Kushan Mission?

The name of this unfamiliar country aroused Su Zhe's strong interest, and he looked at Pang Tong: "Have you ever heard of this Guishan country?" ”

Pang Tong smiled faintly: "Guishan's original name was Dayue Clan, which existed in the Western Han Dynasty, and was originally a big country on the western edge of the Western Regions, but was forced by the Huns to move westward, so he left the Western Regions and established this Guishan country. ”

It turned out to be the Otsuki clan.

Su Zhe suddenly remembered, he remembered that in history, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to chisel the Western Regions, just to find the Dayue Clan, so as to join forces with the East and West to attack the Huns, but unfortunately the Dayue Clan was frightened by the Huns and did not dare to make a move against the Huns.

For such a cowardly country, why did you send an embassy at this time?

"Interesting, it's important to say that the envoys of the Otsuki clan have come to see me." Su Zhe said with a brush.

The Da Yue clan is thousands of miles away and has no stake in Da Wei, so Su Zhe has no need to treat each other with state courtesy, and only summons the envoy in Pang Tong's palace.

A quarter of an hour later, a group of Kushan people in exotic costumes entered the main hall, and at the forefront of the walk was a young woman dressed in gorgeous clothes and green eyes.

"Princess Guishan Minglan, meet His Majesty the Emperor of Great Wei."

The young woman reported to her home and bowed to Su Zhe, but did not bow down to him.

Hearing the words "Princess Guishan", Su Zhe's expression moved slightly, and he couldn't help but glance at the exotic beauty a few more times, thinking that the Kingdom of Guishan seemed to value this envoy quite a lot, otherwise he would not have sent his own princess here.

It's just that this envoy who went thousands of miles away to a foreign country, and the Guishan country dared to send a woman to lead the team, which is too bold.

"Your Majesty, I heard that the Guishan Kingdom has always had a tradition of female protagonists ruling since the Dayue Clan, so the status of women in Guishan is higher than that of our Great Wei." Pang Tong explained on the side.

Su Zhe suddenly realized, no wonder the Dayue clan would send a princess to lead the team, it turned out that this country was dominated by women.

"Princess, excuse me, come on, give me a seat." Su Zhe said with a brush.

Princess Minglan sat down calmly, and the rest of the entourage stood on her side, and as soon as she raised her hand, the entourage next to her immediately handed her a post.

"Your Majesty, this is a gift entrusted to me by my mother to give it to Your Majesty, the gift list is here, please take a look at it."

The Mother Empress?

The "mother queen" in Ming Lan's mouth should be the empress of the Guishan Kingdom, so it seems that Guishan is still a woman in power.

The eunuch presented the ceremony, Su Zhe opened it and glanced at it roughly, and couldn't help but move his eyes slightly.

The number of national gifts on the post, at least thirty or forty, what gold, precious stones, furs, spices, each of which is at least hundreds.

I have to say that this gift, even in terms of the national strength of Great Wei, can be regarded as a generous gift.

"Nothing to be courteous, either a traitor or a thief, this Guishan person offers such a generous gift, there must be a plan......"

Su Zhe threw the gift sticker on the desk and sneered: "I don't like to beat around the bush, Guishan Kingdom must not give such a generous gift for no reason, say your request." ”

Ming Lan was stunned, and a trace of wonder flashed in his eyes, as if he didn't expect that the Son of Heaven of the Great Wei Kingdom would be so straightforward and frank.

After pondering for a while, Ming Lan smiled and said: "That is the case, then Ming Lan will get straight to the point, Ming Lan is here to ask His Majesty to send troops to attack with us in the east and west of the Guishan Kingdom, destroy the small court of the Liu family in exile entrenched in the Western Regions, and reopen the Silk Road." ”

Su Zhe suddenly realized.

It turned out that the Guishan Kingdom spent such a lot of money and came to Luoyang to see him thousands of miles away, just to open up the Silk Road.

The Silk Road, a land passage connecting the East and the West, originated in Chang'an City, passed through Liangzhou, the Western Regions, Kushan, Anxi and other Central Asian countries, and finally ended in Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire.

It was through this long Silk Road that the East and the West were able to trade for hundreds of years, especially the Western countries, which had an almost obsessive fascination with porcelain and silk originating from the East.

As for a country like Kushan, which is located in the middle of the Silk Road, because of its advantage in the transportation center, even if it is just to collect tolls, it can obtain huge wealth.

Until Liu Bei's retreat to the Western Regions, the Silk Road was barely open, and although the Han and Wei were at war, everyone acquiesced to the private trade of merchants.

However, when Liu Bei fled to the Western Regions and began to conquer the countries of the Western Regions, he completely blocked the Silk Road and forbade merchants from the East and the West to trade with each other through the eastern edge of the Western Regions under his control.

As soon as the Silk Road was cut off like this, Guishan lost a huge source of wealth, so he naturally couldn't sit still, wanting to destroy Liu Bei, the roadblocker.

It's just that the use of troops in the Western Regions requires strong national support not only for Great Wei, but also for the Guishan Kingdom.

And the Guishan Kingdom should not want to bear such a huge consumption alone, so it sent this Minglan princess to the Great Wei Kingdom, wanting to invite the Great Wei to jointly send troops to destroy Liu Bei and open up the Silk Road.

"Liu Bei is entrenched in the Western Regions, after all, it is a disaster of the Great Wei, and I will definitely send troops to destroy him sooner or later, but now my main enemies are the Xianbei people outside the Saiwai, and it is unlikely that I will send a large army to conquer Liu Bei."

Su Zhe decisively rejected Ming Lan.

Now opening up the Silk Road and conquering the Western Regions is naturally a huge benefit for the Kushan Kingdom, because a large part of their treasury income is the income of the middlemen of the Silk Road.

But for the Great Wei, the existence of the Silk Road was actually dispensable, and the wealth brought by the trade between the East and the West was really insignificant to the Great Wei.

Now if he raises the army of the country to conquer the Western Regions and destroy Liu Bei, it will give Tuoba Li time to rise slightly, after all, for Huaxia, the biggest threat will always come from the northern grasslands.

Seeing that Su Zhe didn't allow it, Princess Minglan couldn't help but show her eyebrows slightly, and wanted to persuade again.

At this time, Pang Tong smiled and said: "I heard that Guishan is a powerful country in the West and has strong national strength, with your national strength, it is not impossible to send troops alone to destroy Liu Bei and open up the Silk Road." ”

"Well...... this" Princess Minglan was speechless for a while, full of persuasive words, but was blocked back by Pang Tonglai.

Of course, she couldn't say what she meant in her heart, saying that he Guishan Kingdom wanted to pull Dawei to send troops together because he didn't want to consume his national strength.

Su Zhe glanced at Pang Tong with satisfaction, but said with a smile: "You don't have to be anxious, Liu Bei Zhen will get rid of it sooner or later, and after I have destroyed the Xianbei people and have no worries, I will definitely send troops with you to open up the Silk Road." ”

Minglan was helpless and didn't know what to say.

Su Zhe waved his hand and said: "The matter of our two countries joining forces to destroy Liu Bei is so decided, Princess Minglan has come from afar, how can I not fulfill the friendship of the landlord, the princess will go to the pavilion to rest for the time being, tonight I will set up a banquet in the Golden Palace to catch the wind and wash the dust for the princess." ”