Chapter 235
At night, the emperor sat in front of the desk and looked through the documents he had just received.⊙,
One of them was an urgent letter that Mei Gao had just sent with a quick horse, and mentioned a message. An internal strife broke out in the Huns' Hunxie King's tribe. Old Hunxie King died suddenly. His eldest son Wu Dan killed many people and used a bloody sword to grab the position of Hunxie King. Some people who were dissatisfied with him fled to the Shanyu court and asked the Shanyu to punish Wu Dan.
The emperor read it twice and suddenly raised his head. "Do you remember that last time Mei Gao had an urgent letter saying that the Huns were preparing to attack Yanmen and Shangjun?"
"Remember." Han Yan replied: "It should be from a month ago. Does Your Majesty need it?"
"Go and get it, along with the map you put inside."
"Which." Han Yan turned around. Not long after, he came with a bunch of green bags and placed them all on the emperor's desk. The emperor stood up and quickly took out one from it. He picked up the bone mark on it and looked at it. He pulled the rope and took out a silk book from it.
There is a map drawn on the silk book, marked with the land of Hunxie King's garrison. The map is very simple, but this is the only map of the Han Dynasty who went forward to the west of Longxi. It is unknown whether it is accurate or not, but the general direction will not be wrong.
The emperor looked at it for a while and suddenly took a breath of cold air. "The death of King Hunxie is not related to Liang Xiao and the others, right?"
"Liang Xiao?" Han Yan hurried over and carefully compared the urgent letters sent by Mei Gao, feeling that it was unlikely. "Time is a bit consistent, but there are thousands of elite knights around King Hunxie. How could Liang Xiao be close to him? If you really meet King Hunxie, Liang Xiao is afraid that there will be a lot of danger."
"This is what I'm worried about." The emperor's eyes darkened and he sighed: "It is certainly a great achievement to kill King Hunxie, but it is insignificant to attack the Huns compared to forming an alliance with the Great Yuezhi. With Liang Xiao's caution, he should not take the initiative to find King Hunxie. He must have been targeted by the Huns and had to fight with his life. If even Liang Xiao could not reach the Western Regions safely, Zhang Qian would probably find it difficult to complete the task."
Han Yan nodded repeatedly and sighed with the emperor, with a complicated expression.
On the grassland, the autumn wind is rustling and the chill is overwhelming.
The sky is bright, cloudless, and it is so blue that it makes people intoxicated. But the sun shines on its body, without any warmth, but it has a sense of solemnity.
Liang Xiao pinned his mount and looked at the Wusun people in the distance. He laughed. Tuban was also looking at him. Although he was dozens of steps away, he seemed to hear his laughter. His face couldn't help but sink, and his anger broke out.
In these days in Guishan City, the sudden squad was restrained everywhere and accumulated a lot of resentment.
As an envoy, he is very particular about treating people and thinking about his thoughts. Everyone is chatting and laughing while competing for profit. Liang Xiao believes that he is not very good at this. If Mei Gao comes, he can definitely handle it more appropriately than him. If Liu Ling comes, he will make a lot of money. But compared to Tuban, he seems to be at ease.
The reason is very simple. These nomads have too simple thinking. When they step on war horses, they are galloping at lightning, coming and going like wind, and arrows shoot like rain. But when they get off the horses and put down their bows and arrows. When they start business, their mouths are as stupid as their legs.
Apart from threats and intimidation, they basically do not have any other tricks.
This is understandable. The strong have always been respected on the grassland. When speaking with a knife, there has never been a bargaining thing. But this method is suitable for the grassland people, but it is not suitable for the Dayuan people. The Dayuan people regard themselves as Greek survivors, not only have noble bloodlines, but also good at business. It can be said that they are very particular. It is not ordinary difficulty to take advantage of them.
If you don’t move the knife or threaten it, the Tuban will hardly speak in front of the Dayuan people.
In contrast, Liang Xiao was very popular among Dayuan people. The silk he brought was the favorite product of Dayuan people. He did not threaten with force like the squad, but instead thought as much as possible from the other party's standpoint and strived to achieve a win-win situation. After each piece of silk was sent out, he became a friend that the powerful and wealthy in Dayuan were competing to make.
He is not afraid of not knowing the goods, but is afraid of comparing goods. Against the backdrop of Liang Xiao, Tuban is very unpopular. He is full of anger and finally waits for the opportunity.
Today, the King of Dayuan went out of the city to hunt, and Liang Xiao and Tuban received the invitation.
Liang Xiao felt a little strange about this hunting trip. According to his understanding, although Dayuan has the best resources for war horses on the grassland, their martial spirit is not strong. There are often horse racing, but not many hunters. It is really strange to hold a large hunt suddenly.
Liang Xiao suspected that this was the proposal of the squad. The Wusun people were good at riding and shooting. He might have wanted to take this opportunity to show their strength and shock Dayuan, so as to save the face he lost at the negotiating table and let Dayuan people recognize the situation.
To put it bluntly, it is impossible to say that people are better than fists.
Liang Xiao was not worried about this. The Wusun people were good at riding and shooting, and the knights around him were not weak either. Let’s not talk about Li Shuyun, Guo Wu and others. Dayuan teenagers like Paris have also made great progress recently. Under the training of Guo Wu and Xie Guanglong, they were both good at riding and shooting and attacking with spears. Even if they encountered the same number of opponents, they still had the power to fight.
As for himself, let alone. After several months of fighting and hard training, after Yi Yang's first birth, he had enough confidence to face any opponent. Even if he competed with Li Guang, he had at least half the winning rate, let alone these Wusun people.
The most advantageous person on the grassland is the Sagittarius, but facing Li Guang, the three Sagittarius players were unable to make it a favor. Two were shot and one was captured alive. If they encountered the same situation, Liang Xiao was confident that he could do no worse than Li Guang.
His only regret was that the stone bow in his hand was too soft and he couldn't enjoy it. He originally planned to buy a harder bow in Guishan City, but after the palace tried his best, he gave up this idea.
A bow with a stone of more than one stone has no market in Guishan City.
The bow he wanted now was the black bow. The black bow was still in the hands of Tuban, because the King of Dayuan had not agreed to the Wusun people's proposal. As for the reason, Liang Xiao didn't know. He asked Meicai several times in private, and Meicai was concerned about him.
Liang Xiao is also looking forward to this hunting meeting. He has been looking for opportunities to kill Tuban, and grabbing the bow is second. He hopes to use the pressure of the Wusun people to force the Dayuan people and the Yuezhi people to join forces. Only in this way can they have common enemies with the Han people and have the possibility of alliance.
A fast horse ran from a distance. The knight on the horse's back shook the small flag in his hand and ran to the king of Dayuan and reported a message: Five miles away, a white deer was found. The horns of the white deer were strange, bright yellow, like gold.
Before Liang Xiao finished listening to Guo Wenbin's translation, he rushed out and asked Dayuan for orders loudly. He seemed to have volunteered to shoot the white deer. When Liang Xiao understood what he meant, Dayuan King Wu Wii had already looked at him.
Liang Xiao kicked the war horse lightly, stepped forward slowly, bowed and bowed on the horse's back. "King."
Wu Wang wrapped his fox fur tightly on his body and coughed: "The white deer is a rare divine beast, and white deer with golden antlers is even rare. The messenger of Wusun was very confident and wanted to hunt this deer for me. He heard that the noble envoy was good at archery and wanted to compete with the noble envoy, but I wonder if the noble envoy was willing to fight?"
Liang Xiao glanced at Tuban and smiled slightly. "King, have you forgotten that I had just shot a golden-horned deer not long ago? Since the Wusun envoy is interested, of course I will accompany you."
Wu Wu didn't understand much, so he turned his head and looked at Mei Cai blankly. He was wearing a pure white sable fur and riding a white horse. Luo Xuli, who was leaning against Wu Wu, glanced at Liang Xiao and said loudly: "Father, the tribe of Gulu Fox uses golden-horned deer as the totem."
When Tuban heard this, he was furious. Avenging revenge for King Hunxie and his son was one of his missions to come to Dayuan. Liang Xiao mentioned shooting and killing Gulu Fox at this time, which was undoubtedly a slap in the face. He stared at Liang Xiao and shouted loudly: "Although he knows how to hunt, the arrows don't have eyes. If you accidentally hurt you, don't blame me, you can only blame yourself for your bad life."
Liang Xiao laughed. Such a rough guy is indeed careless and just a little bit. You want to kill me, but I still want to kill you, but there is no need to say that he is so red. Since you cooperate so much, I feel embarrassed to refuse.
"Life and death are in life, wealth and honor are in heaven. I can travel thousands of miles to Dayuan. King Hunxie led thousands of elite cavalry to chase me for more than ten days, but I couldn't take my life. What can I do to me just a few wild beasts?" Liang Xiaogong bowed and said loudly: "Since the king said that the white deer is a auspicious beast, Liang is willing to capture the deer alive and offer it to the pearl of Dayuan."
"Catch it alive?" Luo Xuli couldn't help but take the conversation. "Did you say you won't hurt it?"
"Of course. If there is a wound on the deer, Liang will add another injury to himself."
"Oh," Luo Xuli was shocked and reached out to cover her mouth. "How is this... possible?"
Liang Xiao smiled confidently and said, "Princess please be content with peace of mind. Liang has his own way and will not dare to disappoint the princess."
Luo Xuli didn't say anything, her blue eyes were bright, and she stared at Liang Xiao, but she refused to move away for a moment. Tuban saw it and was even more angry. He couldn't ask for marriage for Lie Jiaomi, and he had originally suspected that Luo Xuli had another person. Now seeing Luo Xuli's appearance, most of the people she wanted was this Han boy.
Since that's the case, you must die. Tuban snorted, pulled his horse back, called his followers, and started discussing in a low voice.
Liang Xiao knew it well. Everyone was full of murderous intent, so there was no need to be hypocritical. He returned to Li Shuyun and others and told his plans. Li Shuyun frowned. "Sir, it's no problem to kill this Hu Chief, but how can we capture this white deer alive without any harm?"
"This is simple, just use a rushing shot." Liang Xiao glanced at Tuban and others in the distance, lowered his voice, and looked serious. "I think the situation is wrong. The Wusun people are too anxious, and Dayuan seems to be too indulging. I doubt they have any private activities."—
Chapter completed!