Chapter Seven: The Affair (Part II)

"Good! That's a great deal! My Datang only cares about the strong soldiers and horses, singing and dancing, and other things, although I leave it to Zhuyi to do! Ren Cong listened with enthusiasm, picked up the wine cup and drank it all.

Guo Nu was worried that Li Qi's face would not be able to hang up, so he quickly picked up his wine glass and played a round with a smile, "The sea is inclusive, the sea is inclusive, if our own is inferior to others, we will learn it with an open mind." I have learned, and then surpass them, and only then can I show the style of the Tang Dynasty! ”

However, Li Qi didn't care about others refutating him at all, just took the wine cup and sent an invitation to Zhou Jianliang, "I have captured the concubines and children of the Khan and Shan Yu to Chang'an to play music and dance." That's a great statement! Brother Zhou, with Zhao, we should be clear about this today! “

Anyway, regardless of whether others respond or not, raise the wine cup to his mouth and swallow the siphon.

Zhang Qian was originally the same as Guo Nu, worried that Li Qi would not be able to step down after being swept away. At this moment, seeing this person's magnificence, my heart once again had a good impression of him. So he raised the wine cup with a smile and drank with Ren Cong and Zhou Jianliang.

"Brother Zhou's previous sentence not only sounds heroic, but when you think about it, it really makes some sense." People tend to talk a lot when they drink high, even if they work backwards to the eighth century. Zhang Qian just put down the wine cup here, and didn't wait to think about whether to ask Zhou Jianliang to cut some meat again. On the other side, Li Qi had already begun to talk again, "After King Guiyi came to the Tang Dynasty, every festival day, he took his concubines and children to dance for Emperor Taizong. Although he was born short and fat, and danced the Hu Xuan dance, he was a must. Now on the side of Pingkangfang, the largest green building is still opened by the children and grandchildren of King Guiyi. Hu Xuan Dance is still its must-have program, and it can win high rollers a lot of money every time. ”

"King Guiyi? But Ashina is aggressive, the former Jieli Khan? After coming to Datang for so long, Zhang Qian finally heard an ancient person he was familiar with, and asked with a little apprehension.

"If it's not him, who else could there be?" Li Qi raised the wine cup that had just been filled in his hand towards Zhang Qian, and the expression on his face suddenly became proud, "This person was also a hegemon back then, and he once took advantage of the weak strength of my Datang Dynasty to raise a national army to attack." forced the Emperor of Wenwu to endure the humiliation and signed the Weishui Alliance with him. However, in just two and a half years, he was sent by Emperor Wenwu Sheng, Wei Gong and Ying Gong, and they were captured in a battle, and the whole family was captured in Chang'an! (Note: Emperor Wenwu Sheng, is an additional number from Gaozong to Li Shimin.) )

It sounds a bit winding, but Zhang Qian can still barely distinguish the title of "Wenwu Holy Emperor", which refers to Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. And Duke Wei and Duke Ying, it is Li Jing and Xu Shiji. So, he smiled and raised his glass and took a sip in response.

However, Zhou Jianliang, Guo Nu and Ren Cong all listened enthusiastically. At the same time, he grabbed the wine glass that had just been poured and drank it again.

"Huh?!" Zhang Qian looked so strange, taking advantage of the fact that others were not paying attention to him, he grabbed another gourd and filled the undrunk wine cup in front of him directly.

However, the moment the crisp liquor was poured into the copper cup, the little confusion that had just sprung up in his heart was swept away.

Among the people present, Zhou Jianliang looked a little older, but certainly less than thirty. Li Qi, Guo Nu and Ren Cong are either in their early twenties or under their twenties. At this age, in the 21st century, it is also the easiest time to get into the blood, not to mention, at this moment, it is less than a hundred years since the Tang Army pacified the Turks?

"I'm just too far away from time to feel this glory!" With a little apology, Zhang Qianqian muttered secretly in his heart. Immediately, he also took the initiative to raise his glass and sent an invitation to everyone, "Come, drink to win, for the glory of Datang!" ”

"Drink to win!" Li Qi, Zhou Jianliang and others were in a stirring mood, competing to fill the wine cup, and then responded in unison.

At the beginning of the founding of the country, the Tang Dynasty was able to pacify the Turks and sweep the Western Regions. In the era of Gaozong, he cut off the old enemy Goguryeo, and then the soldiers and horses pushed all the way west along the Tianshan Mountains, and even pushed as far as the old land of Persia, and the territory was more than twice as wide as it is now!

And since Gaozong's eye disease attacked, and he had to let Empress Wu Lin Dynasty as an auxiliary government, the territory of the Tang Dynasty has shrunk rapidly. Now, not only Persia and Hezhong have been lost, but even Longyou and all parts of Yunzhong are always under the threat of Tibet and Turkic, and the people are shocked every day. (In the river, referring to the Afghan generation.) In the cloud refers to the same generation)

However, Li Xian, the Emperor of the Heavenly Dragon Emperor, is also an "old and serious". After ascending the throne, he would rather send his righteous daughter and relatives than go to war with Tibet. For the Turkic soldiers and horses from the north, they were even more obsessed with defense, and they were easily not allowed to counterattack the border generals.

Such a helpless reality, how stark is the contrast with the past glory of the Tang Dynasty? Every time people mention the glory of the past, they must inevitably sigh.

Li Qi, Zhou Jianliang, Guo Nu, and Ren Cong are four, and their ancestors have all been military generals. As we chatted, the conversation shifted from the past to the present. When Zhou Jianliang said that Zhang Renyuan tried to send troops to cross the Yellow River several times in the summer, dealing a fatal blow to the Turks, but they were all blocked by Shangshuzong Chuke and others of the Ministry of War on the grounds that "the treasury is empty and it is not suitable to raise troops". If it weren't for the fact that the armory supervisor was only separated from the palace by a wall, he couldn't wait to greet the old lady of Zong Chuke.

And turning his head to say, the Shuofang army was sleeping in the snow in Shengzhou, armor, weapons, grain and grass, and bedding were all lacking, but the soldiers still sacrificed their lives to prevent the Turks from crossing the river, and everyone's hatred for Zong Chuke and others turned into respect for the warriors. As a result, I don't know who took advantage of the strength of the wine to propose, simply partnered to drum up a firm, and tried every means to do their best for Shuo Fangjun, which was unanimously responded to by everyone.

So, the four angry young people of the Tang Dynasty, plus Zhang Qian, a 21st century traveler, simply pushed aside the plates and wine cups, and began to plan the specific details of the trading house. Anyway, among the people, the highest official position is only a five-pin, and no matter how close he is to Shuo Fangjun, he will not be accused of co-opting a border general and plotting misdeeds.

When there is something to do, time flies. When the preliminary strategy was reached, and they made an appointment to go to Ashina's house to open a happy Mu Tianlou another day, Zhou Jianliang and Li Qi finally left satisfied. At this moment, the sky outside had already darkened.

Zhang Qian finally breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly called his subordinates to come in to help clean up the leftovers, and at the same time changed his coat from official clothes to fur fur, and prepared to go home.

"Let's go to live in Senior Brother Zhuangzi today, everyone will sit in my carriage together, my car is spacious, and there is a stove inside!" That Guo Nu still didn't feel happy when he was drunk, and drunkenly sent an invitation to Ren Cong for Zhang Qian, "Since Senior Brother became a young eunuch, the three of us haven't eaten together for a long time." Just after going back, we can have a supper together! ”

"If you don't want to go back to your own home, you just say it. I was promoted to a young eunuch, only a few days in total? Zhang Qian immediately rolled his eyelids and counted them with a smile. However, after all, he couldn't bear to refuse, and let the other party pull himself and Ren Cong into the carriage.

Guo Nu was originally a gentleman who liked to be broad, and recently he not only became an official, but also had additional income from the Six Gods Trading House, of course, the use was more luxurious. It was also a carriage for travel, and it actually used two pure red horses. The carriage is also carved and gilded, which is extremely luxurious.

If it weren't for the low official position and the lack of a knighthood, Zhang Qian was very suspicious that his second junior brother would dare to wrap the carriage directly with a layer of gold leaf. In that case, the cost of the carriage is probably not much inferior to that of the three-strand forks of the 21st century.

However, Guo Nu asked him to go home with Ren Cong, not to show off his car to them. When the carriage just drove out of the Chang'an City Gate, this person immediately put away the drunkenness of his whole body, and solemnly bowed his hand to Zhang Qian: "Senior brother, I will be the substitute for the junior brother today, and I ask the senior brother to forgive me." That Li Fengyu, I was afraid that you wouldn't be able to cope with it at that time. I doubt that he was born into a royal family! ”