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On the tenth day of September, at the gate of Shendu City, Ban Dingyuan and his party were ready to leave the country.
Since the purpose of diplomatic relations had not been achieved and an expulsion order had been issued, Ban Dingyuan would naturally not stay any longer.
A carriage loaded with gifts was already waiting outside the city gate. In addition, there were eight enchanting dancers and a graceful young girl bidding her final farewell to her family with tears in her eyes.
Yang Chaozong looked at his daughter's demeanor with great reluctance in his heart. Yang Xianyun also turned pale and held onto her father's hand tightly, unwilling to leave.
After this separation, there is basically no hope of seeing each other again in this life. Yang Xianyun will travel across the ocean to spend the rest of his life in that "Eastern Yi Country".
The same goes for the eight dancing girls. These are talented daughters selected from thousands of wealthy families, but they are just playthings of the imperial power and can be given away like objects at any time.
Yang Chaozong endured his grief and gave Yang Xianyun a few words, then came to Ban Dingyuan, bowed and saluted, and said: "Mr. Ban, my little girl has never suffered hardship since she was a child. Please take care of her along the way so that she will suffer less torture."
After that, he ordered his servant to offer three hundred taels of silver in order to bribe Ban Dingyuan.
But Ban Dingyuan did not accept it: "Please rest assured, Mr. Yang, your daughter is my concubine to the Emperor of the Han Dynasty. How can I be disrespectful? I will take care of you along the way. Please relax, Mr. Yang."
Hearing what Ban Dingyuan said, Yang Chaozong felt a little relieved.
He never expected that just because he contradicted Hong Lin while in office, not only would he lose his official position, but his beloved daughter would also be sent overseas to suffer in barbarian lands.
He regretted it very much. If he regretted it, he should not have opposed Honglin in the hall.
But it was too late to say anything now. Yang Chaozong knew very well that this was Honglin's revenge.
Finally, when it was time to set off, Yang Xianyun and the eight dancers waved goodbye to their relatives for the last time, then got on the carriage to Jingao Harbor, and then set out to sea to the unknown land of Dongyi.
Ten miles after the large group left the capital, Zhang Banghua couldn't help but said to Ban Dingyuan: "I really didn't expect that it would be such a result. Your Majesty will be very disappointed if we go back like this, right?"
Ban Dingyuan said nothing, staring at the distant mountains and forests.
"Hey, Brother Dingyuan, what's wrong with you? Speak."
For a long time, Ban Dingyuan took a deep breath and said: "Of course we can't let this matter go. After I leave South Australia, I plan to visit the next country."
Zhang Banghua was surprised: "Aren't you going back to the Central Plains?"
Ban Dingyuan: "The kings and ministers of the Jin Kingdom are so arrogant and rude, insulting the prestige of our country. As envoys of the Han Dynasty, how can we let this matter go?
I was not afraid of the crisis in Constantinople back then, let alone a barbaric and ignorant country? For the sake of my man’s livelihood for the next hundred years,
I have to make Jin Guo pay for this! "
Zhang Banghua was shocked: "I advise you to stay out of this matter! And let them pay the price? How to pay? Don't you think that just because the diplomatic relations are in trouble this time, you will let the big man travel thousands of miles across the ocean to start a war with them?"
Wake up, this is not worth it, they are barbaric, they are ignorant, that is their own business, what does it have to do with us? Besides, just because of this, do you think the Ministry of War will agree to send troops to attack Nan'ao?
Do you know that the sea is not as good as the land? How much money is spent on the various territories in Nanyang? Brother Ben, please save it, this matter is not something that little diplomats like you and I can control. "
Ban Dingyuan's eyes were firm: "As the saying goes, everything depends on people. If it doesn't work now, it doesn't mean it won't work in the future. You just need to support me, that's enough."
Zhang Banghua frowned: "It seems that you have a plan? How can I support you? Now let General Yue immediately bring the fleet from Edo to bomb Jing'ao and Hong Kong indiscriminately?"
Ban Dingyuan: “I’ll tell you more details after we go to sea.”
When Ban Dingyuan's mission to Nan'ao failed and he was preparing to formulate a plan to retaliate against the Jin Kingdom, the war broke out again on the border of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty...
In the past six months from March to early September, several major events occurred in Guiwi Kingdom, which had become the sphere of influence of the Han army.
After Saipan usurped the throne, he died violently due to his excessive debauchery, and the patriarch Saidan passed away two years ago. Such changes caused a short-term power vacuum in the senior leadership of the noble widow, and staged a series of palace coups.
In this palace coup, senior leaders Mabu Maqi and Mi Bu were also in different places. Their positions were replaced by Nga Wang and Da Nie, who advocated the revival of radicals. Ban's son, Sere, is the new king.
According to the agreement with the Han Dynasty, the new king must notify the Western Region Protectorate as soon as possible when he ascends the throne, and then send envoys to Chang'an to accept Liu Ce's canonization.
However, Serei did not send envoys to Chang'an to submit his credentials because of the "unstable national situation".
At this time, Bai Qi also sensed the crisis from Dashi and did not conduct an in-depth investigation into Sere's actions. Not to mention that he had to deal with the war in the country of Bolu at the same time, so he could not take these trivial matters into consideration, so he temporarily suppressed them.
However, the senior officials of Guiwuxin were extremely hostile to the Han Dynasty. The impact of Bai Qi's massacre has not been eliminated, and they have been waiting for the opportunity to retaliate.
At this time, a military coup occurred in Dashi, and the powerful Umayyad dynasty was replaced by the equally radical Abbasid dynasty. This also gave Serai and the others hope, and they had already secretly begun to contact Dashi, hoping to use Dashi's The army expelled all the Han troops in Guiwi territory.
Abbas had long wanted to expand his power to the Western Regions, and the widow's request was undoubtedly a timely help. While giving Serre and the others many promises, he stepped up the recruitment of troops and looked for opportunities for an all-out war with the Han Dynasty.
At the same time, a big event also happened in the Central Continent.
The Stone Kingdom, located in a desert oasis, robbed the caravan sent by the Baisei Empire to the Han Dynasty, killed a total of twenty-three merchants, and robbed goods worth 150,000 silver dinars. The heads of the dead were impaled on wooden poles. superior.
As soon as this incident came out, the senior officials of the Baisei Empire immediately initiated diplomatic negotiations with the Shi Kingdom. As a result, the envoys they sent were also killed by the Shi Kingdom. The reason was that they were heretics and disrespected their Lord...
This angered the grown-up Alexios VI, and he immediately decided to teach them a hard lesson.
However, since the Baisei Empire had just established diplomatic relations with the Han Dynasty and did not have enough force to conquer the Shi Kingdom, it requested military assistance from the Han army stationed in a city called "Tich City" in the east of Asia Minor.
At this time, the Han army had just established a foothold here for less than half a month and should not have shown force. However, after carefully analyzing the situation, the garrison general personally launched a war against Shi Guo with 3,000 Han cavalry armed to the teeth.
As expected, this battle did not defeat the Shi Kingdom, but directly destroyed the Shi Kingdom.
In fact, a small country like Shiguo will be destroyed if it is destroyed. Its size is not even as large as a slightly larger tribe on the grassland outside the Great Wall.
But something very outrageous happened next. For unknown reasons, the Han general ordered the capital to massacre all the civilians of the Shi Kingdom, and even the royal family of the Shi Kingdom, killing them all in a river of blood. , only Prince Hui of Shiguo escaped because he was not in the city.
Wang Zihui could never forget the ferocious face of the Han general, and his appearance and name were firmly etched in his mind.
The name of this Han general was Gao Luzhi. He was a Hu from the eastern steppes with Han nationality. He had served in the herdsman army long before Liu Ce ascended the throne. Over the years, he had been promoted to the rank of major general through military merit. Now he is responsible for the military and civilians of the Han Dynasty. Safety on the Middle Continent Trade Road.
After the destruction of the country, Wang Zihui immediately defected to Dashi, blaming all the reasons for the destruction of the Shi Kingdom on the brutality of the Han army. He did not mention that it was the Shi Kingdom who despicably robbed and killed the foreign envoys and caravans of Beisei. It also happened to be used by Abbas to build public opinion for the Eastern Expedition.
"The Shi Kingdom is hospitable and uses the finest wine and the fattest sheep to entertain guests from the East. I don't want these despicable Eastern butchers to directly kill fifty thousand soldiers and civilians of the Shi Kingdom after they are full of wine and food!"
This was Abbas' public opinion propaganda in order to organize the army to go to war against the Han Dynasty. It made hundreds of thousands of Taishi soldiers extremely angry and decided to destroy the barbaric heresy of the Han Dynasty.
However, how can there be enough food and wine? Where is the hospitality? Gao Luzhi defeated Shi Guo openly and openly.
But these are not important. What is important is that civilians believe it.
