Zheng Rong has been immersed in an embarrassing atmosphere for the past few days - although the burning of grass has gone very smoothly, the hundreds of Turks who have been inexplicably captured are like dark fires lying underground, making him meditate but unpredictable. Where did this group of people come from? Why are they all old and weak, women and children? Why isn't there a single escort? How could he appear on the front line of Youyan at this time? Where is the Dali Khan in their mouths? These problems are unreasonable everywhere, and Zhong Likuang can't figure out how to figure it out after several discussions, like a mess, blocking all Zheng Rong's thoughts, and he can't figure it out.

The troubles didn't stop there, what should have been a steady stream of Turkic intelligence was almost cut off at this time, and the few were mostly speculations and inferences. "Could it be that this Turkic army has not ascended to heaven?" Zheng Rong scratched his heart with a hundred claws, found the officer in charge of intelligence, and reprimanded him for no reason. After venting, he felt that the officer had suffered his nameless karma for no reason, so he rewarded him with a short knife that he usually used.

The officer was holding a short knife, and the second monk retreated from Zheng Rong's room, and when he was in shock, he saw Qiu Yizhi leading a little girl dressed in Turkic clothes to Zheng Rong's study, and hurriedly bowed and saluted.

Qiu Yi saw that he was the father-in-law's confidant, and he was holding the father-in-law's short knife in his hand, knowing that he had just received a reward from the prince, he also nodded, and said with a smile: "The father-in-law has been eating and drinking lately, and he is depressed, but you have won the lottery, which is really gratifying!" ”

The officer said, "Your Highness is joking! The last general saw that the prince was still angry, and His Royal Highness had to be careful not to make noise and make mistakes. Saying that, he trembled and retreated.

This is another strange sentence, how could the King of Youyan give a treasure sword in his anger? Before thinking about it, Yizhi had already arrived at the door of the study, hurriedly stopped his steps, tidied up his clothes, and shouted loudly towards the door: "The child Qiu Yizhi specially asks his father-in-law for peace." ”

Zheng Rong was depressed, and when he heard that Yizhi had arrived, he wondered in his heart: "Didn't you ask for peace early this morning?" But it's not bad to have a casual chat with this kid and change your thinking. Then he called Yi Zhi in. Seeing that Na Yizhi didn't know that he was playing crazy there, and he dared to come to ask for peace unkempt, Zheng Rong was angry and funny, and was about to reprimand two sentences, but when he saw that Yizhi was followed by a little girl dressed as a Turk, he swallowed the words of reprimand and asked, "Yizhi, who is this girl?" ”

Qiu Yizhi followed Zheng Rong on Henan Road to investigate and handle cases, and he had seen some of the world and understood the stakes, so he turned around and closed the door first, and then he arched his hand and said: "Please ask your father-in-law Rongyi to step forward carefully." Seeing Zheng Rong nodding, he gently walked up to his father-in-law, lowered his voice, and made the matter clear.

The more Zheng Rong listened, the more shocked he became, and was surprised that if what this kid said was true, it was a great variable on the grassland, and he couldn't deal with it hastily, so Zhengse asked: "This girl, what you just said is true?" ”

The name of Zheng Rong, the king of Youyan, is not even comparable to the emperor of the Han Dynasty on the grassland of Saibei, and his prestige is not inferior to that of the Turkic Khan. At first, when I heard Qiu Yizhi say that I wanted to take myself to see this famous Han family general, I just thought I was fooling her. However, the people of Nayi led her through the outer city of Guangyang, through the inner city, into the palace, and until the study of King Youyan, all the way unhindered without half a soldier to stop her, so that she had to believe that the promise of this naughty boy who met in Pingshui was not a big thing to say casually, and she began to secretly think about how to answer if she really saw King Youyan. Therefore, when he heard Zheng Rong ask, he straightened his chest and said with a little pride: "We grassland children never lie!" ”

Zheng Rong saw that the girl's eyes were clear and firm, and he looked at himself without the slightest timidity, and concluded that what she said was true, but this matter was really important, so he ordered Yizhi beside him to let him find Zhong Li Kuang. Yizhi got the order, turned around and pushed open the door of the study, and was about to go out, but he didn't know who he bumped into and knocked that person to the ground. Seeing this, Yizhi hurriedly took two steps back, looked down and saw that it was Zhong Li Kuang, who he was going to invite, and hurriedly helped Mr. up, and kept apologizing in his mouth.

It turned out that Zhong Likuang heard that several princes had a conflict with the Turks in the horse market, and the prince's righteous son Qiu Yizhi even saved a Turkic girl who didn't know where to go, and suddenly felt that this matter was quite strange and had to be reported, so he came to the study of King Youyan. But Zhongli Kuang was a scholar, his legs and feet were inconvenient, and he came first, and he actually bumped into Tongyi at the door of the study. Zhong Likuang was hit very lightly, rubbed his stomach and struggled to get up from the ground, and taught Yizhi a lesson in his mouth: "You kid, what are you in a hurry, the gentleman wants Mount Tai to collapse in front of him and his face does not change, you are so flustered, how can you take on a big responsibility in the future?" ”

Zheng Rong saw that Zhongli Kuang's panic was better than that of Qiu Yizhi, and he actually dared to teach the students a lesson, he laughed secretly in his heart, but he told Yizhi to make tea and pour water for Mr. Seeing that King Youyan came to help him in person, Zhong Li Kuang was of course not good at attacking, took the green tea brewed with Qiu Yi's warm water, swallowed deeply, put down the teacup, and asked Qiu Yi Nunu, who had stood for a while, and asked Qiu Yi's way: "This is the Turkic girl you saved from the horse market?" ”

Qiu Yizhi listened to Mr.'s tone, and was a little scared, so he had to answer truthfully: "Yes." I don't dare to say half a word more.

"Yes." Zhong Likuang took a sip of tea and said, "You go down first, I have something to talk about with your father-in-law." ”

"Bump~ This girl was rescued by Yizhi, so it doesn't hurt to leave him here to listen." Zheng Rong heard this and immediately stopped it.

Zhongli Kuang originally wanted Qiu Yizhi to stay, and it was good to confront each other when the joints were jointed, but he didn't know what Zheng Rong meant, so he had this temptation, so he asked Yizhi to explain the matter clearly. This is the second time that Qiu Yizhi has stated this matter, and it is naturally more organized, and even some details are described clearly, and Zhong Li can't help but nod his head when he hears it. After carefully recalling Yizhi's words, Zhong Likuang asked, "Miss Yiran, do you recognize the Turkic man who wants to kidnap you?" ”

When I first saw this withered old scholar, I hated it a little, and he hung it out for a long time, so he replied angrily: "I can guess who they are if I don't recognize them." Aren't they the leper dogs of the Piromels! ”

This Viromel clan is famous in the steppe, and it is the tribe of the present-day Turkic Khan Visimi. This Visimi was cunning and cruel, and only those on the steppe who heard his great name were silent, and they had never seen anyone who dared to insult him like this. Zhongli Kuang took a sip of tea and asked again: "This Viromel clan is the overlord of the Mobei grassland, you little girl, why do you talk like this?" ”

"Humph! Why not? We, the Ullinyara clan, are fighting them on the steppe. As he spoke, his eyes gradually glowed with pride, "We will take away their horsewhips, cook their cattle and sheep, and domesticate their eagles and dogs!" ”

Zhong Li Kuang of the Wulin Yala clan knows: they were originally a tribe in the Bohai Sea of the Han Dynasty, and they were good at metallurgical casting for a living. This Ulinyala clan and the Turks are not of the same race, and they are not of the same origin, and it is understandable that they have established themselves as Khans, which is unified with the caliber they obtained when they first captured this group of Turks.

However, Zhong Likuang felt that there was still some hidden feelings in his heart, so he simply provoked her again: "What do you little girl know?" This Ulin Yala clan is just some blacksmiths, how can they have the ability to compete with Bisimi? I think you're just being bewitched by adults, so you're here to make a big fuss. The student advises you to quickly ask the prince for Wang Yan's sin, my Youyan prince is lenient, thinking that you are young and ignorant and a girl, you will definitely not be guilty of the past! ”

Qiu Yizhi and Zhong Likuang have been in contact for some time, of course, they can see the aggressive method of this tricky gentleman, but they are afraid that Yiran's temperament is fierce and he has failed to make a plan, and it is inconvenient for him to point it out, and in the midst of the contradictions, he can only stare at Yiran with concern. I saw that the expression on Yiran's face became extremely serious, as if he had grown a few years older in an instant, but he ignored Zhong Likuang, turned to Zheng Rong, who had been silent for a while, and said, "Are you really the King of Youyan, the Great Han?" ”

Zheng Rong listened to it and said with a smile: "Miss Yiran can't trust me, can't she believe Qiu Yizhi who saved you?" ”

Yi Ran nodded, lifted the hem of his robe, ripped off the lining, and raised his hands and said: "In this case, Yi Ran will no longer hide it, I am the princess of Dali Khan of Ulin Yala, and I also ask King Youyan to receive the letter from my father Khan!" ”

Zheng Rong saw the solemn appearance of this girl, his heart sank, and he expected that it was true, so he got up and came to pick it up in person. The letter was written in ink on the back of a piece of perfectly made sheepskin, and Zheng Rong opened it to see that it was Turkic, so he handed it over to Zhong Likuang for translation. The Turks only have an oral language, and if they want to write in writing, they must be phonetized in Chinese characters, and there are many homophones in Chinese characters, and there are dialect differences, so the same Turkic sentence is very likely to become two very different paragraphs after being written by different people, and the meaning can only be expressed after the words are pronounced.

Zhong Li Kuang was proficient in Turkic language, and after reciting it silently in his heart a few times, he repeated it. The Ulinyala clan was a tribe that created swords and arrows for the Turks, and because of their bravery, they were always used as a vanguard in the northern and southern wars, often suffering heavy casualties, and the spoils of war were less than one-tenth of that of other tribes. Unable to bear the humiliation of the oppression, the leader Dali called himself the Great Khan, and launched an attack on Visimi Khan with several tribes, and won the first battle a few months ago, taking advantage of his unpreparedness to rob the king's tent, but the Viromel clan was always too powerful to take it suddenly, so it was still in the midst of a fierce battle. Therefore, in order to relieve his worries, Zheng Rong, the king of Youyan of the Han Dynasty, has always been benevolent and famous, and will not slaughter innocents, so he deliberately put the old and weak women and children of his clan on the front line of Youyan and let the Han army capture them. He also gave this secret letter to his daughter, if he couldn't see the King of Youyan, if he had the fate to see it, he would hand it over to show his intentions.

The more Zheng Rong listened, the more he felt that this Dali Khan was really interesting, he was able to put such a delicate multiple-choice question in front of him, after thinking about it, he had already made a decision in his heart, but he said to Qiu Yizhi, who had been standing aside for a long time: "Yizhi, you say!" ”

Zheng Rong was thinking, why wasn't Yi Zhi thinking, so he snapped his fingers and said: "Yi Zhi smelled that this Bixi Secret is greedy and aggressive by nature, and the exchange of markets with the Han Dynasty a few years ago was just to recuperate and reserve strength. Now that Dali Khan was fighting him, it was a godsend, and if he could win, the Han would be able to sweep away the great threat without a single soldier; Even if Dali wants to invade the south after replacing him, it will take him at least ten years to unify the grassland and recuperate. If Visimi wins, according to his personality, he will slaughter the Ulin Yara clan and other clans who have rebelled against him, and then Visimi will be so discouraged that he will not have the strength to go south. He breathed a sigh of relief and continued, "This Dali Khan is really extremely clever, and deliberately gave the old and young of his subordinates to the big Han, which is nothing more than taking hostages to show that he will never rebel against each other. "Yizhi also has a meaning: if Pisimi wins, then King Youyan can give away the more than 700 people in his hands and earn a great favor. It's just that I remember that I was in the room, and it was really inconvenient to say it clearly.

Hearing Yizhi say this, Zheng Rong couldn't help nodding yes, and seeing Zhong Likuang also nodding secretly, knowing that the three of them wanted to go together, so he smiled and said to Yiran: "What Yizhi said, this king thinks so." If the Khan of Zundali has this intention, the king will be kind to his old and young, please rest assured. He closed his eyes and thought for a while, and then said, "Since it is Her Royal Highness the Princess, it is really inappropriate to show her head in the horse market, if the princess does not think that the king's humble house is simple, the king can arrange for the king to live in the palace and send someone to serve her." The other entourages also asked the princess to strictly restrain them, and ordered them to support themselves in the horse market, and not to cause trouble. ”

Zheng Rong's arrangement seemed a little childish to Yi Ran, but thinking that the Han people had always twisted, the dignified Youyan King agreed to take her in so readily, which was enough to make her overjoyed. He crossed his hands on his chest, performed a standard grassland etiquette, and suddenly pulled out a piece of sheepskin from under his robe and handed it to Zheng Rong.

Zheng Rong felt strange, took it and was surprised-this second document is a short Chinese text, written in extremely graceful fly-headed small letters, the article cites classics, is detailed, and advances layer by layer, presumably it must be the handwriting of a well-educated person. And what it said was that the Ulin Yala clan was willing to follow the precedent of the Bohai Sea, join the Han Dynasty, and fight the Turks together. Zheng Rong laughed when he saw it, and then handed it to Zhong Likuang and Qiu Yizhi to see. Seeing this, Yi Zhi also smiled, this Dali Khan was really a little clever, and he actually prepared two documents - the first one is a temptation, and the latter is the true meaning.

How could Zheng Rong not know, but it was inconvenient to break it, so he asked Zhong Likuang to carefully transcribe it on the tribute paper, and personally wrote a letter to express his opinions, and sealed them all into the secret seal, and found a pro-credit for 800 miles and sent them to the capital Luoyang urgently.