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

In the seventh year of the Yuan Dynasty in the Han calendar,

July is the most beautiful season on the prairie.

At this time, the grassland is green everywhere, and the thick grass seems to be endless.

The flocks of sheep and cattle are scattered on the grassland, dotted together, and all of them are extremely fat. This year's new cubs follow their mothers and imitate their mothers to pick the tender grass on the ground.

Occasionally, there will be a dog barking, which is a responsible big dog warning the lamb that is about to run out of the protection circle.

But at this time, there was a continuous sound of horseshoes, and the sheep glanced in the direction of the sound, and then continued to eat grass without interest.

Hearing the sound of horseshoes, the woman in the tent hurriedly opened the curtain and got out, and when she saw her back, her family immediately went forward to meet her.

The leading man said a few words to his companions, got off his horse, and immediately unloaded the goods dragged by the horse one by one, very carefully.

"Today we met a Han Chinese caravan." The Xiongnu man had a joyful expression on his face. He patted the seemingly extremely heavy clay pot, "Do you know what I got in exchange?"

"What?" The woman widened her eyes, extremely happy.

"I exchanged the cloak you made of rabbit skin for salt."

"Salt!" The woman screamed, covering her mouth, but the last word was firmly stuck in her throat, but there was really nowhere to vent her joy, which made her turn around in place for a few times and then stomp her feet violently. After venting a little, he stabilized the expression on his face.

Seeing her happy appearance, the man also smiled, "It's okay, the Abler family who went with me this time also changed the salt, and then we and the people in the tribe will change some more. Everyone this winter You can save some food."

"God bless." The woman looked at the sky devoutly, "I hope this winter will be better. Last year, a great cold took the lives of too many people."

"We will offer more tributes during the autumn festival, and the gods will definitely bless our tribe." The man patted her on the shoulder, "Okay, come and see what else I have changed, the children will be happy of."

"What?" The woman approached curiously, and saw the man took out a small box from his pocket - the standard Han family goods packaging.When the woman saw the box, she was surprised and delighted, "You actually got medicine candy instead?"

The man said triumphantly, "It's not cheap. I bought it with two horses."

"Horse..." The woman's expression suddenly showed some hesitation. She looked around and asked in a low voice, "Didn't you say that you are not allowed to change horses?"

"Then change it secretly. This is a life-saving candy. The Han people are not willing to change this. This is their capital." The man stuffed the thing into the woman's arms, then whistled, and scattered far away. The flock of sheep heard the message and gradually gathered here.

The man said: "Get ready, let's leave here."

"Why, why so suddenly?" The woman was shocked, but she moved quickly, and called the children at home who hadn't gone out to graze because they were young.

They tore down a large tent and piled it on the carriage in twos and threes, and the men followed suit to help.

He kept moving, and said quickly while cleaning up: "The caravan we encountered came with the big Han envoys. There were many people, and there were many people who exchanged goods with them, so everyone knows what we exchanged."

The corners of the woman's lips immediately formed a straight line. She knew very well what her man meant by this, and the wealth exchanged was likely to attract the prying eyes of others.Although it is a relatively peaceful summer now, there is no guarantee that no one will make money.

The man's decision is right, and it is always right to be sure.

While the woman was taking her family to pack up, the men had already unloaded the horses that had galloped all the way back, and brought them water and food.

Next, they had to go through another emergency migration. The rest time for these horses was very short. In order to replenish energy, the man specially mixed wheat grains into the grain.

But after a while, the men heard the calls of the children going out to graze, "Grandma, Dad, why is it so early today?"

"Don't ask any more questions, pack up your things quickly, and we'll leave right away." The woman quickly assigned tasks to the children, "Quickly, quickly, move your legs and run."

"Take what you can take away, and stay here if you can't take it away, hurry up, don't dawdle!"

"Mom, what about the rabbit?"

Thinking of the rabbit that provided a lot of income for the family, the woman hesitated for a moment, but still gritted her teeth and said: "Take away the female rabbit and the baby rabbits that are still nursing, and throw away the male rabbits. If you can't catch them, just don't. Anyway, they Be quick. Hurry up, don't hesitate, children!"

The children didn't know what happened, but their long-term life on the grassland made them very aware of the saying "time is life".

The tribes on the prairie are very separated, and they are divided into several small areas based on the family unit. This is because the grazing way of life is destined to prevent their social circle from being too dense.

The couple took all their property and quickly moved towards the center of the tribe. Their decision was very prescient. Before the summer wind could completely erase the traces of their lives, a group of robbers appeared. The looters arrived here like jackals.

"They ran away." A man spat regretfully, "Unfortunately, I saw that they changed a lot of salt."

The other man didn't make a sound. He carefully observed the situation of the firewood near the fire, squeezed the firewood again, and then observed the scattered excrement on the grass, with some regret on his face, "I can't catch up. "

"Want to try?"

"No need, go find the next one." The man got on his horse without hesitation, put his legs between the horse's belly and let the falcon fly. The robbery team composed of about thirty young knights chased the falcon in the direction it was flying. chase after.

People on the prairie who live exclusively on looting are called jackals.

This is a group of disgusting existences. They hardly hunt by themselves. They usually wander around the trading points, and their eagle-like eyes quietly observe the merchants who come to exchange supplies in the dark.Once they are stared at by them, if the herdsmen are not vigilant enough and the tribe is not strong enough, they are very likely to be looted.

Originally, there were not many such existences, but as the Han, Hungarian, and Hu people traded more and more frequently, the huge chain of interests immediately made these people notice this way of making money.

They also have their own tribes, but these jackals are afraid that the tribes will be retaliated, so they usually deal with it very cleanly.Except for a few that were exposed by accident, most of the tribes are because they are very rich.

As a result, the tribe gradually supported the "wolves", and the "wolves" fed back to the tribe.

That is, robbery by order.

This is the case with this team of more than 30 young people, and their tribal status is not low.

They belonged to King Zuo Xian of the Xiongnu. Although their tribe did not come from the three noble families, but because the men were very brave and specialized in eagle archers, they also had a very high status under the account of King Zuo Xian.

But even so, it can't stop them from being fascinated by this method of obtaining property through looting, especially when they still have several surrendered caravans in their hands.

The looted Han Chinese goods were then sold through the barbarian caravans, and the profits were more than doubled several times.

But even though the profit was so large, they did not touch the Han caravan. The main reason was that the royal court had issued clear instructions prohibiting them from doing anything to the Han caravan.

Anyone who hangs a business flag with Chinese characters is not allowed to attack. If the attack is discovered, it will be severely punished.Therefore, many Hu caravans will choose to attach themselves to the Han caravans after noticing this.

Invisibly, these looters have lost a lot of opportunities.

Although the warriors of the Huns were very unhappy at this point, they could also understand why the Great Chanyu was so conniving with the Han caravan-because these merchants brought precious salt to the grassland.

On the other hand, it is because the younger brother of the Han princess that their Da Shanyu married this time will soon become the future emperor of the Han Dynasty.

Grassland has always been very concerned about the Han Kingdom in the south, including their gossip stories.With the increase of Han-Hungarian trade, the two sides inevitably began to exchange information, so the men and women of the Huns often sat together with a variety of drinks and listened to the stories of the Great Han Kingdom told by the tribesmen who went to trade.

For example, the emperor of the Han Dynasty abolished his first wife and his prince, and even killed the prince's mother's family. The same mother and younger brother are the princes.

The melon of the Huns is sweet and delicious-what is a prince?

"It's the successor of a leader like King Zuoxian." The man waved his hand to signal you not to interrupt me, "Didn't the Han Kingdom send an envoy this time? They came to talk to us about this matter."

"Oh oh oh!!" The melon-eating crowd nodded one after another, "Da Yan's younger brother will be the emperor of the Han Dynasty in the future, then shall we..."

Can there be more benefits?

This sentence flashed through the minds of all those who received this news.

The current Dayan clan of the Xiongnu is the real princess of the Han Kingdom, and this fact spread throughout the grasslands when their Zuoguli King Yi Zhixie went to the Han Kingdom to welcome the princess instead of his elder brother.

For the people in the grassland, they are also their neighbors, but Dahan's neighbor is somewhat different from other neighbors.

How should I put it, the other neighbors were beaten by the Huns until they lost their helmets and took off their armor and walked with a limp. When they saw the Huns in the future, they would bow their knees and be respectful, but the Han Dynasty was different. They often fought with the Huns. Comparing the biceps.

The Huns value and respect the strong, and of course they also want to conquer the strong.

The Han people looked down on them, they knew this for a long time, but as the Xiongnu became more and more powerful, when the Han people finally gave in and sent a princess with royal blood and many precious treasures, the entire Xiongnu grassland was overjoyed .

This is not a princess's problem, but the proud Han Kingdom finally lowered their noble heads, and the feeling of a strong man being forced to subdue in front of them is incomparably wonderful.

And this princess of the Great Han Kingdom is indeed completely different from the previous fake princesses. She brought many strange and useful things.

I heard that this big man's princess is as beautiful as a goddess on a snow mountain, more delicate than the softest snowflakes in spring, and her smile is as bright as the sun when the spring snow melts on the grassland.

Legend has it that the princess's greatest hobby is to walk on the grassland with a white and soft rabbit in her arms. The scene made the most naughty kid not willing to bother her.

When flowers bloom on the grassland in spring, there are children of the Huns weaving beautiful garlands for her.

As for the rabbit, it was a gift from another brother of hers, which the princess had brought to the meadow.

It is said that when Princess Han went to the grassland, she found that the rabbits on the grassland were gray, and she was afraid that the big man would not be able to bring her a new rabbit after the rabbit died, so she began to raise white rabbits with Shanyu's consent.

At that time, Shan Yu was very new to the princess, so he agreed to the princess's tossing.The princess was learning the Hun dialect while raising rabbits, but when she was concentrating on studying, she accidentally dug a hole in the pen where the rabbits were kept, and all the rabbits escaped completely.

Although a few were retrieved by the hunting dogs later, it can be said that the loss was heavy.

The poor little princess had to start all over again with a sad face.She didn't know that many of her escaped rabbits had entered the stomachs of the warriors in the headquarters.

Since then, the rabbits raised by Princess Han will always be missing a few from time to time.Faced with the princess' doubts, everyone said that the eagle flying in the sky had taken it away. In fact... the Han rabbit is much more delicious than the grassland rabbit, fat and tender.

Later, I don't know if the princess finally discovered something, so she simply gave a lot of bunnies to the women and asked them to keep them at home.

In this way, slowly, the hobby of raising rabbits gradually became popular on the grasslands.

Han rabbits love home, they are not as wild as prairie rabbits, the key is that they are easy to reproduce, one crop after another, and it doesn't take long to get together a litter.

The food is rough, and they eat all the grass that the horses eat. The only disadvantage is that they are too good at digging holes. The children who take care of the rabbit nests have to go in every day to check and fill in the holes dug by the rabbits.

There are many beasts in the grassland. Although wolves will not easily approach the herdsmen's tribe, foxes will come in in the dark. Several times the herdsmen will find these rabbits digging holes against the fence, and finally give the fox a chance to come in and steal the rabbits.

The herdsmen are also worried about raising these rabbits.Even so, the rabbits did not run away, and the escaped rabbits became the meals of the wild animals and the snacks of other herdsmen.

After a long time, the rabbits also learned the skills of survival in the wild. Gradually, the escaped rabbits were not so easy to catch.

But the herdsmen don’t mind. Rabbits will grow meat when they eat grass, and they are also greedy. As long as they are kept in a small place and fed continuously, they will grow fast and fat, and then the rabbit skin can be used as a child. clothes, roasted and eaten rabbit meat.Although there are occasional losses, these losses can be recovered much faster than sheep.

In short, the herdsmen thank Princess Han for bringing this brand new food from the bottom of their hearts.

Princess Han brought not only rabbits, but also seeds of many plants.

The prairie mainly lives on nomads, but it is not completely without farming areas, but only large tribes will raise farmland. After all, not everyone has the spare labor to cultivate the fields.

Moreover, there are not many seasons available for planting in a year on the prairie, and it is impossible to grow staple food in most areas.Princess Han brought some fruits and vegetables, a large number of them died, and only a few survived.But after buying seeds from Han merchants, these fruits and vegetables became popular on the grassland.

The Huns who have been eating egg and milk high-protein products for a long time have the unspeakable problem of constipation, from the royal court to the common people...

cough.

Thank you Princess Han.

The Xiongnu Shanyu was also very satisfied with the princess from the big man.

Being beautiful, sensible, and trying to fit in with the Huns made Da Shanyu pamper her a little more, but there was never less monitoring from beginning to end.

The only thing that bothered him was that Princess Han expressed her unabashed dislike and unfriendliness to Bank of China.

Regarding this point, the young Han princess said very frankly in the Huns dialect: "You Huns admire heroes and despise traitors, and we big men are the same."

She pointed to Bank of China and said: "In your opinion, he is a hero. In my opinion, he is a traitor. I don't like him. I will often speak ill of him in the future. You know I don't like him, Da Shanyu. You just have to listen to the bad things I say."

Her Hun dialect vocabulary is insufficient, but the meaning is expressed very clearly.Military minister Shan Yu laughed straight, he looked at Zhongxing with a blank expression and said, then looked at his newly married Princess Han, and waved his hand, "I see, I will choose to listen to the bad things you say about Bank of China in the future. of."

The Xiongnu generals present were delighted to hear the words, but Bank of China said that the look in the eyes of the Han princess was very subtle, like a poisonous snake lurking under the jungle, spitting poison.

Princess Nangong was startled when she suddenly met such a look, but she pinched her palm to resist the desire to avoid her gaze, and instead stared back ferociously.

This person's name has been mentioned by many people, and many people have told her to be wary of this man.

Bank of China said that the eunuchs of the first emperor's dynasty knew the situation of the Han court and the living habits of the Han people well.

This person lived in the darkness of the palace, so compared to the Huns who think with muscles, this person is Nangong's biggest enemy in the Huns' court, and also the enemy who needs to be most vigilant.

The first time she knew this person's name, Nangong had to think about how to deal with him.

It is impossible to please and bribe him. The Bank of China said that there is no other support, only the Huns.So he will stand on the side of the Huns at all costs.

What's more, he deeply hated the big man, and also hated their royal family of the big man.

Princess Nangong is the princess of the Han Dynasty, and her status determines that they are against each other, so they can only go another way - explicit hostility.

But there is no doubt that if you want to compare the degree of trust, she will definitely not win. Although the relationship between the military minister Shanyu and the Bank of China is not as strong as that of the old Shang Shanyu, it is also far higher than hers.

How to do it, not to mention eradicating Bank of China, at least reduce his threat to oneself first.Princess Nangong asked Empress Bo about this question.

Empress Bo assigned a task to the little princess—to observe the people around her.

Bank of China said that he once served people in the palace, and Nangong also lived here for so many years, but the two had different perspectives on things before.

This time Nangong deliberately used a third-person perspective to observe everyone in the Han Palace. She was surprised to find that almost everyone in the palace had two or more faces.

Seemingly stupid, actually never made a mistake.

Seemingly bright, but often make the stupidest mistakes.

Those who are gentle are not gentle, those who are weak are not weak, and those who are kind are not kind.

The only one who is consistent inside and outside is actually Li Ji, who is fierce and looks at people with the white of her eyes.Although Li Ji was not very popular among concubines, it was strange that Beauty Wang said that in this palace, she was most assured of Li Ji.

why?

When she went to ask Empress Bo, Empress Bo told her with a half-smile that Li Ji did often complain, but because she knew her personality was like this, she also took two or three points from Li Ji's complaints.

Nangong was silent for a long time when he heard the words, and then asked very cautiously: "Then, what if the mother complained to you?"

This question made Empress Bo laugh, and she poked the girl's forehead with her finger and said softly: "If your mother sues me, I must think she can't bear it anymore, and I also think that person is really hateful. Even someone with such a good temper as your mother can't bear it anymore."

"But Nangong, your mother will never come to me to complain about others, she is a smart person."

Princess Nangong's mind was fluttering, and she only felt confused. She seemed to have caught a thread, but she didn't seem to.

Empress Bo coughed twice, stopped the maid from patting her back and said: "You have read so many books, but these books are all teaching you how to be a real gentleman. Today I will teach you how to do it." A villain and a woman."

——The Bank of China said that he was born as an eunuch, and because the first emperor forced him to go to the Huns, and then rebelled, he launched a crazy revenge on the big man. This shows that he must have more revenge and revenge.

If you don't like him, he will naturally be wary of you.

However, you are the Da Yan family of the Huns, and you are a real princess. Even if the Han and the Huns go to war, as long as the Huns don’t want to fight to the end and completely anger the big man, they will not hurt you.

Therefore, his policy towards you must be to continuously discredit you in front of the Great Chanyu, and to shape the Xiongnu Shanyu's distrust of you.Until the end, even if you are still Da Yan of the Huns, but lose all the love and respect of the Great Chanyu, then you will only be alive and will not pose any threat to him.

At the same time, this method can also help him accumulate his credibility in the heart of the military minister Shan Yu.

If it is a gentleman, there is almost no solution to such a situation, because he is an eunuch, and there are some things he can do that a gentleman cannot.

But you are a woman.

The biggest advantage of a woman is that she can complain to her husband as a matter of course, but the biggest disadvantage of a villain is that he is a man after all.

If a woman complains endlessly, the king will find it annoying, but if a man complains endlessly, the king will get tired of it.

Bored and bored, the reason why boredom comes first is because it comes first, and it is also worse.

Princess Nangong raised her chin and said to Zhongxing with her chin, "I will speak ill of you in the future, but I am fair. You can also speak ill of me to Shanyu, and I will try my best to pretend that I didn't hear it."

"I don't dare." Bank of China said hurriedly bowing and saluting, "I will not speak ill of the Da Yan family, I will only advise you on the things that the Da Yan family did and did not conform to their status."

Nangong showed a choked expression, then turned his face away with an unhappy expression.

Seeing this, the military minister Shan Yu laughed, and he comforted the innocent little wife from the Han Dynasty, saying: "As long as you are my Da Yan family, even Bank of China will not be able to speak ill of you. "

Afterwards, Princess Nangong just like what she said before, while learning the Xiongnu dialect, she stumbled and stumbling to the Bank of China.

It doesn't matter once or twice, but the Bank of China said that it will naturally fight back if there are too many times.

It's all trivial things between each other.Over time, the military minister Shan Yu has developed a good habit of hearing key words blocked on both sides.

Nangong spent two years peacefully on the prairie. Even if Bank of China said that she had been watching carefully, she didn't find any wrongdoings such as sending out information.

However, during the past two years, the relationship between Han and Xiong has eased a lot because of her.After Emperor Jing of the Han revised the previous measures to suppress business, the prosperity of Han-Hungarian trade brought considerable benefits to both sides.

There was even a relatively fixed trade market between the Han and the Huns, with fixed roads for the two sides to communicate. Last year, the Huns relied on selling livestock and slaves, and even stored grain for the winter before the arrival of winter for the first time.

Hu merchants also benefited. The Han people were very interested in goods from the Western Regions. They were not short of salt, but they were extremely thirsty for sugar from the Han people.

In recent years, several foreign trade ports on the border of the Han people have their own characteristics. Every time there is a Han-Hungarian trade, the Huns caravan wants to go to all the ports as much as possible.

However, each port will introduce new ones according to different times. If you don’t stay in one place until the end, it is easy to miss the goods.At the same time, if you exchange too many goods in one place, you may not be able to change them or lose the opportunity to bid when you meet someone you like later, which is a sweet distress.

Therefore, the Xiongnu people in the grassland are very grateful to the princess of the big man. In their opinion, this princess is a very qualified Da Yan family-except that she has not yet given birth to a child for Da Shanyu.

In the royal court where the headquarters of the Xiongnu was located, Princess Nangong was also asked this question by the envoy of the Han Dynasty.The woman showed a wry smile, touched her stomach, "Maybe it's because fate hasn't arrived yet..."

"But no matter when he comes, Da Chanyu and I are looking forward to it."