Chapter Twenty-Five: The Gale of the Upper County Ends

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He looked at Mao Dun, who was wearing a golden crown, and the other party gave him a fierce aura.

But he knew very well that since Maudun had made such a request for a meeting, he would naturally not suddenly attack.

And Mao Dun naturally knew that Zhang Jiashi was looking at him, why wasn't he looking at this Zhang Jiashi, who was much younger than him and looked more energetic?

In Mao Dun's heart, Zhang Jiashi was able to grasp the real power of the country at such an age, and he must also be outstanding.

Opposite to the mutual glances between Zhang Jiashi and Mao Dun, Ma Sikuo was also looking at Li Zuoche.

He could feel from Li Zuoche's breath that this person was also not simple.

Of course, what Ma Sikuo didn't expect now is that he and Li Zuoche are actually related, if you count it, Li Zuoche has to call Ma Sikuo his uncle.

Li Zuoche was a little puzzled, because he could feel close to Ma Sikuo's temperament. He didn't know if his idea was wrong or not, but he knew very well that the middle-aged man dressed as a Hun in front of him was quite difficult to deal with.

In contrast to the relatively calm situation between Zhang Jiashi, Mao Dun, and Li Zuoche and Ma Sikuo, the examination between Yu Yong and the young Hun Condor Archer named Lie Shu was full of sparks.

They didn't really fight because their leaders or loyalists were on their side. However, even Zhang Jiashi and Mao Dun could feel that the eyes between the two were quite uncalm.

If they hadn't come to fight, I'm afraid that Yu Yong and Lie Shu might really have fought directly.

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"You are Zhang Jiashi, you are really a young hero, and you really deserve to have done so many things for you. ”

Mao Dun said what he thought about Zhang Jiashi, and Zhang Jiashi couldn't help but be slightly stunned after hearing these words, but he quickly came back to his senses.

After all, such a long time has passed, and it is not surprising that Maudun received such information from some personnel.

"Maudun, you're extraordinary. In my heart, you can be considered a hero who stands up to the sky, although some things are indeed not so glamorous. ”

Zhang Jiashi's words made Mao Dun laugh: "You are not bad, you actually know some things so clearly." ”

Zhang Jiashi smiled indifferently, and then looked at Mao Dun dozens of meters away: "Touman's death can be said to be self-inflicted, and whether that dead beauty is your beloved." Lone will not believe that you will be cold, but it is a pity that you are a BMW. ”

Mao Dun heard Zhang Jiashi's words. Laughed again: "Perhaps, if it weren't for the fact that you and I couldn't be real friends, Ben Shan Yu would treat you as a confidant of Ben Shan Yu, it's a pity." ”

It's a pity that Mao Dun said, which made Zhang Jiashi frown slightly, but he didn't directly ask the other party what he meant, but after thinking for a while, he raised his head and looked at Mao Dun again: "Mao Dun, you still explain what we should talk about this time." Lone doesn't believe you're making such a big deal between us just to see each other. ”

Mao Dun nodded, and he quickly restrained his smile when he looked at Zhang Jiashi: "In this case, it is okay for everyone to find out right now." ”

Zhang Jiashi heard Mao Dun's words, and nodded: "That's right, now is the best opportunity to explain something." ”

Mao Dun glanced at Zhang Jiashi deeply, and said slowly: "Let the upper county and the northern county out." ”

"No way. Lone would rather die with your Hun army than cede an inch of land!" Zhang Jiashi directly rejected Mao Dun's proposal.

When Mao Dun heard this, he didn't get angry, and he didn't turn around and run, but looked at Zhang Jiashi with an expression that was really like this: "Ben Shan Yu naturally knows that it is impossible for you to be so relaxed, and I also know that it is impossible to get the answer I want from this request." Of course. Ben Dan Yu knows that you are prepared, and if you really fight, you don't know who will die! So, what are the requirements of Ben Dan Yu, can you see if you can accept it?"

"Speak. Zhang Jiashi did not directly refuse the idea of letting Mao Dun put forward his opinion, after all, before he rested last night, he received the news that the Huns had also sent troops in other directions.

At this time, there was a great war with the Huns. It's a very irrational thing to do.

Zhang Jiashi is certainly confident that he will repel this large-scale offensive launched by the Huns, but his strength will inevitably hurt his muscles and bones, and things on the battlefield are not able to dominate everything with confidence.

As Mao Dun said, if there is a real fight, it is not known who will really kill the deer.

Mao Dun thought for a moment and said a few of his thoughts: "First, this is that I want to have normal trade with you. You also need to send some professionals to know that our Huns are farming. The second point is that we sign a ...... The five-year peace treaty, I am thinking, you also need this time to deal with the chaos within your Central Plains, right? Third, we will launch an attack on Donghu, and the two sides will divide the land of the Donghu people equally. Fourth, I heard that Princess Ying Yueqin of your country was widowed, and I hoped to marry each other and deepen the friendship between the two sides. ”

When Zhang Jiashi heard about these conditions, he couldn't help but look at Mao Dun deeply, these conditions of the other party can be said to be a lion's mouth in a sense.

But Zhang Jiashi knew very well that the other party did not say the conditions that could not be discussed in detail, so naturally there was room for bargaining.

After thinking about it for a while, he looked at Maudun and slowly said his plan to modify Maudun's conditions:

"Mao Dun Shan Yu, Gu has come up with a few points that are more beneficial to you and me, as well as between Daqin and the Xiongnu, I wonder if Mao Dun Shan Yu is interested in listening?"

"Speak. Mao Dun didn't expect Zhang Jiashi to find a way to deal with it so quickly, or to crack some of his proposals, but he was more interested in Zhang Jiashi's statement.

"First, trade between us is perfectly viable, but I can't let weapons and craftsmen into the Huns. Moreover, after entering the territory of both sides, the merchants of the two sides must be supervised by the laws and regulations of the two sides, and if there is any violation of the laws, the two sides are fully capable of dealing with these caravans. I wonder what Mao Dunshan thinks?"

After Zhang Jiashi said this, he saw Mao Dun Shan Yu and had to ponder.

It wasn't until a long time later that Mao Dunshan Yu raised his head and said, "I don't know the trade between the two sides, what do you think is more appropriate?"

"We in Great Qin will not restrict iron farm tools, porcelain, silk, or even salt, tea, grain, or some high-priced materials from entering the Xiongnu. And you Huns. It could be traded with cattle, sheep, horses, furs or some Xiongnu products. ”

Zhang Jiashi finished this paragraph. After thinking for a while, Mao Dunshan nodded quickly: "This is very good, if the two sides can't manage some things, the two sides have the right to deal with it, and it is completely reasonable." But some of the high-priced supplies you mentioned...... What the hell is it?"

Mao Dun was curious about what the high-priced materials Zhang Jiashi was talking about, and Zhang Jiashi took out a small calfskin bag that he hung on the red cloud, and then threw it vigorously at the location where Mao Dun was.

Mao Dun was very relieved of Zhang Jiashi's character, and after accurately catching the cowhide bag, he heard Zhang Jiashi say to him: "You can trust Lone's words." You can definitely try it. ”

Maudun opened the cork on the mouth of the cowhide bag and asked about the strong smell of wine, and he took a sip gently, involuntarily choking on the spirits.

And when he came back to his senses, he laughed: "This kind of wine is indeed worth the high price!

After saying this, Mao Dun poured another sip of spirits and waited for Zhang Jiashi to continue.

Zhang Jiashi then said: "The second point. In fact, as in point 5, we can conclude a non-aggression agreement with each other without having to make peace. “

When Mao Dun heard this, he didn't know why Zhang Jiashi said this, according to reason, Zhang Jiashi had no need to shelter a widowed princess at all.

But Maudon is not stupid. He quickly thought of the reason why Zhang Jiashi did this.

He couldn't help laughing: "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it." It seems that the princess is ...... with you In this case, it is inconvenient for this single to win people's love. So let's sign the treaty at a later date, and in order to show our sincerity between you and me, we will use 5,000 good horses and 20,000 sheep as good faith. Make an offer!"

"Five hundred barrels of wine, thirty thousand stones of grain, and a thousand horses of silk, I don't know what Shan Yu thinks of this condition? Among your five thousand horses, there must be a thousand good stallions. ”

"Okay!" Mao Dun knew that the price was indeed relatively equal, and the stallion was a relatively scarce thing in the Huns, but Zhang Jiashi's conditions were not too harsh. And he knows very well that now both sides need time to recover their respective vitality, and if they really fight, he may not be able to lead the Hun army under his command and bring very big trouble to Zhang Jiashi.

In that case, it is better for them to take a step back from each other. Anyway, Zhang Jiashi's conditions were enough to appease the tribal leaders under his command.

Zhang Jiashi next thought about the third point.

If he attacked Donghu with the Huns, Zhang Jiashi really thought that he would have a great success rate and be able to destroy Donghu, which was still in the midst of civil strife. But Zhang Jiashi definitely doesn't think such a thing is a good thing.

Because many areas of Donghu are flat and flat, it is not a good thing to simply carry out cavalry confrontation, and the cavalry troops under his command are not yet able to cope with the offensive of a large number of Huns.

Moreover, it would only be a very stupid thing to exterminate the Donghu people. Zhang Jiashi himself would not have believed that without the common enemy of Donghu, Mao Dun would let the agreement between them take it seriously. This is not possible, and it is possible that Maudun will then make a mass southward movement.

Zhang Jiashi would never do this kind of stupid thing, on the contrary, he had to help the Donghu people, so that Mao Dun would not be so easy to destroy the Donghu people.

It is true that the enemy of the enemy is naturally a friend, but the potential enemy is equally impossible to be a true friend.

Zhang Jiashi quickly decided how he should deal with the situation.

He raised his voice and said: "Mao Dun Shan Yu, we Daqin will not be involved in the affairs of Donghu, if Mao Dun Shan Yu has the ability, he can naturally completely take Donghu as his own!"

After Mao Dun heard Zhang Jiashi's words, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows, he could think that Zhang Jiashi was guarding against him, and the current Xiongnu wanted to swallow Donghu alone, it was still difficult, even if the other party continued to fall into civil strife.

He thought about it. He quickly disagreed, because Zhang Jiashi was guarding against him, and he might even add chaos to the offensive of the Huns, which was actually normal anymore.

He smiled and said to Zhang Jiashi: "Okay! This time, Ben Shan Yu thought that we both got what we wanted. But perhaps, next time we meet......"

"We will be an undying enemy!" Zhang Jiashi added what Mao Dun had not finished.

"Hahahaha......" Mao Dun didn't care about such a thing. Laughing, he turned his horse's head and left.

And Zhang Jiashi looked at Mao Dun's background, and also showed a smile.

It was the first meeting between them...... Maybe. Maybe it's the last time they'll meet......

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In early March 205 BC, more than 300,000 Huns withdrew to their steppe areas.

And the 50-year-old Central Plains man Zhang Jiashi saw became the main envoy of the Xiongnu side in their Qin-Hun negotiations.

In other words, it is the main person in charge of the Xiongnu side who carried out the delivery of materials between the two sides.

In further negotiations, Li Zuoche, who was appointed by Zhang Jiashi, served as the main negotiator on the side of the Great Qin Empire.

After a round of verbal warfare, the two sides determined that the Great Qin Empire would let go of Beidi County, Shang County, Jiuyuan County and Yanmen County each with a Great Wall exit and the grassland area on the opposite side as a mutual market area.

In the grassland area of the intercity area. The Great Qin Empire and the Xiongnu side each sent 500 knights to maintain order and patrol security, and in the event of chaos in the mutual market area, these knights had full authority to deal with the chaos.

The Great Qin Empire refused to send personnel to the Xiongnu to teach farming techniques, but Li Zuoche relaxed the agreement that the Xiongnu could send people who knew the Guanzhong language to the Guanzhong region to learn farming techniques.

It's just that even the Huns don't know that Ma Sikuo wrote a few Zhao characters on the table for Li Zuoche with water: "You guys are really calculating." ”

But what Li Zuoche didn't understand was not why Ma Sikuo would see through their thoughts. It's why Ma Sikuo said this matter secretly.

"He wants to help us?" Li Zuoche thought of such a possibility, but he didn't say anything, but also wrote a few Zhao Guo characters on the table in the same way: "Do you want to come back?"

Ma Sikuo nodded, and did not dwell on this matter.

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What Mao Dun didn't understand was why Ma Sikuo wanted to return to the Central Plains, and he hoped that Ma Sikuo could teach him more things.

But after listening to Ma Sikuo have one of the Hun guards relay to him. After being silent for a long time, he said to his guards: "Send Mr.'s wife and children to the Qin people!"

(There are two theories about whether the Xiongnu had a written language, one is recorded in the historical records, "no documents, bound by words", and the other is that the Xiongnu themselves also had a set of pictographs that can roughly express the meaning.) But there is no evidence that the Huns had the habit of recording their own ethnic history. )

Mao Dun sent Ma Sikuo's wife and children back to Ma Sikuo's side because Ma Sikuo promised that he would not be involved in the affairs of the Xiongnu.

However, Mao Dun cared a lot about what Ma Sikuo conveyed to the people, that is, "Leaving the area south of Donghu as a buffer zone between the Great Qin Empire and the Xiongnu may be the best way to solve the problem of the Donghu people." ”

He didn't quite understand why Ma Sikuo would say that, but he thought that Ma Sikuo was right in this matter.

So, what even Zhang Jiashi didn't expect was that Ma Sikuo's suggestion would cause Zhang Jiashi a lot of trouble in the future.

In the following half a year, Mao Dun sent troops east into the northwest area of Donghu, a large number of Donghu tribe coalition army was quickly defeated by the Huns, and the Huns cut off the Donghu waist into two parts in the north and south in just one year.

However, what Ma Sikuo didn't expect was that the Donghu people who retreated in the white mountains and black waters were more difficult than the Donghu people on the plains. For the next three years or so, Maudun was unable to solve the Donghu people in the northern mountains, so he could only stop the matter for the time being.

Because at that time, the news of the reunification of the Great Qin Empire reached his ears, so that Mao Dun had to focus on dealing with the next step of the Great Qin Empire.

That's for later.

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After Li Zuoche knew Ma Sikuo's identity, he quickly calmed down.

Because Li Zuoche also knows something about Ma Sikuo's existence, after all, they are also close relatives.

However, Li Zuoche did not want to serve Ma Sikuo in the Great Qin Empire, but he did not know a little. Because if you talk about hatred, Zhao Kuo's death can't blame the Qin State.

Ma Sikuo is not such a stingy person, he knows that he has no impression of the death of his father Zhao Kuo, who is not impressed, is indeed blamed on anyone, but now he only hopes to be able to travel to his homeland well, and then raise his children to adulthood.

After Zhang Jiashi heard about Ma Sikuo's plan, he did not force anything, but privately gave Ma Sikuo 20 gold as the travel expenses for Ma Sikuo's travel.

And the most important thing that made Zhang Jiashi feel Ma Sikuo's thoughts was that after he told Ma Sikuo that Zhao Gao died under his sword, Ma Sikuo didn't care too much, so it can be seen that Ma Sikuo only hopes that his children can grow up safely, and then inherit Zhao Kuo's lineage, so that they will not be extinct.

Zhang Jiashi asked Ma Sikuo if he wanted to rehabilitate Zhao Kuo, but Ma Sikuo shook his head very calmly: "Regent, although my father is not immoral and incompetent, but Zhao Jun, who died in Changping, is indeed led by my father." Their death, under the father is indeed to blame, let him go with the wind. “

After Zhang Jiashi heard Ma Sikuo's idea, he could only give up this plan. Because people don't care about Zhao Kuo's own son, he, a person who has nothing to do with Zhao Kuo, what is he busy doing?

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On March 23, 205 BC, Zhang Jiashi led his army back to Guanzhong.

Before leading his army away, Zhang Jiashi climbed the city gate tower again, and under the strong wind from the north, he looked out at the vast fields to the north, and muttered a sentence: "Perhaps, if you come next time, it is time to start the ......" (to be continued). If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )