The next stop after Samarkand was Bukhara, an important stop on the Silk Road and home to Khorezm, one of the allies of the Han Empire.

After the alliance between Khorezm and other countries and the Han Empire, the surrounding environment was greatly improved, stable and prosperous, and the people's lives were better day by day, and they were all grateful for the kindness of the Han people and were full of good feelings towards the Han people.

Therefore, the Han delegation led by Fa Zheng entered Bukhara and was welcomed by the people of the whole city with singing and dancing, and the king of Khorezm was also waiting for Fa Zheng's arrival in Bukhara.

The next thing is the same as Kangju, a series of bilateral cooperation negotiations and consultations, Khorezm even agreed to lease a piece of land to the Han as a military base of the Han Dynasty, welcoming the garrison of the Han Empire, which is equivalent to protecting Khorezm in disguise.

After all, the Kushan Empire had always been obsessed with the former vassal states such as Khorezm, and always wanted to regain them into its territory.

Therefore, for such a wolf-like neighbor, the wisest choice for Khorezm, who is weak in national strength, is to hug his thighs, and the thickest thighs around him are of course big men.

Of course, if you want to hug your thighs, you have to pay a corresponding price, such as renting a military base, but after all, Dahan has a good historical record, and it is relatively far away, so he will not have a plan against him like Guishuang.

Leaving Khorezm, you really entered the territory of the Sabbatical Empire, of course, this is only in name, but in fact the princes and kings here are relatively independent.

The princes here had independent finances and armies, and did not obey the jurisdiction of the Emperor of the Sabbath Empire in peacetime, and only sent troops to fight together in times of foreign war.

The first to arrive was Mulu, an important town in the eastern part of the Anxi Empire, where the king, although not as enthusiastic as Kangju and Khorezm, was even wary of the heavily armed Han army.

But after all, they were accompanied and guided by the plenipotentiary envoy of their Resting Empire, and they were also envoys from the ancient and civilized empire in the East, and they were also warmly received.

In order to avoid unnecessary troubles and misunderstandings, Fa Zheng had the guard corps and the mission brigade stationed outside the city, and he entered the city with only one guard company to attend the welcome banquet.

As a former military commander, Fa Zheng's attention after entering the city was spent on observing the city defense, observing the equipment and training of the opposing army.

As a military town, Mulu City naturally built a strong city, but Fa Zheng believes that their city-building technology is not as advanced as that of the Han Dynasty, and the city is mainly based on civil structures.

It is obviously not as strong as the walls of the Great Han, and it is vulnerable to artillery and explosives.

Although the invention of gunpowder has been introduced to the West, especially in the military field, the application is also in full swing, but there is no shadow of firearms here, let alone muskets, not even grenades.

In this case, Fa Zheng has more confidence in this negotiation, because he has a heavy weight in his hand, and he believes that the people of Anxi will be interested in it, and they must not hesitate to pay some price in exchange.

In particular, when I heard about the military and the high degree of autonomy of the local government, Fa Zheng's mind was activated.

He offered to put on a shooting show for the local king, and most of the people had only heard of the power of firearms, and not much had really seen them, except for the envoy of the rest, no one else had seen them.

When Fa Zheng was performing a shooting show, he kept one hand and only arranged a target at a distance of 200 zhang, and did not tell them what the maximum range of the Ma's rifle was.

At a distance of 200 zhang, even if you are not a sniper, the hit rate is still very high, and the second division is a veteran main force that has been equipped with Mars rifles for more than a year.

The Sabbatarians saw that this guy called a rifle was able to hit a target two hundred feet away, much more accurate than a bow and crossbow, and the power was greater, and it could easily penetrate the armor of the traditional light cavalry.

Both the local princes and the emperor's envoys were like treasures, and the local princes offered to purchase these advanced weapons in large quantities, and the envoys even said that this rifle was a weapon against the Romans, and in any case, they should get it.

He even told Fa Zheng that as long as Fa Zheng used the firearms deal as a bargaining chip in the negotiations, he would definitely get whatever he wanted.

Their Emperor His Majesty could not resist the temptation of such an advanced weapon, and he racked his brains all day long about how to fight the Romans, and the arrival of rifles was a relief in disguise.

Of course, Fa Zheng would not directly provide such an advanced Marquet rifle to the other party, but the front-loading flintlock pistol with slightly inferior performance can be traded, and the other party also recognizes the flintlock rifle.

The king of Mulu placed the first large order in the history of China's arms export to the Han army, represented by Fazheng, and although he had also provided muskets and grenades to Kangju and Khorezm, most of them were half-bought and half-given, or even bartered.

This export of Mulu is the real first arms deal from the Han military, 10,000 flintlock rifled guns, 500,000 bullets, 20,000 grenades, and the other party is exchanged for real money.

Fa Zheng was very satisfied with this, after all, the Han military eliminated as many as hundreds of thousands of flintlock rifled guns, relying on the smuggling of arms transactions by those businessmen, how much can be sold, after all, these things are eliminated quickly.

When the Mars rifle is updated, these flintlock pistols will become garbage, so it is better to dispose of them quickly. Moreover, if it is sold to the Anxi Empire and away from the Han Dynasty, it will have no impact on the country, and there is no need to worry about it falling into the hands of Wei and Wu.

Emperor Anxi's envoy was a little dissatisfied when he saw that Fa Zheng had sold so many firearms to the local authorities, but their national conditions were like this, with a high degree of autonomy and even independence, and he could not stop the deal.

He could only express his opinion to Fa Zheng, who laughed and told the envoy that as long as the negotiations between the two sides were successful, he would provide more and better firearms to Emperor Anxi, and he did not have to worry about this deal.

In the following journey, such transactions were staged one after another, and the cities where the Fazheng missions stopped, such as Dhamgan and Rey, became more and more welcoming to the Han Chinese team, and his arms deal with Mulu had spread throughout the provinces of the Anxi Empire.

Good things spread thousands of miles, and many local governments that were not the way of the Fazheng mission also sent envoys to negotiate arms trade with Fazheng, which also allowed Fazheng to fully appreciate the unique and rough management mode of the Anxi Empire, which is really highly autonomous.

The envoy of the Emperor of Anxi was already crying without tears, and he didn't know if he was luring the wolf into the house, and Fazheng had at least armed dozens of local regimes.

In the future, the status of the imperial family may be even worse, and now I only hope that Fazheng can fulfill his promise to provide the best and most arms to the royal army.