The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 686 Zhang Qian Tells a Story

After several years, Zhang Qian, who came back again, no longer had the green onion when he set out.

Zhang Qian, who had been running in the Western Regions for several years, was reddened by the sun and a little thin, but his eyes were still bright and he was in a good state of mind.

"Zhang Qing, thank you for your hard work."

With tears in his eyes, Zhang Qian stepped forward to salute with a choked voice, "Your Majesty, I'm back!"

Li Yunze stepped forward to help him up, looked at Zhang Qian and nodded repeatedly, "It's good to be back."

Immediately, his eyes turned to the members of the mission who returned with Zhang Qian.

When we first set off, there were hundreds of members of the mission, translators, guides, doctors, grooms, veterinarians, and guards.

But at this time, there were only a hundred or so people who came back with Zhang Qian.

Of course, compared to many years in history, even only two people came back in the end, it is already too much stronger.

"Tell me."

When they came to the temporary camp, Li Yunze pulled Zhang Qian to sit down and asked, "How did you get here all the way?"

"I led my troops out of the border wall all the way to the west, passing through the Qiang land and towards the West Sea (Qinghai Lake). When I was traveling across the desert and the oases in the Loulan Kingdom, the local people with evil intentions attacked the mission and suffered heavy losses."

Speaking of this, Li Yunze immediately showed an angry expression, "The little country of Cuoer is so bold! It dared to attack the Han missionary. Zhang Qing, when the army enters the Western Regions, you will personally lead the army to destroy this country and avenge my son of the Han family! "

Zhang Qian was so moved that he got up again and saluted, "Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The next step is to sit down and continue talking about the journey. "There are many small countries in the Western Regions, most of which dare to call themselves a country. There are Huns in many countries, and the queens of many countries are Hun women."

This is a fact, because the Huns on the grassland must have entered the Western Regions in advance, and according to their tradition, it is also necessary to control their country by marrying their daughters.

"However, after crossing the vast sea, the influence of the Huns on the other countries was not great. When heading north, we met the Wusun people."

Li Yunze frowned, "The Wusun people are allies of the Huns, are you starting a fight?"

Zhang Qian smiled wryly, "Your servants also know that the Wusun people are allies of the Huns, so they ran away after encountering the Wusun cavalry, but the Wusun people chased after them closely, and more and more people and horses gathered. The cavalry surrounded me and surrounded us."

Speaking of this, Li Yunze knew there was a story.

If they were all killed by the Wusun people, then Zhang Qian would not be telling stories here at this moment.

Li Yunze was very cooperative, and asked with a curious look on his face, "How did you solve it?"

Zhang Qian explained, "Just when I thought I was going to die in battle, those Wusun cavalry stopped fighting and just surrounded us. Until a few days later, Wusun Kunmo and Lie Jiaomi came to the battle in person. Before you go, talk to me in detail."

Li Yunze narrowed his eyes, "It seems that the Wusun people finally want to get rid of the control of the Huns."

Wusun Kunmo (chieftain) Lie Jiaomi lost his country when he was young, and later fled to the Huns, was adopted as his godson by Modun Shanyu, and sent troops to help him restore his country.

Of course, on the prairie, strength is the most important thing, and ambitious people are everywhere, and no matter how great the kindness is, it is useless in the face of interests.

Since then, Wusun has basically been equivalent to a vassal tribe of the Huns, except that it is powerful enough.

Facing Wusun, which was strong enough and had a large enough population, the Huns naturally used various means to control them, and there were also many people arranging surveillance.

The only reason Lie Jiaomi was able to receive the emissary of the big man in full view was that he no longer wanted to be the Hun's younger brother.

Lie Jiaomi naturally knew about the successive defeats of the Huns by the Han army.

Just like the Huns arranged manpower here in Wusun, Lie Jiaomi also arranged manpower among the Huns.

He knew the strength of the big man, and even forced the Huns not to dare to invade the border every year.

Especially the death of military minister Shan Yu made Lie Jiaomi make up his mind.

It's just that the skinny camel is bigger than the horse. In order to prevent the revenge of the Huns, Lie Jiaomi is willing to cooperate with the big man to deal with it.

After all, for the grassland tribes, there must be no soft-heartedness when they can use it.

"What does Lie Jiaomi say?"

"Your Majesty." Zhang Qian's expression was a little excited, and he said happily, "Lie Jiaomi said that he has admired the majesty of the Han for a long time, and is willing to ask the Princess of the Han to conclude an alliance. If the Han can join hands with Wusun, the Xiongnu will be defeated!"

The elated Zhang Qian took this matter as the biggest gain of his mission to the Western Regions this time, and brought in a strong aid to deal with the Huns.

But when he looked at Li Yunze expectantly, he saw that there was no joy on the emperor's face.

"I."

Li Yunze's voice was cold, but with incomparable determination, "No marriage!"

Historically, Lie Jiaomi did seek peace with the great man through Zhang Qian, and Emperor Wu also chose the daughter of the clan Liu Jian, Princess Xijun, to marry Lie Jiaomi.

But there is no human relations in the grassland tribes. After Princess Xijun died of illness, Emperor Wu chose Princess Jieyou to marry Junxumi, the son of Lie Jiaomi, but after Junxumi died, he forced the princess to marry another Sun Weng returned to Mi.

Later generations seem to have filmed TV dramas based on this to promote love.

This really left Li Yunze speechless, how can there be any love in this damn.

As a time traveler, if you try to arrange a marriage, you will be blasted.

The diplomatic principles that Li Yunze follows are very simple, no vassals, no tribute, no kinship.

What you want can be resolved through diplomacy, if not, then start a fight!
Relying on women for profit, anyway, Li Yunze would never do it.

This is also the reason why Zhang Qian immediately became dissatisfied when he heard Zhang Qian say that.

However, Emperor Wu in history forced the princess to remarry with the command of "following his national customs and wanting to destroy Hu with Wusun".

Just from this point alone, Li Yunze looked down on him very much. He would rather take all the Han family men from all over the world to fight than kill them all!
Zhang Qian was a little dazed, and when he came back to his senses, he hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, this is a good opportunity to get strong support."

"Strength is achieved by fighting on your own, not by aid."

Li Yunze simply waved his hand and said, "There is no need to mention the matter of the marriage, I have made up my mind, so let's stop here."

The words of the emperor have already said this level, so what else can Zhang Qian do, he can only agree.

Lie Jiaomi still had scruples about the Huns. After all, he grew up in the Huns since he was a child, and experienced the period when the Huns were the most powerful.

Even now that he sees the weakness of the Huns and wants to stand up and be the master of his own family, he is still afraid.

This is the only reason why he wants to form an alliance with the Han family, hoping that the power of the Han family will draw the power of the Huns in the distance, so that he can have both sides.

After all, Wusun didn't pay anything here, he just married a woman from the Han family.

Moreover, this woman from the Han family also brought an extremely rich dowry, and even eunuchs, servants, craftsmen, etc. as dowry, which really made a lot of money.

The abacus was very good, but it was a pity that he met Li Yunze who didn't like this, so the abacus would naturally fail.

"Wusun?" Li Yunze chuckled lightly, "When I defeat the Xiongnu, it will be their turn. I will not keep any of the tribes on the grassland."

After talking about Wusun, under Li Yunze's gesture, Zhang Qian calmed down and continued to tell his own story.

"After I left Wusun, I returned eastward along the mountains, passing through many countries along the way. Many countries hoped that the Han Dynasty would send troops to help them expel the Huns."

At this time, the Western Regions were under the control of the Huns. The Huns were cruelly oppressing the Western Regions. If the nomads were not used to living in sedentary life, they would have directly destroyed their country and occupied their land.

Under such an environment, those small countries that were deeply troubled by the Huns naturally caused complaints.

"Expel the Huns?"

Hearing this, Li Yunze was also happy. "It's true to expel the Huns, but after expelling the Huns, the land they seized by the Han must also be handed over."

Li Yunze doesn't like false names, Khans, co-lords, tyrants, or foreigners.

Either don't fight, if you fight, you must occupy the territory, and then migrate the people of the Han family, so that since ancient times.

From Li Yunze's point of view, these small countries in the Western Regions have absolutely no need to exist. When the Western Regions are recovered, basically every small country is just a county.

Those who are willing to listen to good words of persuasion will naturally be treated preferentially, and it is no problem to migrate to Middle-earth to become a rich man.

But if you are unwilling to do things, then do hard work. Anyway, big men are extremely short of hard work, and there are scarce jobs everywhere waiting for them to do things.

"correct."

Li Yunze asked casually, "Have you been to Lop Nur?"

"Passing by."

Zhang Qian immediately responded, "The water and grass are abundant, and the birds and beasts are swarming. It is indeed a rich and good place."

Hearing these words that have nothing to do with the Gobi desert, Li Yunze couldn't help laughing.

Before large-scale water conservancy projects were launched, Lop Nur in this era was indeed a super large lake as the final foothold of melting snow in the Kunlun Mountains of the Tianshan Mountains.

"This time I am on a mission to the Western Regions, and recorded the mountains and rivers, geography, customs, military equipment, road merchants, etc. along the way." Zhang Qian took out a thick book and presented it with both hands, "Please read it, Your Majesty."

Taking the book, Li Yunze looked through it carefully.

Zhang Qian's records are very detailed. Basically, no country has detailed records of every place. Naturally, he did things with his heart.

After closing the booklet, Li Yunze nodded in satisfaction, "Zhang Qing has done a good job, just relying on this booklet, it is worth a fortune."

Zhang Qian was overjoyed and saluted again and again to thank him.

As for the rest of the team who came back, Li Yunze naturally wouldn't treat them harshly.

Although no one other than Zhang Qian was able to become a Marquis, at least the promotion of the title of each person starting from the third level, and the reward of at least [-] gold per person, is undoubtedly a heavy reward.

Li Yunze is not afraid of spending money, and even more so, he is not afraid of giving out many titles.

In his opinion, compared with the spirit of pioneering and enterprising, this thing is completely worthless.

Thinking of those dynasties in the later generations that closed the country, Li Yunze just couldn't get angry.

He was originally the boss, and he was still in the great era of staking land, but he just gave up and let the barbarians from all over the place take over.

In any case, such things are absolutely not allowed to appear among his big men!

(End of this chapter)