(Thanks to Dameng and Chubby)

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Outside the house, the wind howls and the snow flies, but inside the house is the fire is red, the warm wine is soft, the yokan is fragrant, and the atmosphere is harmonious. It's really two worlds inside and outside.

There were nine people in the room: Zhang Fang, Chen Tang, Cao Xiong, Lin Tianci, and a few attendants who were holding the pot of warm wine.

Although Cao Xiong and Lin Tianci are from a small country, their identities are there, and they can also be on the stage. And like Deng Zhan, Tao Sheng and others, although they may not take Cao and Lin in their eyes, they can only stand guard in the outer hall.

Everyone from all over the world talked about what they had seen and heard, and from time to time someone laughed knowingly, until there was a heavy footstep outside the hall.

Chen Tang was wearing a thick sheep's coat, his nose was red from the heat, his eyes were smoky, and he pointed to the door with a cup: "Such a tiger and a bear must be in the shape of a king...... Come on, come on, get three shots for being late. ”

The figure in front of the door flashed, and a person came in, and it was Gan Yanshou. The protector of the Western Regions untied the big, threw it to the servant, strode forward and sat down, took the wine presented by the attendant, and drank it all with his neck up. Without waiting for Chen Tang to urge the punishment, he shouted: "Come again." ”

Everyone stopped the cups and bowls in their hands and looked at Gan Yanshou, feeling the resentment of this protector.

Chen Tang was slightly surprised: "Didn't you send the envoy back to the capital?" Why, the mere envoy still dares to be disrespectful to Duhu? ”

Gan Yanshou only shook his head, and after drinking a few glasses in a row, he spit out a mouthful of wine: "It's not that the Yanqi envoy is disrespectful to me, it's that the bastard of Zhizhi who is disrespectful to the big man!" ”

Everyone looked at each other, how did they go to the Northern Huns?

At this time, Hu Cong's team leader couldn't help but say: "Report to the deputy captain, Zhang Gongzi and the two nobles, it is Yanqi who came to accuse again......"

It turned out that the Yanqi people had been bent in prestige since the last time, and after the Yanqi King returned to the capital, he had a headache and dreamed at night for a few days, so he hurriedly found a wizard. After divination, the sorcerer told King Yanqi that he had collided with the soul and was going to the ancestral temple to worship and dissolve. So King Yanqi complied, and sure enough, a few days later, the situation improved (in fact, the mild sequelae of the soul puncture were eliminated).

While the King of Yanqi was delighted, he was also a little afraid of the mysterious Fuping Marquis - the Hu people were like that. You have a clear knife and a gun, and he dares to stretch out his neck for you to cut; But if you play with the magic of demons and gods, they will kneel.

So the king of Yanqi sent the second person in the country, Fuguohou, as an envoy, not only to express his sincerity to the capital protectorate, but also to release goodwill to Zhang Fang - so he carved the white sable fur on his body, wearing a mink tail hat on his head, leopard skin shoes under his feet, and a full pocket of beautiful jade, which is the "meaning" of King Yanqi.

The Duhu Mansion naturally welcomed it, and Gan Yanshou even braved the snow to personally send the envoy out of the Yuanmen two miles away, giving the other party enough faces. Originally, everything was fine, until a second group of messengers came......

There was a big incident in the Yanqi Kingdom, and the king urgently summoned the auxiliary princes to return to the capital to discuss. This is ordinary, but the bad thing is that the messenger doesn't know whether he is following an order or in a hurry, but he actually told this thing in front of the protector of the Western Regions.

The largest and most important batch of commercial goods of this year booked by Yanqi and a certain Hu merchant were robbed by the Zhizhi Xiongnu and the Kangju people somewhere in the Yili River Valley, more than 200 miles away from Wusun Chigu City. Hu Shang lost all his blood, lost half of his life, and Yanqi Guo paid part of the deposit in advance, and the loss was not small. However, the loss is still a small matter, and the most important thing is that the thing is gone, which directly affects the credibility of the royal family to the subjects, and it is also slapped in the face......

"We were the ones who were slapped in the face." Gan Yanshou put the pottery bowl on the table and slapped himself hard, "I'm listening to it, I feel like someone is ...... like this."

Everyone in the room fell silent.

If it was ten days and a half months earlier, Zhang Fang might not know why the Yanqi Kingdom Business Brigade was robbed, Gan Yanshou would say that it seemed like he was slapped in the face. And after this period of frequent contact with the Metropolitan Protectorate, he learned many things that he had never thought about before, such as the Metropolitan Protector of the Western Regions.

What is the Western Regions Protectorate? "And the chariot division is in the northwest road, because he is in charge of the two countries in the north and south, so it is called the protector." Yanqi is one of the countries in the southwest of Cheshi, and it is a subject country of the Han Dynasty. The "protection" of the capital is the civil security of the subject country, and the commercial envoy of the subject country was robbed, do you say that you slapped the face of the capital protection?

Speaking of duties, the responsibilities of the protector of the Western Regions are very clear, for "leading Dawan and the kingdoms of Guo to the east and supervising the Wusun and Kangju countries, and issuing court orders; If there is turmoil in all the nations, send troops to conscript." Now Kangju colluded with the Northern Xiongnu to plunder the trade routes...... Where is your duty to protect? The Yanqi people almost pointed to their noses and said something like this.

is such a humiliation, Gan Yanshou can endure it until now, Zhang Fang has to admire it, and it is him who is replaced by him...... I'm afraid I can only endure it.

Maybe it was the wine, or maybe it was because of the feeling, Chen Tang hit the case and drank: "Eight years, eight years!" When will this humiliation be gone?! ”

All the people present are Han Chinese, that is, Cao Xiong and Lin Tianci, the blood flowing in their veins is also the majority of Yanhuang blood, and they have always regarded Han as their mother country. I also felt the anger of Chen Tang, and the atmosphere was suppressed for a while.

"What's going on with this Zhizhi? Please Gan Jun and Chen Jun to add points. "Zhang Fang had heard Lin Tianci roughly talk about the cause of the incident before, but Lin Tianci was also hearsay, and his words were unknown, and Gan Yanshou and Chen Tang were different. Gan Yanshou has been serving as an official in the court, and eight years ago, it happened to be the time when Chen Tang was released from prison and re-entered the court as an official, and these two can be regarded as witnesses to the incident and have the most right to speak.

Gan Yanshou's eloquence is not as good as Chen Tang, and his heart is difficult to calm down, so Chen Tang explained Zhang Fang in detail.

In the fourth year of the first century (45 BC), the Northern Xiongnu Zhizhi wrote to the emperor of the Han Dynasty and requested that his son Yu Li be sent back to the Xiongnu. Of course, Zhi Zhi did not make such a request for no reason, and his reason was very sufficient: he was old and frail, and he was afraid that he would die soon, and he hoped that his eldest son would come back and prepare for the succession.

Earlier, Zhang Fang listened to Lin Tianci's unclear words, and he had been puzzled, why the Han Dynasty would return the Xiongnu protons, but now he finally understands. There is really no way to refuse such a reason.

So he took Wei Sima Guji as the envoy and returned the Xiongnu proton. However, people can send it, but how to send it is particular. At that time, many ministers in the imperial court thought that Zhi Zhi was too far away from the Han land to be restrained, for fear of being unfavorable to the envoys of the Han Dynasty, so they asked Gu Ji to send the horse to the fortress.

Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty was also unsure, so he consulted the ministers of the court and Gu Ji himself.

Imperial historian Gong Yu and others thought that Zhizhi was far away, and the heart of naturalization was not manifested, so they suggested that the imperial court envoy could send the prince of Zhizhi to the side. And Feng Fengshi, the right general who once killed the king of Shache and exalted his prestige in a foreign land, thought that it was okay to send an envoy.

Gu Ji also wrote: "China and Yidi have the meaning of endless bondage, now have raised their sons for ten years, the virtue is very thick, empty and not sent, close to the plug back, show abandonment of donations and not livestock, so that there is no hometown from the heart, abandon the former kindness, set up resentment, inconvenience." Seeing that Qianjiang had no number of enemies, the speaker knew that he was brave and difficult, so that he was humiliated, that is, he was worried about his ministers. The minister is fortunate to build a strong Han Festival, inherit the edict of the saint, and proclaim great grace, and it is not appropriate to dare to do it. If you conceive birds and beasts, and add no way to the ministers, then only for the great sin of the eldest baby, you will flee far away, and dare not come near. There is no one to appease the people, the plan of the country, and the wish of the minister. I would like to send it to court. ”

Gu Ji had his own ideas, he thought that the Southern Xiongnu had been annexed, and there was only one Northern Xiongnu left. If the Northern Xiongnu can also be attached, then the century-old troubles of the Han Dynasty will be completely ended, this sincerity is not a worldly achievement, and it is an excellent opportunity to return the horse to the benefit. And this time he is returning his son on behalf of Dahan, this is a great favor, Zhizhi is too late to be grateful, how can he do harm? What's more, the Xiongnu have always had a tradition of not killing Han envoys. During the 100-year war between Han and Hungary, countless envoys were sent to each other, some were detained, some were expelled, and some were retained, but no torture was killed.

At Gu Ji's insistence, he was finally allowed to send an envoy to Jiankun. But Gu Ji was wrong, he didn't know what a cruel man he was up against—a jackal who could cut off his wife's head and throw it into the water without blinking.

When Gu Ji traveled thousands of miles, after wind, frost, rain and snow, came to Jiankun Shan Yuting, what was waiting for him was not a grateful wine, but a cold knife and axe......