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Chapter 215: Xiongnu Contradictions

Chen Ping did not lie, he did think of something interesting, but this interesting thing just happened.

The curiosity in the eyes of the Xiongnu boy was that he was a Qin person. To a Xiongnu boy in his teens, Qin people were only a rumored existence and he had never seen them before. It was normal for him to be a little curious when he saw them today.

The fear still lay in the fact that he was a Qin person. The Huns had been badly beaten by the Zhao people and had not dared to look south for decades. They only dared to secretly occupy the Hetao area when the Qin Dynasty was destroying the six kingdoms.

The young Xiongnu people must have heard the story of their defeat at the hands of the Zhao people, who in turn were defeated by the Qin people. With this comparison, it is not surprising that they would feel fearful.

But what's interesting is the anger, dissatisfaction and eagerness to try.

The anger and dissatisfaction should be due to the fact that Touman, in order to welcome them, cleaned up the streets and drove them back home, not allowing them to go out.
Older people would not take this kind of thing too seriously, but young people are just beginning to be ignorant of the immensity of the world and would wonder why they should be driven back home just because of a group of Qin people, and why they are not nice to their own people but so nice to outsiders.

They would feel that their Chanyu and leaders were spineless, groveling before the Qin people, like a group of hounds trying to please their master.

The Xiongnu men are wolves on the grasslands, how can they become dogs that wag their tails in front of others?

What's more, they have only heard of the Qin people's reputation, but have never really fought against them. The Hun men may not be inferior to the Qin people. How could the Chanyu and the leaders be so afraid?

It’s not too late to be afraid after a battle with the Qin people, so the young Huns are eager to try again.

Chen Ping guessed the Hun boy's thoughts, and a sentence popped up in his mind: A newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger.

"But according to the Xiongnu people, a newborn wolf cub is not afraid of a tiger."

There were still constant gazes from the houses on both sides of the street falling on him, and Chen Ping felt quite a few of them were like the Hun boy just now.

But this did not worry Chen Ping. Instead, he was very happy because it represented the split between the older and younger generations of the Huns.

The older generation of the Huns have lost their ambition and just want to live a peaceful and down-to-earth life, while the younger generation is like a newborn wolf cub, fearless of nothing and daring to try everything.

The two generations will get tired of each other, but the most interesting thing is that the younger generation has not yet grown up, and it is the older generation that now holds power in the Huns.

The younger generation would feel that the older generation is just occupying the toilet and hindering the development of the Huns. They also suppress them and do not want them to be in power. Moreover, everything the older generation enjoys now was obtained by them, the young people, and the old guys got it without any work.

The older generation believes that the younger generation is naive and ignorant, and that young people are ignorant and don’t know anything.

Thinking of this, Chen Ping thought of the rumor that Li Nian killed Maodun. 'Master Li Nian is truly a man of extraordinary talent. He must have known the situation of the Xiongnu and killed Maodun.'

"If Maodun is not eliminated, he will become the leader of the young Xiongnu after he returns to the Xiongnu. With the support of the younger generation of Xiongnu, Maodun is likely to become the next generation of Xiongnu Chanyu."

"Once Maodun becomes Chanyu, the young Xiongnu will also take control of the Xiongnu. Then the Xiongnu will regain their wildness, transforming from an old dog into a young wolf, and will most likely become a disaster for the Qin Dynasty."

He now felt that the gazes he saw contained hostility, dissatisfaction and eagerness to try. If these people gained actual power over the Xiongnu, their attitude towards the Qin State would probably not be very friendly.

"For the Qin Dynasty, it is better for the Huns to be dogs."

Before they knew it, the Qin envoys had followed Touman and others to the Shanyu Court in the city. Touman happily introduced to the envoys that Touman City was his masterpiece, which took a lot of energy and effort to build, setting a precedent for the Xiongnu.

Jiao Li and Chen Ping looked at the Shanyu Court in front of them. Like the city, it clearly borrowed from the architecture of the Central Plains, but incorporated other elements.

As the saying goes, "Don't hit a smiling person." Touman treated them with such courtesy, and Jiaoli also responded with courtesy, saying with a smile: "Although the Chanyu's royal court is not as magnificent as the Xianyang Imperial Palace, it has its own style. It not only retains the Chanyu's majesty, but also has exquisiteness and elegance."

These words made Touman laugh out loud, and he immediately invited Jiaoli, Chen Ping and others to enter the royal court.

In the royal court, Touman had already had the banquet prepared, in which meals were served separately, with the Xiongnu and Daqin people sitting down as host and guest.

The Qin soldiers who came with them had been arranged to eat in other places in the royal court, and even their horses had been properly accommodated.

Touman did not ask about the purpose of the diplomatic mission, and Jiaoli and Chen Ping also deliberately did not mention it. They ate Xiongnu special food, appreciated the dance of Xiongnu women, and had a great time at the banquet.

By the end of the banquet, Jiaoli, Chen Ping and others had left, but the aroma of wine and meat was still in the palace. Touman was sitting in his seat, with his eyes closed, a look different from the happy and drunken look he had at the banquet, but the seriousness and heaviness on his face was visible at one glance.

There were still people in the hall, including the leaders of various Hun tribes who had just accompanied them to the banquet, as well as some people from the Hun delegation.

Touman suddenly opened his eyes and asked, "Why did Maodun die?"

The Hun delegation had sent someone back to report to him that Maodun was dead, but they did not give any details and did not explain the cause and effect. He still wanted to know how his good eldest son Maodun died.

Although he did not like Maodun very much, after all, Maodun was his son and the crown prince of the Xiongnu. He could not just die in the Qin territory in such an unclear manner.

The Qin people were indeed powerful, but he was also the Chanyu of the Xiongnu. How could he not even care about the death of his son?
One person said, "Chanyu, Crown Prince Maodun offended a prince of the Qin Dynasty!"

Touman frowned. Before he could speak, a leader exclaimed, "The prince is so ignorant. He doesn't know how to restrain himself even in the capital of Qin. He even dares to provoke the prince of Qin."

Hearing this, Touman glanced at the leader who had spoken. Although he did not like Maodun very much, he was his son after all. He was killed by the Qin people on their territory, and now he was being accused of being "ignorant" and "unrestrained" by others...

It’s not your son who died emotionally!

At this moment, Touman felt the same emotion as Maodun when he looked at them, a group of insects!
But before Touman could finish his sigh, another leader said, "That's right. Prince Maodun probably still thought that he was in the Xiongnu and that the Chanyu was protecting him. We would let him go and do as we pleased, which led to this disaster."

Another person said, "I've said before that the prince's temper is too flamboyant, which is definitely not a good thing. Now it has really come true..."

Before they even mentioned how Maodun had provoked the prince of Qin in Xianyang, these people had already put all the blame on Maodun.

Touman also knew why these people said this, because they were all afraid of Qin and worried that Qin would use this as an excuse to send troops to attack them.

But he was also afraid. If it was before that battle, he might have dared to fight the Qin people. But now his ambition is gone and his fighting spirit is gone.

(End of this chapter)