Chapter 140: Friendly Shi Guo
Shi Guo is in the southwest of the United States, more than 200 miles away from the capital of the United States. The nine countries of Central Asia have their own specialties. For example, Shiguo has many good horses, Kang has many beautiful women, Cao Guo has many dwarfs, Mi is rich in wine, and Shi is rich in lions, beauties and fire rats.
Zhao Ziliang's mission encountered a group of lions shortly after entering the country of history, which made Zhao Ziliang very shocked, as far as he knew, the king of beasts such as lions could only be seen in the African savannah in later generations, but he did not expect to see lions in Central Asia during this period. Seeing the large number of people in Zhao Ziliang's group, the lions did not attack, but chose to flee, and most of the soldiers of the mission thought that the lions were auspicious, and even dismounted and bowed down after seeing the lions.
Soon the mission encountered a large flock of fire rats, which were larger than squirrels but smaller than foxes, their fur was fiery red, their fur could be made into clothing to protect them from the cold, and they were very beautiful in color.
In addition to lions and fire rats, Shi Guo is also rich in beautiful women, which after the mission entered the town of Shi Guo, Zhao Ziliang found that the young women of Shi Guo are all delicate and energetic, as for the Central Asian women who often saw them masked and went out in later generations, there was no such thing at all in this period.
The beautiful women of Shi Guo made the soldiers of the mission can't help but swallow their saliva one by one, although they have strict military discipline, but since they saw the beauties of Shi Guo, the spirit of the soldiers is no longer focused, and many people begin to look left and right, uncertain.
Zhao Ziliang soon discovered this situation, and after the team arrived in the capital of Shi Guo, in order to stabilize the morale of the army, he had to charter all the brothels in the capital of Shi Guo, and let the soldiers take turns to solve their physiological needs.
Compared with Kang Guo and Mi Guo, Shi Guo behaved completely opposite to the arrival of Zhao Ziliang and his party, and arranged a very high-standard reception, and the king of Shi Guo, Si Jinti, personally led a hundred civil and military officials to greet him at the gate of the city, and sent Zhao Ziliang to the embassy to live. A grand and luxurious welcome banquet was also held.
"Mother, don't you know, that Zhao Ziliang actually took down all the brothels in the city, and let the sergeants take turns to have fun! He usually has a cold face, he really can't imagine that he would do such a ridiculous thing, it is simply immoral, and he is not afraid that the people of Shi Guo will laugh at us Datang, how can this be reasonable! ”
Wang Zhiyun pushed open the door and walked into the room, and talked about Zhao Ziliang's absurd behavior to her mother Chen Qingying.
But she didn't want Chen Qingying to hear it and immediately scolded: "Presumptuous, how can you call the general's name?" If you don't hold back your mouth, I'll tear your mouth apart! ”
Wang Zhiyun was not afraid at all. "Hmph, every time I say he's not, you say me, I'm your biological daughter!"
Chen Qingying sighed when she heard this: "Zhiyun, you are still young, you don't understand many things, General Zhao became a general at a young age, and he undertook the important mission of envoying to the Sogdian countries, and the courage on his shoulders is not light. His subordinates are all arrogant soldiers, if there is no means, how can they be willing to obey orders and dare not come nonsense? Besides, he rescued both of us. Now you also rely on him to survive, but you are saying bad things about others behind your back, isn't it too undeserved? ”
These words were very tactful, but Wang Zhiyun understood them. also knew that her mother had left a mouth for her to say this, Wang Zhiyun felt a little ashamed when she thought about her actions. Eat him and drink him. was rescued by him, but scolded him behind his back, which is tantamount to ingratitude!
Wang Zhiyun knew that she was wrong, but she didn't know how, and her mouth was still unforgiving: "But I just can't get used to his style!" ”
Chen Qingying looked at her daughter and asked, "Then did he go to that kind of place himself?" ”
Wang Zhiyun thought for a while and shook her head and said, "I haven't seen it, he has been walking around inside and outside the city for the past two days, and I haven't seen him go to that kind of place!" ”
Chen Qingying said with a smile: "That's it, he chartered all the brothels in the city for the soldiers to take turns to have fun, but he didn't go, which shows that he didn't do this to make his own search for happiness, but a means to control his subordinates, those soldiers are on the border all the year round, and most of them have never touched a woman, but they come to this historical country but see beauties every day, how can they stand it?" If there is a mess, there will be a big problem! And he did it for the best way."
Speaking of this, Chen Qingying raised her face and warned: "You little girl, you are not allowed to criticize the general behind your back in the future, if it is heard, even if they will not punish our mother and daughter, as long as we are left here, it will be difficult for our mother and daughter to live!" Do you know? ”
Wang Zhiyun nodded aggrievedly: "Hmm! ”
At this time, someone knocked on the door, Wang Zhiyun immediately ran over to open the door, but it was a servant, who walked in and said to Chen Qingying: "Mrs. Wang, my general invites you to come over!" ”
"Oh, okay, I'll go right away!"
When he came to the main hall and saw Zhao Ziliang sitting at the table drinking tea, Chen Qingying stepped forward and made a blessing: "General, I heard that you are looking for a slave?" ”
Zhao Ziliang put down the teacup and nodded, "Hmm!" Can Mrs. Wang be a female celebrity? ”
"Some!"
Zhao Ziliang said: "The general's big silk and some banners in the army were a little damaged in the battle a few days ago, and the general still has some silk here, I want to ask Mrs. Wang to help sew a big silk and some banners for the general, of course, the salary will not be harsh to Mrs., I don't know if Mrs. willing?" ”
Chen Qingying hurriedly said: "The slave family is willing to give it a try, as soon as possible for the general to make the big and the banner, as for the salary, there is no need, the slave mother and daughter were fortunately rescued by the general, and they have been living in vain with the general, if you have to collect wages for such a trivial matter, isn't it ungrateful?" ”
Zhao Ziliang waved his hand: "This has nothing to do with ingratitude, it's also two different things!" Okay, that's it, you go down first! ”
Chen Qingying was about to say another more, when Chu Ge walked in from outside the door and arched his hand: "General, King Si Jinti has sent someone to invite you to the banquet!" ”
Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly when he heard this: "This King Si Jinti is too enthusiastic, one banquet a day, and if I continue to eat like this, I'm afraid I won't want to go back to the Tang Dynasty!" ”
Chu Ge said with a smile: "King Sijinti's heart to Tang really doesn't have to be said!" Whether the general will go or not, if he doesn't go, then his subordinates will push it! ”
Zhao Ziliang got up and said: "No, everyone has sent someone to invite, it's not good not to go, just today I proposed to King Si Jinti to send troops to jointly attack Tuqishi, you go and prepare!" ”
"No!" Chu Ge said yes and turned away.
Soon, Zhao Ziliang came to the palace again, and King Si Jinti was very happy, and while setting up a banquet to entertain Zhao Ziliang, he ordered people to call beautiful women to dance.
In the past few days, Zhao Ziliang has also inquired clearly, Shi Guo's land area is not large, the population is not much, the army is only more than 4,000 people, more than 100 years ago when Xuanzang came, Shi Guo's army was only more than 1,000 people, so many years Shi Guo under the protection of the Tang Dynasty, the country has grown several times, and the number of troops has increased to more than 4,000 people, although it is less than Kang Guo, but Shi Guo's soldiers are all warriors.
After the third tour of the wine country, Zhao Ziliang said to Si Jinti: "The king, the envoy has something to say, and I ask the king to withdraw the song and dance!" ”
Hearing this, Si Jinti waved his hand, and the dancing beauties retreated in a very graceful posture.
"General, there are no outsiders here, you can say it!"
Zhao Ziliang got up and arched his hand: "King, last year there was a rebellion in the northern Turkish, and the northern line of the Silk Road was once cut off, which caused great losses to my country's trade, and also made the Zhaowu countries suffer a lot of losses. I wonder what the king thinks? ”
Si Jinti frowned when he heard this: "The Celestial Empire has this plan, Xiao Wang can send troops, even if he pulls over all the more than 4,000 troops of our country, it is no problem, but my country has a bad relationship with the Mi country, Kang country, and Cao country in the north, and the troops must pass through their territory to go north, but I am afraid that they will not allow our army to enter!" ”
Zhao Ziliang saw that Si Jinti said that he could send troops without the slightest hesitation, and he was immediately very happy, and he could hear that what Si Jinti said was definitely not a scene, and he immediately said: "The king can rest assured, before coming to Shi Guo, this envoy has already agreed with the king of Kangguo, although Kangguo, Mi and Cao will not send troops, but if the king is willing to send troops, he will agree to lend the road to the king's army to pass!" In fact, our country does not have strict requirements for the number of troops, even if the king only sends a thousand troops, our country's purpose is to create a huge momentum for the Turgish, the more countries participating in the coalition, the greater the momentum, not in the number of troops, in this way, the Turgish people will feel that there are enemies everywhere, and naturally defeat without a fight! ”
Si Jinti patted his head: "I see, this king understands!" Well, since Kang Guo is willing to borrow the road, this king will personally lead 2,000 troops north to attack Tuqishi with the Tang army, I don't know which other countries participated in this war? ”
Zhao Ziliang said: "For the time being, there are Shi Guo and Han Guo, and the kings of these two countries have clearly expressed their willingness to participate, and sent 10,000 and 5,000 people respectively, and this envoy and the mission will continue to travel west in the near future to send envoys to Senabo (Xiaoshi Country), Anguo, Dong'an State, He State, Wudi State, He State, Huoxun and other countries to persuade them to send troops."
"Good!" Si Jinti was very happy, and asked: "Then the specific time of the troops, where will the coalition forces meet, and how to fight?" ”
Zhao Ziliang said: "In order to give full play to the maximum combat effectiveness of the coalition forces, our DPRK decided to unify the command, and the armies of various countries converged under Broken Leaf City on August 15 this year to jointly attack Broken Leaf City!" ”
"So good, simple and straightforward!" Si Jinti nodded, and said: "It's just that if the general continues to travel west, I'm afraid that the harvest will not be big, and the small Shiguo, Anguo, Dong'anguo, Heguo, Wudi and Huoxun countries in the west have all been controlled by the big cannibals, and it is not easy to let them send troops!" ”
Zhao Ziliang saluted and said: "Thank you for the king's kind reminder, but the envoy still has to try his luck, even if he can't persuade them to send troops, he can also understand their situation there, and after he goes back, he can truthfully report their situation to the court, otherwise the court will ask, and the envoy will be derelict if he doesn't know how to answer!" ”
"Then the general must be more careful, I don't know when the general is going to leave?"
Zhao Ziliang said: "It's set the day after tomorrow, the time for us to come out is not short, so let's hurry up and rush back as soon as possible."
Si Jinti nodded: "In this case, the day after tomorrow, the king will see off the general." (To be continued.) )