Zhao Hao woke up from the fire bed and looked at the sky outside the window, feeling a little dazed.
He drank a lot of wine at the previous family dinner and originally wanted to take a nap, but he didn't expect to wake up late at night.
The courtyard was brightly lit at the moment, but it was obscured by the rain curtain.
Although it is the Spring Festival, there are no lively and emotional Spring Festival galas in this era, which makes people not feel the atmosphere of celebrating the Spring Festival.
Speaking of which, this is the first Spring Festival that I have experienced in time travel.
In the past, when I was in the palace, all I thought about every day was how to escape and how to dig tunnels, so how could I think about celebrating the Spring Festival?
Moreover, there is no concept of celebrating the Spring Festival in this era.
Thinking of this, Zhao Hao stretched out, and Wu Ya came over immediately.
After the family dinner, Ying Zheng, Wang Jian, Xia Wuji and others played mahjong together in the front yard.
The senior brothers of the son and senior high school students were fighting against the landlord in the side hall, just to celebrate the end of their son's time and set off firecrackers together.
Zhao Hao's plan was to go and have fun with Princess Yingluo. Unfortunately, after the girl learned that her brother had been killed by Ji Su, she went crazy and cried all day long. It was pitiful.
However, Zhao Hao didn't think anything was wrong. His brother's death was destined.
And she can stay here because of the bet she made before. Otherwise, she is a princess who has subjugated her country and does not have the consciousness of Yi Yusong. It would be difficult for her to gain a foothold here.
"What time is it now?"
Zhao Hao curled up under the quilt, lay on the kang, and asked Wu Ya.
Wuya handed the sobering soup to Zhao Hao, and then replied seriously: "We just arrived at Haishi, so it's not too late."
Zhao Hao nodded, took a sip of the hangover soup, and thought about what to do next.
After all, it was not a problem for him to fall asleep like this, so he simply got up, put on his mink cloak, and sat down cross-legged in front of the desk.
The whole place was filled with dried fruits and snacks for the Spring Festival. Wuya sat on the right side of Zhao Hao. Seeing Zhao Hao holding a walnut in trouble, he also reached out and took a walnut. With a bang, the walnut broke into two halves.
"Senior brother is so awesome!" Zhao Hao gave a thumbs up.
Wuya grinned, then handed the walnut broken into two halves to Zhao Hao.
But Zhao Hao only took half of it and said with a smile: "Senior brother, eat it too. Don't guard me during the Chinese New Year. Let's talk."
Wuya frowned and looked at Zhao Hao with some confusion.
"Senior brother has been following me for almost a year, right?" Zhao Hao ate walnuts and said with a smile: "If master hadn't asked you to follow me, I would have been hard-pressed to survive until now. Senior brother has helped me a lot."
"There are still ten days to go."
Wu Ya said, but seemed unsure, then curled his lips and said, "Actually, the young master also helped me a lot."
Zhao Hao was a little surprised, looked at Wuya and said, "What did I help you with?"
"When I left my master and wandered around, I had no idea what I wanted to do. Later, I followed the master and learned a lot. I gradually realized that people have to do something meaningful to live in this world!"
"oh?"
Zhao Hao suddenly nodded, picked up the hangover soup and took a sip. He was quite interested in what Wu Ya wanted to do: "Senior brother, what do you think is meaningful?"
"this"
Wu Ya hesitated for a moment and said, "I can't tell you the specifics, but I definitely can't stay in the same place."
"Stay in one place?"
"Just like Zhongxian and the others, they stayed away from the Qin Dynasty and helped the young master open the Silk Road."
"Zhongxian?"
Zhao Hao was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but look up at the door. His eyes became a little blurry: "I haven't heard from them for a long time, and I don't know how they are doing."
During the first half of Zhongxian and his group's mission to the Western Regions, Zhao Hao often received letters from them. Later, for some reason, the letters suddenly stopped.
In other words, Zhongxian and his party may be in trouble.
After all, the desert is more dangerous than you can imagine.
In fact, when Zhao Hao received a letter from Zhongxian for the last time, Zhongxian described their situation at that time, as if they had just experienced a sandstorm. Their mission of more than a thousand people ended up with less than 300 people left. .
As for the desert, it is too easy to trap one or two thousand people.
This is just the beginning.
However, it is worth mentioning that as the envoy of this trip and the oldest person in the mission, Wu Shiluo miraculously survived.
And because many people died, many unknown members of the mission were promoted.
The main purpose of this mission to the Western Regions was not only to open up the Silk Road for Great Qin, but also to draw a map leading to the Western Regions.
Regardless of the outcome, they are now risking their lives to find a safe path for Da Qin.
All places stepped on, safe and unsafe, will be recorded.
Before passing through the Dawan Kingdom, the mission also experienced some tribes on the grasslands north of the Xiongnu.
However, although the power of the Qin Dynasty to destroy the six countries could not spread to the Mediterranean and the Middle East for a short time, with the continuous spread of merchants, it could still affect some countries in the Western Regions.
At this time, the Daqin mission also happened to pass through the first country in the Western Region, Dawan.
Dawan is located near the Pamir Plateau, and its race is already different from that of the Huns.
The so-called east is called Yi, the south is called barbarian, the west is called Rong, and the north is called Di.
In fact, the intertwining of Rongdi barbarians and China has a long history.
Including race and appearance, they are basically the same.
But Dawan is different. The people in Dawan are mainly the Ouluoba race, which is the white race.
Wushiluo had already prepared. In fact, before the Qin Dynasty unified the six kingdoms, the Central Plains Dynasty already had some records of Dawan.
However, Zhongxian, Dahu, and Erhu were quite surprised by Dawan's customs and customs.
After arriving in Dawan, they were warmly received by the then King of Dawan, Jin Han.
Although Dawan was not very far from the Huns, it was very far from the Central Plains. Jin Han didn't know much about Da Qin.
But Jinhan knew the Dayue clan, the Donghu people, and the Xiongnu, all of which were not very far from Dawan.
Donghu even plundered Dawan a hundred years ago.
Dayuan could not defeat Donghu, so he formed an alliance with Dayuezhi to avoid being bullied.
For a long time afterwards, Dawan lived in the shadow of Donghu.
It was not until the news that Donghu was destroyed by the Xiongnu came not long ago that Jin Han, who had just succeeded to the throne, was awakened. It turned out that the Xiongnu was the most powerful.
Out of fear of the Huns, Jinhan sent people to express his surrender to the Huns, and on the other hand, he was also preparing for defense.
But Maodun did not accept Dawan's surrender.
After all, Mao Dun is an ambitious man. Dawan's war horses are very good and are not the same breed as grassland horses at all.
Mao Dun planned to take Dawan directly after clearing the grassland and call it the Xiongnu's racecourse.
In the past few days, Jin Han was so frightened that he couldn't sleep for several days because Mao Dun refused to surrender to Dawan.
As a result, because he couldn't defeat the Huns, he simply took advantage of the situation and ignored it.
And precisely because of his indifference, the people in Dawan were in dire straits, which made his younger brother Wu Zi feel dissatisfied and directly formed a rebel army to oppose him.
At this time, the regular army of Dayuan and the rebel army were confronting each other at Xishui, fifty miles away from the royal city of Dayuan.
The Da Qin envoy actually arrived.
Compared to the Xiongnu, Jin Han had always had illusions about this mysterious eastern country.
Because he has heard too many legends from his fathers. It is said that the great eastern countries are the nightmare of the northern grasslands, which makes them dare not go south and can only go west. Whether it is the Xiongnu, the Donghu, or the Dayue clan, they are all blocked. The grassland is not allowed to advance even an inch.
He respected this kind of existence.
Therefore, even if the Da Qin envoy was less than 300 people, Jin Han did not dare to neglect them.
If he could get the help of Great Qin to suppress this big brother of the uprising army, he, Jin Han, was convinced that Mao Dun would not be able to stop him.
Jin Han thought so.
Soon, he brought Dawan's unique golden horse to the Daqin envoy camp.
"Wujun, King Jinhan of Dayuan wants to see you!" A Daqin soldier came into the tent and reported.
Wu Shiluo glanced at Zhongxian and motioned for him to bring Jin Han in.
Although Wu Shiluo was the nominal leader of the mission, everyone in the mission knew that Zhongxian was the talker of the mission.
After all, Zhongxian is Zhao Hao's confidant.
The reason why this mission was able to take place was also because of Zhao Hao.
"I've seen the noble envoy from Great Qin!"
Jin Han entered the tent, bowed politely, and said with a smile: "I have long heard that Da Qin has outstanding talents. Just after a cursory glance, I found that the soldiers of Da Qin were elites with one against ten, so I presented the Dawan golden horse to let The Qin army is even more powerful than a tiger!"
Wu Shiluo rolled his eyes and looked at the humble King of Dayuan in front of him with amusement in his eyes.
The envoy of Da Qin passed by Dawan, but they only made temporary arrangements, but actually attracted the king of Dawan to bring horses to visit him, obviously hoping to make good friends with Da Qin.
It seems that the situation of the civil war in Dawan is not optimistic!
However, the two hundred Dawan Golden Horses are still somewhat missing, but as a meeting gift, they are still acceptable.
It is worth mentioning that for the first time in history, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent someone to ask for the sweat-blooded horse, the Dawan Golden Horse, but was rejected. The large amount of money the envoy brought was also killed and taken by Dawan.
Now that the Daqin envoy has done nothing, the King of Dayuan actually came to deliver the horse in person, which is a bit interesting.
"King Dawan is welcome."
Wu Shiluo was the second-largest merchant in the Qin Dynasty after Ba Qing. He was not interested in such petty profits at all, so he just treated him with a plain courtesy.
These days, the entire Central Plains has a very arrogant attitude towards the Rong and Di barbarians, unlike later generations who would always make peace with each other, let alone like Li Er, who was praised as "Khan of Heaven" and dispersed wealth in various ways.
In front of the Rongdi barbarians who lacked etiquette, fists were the best way of diplomacy.
After all, Da Qin's strength lies there.
Conquering the Western Region is only a matter of time.
"Your envoy is not very satisfied with this horse?"
Jin Wushiruo's expression was dull and he didn't even bother to look at the horse he had brought. He couldn't help but his heart began to beat, and he asked cautiously.
Wu Shiluo said calmly: "To be honest, I have a ranch thousands of miles away in Daqin, and I have no less than ten thousand good horses, and there is no shortage of golden horses!"
"ah?"
Jin Han was startled and thought to himself that a messenger could have ten thousand good horses. How rich should the Qin Dynasty be?
No wonder my father once said that the great eastern country is the most mysterious existence. Now that I see it, it really lives up to its reputation.
"I wonder what else is going on with King Dayuan's visit this time?"
Zhongxian, who had been silent all this time, asked unexpectedly.
Jin Han was stunned for a moment, and soon his eyes fell on Zhongxian. He found that although the other person's expression was plain, his eyes were firm, and he was not at all like an ordinary clerk. His heart moved, and he said sincerely:
"To be honest, in our country of Dawan, my younger brother Wu Zi is leading a rebel army to rebel against Dawan, and he is asking the Qin army for help!"
"oh?"
Zhongxian raised his eyebrows and looked at Wu Shiluo with a smile.
Wu Shiluo understood this and immediately put on a smile: "Why do we, Da Qin, help you?"
The meaning is very simple. You guys, the civil war in Dawan is your family matter. Do you want me, Daqin, to interfere with it?
You, Dawan, have two hundred bloody horses, and you just want to ask Daqin for help. Where is your face?
Without some great benefits, this is not a good deal!
As if he heard the implication of Wu Shiluo's words, Jin Han continued: "As long as Daqin can help Dawan tide over the difficulties, Dawan is willing to become a vassal state of Daqin and pay tribute to Daqin with thousands of Dawan golden horses every year!"
"Subsidiary state?"
Wu Shiluo frowned slightly and immediately looked at Zhongxian.
Zhongxian also began to consider this matter in his mind.
Dawan is located in Central Asia, still a long way from Daqin.
Da Qin has not yet solved the Xiongnu and Da Yueshi. If the Silk Road is completely opened up, and then after the Xiongnu and Da Yuezhi are solved, Dawan can be used as the frontier of the Silk Road.
They even used Dawan as a subordinate state to attack the Xiongnu and Dayuezhi from both sides.
In this way, he can complete the task assigned to him by Zhao Hao.
The main purpose is to recruit a loyal younger brother for Da Qin, which seems to be good, at least it can come in handy in the future.
After Zhongxian pondered for a long time, he raised his head and looked at Wu Shiluo: "Wu Jun, I think this is feasible!"
"but."
As he spoke, he changed the topic and turned to look at Jin Han: "Although our Great Qin has 300,000 elites fighting against the Xiongnu, this place is relatively far away from the Xiongnu. As the saying goes, water far away cannot quench the thirst of the near. If you believe us, you can use your military power to Leave it to us, and we will help you suppress the rebels!"
"ah?"
Jin Han was surprised: "You want to hand over military power?"
"if not?"
Dahu sneered: "Do you expect our mission to fight for you just because of your red lips and white teeth?"
"Even if you want to use us, you are not afraid that we will kill you all?" Erhu said disdainfully.
With the gunpowder weapons in their hands, they really are not afraid of these small countries in the Western Region. What they are afraid of is only natural disasters.
Seeing that the other party exposed his little thoughts, the sweat on Jin Han's forehead instantly broke out.
The promise to surrender to Daqin just now was actually a temporary measure. After all, as Zhongxian said, Daqin is still a long way from Dawan. Even if Dawan goes back on its promise, Daqin will be beyond its reach.
However, the only thing he can ask for now is Da Qin.
After a long silence, Jin Han glanced at the expressionless Wushi Luo, gritted his teeth and agreed: "I am willing to hand over the military power of Dawan, and I hope that your envoy will help me!"
"Don't worry, within three days, your civil strife can be quelled!"
Wu Shiluo smiled secretly, then turned to look at Dahu and Erhu: "Zhao kills people, Zhao Wudi, I order you to be the vanguard on the left and right, and lead the army to attack the rebels!"
"As you command!"
The big tiger and the second tiger took the order excitedly.
Jin Han was slightly surprised, wondering what the hell is this name?
Da Qin is indeed extraordinary!
ps: Because of the recent plot, I have begun to prepare to return to Xianyang. By the way, I would like to mention Zhongxian and the others to facilitate their subsequent reunion.
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