If you think about it carefully, it is actually easy to understand the thinking of some courtiers and scholar-bureaucrats...,

China has been very tolerant of religion since ancient times.

Open the history books and you will find Zoroastrianism, various sects of Buddhism (esoteric Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, etc.), Christian Buddhism and even Green Buddhism.

Basically, all the mainstream religions on the earth have come to China to develop their business, and they are still alive and well.

Many religions have even disappeared in the place where they originated. However, in China, they are still very popular, and there is an endless stream of people worshiping gods and asking for fortune-telling.

For Chinese people who believe in simple and pragmatic religious views, there is no harm in worshiping them no matter what religion or god they are.

Under the influence of this kind of thinking, there are now a bunch of guys in Chang'an City who are secretly enshrining witches and witches from Mitsukoshi in their homes at the risk of losing their heads.

As for other messy, weird religions and gods, they are blooming all over China.

Nowadays, even for fortune telling, there are seven or eight fortune tellers from different factions who can consult...

As for looking at Feng Shui, it’s even more exaggerated. You can get advice from at least ten different professional Feng Shui experts...

In this general environment, the Xiongnu broke the news that "the Chanyu also has the protection of the gods".

Never mind whether it's true or not.

For the Chinese, there is at least no harm in believing first!

Once it's proven to be false, it won't be too late to pull out his skin.

What's more, the Xiongnu are still the only overlord-level force in the known world that can compete with the Han Dynasty.

In the thinking of many people, since the emperor of China has divine help, then the king of Yi and Di should also have a divine god to help him, right?

Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain why this Yi Di could compete with China.

However, from Liu Che's point of view, such an idea is undoubtedly very dangerous.

In China, since ancient times, only the emperor can legally communicate with the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth.

This tradition laid the foundation that China must be a secular country and will never become a religious country.

But now, this foundation has encountered a challenge from the Huns.

If Liu Che did nothing, sat back and watched, or even acquiesced that the Xiongnu Chanyu also had divine blessings, wouldn't it be equivalent to admitting that other people in the world can also communicate with the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth?

This hole cannot be opened!

"The barbarians and the Di have no righteousness, which has been the case for a long time! The Jizhu clan is arrogant and rude, and leads the beasts to eat people. How can it be the destiny of heaven? Taiyi is above, the eight masters are virtuous, the universe is bright, the sun and the moon are shining, the Jizhu clan will do what they want.

shoot!"

"If the Jizhu family has a destiny, there are eight sons in Maodun, but only two of them are left. The elder has eleven sons, and he can only learn the theory of three meridians? This is heaven's punishment!"

Soon, Liu Che's categorical denial and slanderous remarks spread from the palace.

The so-called Jizhu clan refers to the surname of the Xiongnu Chanyu.

This is because so far, the Han Dynasty officials still have not figured out the surname of the Xiongnu Chanyu. (Note 1)

The Huns never declared their Chanyu surname to the outside world.

This is because the Xiongnu felt that the noble Shanyu surname should not be known to outsiders, especially slaves and vassal tribes, otherwise it would tarnish the glorious Luantang clan.

Therefore, the Xiongnu Chanyu has always only shown his name to the world.

But in the eyes of the Chinese, it is very inappropriate to have a given name without a surname.

So he made his own decision and took the name of the most powerful Xiongnu Chanyu as the surname of the Xiongnu Chanyu.

As for why it’s not Moton?

This is because in the eyes of the Han Dynasty, Laoshang Shanyu is ten thousand times more dangerous than Maodun!

That Shanyu, who was like a god in using troops and knew how to think about problems from a strategic perspective, was much stronger than the leader of the Yi and Di tribes in Maodun, who only knew how to kill, slash and hack.

It was in the hands of the old master that the Xiongnu became the undisputed absolute hegemon in Northeast Asia.

He beat Donghu with his fists, kicked Yuezhi with his kicks, conquered the Western Regions in the west, and suppressed the Han Dynasty in the south.

It can be said to be overwhelming.

When this Chanyu was alive, he solved almost all the internal problems of the Xiongnu. Even the only external concern, the Han Dynasty, was suppressed within the Great Wall in his hands.

Choosing his name as the surname of the Xiongnu Chanyu was out of respect for the enemy.

Liu Che's smear campaign against the Xiongnu hit on the Xiongnu's weakness.

In fact, it is no secret that the members of the Xiongnu royal family were frail and sickly and had bad luck.

Since Maodun, on average, only one out of five royal males survives to adulthood.

Today's military minister Shanyu is like a cup on the coffee table.

He had at least 3 sons left, but judging from public information, it seems that none of them could live to be six years old.

Even Xia Yanzhi, who is now married to Liu Che, is actually not in good health. If the level of medical technology and food hygiene in the Han Dynasty were not n levels higher than that of the grassland, Xia Yanzhi might have died.

Liu Che guessed that this was probably because the genes of the Xiongnu royal family had major flaws and problems.

This may be due to the terrible genetic disease caused by frequent incest. As Liu Che knew, the royal family of the Xiongnu Luotang clan has a special clan system. In order to maintain the so-called purity of the Luantang clan's bloodline, within the clan, brothers and sisters

Even incest between sons and mothers, fathers and daughters was once very popular and common.

It wasn’t until the time when Shanyu was an old man that I noticed this problem.

No more stepmothers will be admitted, and at the same time, internal chaos will be strictly controlled.

But now that the root of the disaster has been planted, how can it be so easily removed?

According to later research, between the two Han dynasties, there were at least ten chanyus and five 'princes', the so-called Zuoxian kings, who did not even reach the age of twenty.

In addition, at least six Chan died of illness in succession.

This is clearly recorded in history books. (Note 2)

As for those members of the Luotang royal family who died young and did not even have names or records, I don’t know who they are.

This kind of thing is not unusual.

The terrible genetic disease hemophilia was also prevalent among later generations of European royal families.

This is a genetic defect inevitably caused by too frequent intermarriage between close relatives.

But in this day and age, who knows about genetic diseases?

People can only attribute this problem to God.

Even among the people, if a woman's husband dies soon after she gets married, the husband's death is attributed to that woman's husband.

What's more, the bloodline of the Xiongnu royal family is weak and the inheritance is difficult. It is obvious to all.

The military minister is even more of a big mug.

He still does not have an adult son, and the position of King Zuoxian has always been vacant.

Originally, public opinion in the Han Dynasty had not discovered this problem.

But now Liu Che pointed it out.

Everyone immediately let out a burst of strange laughter: "Oh ho ho, so that's it..."

As a result, the way everyone looked at the Huns map became a little scary.

Since the emperor has said that the Jizhu family is guilty of the crime.

Then if we eliminate the Jizhu clan, we are obeying God's destiny. With God's help, we will naturally be invincible.

And the territory of the Huns was so large.

Even if only one tenth of it can be cultivated, this is a hot land almost as hot as Kyushu in China!

What's more, after the Xiongnu were destroyed, the legendary Golden Kingdom, full of body poison flowing with milk and honey, was just around the corner.

The few guys who originally jumped back to the camp of the peace faction immediately returned to the position of the war faction without changing their expressions.

And in order to cover up their dark history of advocating compromise or friendship with the Huns, they clamored for war louder than anyone else, with the decibel level soaring to 3,000+.

As for the generals in the military, they were jumping up and down, eager to start a war immediately.

The military generals and landowners in the north even looked at the Xiongnu's seemingly strong body, like a gentleman, and let out bursts of weird and terrifying laughter.

In this era, the northern warriors and landlord groups were an indivisible whole.

This group is based on the past military meritorious system, and is deeply rooted in the main legions of the Han army and the armed forces of the prefecture and state.

Even a thousand years later, the power of this group will still control China's military and foreign policies.

After Liu Che came to power, he injected more vitality, more power, and preferential treatment into this group. It returned to its ancestors and became a terrifying monster like the military meritorious interest group of the Qin Dynasty.

Now, the monster is beginning to feel hungry.

It has been hungry for sixty years.

It can't wait to eat something.

So, it raised its knife and fork. Looking around, no matter what it was, as long as it could fill its stomach, even if it was poison, it would swallow it without hesitation, without even bothering to chew.
To be continued...