Chapter 0320: Zhu Han's Envoys
With the fermentation of public opinion, as well as the 'inaction' of the entire court against gossip, the word North Korea finally topped the topic list in Guanzhong in the thirteenth year of the Han Dynasty.
From Chencang in the west, to Hangu in the east, from Maodao in the north, to the entire Guanzhong in the south to Danshui, all the adult men who get together in twos and threes talk about topics related to 'North Korea'.
This is the case among the people, even more so among local officials, and even more so among the hundred officials and fathers of the Chang'an court.
Since that day, Liu Ying summoned more than a dozen important ministers of the court to talk about North Korea, and there was only one question left among the aristocratic class in the entire Chang'an.
- What should I do about North Korea?!
Especially after Liu Ying, the son of heaven, did not reveal his tendency to the outside world because the envoys of the Korean countries did not arrive, this problem made countless princes and princes unable to sleep all night.
For these aristocratic classes, which are not at the center of imperial politics, the problem of North Korea is actually only two directions.
To hit, or not to fight.
But what makes these people feel entangled is: if they fight, then as a meritorious marquis who is both prosperous and lossy with the Han family, one of these people is counted as one, and they all have to go out with the army!
If the war goes well, then that's fine, if the war doesn't go well, these heroes who have organized the army out of their own pockets and are responsible for their own logistics may have to take the blame, and even be cut off for 'ineffective combat'!
But if you don't fight, you will miss an opportunity to make a contribution or even expand your territory······
With such thoughts, after a few days of entanglement, the Hou Li family of Quzhou, as well as the Hou Zhaoou of Guangyan, became the focus of attention of all the meritorious classes in Chang'an.
In just a few days, there were hundreds of meritorious marquis Guixun or sent their sons and nephews, or directly came to the door to visit Quzhou Hou Lishang, Shizi Liji, and Guangyan Hou Zhaoou.
As for the purpose of the visit, there is only one.
- Inquire about North Korea!
Qu Zhou Hou Lishang and Shizi Liji, father and son, are the strongest in terms of martial arts and military prestige among the founding fathers of the Han dynasty who are still in the political center of the court;
As for Guangyan Hou Zhaoou, although there is a little 'nameless' in the Han Dynasty today, and it is not well known, but Zhaoou's meritorious service of being named Hou is 'Dingyan and Zhao with cavalry generals'.
Therefore, in the eyes of the fathers and meritorious marquis of Chang'an, if they want to find news of North Korea, they should find military experts like Li Shang and Li Ji who have 'fought everywhere', as well as people like Zhao Ou who 'have fought in Yan State'.
Because of today's Han territory, the closest to North Korea is the Yan Kingdom, which directly borders the Korean Peninsula.
Regarding the sudden enthusiasm of the princes, Li Shang and Li Ji father and son were serving them with good tea and food, but because of the palace meeting that day, Li Shang had attended as a guard, so he did not reveal anything.
However, Guangyan Hou, who had been snubbed by the Chang'an court for many years, told everything he knew and heard with the joy of being noticed by the court.
Then, in the streets and alleys of Chang'an, more accurate information about North Korea gradually appeared.
- It's cold!
- And it's wet and cold!
- Winter is long!
- Mountains!
- Watery!
- There are plains!
For these news, the reaction of the people in Guanzhong can be regarded as a very accurate reflection of the most authentic reaction of the Chinese nation and the instinct hidden deep in the genes.
There are plains, water sources, and farming, it's a good place!
As for the cold climate of North Korea, it was ignored by the people of Guanzhong, intentionally or unintentionally.
- No matter how cold North Korea is, can it be colder than Yan State, which is adjacent to North Korea?
Can it chill Wuzhou and Mayi in the north of the country, and even nail into the clouds of the grassland?
Under the military system of the Han Dynasty's 'all the people are soldiers', as Liu Hansheji's most solid supporter, almost all adult men over the age of 20 in Guanzhong have served in the military in these places.
Yan and Dai, who are criticized by people all over the world as the 'land of bitter cold', and Yunzhong, where the climate is even colder, have basically experienced it firsthand.
So soon, an evil wind called the 'hawkish style' by later generations was immediately set off in Guanzhong.
- Jizi Korea, the land of the Han Dynasty!
——Wei Man thief, first rebelled against the traitor Zang Di, and now he is even more dead in North Korea, the ambition of the wolf son, and the crime should be punished!!
For a time, the entire Guanzhong was filled with generous songs, some shouted and shouted for Wei Man, and some felt sympathy for the former Joseon King Jizhun.
But thousands of words, gathered into one sentence, still can't get around that sentence: Since King Wu of Zhou, the Korean Peninsula has been the sacred and inalienable territory of the Chinese nation!
It was under this unknown hostility and the attention of the entire Guanzhong that Wei Man, Ji Zhun, and the envoys sent by Chenhan, Benhan and other countries finally arrived at Chang'an, the imperial capital of Liu Han, after a long journey of more than half a month.
It's just that what makes the Chang'an court, the people of the world, and even the people of later generations feel unbelievable is that the first words spoken by the Benhan envoy after arriving in Chang'an directly promoted the process of starting construction of Chang'an City······
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"This, Ben Handu?"
Changle Palace, Changxin Palace.
From the mouth of the pawn Xue Ou, hearing the 'first impression' of the Benhan envoy to Chang'an, Liu Ying only smiled lightly and shook his head.
"Hey ······"
"It's a joke·······"
"Chang'an City, it's time to start construction······
Speaking in a calm tone, Liu Ying smiled lightly and raised her head, signaling Xue Ou to retreat.
Although the reaction of the Benhan envoy was slightly unexpected by Liu Ying, but after thinking about it carefully, it was quite reasonable.
The envoys sent by Gai Yinben and Chen Erhan, as well as Ji Zhun and Wei Man, did not come from the east this time, but took a little detour to reach Chang'an from the north.
Therefore, after arriving in Chang'an, the first thing that caught the vision of the envoys of the Korean countries was not the magnificent Changle and Weiyang palaces, but the two cities of Chang'an, which were a little bleak in the autumn season, and the civilian settlement in the north of the city.
The most important thing is that now, when the walls of Chang'an City have not even been built, the envoys of Korean countries who come from the north will directly see the civilian settlement area of Chang'an North City from afar.
Therefore, Liu Ying can understand very well how these envoys will feel when they come to the capital of Liu Han and see a large area of villages from afar.
Of course, even if today's Chang'an looks like a large village at first glance, it is definitely the largest and most prosperous village in the known world;
But coincidentally, the envoys of the Korean countries who came this time were not barbarians like the Huns, who had never seen the world.
Let's just say that this time, the name is 'Grievance for Ji Zhun', which is actually the Chen and Ben Erhan who played soy sauce, and it was originally a regime established by Yan and Qin immigrants who migrated from the Central Plains during the Warring States period.
Even if the envoys sent by Chen and Ben Erhan this time were 'locals' who were born on the Korean Peninsula, they had definitely heard of the grandeur of Xianyang, the capital of Qin, and Jicheng, the capital of Yan, from the mouth of their ancestors.
As for the envoy of the former Joseon king Ji Joon, not to mention.
- Xu Yu, the founder of Jizi Joseon, is the Yin Shang royal family!
Before being named the king of Joseon by King Wu Ji Fa, Jizi Xu Yu lived in the Shang capital: Yincheng!
Even now, the Jizi Joseon Dynasty has been passed down for eight or nine hundred years, but the grandeur of the Shang capital Yincheng will inevitably be passed down from generation to generation until the current Joseon King Jijun.
Even if the passage of time will make these legendary stories about thistle, Xianyang, and Yindu more and more abstract, there is one thing that will never be buried by history.
- Yan Ji, Xianyang, Yindu, all have city walls without exception!
Today's Chang'an does not.
However, the envoy sent by Wei Man, when he saw 'Chang'an Village', he might be calmer.
Gai because ten years ago, Wei Man himself was only a general of Yan Wang Zang Di, living in Yan Kingdom;
The envoy sent by Wei Man this time is also likely to follow Wei Man to flee to North Korea and seize the old ministry of the Jizi Joseon regime at the beginning of this year.
As for the reason why the Han family still did not build Chang'an City, the envoy sent by Wei Man should have some understanding.
For the capital of the dynasty, Liu Ying was very indifferent to being laughed at by the envoys of several small countries.
Because Liu Yingshang remembered that he had heard a wise man say this: No matter how tall the city wall is, it can't compare to the ruddy faces of the people; No matter how majestic the capital is, it can't stand up to the straight backbone of the masses.
For the dilapidated imperial capital, Liu Ying was a little ashamed to lose people in front of the foreign domain;
But even so, Liu Ying was still able to straighten her waist, pat her chest, and say without any heart: I am the son of Han Tian, and I am not hungry for Liu Han's people!
If you count the allusions that are still circulating in Guanzhong to this day, Liu Ying can even say very confidently: I am much stronger than most of the emperors who 'have walls in the imperial city' in later generations!
That's why the Benhan envoy said the sentence 'Chang'an? That's it? It didn't make Liu Ying feel the slightest discomfort, and only secretly kept in mind the matter of 'starting construction of Chang'an as soon as possible'.
Sure enough, as Liu Ying expected, when he arrived outside the Changle Palace, the Benhan envoy who had previously said that 'there is no city wall is worthy of being called the capital', his mouth grew in shock, and he was stunned outside the palace for a long time.
Then, Ben Han, Chen Han, and the four chief envoys sent by Ji Zhun and Wei Man, under the guidance of the pawn officials, walked outside the Changxin Hall where hundreds of officials were gathered······
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"Wei's Korean envoy Yan Kai, see Your Majesty."
After the four of them walked into the Changxin Hall, the tall man who was the first to speak attracted the attention of everyone in the hall.
Hearing the man say the words 'Wei's North Korea' in a straight and round Yan tone, most of the courtiers and officials were glaring angrily, and they hated to say, 'Wei's is also worthy of North Korea?' This line was written on the face.
In the front position of the court, Cao Shen, Li Ji and other ministers, and Li Shang and other old ministers closed their eyes and stomachs, and looked like Mount Tai collapsed in front of them and their faces did not change.
On the royal couch, Liu Ying, who was sitting next to the Queen Mother Lu Pheasant, couldn't help but raise her eyebrows slightly when she heard the name 'Yan Kai'.
"Yan Kai ······"
"Swallow's ······"
"Ji surnamed Yan's ······"
"Hey."
"It's not small."
Liu Ying's belly was slandered, and under the imperial stairs, Cao Shen and Li Shang also quietly opened their eyes, took a deep look at Yan Kai, and immediately returned to the calm of the old monk before.
"Ben Han envoy Meng Xi, Chen Han envoy Wang Sheng, see Your Majesty~"
There was another greeting with a clear Qin accent, and Liu Ying's face was even more stagnant, and her mood flew away.
"Qin Mengshi, Wang's ······"
"Good Fellow······"
Hearing that these two people reported their homes, Liu Ying could barely hold the shelf, but the Li Shang on the side turned sideways with a strange expression, and said a little out of place: "I don't know ······ two of you."
"Yu Qin, Meng Tian and Wang Qian, what do you have to do?"
Hearing Li Shang's words, Meng Xi and Wang Sheng only hurriedly surrendered to Li Shang.
"Don't dare to hide it from the public."
"The fourth ancestor of the Qin general Meng Tian is the half-brother of the sixth ancestor of the foreign minister."
"The ancestor of the family came out, and was imprisoned for his crimes when he was King Wu of Qin, and then moved to Yandong in the event of amnesty; Soon after, Yan Guo was wanted for the crime of 'shadows', so he fled to North Korea and established the Han Sheji······"
Hearing Meng Xi's words, most of the people in the hall nodded thoughtfully, and saw Sima Sheng continue: "The fifth ancestor of the foreign minister is the half-brother of the fourth ancestor of the Qin general Wang Jian. ”
"Although the ancestors of the family came out, they were young and ignorant, and they accidentally killed a group of merchants in Xianyang, fearing that the clan would be burdened by their own crimes, so they fled to Kanto; By chance, he finally entered North Korea, and he was the ······ of Lichen Han."
Hearing that the two of them were all over their own and Meng Tian and Wang Qian, the two pre-Qin generals, the expressions of the hundreds of officials and ministers in the palace suddenly became a little exciting.
Meng Tian and Wang Jian are the two most representative generals in the process of Qin's end of the Warring States Period!
Wang Jian was the first hero of Qin to sweep away the Six Kingdoms and unify the world; Meng Tian is the specific implementer of the northern strategy of the Qin Dynasty after Qin unified the world.
And now, the envoys of the two small countries actually said in the Changxin Palace, in front of the monarchs and ministers of the Han family, that they were 'relatives' with such two famous generals who would go down in history!
This magical feeling makes everyone feel a sense of 'no coincidence is not a book'.
However, Liu Ying on the imperial ranks, although he did not express his views on the family background of these two envoys, in Liu Ying's mind, a very interesting guess suddenly appeared.
"The ······ of the Mongol and Wang Clans"
"It won't be the King of Qin at that time, who was sent to 'expand the territory', right?"
You can't blame Liu Ying for having such an outrageous guess, it's really the life experiences of these two people, which are so bizarre that they are staggering.
Besides, if it is true that as these two people said, the ancestors of these two people fled from the Qin State to the Korean Peninsula because of their crimes, then as the families of the criminal ministers, the ancestors of Meng Tian and Wang Jian can still be reused by the Qin court?
- This will be placed in the future generations, just this level of trial can brush Meng Tian and Wang Jian down!
Just when Liu Ying's mind was scattered, judging the possibility of the Qin State sending people a hundred or ten years in advance to occupy the Korean Peninsula before unifying the world, the Korean envoy of Jizi, who was accidentally ignored by the Han monarchs, finally stepped forward.
At the moment when he saw the envoy, Yan Kai, the envoy of Weiman Korea, showed an unbelievable look!
As for the reason, it was revealed in front of the Han family monarchs and ministers after just three breaths.
"The ······ of the Korean envoy of the Minoko"
"The fifty-seventh grandson of Jizi Xuyu!"
"Therefore, the Joseon king Ji Zhun !!"
"See Your Majesty'!!!!!"
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