General Qin

Beidi Junwei returned from the Great Wall, and the news he brought back surprised everyone.

The two advisers under Zhao Tuo's command were all frowning.

Chen Pingdao: "General, there are two possibilities now. One is that Wuzhiluo did not disclose to the Yuezhi people that our Qin State is going to capture Henan, and the Yuezhi people really want to form an alliance with us to attack the Xiongnu."

"Dan Ping thinks this is unlikely. The Yue Clan was already strong, but now taking advantage of the Xiongnu's civil strife, they occupied Henan and drove the Huns there to the north of Deshui, near Yinshan Mountain. They clearly occupy a strong position Upwind, there is no need to come to Daqin to form an alliance with me."

Deshui is the name of the Yellow River in the Qin Dynasty. After Qin Shihuang proclaimed himself emperor, he changed the name of the river to Deshui after Qin Shangshuide.

Zhao Tuo nodded slightly, signaling Chen Ping to continue.

Chen Pingdao: "Another possibility is that Wu Zhiluo has already leaked the military plan of our Qin State to those Yuezhi people, so Yuezhi sent people to investigate along the Great Wall. They said this time that they wanted to send envoys into the fortress , Maybe I want to use the name of an alliance to check the reality of my Qin army, and test whether my Great Qin really has the intention of attacking Henan."

"What Chen Sheng said is that the people of the Yue clan are likely to come to test. My Great Qin is a powerful country in the east, and I have never had any enmity with the Yue clan. Even if someone really leaked that our Great Qin wants to attack Henan, they are not sure. If not, I’m afraid I wouldn’t dare to make a decision lightly, and it’s normal to come here to test the truth.”

Li Shiqi agreed with a smile, looking at Chen Ping with some vigilance.

This little fellow's mind is turning very fast. It has been more than a month since he defected to the general, and he has already shown enough wisdom and planning.

Perhaps because of his youth, Chen Ping was a little bit inferior to Li Shiqi in terms of experience and eloquence, but after all, he used his brains, and he was far more of a threat to Li Shiqi than Shejian, Heiyu and others.

In the past, Li Shiqi was the only adviser in the general. Open your mouth to Mr. Li, shut your mouth to Li Sheng, and only ask him for advice.

Now there is an extra Chen Sheng in the mouth, how can it not make people feel delicious.

Thinking of this, Li Shiqi added another sentence: "However, there is another possibility, that is, Wu Zhiluo did not leak the news to the Yuezhi, but because our Qin State mobilized cavalry from several counties, and at the same time, apart from Beidi, there were no soldiers in Longxi County. It is also possible that there are actions in both the county and the upper county, or that someone in other counties leaked information, which aroused the vigilance of the Yuezhi people, and they sent people to investigate because of this."

Chen Ping glanced at Li Shiqi, who smiled at him.

Zhao Tuo nodded. It would be better to have more staff members. He analyzed all the possibilities in a blink of an eye and waited for his leader to make a final decision.

After thinking for a while, Zhao Tuo said: "What you said makes sense, but we have to wait until we meet the envoys of the Yueshi to see the details. Maybe we can get more information from them."

The state of Qin mobilized tens of thousands of cavalry to gather at the border, and there was quite a lot of movement. The Yueshi probably got the news of the existence of their army, so Zhao Tuo didn't intend to hide it, and was going to meet the envoy.

It's just how to see him, but he has some plans.

Zhao Tuo looked at the tall, fair and handsome Chen Ping in front of him, and then at his own wheat-colored skin, his heart skipped a beat.

False and real, real and false.

...

Two days later, a Great Wall fortress built in the era of King Zhaoxiang of Qin opened its gates, and envoys from the Yue clan entered the territory of Qin State. Under the guidance of the Northern Cavalry, they came to Yiqu City.

"There is actually a woman among Yuezhi's envoys."

When Yueshi's envoy entered the general's tent outside Yiqu City, many Qin people were surprised.

Apart from the dozens of Yuezhi cavalry guarding them, there are two Yuezhi envoys, one male and one female.

"The envoy of Xiumi Xihou Yaguda."

"Su Jiasha, the envoy of Guishuang Xihou."

Zhao Tuo sat in the tent, looking at the two envoys of the Yue clan who entered the account.

Ya Guda was an old man in his fifties, he saluted General Qin as soon as he came up, and said greetings in stumbling Qin language.

Compared with this Yueshi old man, the one who attracted the attention of the people of Qin was another envoy from the Yueshi Guishuang Xihou.

This woman named Su Jiasha, about twenty years old, took off her veil outside the tent, revealing a face with a high nose and deep eyes. At first glance, she was very different from the people in the Central Plains, and she even looked different from the old man named Ya Guda next to her. a race.

The officials of Qin, including the governor of Beidi and the governor of the county, looked at her curiously, not admiring her beauty, but feeling curious like looking at a monkey.

"A beauty of the Western Regions breed."

Zhao Tuo thought to himself, compared to Qin people who had less experience, he had never seen anything, and he could normally appreciate this exotic beauty.

The Yue clan lived nomadicly in the Hexi Corridor, as far as the Dunhuang area, and controlled the access to the Western Regions, so there would naturally be contacts with the countries in the Western Regions.

This can be seen from the exotic gold ornaments worn by Su Jiasha.

Therefore, it is normal for the Yuezhi and the Western Regions to intermarry and give birth to such mixed offspring.

As for Guishuang Xihou sending a woman as an envoy, Zhao Tuo was a little surprised.

It is rare for a woman to be a messenger in this era.

However, he was relieved when he remembered that he had watched a TV series about Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty before, in which Zhang Qian went on an envoy to the Western Regions and met the Queen of the Da Yue Clan.

It's just that when Su Jiasha opened his mouth, he still froze.

Because she actually spoke fluent Qinyu. Although the accent was a bit weird, it was enough for everyone to understand.

"The Marquis of Guishuang asked me to ask the generals of the Qin State, why did your Qin State mobilize troops to gather at the border? Is there any purpose?"

Su Jiasha's eyes were piercing, staring straight at General Qin who was sitting on the main seat.

The general was tall and fair-skinned, and his appearance was completely different from those prairie men who were blowing sand all day on the prairie. He looked a little delicate.

The general had been prepared for a long time, and replied: "You Yuezhi originally lived in Hexi, but suddenly invaded Henan, beat off the Huns, and looked aggressive. Our Qin State gathered troops here to guard against you Yuezhi people. Come and invade our Qin land."

This answer obviously stunned the two Yuezhi envoys.

Su Jiasha and Yaguda looked at each other, this was an answer they didn't expect.

Ya Guda quickly shook his head and said: "I, the Yueshi, have no intention of invading your Qin State, please don't misunderstand, General."

Su Jiasha chuckled and said: "General Qin is joking, we Yuezhi people make a living by grazing, and the tribe moves with the pastures. We are not interested in the land that you Qin people surrounded with big cities. What we want is the north. The pastures flowing with honey and milk."

"This time we came here on behalf of the two Xihous, just to join forces with you Qin people to deal with the Huns in the north."

"If you defeat them, the arable land you seize will belong to you Qin people, and the pastures for grazing will belong to our Yue clan. I wonder how the generals of Qin think?"

Although the Qin officials and generals in the tent had heard the county lieutenant talk about the Yuezhi people's request for an alliance, when they actually heard the Yuezhi envoy say the alliance, they still felt absurd.

The state of Qin was going to attack the Yue clan, but the Yue clan didn't know it, and wanted to pull the Qin people to fight the Xiongnu.

The general said: "You Yuezhi is a big grassland country. You can drive away the Huns south of Deshui, and you are fully capable of defeating them. You covet the fertile pastures of the Huns, and you can conquer them yourself. Why do you want to fight with me? Alliance?"

Su Jiasha stared closely at the general Qin on the main seat, and said: "The Huns are a brutal pack of wolves. They occupy the pastures in the east. Although our Yuezhi is powerful, the struggle with the Huns It's hard to win, it's hard to take this land south of the river."

"Until you, the general of the Qin State, defeated the Huns Shanyu in the north and let them kill each other and fell into chaos, we could send troops to defeat the Huns and take this land."

"You Qin people fought against the Xiongnu, and our Yue clan also has a grudge against the Xiongnu. Isn't it right for us to join hands to deal with the common enemy?"

"You are the man who defeated the Xiongnu Shanyu. Are you afraid of a wolf that you once defeated?"

Hearing the praise of the Yuezhi woman, the general was obviously a little uncomfortable.

There are too few Yuezhi materials, so here we use the Da Yuezhi data in "Han Shu Biography of the Western Regions", and the five Xihou are written according to their names in the Western Han Dynasty.