Chapter 340: Western Regions Earth City

The conspiracy of the two means that as long as there are two people who form a relationship, there is a breeding ground for conspiracy. In a large country as a whole, conspiracy seems to be omnipresent, Liu Yu just put forward the idea of an alliance, he did not expect Song Chu's reaction to be so big.

Liu Yuxin said, could it be that Song Chu was instructed to test the truth of this messenger, if it was fake, it would be exposed, and if it was really co-opted?

"Brother Song, since you don't believe in the identity of this envoy, then you might as well say some things that this envoy has to say directly." Liu Yuzheng said, "I was ordered by the emperor of the Great Shun Dynasty to come to the Western Regions to negotiate with the countries of the Western Regions to jointly send troops to resist the Turks. What's more, the envoy is dealing with a smart person, and I think Brother Song should understand the envoy's position. ”

Liu Yu's words were a bit high-sounding, and he still couldn't show evidence to prove his identity as an envoy, but perhaps Liu Yu proposed the idea of forming an alliance just now, Song Chu was not in a hurry to determine the authenticity of Liu Yu's envoy's identity, and hesitated, as if he was considering.

If Liu Yu's identity as an envoy is true, it also means that Liu Yu will be behind the powerful Dashun court that has just defeated the Turks. Being able to form an alliance with the Great Shun Dynasty is beneficial to General Mao Ding and even the Yue Clan's domination of the Western Regions.

Even if Liu Yue is a false envoy, as long as no one can confirm it, the Mao Ding, who first made friends with the "Shun Dynasty envoys", also took the political initiative and suppressed the momentum of another general.

Song Chu was silent for a long time, and ordered Moro and the others to leave, leaving Liu Yu alone in the room. Then he asked: "I don't know if you are driving in the Shun Dynasty." What is the official position? ”

"Wai Lang, a member of the Ministry of Rites. And the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace. ”

Song Chu was puzzled: "The etiquette department is a foreigner, and the official quality is not high. One is the position of the Ministry of Rites, and the other is the Metropolitan Procuratorate, how can you make you have both? ”

Liu Yue had prepared his rhetoric early, and the identity he quoted was indeed beneficial in the imperial court, not his fiction.

"Brother Song may not know, Shun Dynasty is at the beginning of this year. Just put down the civil strife against the king, the envoy was accompanied by a member of the Ministry of Rites and went out to the army, and he had a meritorious service, but this time he had an envoy mission, so he was promoted in his official position. From the sixth product to the fourth product. However, due to the high qualifications of the officials of the Ministry of Rites, the official position in the Ministry of Rites is still in place, and it is just a fictitious position to come to the imperial history. ”

Liu Yu said that Song Chu, who didn't know much about the officialdom of the Central Plains, couldn't find fault at all, but felt that Liu Yu was becoming more and more like the truth. Song Chu asked again, "When and where did the Venerable Driver set off?" ”

"This envoy left Chang'an on the first day of March this year. The retinue consisted of twenty-six people. ”

Song Chu suddenly sneered and said, "The first day of the third month? As far as I know, in mid-March, the civil strife in the Shun Dynasty had just subsided, and the Emperor Shun had not yet returned to the court. ”

Liu Yu originally advanced the time to the first day of the first day of March in order to highlight the danger of his trip, increasing the time spent on the journey, but he did not expect that the Yue Clan, which was far away in the sky, would know the situation in the Central Plains so well.

"That's right, although the envoy was ordered by the Son of Heaven to envoy to the countries of the Western Regions, the person who personally gave the letter of appointment was Liu Wenyan, the forward general of the Great Shun Dynasty. The envoy returned to Chang'an City with General Liu in advance. ”

When Liu Yu mentioned Liu Wenyan, Song Chu was a little relieved, and he seemed to feel that things were logical again.

"Liu Wenyan sent you as an envoy to the Western Regions?"

"Exactly."

Song Chu received an affirmative answer, and the question in his heart seemed to be fully solved, and Liu Yu guessed that he was probably using the situation of the Yue Clan to figure out the Central Plains. After all, "Liu Wenyan" can be regarded as a powerful "general" in the Central Plains, and he should have the privilege of surpassing the emperor in formulating military affairs. If this matter is placed in another country, people may not be credible, and the envoy to another country will be appointed by a subordinate?

Song Chu didn't ask in detail about the true or false things of the envoy, as if he accepted the identity that Liu Yu was trying, asked about the situation in the Central Plains, and asked some about Liu Wenyan's situation, Liu Yu naturally answered in detail, so that Song Chu kept nodding. After the last, Song Chu got up and said goodbye, saying that he would meet in the capital of the Yue Clan.

After sending Song Chu away, Liu Yue thought about it carefully and felt that this person was not simple.

Originally, Song Chu's attitude towards Liu Yu was very bad, but when Liu Yu said some specious "positions", he immediately changed his attitude, and even didn't care about the issue of identity, and he was not in a hurry to show that he wanted to form an alliance. This made Liu Yu feel that Song Chu and the rising general behind Song Chu should be very good at tricks, so they have to guard against it!

He had a feeling that Song Chu would definitely come to him, and even bring some improvised generals. Before entering the Yue Clan's capital, he had already chosen a "position" and offended another general.

Successfully passed a pass on the identity issue, which made Moro, who had been worried about things changing, very happy, Moro specially asked the people of the caravan to take out wine and meat from the goods to entertain Liu Yu, and the banquet was full of laughter and laughter, and when he ate a few bites, the soldiers of the Yue Clan came in and urged, asking them to hurry to the Yue Clan's capital Hua Guhua as soon as possible.

Moro was humble and immediately asked his men to pack their things.

Liu Yu went out, remembering that the little beggar hadn't eaten yet, so he brought a piece of mutton leg meat to her, and the little beggar sat in the carriage in a daze, took Liu Yu's meat, didn't say anything and took two bites, and suddenly looked out at Liu Yu, who was looking around, and said, "Can you help me ask about the current situation of Qiuzi Kingdom?" ”

Liu Yu sighed helplessly and asked, "Can you drive the Hora people away by yourself?" ”

The little beggar shook his head.

"Then put your mind at ease, think about things in a good way, and when you get to the capital of the Yue Clan, you will naturally find out. Put the heart back in the stomach! ”

The caravan went all the way to the southeast, and many places were the Gobi Desert, and it was a long way to see a few houses, and there were not many places with grasslands, so it was like walking into the desert. Liu Yu thought to himself that in such a country with a vast land and a sparsely populated environment and a very bad ecology, it is indeed not easy to live a prosperous life.

The sun is more than half in the west, and the capital of the Yue Clan has also arrived, and you can see the towering earthen city wall in the distance, which is more than twice as high as the city wall of Kekeguan, and even the towering castle in the city. It's like an ancient Western building.

"Red, red, green, green. It's beautiful! "Jason has also traveled a lot. I couldn't help but be amazed to see the castle with flowers and bones against the backdrop of greenery and grasslands, and the castle with its top painted red.

Such a desert city, standing here, really seems to be the jewel of the Gobi Desert. Liu Yu thought about it, it must be very profitable to do water business in the city.

When I arrived in the city, the citizens walked slowly on the streets, and there was a dazzling array of goods. It is very different from the Yueshi people with an underdeveloped market that Moro said. Liu Yue looked more closely, and realized that these people were really doing business with shells as Moro said, and this kind of shells were almost worthless in other countries.

When they arrived in the city, the party was arranged in a large mansion, and the guards at the gate were heavily guarded, like a prison cell. The Yueshi people found an official who knew the Central Plains to come and entertain them, and this person only spoke the Central Plains slightly, and he was a Yueshi himself.

Asked when he would be able to enter the palace to see the king and the general, the official said impatiently, "Our Malaysian general is on the march." The king will not see you! ”

The Malaysian general is on the march?

Liu Yu pondered the meaning of this sentence, this big Malaysia. It should be the second general of the Yue Clan who wrestles with the top. Liu Yu judged from the conversation with Song Chu that Mao Ding should not have gone on the expedition, that is to say, if the Yue Clan State discussed some military affairs, or wanted to meet with envoys from other countries, it must be the king and two generals present at the same time. It's a bit of a parliamentary system.

"When will General Malaysia return?" Liu Yu asked.

"It's hard to say, three days, five nights...... Who can say for sure, see when those Khwarats will retire! ”

Liu Yu nodded, it seems that this Malaysian general is going to the border to prevent the Khorezm people from invading their Yue Clan. The Yue Clan was not very big, and if the Khorezm people retreated, the Malaysian general should be back soon.

"Then can we go out and take a walk and see the living conditions of your Yue Clan?" Liu Yu asked again.

"You can, they can't!" The official pointed to Mo Luo and his entourage behind Liu Yu, "They are profiteers, and our Yueshi country has never welcomed profiteers!" They are all big liars! ”

Moro shrank his head, as if admitting that he was a liar.

"What about her?" Liu Yu pointed to the little beggar who had changed into a local clothes.

"This ...... You can do whatever you want, I don't know what to do, as long as you don't run around. If you want to go out, you must be followed by our soldiers, and if you get lost, I will treat you as spies sent by other countries! ”

Liu Yue understood that although his freedom was not restricted, the entry and exit must be followed by Yue's soldiers, or monitored.

Doesn't matter. Liu Yuxin said that he just didn't want to stay bored in this dilapidated inn, and wanted to go out of the street to see the exotic customs, and he didn't want to do any espionage.

After the official left, Moro was nervous, like the kind of anxiety that he couldn't get out of a wolf's den. After waiting for a day, the next morning, Liu Yu rested enough and told the soldiers that he was going to the city to have a look.

"I'll go too!" Liu Yu was about to walk with the soldiers, when the little beggar suddenly jumped out and said.

Liu Yu glanced at her, and said in his heart that this little beggar was in a period of grief for bereavement, and he should take her out of the city to take a walk.

When Liu Yu came out, the little beggar suddenly looked for an opportunity and came over and asked in a low voice, "Do you want to escape?" ”

Liu Yu was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did I run away?" ”

"Because you are a false envoy, you are afraid of being exposed, so you find a way to slip away. They will definitely kill us if they know it, so I won't be so stupid to stay there and wait to die! ”

Liu Yuxin said that this little beggar was quite slippery, but she used her slippery head in the wrong place, not to guard against those who were in danger around her, but to guard against him as a "good old man". In Liu Yu's heart, he is the messenger of justice, the enemy of evil, and a saint who never does bad things.

"Whatever!"

Liu Yue didn't bother to explain to her that the Qing people were self-purifying, and he also wanted to rely on his status as an envoy to get help from the countries of the Western Regions and return to the Central Plains. Wouldn't this be another wandering? To be a savage on the Gobi Desert is not far from death.

Huaguduo City is not small, it is not big, it cannot be compared with Chang'an City, but it is bigger than the county seat or even the county seat in the Central Plains. The main color of the city is yellow, and most of the buildings seem to be cultivated with earth, and it is common for the house to lack a corner and multiple pits, and it feels like a city can be destroyed with a hammer.

The residents are wearing simple clothes made of very coarse cloth, like a sheet draped on the body, and like a pajamas, both men and women, it may be that Liu Yue is used to seeing the Juanxiu of the Central Plains women, and he always feels that the Yueshi women he sees on the street are all five big and three thick female men.

Later, Liu Yu learned that Yue's women were not allowed to go on the street during the day if they were less than thirty years old, otherwise it would be a big crime and they would be conscripted into the army.

Ask again what is the average life expectancy of a Yueshi woman? Thirty-five years old. Liu Yu couldn't help but sigh, it is not easy for an "old woman" who has been exposed to the wind and sun and drenched in the sand for 30 years, and is about to enter the ground.

After walking for a while, Liu Yu suddenly stopped, because in this foreign city, he saw a few Chinese characters with "mutton restaurant" written on them, and Liu Yu couldn't help but walk in. (To be continued......)