"Ah Yuan, something is wrong, it shouldn't be this one who has more scruples."

After Zhang Yuan said what he had in his heart, Li Jian said on the side.

What's wrong?

Zhang Yuan really couldn't think of any other reason, and now it seems that this is the best explanation.

"Brother Li, please speak clearly."

"Ah Yuan, you may not have been exposed to many such incidents, but I have seen a lot since I was a child.

The officials of my Han Dynasty only care about whether the number of people needed to levy conscription is right, not that person must be able to go.

If an ordinary person had the money to buy a male servant, if he sent those servants to be conscripted, no one would have much trouble, which was a reasonable and lawful thing.

According to Zongxing, those people were captured from other tribes, even if Tang Meng made a deal with Yelanghou, then these peoplemen should be regarded as Yelanghou's slaves, and Yelanghou's use of these people to replace the people's servitude quota is in line with the law of the Han Dynasty. ”

Li Jian's explanation made Zhang Yuan fall into doubt again.

What did Tang Meng and Duotong want to hide from themselves?

"According to Brother Li, the previous speculation is no longer reasonable, so how can we explore the truth?"

As soon as Zhang Yuan asked, Ji Fu suddenly pushed the door in.

"Didn't you say that Yelanghou didn't want you to count the household registration of Yelang Country, then you would keep insisting on this matter, and after a long time, they would naturally show their feet."

After saying this, Ji Fu picked up the bamboo tube of tea on the table, turned around and left.

Zhang Yuan didn't close his mouth, pointed to the door and asked Li Jian Zongxing.

"This old guy has just been listening to us outside the door?"

Li Jian and Zong Xing shook their heads in unison.

"I don't know."

This time it was Zhang Yuan's turn to be speechless.

Jiang is still old and spicy, I have to say, just now Jifu got to the point.

"Tomorrow I will go to the palace in the city to see Duotong and force him.

Since Tang Meng had already replaced the Yelang people with people from other tribes, there would be no danger in forcing Duotong now.

After all, this is tantamount to the Han army helping Duotong in disguise to weaken the strength of the surrounding tribes hostile to them. ”

Li Jian nodded approvingly.

Zhang Yuan didn't know that he was close to the truth.

Early the next morning, even though Duotong didn't mean to see Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan still stood outside the palace with a group of envoy officials and asked to see Yelang Hou Duotong.

Duotong and Tang Meng didn't discuss the results in the past few days, so they kept hanging Zhang Yuan, but they never thought that Zhang Yuan would come to the door by himself.

After Duotong knew that Zhang Yuan came to ask for a meeting, he thought that Zhang Yuan was in a hurry, and maybe he changed his mind.

"Let the Han envoy come in."

With permission, Zhang Yuan and his party entered Duotong's palace again.

The third time he came, Zhang Yuan was still attracted by the beauty of this palace.

If he was a bloodthirsty and brutal person, he would not have said anything to Duotong a long time ago, and returned to Chang'an with a flick of his sleeves, and said a bunch of bad things about Duotong to Liu Che, he would be able to make this remote country completely disappear in the long river of history in a short period of time. 520

"Envoy of the Kingdom of God, why did you come to see me, could it be that the envoy changed his mind?"

Duotong very much hopes that Zhang Yuan can change his mind, so that his plan with Tang Meng can be directly implemented.

When Zhang Yuan heard that Duotong was really thinking about this matter, he felt that there must be a ghost in it.

Anything that is beneficial to the Han, Tang Meng should not hide it from Zhang Yuan, if he hides it from Zhang Yuan, he doesn't want Liu Che to know, then this matter is likely to be harmful to the Han.

A smile was revealed, and Zhang Yuan shook his head.

"Yelang Hou, I am here today in the hope that you will quickly order people to count the registered population in Yelang Country.

In the first half of the month, our delegation will return to Dahan, and if things do not have a satisfactory result for me to the emperor at that time.

The next time I set foot in the country of Yelang will be the border lieutenant of the three counties of Bashu in the southwest of my Han Dynasty, I hope you have to think about it. ”

Today, Zhang Yuan is here to threaten Duotong.

Duotong really couldn't accept such words, and his hands tightly grasped the handle of the golden seat, as if he was about to explode.

"I have 100,000 elite soldiers in Yelang, so why not be afraid of your Han border army."

Zhang Yuan looked around with interest.

"Oh? I don't know how many Yelang troops are in the city at this moment? ”

"There are 10,000 elite soldiers in the city of Juan County, so don't you worry that the envoy will not be able to leave this valley if you speak like this?"

Duotong's two eyeballs were about to pop out.

As for the officials around Zhang Yuan, they all pulled Zhang Yuan one by one, hoping that Zhang Yuan would not say any more.

These officials who have lived in Chang'an for a long time do not know the strength of the Han army at all, as well as the strength of the surrounding small countries, and their impression of the Han army is still when Emperor Gaozu was surrounded in Baishan Mountain.

The war that had been won a few years earlier to suppress the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms was only an internal war in their view, and could not be compared with foreign countries.

"In that case, then Yelanghou can give it a try.

Let's see if it's your Yelang's 10,000-strong army, or my Han's 1,000-strong soldiers. ”

Duotong's face was blue for a while and red for a while, it seemed that Zhang Yuan was not lightly angry, before he saw the soldiers of the Han Dynasty, Duotong might still feel that Yelang's army was invincible, but now he was a little apprehensive, but he still believed in his heart that Yelang's army was not afraid of the Han armor soldiers.

The reason why he didn't want to tear his face with the Han Dynasty, and even adopted the form of an alliance with a vassal, was to fight against the dozen or so tribes that surrounded the Yelang Kingdom.

"General Tang will follow the orders of one of your envoys?

You're thinking too highly of yourself. ”

Duotong quickly thought of the crux of the matter, Zhang Yuan did not have the authority to command the army outside the valley.

Zhang Yuan didn't care about what Duotong said at all, although he didn't have the power to command the army, but what he now represented was the face of the big man, how much courage Tang Meng could have to let the mission have trouble under his nose.

"Whether Lieutenant General Lang listens to my orders or not has nothing to do with Yelanghou.

Yelang Hou can try to see if he can keep all of us in the Han Mission here.

Listen to you, half a month is limited, and as soon as half a month is up, the mission will immediately leave the county seat, and the only thing waiting for you is the war.

I see that you are still calm and calm, and you still have a long time. ”

Zhang Yuan felt that what he should say was almost done, the rabbit would bite if he was in a hurry, Zhang Yuan didn't think about gambling with his life, and after saying these words to Duotong, he turned his head and said to the officials of the mission.

"Let's go, leave a little space for Yelanghou."