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In July of the thirteenth year of the Republic, Quintus? Severus (Qin Lun) hurriedly walked into the special pastoral city, turned a blind eye to the bustling streets and the crowd of people with different appearances, and walked straight to the Great Honglu Temple, but the dozen or so entourages followed behind him felt very fresh, and looked around from time to time, but Quintus was a little impatient, and drank with a calm face, and the entourage did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

In front of the Great Honglu Temple, Quintus stopped, politely greeted a Peng official who greeted him, explained the meaning in proficient Chinese, the Peng official listened, looked at the entourage behind him, and hurriedly led him in, sat down in the waiting living room, served tea, asked Quintus to wait, and then entered the inner hall himself.

After a short time, Da Honglu Jiang Gan shook a folding fan and walked out quickly, as soon as he saw Quintus, he put away the folding fan with a "sigh", and said with a smile: "Brother Qin, don't come to harm?" ”

Quintus smiled bitterly, looked around, and then grabbed Jiang Gan's hand: "Mr. Ziyi, I'm here to ask for help this time." ”

When Jiang Gan heard this, he also put away his smile, glanced at Quintus, pulled Quintus to turn around and left: "Let's go, let's go into the inner hall to talk." ”

A warm current surged in Quintus's heart, and even the tension suddenly relaxed, he followed Jiang Gan into the inner hall, re-served tea, and was just about to speak, but Jiang Gan waved his hand, and said with a very considerate smile: "Brother Qin, don't worry, I can see that you have a lot to say, in this case, let's say slowly, you have traveled thousands of miles from Rome here, and it will take several months on the way, and it will not be a moment and a half." ”

Quintus sighed with emotion: "Mr. Ziyi is really a confidant, with Mr. Ziyi's words, I finally let go of some hearts." Mr. Don't Tell Me Anything, I've been so anxious in the past few months since I came out of Rome. However, General Chen's ship had a lot of guests, and I couldn't find a chance to talk to him. ”

Jiang Gan smiled. This year, the escort is the right general Chen Hai, he is a lively person, the life of the escort is relatively boring, he likes to chat with businessmen from various countries, there is a banquet on his ship almost every day, and it is indeed not easy to stay alone with him for a while. However, Quintus was in such a hurry to come to Yueguo, and he couldn't wait to find Chen Hai to understand the situation on the way, and it seemed that the matter was indeed very urgent.

The year before last, the predecessor of Dahonglu Kong Zhu was old and went back to his hometown in Yue County to retire, and Jiang Gan, who played an important role in diplomacy, became Dahonglu and was responsible for foreign affairs. Because the relationship between Yue and foreign countries is very much, his rights to the great Honglu far exceed the original sense of the Great Honglu, which makes Jiang Gan, who has not made achievements for half his life, very excited, full of enthusiasm, his envoys are as far as Rome, Sassanid and Kushan and other large countries, he himself is often not in the special pastoral city, it is a regular thing to travel around the countries by boat, and he basically knows the major events of the countries.

Three years ago, the Sassanids invaded the Roman-controlled province of Mesopotamia and attacked Nissippi with great arrogance, but the Romans quickly took action, Emperor Alexander and the Empress Dowager Momia personally marched, and the three-way army attacked at the same time, blocking the offensive of the Sassanid king Ardashir I, the battle went well, and the prestige of the royal family was greatly increased. It stands to reason that the current situation in Rome should not be so critical, but Quintus's expression showed that the situation in Rome was not as optimistic as Jiang Gan had estimated.

He comforted Quintus while quietly waiting for Quintus to speak. Quintus took a few sips of tea before speaking slowly.

It turned out that although Alexander defeated Ardashir I, who was in the limelight, but the casualties were very large, and the national strength was greatly affected, and although the Sassanid was defeated, it was not broken, and the defeat inspired Ardashir's fighting spirit, and soon after returning home, he began to prepare for the next war, and Alexander, who heard this rumor, of course, did not dare to slack off, and concentrated the army on the eastern front in case of another invasion of the Sassanid army.

However, something unexpected happened, the army was concentrated on the eastern front, the defense in the north became empty, the barbarians saw the opportunity and invaded on a large scale, they kept harassing the northern frontier of Rome, Rome panicked in the country, and there was a contradiction on whether to withdraw the army on the eastern front and strengthen the defense of the north, Momia and Alexander thought that the barbarians in the north were just a small matter from the perspective of the overall situation, while the Sassanids were the great enemies who could destroy the Roman Empire, the severity was very clear, and there was no need to discuss it at all, but the others - In particular, the nobles whose territories were being harassed did not agree, they thought that it was still unknown whether the Sassanids would invade, and it was simply a woman's opinion to put the army on the eastern front and watch the northern frontier be burned and looted by the barbarians. Who this woman is, of course, is self-evident.

For the sake of this woman, the seemingly bridging contradiction between Momia and Alexander was once again exposed, and in the face of the accusations of the nobles, Alexander was silent, but Momia was furious, and she asked Alexander to order the arrest of those who spread rumors, but Alexander objected, saying that Rome never arrested people by speech, even the emperor.

Momia and Alexander started the Cold War, and in the face of tensions at home and abroad, they both thought of the Han people in the distance, and they needed the wisdom of the Han people to help them get through the difficulties, and they also needed the material help of the Han people. The reason is very simple, the huge Han Dynasty merchant group escorted by the Yue State Navy has almost monopolized the business in the South China Sea, and the merchants of other countries cannot be compared with them at all, the scale cannot be compared, and the safety on the way is not a concept, the pirates did not dare to provoke the Han Dynasty caravan escorted by the sailor, so they had to focus on these merchants, under the double squeeze, they went bankrupt one after another, some gave up the sea business, and became the distributors of the Han people, and some rented the merchant ships of the Han people to trade, and the Han ships were large and safe, As long as you pay a sum of money, you can take it, which is much more cost-effective than buying a boat yourself.

In a few years, from the South China Sea to the Red Sea have become the territory of Han merchant ships, if it were not for the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea could not be connected, it is estimated that the Han people could directly do business in the Mediterranean. In this way, the commercial tax of the Roman Empire was greatly reduced, and they could only purchase the goods they needed from the hands of the Han merchants for resale, and the safety was safe, but the profits could not be as rich as before.

This was one of the reasons why the Roman aristocracy was dissatisfied with Alexander and Momia, the royal family could buy relatively cheap luxury goods from the Han Chinese to meet their lives, but the nobles now had to pay more gold coins to buy them, and the nobles, who had become accustomed to luxury, could not control their desires in the face of the exquisite goods of the Han Chinese, and they desperately needed more sources of wealth, rather than sit back and watch their territory be robbed by barbarians.

Jiang Gan listened quietly, taking a sip of tea from time to time, and after Quintus explained the situation roughly, he looked at Jiang Gan with a blank eye: "Mr. Ziyi, we Romans urgently need your help now, and Alexander very much hopes to meet the great King of Yue." ”

Jiang Gan raised his eyes: "Want to meet our king?" ”

Quintus nodded: "Yes, the Sassanid is menacing, according to reliable sources, he is very dissatisfied with the powerful fleet of your Han people entering the Arabian Sea, but he is afraid that we Romans are your friends, and he does not dare to attack on both sides." The reason why they are so desperate to defeat our Rome is that they want to remove the threat behind them first, and then compete with you for the golden road to the sea. We have received reliable information that the Sassanids are building a large number of ships and forming a navy, and they have sent a number of people to your warships to find out the situation, but your warships are very well guarded, and they have not yet received enough information. ”

Jiang Gan glanced at Quintus quietly, of course he knew about the Sassanid shipbuilding, and the secret agents of the fifth battalion under Zhou Yi were now all over the four empires, of course it was impossible to hide such a thing tightly, and there was no rumor at all. Quintus told him all this in order to draw the Yue Kingdom to the side of Rome and jointly contend with the Sassanids. And Jiang Gan naturally knows very well that what Sun Shao wants to annex most at present is not Sasanian, but Tianzhu, with the strength of the Yue Kingdom, whether he can win Tianzhu now is in the number of five or five, not to mention that he is going on an expedition of thousands of miles to start a war with the Sassanids.

"Brother Qin, I can't be the master of this matter." Jiang Gan said slowly: "If your emperor wants to meet with my king, you must see if my king has this plan." ”

"Then please ask Mr. Ziyi to take me to meet His Royal Highness the Great King of Yue." Quintus had long expected this result, and the reason why he told him about it as soon as they met was that he hoped to meet Sun Shao and then talk to him about other things, so as not to talk to Yu Tuo, the extremely shrewd old man.

"The king is not in Funan." Jiang Gan chuckled, "He went to Yecheng." ”

Quintus was stunned for a moment, very disappointed, he pondered for a moment, gritted his teeth and said, "Then I'll go to Yecheng." ”

…… Yecheng, Xuanwu Pond, the autumn breeze is cool, and the floating light is golden.

Tu Hu held a long knife in his hand, and Xu Chu and Xu Chu were like two door gods, standing by the door of the topmost floor of the three-story building, one on the left and one on the right. They are very similar in size, they are all tall, strong, broad shoulders and thick waist, larger than ordinary people, and look immobile like mountains, but their vigilant eyes make people feel that once they are in danger, they can turn into vigorous leopards, and tear their opponents to pieces without mercy. If it weren't for the slight difference between Tu Hu's appearance and the Han people, he would almost be like Xu Yu's son.

Ten tigers belonging to Yue Wei lined up along the corridor, standing facing outward, there were sixty more on the two floors downstairs, and on the periphery of the small building, there were more than three hundred and sixty of the same tigers waiting for them, and a mile away, the world-famous tiger and leopard cavalry and the Wuwei battalion surrounded the Xuanwu Pond like an iron bucket, and even the students of the Xuanwu Academy felt nervous, because there were also tiger warriors standing guard outside the gate of the academy, but instead of protecting them, they were not allowed to go out.

Although there were more than 3,000 soldiers armed to the teeth within a radius of one mile, the small building was very quiet, so quiet that you could hear the "whoosh" sound of the pond water being blown by the autumn wind.

Cao Ying, the most powerful king of Wei in the Great Han Kingdom, and Sun Shao, the king of Yue, lay side by side on the sandalwood table, looking at the Xuanwu Academy on the other side, Cao Rui, who had reached the age of standing, knelt and sat behind, holding his breath, like a waiting little yellow door.

"Yuan Zhong, you go and rest." Cao Ying didn't look back, and gently patted a few armrests.

"Whoa." Cao Rui responded, got up and retreated to the door, and bowed again: "Rui retires!" Then he turned around, lifted the hem of his clothes, put on his shoes beyond the threshold, and walked with a steady step. Cao Ying didn't speak until Cao Rui's footsteps disappeared into the building, and then he said, "How is it?" ”

He spoke slowly, with an indescribable sense of vicissitudes in his voice.

Sun Shao smiled, turned his head and glanced at Cao Ying, just as Cao Ying also turned his head to look at him, the two met their eyes and smiled in unison. "I'd like to hear what you think." Cao Ying said: "I don't want to hear other people's words, I just want to hear your thoughts." ”

Sun Shao touched his nose habitually, Cao Ying involuntarily raised his eyebrows, for so many years, there is no one who dares to make such a small action in front of him, and does it so naturally and so casually, Sun Shao is the only one.

"Can the person Cao Gong fancy be wrong? Of course it's good, it's good, it's very good. ”

Cao Ying's face suddenly became very distorted, his eyebrows moved for a moment, he laughed again, stretched out a hand and patted Sun Shao's hand resting on the armrest and said, "Fengxian, do you know what others say about our four kings?" ”

Of course Sun Shao knew, but at this moment, he could only shake his head: "Dare to hear it." ”

"King Wei is ruthless, King Wu is forbearing, King Shu is stupid, King Yue is ......" Cao Ying looked at Sun Shao and looked at Sun Shao with a smile: "Guess what it will be?" ”

Sun Shao couldn't help laughing, shook his body comfortably, shook his head and said, "Shao is also stupid, I can't guess it, and I ask Cao Gong to speak up." ”

"Village." Cao Ying gently spit out a word, smiled, and after a while, said, "The village of the villager." ”

Sun Shao pursed his lips calmly. As soon as he arrived in Yecheng, he heard this statement, according to Bai Hua, the captain of Yecheng in the fifth battalion, this may be the statement of He Yan, a famous Qing talker in Yecheng, because it involves the king of Wei, so not many people know the source, but the secret agents of the fifth battalion have their own ways to inquire.

The meaning of this sentence is that Cao Ying, the king of Wei, was ruthless and murderous without blinking, and in the first battle of Xuzhou, Surabaya did not flow; Sun Quan has the surname of forbearance, not only to the enemy, but also to relatives, first to Cao Ying, Liu Bei, then to Sun Shao, and finally to his son Sun Deng - four years ago, not long after Lu Xun and others left Wu State, Sun Quan, who had not been in good health, suddenly had the spirit, and the second Sun Quan, who was only sixteen years old, was named the general of the town army, and the prince Sun Deng was arranged by him to Yuzhang, for a very high-sounding reason - Yuzhang has a shipyard, an academy, and the only high-grade porcelain kiln in the Han Dynasty, The annual income accounts for 30% of the state of Wu - several cronies who followed the prince were either suppressed or co-opted, and without the constraints of the Jiangdong family who had always supported Sun Deng, all this was just a piece of cake for Sun Quan, and within a month, the state of Wu became Sun Quan's state of Wu, and the crown prince Sun Deng was abolished, and the actual rule for many years became a dream. If you want to say that he can endure, Sun Quan should be the first, which is enough to compare with the Yue Wang Jujian in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The latter two are also easy to understand, after the death of Liu Bei, the king of Shu, the crown prince Liu Chan ascended the throne, Prime Minister Zhuge Liang and the general Zhang Fei were in charge, Liu Chan just used the seal, and the puppet is the same, Liu Chan often praised Zhuge Liang and others for their loyalty in front of the gentleman, and even called Zhuge Liang his father, those who were loyal to the royal family were very disappointed in him, and felt that Liu Bei's great country had become Zhuge Liang's, Liu Chan didn't know that he was in a hurry, and he actually regarded Zhuge Liang as a loyal minister, which was really stupid.

And Sun Shao is a famous village. The villager, the villager, in other words, to put it more bluntly: without the spirit of a king, he has no quality like a villager. In order to demonstrate the criterion of this statement, Sun Quan followed behind and suffered, because the argumentator said that from Sun Shao's eldest father, Sun Jian, he was a village man who did not know etiquette and righteousness, and once used fraud to kill Wang Rui, the assassin of Jingzhou, and Zhang Shi, the Taishou of Nanyang, and was a lawless thug.

"Hehehe......" To Cao Ying's surprise, Sun Shao smiled and smiled very happily. Cao Yan also laughed, but smiled a little reluctantly, when he heard this statement, he almost sent someone to kill He Yan, and then He Yan's mother, Mrs. Yin, and He Yan's wife and half-sister Princess Jinxiang begged to spare him, but ordered that he should never be an official. He originally thought that Sun Shao's young surname and insult his ancestors, Sun Shao would definitely be furious, but he didn't expect Sun Shao to just laugh, and he laughed very happily.

"Sitting and talking about Keer, why worry about it." In the face of Cao Ying's question, Sun Shao explained: "It's the true celebrities who are self-effaced, those sour and rotten people who apply grease and powder all day long, say two mysterious words, and talk about the way of heaven and earth without shame, but they don't even understand the most basic stargazing techniques. Cao Gong, let them make noise, I'll wait for my own escape. The Son of Heaven can tolerate me, Cao Gong can tolerate me, so why can't he tolerate me? ”

"Reasonable, reasonable." Cao Ying nodded again and again, since Sun Shao said so, obviously he always knew who said it, if Sun Shao really cares, he will be a little difficult to deal with. He pulled the topic back again, and said with a smile: "I invited you to Yecheng to help me with the heir of the staff officer." The old man is also unlucky, he has lost Zixiu and Cangshu, and he never thought that he would be old and lose Zihuan, and now the throne of the King of Wei has become a problem for anyone, Fengxiao, Wenruo and Gongda have all abandoned me, looking at the world, the only person who can help me palm my eyes is your little friend. ”

Sun Shao received Cao Ying's invitation and knew about this problem before he came to Yecheng. Cao Pi has worked hard for many years, and finally became the prince of Wei, but he has no luck to wait until he succeeds to the throne, Cao Ying is not dead, he died of illness first, everyone thought that Cao Zhang and Cao Zhi should choose one next, especially Cao Zhi, but to everyone's surprise, Cao Ying has not ordered the establishment of the prince, this time after inviting Sun Shao, he has been taking Cao Rui with him, Sun Shao estimated that Cao Rui may have taken a fancy to Cao Rui.

Cao Rui is a smart man, since he was a child, he has followed Cao Ying to grow knowledge, and later was sent by Cao Ying to the northern Xinjiang to experience, followed Cao Zhang in the bitter cold northern Xinjiang for two years, even Cao Zhang praised him for being able to endure hardships and be decisive, and after coming back, he was loved by Cao Ying, and Cao Ying wanted to pass the throne to him, which is also a reasonable thing.

Sun Shao was a little surprised, but he didn't expect that history had come full circle, and in the end, it was this Cao Rui who succeeded to the throne, although he was not the emperor of Great Wei, it was enough to make him sigh. He personally had no impression of Cao Rui, but after knowing Cao Rui's intentions, he still learned about Cao Rui's situation, he always felt that Cao Rui was hypocritical and unatmospheric, with little cleverness but no great wisdom, and was not a really qualified successor, if it was him, he would definitely not choose Cao Rui as the heir, but to be the heir of Wei, just say something else, just like he didn't appreciate Cao Pi at the beginning, but he didn't object to Cao Pi becoming the prince of Wei.

"Yuan Zhong is ambitious, decisive, and knowledgeable, and the likes of the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, but the pattern is slightly smaller." Sun Shao said slowly: "However, it is more than enough to govern a Wei State, and with Ziwen and Zijian and a group of clan supporters, the Wei State will be the great enemy of my Yue State in the future." ”

Cao Ying couldn't help but Wan'er, waved his hand, and said disdainfully: "Forget it, don't pretend in front of the old man, if Yuan Zhong can be of one heart and one mind with Ziwen and Zijian, in his hands Wei may not be weaker than Yue Guo, if he has a half-hearted, Wei State will sooner or later fall to the same as Wu State, if it really comes time, the old man will definitely curse you with a headache under Jiuquan." ”

"Don't!" Sun Shao raised his hand and interrupted Cao Ying's words: "I still hope that Cao Gong will live a long life." ”

Cao Ying didn't smile, looked at the Xuanwu Academy in the distance, and let out a long sigh: "I also hope it, but unfortunately, my life is not up to me after all, I have already heard the voices of Zixiu and Cangshu, alas, if Zixiu asks me, where is his mother, how should I answer him." ”

Sun Shao suddenly felt that the back of his head was as cold as the air, isn't this a hell in broad daylight?

The two were silent in unison, and after a long time, Cao Ying slowly stood up, Sun Shao was just about to get up, but Cao Ying patted him on the shoulder: "You can stay as long as you want, old man, I want to go for a walk, if I don't leave for three days, my legs and feet seem to be frozen." He walked to the door by himself, but stood still, and looked back at Sun Shao, who turned his head to look at him: "Fengxian, don't think that everything is under control, my Han caravan dominates the South China Sea, and many people's financial routes have been cut off, and there are not a few people who secretly hate you to the bone, don't be so rash when you go out in the future." He pointed outside: "The loss is in my Wei country, if it is in Tianzhu, even if you are a tiger, you may not be able to keep you safe." ”

"Thank you Gong Cao for reminding me." Sun Shao didn't insist, arched his hand and smiled.

Cao Ying went downstairs slowly, Xu Yu led someone to follow, Sun Shao got up and walked to the edge of the building, crouched on the mahogany railing, and watched Cao Ying slowly walk away along the white jade path by the Xuanwu Pond with the support of two young women, and then glanced at the Xuanwu Academy that could not be seen by a figure in the distance, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised, revealing a meaningful smile.

A sound of footsteps came, until he walked behind him and stood two steps behind, Cao Rui's voice sounded in the empty building: "Your Highness's kind words, Rui is grateful." The mother of the family said that she would prepare a thin wine for Mrs. Xiahou, and asked His Royal Highness for permission. ”

Sun Shao didn't look back, he was still lying on the railing, pouting his butt at Cao Rui: "Shao is here to congratulate the grandson first, and the lady invites you, how can you come?" Please report back to Lingtang and be sure to go to the banquet on time. He turned around and looked at Cao Rui, who had a calm face, "Taisun, we won't see each other in the future, right?" ”

Cao Rui hurriedly said: "Rui Yan dares to fight against His Highness. ”

"Hahaha......" Sun Shao suddenly smiled, strode forward, and patted Cao Rui's shoulder in an old-fashioned manner: "Then it's decided, if Wei wants to make bad moves against Yue in the future, don't blame me for not giving you face." What's the matter, Yuan Zhong, have you ever tasted the taste of a woman in the Western Regions? If you're interested, how about I send you two? Or Tianzhu's? Or Persian? ”

(To be continued)