Of the four great empires at the beginning, the Resting Empire has returned to the earth, and the newborn Parthia is in full swing.

The Eastern Han Empire has been completely replaced, and only those bamboo slips can still see his past appearance in the conversation with people.

The Roman Empire has become a mess, the temple administration is paralyzed, the internal uprising, the foreign enemy is raging, and it has officially entered the three-legged tripod? How is it a little familiar?

In short, the only thing that is still surviving at the moment is the Kushan Empire.

But today's Kushan Empire is no longer the ambitious empire that dominated India, monopolized Afghanistan, occupied trade routes, and was ambitious.

Even he is not worthy of being called an empire now, their control in the south is gone, and in the north, they are beaten by the successors of the Rest Empire in disguise, losing a large number of territories, and being beaten to the royal city several times, and need to bow their heads and be vassals.

The army is full of incompetent nobles, the officials have lost their fighting spirit, are addicted to wine, and they are frantically oppressing the people inside, and the privileges of the nobles are constantly improving. Why is it still a little familiar?

The present king of Kushan is Kasserga III.

This king is an unlucky man.

His father, Bhashisega, gave him a country of internal and external troubles, and instructed him to fulfill the last wishes of his ancestors and restore his former hegemony.

But his father himself was a well-known faint monarch who ruled for ten years, not only failed to solve the shortcomings of the past, but instead exacerbated the domestic contradictions.

After the new king ascended the throne, he tried to repair the present Kushan through various methods, but the matter came to such a point that the local nobles were only nominally obedient to the king, and did not completely obey him.

The treasury was empty, and even the money to maintain the army needed the help of the nobles.

The more he rushes to do things, the more negative the benefits will be.

He wanted to reform the monetary system and take back the coinage rights of the aristocracy, but as a result, the national currency lost its credibility and the finances collapsed, but he finally made a hasty compromise to maintain it.

This king has been in power for ten years now.

He ascended the throne a year later than Cao Chao.

But he is much older than Cao Chao, and the whole person is dying, and he almost despairs of the future.

When he learned that there was a messenger from the east, the old king immediately got up and ordered the officials around him to prepare to meet the angel.

He himself personally set up a guard of honor in front of the city gate, more than 300 musicians, and all kinds of elephants, etc., which is very grand.

Zhuge Xu, accompanied by several nobles, came to Lan City, and what he saw was this super-standard welcome ceremony.

At this moment, several nobles who were following Zhuge Xu couldn't help but glance at each other a few times when they looked at the posture in front of them.

Kushan was centralized.

The king directly sent officials to govern the country, and the district administration within Kushan was divided into provinces and villages.

The king would send a governor and a marshal to the provinces, one for government and one for military affairs.

Later, in order to facilitate the efficiency of the war, the Grand Governor, or Generalissimo, was promoted to determine the relationship between the two and the subordinates.

But now, the power of the temple has been attacked, and the local governors and generalissimos have gradually become a threat to the temple, and they often collude to oppose the king's orders, and the king cannot even remove these people, and some of the governors and generalissimos have become hereditary

Zhuge Xu also noticed something during the conversation.

There is a huge wooden platform placed in the city gate, and this high platform is carried by many slaves, the king of Kushan is not only the "king of men", he is also the "son of heaven", he is the supreme leader of domestic politics and religion, therefore, after the king of Kushan walked out of the palace, he can not easily go down to the ground, there must be a high platform to isolate him from the ground, this is more like a ritual, when fighting a different matter.

Zhuge Xu led everyone forward and saluted the king.

King Guishan looked at Zhuge Xu in front of him, his eyes were a little excited, but when he saw the generalissimo who were following not far away, the smile on his face disappeared a little.

Although the great governors did not obey orders, this was not the greatest threat to the Kushan, who were the Persians.

During the reign of the first king, Kushan became a vassal of the Persians, sending a large number of slaves every year.

And now that the king is on the throne, there was a brief chaos in Persia because of the accession of the young emperor, and the Kushan took the opportunity to get rid of control, but he was still cautious, for fear that the enemy would come to him for trouble.

"A guest from the East"

The King of Kushan opened his mouth, and there was an interpreter standing beside him, translating the words into Yayan for him.

This translator is an elderly monk.

Speaking of which, these monks have made a lot of contributions to promoting cultural exchanges in various places.

There are a lot of monks from Guishan in Great Wei, they are not just familiar with words, these guys are all able to debate the classics!

And these monks are really good at debating.

There are also many high-ranking monks here in the King of Guishan, these people have been to the Great Wei and know very well about it.

So there is no language at all.

Similarly, Zhuge Xu also brought a lot of monks as his translators this time.

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King Guishan invited Zhuge Xu to ascend to the high platform, took his hand cordially, and followed him to the palace.

Lan's City is exceptionally majestic and tall, and its architectural style is completely different from that of the Central Plains, but it is a different kind of magnificence.

The two returned to the palace together.

King Guishan sat on the top seat, and Zhuge Xu sat beside him.

King Kushan looked at the governors and marshals sitting on both sides in the distance, and asked with a smile, "You haven't been here for a long time, do you feel strange when you look here?" ”

Since the defeat of the first king and the surrender of the Persians, the Kushan royal family has lost its prestige.

The local governors and marshals were not afraid of the Kushan King at all.

Vaguely divided, they also held "meetings" in private, which later translated as "city councils", and together they decided some major matters, almost to skip the king to govern the place.

It is no wonder that later the Kushan will be completely divided and become dozens of small countries Many people think that the Kushan was destroyed by the Bada people, in fact, before that, the Guishan has been transformed from an empire into a remnant, and each ministry is independent, and there is no longer a posture of great unification.

In the face of King Kushan's questioning, the governors only said perfunctorily: "My lord, in today's chaos in various places, and there are great enemies pressing the border, we really dare not leave what we are doing and come here to hope that the king will forgive us." ”

If they dare to come here, they are not afraid of the punishment of King Guishan at all.

King Kushan didn't even dare to detain these people, and now that the country is finally stable, if he dares to detain these people, he is afraid that tomorrow will start a civil war.

He could only hold back the anger in his heart and looked at Zhuge Xu on the side.

"As they said, internal and external troubles, we haven't sent anyone to Great Wei for many years, I wonder if His Majesty the Emperor is okay?"

Zhuge Xu was stunned for a moment, it depends on which emperor Your Majesty you are asking.

If you ask the emperor at the time of the tributary effort, it has been many years since the Ming Emperor died.

He cleared his throat and said: "Your Majesty is the heir of the original Ming Emperor, the Spring and Autumn Period is at its peak, and he is in the prime of life, and he is grateful for the deference of the original Prince Wei, and this time he specially sent me here to inquire about the situation, with the intention of resuming the exchanges between the two countries. ”

"Just like Guishuang, the original Great Wei also suffered a lot of troubles, and now, under the governance of His Majesty, it is finally a prosperous world"

Actually, there is no need for Zhuge Xu to say more, King Guishan also knows a lot about the situation in the Central Plains.

The monks who had been there often brought news from there, and the initial news was negative, saying that their civil war was worse than here, that their emperors were all overthrown.

But in recent years, the news has been positive.

Say that Great Wei has destroyed the internal enemy, say what has recovered Shazhou and so on.

The reason why King Guishan has such respect for Zhuge Xu is because of the bonus of these news.

The rest of the nobles probably also knew the situation over there.

The two talked a few words, and everyone listened very seriously.

Zhuge Xu came this time, mainly for the sake of trade.

There are a lot of good things here in Guishan, and these good things are needed by the Central Plains, of course, there are also many good things in the Central Plains, which are dreamed of by people here.

Silk, tea, porcelain and much more.

These are good things, and they're very popular in the west.

At one time, China was even referred to as these.

At the beginning, when Guishan was still very strong, the trade between the two sides was very frequent, and the King of Guishan knew the other party's intentions, and he was very happy about it.

Not only him, but also the governors of the country, are also very much looking forward to this, who doesn't want to have a silk coat from China? Even Caesar couldn't ask for it.

These luxuries are still important to the upper echelons.

King Guishan didn't think to oppose it, he couldn't support it anymore, and in terms of specific implementation, Zhuge Xu proposed to set up a duty-free mutual market in Shazhou, and the businessmen of the two countries could trade in Shazhou, exchange ideas and actively communicate.

The King of Kushan is also extremely supportive of this.

To come to Kushan from the Great Wei, there was no need to cross the Himalayas, because many of the territories of Kushan were in Central Asia, which directly bordered Shazhou.

The two sides discussed many matters and chatted very happily.

As soon as they met, Zhuge Xu had almost finished his work, and King Guishan completely agreed with his ideas, and he didn't need to spend time trying to convince, but then, King Guishan proposed some other things.

"You have come from afar, and you probably don't know that this Sassanid barbarian is very fierce, besieging us several times, plundering our people and property, and their cavalry is stationed around us, I am afraid that this trade route will be plundered by them!"

"If Great Wei can help us fight this powerful enemy, we can't be more grateful!"

King Kushan was very sincere.

Even if Zhuge Xudang thought it was impossible, he led everyone from the Central Plains to here, and he didn't encounter any battles along the way, and the attrition was already so serious, if he said that he sent people to join the war and fight with the Sassanids, it would be impossible at all

The temple can't afford their cost alone.

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