A few people chatted all the way to the back garden. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Xueqing prefers to entertain guests in the garden, and now the autumn is high and refreshing. The climate is also suitable, neither hot nor cold. The back garden is preferred, of course. This side has been renovated to be more suitable for banquets and conversations.

After the greetings, it was a banquet, and the dishes of Xueqing's family, even the emperor almost died under the food. Not to mention the rough cooking techniques outside the Western Regions. Little smashed and ate with pleasure.

Drinking and chatting, the chicken and duck talk is still a little interesting. An hour or so passed. That Zhang Qian also rushed over. They are all old acquaintances, but they can't ignore it, so they asked Huo Qu to go to the front door to greet him before he was sick, and called him over.

Little and Zhang Qian had known each other in the old days, but now they are even more familiar, so they have a happy banquet together.

In the afternoon, in the small garden, the cold soup had been removed, tea was boiled, and snacks and fruits were served, but no one ate them.

started to talk about things, but as soon as Xue Qing came, she made a mistake that was not big or small. Xue Qing also thought that the king of the Dayue clan who had his head cut off by the Huns was the father of this little, and was expressing his strong condemnation of this atrocity, as well as his deep condolences to the little. Zhang Qian said in Xue Qing's ear: "Your Highness is wrong, that King of the Dayue Clan is not the father of this Li Tuo Ci. She was the child of the queen who later had sex with someone else. When she was born, the king of the Otsuki clan had been dead for seven or eight years. ”

Xue Qing didn't explain at all, and directly ignored the little embarrassment of the little smashing her face. Instead of talking about how inhumane the Xiongnu's control of the Western Regions was, he blocked the economic and political ties between the Han and Dayue clans, and listed the history of Zhang Qian's suffering, a dignified Han Dynasty envoy, holding the emperor's talisman, was actually detained in Hexi for thirteen years.

The little also followed this logic and strongly condemned the Huns.

Xue Qing said: "I, a big man, have always longed for the customs of the Dayue clan. I am willing to exchange my silk for the spices of the Otsuki clan, exchange what I have, and be friendly. How can it be that the Xiongnu are between you and me, and it is our common wish to jointly fight against the Xiongnu and return a peaceful and friendly environment to the Western Regions. I don't know what the Otsuki clan thinks about this

Law. ”

Li Tuo Bici stammered and said: "I, the Dayue clan, am always ready to repay the blood debt of the year from the Xiongnu. It's just that there are quite a few people in China who have an anti-war attitude. But the Han Dynasty's successive victories in the war against the Xiongnu gave hope to those of us who had not forgotten our hatred. We hope that the Han army can cooperate with our army in the Western Regions, and the Dayue clan will go to contact the 36 countries of the Western Regions. Fight the Huns together. In the end, the Huns were completely driven out of the map of the 36 countries in the Western Regions. ”

Xue Qing said: "Specifically, what are you going to do." ”

Li Tuo Bici said: "Our army and the army of the 36 countries of the Western Regions are more numerous than the Huns, but they love the Huns all the year round. I'm afraid the will to fight is not enough. Therefore, I would like to ask the Han army to send a cavalry unit to fight in the Western Regions. At the same time, we don't have enough cavalry in the Dayue Clan, and we hope that the Han Dynasty can provide some horses and equipment. ”

Xue Qing waved her hand and said, "Aren't you next to Dawan, where horses are abundant." ”

Li Tuo Bici smiled bitterly and said: "Da Wan, it's just a few sweat and blood BMWs, the quantity is small, and the gold is expensive, can you still lend it to us to fight, it looks like the root of life all day long." ”

Xue Qing felt that this little didn't look like she was here to ask for cooperation, and it was a little like she was here to fight the autumn wind. It may even be a matter of asking for equipment, but when the time comes, it will be delayed.

Xue Qing took a deep breath and asked, "May I ask His Royal Highness the Prince." What a cavalry you are talking about, what a cavalry. Out of Jiayu Pass to move over there, with whom to fight. You said that you would support some horses and ordnance, how much is this specific amount? ”

"We hope that the Han army will send more than 30,000 cavalry troops. Hold off the Huns north of Yanzhi Mountain. Outflanked by our army from the west. The east side is blocked by Jiayu Pass, forming a trend of closing the door and beating dogs. As for the horses, at least 30,000 horses are needed, 100,000 ordnance are Changge, 100,000 bows and crossbows, and 40 million arrows. ”

In the wasteland in Xue Qing's heart, tens of millions of grass and mud horses were galloping and jumping, but she asked: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said something false, and he just said that he needed military spending. ”

Li Tuo Bici looked at the three people in front of him and said tentatively: "Two million gold? ”

Xue Qing smiled, laughing from the bottom of her heart to the corners of her mouth. Xue Qing said: "The matter is big, and the amount is so huge, I still need to discuss it." His Royal Highness may play and rest in the annex of the main palace. Wait for a few days to see what the outcome will be. ”

Li Tuo Ci nodded and said, "Yes, then I'll go and rest first." ”

Xue Qing stretched out her hand and summoned Ruhua and asked her to send someone to lead the little to the small courtyard specially prepared for her to serve her.

Wait for that little to smash away. Huo Quzhi smiled bitterly: "You can be regarded as having seen it, I talked to her three times before and after, and I have to bite to death so much, do you say that we can get so many things." ”

Xue Qing looked sideways and asked, "Did you tell her about the financial constraints of the Han Dynasty?" ”

Huo Quzhi smiled: "I look like such a stupid person, when the finances are tight, I have to pretend to be very rich, but I don't want to give her so much." ”

Zhang Qian sighed and said: "Alas, I think it will be difficult to achieve the goal of attacking the Xiongnu in the Western Regions." ”

Xue Qing turned her head again and asked Zhang Qian, "Lord Bowang, is the Dayue clan really so poor?" There are no buildings and Changge, what kind of war are they fighting? ”

Zhang Qian smiled bitterly: "It's good that he can be a person." The population of the Otsuki clan is not large. It's just three or four million. If you want to say that you are poor, the key is that the ruling power of the Otsuki clan is actually in the hands of each of the concubines, and the queen is only the nominal leader, and the leader of a few warlike concubines who are related to the royal family. The soldiers and money in his hands will not be handed over to the queen to fight this battle in vain. Because the Xiongnu did not have the power to expand to the west of the Green Ridge at all, they were very safe in the local area. After enslaving the Semu people, life was very easy, so two-thirds of the people did not want to come back to fight. ”

Xue Qing sneered in her heart, the days of freedom far away in the sky, it will not be your Dayue Clan's turn in the future, and it will naturally belong to the country of the Heavenly Dao of the old lady. Tsk, what do you say it's called, but it can't be called Heaven. That's.

Huo Quzhi said: "I don't think I need to talk about it." The Northern Expedition now has a total of only two million gold, and the emperor also asked Ah Xue to get two million. Give him two million from us. Even 200,000 won't necessarily give it to her, just kidding. (To be continued.) )