On the first day of February, Zhao Ziliang and his party left the territory of Bakhana Kingdom and entered the territory of Shi Kingdom.
"General Zhao, the front is beyond the boundary of my country of Bukhan.
Going further is the land of Shi Kingdom.
It is inconvenient for the general to enter.
This is the general's steward Balu.
He has business in all the countries with the nine surnames of Zhaowu.
If the general doesn't mind, I will let him serve as the general's guide."
Batu, the general of Bukhanna State sent by Ashlandagan to escort Zhao Ziliang and his party, pointed at a middle-aged man in his forties and said.
The middle-aged butler Baluce immediately stepped forward to caress his chest and bowed his head to salute Zhao Ziliang: "Baruch has seen the general."
All the people of the small Central Asian countries with the nine surnames of Zhaowu are called Sogdians.
The Sogdians are famous for their business in history.
They have long controlled the resale trade on the Silk Road, so the people of various Central Asian countries are very wealthy.
The scope of their business activities was very large.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, their business activities ranged from the Eastern Han Dynasty in the east to the Roman Empire in the west.
Moreover, they often served as envoys of certain countries and undertook diplomatic missions for certain countries.
This was mainly because they Having traveled between the East and the West for a long time, they are familiar with the terrain, roads, customs, spiritual beliefs, customs and taboos of each country.
Therefore, Sogdian merchants have a special social status in many countries in the East and the West.
Even if they do not, they will spend a lot of money to work there.
The country buys a noble status to facilitate their business and trade.
Zhao Ziliang looked at Balu, nodded and said to Batu: "In that case, I would like to thank General Batu.
When I return, I will talk to Balu butler and leave the general.
I will take my leave."
Batu stroked his chest and said, "General, please be more careful along the way.
Please don't send me far away."
After entering Shiguo's territory for a few miles, Zhao Ziliang saw that there was no one else around, so he ordered the camp to be set up.
After the camp was set up, he found a tent alone and took out more than 200 sets of civilian clothes, shoes and hats from the thumb space, and then handed Chu Ge , Brahan and Balu came to give instructions Said: "The country of Bukhan is close to our country, so when I came to the country of Bakhan, the general did not hide his identity, but it is different now.
Our country has lost contact and exchanges with other countries with the nine surnames of Zhaowu for many years, and we still don't know about them.
What is Datang to me?
Therefore, for our own safety, this general decided that everyone, including me, should change into civilian clothes and pretend to be a caravan from the east.
There happens to be a Balu here who knows how to do business.
I will do this Caravan owner, Balu will be my butler , responsible for talking and contacting people from various places along the way.
You two will be stewards and responsible for managing the internal affairs of the caravan.
If you continue to explain, we must forget our identities.
Now we are a caravan.
Don’t call us generals or captains anymore.
Official position, do you understand?"
The three of them agreed at the same time: "No" In the blink of an eye, a cavalry army of more than 200 people turned into a caravan.
It was really a caravan.
This fake caravan had all the things that a caravan should have, including merchants, clerks, guards, There are goods.
The goods were taken out by Zhao Ziliang from the thumb space.
They are all silk and porcelain.
They were prepared before leaving Shule Town for emergencies.
Unexpectedly, they have come in handy now. .
What surprised Zhao Ziliang was that these small Central Asian countries basically did not have military facilities within the border checkpoints.
When he led the team into the territory of the Bakhna Kingdom, they did not see the border checkpoints.
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Now they have entered the territory of the Shi Kingdom and have gone deep into it.
There was no border checkpoint for ten miles.
After asking Balu, Zhao Ziliang found out that it was not that these small Central Asian countries did not want to set up border checkpoints, but because there were no dangerous places to set up checkpoints.
Zhao Ziliang's huge caravan was advancing slowly on the road.
Several vague figures appeared on a nearby hill.
Zhao Ziliang quickly noticed it.
He took out a monocular telescope from a long leather holster on his waist.
Looking towards the hill, seven armored cavalry appeared in sight.
It took him half a month to find a craftsman in Shule Town to make this monocular telescope.
The lens was not polished very well and the workmanship was rough, but it had the function of a telescope and could be retracted freely.
Zhao Ziliang watched for a while and thought about it in his mind, but calmly put away the telescope and called to Balu to ask everyone to speed up.
On the hill, what appeared here was a Shiguo cavalry patrol.
A knight said to the leader beside him: "Brother Gotha, look at this caravan, there are enough people for 200 people.
It is a big fat sheep.
You Let’s see if we want it” Of course the knight leading the team, who was called Gotha, understood what it meant.
After thinking about it, he just shook his head and said: "No, the land in our Stone Kingdom is barren, and the people can only rely on the Silk Road traveled by merchants traveling between the East and the West.
Now the West The big food country is pressing forward step by step.
If we continue to attack the merchants who come and go, and the merchants do not take our route and go directly to the Bakhna country, then our people will have no source of livelihood.
Look again, this looks like a caravan of the Tang Dynasty.
Maybe they will receive courtesy from the king."
The Kingdom of Shi was called the Kingdom of Zheshi by Xuanzang in the Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty.
It was the only place that eminent monks of the Tang Dynasty could pass through on their way to India, but it was not the only place that the Silk Road must pass through.
When the knight heard what Gotha said just now, he quickly lowered his head and said: "Brother Gotha, I understand."
"Come on, let's go down and see if they are a caravan from the Tang Dynasty.
If they are, we will escort them all the way to Tuozhe City.
The contact between the two parties went smoothly, without any unpleasantness.
Gotha actually led the patrol team to escort Zhao Ziliang's caravan of more than 200 people to Tuozhe City, the capital of the Stone Kingdom.
Tuozhe City is also called Kanji City.
In the third year of Emperor Xianqing's reign, the Tang Dynasty established the Dawan Governor's Palace here and appointed the then King of Shi as the Governor.
All the small countries with the nine surnames of Zhaowu have the same surname, that is, Zhaowu, but they have different surnames.
The surname of Shiguo is Shi, so the king of Shiguo is surnamed Shi.
When the Dawan Dudufu was established in the third year of Xianqing, the king of Shiguo at that time was named Shi Nie, and the current king of Shi Kingdom is called Mohedu Tutun.
Mohedu Tutun was canonized as the King of the Stone Kingdom by the Tang Dynasty at the beginning of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.
Twenty-six years have passed and he has become a thin old man who is nearly sixty years old.
When Mohedu Tutun learned that a caravan from the Tang Dynasty had arrived in Tuozhe City, he actually sent someone to invite Zhao Ziliang to the palace to inquire about matters related to the Tang Dynasty.
Tuozhe City Palace.
"Your Majesty, I don't understand why you want to invite the leader of a caravan to the palace.
This will give you a share," said a minister.
The skinny old man Mohe Dututun, who was nearly sixty years old, waved his hands and said: "Why do I still have an identity?
Do I still have an identity?
The Cao and Kang states in the south have repeatedly provoked me under the instruction of the Dashi Kingdom, and I have to swallow my anger.
I am so breathless.
I just want to know.
This is just news about the Tang Dynasty.
Since the Tuqi Shi Khan Sulu from the north cut off the road to the Tang Dynasty, our country has lost contact with the Tang Dynasty for many years.
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If we can send people to the Tang Dynasty to invite reinforcements, we will definitely You can defeat the giant cannibal and gain freedom."
As he was talking, a waiter walked quickly into the hall and said: "To inform my king, the leader of the Tang Dynasty caravan has arrived and is outside the hall."
Mohedu Tutun quickly raised his hand: "Quickly, please invite the leader of the Tang Dynasty caravan to enter the palace."
"As you command, my king" When he arrived at Tuozhe City, Zhao Ziliang really didn't expect that King Mohedu Tutun of the Shi Kingdom would directly send someone to invite him to the palace to talk.
This made him very happy.
On the way, he was still thinking about how to meet him.
When I arrived at Mohedu Tutun, what I didn't expect was that "I couldn't find anything even after wearing iron shoes, and it took no effort to get there."
"Zhao Ziliang, a businessman of the Tang Dynasty, paid a visit to the King of Shi Kingdom."
Zhao Ziliang bowed his hands and bowed.
"Excuse me quickly, shopkeeper Zhao.
By the way, I remember that your title in Tang Dynasty is shopkeeper, right?"
Mohedu Tutun asked with a smile.
Zhao Ziliang said: "Yes, I didn't expect that the king would know the name of the merchants in the Tang Dynasty."
"Haha, shopkeeper Zhao, please take a seat."
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
A palace attendant brought a chair and placed it next to a minister.
Zhao Ziliang took a look, hey, it's a chair.
There are no chairs in the Tang Dynasty.
Unexpectedly, there are already chairs here.
It seems that this kind of chair should be called a Hu chair, and the bed where Mohedu Tutun is sitting should be Known as Hu Bed Bar As soon as Zhao Ziliang sat down, Mo Hedu Tutun asked: "Shopkeeper Zhao, you are from the Tang Dynasty.
I want to know the current situation of the Tang Dynasty.
Why can you tolerate the Tuqi Shi in the north for many years, so that Our country wants to send an envoy to Chang'an but it is impossible to pass."
After hearing this, Zhao Ziliang looked around, with hesitation on his face.
Mohedu Tutun was very good at reading people's faces, and knowing that Zhao Ziliang had scruples, he quickly said: "These are all the people who are close to me, shopkeeper Zhao, even though he is straightforward Said there would be absolutely no trouble.”
Zhao Ziliang thought for a moment, then stood up and cupped his hands and said: "King Qi, in fact, I am not the leader of the caravan, but the deputy governor of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, Gai Jiayun, the governor of the four towns of Anxi, and the governor of Shule Town.
The waiter sent by General Fumeng Lingcha" "Ah" Mohedu Tutun and several ministers present looked at each other.
This news shocked them all
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