Zhang Chao didn't expect Sun Shangxiang to understand himself so well, and he didn't ask himself not to use troops against Dongwu, but just said that he wanted to save the lives of his family, such a request was reasonable, but he couldn't help but agree, "Xiang'er, just rest assured, I won't hurt your family." ”

"Hmm." Hearing that Zhang Chao agreed, Sun Shangxiang was satisfied. She could feel how powerful the Celestial Empire was in the palace, so she didn't think that Dongwu would last long. The Celestial Empire doesn't do anything, whether it's waiting for the opportunity, but the poor father hasn't understood it yet. Especially the two half-brothers, who always think that Dongwu is powerful, but in fact, compared to the Celestial Empire, it is really not worth mentioning. This time, he is even more delusional to take himself back, which is clearly angering Zhang Chao and himself, is this any different from looking for death? (Note: Sun Jian's original wife Mrs. Wu (Wu Guotai) gave birth to four sons: eldest son: Sun Ce Character: Bo Fu Second son: Sun Quan Character: Zhongmou Third son: Sun Yi Character: Shu Bi Fourth son: Sun Kuang Character: Ji Zuo.) Mrs. Wu's sister is Sun Jian's second wife: Wu (Wu Guotai) has a son and a daughter for Sun Jian Son: Sun Lang Word: Good Morning Daughter: Sun Ren Word: Shang Xiang . ）

After interceding for his father and brothers, and Zhang Chao also agreed to spare his request to immortalize, Sun Shangxiang was in a good mood, and in addition to being excited, he actually stretched out his hands and hugged Zhang Chao's neck and said: "Your Majesty, Xiang'er wants to... Want to have a child. ”

"Haha, okay, I'm done." After hearing this, Zhang Chao also laughed, he knew that the other imperial concubines had children, only Sun Shangxiang was alone, if he had children by his side, maybe he wouldn't always be cranky. said that a woman who has not had a child in her life is incomplete after all, and Zhang Chao is willing to make up for this shortcoming.

Lu Fan was cut off and returned, Dongwu was angry for a while, and at the same time stepped up the war preparations, everyone knew that it was a matter of time before the Celestial Empire went south.

Lu Fan, who returned to Soochow, closed his door, and for a person like him who paid great attention to appearance, he would never allow any physical deficiencies. Because of his depressed mood, two months later, Lu Fan fell ill and died in his mansion at the age of forty-two.

No one paid attention to Lu Fan's life or death, and more attention was paid to the matter of when the Celestial Empire would march into Eastern Wu, for this matter, Sun Jian, the king of Wu, sent an envoy to Xishu, asking for a firm alliance, and at the same time sent the million stone grain and grass and millions of silver coins promised before.

Speaking of which, after these years of development, Soochow is not short of money and food, what they lack is only population and territory.

Even if the Celestial Empire is about to kill, once it is defeated, these things left behind will be obtained by the other party, even so, it is better to give it to Xishu to enhance the feelings between the coalition forces.

After Liu Bei received the things, he promised that once the Celestial Empire moved, he would fight with Dongwu.

Xishu and Dongwu are both preparing for war, and the string on their bodies is also getting tighter and tighter, and there is a lot of wind and grass, which will cause a big war.

But the Celestial Empire, I can't see the slightest nervousness, even if the time is in the spring of 210 AD, there is still no intention of increasing troops in Xuchang, which makes both Xishu and Eastern Wu a little puzzled, could it be that Zhang Chao doesn't want to do anything to them? Does he have such good intentions?

In the palace hall of Jinyang City, Zhang Chao at this moment was indeed frowning and contemplating. In front of him was a military newspaper sent by the Sixth Legion of Dian Wei, which said that the Dragoon Legion was besieged in Feishan City, not far from Dawan City, because of the rash advance of light troops, and at the same time the Great Prince Zhang Tian and the cavalry of the entire Dragoon Legion were besieged.

After Dian Wei learned the news, he had already taken the Sixth Army Corps, a total of 200,000 cavalry, to relieve the siege, but he didn't know what kind of situation he would face, so someone reported the truth to Zhang Chao. But just when he reported the news, the remaining 300,000 troops of the Sixth Legion were also surrounded by the Western Regions Alliance, and so far, the two legions of the Celestial Empire, with a total of 1 million troops, were completely surrounded in the Western Regions.

After learning the news, Guo Jia and Lu Su both came to the main hall and saw that Zhang Chao seemed to be unhappy, and the two first-class ministers stood there, both silent.

"Report, Your Majesty, I brought it over because I went there, and it was outside the palace." Xu Chu, the chief of the guard, entered the hall and half-knelt on the ground.

Went to Deyin, followed the eldest prince of Dawan Kingdom Cheng Leli to Jinyang City, originally thinking of exchanging Dawan's healthy horse for the sharp iron weapons of the Celestial Empire, but he didn't think that the eldest prince caused a big disaster, and was finally killed, he was indeed quick to see the opportunity, and was able to live, although his right arm was gone, but he was indeed eating and drinking every day, and there were even a lot of beauties waiting, so that he felt a kind of fairy-like day.

The emperor suddenly summoned urgently, and because he gave up the opportunity to communicate with the beauty, he hurried over, and now he is kneeling under the main hall.

"Tell me everything you know about the Western Regions, don't miss anything, especially the relationship between the Great Wan Kingdom and other countries." Zhang Chao didn't even look at it to look at the kneeling on the ground, he didn't like such a villain who betrayed the lord to seek glory, if it weren't for the fact that the other party had enough understanding of the Western Regions, and it was still useful, he would have ordered to be killed a long time ago.

"Yes." He knew that this was an opportunity for him to perform, and if he got it right, he would be happy, and maybe the treatment would rise again. After a little deliberation, he told everything he knew about the situation in the Western Regions.

From the mouth of Deyin, Zhang Chao has a deeper understanding of the countries in the Western Regions.

The Western Regions region is composed of 36 large and small countries, not to mention the small countries, among which there are eight large countries with greater power, namely Cheshi, Wusun, Dawan, Kangju, Dayueshi, Daxia, Bin, and Wuqiang.

In normal times, there will be occasional wars between countries due to interests, after all, the territory is limited, everyone wants to be bigger, and war is an unavoidable means. It's just that when foreign enemies invade, they are often very united.

In other words, in order to survive, they can allow infighting to happen, but they will definitely not allow the invasion of external forces. Twenty years ago, when he was still very young, Islam, a powerful country in the West, deliberately sent troops to the Western Regions, and even fought to the country of rest. (Rest in peace, the same powerful country in the Western Regions, but because it is located at the junction of the Western Regions and Islam, it is not listed as one of the eight great powers in the Western Regions.)

But that time, all the 36 countries in the Western Regions sent troops, and they stubbornly relied on geographical advantages to block the powerful Islam from the Western Regions.

It was that victory that made no one dare to watch in the Western Regions. This time, Zhang Chao and Ma Chao entered the Dawan Kingdom, which should obviously touch their bottom line, and they are afraid that the scene from 20 years ago will be repeated again.

The Islam mentioned in his mouth, whether it is Guo Jia or Lu Su, does not understand, but Zhang Chao is very clear in his heart, there is a Himalayan mountain range, which isolates the Western Regions from it, presumably because of this reason, the Islamic army did not play their role. Even Zhang Chao knew that in the south of Islam, there was a country called ancient India, which was also very powerful.

It's just these, Zhang Chao didn't bother to talk to Guo Jia and them, his goal was only to develop the Celestial Empire to the Western Regions, and for crossing the Himalayas to fight with foreign countries, it could only be a matter of the future, and there was no need to think about it now.

His son and the Dragoon Legion are trapped in Philadelphia City, and Zhang Chao is now thinking about how to rescue them, and how to give those countries that dare to be enemies of the Celestial Empire a heavy blow, or even take them back as national land.

As for the rest, Zhang Chao has no idea now, that is, he said that he would attack Soochow at the beginning of the year, and now it seems that it will be postponed.

The emperor's eldest son and the dragoon army were surrounded, so that Zhang Chao once again had to change his original plan and send troops to the Western Regions. He didn't think that the Western Regions Alliance, which could trap the dragoon army, would be relieved of the siege because Dian Wei brought 200,000 cavalry.

Zhang Chao can run the Celestial Empire so strongly, and it is very important that he never despises any opponent, even if he wants to do it, then he will go all out.

After listening to the words of the cause, Zhang Chao had a better understanding of the entire Western Regions, and he also made up his mind to send heavy troops to solve the problems there. Although it is said that there are thirty-six countries in the Western Regions, it seems that the power is not small, but even if it is a coalition army, there are loopholes to be found, and if it is well operated, it can be broken one by one.

"Okay, go to Deyin, what you said is very useful, in this way, you can go back and prepare, and go with me to the Western Regions?" Although he gave an order, Zhang Chao still said with a kind look.

"The sinner is willing to go." How can you not see that this is an opportunity to get ahead? Although the current life is good, but after all, it is under the fence, if he can follow the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty this time, he will make meritorious service if he doesn't get it right, so he will have a meritorious reputation, which will be of great benefit to him to live a happy life in Jinyang City in the future.

Zhang Chao was also very happy because he agreed, and immediately issued an order to make him a four-grade civil official, and return to the Ministry of Rites, that is, to serve in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, this time he will accompany the Celestial Empire as a special envoy.

In this way, he got the position of a fourth-grade official, and he was naturally very happy to go, and immediately knelt on the ground and shouted long live. It can be seen that this person is still very willing to learn, at least the set of rules of the Celestial Empire has been figured out by him.

This is a smart person, Zhang Chao also likes smart people, and he is not tired of dealing with this.

Zhang Chao showed that he wanted to go to the expedition, Guo Jia and Lu Su knew that they couldn't persuade him, and immediately expressed their willingness to go with him.