In the early morning of the next day, Li You packed up early in the morning and came to the small courtyard with the Han Festival in hand, while Pan Feng and the others seemed to have just come back from outside, "Lord, the gifts for King Loulan are ready!" Please take a look! ”

Li You looked at them one by one and nodded, "You have worked hard!" But now is not the time to rest, let's go take a shower and change clothes, pack up and go to the Loulan Palace with me! Father, go to the market and buy some boxes to pack the gifts. ”

After more than half an hour, Pan Feng and the others packed up, and the cousin's father also made exquisite packaging for the gifts, and the group followed the guidance of the innkeeper to the township government office building in Loulan, oh no, it is the Loulan Palace.

"Who are you?" Seeing such a group of sturdy people coming, the security guard at the gate of the Loulan Township Government Building, oh no, it was the guards of the Loulan Palace who suddenly became nervous, and shouted from afar.

"We are the envoys of the Han Empire, and we have come to visit the king of your country at the invitation of the prime minister of your country!" Father Tang stood up and said, and the guard hurried in to report while the others still watched them warily.

"This palace is far worse than the Hou Mansion in Tangyi!" Li You was so relaxed that he was laughing with his cousin's father, and he didn't feel nervous about going into the tiger's den.

After a while, the Prime Minister of Loulan, who had been to the inn yesterday, hurriedly ran out and saluted Li You, "There is a noble envoy who has been waiting for a long time, His Majesty the King has already set up a banquet, and I also ask the noble envoy to move in." ”

"Thank you so much!" Li You waved his hand, and immediately more than a dozen soldiers stepped forward with a brocade box, "This is a gift prepared by this envoy for the king of your country, and I hope the king of your country can like it!" ”

"Your envoy is so polite!" Prime Minister Loulan was polite, hesitantly looked at the nearly 100 soldiers behind Li You, his face was embarrassed, he gritted his teeth and said, "I really don't hide it from your envoys, the palace of Loulan is small, I'm afraid it can't accommodate so many soldiers to drink and feast together, you see"

"In that case, the envoy should bring fewer people in!" These were already expected by Li You and others, he left Chen Qingzhi to wait outside the palace gate with a large group of people, and he led Pan Feng, Tangyi's father and more than 20 soldiers into the palace with gifts for King Loulan; Seeing this, Prime Minister Loulan quietly wiped the sweat from his forehead, but his expression did not relax at all.

The royal palace of Loulan Kingdom is not big, and it doesn't take long to see the palace hall when you enter! Li You quietly investigated, and could vaguely hear the impact of weapons coming from the back of the hall, presumably the king of Loulan had probably ambushed the soldiers here.

Entering the hall, Li You stood in the center of the hall with his head held high, only to see a man in his forties sitting on the throne above the hall, and two young men in their early twenties beside him were in a slightly lower position on the left and right; Prime Minister Loulan hurriedly made an introduction, "Your Majesty, this is Mr. Zhang Qian, the envoy of the Han Dynasty!" Your honor, this is the king of our country, this is the eldest prince and the second prince of our country! ”

Li You bowed slightly, even if he had saluted, "Zhang Qian, the envoy of the Han Dynasty, has seen the lord of Loulan, I wish the lord of Loulan good health, and the country of Loulan is stable and peaceful!" "Li You used the word lord here, not the king; , both the king and the lord of the kingdom can be the king of a country, the difference is that the king's state can be an independent state, or it can be a country subordinate to other great powers; And the country of the lord of the country generally has to obey orders and obey other big powers, Li You is here to remind the king of Loulan that he has long known the matter of his attachment to the Xiongnu.

It's a pity that neither the king and the prince nor the ministers present can understand the meaning of Li You's words, they regard the lord of the country as a unique title of the Han Dynasty, and the king of Loulan salutes back, "Thank you for your greetings, and please invite your envoy and everyone to the table!" ”

Li You did not walk to the banquet on the side, but beckoned to the soldiers behind him, pointed to the brocade box and said, "This is a gift prepared by the envoy for the lord of the country, and the lord of the country is invited to take a look!" ”

"But silk?" The eldest prince on the left side of the throne immediately stood up, his eyes shining with greed.

"But the sword that the Prime Minister brought back yesterday?" The second prince on the right side of the throne was not willing to give up, and got up and asked.

"No, no! This gift is neither silk nor a sword! Li You slowly shook his head and said, "But I think the lord of your country will definitely like it!" ”

The king of Loulan on the throne made a look, and the prime minister of Loulan, who had been to Li You's inn yesterday, hurriedly walked over, "The lord of our country has thanked the envoy of the Han Dynasty, I don't know what kind of gift is in this box?" ”

"Since your prime minister has this Yaxing, you might as well open it and show it to you!" Li You turned sideways, and the soldiers holding the brocade box opened the lid together.

"Ahh When everyone in the palace saw the things in the box, their faces immediately turned pale, and some of them even screamed in fright, and suddenly heard a burst of armor, and nearly a hundred Loulan soldiers poured into the hall, surrounding Li You and others.

Seeing these soldiers come out, King Loulan's face became a little better, and he shouted, "What does your envoy mean by this!" The king has kindly feasted you, but you have put these heads to shame you! Don't you think that my Loulan country is easy to bully? ”

"Hehe, this is a kind banquet?" Li You didn't see the slightest nervousness on his face, and slowly swept over these Loulan soldiers who had been in ambush for a long time, and his disdain was overflowing; He stretched out his hand and pointed to the head in the brocade box and said, "Don't any of you recognize whose head it is?" ”

"Ahh It is the head of the Hun envoy! Prime Minister Loulan was the closest to the brocade box, and he hurriedly looked at the brocade box when Li You reminded him, and he immediately recognized that the people in the box were the Huns who came to the Loulan Palace yesterday and ordered the Loulan King to hunt down and kill the Han mission.

"What, the messenger of the Great Huns?" At this time, the faces of the king of Loulan and the ministers became more and more pale, and the Huns died in Loulan, which will definitely be brutally retaliated against by the Huns! What should I do?

Maybe if we kill these Han people, the Xiongnu Dadan Yu will forgive us and wait? King Loulan and the great gods looked at Li You and the others with twinkling eyes, as if they were calculating the timing of their move! The second prince, who had an anxious temperament, took two steps forward and came to the middle of the hall, as if he was about to do it if he didn't agree with him.

"Now that you have offended the Huns, do you still want to challenge the majesty of my Han Empire?" Li You shouted, "Next year, the million-strong division of my Han Dynasty will arrive in the Western Regions, and the survival or death of the Loulan Kingdom depends on the decision of the lord of your country!" ”

"This" everyone's faces became more and more ugly, yesterday after the prime minister went back, he had already relayed what he had heard and seen to everyone, they deeply felt the strength of the big man, so they hesitated more and more.

"Pan Feng, do it!" Li You suddenly shouted loudly.