Heroes have never been unscrupulous, and righteousness has been slaughtered since ancient times; undressing people push wine and food, and dare to say that they look down on the marquis of ten thousand households.

The book was picked up and said that the bush man privately said that he would move Zhang Da to reveal the emperor's list, but he didn't dare to say it to Dou Ying. That's why someone unveiled the list as mentioned earlier and reported it to Dou Ying. Dou Ying was overjoyed, immediately entered the palace, reported to the emperor, the emperor was very excited, and immediately issued an edict to award the title of Angel of the Great Han of the Unveiling List, and let him hurry up.

Some of them said, since the envoy is a good errand that will make sure that you don't lose money, why don't you go by yourself? Why don't those powerful people in the DPRK and China let their own people go, and good things will be done by Zhang Da Da?

The bushman himself did not go, because he had his plan. Because discerning people have long known that after more than 60 years of recuperation and recuperation, the Han Dynasty can now be said to be rich and strong, the barn rice is old, the money is rotten, the soldiers are fierce, the stables are full, and the arsenal is Qi. It is not far before the Han Dynasty wants to attack the Xiongnu, recover the lost territory, and solve the long-term troubles of the Xiongnu. Guan Fu and others waited for the emperor to issue a conscription edict, which was the prancing horse field, thirsty for the blood of the knife, sleeping in the saddle, and fighting for his wife and life with his blood. Everyone else is holding on to this idea.

Zhang Da is not confused, and he has also seen this situation, but he also knows that it is not something that anyone can do to go into battle and lead troops to make meritorious contributions. Gongsun brother Weishenme is so good, because they are related to the Son of Heaven, Wei Qing's sister became the woman of the Son of Heaven, and Wei Qing's other sister is Gongsun He's wife. Wei Qing and the Gongsun brothers have been on the rise recently, and anyone with a discerning eye knows what's going on. Zhang Da is not angry, so many dignitaries, royal relatives and nobles, sons and grandsons, are all waiting, charging and killing the enemy is a matter of lower-level soldiers, receiving merit and rewards, and even sealing the marquis to worship the general. But the mission is a matter that no one can fight. But an envoy is not the same as a war. Fighting a war depends on personal courage, martial arts, and luck, and the envoy also needs to have a strong family background, so he hesitated for a long time. Unexpectedly, his hesitation forced the bushman to voluntarily provide all the money for the trip.

But it was said that Zhang Da unveiled the list and caused a sensation in the entire Chang'an City. Gongsun Ao smiled and said, "You kid fell headlong, picked up a gold ingot, and got lucky with shit!

The Grand Commander in charge of the affairs of the envoy took him to the government office, asked him about all aspects of his situation, and expressed his deep admiration for his courage. asked him again if he was willing to unveil the list, and Zhang Da said: "The villain is loyal to the Son of Heaven." I am willing to do my best for the Son of Heaven and the Han Dynasty!" Daxing took Zhang Da to meet the emperor according to the emperor's request.

The young emperor was overjoyed when he saw the young warrior horseman, heroic and young.

"You are my martial horseman, and you should be edicted. I've seen you. Last year, you won the championship in the upper corner of the Heavenly Street!"

After the end of the meeting last year, the emperor met him from afar on the castle tower, and the emperor actually remembered him! The emperor's memory is amazing. The big man and the ministers secretly admired.

The emperor was very happy: "Zhang Dajia." Well, what's your real name?"

"They all call the villain big, and the villain doesn't remember his name. ”

"Oh! If you go to the embassy, the big one, it seems a little vulgar, well, I will give you a name! You will have to go to Guanshan to block, it takes a lot of courage, hold high, take off, I think you will be called Zhang Qian." ”

Zhang Qian hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, "Thank you, Lord Longen, thank you for your name!"

The emperor was very happy: "When I heard that it was my martial knight who unveiled the list, I was indescribably happy! Say, what do you want? I will meet you!" Daxing Ling wanted to remind the emperor that Zhang Qian was a private equity and could not make demands on the imperial court, but when he saw that the emperor was happy, he did not say anything.

Zhang Qian said: "The minister is loyal to Bixia. Being able to work for Bixia is a long-cherished wish in the minister's heart. The envoy had no other request, but ------"

Dou Ying said: "What's the problem, just say it!"

"The minister thinks that this envoy will not only complete the mission, but also carry forward the prestige of my Han Dynasty, so that the people of the world will know the magnificent atmosphere of my Han Dynasty, yearn for the wealth and prosperity of my Han Dynasty, the country is rich and the people are strong, and I really want to naturalize my China!"

"Well said! Let foreigners know that my Han is powerful, prosperous, and wealthy, so that they will yearn for my Han heart. The Emperor said. "What else?"

"For this reason, the minister implores Bixia to allow the minister to choose his own retinue, and no one is restricted!"

"Oh, anyone, is it okay to be rebellious?"

The Emperor's face turned gloomy as his tone turned cold. The hearts of the people were raised to their throats, and no one expected him to make such a request, and they all thought that he would ask for some fields, houses, gold and silver treasures, and so on.

Zhang Qian did not look at the emperor's face, nor did he care about the change in the emperor's tone, and said: "The ministers are ignorant, and the ministers dare not think about wrongdoing! The ministers are by no means rebellious and unscrupulous! The people who are used by the ministers are just because they are confused for a while, and they accidentally make mistakes, and they are handed over to the officials for punishment." The lieutenant and the inner history can prove what the minister said. ”

The emperor's face softened, he thought for a while, and said, "Give the person you want to the captain." Then he dispersed.

Dou Ying couldn't stop complaining about Zhang Qian along the way, "You should have communicated with me before you met the emperor! Otherwise, how dangerous it would be today! The emperor was angry, not only you, but a group of us were unlucky!"

Zhang Qian smiled and apologized to Dou Ying: "It's all the fault of the lowly position! The juniors are not! It's not that they didn't report it to the Taiwei in advance, it's just that the juniors remembered it temporarily, so they said it casually." "Dou Ying can't say anything more, after all, the emperor is not angry, there is still room for reluctance, everything will wait for Zhang Qian to take out the list of personnel.

In fact, Zhang Qianti's request was that he discuss haode with the irrigation man. The bushman said: "If you want to succeed in this mission, you must choose a good helper. Otherwise, it will be difficult to accomplish the mission. ”

"Helper, isn't it sent by the imperial court?"

"The people given to you by the imperial court are all window dressing, and they are not of great use! Moreover, those people can only cope with ordinary situations, and when they encounter special circumstances, they are helpless. ”

"What should I do then?" the bushman explained to him like this, and Zhang Qian obeyed his words. So when the emperor received him, he did not ask for the gold and silver treasures of the imperial court, but asked for people, not ordinary people, but people with problems.

The emperor was relieved, Dou Ying hosted it, and Zhang Qian ordered someone to take his angel's name card to various yamen in Chang'an and dignitaries in various counties. At the same time, all kinds of items used in the mission were purchased, which were naturally purchased by the bushman. Not table.

Within a day, Zhang Qian's people arrived one after another, a total of 120 people. These people have just come out of various prisons, and they are all strange. The tall ones are too tall and too tall like a flag, the low ones are less than five feet, just like rolling tops, the fat ones have a round head and face and body, like a big gourd, and the thin ones are like paper flags that send gods. These people are all dressed in quails, unkempt, and some are even carried. There was originally only one old slave in Zhang Qian's family, that was when he once won a gamble with someone, and he was a Hu man who fled into the Han Court, called Gan's father, who took care of Zhang Qian's food and clothing on weekdays. At this time, let him take care of these people.

The grub man sent a few more people to help Gan's father, boiled a few pots of hot water first, let the visitors take a bath first, change the clothes in prison, change into freshly made clothes, and then arrange a place to stay.

Zhang Qian registered and understood the people who reported every day, whose surnames were, where they were in their hometowns, what occupations they were engaged in, why they committed crimes, and what punishments they were sentenced to, and reported them to Dou Ying, who reported to the emperor exactly what Zhang Qian had counted.

The emperor saw the situation of all the people reported by Dou Ying, these people included tailors, cooks, sons-in-law, advocates, apprentices, small officials, farmers, scholars, merchants, sitters, suns, stars, doctors, and sorcerers. The emperor was amused and asked Dou Ying: "Where did this Zhang Qian get these messy people?

Dou Ying replied cautiously: "The minister also asked him." He said that he had met them when he was drinking and gambling, and that some of them had been introduced by others and that he had taken the opportunity to save their lives. Zhang Qian said: These people were lucky enough to get their lives, so they would die to serve the court. And because these people are guilty, after they get out of the customs, there is no way out, so they will move forward desperately and dare not retreat. These people have just accidentally committed a crime, and Bixia has opened up to them, and now they are able to serve the country, showing the kindness and compassion of Bixia and the imperial court. ”

The emperor was very satisfied with Dou Ying's answer, in fact, what Dou Ying said, he had already sent someone to investigate. Now I am very happy to see that Dou Ying did not hide it. The emperor said to Dou Ying: "Zhang Qian, this person is a good gambler! Will it be bad?"

Dou Ying was taken aback, the emperor knew everything and couldn't hide anything from him. He replied cautiously: "Although this Zhang Qian is a good gambler, I haven't heard that he turned his face with others because of these things." On the contrary, many people became his friends because of gambling. In Chang'an's gambling stalls, Zhang Qian is a person who can be called, and many officials and nobles may not have him to speak and count. This time, he unveiled the list, and the people and officials all thought that he was the most suitable person, and everyone could accept him. ”

The Emperor pondered: "You mean he didn't fight for gambling money? ”

"Yes. ”

The emperor also used to sneak outside the palace, walk through the streets and alleys, and see people drinking and fighting, gambling and fighting, and his heart is disgusted. Zhang Qian can not offend people among these people, and it should be no problem to go on an envoy. The emperor asked again, "How is the daughter of Zhang Qian and the Marquis of Guangping?"

The sweat on Dou Ying's head fell. He was secretly ashamed in his heart, "Thanks to my carefulness, I asked Zhang Qian's matter clearly." Otherwise, I don't know what the emperor knows. "The Marquis of Guangping is already married. ”

The emperor changed the subject: "The people brought by Zhang Qian, I saw it, why did I feel uncomfortable somewhere." By the way, his people basically don't have a loud name! What are they called, such as camels, pockmarks, white dogs, and black dogs, if they are just death row prisoners, it doesn't matter what they are called, and when they go to the land outside the world, the barbarians have no names! You go down to discuss and give them a name that can show me as a country of Chinese culture, which is full of grace and elegance. Dou Ying quickly thanked the emperor for the gift of those people. Afterwards, Dou Ying found a few doctors to give names to those pedestrians, and naturally the bald man and pockmarked disappeared, and there were some names that foreigners did not know why, and they were in the clouds.

Emperor Zuihou ordered Zhang Qian to get ready, and he was to see Zhang Qian off in person.

Why did Zhang Qian want these people? Are these people really just cooks and tailors?

The identities of these people are all true, but they are not simple. Although these people are the most ordinary people, they are actually heroes of Chang'an and various counties. It's just that some heroes, like bush husbands, join the army, and fight for princes and generals with a knife and a gun; more heroes yearn for the Zhu family, Guo Jie, and Jumeng, who hide in the people, but can be proud of the princess, Ling Guanfu, who are faithful, renewing promises, helping the needy, and killing people for thousands of miles without leaving a name.

The government in various places hates these people the most, not because they kill people, nor because they hate them for being faithful and trustworthy, but because they exalt themselves and boast of being heroes, and do not take the government seriously. Therefore, the officials always find excuses to strike at them mercilessly. However, it is difficult for the officials to find the real evidence of their crimes, and they always find some inexplicable excuses to arrest them. Now that they are able to serve the country, naturally no one wants to sweep the emperor's prosperity, no one says the details of these people, in fact, no one can say their details. Bushman took advantage of Zhang Qian's envoy to rescue these people, and these people have their own livelihoods that are the fundamental reason for their salvation. There are also some people who want to be saved, or they are too famous, or they are tycoons themselves, and they are used to being rich and noble, so they can't do it. These people became Zhang Qian's entourage in this way

In fact, it was not Zhang Qian's original intention to ask for these people, because he didn't know how many people he needed and what people he needed for the mission. He just felt that he had also seen other people's envoys, holding frugal battles, leading subordinates, and being majestic, so he also thought about bringing dozens of subordinates. Although he is well-informed, he is not good at how to make a mission. It was Gan's father who gave him the idea.

Gan's father was originally a Yueshi Hu person, and when he was young, he was friendly with a woman in the tribe, and the two herded horses under the blue sky, and their love was as strong as mare's milk wine, and they were like mandarin ducks by the spring. But the prince of the tribe fell in love with the woman and asked the woman to be his woman, and Gan's father and the woman cried and begged the prince to fulfill them, and the prince sneered and beat Gan's father with a hundred whips, and he was covered in blood and snatched the woman. That night, the woman strangled herself with a leather whip given by her father. The prince was furious and brought people to arrest Gan's father, but Gan's father had to hide in the mountains with his injuries. A few months later, Gan's father, who had recovered from his injuries, secretly returned to the tribe and killed the prince. The prince's son gave an order to kill Gan's father, and the strong men of the tribe began to hunt him down. Gan's father crossed the desert from the prairie of Longxi, fought all the way to escape for his life, and fled into Longxi. Already covered in wounds and exhausted. A wealthy merchant in Tangyi saw his father Gan, who was covered in blood and dying, on Longxi Road, and saw that he was tall and strong, so he tried to order someone to save him. As a result, he was just a traumatic injury, and he grew up on the grassland, forged by wind and rain, he smeared some medicine and it worked, drank some porridge and became energetic, and returned to normal in a few days. He became a slave to a wealthy merchant in Tangyi. As a result, the wealthy merchants of Tangyi arrived in Chang'an, drank and gambled with the officers, and lost him to Zhang Qian.

Gan's father fled for his life all the way, and he was clear about life on the grassland. Therefore, when Zhang Qian unveiled the list and wanted to send an envoy to Yue's family, Gan's father asked: "Master, how are you going to go?" Zhang Qian said: How many honor guards do I carry, how many horses do I carry, and how many treasures do I carry.

Father Gan smiled: "You can't get to the Yue Clan like that." ”

"Why?"

"With the guards, the books, the treasures, if you go around China, that's okay, where are you going, people are close to deliver, eating, drinking, living, traveling, playing, everything is prepared, you don't have to worry about it. Out of the customs, the endless prairie, the desert, the snow-covered mountains, and the great river that flows through the ages. There are fewer people and more tigers and wolves. If you want to drink saliva, there is something in the ditch, and you have to scoop it yourself; what should you do if your clothes are dirty and torn? When you get out of the customs, you can say that they have all become wastes! Even as soon as you get out of the customs, your honor guards may have already disappeared. Which of your honor guards is not a son, and which one is not a prince and grandson?

"What then?"

"You have to find someone who can suffer and be offended. ”

Zhang Qian thought about it carefully and felt that what Gan's father said made sense. Consult with the bushman. Only then did the bushman come up with the idea to ask the emperor for a sinner.

Zhang Qian's men finally arrived, and the emperor sent four long-experienced guards to show the importance of the imperial court; Dou Ying and Guan Fu joined forces to send four master knights, known as the Four Great Swordsmen of Chang'an, as Zhang Qian's personal bodyguards.

Because it was the first time that the emperor sent an envoy, the emperor had to personally see him off in the north of Weiyang Palace when he set off. The people of Chang'an are sandwiched on both sides of the heavenly street, and there are a sea of people.

More than 100 people, although they are all kinds of people, tall, short, fat and thin, but now they are neatly dressed, with a green linen shirt, a black linen bottom, and a black hat; they are carrying a Shandong mulberry wooden bow, carrying a Chudi hazel arrow, with a knife forged by a famous craftsman of Wu Yue, a sword prepared by a master of the three rivers, and a famous spear, a big spear, a hard halberd, and a ligo in Guannei, with collars and sticks, and the horses under the crotch are all official horses supplied by Guanzhong. It is really like a tiger going down the mountain, and a horse is like a dragon going out to sea.

At the front were the four guards sent by the emperor, then Gan's father with a team of one hundred and twenty people, and Zuihou was Zhang Qian and the four great swordsmen.

Zhang Qian wears a red gauze hat, a red cloak, and a blue brocade robe, and holds the emperor's edict in his left hand, which is wrapped in a red brocade wrap, and holds an eight-foot-long festival in his right hand, which is made of purple bamboo that has grown in Nanshan for more than five years, and hangs the tail of a Xishu yak on the top, dyed red. Zhang Qian did not carry a bow and arrow, only carried a sword, shark skin sheath, blue and black sword handle, this is his family heirloom sword, although the appearance is not amazing, but it is passed down from the ancients, when it is the ancient gods; There is a big spear hanging on the horse, which is a good iron in Shu, made by a famous artist, and weighs forty-nine pounds.

The emperor inspected the north gate of Weiyang Palace, was very happy, and ordered one person to give a bowl of good royal wine.

Zhang Qian led the people to drink, then knelt down to thank the emperor, and led the horse to slowly retreat away from Weiyang Palace. The emperor and his ministers returned to the palace and did not mention it.

But it was said that Zhang Qian watched the emperor leave, then stepped on the horse and went out of Chang'an.

Bushman waited outside Chang'an City with many heroes. Everyone dismounted and saw each other, and then someone brought wine, and everyone drank it.

Zhang Qian clenched his fists: "Brothers, the emperor's order is here, and I dare not delay." Never since. "I don't say that there will be a period later, and no one can say if I can come back this time.

Bushman and the others said one after another: "Take care!

Zhang Qian took the lead in riding horses, and many people turned back to take a look at the tall and majestic Chang'an City, and then beat their horses and galloped.

Along the way, the county naturally meets the county, some are post stations, the government is careful to entertain, do not have to worry about Zhang Qian; not a day to Longxi County, this is the Zuihou county along the way, the county guard and other wine and food hospitality, and then escort out of the city. Outside the city, there were villages, but there were no people, there were houses, but there were no doors and windows, there were fields, but there were no farmers, and what I saw was panic and recklessness, and what I heard was the howling of foxes and wolves. Zhang Qian and others couldn't help but feel sad in their hearts.

Qiqi stopped for a while, and dozens of veterans greeted him in front of the gate. Originally, in the Han Dynasty, outside the border passes, some pavilions and barriers were generally set up, and there were some soldiers to transmit the news of foreign invasion to the interior in a timely manner. These soldiers had sunken eyes, had vegetable-colored faces, wore no helmets, did not wear armor, and were in ragged clothes.

Zhang Qian asked them to give them the grain that the Longxi county guard asked them to help carry. Asked, "How did you become like this?" Tingwei smiled bitterly: "The Huns often harass, when they come, we hide, and we dare to come back when they are gone." When the news spread, no one cared. We just hope to save our lives, not to be captured as slaves by the Huns, and to return to our hometown alive. We'll just have to make ends meet, waiting for the next batch of unlucky ones to take our place. ”

It seems that the threat of the Huns is now a real existence, and all the original imagination has completely changed the moment they see the soldiers. Together with the soldiers, they ate a meal of zuihou in China: boiled wheat, boiled beans.

This is: the heroes do not fall to the Han, and the desert walks alone;

Who depicts the millennium wind and clouds, and the Silk Road is sprinkled with blood.