Momo yellow sand is thousands of miles away, the end of the yellow sand is green mountains, the grassland can graze horses everywhere, and the high mountain pedestrians sleep with snow.

However, it was said that the Xiongnu right King Yanqi went out to hunt, and happened to meet Zhang Qian, the envoy of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, who was going to pass through his territory and go to the Dayue Clan, and the King of Yanqi sent someone to invite Zhang Qian to meet.

At this time, the Hun soldiers had already set up camp tents in front of a hillside, a white felt tent, which could be more than ten miles away, and one of them was particularly huge, obviously the Chinese military tent of the king of Yanqi. And when the interpreter went to the tent, he dismounted, and someone took the reins of the horse, and the translator lifted the curtain and entered the tent.

Zhang Qian saw that the translator had entered the big tent, and after a while, he heard a cacophony of sounds, and then a group of soldiers holding trombone stood in front of the tent, and the sound of the horn of "woo" shook the ground; a group of soldiers gathered from all sides, and the sound of people shouting and neighing horses during hunting quickly fell silent, although there were many people, but there was no confusion at all. Zhang Qian was secretly surprised, the organization of the Huns was really extraordinary.

The translator walked out of the tent again, waved his hand, and the sound of the horn stopped, only to see two or three hundred Hun soldiers in front of the big tent riding in two rows, standing facing each other, leaving only a one-person wide sandwich in the middle, and the soldiers were expressionless one by one. With a shout, all the soldiers pulled out their long knives with a "swish", raised the blades and pointed downward, and with a crisp sound of knife impact, a long corridor of knives was erected. The man was motionless, and the horse was silent. The translator trotted all the way from behind the soldiers, ran to Zhang Qian, and bowed down to salute: "King Yanqi has invited the envoys of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty to meet each other!"

Zhang Qian looked up to the sky for a while, and then sank his face: "People say that the Huns are barbarian lands, and they are foreign countries, but I still don't believe it." Now it seems that this is indeed the case! I am the envoy of the Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty, and I respect the Son of Heaven's Festival! When I travel on behalf of the Son of Heaven, I should also resist the courtesy! What is the king of Yanqi, how dare I be so rude! If I don't come to greet the envoy, I will just do it, how dare I make a child's move! My envoys of the Han Dynasty are all well-known heroes, and they regard these swords and guns as nothing more than scrap copper and rotten iron! Wouldn't your actions make people feel cold! Make people laugh!

Zhang Qian said: "You let your Yanqi King come to meet the Son of Heaven as soon as possible, so as not to spread it and make people laugh at the Huns for not knowing how to be polite!

The translator ran back to the tent from behind.

Everyone was secretly worried, afraid that King Yan Qi would be angry, but seeing Zhang Qian's calm expression, holding the festival battle in his left hand, the red festival was on this green prairie, as dazzling as fire, and they all calmed down.

After a long time, there was no movement, and everyone became worried again. The four great guards, the four great swordsmen, and Gan's father all gathered around Zhang Qian. Everyone else quietly held their weapons. Seeing that everyone was nervous, Zhang Qian smiled faintly and said, "No matter what happens, they will only look for me." Don't panic and don't move. Now people are swordsmen, and I am fish and meat, and it is useless to move. If anything happens, anyone can go to the Yueshi with the Son of Heaven Festival to complete the mission and repay the Son of Heaven. ”

Everyone listened to his words, obviously his last words, and it seems that this mission is really a lot of luck and danger.

However, he said that the translator returned to the big tent and replied Zhang Qian's words to the king of Yanqi as they were, and that the king of Yanqi was angry that the three corpses were violently jumping, and he was going to order the Han envoy to be chopped into meat sauce! They passed through our king's territory and were killed on my king's territory, and my king was not afraid of offending the Han Dynasty; the Chinese love to say, "The two countries exchange troops, and do not cut the envoys," and there is no reason to kill other people's envoys for a few words. Moreover, when I went out hunting today, I was happy in my heart, and it was taboo to kill someone. Also, Shan Yu inspected the territory, and this Han envoy still let Shan Yu dispose of it. Otherwise, it will provoke Shan Yu. ”

This Han man dares to mock me, if I don't kill him, how can I eliminate the hatred in my heart!"

King Yanqi hated grievances. Yan Shi and Wang Xiang persuaded each other bitterly, "These Han people are just frogs at the bottom of the well, arrogant, how do you know that our king is known as the first warrior of the Huns, and the most heroic and invincible! Every time he sent troops to the Han Dynasty, my king took the lead, and killed the corpses of the Han people all over the field! When did my king succumb to someone? It's just that this Han man keeps saying that I don't know how to be polite, so why should I give someone a handle, so that he really thinks that I don't understand any country-to-country interactions. He is just a few people, if you want to kill him, it's just a matter of a few warriors, how can it be worth the anger of my first warrior? Hands-on?"

After persuading for a long time, King Yanqi finally calmed down. It turned out that he was the eldest son of the Hun old Shan Yu, but his mother was a slave and died early, so he could not be enthroned as Shan Yu, and now Shan Yu is his half-brother, and he is unhappy in his heart. Shan Yu came to his territory to inspect and hold a forest conference, and he must have been wary of him in his heart, making things difficult for him everywhere, he was unhappy, and he came out to hunt without waiting for Shan Yu to go back. I wanted to hunt and relax, but I didn't want to run into any Han envoys.

When King Yanqi first heard that Zhang Qian was an envoy, he didn't pay much attention to it, so he wanted him to go over. I didn't want to be in charge of the next household, called Fuqu Daying, who was sent by Shan Yu to the Western Xiongnu, and said: "My Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty have not had an envoy for many years, what kind of envoy does the Han Dynasty want to communicate with, and what is the intention of the Yue clan? Why didn't the prince stop him and send him to the Dragon Court to see how Shan Yu would be delivered?" Only then did he send someone to invite Zhang Qian, and wanted to give Zhang Qian a dismount. Who knew that Zhang Qian didn't eat this set, but instead talked about it, which made King Yanqi a little unable to get off the stage.

King Yanqi ordered to remove the soldiers and horses in front of the tent, and the translator ran over again, came to Zhang Qian and said: "According to the order of my Xiongnu Shan Yu: If the envoys of the Han Dynasty want to enter the big tent to meet my Xiongnu nobles, they are not allowed to hold a festival battle; ”

When Zhang Qian was in Chang'an, Daxing sent someone to teach him the etiquette of the Huns, knowing that if he wanted to enter the big tent of the nobles such as Shan Yu, he must put down the rules of the festival and spread the ink face, in fact, the king of Yanqi put down the knife formation in front of the tent, not to fool around, but to be afraid that the Han envoy would be young and vigorous, and would suddenly assassinate him when he met, so he put down a knife formation to intimidate the Han envoy, so that the Han envoy did not dare to act rashly. This is the rule that envoys meet Shan Yu, and there is nothing special about meeting other dignitaries. King Yanqi is obviously a good example, putting on a single style, which is also a big crime in the Huns. Therefore, Zhang Qian used his words to break his sharpness.

Now seeing that he was still angry, he was a little amused, so he replied, "Otherwise?"

"Then you can't see each other in the account. The translator replied cautiously.

"Then please ask King Yanqi to meet you outside the big tent. Zhang Qian said.

The translator ran back to the big tent. After a while, the trumpets sounded again, and dozens of servants spread rolls of leather felt in the open space in front of the big tent, and then several rolls of red felt in the middle, and then placed a low table on the felt, and a few bowls and plates, a few dried meats, and cheese on the low table. On the four sides of the felt mat, there were Hun guards, whose faces were painted with various colors of oil paint, some facing inwards and some facing outwards, and one by one long knives were unsheathed. King Yanqi slowly walked out of the big tent in the sound of the trumpet, stood in the middle of the felt, and stood to the west, Wang Xiang, the Yan family Danghu, Duwei and other Hun officials stood behind him, and the horn stopped. The translator shouted: "The right king of the Xiongnu invites the envoys of the Han Dynasty to meet!" The horn sounded again.

Zhang Qian jumped off the horse, dressed neatly, dusted off his clothes, held the knots in his left hand, and straightened the knots with his right hand, and then walked onto the felt mat. Father Gan and the four guards followed behind, and they also wanted to step forward, but the Hun guard's hand stopped, and shouted stiffly: "Stop!" Zhang Qian turned around and shook his head at Father Gan and the others, and walked straight forward with his head held high.

Seeing that the envoys of the Han Dynasty were so young, but so calm, all of them secretly wondered.

Zhang Qian approached the king of Yanqi, facing the east zhanzhu, and looked at the king of Yanqi with his eyes. When I got closer, I saw that King Yanqi's face was a little pale, and her eyes were bloodshot, obviously a little too much wine; she was about thirty years old, and her face was good, but she was a little rough, and she was smeared with some thick rouge, and although she was in a beard, it was obvious that she was in good shape, and she should be in good shape; Wang Xiang and the others were all strong and strong-looking, but they were also a little overly drunk, and there were no particularly outstanding characters. King Yanqi looked at Zhang Qian, this young envoy, who can be nine feet tall, his face is a little black and red, his eyebrows and eyes are angular, although he is a little dusty, but it is difficult to hide his vigorous and heroic spirit, holding a knot in his left hand, and his bones are thick.

King Yanqi pointed to the festival and said with a smile: "Holding such a thing, it means that the Son of Heaven has arrived?"

Zhang Qian smiled faintly: "The Han Dynasty has the rules of the Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu have the etiquette of the Xiongnu; the sacred relics of the Han Dynasty are naturally different from those of the Xiongnu, the customs are different, and the customs are different. ”

King Yanqi smiled, and Shi Li said: "Little Wang is all right, I am fortunate to meet the envoys of the Han Dynasty today." "It turned out that his name was Dudang.

Zhang Qian's right hand was raised to his forehead, his left hand did not move, he bowed slightly, made a Hun salute, and replied: "Zhang Qianjie is in his hand, it is inconvenient to give a salute, I have seen the prince here." ”

King Yanqi was very happy, although he made a big battle and was ridiculed by Zhang Qian, but the grassland people were bold and forgot those things quickly. To like is to like, and to be unhappy is to be unhappy. Now he sees Zhang Qian's heroic youth, his instrument is lofty, and he cherishes it in his heart, and he likes Zhang Qian's politeness and gentleness, even more.

stepped forward and grabbed Zhang Qian's hand, grabbed Zhang Qian, and introduced him to the Yan family, Wang Xiang, etc., it turned out that the Huns respected women very much, unlike the Han Dynasty people who did not allow women to meet outsiders, so Zhang Qian had to be able to see his Yan family. Zhang Qian and everyone greeted each other one by one. When Gan's father and others saw such a scene outside the felt mat, they were all relieved.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves came from far and near, Zhang Qian couldn't help but wonder, but looking at the smiles on the faces of King Yanqi and others, he didn't know who was coming.

A few horses appeared in front of me, and gradually I could see clearly, and immediately there were three women, led by a girl of seventeen or eighteen years old, dressed in a fiery red robe, with a piece of red silk wrapped around her hair, and a heroic face, sharp and angular, holding something in her hand. The latter two are dressed in white, which is the color of the Western Huns, and they are also young girls. The girl in red jumped off her horse when she got closer, and several of the guards stepped forward to take the reins, and the two girls jumped off their horses from a distance and followed. As the girl approached, she shouted, "Auntie, Daddy, what do you think I found?" It turned out that the girl was the daughter of King Yanqi.

Everyone listened to her and looked at her hand together, only to see two gray young birds, Zhang Qian naturally had not seen them, and other people were discussing, some said it was an eagle, some said it was an eagle, and some said it was a goose.

He said, "You are a girl, why did you climb the mountain to catch birds! Be careful that you will not be able to marry in the future!"

The girl pouted, not happy. King Yanqi said to Zhang Qian: "This is a little girl. was spoiled by her aunt. Don't laugh at you!"

Zhang Qian smiled slightly and did not speak. Only then did the girl realize that there were outsiders, and looked at Zhang Qian curiously, seeing that it was a person dressed very differently from the people of her own tribe, tall and strong, heroic, looking at herself and smiling. Although the girl is a child of the grassland, she is not as twisted as a Chinese girl, but after all, she is a strange and handsome young man, and she can't help but feel a little ashamed, her face is slightly red, and she sneers: "Who are you?

Zhang Qian didn't smile at her, she misunderstood, was a little embarrassed, and turned her head.

King Yanqi shouted, "Why don't you put down your things quickly and come back to eat!" The girl ran back to the big tent.

Du Dang, Zhang Qian and the others sat down, someone immediately brought a few bags of wine, poured them into a big bowl, and all kinds of strange items on the grassland were placed on the table in an endless stream, like a hill that would be placed after a while. Not far away, slaughtered cattle and sheep were roasted, as well as other wild beasts.

Someone arranged for Gan's father and others to eat and drink, but they didn't show it.

Wang Xiang called Mi Luoshi and asked: "The envoy wants to go to the Yue Clan, the mountain is high and the road is far away, and it is difficult and dangerous. I don't know how to get there?"

Zhang Qian said: "No matter how difficult it is, I will definitely find Yue's family." ”

The big eagle said, "The envoy must find the Yue clan, so what's the matter?"

Zhang Qian said: "The Son of Heaven of the Han Dynasty heard that Yue's horses are good, so he sent Yue's horses to buy Yue's good horses; ”

"Not necessarily. I heard that the Han Dynasty is bent on destroying our Xiongnu, do you want to form an alliance with the Yueshi and attack our Xiongnu from afar?"

Zhang Qian was secretly taken aback, the Son of Heaven Hero List clearly ordered an edict to recruit people to envoy Yueshi, and did not say the purpose of the envoy, and the plan of the Son of Heaven to attack the Xiongnu was not explained in the world, but only discussed among the ministers of the court. The Huns should not know. Although the two sides often had some exchanges, they were both attacked by the Xiongnu and defended by the Han Dynasty, and once the Han Dynasty army was assembled, the Xiongnu withdrew their troops, and the two sides did not fight hard. The Han Emperor wanted to attack the Xiongnu, but the Xiongnu did not believe it, believing that the Han Dynasty was not capable of defeating the Xiongnu at all; among the ministers of the Han Dynasty, there were also many people who thought that attacking the Xiongnu would do more harm than good. Therefore, the two sides are still in harmony, the princess of the Han Dynasty clan married Shan Yu, the Han Dynasty often sent some silk and other things to say that it was for the princess, but in fact it was a tribute to Shan Yu; Zhang Qian felt that the purpose of the envoy to the Yue clan would not be clear to the Huns.

Zhang Qian smiled and said: "Between the Han and the male, it has been 60 years of good harmony, and the son of Han Tianzi and Shan Yu are commensurate with each other, and they are actually nephews, uncles, and cousins! Moreover, in the past 60 years, the Xiongnu army has repeatedly herded horses in the Great Wall, and the first Emperor Xiaowen and the Xiongnu have taken the oath of the Great Wall: with the Great Wall as the boundary, the Han people are only the Great Wall for farming, and the Xiongnu are not for the Great Wall to herd horses. How can we talk about the Han Dynasty's attack on the Xiongnu? When the Han Dynasty was the son of today, we were bent on running the Great Wall, breaking the river and pacifying the displaced people in the world. Zhang Qian secretly thought, can't just go around the topic of Yue's family, so he picked up the wine bowl and drank it all, the strong mare's milk wine went down, and immediately felt the fire in his chest and abdomen, put down the bowl, he breathed a long sigh of relief, and said: "It is said that the wine of the Huns is strong, and as expected, only heroes like King Yanqi and everyone here are worthy of such strong wine." ”

The Huns lived in a bitter cold land, and learned early to make wine with mare's milk, goat's milk, etc.; the Huns also began to drink wine since childhood, men, women and children can drink, they see the same as drinking and eating and drinking, but they also like to drink, after drinking, with a slight drunkenness, singing, dancing, because drinking is too common for them, so they think that people who do not drink are aliens, and therefore they sincerely admire those who can drink, and think that they are heroes. Now I am very happy to see that Zhang Qian can not only drink a bowl of their spirits, but also praise their good wine and heroes. They all picked up the bowls and drank all the wine in the bowls. After drinking the wine, the atmosphere was different, and Zhang Qian asked: "The heroes and heroes among the Huns, skilled in bows and horses, and strong in martial arts, can you find a hero to show his skills?"

At this time, Princess Yanran, the daughter of King Yanqi, had returned, and she had changed into a cyan Handi brocade robe, which looked delicate and gorgeous. Zhang Qian found that since Princess Yanran appeared, his eyes had never left her, and he felt a little strange in his heart.

Duwei Jiuqiu listened to Zhang Qian's praise of the Hun warriors for a while, and stood up. This man is in his early thirties, with a boxy body, a round head and brain, an ugly scar on his face, and a few wide yellow-white oil paints, which are indescribably hideous and terrifying. He had a white animal skin about the size of a palm, and it seemed to everyone to be just a white spot, and the nine beasts stood on the spot, and took the carved bow handed by the guard, and looked at the bow, which was black and swarthy and unknown material, and the bowstring was thick and hard, and it should be made of ox tendon. The nine beasts take the bow in their hands, their feet are naturally separated, one foot in front and one foot behind, and they put on the arrow, their right hand in front and their left hand in the back, and their waist and hips are forceful, and their arms are shouting, "Medium!" The arrow flew out like a meteor and hit the animal skin. The Hun warriors cheered, and Zhang Qian couldn't help but stand up and applaud. If Wang Zhong shot the flying eagle with an arrow, he used skill, then the nine beasts used both fierceness and ingenuity. You must know that most of the people who are skilled in archery can shoot the flying eagle, but a piece of animal skin is very difficult to bear, and the nine beasts are strong in bow and archery. However, Wang Zhong's bow was obviously not as strong as the bow of the Nine Beasts. This is where Zhang Qian is worried, the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty fought each other, and the strength of the bow and arrow was an important factor in the decisive victory.

Danghu Daying said: "There should be no shortage of capable people under the envoy, you might as well invite you to come and learn from my Hun warriors." How?" King Yanqi applauded first, and everyone looked at Zhang Qian. Among these people, Zhang Qian felt the most uncomfortable with this big eagle, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. The Great Eagle asked the warriors of both sides to compete, and obviously had an idea.

Princess Yanran was childish, and when she heard that the big eagle wanted to compete between the two sides, she was the first to applaud and asked to compete quickly.

Zhang Qian smiled slightly and said: "These people I brought are all people who have violated the king's law and are in prison for crimes, and the Son of Heaven is lenient and allows them to serve the country and send envoys with me." They can't be called warriors, how can the warriors of our Han Dynasty go out of the customs indiscriminately?"

Princess Yanran was very disappointed, but Daying did not give up, he pointed to Zhou Bo and the other four people, and said, "The envoy is telling a joke." These people are not sinners, they are all masters of masters!"

Zhang Qian smiled and said: "You see that his eyebrows are white, an old man who is about to enter the grave." Where is he a master?"

The big eagle walked quickly towards Uncle Zhou. Uncle Zhou was drinking with some Hun guards, and naturally they also said something about hunting and archery, and later saw Du Wei Jiu Gong archery, they were secretly surprised in their hearts, but they didn't expect that the big eagle would want the two sides to compete in martial arts, and they didn't expect Zhang Qian to refuse several times. Now when he saw the big eagle coming to him, he clasped his hands into fists and said, "A few heroes! ”

A few people followed the eagle over. Zhang Qian was secretly anxious in his heart, he was afraid of a competition, the two sides would be ruthless, and it would be trouble to hurt anyone, and he was not clear about the skills of Zhou Bo and others, seeing that the other party's men and horses were strong, the momentum was weak first. But I can't tell Zhou Bo and others. can only give Gan's father and Uncle Zhou a look frequently. But how did Gan Father and others understand?

When everyone came closer, Zhang Qian took Zhou Bo's hand and led him to King Yanqi and said, "I've seen King Yanqi first." ”

Zhou Bo knelt down and saluted King Yanqi, and the others knelt down. King Yanqi waved his hand, and everyone thanked him and stood up. King Yanqi said, "Are you willing to learn martial arts with my Hun warriors?"

Several people looked at Zhang Qian, and when he showed them, they all thought that Zhang Qian asked them to come over to compete, but they didn't understand what Zhang Qian meant. Now they looked at Zhang Qian, obviously making it clear that they all knew martial arts, and they were not the old man who was about to enter the grave as Zhang Qian said. And although Uncle Zhou's eyebrows are white, his waist is straight, and he walks in a tiger's style, where is an old man who is about to enter the grave?

Zhang Qian had no choice but to say: "The prince wants to see you play with the Hun warriors, everyone should make friends from the point to the end." ”

Daying saw that there were still nine people on the Han Dynasty's side besides Zhang Qian, so he shouted out nine people from among the guards, and he actually wanted to use the ordinary warriors around him to compete with the famous swordsmen of the Han Dynasty? Zhang Qian knew that Zhou Bo cared about his identity and would not do it casually, so he wanted to let Mei Buping play, but the other party selected nine people, and obviously would not let Zhou Bo and the others go.

Zhou Bo understood Zhang Qian's meaning a little at this time, but it was a little late. Among these people, Ju Budo is the most clever, he has no interest in competing with a few ordinary guards, he knows that it is common to play martial arts before the feast, if the relationship between the two sides is harmonious, the martial arts is really "acting"; and if the two sides hide the murderous intention, the martial arts will sometimes be full of danger, and even shed blood on the spot. The problem now is that the situation is unclear, and the other party is suspicious, but on the surface it is calm. If you don't come up with something, you won't be able to cope with it. He grinned, walked up to the Nine Beasts, bowed to the Nine Beasts, and said, "Borrow your bow and arrows." The Nine Lion handed him the bow and arrows, he took the Nine Lion Bow, and tried hard to pull it away, but the bowstring was only slightly opened, and the Huns showed a disdainful smile on their faces. Ju Budo put down the bow a little embarrassed, the bowstring drooped, and it was broken!

This is exactly what it is: the hero is stuffed into the tiger's den, and the soldier sings from the army;

Mo Dao's fame is easy to take, and you can see the white bones across the western soil.