Diqin Designer

Chapter 179: This kid Maodun must not be allowed to stay!
A secret letter sent urgently from the border arrived in Xianyang quickly and was presented to Ying Zheng. When it was opened, it turned out to be an envoy sent by the Huns to congratulate him on his becoming emperor and ask whether he would allow the Huns delegation to enter the pass.

Although in the secret letter, the Hun envoys stated that the purpose of their mission was to congratulate him after hearing that he had become emperor, and they also brought many gifts such as fine horses, beauties, and jewels, Ying Zheng did not believe a word of what the Hun envoys said. Anyone who believed them would be a fool.

If they really wanted to congratulate him on his becoming emperor, they should have either come to attend the ceremony on the eve of his coronation, or come on the day of his coronation or the next day. How could it be that the Huns sent an envoy half a month after the ceremony?

The news of his coronation ceremony was neither hidden nor covered up, but spread throughout the world. Ying Zheng did not believe that the Huns would not know about it. The Huns had plenty of time to send an envoy to congratulate him, but they only sent it now, which clearly showed that they were insincere and had other purposes.

The purpose of the Huns was obviously that they were afraid that Daqin would send troops to them, so they came to spy on Daqin's situation under the guise of congratulating him on becoming emperor to see whether he really intended to send troops.

The Xiongnu is not a powerful country today and is no rival of the Qin Dynasty, but Ying Zheng remembered that in the history told by Li Nian, by the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the Xiongnu had become the overlord of the grassland, and even Liu Ji had been besieged at Baideng by the Xiongnu Chanyu.

"I remember Li Nian said that the Xiongnu Chanyu who surrounded Liu Ji was called 'Modun'. There was also a person named 'Modun' in the delegation, who was said to be the son of Touman. The two must be the same person."

There was a murderous intent in Ying Zheng's eyes. If they were really the same person, then Maodun could not be let go so easily.

After suppressing his murderous intent, Ying Zheng glanced at a eunuch below him, threw the secret letter to him, and said, "Forward it to Liuying Palace."

In Liuying Palace, Li Nian was busy. His work had become more. He had to participate in the design of the military academy, select a site for the Naval Academy, provide advisory services for the Xianyang examination, replace the current Qin seal script with simplified Chinese characters of later generations, and copy knowledge of later generations... Sometimes he also had to deal with some inquiries transferred from Zhangtai Palace.

Today's Qin is taking a different path from that in history, and as the main designer of this path, he is naturally very busy.

Just as he was thinking that there had been no inquiries from Zhangtai Palace today, Li Nian saw Guo Dian leading a eunuch in.

The eunuch held the secret letter in his hands and said to Li Nian, "Sir, His Majesty has asked me to give this to you!"

Guo Dian took the secret letter and placed it on Li Nian's desk.

Thinking "What happened to the First Emperor today?", Li Nian opened the secret letter: Oh, it turned out that the Huns sent an envoy.

After reading the secret letter, Li Nian also understood Ying Zheng's intention of passing the secret letter to him: to let him judge the purpose of this Hun delegation from the professional perspective of future generations, and how the Qin Dynasty should treat this Hun delegation.

In fact, there is nothing to judge. When Li Nian saw the word "Modun" in the list of members of the Hun delegation, he had only one thought: this kid must not be kept!

If this man is really the Maodun Chanyu in history, no matter how old he is, as long as he enters the territory of Qin, he must never be allowed to return to the Xiongnu.

In the eyes of the Huns, Maodun was the hero who made the Huns rise, the eagle in the sky, and the great king of the grassland. But from the perspective of the Qin Dynasty, he was a terrible and powerful enemy.

History is created by the people, but some people play a very important role in history. Without them, history will be very different. Maodun is one of these people!
Li Nian began to search for information about Maodun in his mind. The more he read, the more he felt that Maodun should not be released back to the Xiongnu. This man was too capable. Without him, the Xiongnu would most likely not be strong enough to become the powerful force that would take the Han Dynasty several generations to defeat.

Li Nian picked up his pen and began to write, explaining to Ying Zheng the threat posed by Maodun and the benefits of getting rid of him. Once it was confirmed that this Maodun was the Maodun in history, he must be eliminated and not allowed to return to the Xiongnu. He also explained that there was no need to worry about retaliation from the Xiongnu if Maodun was eliminated.

The current Xiongnu is led by Touman, the father of Maodun. But Touman, perhaps in his early years, had some pioneering and enterprising spirit and wanted to become a great leader. But after a battle with Li Mu, his backbone was broken and he lost his ambition. He could only defend the status quo and dared not make any more major advances.

In that battle, the Huns lost 100,000 cavalry, which not only severely damaged the Huns' vitality, but also caused Touman's prestige among the Huns to plummet. Even if Touman made up for it afterwards, his prestige would be difficult to recover to the level before the battle with Li Mu.

Even if Touman was still unwilling to give up and wanted to make progress, he only dared to do things secretly. This can be seen from the fact that he secretly occupied the Hetao region when the Qin Dynasty unified the world, and now sent an envoy to congratulate the First Emperor.

It is impossible for a man like Touman to dare to go to war with the Qin Dynasty just for the sake of his son, and there were also conflicts between Touman and Maodun.

In the history that should have happened, Touman's favorite Yanshi gave birth to a little son, so he wanted to kill Maodun and enthrone the younger son. So he sent Maodun to Yuezhi as a hostage, and then he attacked Yuezhi, intending to use Yuezhi to kill Maodun.

Who would have thought that Maodun was such a tough guy. Not only did he not die, he also stole the good horses of Yuezhi and ran back to Xiongnu. Finally, a few years later, Maodun's "kind father and filial son" left behind the idiom "Ming Di Shi Pa".

Although at this time, Touman may not have a younger son and has not thought of killing Maodun and replacing his younger son with his successor, there may still be conflicts between father and son.

Touman is a conservative leader, he has no ambition and is only interested in living a good life. If he can take advantage of others secretly, he will do so. If he can't, he will just leave. How could he be noticed by an ambitious man like Maodun?
Maodun must have long disliked his father, thinking that he was cowardly and incompetent. How could an old insect who was afraid of death lead the Huns to prosperity?
Only a tough guy like me can do it!
Touman was probably also wary of Maodun. This kid was so different from what I thought at his age. When I get old, wouldn't he be like that?

What Li Nian wrote was quickly sent to Ying Zheng. It had only one core idea: if Maodun was the son of the Xiongnu leader Touman, he would be kept in the Qin Dynasty forever.

A few days later, a document sent from Xianyang arrived at the border of Shangjun.

In the cold winter wind, Maodun led a group of Huns. He was tall and strong, and did not look like a thirteen-year-old boy at all. Only someone with such a strong physique and a good mind could lead the Huns to become strong.

He was not smart enough to think of many ways to build and govern the country. He was not physically strong enough to fight wars in the south and the north to convince the Huns.

He was listening to a Qin official reading a document, and someone who was fluent in both Xiongnu and Qin was translating for him. The Qin Emperor agreed to let them go and congratulate him and allowed them to enter the Qin territory.

After the Qin official finished reading the document, he put it away. A Qin general came forward and said to Maodun: "Your Majesty has allowed you to enter the pass. You can set out today. We will escort you to Xianyang."

Maodun hurriedly expressed his thanks in the Xiongnu language. He did not care too much about the fact that the Qin army would accompany him throughout the journey. He wanted to reach Xianyang as soon as possible to see what the Qin was like.

(End of this chapter)