"Actually, Your Majesty should not be so cautious. Yuezhi is actually like a frightened bird, and is vigilant and guard against the movements of our Great Qin. Therefore, it is not impossible to send envoys with the intention of Li Xiang and Feng Xiang. If we negotiate with our Great Qin, the momentum and pressure of the Huns and Huns, there will inevitably be panic within the Yuezhi. Yuezhi and Huns are not closely united together, but there are many tribes, but they are only captured by the suppression of the Yuezhi royal tribe and gathered together. In fact, it is just like the original Great Zhou royal family. Send powerful iron cavalry as guards. When the troops enter the Yuezhi, people will inevitably be in panic. Maybe they will split into several tribes..." Chen Xu thought for a while and said.

"Is my dear to support the two prime ministers?" Qin Shihuang nodded.

But Chen Xu shook his head slightly and said, "What I said just now is just the best result, but because we know nothing about the situation within the Yuezhi, if the Yuezhi King is strong enough, it will inevitably suppress the fear within the clan. Then the ending may be what General Meng said. He will gather a large army to prevent the raid of our Great Qin, and there will be a head-on conflict. Then the result is what Your Majesty said just now, it may be a bloody battle, which will lead to huge casualties among our soldiers. The military strategy says: knowing the enemy and knowing oneself will never be defeated in a hundred battles. Therefore, when both the enemy and us do not understand the strength of each other, rash battle is not the best strategy. Therefore, I think that first politeness and then military is the best way."

"First politeness and then soldiers?" Several people looked at Chen Xu at the same time, all their faces confused.

The Central Plains adhered to the Zhou rituals. Although they were all reasonable people, from emperors to common people, they still knew how to be reasonable. Although Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms and did not seem to be very reasonable, it was actually the biggest truth, because fists were the hard truth. Moreover, Qin Shihuang had already explained the principle of destroying the six kingdoms at the beginning. The reason for destroying the six kingdoms was "the vassal battles of princes and the people were suffering." Therefore, he wanted to end this situation of vassal battles of princes, so with the help of Li Si and Wei Liao and other advisers, he formulated a strategy of "destroying the princes, becoming the imperial career, and unifying the world".

But this idea is beautiful, but the process is cruel.

Qin Shihuang's great cause of conquest was just like the New China in the future to overthrow imperialism and exploit the exploiting class and liberate all mankind. No prince was willing to be defeated, and no common people were willing to be liberated. They all felt that their country was good, so Qin Shihuang had to roll up his sleeves and wave his iron fist to start to reason with these princes one by one. After the talk, although they were covered in bruises, Qin Da laughed in the end, and snatched back tens of thousands of women with bloody mouths.

But reasoning and politeness are also divided into groups. The princes of the Central Plains were polite before. Even if they didn't like each other, they would still play with each other at the banquet meeting of the King of Zhou. However, for the barbarians in the southeast, west and north, the princes of the Central Plains looked down on each other and would never sit together to drink and beat the girl. They usually rolled up their sleeves and fucked him. If they were bullied, other princes would also help.

When Zhao was attacked by the Huns, the King of Zhao wanted to mobilize a large army to fight back, but was afraid that Qin would stab its chrysanthemums in the back, so he wrote to Queen Mother Xuan to explain the pros and cons. Queen Mother Xuan replied, "Brothers fight against their insults outside. Qin and Zhao are all from the Ji family. They are brothers. The Huns are barbarians. Don't worry about fighting the Huns. If you lack troops, Qin can still place troops in Beijun to defend the rear for you." Later, Qin sent 100,000 troops to defend Beijun. Zhao gathered a large army to fight with the Huns, which directly defeated the Huns.

Therefore, since ancient times, the Central Plains, Qiang, Rong and Human have never talked about etiquette, nor have they ever been unreasonable.

But Chen Xu now proposed to be polite and then soldiers, so naturally, including the emperor, felt a little incredible and even unacceptable.

"Qinghe Marquis, Yuezhi is a country where the Rong and Hu live together. He does not obey Wang Hua and does not understand etiquette. How can he be polite to them first and then soldiers?" Even Meng Tian, ​​who had begun to disagree, asked in confusion.

"General Meng, the current situation in the world is not when the princes were fighting in the past. Although the Qiang, Rong and Human were still barbaric, they gradually began to end a loose clan and tribal state, and began to have a unified royal court. They also imitated the prototype of some court systems in our Central Plains. Destroying the Yuezhi is actually a battle to destroy the country, but the Western Regions are so vast, just like we conquered the Huhu but could not include all the places where they live in the Qin territory. It is really not strong enough, and we can't stretch our arms so long, and we can't care so far. If we forcefully conquer the Yuezhi, we will sacrifice many soldiers. How many territories should be ruled just after defeating the Yuezhi is the greatest

The problem, if you cannot kill it all, you will definitely make a comeback in the future. What we need is the long-term stability of the Western Regions. Therefore, we must be able to conquer the moral obstacles and let the Western Regions know that our Great Qin is reasonable. The best outcome is that they will convince themselves and submit to the Great Qin. Then our Great Qin will slowly educate them, let them read the books of the Central Plains, speak the words of the Central Plains, and completely abandon the barbaric attitude. After decades and hundreds of years, we can completely naturalize the Western Regions successfully. First rituals and then soldiers can also let the Western Regions understand the attitude and policies of our Great Qin towards them. As long as the Yuezhi surrenders, other small tribes will naturally surrender and attack the enemy. This is a battle without bloodshed..."

"But what if Yuezhi killed the envoy Chen Jian?" Li Si asked suddenly.

"Haha, first polite and then military, it is natural that the swords and soldiers meet. At this time, there must be different voices and ideas within the Yuezhi. At that time, the General's plan to destroy Zhao, and the counter-split plan should be used to arrange for a detailed collusion between people within the Yuezhi who do not want to conflict with our Great Qin. As long as there is a slight chaos within the Yuezhi, General Meng can naturally instigate the army to take advantage of the situation. If someone rebelled within the Yuezhi, the Yuezhi will collapse and collapse in an instant..."

"Hmph, give the Yuezhi King ten courage, he will definitely not dare to kill my envoy of Qin. He will pay the blood debts and blood. If he dares to take action, I will kill all the Yuezhi clan!" After Chen Xu said that, Qin Shihuang, who was sitting on the central chair, snorted coldly.

"Your Majesty is wise. Even if you are strong, the King of Yuezhi will definitely not dare to kill our envoys from the Great Qin Dynasty. Therefore, the first ritual is to arrange an envoy to take the translation of the Dianke Office and a hundred soldiers to go there, and pass on His Majesty's edict to express it to him. If the King of Yuezhi shows weakness, he will definitely hand over the Maodun..."

"If Yuezhi handed over Maodun, how should I follow up on Daqin?" Li Si continued to ask.

"If the Yuezhi handed over Maodun, then naturally, I, the Qin Dynasty, would show my kindness and comfort, and sent an ambassador to carry gold, pearls, jade, silk, porcelain, red wine, tea, glassware, etc. to send another mission to Yuezhi to reward him. At the same time, I, the Qin Dynasty's merchants, and asked to trade with him. In this way, my Qin Dynasty merchants could start infiltrating the Western Regions, take advantage of the opportunity of trade to secretly send spies to explore the situation of the Yuezhi and the entire Western Regions, and promote my Qin's attitude towards the countries of the Western Regions, show them with courtesy and proclaim them with kindness. After a year, the Yuezhi would inevitably relax its vigilance. When the army and food supply that attacked the Western Regions were fully raised, we could plan the opportunity to suddenly attack the Yuezhi battle, so that our Qin soldiers would definitely shed less blood and sacrifice..."

"Your Majesty, the Master of Qinghe, thinks this is the safest way!" Meng Tian stood up and bowed to the emperor.

"Your Majesty, I also think that this strategy of the Qinghe Marquis is feasible, so I rashly led the army to negotiate with Yuezhi. There were many changes. Since ancient times, the soldiers have never been tired of deceitfulness and have been sending envoys and gifts to mess up their eyes and confusing their hearts. The Yuezhi King must be negligent in preparing for the war!" Meng Yi, who had not spoken, also stood up and bowed.

"What do you think of the two prime ministers?" The emperor turned to look at Li Si and Feng Quji.

"The old minister thought that the plan of the Qinghe Marquis was feasible. He was the first to attack the Western Regions. As long as the Yuezhi was pacified, the Western Regions would be almost at your fingertips!" Feng Quji also stood up and answered.

"The old minister also agrees with this plan!" Li Si nodded after being silent for a long time.

Seeing that the four humeral ministers agreed with Chen Xu's point of view, Qin Shihuang nodded with a relaxed smile, "Okay, then I will follow the young master's plan and send envoys to negotiate with Yuezhi for one year. A year later, no matter how Yuezhi deals with it, I will conquer him. General Meng, this matter will be left to you and the three provinces and six ministries to discuss at the discretion of the matter. Any news must be informed as soon as possible!"

"I obey the order!" Meng Tian held his fists and took the order seriously.

The plan agreed that the First Emperor was still decisive and decisive. The next morning court, the emperor immediately issued an order to send envoys to Yuezhi. However, in the election of the envoys, all the civil and military ministers in the court remained silent and no one was willing to volunteer.

The Central Plains have never seen any ministers who have sent to deal with barbarians.

I can't speak the language, and it's mainly because I heard that this time I could only bring more than 100 soldiers to guard the envoy. What can more than 100 people do? I'm used to fighting a war that is tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands. This little power is not enough to feed wild wolves, because the Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, and they are all grasslands and deserts. Wild wolves appear in groups. In addition, the harassment of some small tribes and the unfamiliar environment, they may not go back.

All the ministers were very entangled and depressed. They finally conquered the six kingdoms. Now it is the time to enjoy the peace and enjoy themselves. No one wants to be this envoy who may have gone but never returned. It is not good if they go, but if they don’t go, they are afraid that the emperor will point his troops and generals to him. It is okay for officials of the third rank or above. As the chief officials of the three provinces and six ministries, they will definitely not be sent to be envoys. Only those officials of the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh rank are all frightened and can only lower their heads and pray in their hearts that the emperor has forgotten his existence in a confused manner.

The ones who are most afraid of are a group of officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Dianke Administration, because such errands have been their task since ancient times.

Looking at the silent court and the silent civil and military officials, the emperor's face looked a little ugly, and his fingers gently tapped the armrest of the dragon chaise. The sound of the striking sound was like a machine gun that shocked many people.

Li Si hesitated for a moment and was about to stand up, but Chen Xu stood up first and bowed and said, "Your Majesty, I recommend one person as an envoy!"

At this point in the Qin Dynasty, almost all civil and military officials began to enjoy themselves comfortably and gradually lost their original enthusiasm and fighting spirit.

But this task, which is not too dangerous in Chen Xu's opinion, is actually the best opportunity to become an official.

If Li Si spoke, the emperor would definitely agree that after he made such a good peach, how could Li Si pick it gently and take advantage, because once he returns from a mission successfully, he will be promoted and reused.

Seeing Chen Xu speak first, Li Si's face suddenly became gloomy. The civil and military officials in the court almost simultaneously looked up at Chen Xu.

"Who is the young master recommended?" Qin Shihuang's face calmed down instantly.

"Your Majesty, I recommend Li Shun as the envoy to Yuezhi this time!"

"Li Shun, well, I remember it was the military reporter who raided the Hebei Xiongnu royal court. He was brave and resourceful and extremely courageous." The emperor's eyes lit up, and the civil and military officials in the court almost breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

"Yes, Li Shun was named a noble minister by His Majesty last time. Whether it is official position or courage, they are the best choice for visiting Yuezhi this time!" Chen Xu replied.

"What do the two prime ministers think?" Qin Shihuang looked at Li Si and Feng Quji.

"I think it's feasible!" Feng Quji stood up and bowed.

"I also think that the person recommended by Qinghe Hou is competent!" Li Si stood up with a deep face.

Dongfangdao failed to admit defeat and then seriously ill for more than a month. Although Li Si's position in the emperor's heart has not diminished, his popularity in the court has become much weaker. At this time, even if Feng Quji had clearly expressed his support, he had no chance to propose different candidates again, because many ministers would choose to support Chen Xu.

"Okay, Li Shun is brave and resourceful and extremely courageous. I will grant Li Shun the envoy to the Yuezhi envoy this time, and I will pass on my orders to announce that Li Shun will hear the title of the court tomorrow and will officially serve as an envoy to the Yuezhi!"
Chapter completed!