Chapter 524 Entry
After Tadun saw this seal ribbon, he suddenly woke up.
He clutched the seal ribbon tightly, stared at Han Zhong, and said with suppressed excitement:
"Han Sheng, what does this mean?"
Seeing Taton like this, Han Zhong felt at ease and said with an enthusiastic smile:
"Chanyu, this is my lord's sincerity."
Why is Taton so rude? It turned out that what Han Zhong presented to Tadun was a gold seal, and the camel beast seal had the words "Wuhuan Shanyu Zhang" written on it.
Although the Wuhuan people seem to have become more active in recent years, as they have been the tent dogs of the Han family for two hundred years, their entire ideology and appearance are that of the Han family.
Just like now, although Tadun's uncle Qiu Liju also calls himself Chanyu and seems to be a grassland king of his own, in fact neither the Huns nor the Shanggu Wuhuan people recognize him because he is the Caotou King.
The Han family is the undisputed king of the entire Northeastern Adam, and his recognition is the biggest source of legal principles for these prairie kings. Except for the Xianbei people, who were opposed to the decentralization of power by the Han family, all other grassland tribes were under the control of the Han family.
And now, when a Shan Yuyin given by the Han family was placed in Taton's hand, how could he not be overjoyed.
And let’s talk about the protagonist Sun Du who gave this gift.
The gift he gave was the last thing Taton would refuse.
At this time, although Tadun obtained the power to control the Wuhuan people in the three counties by virtue of his talent and prestige, this power was not stable because Qiu Liju's youngest son Louban was still there, and as he grew up, he would inevitably Will regain control of the three counties.
Although the Wuhuan people still have the practical morality of prairie people who respect the strong, as the upper class of Wuhuan began to settle in Liucheng, they became more and more inclined to leave their wealth, tents, and livestock to their sons instead of their younger brothers.
In the final analysis, the living conditions determine the economic base, and the economic base determines the superstructure.
At this time, the Wuhuan people are no longer the same hard people who lived in the grasslands a hundred and eighty years ago.
But now, with the Shan Yuyin given to Tadun by the Han Dynasty, Tadun can legitimately obtain the commanding power of the Wuhuan people. Even if Lou Ban grows up, he will inherit part of Qiu Liju's tent at most. , but can no longer pose a threat to Taton's authority.
Tell me how Taton couldn't be overjoyed when he saw this seal.
Tadun repeatedly rubbed the gold seal, which was as big as a button, and reluctantly handed it over to a man dressed as a Han man aside for a long time.
This Han scholar was none other than Guan Jing, Gongsun Zan's chief historian at that time.
At the Zhongrenting battlefield, Gongsun Zan accidentally died in the battle. After Gongsun Du coaxed away most of the white horse soldiers, some of the white horse generals still left the team to avenge Gongsun Zan.
This Guan Jing is one of them.
At that time, they fled all the way north and were planning to return to their hometown to reorganize their tribe, but the Taishan Army moved north too fast. With the fall of the entire Youzhou, people like Guan Jing, like other wealthy families, chose to move with their clans to the four counties of Liaodong.
But on the way, Guan Jing's relocation team was directly discovered by Taton who broke into the fortress, and was plundered directly to Liucheng.
Later, after learning that this person turned out to be the long history of the White Horse Colonel, Tadun respected Guan Jing as his teacher and kept him at his side to understand the Han culture.
Scholars like Guan Jing have deep in their hearts the ambition to be a master of the world.
They inherited Confucius' teaching without distinction, and Jiang Wang's desire to be a sage teacher. Therefore, when Guan Jing saw that Tadun also had the potential to be a hero, he also stayed in Liucheng and willingly became that "teacher of the world." ".
When Guan Jing took over the gold seal, especially after seeing the "Wuhuan Chan Yu Zhang", he frowned and asked this sentence:
"Why is this seal called a seal and not a seal?"
Han Zhong, who was still laughing, suddenly felt embarrassed when he heard this.
When Tadun saw Han Zhong like that, he immediately realized that there was something going on, so his face immediately dropped.
The atmosphere was very solemn for a while.
At this time, Han Zhong was also secretly blaming his lord, Gongsun Du.
He had already given him a royal seal, so he was just being generous, but now he was making things difficult for him.
Although there is only one word difference between Shan Yuxi and Shan Yuzhang, their inner meanings are completely different.
In the Han system, only the princes and kings below used seals, while the emperor used seals.
Therefore, this gold seal with the words "Wuhuan Chanyu Zhang" actually implies that the Wuhuan people are ministers of the Han family, not equal prairie Chanyus.
If this gold seal is really given by the emperor of Kyoto, then there is no problem at all in calling it the Wuhuan Shanyu Zhang, because you, a Wuhuan person, are worthy of being on an equal footing with the Han family?
But that's not the problem.
For example, Han Zhong knew that this gold seal was carved privately by his lord Gong Sundu. He also carved several gold seals like this, some for Goguryeo, some for the Sushen people, and some for the Fuyu people.
Those grassland chiefs did not recognize these golden seals, and they only thought that the emperor of the Han family really noticed their loyalty and gave them the golden seals.
But I didn't expect that something was missing on the Wuhuan people's side.
When things finally came to pass, Han Zhong could only hesitate and say:
"Although the Chanyu and Wuhuan people are a pillar of Northern Xinjiang, even if they are Wuhuan Chanyu, they are just ministers of the Han family. I don't know what the Chanyu thinks."
Tadun didn't say anything, just stared at Han Zhong.
When Han Zhong was sweating profusely from looking at him, Tadun suddenly laughed boldly and ordered the Han woman on his side:
"Your distinguished guest is right. Even though I am the king of the Wuhuan people, I am also a minister of the Han family. We are all one family. Come and fill up the wine."
Almost all the upper-class Wuhuan people like Taton could speak Chinese, so when he gave the order, those weak Han women poured wine for the Wuhuan masters.
And these Han women, without exception, were all plundered in the past few years.
It can be said that every decline of the Central Plains dynasty was a carnival of these surrounding chiefs. They were like a pack of wolves, devouring the flesh and blood of this giant unscrupulously.
When Han Zhong saw that this matter had been fooled, he also laughed. He had no sympathy for the Han women next to him. Although they were both Han people, to put it bluntly, the relationship between Han Zhong and Taton was On the contrary, it is deeper than these lower-class Han people.
Guan Jing, who was next to Taton, saw that Taton had revealed the matter and said no more. He just agreed and sipped his drink, thinking more.
As soon as he saw the gold seal, he knew that it was illegal and must not be the real seal. It was obviously carved privately by the Liaodong group.
He didn't expect that Gongsun Du and his gang would be so courageous and dare to give and receive such important weapons privately.
Thinking of this, he became even more confused about the fate of the Han family.
But the banquet will not be affected by Guan Jing's downturn. The Hu Han people are getting more and more drunk, and the more they drink, the happier they are. Just when the atmosphere was getting more intense, Han Zhong said something inadvertently:
"Chanyu, my lord's friends in the fortress have sent news that the Taishan Army in the south has been mobilized frequently and is heading north. I don't know what Chanyu thinks of this."
Tadun and Guan Jing looked at each other tacitly, guessing what Han Zhong meant by saying this.
Tadun didn't say anything, so he meant Guan Jing to speak.
In fact, the two of them certainly knew about this matter. The Wuhuan people were all over Northern Xinjiang and inside and outside the fortress, and they had eyes and ears everywhere. How could they not know about such a large-scale mobilization of troops as the Taishan Army?
So, Guan Jing said it first:
"Han Sheng, I'm afraid it's not about how we think about this matter, but about how your Lord thinks about it. Isn't this Taishan Army here to find you, the four Liaodong counties?"
Han Zhong laughed, shook his head, and said:
"Mr. Guan is very eloquent, but how did you know that the Taishan Army came to me in Liaodong? And not to come to you Wuhuan people? You must know that you have plundered many Han people in the past two years. The Taishan Army has a reputation for The common people come first. If Shan Yu behaves like this, he may have fallen into the eyes of the Taishan Army. ”
Feeling displeased, he directly wiped his greasy hands on the breasts of the concubine next to him and said seriously:
"Your distinguished guest, please don't beat around the bush. What do you want to say? I will tell you the truth. I will do whatever I can to help you with the gift your Lord sent me today."
Not to mention, Wuhuan people are still straightforward.
Seeing what Taton said, Han Zhong stopped going around and directly stated the purpose of his visit.
He said to Taton:
"This time the Taishan Army gathered on a large scale, with unknown intentions. But everyone knows that it is probably not against us. Now that the tide is rising on the Shanhaidao Road, the Taishan Army cannot fly over. Even if they land by sea, how many people can be sent? So? No matter how much you come, you will die.”
Taton agreed very much with what Han Zhong said.
Then Han Zhong continued:
"The same goes for the Wuhuan people. Your tribe has always been the pillar of Northern Xinjiang. Compared with the threat from Xianbei, I think the Taishan Army will only pay more attention to your tribe, rather than fighting against your tribe for the sake of a few small people."
Tadun nodded.
In the end, after Han Zhong said so much, he finally saw the point and started to say no.
"However, people who have no long-term worries must have short-term worries. The Taishan army is like a tiger and a wolf. They have abandoned China and are the enemies of the Han Dynasty. Since your department is a minister of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, it is naturally regarded as an alien by others. Now he They still don’t care about us, but when they defeat the princes in the Central Plains, what else can stop them from going north?”
"Therefore, my lord Fuhai made an alliance with Qingzhou Cao Cao. We made an agreement that once the Taishan army attacks the south, I will attack its tail from the north. If it attacks the north, Qingzhou will attack its south from the south, so that the Taishan army cannot take care of both the head and the tail. Now, my lord invites you to join this mutual alliance to protect the security of northern Xinjiang.”
It was the first time Taton heard about this. He didn't react for a while and was noncommittal.
But Guan Jing next to him frowned and pointed out the key:
"Mutual alliance sounds good, but I don't see it being feasible. Now that the Taishan Army is moving north, no matter who it attacks, the Qingzhou Army has not yet seen the Qingzhou Army attack the Taishan Army from the south. On the contrary, the Qingzhou Army has You can use the gap between the Taishan Army to send troops north and move south to Xuzhou, which will increase your depth."
Han Zhong was stunned. He had not expected this. He had seen the Cao Cao envoy who came to Liaodong. He was a pure gentleman, and he did not look like such a person.
Han Zhong shook his head in a hurry and was almost distracted by Guan Jing. He directly said a secret:
"Our friends in Senei revealed that this time the Taishan Army went north to attack the Xianbei people."
This time, even Taton replied:
"Xianbei people?"
It’s not that this thing is too unbelievable, but it’s quite natural.
In the past few years, the Xianbei people have been in civil strife, and various tribes have been divided one after another, and their strength has been greatly weakened. It is understandable for the Taishan Army to attack the Xianbei people at this time.
As for why? Taton could guess a thing or two.
That is, the overall strength of the Taishan Army now is not as large as that of the Han Dynasty in northern Xinjiang. The originally long defense line in northern Xinjiang was covered with beacons and beacons of the Han Dynasty, and there were no less than 100,000 troops stationed there.
But as these soldiers gradually dispersed or were recruited by Lu Zhi to go south, the defense of northern Xinjiang became obviously weak. If this was not the case, he would not be so unscrupulous.
Now that the Taishan Army defeated the Han Dynasty and fully occupied Hebei, it naturally inherited the heavy defensive pressure of the Han Dynasty in northern Xinjiang.
However, there are only so many Taishan troops, and even if they were all packed into the northern Xinjiang defense line, they would still not be able to stand up to the beacon tower.
By then, all his troops will be dragged to northern Xinjiang, which will be a slow suicide. After the Central Plains princes competed for a winner, Hebei, which was weak in manpower and resources, had only a dead end.
So Taton guessed that the Taishan Army probably took the initiative to attack outside the Great Wall, hit the Xianbei people hard, and create peace for several years to relieve the pressure on their north.
After Taton figured this out, he was thinking about how to take advantage of this matter.
The Wuhuan people know this situation too well. They grew up during the war between the Han and the Prairie Royal Court.
Moving a piece of meat from one side to the other will leave a layer of oil on your hands! What's more, it's such a big battle!
So Taton was wondering whether this time he would stand on the side of the Han people and continue to beat Xianbei's drowned dogs like he did in the past.
He would never refuse to beat the Xianbei dog.
But just when he was thinking about this, Han Zhong on the opposite side said:
"Chanyu, after my lord heard this, he felt that this was our opportunity. The Taishan army is powerful. Since ancient times, the strong and the weak have been fighting, and they must help the weak one. Otherwise, once the Taishan army retreats from the pressure of the Xianbei people, Come here, then we will suffer.”
Taton apparently listened to this, but in fact he sneered at this truth.
Why should the strong and the weak fight to help the weak? If you don't beat the weak with the strong, how about you be beaten by the strong with the weak?
Although these Han people have some brains, they don't have much.
Although he sneered at Han Zhong's words in his heart, he was still listening on his face. He wanted to see what conditions Han Zhong and others would give.
Sure enough, after Han Zhong talked nonsense for a while, he finally got to the most important part.
Tadun listened like this, and the more he listened, the more excited he became.
It turns out that Gongsun Du still has the courage.
He received news that the Taishan Army's supplies and supplies were all stored in Jixian. So this man wanted to encourage him to enter the pass with him, attack Jixian directly, and burn down the grain.
Taton can obtain all the iron armor, ring-shou swords and iron arrows in this battle, which will greatly enhance the strength of Wuhuan in the three counties.
The action time is when the Taishan Army leaves the fortress. When the back roads are cut off, these people will inevitably die outside the fortress.
And can the Taishan Army, which has lost its heroes, still be able to defend Huahua Hebei?
At that time, it’s time for them to truly enter the customs!
Having said all that, Taton has nothing else to say.
He completely ignored the frequent glances from Guan Jing next to him, slapped the table and said boldly:
"Okay, then send troops into the pass! Let's also see if the Lord of Hebei is really a man from heaven!"
Enter the customs! Tadun made the strongest sound, but he didn't know that his death was approaching.
(End of chapter)