Chapter 65 3. The princess gets married

Kunmo tossed and turned, and finally figured out that there was only one possible way: make peace with the Han Dynasty. Being close to the Han Dynasty means alienating the Huns.Alienation from the Xiongnu means...Kunmo dare not think about it, and there is no way to think about it.The situation is stronger than people, the Han Dynasty is strong, the Western Regions tend to follow, and the general trend of the world is also. King Loulan was captured alive and Che Shi was attacked.What's even more frightening is that both the Yueshi and Dawan successively established partnerships with the Han Dynasty.Could it be that Wusun Kingdom can stand alone?

The answer is, no. Finally, King Wusun took the initiative to show his favor to the Han Dynasty.However, the news immediately grew wings and flew to the Huns.When the Huns heard this, they became angry. Teach Mr. Shan Yu how not to be angry.Back then, without the Xiongnu, Kunmo would not have been able to feed; without the Xiongnu, Kunmo would not have had a teacher to restore the country; now it seems that telling Kunmo the principle of not thinking about the source of drinking water is simply nonsense.It doesn't make sense, so I can only use the saber. Soon, the Xiongnu Shanyu sent a message to King Wusun: Please close the door when you are sleeping, I will come to beat you soon.

Based on years of understanding of the Xiongnu Shanyu, Kunmo believes that the Huns are not trying to scare the common people, but most likely they want to be serious.To be honest, if this statement was made twenty years ago, Kunmo would have spoken a piece of bullshit as a Hun.But now, he is old, the country is divided into three parts, and people's hearts cannot be twisted together.If you really do it, there will be more good luck than bad luck. So what to do? The name of a country immediately flashed in Kunmo's mind: Dahan.Didn't the Han Dynasty tell me to sworn brothers with him?As long as you become brothers, it means you have a big iron, and if you have a big iron, are you still afraid of your Hun's saber?

Determined, Kunmo immediately sent envoys to the Han Dynasty to convey King Wusun's thoughts to Emperor Liu Che.Perhaps Kunmo thought that what Liu Che was looking forward to was the alliance words of King Wusun. In fact, he was wrong. The so-called diplomacy, to put it more elegantly, is a game; to put it more vulgarly, it is called a transaction.There are two kinds of transactions in the world: what you love and what I want; buy and sell by force.You love me, and there are two types: fair trade, mutual benefit; the other is that one is willing to fight and the other is willing to suffer.

At the beginning, Zhang Qian proposed to Wusun State that under the principle of mutual benefit, the two countries should trade fairly and rely on each other.It's a pity that King Wusun had no foresight and refused.The so-called reciprocity, today is your turn to come to the door and ask someone to do something, of course it is not that easy. Sure enough, when Wusun's envoy told Liu Che, Wusun King agreed to establish a partnership with the Han Dynasty.At this moment, Liu Che neither nodded nor shook his head.He just said lightly: Well, let's discuss this matter again. Anyone who has had a little contact with official leaders knows what the so-called seminars and seminars mean.

Of course, the discussion and discussion that Liu Che mentioned will definitely not be without a follow-up.Because he knows that at this time the dominance of the game is in his hands, and he must deal with it technically to allow the other party to increase the bargaining chip. We have reasons to believe that the Wusun envoy knows the rules of the game. Sure enough, soon, Liu Che pretended to hold a meeting, and then pretended to discuss it.In the end, the resolution was passed with pretentiousness.The resolution is: Agree to establish a brotherly relationship with Wusun Kingdom. In addition, there is an additional condition: if King Wusun wants to marry a princess of the Han Dynasty, he must first make up the dowry.

You didn't want it when I gave it to you at the beginning; you want it today, but you spend money.If I knew this earlier, why bother.I think that King Wusun must have regrets in his heart. What's the use of regretting?Again, the situation is stronger than people.As long as safety is the first priority, Kunmo is determined to be a relative of the Han Dynasty. Therefore, Kunmo had no choice but to prepare a thousand good horses and send them to the Han Dynasty.The Han Dynasty accepted all the orders without politeness, and at the same time finalized the wedding date for King Wusun. 105 BC, autumn.

In the Han Dynasty, Liu Xijun, the daughter of Liu Jian, the king of Jiangdu, was made a princess and married to King Wusun.On the day of the wedding, the Western Regions were shaken.The reason why the countries in the Western Regions were shaken was not that the old man Kunmo married the princess of the Han Dynasty, but the dowry given to Wusun by the Han Dynasty. Ban Gu used four words to describe the wedding gift given to Wusun in the Han Dynasty: the gift was very generous. To what extent, we don't know.But if you think about it, you know that Liu Che has always been known for his extravagance.Moreover, the princess's marriage is of great political significance, so it is only natural for Liu Che to make a big move.

In fact, Liu Che also took full care of King Wusun's face.There were hundreds of attendants for the princess alone, and there was an endless stream of motorcades, billowing with smoke and dust all the way. At this time, on the far northwest grassland, when the Xiongnu heard that King Wusun had married the Han Dynasty, they suddenly stopped calling for beatings.I didn't call for beatings because I couldn't beat them casually.Because beating Wusun is tantamount to beating the Han Dynasty.Fighting the Han Dynasty is tantamount to finding hardship for yourself.Besides fighting, is there a better way?

The answer is, yes.The answer is to stabilize King Wusun first.If you want to stabilize King Wusun, the best way is the trick used by the Han Dynasty: make peace. Soon, the Xiongnu Shanyu sent someone to send one of his daughters here, saying that he would marry Wusun. The sun was almost rising in the west.Kunmo grew up so big, Xiongnu Shanyu either bullied or frightened others, and he had never seen him please anyone.Unexpectedly, the eldest brother also took the initiative to go to the younger brother's house today to make peace. Since the elder brother gave face, the younger brother also had to return face.Kunmo happily accepted the woman sent by the Huns.In order to take care of both in-laws, he had no choice but to make Princess Liu of the Han Dynasty the right wife, and the Hun Shanyu's daughter the left wife.One thousand horses, in exchange for two in-laws, two beauties, and more dowry.What a deal.

Kunmo is angry, but our Princess Liu Xijun is depressed.As a product of political marriage, perhaps she dare not think about those simple and beautiful love.What she has to do now is to get close to Kunmo and have children for him.One day, when the children grow up, it is also a beautiful thing to send them back to the Han Dynasty, or to study abroad, or to recognize their relatives and worship their ancestors. The wish may seem small, but it is quite difficult to realize.Three hundred and sixty-five days a year, our poor princess spends most of her time in the palace, spending her years alone in an empty room.When Kunmo came to visit her occasionally, he held a banquet and let Liu Xijun accompany her.After drinking the wine, he waved his sleeves and left, which was regarded as the completion of the date between the two of them. Don't blame Kunmo for deliberately ignoring our princess, he also has something to hide.His difficulty is that he is old.When the body is old, the mind is also old.Also, when he was with the princess of the Han Dynasty, not only did he not have a common language, but even communication became a problem because of the language barrier. Kunmo can't afford the happiness I want.The princess who was left to dry had no choice but to think about returning home every day.Her thoughts floated in the air, turned into pigeons flying far away, flew back to the Han Dynasty, and landed in Liu Che's palm. Tears in the lonely palace, who can understand the taste.Even if there are thousands of riches and honors in the world, how can we exchange for a warm heart and a bouquet of belated roses? Liu Che knows the princess' heart; Kunmo also knows the princess's loneliness.So Kunmo, feeling guilty, decided to have a good talk with the princess about her future. On this day, Kunmo met Princess Liu Xijun and said a meaningful sentence: I am old! ! Princess Liu Xijun looked at Kunmo sadly: I knew you were old. Kunmo went on to say: But my grandson, Cen Zou, is still very young. Liu Xijun didn't know what medicine was in Kunmo's gourd, his eyes were confused, and he looked at the other party with a heavy heart. At this time, Kunmo had no choice but to speak out the words in his heart: I'm dead, you can go with my grandson. It turned out that Kunmo had been throwing banquets all the time, and he dealt with it himself, and it turned out to be reserved for his grandson.Liu Xijun immediately became dizzy and immediately rejected Kunmo's request. You know, in terms of seniority, that Cen Zou can call her grandma, Cen Zou married Liu Xijun, this is absolute incest.If this matter were placed in the Han Dynasty, they would put pigs in cages, cut off their tongues, tie them four times and six times, put them on the fire rack, and fry you until you screamed in oil, you would not stop. So, the princess quickly repaired a book, sent it back to the Han Dynasty, and cried out Kunmo's absurd ideas.Soon, the envoy of the Han Dynasty sent a message.There is only one sentence: According to its national customs, I want to destroy Hu with Wusun. The meaning of these words is roughly, please do as the Romans do, I can only wrong you.We must unite with Wusun and destroy the Xiongnu. If you want to unite with Wusun, you must stay in Wusun.To stay in Wusun, one must be the wife of Kunmo's grandson.To be someone's wife, one must bear the burden of humiliation. If the Huns are not destroyed, why should they call themselves home?This is the shocking ideal left by the late general Huo Qubing; for the sake of the country, why not bear it.I think this should be what Liu Xijun said to himself. At best, Liu Xijun had no choice but to agree to the emperor and stay in Wusun.Soon, Kunmo died.Soon, Prince Cen Zou succeeded to the throne.According to Wusun customs, the new Wusun king has the right to inherit and use the property of the old Wusun king, including all the women of the old Wusun king. Soon, Cen Zou married Princess Liu Xijun logically. There is no love, only tears; no ego, only ego; no demands, only sacrifices.Passing through the smoke and dust of time and space, I seem to see a lonely woman standing on a high castle.Her eyes were vicissitudes, and she stopped to look far away. Dust blows past the eyes, and birds fly overhead.The sky is above, the white clouds are floating, and the thoughts that are not old are like the gurgling stream on the Gobi Desert, flowing slowly to the east...