The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

Liu Zheng changed the subject, and actually took the initiative to defend Su Puyan.

Hearing Liu Zheng's words, there was still some tension just now, but at this moment, there was finally some relief.Those Karasuma people finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, everyone looked at Liu Zheng, looked at Liu Zheng again, and began to think about what Liu Zheng meant at this time. Since they knew that they were not the ones who attacked Youzhou, why did they come to Wang Ting at this time? Xingshi asked the crime.

"Since you know all about it, why are you still here?"

"Of course I came here to ask Su Puyan Shanyu about you. He is obviously a Shanyu from Karasuma, but he was ignored by people from other tribes and didn't take you seriously. This matter is embarrassing. Don't you even care?"

"If you say you don't care, then I have nothing to say here. If you care, I'm right to come here."

Liu Zheng didn't say much, after saying something that was not very clear, he walked to a table on his own, and then sat cross-legged without waiting for others to say anything, and picked up the tea on the table , I poured myself a glass and drank it.

It's winter, it's freezing cold, and it's really cold outside. In the big tent, because of the carbon fire, the temperature is still warmer, but it's not as comfortable as drinking hot tea.

Seeing that Liu Zheng was so familiar, Su Puyan frowned, but didn't say much, just followed what Liu Zheng said just now.

"What's the use of my opinion? My tribe has only a thousand households and a population of ten thousand at most. It's difficult for you to let me openly fight with Qiu Liju. Is it difficult for them to challenge them? Do I have the strength?"

Su Puyan didn't want to say these things at first, because he knew that Liu Zheng might not be able to understand these things. Maybe Liu Zheng understood that he, Shan Yu, was just a puppet, but Liu Zheng didn't know that the strength of their tribe's men and horses, Among the many tribes in Karasuma, they are not popular at all.

It can't be said that they are not popular, after all, there are as many as a thousand households, presumably the gap between the most powerful Nanlou and Qiu Liju and others is too great.

So it's not that Su Puyan has no ambitions, but that even if he has ambitions, he is powerless to change this situation.

Of course, the main reason is that he is not smart enough. If he was smart enough, he would have thought of contacting the Han Dynasty and overthrowing other tribes to achieve Karasuma's unification.

"Your strength is no more than a thousand households, but have you forgotten that you are the Chanyu conferred by our big man? You can contact our big man to eradicate those remnants. Isn't it you who will benefit in the end?"

But as soon as Liu Zheng said these words, before Su Puyan answered, there was a person on the seat on the left, who immediately mocked unconvinced.

"Hmph, you still have the nerve to call the big man, I'm afraid the big man won't help us unify Karasuma at all. It's too late for the big man to see our Karasuma split apart, so how can he help us unify the whole Karasuma?"

What that person said immediately woke up Liu Zheng.

The Great Han court is really not very good at helping Su Puyan and unifying the entire Karasuma. Karasuma is just a buffer zone established by the Han Dynasty in the north to buffer the relationship with the Xianbei people in the north. In the early days, the Han court did not look at it at all .

At the same time, in order to prevent Karasuma from making chaos and becoming bigger, Karasuma was deliberately split, otherwise the Han Dynasty would directly let the strongest Nanlou be the Shanyu, and then Nanlou would let the flow take its course and unify the entire Karasuma.

However, the Han Dynasty chose to let the weak and weak Su Puyan be the Shanyu. It is conceivable that the Han Dynasty had no good intentions at all, and deliberately let Karasuma's various ministries fight among themselves.

And these Karasuma people are naturally aware of this, but they know it well, but there is nothing they can do. Su Puyan and others, knowing that this is a strategy of the Han Dynasty, still gladly accept the position of Shan Yu.

Not for anything else, just to not want to be annexed by Nanlou and others.

This is called Yangmou.

And the world's number one conspiracy, it was Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who came up with the Tweeting Order.

A decree eliminates the threat of armed forces in a potential place for nearly a hundred years, making the emperor more like an emperor.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che adopted the suggestion of his father, Yan, to let the local princes and kings die. In addition to the sons who inherited the throne, they should also grant land to those concubines who did not inherit the throne. The second son inherits the throne and at the same time gives a bowl of soup to the other brothers.

The elder brother ate meat and the younger brother ate bone dregs and drank soup. From this, it can be seen that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was a great lucky star who fought for the welfare of the bastards.

When the local vassals are too strong, powerful enough to threaten the imperial power, when the Tweet Order comes out, the armed forces of these vassals will be directly disintegrated.

Originally, the main contradiction to quell the feudal towns was to cut down the feudal vassals, but as soon as the Tweeting Order came out, the concubines of the princes and kings had an upright slogan to demand the fiefdoms and disintegrate the power of the princes. Small, after a few generations, there is no threat at all.

The Han court, which is good at playing tricks, also used the same methods against Karasuma.

But today is different, and Karasuma is not a fool. If a powerful tribe wants to rise, they can only go south to capture the territory of the Han Dynasty.

"How could the Great Han Dynasty be happy to see your Karasuma split? Do you have any misunderstandings about our great Han? It doesn't matter. I came here this time to eliminate the misunderstanding between us, and this time is different from the past. Now, Qiu Liju's crime has made the court furious and decided to get rid of him."

Liu Zheng talked nonsense with his eyes open, and there was no basis for it. Under his eloquent description, Su Puyan and all the people in the Karasuma court were also interested.

"You want to deal with Qiu Liju?"

At this time, Su Puyan looked at Liu Zheng with interest, and asked Liu Zheng in a tentative tone.

"Of course, if you don't want to deal with Qiu Liju, what are we doing in your royal court?"

"How do you want to deal with him?"

Su Puyan was silent for a moment, knowing that he had hit the point at this time, staring at Liu Zheng, and asked what he wanted to ask.

"It depends on Su Boyan Shanyu's performance."

Chapter 393 You Taste, You Taste Carefully

Su Puyan was stunned when he heard Liu Zheng's words.

"What does it have to do with me if you want to deal with Qiu Liju? Could it be that you still expect me to send troops to attack Qiu Liju?"

Su Puyan smiled instead of anger, and seemed to be more and more interested in the big man envoy in front of him.

"If you think this way, then you are really naive. Let alone whether I have the strength to deal with Qiu Liju, why do you think I have the strength to deal with Qiu Liju? How about helping you deal with Qiu Liju at this time?"

After all, Su Puyan is from Karasuma, and Qiu Liju is also from Karasuma. Although there are infighting among Karasuma, Su Puyan is still smart when facing the behemoth of the Han Dynasty. The infighting among the Karasuma people once again became the time for the Han Dynasty to take advantage of it.

But Liu Zheng also smiled at this time.

"No, no, no, Su Boyan, Shanyu, you got the situation wrong, you're not helping me, you're helping yourself."

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Liu Zheng's mouth, and then he looked at Su Puyan playfully.

"Help me? What do you mean?"

After Su Puyan heard Liu Zheng's words, he immediately frowned, as if he didn't quite understand what Liu Zheng was trying to say.

"Didn't I tell you just now, if you are ambitious, we will continue to talk, if you are not ambitious, what we are going to talk about next is meaningless."

Liu Zheng was not in a hurry. After saying something to Su Puyan, he stopped talking, but waited for Su Puyan to continue talking.

Because only Su Puyan was interested, Liu Zheng could continue to speak. If Su Puyan was not interested in what he said at all, then it would be useless for Liu Zheng to continue speaking.

Sure enough, Su Puyan heard what Liu Zheng said, and his curiosity was completely aroused by Liu Zheng.

"what do you want to say in the end?"

Su Puyan stared at Liu Zheng, waiting for Liu Zheng's next sentence.

"What I want to say is that now such a great opportunity is in front of you, Shan Yu, but you don't know how to cherish it. Instead, you are still letting this opportunity push yourself into the abyss."

"What chance are you talking about?"

"Shanyu, I won't talk about anything else, let's talk about the situation in Youzhou, how many people are under Qiu Liju's command?"

In fact, Liu Zheng doesn't know how many people Qiu Liju has. He is sure that Su Puyan must know. To frighten and frighten Su Puyan.

"Qiu Liju's strength is also outstanding among our Karasuma tribes. Not counting the slaves under his command, the members of the tribe alone have [-] households, and he can muster at least [-] troops."

Although [-] troops is only a general figure, Liu Zheng believes that Su Puyan will definitely not talk nonsense, there must be some basis for him to say such a thing.

The population of Karasuma people is not large, and each tribe is counted according to each tribe. There are as few as four or five people, as many as more than ten people. At least 6 to [-] people.

This does not include the Han slaves under his control. Counting this, it is not difficult to form an army of more than 5 horses.

"With an army of 5 horses, plus his cooperation with the former Zhongshan prefect Zhang Ju, Zhang Chun and others, these two men have more than 10 soldiers and horses under their command. With such strength, it is definitely the strongest in all parts of Liaodong. It's gone."

"Yes, there was originally Nanlou who could overwhelm Qiu Liju, but after Qiu Liju cooperated with the Han people, the strength of his men has greatly increased, far surpassing Nanlou, and now Qiu Liju is already the strongest in this area. Big tribe."

"That's right. After Qiu Liju controls the entire Youzhou, Su Puyan, do you still think that Qiu Liju is easy to be subordinate to others?"

Liu Zheng looked at Su Puyan with a smile. This kind of unfounded conjecture, Liu Zheng can easily come up with, anyway, it's just a guess, and he doesn't need to make it happen.

But Liu Zheng's guess was not a random guess, but hit the string in people's hearts.

This touching string.

"Even if it is you, after declaring war with the Han Dynasty, you have enough strength to control the entire Youzhou, would you still obey a puppet Shanyu?"

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, Su Puyan began to fall into deep thought.

"So, let me tell you, dealing with Qiu Liju is not doing things for the Han Dynasty. You are planning a way out for yourself if you send troops to deal with Qiu Liju."

When Liu Zheng saw that Su Puyan had begun to fall into a state of contemplation, he knew that this guy had already begun to think about it, so he immediately added another sentence. He didn't say that he was sending troops for the Han Dynasty, but that it was done. Pu Yan sent troops to save himself, but when he said that, his meaning changed.

Su Puyan was not very interested in sending troops for the sake of the Han Dynasty. After all, it was unknown how much enthusiasm Su Puyan, Karasuma Chanyu, had for the Han Dynasty, and he would not care about the life and death of the Han Dynasty.

But when this matter is involved in himself, this matter is different.

There is no one who does not care about his own affairs, so Su Boyan soon understood that if he wants to continue to survive in this place, it is impossible not to think about himself.

After all, this world is a world where the weak prey on the strong. What Liu Zheng said may not be impossible. He also knows who Qiu Liju is and has ambitions.

Unless Su Puyan tactfully surrendered the position of Chanyu to Qiu Liju, he would be able to protect himself from being annexed by Qiu Liju. Otherwise, if Qiu Liju coveted the position of Chanyu, then Su Puyan and His tribe will definitely not live long.

But when Su Boyan was still in deep thought, the subordinates at the side spoke for Su Boyan first.

"Hmph, how could Qiu Liju deal with us? After all, we are all Karasuma people. For the sake of Karasuma people, at most, we just want us to hand over Shanyu's seat to him. We won't do anything. , anyway, we don't have the strength to get this position of Shan Yu."

When this person opened his mouth like this, he had already discussed the possibility of follow-up for Su Puyan, and made Su Puyan, who was in deep thought, understand a little bit.

"That's right, we are from Karasuma after all, Qiu Liju shouldn't do anything to us, but you big fellows, I'm afraid it will be very difficult to get away from Qiu Liju this time, I heard that some time ago, the big fellow was There is a split, there are several emperors in the Central Plains, and various princes are besieging Luoyang, I am afraid that the imperial court will not have the time to manage the affairs of Youzhou."

Although Su Puyan doesn't know anything, he has heard about the Central Plains.

Chapter 394 Another Thing

It's not just Su Puyan who has heard about it, some other leaders of Karasuma are also aware of the situation in the Central Plains. After all, if they don't know the situation in the Central Plains, how dare they come out to make trouble at this time.

It is precisely because they have calculated correctly that the Han court in the Central Plains has no time to take care of the affairs in the north at this time, and is busy with Xiliang and dealing with other princes. If they come out to make a fuss, it will not cause any trouble at all.

No matter what, they can loot the whole Youzhou. When the time comes, the people from the imperial court will really come to quell the chaos. The worst thing they can do is to give up and retreat to their territory.

The people in the imperial court would not delve into it too deeply. After all, when they had no food in the past, they would occasionally attack the big man and loot.

This year, it was just that there was more commotion. If it didn’t work, the responsibility was shifted to Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun. With these scapegoats, these Karasuma people can actually rest easy.

That's why Qiu Liju started to attack Youzhou immediately after Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun talked a little bit, because they didn't have a good relationship with Zhang Chun at all, but purely to take advantage of the fire.

If the imperial court is unable to come over to quell the chaos, they can take the opportunity to occupy Youzhou, and then strengthen themselves. After the internal fighting in the Central Plains becomes out of control, they may still join the Central Plains and compete together.

This point was not only thought of by Qiu Liju, Su Boyan, the Karasuma Chanyu, could naturally understand some of the stakes.

"So, I have already made it clear from the beginning that if you, Su Boyan, are ambitious and want to be a real Karasuma Chanyu, this is your chance. If you don't have ambitions and just want to be safe In your later years, if you are a tribal leader and a puppet Shanyu, you can do as you want."

"If you are ambitious, when Qiu Liju's troops are going to plunder Youzhou, you suddenly send troops to kill Qiu Liju's old lair, do you think you can suppress Qiu Liju?"

"As far as I know, Nanlou, Qiu Liju's favorite son, should be in his lair right now. If you invite his son to your tribe, it doesn't matter whether Qiu Liju can win the battle against the Han Dynasty. No matter how negative you are, you will be invincible."

"If Qiu Liju occupies Youzhou, and you have his son Nanlou as a threat, Qiu Liju dare not do anything to you. If Qiu Liju is defeated by the soldiers of the Han Dynasty, you can surrender Nanlou on your own initiative. Invite credit, and at the same time annex Qiu Liju's troops."

"Such a thing that kills multiple birds with one stone, I think you should appreciate the gains and losses in it."

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, he stopped talking.

Just let Su Puyan recollect the content of these words by himself.

Liu Zheng didn't come here specifically to persuade Su Puyan to deal with Qiu Liju, why did he need to do so much, because at this time, the Han Dynasty really couldn't separate himself from it to deal with these Karasuma people.

In normal history, after the Karasuma people invaded Youzhou, they would soon be defeated by the newly appointed governor of Youzhou, Liu Yu. Zhang Ju and Zhang Chun were killed, Qiu Liju and Nanlou, etc. The tribe surrendered directly.

But at this time, the Han court was troubled internally and externally, and they couldn't handle their own affairs cleanly. How could they have the time to manage the war in Youzhou, let alone Youzhou, I'm afraid those princes will start trouble again soon.

Liu Zheng had found out before that Yuan Shao seemed to want to establish a new emperor to fight against Luoyang. From this point of view, things in Youzhou would definitely slow down.

At this time, it is impossible for Liu Zheng to let the Karasuma people continue to do things here. He doesn't hate the Han court, but what he hates is foreign invasion.

It's like the chaos of the Five Husbands, and it will be a disaster for the people of the world if foreign races invade the Central Plains.

So in order to strangle the strength of these Karasuma people, Liu Zheng tried his best to let them fight among themselves first.

Of course, Liu Zheng was just talking casually. As for whether Su Puyan would really take the opportunity to attack Qiu Liju, that was not something Liu Zheng wanted to ponder.

The purpose of his coming here, the fundamental purpose is actually to buy a horse.

After being silent for a moment and giving Su Puyan enough time to think, Liu Zheng continued to speak.

"I won't say much about Shanyu and whether you sent troops to deal with Qiu Liju. You should consider this matter yourself. I'm just giving you a reference. I'm here because there is another important matter. of."

"What else is there?"

Liu Zheng's words aroused the question of Su Puyan who was thinking, raised his head, and said something to Liu Zheng impatiently.

"This matter, for Su Puyan alone, is a good thing for you."

"I heard that you, Karasuma, don't have enough food every winter. I think I can help you solve this problem."

As soon as Liu Zheng spoke, Su Puyan, who was still a little impatient just now, immediately became interested.

The Karasuma people are really short of food, especially in winter. If they don't go to the big men to rob them every winter, they can only kill cattle and sheep, and even war horses to spend the winter.