When the sun was rising, the soldiers defending the city did not wait for the attack of the barbarian assistant, but waited for the two barbarian horses to arrive under the city, which was obviously not for attack, so the soldiers at the head of the city did not shoot arrows easily.

"A certain is Qulu, a messenger sent by Tushi Khan." One of them craned his neck and shouted, "I want to see your emperor." ”

Dingwu and Xuanyuan Shao were not in the city at this time, and a general sneered below: "Who do you think the Holy Lord wants to see?" If you don't retreat, you can blame Lao Tzu for shooting you with an arrow. ”

"Don't regret it." Qu Lu shouted loudly: "Thu Shi Khan sent me to negotiate, if you miss this opportunity, you will not be able to negotiate even if you want to in the future." ”

The general hesitated for a moment, the other party sent an envoy to negotiate, quite unexpectedly, he naturally could not be the master to drive away an enemy envoy, thought for a while, and finally said: "You wait." "Immediately send someone to report it.

Dingwu is now in the house not far from the city, and soon someone will come back and whisper a few words in his ear, the general nodded, and shouted at the city: "You want to negotiate, the saint is not free to come to see you for the time being, do you have the courage to enter the city?" ”

Qu Lu was not afraid, and said in a loud voice: "Open the city gate, I will enter now, steppe warriors, in fact, you can scare." ”

The general sneered: "Open the city gate, you think beautifully." You wait. Looking up into the distance, the barbarian camp was still a little far away, and the black-pressed camp tents in the distance were connected in a line, but I didn't see the barbarian soldiers approaching.

Qu Lu waited for a while, and was a little impatient, so at this time, he put down a basket from the edge of the battlement, which was not small, tied with a long rope, and lowered it from the city, and the general had already shouted at Qu Lu, "If you want to enter the city, go to the basket." ”

Qu Lu was a little annoyed, but he also knew that the other party could not open the city gate, but he did not hesitate, turned over and dismounted, went straight over, turned into the basket, pulled the rope, but it was also strong, and soon the soldiers at the head of the city pulled him up to the city head, and came out of the basket, Qu Lu saw that the soldiers were going to collect the basket, and hurriedly said: "There is another person." He pointed to the city, and he rode over in two, and he went up to the city first, and the man in the city was still waiting.

"It's enough to have you alone." The general waved his hand and commanded, "Come, take him to the Holy One." ”

When Dingwu saw Qu Lu, this little envoy sent by the barbarians seemed to have eyes on the top of his head, his neck was tilted, and he strode when he walked.

"You want to see me?" Dingwu looked at Qu Lu lightly, "Now that you see me, what do you want to say?" ”

Qu Lu glanced at the civil and military officials on both sides, and said with a smile: "I don't know if the emperor can see the fire?" There was a smug look on his face, but the civil and military officials on both sides were all discolored, and two generals were already drawing their swords, Qu Lu glanced at them, without fear, and said: "If you are afraid of your sword, you will not come." Your sword only dares to show at such a time, and we have waited outside the city for so long, and we have not seen you go out of the city to show your sword. ”

"Presumptuous!" Someone yelled in a deep voice.

Dingwu raised his hand, and everyone was silent immediately, but they stared at Qu Lu one by one.

"Your name is Qu Lu?" Dingwu said: "Did Tushi send you here to show off your might in front of me?" ”

Qu Lu laughed, raised his hand and took off the felt hat on his head, "Emperor, when I said that fire, I didn't say to show off to you, but to tell you that our hatred has disappeared with that fire. You have killed the patriarchs of our thirteen tribes, and our grassland warriors have clear grievances and grievances, and they have revenge, so they naturally want to take revenge. ”

The ministers didn't understand the meaning of Qu Lu, and looked at each other, but Dingwu's face did not change, and Yun said lightly: "The hatred disappeared with the fire, but I don't understand what you mean." ”

"The meaning of the Turish Khan and the generals of all ethnic groups is very clear, our steppe army of 100,000!" Before Qu Lu finished speaking, someone next to him sneered: "100,000 troops? I didn't expect you barbarians to brag and not blush. ”

Qu Lu really didn't blush in the slightest, and said loudly: "Naturally, there is no 100,000 army outside the city, but as long as Tushi Khan gives an order, it will be easy to bring another 100,000 warriors from the grassland." ”

Naturally, he was exaggerating.

This time, the tribes of the grassland came bravely, and almost the most elite soldiers and horses on the grassland had gathered, and the soldiers and horses left in their own tribes were already a handful.

After all, it is necessary to guard against some tribes taking the opportunity to sneak attack on the grassland, so each tribe does have soldiers and horses in their own tribe, but even so, even if all the cavalry that can fight are transferred, it is already great to be able to transfer 20,000 or 30,000 people, and if another 100,000 troops are transferred, it is a lion's big mouth.

However, most of the officials present did not know the situation in the Mobei grassland, and it was difficult to distinguish whether what Qu Lu said was true or false.

Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Qu Lu continued: "Our grassland army, after capturing the Heavenly Palace, has already offset your grievances, and there is no longer hatred. Tushi Khan said, Qin is a big country in the Central Plains, we don't want to be your enemy, this time to send troops, it is all to avenge the patriarchs of all ethnic groups, now that the revenge has been avenged, we don't want to continue to be enemies with you, but we are willing to continue to be friends with you. ”

"Friends?" Xuanyuan Shao said lightly: "How are you going to be friends with us?" ”

Qu Lu said with a smile: "Tushi Khan knows that the Qin State is full of rebels, and your Qin State itself is no longer able to exterminate those rebels, so if you are willing, we grassland warriors can continue to help you with this." As long as we help, it will be easy to eliminate the thieves of the Qin State. ”

Dingwu was silent, and said with a faint smile: "Your soldiers are coming to the city, and you want to capture Wuping Mansion City, but now you have changed your mind?" Tu Shi wants to help me suppress the thief, so naturally he won't do it in vain, what conditions does he have? ”

"You Zhongyuan said very well, the emperor is not a hungry soldier, I should be not mistaken." Qu Lu smiled and said: "Emperor, Tushi Khan has three conditions, as long as you agree, we can turn enemies into friends and cooperate sincerely." ”

"On what terms?"

"First, the emperor wants to canonize Tushi Khan as the Great Khan of the steppe, and he will also issue a holy decree." Qu Lu said.

Dingwu leaned back in his chair and stared at Qu Lu, "The second condition? ”

"Tushi Khan is willing to marry Qin, and the emperor wants to marry your princess to Tushi Khan." Qu Lu said: "This is also to issue an edict to the world, so that everyone knows that the Qin State and our Tushi Khan have become in-laws." ”

Dingwu said with a smile: "Back then, the people of Xiliang also wanted to marry my Great Qin, but they didn't do what they wanted. ”

"The emperor is really a smart man." Qu Lu said: "Your Qin country is already in danger, if the thieves come over, no matter how much gold and silver treasures are of no use to you, in this case, it is better to reward those gold and silver treasures to the grassland warriors, everyone has a reward, morale is high, naturally you can be invincible, help you exterminate the thieves." Of course, food is also indispensable. ”

When Dingwu heard this, he suddenly burst out laughing, his laughter was strange, everyone looked at each other, Qu Lu frowned, and said loudly: "The emperor of Qin, do you agree to the conditions of Tushi Khan?" ”

"Someone's coming!" Dingwu's face turned cold, "Pull this person down and throw him down from the city." ”

A samurai had already rushed in, and he stepped forward to grab Qu Lu.

Qu Lu changed color, "Emperor of Qin, what do you mean by this?" Even if you don't agree, you can't kill me. ”

"Why can't I kill you?"

"You have said in the Central Plains that the two countries are fighting each other, and they will not be killed." Qu Lu said loudly: "And if you kill me, we will not be incompatible, and there will be no room for negotiation." Tushi Khan is kind, do you really want to watch the city be destroyed? ”

"The two countries are fighting each other, and they really don't cut them off." Dingwu said slowly: "It's just that in my eyes, you barbarians are nothing more than a group of grass cobs, how can you talk about state affairs?" Since it is not even a country, there is nothing to talk about. ”

"You!" Qu Lu blushed suddenly, he obviously didn't expect that Dingwu would turn his face so quickly.

Dingwu leaned forward slightly, staring at Qu Lu, "After all, Yiman is Yiman, and he has to learn from us to play with wit, so he can only be smiling and generous." You are calculating, thinking that I have reached the end of the mountains and rivers, and I am afraid to fight you, and I think that as long as I hear that you are negotiating peace, I will agree to anything? Sighing, "Tu Shi's little tricks, he thinks he is very smart, but it's a pity that these methods are used by children of several years old in my Central Plains." ”

Qu Lu shouted: "Tu Shi Tu Shi Khan is sincere, and he is not playing tricks. ”

"Whether it's true or not, I don't need to make peace with you." Dingwu said with a smile: "Now the enemy is strong and I am weak, even if we want to negotiate peace, we can only propose it first, but the strange thing is that you are the first to propose peace, of course it will not be for no reason." You barbarians have the upper hand, according to common sense, it is hard to imagine that the side that has the upper hand will take the initiative to propose peace, once this happens, there will be something strange......" The look in his eyes began to become cold, "It's just that I won't investigate what is wrong, because I have never thought of making peace with you, as you said, I saw the fire, I am the king of a country, I saw my own people being slaughtered by you, I saw you killing people and setting fire under my nose, do you think I can still make peace with you?" You just said that after a fire, the grievances between you and me are over, but I want to tell you that from the time the fire was ignited, our grudges could not be resolved at all, and I killed you not because I disliked you, but precisely to tell the Tushi and the barbarians that I, Daqin and the barbarians, can only have one standing after this war! ”

Qu Lu opened his mouth, but he didn't say anything, Dingwu waved his hand, "Pull up the city and throw it down for me!" ”