Yes, Li Xin was very serious before parting ways with Wu Daqi from Yixun City, and he told Wu Daqi plainly that they would kill the other Wu on the king's palace in the city of mud.

Of course, Li Xin told Wu Daqi that he had his own intentions, and he couldn't just let Wu Daqi get ready early. What preparation? It was Wu Daqi who hurried up to speed up and win more people's support.

It is important to distinguish between taking risks and not acting as a dead man. There are more people who support Wu Daqi, and the better the chance that Li Xin and the others will survive after killing Zhi Wu, otherwise they will really kill Zhi Wu after killing Zhi Wu in the palace? Even if Li Xin and the others can be killed from the Loulan Palace, will they continue to face dozens of people to face the pursuit of hundreds of thousands of Loulan people!?

It is not difficult to walk from Yixun City to Huni City, the two cities are less than 100 miles apart, and the terrain is also flat along the way, but part of it is grassland and part of it is Gobi, but the difference between grassland and Gobi in winter snowy weather is not too big.

Li Ren asked: "Is a day and a half enough time for Wu Daqi to make relevant preparations?" ”

Li Xin replied: "It depends on how strong Wu Daqi's desire in his heart is to be the king of Loulan~ . ”

When you are a king, who is slow to do things in the face of such temptations? It can be imagined that after Li Xin and the others left Yixun City, Wu Daqi should have been a busy scene.

"The praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind, Wu Daqi is the praying mantis, and Yu Duli is the yellow finch." Li Xin chuckled lightly and said, "Yu Duli has already received the support of some city-states and kingdoms, right?" ”

"Back to my uncle, it's correct to say that we have the support of those city-states and kingdoms." Li Ren showed a trace of pride on his face and said: "We support Wei Duli, and they can only support Wei Duli." ”

Li Xin did not ask some assumptions, such as whether the city-states and kingdoms would reveal the news to the vultures.

In fact, what can be done without risk? It's just that Li Xin is sure that it is true that the empire sent troops to the Western Regions, even if there is no army behind it. Now there are 80,000 Wehrmacht and almost 50,000 troops on the side of the legations, and there are more than 100,000 people in the Western Regions.

The strength of the Western Regions Dispatch Army in the face of Mao Dun is the confidence of Li Xin and others, and the powerful empire is the solid backing behind them.

Riding a horse and walking a hundred miles is a day's time on weekdays, but considering the snow on the ground, Li Xin and the others didn't want to rush too much, so it took them a day and a half to reach the east gate of Huni City at noon that day.

The Loulan King showed a lot of sincerity to welcome Li Xin's group of fake imperial envoys. In the case of not showing up in person, he let his eldest son Nai Bedu line up with the dignitaries and nobles of Huni City, accompanied by a group of nobles and big businessmen from various countries in Huni City.

Li Xin and the others looked at it from afar, and it was a group of people who were pressed by the black.

There are really many differences between the culture of the Western Regions and the Chinese culture, if you are on the side of the empire, how can you greet people with many flags, with flags to look grand, there are colorful flags fluttering, it will not just be a group of people like bamboo poles standing and looking so monotonous.

Wait for Li Xin and the others to get a little closer. Someone from the Loulan side brought out a group of camels, and two Loulan warriors in white robes followed on the left and right sides.

The crowd of people in the black pressure shouted something after Li Xin and the others stopped on the horse, guessing that it should be a slogan like "welcome", right? Then the man who led the camel fell to his knees and held the reins. Two white-robed Loulan warriors drew their short swords at their waists, and they stabbed them into the camel's neck with their swords from the left and right, and in an instant, blood gushed out from the camel's neck and fell to the ground.

Camels are a specialty of the west of Kangju country, and some are also cultivated in this remote area of the Western Regions. The slaughter of camels to welcome guests was originally a ritual on the Central Asian side. I don't know when it became a great gift for the city-states and kingdoms of the Western Regions to welcome your guests.

The camels are slaughtered, and later someone will dispose of the internal organs and be pulled to roast the whole camels. Eventually, it became the food for entertaining guests at the royal palace.

There was another roar at the mud gate, and this time it was not so easy to guess what kind of it was roaring~ Ba thing.

After a roar, only a few of the large number of people in the black pressure were still standing, and the rest were kneeling on the ground, their buttocks cocked high.

A middle-aged man in a green robe walked towards Li Xin and the others first, it was a middle-aged man with a beard, and what made a relatively deep impression was that there was a huge gold chain around his neck, and his arms and wrists and ten fingers were also full of gold. This person is naturally the eldest son of the king of Loulan, Nabedu, and he is talking loudly from afar.

"Prince Loulan is welcoming all of you, and he promises to entertain you with the highest courtesy, and he will definitely let you receive the most grand hospitality." Mai Mai Ya was pulled over to act as a translator, after all, there are really not many people in the Western Regions who can speak the Imperial dialect.

Almost this is the status quo, how long has the empire been rising? The exchange between the empire and foreign countries is a matter of the past two or three years, and it is impossible to promote their own culture far in a very short period of time, and some foreign races can speak imperial dialect because they went to the empire to do business, but fortunately, these people's language talent is really good, and they can learn imperial dialect in such a short time.

Mai Mai Ya is actually very honored to be hired as a translator, and more importantly, Li Xin's price is really rich. Now Mai Mai Ya feels that the price is not the most important thing, but more important is to get the friendship from the nobles of the empire, and to be able to appear on such occasions full of dignitaries and nobles will have unimaginable benefits for him to do business in the future.

Nabedu stepped forward to give a welcome speech, and the crowd of people who were originally kneeling on the ground dispersed to the left and right, revealing a large number of dancers dressed in thin clothes in the icy and snowy weather, and dozens of dancers swayed and sang and danced in a burst of music that I don't know when.

In fact, there are not many musical instruments in the Western Regions, they call them the basket, the five strings, the gelding, the cymbals, the sand gong, the dab, etc., and the xun, the ocarina and so on.

According to the interpretation of Chinese culture, the music played sounds like a kind of beautiful sound, that is, the kind of light music that is light and difficult to reach the elegant hall.

Li Xin is not a rigid person...... Or he is no longer a rigid person, after all, the ups and downs of life are really a bit turbulent, and once his will was unfavorable to attack Chu, and no matter how sharp the edges and corners were, they were flattened with the resignation of the official. However, he heard that Loulan Guo greeted guests with a "beautiful voice". There are also many scuffling dancers in revealing clothes, and they will inevitably frown.

"Uncle, it's just the hospitality of the barbarian state." Li Ren said softly: "It's too much of a blink." ”

In fact, in Chinese culture, it is very impolite and even contemptuous to greet guests with a beautiful voice, which is why Li Xin frowned.

Huaxia pays attention to the grand atmosphere, that is, Zhengle and Yale...... It can also be called "Lu Le", after all, the Lu State in the Spring and Autumn Period was once the "steward country" of the Zhou royal family, and the Lu State was still a princely principality, only in addition to the Zhou royal family and the Song Principality, only the vassal state with a full set of Yale teams.

This time, Li Xin and others came pretending to be imperial envoys. To put it simply, in order to pursue the battle at the source of the Yellow River, he came to the Western Regions to find trouble with some countries in the Western Regions. As the chief envoy of the "envoy group", Li Xin's frowning is still a relatively common thing, and he did not command the group of people who went out of the city to greet him in Loulan Country as soon as he arrived, which was actually very good.

It was not all with great humility that they welcomed the distinguished guests from the Empire, bent down and saluted, followed by a burst of "chirp wow" and did not know what to say.

After Mai Maiya's translation, Li Xin realized that Nai Bu was saying some polite words, nothing more than welcoming words.

"Bring it up!" Nai Bedu had no attitude towards the people coming from the empire, but still had a bright smile on his face, and after instructing his entourage, he said to Li Xin: "Please drink this bowl of welcome wine." ”

A wine glass made of amber was served. It contains a purple liquid, which is actually wine.

Li Xin is not a dignitary in the empire, but he also knows that there is wine in the empire, but he has never drunk wine because it is still a scarce thing in the empire. Taste it. He didn't feel good about this kind of sweet and sour wine, but he despised Loulan people for using amber wine glasses because of their wealth.

After drinking, Nai Bedu was chattering again, and one after another endlessly introduced some people to Li Xin to know.

Li Xin was not interested in dealing with such and such a nobleman or businessman at all.

The nobles of the Western Regions. In fact, on the side of the empire, there is an existence such as a township chief, and it is very likely that the population and wealth within the feud are not as good as a township in the empire.

The big merchants of the Western Regions are much more "material" than those nobles, and their families are rich, which is a new word in the empire for several years. Among the merchants from the Western Regions who were welcomed outside the eastern gate of Huni, many of them were big merchants with a fortune of more than 10,000 yuan.

The reason why we know that the merchant is rich is that Mai Maiya, who is in charge of the translation, specifically mentioned that the wealth of a Shule merchant named Mukule is notoriously rich in the Western Regions.

"How rich is the country?" Li Ren seemed to be curious.

"They are known as the lords of the half-city, and they are the half-city lords of many cities." With a look of envy on his face, Mai Mai said, "The accumulated wealth can spread into a mountain of gold, and the number of people who serve it is tens of thousands. ”

It's no wonder, when I introduced Mukule, Mukule was reserved, reserved and with a faint flattery, and said something like that, presumably he intended to do business with the empire, but he didn't have a way, and this time he came to Mud City to match.

In view of the fact that there have been two large-scale trade routes between the Western Regions and Central Asia, the empire has begun to set up checkpoints, and if the merchants from the Western Regions and Central Asia want to enter the empire for business, they need to get a certificate called "road guide", which is no longer like the previous two times that they can enter at will. Of course, this is a kind of necessary surveillance and supervision, and it is also a kind of commercial control, and in short, "Lu Yin" is like a kind of passport or something for foreign races.

The greetings at the gates of the city were a bit long, introducing each other, and then people of all shapes offered gifts. It stands to reason that Li Xin and the others should also need to return the gift, but they didn't bring anything except the necessary materials, which is in line with the army's precursor, but they have more or less lost some etiquette.

Mai Mai Ya came in handy at this point, as he was the leader of a caravan that took out the goods he had purchased from the Empire and gave them back to those who gave them in return.

"You're funny!" Although Li Ren didn't think it was a big deal, he liked Mai Maiya's eyes, and promised: "Your road will be handled by me." ”

What Mai Maiya asked for before was to get a guide, but now he not only got the promise of a guide, but also got the favor of the "high-ranking officials" from the empire, and his heart was very beautiful.

After the politeness was over, Nabedu also invited Li Xin and others into the city, saying that the king had prepared a banquet in the palace and was waiting for the distinguished guests to come and enjoy.

The city looks much bigger than Yi Xun, I heard that the city has been established for more than a hundred years, there are more than 50,000 residents in it, and all the people in Loulan who have a head and face will set up an industry in the city.

In winter, the mud city is a snow-white, I don't know if it's because of the relationship between welcoming distinguished guests, or if it's like that, it's much more lively here than the city, Li Xin and others see all kinds of people from the Western Regions who are welcomed by the road, and the houses on both sides of the street will also hang some colorful cloths as a celebration.

The crowd, the noisy talking, and the occasional roar, is that the welcome of the Loulan people out of hospitality? Most of Li Xin and the others had something on their minds, so they didn't bother to care whether the crowds on both sides of the street were out of their own hearts or forced to greet them.

The onlookers standing on the street, when they looked at Li Xin and the others, they were mostly curious, and when they saw the magnificence of the imperial uniform, they were full of appreciation, and this was Mai Mai Ya who translated some of the past after hearing it.

The samurai from the empire, their indifferent faces were a pair of observing eyes, which seemed to be looking at the scenery, but in fact, they kept the layout of the city in mind as much as possible.

"Do it when you get to the palace, or do ......?" Li Ren's voice was very soft.

"No!" Li Xin knew that as he got closer and closer to the palace of the Loulan people, Li Ren felt nervous in his heart, and he said: "We are here to kill, not to find death. ”

They need to know the layout of Huni City, they need to wait for the reaction of Wu Daqi and some other countries, and even need to get news from Meng Tian leading the army into the Western Regions, after all, planning and then acting is the foundation of doing great things, regardless of whether there is a way back is something that only a dead soldier can do.

"Hypocrisy and grievances for a while." Li Xin pondered for a moment and said, "If it is not bad, many people will come to us. ”

Taking advantage of the situation was the initial plan of Li Xin's group, the momentum of the empire can be borrowed, and the power of the locals in the Western Regions is not one of the helps? (To be continued.) )