Summer is here, and the vast grasslands are once again full of vitality.

One after another, tribes that migrated south in winter returned to their familiar pastures.

Shan Yuting, the brain of the Xiongnu Empire, also moved to the foot of Helan Mountain.

At this time, in Shan Yu's tent, all the giants of the Xiongnu Empire gathered together to discuss how to deal with the changes in the empire to the east.

"The emperor of the Han people died again. Now, the one who lives in Chang'an City is just a young boy under seventeen years old!" Jinmi, the Aries King, waved his hands covered with thick body hair and shouted loudly.

: "Da Chanyu, please give the order. Our Aries tribe is ready. As long as you give the order, two thousand horses will be at your disposal at any time!"

Wuligu, the king of Loufan, also said: "The Great Chanyu, the Loufan tribe's 30,000 elite cavalry are also ready to go, just waiting for the Chanyu to sing!"

King Xiutu and King Hunxie also joined in and started making noise.

For a moment, there were only sounds of shouting and killing in the entire royal tent.

As the brains of the Xiongnu Empire, Shan Yu, a military official, seemed to have not heard the voices of these warring factions. He closed his eyes slightly and did not give any reply.

Xu Bu Diao Nan, who was kneeling next to the military minister, raised his head and looked at the leaders of one side who were clamoring for war.

He sneered twice in his heart.

Let’s take a look at who these war factions are, right?

King Xiutu and King Hunxie?

Damn the remnants of King Youxian!

If it weren't for these two tribes being large tribes in the Xiongnu country, and their strength should not be underestimated, haha, I'm afraid, now these two guys should go underground to accompany King Youxian!

As for King Aries and King Loufan, they have nothing to do with the dead King Youxian!

But, look at where the territory of these two guys is?

Their traditional pastures are all located in the Hetao area that the Qin people voluntarily abandoned!

However, Chanyu's direct descendants, those giants in the west and north, were basically silent.

Even if someone spoke occasionally, it would always be a joke.

The double-headed eagle policy formulated by the old Shanyu has evolved into two groups with different interests.

Especially after the previous generation of King Youxian was defeated in the political struggle, this contradiction became more and more intense.

Shan Yuting had always looked at the tribes that were close to King Youxian through colored glasses.

Especially, that Righteous King still has his son alive!

Under such circumstances, how could the Chanyu loosen the collar around the necks of the eastern tribes?

What's more, the Xiongnu's current national policy is to expand westward.

Those small countries in the west are rich and weak.

Just send ten thousand riders there and you can get back a lot of wealth and population.

These nobles have already enjoyed various benefits of grabbing the west.

How could any change that might cause the Xiongnu's power to move eastward be allowed?

These people were the basic base and direct descendants of Chanyu. It was with their support that Chanyu successfully ascended the throne and eradicated King Youxian.

Let me ask, under such a situation, how could Chanyu rashly change his established strategy and go east to fight the Han people to the death?

Sure enough, the military minister Shanyu stood up, waved his hand, and said: "I understand what you guys mean. However, this Shanyu has an agreement with the Han emperor, and the old Shanyu also made an alliance with the Han emperor. Within the Great Wall

, is the room with the crown and belt. The emperor of the Han Dynasty rules, outside the Great Wall. It is a country of bows and hunters, ruled by the Great Chanyu. As long as the emperor of the Han people still insists on this alliance, then let’s not mention the invasion of the Han Dynasty again!”

"Da Chanyu!" King Aries became anxious upon hearing this.

The men in the tribe are all waiting for his good news!

Everyone is counting on this southern invasion to grab enough, and life will be easier this winter!

King Lou Fan was also anxious, but he was smarter than Jin Mi. He knelt down and begged: "Da Chanyu Mingjian, since the Great Chanyu of Maodun, our great Xiongnu tradition is that when the Han people change the emperor, they have to send troops to beat them."

For one thing, to show the military might and national prestige of our great Xiongnu, so that the Han emperor would obey and send more silks, food, and treasures; and secondly, to unite the eastern tribes so that they would always be under the rule of the Great Chanyu, so that they would not be defeated by the Great Chanyu.

Stay away from Shan Yuting and abandon your heart and virtue..."

"This..." The military minister also hesitated.

In fact, the military officials were not completely opposed to actively invading the Han Dynasty.

For him, grabbing the west side is also grabbing, and grabbing the east side is still grabbing. There is not much difference.

As for the so-called contradiction between East and West, this kind of thing is nonsense.

He is the Xiongnu Chanyu first, and the co-leader of the western tribes secondly. If he is too partial to the west, it will inevitably make the eastern tribes feel disappointed.

Therefore, he has always maintained a certain degree of control, and has been deliberately balancing the power of East and West to make the two parties hostile to each other, but he will not really break up with each other, let alone allow one party to become dominant.

As for King Youxian?

Everyone is dead!

What else can be done?

The tradition of the Huns has always been the naked law of the jungle.

The weak will eat the strong, and the strong will survive.

At that time, Maodun Shanyu even killed his father! Later, he made his brother the king and even entrusted him with important responsibilities. According to tradition, he took over Touman's wives and concubines.

How can a young man who has lost his father and most of his livestock and population change the world?

The military officials thought that since he had even killed King Youxian, he could crush a little wolf cub who was still alive with just one finger!

The reason why he really opposed the initiative to invade the Han Dynasty was that when the Xiongnu Empire developed to this day, its territory had become unprecedentedly vast.

Before, no grassland nation had ever been able to expand its territory to the size of the Xiongnu.

The entire Xiongnu Empire started from the Western Regions in the west, the Great Wall in the east, the Beihai in the north, and Korea in the south.

Tens of thousands of miles across, all areas that could be conquered by cavalry were conquered by the Huns.

Although the military minister has never read a book and has little cultural knowledge, he is an outstanding person who has experienced countless political struggles.

He knew very well that the Xiongnu today were no longer the small tribe that trembled under the hooves of the Qin army and were in danger, let alone the Xiongnu who fought in the east and west for their own survival during the period of Maodun Shanyu and Laoshang Shanyu.

and an expanding regime.

It is now in fact the overlord of the entire known world.

It needs stability to maintain its hegemony, rather than lighting fires everywhere and provoking wars.

A war with the Han Dynasty might cause the Xiongnu Empire to lose its hegemony!

This is not just his personal thought.

His father, Shanyu, also thought so.

The reason is simple: the Huns were completely behind the Han people in terms of population.

The population of the Han Dynasty was tens of millions, while the population of the Xiongnu was only a few million.

Not even one-tenth that of the Han people.

If the Han people in the east were just like the countries in the west, weak, cowardly and unable to resist, then it would not matter.

But unfortunately, they are not!

In the Han Dynasty, from the emperor to the common people, there were almost no weaklings.

Every time the Huns invaded, the Han people would almost mobilize.

From the emperor to the peasants, from the seventy-year-old man to the ten-year-old child, anyone who could handle a sword or a gun would go to the front line to fight with the Huns cavalry.

Once on the battlefield, tens of thousands of Huns besieged a city with only 2,000 defenders, and fought for a month. The city did not move at all. Han defenders, the father died, and the son continued to fight despite his father's weapons. The elder brother

After his death, the younger brother shed tears and stood on the top of the city. When his husband died, his wife took a mourning cloth and stood on the top of the city.

That incident shocked the entire Xiongnu.

Therefore, the old Shanyu decided to make a real peace treaty with the Han people.

Even though more than ten years have passed since that incident, the military officials still remember that city and the name of the guard.

"I am Wei Shang, the governor of Yunzhong, and a Hun dog thief. Do you dare to fight?"

"Do you dare to fight?"

The muscles on the soldier's face twitched as he recalled what he saw and heard at that time.

"Why do the Han people resist so tenaciously?" The military minister became irritated: "Why don't we behave like those small countries in the west and let us Huns plunder them?"

Facing that country with a large population and powerful fighting capacity.

The military minister felt an endless chill in his heart.

After all, he is not a hero with firm will and decisive actions like his father, Shanyu.

On the contrary, for the military minister who was born with a golden key, maintaining the status quo, preferably forever, is what he likes most.
To be continued...