(Thanks to Dameng, Chubby, Hammer S, Who to Call, Life is a Journey.) ）

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The endless lake, the vast wetlands, the sky full of swaying reeds, cattails, flocks of birds, and the reflection of the blue waves. The snow-capped mountains are pure white, the grasslands are like daisies, and the lakes are green and blue, which is vast and pure, like a fairyland on earth.

Zhang Fang didn't expect that he could still see such a beautiful scenery outside the barren plug in his impression.

This is the pearl of the plug - Pu Shize (Balikun Lake).

Even in later generations, it is also a beautiful scenery like the south of the Yangtze River, let alone 2,000 years ago.

On the shore of the lake, more than a dozen felt tents have been erected, and in addition to Zhang Fang and his party, there are more than a dozen Hu people with strange hairstyles. These Hu people, who say they are herdsmen, wear standard knives and bows; He said that he was a soldier, but he was dressed differently, which was incomprehensible.

In fact, they were really the soldiers, the soldiers in front of the Pu class.

Within a radius of thousands of miles in Pu Zhize, there is a nomadic tribe with irregular migrations, the number of which is very small, but a few hundred tents and thousands of people. At the beginning, the Han and Huns fought for the north of the Tianshan Mountains, and the five Che Divisions and Pu people were attached to the Che Division, and with the support of the Xiongnu, they fought against the Han army.

After several expeditions, the Han army broke through the Cheshi and captured its king. The Pu people were defeated, and those who did not have time to escape were also taken prisoner. However, then the Xiongnu counterattacked, formed a tug of war with the Han army, and controlled some of the defeated Cheshi and Pu people, and rebuilt the tent.

Of course, the Han army would not give up the name of righteousness, and soon set up a separate account for the two ministries. So the Che Division and the Pu were divided into two, and the Han Army controlled the front part of the Che Division (country) and the front part of the Pu class (country); The Xiongnu controlled the rear of the Cheshi Division (country) and the rear of the Pu class (country).

This situation lasted until the second year of the Han Dynasty (60 years ago), after the Xiongnu Risui King Xianxian Zen descended to the Han Dynasty, the rear of the Cheshi and the rear of the Pu class who lost their support were subordinated to the Han Dynasty and were under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Protectorate. Although these two tribes did not have the basic conditions for even a city-state, the Han Dynasty officials habitually called it a state.

Unlike the Central Plains Dynasty, the nomads were warriors who could hold weapons. There are only more than 2,000 people in the front of this Pu class, but there are as many as 800 "winning soldiers", a ratio of three to one, which can be called a soldier for all the people. Of course, the quality of such a so-called warrior who counts one is naturally uneven. Of the 800 "victorious soldiers" in the front of this class, I am afraid that less than half of them can really be called "warriors". And this part of the real soldiers is equipped with the front part of the Pu with the products of the Pu Ze, horses, salt and miscanthus in exchange for the Han standard weapons: ring head knife, short halberd, iron arrowhead.

The weapons of the Han Dynasty have always been forbidden to be exported abroad, mainly to prevent them from being seized by the Huns as spoils of war, but military assistance to subject countries is not an exception. The Pu country was weak and weak, and it was difficult for them to have the courage to fight against the Xiongnu without providing some weapons.

This is also the reason why Zhang Fang saw that these Hu people were dressed like herdsmen, but they were wearing standard weapons.

This patrol soldier at the front of the Pu was encountered by Zhang Fang and his party when they crossed the Pu Ze. When the two sides reported their identities, the Pu soldiers were greatly surprised, and immediately asked them to rest for a while, and then sent their men back to the king's tent as soon as possible to report to the king.

In the process of waiting, the Pu soldiers behaved very deferentially to this Han cavalry team, especially Zhang Gongzi, who was the leader. Many Pu soldiers once suspected that the so-called Zhang Gongzi was a woman pretending, because after searching their poor knowledge, even the so-called best-looking woman could not be compared with this Zhang Gongzi. Until the boy opened his mouth, all speculations were shattered - the sound of the teenager who obviously changed his voice was really a fake "childe"!

Soon in the afternoon, Lin Tianci and Deng Zhan, who went to greet them, returned with a cavalry team.

This cavalry team of about 30 people, it looks no different from the patrol of Pu Country, and it seems that it is also a "winning soldier", and one of them is a middle-aged Hu man who is very eye-catching. Although this middle-aged Hu man is burly and strong, it is not the reason for being eye-catching, because there are many Hu people like him around. His striking feature lies in the fur hat he wears, with two white pheasant feathers about two feet long. This is naturally particularly eye-catching among the Hu people who are basically dressed mainly brown and brown. In addition, he and Lin Tianci are on a par, which can show his identity even more - after all, Lin Tianci's identity is the chief of civil officials in the official system of the Western Regions.

"Hou Kuimu, the former auxiliary state of our Pu class, this must be Zhang Gongzi, the son of the Marquis of Fuping. Sure enough, it is really as rich as jade, and I have only seen it in my life! "This self-proclaimed Hou Kuimu, the former auxiliary state of Pu, was praised as soon as he met, but it was by no means polite, and he was really sincere.

To put it bluntly, the front part of the pu class is a nomadic tribe, and there is no Chinese language in the whole country, let alone such a beautiful word with a bit of literary brilliance. It was Lin Tianci who translated for him, and the translation was naturally polished, and the Pu people also spoke Xiongnu, and Lin Tianci was more than competent.

Zhang Fang also learned Xiongnu from Lin Tianci and Alimu along the way. If it was the real prince of Fuping, he would never do this, how could he learn Hu Chinese? But Zhang Fang, who comes from the modern soul, does not have such a psychological barrier. He dealt with the Hu people a lot along the way, and the Western Regions outside the Saiwai were controlled by the Xiongnu for more than 100 years, and most of them used the Xiongnu as the lingua franca, so how could he always expect others to translate? What should I do if I place an order? I don't even know how to open my mouth to ask for directions and ask for food, this is not Zhang Fang's way of behaving in the world.

Zhang Fang's brain is flexible, his speech is flexible, and he has the extensive knowledge of later generations, and his language talent is excellent. But after all, the learning time is still short, and I can barely understand it, so I still can't say it, so I still responded in Chinese: "Zhang Fang greets the Marquis of Fuguo, please convey his respect to the monarch of your country." ”

Zhang Fang has asked Lin Tianci about the customs and customs of the Western Regions and the situation of various countries these days, and naturally knows that the official system of the countries in the Western Regions is relatively fixed. Generally speaking, relatively large states, such as Wusun, Dawan, Kangju, Yueshi, etc., in addition to the king, have a deputy king, usually the king's brother or uncle, nephew, or the powerful person in the tribe. It consists of auxiliary marquis, Hu Hou, but Hu Hou, left and right generals, left and right captains, left and right kings, left and right horsemen and so on. There are few civil official positions, only the chief of the government, the chief translator, etc.

However, for many small countries in the Western Regions, there are no such many official positions, and it seems that Wudan is fragmented, and there are only two levels of auxiliary marquis and left and right captains. And the front part of the pu class has more than one level of left and right generals, and if there are more, what generals and captains will be reduced to become team leaders and captains.

At present, this auxiliary marquis Kuimu, who is the deputy leader of the former monarch after Pu, sent him to receive him, and it should be said that he still attaches great importance to Zhang Fang. Of course, like Du Wei, this and that marquis of the Western Regions are not comparable to the marquis of the Han Dynasty. Zhang Fang, the prince of the Marquis of Fuping, has the power to kill such a monarch in the front of Pu, not to mention the auxiliary marquis.

Kui Mu first expressed his respect to Zhang Fang, and then explained that the monarch had not returned from hunting, so he could not welcome him from afar, and apologized.

In fact, Zhang Fang didn't have anything like a seal to prove his identity, but there were Cao Xiong and Lin Tianci, who were genuine Wudan Fragmented Lieutenants and Fu Cheng circumstantial evidence, plus the entire Western Regions couldn't find the demeanor of the second person, so how could Kuimu have any reason to question it.

Kuimu was lonely and unheard, and he didn't know what the status of Fuping Hou was in the Han Dynasty, but when he heard that Zhang Fang's mother was the sister of the current Han family and the nephew of the Han Emperor, this simple and clear identity information completely shocked him, and he said: "No wonder, no wonder ......."

Probably this is the first time Kui Mu has seen the royal nobles of the Han family so closely, and he is even more excited with a little trepidation, but he is afraid of being sluggish. After learning that they were chasing a group of "thieves" behind them, he immediately volunteered and expressed his willingness to lead the warriors of the country to intercept and teach these gangsters a lesson.

Zhang Fang said that there was something important in the house, and he needed to rush back to Chang'an, so he thanked him again and again.

Kuimu repeatedly failed to keep him, and immediately allocated a few people to Zhang Fang, not only for protection, but also for guidance. Then he roared and roared and slapped his horse back to the station, gathered the tribal warriors, and blocked the pursuers for Zhang Fang.