After the farce of the night, I regained the smile on my face: "Envoys, I just said that Great Qin has always been kind and friendly to friendly countries, so don't worry too much about the envoys, please continue." ”

Hearing this, everyone continued to offer national letters and national gifts, but there were no clowns like Wusun.

After everyone had finished making their contributions, I said, "I am very grateful to your country for the kindness shown to Great Qin, and Great Qin hopes to become a friendly country with you, trade with each other, and form a common friendship forever. ”

For them to be in such a hurry to make Great Qin, I already have a guess in my heart, it must be for the Xiongnu. However, if I bring it up first, it will make them think that Great Qin is also afraid of the Xiongnu, which is not conducive to my taking the initiative.

Sure enough, when my voice fell, Qiuzi came to make Kaqu stand up and said respectfully: "Emperor Daqin, I heard that Daqin fought a big battle with the Xiongnu last spring, and although he won, he failed to completely destroy the Xiongnu, and he also made Beihu sit big. Now our Tianshan countries are also suffering from it, not only are there Huqian and Xiongnu eyeing them, but the Wusun you just reprimanded is also salivating for the Tianshan countries. ”

Seeing that my still majestic expression did not waver at all, Kaqu was a little disappointed in his heart, but he continued: "Therefore, King Qiuzi hopes that the Great Qin Emperor can cooperate with the countries of the Western Regions, as the Great Qin Emperor said, to become a friendly country, help each other, and jointly resist the threat of the Xiongnu. I wonder what Emperor Daqin thinks? ”

I smiled slightly: "Qiuzi envoy, the Xiongnu have been driven to Beihai by Daqin, although Beihu occupies the grassland of the Xiongnu, but because Beihu froze to death countless cattle and sheep last winter, Daqin helped them, so just before you came, Beihu has officially exchanged markets with Daqin." Now that the two countries are at peace and have established diplomatic relations, Great Qin no longer faces the threat of the Xiongnu. So I don't have much interest in it. ”

Kaqu didn't expect that the relationship between Beihu and Daqin had developed into diplomatic relations, and they had already traded with each other, so he was caught off guard and didn't know how to persuade him.

As for me, of course, I will not care about the threat of the Huns, as long as the nomads are not completely wiped out, sooner or later they will develop again, but under different names.

For example, in history, after Donghu was annexed by the Xiongnu, it was divided into Wuhuan and Xianbei, and Xianbei evolved into Tuyuhun and Rouran, and the last tribe left by Rouran became the Khitan...... It's a bunch of people over and over again.

But I can't easily agree to the request of the Western Regions, because I already have a way to incorporate the Western Regions into the territory of Great Qin without bloodshed: drive the tiger and devour the wolf.

Seeing that I had rejected Kaqu's request, the envoy Que Dun immediately continued: "Emperor Great Qin, since we have become a state, how can you watch the state being annexed? Now we can get many benefits from each other, once the Tianshan countries are annexed by Wusun or Xiongnu, who will the Great Qin Emperor trade with? Isn't this also a great loss for Emperor Daqin? ”

The series of questions did not shake me, I will not be easily kidnapped by morality, you have nothing to do with me, and even I want to beat the gong and drum because I am a fisherman......

However, I still have to do it, I pretended to be embarrassed, and sighed: "It's not that I don't want to help you, it's just that Daqin is thousands of miles away from the Western Regions, and although Dunhuang County has been set up east of Youze, it is only used as a post station on the trade route. If Great Qin sends troops to help you, I am afraid that before Great Qin's soldiers arrive in the Western Regions, they will already be sleepy and unable to fight. ”

Now the entire Hexi Corridor, plus Dada's Qiang soldiers, has at least 30,000 cavalry and nearly 50,000 infantry, which is not a small number of troops. But again, I naturally can't trade at a loss.

The twenty or so envoys were staring at each other, but I didn't expect my refusal to be so reasonable. Indeed, if you send troops from Daqin, the consumption of grain and grass along the way alone is an astronomical amount, and if you replace them, they will not choose to send troops.

The six countries of Shanbei and the six countries of the Cheshi are the most anxious.

Strictly speaking, the 36 countries of the Western Regions are only city-states, and the reason why they are called countries is because the name of Han Gaozu is Bang, and in order to avoid secrets, they are uniformly called countries. Among them, there are only a dozen countries with castles, because there are oases, mainly farming. To the south, the Pamir Plateau countries do not even have a castle, and the climate is humid and the water and grass are fertile, suitable for grazing. Therefore, Shanbei and Cheshi are said to be twelve countries, but in fact, they are twelve small cities.

Now they can be said to be attacked on three sides, with Huqi in the north, Xiongnu in the east, and Wusun in the west. Now Wusun is becoming more and more rampant, once Yanqi and Qiuzi can't resist it, then they can only wait for the fate of extinction to come.

Shanbei and Cheshi each sent a representative, and hurriedly said: "When we enter the city, we see that Daqin's weapons are extremely sharp, if Daqin is unwilling to send troops, can you give us iron weapons?" We can trade any jewel for it! ”

Kaqu was anxious, and hurriedly said: "It's better to ask Emperor Daqin to think about it again and send troops to help!" ”

In his heart, he secretly scolded the Shanbei envoy: 'Stupid! We should desperately ask Daqin to send troops, after our sincere request, if the Great Qin Emperor still does not agree, and then offers to aid the grain, grass and weapons, maybe the Great Qin Emperor can't bear to refuse. You actually gave up so easily to get Great Qin to send troops, it's just stupid! ’

I don't know what Kakqu thinks, but even if he thinks it is, I won't say yes. Compared with the bronze tools of Daqin, the difference between rifled guns and flintlock guns is no less than that of rifled guns, how can I give them this kind of national heavy weapon easily.

I have long sternly warned Wu Jian and the Qin army, which was already equipped with fine iron weapons, including saddles, horseshoes, sabers, etc., that even if the Qin army loses the battle, it is necessary to ensure that these things are not left on the battlefield as much as possible, once the enemy army wins, it is likely to be imitated by the enemy and lose the advantage of advanced weapons.

Que Dun also said excitedly: "Just now, that Wusun didn't take Daqin in his eyes so much, as the upper kingdom of the Heavenly Empire, how could Daqin be so humiliated!" This envoy was indignant for Daqin! ”

I sneered in my heart, it is another moral kidnapping, and it is also a radical law, so you don't have to be ugly in front of me for this little Taoism.

His face seemed to be moved by what they said, and he pretended to be embarrassed and said: "Great Qin is really powerless, but I can't bear to see you being annexed by the Huns." Well, go back to the inn and rest, and I'll consult with my ministers, and I'll tell you the results tomorrow." ”

Everyone thought there was a play, and hurriedly grateful: "Emperor Xie Daqin!" ”

I saw that Chen Qing hadn't come back yet, so I ordered: "Bai Chong, you go to Chen Qing and arrange for someone to take the envoys to visit Xianyang City, so that they can be entertained." ”

Bai Chong said yes and retreated with his envoys.