Liu Xin paused, and then said: "Liu heard that Dawan Country produces good horses, and Liu's conditions are also very simple, so you can hand over 5,000 sweat and blood horses." ”

Liu Xin didn't have any feelings about good horses, but he knew how much those generals under his command hoped to get a peerless good horse. A few days ago, Liu Xin rewarded Huang Zhong with a sweaty horse and a concubine. Huang Zhong didn't seem to be interested in the foreign beauty with blond hair and blue eyes, fat buttocks, but he loved the horse like a treasure, and he couldn't wait to live in the stable. Even Dian Wei, who rarely fights on horseback, now revolves around the BMW he just got whenever he has free time. And the vast majority of the generals under Liu Xin do not have a satisfactory mount, if they can get a large number of sweaty horses from Dawan, they can solve a big problem, and they can even form an elite cavalry purely equipped with sweaty horses.

But seeing that Yan Sai's face was bitter, he shook his head and said, "Lord Hui, please forgive me for not being able to agree to your condition." ”

Liu Xin's face suddenly fell, and he said in a deep voice: "Yansai, you have to think about it carefully." Is BMW important, or is your mission important? Is BMW important, or is the life and death of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Dawan important? As long as Liu gives an order, the fall of Dawan is just a matter of a snap of his fingers, and when the time comes, these BMWs, hum! ”

Yan Sai frowned and said, "My lord, it's not that I don't want to complete this mission, it's that I really can't come up with so much sweat and blood." Adults don't know that not all sweaty horses can be called BMWs, and the real sweaty BMWs will not exceed 20 horses. ”

Liu Xin suddenly realized, it turned out that he had made a mistake, and thought that as long as it was a sweaty horse, it must be a BMW, so he couldn't help but say: "Since this is the case, then you go back and tell King Dawan that he will hand over 20 sweaty BMWs and 5,000 ordinary sweaty horses." ”

This is already Liu Xin's final bottom line, who knows that Yan Sai still said with a sad face: "There is no problem with five thousand sweaty horses, but twenty horses can't be taken out." My lord, you also know that in the last battle outside Pishan City, ten sweaty horses were lost, and a few sweaty horses did not belong to the Dawan royal family. ”

Liu Xin nodded, knowing that what Yan Sai said this time was all the truth. Outside Pishan City, the eight horses that Lan Feng used to pull the cart were all sweat and blood horses, except for one that Lan Feng rode away when he fled, the other seven horses could be regarded as all losses. And several important generals under Lan Feng are all more influential generals in Dawan, and it is not surprising that their mounts are sweaty and bloody BMWs, but there is no record of those BMWs in the trophies, maybe they have died in the chaos, or they have been treated as ordinary horses, after all, there are very few real Bole, and this situation is also possible.

Thinking of this, Liu Xin was no longer embarrassed, waved his hand, and said, "Okay, then you will hand over five sweaty horses, plus five ordinary sweaty horses." However, I have another condition. When you go back, tell Mozhiti and ask him to provide the best quality grape seeds and alfalfa seeds. ”

Grape and alfalfa were introduced to China in the Western Han Dynasty, but there were differences in quality. Through this period of understanding, Liu Xin already knows that Dawan is different from Kangju and Wusun, which are neighboring countries that mainly focus on grazing, they are mainly farming. But Dawan is able to produce excellent horses, and the most important thing is that Dawan has the best alfalfa in the world, which is the best pasture. So Liu Xin's real purpose is not actually delicious grapes, but alfalfa.

The situation of Dahan and Dawan is similar, the people are settled in one place, and they are mainly farming, but Dawan can produce good horses, but Dahan cannot, even if they introduce excellent stallions from the grassland, in Liu Xin's view, the reason lies in the pasture. The introduction of high-quality pasture grass can not only be used to raise horses, but also to raise cattle and sheep in large quantities, so that beef and mutton can enter the homes of ordinary people.

In fact, in later generations, crop seeds are also part of intellectual property rights, just like Liu Xin's prohibition on planting mulberry and silkworm cultivation and cultivating tea trees, all of which need to be strictly protected. Of course, in this era, except for Liu Xin, it is impossible for others to attach importance to these things. Yansai is very happy now, he doesn't care about the loss of these good seeds, he only cares about the successful completion of his mission on this trip. Although the price of 5,000 ordinary sweaty horses is not small, it is really nothing to avoid a war that will definitely be lost.

In addition to being happy, Yansai did not forget to pat his chest and promise that all conditions would be agreed, and that he would pay a hundred barrels of the best wine to Dahan every year. Then, without stopping for the slightest, Yan Sai immediately returned to Dawan and reported the results of his trip to Mozhiti, after all, he only verbally agreed to these conditions, and finally needed to be approved by Mozhiti and those nobles.

In the next two days, Liu Xin did not sit in Shule City and reply to the letter, but personally took Huang Zhong and Jia Xu to continue westward and inspected the situation in Wujicheng and the two mountain passes of Uzberi and Tulugert. The Fifth Army was to stay in the Western Regions for the time being, and Jia Xu was Liu Xin's internal candidate for the protector of the Western Regions, so Liu Xin did not bring anyone else, but only Huang Zhong and Jia Xu.

The geographical location of Wuji City is very good, and whether you go out of Yumen Pass, you will eventually reach here whether you take the southern route or the northern route. As a commercial distribution center on the Silk Road, it has unique geographical advantages. This was originally a small city in the west of the Shule Kingdom, and Liu Xin's original plan was for the Shule State to build a market here, which would also be managed by the Shule State, but after Liu Xin's on-the-spot inspection, he changed his plan.

Liu Xin saw very clearly that if this commercial distribution center was built, it would become the most prosperous place in the entire Western Regions, and the wealth it would bring in the future would be immeasurable. Since there is such a treasure land, of course Liu Xin has to firmly grasp it in his hands, and he immediately proposed that Wujicheng be renamed Hancheng and be directly under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate, and all the taxes after the completion of the bazaar in the future will of course also go directly to the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate.

The current King of Shule, Baguli, is simply a puppet raised by Liu Xin, and even his woman was given by Liu Xian, so of course he did not dare to disobey Liu Xin's decision in the slightest. Those nobles in Shule City, although they are dissatisfied with this matter, but tens of thousands of Han troops are not vegetarians there, and if they don't get it right, their heads will move, who will touch Liu Xin's moldy head at this time.

Compared with Wujicheng, the two mountain passes on the green ridge are particularly important. If you go northeast through the Turugert Pass, there is the boundary of Wusun. These two mountain passes can be said to hold the two major passes on the Silk Road, but they are in a state of unattended, and if a horse bandit attacks the caravan here, the consequences will be unimaginable. Liu Xin originally planned to build two fortresses here, but after seeing the current situation of these two mountain passes, his mood became even more urgent, and he immediately ordered Baguli to organize the people.

After the completion of these two fortresses, they can not only prevent horse bandits from rebelling, but also have extraordinary significance for protecting the entire Western Regions and consolidating the existence of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions. The Western Regions are thousands of miles wide, and a large number of cavalry is needed to maintain the military presence of the Han here, and the lack of war horses has always been the weakness of the Han Dynasty, even if the Xiongnu steppe is controlled, it cannot completely solve the problem. If the fortress is built, there will not be so many problems, only one infantry needs to be mobilized to garrison, and one man can be the pass, and ten thousand people will not be opened.

Soon, two infantry teams of 3,000 men each were sent to the two mountain passes and set up camp at dangerous points. Construction began on a large scale, and the construction of the fortress began in full swing. As an important military base that can be attacked and defended, the fortress must not only be built extremely strong, such as where to store grain, where to station troops, where there are secret passages, etc., are absolute secrets that cannot be known to outsiders, and the whole construction process is of course impossible to hand over to those people recruited from Shule, let alone to those Dawan prisoners, but can only be completed by the Han soldiers themselves.

On the second day after the vanguard took control of the pass, two armies of 10,000 men each also marched into the pass, and a huge project was in full swing. The recruited people were not idle, they were responsible for transporting the materials used to build the fortress to the bottom of the mountain, and the Dawan captives were all transferred to build Wujicheng, which is now Seoul.

After all these three places were arranged, Liu Xin really relaxed, and said to Jia Xu: "Wenhe, the Xiongnu have been pacified, plus these two fortresses, the countries of the Western Regions will no longer be interfered with by the outside world, and now, you can rest assured and boldly go and form your capital protectorate." ”

Jia Xu's spirit was lifted, and he arched his hand and said: "My subordinates will never live up to the trust of the lord!" ”

The next day, Jia Xu took 10,000 horses to Qiuzi. King Qiuci was the most active in rebuilding the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate, and the Qiancheng of the Qiuci Kingdom was the location of the former Imperial Protectorate, and all the conditions were ready-made, so the new Imperial Protectorate would also be built there. Liu Xin himself did not set off immediately, returning to Yumen Pass from the northern line, he continued to stay in Shule, waiting for Yansai's reply.

Yansai's efficiency was still very high, and he didn't let Liu Xin wait too long, so he came to Shule again from Guishan City in Dawan. Yan Saiyi brought with him five bloody horses and five thousand ordinary horses, as well as five hundred young and beautiful Dawan maidens, and of course grapes, alfalfa seeds, and a hundred barrels of grape wine. To Liu Xin's surprise, the new Dawan King Mozhiti also came in person.