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Chapter 1150: The Siege of Mayi (1)(1/2)

"His Majesty."

Wei Qing saluted solemnly, "I am willing to go through fire and water for Your Majesty!"

"It's just a war, there's no need to exaggerate it."

He raised his hand and patted Wei Qing on the shoulder. Wang Xiao smiled and said, "The time is almost coming. If you are ready, then start planning in advance."

The timing that Wang Xiao mentioned refers to the plan agreed with Yi Zhixie.

If Yi Zhixie wants to become a big Shanyu, then the military minister is his biggest threat.

When Wang Xiao wanted to go to war with the Huns, Junchen Shanyu was naturally his biggest goal.

As the saying goes, the enemy is his own people. Wang Xiao and Yi Zhixie chose to join forces to kill the military minister first.

They agreed that Yi Zhixie would provide the inside support, while Wang Xiao would send troops to kill Junchen Shanyu.

As for the matter after killing Junchen Shanyu, neither of them mentioned it.

Because at that time, they were opponents of each other.

There is no doubt that Wang Xiao, who had soldiers, money and food, had the first thought of it was the Battle of Mayi.

If the main force of the Huns could be destroyed in one battle, perhaps the Huns would have been destroyed without waiting for Huo Qubing to grow up.

In the distant Xiongnu golden tent, the military minister of the Great Shanyu of the Huns who had lived well recently was receiving a guest from the Han Dynasty.

"I like the spirits you brought this time."

Junchen picked up the golden cup in his hand and signaled to Nie Yi who was starting to attack, "I can send more people here in the future, and I will ask for as much as I have."

After drinking the glass of wine, Nie Yi, who was fat and rich, responded with a smile, "If the Great Chanyu wants it, he will naturally do his best. But the Great Chanyu only wants the strong wine?"

“Hahaha~~~”

Junchen Shanyu laughed even more, "You Han people have a lot of good things. I want tea, rhubarb, silk, and strong wine."

He calmed down his laughter and lowered his voice and stared at Nie Yi with bright eyes. "But what I want most is iron pots and iron tools."

There is no need to say much about the effectiveness of tea. For the Huns who eat meat all year round, tea can effectively relieve their greasiness.

As for Dahuang, it was an important goods for the Huns to trade with caravans from the Western Regions and even further away.

In terms of silk, the heads and nobles of various tribes of the Huns like the most is this kind of smooth and beautiful silk.

The comfortable feeling on your body is something that no fur can give.

Moreover, silk is a symbol of the status of aristocrats, even in the Han Dynasty, only nobles could afford it. When they arrived at the Huns, they became the best goods that nobles flocked to.

As a noble man, if you don’t wear silk, others will think that your tribe is almost finished and you can’t afford silk.

The cold grasslands in winter are the kind of cold that can really freeze people to death.

When hiding in a tent to fight the cold, drinking a sip of strong liquor will make the Huns feel warm and yang, which is regarded as a weapon to fight the cold.

Of course, modern people know that this is not science, but an illusion.

In this world of oppressive and strict identity levels, drinking can make people temporarily forget their worries and fall into a state of carefreeness, so it is very popular.

And these are the most important trading materials in the Han-Hungarian trade.

Of course, there is also an increasing amount of salt, because the Huns have learned how to marinate meat with salt.

There are at least hundreds of thousands of livestock that are frozen to death on the prairie every winter.

In the past, herdsmen could only take fur, but if they eat meat, they could only watch it and waste it.

However, as the large-scale transportation of salt from the Han Dynasty into the grassland, a large amount of meat can be preserved for a long time.

This kind of thing is typical for the Huns to increase their strength.

The iron pots and iron tools raised by Junchen alone were even more dreams of the Huns.

The emergence of iron pots is not only a change of eating habits, but also a simple way to eat stir-fry dishes from now on.

With the iron pot, it means that the army has the ability to maintain long-distance marching operations.

This is a strategic material in the true sense.

As for iron tools, they generally refer to arrows, swords, guns, swords, halberds, armors, shields, etc.

For the Huns who only had leather armor and even had arrows with wolf teeth, no one could understand the benefits of iron tools better than them when fighting against the Han army equipped with iron tools.

On the grassland, an iron knife is a real heirloom.

Sadly, the Huns had no ability to smelter and could only obtain it through robbery and private transactions.

In the Han-Hungary trade, iron tools were prohibited from flowing into the grassland. The Huns could only obtain them through smuggling.

“The Great Shanyu.”

Nie Yi said with a dilemma, "Iron tools are all materials banned from the imperial court. It's okay to say that there are a small amount, but if I go out on a large scale, I can't do anything."

"Hmph."

The military minister looked at Nie Yi with no objection, "There is really no way? Then why can you and Yi Zhixie send anything?"

The smuggling between the Han Dynasty and Yi Zhixie cannot be hidden from the military officials.

The reason why the military ministers did not kill Yi Zhixie was not because Yi Zhixie was his younger brother, but because the power in Yi Zhixie's hands was strong enough.

The Huns basically don’t talk about human ethics. When Maodun Shanyu killed his father with his whistleblower, he was considered a good start for the Huns.

From then on, there have been endless troubles among the Huns.

Junchen knew Yi Zhixie's ambition very well.

The military ministers also wanted to kill Yi Zhixie, but the problem was that Yi Zhixie was powerful. If the war was forced to start, the only thing that would be depleted was the strength of their Huns.

To be honest, Junchen was very jealous of Yi Zhixie's ability to obtain a large amount of embargoed strategic materials through smuggling.

So this time, taking advantage of the opportunity to entertain the famous smuggling businessman Nie Yi, I also wanted to open up his smuggling channel.

“The Great Shanyu.”

Nie Yi showed panic and hurriedly put down his wine glass to salute, "This is absolutely nothing~~~"

“Whether there is, or not.”

Junchen was not angry, and played with the golden cup in his hand and said slowly, "Anyway, you must get what I want."

Nie Yi, who looked embarrassed, said bitterly, "The Great Shanyu really doesn't. If you are caught, then my whole family will be finished."

"It's okay, you can come to the Huns. I can make you king."

"The Great Shanyu really can't do it." Nie Yi despised the 'bastard king. Drinking wind and eating sand here, even women are full of sheep smell, which makes people feel disgusted. There is nothing but being able to ride a horse. I'm so crazy that I come to you.'

The Han and the Huns did not interact with each other until they died, but they communicated a lot with each other.

After the internal struggles fail, both sides will flee to the other party. And they are usually granted titles to marquis and kings to attack each other.

Faced with the continuous force of Junchen Shanyu, Nie Yi gritted his teeth and promised to transport some contraband items over, but the quantity made Junchen extremely dissatisfied.

"Are you perfunctory to Ben Shanyu?" Junchen placed the golden cup heavily on the table and scolded him sternly, "What's the use of this little thing?"

"There is really nothing." Nie Yi cried helplessly. "Then Cheng Buzhi and Li Guang were not very capable of fighting, but the search and smuggling were better than the other. It was already the greatest extent to be able to transport these over."

Of course he didn't tell the truth.

After Cheng Bushi and Li Guang arrived at the border, they did strictly arrest smuggling.

But only Nie Yi is the one who is not arrested. Because this is a secret order given by Wang Xiao, Nie Yi smuggled anything, and Li Guang and others do not need to be cared for by smuggling any of it, nor is it allowed to be cared for.

"Cheng Buzhi, Li Guang."

Junchen sneered more than just "I'm pretty capable, at least I can defend the city."

After a pause, he looked at Nie Yi and said, "No matter what, you must send the things over. Otherwise, you will not think about doing business with me, the Great Huns in the future."

Hearing this, Nie Yi not only felt sad, but instead breathed a sigh of relief.

‘The big fish finally bit the hook’.

Nie Yi pretended to be sad for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said, "Da Shanyu, if he really wants to get a large number of contraband, it's not impossible."

"oh?"

Junchen's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked, "Tell me, look."

"Can the Great Shanyu know about Mayi?"

"How come I don't know, the place where the Han and the Huns trade together."

"Not bad." Nie Yi nodded and said, "Mayi is stocked with a large amount of supplies transported from all over the Han Dynasty from all over the country. There are many contraband items such as iron pots and ironware. Even the smuggled goods seized by Cheng Bushi and Li Guang were stored in the warehouse in Mayi."

Since the Han-Hungary and Hunting trades, merchants with eyes can see the business opportunities.

The transactions of ordinary goods are all profitable. If you do smuggling business, you can even transport them to your home with a lot of money.

The reason is very simple. One iron pot can be exchanged for a horse. The iron pot is worth up to a few hundred coins in the Dahan, but if a horse is transported to the Dahan, it will be at least tens of thousands of thousands of dollars.

Two hundred iron arrows can be exchanged for a cow. A cow can be sold at least 10,000 or 20,000 yuan in the Han area!

Although regular goods can make a lot of money, they are obviously far from being as good as these contraband products.
To be continued...
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