The dome is very fortified.

Li Mixia, the king of Zhangxiong, brought a group of ministers to the Great Qin Embassy in person.

Dozens of slaves came with more than a dozen boxes of gifts.

"Please tell Liu Yuanwailang, Xiao Wang asks to see him."

The six Qin army guards standing outside the embassy, wearing Mingguang armor, holding a zhang eight-step lance, majestic, although it is in the territory of the Xiangxiong people, the Great Qin Emperor has already sent a note to the envoys. The embassy of Great Qin is in the land of the vassal state, but it also belongs to Great Qin. Embassies under the Qin banner had extraterritorial jurisdiction and were regarded as the territory of the Great Qin.

Although this article is very unreasonable, the feudal lords dare not violate it.

Even now, next to the places where many Great Qin embassies are stationed, there are many Central Plains merchants who have opened guilds and shops, so a Qin street has been formed, and in some vassal countries, because the ambassador is tougher, he simply rents this Qin street outside the embassy directly from the local vassal king, forming a Qin concession.

The entire concession had extraterritoriality.

Therefore, even if King Zhangxiong came, he did not dare to break into the embassy, and he had to be careful and polite.

"Please wait, the king, and then go and pass it on." The guards at the gate only returned the salute with their hands and did not let them in.

In the embassy, Liu Wenjing heard that King Xiangxiong came to visit and brought many gifts, so he smiled.

"Why is the ambassador laughing?"

"Li Mixia wants to send troops to Tibet, but he still cares about my Daqin, this is to pull me hard, so I will send some benefits first."

The subordinate officials were puzzled, but Liu Wenjing asked everyone to go with him to greet him.

Liu Wenjing came out and saw Li Mixia, very polite.

"If the king has something, he sent someone to summon him directly, why did he come to the door in person, and he gave so many gifts, but he didn't dare to accept them."

Li Mixia also has a smiling face.

"It's really okay to go to the Three Treasures Palace, today I do have an important matter to visit Liu Yuanwailang, and I want to ask Liu Yuanwailang to help."

King Zhang-zhung was welcomed into the embassy and hot tea was served.

Li Mixia didn't beat around the bush, and said straight to the point, "Previously, the Son of Heaven sent an edict to Xiao Wang, saying that there was civil strife in Tibet, and let Xiao Wang lead the Xiangxiong army to send troops to Tubo to help the new Zampu Sect put down the chaos. After receiving the edict, Xiao Wang did not dare to slack off, and immediately issued a conscription order, and ordered the cavalry to go out. It's just that Xiao Wang also wants his neighbor Tubo to settle down as soon as possible, but he is also worried that Tubo will misunderstand us when the time comes, and another one, Xiao Wang is young, and has no experience in commanding troops to fight, I heard that Liu Yuanwailang was once a general, and once commanded tens of thousands of troops, so Xiao Wang came here and wanted to ask Liu Yuanwailang to serve as the marshal of my Xiangxiong Army, and lead my Xiangxiong Army into Tubo to quell the chaos. ”

Liu Wenjing picked up the teacup and gently blew the foam in the cup.

"King, drink tea."

Seeing that he refused to answer, Li Mixia took a sip of tea, put down the teacup and continued to persuade, "Liu Yuanwailang, I, Xiangxiong, am loyal to the Son of Heaven of Great Qin, but when it comes to sending troops to Tibet, if there is no Great Qin as the leader, I Xiangxiong will not dare to move lightly." ”

"King, how is this tea?"

"Good tea."

"It's good tea, on this snowy plateau, in the Qionglong Silver Castle, it's still very leisurely to drink tea every day. But the king asked me to give up this leisurely life and run to lead the army to fight, which is difficult for a strong man. Besides, the duty of the envoy is to be the ambassador to Zhangxiong, responsible for liaising with the clan, and it is not my duty to lead the army to fight, and I can't easily leave without permission. ”

"Except for Liu Yuan, they are all doing things for the Son of Heaven."

"You're embarrassing me like this."

"I also asked Liu Yuanwailang to help, as for the Son of Heaven, Xiao Wang will play Chen Ming. If I, Zhangxiong, can defeat the Tibetan rebels by then, this will also be a great credit to Liu Yuanwai. ”

Liu Wenjing pretended to be very embarrassed, and talked about him left and right, and talked about him for a long time, and finally agreed to be the envoy of the Guanjun instead of the commander.

Li Mixia breathed a sigh of relief, no matter what, he pulled this Qin envoy to the army, and then he could pull up the tiger skin and fill the banner.

After Li Mixia said goodbye and left, Liu Wenjing looked at the lease in front of her and smiled.

"This Li Mixia, it's true, we proposed several times before to rent the street in front of the embassy for the operation of Qin merchants, and wanted to be the Qin concession, but he just refused to agree. Now I have a request for a foreigner, but I agreed happily, not only renting this street, but also renting us the big vacant land next to it. ”

Liu Wenjing said, "This street is already in a corner of the city, relatively remote, and now that we rent it, he won't lose anything." Even if we give us another vacant land, we organize Qin Shang to build a shop and house, and he can still charge more taxes. ”

As for the extraterritoriality in the concession, anyway, with the strength of Great Qin now, the Qin merchants who committed crimes in the Qionglong Silver Castle did not dare to deal with it directly, and generally notified the embassy and tried it together. In most cases, these Qin businessmen who committed crimes can spend money to eliminate their crimes, and most of them are returned to the embassy for disposal.

Therefore, it is nothing to demarcate the concession now, determine the extraterritoriality, and implement the Qin law within the concession.

Li Mixia got what he wanted, and of course he was generous.

Liu Wenjing clearly knew that Li Mixia Fei asked him to join the Xiangxiong Army, in fact, in order to fight the banner of Great Qin.

"How many troops does Zhang-zhung want to send?"

Li Mixia said that he was going to send 100,000 troops, but in fact, the current Zhangxiong has long been weakened, and even 50,000 soldiers may not be able to take a shot. Although they occupy the Xiangxiong Plateau, there are no agricultural conditions like Weizang on the plateau, and Zhangxiong, which is mainly based on animal husbandry, has now taken advantage of the convenience of the Silk Road and become richer.

"The number of soldiers in the country is only about 50,000, and this time I actually plan to send 20,000 troops, which can be regarded as a bloody investment. Li Mixia personally commanded the troops and invited me to be the envoy of the army. ”

"Ambassador, do you want to report this matter to the court first?"

"It's okay, Zhangxiong sent troops to Tibet, it was an edict of the imperial court, I, the ambassador to Zhangxiong, will not overstep it as an observer."

Liu Wenjing is not an ordinary civil official, as an important minister of Li Yuan and Tang Kingdom, he is known for his strategy. Even if the shallow water was defeated, it did not affect his insight ability.

He is not willing to be only a six-grade rite member wailang in Daqin, a wailang wailang, that is, in addition to the forehead, now the ambassador in the domain, or the envoy to the vassal country, will generally be awarded the position of the ceremonial department member wailang, which can be described as a very worthless position.

If you want to go up, or even complete the dream of being the prime minister in your heart, you can't do it step by step.

Liu Wenjing is an ambitious person, he voted for Li Yuan at the beginning, and in the end Li Yuan failed, it can be said that this is the worst time he lost, and now the opportunity is in front of him, how can he miss it.

Even if King Zhang-zhung doesn't come to him, he will still take the initiative to find King Zhang-zhung.

It's just that he expected that King Zhangxiong would definitely come to him first, so he sat firmly on the fishing platform and waited for the fish to take the bait.