The days when I pretended to be a cat in the Forbidden City[Comprehensive]

"Brother, you mean... support the third force?" Liu Zhi frowned suddenly, this was more acceptable to him than supporting the Huns again, but... "How long will it take..."

The picky little Douding was a little dissatisfied with this.

"No, the third force has always been there," his elder brother waved, and brought the three little bean dices to the table. The young man used tea as a pen and paper, and drew a map of the territory of the Huns in the northern part of the Han Dynasty, " The Huns seem to be one, but they are generally divided into royal court, left, and right, and at the same time, there is a group of other nomadic captives led by them."

"The Huns would use these captives as a strong labor force in ordinary wars. This part is also equivalent to their auxiliary soldiers and as a meat shield. So even if I go out of the border and attack the Huns in the north, I still can't hurt their essence. As far as the Huns are concerned, they only need to plunder a few other tribes and bring in strong labor to replenish their troops."

As soon as he finished speaking, the expressions of the children became serious. When they heard Cheng Bushi tell the story of the army before, they said that the Han army always shouted "Kill an unidentified man" when he was most desperate. Lose money, die two earned】Slogan, several little Doudings were infected by the words at that time, and all of them were excited.

Now his elder brother said that these heroic deeds of being killed by their Han soldiers were not the lives of the Huns at all. If the lives of their Han men were exchanged for the consumables of the Huns, then One thing they can't accept.

Xia Anran continued: "These people are extremely vicious on weekdays, because they are the biggest consumables. For the Huns, they may be abandoned at any time, so every battle is their life-threatening battle. In order not to die, and in order to escape the fate of becoming an abandoned soldier at any time, they will want to achieve enough results in every battle."

"Dogs raised by dogs are the most vicious."

Liu Che heard the strings and knew the meaning, "Brother, what do you mean, they are the third force?"

His elder brother nodded, "This force spreads all over the other ministries. It's not that these people don't have hatred for the Huns, they just forget it, so we have to help them remember."

"Some people, after a long time of misbehavior, forget that they were victims too, and they even double down on the victims, using the excuse of 'the right of the strong'.He will also beautify his actions as "Mu Qiang"" The corner of the little king's lips raised, revealing a sharp smile, "The real Mu Qiang is definitely not one who has given up his self-esteem to follow, but the one who admires him. , learn it, and strengthen yourself. "

"They can only be called foxes and tigers."

The children took a deep breath, feeling that there were all kinds of feelings in their hearts that they couldn't vent, so they all clenched their fists.

"If you don't become stronger, a fox will be a fox after all, and a dog will be a dog after all," Xia Anran continued, "So what we have to do is to help them remember this fact."

After all, we all want to make progress together.

The little king said that the peace-loving Han people very much want to wake up these Gentile masses and prevent them from sinking in illusions.How can villagers who are also in the global village watch each other step by step towards extinction?

This is not in line with Dahan's warm and friendly style.

Several little Doudings were silent about this statement, and even Liu Xiaozhu couldn't go against his will at this moment to go along with his brother. Instead, Dou Wan, who had been silent all the time, coughed lightly and made a conclusion, "Your Highness means to support the Xiongnu. Do you want to fight against the royal court, and then arouse the dissatisfaction among the prisoners of other tribes in the Huns?"

The little king nodded, and he looked at Liu Zhi seriously, "The premise of all this is that we can touch the internal affairs of the Xiongnu."

"internal affairs……?"

Liu Zhi blinked and suddenly realized, "That's why the father sold ceramics, salt and silk cloth to them?"

The little king nodded with a smile, "You might as well think about it again, what's the benefit?"

Xiao Douding tilted his head, thought for a long time, and said that he couldn't think of spicy food.

Xia Anran smiled and pointed to the flock of migratory birds outside.While they were talking, a few more birds settled down seeing the place in peace, "Look at these birds outside, if they are left here by us in the first year, there will be other birds in the second year. The migratory birds watched them live in vain after staying..."

"Then they will stay too!" Liu She replied excitedly, "I understand!"

"I have seen the Huns envoys, they wear animal skins and feathers, like uncivilized savages, if some Huns start to wear our big man's clothes, learn the big man's etiquette, follow my big man's living habits, time will After a long time, they will also drive other Huns."

"After hundreds of years, they may speak the same language as us, learn the same poems and articles, wear the same clothes, and use the same etiquette. Then will they be Huns or Han people?"

"This is assimilation," Xia Anran said with a sigh, "but it's not just that."

Dou Wan said softly: "These Huns will become identified with the Han culture."

Xia Anran nodded, he and Dou Wan looked at each other, and felt that the two of them really matched each other very much.

This is cultural aggression.

The external superficial culture is nothing at all, and the inner ideological identification is the most important. With ideological identification, there will be a natural sympathy, and with this sympathy, many things will be much easier to handle.

The cultural foundation of the Xiongnu itself is very weak, and now the Bank of China is holding up the barriers of the Huns to prevent the Xiongnu from accepting the soft cultural infiltration of the big Han, but this kind of infiltration is invisible.

As long as the culture of the big man is bright enough, there is no fear that the Huns will not be tempted.Because the appreciation of beauty is innate, babies will choose beautiful people to hug.

Liu Xiaozhu is only four years old, isn't he already a severe face control patient?

"It's just that the premise of all this is that we big men are strong enough, otherwise we are just fat sheep that are readily available to others and the objects of offering sacrifices."

"We are not strong, no one wants to understand us, and no one wants to learn from us."

The little bean dings all clenched their fists and said that we will work hard, work together to defeat the Huns, fatten the Huns, and then eat them, ah no, assimilate.

The little king tilted his head, always feeling that something was wrong, as if he had missed something important, but he couldn't remember it for a while.

Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard a sharp cry of a bird.Everyone in the hall looked outside one after another, and saw a duck with taupe feathers spreading its wings to provoke a swan.

Isn't that Duoduo Duck?

And the provocative swan looked at Duoduo very calmly, without any intention of fighting.So, Duoduo kept making various movements. After several times, the whooper swan was obviously no longer ready to tolerate this junior. It slowly puffed up the feathers on its wings and puffed up its two big wings. When he stood up, the whole bird seemed to have grown in size.

But this is not the attacking stance of the swan, at most it is a warning.

Faced with this kind of warning, Duoduo was very excited, it kept quacking, and then imitated the whooper swan and puffed up its gray wings.

This action immediately showed the difference in size between the two birds, Duoduo was a circle smaller than the whooper swan.Seeing this, the birds on the side swam away slowly, and they could all see that the leader wanted to teach this unruly bird a lesson.

"Duo Duo!" Seeing this, several little bean dings immediately ran out of the room. They stood on the eaves of the door to cheer for their friends, and their attitude of helping their relatives was very obvious, "Duo Duo!"

Xia Anran also stood up. He put on the convenient wooden shoes and got off the ground. Seeing that a few Doudings wanted to come down, he hurriedly stopped him, "Don't come down, be careful of accidental injury."

The little bean dings looked at Dou Wan who went down to the ground with some dissatisfaction, and then looked at Xia Anran, their attitude was very obvious—why did Dou Wan come down?

Just because he can win a lot, you can't.

……All right.

The little bean dings were immediately punctured by the skin of the buns, and became sluggish.

None of the men intended to stop this war. Although Xia Anran thought this war was unnecessary, it was chosen by many young men.Moreover, the fights between birds rarely hurt the root cause, and most of them end up at the end... Duoduo usually dominates and dominates, so it's time for him to receive some setbacks and education.

While thinking this way, he glanced around the flock of birds and saw many gray birds that were blocked by other swans intentionally or unintentionally. He blinked, and his round eyes immediately widened.

Now no matter how stupid he is, he knows that these gray birds are the young swans, or they are sub-adults, Xia Anran suddenly turned his head to look at Duoduo Ya, they look, they look the same!

So their parents have some strange Duoduo ducks, but they are really swans!

Xia Anran was stunned, and he couldn't help giving a big thumbs up to Liu Xiaoche, the chosen son of this world, whose mouth seemed to be consecrated.

But at the same time, he also looked at the other side with some worry. It didn't matter whether it was a different breed, but now Duoduo is obviously an underage goose.This underage cub challenged the adult swan leader?

Although the leader of the swan is actually the leader of a small team, this kind of bird, which has no natural enemies in nature as long as it is an adult, usually does not gather in large groups like herbivores, and generally has small families. , or there are also small group activities for bachelors.

But the swan itself is not considered an aggressive animal...it should be fine...

Xia Anran, who just thought this way, saw Duoduo and the fighting swan swimming away back to back, and then stopped at a very suitable distance from each other in an extremely gentlemanly manner. After looking at each other, they spread their wings at the same time, and then Then they started to flap their wings and speed up, supplemented by slapping the water surface with their feet, and rushed towards each other, with a very fierce posture.

Xia Anran: ...?

Wait, it was agreed that even if it was a fight, it would go to the end, and it would not hurt each other's peace angels?

Next, Xia Anran saw an extremely intense action movie. The big swan flapped its wings repeatedly, and its paws stepped on Duoduo's face fiercely. Duoduo's wings also fought back fiercely. The two birds fought. The world is turned upside down, and the white hairs are flying.

Seeing that Duoduo was at a disadvantage, the few little Doudings refused to follow, and cheered one after another.Xia Anran is a little worried, the difference in body size is right in front of her eyes, and after all, Duoduo has lived in the crowd all year round, and has never lived with the same kind, after all, it will lack some experience as a swan.

"Gah!" Just as he was thinking this way, Duoduo uttered a sharp cry, and then pecked at the swan with his long beak. Commonly known as the graceful chirp.

In comparison...cough, even if it is her own goose, Xia Anran feels that Duoduo is at least losing in singing voice.

Xia Anran silently covered her face, and quietly approached Dou Wan, who usually had a good time with Duo Duo, and asked, "Ah Wan, can that goose understand what we are talking about?"

Dou Wan: ...

In fact, sometimes Dou Wan really can't understand Xia Anran's thinking, the little king's mind is always filled with all kinds of weird thoughts, like a powerful and unconstrained style.Fortunately, Xia Anran just asked casually, and didn't intend to get an answer.

He carefully watched the situation where the two swans were tearing their feathers and flying wildly. The more he watched, the more he felt that something was wrong. This was definitely not an ordinary contest, but it was obviously a real fight.

This is extremely unfavorable to Duoduo Duck, its physical disadvantage is too obvious, and its physical strength is definitely not as good as that of its predecessors who have at least one long-distance flight experience.

In the world of migratory birds, there is actually an unspoken rule—a bird that has not experienced a long-distance flight, even if it is extremely strong, cannot become the head bird.

Long-distance flights test not only physical strength, but also teamwork ability, experience technology, endurance and of course self-control.So in the world of migratory birds, no matter how talented a young bird is, before it has experienced migration, it is just a child in the eyes of other birds.

Swans are the weakest birds among birds, and they even take the initiative to adopt the lost children of other swans.In the swan population, they will not do things to murder their competitors in advance. When encountering disputes, they will negotiate first. Most of the birds who are at fault will leave on their own. The battle usually ends when there is no agreement or repeated violations. will happen.

This was the reason why Xia Anran let it go before, but now, seeing the two birds obviously fighting for real, Xia Anran couldn't sit still any longer.

He was stopped by Dou Wan as soon as he made a move. Seeing the obvious anxious expression on the little king's face, Dou Wan was a little surprised. He let go of the five fingers that were impolitely grabbing the little king's wrist and explained: "Your Highness, don't worry, the big goose It's teaching a lot."

Xia Anran silently glanced at the two wild geese, and then looked at Dou Wan's expression, feeling somewhat suspicious.you sure?He raised his eyebrows.

Sure.

Dou Wan nodded slightly.

Well, Xia Anran believed in the judgment of professionals, he pursed his lips, and decided to continue to be a qualified bystander.

Seeing that he recognized his judgment so easily, Dou Wan's eyes moved slightly, and he explained softly: "Duo Duo started to use his wings more in his attacking movements."

Xia Anran was taken aback for a moment, and he looked intently at the field. After careful observation, he found that it was indeed the case. Is there any difference?

"Duoduo's previous attack habits were mainly biting and biting," Dou Wan explained to him. Seeing the little king's complicated expression, he coughed lightly and added with a smile, "Perhaps it was because of the person Duoduo usually studied. It's like chickens and ducks."

This sentence successfully made Xia Anran's heart skip a beat, and she immediately felt that she was delaying her son.Just at this time, Dou Wan said: "Even if it is a swan, if it keeps getting entangled with chickens and ducks, it will not become a real swan."

Xia Anran was stunned, he turned his head to look at Dou Wan, wondering if he said it unintentionally, or if there was something in his words, but Dou Wan looked calm, seeing him look over with a puzzled look.

illusion?Xia Anran pursed her lips.

But even if it was Dou Wan's momentary feeling, combined with the current situation, Xia Anran couldn't help but fall into deep thought: Is there something wrong with his education method?

Looking at the few Douding watching the battle behind him, he couldn't help pinching his fingers again.Liu She is only four years old, even if you count the false age plus the new year in October, he is only seven years old. Does Dou Wan mean that he is a little too relaxed with Liu She?

Or, does Dou Wan despise Liu Xiaozhu's little companion?

Indeed, an ordinary little prince will always choose an older one... For example, he has Cao Shou as his companion.Liu Zhi's accompanying reading team is basically the same age as him, or even younger than him, so Liu Xiaozhu plays the role of the undoubted leader and speaker in his group.

Such a configuration...is there a problem?

Looking at Dou Wan again, the latter was paying attention to Duoduo's situation wholeheartedly, Xia Anran put aside this doubt for the time being, he planned to wait and ask his own tutor directly.

I really didn't pay attention to this issue before. As a little prince, Liu Sheng never considered related issues. The little prince of the Han Dynasty basically only needs silly fun.

On that side, the duel between Duoduo and the whooper swan has come to an end. The whooper swan flapped its wings and cruised on the water, singing loudly at the same time.Duoduo followed behind him and patted his own wings.

The whooper swan looked back at him, turned around to face him, then raised its neck and let out a high-pitched cry, Duoduo's long neck moved up and down, and then raised it up, "Goo..."

It made this sound softly, and then it became louder and louder until it was exactly like that of a whooper swan.

Duoduo finally learned the formal "goose" language.Xia Anran was a little relieved.

Little Douding also realized that it was the big swan teaching Duoduo to speak "goose". "Brother!" Liu Zhi ran down stomping, pinched his hem excitedly, and said with a smile, "Brother, did Duoduo make friends with the big swan?"

"Yes." Xia Anran glanced at the group of swans, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Hey, Duoduo may be going south with the big swans."

As soon as he said this, Xiao Douding was shocked immediately, why?Duoduo is not just making friends, why would he run away with his friends after a fight!

He looked at Duoduo who was swimming with the big swan over there, and at his elder brother who had a calm expression in front of him, feeling a little guilty.

If he hadn't proposed to come to Xiaozhuangzi, Brother wouldn't have brought Duoduo back.So Duoduo will never meet whooper swans, and make friends with whooper swans.If he hadn't made friends with the big swan, Duoduo wouldn't have left...

Xiao Douding was about to die of guilt, and then he felt his head was slapped twice, and his brother's gentle voice sounded beside his ears: "It's not your fault,"

Xia Anran said with a smile: "Look, the ugly duckling in the story will eventually return to the swan clan. Even if it's not today, Duoduo will return one day."

"But, but..." Liu Zhi muttered for a while before whispering, "Duoduo is not an ugly duckling."

"It is," Xia Anran helped Xiao Douding's drooping head up, pointing to a group of little gray birds carried behind by the big swan, "Those are little swans."

Liu Zhi looked around, and suddenly realized, his black eyes lit up immediately, "Duo Duo is really a swan!"

"Yes," Xia Anran also sighed a little, who would have thought that Liu Xiaoshe would only be excited for a while, and then asked with a deep expression, "Can't we keep all the swans?"

Xia Anran smiled and squeezed her younger brother's little cheek, "Then you can try hard, but even if you don't succeed in the end, you still have to smile and send Duoduo away."

Little Douding nodded solemnly. He glanced at Duoduo Goose, who had been accepted into the group by the whooper swan, and sighed like a little adult, "Try not to cry."

This appearance almost melted Xia Anran's heart. He put aside the thought of "Am I spoiling the child too much?" It's so cute, it's the best in the world!

Is there any problem with pampering such a cute little brother?Not at all!

The group left quietly, and Duoduo was left behind, playing happily with his new friends.The distance between Zhuangzi and Zhongshan King's Palace is not close, but not far, and Yu Duoduo is used to flying.If it wants to come back, it can.

That night, Liu Zhi got into Xia Anran's bed, and the two brothers were waiting for Duoduo to come back, but they didn't wait until the next day.

Liu Zhi was a little lost, even more lost than Xia Anran.

He even felt that he was so good to Duoduo, why did it leave us?Love and hate were at that moment, and Liu Zhi even refused the invitation to watch Duoduo with his friends for several days.

Brother Liu was very puzzled about Duoduo's departure so calmly.

"Why aren't you unhappy?" Xia Anran said to his younger brother who was squirming beside him, "Because this is growth."

The little prince seemed to understand but not understand.

Xia Anran smiled, "Great men rule the world with filial piety, but do you know why they don't rule the world with "filial piety"? "

"Because people can be filial, but they can't be obedient forever." He held his younger brother in his arms, patted the little prince's little meaty leg, felt that the fleshy feel there was particularly good, and gently pinched it again. Twice, "We grow up in different environments. Generally speaking, the offspring will receive more education than the parents. If you receive more education, you will find that the "truth" that the parents thought was not the truth, and even many of his behaviors are Incorrect. "

"In Confucianism, Confucius once said, "If a father contends with his son, he will not fall into injustice." It means that if a child feels that the elder is wrong or wrong, he should correct him. If he does not say anything and obeys blindly, On the contrary, it will make the elders do wrong things and leave a bad name. "

Seeing that Xiao Douding nodded to show that he understood, Xia Anran immediately poked his small chest, "He's a son now, you can say to the king, "Father, I think you did something wrong", but have you ever thought about it?" Will you be told that by your son one day? "

Liu Zhi immediately widened his eyes, groaned, and his face immediately became unhappy.Xia Anran smiled and pressed his wrinkled expression back to its original position, "It is the sign of your maturity that you can accept your children's troubles and respect their decisions with a just and fair attitude."

The child tilted his head, leaned on Xia Anran's shoulder, and murmured after a while, "So, the child is leaving us..."

"As long as they can take responsibility for their actions, let them go."

"The sky and the future belong to the juniors. If you don't let them go, how do you know they can't do it?"

"Then..." Xiao Douding twitched a bit, "Brother won't you worry a lot?"

"Yes," the little king sighed, "but just like my father was worried about us, but still let us out, this is also a kind of trust."

Liu Zhi pushed Xia Anran's shoulder with his small head, "So Father let us out because he believed us?"

"Ah."

"Then brother, do you believe me?"

"...I believe." Xia Anran raised her eyebrows.

"Brother, can you let me go to the hot spring village to play?"

Xia Anran silently put down Liu Xiaozhu, who felt that the situation was not good as soon as he landed, screamed and rushed out with the wind under his feet.

The child's skin is itchy, mostly itchy.

Just hit it.

Can't eat a meal?Then have two meals!

The author has something to say:

(Silently probes) Duoduo, Duoduo is an ugly duckling, are you surprised?

Cough cough, the author asked the proofreader again: What do you think Duoduo is?

The proofreader said very calmly: "Swan

Me: (shocked) How do you know?

Proofreader (calm): Otherwise, you did not write the ugly duckling in front of you for nothing, and you negated and affirmed it. This is a common routine in web articles.Otherwise, what's the point of Duoduo's existence?

Me: ...Actually, I am not, I have not!I'm just writing casually about the last coincidence...

woo~

Duoduo is a cub of the [Whooper Swan] species. The cubs of whooper swans are gray even when they are about the same size when they are young.

This is actually because whooper swans are born in the extremely cold north. When they lay their eggs, the temperature is still very low. The gray fur can effectively help them absorb light and heat and store energy.

And it may take them a year or two to change their white fur, but they will still grow to the size of adult swans.

Then swans are monogamous, they have cubs during the breeding season, and they usually fall in love, so the little swans will have many brothers with the same father and the same mother, and they will be kicked out after they are raised to one year old!

Then you can only watch the younger siblings being loved by their parents, but they will not be jealous at all... because... a year later, the younger siblings will also join their singles club.

quack quack quack

One interesting thing about swans is that although they act in small groups, only those swans who are in love and ready to have babies are eligible to enclose the territory after they arrive at the breeding ground. This has nothing to do with whether you are strong or not. If you lose your territory, other swans will come to advise you not to waste resources.

That's right, swans are pacifists who can move their mouths but don't move their hands (this is incompatible with their ability to fight)

Then the couple will take care of the cubs together, and then take the cubs all the way south when autumn comes.

And swans will adopt other children.

Of course, it doesn’t matter if they don’t marry for life once they are widowed. Some swans are like this, but there are also many who will marry wives (usually the mother swans who have accidents)

Because the swan egg ring site is generally used in the old place, so strictly speaking - the old swan has a homestead, and the old swan lays eggs and protects the eggs with mature skills, so old couples and young wives, cough, very common.

Moreover, female swans with experience in laying and raising eggs are also very popular with young cygnets.

But overall they are still very affectionate birds.

By the way, don’t those [singles club] swans who fly to the north usually have no homestead?Then they can only go guerrilla to various places to grab a meal or something, and some go back to ask their parents if they can get a meal, but they are generally rejected decisively, and a few are allowed to eat a meal before being driven away.

Incompetent sons and daughters will be criticized by their parents, (this is real)

Then the little swans who were scarred and unable to eat could only hug each other and lick each other's wounds... Then, they fell in love.

Although swans in love have no territory, they can despise single dog swans. Generally, single dogs will avoid them when they see this kind of thing, although this is public waters.

Although they are in love now, they can't keep up with laying eggs, and it takes about 3/4 years for the X of the swan to mature, so they may talk about falling in love for two years and give birth to cubs.

Isn't it very romantic?