I, the prince, only want to be deposed.

Chapter 447 Yellow-skinned Army!

"No, although I worked in the palace before, I was not your Majesty's close attendant. I have never met your Highness, let alone interacted with your Highness. How can I celebrate the festival?"

Wei Lu frowned and spread his hands out innocently.

"Hiss, this is strange. Your Highness has never dealt with Zhao Qian, but he is willing to help Zhao Qian achieve success. Why is it that when it comes to you..."

Dongfang Yu took a breath and looked puzzled.

Wei Lu said unwillingly:
"Perhaps the situation in the Western Region is very good now, and Your Highness has no suitable achievements to give me for the time being?"

"Yes, yes, yes, what you said does make some sense."

Dongfang Yu clapped his hands upon hearing this, with an expression that said, "Congratulations, you can answer the question quickly," and nodded repeatedly.
"The situation in the Western Region is indeed promising. Nearly half of the countries have joined your 'NATO' organization. The remaining half are mostly located further west. Although your Highness has sent envoys to lobby, these countries have an ambiguous attitude and it will be difficult to accomplish anything for the time being. Your visit will probably be in vain."

"There is no need to say more about the Xiongnu in the north. Right now, General Zhao is leading his soldiers to hunt the Xiongnu. We can't ask you to carry a sword and fight with the army. That would not be a gift to you, but rather a gift to your death."

"That must be the case. Your Highness has only made the first move, but he has not been as straightforward as he was with Zhao Qian and me."

When Wei Lu heard this, he became even more unwilling, and said after pondering:

"How about...I stay in Loulan for a few more days and wait and see?"

"Chang'an and Loulan are a long way away. Brother Dongfang and Zhao Qian came here to deliver the imperial edict, but they did not return immediately to report. His Majesty did not hold it against you. It should not be a problem for me to stay in Loulan for a while."

Haha, I have caught this guy into a black carp!

Dongfang Yu smiled secretly in his heart, thinking that by getting things done to this extent, he had finally repaid some of Liu Ju's favor, and he felt somewhat pleased with himself.

However, Dongfang Yu has quietly labeled Wei Lu as someone who "cannot be associated with".

Although he and Zhao Qian both took the "local specialties of the Western Regions" given by Liu Ju, they did not do so voluntarily. They were coerced and forced into the sale by Liu Ju through deception and threats. At least at the beginning, they both insisted on returning to the capital to report to Liu Che, for fear of delaying the matter.

But Wei Lu didn't even hesitate.

For the sake of his achievements, he put aside the matter of returning to the capital to report, and even learned to answer questions quickly...

Indeed, it was Dongfang Yu who went fishing first.

However, we can also see a part of Wei Lu's selfish and greedy nature. With just a little temptation, he dared to fool even the emperor, which is no different from taking a risk.

So when interests are at stake, what do friends and relatives matter?
Thinking about this in his heart, Dongfang Yu pretended to smile and said:
"You can give it a try... Brother Wei has been hanging around in front of His Highness recently. If His Highness wants to help you achieve something great, he will always keep it in mind."

"I would also like to thank Brother Dongfang for his guidance."

"No, no, we are colleagues, we should help each other."

"..."

……

The expansion of NATO has indeed stagnated.

At present, this organization has only developed to the fourteen first responding member states, the largest of which is the Kingdom of Kucha, to which Liu Ju had previously visited as an envoy.

For this reason, Liu Ju also fulfilled his promise and gave the Kingdom of Kucha some practical benefits.
——Tianlu box.

Qiuci was the most developed iron industry among the Western Regions. Now that they had learned the method of making the Tianlu Box, the temperature of the blast furnace could be increased and more stable, and the efficiency of iron smelting and the quality of ironware were naturally further improved. However, Liu Ju also added a restriction.

That is, the ironware produced by the Kingdom of Kucha was not only used by its own subjects, but the only trading partner was the Han Dynasty. Liu Ju promised the King of Kucha that the Han Dynasty could consume any amount of the production and the settlement would be made in Han silver coins.

The King of Kucha was also happy about this.

It doesn't matter who the ironware produced is sold to. Now some wealthy families have directly monopolized the production capacity of the Kingdom of Kucha. A slave country like theirs only needs to drive the slaves to work hard to smelt iron, and then count money every day until their hands cramp. There is no need to worry about the problem of overcapacity.

The King of Kucha was so excited about this that he also agreed to allow the Han Dynasty to send officials to supervise the movement of ironware.

As for the Wusun Kingdom, it was larger than the Kucha Kingdom and was about to make peace with the Han Dynasty.

Su Wu had sent back a message, but the Wusun Kingdom still had an ambiguous attitude, and Wusun King Lie Jiaomi still used the same old rhetoric:
"The old country is divided and cannot be autocratic."

Although this is indeed true, the armies of the Wusun Kingdom were respectively controlled by Lie Jiaomi, Lie Jiaomi's second son Dalu, and Lie Jiaomi's grandson Junxumi, and there was a hidden trend of confrontation between them.

But under the current situation, there is no room for reason between countries. An ambiguous attitude is the original sin, and those who are unwilling to take sides must be punished.

Liu Ju can kill the chicken to scare the monkey, or he can kill the monkey to scare the chicken.

Of course, he definitely wouldn't do it himself.

Wusun is on the route that the Xiongnu must take when they migrate westward. Someone will come to help on behalf of the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty only needs to take over after the aftermath...

As for the northeastern front of the Western Regions where Zhao Po Nu was located, the effect of the tactic of "using the superior division to control the barbarians" was quite good.

The second batch of Han troops participating in the hunt have also completed their rotation.

With the experience of the previous round, Zhao Po Nu adopted the situation of veteran soldiers leading new soldiers, and the Han cavalry became more skilled in using this tactic, killing more Huns and slaughtering more sheep and horses.

According to the report from Zhao Po Nu.

At present, the tribes on the right side of the Xiongnu have migrated in large numbers to the northeast of Chanyu, just to avoid the elusive Han army. After all, in recent months, there have been as many as six tribes that have been stranded on the grassland with their people and sheep. No matter how fertile the grassland near the direction of Gushi Kingdom is, no Xiongnu tribe dares to come here to graze, otherwise it is hard to say which one will arrive first tomorrow, the Han army or not.

Liu Ju even heard that the Huns had given the Han army a new title, called the "Yellow Skin Army."

It's not because the Han army is so magical, but because when the Han army saw the flock of sheep, they were like weasels entering a chicken coop. They didn't care whether they could finish eating them or not, they just wanted to bite them all to death...

What a sin!
……

A few days later.

"Gentleman, that foreigner is wandering outside the mansion again. Although he seems nonchalant, I think he is deliberately passing by you carelessly."

Han Ling came in from outside and saw Liu Ju rubbing the sand table with his hands. He frowned and started to complain.

"You said that he was just an envoy, and he should have returned to the capital to report after delivering the imperial edict and resting for two days. But he refused to leave here. He must have some plot against you."

"It's good to have a plan, I'm just afraid he won't take the bait."

Liu Ju laughed when he heard this, patted the sand off his hands, and then shouted to the outside of the door:
"Guo Zhen, go and invite Wei Lu in. It's time to give him a decent local specialty from the Western Regions!"

(End of this chapter)