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Chapter 1596 The war begins (3)

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    Hundreds of thousands of bachelors need at least an equal number of girls to match them.  Where to find so many girls?  Liu Che also has a headache!  "Munan should be able to mobilize a hundred thousand women" Liu Che thought for a while and barely found a stable source of girls.  The tribes in the southern part of the country have been fighting continuously for the past two years, and their lives have been reduced to nothing.  A large number of young men died in battle, which made the proportion of women in the southern tribes exceed the standard. In the war, women were the easiest and least likely to survive.  "Normally, the victor in the war will not attack women.  Even the Zhelan people, who were famous for their cruelty and ferocity, would not kill women and children after defeating their enemies.  Therefore, among the various tribes in the southern part of the country, there are now many girls.  According to the reports of Zhidu and Guanhe, the ratio of men to women in the settlements of the Han army in various parts of Munan has been completely imbalanced.  It may be a good choice to select about 100,000 girls of the right age from various settlements to be paired with Han immigrants, or as rewards, to those young men who take the initiative to settle in Hexi.  It not only solves the problem of bachelors in the Han family, but also promotes national integration.  It¡¯s simply not awesome!  But There is still a gap of at least 400,000 between the 100,000 girls of the right age and the 500,000 to 600,000 singles.  Where to find the remaining 400,000 girls?  Liu Che was also at a loss.  "Should I send a mission to the Northern Huns to purchase?" Liu Che scratched his head.  Importing from the Northern Huns may be a good choice.  The quality of the girls from various countries in the Western Regions under the control of the Northern Xiongnu, and even the girls from Kangju, Daxia and other countries that were under the control of their troops, were all of good quality.  There are blond, blue-eyed, European-style girls, and there are black-haired, brown-eyed, flat-chested girls.  Around , the Northern Huns themselves estimated that they also had a large number of surplus girls. In the past two years, the smuggling trade between the Han and Northern Xiongnu allowed Han merchants to import nearly 50,000 slave workers from the Northern Xiongnu.  This is just the registered number.  Those slave workers who were quietly brought back to the Great Wall by merchants and then tied up in workshops and workshops to work day and night are not included.  Since the Northern Huns themselves are engaged in slave trade, it is normal to export some girls by the way.  War is war, and trade is trade.  Since ancient times, capital has no national boundaries and interests have no species.  The big deal is, just sell some ironware to the Northern Huns!  It would be different from four years ago, whoever dared to smuggle iron to the Northern Huns would have his whole family killed.  By now, in fact, the Han Dynasty officials were encouraging merchants to smuggle pig iron ingots to the Northern Huns.  The reason is simple. With the advancement of technology, the pig iron production of the Han Dynasty has increased several times compared with four years ago.  The iron production volume of Nanyang Iron Smelting Base alone has exceeded three million kilograms this year.  Equivalent to the total national pig iron production eight years ago!  The output of private iron smelting workshops and Shaofu has not been included.  ¡°If in a few years, when the technological transformation of Nanyang¡¯s iron-smelting blast furnace is completed and the new blast furnace is put into use, Nanyang¡¯s iron production alone may be enough to basically meet the agricultural needs of half of China.  ¡° Pig iron is abundant, of course we have to sell it!  ¡°Anyway, even if you sell one million kilograms of iron to the Huns, the Huns will still be chickens!  Even better, maybe exporting a large amount of pig iron can destroy the Xiongnu's own metal smelting system.  Thinking like this, Liu Che made his decision.  But, who should be sent as an envoy to the Xiongnu?  This has become a big problem!  In the past, few people were willing to go as envoys to the Huns.  Many envoys often ran away halfway because they were worried that they might be killed by the Huns if they went there.  But now, the situation is different again.  Everyone is no longer worried that when the Huns may die, they may be the opposite. After the war of Ma Yi, the Han envoy of the Xiongnu has not mentioned how comfortable it is on the young days of the Huns.  If you want a woman, you will have a woman; if you want money, you will have money and silk.  The Huns tried their best to win over and seduce the Han envoys, trying to bring them down and make them work for themselves or betray the information of the Han Dynasty.  During this process, many scumbags who were not strong-willed or could not control themselves were pulled down by the Huns.  Many people even became spies for the Huns and passed on some information to the Huns.  Then I was embroideredThe man got the stolen goods together and was pushed to the Dongshi Ming Dynasty to be punished.  And this person¡¯s entire family was humiliated because of this, and some old parents even committed suicide in shame for raising such a traitorous son. ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? out out can not guarantee that under the shadow of spy politics, there will sometimes be unjust, false and wrong cases, and even some spy chiefs don't like someone and deliberately frame them.  Therefore, the mission to the Xiongnu gradually became a dangerous journey.  Normal scholar-bureaucrats and civil servants are unwilling to go on missions.  "Some people even took their seals and ran away as soon as they heard that they might be sent as envoys to the Huns. If they couldn't escape, they drank a glass of poisoned wine and committed suicide.  "Anyway, I won't go to the Huns even if I die."  Because reputation is more important than death!  The honor of the family is more important!  Because of this incident, Xiu Yiwei gained a lot of notoriety and exaggerated stories among the people.  If it weren¡¯t for Liu Che¡¯s protection, I¡¯m afraid they would have been disbanded and eliminated by the ¡®gentlemen¡¯.  In short, it is too difficult to put together a normal envoy to go to the Huns now!  It was impossible to find anyone who was willing to go.  The officials below will also automatically refuse the option of sending envoys.  ¡°But about importing girls, you have to find a reliable person to discuss it quietly.  Liu Che thought about it and decided to simply send a eunuch to the Huns.  ¡° Anyway, there are many eunuchs in the palace who want to take the initiative, and these scumbags only have so much ability.  What¡¯s even better is that the information they have is only so little. Even if it is corrupted by the Huns, it is impossible to sell anything valuable.  So, Liu Che made a selection in Weiyang Palace, and then selected a middle-aged eunuch named Zhang Chang in Xuanshi Palace.  This person has always been quite diligent, relatively loyal, and most importantly, has a tight mouth. He is a good candidate.  In this way, Zhang Chang took Liu Che's credentials and Emperor's Day, led more than 40 envoys and retinues, and quietly set out from Chang'an in mid-September. He planned to leave the fortress from Langmengyi and go from Longcheng to Junji Mountain.  Junji Mountain, he can go to the local smugglers, and then connect with the Huns through these guys.  Liu Che believes that the Northern Xiongnu will definitely welcome and welcome the Han mission very warmly.  Because the last time a Han envoy arrived in the Northern Huns was two years ago.  "In addition to talking about the girl's affairs, Zhang Chang was also responsible for discussing with the Northern Huns about jointly eradicating the creeping horse bandits that haunted the desert.  "Don't wonder why the Northern Huns would discuss such things with the Han Dynasty.  During World War II, the Americans and the Nazis fought bloody battles on the battlefield, but the Nazis and American diplomats in Switzerland were exchanging glasses of wine in the cafe.  And these creeping horse bandits are now the common enemies of the Han and the Northern Huns.  These scum not only attacked the Han family¡¯s border posts and caravans in the north and west of Mu Nan, but also sometimes attacked the caravans and migrating tribes of the Northern Huns.  It can be said that they are the common enemy of Han and Hungarians!
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