Chapter 836: Guo Mansion
"My lord, whose mansion is this! It's so magnificent, there are so many people at the door. One of Guishan's envoys looked at the mansion not far away, and at the line of people at the door, each carrying a list of gifts, and said dumbfounded. At the small door on the other side, cars of gifts are sent one by one, and there is an endless stream.
"This is the mansion of a great man named Guo Jia in the Great Chu Empire. This person is the closest person to His Majesty the Emperor of the Great Chu Empire, and in Great Chu can be said to be his hands and eyes, his connections and intelligence abilities are extremely amazing, and he naturally likes to be lustful and lustful, and he is very rare and jewelry. See these people? Most of them were big businessmen and aristocrats, many of whom came on behalf of small nations, in order to please the lord, so as to get some inside information or some support from the mouth. The Guishan envoy who led the team had obviously done a lot of strategies in advance, and said.
"What is the position of this Lord Guo Jia in Dachu? He has such a power. ”
"Although this person's position in Great Chu is not high, he is a close minister of the Great Chu Emperor. If you want to be summoned by the Great Chu Emperor, you basically have to pass this level. It is estimated that it was because of this path that the Great Chu Tianzi was persuaded and given some help. The Guishan envoy who led the team said in a solemn tone.
"My lord, these are just ministers of small countries, and they don't deserve to be cared about at all, or let's just go forward and hand over the post."
"Don't worry, there are not only people from other countries, but also many businessmen who look like Han people. If we cut the line, it is easy to have an accident, so we can wait for a while. ”
In order to ensure that everything went smoothly, the Guishan envoy who led the team went through some records of the previous Guishan when he entered the Han Dynasty. The Han people are the most respectful and respectful, and they are more arrogant, and although they are not very sloppy with these foreign envoys, they are not afraid. In the records, there were many foreign envoys who relied on the strength of their country to cause trouble, and the Han envoys did not tolerate and connived at all, and all of them were taken down, which was extremely domineering.
Don't look at yourself as an envoy of an empire, but in the eyes of these Han people, I am afraid that it is no different from a small country such as a former chariot master and Qiuzi. If you want to play your identity, I'm afraid that you will annoy the other party, and if you directly send troops to help you in anger, you won't know where to cry when you cry.
It's an exaggeration, but it was like that in the Han Dynasty. At the beginning, the 70,000 elite horsemen of Guishan came to invade the Western Regions, and after being taught by Ban Chao to be a man, they didn't even make any waves in the court of the Han Dynasty, and completely regarded this as a small country in the middle of nowhere, and didn't take it seriously at all. He didn't even recognize the country of Guishan, and directly called the emperor of Guishan the king of the Yue clan, which can imagine his status in the hearts of the Han family.
How arrogant was the Han Dynasty at that time? Lao Tzu is the first in the world, and everything else is garbage. What Guishan and rest in peace are a group of small countries that don't know which nest, and they don't need to be beaten at all. Even the Guishan and Anxi, who are empires, are not taken into account, and feel that they are just like that. In his eyes, Guishan is not even a kingdom, just a big moon clan, and the relationship between Anxi and the Han Dynasty is good, but after observing the so-called "elite" of Anxi, the Han Dynasty also gave an evaluation of "Anxi, a big country, many strange things, indigenous, quite the same industry as China, and the soldiers are weak".
Among all the countries, the only one that can afford the Han Dynasty is Rome. A large part of the reason for this is because Rome is far away and the Han Dynasty cannot fight. And because of the hostility between the rest and Rome, and the fear of the alliance between the Han Dynasty and Rome, the communication between the two sides has been hindered, so that the two sides have little understanding, so there is more of a sense of mystery. It's similar to online dating, I haven't seen a real person, so it's naturally full of a lot of fantasies.
There has been a lot of debate about which of the four empires was stronger or weaker, but there is no doubt that the Han Empire was definitely the best of them. No matter how much you advocate the theory of weapons and armor, the Roman soldiers are excellent, and the mutual achievements between the countries cannot be erased.
Rome and Sabbath have been entangled endlessly, fighting for hundreds of years without ending, although basically the upper hand, but also defeated, it can be seen that the strength between the two sides is still relatively close. Rest in peace, was bullied by Guishan, and after the Han Dynasty established diplomatic relations with it, when it showed its muscles, it gave a conclusion that "its national soldiers are weak". Guishuang, not to mention, had a fight with the Han family, and the record was impossible to see at all. The elite of a country was blinded by Ban Chao with a group of miscellaneous cards of subject countries in the Western Regions, no matter how you say that the time and place are favorable, and the coincidence has to admit this fact.
If you count the record of Rome after the Huns were driven away, it will be even more ugly. Although from these achievements, it cannot be recklessly concluded that the Han Dynasty is stronger than the Roman rash decision. But in the face of these records, it is completely nonsense to say how powerful Rome is and how strong it is to be better than the big Han. If we talk about who is strong and who is weak, and we can't just look at the quality of the so-called soldiers and weapons and equipment that stand up to the examination, then what do we need to do in war? Isn't it enough to compare the soldiers and equipment? Isn't this iron-clad true record more reliable than the so-called inferences of those mouth cannon experts?
Attacking Dawan, breaking Loulan, forcing back Guishan, and the Northern Expedition to the Xiongnu, these achievements of the Han Dynasty are enough to prove that they are powerful, and they are not some so-called coincidences and special circumstances that can be denied. Otherwise, should many historical achievements, including the three major battles of the late Han Dynasty, be denied? Stratagem and commander-in-chief are not in front of weapons and equipment?
Don't look at Guishan as an empire, but the former Han Dynasty really didn't look at it, and its status was just about the same as Wusun and Dawan. If it weren't for Yuan Shu, a traverser, who mentioned it, Guo Jia and the others really wouldn't have found out that Guishuang, which was not far away, was also an empire of a certain size.
These envoys of Kushan have a very low posture, and there are traces to follow. Not to mention the so-called imperial dignity, it was lost by Guishan hundreds of years ago without knowing where it was. In front of Anxi and Rome, Guishan may still talk about the so-called imperial dignity, but in front of the Han people, they really don't even have the courage to jump. When he was strong, he was beaten by the other party at will, and he had been groveling in front of the Han Empire in the past, but now that the domestic situation is declining, what qualifications can he talk about the so-called dignity?
After waiting for half an hour at the door of Guo Jia's mansion, finally, when all the people in front of him had left, the Guishan envoy came to the door, revealed his identity and origin to the housekeeper who was in charge of reception, and presented the gift.
"You are messengers from Kushan?" The housekeeper of the Guo Mansion asked with a smile.
"That's right, we are indeed from Guishan, and our Emperor Majesty came to Dachu on behalf of our country. This time, I have come here to meet the master of your mansion and ask him for advice. The Kushan envoy said respectfully.
"Okay, you come with me, wait in the side hall for a while, and I'll go and report to my master." When the housekeeper of the Guo Mansion heard the word Guishuang, he looked at the rather generous gift list and nodded.