"The envoy of Liangzhou, Yang Yi, pays homage to the King of Shu."
In the palace, the voice of the old envoy echoed in the palace.
"Sit down." Sitting on the throne, Xu Mu's tone was extremely calm. He didn't want to play intimidating tricks like frying oil pans or burning fire cauldrons.
He didn't care about the words "not to kill the envoy". He just wanted to find out what the envoy from Liangzhou meant by entering Shu this time.
"My lord has entrusted me with a horse-drawn horse, dedicated to King Xu and Shu. There are also two carts of Liangzhou agate, ivory from the Western Regions, and luminous wine, which are also presented to King Shu."
Before sitting down, the envoy Yang Yi spoke hurriedly.
"What you offer is not as good as the head on your neck." Xu Mu smiled lightly, "Sir, please sit down and speak frankly."
Yang Yi's face turned pale and she seemed to be clenching her teeth before she could sit still.
"Is this Mr. Poisonous Eagle Jia? Yang is polite."
"Polite." Jia Zhou nodded.
Dongfang Jing was not in the palace. According to Xu Mu's wishes, this unknown military advisor should not be too public at this time.
"King of Shu, I follow my lord's wishes. I came to Shu this time to form an alliance."
Xu Mu sneered in his heart, even Si Hu could see this.
"Shuzhou and Liangzhou have a long history. King Xu Shu is the son of the young marquis. I, Liangzhou, also respected the young marquis——"
"The King of Liangzhou has been replaced." Xu Mu interrupted directly, "Sir, you might as well say it straight, I have something to do later."
Yang Yi wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"King of Shu, this time I follow my lord's wishes and enter Shu to form a neighboring alliance. In addition, my lord said that five thousand fine Liangzhou horses will be sent to Shu from Liangzhou later."
Xu Mu was startled. Jia Zhou, who was next to him, also looked puzzled. In times of war, horses were hard currency. Moreover, the horses in Liangdi were of good quality and were the best choice for war horses.
Although the southwestern mane horses produced in several horse farms in Shu are not bad, they are not a blessed place for producing horses after all. There are too few.
"What a big gift."
Yang Yi hurriedly stood up and bowed again, rarely showing a smile, "King Xu Shu, this is the case, which shows our Lord's sincerity."
"Sir is not like a lobbyist, but like a courtesy official."
"The King of Shu's heroic appearance makes foreign ministers frightened."
"Sir, please don't stand. Please sit down and speak."
Xu Mu sighed in his heart. As long as Dong Wen was not stupid, he would definitely have to make an alliance to cash out the five thousand Liangzhou horses. If he said he didn't want them, he would definitely be lying.
"If the King of Shu agrees to form an alliance, my Lord will come to Shuzhou in person after the spring of next year to meet with the King of Shu at Guanxia."
"If you don't agree, sir, I really don't care about my life when I go to Shu this time."
Yang Yizhan raised his head tremblingly, "When we left Liangzhou, my Lord said that if the King of Shu wants to take my life, I will kill him at the neck of my neck, as a sign of my loyalty to Liangzhou."
Yang Yi came out and knelt down again. Yang Yi was shaking like chaff.
"I just want to ask sir, how did the old King of Liangzhou die?"
"Sick, died of illness."
"Where is the eldest son Dong Rong?"
"Rush to the aid of the King of Shu and die in battle!"
Xu Mu lowered his voice and looked at the envoy below, knowing that he could ask no more questions.
Jia Zhou raised his head and suddenly asked.
"You entered Shu this time. Did your military advisor leave a message?"
"Commander Zhuo Yuanzi, you just asked me to be careful along the way." Yang Yi raised his head and closed his eyes tightly, waiting for the ambush swordsman to rush out and hack him to death.
After listening, Jia Zhou fell silent and looked at each other with Xu Mu. Both of them could see the trace of helplessness in each other's eyes.
"Sir, please leave Shu and tell your lord that after next spring, let him come to Yuguan in person to have a talk with me."
"To be honest, sir, the tiger barbarians in Shuzhou have been pacified, and an army of 100,000 is ready to go. It's time to take action."
Yang Yi wiped away his sweat, stood up unsteadily, bowed to Xu Mu and Jia Zhou, then hurriedly turned around, like a frightened rat, and hurried out of the palace.
"Wenlong, what do you think?"
Jia Zhou pondered for a while, "Dong Wen should be worried about the pacification of the tiger barbarians in Shuzhou. He wants to attack An and the two states, and it is estimated that he will use all his troops. This is why he wants to send people into Shu."
"Let me tell you, when it comes to Liangzhou, my lord needs to fight for his interests."
Xu Mu nodded.
The current Shuzhou is far from the point of leaving Shu to compete for the throne. Once it falls into the quagmire of war, with its foundation and Shuzhou's foundation, it simply cannot afford to waste it.
"Wenlong, how long does it take?"
"At least two more crops of rice need to be harvested as food storage. In addition, the lord has just entered Shuzhou, and the standard armor and siege equipment are not complete. The iron workshop needs to be given time to cast the weapons."
"Unless the lord is confident that with these 60,000 to 70,000 people, he can capture the entire thirty states under the current circumstances."
"No." Xu Mu shook his head seriously.
He is a very ordinary person, and it is nothing more than a time travel that brought him another exciting life.
Without cannons, rockets and spaceships, he doesn't know how to build them. As for other things, up to now, he can't even find saltpeter ore, so it's not easy.
All he can rely on is the knowledge of thousands of years of battle cases stored in his mind.
"I tried it out before...it seemed like there was no problem." Jia Zhou suddenly frowned.
"Wenlong, who is Zhuo Yuanzi?"
"I don't know, I guess it's some official in charge of foreign affairs."
"Wen Long, will Dong Wen come?"
"It should be possible. As a neighboring state, he will come sooner or later on this trip."
"I want to slap him on the ear so that I can repay my life-saving grace."
Jia Zhou sighed, not knowing what to say for a moment.
…
A few days later, the carriage returning to Liangzhou was traveling on the sand road outside Yuguan.
A fox suddenly jumped out from the side and quickly jumped onto the carriage. It jumped into the arms of the envoy Yang Yi.
At this time, Yang Yi no longer had any submissive look, instead, he had an extremely cold expression.
Taking off his hair crown, Yang Yi's hair was disheveled, and the dusty color on his face was slowly wiped away by him. Looking at the sand fox in his arms, he murmured for a moment.
"The poisonous owl was testing me earlier, but he is a smart man after all."
"If I say that military advisor Sima Xiu sent me here, he will ask about Sima Xiu's appearance."
"True and false, false and true. This world belongs to smart people."
The sand fox couldn't speak and only blinked its cunning eyes a few times.
In the carriage, Sima Xiu was extremely calm. He took a piece of dried horse meat from a wooden box next to him and fed it to the sand fox.
Then, he turned his face again and looked at the world outside the carriage. Unlike the frost and snow weather in Liangzhou, it was warmer in Shuzhou after all.
"Within one year, he occupied thirteen counties in Shuzhou. After that, he conquered the tiger barbarians southward in winter, eliminated the troubles and settled the hearts of the people of Shuzhou."
"My body is a little weak. Let's try to let my lord settle down in Tianfu, Shuzhou in a few years and rest in peace."
After the sound stopped, Sima Xiu got out of the carriage and looked at the more than 500 guards beside him. After a signal arrow, not long after, another army came to the rescue and gathered into thousands of troops.
"Slow down and let the spies from all walks of life take a closer look."
"When the announcement is made, let me tell you that I, Sima Xiu of Lianghu, have entered and left Shu without any trouble! The King of Shu, Xu Mu, hosted a banquet and treated me generously. He wants to form a neighbor alliance with me, Liangzhou!"