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In the seventh year of China, King Ju Ju, Ju Li, sent the envoy of the great prince Ju Cai to Xiangyang City and presented the national treasure of Wo Ju - the Hailem Spirit Pearl and twenty ginseng that were claimed to be 300 years old, three thousand kilograms of gold and six hundred slaves to pay tribute to Emperor Liu Xie of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Xie was very happy and said, "I should accept these tributes, but it is really not easy for you, a small country, to attack so many things. Let's do this. I will send you three hundred pieces of cloth, silk and silk silk to bring you back, even if I reward you with it."

Ju Cai knelt down on the ground and bowed: "I am a villain in the world, and the people are in trouble. Such treasures have been collected by me over the years. I hope it can express the admiration of the emperor, such as Woju, for the emperor!"

Liu Xie shook his head slightly and said with a smile: "You want me to send troops to help you regain the land that should have belonged to you. A few years ago, I have issued an edict to the Treasure King of Goguryeo to return it to your land. Do he dare to violate my will and refuse to return it?"

Ju Cai said: "It is indeed not returned. We took a lot of our land at the beginning of this year. Now Woju is extremely poor and has no power to fight. The people are in a difficult situation. I hope the emperor will uphold justice for us!"

Liu Xie nodded and said, "In recent years, you have come to pay tribute every year. Although Goguryeo is rich, you refuse to pay tribute. They violate my will several times. If you do not send troops, you respect the court so much, but are bullied by small countries that do not respect the court. If I do not help, it would be unreasonable. You should go back first, contact Fuyu for me, Yiluo and tell them to prepare people for me, I sent 150,000 troops from Liaozhou, and you will each pay 20,000 to 50,000 each, and at the same time, you will march to eliminate Goguryeo. You should take the land of Goguryeo first, and those that do not belong to you will temporarily be under the direct jurisdiction of the court."

Ju Cai was overjoyed and said, "The emperor is boundlessly benevolent, Ju Cai wishes you a long life!"

Liu Xie smiled and said, "Okay, I thank you for your blessings. You must be careful when you go back. I may send troops in the middle of next year!"

Ju Cai said some blessings again before thanking him and leaving.

Liu Xie pinched the Hai Xie Lingzhu, looked carefully, and sneered, "It's indeed a good pearl!" He threw it to Chen Qun and said, "Take the long article home and keep it in the house. You can still watch it as a family heirloom!"

Chen Qun hurriedly stopped, held it in his palm and looked at it for a long time, and sighed: "It's a round and brilliant. I'm a bit extravagant to use this as a family treasure, but Wo Ju's treasure is the national treasure!"

Liu Xie sneered softly: "I think my appetite is too small. Do you want me to satisfy this little thing? As long as I send troops, it will not be something that Goguryeo can satisfy."

Chen Qun sighed: "But they do respect the Han court very much. Although they cannot pay tribute every year, they are also very filial!"

Liu Xie nodded slightly and said, "But after all, it is not under the direct control of the court, so I have to use my troops to directly accept it. As for where they will be arranged by the time, it depends on their attitude at that time!"

In recent years, the Han Dynasty and the Han Dynasty in the north and the south have been in a peaceful confrontation. The Southern Han, who used troops in the Western Regions and Liaozhou, were unwilling to have conflicts with the Northern Han too early, and the Northern Han Dynasty has also carefully accumulated its own strength.

Liu Xie has always been paying attention to the military forces in the north. As Zhuge Liang expanded again and again, he decided to get rid of Wusun and Goguryeo, and immediately prepared to wipe out the northern court. Sooner or later, he would leave something for a long time on the other side.

Once the two small countries of Wusun and Goguryeo are removed, the troops on both sides of the east and west can slowly shrink back, and an overwhelming decisive battle was launched in Jiyou, unifying the Central Plains in one fell swoop, achieving internal stability, and secondly, slowly solving the problem of Xingzhou, and then the problems of Taizhou and Yingzhou.

In the evening, Liu Xie returned to the palace. The palace is now simple and deserted. Apart from the princess and a hundred palace maids, there are only those guards in the guard camp. Liu Xie had changed the service life of the palace maids in the palace two years ago. He was generally only allowed to serve until the age of 25, and had a good annual salary. After retirement, he could choose to marry outside. The palace maids who married outside must work in the palace's outer courtyard, and only some unmarried women were left in the inner palace.

Due to the very inconsistent ratio of men and women in the Southern Han Dynasty, a few days ago, Liu Xie passed the "Marriage Law", which clearly stipulates monogamy. Anyone who wants to take a concubine must pay marriage tax. After anyone except the emperor receives a third concubine, he must stop taking a concubine unless he has no descendants. People who only have a monogamous and have no concubines are exempted from one tenth of their taxes within three years.

The concubines of the Emperor of Han were also identified as one queen, two concubines, Shu, De, Xian and Rong. In addition, there were three beauties. Under Chen Qun's insistence, anyone who had no children left within three years would be demoted to Gongbao, and a harem protection garden was built outside Xiangyang City. As a place where they spent the rest of their lives, they were not allowed to marry outside. Any adulteress would be punished.

Liu Xie was unwilling to argue about anything. Compared with the customization of the imperial palaces in previous dynasties, the palace protection system formulated by Chen Qun was considered leisurely. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, these women had long been in the cold palace and lived a life worse than death.

Xiaohe has not left a child for Liu Xie in recent years. Chen Qun insisted on sending him back to Gongbaoyuan. Liu Xie was relieved of this position because Xiaohe was just a palace maid and turned to serve as the palace lantern.

I have always had a deep relationship over the years. Liu Xie knew that although he could not find Xiao He's place in his heart, if he was asked to leave like this, he would not be able to forget it immediately. It would be better to leave her in the palace to train the little palace maids. Sometimes he would ask Xiao He to accompany the queen for a walk. Her relationship with Cai Yan was finally good. She had served Cai Yan for several years. Cai Yan also knew that her relationship with the emperor was only not pregnant for many years, and she felt very sorry and took special care of her.

Liu Xie made a regulation that the palace maids were designated as the third level, one type was the inner palace to be selected for beauty, the second was the inner palace maids, and the third type was the outer palace maids. Only the inner palace maids could be lucky enough to be selected for beauty, and no luck could be lucky enough to be there.

He didn't want his harem to be lewd like his father. More often, he felt that he needed a sense of home. Many times he silently missed his parents in later generations, and even secretly missed them alone, remembering the old things he had when he was a child.

How are you doing, mom and dad? Liu Xie stared at the sky quietly and asked himself silently, how painful are you when you lost me? I didn’t feel the pain when you lost you, but when I became my parents, I miss you all the time.

Cai Yong's body seemed to be unable to hold on anymore. Liu Xie decided to take the queen back to visit Cai Yong tomorrow, and to visit Huangfu Song by the way. Both old men were like the last dry lamp. Although Zhang Ji had monthly inspections and often drank supplement medicines, Zhang Ji could not guarantee that it would last for several years.

Before Lu Zhi passed away, he held his hand and murmured in a low voice: If possible, I wish I could see the day when the Han Dynasty was unified.

Huangfu Song and Ding Yuan's final wish was to unify the north and allow them to give an explanation to the late emperor after they went to heaven.

I hope you can see that day, Liu Xie said to himself silently, without a doubt, that he was determined to complete the unification of the Han Dynasty, at least the unification of the north and the south as soon as possible.

It's so cool. On the full day of August 15th, Liu Xie brought Cai Yan and Liu Wei to Jingshan District in the south of the city to pay homage to Cai Yong. Cai Yong was mounting his copybook. He heard that the emperor and the queen were coming, so he hurriedly asked someone to help him out to greet him.

Liu Xie and Cai Yan had already walked into the courtyard. Cai Yong hurriedly wanted to bow. Liu Xie smiled and said, "The father-in-law doesn't need to be too polite!"

He personally helped Cai Yan back to the mansion, helped him to the table, and asked him to sit down. The three of them, Chen Qun, who accompanied him, kept chatting. Compared with Huangfu Song and others, Cai Yong had no more expectations for unification of the north and south, but he just wanted to keep Liu Wei in the mansion for a few more days. Liu Xie naturally had nothing to refuse, and asked Cai Yan to stay with Cai Yong in the mansion for a few days.

At this time, the Mid-Autumn Festival had been widely circulated among the people, but the court had not yet recognized it. Liu Xie asked Chen Qun to set the Mid-Autumn Festival at the beginning of next year and issued an edict to recognize the Mid-Autumn Festival, and celebrate the whole country.

Of course there were no mooncakes to eat at night, but I just drank and talked about the moon. I left Cai’s mansion the next day and went to Huangfu Song’s house.

After all, Huangfu Song had been fighting for many years and his physical condition was much better than Cai Yong. After Huangfu Li came back to visit relatives, he had no worries in his heart. In his spare time, he went to the Commander's Office to drink and chat with the old subordinates with the Xiangyang Military Academy. Today, when he saw the emperor coming, he also asked someone to prepare wine and wanted to drink with Liu Xie. Now, Nan Han dared to let Liu Xie go back drunk. Chen Qun also benefited from it and tried his best to respect Liu Xie. When Liu Xie saw Huangfu Song's health was healthy, he felt relieved and never stopped drinking and returned drunk.

As the winter of the year approached, Liu Xie issued an edict to Xun You and others, requiring the unification of the Western Regions before June of the eighth year, and to issue an edict to Cao Cao and Zhao Yun, requiring the elimination of Goguryeo before September of the eighth year, and to prepare Chen Qun for the surrender of Goguryeo.

The cool autumn and the deep winter, all the time in Xiangyang City seemed like a river. Spring was already in an instant. There was nothing big happening in the past few months. Liu Xie has been relatively idle, and there were four princes and four little princesses under his knees. After Xiao Qiao presented a daughter, Dong Chu verified again that he was pregnant.

Liu Wei is already five years old, his second son Liu Yi is four years old, Liu Ping and his third son Liu Zi are also over two years old, and the daughter Liu Qing born by Xiao Qiao is four years old, Huang Yueying's daughter is just three years old, and in addition to them, one beauty Yang also has a daughter who is just one year old.

Cai Yan teaches them every day, teaches them everything from piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Huang Yueying is responsible for teaching them all the various encyclopedias and astronomy and geography. In fact, the two taught simple knowledge such as moon in the sky and traveling around the twenty-four constellations. It was just that no child would like to listen to these things. Besides, except for Liu Wei and a few others, the others couldn't understand them. They pestered Xiao Qiao to tell them stories every day, or they would go to Wang Yue and his son to ask them to share martial arts.

Liu Xie was too lazy to control them, and Cai Yan was stopped by him every time he was strictly controlled. Over time, the entire palace was in turmoil by them.

Cao Cao and Xun You are no match for him. They have been very busy every day in the past few months, and they want to make a difference in one day and use it for two days. The food and grass and military supplies need to be sorted out, and the routes of the army's troops and the specific assignments of generals must be discussed.

In March of the eighth year of China, Xun You sent troops in advance and personally led 100,000 Rangers and 30,000 infantry troops. Zhang He and Shi Tao led 20,000 to the Western Army and 30,000 garrison troops to stay in Xining County. The other six counties each sent 20,000 to follow the military troops and heading north. The Western Regions were no longer a piece of yellow sand, but mountains and grasslands.

Winter has passed, and although the weather is still very cold, the stream where the snow gathers has flowed down the mountain, gradually concentrating, forming dozens of rushing rivers from trickles.

Crossing the Wulungu River, they officially entered the northern border. It was already the border of Wusun, with gentle grasslands and vast lakes everywhere. These lakes were formed by the convergence of the snow-soluble water of the Tianshan Mountains and would slowly disappear by the end of autumn. But in the past six months, the grasslands at the Tianshan Mountains became green as a result, and infinite vitality was revealed in the lake water. The shallow lakes were only half a step deep.

The army was like those Tianshan deer and Tianshan antelope, flowing through shallow water areas in groups. The rivers were so clear that they were like a water mirror, reflecting the blue sky. When the army stopped, Xun You and Yan Xing were strolling by the lake.

Compared with their leisure, the Wusun Kingdom was in chaos. Wang Kunzan of Wusun temporarily dispatched 60,000 cavalry to the Wulungu River and confronted Xun You. Seeing the huge Han army, he was afraid and retreated back to the Yili River.

The King of Wusun sent envoys to express his desire to surrender, but he only talked about his willingness to surrender to his vassal state, and still led the King of Wusun. Xun You and the envoy smiled and said, "If you only let King of Wusun be renamed as a vassal state, why should the Emperor of Han send me to command 200,000 elite cavalry? Just send an envoy. With your small land of Wusun, no mountains or strong currents, how to stop my 200,000 army? Whether to fight or surrender to the county, you will let your king think clearly after you go back. If you continue to fight, once I, Xun You, I will naturally not keep him, King of Wusun, live in the world. Even if he keeps his life, he will also make the court convict of his war and imprison him for life!"

The envoy said generously: "Although my Wusun is small, he is also the leader of the Western Regions. In terms of history, the Han Dynasty once used troops to attack the Huns with my Wusun. The two countries have always been friendly. Now the troubles in the Han Dynasty are not determined and they are coming from thousands of miles away. This is a big taboo in military strategists. Our Wusun Kingdom is waiting for tired enemies with leisure, and there are 100,000 men who are good at fighting. How can we not win? If my king wins, we will definitely send a gentleman far away to the bitter and cold land in the north and will never return to the Han Dynasty in our lifetime."

Yan Xing was on one side, and suddenly raised his glass and sent it to the envoy, laughing and said, "It's true that he is a good man in the grassland. In the lower house, Yan Xing is willing to lead 50,000 cavalry soldiers to fight with the King of Wusun. If he is defeated, I will be exiled as the commander in the distance!"

Ma Teng also laughed loudly and raised his glass and said, "There are such men in the small country, so I, a big man, should respect them!"

Xun You smiled faintly and raised his glass, saying, "You admire you for your heroic courage. He should toast you!"

The three of them drank with the envoy. Xun You threw the wine glass and shouted, "The general of the Han Dynasty should be killed if he is guilty. I wish you to be the envoy of Wusun and be punished thirty rods. After our army is victorious, we will be killed!"

Yan Xing and the envoy smiled and waved, "I'm sorry to send it away!"

After slapping the envoy and letting him leave, Xun You shook his head gently and said, "A strong country and weak ministers can still protect themselves from their own mediocrity; a weak country and strong ministers will be defeated to the point where they have no place to regard themselves!"

Yan Xing laughed and said, "How should a strong country and strong minister like us make a conclusion!"

Xun Youleng glanced at him and said, "You must not lose in your life. If you lose in one life, you will have no chance. The stronger the country, the more you cannot lose!"

Yan Xing stopped slightly and smiled again, "Wealth is determined by heaven, life and death are up to oneself, and we will never dare to make any mistakes!"

Xun You's expression was slightly relaxed and said, "If you lose at this time, the great cause of the emperor will be affected. Now we are either fighting here, or Xingzhou is preparing to eliminate Goguryeo. The army of Jinan has begun to gather, and the food and arms have been concentrated in Jinan and Luoyang. After the unification of the Western Regions and the destruction of Goguryeo, the emperor is preparing to conquer the north in person. You must be safe here. Once there is any loss, the situation in the whole world will be affected!"

Yan Xing said "ah" and said, "To be safe, the garrisons in the Western Regions will leave a defense camp. Jincheng Gong (leading the army straight into the middle, and I will attack from Alashankou after I can guarantee victory!"

Xun You breathed a sigh of relief and pointed at Yan Xing and said, "You, you're too proud just now. Now the strategy is the complete one!"

Ma Teng smiled and said, "If so, as long as General Yan breaks his promise!"

Yan Xing looked around and pretended to be ignorant, and asked, "What did I say just now, why can't I remember it myself!"

The three of them laughed, raised their glasses and drank together, left the handsome tent together, stood on the vast ethereal grassland, staring into the distance.

A soldier hurriedly reported: "The Wusun cavalry has launched a large-scale attack, but the number is too large, more than 100,000!"

Xun You frowned, climbed up the Arrow Tower, and watched through the three-foot-long Hawkeye. This Hawkeye could view the military dynamics sixty miles away. Through the Hawkeye, Xun You saw that a large-scale cavalry was indeed moving in the distance, and said to the scout: "Continue to investigate!"

He turned around and said to Yan Xing and others: "We underestimate Wusun and his opponents too much. Their envoys were false, and the surprise attack was true. The number of cavalry attacks this time far exceeded our assumptions!"

Yan Xing also came up to watch, and glanced through Hawkeye for a long time, and said to Xun You very quietly: "There are about 200,000 cavalrymen. This is not the strength that the Wusun Kingdom can bring out. It may be the remaining Xiongnu people who remained near Jinshan. In addition, there are indeed many nomadic tribes west of Wusun, but it is unlikely to raise 200,000. There must be articles here. Now, only the Xianbei people in the Xianbei area of ​​Yanran Mountain and Anxishui can still have this strength, but they should not be able to come so quickly. Besides, there are Jinshan Mountains in the middle. Jinshan is stretching thousands of miles, which may be longer and colder than the Tianshan Mountains. It is definitely not a place that can be passed easily. Moreover, there are 100,000 troops, and supply is a problem along the way, so it is certain that it is not the Xianbei and the Xiongnu."

Ma Teng asked: "It may be that Kangju and Yan Cai have sent troops. After all, all the men in Wusun are soldiers, and 100,000 can be raised."

Xun You said: "It's too simple to think about it. The two small countries of Kangju and Yancai are only 30,000, and even if the whole country is in charge, there must be an enemy we would not expect to send troops. In short, there is no matter who we are garrisoned first, let the troops stationed in each county be in the back. If they are washed away, they will immediately disperse. They can only be placed behind and serve as a supporter to order all the crossbowmen to go to the arrow tower!"

Yan Xing nodded and said, "The method of cavalry fighting is mainly flexible impact, especially those cavalry are hunters on the grassland, and they can only rely on horses to advance quickly! The Western Expedition and Dingxi are the most typical rangers of the Han Dynasty, and running is our strength, so Mr. Xun, please let me fight with Mr. Jincheng."

Xun You looked at the large-scale cavalry vaguely visible to the northwest and said, "Then according to your wishes, the rangers will be mobilized, while the garrison will rely on the lake and arrow tower to confront the other side. However, the two generals can only win, not lose."

Yan Xing rushed down the arrow tower slightly, jumped onto his horse, raised his sword and shouted with the generals behind him, "There is a soldier coming, brothers, let them know the benefits of our Dingxi Journey!"

Shule Gong Yanli and Che Shi Gong Yanzi both led the troops to the expedition themselves. They also blew the whistle and led the cavalry to board the horses. Xun You hurriedly said: "You just need to stay here and guard!"

Yan Li said: "I am also a marquis of the Han Dynasty. Now that there are foreign enemies attacking me, you should lead the army to attack him. Sir, don't stop me. Our Shule men should also prove that we are the bravest men in the Western Regions!"

Che Shigong Yan Zi said: "Although Che Shi's cavalry is not as good as the big man, he is also a good man who can shoot and fight. The enemy is ahead, and it is the time to prove to the grassland that we are real men!"

They blew the long whistle loudly and summoned the warriors from the headquarters to fight. Yan Xing and Ma Teng were both from Xiliang, with similar tempers to them, but instead supported them to fight with them!

The other counties sent the princes. As soon as they were encouraged by the two of them, they also whistled loudly and led all their troops to rush over.

The soldiers on the arrow tower shouted loudly to Xun You: "Former General, you can see their banner clearly. There are three banners."

Xun You ran up the Arrow Tower and moved over Hawkeye to see that there were indeed three types of banners. One side was the banner of Kangju, but the number was not large, and only less than 20,000 people. In addition to the banner of the Cheshi people, there were about 100,000 people who had never seen it. The head sign of the white horse on the green background. At a glance, the military horses of those people were obviously one head taller than the Wusun war horses. I was shocked. The war horses used by the cavalry were so tall that they were rare in their lives, and they were almost only slightly shorter than the red rabbit.
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