The Persian prince Belus and the Persian prince Wenhe soon obtained the purpose of the other party's visit to Chang'an from Zhao Ping, and each began to think about how to destroy the other's purpose and fulfill his own purpose.

As for the prince Wen He, the purpose of his trip was to ask the Great Cadre to return the jurisdiction of the Green Ridge States, but now this purpose is only afraid that it will change, and he understands very well that once Persia and the Great Commander join forces, the Bada Kingdom that is caught in the middle will definitely be very dangerous, and it is more important to destroy the purpose of the alliance between Persia and the Great Commander than to return the jurisdiction of the Green Ridge States.

In the residence of the embassy Wen He, Wen He called several officials accompanying him and said, "Do you know what the Persian prince Belus is doing in Chang'an?" ”

Several officials looked at each other and shook their heads.

"They are here to form an alliance with Qianguo and want to deal with our country together!"

"Huh?" Several of the accompanying officials were shocked, and one of them said, "Third prince, what should I do?" If we let Persia form an alliance with the Great Qian, it will be very difficult for us to be caught in the middle! ”

The second accompanying officer shook his head and sighed: "I'm afraid it's not just a sad day, right?" Once they really attack from the east and west, we are afraid that it will be difficult to resist, and the best result is to abandon Tocharistan and withdraw to the north, but the north is now also occupied by Yueban! ”

The third accompanying official said: "Third Prince, since we know the news, we must not let them succeed in forming an alliance!" ”

Wenhe asked, "Is there anything you can do to stop them from forming an alliance?" ”

The three accompanying officials began to meditate, and the third officer walked to the door, looked left and right, retreated to the room, closed the door, and then returned and lowered his voice: "Send someone to kill Belus!" As long as Belus dies in Chang'an, it will be impossible for Persia and Qianguo to form an alliance! ”

"What you say is indeed the simplest and most effective way, but Belus has a lot of Persian warriors around him, it is not easy to kill him, once the person sent misses and reveals his identity, this will definitely anger the Qianguo, maybe this will promote their alliance!"

Wen He's words forced the three accompanying officials to admit that this was indeed the case.

However, the third accompanying official was not discouraged, "Your Highness, we don't have to take action personally, I believe that there must be assassins in this Chang'an City who specialize in this kind of murderous work, and we can find a Sogdian merchant who is familiar with the situation here to hire him!" ”

The second accompanying officer questioned: "How can you guarantee that the person you are looking for will obediently listen to us?" If you reveal your identity, if he is caught confessing to you, the third prince and all of us will be implicated! ”

"Isn't that easy? I just need to find a Sogdian merchant with the greatest reputation, he must have family and relatives in Tocharo, the Sogdian merchant who mixes well in Chang'an is definitely not unknown in Tocharostan, as long as I know his name, I will know where his home is! And I won't let him know my identity when I see him, and then order him to do things at the risk of his family's life, even if he knows my identity and is arrested, he won't dare to reveal my identity easily, we have enough time to get rid of him! ”

The other two accompanying officials couldn't help but look at Wen He.

Wen He thought about it for a while, and slowly spoke: "You can try it, but we must do a good job of finishing up and dealing with the aftermath, and we must not be caught by the officials of the Qianguo!" ”

"Yes, Your Highness! Rest assured, I'll get it right! ”

The first entourage officer was uneasy, "Third prince, I don't know if you have ever thought about it, once the Persian prince Belus is assassinated, who is the most suspicious?" The people of Qianguo will definitely doubt us! ”

"So what? Even if they knew that we did it, would they dare to do anything to this prince? Belus has died in Chang'an, no matter who did it, the Qianguo has the responsibility of failing to defend it, and it is impossible for the Qianguo and Persia to be united, and they will even be hostile to each other, and the Qianguo has already offended Persia, so it is impossible to offend us again! ”

The first and second entourage officials were speechless, and the third entourage officers were quite complacent.

An attendant came over and reported: "Third Prince, there is one more hour to rush to the palace banquet, you have to make preparations for the night banquet!" ”

Wen He instructed the third accompanying officer: "You go and do it!" ”

"No!"

Yongning Fang has a family surnamed An, living in a large mansion covering an area of thirteen acres, such a big house is rare in Chang'an, where every inch of land is valuable, only high-ranking officials and nobles can afford to live, the owner of this house is called An Dashi, is a Sogdian merchant, this person has a very good reputation among the Hu merchants in Chang'an, he is the president of the Chang'an Hu Merchants Chamber of Commerce, but he is not in Chang'an for almost half of the year.

After night, lanterns are hung in front of the door and in the courtyard of Anfu, which are brightly lit, which seems to be wasteful, but in fact it is magnificent.

An Dashi raised a few singers, and at the moment he was eating the pulp handed by the concubine in the backyard, watching the singers dance to the sound of instrumental music, and he enjoyed it very much.

A doorman walked over, he saw that An Dashi didn't dare to disturb Xingtou, hesitated and stood aside, wanting to wait for the song to finish before reporting it.

An Dashi saw that Menzi had something to report, but he was afraid that someone from outside the door was outside, so he said while watching the song and dance: "Say, what's the matter?" ”

Menzi bent down to report: "Master, someone outside the door sent a letter, saying that it was for you!" ”

An Dashi was very angry, and reprimanded him before he opened the letter: "How do I usually teach you, it's not easy to eat in the territory of Chang'an, you have to have a little eyesight!" Why can I, Anda Shi, live in such a big house, have so many servants, and do such a big business in Chang'an City? It's because I have eyesight! Here, an inconspicuous person may be a court official, if you are offended, do I An Dashi want to mix up here? ”

"Plop", Menzi knelt down and begged for mercy: "Yes, yes, the villain knows that he is wrong, the villain must make the trick brighter next time, master, you have a lot, spare the villain this time!" ”

An Dashi opened the envelope, took out the letter paper from it, and unfolded it, which read in Sogdian script: "Wen Lingzhong: At six o'clock in the unitary hour, the Yipingfang City God's Temple is not gone!" Only one person is allowed to come, or your family in the west of Ami City will die!" ”

An Dashi's face changed in fright, his hands and feet trembled, what the hell, how could anyone in Chang'an know his name in Tocharostan? How could anyone know that his home was in the west of Ami City?

In fact, An Dashi's real name is An Lingzhong, his real surname is An, since the Bada people fought Tocharistan decades ago, the Sogdian nobles changed their surname Wen in order to survive, in order to show their support for the rule of the Bada people, An Lingzhong, a descendant of the Sogdian nobles, also had to change his surname to Wen, so his name became Wen Lingzhong! Later, when he came to Chang'an to do business, he restored his surname here and changed his name to Dashi, because their family moved from Dashi to Amicheng, and changed to An Dashi to commemorate him not forgetting his roots.

But Wen Lingzhong's name has never been mentioned to anyone in Chang'an, who would know his name in Tocharostan?

"What are you doing on your knees? Get up! I ask you, what time is it? ”

Menzi hurriedly got up and replied: "When the villain came, it was four quarters of the unitary hour, and now it is almost five quarters of the unitary hour!" ”

An Dashi immediately said: "Quickly let the coachman prepare the carriage, go quickly!" ”

"Yes, yes!"

"Come on, change the clothes of Master Ben!"

After getting into the carriage, An Dashi was nervous all the way, who was the person who wrote this letter, and what was his purpose? Extorting money?

When he arrived near the City God Temple, An Dashi asked the coachman to stop, and he got out of the carriage and walked towards the City God Temple alone.

When he arrived at the gate of the City God Temple, An Dashi saw the black lights inside, and even had a trace of fear, the person who wrote the letter should not have asked him to come here to commit murder, right?

In any case, he couldn't just go back, so he could only walk into the City God Temple with courage.

At the foot of the steps in front of the temple, a man in black with his head wrapped in a black robe walked out from under the pillars.

An Dashi was startled: "You, who are you?" ”

The man in black said in Sogdian: "You don't need to know who I am, I just want to ask you for a small favor!" ”

"What do you want?" An Dashi calmed down a little.

The man in black seemed to see through An Dashi's thoughts, and threw a bag of gold at his feet, "This is a bag of gold, I want to buy a person's life, I know that you have a wide range of channels, and you will definitely be able to find a reliable assassin!" ”

"Your Excellency, I'm just a businessman, not a connector for the Assassins!"

The man in black let out a sneer: "Do you think you have a choice?" ”

"Your Excellency, I'm really just a merchant, where do you want me to find an assassin? I don't have the skills, and I'm not an assassin······" An Dashi tried his best to refuse tactfully, he knew that it would be difficult to get rid of this kind of thing once it was touched.

"Then you can go, and when you return to Ami City, I believe that the corpses of your wife and children will already stink!" The man in black finished speaking and left.

An Dashi was anxious, "Don't don't, Your Excellency stays, I'll do it, can't I do it?" ”

The man in black stopped, but did not turn around, but dropped a sentence: "Belus, Prince of Persia, I hope he will die on the spot in three days!" ”

An Dashi was shocked, and suddenly felt like an ice cellar, Nima's, you asked Lao Tzu to find someone to kill the Persian prince? Isn't that a joke? If a prince is so easy to kill, will the world still have it? Where else is safe? Who else can't be killed?

By the time An Dashi came back to his senses, the man in black had already disappeared, only a small bag of gold under his feet.

He came out of the City God Temple in a trance, and his mind was messy along the way, as the president of the Chang'an Hu Chamber of Commerce, he had also heard of some shady things, including the business of collecting money to kill people, but as a serious businessman, he disdained to use such means.

For a wealthy businessman like him, it is easy to kill a person, just find a few outlaws and give them a few money, but this time the target is the Persian prince, and a few outlaws are afraid that if they go to deliver food to people, they will not only fail to do it, but also expose him.

"Ah San, go to Wanji grocery store!"

"No!"