynasty!
——Liu Han, who has a strong folk style and a strong martial style!
Although since the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, there has been a tacit agreement in the Central Plains that "the two countries are at war, and the envoys will not be beheaded", but the deputy envoy of the Han people is very sure: this tacit agreement will never include the Huns.

The two countries are at war, and if he doesn't kill him, there are always two countries and regimes composed of "people", right?

But the Huns were not.

At least the deputy envoy of the Han people deeply understood: Even now, in the perception of most Han people, the Huns are still not considered as 'human beings', but belong to the category of 'human-looking beasts'.

Since the negotiation between Liu Han, which is composed of "people", and the Xiongnu, which is composed of "savage beasts", it is no big deal when they are beheaded.

In particular, the trip of the Xiongnu mission made it possible for Huyantu, one of the Eight Pillars of the Huns, to save the life of such a high-ranking figure. For the Han family, it may not be a loss-making deal. ······
As the snorting of the officials and officials in the hall became heavier and their complexions became more flushed, the Han deputy envoy was full of fear, and whispered something to Hu Yantu sideways.

Unexpectedly, when Huyantu heard the words, he just smiled and shook his head nonchalantly, then raised his head leisurely, and even proudly put his hands behind his back.

——Huyantu, who is a mere right-handed household, does not even have the right to inherit the great position, and can only barely rank among the top ten figures in the Xiongnu power decision-making hierarchy, so proudly raised his head and looked directly at the monarch of the Han family.

On the corner of the mouth, there is an extremely indifferent smile.

"Your Majesty the Emperor, I will not let go of this hand."

"Because His Majesty the Emperor knows: As long as you let go of this hand, it means that thousands, tens of thousands of Han people will disappear on the land of the Han people."

"As for the foreign minister, it's just one of the countless corpses..."

Having said that, Hu Yantu still did not forget to smile and turned to his side, pointing to the Han deputy envoy beside him with his finger on the other side.

"Just now, the deputy envoy of the foreign minister said: Since you have shouldered the mission of Shan Yu, you should stop using such words to provoke His Majesty the Emperor."

"But what the foreign minister wants to tell His Majesty the Emperor is: Everything the foreign minister said was not intended to provoke His Majesty the Emperor or these Han courtiers."

"—every word spoken by the minister is an oracle from my Lord Chanyu."

"Your Majesty, there are only two choices."

"One: agree to my lord Shanyu's request, prepare the princess and the wedding gifts, and set off from Chang'an before the arrival of June, and arrive in Longcheng before Shanyu's tent returns to Munan. "

"Second: From the first day of June, be prepared to be singled out by me at any time, to be killed in this Weiyang Palace..."

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"Your Majesty, maybe you forgot?"

"A few months ago, the warriors of my great Xiongnu said 'hello' to His Majesty the Emperor at Ganquan Palace, which is very close to Chang'an."

"—You might as well tell His Majesty the Emperor: At that time, my lord Shanyu was not more than a thousand miles away from Chang'an..."

"The foreign minister believes that perhaps in the near future, His Majesty the Emperor and my Lord Chanyu will have a chance to meet each other."

"It's just that after meeting each other, my lord Shanyu is still born of heaven and earth, and placed by the sun and moon."

"And His Majesty the Emperor..."

After speaking the last sentence slowly, Hu Yantu laughed strangely again, then raised his head indifferently, and looked obliquely upwards with some interest——Liu Sheng's raised hand.

It's not just Hu Yantu: everyone who is in the Xuanshi Hall at the moment, can see the hand that hangs up.

What hangs with that hand is everyone's heart...
"Fall down!"

"Falling down is the beginning of the decisive battle, and the beginning of our military achievements!"

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"Absolutely not!"

"Your Majesty, you must not be so impulsive and put the world in danger!"

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"The right big household, even if it is taken to the high temple to worship the ancestors, it is also an excellent sacrifice..."

"It's just the price..."

For a moment, the entire palace room was filled with a silence that was obviously short but felt extremely long.

Everyone stared straight at Liu Sheng's hand hanging by his side, either with longing, or expectation, or fear, or fear.

It wasn't until the end that the hand that was stuck in the air like a lamp arm finally moved...

"Your envoy, you are right."

"—If my hand falls, countless people will die."

"But your envoy is not entirely right."

"Because if I let go of this hand, the tens of thousands of people who died will definitely have pierced ears and noses, hanging rings, tattoos all over their bodies, and nomadic people with their left skirts."

"And, definitely not less than half..."

Saying so, Liu Sheng finally still had a sullen face, and retracted that hand in front of him without a trace.

Then he lowered his head and pretended to look at the Hun's national book, then sneered and threw it aside.

When he raised his head again, the young emperor had returned to his usual calm face with a smile on his face.

"Your envoy is so proficient in our Han language, so he should also have an understanding of our Han past?"

Hu Yantu was taken aback for a moment, then nodded slightly without knowing why.

"In that case, then I will tell the foreign envoy a story that happened in the past."

"how?"

"Hey······"

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"About three to 400 years ago, the name of Zhu Xia had not yet been unified. The world was divided into hundreds of vassal states by Zong Zhou, and there were endless disputes and wars among the countries."

"——It's the same as the struggle between nomadic tribes: At that time, the struggle among our Xia people also made the strong stronger, while the weak were swallowed up by the strong without exception."

"In the end, Zhu Xia, who was divided into two hundred parts by Zong Zhou, after hundreds of years of disputes, the last seven powerhouses remained..."

When I first heard that Liu Sheng was going to tell me a story, Hu Yantu didn't understand it for a while, so I just thought it was the little emperor of the Han people, and he wanted to use his words to regain his position;

But when he heard the beginning of the story told by Liu Sheng, Hu Yantu, who had studied the Han people because his tribe came from the south of the Mu and fought against the Han people all the year round, could not help but let out a soft murmur.

"Qin, Qi, Yan, Chu, Zhao, Wei, Han..."

"—that's right."

"—Ying Qin, Tian Qi, Ji Yan, Xiong Chu, and Zhao, Wei, and Han."

As a result, when Hu Yantu said the words, Liu Sheng still had a faint smile on his face;
Only the coldness in the eyes made the officials in the hall roll up their sleeves, and all the officials who wanted to "do a big job" in the main hall of the Xuanshi silently sat back in their seats.

Immediately afterwards, Liu Sheng's immature, crisp, but incomparably clear voice sounded in the Xuanshi hall...

"The people of Qin are tigers and wolves, Hexi in the north, Bashu in the south, still not satisfied, and the heart of going out of Hangu in the east is not dead;"

"There are also Su Qin and Zhang Yi's generation, who travel around the countries with the advantage of their tongues, and threaten the countries to cede their cities and lands without taking a single soldier from Qin."

"The nations ceding land can enjoy a day of peace, sleep and wake up, and the Qin army will come again;"

"If you don't cut it, the whole country will be panicked. Everyone is afraid of the tiger and wolf Qin, and they dare not speak ill of Qin. On the contrary, the monarch will be incompetent..."

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"After so many decades, Qin's land has become wider, and the land of other countries has become narrower."

"Wait for the people of insight to wake up like a dream, and tell the world at the top of their voices: Qin's tigers and wolves are greedy, and only by fighting and winning can the world be peaceful."

"However, at that time, the people of the various countries were small and the land was small, the monarchs and ministers were mediocre and incompetent, and the soldiers and the people were terrified and insecure; unless they were threatened with their lives, they would not dare to confront the tigers and wolves."

"In the end, the six countries each had their own politics, and they fought openly and secretly for power and profit, so they were defeated one by one by the tigers and wolves of the Qin Dynasty. The two hundred princes entrusted by Zong Zhou belonged to Qin..."

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"What do you think of this story?"

After a long time, Liu Sheng's deep and gentle voice sounded again, calling back the minds of Hu Yantu who was addicted to imagination and couldn't extricate himself, as well as everyone in the hall.

And when he raised his head, Huyantu clearly saw the figure of the young emperor on the imperial couch, who was still a little immature, and by no means a stalwart, flashing a palpitating coercion...
"What does your envoy think, how does our Han family compare to the Six Kingdoms?"

"The Xiongnu, how is it compared to winning Qin?"

"How do the people of my Han family compare with the people of the Six Kingdoms?"

"How does the ruler of my Han family compare to the rulers of the Six Kingdoms? How does your lord Chanyu compare to King Yingzheng of Qin?"

In a sonorous and forceful tone, he uttered the questioning sentences in sequence, and when Hu Yantu's lips moved slightly, Liu Sheng spoke again, and gave a series of corresponding answers to his series of questions in order.

"——Our Han family has the righteousness of the country and the benevolence of governance, which is far better than the six countries!"

"——The Xiongnu and the northern barbarians lead beasts to eat people, and their left coats are scattered, and they are inferior to Qin Yuan!"

"——The name of my Han family is strong and strong, and the folk customs are martial arts, and it is far better than the six kingdoms!"

"——Your lord is just self-willed, arguing for his own selfishness, sending envoys to oppress him without repentance, far inferior to Yingzheng!!!"

Four consecutive 'far away', Liu Sheng said more and more excited, and his words became more and more fierce!
Provoking all the officials and officials in the hall to pant again, blushing, and viciously locked their eyes on the center of the hall, Liu Sheng's smiling voice rang out in the hall for the last time.

Only this time, Liu Sheng didn't look at Hu Yantu again;
Instead, he turned sideways, pointed with a strange smile, and pointed to the side, the "Hun's National Letter" which is one foot and two inches in length and width...

"If this is the sincerity of your lord Shanyu, then my sincerity is the spears and crossbows in Chang'an's arsenal;"

"I have heard that: people are doing it, and the sky is watching."

"-Even the heavens are watching what people do, let alone what the emperor does?"

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"This letter of credence, please take it back with your envoy."

"Tell your lord Shan Yu: Although I am not as good as the crown, I still have blood and a hundred catties of flesh and blood;"

"Although I am a Han Dynasty, I still have tens of millions of people and no less than a million elites;"

"Although the Xiongnu have Huqi, our Han family also has talented officials and fine soldiers."

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"Shanyu wants to marry Emperor Xiaojing's princess, so come to Chang'an in person."

"As long as Shan Yu prostrates three times and worships nine times, and sacrifices to the first ancestor of my Han family in the Tai and Gaoer Temples, this marriage, I, will be allowed on behalf of the late emperor..."

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"Your envoy, go slowly."

"If you have free time, you can stay in Chang'an for a few days to play and watch;"

"If it's a coincidence, maybe the person who accompanied the noble envoy on the back is my own army, I don't know..."

(End of this chapter)