The bloody scene was engraved in Fusu's heart, and it was also reflected in the heart of Aristotle IV. Until he exited the garden, his mind was still half covered in blood Fusu staggering away with his head in his arms.

"Why is the war between Chuni and Qinni so cruel?" He asked his students to know some answers.

"Maybe ......" he couldn't tell the reason, he could only guess: "Maybe they are too close." I have heard that the marriage between the two countries lasted for 400 years, and until today the king of Chuni has not married the princess of Qinni. ”

"Four hundred years?!" Aristotle IV was stunned.

Born in Sogdiana, he often thinks he is a Greek, at least in his mind that he should be a Greek. He was fascinated by Greek language, drama, artifacts, sculptures, and even Greek democracy, and although Bactria was once part of the Seleucid Empire, the people there had the right to decide whether they wanted independence or not.

Bactria is now independent, and according to the spirit of Greek democracy, the vast majority of Greeks are in favor of this independence, which is just, and the Seleucid conquest is evil.

Under the careful teaching of Aristotle IV, he was immersed in Greek culture, and he had long regarded Prometheus, who was not afraid of power and was eventually hung in the Caucasus Mountains by Zeus, as his example. He felt that he should do everything in his power to disrupt the communication between Seleucus and Chu.

"Yes." Xiong Jing, who was sitting in the Ming Hall, was listening to the report that the city order was not in trouble, and the negotiations for eight sets of armor in one horse for a total of 6,000 horses were finally over. "Then you need at least a third of the mares."

"Mare?" It is not easy to win over the vast majority of stallions, and stallions are war horses. He glanced back at Nao Sly.

"Yes. Indeed it should be. "Nao Cunning was also struggling with the matter of the stallion and mare before. Of course, Silanus wants the stallion and mare to be split half, so that the country will not have to go to great lengths to find stallions over 1.5 meters and under 5 years old.

"In the future, Iberian horses, Syrian horses, or crossbreeds can be found." Xiong Jing is full of illusions about breeding horses, and he has no idea that this is a long way to go, and it is difficult to breed new horse breeds without twenty or thirty years of hard work.

"Yui." The king said so, and he could only do it. He immediately said: "King, the counties also want to buy horses, is it ......?"

"The counties also want to buy horses?" Xiong Jing was a little surprised when he heard it at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was normal. Who doesn't want an eight-foot-tall dragon horse, although the cavalry of the Chu State are now gathered in Yingdu to eat and drink, but these cavalry will eventually return to the counties.

"The king, the minister thinks that the horse breed must not be raised in the counties, there are many spies in the Qin country, and if the stallion is out of the Yingdu, I am afraid that it will be obtained by the Qin people." Nao Cunning reminded that Nisama, which took tens of thousands of sets of armor to get back, must not be cheap for the Qin people.

"You can buy them in various counties, but you can only raise them on Yangma Island." Xiong Jing naturally knew that if Nisama was not strictly managed, it would be stolen by others. Stealing is a very hidden thing, and when you are in heat, you can take a mare to the stable of the Nisa horse for a night, and you can't tell if you are stealing or not. "All horses waiting for the shore must be castrated, and there must be no mistakes."

"Yui." If you don't do it again, he also has this intention in his heart.

"Your lord, don't be afraid to ask to see you." The matter of changing armor and horses has just come to an end, and it is inevitable that it will come. Xiong Jing could probably guess why he came, and hesitated for a moment before saying, "Accurate." He said to Nao and Bu quickly, "You wait and stay for the time being." ”

"Dare to ask the king if he wants to sell the iron armor to Seleucus?" Don't hesitate to ask as soon as you come in, looking at it with a blank eye.

"For the sake of diplomatic relations with the Seleucid Empire, this matter should not be reported to others." Xiong Jing remained silent, "Remembering that the Chu State and the Bactrian Kingdom have been friends for a long time, I still tell each other: the Chu State will sell its iron armor to the Seleucid Empire." ”

"Don't ......, don't! Never. "In the excitement, it is not afraid to blurt out Greek first, and then Chu." Once the king sold his armor to Seleucus, Bactria was in danger. ”

The relationship between Bactria and Seleucus had not been made clear before, and now that he said this, everyone, including Xiongjing, looked surprised. Even Xiong Jing only thought that he had robbed the Sogdians of their business by directly selling armor and silk to Seleucus.

There was an inherent contradiction in this: after the opening of the Maritime Silk Road, the overland Silk Road would fall into decline, and the Chu State could not abandon the Maritime Silk Road because of the opposition of the Sogdians or Bactria.

"Not to sell armor to the Seleucid Empire, but also to the kingdom of Bactria. Non-Seleucid used the armor of the state of Chu to attack Bactria, even if there was no armor of the state of Chu, Seleucus would still attack bactria if he wanted to attack itria. Xiong Jing could roughly guess the relationship between Seleucus and Bactria, but he didn't think it was due to the sale of armor.

"The state of Chu sold the armor to Seleucus, and the sea boat could transport tens of thousands of sets, hundreds of thousands of sets in a few months, but," Wu Ji almost cried, "The armor sold to Bactria can only transport thousands of sets in two years, and tens of thousands in twenty years; The Yuzhi and Huns on the grassland are very likely to plunder the horse team......"

There is no need to worry about Xiong Jing, but he can't help it, who let Bactria not have access to the sea?

"If Bactria had sold his horses, it would have ......," he said euphemistically, "that the Seleucids had better Nissahorses and were willing to sell them in large quantities, and there was no reason why they should not sell them armor." ”

"Bactria is also willing to sell sweat horses!" Needless to say. "If the Sogdians are unwilling, the governor Eutidemus will force these cunning and greedy merchants to sell their sweaty horses to the state of Chu."

"It's too late." Xiong Jing shook his head regretfully and said, the negotiations with Seleucus have all ended, and the first batch of armor has been shipped out of Yingdu yesterday. What's more, sweaty horses are physically weaker than Nissahorses and have a weaker weight-bearing capacity than Nissahorses.

"Does the king really want Bactria to be destroyed at the hands of Seleucus?" Fearlessly, his gaze was no longer pleading for hope, and a little resentment began to appear.

"I don't want Bactria to fall into the hands of the Seleucids." Xiong Jing corrected. "What kingdom does Seleucus want to destroy, and how can he influence it? The state of Chu needs war horses, Bactria is unwilling to sell war horses and Seleucus is willing to sell better war horses, what reason is there not to sell military armor to the Seleucid Empire?

Seleucid had the armor of the Chu State, and Bactria also had the armor of the Chu State, and the victory or defeat of the war was not determined by the armor but by the temple calculations and the generals. How can the death of a nation be blamed on the reason of the armor?

And you said before that Seleucus was divided into Antigonus to the northeast, Egypt to the southwest, India to the southeast, and Parthia beyond Bactria to the northeast. Seleucus was at war on all sides, so how could he destroy only Bactria?

Instead of asking for nothing, it is better to inform the country that the rapid sale of sweat and blood horses was acquired into the army armor in the Chu State. One horse can carry four sets of armor, and a caravan can transport 10,000 sets of armor back to Bactria with only 3,000 pack horses; If there were 10,000 pack horses, 30,000 sets of armor would be returned. 30,000 sets of armor, in the battle of Chen Ying in the past, the Chu army was only 50,000 sets of armor. ”

It's not that it's about doing more armor business, although in a multinational system, upgrading the weapons of either side will force the rest of the countries to upgrade their weapons as well. Xiong Jing just didn't want to bear the moral blame, he once asked Wuji to sell his sweat horses, and Wuji replied that he could not order the Sogdians, but could only advise them, and his advice the Sogdians did not listen.

"The Seleucid Empire inherited the most evil and tyrannical part of the Persian Empire before it, and the king improperly bought horses from them." Needless to say, we can only start from a moral point of view.

"In the eyes of the Sogdians, the kingdom of Bactria was also evil and tyrannical." Xiong Jing no longer has a theory with no taboo, and some people just start to roll and raise the bar with a theory, and even argue with a certain emotion, such people should be taxed on IQ. "Sending off guests."

"Great king......" Xiong Jing's last words made Wu Ji stunned, of course he knew Alexander's bloody methods of conquering the Sogdians. But he and his teacher Aristotle IV explained it as merciful and just as the necessary price for civilization to conquer barbarism. However, this explanation requires a full understanding of Greek culture to fully understand, Xiong Jing is not a Greek, so naturally he cannot fully understand this, and he cannot explain it in a few words: why Seleucus's destruction of Bactria was evil, and Bactria's destruction of the Sogdian city-state was civilized.

After staring at Xiong Jing for a while, Wuji, who had never been able to find it, finally exhaled and bowed to Xiong Jing under the gaze of the soldier. After he left, Nao's cunning eyes turned, "This person already has a grudge against my Chu State, and he should be killed." ”

"Kill?!" Xiong Jing glared at Nao Cunning, "He is an envoy, how can he kill him for no reason?" ”

Nao's cunning proposal was indeed too much, so he didn't look at him quickly, and only said to Xiong Jing: "The king has told him what happened, if it weren't for the fact that they didn't sell horses, how could my Chu State buy from Seleucus." The minister thought that when he returned to the inn, he would tell his country to sell his horses as soon as possible, and to increase the number of pack horses. ”

It is not taboo to bring a cage of pigeons into Yingdu, which of course cannot escape the eyes of the confidant. It is said that the Egyptians were the first to use carrier pigeons, and Greece and Egypt were on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, and of course they also learned to use carrier pigeons.

Buji's speculation about Bactria is that they will sell a large number of sweaty horses and increase pack horses to transport in armor, although Nao Cunning does not agree with this inference, but it is estimated that Wuji, who has carrier pigeons, has already informed his home country before today, and it is too late to kill him, and he will definitely suspect that Bactria will be suspicious if he suddenly dies.

"As previously agreed, at least one-third of the mares are needed." Xiong Jing repeated the initial request and put an end to the matter. He quickly remembered another thing: "They have returned to Zhao Kingdom?" ”

They are just referring to Lu Gao and Lu Chan, who went out to Qin State to investigate for a year and a half. According to the discussions of the four countries in Linzi, the Chu State Flying News Network will be extended to the other three countries, and now the countries are transmitting news very quickly.

"Yes." Nao cunning calculated the time, "According to the itinerary, it has reached Pingshu." ”

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