I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 441

After sending away the envoy of the Huns, who was in mourning, Liu Sheng also suppressed the playful look on his face, and sat up straight with a little seriousness.

He glanced at the officials and officials in the palace for a week. Although he didn't say anything, the intention in his eyes was very obvious.

--How to say?
——Can I do this?

——What do you guys think?
And under Liu Sheng's gaze, everyone in the hall also suppressed their contempt. You look at me, I look at you, and finally bowed their heads and fell into deep thought.

Are you happy?
Cool!
It's so cool!

Just now, the scene that happened in the Xuanshi Hall was the most powerful, calmest, and most satisfying time when the Han family faced the Huns since the Han Dynasty, and there is no one!

But national affairs, especially those at the strategic level, have never been cool.

The scene that made people feel hearty like just now, and made the emperor and ministers of the Han family proud, needs to be guaranteed by hard power, and it also needs to bear the corresponding consequences.

It's like a thin young man, if he pretends to be bad in front of the five big and three thick, he will definitely be beaten up by the fat man;
People who are about the same size as pretending to break up are also likely to have a little physical conflict;
Even if it's a tall and thick person, and a person who looks extremely thin, he still needs to bear the small probability of "capturing the boat in the gutter".

The same is true for strategic decisions at the national level.

——Last spring, the Xiongnu Shanyu sent people to install and break off, but Liu Sheng didn't give him face, so the Huns invaded the four counties in the northern border and regained face for themselves.

Although the recovered face was finally returned with interest in Mayi after the autumn, the strategic situation between the Han and Hungarians still did not change much.

That is: the Huns can still firmly control the strategic offensive right to the Han family by virtue of the super mobility of the cavalry group;
And the winter vacation that failed to complete the progress of cavalry construction can still only rely on light and heavy infantry, bows and crossbow groups, depending on the strength of the city, and take a strategic defensive position.

To put it more bluntly, in any Han-Hungarian war, the Huns need to say "fight" before they can really fight.

If the Huns were unwilling to fight, then they just had to not send troops to the south, and the war would not be fought at all-the Han family had no ability to penetrate into the hinterland of the grassland, and they had no ability to go out to actively seek war.

Therefore, Liu Sheng's previous sentence "Kou can come, I can go" is actually still a beautiful vision, or a small cowhide,

As for now, after the envoys of the Huns left in embarrassment, the problems that the monarchs and ministers of the Han family had to consider became much more realistic.

"His Majesty."

"The envoy of the northern barbarians said that the Huns found that extremely rich country in the west. I think that we, the Han family, should not be treated with caution."

"If that country is really that rich, and it really has craftsmen with superb forging skills, and a better horse breed than the Huns, it will definitely not be good news for my Han family."

"Perhaps Your Majesty should send someone to the Marquis of Chang'an to inquire about the truth of this news..."

Hearing this, the seriousness on Liu Sheng's face faded a little, but there was also a slight seriousness between his brows.

"No need."

"I heard the Marquis of Chang'an mention the great western country found by the Huns."

"—The name is: Dawan."

"Dawan Kingdom is roughly located thousands of miles to the northwest of Munan, and it is tens of thousands of miles away from my Han family."

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"The people of Dawan have blue eyes and brown hair. They also have their own language and characters, and even classics."

"It is minted in gold, and the head of Dawan's ancestor is engraved on it."

"It has a horse, and it is called: Dawan Tianma, and it is also called by the grassland barbarians: sweat and blood horse."

"Most of the craftsmen are proficient in bronze smelting. Although they are not better than our Han family or even the old Qin, they are also much better than the Huns."

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"The Marquis of Chang'an only knows so much about Dawan Kingdom."

"If you go to find someone to inquire again, I'm afraid you won't get any more useful information."

After saying this calmly, Liu Sheng turned his head slightly, and gave Zhong Lang a look at Zhou Ren.

After a while, Zhou Ren greeted several Zhonglang, and carried a huge wooden box into the hall, and Zhou Ren took out the bamboo slips in the box one by one;

After clearing his throat with two coughs, he laid out the information that the Han family had so far in front of the Han family's monarchs and ministers as carefully as possible.

"Dawan (dà yuān) is roughly located more than [-] miles west of Longcheng of the Xiongnu. It has its own words, characters, customs, and gods."

"It is adjacent to Kangju in the northwest, Yuezhi and Daxia in the southwest, and Wusun in the northeast."

"Its people make a living by herding and farming. The farming is mainly rice and wheat, and the herding is famous among the barbarians of the grassland for the sweaty and bloody celestial horses."

"The craftsman can smelt bronze weapons such as swords and spears, and can cast bronze as a face to cast round shields, and use them as an army."

"Its military holds a spear in one hand, a shield in the other, and a long sword around its waist. When it goes out, it forms an array, and enters with shield walls and spear arrays."

"In the spring of the sixth year of Emperor Xian Xiaojing, the Marquis of Chang'an sent a report: The Xiongnu marched westward and met Dawan. They rode [-] against Dawan with [-] infantry, and wiped them out in three days..."

As Zhou Ren's words fell, the faces of the courtiers and officials in the palace were not bright at all, but immediately became more worried.

As for the Dawan Kingdom, the officials of the Han family had basically never heard of it in the past.

After all, as the regular owner of the East Asian monster house, whether it is the Han Dynasty now, or the past, or the future, the Han people always think proudly: There are only two kinds of people in this world.

——Han people, and savages.

But after learning about the lifestyle and humanistic coefficient of the Dawan people, the officials of the Han family fell silent.

It’s not such a big deal to have language—even animals have their own ways of communicating, let alone humans;

What really made the officials of the Han family feel dignified was that the people of Dawan had their own writing.

——You must know that even the Huns do not have their own writing!

It's not that the grassland barbarians don't have a unified script, but that all the tribes of the grassland barbarians can't make up a set of scripts!
Even the letter of credence written by the Xiongnu Chanyu to the emperor of Han was written in Chinese characters with the help of the Han people who defected to the Huns!
Although due to the limitations of the times, the officials of the Han family did not have the cognition of "directly linking writing and civilization", but as the top political elite of this era, the officials can roughly understand: to have The writing group must also have a very strong cultural and historical background.

And when such a group with language, writing, and even a considerable degree of smelting technology was so weak that it was wiped out by the Huns in a short period of time under the premise of close military strength, this problem was no longer a problem for the Han family. 'Legends and gossip from thousands of miles away'...
"The Huns, a country of hundreds of barbarians, have always relied on nothing but the strength of its cavalry and the breadth of its territory."

"Other than that, the Huns are pretty much nothing."

"They have no language, no writing, no etiquette, justice, integrity, and filial piety."

"—Even the ability to count cattle, sheep and livestock, and to formulate rules, was taught to the Huns by the traitor Zhongxing who went to the fortress during the reign of Emperor Taizong."

"The most important thing is: Although the Huns have powerful cavalry, they don't have any smelting ability. Their weapons can only be obtained through robbery, theft, and the evil merchants of our Han family."

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"This Dawan country is so weak, once it is destroyed by the Huns, I am afraid that the Huns will get many things that they never had before."

"—Leaving aside the sweat and blood Pegasus horse, after all, the Huns themselves have a fine-bred horse, and getting another good horse will not be too much of an improvement."

"However, the culture of the Dawan people, especially the smelting technology, may make the Huns completely get rid of the title of 'a great country of hundreds of barbarians' and become a real big country."

"At that time, it will be even more difficult for our Han family to want the siege of Emperor Bai Deng and the humiliation of Empress Lu..."

Regarding the impact of Dawan Guo on the strategic structure of the Han and Hungarians, Prime Minister Liu She took the lead in making a conclusion: it is not a good thing.

After all, no matter how far Dawan was, it was still within the sphere of influence of the Huns—the younger brother of the Huns, Wusun, even directly bordered Dawan!
As for the Han family, whether it is based on Liu Sheng's past life memories or the current situation of the Han family, it is at least ten thousand miles away from Dawan.

Moreover, the distance of ten thousand miles also means that between the Han family and Dawan, there are the remnants of the Yue clan in Hexi, the Huns Youxian King clan in Hetao, and the countries of the Western Regions.

In other words, the emergence of the Dawan Kingdom is like a dungeon brushed at the door of the Huns. As long as it is knocked down, it can greatly promote the civilization process of the nomadic civilization of the Huns, a loose tribal alliance system.

But what is seriously inconsistent with this huge benefit is that the difficulty of clearing this dungeon seems to be no problem for the Huns.

This time, the officials of the Han family were a little confused.

This is also the time when Liu Shengzhan was born, dictatorial, and presided over the situation.

"Although Dawan is weak, it is only compared to the cavalry of the Huns and the sharp infantry of our Han family."

"Except for the Huns, all the countries around Dawan have nothing to do with Dawan."

"If it weren't for this, a country as rich as Dawan would not be able to gain a foothold in the grassland surrounded by wolves."

"As for the Huns, although they wiped out the eight thousand troops of Dawan in three days, they still haven't wiped out Dawan yet."

"This means that the Huns do not have the ability to easily overthrow Dawan Sheji and get everything equal."

As soon as Liu Sheng said this, the courtiers and officials in the palace immediately felt relieved.

Yes!

If the Huns were able to subvert the entire Dawan Kingdom without any effort, they would have to sneakily destroy the country first, and then make the head of the King of Dawan into the smell of alcohol to show off to the Han family .

Before all this was defeated, an envoy was sent to say in secret, "Don't be arrogant, I will be awesome if I take Dawan down." I am afraid that there is some key that the Han family has not yet grasped.

Moreover, this key message is likely to be related to the defensive capabilities of the Dawan people and the obstacles they caused to the Huns.

"As for the bronze smelting technology of the Dawan people, although it is a treasure to the Huns, it is an ordinary thing to my Han family."

"—As early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the people of the Xia Dynasty had already mastered the smelting of bronze ware proficiently, and reached the peak of perfection when they won the Qin Dynasty."

"Up to now, our Han family has classified most of the bronze wares as farm tools and old-fashioned weapons used by young and strong Xiangyong when practicing weapons."

"As for the military, where iron can be used, our Han family is slowly eliminating bronze."

"So, even if the Huns got the smelting technology of the Dawan people, it is not too dangerous for our Han family."

"After all, Dawan people master the smelting of bronze ware, not iron ware..."

Following Liu Sheng's words, the dignified atmosphere in the hall dissipated a little more.

- Exactly.

Today's Han family is already at the junction between the bronze civilization and the iron civilization.

Compared with the Xiongnu, who couldn't even smelt bronzes, and got a bronze ware like a treasure, the civilization level of the Han family in the field of mainly using metals was at least two to three epochs advanced.

Even if the Huns obtained bronze smelting technology from the Dawan people and entered the Bronze Age overnight, it would still not pose too much threat to the Han family.

the reason is simple;
——Iron wares collide with bronze wares, just like stone wares and bone wares, iron wares win.

Even take a step back and say: Even if there is no iron, the Han family has mastered the bronze smelting technology that has been developed for hundreds of years during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. available.

In this way, the appearance of the Dawan people may not be such great news for the Huns...
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"My Han family has no way of exerting influence on a capital thousands of miles away like Dawan."

"The only way to hinder the Huns' westward advance is to keep more of the Huns' attention in the south of the grassland."

"—Stay on the front line of the Great Wall."

"As for whether it's worth it—whether the people of Dawan are worth it for our Han family to fight against the Huns year after year, this matter needs to be discussed in the long run."

"But there is no doubt that after the first battle in Mayi between the Han and the Hungarians, it is difficult for the border between the Han and the Hungarians to achieve the same peace that they had for several years in the past."

"So in the next few years, what should be the outline and what should be the phalanx of our Han family, you still need to think about it carefully and come up with a charter."

Having said that, Liu Sheng stood up from the imperial couch, and just glanced around the hall indifferently, causing all the officials in the hall to bow their heads.

Maybe Liu Sheng himself didn't realize it: his performance today is no different from the image of a "mature son of heaven", and he even began to gradually overlap with the first Emperor Xiaojing—Tianzi Qi!

But even if he knew, Liu Sheng wouldn't care too much about these things.

The decisive battle between the Han and the Hungarians has begun.

The real decisive battle will be fully launched when the Han and Hungarian sides reach the critical point after the foreshadowing of the "Battle of Mayi" again and again.

Liu Sheng didn't have much time left.

But Liu Sheng still has a lot to do...

"Dawan horse..."

"Sweaty BMW..."

"Tsk tsk..."

"I have to think of a way..."

(End of this chapter)