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

Chapter 673 The Four Great Hates of the Huns
On January 53, the 1rd year of the Han calendar, the capital of the Xiongnu Kingdom was Xin Qufu.

The Xiongnu prince Yu Shan had no choice but to say to his father, Jun Chen Shan Yu: "Father, the emperor of the Han Dynasty has clearly warned the Xiongnu that if we do not withdraw from the Seleucid homeland, the emperor will enforce justice on behalf of heaven and teach our Xiongnu a lesson."

During the time that Yu Shan was in the Han Dynasty, he was treated coldly. The newly established global alliance had no place for the Xiongnu. Later, when a global development bank was established and officials were sent by various countries to form a global alliance system, the Xiongnu were excluded.

Yu Shan felt unprecedented humiliation in Chang'an City, but at the same time he also felt unprecedented fear. The Huns were naturally a powerful country at the time, but it was impossible for the Huns to resist the whole world alone. Such a situation of being excluded by the world was extremely dangerous for the Huns.

Yu Shan stayed in Chang'an for more than a month, and spent all his money to bribe Han officials, hoping to squeeze into the system of the Global Alliance. But unfortunately, he spent all his money and apologized, but still got nothing. Han officials told him that the Xiongnu Kingdom's withdrawal from the Seleucid Empire's land was a prerequisite for joining the Global Alliance.

Junchen Shanyu smiled coldly, "He, Xu Aimin, is not satisfied with being the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and wants to be the emperor of the whole world. I have only swallowed up a few hundred miles of land, but he wants to say that he is acting on behalf of heaven. Is he qualified to say that he is acting on behalf of heaven? Can I also say that I want justice for the natives of the four continents?"

Ouyang Rong, the chief priest of the Xiongnu State, warned: "The Chanyu must not speak nonsense of the emperor's teachings."

In these years, the Han Dynasty annexed four continents, but the lands of the Xiongnu were all annexed from other countries. If this matter is investigated in depth, the foundation of the Xiongnu State will be shaken. The legal basis for the Xiongnu State to occupy this land is the merit of civilization, and even the Chanyu cannot shake this.

Zhang Ying, the prime minister of the Xiongnu, advised: "Chanyu, the Seleucid Empire is a small country with poor people. It is useless for our country to occupy it. Why don't we withdraw from these territories, make friends with the Han Dynasty and join the global trading system? This is the right way."

When the civil service system has an advantage in power, it will try every means to start a war, but when it is visibly weak, their fear of war will increase tenfold. Now the military strength of the Xiongnu Kingdom is naturally far inferior to that of the Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu officials naturally do not want to fight such a war that is bound to fail.

But Junchen's idea was different from that of decades ago. Decades ago, the land of the Xiongnu Kingdom was more than 5 million square kilometers, but on such a vast land, the population of the Xiongnu Kingdom was only 10 million. It was not an exaggeration to say that the land was vast and the population was sparse. There was a large amount of land and grassland that needed to be developed in the Xiongnu Kingdom, and the industrialization of the Xiongnu Kingdom was also in full swing. Therefore, even if the Xiongnu Kingdom did not invade foreign countries, the benefits of land reclamation and expansion, and the wealth of industrialization growth could also meet the distribution of various classes within the Xiongnu Kingdom. At that time, the Xiongnu Kingdom was a country with hundreds of ethnic groups. It was a country that his father had pieced together with military coercion. Continuous military victories could make the internal cohesion of the Xiongnu Kingdom stronger and stronger, but as long as the war failed, the powerful Xiongnu Kingdom might collapse.

Faced with this situation where military benefits and costs were disproportionate, Junchen was a peace advocate. He planned to use the benefits of economic development to balance the various forces in the Xiongnu Kingdom. He has been doing so for the past few decades and has done it relatively well. The Xiongnu's steel, textile, and petrochemical industries have all grown rapidly, with production capacity increasing more than ten times in twenty years. Even because of the construction of water conservancy facilities such as the karez, the Xiongnu's agriculture and animal husbandry are also growing rapidly.

In the new economic era, all classes of the Xiongnu Kingdom were busy making money. In addition, Junchen himself exiled those hawkish factions to the north and asked them to develop the northern grasslands. Therefore, the Xiongnu Kingdom has been very stable in the past twenty years.

But things have been different in the past two years. Now the population of the Xiongnu Kingdom has exceeded 25 million, more than doubling. All the land that is easy to develop in the Xiongnu Kingdom has been developed. The remaining land is wasteland with high development costs and poor returns. The amount of land reclaimed by the Xiongnu Kingdom has declined significantly in recent years.

At the same time, the dividends of industrial development were almost exhausted, and the domestic market of the Xiongnu was small (compared with the Han Dynasty). It was impossible to constrain the upper class like the Han Dynasty and try to pass the dividends of industrial development to the lower class of the Xiongnu. Under the condition of unfair profit distribution, industrial development soon encountered market saturation, and the industrialization development of the Xiongnu began to have overcapacity. In the past few years, the industrial growth has been extremely slow, and the internal economy is extremely fragile.

In the 39th year of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu Kingdom experienced an economic crisis. At that time, they survived by selling part of their interests to get support from the Han Dynasty. The year before last, an economic crisis broke out in Tianzhu Kingdom, and it soon spread to the Xiongnu Kingdom. Tianzhu Kingdom was one of the most important kerosene markets for the Xiongnu Kingdom, and also one of the most important cotton cloth dumping markets for the Xiongnu Kingdom.

But now the Xiongnu Kingdom not only had to compete with Nanyang in the kerosene market, but also had been driven out of the most important cotton cloth market by Tianzhu cloth. In addition, with the end of the Civil War in Rome, the Romans could invest all their resources in industrialization, and their fastest and best development was the textile industry. The Carthaginians' textile industry was also developing rapidly. The three parties were competing fiercely for the textile market in Daqinzhou. Under such fierce competition, the Xiongnu Kingdom's textile market was not only sluggish, but also its profits were declining rapidly. It can be said that the Xiongnu's industry was facing a dilemma of being surrounded by enemies on all sides. The overseas market was swallowed up bit by bit, and the Xiongnu Kingdom's industrial strength had no way to complete industrial upgrading.

This resulted in great pressure on the Xiongnu's light and heavy industries, and extremely low profits. Any crisis in India would be immediately transmitted to the Xiongnu, triggering a financial crisis in the Xiongnu stock market, and then a nationwide economic crisis.

To resolve this crisis, one way is to expand foreign markets, mainly the Han market. This is why Junchen asked his prince to participate in the Han World Expo, just to find more markets to digest the inventory and solve the internal overcapacity of the Xiongnu Kingdom. The second way is to expand outward and find new lands, new markets, and new sources of raw materials.

At this time, the Seleucid Empire was in civil strife, and the Seleucid nobles invited the Xiongnu army to help resist the rebellion, which made the military officials overjoyed. The Seleucid Empire, with its large population and rich resources, was the best way to resolve the internal conflicts in the Xiongnu Empire.

Even though doing so would offend the Han Dynasty, Junchen would not miss this opportunity, because he was already finding it difficult to withstand the pressure from all sides of the Xiongnu Kingdom. If he could not resolve the industrial conflicts in the Xiongnu Kingdom, he might even be overthrown as the Chanyu.

In the past two years, his second brother Yizhixie has been active against the Xiongnu Kingdom. Many city lords and military leaders of the Xiongnu Kingdom have contacted him. Because the Northern Xiongnu Kingdom has expanded extremely smoothly in the past few years, it can be said that one victory after another, and the territory it occupies is not much worse than the Xiongnu homeland. Although in Junchen's eyes, those are all barren ice fields, and the people they fight are just some savages with only wooden sticks. This kind of war is just like a child playing house, and Junchen doesn't care at all.

But Yizhixie was good at propaganda, and the Huns also liked to hear about these victories, especially when faced with the reality that the Huns were suppressed by the Han Dynasty. Now the Huns had not expanded their territory for 20 years, which was quite untraditional for a military empire. However, Yizhixie could bring emotional excitement to the Huns people.

The Xiongnu people had not experienced war for a generation, let alone the attack of the Han army. They had suffered the pain of losing their country, so they did not know much about the cruelty of war. However, they envied their family's military achievements and always wanted to inherit the family's glory. But how could they inherit the glory without even fighting? More and more Xiongnu nobles complained about the military officials who did not like fighting.

In the past, when there were still development dividends, these complaints were at most verbal, but now that the development of the Xiongnu Kingdom has stagnated, the contradictions have been completely ignited for a time, and everyone from top to bottom began to blame the military officials for being too compromising to the outside world and not tough enough.

The military officials understood all of this clearly. The Xiongnu State was established too recently, had too poor a foundation, and was too mixed in composition. Everyone came together for their own interests, or to put it bluntly, they were robbing other countries together and then dividing the profits. However, as a Chanyu, he was unable to bring about internal oppression and external plunder by the Xiongnu nobles, so he was not a qualified Chanyu.

At the same time, under the leadership of Junchen, the industrialization system of the Xiongnu Kingdom became increasingly larger. However, the Xiongnu did not have the official system of the Han Dynasty to balance the development of industry. It can even be said that the factory owners of the Xiongnu Kingdom were the real capitalists. In order to increase their profits, they could exploit their compatriots ruthlessly. The faster the Xiongnu Kingdom's industry developed in recent years, the more population it swept into, and the larger the scale of craftsmen became. However, the income of craftsmen not only did not increase, but began to decline. As a result, the domestic demand of the Xiongnu Kingdom began to become less and less, and the economic crisis naturally broke out inevitably.

Capital began to have independent consciousness, and even Junchen was tied to the chariot of capital. He needed more raw material production areas and more commodity markets. The Xiongnu Kingdom had no room for internal development, but the Xiongnu Kingdom's industrial system urgently needed new commodity production and raw material production areas, which forced Junchen to annex the Seleucid Empire even if it was risky.

Junchen looked at his own Minister of the Imperial Household Jin Ridi and said, "Minister of the Imperial Household, what is the difference between the military achievements of the Xiongnu and those of the Han?"

Jin Ridi said helplessly: "The new open-hearth steelmaking and converter steelmaking of the Han Dynasty have been mastered by the Xiongnu Kingdom. The largest open-hearth steelmaking can produce 20 tons of steel at a time, which can meet the needs of manufacturing steel cannons. The 31-type rifle of the Han Dynasty has also been copied. Unless the Han military has new weapons, the Xiongnu Kingdom has already caught up with the Han Dynasty in terms of weapons manufacturing."

Then Junchen looked at the ranks of generals and asked, "Do you have the confidence to defeat the Han army?"

The Xiongnu general Xia Jie said: "If the Han army does not exceed 10, I am confident that I can lead the Xiongnu warriors to victory. If it exceeds 30, I am also confident that I can lead the Xiongnu warriors to resist the Han army's attack."

Zhang Ying said angrily: "How will you respond to the 60-man army sent by the Han Dynasty? Are you planning to die to thank the world?"

Xia Jie said angrily: "You scholars have no military knowledge at all. My Xiongnu is tens of thousands of miles away from Chang'an City. How can the Han emperor send 60 troops? Even if there is a railway, it will cost 300 million people just to maintain the logistics. Unless the Han emperor wants to fight to the death with my Xiongnu country, otherwise, it is impossible for him to send 60 troops."

Xia Jie said: "If you don't understand about war, don't talk nonsense." Xia Jie once fought with the Han army in the Western Regions, and the result was that he was severely beaten by Han Xin and had three bullets in his body.

After knowing shame, they became braver. In the next twenty years, the military industry of the Xiongnu Kingdom has been trying to produce qualified steel cannons and rifles to catch up with the Han Dynasty. In the industrial age, there are no secrets. As long as the product appears, the direction is known, and resources are invested in the development of the technology tree, they can catch up quickly. It took Xu Fan and his team 40 years in the future, but in this world, the Xiongnu Kingdom worked hard for twenty years and caught up with the Han Dynasty in the field of weapons and equipment.

Now the Xiongnu army has developed a lot of imitation Type 31 rifles, steel cannons that can fire 10-jin, and heavy howitzers that can fire 100-jin shrapnel shells. In addition, each battalion has its own artillery ratio. It can be said that in terms of equipment, the Xiongnu army is equipped with an eye on the Han army. The Xiongnu army has always regarded the Han army as an imaginary enemy. Compared with the weapons and equipment of the Xiongnu army back then, the firepower of the current Xiongnu people is ten times stronger.

Xia Jie gave the powerful Xiongnu army confidence. He had been victorious in all battles in the past, except for one defeat at the hands of the Han army. He had long wanted to avenge this defeat.

"War is a matter of great importance to a country. Chanyu should be cautious," other Hun generals advised.

The other generals of the Xiongnu Kingdom were not as confident as Xia Jie. The Xiongnu Kingdom's military equipment has been upgraded rapidly in recent years, but who knows how much the Han army has improved? These generals have not forgotten the defeat of the year. The Xiongnu army galloped in the center of the world island, winning every battle, and making the Xiongnu invincible. They thought that the gap between them and the Han army was not big, but that battle directly broke the Xiongnu's self-confidence accumulated over the past decade. These generals were not as confident as Xia Jie, but they were more worried about the military strength of the Han army.

This made Junchen very helpless. Although he was confident that the strength of the Xiongnu army was now 10 times stronger than before, he did not know how much stronger the Han army was than before. Junchen could only know himself but not the enemy. He was also terrified about the prospects of this war, but the situation forced him to fight this battle, otherwise there would be no way to eliminate the internal contradictions in the Xiongnu country, and he would not be able to sit firmly in his position as the Xiongnu Khan.

The military official said, "We were invited by the Seleucid nobles to wipe out the rebels. Morally, the Xiongnu Kingdom has the upper hand. The Han Emperor's help to these rebels was unpopular to begin with, and now he is bullying the Xiongnu Kingdom."

"The Han Emperor has always said that the Xiongnu and the Han are blood brothers, but the Han Emperor does not recognize the Xiongnu as a brother. He has been oppressing us for decades. First, he drove the ancestors of the Han Dynasty from the Central Plains to the grasslands, and then during the period of Maodun Chanyu, he drove the Xiongnu from the grasslands to the central part of Shenzhou. The old Chanyu of the Xiongnu also died at the hands of the first Han Emperor. Now the second Han Emperor oppresses the Xiongnu even more. The Xiongnu sent the prince as an envoy to pay homage to Chang'an City, but the Han officials oppressed my son. The Han Emperor formed a global alliance, but did not allow the Xiongnu to join. The Han Emperor is blatantly despising the Xiongnu. Can you tolerate such humiliation?"

Xia Jie roared: "No!"

The other generals were terrified. The Chanyu's remarks about so many Han people bullying their Xiongnu Kingdom clearly showed that he had no intention of leaving the Seleucid Empire.

Given the Han Dynasty’s arrogance, they will definitely be taught a lesson again. I just don’t know how big the scale of this war will be. Will it be the same as last time, where after one battle both sides understand each other’s strength and stop fighting? Last time, the Xiongnu Kingdom sacrificed a Chanyu, will they have to sacrifice another Chanyu this time in exchange for the Han Dynasty’s forgiveness?
Although the generals had a lot on their mind at this time, they could only roar: "No."

Junchen looked at the high priest Ouyang Rong and the prime minister Jin Ridi, and the two could only smile bitterly and shout: "No!"

Junchen said firmly: "High Priest, you lead all the sacrifices of the Xiongnu Kingdom. Master, in my Xiongnu territory, you can only publicize the four great hatreds of our country. You must let all the people of the Xiongnu Kingdom know that the Han Dynasty oppressed my Xiongnu Kingdom and despised us Xiongnu people."

The chief priest Ouyang Rong advised: "Isn't this propaganda too unforgiving? The Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty want to reconcile. This kind of propaganda can easily mislead the people and backfire on the Xiongnu."

Jun Chen said firmly: "It is the Han Emperor who wants to deal with our Xiongnu country now. We have no way out. Only by uniting as one can we survive. This Chanyu wants every Xiongnu to vent their hatred on the Han people."

It was impossible for the Huns to accept a failed Khan. If the Han Dynasty wanted to maintain the global system, it would inevitably accept the Huns into its global alliance system. However, he had no way out, so he simply used this method to boost the morale of the Huns' army.

High Priest Ouyang Rong could only nod and say, "Yes!"

Then he looked at his prime minister and said, "Prime Minister, please prepare the weapons and equipment, and logistical supplies."

Zhang Ying said, "Yes."

Junchen looked at Xia Jie and said, "General, you led an army of 30,000 to fight with me. I used to be from the Seleucid Empire."

Zhang Ying immediately stopped him and said, "Chanyu, this battle is extremely dangerous. Let General Xia Jie take charge. The Xiongnu Kingdom still needs you."

But Junchen refused and said, "This battle is of vital importance to us Xiongnu. If we succeed, we Xiongnu will become the overlord of the Qin Continent. We can only succeed and cannot fail. I must lead the battle myself."

Even though the high-ranking officials of the Xiongnu Kingdom tried to dissuade him, Junchen still insisted on his own way.

Through sacrifices held in various parts of the Xiongnu Kingdom and Confucius' propaganda, the people of the Xiongnu Kingdom all knew that the Han people oppressed their prince and despised them as barbarians. All the vassal states of the Han Dynasty could join the Global Alliance, and even outsiders like Rome and Carthage could join, but they, the Xiongnu, could not join. It was obvious that the Han people were discriminating against the Xiongnu.

When the people of the Xiongnu heard these things, they were extremely angry. The economy of the Xiongnu had been deteriorating over the years, and everyone had a hard time. But the Xiongnu still had arrogance. At the beginning of the founding of the Xiongnu, they destroyed dozens of countries, and later they repeatedly defeated powerful countries. A big country like Parthia was also destroyed by the Xiongnu in one battle. Looking around the world, the Xiongnu had never been defeated except for the Han people. Therefore, the people of the Xiongnu always believed that they were the second most powerful country in the world, and they were also proud of being the people of the second most powerful country in the world. Even if the economy was not so good, the people of the Xiongnu could still raise their heads proudly when they thought of themselves as citizens of the second most powerful country in the world.

And now the propagandists of the Xiongnu Kingdom have made the Xiongnu people realize that their strength, which is second only to that of the Han Dynasty, has not been recognized by the Han Dynasty. At least the Han Dynasty does not respect the strength of the Xiongnu Kingdom and even oppresses them.

Combined with the four great hatreds publicized by the Xiongnu government, this now gave the Xiongnu people a place to vent their frustrations over the years.

I said that the Xiongnu Kingdom was so powerful, but why was its development so unsuccessful in recent years?

It turned out that the Han Dynasty was afraid of the power of the Xiongnu Kingdom and had been suppressing them.

But this is still based on facts. Junchen said that the four major hatreds have all happened in history, and even two of them were experienced by them personally. Their king of all kings, Laoshang Shanyu, died at the hands of the founding emperor of the Han Dynasty.

For a time, a patriotic wave swept across the entire Xiongnu Kingdom. The Han Dynasty's vehicles were smashed, machinery was damaged, cloth was burned, and even merchants were injured. If it were not for the protection of the Xiongnu yamen runners, there might have been casualties. Nationalism was extremely high in the Xiongnu Kingdom, and the Han Dynasty's merchants were so scared that they dared not come here to do business.

(End of this chapter)