The fact that the imperial court wanted to sign an alliance with the country of Da Da was only quickly spread throughout the government and the opposition, and the ignorant people of course ignored and did not care, they only cared about whether their rice jars were full and whether the clothes at home could survive the winter; But there are many people of insight, and the signing of an alliance with the country of Hinda is not a clear intention to offend the Persian state? Can the Persian kingdom be happy?

After getting the news, the Persian prince Belus rushed to the palace to ask for a meeting as soon as possible, and Zhao Junsheng met with him.

He thought about it for a moment, and asked the eunuch to lead Belus to the pond in the Imperial Garden.

When the eunuch led Belus to the pond, Zhao Junsheng was sitting under the canopy with a fishing rod, and his ears were familiar with the sound of birds.

"Your Majesty, His Highness Belus, Prince of Persia, has arrived!"

Zhao Junsheng didn't move.

Belus stepped forward and saluted: "Your Majesty the Supreme Emperor, Belus greets you!" ”

Zhao Junsheng turned his head and smiled, "Belus is here, I'm fishing, this is a very interesting activity, I think you can try it." Come, prepare a pair of fishing rods and bait for the Prince of Belus! ”

"No!"

Belus is here for business, so why should he bother fishing? "Your Majesty······"

As soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Zhao Junsheng, "Belus, I know the purpose of your coming to see me, wait until you finish fishing, and when the time comes, I believe you will talk to me calmly!" By the way, do you know how to fish? ”

"No!" Belus shook his head.

"It's okay, I'll teach you!"

Fishing is not difficult, Belus quickly learned, but it is not easy to catch the fish in the pond, it is not too early or too late to pull the rod, at first the fish are just trying, and do not really bite the hook, at this time the hook will scare the fish away, if the hook is too late, the bait has been eaten by the fish, and the hook has been spit out.

Belus has failed several times, and Zhao Junsheng has been fishing for several days during this time, Belus is envious, and he is secretly anxious.

"Fishing to be patient, not anxious, at the beginning of the float fluttering can not be in a hurry to pull the hook, that is just the fish in the test of whether there is danger, the float only a few times to move will not move must be the fish in the temptation, if the float has been shaking a few breaths and do not stop, then you can pull the hook, and to be decisive, but can not be too strong, if it is a big fish, you use too much force is easy to break the line or hook!"

Under Zhao Junsheng's teaching, Belus's impetuousness slowly calmed down, and he did what Zhao Junsheng taught, watching the float intently.

Soon Belus caught a fish, and when he saw the fish jumping on the ground, he shouted with joy, "I'll catch one, hahaha······ It was so much fun······

"Belus, I'm sure you can continue, there are still a lot of fish in this pond, the one you just caught is too small to eat, I think you can catch another one, I'll ask the imperial chef to make fish soup at noon, it will become your food!"

"Really? That's great! ”

Fishing is addictive, and Belus's performance fully confirmed this, since he caught his first fish, his interest has come up, and he can't stop at all, until noon, when Zhao Junsheng asked him to have lunch together, he was still very reluctant.

The two sat at the table facing each other, and some dishes were already on the table, when a eunuch came over with a soup bowl in his hand, and Zhao Junsheng said, "Belus, this is the fish soup made from a few fish you caught, you can try its taste!" ”

The eunuch put the fish soup in front of Belus, who scooped a spoonful with a spoon and put it in his mouth, looked surprised, and nodded again and again: "Delicious, delicious!" ”

After drinking the fish soup, Belus still did not forget his mission, and he once again mentioned that the Qianguo was about to sign an alliance with the envoy Wen He of the Bada State.

"Your Majesty, I regret that your country is going to sign an alliance with the Bada country, we Persia have always maintained friendly relations with the East, even at the beginning of the founding of the Great Qianguo, when the Qianguo was still very weak, we have already sent envoys, I don't understand why the Qianguo gave up our Persia and got close to the Bada country!"

Belus's face was serious, and his tone was sincere.

Zhao Junsheng put down his chopsticks, "Your Highness, I have never said that I want to give up my friendship with Persia, and my friendship with Persia has been twenty years, how can I say that I will give up?" ”

"But the country and our Persia are enemies, and the Qianguo is about to sign an alliance with the country, isn't this to break off diplomatic relations with our Persia and establish friendly relations with the country?"

Zhao Junsheng said with a straight face: "Your Royal Highness, our Qianguo will never give up our friendship with the Persian Empire, and what we are about to conclude with the Bada State is not an alliance, but an agreement, they give up the suzerainty of the Green Mountains over the Green Mountains and promise not to put their hands into the Western Regions or unite with Rouran; And we promise not to enter into a military alliance with the Persian Empire! ”

"Your Highness, after careful consideration, I can promise you to increase the quantity of goods to the Persian Empire, and we can also send envoys to each other's capitals to reside in each other's capitals, and we can also strengthen cultural and other exchanges, and even the prince mentioned that I will send envoys to intercede with the lord of your country, asking him to marry his daughter to my son, these are not problems! There is only one point, for the time being, Daqian cannot send troops with the Persian Empire to attack the country of Bada again! ”

Belus was silent for a while, and then asked, "Your Majesty, can I know the reason?" ”

Zhao Junsheng thought about it for a while and said: "Your Royal Highness, the Roman Empire has been fighting with you for a long time for the two river valleys, but they are now being invaded by the Huns, so they are unable to continue to fight with your Persian Empire!" Our Daqian Empire is the same now, we have a Song country in the south, and there is a barbarian country in the north, Rouran, both of these countries are strong and strong, and their threat to our Daqian is smaller than that of the Huns to the Roman Empire, and our country can no longer go to war with the Bada people now, do you understand? ”

Belus pondered, he looked up and said, "Your Majesty, I understand your plight, you are worried about offending the Persian Empire, but you are not worried about offending my Persian Empire?" Once our Persian Empire refuses to buy the commodities and goods of the Qianguo, I believe that the loss to the Qianguo will be great, right? ”

Zhao Junsheng looked at Belus quietly, "Your Royal Highness, I hope you can understand that the Great Qian Empire is not unable to survive without the Persian Empire, we need to transport goods to the Persian Empire and even the Roman Empire, but the Persian Empire is also inseparable from the goods and commodities of our Great Qian Empire, without a large number of merchants to transport the goods of our Great Qian Empire to Persia, the economy of your Persian Empire will suffer an unprecedented heavy blow, and our two sides are mutually beneficial, prosperous, and loss-win!" If you're trying to threaten me with this, you're miscalculated! ”

"Also, you have to understand that your Persian country will suffer irreparable heavy losses if it lacks the goods of our Great Qian, but our Great Qian Empire does not necessarily have to sell goods to Persia, our merchant travelers can reopen trade routes to bypass Persia and go directly to the Roman Empire, although this will pay some price, but for the sake of profit, I think those merchants will have an adventurous spirit!"

Belus was a little flustered in his heart, if he really angered Zhao Junsheng, not only could the purpose of his trip not be realized, but he would also completely offend Qianguo.

"Your Majesty, you are right, the Qianguo and the Persian State are mutually beneficial and win-win relations, I shouldn't have said that just now, I apologize to you, please forgive me for my ignorance and recklessness!"

Zhao Junsheng's face looked a little better, and he waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I don't care about you!" ”

"Your Majesty really doesn't consider sending troops with us Persia to destroy the kingdom of Bada? Your Majesty can destroy the country first, and then turn around and deal with the Song country and Rouran! ”

The people's hearts will never be satisfied, if the state of Hinda is destroyed, then there will be no obstacles between the Qianguo and Persia, but I am afraid that it will turn from an ally of interest to an enemy, and the two sides will compete for control of Central Asia, and the threat of the Qianguo itself has not been lifted, how can there be spare strength to compete with Persia for Central Asia?

Zhao Junsheng understands that if people's will is not firm enough and their ability is not strong enough, they cannot take a long-term view, and it is easy to get lost if they see too far.

"Can the side of the couch allow others to sleep soundly? If we don't solve Song Guo and Rouran, I don't have the heart to put my energy elsewhere at all! My attitude has been very clear, we can continue to maintain trade and other exchanges with Persia, but for the time being, we cannot send troops with Persia to deal with the Persian country, and as for whether the Persian country wants to continue to maintain this kind of relationship with our country, the decision lies with your country! ”

Belus sighed: "It's a pity, but I respect Your Majesty's decision!" Even if the Great Cadres cannot work with us in Persia militarily to deal with the Persian State, the Great Cadres still have a deep friendship with the Persian State, and we still welcome the merchants of the Great Cadres to transport goods to Persia. ”

"As for the marriage of the princes and princesses of the two countries, I very much agree, but I don't know if my father's emperor will be the same as mine, so the matter of marriage needs to be raised in person by His Majesty to send an envoy to Persia with me to meet my father and emperor in person! But I'm not very optimistic about this matter, the reason is that there is a country in the middle, and the main channel of communication between our two sides is currently under the control of the Bada people, if I marry my sister, her safety on the way here will become the biggest problem, and it is also an unsolvable problem, I can't let my sister disguise herself as the daughter of a common person to marry, right? ”

Zhao Junsheng thought for a while and nodded: "What the prince said is very reasonable, it is okay not to mention the marriage, but I still want to send an envoy to Persia to meet the Persian emperor and express my sincere greetings to him!" ”

Belus stood up and bowed and saluted: "In this case, Belus plans to return to China in the near future, but this way I have to pass through the area controlled by the Bada people, and the prince Wenhe has already seen me, I am worried that he will set up obstacles along the way to arrest me, so I want to change the route of returning to the country, try to go from Dawan to Huazhuzim, and then return to China from Huazhuzim, but Huazhuzimo is a vassal of the Bada people, once the Red Huns know my identity, they will definitely arrest me and ask for merit from the Bada people, so I want to ask to join the mission sent by His Majesty, Accompany the team as an interpreter in His Majesty's Mission! ”