The father and son talked about other things.=

Maybe it’s because I opened up my conversation box and opened my heart.

This time the Emperor Liu Qi said many things that he had never said to Liu Che before, letting Liu Che know the hidden secrets behind many things.

For example, the basis of the Korean drama The Huns Envoy.

It can be said that Han Drama is the descendant of the Hun envoy family who has been responsible for communicating with the Han Dynasty for generations.

Seven years ago, the final treaty between Han and Xiongnu was signed and confirmed by the Han Dynasty in Chang'an when Han Liao, the father of Han Dynasty, and the Huns took over the throne and lived in Diaoqunan.

Liu Che guessed right. This Korean drama is indeed related to the escaped general Yan Wang Han Xin decades ago.

To be precise, the father of the Korean drama is Han Xin's cousin.

More than ten years ago, the descendants of Han Xin who stayed in the Xiongnu were involved in the internal strife of the Xiongnu.

As a result, direct descendants of the Han family, such as Han Xin's eldest grandson Han Ying and his youngest son Han Daidang, escaped back to the Han Dynasty under the protection of Han Xin's confidants.

The remaining people still stayed in the Xiongnu, including Han Drama's father Han Liao and his brothers.

Even Han Liao later married the daughter of the Qieju family, a Xiongnu dignitary who had a close relationship with the Chanyu.

Listening to his father's narration, Liu Che rolled his eyes and said, "I would like to inform my father that I would like to see the Korean drama in private. Please allow me to do so!"

Emperor Liu Qi was slightly startled, feeling a little confused.

So he asked: "What does the prince want?"

Liu Che kowtowed and said, "Reporting to my father, does my father still remember Cheng Zheng Ying?"

"Well... what does Cheng Zhengying have to do with Korean dramas?" Emperor Liu Qi was confused. The two should be incompatible with each other, right?

Liu Che smiled slightly, raised his head and said: "Father, please report to me. I heard Cheng Zhengying mention it. He once saw a foreign businessman. According to the businessman, there are many small countries living in the west of Yanmen, thousands of miles away.

In the meantime, there are quite a lot of crops in these small countries that we don’t have in China!”

"Hmm..." Emperor Liu Qi then became slightly interested.

In fact, the introduction of alien species has never stopped in the past thousands of years.

For example, the mung beans currently on the market are actually crops originating in India. Moreover, they were introduced to China for a very short time. They were introduced to China around the time Lu Buwei entered the Qin Dynasty.

For a country that is mainly based on farming, there is nothing more worthwhile than introducing some excellent crops.

Later, the Ming Dynasty introduced sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn.

Only "we, the Qing Dynasty" think that China is vast and rich in resources and has no need for anything from the outside world.

But are the rulers of the Qing Dynasty really stupid?

Haha, anyone who has read the confessions and allusions of the emperor "I am the Qing Dynasty" will not think so.

On the contrary, they are extremely smart.

Because of their intelligence, they instinctively resist all foreign things and cultures.

Because they know very well that a thousand-mile embankment was destroyed in an ant nest. Once a hole is opened and the people who have been fooled by them know the history. If their eyes are opened, their rule will be over.

At this time, the whole of China is eagerly looking for anything that can make itself stronger or that can help it become stronger.

As for where this thing comes from, it doesn’t matter at all!

Liu Che smiled and said something that his father could not refuse: "I heard that among the countries in the Western Regions, there is a kind of grass specially used to feed war horses. It is said that that kind of grass is raised by the countries in the Western Regions and even the Huns.

The key to the horse!”

Alfalfa is undoubtedly one of the key species that China obtained from the Western Regions. It was this humble pasture that changed the disadvantage of Chinese war horses as inferior to the Huns after being introduced to China.

As for cotton, although it is important, it is not as simple and clear as alfalfa. Once thrown out, Dad can be easily convinced.

When the emperor Liu Qi heard this, his pupils shrank and he asked: "What do you think, the prince?" Then he shook his head: "Even if there is that kind of forage, the Xiongnu will definitely regard it as a military secret, and can they easily grant it to my Han family?"

Of course the emperor Liu Qi knew what Liu Che wanted to do?

only……

In the view of Emperor Liu Qi, Liu Che's idea was indeed ridiculous.

If such forage really existed, the Huns would definitely guard it tightly, and it would be impossible for a single grass seed to flow into the Han Dynasty.

Just like the Han Dynasty, it was impossible for the Han Dynasty to let a silkworm egg or a tea seed flow outside its borders.

Liu Che smiled slightly and said, "If you don't try it, how will you know it doesn't work?"

Liu Che was fully confident about obtaining alfalfa seeds.

First of all, the Xiongnu and the Han are basically two political models.

The Huns lived by water and grass, and migrated to graze during the rainy season. Apart from grazing, they basically didn't know how to farm, let alone plant any grass.

In fact, alfalfa has been widely cultivated in countries in the Western Regions.

But until Zhang Qian arrived in the Western Regions, the Huns had no interest in taking a second look at the excellent forage seeds brought to Central Asia by Alexander's Eastern Expedition.

For the Huns, farming, sowing, etc. were matters of agricultural civilization and had nothing to do with them.

Alfalfa is like this, and cotton is even easier.

In fact, after the piglets introduced cotton in later generations, they did not regard cotton as a cash crop, but as an exotic ornamental plant...

As for cotton, no one in the Western Regions found that the fruits of this plant could be used for textiles, and they basically regarded it as an ornamental plant.

After all, the technique of playing cotton is too advanced!

As for whether the Huns would agree to help, and whether the Korean drama would be willing to accept Liu Che's commission.

Liu Che was not worried at all.

Well, in fact, Liu Che always felt that it was a pity that the Huns were tyrannical in the Western Regions and robbed so many things, but there was no place to sell the stolen goods and exchange them for real gold, silk, and salt.

The emperor Liu Qi looked at Liu Che's confident look and thought: "Let the prince try it. Even if he fails, there seems to be no loss, but if he succeeds, then..."

So he waved his hand and said, "Since the prince wants to do it, then go ahead and do it!"

"No!" Liu Che kowtowed and said, "I'll go and have a 'talk' with the Huns envoy first."

…………………………

When Liu Che, led by several eunuchs, came to a side hall where the Korean drama was resting.

The Korean drama is closing its eyes and concentrating, thinking in its mind about how to make the Han Dynasty monarchs spit out more gold silk and wait for the return gift.

Especially silk!

For the Xiongnu, the only redeeming feature of the Han Dynasty was silk!

In the entire Xiongnu chanyu court, from the chanyu to the nobles, there is no one who does not like the silk products of the Han Dynasty.

Moreover, the Huns could make huge profits by reselling silk from the Han Dynasty.

Therefore, the biggest goal of the Korean drama's trip is to get as much silk as possible so that he can please Shan Yu and his family members when he returns.

As for the marriage arrangement last year, is it too unscrupulous to ask for money again this year?

The Huns never thought about such things as moral integrity and ethics.

Just when he was thinking about how to use coercion and inducement next, he heard footsteps coming from outside the door. A eunuch said at the door: "The prince of the Han Dynasty has arrived, and the envoy greets him!"

Han Drama quickly stood up, bowed and stood in the palace, ready to welcome the Han prince.

For the Huns, things are different now.

The Xiongnu now cover tens of thousands of miles of grassland and are the co-owners of dozens of countries in the Western Regions.

They are no longer the nomadic people who were beaten, brutally tortured, and precarious by the Qin army during the Qin Dynasty.

Confucius said, if you have enough resources, you will know the etiquette.

This point is universal regardless of whether it is an agricultural civilization or a nomadic civilization.

Now that the Huns have become a large empire, they have countless servants and dependent countries.

Then, what follows is the establishment and maintenance of order.

No matter how stupid a ruler is, it is impossible not to establish order.

As a result, during the reign of the Laoshang Chanyu, the Xiongnu established and improved a complete set of ruling hierarchies and social orders.

The wise kings on the left and right, the kings of Guli on the left and right, and the great households on the left and right are proof of this order.

No matter what happens, Han and Hungary are still, on the surface, at least for now, a brotherly state where the monarchs of the two countries recognize and recognize each other.

Therefore, in fact, the prince of the Han Dynasty enjoyed the treatment of King Zuoxian in front of the Xiongnu nobles, at least on the surface.

Similarly, King Zuoxian of the Huns could enjoy the treatment of a prince in the Han Dynasty.

This point has been confirmed and recognized by the late kings of Han and Hungary in their credentials, and it is a consensus on paper.

For example, Liu Che's imperial grandfather, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, wrote a letter of credence to the Xiongnu elder Shanyu in the second year of the Yuan Dynasty: "Today in Da'an, all the people are prosperous, and I and Shanyu are their parents."

This point was also recognized and agreed by the old Shanyu in his reply.

Therefore, Korean dramas will at least act like a courtier on the surface.
To be continued...