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The night passed by, and the next day, just as the sky was dawn, a group of hundreds of Yuezhi soldiers rushed out of the royal camp and headed northwest.

Li Shun, who had been hugging the two Yuezhi girls for the middle of the night, was also awakened by the banging knock on the door. He opened his eyes in a daze and found that the two Yuezhi girls were still naked like two little lambs curled beside him.

"What's the matter?" Li Shun rubbed his eyes and sat up lazily. The two girls were awakened and quickly got up to help Li Shun put on her clothes.

"Sir, there is a noble man coming to visit!" The imperial guards' report came from outside the door.

"Is it still possible to live so early..."

Li Shun muttered to stand up and tidy up his clothes, put on his head crown, and opened the door with sleepy eyes. Then he saw two tribal leaders who attended the dinner yesterday standing outside the door of the yurt, dressed neatly with a flattering smile on their faces, and the servant behind him was holding some soft fur and jade in his hands.

"Sorry, I'm tired from afar. I've been overslept, please come inside!"

Li Shun had eyes on his face and quickly bowed and greeted the leader into the yurt, while the two girls quickly put on their clothes to help boil water and serve.

"I am Rashida, the leader of the Ladan tribe..."

Listening to the leader's self-introduction, Li Shun was confused and ordered the imperial guards outside to call the translator quickly. After more than ten minutes, the translator hurriedly ran in while tidying up his clothes and hair, pressing his eyes and two dark circles. It was obvious that he had been struggling for a long time last night and had not had a good sleep.

With the help of Tongzhi, Li Shun heard the other party's name clearly this time, and then thrust his face a few times.

Thumb up...and it's big.

Your father is definitely not from Central Plains, otherwise he wouldn't have given you such a name.

The two sides exchanged greetings. As the leader of the Yuezhi tribe who ruled tens of thousands of people, Li Shun was still very enthusiastic about making tea and treating this shitty... Rashida, a cup of fragrant and warm tea that refreshed the mind, Rashida instantly became more respectful to Li Shun. Both sides talked about it for a few minutes, and several other officials came in with sleepy eyes pressing in two dark circles.

Although Yuezhi's long-legged women with fair skin, red, golden curly hair, are beautiful and charming and full of exotic style, as the envoy of the Emperor of Qin, they still have to do their jobs, otherwise they will be split into meat sauce and fried croquettes when something goes wrong.

"Most of our Yuezhi are in a place with wind, sand, and bitter cold. There are not many products. Only these shuffle fur and beautiful jade are given to the messenger. Please don't dislike the messenger!" Rashi replied and pointed to some items placed on the ground.

"King Ladan is so polite. There is a saying in our original state that gifts are light and affection is heavy. The fur of this shuffle fur is soft and gorgeous, and these pieces of jade are also gentle and delicate. Thank you. I will take these back and present them to the Emperor of Qin to convey the beauty of King Ladan!"

"No, no, I gave these gifts to Lord Messenger!" King Ladan waved his hand quickly.

Because there is a general translation, there is no problem with the two people communicating.

"Give it to me?" Li Shun pointed at his nose in surprise.

"Yes, I'll give it to you. I drank grape wine at the king's dinner yesterday. I didn't feel like sleeping all night. I wonder if the messenger could give me a bottle of wine. These gifts were treated as exchange. If I think there were too few, I would arrange for people to rush back to the tribe to send some other gifts..." Rashida quickly explained.

"Hehe, King Ladan is so polite. Your Majesty has arranged for us to serve as an envoy to Yuezhi, so naturally he has prepared gifts for all the leaders and nobles of Yuezhi. Come and prepare the gifts for King Ladan!"

"Yes, sir!" An official next to him quickly went to get a bottle of wine, a piece of silk, a tube of tea leaves, a set of teapots and tea cups, and handed them to Rashida in a tote bag.

"This... this is too expensive!" King Ladan took the handbag and looked at the exquisite set of porcelain and silk tea inside, his tongue was a little knotted.

"You don't have to be polite, but the wine we drank last night was given to you by His Majesty the Emperor. Today, I had to change another one to give to King Ladan. In addition to the porcelain bottle, the taste was similar. However, because we were not familiar with the journey and were too far away, we didn't carry many gifts, so we could only express our feelings. If King Ladan could support Yuezhi and Daqin trade, then King Ladan might be able to buy my Daqin grape wine and silk porcelain from the tribal camp!"

"Not bad, I always admire the wealth of the Central Plains, but it's inconvenient to travel. If the porcelain and wine from the Central Plains are transported to the Yuezhi, it will definitely be very popular. I will definitely persuade the king to have a good relationship with the Qin Dynasty and protect the caravans from both sides!" Rashi nodded repeatedly.

"Haha, that's good. This is also the biggest purpose of the Emperor of the Great Qin arranged for me to come to Yuezhi, and it is also the common wish of Yuezhi and the people of the Great Qin!" Li Shun was very happy. After chatting with Rashida for a few more words, the imperial guards outside the door reported again, and another noble person came to visit. Rashida quickly left with a bag of gifts.

For the next whole day, Li Shun basically didn't go out much.

From morning to evening, in addition to eating, drinking, stooling, peeing, we kept meeting the tribe leaders and some royal personnel of the Huns. In addition to sending dozens of bags of gifts, we also harvested a lot of exquisite fur and beautiful jade, and even a few large bags of dried fruits, spices and two cans of red rouge. Among them, Li Shun was most moved by half a bag of pepper.

Although pepper has only appeared in Daqin for less than a year, it has almost become a household name. Everyone knows that this is an exotic spice worth comparable to gold and other values. Many people pay a lot of money in Xianyang to buy one or two but cannot get it.

Li Shun has never eaten the black pepper steak. He has only seen pepper planted in Qinghehou’s manor. But I heard that it was a delicacy that was rare in the sky and the world. I would never forget it in my life as long as I eat it.

Several other dried fruits and spices are also specialties that are not available in the Central Plains. Two of them have been tasted at the banquet yesterday. These things are not attractive to Li Shun, but he knew that the Marquis liked the most were these foreign plant fruits and seeds, so he specially told the servants who accompanied him to collect them.

As for rouge, it is a wild plant growing on the edge of desert mountains. Pick flowers in spring and summer and mash them into red pigments to apply to the cheeks. This thing is not available in the Central Plains, but I have seen it in the Central Plains that the Xiongnu Donghu are all produced and are very expensive. It can be sold at a good price when transported to the Central Plains. Because there are fewer quantities, picking and making are not easy. For the Yuezhi people, it must be a valuable gift that is as valuable as pepper.

The word rouge actually originated from the Hu people, which is the transliteration of Yanzhi, and originated from Yanzhi Mountain, which is the remnant of Qilian Mountain at the junction of Yuezhi and the Xiongnu.

On the way to the Yuezhi Wangting, Li Shun and others had already inquired about the Yuezhi tribe along the way with a lot of things and even customs about the Yuezhi tribe. The inquiry process was bloody and brutal, but the result was very beautiful. Basically, everyone who should be inquired about it was found.

"Mr. Li, there are too many of these things, and I'm afraid I won't get them back then!" Several officials were very worried when they looked at the various gifts that were almost piled up with half a yurt.

"It's okay. Please help the King of Yuezhi at that time and ask him to arrange some camel caravans to help transport them. When he arrives in Xianyang, the emperor may reward them with some things, so the King of Yuezhi will naturally not miss this opportunity to make a fortune!"

"It's still Lord Li's careful consideration!" Several officials began to flatter without moral integrity.

The envoy was Li Shun on this mission. Although Li Shun was the youngest, he had the highest title. He was also the editor-in-chief of the newspaper and the most famous reporter in the country. His reputation was almost known to everyone in the world. What's more, Li Shun and Qinghe Hou had a good relationship. He was promoted by Qinghe Hou. This identity alone was enough to make countless people please and curry favor. As a few unknown middle and low-level officials, he had no chance to curry favor with Li Shun.

Therefore, this time, the mission will return smoothly, and several people will inevitably establish a good relationship with Li Shun, and they will be promoted and made a fortune in the future.

In the evening, King Yuezhi once again held a banquet in the king's tent to entertain a group of envoys including Li Shun.

After a day of exchange of gifts and exchanges, the dinner was much more harmonious and lively. Although the language was not clear, Li Shun and several officials were accompanied by some tribal leaders and royal families, drinking, eating meat and watching the beauty dance, and the atmosphere was very harmonious.

At the dinner, the Yuezhi people taught Li Shun and others some of the customs and habits of eating and drinking. Li Shun also taught Yuezhi people some of the Central Plains plays such as throwing dice pots and playing boxing and drinking wine. They also took out the dice they carried with them to gather on site to gamble. After a lively period, they began to introduce the current customs and customs of the Qin Dynasty, including newspapers, cement, buses, oriental roads, cement bridges, water wheel mills, four-wheeled carriages, etc., and specially introduced the divine thunder fireworks invented by Qinghehou and the invented divine thunder fireworks.

When the general translation translated these things in a scattered manner, everyone was stunned.

"Have you ever heard about these things in the Central Plains?" King Yuezhi asked Wen Bupo secretly.

"King, my subordinates returned to the Yuezhi more than ten years ago. I have never heard of these things, but these things should not be false. You just need to arrange some people to follow the envoy to the Qin Dynasty to know!" Wen Bupo said in a low voice.

"Yes, it seems that this matter must be arranged in advance, and some gifts should be prepared to send to the Emperor of Daqin, and also inquire about the situation in Daqin!" King Yuezhi nodded.

"King Nantu, have you ever heard of these things?" A tribal leader next to King Nantu asked in a low voice with an ugly face.

"I did hear that there was a very strange young man in the Central Plains. He was only in his teens and was well-versed in strange magical magic. He was famous. He was named the Marquis of Qinghe by the Emperor of Qin and married his daughter to him as his wife!"

King Nantu said while drinking.

"Then...will we have no chance of winning if we have a conflict with the Qin Dynasty?" Another tribal leader said in horror.

"Hmph, so what? My Yuezhi and Daqin have always been like water. The Qin Dynasty is indeed powerful. But my Yuezhi is not a group of lambs. It can see who can hold on for a long time. If you want to gain the respect of Daqin and live peacefully, blindly tolerant will only be bullied. If the king cannot see through this, my Yuezhi will inevitably become a vassal of Daqin. In the future, I will only obey the command of the Emperor of Daqin like a dog. Women's treasures will be plundered by Daqin. On that day, can you still have the status you are today? The strong will only respect the strong and will never be kind to those who wag their tails and beg for mercy. Just like the Qiang people, they will only obey them if they beat them up!"

"What King Nantu said makes sense. Even if we can't win, we cannot just give in. We must teach them a lesson to gain equal status!" A tribal leader nodded.

"I want to see if the king can't hand over Maodun in ten days, and the atmosphere will be so harmonious. Compromising with Daqin is tantamount to struggling with a tiger. Unfortunately, many people can't see through it. After you go back this time, you step up the production of saddles and stirrups, create archery weapons and train warriors. A fierce battle with Daqin is bound to be inevitable!"

"Don't worry, King Nantu, we will start preparing after we go back tomorrow!"
Chapter completed!