In order to prevent the steppe tribes from peeping on and plundering the sacred horses in the caravan, the caravan led by Lubajia traveled day and night, and it took only three months to reach the clouds of Zhao State. By this time, the Zhao army had already taken control of most of the cities in Yunzhong County, and confronted the Qin army on the banks of the Yellow River.

More than 1,700 divine horses, minus more than 60 dead on the road, only more than 1,600 remained. The long-distance travel makes these gods and horses very weak, and most of them are losing weight. Now that he has arrived in the Zhao Kingdom, he is not in a hurry to rush to Sene, he hopes to stay here for more time to fatten his horses. Sorting out goods is the specialty of the Sogdians, let alone such a valuable cargo as Shenma. However, Aristotle IV and Dicayópolis did not like to stay in Yunzhong County for a long time, and they hoped to rush to Chu as soon as possible.

The Zhao people of Yunzhong County and Lou Annoying people under the rule of Zhao Guo took advantage of this to circle around the more than 1,000 divine horses all day long. Some of the Lou Fu tribes who heard the news also hurried with mares from distant places, only to find that these gods and horses were all eunuchs and could not do anything with horses. The cunning of the Sogdians was well known, and in despair, everyone begged them to sell their horses. In line with the principle of reluctance to sell, the price of Shenma was intentionally or unintentionally speculated, and when the news reached Yingdu, thousands of miles away, the price of horses was worth a thousand gold.

At this time, he hurriedly went east in the offensive that the Qin army was preparing to launch, entered Yanmen, and then went east from Yanmen, entered Daidi, and then crossed the Taihang Mountain from Feihu and entered the Hebei Plain.

Originally, he planned to pass through Handan and then enter the state of Chu through Daliang. This road, especially Daliang, is the center of the world, and the price of a horse is estimated to rise by thousands of gold, but the continuous war makes him have to continue to travel eastward, crossing the Yellow River and entering the territory of Qi.

More than 1,000 horses entered the jam from the clouds, and the deliberate stay during the period made the Qin army on the other side of the Yellow River also know the news. As soon as the caravan entered the Qi country, some Qin people came forward to ask each other to invite Lubajia to enter Qin. When the Qin people shouted out the high price of 100,000 gold, he pretended to hesitate to stay in Fuyang for three days, and finally refused to go south.

Although the Rong people repeatedly told them that all these horses would be sold to the Chu State, the rich nobles and wealthy merchants were still eager to buy a legendary Thousand Miles Dragon Horse. It was only when the caravan passed through Linzi and entered Muling Pass that these people returned disappointed.

From the refusal of Khobaka to take the boat south, Xiong Jing guessed his thoughts; When he heard that all the horses were castrated, and that there were no stallions or mares among them, he stopped paying attention to the caravan. However, it is a question whether these sweaty horses will be captured by the Qin army in the territory of Qi. If the Qin army was to take it sideways, it would give Chu and Qi the opportunity to send troops - to convince those who were unwilling to rescue the ministers of Zhao. It's a pity that from Fuyang to Linzi, the Qin army did not cross the hub and invade the Qi state.

Following Seleucus' sale of Nissa, Bactria's sale of Bloody Horses was also sold. The feeling of being left and right made the Chu people happy, but it made the Seleucid envoy Silanus, who had originally asked the Chu state to cut off contact with Bactria, very disappointed. Of course he knew about the bloody horse, which was the noble horse of the Sarmatians, and it was ridden by the Pani and Sogdianas, and it was also ridden by the army under Diodortos II. It is said that in the known world, this is the only horse that can rival the Nissa.

Originally, Seleucus and Chu each asked for what they needed, and the other party was the only country that could meet their needs. Bactria's horse sales have caused Seleucids to lose their bargaining power dramatically, and thankfully a horse-rail agreement between the two countries was reached last winter.

When the weather turned cold again, the caravan finally landed at the Huaishui Wharf north of Yingdu. Before he even landed on the shore, the observant Aristotle IV saw the walls of Yingdu and the towering river lighthouse on the Purple Mountain.

"By the king's command, welcome the envoys of Bactria." On the shore was the voice of the guests, Zhao Huang and Shaozai Jin greeted them with a trip out of the city, and Xiong Jing was still studying how to make ironwood ribs.

"That's King Chuni?" Aristotle IV, who saw his student again, asked, and he was talking about Zhao.

"Teacher, that's not King Chuni, that's one of the Seven Ao. It is equivalent to the presiding officer in the Greek council. "It is not unavoidable to see that Aristotle IV was extremely gracious, and although the carrier pigeon could carry the message, it was one-way. After the Seleucid envoys arrived in Yingdu, he lived in distress every day.

"Ignorant barbarians!" It turned out that King Chuni did not greet him personally, and Aristotle IV naturally mocked.

Originally, he had great expectations for this trip, so he asked the servants to record them one by one, but when he entered Yunzhong County and saw that the Zhao people actually built a wall with mud, he realized that he had come to the barbarian tribe. Greece and Persia mostly used stone, and the buildings in the cities were tall and exquisite, and even India, which was known to be backward in the world, had long learned to burn bricks, but the people of this land would only use rudimentary wooden tools to beat mud and build low and simple houses.

Architecture is one of them, the other is food. Although wheat was also grown in the land, they did not know how to grind it, so wheat became food for the poor. Without flour there was no bread, and he could only eat the yellow corn, which he did not like at all the 'rough' barbarian food.

Greece is the center of the known world, and Alexander the Great's great conquest was to bring the light of civilization to the wilderness, so that the barbarians of all over the world can get rid of barbarism, so although there are countless bloody and brutal in the process of conquest, from a historical point of view, this conquest is progressive, civilized, and necessary for mankind to complete its mission.

This was the point that Aristotle IV always adhered to, and it was the reason why he despised the barbarians, so whenever someone accused Alexander of killing countless natives, he would use it to convince the other party, like, like—if he lived to be two thousand years from now, a Western thinker used the same logic when commenting on the destruction and brutality inflicted on India by the British colonizers.

"Please go to the post station to rest first, and the king of Chu will summon you later." Zhao Huang, who did not know that he had become a monkey in the mind of Aristotle IV, was bowing, and then he led the way.

"Tell them that I need to see King Chuni now." Aristotle IV commanded without jealousy.

"Teacher ......" has lived in the Chu State for several years, and Aristotle IV's proposal makes Wuji very difficult.

"Nope." Aristotle IV stubbornly shook his head. "As a Greek, we should not follow the rules of the barbarians and bow our knees to the barbarians. You let them tell King Chuni that I have brought civilization to him, and that he and his subjects will henceforth be free from barbaric customs and live in great civilization. ”