I have lived forever since the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 299 Killing, but also punishing the heart
The cell was filled with the sound of the black-faced man chewing his food.

From the end of the battle last night to now, the opponent has expended a lot of physical energy, and has not eaten for at least eight or nine hours. Now that he sees the colorful, fragrant and delicious food in front of him, he will naturally not show any reserve.

After he had eaten two noodles and drank a large bowl of broth, he slowed down.

Seeing this, Chen Luo asked casually: Do you think there is any difference between the food we eat in Han Dynasty and that in the grassland? "

"There's just less meat, but the pasta is more refined." The dark-faced man burped and responded while drinking soup.

The corners of Chen Luo's mouth raised slightly and he said, "As long as you get used to it."

It seems that he is just making things up, but as long as the other party responds, the goal has been achieved.

In fact, this question and answer revealed two pieces of information to the Hun leader standing next door.

First, they really provided food to the black-faced man, and he ate it deliciously.

To the leader of the Huns, this was a kind of betrayal.

While others are still hungry, you are the only one who has good food and drink.

After all, the mentality of "if you are not afraid of your brothers suffering, just afraid of your brothers driving Land Rover" has existed in ancient and modern times.

Secondly, Chen Luo set a trap in the question, and the black-faced man indirectly admitted that he was from the grassland in his answer.

This was an unintentional move.

After all, in the last round of questioning, Chen Luo said that he knew their origins, and the black-faced man had no intention of hiding it.

But the Hun leader next door, who had an information gap, didn't know this.

So in his view, it was a certainty that the black-faced man would defect to the enemy and the other people's perseverance seemed like a joke.

But he wanted to roar angrily, but with the cloth stuffed in his mouth, he could only neigh helplessly.

"You guys came all the way here on horseback, I guess your riding skills must be good." While the black-faced man continued to work, Chen Luo kept setting traps.

The purpose of this statement was to inquire about the riding skills of the black-faced man, but in fact it was to confirm the way in which these Huns entered the Han Dynasty.

If it were the leader of the Huns, he would definitely understand that this was a lie.

But the black-faced man's inner defenses have been reduced to a minimum, and in his opinion, these are extremely ordinary chat contents. This is how he usually greets strangers from other tribes when he meets them.

So he nodded in response and said, "Yes, my cavalry and archery skills are not only one of the best in the tribe, but at least one of the top ten. Otherwise, why would they choose me to come here this time?"

"I see." Chen Luo laughed and said, "When you have the chance to leave here, we can have a test of our riding skills."

The black-faced man subconsciously waved his hand and said: "You Han people are not good at riding, so you just make do with the two thousand people, and you also use foreign objects."

"Oh? Are you talking about 'Weijiang'? They are the most elite cavalry team in Daidi." Chen Luo was not ashamed to be denied his riding skills. After all, there was nothing to argue with a fool, and he continued to talk calmly. .

When this topic was mentioned, the black-faced man couldn't stop talking.

He even put down the soup bowl and said loudly: "That's right! That's the 'Weijiang', it's so hateful. Every time we were carrying supplies, he would come out from behind and not dare to fight head on.

If you ask me, those people's riding skills are just ordinary. Without the thing on their feet, how would they be able to draw the bow with both hands while riding.

So don’t we just…”

The dark-faced man paused and changed the topic with a somewhat erratic look in his eyes.

But even Qu Zhongyin beside him noticed that there was a problem here.

Chen Luo tapped the document with his index finger. Instead of pressing him, he whispered to Qu Zhongyin, "Take the man next door back to his original place."

"clear."

When Qu Zhongyin left the room, Chen Luo exchanged a few words with the black-faced man in front of him casually, without mentioning the key questions. The other party was also "short-tongued" and explained everything honestly.

Before leaving the room, Chen Luo did not hesitate to praise him: "Just answer questions honestly like this from now on, and I won't treat you badly when it comes to eating."

"Angang." The black-faced man scratched his head in confusion, but as a cook, he didn't think much and continued to fill the bowl with soup.

After walking out of the room where the black-faced man was, Chen Luo looked at Qu Zhongyin, who was more than a dozen steps away, and walked over slowly.

"How does his attitude compare to before?"

"Looks much softer, I guess I feel a little desperate."

"That's good, I don't need to spend too much time on it."

Pushing open the cell door in front of him, Chen Luo saw the Hun leader leaning against the wall weakly, looking up at the sky with his eyes blankly. He didn't know what he was thinking, and he didn't pay any attention to the noise at the door.

Seeing this, Chen Luo chuckled softly and said, "Your companion has given up and your persistence has become useless. Why remain stubborn and not speak?"

The man in front of him was smarter, so he changed his method of persuasion and couldn't just use the same formula as he did when communicating with the black-faced man.

Although the leader of the Huns was shaken in his heart, it did not mean that he had completely lost his calm.

After pondering for a moment, he asked sharply: "If you know everything, then why do you need to ask me."

Now he still has some suspicions that Chen Luo is cheating, otherwise he would have got enough information from the black-faced man, why would he come to him again.

"Compared to those little minions, you definitely know more things." Chen Luo explained a very reasonable fact. The black-faced man definitely didn't know as many inside details as he did.

The Xiongnu leader agreed very much with this explanation. He felt that he would do the same thing if he were put in Chen Luo's position.

So combined with what he heard before, he felt that the rebellion of the black-faced man had become a fact.

Their team is not pure cannon fodder, and even has access to some secrets due to mission requirements.

The black-faced man rebelled. After he revealed everything he knew, there was not much left to keep secret.

The Hun leader only felt that his temples were slightly swollen, but his hands were cuffed and he could not massage them.

So he took a deep breath and said, "Then...what do you know now?"

Even if you want to rebel for a chance of survival, you still have to understand what value you still have.

After thinking for a while, Chen Luo concluded: "I don't know much. I roughly understand your route of action, method of action, previous hiding place, and your fundamental purpose of coming to Han Dynasty this time."

"Impossible." As the words fell, the Hun leader shouted in disbelief.

He was aware of his gaffe, but he didn't think much of it. He asked, "He doesn't know the fundamental purpose of our coming here. How could he tell you?"

As soon as these words came out, it meant that the leader of the Huns officially recognized his identity.

Chen Luo no longer cares about this small breakthrough.He knew that he needed to go one step further to completely break through the opponent's psychological defense.

"You think he doesn't know, but he has been in the team for so long. As long as he is not a fool, he can guess the target of the action just by looking at it." There was a sarcastic smile on the corner of his mouth. Chen Luo was killing someone. Also heartbreaking.

He continued to add: "Your targets along the way are the best craftsmen from all over the world. Isn't it because you want to obtain the forging technology from them that you don't have?"

This guess was made by Chen Luo when he had a flash of inspiration while talking to the black-faced man, connected all the causes and consequences, and then made a judgment.

The Xiongnu carefully trained such a group of people to come to the Han Dynasty, and what they captured must be what they needed most.

Hearing this, the Huns leader was suddenly startled. He seemed to be deflated and leaned against the wall limply.

He said numbly: "I didn't expect you all to guess it. That's all. Give me a meal too."

Then, Chen Luo asked the chef to bring a sumptuous meal for the Hun leader to talk while eating.

Less than half an hour later, the Huns' plan was fully explained by the other party.

If we want to talk about it, this matter has something to do with Chen Luo.

During the Han-Hungarian war, Mao Dun noticed the horse gear equipped by some Han cavalry and became very interested in it.

However, he failed in the decisive battle and could only flee in confusion. He had no chance to study those things and only left a vague impression.

After returning to the grassland, Modu spent more than half a year calming down the internal conflicts caused by the defeat, and had enough energy to study the horse gear he had seen.

But the level of the captured craftsmen on the grassland was vastly different from that of the Mohist disciples.

What's more, Mao Dun only glanced at it from a distance and couldn't describe what it looked like, which made the craftsmen extremely difficult.

You must know that when the Mohist disciples prepared the harness, Chen Luo had already given the general shape and structure, and their work was mainly trial and error and improvement.

From nothing to something and from one to two, it is clear at a glance which is difficult and which is easy.

There was no possibility of preparing horse gear on the grassland, so Maodun easily thought of "rob" based on his own thinking habits.

I can't make a harness, so I can learn from the harness you made. Is this reasonable?
It's just that during the period from the sixth year of the Han Dynasty to the 15th year of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bang paid great attention to the border. Every time the Huns entered the Han Dynasty to plunder, they did not dare to have too many people, for fear of triggering another decisive battle.

You must know that if Mao Dun had not accumulated enough prestige, the disastrous defeat in the Han-Hungarian War would have been enough to force him to step down.

Small-scale plundering could not even threaten Dai City, and it was of no use to Mao Dun's plan to steal the manufacturing method of harnesses.

Not to mention horse gear, they had never even seen a hundred serious war horses.

Hard work paid off. When the Weijiang Cavalry Regiment appeared for the first time in the 17th year of the Han Dynasty and beat them hard, the Huns found that the opponent was equipped with the horse gear that Shan Yu had longed for.

Just wanting to obtain the horse gear of the frontier cavalry from the battlefield is nonsense.

This was the territory of the Han Dynasty. The Huns were outnumbered and unable to set up an ambush.

Facing the surprise attack from Weijiang, they basically had no choice but to flee.

Unwilling to be reconciled, Mao Dun could only adopt another method, training an elite to learn Chinese, and wanted them to sneak into the Han Dynasty to steal the manufacturing technology of horse gear and the forging method of iron tools.

After learning the purpose of these Huns, Chen Luo just wanted to say that Mo Dun was simply whimsical.

The horse gear equipped in Weijiang was not made in Dai, but came from Chu and Guanzhong on behalf of Mohist caravans.

This thing is a valuable weapon of the country, and no one would place the manufacturing base of a valuable weapon of the country in a dangerous border area.

This Huns team that sneaked into Han Dynasty obviously realized this, so they changed their main goal on the way and focused on stealing the forging process of iron tools.

The relevant technology exists in local counties, but they got it.

However, before they had time to send out the drawings they obtained, they were all caught in one fell swoop and taken into prison.

After learning the whole story, Chen Luo and Qu Zhongyin were finally able to let go of all their burdens.

The two of them walked outside the courtyard. Qu Zhongyin thought for a moment and then asked aloud: "Prime Minister, what are we going to do with them next?"

Letting go, it is definitely impossible to let go. Letting these people leave would be laying a trap for the big man.

But during the conversation, Chen Luo promised those people that if they told the truth, he would let them live.

Therefore, Qu Chongyin did not dare to make his own decisions.

Chen Luo sighed and said: "What do you think?
I promised to let them live, but will those 56 households and [-] victims agree?
The promises made to my friends must be fulfilled even if the world falls apart. As for my enemies, let them call me shameless. "

Now there is an irresolvable conflict between the Han and the Xiongnu.

Even though in the eyes of future generations, this is the so-called "national conflict", only those who have experienced it know the blood feud between the two sides.

Among the several counties at the border, who didn’t have relatives who died during the Huns’ raids?

Hearing this answer, Qu Zhongyin nodded without changing his expression, indicating that he understood.

His views are consistent with Chen Luo.

In Qu Zhongyin's eyes, these Huns were purely a scourge, and they were to be killed quickly.

"You can take charge of this matter in a few days. By the way, let them eat well in the days before they die, so that they can be well-fed and go on the road." Before stepping out of the courtyard gate, Chen Luo turned around and confessed.

Those Huns told the story too quickly and didn't even get through the beauty trap. They were really at a disadvantage. It would be even more miserable if they didn't even get a good taste.

After dealing with the affairs of the Huns, Chen Luo returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion in a carriage.

Compared to the Yangxiahou Mansion in Chang'an, the Prime Minister's Mansion in the city where I lived lacked a bit of the warmth of life because there were no relatives.

It is more like an office. Only the several sachets hanging on the bedside of the bedroom make it look less deserted.

As soon as he walked in, an attendant greeted him with a respectful salute, and then solemnly handed him a document.

Seeing the seal, Chen Luo knew it was from the palace, so he reached out to take it. After returning to the house, he immediately chose to open it.

The information on the document is brief, mainly reciting a notice.

But the content of this notice is slightly important.

Covering the document on the table, Chen Luo held his chin with his right hand and muttered to himself.

"Liu Ying wants to come to Dai Di to hunt? I don't know what this stall means."

(End of this chapter)