The place where it is difficult to meet Liu Bang is not in the king's tent, but in a small hill.

Wusun is located in the Western Regions, most of which are plains, but there is no shortage of steep mountains and mountains, but it is a little insignificant compared to most of the plains.

The plain is said to be a plain, but in fact it is definitely not absolutely flat, there will be basins and mountain packs, but the altitude of the mountain packs is relatively low.

It's snowing season, and a few days ago, the Wusun Royal Court was ushering in a heavy snowfall, and it stopped today.

Heavy snow covered almost every visible area, and the snow on the tents and flat ground was about half a meter thick, and some people shoveled the snow off the main road, but as you can imagine, even the road is not dry, in fact, it is a muddy road.

Liu Bang perfected himself before going to see the trouble, not only wearing the popular woolen velvet warmth ** of the imperial noble class, but also putting on several layers of down suits, and even wearing a mink sweater on the outside, and a mink hat on his head.

Under the layers of warmth, Liu Bang looks a little swollen and fat, but his height is more than two meters, and the whole figure looks much burly and muscular.

The road was muddy, and Liu Bang, who was wearing woolen cowhide boots under his feet, was reluctant to step on it, and when he got out of the tent, he rode directly on the war horse. The war horse he sat on should be called the lion skull according to the name of Huaxia, which was difficult to send after coming to Wusun, and now riding a horse over is just right to show a little attitude to difficult to go.

Lion is a nice name, "lion" is actually a blue and white fur, "lion" is to describe majestic. Liu Bang is tall and physical, and the lion riding a tall horse also looks extremely heroic, and with the surrounding dozen or so guards who are also burly and wearing forged plate armor for both men and horses, it looks really majestic.

Wusun is a nomadic people, and if they have any distinctive clothing, it is actually sheepskin jackets and sheepskin hats. There is at least one pheasant feather on the hat, and most people wear sackcloth.

Wearing sackcloth is definitely not a special feature, most people all over the world are wearing sackcloth now, and this is also the case on the imperial side. But when it's cold, he still wears sackcloth, either to show off his cold resistance, or he doesn't have warm clothes.

A team of gorgeous-looking cavalry, led by some Wusun cavalry wearing sheepskin suits, rode across the war horses and trampled on the mud together, because they needed to leave the tent of the royal court to go to the small mountain outside, Liu Bang could actually see a lot of things along the way.

Wusun is not in a very good condition right now. There are many soldiers gathered on the royal court, and refugees from some territories affected by the war will actually flock to the royal court.

Liu Bang, who rode all the way across the majestic war horse, could find a lot of things, those who were still wearing thin linen clothes in the cold, and could guess that they were either slaves or Wusun people who had lost their property, and they were shivering from the cold and could not help but work outdoors.

Labor as slaves is a must, they themselves are a kind of humanoid tools, and they can already be called the well-informed Liu Bang, who has seen slaves with a bit of skin color, and there are people with white skin but non-black hair like Wusun. There are Persians with wheat-colored skin and distinct features, and there are blacks with white eyes and teeth. This batch is estimated to have been captured or bought by the Wusun people from all over the Western Regions, and the origin of the slaves is also easier to guess, and they must be those who fled from the west to the east.

Captain Wusun, who led the way, saw that Liu Bang was interested in those slaves. Under the retelling of the accompanying translator, Liu Bang was introduced to some information, and then said mysteriously: "If the noble person likes to hunt for curiosities, there will be gifts later." ”

Gift? Liu Bang has received a lot of gifts recently, from a variety of dazzling items. to living people. Of course, the people he received were all beautiful girls, some pretty girls from the Wusun clan. There were also some girls of various races, and to his surprise, he also received two women who looked like black charcoal. According to some of his original words, it is actually very good for any woman to play, and the woman with a black charcoal head also has a unique flavor.

Out of the Wangting camp, from a distance, you can see a few tents set up on a small hill in front of you, and there are guards standing guard around the mountain, and the largest camp tent on the mountain bag has a large branch erected.

In fact, the empire also uses Daxu, but generally in addition to the tail and bright feathers of various beasts, it will also be matched with a flag, embroidered with some patterns and words, only king-level people and military commanders are qualified to use Daxu, so it is generally called "Wang Qi" and "Shuai Qi".

The nomadic people's Daxu is basically the same, nothing more than a long pole against the fur of the beast, the tip is a trident or something, at most it is to put more beast tails or bright feathers.

The Xiongnu Da Xuan will definitely be matched with wolf fur, so it generally looks like a gray Da Xu, which belongs to Touman, and is currently the trophy of the emperor, and is now placed in the east square of the palace for people to enjoy.

The big silk on the mountain bag belongs to the difficult tribal level, and from the style point of view, it will be a few sizes smaller than the big silk of Wusun Kunmo, but one thing is the same is that the color of the big silk fur is blue-black, and I don't know what kind of animal hair it is, or whether it is dyed.

Liu Bangben was about to dismount when he came to the bottom of the mountain bag, more or less showing his respect for Prince Wusun. But as soon as he stopped the war horse, the captain of Wusun, who led the way, was chattering for a while, and after the translator, he realized that it was difficult to explain in advance, saying that the land was slippery and muddy, and Liu Bang did not need to dismount when he came.

"How can they be rude when they are all princes of a country?" Liu Bang dismounted with a light smile on his face, and beckoned the guards to dismount as well.

"You're so kind." Captain Wusun's face was happy, and his attitude towards Liu Bang was countless times closer than just now. He stooped down and made a gesture of please: "The prince has stewed the lamb on it, and roasted a camel, and is waiting for the nobleman to come up and enjoy it." ”

Liu Bang's eyes lit up when he heard the roast camel, when he first came to the territory of Wusun, he also ate a roasted camel under the hospitality of Bo Ximi, which was a roasting method in which the whole camel was eviscerated, and then no part was removed, and it seemed that something else was added, not only smelling fragrant, but also eating extremely delicious. I heard that the two most delicious humps, one belonged to Bo Ximi, and the other was given to He Yi, and there was no Liu Bang's share at all. Therefore, this time it is inevitable to have great expectations.

The person had not yet arrived at the mountain bag, because of the direction of the wind, Liu Bang's nose had already smelled the smell of meat in the air, which made him involuntarily speed up his pace.

Liu Bang has not yet arrived, and it seems that he has been greeted by a notice.

The difficult to wear made Liu Bang stunned, all because it was difficult to wear a set of mink coats of similar style to Liu Bang, with a cloak on the outside, if you pay attention to the collar, the pattern of those pattern paintings is a kind of big seal at all, which is a very popular pattern on the imperial side.

There is no need to guess, the clothes on the body are definitely made by the Empire. Not only the coat on the upper body, the hat on the head, the holster in the hand, the boots on the feet, almost everything is from the Empire. It's just that it is not clear whether the difficult outfit was purchased by the Wusun envoys in the southern tomb of the empire, or whether it was a reward from the emperor.

It was difficult to bow to Liu Bang from afar, and with one arch of his hand, he opened the cloak, revealing a sword hanging from his waist.

The length of the sword is about 75 centimeters, and it has a very traditional Chinese style. The hilt of the sword is carved with patterns, and the scabbard also has carved patterns and related ornaments. In fact, the hilt of each sword has a different style of pattern, no matter what kind of pattern it is, it is actually for non-slip.

Liu Bang, who saw the sword, immediately understood that the difficult outfit was definitely a reward from the emperor, and the pattern of the sword was quite special. The scabbard is from the South Seas. It was only this year that the market was flooded with timber in large quantities, and previously only the royal family and some nobles had it. If there is another thing to say about wood, but the phoenix pattern of the royal family is not something that can be carved casually!

It is difficult to speak the Mandarin spoken by the empire that is not very standard, and welcome Liu Bang's arrival. said some polite words again, and entered the tent with Liu Bang side by side.

As soon as he entered the tent and ushered in a heat wave, Liu Bang couldn't help but be stunned again. He was stunned, but it wasn't because he had a stove or other equipment. Except for a tent, the furnishings inside are no different from those of the rich houses on the Empire's side, with the most basic tables, bronze utensils, wooden wardrobes, bronze shelves, and other furniture, and the most special is the wooden table in the center.

The table is a kind of bed-like couch for two people to drink, with futons on both sides and a fixed table in the middle.

Now there are several plates on the middle table of the table, and inside the plates are some candied fruit and processed fruit. There is also a stove burning charcoal to warm the wine, with two wine vessels of the High Lord. There are also utensils for putting things, chopsticks, spoons, forks, and other things.

There were several maids next to the platform, some of them were girls from the Wusun tribe, some were blonde girls, and even two girls with black charcoal.

Fortunately, the maids of the Wusun clan are wearing the palace clothes of the maids on the other side of the empire, and the maids from other races are wearing white transparent gauze silk in this cold day, and the looming girl's body looks a little sultry.

"Come, come, please take a seat!" Nan Dou was very enthusiastic, and after beckoning Liu Bang to sit down, he himself sat down. Waiting for the maid to pour warm wine, he said with a smile: "The authentic Nanling wine is making it possible to drink hometown wine thousands of miles away, and it must be a different nostalgia." ”

Liu Bang was also laughing, taking a big sip of the wine in the wine cup, he took a breath of "ha", and said heartily: "The prince really has a heart." But he was a little speechless in his heart, the scale of the envoy group is so large, there are no less than thousands of carriages for transporting goods alone, and there are so many materials that belong to the empire that there is no shortage of Nanling wine at all.

"I heard that His Majesty the Emperor of the Empire wrote a poem in his early years?" It was difficult to take a dull light, and he groaned for a while, and said in a strange accent: "Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls with amber light." But that the master may be drunk, and he will not know where it is. Looking at Liu Bang, his face was reserved: "I shouldn't have mispronounced it, right?" ”

This is Li Bai's "Guest in the Works", and now there is naturally no Li Bai in this year, and the poem was read out in the camp of the military traders when Lu Zhe was stationed in Yinmi County, Beidi County. At that time, Lu Zhe was curious about the different types of liquor in various places, and when he heard Nanling wine casually reciting a few words, he didn't have any special intentions at all.

If Lu Zhe had been obscure, it would have been fine, but he had become the emperor of the huge empire, then whatever he had done, even the most trivial things would be brought up again, the bad things would be washed and then artistically processed to beautify them, and the good things would be beautified and at least a hundred times more beautiful than the original.

The late Qin period was not an era of poetry, it was about conquest and fighting, and it was definitely not an era of singing and dancing.

In the era of non-singing and dancing, that is, a poem that Lu Zhe, who had become the emperor, once plagiarized, would spread all over the world, and everyone listened to it and praised the emperor for not only his martial arts but also his literary brilliance.

Liu Bang, who was born in the market, didn't know much literacy, and later became a third-class baron of the empire, so he specially asked to teach him to learn more words. He didn't know much of the poems, he knew that "the leaves are pale, and the white dew is frost", and he had read "My Fair Lady, the Gentleman is Good", and some other poems with good intentions, but it was a bit choking to say that the poems were discussed.

It's hard to guess that he doesn't know poetry, all his arrangements are to give Liu Bang an impression, so that Liu Bang feels that he loves the empire, not only is he getting closer to the empire in terms of living habits, but he can even read so many poems.

Liu Bang is not a stupid person, he also knows what he wants to express, and he praises Nan Doumi's understanding of imperial culture very cooperatively, and reveals an obvious closeness in his words.

"The Empire is truly a great country, and Your Majesty is also an incomparably wise emperor." It was difficult to hide his good impression of the empire, and persuaded Liu Bang to drink a few glasses of wine, and talked about some interesting things about the empire. ”

"This ......" Liu Bang hesitated slightly, made a look of looking left and right, and deliberately lowered his voice: "Your Majesty is not without an attitude, it's just ......"

Nan Doumi immediately came to his senses, lowered his voice cooperatively, and asked eagerly: "Just what?" Perhaps thinking that this was not good, he smiled and persuaded a few more wines, and said: "If you can help, the whole Wusun will thank you." ”

Liu Bang showed a very embarrassed expression, and finally seemed to be attracted by huge interests, and only after hesitating again and again did he seem to let go, and said: "Many central civil officials and military generals have not really determined how to get along with Wusun, so they ......" (to be continued. )