"When the river gets smaller, it's all to blame on the Han people!"
As soon as the king of Loulan saw his face, he poured dirty water on the Han envoy.But unlike what she expected in the Loulan crowd to be excited and besiege the Han envoys, from the elderly water priests to the ordinary Loulan people outside the altar, everyone was very cold to the words of the Yan family.Only a few Xiongnu women who were left in Loulan by the servant Du Wei to assist the Yan clan echoed them, but they were drowned in the silence of the majority.The people of Loulan are superstitious, but they are not stupid.On the side of the envoys, after Lu Jiuyu translated Yan's words, Ren Hong's brain was fast, and when he saw that the people of Loulan looked unbelieving, he couldn't help but be happy, and decided to repay the favor with his own way, and whispered a few words to Fu Jiezi.After Fu Jiezi agreed, Lu Jiuyu immediately inserted his waist and retorted loudly in Loulan dialect: "Everyone knows that the river has been small for more than ten years, how can it start this spring?"
If you have to calculate, it is the year when the Han Dynasty evacuated Loulan!
”He even said something conclusively: "What's more, after drinking the river water yesterday, more than 30 people in the envoy group had the same dream, dreaming of the manifestation of the virtuous river god. ”"The virtuous river god said to us that the reason why the river is getting smaller and smaller is because the Xiongnu are plundering the cattle and sheep of Loulan and slaughtering her people, because there is a foreign hen in the country that crows!
The virtuous river god is not worth it for Loulan!
”The people of Loulan reacted very little to the words of the Yan family, and they had a few more words to discuss the rebuttal of the Han envoys, and they looked at the Yan family, and there was a lot of resentment in their eyes, after all, the Huns looted it, but the real cattle and sheep grain were cutting their hearts every year.This made the Yan family very angry, saying that the Han envoy was making nonsense: "The Han people cut down the trees by the river, how can the virtuous river god favor the Han envoy?"
”Lu Jiuyu said: "Everyone knows that all the people who have drunk the divine water of the Xianshan River are its people, whether they are Loulan people, Han people or Huns, they may have dreams about her." ”This setting was learned by the officials from a conversation between Yi Xianghan and a water priest on the way here, and they immediately used it.The water priest wearing a wooden mask also helped to slap the Yan clan in the face, and testified in an old voice that this was indeed the case.At this time, the Yan family was a little speechless, seeing that she lifted a stone and hit her feet, the Loulan people also pointed at her, and couldn't help but look at the king of Loulan Angui, and asked her husband for help: "The king promised in front of the servant Du Wei that he would never accept the Han envoy!"
Please, the king, expel them!
”An Gui was wearing a robe embroidered with a diamond pattern, a fine fox fur on the outside, a beard on his lips that was exaggeratedly curled, and a felt hat with peacock feathers on his head, a little afraid of the Yan family.Without waiting for him to answer, Fu Jiezi had already stepped forward, knocked the ground heavily with a knot in his hand, and sneered: "Originally, the Son of Heaven asked us to bring gold and splendid embroidery to the King of Loulan to give him compensation, but now it seems that Loulan does not welcome the Han envoys. ”After saying that, he turned around and was about to leave."
Fu Gong, please stay!"
An Gui couldn't care about the Tieqing face of the Yan family, and hurriedly separated everyone, keeping Fu Jiezi from afar, and letting the officials around him, such as the left and right and the chief translator, say something good.Although An Gui grew up in the Xiongnu, he had been sitting on the side of the Xiongnu for many years, secretly informing the Xiongnu of the news of the Han envoy's passing, and asked the king of Rizhu to send people to rob and kill.But the situation has not been the same in the past two years, on the one hand, the increasingly heavy blackmail of the Huns, which has made Loulan quite complaining, and An Gui is afraid that the nobles and commoners will unite and drive himself down.On the other hand, the Han Dynasty sent envoys to Loulan more and more frequently, and it seemed that they really wanted to return to the Western Regions?
Thirty years ago, the Han general Zhao Ponu and 700 light horsemen broke Loulan and captured the old king of Loulan, and the people of Loulan still remember it vividly.The small country in the desert oasis, the Huns can't afford to provoke, and the Han Dynasty also dare not offend.Therefore, Angui has been unable to sleep at night recently, hoping that the Xiongnu can increase the protection of Loulan, but also fearing that one day the Han army will be in the air again, and he will not be able to protect it.Sometimes he is also thinking about whether he should change the bias of the past few years a little and treat the Han envoys a little bit for the sake of his family and life, so that the Han Dynasty will not send troops to Loulan?
Yesterday, Yi sent someone to Han to report to An Gui, saying that the Han envoy had caught the Sogdians who had stolen the graves of Han soldiers in Loulan, and wanted to invite the king of Loulan to interrogate and hear about the matter, and An Gui was so happy that he drank a barrel of wine.This is the step sent by the Han envoy on his own initiative, it is really like a sleepy pillow, which can not only curry favor with the Han Dynasty by severely punishing the Sogdians, but also let the unruly city lord and the people who are full of complaints know that the authority of the king of Loulan will be respected even by the Han Dynasty!
So An Guiyi waved his hand, and asked the annoyed and angry Yan to be sent back to the palace, and he himself said that he wanted to lead the Han envoys from afar and lead them into the city.In fact, An Gui was still suspicious, and did not dare to approach the heavily armed envoys, and there were more than 100 Loulan warriors in the middle, and when he only rode on the camel on his behalf, he frequently looked back.Loulan City, which was later numbered as "LA", is located in the middle of two crossed rivers, and the poplar trees outside the city are lined up, the green trees are shady, and the city wall is the same as Yixun City, which is built of rammed earth and reeds, and is more than 300 meters wide on each side.The city is roughly divided into three areas: the northeast side is the palace area, with adobe walls, tall poplar pillars painted with vermilion, a low wall separating it from the rest of the area, and a large area of lush vineyards beyond the east gate, to which he returned with his retinue.It seems that the grape trellis of the Loulan Wang's family is going to fall tonight.To the west is a residential area, with single rooms next to each other in the first phase, and the walls of the houses are arranged vertically and horizontally with reed poles and red willow trees to form a fence, and then kneaded with grass to form ropes, and then paste mud on them.The southeast corner is the official office area, facing the south gate is a small square, the edge of the square stands the tallest three rooms in Loulan City, this is the place where the king of Loulan was judged, Ren Hong has imagined the appearance of Loulan countless times, from the songs, from the old dedication, as if just the two words "Loulan", it gives people countless reveries.Now that I finally came here, I was a little disappointed.It doesn't look mysterious at all.It's just an ordinary small city in the Western Regions.But Ren Hong immediately realized: only the Ming that has been destroyed is the mysterious Ming, and before being buried by the yellow sand, Loulan was just an ordinary member of the 36 countries in the Western Regions.It is not Loulan itself that shapes its image in later generations, but people's regrets.The hapless Sogdians, who had been held by Yi Xianghan's men, were now handed over to the guards of the king of Loulan, wearing exaggerated high felt hats on their heads, high felt boots on their feet, and small bows, knives, or swords pinned to their waists.Wang An of Loulan returned to the camel, and after making a gesture of invitation, he entered the big house first.When the envoys were about to follow up, the right and ditch of Loulan Kingdom carefully saluted them, stopped everyone, and asked Fu Jiezi and the officials to unload their weapons."
The rules of Loulan Kingdom, during the trial, you are not allowed to bring armored soldiers in."
And the canal is the official name of the Xiongnu, and Angui is modeled after the Xiongnu system.Zheng Ji, Sun Shiwan, Lu Jiuyu and others, who were ordered to follow up, looked at Fu Jiezi, and after he nodded, he put his weapons at the door one after another.Youjiqu watched a sword, knife, and dagger unload from the officials, and breathed a sigh of relief, but when everyone entered, they didn't dare to search their bodies carefully, this security measure was just self-comforting.Fu Jiezi also untied the saber on his body, only held the jingjie, and strode in, but turned around and called Ren Hong's name: "Ren Hong, you and Xi Chongguo take the rest and stay outside." ”They discussed it last night, they must act in two groups, Fu Jiezi tried to make a move against An Gui inside, and the officials outside, under the leadership of Ren Hong and Xi Chongguo, had to watch over one person.That is Yi Xianghan, this is the city lord that the envoys are most sure to fight for, he and more than 100 Yixun City soldiers outside the city are the key to the Han envoy's control of Loulan City when the conflict breaks out after the fact!
The door of the big house was immediately shut, and nothing was known about the inside of the house, except for the officials sitting in a circle in the small square.The more than 200 warriors under the command of the king of Loulan, led by the bearded Zuo Jiqu, either condescended from the city wall or stood around the house, watching them vigilantly.Ren Hong asked Zhao Han'er and Han Dangdang to follow him, and whispered to Xi Chongguo: "Brother Xi, Yi Xianghan handed it over to me to convince me, if he can't be convinced, Han Dangdang will kidnap him, in addition, there is one more person who can't be ignored, that is the water priest at the altar outside the city." ”In Loulan, the authority of the water priest is second only to that of the king, and this card must be controlled in his own hands.Xi Chongguo understood, took ten people, excused himself to go to the toilet, and went out of the city.So on the square in the city, except for the warriors of the King of Loulan who faintly surrounded them, only Ren Hong and twenty officials remained, as well as a few of Yi Xianghan's subordinates.Ren Hong walked over and saluted to Han towards Yi: "I thought that the city lord of Yi was qualified to enter. ”Yi Xianghan shook his head: "Does Ren know all the titles of King Loulan?"
”He looked at the tall three houses and said with emotion: "The great king, the lord of the ten cities, the great, victorious, just, and correct law enforcement of the law King Anguiga!"
”"Law enforcement belongs exclusively to the King of Loulan, as the lord of the city, we can only investigate the incident, and even when the King of Loulan ruling, we have no right to enter this house, unless" Yi Xianghan smiled: "As the person being interrogated, I don't want that day." ”"Lord Yi will be able to enter soon."
Ren Hong heard this with a little meaning, and said in a low voice: "When Yi Xianghan is not just a little Yixun City Lord, but a great and wealthy Loulan City Lord, he will be able to enter this house. ”He looked at Yi Xianghan with a smile: "Then, you can sit in a distinguished position and give orders, and in that Loulan people's ballad, the person who is dressed in a seven-colored rainbow, has thousands of acres of fertile land, and speaks like a lark singing, will become you, isn't it beautiful?"
”After a long silence, similar words, Fu Jiezi also hinted along the way that Yi Xianghan should have understood.But he seemed to be hesitating, and Ren Hong was even ready to beckon Han Dangdang next to him to be ready to take Yi Xianghan hostage.But at this moment, Yi Xianghan suddenly replied: "Is the condition given by Duke Fu just the lord of Loulan City?"
”Yi Xianghan looked at Ren Hong with a pair of brown eyes that were unwilling to be lonely, revealing the heart of a tiger hidden under the kind appearance!"
Why can't it be Yi Xianghan, the king of Loulan?"
PS: The second chapter is in the evening.