After Xue Ju listened to Zhang Lao's words, he also nodded in agreement, and then said to Zhang Lao: "The doubts you just mentioned, I naturally took them into account. When Li Wenyuan sent people to ask for help this time, the reason why I so readily agreed to send troops was also to lure Li Yuan to send troops to attack our rear. You may not know that you have lived in the court for a long time, our army has now laid out a tight defense in Longxi County, and it will be okay if Li Yuan does not come at this time, if he really leads his troops to attack us. Our army in Longxi County will definitely be able to make them unable to eat and walk, and after the battle of Longxi, I can guarantee that Li Yuan will be at least five years of our timidity. ”

After listening to Xue Ju's words, Zhang Lao finally let go of this hanging heart, so he said to Xue Ju: "Your Majesty can think about this, then the old minister is relieved." What I just said is the state affairs of Daqin, and then the public and private are clear, and the old minister wants to talk to His Majesty about some private matters. ”

Xue Ju nodded. "What is the matter with the abbot, just tell me. ”

"Your Majesty, I wonder how my second grandson is doing with Li Wenyuan now? Since Wuwei County is in trouble now, why don't you take this opportunity to take your second grandson back to my Great Qin Kingdom? After all, at this time, Your Majesty is the monarch of my Great Qin State, and after the second grandson returns to the Qin State, it is convenient for us to protect him. Why send people to do errands for Li Wenyuan like a fence. After Zhang Guozhang pondered for a while, he said everything he thought in his heart.

"Is the abbot talking about Renyue? It so happened that some time ago he wrote to me informing me of the recent situation. And this letter is accompanied by a letter to you, but I have accidentally forgotten it these days when state affairs are busy. Wait a minute, I'll fetch it for you. Xue Ju didn't care about waiting for Zhang Guozhang to nod in agreement, so he got up directly, came to his desk, took out a letter sealed with fire paint, and handed it to Zhang Guozhang and said, "Guozhang, come and see, this is the letter that Renyue wrote to you." You see, the fire on this side can be sealed well, and it has not been opened so far. ”

Zhang Guozhang finished the letter handed over by Xue Ju and looked carefully at the fire paint on it. I saw a long strip of thickly sealed fire paint, in addition to the two roller shaft prints used to compact the fire paint, there was a circular heraldic pattern in the middle of the whole fire paint. Zhang Guozhang is very familiar with this heraldic pattern, this heraldic pattern is when Xue Renyue was still young and saw Zhang Guozhang press his own seal on it when he sealed it with fire paint after writing letters to others. So he was extremely interested, pestering Zhang Guozhang to ask Zhang Guozhang to get such a seal for himself.

Zhang Guozhang loved his talented second grandson the most in his life, so he sent a skillful craftsman to engrave Xue Renyue's name on the seal with the ancient seal characters of the Qin and Han dynasties. He made the seal into a very portable ring shape, and finally gave it to Xue Renyue. Later, as Xue Renyue's age became older day by day, the ring he used to use when he was a child could not be worn, so in the year of Xue Renyue's weak crown, Zhang Guozhang took his favorite piece of jade, and then invited a skilled craftsman from the Western Regions to create a ring for Xue Renyue to press the fire paint by means of gold and jade. The pattern of the ring was exactly the same as the pattern on the letter in his hand, so that Zhang Guozhang just looked at it coldly, and he saw it.

After Zhang Guozhang saw that it was indeed Xue Renyue's letter, he did not shy away from the fire paint and took out the letter in the envelope. There weren't many letters, just a few pages. Zhang Guozhang looked carefully, and the above things were all things that Xue Renyue did as an official in the Western Regions during this time, and picked up some important and interesting things in these things and told Zhang Guozhang to listen. Of course, some confidential things were naturally automatically blocked by Xue Renyue without mentioning a word.

At the end of the letter, Xue Renyue told Zhang Guozhang that he was about to go to the grassland to appease the people of the newly occupied land. And assured Zhang Guozhang that once he had free time, he would immediately return to Jincheng County to visit his father and grandfather. Other words such as wishing my grandfather to take care of his health and enjoy his family.

Although Zhang Guozhang read the letter at this time was very warm, but he was able to sit in the position of Guozhang and directly participate in the government politics, not only because his daughter married Xue Ju, but also because he still had some ability. So in the letter written by his second grandson to himself, he keenly captured some key information in the letter, so Zhang Guozhang put the letter on the table, and then looked up at Xue Ju and said:

"Your Majesty, could it be that what Li Wenyuan is trying is the entire western grassland?"

Xue Ju nodded and said, "That's right. That's why Li Wenyuan sent someone to ask for help this time, and I agreed so happily. Not to mention that the main force of Li Wenyuan's current army is fighting on the grasslands in the west, even if Li Wenyuan ends the war on the western front now. He also had to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to suppress and pacify the land that had been conquered by the new raids. You must know that those steppe people are not as easy to manage as the Central Plains people, and those barbarians only advocate force, so if you want to suppress their rebellion, you must show far more power than them. Therefore, if Li Wenyuan really swallowed the entire Western Turks, he would not be able to expand outward for a long time.

But on the other hand, once Li Wenyuan was attacked by the Turks, he finally lost the war. There will no longer be a safe place behind us, and if the Khans of the Eastern and Western Turks agree to put aside their hatred for the time being, and share the Central Plains together. Together, we should not be able to resist it no matter what. Therefore, I hope that Li Wenyuan in the Western Regions can become a barrier separating us from the Turks in the steppe. When I sent Renyue to Li Wenyuan's side, I also had some meaning of making friends. And Li Wenyuan's reciprocation, Li's appointment to Rengao, is what he means to send a friendly signal to us. So now our Great Qin and Li Wenyuan of the Western Regions rely on each other. Without us, Li Wenyuan would definitely be threatened from the direction of the Central Plains. But without Li Wenyuan, we will definitely be threatened by the Turks from the steppe. So now that Li Wenyuan is in trouble, I, Daqin, must not stand idly by. Just as we are in trouble now, Li Wenyuan will definitely do his best to come to the rescue, after all, the two of us are a cooperative relationship. ”

(End of chapter)