One person above Qing Huang Ting

Chapter 126 The King of Qiuci

Yancheng was built on the Tianshan Mountain, and the Kucha Palace is on the mountainside of the Tianshan Mountain. Kucha has the most abundant products among the 36 countries in the Western Regions, so the construction of the palace can be regarded as magnificent and majestic.

In order to cope with the wind and sand in the Western Regions, the appearance of the palace is rough and not decorated too much. It can only be seen that the palace is very grand, and each floor is two feet high.

However, there are other things in the Qiuci Palace. The candlesticks used for placing candles in the palace corridors are all made of gold, and the surface of the candlesticks is also carved with elaborate patterns.

All kinds of lifelike murals are painted on the walls of the corridor. The murals record the deeds of the Qiuci King who founded the Qiuci Kingdom in the Cook Oasis.

However, the content of the mural is obviously distorted, and there are some artistic processing.

The King of Qiuci has been deified, and he is simply a god who blocks and kills a god.If you just look at the murals, you would think that King Qiuci built a huge empire spanning the Eurasian continent.

Anyway, after seeing these murals, Gao Lu pouted in disdain. Although he had not seen King Qiuci, he already had a preliminary impression of him.

King Qiuci's face is really thick.

It was the first time for Gao Lu to see these exquisite frescoes, but Gao Gu had seen them many times. He sighed in Chinese:

"These murals are the same as the last time I came, nothing has changed, but the colors seem to have faded."

Gao Lu looked at Gao Gu with some confusion, but did not realize why Gao Gu suddenly said this to him.

Isn't it normal that the content of the mural has not changed?
Looking at Gao Lu's blank expression, Gao Gu sighed:

"The time is still too fast, and Lin Heng has not grown up yet."

In the palace of Qiuci, surrounded by attendants and guards of Qiuci, so Gao Gu did not teach Gao Lu here for the time being.

In order to maintain the content of the frescoes and its bright colors, the frescoes need to be maintained every year. Western churches ask painters to add colors to the frescoes in the church every year.

The murals in the palace of Qiuci are no exception, but these murals are the same as the ones that Gao Gu saw a few years ago, which means that the finances of the Qiuci Kingdom are not optimistic in the past few years, and they have not been able to waste financial and material resources on the details.

It seems that Queen Jingjue has pushed Qiuzi enough over the past few years. In order to meet Jingjue's request for offerings, the money that Qiuzi has accumulated is about to be exhausted.

The maid who led the way brought Gao Gu’s uncle and nephew to the door of a hall, and then turned around and said to Gao Gu in the Qiuci language:
"Lord sage, I can only deliver it here, the king is waiting for you in the hall."

"It's troublesome."

Gao Gu replied in Kucha language.

The maid smiled sweetly, then returned the salute to the two before leaving.

Gao Gu tidyed up his clothes, stretched them out, and smoothed out the wrinkles:

"Let's go, don't lose your etiquette in front of King Qiuci, but don't be too humble and let him despise."

"Here."

Gao Lu learned Gao Gu's movements, but he was still not as free and easy as Gao Gu, and seemed a little nervous.

When the two entered the palace, there was only the king of Qiuci, who was sitting on the golden lion seat with a brocade belt on his head, dressed in a robe with a folded lapel and narrow sleeves, a belt around his waist, and long boots, with a smile on his face.

Although Zeluo is nearly eighty years old, with white hair and folds on his face, his eyes are as bright as smoke, making it difficult to look directly at him, and he is burly and muscular. Gao Gu is even better.

Needless to say, King Zeluo of Kucha must be a strange person, and only a foreigner with full innate qi can still maintain this state at the age of 80.

Most of the kings of the 36 countries in the Western Regions are aliens. The Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated. As long as you have force, you can gather a group of followers. If you find an oasis, you can become a king on your own.

For example, the Pulei Kingdom with a population of just over 2000 was established in this way.

It was the same at the beginning of Kucha, but King Zeluo of Kucha was powerful. Relying on his own bravery, he led his men to occupy an oasis with the most abundant resources. After more than 8 years of operation and construction, it was finally built with a population of [-]. , the country of Kucha with more than a thousand victorious soldiers.

Not only is Qiuci’s music moving and unique, but its halberds are equally sharp.

If Queen Jingjue hadn't been born, Kucha would be the most powerful country among the 36 countries in the Western Regions.
In Qiuci Elementary School, Yiren's advantages are more prominent. King Qiuci understands that if his heir is not Yiren, he will not be able to sit on the throne.

However, the ratio of aliens is one in 15. Although the odds of aliens giving birth to aliens are higher, the odds are not optimistic.

Therefore, for the continuation of the Qiuci Kingdom, the Qiuci King could only cast a wide net and spread seeds everywhere.

Some people even joked that the Qiuci nobles had a fight, and the Qiuci prince accounted for half.

But even so, when Gao Gu came last time, he still hadn't heard that there were aliens among Zeluo's descendants.

Gao Gu led Gao Lu to meet King Zeluo of Qiuci, and greeted him in skilled Qiuci language.

Zeluo laughed, walked down from the throne, and personally helped Gao Gu:

"Sages don't need to be too polite. Last time, the sages suggested to me that after the craftsmen were divided into different places, the forging speed of the ordnance has indeed increased a lot. Last year, they even fulfilled the requirements of Jingjue in full."

Gao Gu cupped his hands and said, "That's your credit, King Qiuci. If you didn't work hard, there would be no Qiuci today, so I just made some suggestions."

It can be seen that Gao Gu and Zeluo have a good personal relationship. This is the reason why Gao Gu advised Zeluo before. Before Gao Gu, the Zaklama people only regarded Qiuci as a simple foothold.

When Gao Gu was like Gao Ji, when he and his elders came to Qiuci for the first time, he keenly discovered the advantages of Qiuci. The transportation here is convenient and the materials are abundant. To say it is even more powerful.

After several days of visits, Gao Gu discovered a problem in Qiuci.

In the barbarian land of the Western Regions, the official system is chaotic, the officials' responsibilities are unclear, and the authority is unclear. If he does not designate one person to do the things that the King of Qiuci has ordered, no one will do it.

Because they don't know if he should do it or not.

It is said to be a country, but it is more like a big bandit den with many hills.

After returning to the Han Dynasty, Gao Gu went to a large county with [-] households, made some money, entered the county government and became the chief bookkeeper, helping him handle documents and getting familiar with the organization of the county government. structure.

Although Qiuci is known as a country, but with a population of [-], its territory is just like the land of a county in the Han Dynasty. As long as a complete county government can be built, it is enough for Qiuci.

After staying in the county office for a period of time, Gao Gu had a detailed understanding of the operation of the county office, so he resigned from his job in the county office. After coming to Qiuci again, he tried to find a way to meet the king of Qiuci. , presented a complete set of Qiuci official system to King Qiuci.

There has never been such a perfect and strict official system in the Western Regions, although some people, even some countries in the Western Regions, often do not understand Gao Gu's words.

But Zeluo did discover the benefits, and asked Gao Gu to help him implement the perfect official system from the great Han in Qiuci.

From then on, Zeluo's edicts could be passed from Qiuci to every corner of Qiuci.

Zeluo was very happy, thinking that Gao Gu was a sage bestowed on him by God, and even wanted Gao Gu to be his prime minister, but was rejected by Gao Gu.

Gao Gu declined the position of prime minister, but the Zaklama tribe was still unimpeded in Qiuci, and no one dared to stop him, even Zeluo's sons were very polite to Gao Gu.

The last time Gao Gu came to Yancheng, Luo deliberately asked Gao Gu about Jingjue and asked him if he had a good plan.

But this is the gap in hard power. Gao Gu has no clue for a while, so he can only teach Zeluo Xianqin the method of making a strong crossbow, and let him deal with the ordnance that Jingjue asks for.

Zeluo and Gao Gu exchanged a few words, and Gao Gu introduced Gao Lu to Zeluo. Zeluo nodded to Gao Lu, saying that he would pay attention to him in the future, and then said to Gao Gu impatiently:
"Sage, the Jingjue Kingdom has sent messengers these days to convey the order of the Jingjue Queen to me."

Gao Lu on the side was a little surprised, because Qiuci King Zeluo was speaking Chinese now.

Since Gao Gu told Zeluo about things in the Central Plains, especially after he brought him the advanced official system in the Central Plains, Zeluo admired the great Han very much, and even learned Chinese from Gao Gu.

Zeluo took a piece of parchment from the stone table in the palace, on which were rubbed the portraits of the three people, and he showed the parchment to Gao Gu:

"Well, they said that I wanted these three people all over the country, and they also left a messenger in Yancheng, saying that they wanted to supervise me."

Pooh!
Speaking of this, Luo spit on the ground, expressing disdain.

Gao Gu frowned at the lifelike portrait on the parchment. Except for one person whose face was blurred, he just knew the other man and woman.

Hu Xiuwu and Chen Duo.

(End of this chapter)