At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 561: Destroy temples and cut down mountains, respect Confucianism
Junchen snorted coldly: "If you don't understand, shut up!"

The military officials who controlled the entire military system of the Xiongnu Kingdom were the ones who knew best the gap between the firearms of the Xiongnu Kingdom and those of the Han Dynasty.

For artillery of the same weight, the power of the Xiongnu's artillery was only half that of the Han Dynasty's, not to mention the flintlock rifle, which was three times heavier than the Han Dynasty's. Not to mention that the Xiongnu's flintlock rifle would be scrapped after firing a dozen bullets, while the Han Dynasty's musket could still be used after firing hundreds of bullets. What made the military officials even more helpless was that these were second-hand muskets of the Han Dynasty.

This made Junchen very helpless. He had worked hard for ten years, but the gap between the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty had not been narrowed. Instead, it was widening. Even now, the Xiongnu could only produce heavy muskets. It was not that Junchen did not know that light muskets were more practical, but that he was unable to produce high-quality and cheap hundred-fold refined steel. Of course, the Xiongnu could use manpower and blacksmiths to make flintlock muskets with performance similar to that of the Han Dynasty, but the price was ten times more expensive than the price of the Han Dynasty's sea merchants transporting them from a long distance to the Xiongnu.

From this we can see the gap between the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty. Junchen also discovered that in the past two years, the Han Dynasty's maritime merchants have been dumping the Han Dynasty's flintlock rifles at low prices. Although they are second-hand goods, they are low in price and high in quality. The Xiongnu can buy twenty second-hand flintlock rifles of the Han Dynasty for every flintlock rifle it produces. In particular, those maritime merchants secretly threatened Junchen that if you don't buy, there are plenty of people who will, so we brothers will sell them to the Parthians.

Junchen knew that if he did not buy the cheap arms from the Han Dynasty, the enemies of the Xiongnu Kingdom, such as the Parthians, the Galra people, and the Miska people, would buy them. This led to the fact that even though Junchen knew that buying the arms from the Han Dynasty was like drinking poison to quench thirst and would also affect the military factories of the Xiongnu Kingdom, he had to drink this cup of poison.

But he underestimated the viciousness of the Han Dynasty's maritime merchants. Even though he purchased the second-hand weapons of the Han army and spent a lot of gold and silver, countries such as Parthia still obtained a large amount of weapons. The angry military official directly smashed three bone china bottles imported from the Han Dynasty.

But from this massive amount of arms, Junchen also realized that the firearms of the Han Dynasty had been upgraded again. Otherwise, the maritime merchants of the Han Dynasty would not be able to obtain so many arms even from the Han Dynasty’s arsenal, let alone smuggling firearms.

The flintlock rifle was already so powerful, but the Han army actually updated its weapons again. How strong was the Han army and how many people the Xiongnu could resist had always been a hidden worry in Junchen's heart. Now that he heard that his second brother was acting like an idiot, the anger in his heart was hard to suppress.

Yizhixie was startled by his brother, but soon felt that this was too embarrassing, so he glared back and planned to continue to refute.

But his father, Laoshang Chanyu, stopped Yizhixie and said, "The Han people are definitely not people we Xiongnu can afford to offend. Treat the Han envoys well and send them away with gifts."

Then the old Chanyu looked at Ouyang Xun, who had been silent, and said, "Dean, you will be the one to entertain the Han envoy!"

Ouyang Xun seemed to have just come to his senses, and after a long while he said, "Yes!"

Lao Shang Shanyu said: "The relationship between the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty depends entirely on you, Dean. Please don't let me down."

He looked at Ouyang Xun as if he was shirking responsibility, which caused dissatisfaction among the old Chanyu. He thought he had done everything for Ouyang Xun that a wise ruler of the Han Dynasty could do. He gave him clothes, fed him food, had long conversations with him, and gave him a high position and generous salary. Now Confucianism had become the core of the Xiongnu Kingdom. Even the Xiongnu people had to join Confucianism if they wanted to be valued. Almost all the officials in the Xiongnu Kingdom were Confucian scholars. Even the Han Dynasty had not done this. He thought he had done his best for Confucian scholars like Ouyang Xun, and now it was time for them to contribute.

Ouyang Xun also understood Laoshang Chanyu's dissatisfaction, but at this time he didn't know what to do. Compared with the Xiongnu leaders who were unaware of the inside story of the Han Dynasty, the Confucians in the Han Dynasty had nine high-ranking officials. They had long informed Ouyang Xun that the Han Dynasty had changed its national policy towards the Xiongnu from supporting their westward expedition to restricting the development of the Xiongnu. The Confucian leaders within the Han Dynasty asked Ouyang Xun to find a way to sever ties with the Xiongnu.

But he could only smile bitterly when he heard the news. Separation was simply a joke. Now the Xiongnu Kingdom was not only the country of the Xiongnu people, but also their Confucian country. The two sides could be said to be in a state of mutual dependence. Confucianism could separate from the Han Dynasty, but could not separate from the Xiongnu Kingdom. You should know that the capital of the Xiongnu Kingdom was called New Qufu. This was the name of the former capital of the State of Lu, and also the name of the central base camp of the Confucian World Island.

In the center of the world island of this era, the three major religions of later generations had not yet emerged, and faith was still in chaos. In this era, this land was a place where demons were rampant. The local people worshiped both Greek gods and native Zoroastrianism, as well as strange wizards and even a piece of stone that seemed to have infinite power. In short, various civilizations and gods were intertwined on this land, and most people were still in the stage of totem worship.

Then the Huns invaded this land, and they used their powerful military force to intimidate all the ethnic groups on this land. Even today, there is still a legend that the Huns are invincible even if they have less than ten thousand of them. Laoshang Chanyu is the god-king of this land, and no ethnic group will not be terrified when hearing this name.

When the Xiongnu Kingdom was just founded, Laoshang Chanyu was faced with an extremely embarrassing situation. His Xiongnu Kingdom was 5000 miles long and wide, with a million people, but there were only less than 5 real Xiongnu people, and less than 1 real Xiongnu soldiers. In the myths and legends that the Xiongnu people were less than , it also exposed the fatal flaw of the Xiongnu people. The entire Xiongnu Kingdom had only these people who could fight. If this army disappeared, the Xiongnu race would disappear as well. It can be said that even now Laoshang Chanyu still has nightmares when he thinks of the situation back then.

Using the small to bully the big was the problem that Lao Shang Chanyu faced, and even today this problem has not been solved. In the entire Xiongnu Kingdom, Lao Shang Chanyu could only trust about one million people, which was less than 20% of the entire Xiongnu nation. Even now, the main ethnic group of the Xiongnu Kingdom has not been established.

Of course, the Xiongnu Kingdom has its own ways to maintain its current strength, which is to rely on the Xiongnu people's traditional robbery, robbery of pastures, robbery of land, robbery of women, and then distribute these robberies to the people of the Xiongnu Kingdom, relying on the benefits of plunder to unite the people.

But Laoshang Chanyu was also a farsighted leader, he also knew that you can conquer the world on horseback, but you can't rule the world on horseback. He wanted to find a way to assimilate all the tribes of various ethnic groups in his land into Xiongnu people, so even if he had blond hair and blue eyes and white skin, as long as he admitted that he was a Xiongnu, Laoshang Chanyu would recognize him as a Xiongnu. In this respect, he was Xu Fan's best student.

Of course, relying on interests alone is one aspect, but it is also necessary to make these people recognize that they are Huns ideologically, and ideology is the Huns' shortcoming. The Huns' high-level officials have no way to deal with this, and the old Chanyu has no way to learn from the Han Dynasty. On the one hand, the Han Dynasty's advanced culture is a beacon of the world, and it is naturally attractive to the surrounding Hu tribes. On the other hand, the Han Dynasty is prosperous and the country is strong, and the lives of the Hu people who surrender to the Han Dynasty will also be greatly changed. With both cultural and economic development, these people who surrender to the Han Dynasty are actually the most determined Huang Han faction within the Han Dynasty. They are more persistent and determined about their Han identity.

But the Huns did not have this ability. They had no advanced culture and no way to attract the surrounding ethnic groups to learn from them. The Huns were not a country with advanced productivity, and they had no way to create huge wealth. The surrounding tribes came to them for help, and the only thing they could rely on now was their powerful military force.

At this time, the Huns were so lucky that there happened to be a group of people who could help them make up for this shortcoming, and this group of people happened to come to the Huns Kingdom.

Under the promotion of Xu Fan, a large number of Confucian elites went to the desert to educate the Hu people. When the Huns wanted to recruit their own people to go to the Western Regions to strengthen their own strength, these Confucian scholars also followed the large Huns group to the Huns Kingdom.

Most of the Confucian scholars who first came to this land were born Xiongnu people. They came to the Xiongnu country with the idea of ​​spreading Confucianism.

At this time, the semi-religious Confucianism suddenly entered this unfamiliar territory and found that its educational cause had a new direction. Millions of people in the Xiongnu Kingdom were lost lambs. They did not have a stable belief at all. The local polytheism, wizards, and sorcerers were simply vulnerable.

Of course, this also caused resistance from local religions. Most of the Confucian scholars who came here at that time were of pastoral origin. They held "The Analects" in one hand and a saber in the other, and relied on force to preach. If you read "The Analects", you are my brother. If you don't read "The Analects", I can also use a saber to let you know what benevolence and righteousness are, and what martial virtues are.

You use magic with him, and he uses knives with you. Under the physical rules of this world, the mage cannot beat the warrior. Gods, demons, and wizards are all killed by sabers, and corpses are everywhere. Confucianism quickly became the leading force in this area.

In short, under the leadership of this group of deviant Confucian scholars, the entire Xiongnu Kingdom behaved a bit like Zhang Tianshi of later generations. They smashed the statues in temples one by one and placed their own statues of Confucius in their place.

The Xiongnu Confucian scholars intensified the religious conflicts, which naturally caused a bloody storm in the Xiongnu Kingdom, and even caused dissatisfaction among the then old Chanyu. He recruited these people from the desert to the Xiongnu Kingdom in order to increase the potential and foundation of the Xiongnu Kingdom, not to let these people bring disaster to the Xiongnu Kingdom and massacre the people of the Xiongnu Kingdom. The affairs of the Xiongnu Kingdom also attracted the attention of the local Confucian masters of the Han Dynasty. Being able to promote Confucianism in the Xiongnu Kingdom obviously increased their base. In order to control the Xiongnu Kingdom, Ouyang Xun, who had become a viscount of the Han Dynasty at that time, gave up his career in the Han Dynasty and resolutely brought his students to the Xiongnu Kingdom, which was still in its infancy.

He then explained to Laoshang Chanyu that the Xiongnu Kingdom lacked a main ethnic group. Although it could dominate for a while by relying on its powerful military force, it would eventually be drowned by the countless Sai people in the Xiongnu country.

Ouyang Xun's words hit the nail on the head for Laoshang Chanyu. He was also extremely worried about this matter. The Western Regions were not the Huns' hometown. If they declined here, they might completely disappear here, and there would be no more Huns nation in the future.

In the eyes of Laoshang Chanyu, the Huns who remained in the desert had been assimilated into the Han people. They no longer recognized the identity of the Huns because it had become increasingly difficult for the Huns to recruit Huns from the desert in recent years. Laoshang Chanyu's subordinates also complained to him that the people in the desert no longer regarded them as their fellow people, but as the Han people. They also did not like to come to the Huns, but preferred to go to Chang'an City.

However, Ouyang Xun found a way to deal with Laoshang Chanyu, which was to destroy temples and cut down mountains, and only respect Confucianism.

Of course, although this looks the same as what the Xiongnu Confucian scholars did, the process is different. The Xiongnu Confucian scholars only use force and are radical hardliners. Wherever they go, there will be blood and rain.

But in addition to using force to deal with those feudal and superstitious wizards, Ouyang Xun also gave institutions and treatment to religions like Zoroastrianism that had certain ideas and a large number of believers. He also moved your gods into my Confucian system, and you don't have to be a charlatan anymore. I will give you an official seal. Once you take the seal, we will all be one of us.

Those temples became Confucian schools. You can place your statues of gods there, but I will put the statues of the three Confucian saints in the center.

Relying on this method, Confucianism abolished or incorporated all of the hundreds of gods and religions in the Xiongnu country, and integrated the entire Xiongnu country with the Confucian idea of ​​ruler-ruler, subject-minister, father-father, and son-son.

The saying "ruler is ruler, minister is minister, father is father, son is son" touched the heart of Laoshang Chanyu. Like Emperor Wu, he saw a peerless beauty. Under Ouyang Xun's explanation, he set the Confucianism as the main ideology in Xiongnu State, renamed his capital city New Qufu, and built Confucius Temple and Three Saints Temple (Confucius, the Greatest Teacher, Mencius, the Secondary Teacher, and Xunzi, the Third Teacher) in Xiongnu State.
In addition, the Xiongnu leaders assisted in promoting Chinese Confucianism. Judging from the effects of the past few decades, the results were also very significant. The leaders of the local tribes had abandoned their original language system and began to learn Chinese characters and Chinese. Their sons and nephews worshipped Confucianism as their teachers and became one of the rulers of the Xiongnu Kingdom. The cohesion of the Xiongnu Kingdom increased exponentially.

Xiongnu Kingdom, Sha County, Quanzhou County.

Quanzhou was the second largest city in the Xiongnu Kingdom and the source of the entire Xiongnu Kingdom's financial expenditure.

After Junchen returned to the Xiongnu Kingdom after learning iron smelting from the Han Dynasty, he established a military industrial center for the Xiongnu Kingdom on the one hand, and on the other hand, he wanted to open up the Xiongnu Kingdom's seaport and transform the Xiongnu Kingdom from an inland country into a coastal country.

The military minister's actions were also related to the opening of the Maritime Silk Road. After the Han Dynasty crossed India by sea and came to the land that was the center of the world,
In the small countries of Segurus, Rome, Carthage, and the Greek Federation, the price of silk fell from gold to silver. Of course, although the price dropped, the market expanded, and the Han Dynasty's maritime merchants still made a lot of money.

But that's how business works, if someone makes money someone else must lose money. A Han Dynasty ship was equivalent to 10 camel caravans. The countries along the Silk Road suddenly lost their most important financial pillar. Among them, the Han Dynasty princes such as Ji Bu were relatively better off.

They were close to the huge market of Guanzhong, so even if the silk trade decreased, they could still import oil and cotton, and their income was actually higher than before.

But the Xiongnu Kingdom was in a miserable situation. Its financial revenue was reduced by more than half, causing the Xiongnu Kingdom to be unable to make ends meet.

Faced with this situation, the military officials who returned from the Han Dynasty directly decided on the strategy of attacking Parthia and gaining access to the sea.

Later, under the leadership of Junchen, 500 troops, they conquered miles of coastal land of the Parthian Empire in one battle and established Quanzhou on this land.

Initially, the Huns just wanted to build a port and become a link in the global maritime trade chain, but they did not expect that this land they accidentally occupied actually contained endless treasures buried underground.

A farmer actually dug up oil while farming. With the example of Ji State, the Xiongnu people knew the value of oil. They immediately built an oil refinery in Quanzhou. Barrels of kerosene became the biggest local specialty.

After learning that the Xiongnu had oil, the Han merchants also flocked to Quanzhou. They sold kerosene or oil to India or other countries such as the Kingdom of Segurius. Relying on the wealth brought by oil, Quanzhou's development was rapid. It soon became the second most populous city in the Xiongnu Kingdom and the richest city.

At this time, Zhang Pijiang and others were inspecting Quanzhou. This city was both familiar and unfamiliar to him. Here you can see both Han Dynasty palace-style buildings and local crescent-style buildings. It is more of a fusion of the two architectural styles, and is full of exotic customs.

The population of Quanzhou was not inferior to that of ordinary cities in the Han Dynasty. The local people generally spoke Chinese in a difficult way. Being able to hear familiar voices in such a distant place, Zhang Pijiang had to admit that the Huns and Confucianists made contributions.

"When I came here a few years ago, there were only a few people who could speak Chinese. Now, half of the people here can speak Chinese. You, the county magistrate, have made an invaluable contribution to our Han civilization."

The county magistrate was a Hun with blond hair, but his facial features showed that he was one of those round-faced Huns from the desert.

Hearing this, he smiled proudly and said, "In Sha County, people who can speak Chinese only have one head tax, but if they can't speak Chinese, the head tax is five times. Under such economic pressure, they naturally have to learn Chinese."

"This is advanced experience learned from the locals. There are a lot of charlatans in the local area, and they have joined forces with the nobles. Once they occupy a place, they will promote the gods they believe in. If they dare not believe in them, they will increase taxes, and if they believe in them, they will reduce taxes."

"I thought this experience was very good, so I studied and promoted it. Now it seems to be effective. I have already written to the Chanyu, asking him to promote this advanced experience throughout the Xiongnu Kingdom."

The governor of Shazhou County was not only a Hun from the desert, but also a Han Chinese. Under the Confucian education, he went through elementary school, middle school and academy, and was considered a genius among the Huns. Later, he followed Ouyang Xun to the Huns and became one of the officials of the Huns. With his Confucian background and the knowledge he learned in the Han Dynasty, he became one of the 12 governors of the Huns. He did not understand the changes in the upper class, and had some ideas of showing off when Zhang Pijiang's delegation came.

(End of this chapter)