"Your Majesty, Imperial Emperor, we have come to your country with a strong sense of respect, for peace and cooperation."

"Yes, Your Majesty the Emperor, our country and your country are far away, there is no historical entanglement and no territorial connection, and we have come thousands of miles away with the desire for peace and business."

"If you have the goods that we want to obtain, we will also have the goods that your country wants to get, and the two sides can completely communicate with each other."

Business? The Empire did have the desire to trade with the countries of Central Asia, which was necessary to familiarize itself with the situation in Central Asia first, and secondly, the Empire had discovered that there were better horses in Central Asia than in the East, and even if it could not obtain a large number of good horses, obtaining some stallions and mares for breeding would improve the horse breed in the East.

Looking at the goods brought by the merchants of Central Asian countries, except for the good horses, the empire did not know what else was urgently needed in Central Asia, after all, the things carried by those merchants were really too boring and scarce.

People from all over the world from Central Asia, when they came all the way, they had already shown a strong desire to buy ~ hope, but they did not get permission to buy goods before arriving in Nanling, or they relaxed the restrictions after arriving in Nanling, and the result was that the goods on the market were purchased on a large scale, resulting in some goods being sold out directly in the market.

“…… What hinders us from doing business with each other are the long distances, and the barbarian tribes that stand in the way of the trade, and those barbarians will be our common enemies. ”

"We also know that your country has an old enemy in the north, and we may be able to help in some way?"

Let's not talk about whether the empire needs anyone's help, no matter how strong the countries of Central Asia are, they are tens of thousands of miles away, and Bactria, which is the closest, is at least 18,000 miles away, what can it help?

It seems to be a good intention, but what kind of thoughts Lu Zhe has after hearing it is not clear for the time being, some of the generals in the court have shown anger on their faces, and some civil officials have shown contempt.

Imperial warriors are proud. They have the confidence to defeat any opponent and destroy the enemy they want to eliminate on any level. Not to mention that they do not understand the situation of the national and military strength of the Central Asian countries, even if the Central Asian countries are very powerful, they are new strangers, and they directly regard the attitude shown by the Central Asian countries as contempt for the imperial warriors.

It's not that the generals' brains are not easy to use, but the generals think about things in a special way, and they may see the bad intentions of the Central Asian countries, but unlike the civilian officials, they will study it from multiple levels. The civil servants despised the envoys who said they wanted to help, and they saw another meaning in the envoys' words.

On more than one occasion, the envoys from several Central Asian kingdoms had expressed their intention to divide the Western Regions with the empire, with Parthia being the strongest. However, there was no positive response from the Empire that time.

Parthia is not territorially connected to the Western Regions, and if they want to go to the Western Regions, they have to pass through the territory of Bactria, and now they and Bactria are allies who are too good to wear the same pants, but it does not mean that they can always be friendly, even if they can be friendly forever, the land obtained by the Parthian invasion of the Western Regions will be an enclave.

It is not a good thing to have an enclave in the territory, and what comes to the direct thought of the empire is that Parthia has definitely not shown any friendship with Bactria, and Parthia has shown land ambitions in the Western Regions, or is it arranging a strategic targeting against Bactria?

This is something that the Empire has thought about too much. Parthia wanted to acquire the territory of the Western Regions not to occupy it, but to exchange the land occupied from the Western Regions with Bactria, and to exchange the land occupied by the Western Regions with Bactria for the land connected to the two countries.

Lu Zhe is not aware of a point in the history of the original. Parthia and Bactria did expand eastward with their combined forces, and the combined armies of the two countries did expand a considerable distance to the east, and the land they took together was finally partially replaced after negotiation, but their footsteps to the east were only close to the Kangju side. Far from reaching the Western Regions.

The Parthian friendship with Bactria did not last long, and their friendship was based on the presence of Seleucus as a common enemy, and it was Seleucus' power that forced them to huddle together for warmth.

It was until after the fall of Seleucus. Parthia and Bactria, who were too good to wear the same pair of trousers, "broke down" in a short period of time. Parthia first embraced the thighs of the Romans who were expanding eastward, and successively acquired vast lands from the declining Seleucid Empire, as if sensing the right time to attack Bactria, and then did not hesitate to invade the western provinces of Bactria.

I don't know if Batkria gave in or because of what, Parthia invaded Bactria and captured three provinces and then turned back to deal with Seleucus, Parthia and Bactria seem to have regained their previous friendship, and then Parthia went west, and Bactria went all the way to the southeast, starting their respective periods of rapid expansion.

Of course, although the current Seleucid Empire has shown signs of decay, the emaciated camel is still bigger than the horse, so Parthia and Bactria are still inseparable from each other no matter how you look at it, and they also maintain the same position in terms of national status or diplomatic position, such as this time when they were arranged to enter the palace city for an audience, they once again expressed the same opinion.

“…… I agree in principle on trade matters, and you can negotiate with my government on the details. Lu Zhe has not officially been proclaimed emperor yet, but it does not prevent him from installing the English letter between A and C in advance on this occasion.

In fact, Lu Zhe is also in white clothes, and Maleus, who is in charge of translation? Yadi didn't know what "朕" meant or what special meaning it had, and even those envoys in Central Asia who could understand the imperial Chinese language were still in a fog about the word "朕".

One thing I have to say, Maureus? Yadi, an Egyptian chick, really knows a lot of languages, in addition to her native Egyptian, she also knows Greek and Persian, and after coming to the empire, she learned the official language of the empire, and some barbarian languages are also some.

There are generally three major languages in Central Asia, namely Persian, Greek and Hindi, except for these three popular languages, which are dialects between various ethnic groups, and people who often need to run or do business must know at least one of Persian or Greek.

Although Indian Sanskrit is also a widely spoken language, because India's influence in Central Asia is far less than that of Persian and Greek, and only has a slight influence in a few countries close to India, such as Alacosia, Kashmir, Palepamises, and Rakshashira, Indian Sanskrit can be learned.

Some of the Wusun people were also in the temple. They were the envoy of the latter group of envoys, the envoy of the previous group, Shea, and the nephew of King Wusun. The place where they were arranged was not conspicuous, and those people from Central Asian countries did not seem to notice it after entering the temple, so that several envoys of Central Asia directly expressed their ambitions to the east in front of the "parties", and also proposed to divide the Western Regions with the empire.

When the Parthian envoy Taprilates once again offered his intention to divide the country, the Wusun people once again looked nervously at the imperial ruler on the steps, but the light was relatively dim, and they could only see a figure sitting on their knees, and they could not see the face clearly. Naturally, it is impossible to read words and colors.

The Wusun people have a reason to be nervous, they are not related to the empire, in fact, they have just been in contact for less than two years, and the empire does not have the natural responsibility to protect Wusun, so it is not impossible to really carve up Wusun with any country? In recent years, they have been trying to establish friendship with the Empire, and to this end, they do not hesitate to sell good horses to the Empire on the premise that they need them, all in order to show their sincerity.

If it is said that the friendship of the Wusun people in the past was due to the strength of the empire, then when many forces from Mobei and Monan marched into Wusun, the psychology of seeking the friendship of the empire became more and more urgent.

Wusun can be regarded as a great and powerful country in the Western Regions. But big and powerful countries can only be counted in places like the Western Regions.

What kind of place is the Western Regions? There only as long as there is a city to be called a king, in fact, the king of a city is only a city lord, and a kingdom with more than three cities dares to be called powerful. The result? Some of the fugitives who had been exterminated and occupied by Parthia and Bactria and other countries moved eastward, and those who trembled under the iron horses of Parthia and other Central Asian countries arrived. Almost instantly, it broke through the defense line carefully set up by several "powerful countries", and some "strong countries" directly perished their country if they resisted a little.

There are too many tribes fleeing from west to east, and those tribes, large and small, retain some force to a greater or lesser extent. If the countries in the Western Regions had tens of thousands of troops, they found that they could not stop them and simply opened their borders, although they avoided the direct destruction of the country due to armed confrontation. However, there are still quite a few "countries" that have been directly crushed. It is "squeezing", not crushing, and one can imagine how fragile those countries in the Western Regions are.

Wusun can be called a hegemon-level force in the Western Regions, if they do their best, they can at least gather more than 100,000 troops, precisely because Wusun is considered powerful, so they are located in the northeast of the Western Regions, which can be regarded as sheltering the countries of the Western Regions, blocking the expansion of several grassland tribes including the Xiongnu, Ding Ling, Hujie and so on to the Western Regions, but it is precisely because Wusun blocked several grassland tribes that they have always been regarded as a thorn in the side.

Just the hostility of the tribes in Mobei and Monan has overwhelmed Wusun a little, before the countries of the Western Regions did not have a big chaos, they could more or less support some troops or materials, and now the countries of the Western Regions are "crushed", Wusun is equivalent to facing the enemy who is marching alone without any assistance, and there are some enemy troops who have broken through with Mao Dun leading the crowd to rush around, how can they not be in a hurry?

Thankfully, what? It was Wusun who discovered that a new force had appeared in the southeast, and it seemed that the empire still looked very powerful, and it was really powerful, after all, that empire had hundreds of thousands of enemy troops just by sending them north, and the hundreds of thousands of troops were also extremely well-armed in terms of weaponry.

If in normal times, Wusun would definitely be more afraid than happy to find a behemoth-like empire in the southeast, but Wusun had just fought with Parthia, Bactria and other strange countries some time ago, and he hadn't had time to lick his wounds, and the Xiongnu, Ding Ling and other ethnic groups in the south and north of the desert raised troops to surround him, so no matter what, he had to try to grab a straw, right?

"Should we go out?"

"Nope! We are placed in this inconspicuous corner, and naturally there is a purpose. Let's be quiet and hear what the Empire will do. ”

"Will the Empire accept our goodwill? They won't agree to divide us up with the enemy nations to the west, right? ”

"The Emperor did not refuse to marry our princess."

"Also, if we really intend to divide up with those enemy countries in the west, they will not arrange for us to go to the temple to observe."

"Yes, in my opinion, the Empire will accept us. The Empire regards ethnic groups such as the Xiongnu in the south and north of the desert as natural enemies, and they need us to threaten the enemies of the empire on the flanks. ”

The conversation between the hunter and Umotu was very quiet, almost whispering ear-to-ear. They were arranged to enter the palace before dawn, and they had already met with Lu Zhe in advance.

He was received before dawn, and the hunter who had been in Nanling for nearly a year more or less understood some of the culture of the empire, and he regarded such a matter as a special treatment of the empire, and it was a good side.

Because when he stayed in the empire, he was more or less in contact with some officials, and the hunter was very clear about some of the official attitudes of this empire, and the nomadic groups entrenched in the northern grasslands had competed with the ancestors of this empire for more than a thousand years, and the ethnic groups in the northern grasslands changed again and again, but no matter which ethnic group was entrenched in the northern grasslands and the agricultural tribes in the south, they never stopped fighting, and they could be regarded as long-term enemies.

Hunter Mi also heard some things from other sources, although the authenticity is not so certain, but the ruler of the empire has made a plan, and the planned empire will spend at least ten years completely targeting the tribes of Mo Nan and Mo Bei, with great intentions to kill them all.

"Kun Mo is very determined to win the favor of the Empire," Wu Motu said as he looked at the main seat of the main hall, and Lu Zhe over there had already stood up, "We need help too much now. ”

The "Kunmo" mentioned by Wumotu is not a personal name, Kunmo and Kunmi are actually a name for the leader of Wusun, and the Kunmo in his mouth is naturally the current Wusun King Bo Ximi.

Lu Zhe stood up, walked to the dim place next to him, didn't know who he said something, and quickly returned to his original position and sat down.

"The Yue people are also showing signs of falling into the well, so Kun Mo is already arranging for Hunt Jiao to come to the empire," Wu Motu sped up: "It's for safety, but also in exchange for the empire's help to help hostages on another level." ”

After the destruction of Wusun in the original history, Hunt Jiaomi was adopted by Maoton, and finally relied on the power of the Xiongnu to rebuild Wusun, and now ...... History has changed so much, and it's not bad for that. (To be continued......)