Belus replied: "The present Emperor of the Persian Empire is my father, Isiqi II!" ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "I remember that when the Persian Empire sent an envoy ten years ago, it was still the reign of Bahram V, but he thought that he was a brilliant king who was wise, brave and far-sighted, and he was your grandfather? ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, my father is his eldest son!"

"And how many sons are you father?"

"My father has four sons, I am the third, the eldest died young, and the second died in the battle with my father and the Emperor!"

Wan Yutong, who was sitting on Zhao Junsheng's head, couldn't help but ask: "I heard from the Western merchants that your Western royal family attaches great importance to the nobility of blood, which famous family is your mother from?" ”

Belus was proud and asked, "I don't know this noble ······ Madame is? ”

Hua Mulan said: "She is my sister Suiyangjun!" ”

After listening to the translation, Belus knew that Wan Yutong was the sister of the queen and a nobleman, so he replied: "As you might expect, my mother's blood is indeed noble, and she is my father's eldest daughter!" ”

The hall was suddenly silent.

Minister Lu Xuan stood up and asked in disbelief: "Wait, Your Highness Belus, you just said that your mother is the eldest daughter of your father?" Is she a queen? ”

Belus did not seem to have the slightest sense of shame, and he proudly said: "Yes, my mother is both the eldest daughter of my father and the empress of the present Persian Empire!" ”

Lu Xuan felt that his brain was a little insufficient, and he rubbed his temples: "Your Highness Belus, I feel a little confused, your father's eldest daughter married your father and became the empress of the Persian Empire and gave birth to you?" ”

"It's understandable, why are you feeling confused?" Belus was also a little puzzled.

"Ahem!" Zhao Junsheng coughed twice, he felt that he had to give his subordinates a science popularization, and asked: "Your Highness Belus, in our East, fathers are never allowed to marry their daughters and sisters, and daughters and sisters are also not allowed to marry their fathers and brothers, which is unusual!" Is it permissible in your Persia? ”

Belus understood now, smiled and said, "I think I understand!" In our Persian Empire, there is no official rule that fathers are not allowed to marry daughters and sisters, nor that daughters and sisters cannot marry their fathers and brothers. But in the people, people generally don't do this, because it will lead to a lot of deformed children, mentally retarded births, and only the royal family has a tradition of this, which is not a shameful thing. In the more western part of the Roman Empire, oh, what you call the Great Qin Kingdom, their royal family also had a tradition of this! ”

Mulan didn't understand it, she knew it was inappropriate, why did she do it? She asked, "Your Highness Belus, why do you keep the tradition of fathers marrying their daughters or sisters, knowing that consanguineous marriage will cause problems of one kind or another in their offspring?" If such a situation arises in our East, we will be damned! ”

Belus smiled: "Your Majesty is too worried, you have your customs, we have ours, and we just have different cognitions!" The reason why our royal family maintains such a tradition is because we want to maintain the purity and nobility of the bloodline! For example, my mother's mother, who was only the daughter of a blacksmith in Jerusalem when she married my father, could never have been a queen, and her son could not have succeeded to the throne under normal circumstances, unless there were no normal sons born to my father and his daughters! ”

Wan Yutong sighed: "Those deformed children and mentally retarded children are too miserable, they are destined to a lifetime of miserable fate as soon as they are born, and they are evil!" ”

Belus bowed and said, "You have thought too much, they are born with a deformed child who will be immediately put to death without any pain; Even mentally retarded children, when they grow up to a few years old, they can be seen that they will be sent to a cruel environment to fend for themselves, and it is generally impossible to survive! ”

Wan Yutong leaned closer to Zhao Junsheng and said in a low voice: "Why do these Western countries have some strange customs, it's too scary!" ”

Mulan felt the same way when she heard it, "Who said it wasn't? It's disgusting! We must issue a decree to resolutely prohibit such a situation! ”

Zhao Junsheng said: "Reasonable! ”

Then Belus said, "Your Majesty, my father gave me an item before I departed, and he said that it was a gift from him to His Majesty, and I hope Your Highness will like it, come!" ”

The attendant behind him stepped forward and unwrapped the strip of cloth from the long strip in his hand, which turned out to be a scimitar, and he held it in his hands.

Zhao Junsheng gestured, and a eunuch took the scimitar and presented it to Zhao Junsheng.

Zhao Junsheng took the scimitar and looked at it, this turned out to be a Damascus scimitar, the handle and scabbard are extremely exquisite, this is definitely from the master's hand, the scabbard is wrapped in gold, the handle is inlaid with precious stones, he held the handle and pulled out the scimitar, and a cold cold light appeared.

The body of the knife is made of Uzi steel, which is definitely made of patterned steel from Tianzhu.

Zhao Junsheng is an expert in using knives, whether a knife is good or not, you can feel it at a glance when you hold it in your hand.

"Good knives!" He couldn't help but sigh in admiration.

Belus introduced: "Your Majesty, this is the saber of my ancestor, Emperor Shapur II, which was made by the most skilled swordsmith in Persia at that time, and it took three years to make, and it is a truly priceless sword!" ”

Zhao Junsheng couldn't put it down, and said to Belus: "I like the gift from His Majesty the Emperor of your country very much, you convey my greetings to the Emperor of your country on behalf of me, and when you leave, I will also have a gift to give back to the Emperor of your country!" ”

"Okay, thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor!"

Zhao Junsheng asked, "Does Your Highness have any other mission than giving gifts to me and discussing the strengthening of political and cultural exchanges?" ”

Belus turned his head to look at the ministers on the left and right, hesitated for a moment and said, "I still want to talk about this matter with Your Majesty alone, it's really inappropriate to let too many people know before the negotiation is completed!" ”

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "That's fine!" Tomorrow, I will hold a banquet in the palace to catch the wind and wash the dust for His Highness, and I will invite His Highness to enjoy the light at that time! ”

Belus said happily: "I would also like to see what it is like to have an oriental-style court banquet, and I will definitely come!" ”

After Belus left the palace, Li Ji stood up and asked, "Your Majesty, tomorrow night there will be a banquet for Prince Belus, do you want to invite Prince Wenhe?" ”

Before Zhao Junsheng could answer, Hua Mulan said: "The news that we set up a banquet to invite Belus will definitely not be hidden, if Wen He knows about it afterwards, people still think that we treat us differently and look down on the bad people, isn't this asking for trouble?" It is their own business that the Hinda people have contradictions with the Persians, at least in the territory of our Great Qian, at least in the current situation where the enemy and us are unknown, we still have to have a bowl of water evenly! And I think that this will deepen the contradiction between the Persians and the Bada people, which will be beneficial to us! ”

Hua Mulan spoke, and the ministers were not easy to oppose casually, and besides, she generally did not express her opinions in the court.

Zhao Junsheng nodded: "The queen's words are reasonable, Kang Yide!" ”

"The old slave is here!"

"You go to the embassy and convey my banquet to Wen He! I have invited him, as for whether he comes or not is his business, we must do enough etiquette, don't leave people with truth! ”

"No!"

Although the Qianguo officials had been trying to avoid Wen He from meeting and contacting Belus, lest the two of them from fighting each other because of the hostile relationship between the states, Wen He knew about Belus on the day he arrived with the mission, and had been inquiring about his residence.

When Belus returned to his residence after entering the palace to meet Zhao Junsheng, he was finally blocked by Wen He and others.

"Ahead of you, His Royal Highness Prince Belus of Persia? I am Wen He, the prince of the Prince, and I didn't expect that we would meet in Chang'an, the capital of the distant Eastern Empire! His Royal Highness Prince Belus has suffered a lot along the way, right? I don't think the prince will be allowed to pass through the passes on the territory of the country, and I guess the prince of Belus must have passed through the passes as a lowly merchant along the way! ”

Wen He's sarcastic and sarcastic tone made Belus and his guards extremely angry, his guard commander Shapur was fully armored, the mask on his helmet was chain mail, and the war horse he was riding was also fully armored, the guard commander snorted coldly, and the spear in his hand was raised, and the other guard cavalry also raised their spears and aimed at Wen He.

Wen He was not alone, he also brought some escort cavalry, which were also armored and imposing, and they also raised their spears at the escort cavalry of Belus.

Belus stared at Wen He coldly, "Prince Ben didn't expect to meet Prince Wen He in Chang'an, but Prince Wen He made Prince Ben very disappointed, I thought that the prince of the White Huns should know some etiquette, but I didn't expect you White Huns to still be so barbaric and don't know etiquette!" ”

Wen He was furious: "Barbarism is strength, and etiquette is cowardice!" Do you think you are elegant, elegant and can be eaten as a meal? Can it increase combat power? Today I will let you know where the difference between savage and elegance is! Come on, call me! ”

Shapur, the commander of Belus's bodyguard, shouted: "Whoever dares to harm His Royal Highness Prince Belus, step over my Shapur's corpse first!" Everyone listen, prepare to fight, and swear to protect Your Highness to the death! ”

"Yes!"

Belus looked at Wen He and said, "Is Prince Wen He going to fight me in this Chang'an City?" The army of the Great Qian Empire is not an ornament, if you want to die, don't pull me on your back! ”

Wenhe smiled, he looked at Shapur and his escort cavalry, and asked, "Are these the undead cavalry of the Persian Empire?" Sure enough, it's quite elite! ”

The undead cavalry is a heavy armored iron cavalry directly controlled by the emperor of the Persian Empire, all of whom are armoured, equipped with spears, scimitars, and even bows and arrows, but the role of the bow and arrow is only to counterattack when hit by light cavalry bows and arrows, the main attack power of the undead cavalry is still reflected in the charging formation, its powerful impact force makes the light cavalry of the people dare not confront head-on, and the undead cavalry in its heyday has a strength of more than 10,000 horsemen.

At this moment, a general of the Qianguo and a detachment of infantry cavalry rushed towards this side, and soon surrounded and separated the Persians and the Bada people.