Two days later, Meng's letter was delivered to Zhao Kuo's case.

The moment Zhao Kuo saw King Loulan being killed by Mao Sui, his eyelids suddenly jumped, and an ominous premonition appeared in his heart.

"Is the envoy from Dawan gone?" Zhao Kuo looked at Guo Kai silently.

"Your Majesty, the envoy left yesterday without a moment's delay." Guo Kai thought that Zhao Kuo was urging this matter, so he hurriedly leaned over and said.

「…… The widow has been told again and again, and he has specially ordered him to bring more gifts, hoping that Dawan can be interesting." Zhao Kuo thought in his heart that if the envoy didn't leave, he could still change his mind, but now that the envoy had left, it was impossible for him to send someone to chase him back.

Of course, the most important thing is that Zhao Kuo has confidence in his heart.

Zhao Guo didn't want to start a war with Dawan now, not afraid of Dawan.

Even if there is a real war, Zhao Guo is not afraid at all, and it should be Dawan who should be afraid.

If it is the other way around, Dawan is strong, and Zhao is weak.

That's not the case.

As for Mao Sui killing Lou Lanjun, Zhao Kuo didn't take it to heart.

This matter is a big deal for Loulan, but for Zhao Guo, it is just a trivial matter.

I don't know how many monarchs or tribal leaders were captured and killed by Zhao last year, and the monarchs of the countries such as Jizi Joseon now live in Beijie, and the only Loulanjun is not in the ranks.

"Write back to Meng Fu and say that he will do what he wants." Zhao Kuo ordered.

After receiving Zhao Kuo's order, Meng Wei immediately sent 10,000 cavalry and marched all the way to Loulan.

In this battle, there were no accidents.

To be precise, not even a war happened.

When Zhao Jun appeared outside Loulan City, Loulan was desperate up and down.

The envoy of Zhao killed the monarch in court, and immediately after, a large army came to the city.

Zhao Guo is determined to kill me Loulan!

On the same day, Loulan surrendered.

Zhao State set up Loulan County, which was under the jurisdiction of Jiuquan County.

Meng Fu did not return to the army immediately, but divided the troops into two routes, and explored the sections along the southern and northern routes of the Silk Road, not to fight anyone, but to study how to build the road.

The king's order has already been issued, and the official road has been built to the west, and wherever it is built, it is the territory of my Zhao country.

Last year, Li Mu and Qin Kai fought in the north, expanding the land for thousands of miles, which general is not greedy, this is equivalent to the territory of the entire Zhao State before.

If it weren't for the fact that these areas were all uncivilized territories, Li Mu and Qin Kai would have been highly successful by now.

"The environment here is even worse than that of Liangzhou, between the mountains and the desert, there is only an extremely narrow oasis belt, coupled with the huge temperature difference between day and night, along the way, countries can send troops at will to prevent us from building roads, this official road is not easy to build." Gongsun Long stood on the oasis belt, with the vast Gobi and desert on one side, and the endless mountains on the other, and the dry wind and sand kept plopping down on his face.

Growing up in the Central Plains, it was the first time he had seen this kind of scene.

The oasis belt here is extremely narrow, and some oases cannot even be connected, and are distributed in dots.

The environment here is not suitable for farming.

If you are not suitable for farming, you will not be able to settle, you will not be able to have a stable output, and you will not be able to occupy it for a long time.

"How about we replace horses with camels?" Meng Fu squinted his eyes and looked at the camel ridden by the Cheshi countrymen in the distance, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

The wind and sand here are too windy, dry and rainless, and the horses' hooves are very easy to sink into the sand, and the cavalry is severely restricted in fighting here.

The people of the Cheshi country can ride camels, so can the Zhao people also ride camels to fight?

Thinking of this, Meng Fu's eyes lit up, in the desert area, camels have a much greater advantage than horses.

However, this is just one of his ideas, and it will take time to verify whether it can be realized.

"Camels instead of war horses? Seems to work." Gongsun Long nodded, and in addition to the camel cavalry, he thought of another thing.

Before entering the Western Regions, war horses were the most suitable for transportation

After entering the Western Regions, camels replaced war horses and became the king of riding and transportation.

However, in the process of transportation back and forth, even if the caravan of Zhao State entered the Western Regions, it still used war horses, which made it inevitable that the transportation would be restricted, and there would be other difficulties along the way, resulting in many war horses dying on the way.

It's not that they don't want to replace the camels, it's that there are very few camels in Liangzhou, and there are not so many camels for them to use.

Most of the merchants used their money to buy goods before entering the Western Regions, and they didn't have that much money to buy camels.

Moreover, camels are only useful in the Western Regions, and after entering the Central Plains, they are far less convenient than war horses.

If you sell your war horse to buy a camel when you enter the Western Regions, and then sell your camel to buy a war horse after you come back, it is too troublesome, it is easy to delay, and it is difficult to contact suitable buyers and sellers in a short time.

As for the establishment of a special base for the replacement of camels and horses, most of the merchants obviously did not have this capital, except for the kind of merchants who were rich and rivaled by the country.

But the government is different.

The government can set up a place for the purchase, sale, and lease of camels and war horses, so that merchants can freely change their war horses and camels after arriving in Liangzhou, and go to the Western Regions and the Central Plains to do business.

If they don't want to sell their horses and camels, the government can also help raise them on their behalf, as long as they give money.

While the government provided convenience to these merchants, they were also able to make money and increase their business taxes.

However, the specific details will have to be slowly improved after going back.

"Where do the camels come from?" Wu Yu said.

There are also camels in Zhao State, but there are not many, mainly because there are not many deserts in Zhao State, and they are concentrated on the border, so the demand for camels is relatively small, and few merchants sell camels from the Western Regions to the Central Plains.

"There are plenty of camels in the countries of the Western Regions, and I think the merchants will be happy to help us with this." Gongsun Long said with a smile.

Even if the merchants who came and went sold the camels they bought from the Western Regions to the Zhao State at the original price, they made money, because the camels could help them transport more goods, and these goods could make more money.

Just do it, after Meng Fu and Gongsun Long went back, they sorted out the two things and reported them to the imperial court.

The reply of the imperial court was also very fast, giving money, food, and people.

However, the talent for raising camels has to rely on Liangzhou to find it by itself, and Zhao Guo does not have a talent reserve in this area.

In May, the king of Chu married Ziqing, the daughter of the prince of Qin and the sister of the prince of Qin.

In June, the Qin prince Chu and the king of Chu met in Hanzhong, and the two countries became allies.

In July, the monarchs of Zhao, Qi, Wei, Korea, and Wei met outside Yecheng.

The situation in the world instantly became tense.

There is a tendency to go to war if you don't agree.

Zhao Guochao was in a mess over who to attack next.

The officials, led by Cai Ze, advocated attacking the state of Qi, which was the richest of the five countries, with a large population and the benefits of fishing and salt, and after the annexation of the state of Qi, the strength of the state of Zhao would be a leap.

At the same time, the military strength of Qi is the weakest of the five countries, the combat readiness is sparse, and the land and water attack at the same time, which can be taken in a short time.

The most important thing is that the strategic plan of Zhao's south-to-north attack was put forward by Cai Ze, and now he has destroyed Yan and pacified the Hu people, and he is only one step away from completing his original strategic plan.

At that time, his reputation will be greatly improved, comparable to Wei Wuji, Zhao Sheng, and others, and no one is willing to give up at this time.

However, the Qi faction officials led by Lu Zhonglian and Tian Dan advocated attacking Qin, and their reason was that Qi was an ally of Zhao, and if Zhao attacked Qi, they would be criticized by the world, and Wei and Korea would also defect to Chu and become enemies of Zhao.

And the Qin State has always been the great enemy of the Zhao State, and now that its strength is seriously damaged, the Zhao State should take advantage of the victory to pursue it, completely destroy the Qin State, and open the way to the Mauryan Dynasty.

It is no secret that the Mauryan Dynasty was at the top of the Zhao Kingdom, that piece of land was even better than the Central Plains, and it could feed tens of millions of people casually, and if it was intensively cultivated, it would not be a problem to feed 100 million people.

In the hearts of these people, the Mauryan Empire is not worthy of occupying this good land.

We should knock this land down.

So far, Zhao Guo has not really determined the direction of attack, mainly because Zhao Kuo has not yet spoken.

"King, the envoy from Dawan has returned." A guard quickly entered the main hall and reported with his fists clenched.

"I'm finally back, please come in." Zhao Kuo was suddenly overjoyed and said hurriedly.

Guo Yuan has been envoy to Dawan for half a year, and he will almost forget if he doesn't come back.

「…… The messenger, the king, came back with the envoy's attendants, and the messenger did not return, and according to them, the messenger ...... The messenger was killed by Dawan." The guard shrank his head and said cautiously.

"Dawan dares to kill my envoy of Zhao Kingdom!" When Zhao Kuo heard this, he was immediately furious, and smashed the desk in front of him with one palm.

"Great King, please ask the soldiers to kill King Dawan." Lecheng stepped forward and said with his fists clenched.

Li Mu also touched the hilt of the sword, and a few cold flashes flashed in his eyes.

"Invite the retinue in." Zhao Kuo said in a deep voice.

Soon, the entourage entered the main hall, glanced at Zhao Kuo cautiously, and quickly knelt on the ground, not daring to breathe.

He was just a servant of the Guo family, and this was the first time he had close contact with King Zhao and so many big officials.

"Throne." Zhao Kuo waved his hand and said.

The guards hurriedly brought a bench and placed it in front of the entourage.

The entourage did not dare not sit and did not dare to sit, and in the end they could only sit on half of their butts.

"Explain in detail how you sent Dawan to Dawan and passed along the way, especially how Dawan killed the widow's envoy." Zhao Kuo said.

"Your ......," the attendant said slowly.

After Guo Yuan received Zhao Kuo's order, he didn't delay a little time, and set off after receiving the gift for Dawan from Taichang Mansion.

Although there were many difficulties encountered along the way, there were no dangers, and the caravans who came and went would help them as much as possible when they learned their identities.

In this way, Guo Yuan arrived in Dawan with a dozen or so entourages.

King Dawan learned that they were from Zhao Kingdom, and personally met Guo Yuan, eating and drinking to entertain them, but when Guo Yuan proposed to buy horses, King Dawan began to play haha, and never mentioned the matter of selling horses.

Although Guo Yuan was very angry, because of Zhao Kuo's advice, he did not slaughter the king of Dawan like Mao Sui, nor did he smash the golden horse and scold the king of Dawan like the envoys of the Han Dynasty in history.

But things can't go on like this, and when he comes, he promises that he will complete the task.

This opportunity was won by his brother for him, and if he missed it, he would not have it again, Zhao Guo has a lot of talents, and I don't know how many are waiting to get ahead, Zhao Kuo will give him a chance in Guo Kai's face, and it is impossible to give him a second chance.

Guo Yuan found another way.

As we all know, men can't stand the pillow wind.

Since King Dawan can't make sense here, let's take the path of Queen Dawan.

So, Guo Yuan began to buy Queen Dawan.

Although this Guo Yuan can't be called better than Pan An, he is also a famous handsome descendant in ten miles and eight towns, plus he is a nobleman, pampered, and white and tender, which is far from being comparable to Dawan, a rough man who comes to the sand in the wind all day long.

And Queen Dawan herself is not a chaste martyr, these two people came and went, Wang Ba saw the mung bean, so he hooked up, and brought a big green hat to King Dawan.

Guo Yuan cuckolded King Dawan in Dawan, can this not be discovered?

Is King Dawan really a fool?

When King Dawan found out, he was immediately furious, if he endured this, even those untouchables would laugh at him for hundreds of years.

Guo Yuan hurriedly took out Zhao Guo to threaten King Dawan, but at this time, where could King Dawan still manage this? Besides, Zhao Guo is thousands of miles away from Dawan, no matter how powerful he is, can you cross tens of thousands of miles to fight me?

In this way, Guo Yuan was killed by King Dawan......

The retinue finished the matter, and the whole thing was great

The temple fell silent, and there was not a sound.

"......" Zhao Kuo's face turned blue and pale, and he was angry in his heart, and he didn't know who to target.

He really wanted to say to Guo Yuan that your grandmother deserved to be killed, and you slept with the wife of the monarch of Dawan Kingdom, who would you kill if you didn't kill it?

But as the monarch of Zhao State, he couldn't say this.

Regardless of whether the envoy did the right thing or not, when he sent an envoy in the name of Zhao Guo, Zhao Guo had to support him.

And you can't tell the people about this kind of, you can't say that the envoy slept with the wife of the monarch and was killed.

This is detrimental to the country's image.

Zhao Guo not only couldn't say it, but also had to help cover it up.

The envoy sacrificed his life for the country, and it was the monarch of the Dawan Kingdom who was barbaric, greedy for money, and killed the envoy of Zhao State.

This is also the reason why the military minister in the court did not speak, this matter was not done by the envoy of Zhao State, but it must not be the envoy of Zhao State who is wrong, it must be Dawan.

I, Zhao Guo, am not wrong!

Double standards have been the patent of the strong since ancient times.

Guo Kai watched Zhao Kuo's face change constantly, his head buried deep in his crotch, and he didn't dare to take a breath.

He has been following Zhao Kuo's side, and he doesn't have a clear idea of Zhao Guo's future planning and development direction, and he basically knows a rough idea.

The Western Regions have always been within the planning scope of Zhao State, and over the years, Zhao State has continuously sent people to explore the topography of the Western Regions, the strength of various countries, and slowly infiltrate through merchants.

It can be said that sooner or later, Zhao will send troops to the Western Regions.

But that's later, not now.

Zhao has no plans to send troops to the Western Regions now.

Guo Yuan was killed, disrupting Zhao's plans.

The envoy Dawan was proposed by him, and Guo Yuan was also recommended by him, and now this matter is messed up!

Although he will not be convicted because of this, it will inevitably affect his status in Zhao Kuo's heart.

Guo Kai's ambition is very big, he is not only satisfied with the current little squire, although he can follow the monarch and has a prominent position, but after all, he is only a squire.

His target is the Minister.

Guo Kai now hates this brother who has not achieved enough things and has more than enough failures.

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