The military camp is a forbidden area within three miles, which is basically common sense in any country, and Lu Chen said that who gave the Beilu country so much courage to dare to approach within a thousand meters, and he was not wrong at all.

"Limit them to five minutes and move three miles away." Xu Zhi instructed a junior colonel next to him.

Meng Tian just looked with interest at the dozen or so cavalry cavalry who were blocked from advancing, but still did not turn around and leave.

"Probably the general of the Underland or some important person." Liu Bang approached Meng Tian and lowered his voice to give his opinion: "Actually, it's not a big deal to let them come over." ”

Liu Bang didn't know anyone from the Beilu Kingdom, he had his own plans, and guessed that Meng Tian probably wanted to go with him.

Sure enough, Meng Tian did not refuse, but he did not allow those people from the Pelu country to enter the camp, and he himself did not stay where he was to meet the Pelay people.

The appearance of the Beilu people is very in line with the characteristics of the Western Regions, that is, the characteristics of white skin, with a rest of the color of the hair, the eyes are also of no color, and the body hair looks too much.

The leader of the Belle generals was a man in his fifties, and he had a set of copper-colored metal armor under his earthy yellow robe, and from some of the details exposed, the armor was very Persian.

The so-called Persian characteristic is either a dense ring-shaped soft armor or a plate-like strip with some carvings.

The armor of the Belus general was a carved plate armor, and the pocket on his head was clearly modified, leaving some Persian features that were tried to be concealed.

The Persian helmet is indeed a very distinctive kind of armor, which is the same as the armor of the Chinese civilization, but it is obviously very fine in production, such as drilling some small holes that allow the wire to pass through, and then fixing it in a circle, and finally fixing a boxy plate-like armor piece on the periphery, and even deliberately inlaid with gems.

What Liu Bang saw. The helmet of the general of the Belul Kingdom has a red gem on his forehead.

That's right, the military didn't intend to receive anyone from the Bellu country at all, so those Beluls were received by the envoys, and they were also invited into the camp belonging to the envoys.

Originally, come forward to receive Brati. It should be Chen Yu, who is the deputy envoy, or other people with lower positions, but Liu Bang doesn't care so much.

What Liu Bang cared about was that those people in the Beilu Kingdom looked like they were very rich, at least the Beilu people who appeared in the camp of the envoys. They were either covered with gold ornaments, or they were paired with gold and precious stones (actually agate).

"So, your country was invited to put down the rebellion?" Liu Bang raised his glass to invite a drink, and in Wusun dialect, which was not so fluent, asked, "And Pishan and Yan Qi (yān.shì) will also participate together?" ”

Pishan and Yanqi are also small countries in the Western Regions, almost in the middle of the Western Regions, except that one is relatively eastward and the other is relatively west. The two countries did not respond to Wusun's call to send troops to fight against Hujie and Ding Ling in the previous time, but they had more hot contact with Qiuzi.

"It's not just small countries like us. Some large countries, such as Qiuzi, will also send troops, but only in a symbolic sense. "Brati. Qi Eya has just sent a box of gems as a gift, which has won Liu Bang's favor? He said, "Only five hundred troops were sent." Even many small countries are inferior, just a statement. ”

Liu Bang was in a very good mood when he just accepted the gift, and he did not exclude showing his good impression of Beilu in some actions, and said: "I understand what you mean." ”

Actually. Liu Bang still didn't understand the difference between agate and jade and jadeite, and he didn't understand the value of agate so much, but he always had an extraordinary interest in sparkling stones.

Brati. Seeing that Liu Bang understood, Qi Eya immediately showed a happy smile. He asked, "Then when is it appropriate for us to organize an envoy delegation to the imperial capital?" ”

Liu Bang probably didn't fully understand, Brati. Pray that they sent troops to cooperate with Wusun this time, not in the complete sense of the word, but once again showed obedience to Wusun, because Wusun stood behind the empire.

Actually, Brati. Pray that Eya led the troops directly to the empire's side, not to go to the Wusun royal court, but to show an obvious attitude, that is, to directly hug the empire's thighs.

The current status quo in the Western Regions is that Wusun has lost the throne of the overlord, and before the imperial army entered the Western Regions, all countries with a little strength are striving to replace Wusun as the new overlord of the Western Regions, so there will be so many countries that are in a bad situation for Wusun.

There is nothing wrong with the various countries in the Western Regions doing that, after all, Wusun also stood out from countless powerful countries to become the overlord of the Western Regions, so the old overlord has lost its former glory, and there are new countries that want to replace it.

What those countries didn't expect was that the imminent decline of Wusun would be invaded by tribes such as Hujie and Ding Ling, and what they didn't expect was that there would be an unimaginably powerful country in the east to intervene, so things would become interesting.

If it weren't for the empire that was so powerful that anyone would despair, the Guizi, Cheshi, Wanguo, and so on united the medium-sized countries, small countries, and tribes in their own regions, they would definitely try to compete with the invaders, anyway, for them, if they can fight it, they will be expelled, and if they can't beat it, they will just surrender and pay tribute.

With the empire intervening in the Western Regions, and all countries in the Western Regions know what kind of existence the empire is, as long as there is still a trace of sanity, they will no longer think about competing for the hegemony, but will think about how to ensure their own survival.

The countries of the Western Regions were originally very worried that after the empire's army came in, they would do something to destroy the city and destroy the country, and it seemed that what happened in Loulan also made them extremely worried. Later, Meng Tian led the army into the Western Regions, and the imperial army did not do what the people of the Western Regions imagined, as soon as they entered the Western Regions, they immediately swept away any country, but instead targeted Mao Dun very purposefully from the beginning, which really made many kings of the Western Regions greatly relieved in their hearts.

Since the empire has not shown its violent side, unless these countries in the Western Regions really have no way to turn back, which one will have a problem with themselves and be unhappy?

The actual situation in the Western Regions has always been that if you can't beat it, you won't be able to hold it out, even if the king wants to fight to the death, he will be killed by the minister, and then the minister will support a new king to be soft, if the new king can't be exchanged for continuing to survive, it depends on the situation. Then make the next selection.

Under normal circumstances, the conquests of the countries in the Western Regions are rarely in the posture of destroying cities and destroying the country, just like the Spring and Autumn Period in the land of China, and the wars of the countries in the Western Regions are to obtain the conquest tax...... That is, whoever is subdued, pay a huge amount of protection money in a lump sum, or a long-term protection fee similar to installment payment.

If a country is willing to pay protection money and still faces the fate of losing the country, but the bureaucrats or nobles or big families can still ensure their interests, no matter what harm is done to the royal family or the common people, those whose interests have not been harmed will generally be indifferent. If their interests can be kept, everything is none of their business, and they think that the country will also perish if it is destroyed. You might even get involved in getting a piece of the action.

If some of the interests of the bureaucracy, the aristocracy, and the big families can be preserved, and some of them cannot, then play a long-term chaos, and every day there will be either some people everywhere to kill people and set fires, or which officials will be assassinated, and even some rebellions will pop up from time to time.

Because the land of chaos will not produce anything, but will continue to invest manpower, material resources, and financial resources, therefore, the war between countries in the Western Regions is usually two situations, the first is to subdue and collect protection fees. The second is to get rid of the king and co-opt the bureaucrats, nobles, and big families.

The Western Regions is a place of incomparably chaotic conditions, but there is one thing that is still quite unified, and that is the exclusion of foreign forces. In their history, there have been several unions. Without exception, they all united against the invasion of foreign forces, such as the war against the Qiang one hundred and eighty years ago.

The Western Regions Alliance's war against the Qiangs is considered to be a victory and a defeat, and the victory means that the Qiangs are blocked in the basin of the southern Western Regions, and the Western Regions people are defeated, and they cannot stop the Qiangs from staying in the southern Western Regions. In fact, the Wuqiang people did not live there in the first place.

It seems, just seems, because the people of the Western Regions don't have words. There are no reliable history books, and there are many ancient stories that describe the reason why Wusun was able to become the leader of the alliance in the Western Regions is because the Wusun people played a crucial role in that war against the Wuqiang.

"That was a long time ago." Brati. Qi Eya was very open and honest, and said to Liu Bang: "This time the king of Wan also wants to gather all countries to send people to Tashkurgan, and they want all countries to unite to wage war against the empire like a hundred years ago, but we rejected them. ”

Liu Bang didn't hear clearly what "Ergan" was. Pray for Eya to say that Wan wants to unite the countries of the Western Regions to fight against the empire, but he heard it clearly. He said: "Your refusal is wise. ”

"Yes, yes." Brati. Qi Eya nodded in agreement: "The population of the empire is over 10,000, there are millions of troops, and we haven't gone crazy yet. ”

Tens of thousands? Liu Bang is more strange than Brati. Where did he hear it, as far as he knew, the new census of the empire seemed to be more than sixty million? However, the number of troops is right, but the empire is planning to disarm in the near future, and soon it will not be millions of troops, it should be only a little more than a million or even less than a million, after all, the Wehrmacht retains the establishment of twenty legions, and not every legion is full.

Of course, Liu Bangcai will not go with Brati. Pray for Oria to say those. Instead, he would keep nodding his head in acknowledgment of Brati. Pray that Oria is absolutely right. As for boasting? He seems to have heard someone say something like "the strong don't need to brag", and he is extremely approved in his heart.

Perhaps it was the box of gems and the Beilu people who sent about ten catties of gold later, Liu Bang promised Brati. The Prayer Eve introduced the commander of the Western Legion, but did not pack the ticket.

"Accepting bribes is a felony in the Empire." Chen Yu didn't have a serious expression on his face when he said this, he didn't wait for Liu Bang to refute or quibble, and said directly: "You love money very much, but you know when to accept it and when not to accept it." ”

"......" Liu Bang was a little depressed and said, "I found a new problem. Not only has the center not yet figured out how to face Wusun, but it doesn't even have a seemingly complete plan for the Western Regions? ”

Chen Yu understood what Liu Bang meant.

Kingdoms, city-states, and tribes in the Western Regions...... Anyway, there are too many forces, and it seems to be very chaotic and at the same time has its own rules, if you come up with a more organized and logical definition, it is probably natural selection?

The more forces there are, the more they have places to operate, but the empire doesn't seem to have decided what to do with the Western Regions at all, or is the empire getting more and more brutal, and all it can think of is force, and no longer seek strategic conquest?

"We're not sure the center doesn't have plans for the Western Regions." Chen Yu looked at Liu Bang with a smile and said, "Besides, even if we have any ideas, we are an envoy, and our responsibility is to send envoys, and we don't include the authority of the Western Regions, don't we?" ”

"What a joke!" Liu Bang looked at Chen Yu with a disgusted expression, and said in an obvious mocking tone: "What are you pretending to be high?" If you didn't have similar thoughts, would you come to me? ”

"After almost a year of wait-and-see, some small countries have made their choices." Chen Yu ignored Liu Bang's ridicule, and his face was full of seriousness: "Like Beilu, Pishan, and Yanqi, they received a request for assistance from the Wusun people, but the army came to our side. Bellu has shown an attitude of following our assignments, and that is an obvious sign of surrender. ”

"You don't have to talk nonsense about this." Liu Bang has never liked to listen to people's chatter so much, he asked directly: "You tell me directly, don't do it together." ”

"Listen to me!" Chen Yu was a little helpless, if it weren't for Liu Bang being the right envoy, he wouldn't have bothered to say so much. He held back his anger and said, "No matter how many countries want to join the empire, the first thing we need to confirm is whether there is a mature strategy for the Western Regions on the central side!" ”

"Obviously, the energy of the center is not in the Western Regions at all." Liu Bang sighed: "I'm worried about this, and then I have some small joy. All in all, it's a bit of a mess! ”

"Yes, yes, the energy of the center is involved in the battle of the Northern Expedition and domestic construction, so is it possible to make such speculations, such as maybe there is a strategy for the Western Regions, but it does not belong to the priority sequence?" Chen Yu made a bolder guess, saying: "Or, the center has not deployed any strategy at all?" From the beginning to the end, I thought about pushing by force, but it would be difficult to do it for a while? ”

Liu Bangcai would not tell Chen Yu that the staff committee of the Taiwei Department had already deduced what would happen in the Western Regions. He didn't plan to share Chen Yu's piece of the pie, and if he wanted to cooperate, he would also cooperate with Han Xin! (To be continued.) )