The third day of June in the twenty-eighth year of Tiansheng.
On the third day after Ban Chao and his party arrived in Ankang City, they finally received the news that they would enter the palace the next day to meet with Qiu Yeque, Shanyu of the Dayue clan.
As soon as he received the news, Ban Chao called for everyone and asked them to find out when they went out today whether anyone other than themselves had come to Ankang City in the past two days?
He suspected that the Hun envoy had arrived. As the saying goes, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never be defeated in a hundred battles.
It will be easier to do anything if you know firsthand that the Xiongnu mission is in a bad position.
Although everyone was surprised how he knew that the Huns mission was coming, they immediately went to inquire about it.
Soon, by bribing the vendors on the street, they learned that a group of outsiders did come two or three streets away from them yesterday.
According to the vendor's description, it must be the Xiongnu.
Ban Chao felt confident after getting the news.
The next day, Ban Chao brought three or two members of the envoy to the Kushan Palace. He did not take Abulizi there. During the period when they were received, the Great Yueshi's supervision of them was the most relaxed. He asked Abulizi to Bulizi went to find a way to monitor the Huns envoy.
After many rounds of inspections, Ban Chao finally met Qiu Yeque and all the palace ministers.
The Dayuezhi people dress very strangely. They like to wear half of their clothes!
What is half?
That is to wear the clothes hanging on the shoulders, but the other half is naked, exposing half of the chest. The half with clothes is usually on the left side.
So when Ban Chao entered the Great Yuezhi Palace, he saw that the whole court was full of topless people, and the same was true for the bearded Qiu who was sitting on the top throne.
After secretly reciting in his heart that barbarians are barbarians, Ban Chao bowed respectfully according to etiquette.
"The envoy from Yunzhou County is envoy to Ban Dynasty and has met His Majesty the Emperor Guishang!"
Da Yuezhi was the previous name for them by the Tatar Huns and the Song Dynasty, but now officially, their official name is the Kushan Empire.
Therefore, when they met formally, Ban Chao used the title of royal family of the Kushan Empire instead of the Chanyu of the Dayue clan.
After all, the Da Yueshi are now semi-nomadic. After living in the Western Regions for many years, they have begun to be semi-nomadic and semi-farming, and have become a semi-farming civilization. It is not appropriate to use the former title of Da Yueshi in such formal occasions. Great.
Qiu Ye looked up and down at this envoy from Yunzhou County. He was dressed like a Central Plains man in his memory. Qiu Ye had not seen him for more than 20 years since Dayue clan was driven out of the grassland by the Tatars. People from the Central Plains.
But seeing Ban Chao instantly brought his mind back to more than twenty years ago, when he was one of the three princes of the Kushan tribe. The grasslands at that time were not what they are today, and the Tatars were just a small tribe. The two grasslands in the northeast and northwest of the Song Dynasty were occupied by the Xiongnu and their Yuezhi respectively.
Whenever autumn comes, the tribe will invade the Song Dynasty together with the Xiongnu under the leadership of Shan Yu, until a man turns out to be born.
The Xiongnu were chased by him on the grassland and fled in embarrassment. Even Langjuxu Mountain was lost.
And their Da Yueshi also beat a man to pieces after he took care of the Huns.
That’s right, it’s easy!
The other party first took 200,000 people to snatch the Huns' Langjuxu Mountain. On the way back, they got lost and happened to enter the Dayuezhi Grassland and then killed them all the way back!
From north to south, they killed all the Da Yuezhi tribes along the way. Even if Chanyu organized ten big tribes and a total of 300,000 troops to intercept him, it was useless.
It was like an adult beating a child. The 300,000 Yuezhi cavalry were overwhelmed in front of them. All the elite members of the royal family were wiped out in that battle, and Shanyu died in that battle!
After Shi Shiran returned to the Central Plains with his army, the Tatars, who were originally just a small tribe, suddenly rose up while the Dayue clan was leaderless, and finally drove the Dayue clan out of the grassland.
His thoughts gradually returned, but Qiu Ye said loudly:
"You all have come a long way and have worked hard all the way. The reason for your coming is already clear to Shanyu. Regarding the destruction of the four Tatar tribes, we in Kushan really have nothing to do with it.
However, your military affairs on the border have brought great inconvenience and uneasiness to both sides. Please ask your envoy to dissuade your prince as soon as possible after returning and ask him to withdraw his troops as soon as possible, so that the people on both sides of the border can avoid the disaster of swordsmanship! "
As soon as Qiu Ye finished speaking, Ban Chao said without being humble or arrogant:
"Your Majesty the Emperor Guishuang, the foreign ministers are naturally willing to believe that the destruction of the four border tribes has nothing to do with you.
However, nearly 100,000 people from four tribes were exterminated one after another in just one month. This incident had an extremely bad impact on us. Therefore, we can only deploy troops on the border. On the one hand, it is to protect our people and avoid this kind of situation. The situation happened again, and on the other hand, it was also to shock the bad party who did this.
Since your country said it was not your country's doing, the foreign minister also asked His Majesty the Emperor to provide evidence that it was not your country's doing. If not, we may not be able to withdraw our troops at the border. "
"presumptuous!"
A Kushan general immediately stood up and shouted angrily at Ban Chao: "It wasn't our Chao who did it. Why do you want me to provide evidence? Do you think I'm easy to bully?"
Ban Chao didn't even look at him, he just continued to raise his hands and said to Qiu Ye: "I hope His Majesty the Kushan Emperor can prove it for himself!"
Ban Chao's aggressive attitude also angered Qiu Ye, but he suppressed his anger and said:
"Your envoy is too rude. This Shanyu has already said that this matter was not done by me, the Great Yueshi. How can we prove it to ourselves?
It seems that your envoy did not want to sincerely communicate about this matter today, so I would like to ask your envoy to go back and think about it carefully. I am summoning your envoy to come. "
After saying this, Qiu Ye immediately stood up and left.
Ban Chao looked at Qiu Ye's back with twinkling eyes as he quickly left. With a calm expression, he cupped his hands and led the people away without waiting for the waiter to come to guide him. He left Guishang Manchao Wenwu with a confused look on his face. I feel like today's interview is like child's play.
On the way back to his residence, an official who came with him asked: "Ambassador Ban, why are you so aggressive in the court today? Aren't we here to resolve misunderstandings between the two parties and avoid war?"
Now that the Kushan Emperor has been angered, won't we be unable to complete our mission? "
Ban Chao shook his head and suddenly stopped and turned around. Everyone turned around without knowing why, but saw nothing.
Just listen to Ban Chao say: "Look, the emperor of Guishuang has left, and we have left too, but no one has come out of the Kushan Palace. Don't you think it's strange?"
Only then did everyone realize that it stands to reason that the Kushan Emperor has left, and these courtiers should also leave. However, they have been out for so long, but still no one has come out of the palace. This is too strange. .
"Ambassador Ben, why is this?"
The official who spoke just now asked in confusion.
Ban Chao immediately explained: "This means that Emperor Kushan's gesture just now was just for me to show off. Believe it or not, Emperor Kushan came back as soon as we left.
I'm afraid they will not only receive us today, but also the Hun envoys.
I was so aggressive just now. If the Da Yuezhi really wanted to resolve the misunderstanding with us and didn't want to fight this battle, then no matter how aggressive I was, they would still find a way to explain.
However, the Kushan Emperor simply walked away. I concluded that they probably already favored the Huns in their hearts, so they didn't care about us.
Our mission this time was destined to fail, so I left without hesitation. "
"Then...then we are going to fight again?"
When the officials on the mission heard that the mission was doomed to fail, they suddenly became decadent.
Ban Chao sneered and said:
"If we fight, we will fight. I, Yunzhou County, are still afraid that the Kushans will fail, but even if I want to fight, I will never let the Kushans and the Xiongnu cooperate like this. I will disgust them even if they are disgusting. Let's go back!" Let’s see how Abriz’s inquiries go.
It was originally only used as a back-up method, but now it seems that it has to be used!
Since the Da Yueshi do not honestly admit their mistakes to our Yunzhou County, then we will let them live in peace! "
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(End of chapter)
