Chapter 487: Deer Hunting in the Sand Garden

Yang Jian groaned slightly, and responded with a smile: "The first time the Great Khan met me, he talked about military affairs, which seems to be an unlucky word according to my Chinese customs. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoToday, I met with the Great Khan's son-in-law, and the state affairs were put aside, but it was just a matter of talking about some family affairs. As he spoke, he shot at the right servant standing beside the photograph, and Yu Qing gestured with his chin.

Yu Qing immediately took two steps forward, took a scroll of holy decrees from the eunuch's hand, stood facing the picture, and said loudly: "There is a holy decree, and the Eastern Turk Shabalu Khan took the decree." ”

Listening to Yang Jian's words translated by Changsun Sheng, his face sank, as if he was dissatisfied, and at this time he heard that Yu Qingze wanted to accept the order by himself, so he had to get up twice, knelt down in front of Yu Qingze, and said: "The foreign minister receives the order." ”

According to the matters agreed in advance, Yang Jian rewarded the Eastern Turks with 300,000 stone grains and rice, 30,000 horses of silk in the holy decree proclaimed in this palace, and canonized the important ministers of the Great Sui Anguo Cave as the Duke of Anguo of the Great Sui.

The picture knelt down to receive the holy decree, thanked him for it, and asked Yang Jian to send troops to destroy the Western Turks, but he heard Yang Jian say first: "I have a hunting ground in the new capital of Chang'an, called Shayuan, and there are hundreds of birds and beasts in the garden. ”

As soon as he heard that Yang Jian wanted to invite him to Shayuan to hunt, he came to his senses, hugged his fists and smiled at Yang Jian: "This is very good." ”

At that moment, Yang Jian immediately ordered to disperse the court, leaving only Gao Ying and Yu Qingze, the two servants and the prince Yang Yong, the king of Jin Yang Guang, and the three princes of Han Yang Liang, who were still accompanied by Changsun Sheng, serving as the interpreter, and took the two people out of Daxing Palace with the two people of the picture and the real monarch and minister, and drove all the way through the city, and went to the sand garden about ten miles outside the south of the new capital of Chang'an to hunt.

Yang Guang rode the "Iron Hoof Dragon", followed the Luan driving through the city, looking at most of the people in Chang'an City gathered on both sides of the road, looking at the emperor with the Turkic Great Khan to the Shayuan hunting with joy, and secretly thought: The father's move is really high, so that the news that the Turks bowed to the court and became vassals could spread all over the city and even the whole world within half a day.

Approaching noon, Junchen and his entourage arrived at the Shayuan enclosure outside the south of Chang'an, Yang Guang and the same picture, are the first time to come to the sand garden hunting, with Yang Jian and others ascending a high slope on the edge of the enclosure, standing under the pavilion and looking into the enclosure, only to see that the sand garden enclosure covers a very vast area, and the mountains and rivers in the enclosure are vertical and horizontal, as if divided into different areas.

Due to the hot weather, Yang Jian ordered people to arrange a wine banquet in the pavilion, and took a few princes, the ministers and the courtiers to talk about the wine, and waited for the heat to subside before they began to hunt.

On a whim, he had a temporary idea, and wanted to exchange Yang Jian for Yang Jian's troops to help him destroy the Western Turkic Apo tribe, but he was politely rejected by Yang Jian at the court meeting, and at this time he was still unwilling in his heart, so he took the opportunity to toast Yang Jian to repeat the old words, and asked: "The son-in-law led the troops to sincerely submit to the Great Sui, and Ah Weng sat back and watched his son-in-law being bullied and ignored?" Please ask the Son of Heaven to send an edict to the western frontier to exterminate the Apo traitors in one fell swoop. ”

Yang Jian still ignored the request for the photo, stretched out his hand to designate one of the areas in the enclosure, and introduced to the photo: "Great Khan, please see, there are thousands of elk in this area, and there are herds of tigers, leopards and beasts on the east and west sides of this area, and there is only a fence less than five feet high between the three areas, so why can the elk live under the protection of tigers and leopards?" ”

The picture looked at it with the direction of Yang Jian's finger, and replied tentatively: "Maybe there are a large number of elk, and they are married together, so they don't give the beasts on both sides of the east and west a chance to take advantage of it." Could it be that there is another reason why it can't be? ”

Yang Jian laughed and said: "The Great Khan did hit one of the reasons, but the reason why the beasts on the east and west sides kept the thousands of elk living between them and did not eat them, one is because there are still a lot of weak animals that can be eaten by them in the area on the east and west sides, and the other is that once a beast breaks through the fence and wants to sneak into the middle area to prey on the elk, it will often provoke the fierce resistance of the beasts in the other area. When the sand garden was first built, I witnessed two tigers trying to jump over the fence and sneak from the western area into the middle area to prey on elk, but one elk failed to catch it, but was bitten by a wild animal in the eastern area and driven back to the west. Great Khan, don't you think it's strange? ”

The photo vaguely felt that Yang Jian's words seemed to mean something, but for a while, he couldn't understand what Yang Jian wanted to hint at himself through this matter, so he simply put down the wine bottle, stood up, and hugged his fist to Yang Jian and said: "Does Your Majesty believe that what the beasts on both sides of the east and west can't do, the photo can do." ”

"Oh? The Great Khan also wants to be shortlisted for deer hunting? Yang Jian looked at the picture with a little surprise and asked.

"Hehe, since Your Majesty has invited me to hunt here, please forgive me for taking the presumptuousness, and I want to make an agreement with Your Majesty on the basis of the amount of prey that everyone hunts, if the picture is hunted more than Your Majesty today, please ask Your Majesty to agree to the request of the photographer, and immediately send troops to destroy the Apo tribe, how about it?" The photographer stared at Yang Jian with a provocative gaze and said slyly.

Yang Jian subconsciously turned his gaze to Changsun Sheng, who was standing behind him as an interpreter. Without waiting for Yang Jian to order Changsun Sheng to fight on behalf of his side, he shrewdly stopped the photo: "Your Majesty, you and I meet for the first time, since Your Majesty should personally come forward to compete with the photograph, how can you transfer someone else to fight?" ”

Yang Jian was secretly annoyed that the picture was rude, but he smiled and said: "The Great Khan has misunderstood, in the state of Chinese etiquette, how can there be a reason for the king to compete with the subordinates?" I invited the Great Khan to hunt here, it was just for fun, and it seems that it is not appropriate to talk about the country. General Changsun, according to your archery skills, if you fire ten arrows in a row, how many elk in this enclosure can be shot? ”

He talked and laughed, and blocked the request to take the picture again.

"Returning to the emperor, according to the ability of the ministers, ten arrows can be shot in a row, and ten elks can be shot." Changsun Sheng deliberately replied in Chinese and Turkic respectively.

"Well, what if a hundred arrows are fired in a row?" The picture was really annoyed by Yang Jian's repeated pushing, and asked Chang Sun Sheng in a rough voice.

Changsun Sheng saw that his face was flushed with red when he saw the picture, and he could have a seizure at any time, so he hurriedly clenched his fists and said humbly: "The size of the elk is much larger than that of the lone rabbit and the like, with a certain ability, if you shoot ten arrows in a row, it is already reluctant to shoot ten elk, and then you have to shoot more, and the accurate head is not a problem, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to shoot the elk down with strength." ”

"Good. The general is so humble, and he is going to be ugly in today's photo. If His Majesty agrees to the request of the Taktu and sends troops to the western frontier, every elk shot down in this paddock means that the Turks are willing to contribute a hundred horses to the Upper State. He insisted on getting Yang Jian's promise to send troops to the western frontier, and no longer asked Yang Jian to agree to the conditions he proposed, so he asked for a strong bow and instructed several sergeants to carry one or twenty quivers on their backs, strode out of the pavilion, and ran straight to the area where elk were grazing in the middle of the Shayuan enclosure.