This blood-sweating horse shocked the Khitan people so much that even Yelu Deguang did not let anyone take it out of the imperial tent, but kept it in the tent.
The horse is also very humane, half lying down, and has a comfortable and kingly demeanor.
When Yelu Deguang saw it, he felt more and more that this horse matched him very well. The only pity was that it was chosen.
Of course they would be chopped, because all war horses would be chopped, and more importantly, it was impossible for Zhang Zhao to let the genes of the sweat-blooded horses flow out of Hexi.
This blood-stained horse given to Yelu Deguang was a superior war horse bred from the Pegasus he captured at Shule City and a beautiful fold-eared mare. It has very good genes.
In this era, a stallion of this caliber is a proper strategic weapon.
After seeing this bloody Pegasus, the two beauties from Persia and Tianzhu didn't seem so exciting.
Although these two beauties are very exotic and of good looks, they are not that rare here in Yelu Deguang.
After all, he is also the leader of a large country with five to six million people. Many of the beauties around Yelu Deguang are more beautiful than these two.
As for the exotic customs, let's just leave it that way, because at this time, there were still a small number of Scythian or White Huns descendants in the Northeast and Mobei.
Hundreds of years later, in the Jurchen Kingdom of Jin, there were still yellow-headed Jurchens. Most of them were descendants of slaves from the west who were kidnapped by various tribes in the grassland.
For Yelu Deguang, the only thing that interested him was the name Persia.
"I heard that in the past, the king of Persia settled in Chang'an during the great dynasty. I don't know where Persia is? How many thousands of miles away is it?"
Yelu Deguang was not asking Wu Darer, but the beauty of the Saman Persian royal family who was kneeling on the ground.
The beauty raised her head slightly and replied softly: "Saman Persia is located in the southwest of the above country, about eight thousand miles away. The Persian king who stayed in the great dynasty in the past should be a distant relative of our family."
That's okay. The ancestor of Saman Persia was a descendant of Bahram VI, the monarch of the Sassanid Persian Dynasty. He could be considered a distant relative.
Yelu Deguang nodded with satisfaction. This Persian beauty spoke elegantly with a Luoyang accent.
Although the articulation is a bit weird, communication is no problem. At least it can be kept in the harem to relieve boredom. If you can't even speak clearly, it doesn't mean much.
"Who is the current ruler of Samampos? How big is its territory? How many people are under its rule?"
Maybe it was because he felt good after getting something good, or maybe it was because of limited transportation. People in this era were particularly interested in news from distant places. Yelu Deguang made an exception and asked a few more questions.
"In our country of Persia, we call the head of the country the Emir. At this time, His Highness the Emir Hamid is the uncle of Nu.
Under the rule of my uncle Amir, the Persian country covered thousands of miles and had about five million people under his rule."
Yelu Deguang looked at Wu Darer in shock. A country covering thousands of miles and governing five million people was almost as big as his Great Khitan.
How could such a great princess be given away by Zhang Zhao like a slave?
Wu Darer had a smile on his face, and his expression was indifferent but also vaguely showing pride and pride.
"Reporting to the emperor of the above country, as we go further west, although the country is large, it lacks warriors of bears and tigers. If the journey is not too far, how can we get them to be king?
In the eleventh year of the Great Khitan Heaven Revelation (934), Nasr, the emir of Saman Persia, persecuted Buddhist believers in Bukhara and clamored to make Buddhist believers pay the same head tax as Zoroastrian believers.
Therefore, my lord, His Highness the King of Han, with the support of his uncle, the Emperor of Khotan, the Great Jin Kingdom, sent an army of 70,000 to the three towns of Khotan, Shule, and Suiye for a brief punishment.
In the first battle, they defeated the 50,000 allied troops of Karakhan and Persia at the waterside. In the second battle, they all fought together, then marched to Xiongcheng, and finally outside the city of Bukhara, they defeated the Persian imperial army and killed more than 20,000 troops.
Hamid, the emir of Persia, led the sheep to surrender, and my lord obtained countless treasures of gold and silver, and kidnapped dozens of princes and princesses before returning them.
This girl is the most beautiful among the Persian princesses, and I am offering her to the emperor of this kingdom."
Bragging, half-truth and half-falsehood, artistic processing is inevitable.
Wu Dal'er was so eloquent that Yelu De's eyes lit up as he listened. After a long while, he took a deep breath like a whale sucking water, and sighed.
"That's what a real man should be like! As the emperor of this country, I'm a little envious of him!"
"Then this Tianzhu girl was also the result of the Han king's destruction of the country?" As soon as Yelu Deguang finished speaking, a tall and ferocious Khitan man next to him asked loudly.
"Of course, this woman is the sister of the leader of Tianzhu's Xiaxi Kingdom. Xiaxi Kingdom is also a big country with millions of people." Wu Dal'er replied loudly.
"Okay! Okay!" Yelv Deguang laughed happily with satisfaction. The red flowers also need green leaves, and beauty also needs other things to set off.
Even if a princess of a country that covers thousands of miles and governs five million people is average-looking, with the blessing of these things, she will look extremely beautiful.
What's more, Huansheng is very beautiful and can speak Chinese. Although the Khitan did not have a concubine system at this time, Yelu Deguang was ready to pamper her.
"Messenger Wu, please go back and tell King Han that I am the younger brother of the emperor, the son of the ascended emperor, and the younger brother of the emperor, Yelu Lihu.
Let him also send a Persian princess. I will not take his for free, but I am willing to exchange it for a hundred good horses and five pairs of Haidongqing."
As he said this, Yelu Lihu, who looked like a villain at first glance, might have felt that these were not enough, so he swung his head and increased the amount.
"There is a beauty kidnapped from Goryeo here. She is the legitimate daughter of Huangzhou Huangfu, a wealthy Goryeo family. I will give it to your lord in exchange for her power!"
It has to be said that Wu Dal'er is a suitable envoy. This half-praising and half-showing off not only established Zhang Zhao's identity.
Even people like Yelu Li Hu felt that Zhang Zhao was a talented person and were willing to use a more equal exchange instead of direct blackmail.
At the same time, he also envied all the Khitan people, from Yelu Deguang to the men of the Yelu family below.
Men, this primitive desire for competition and sense of conquest is engraved in genes, as evidenced by the popularity of map-based games in later generations.
"Report to your Majesty, the Persian princess has a noble status and must report it to my lord."
Of course Wu Darer would not agree immediately. Firstly, he was not qualified, and secondly, this thing would become worthless if it was used too much.
There are actually quite a few Persian princesses in Zhang Zhao's hands. There are about a dozen of them, but except for a few genuine ones, the rest of their identities are a bit vague.
For example, the true identity of this gift given to Yelu Deguang is indeed that of the royal family of Saman Persia and the niece of Hamid.
But in fact, they were very far apart. Before being kidnapped, she was just the maid of Hamid's aunt.
What a joke, Zhang Zhao kidnapped people so far away. If she were a real princess, she would not send them out except for Sister Sephie beside him and those given to Li Shengtian.
Because you ruined the family, turned the princess into a slave, and sent her to other places, how can I not hate you?
Especially if you give it to Yelv Deguang, you must be careful of the pillow wind. This is Zhang Zhao whose mother-in-law, Cao Yuanxin, appeared to teach the sermon.
Therefore, only those with true and false identities will obey Zhang Zhao's arrangements, at least they will not do anything bad.
The reason why they were favored by the monarch of a big country like Yelu Deguang, who had no shortage of beauties, was that their status was actually the most dazzling halo, which was much more than the bonus of appearance.
If such a person is sent out, if she dares to blow the pillow wind and bring harm to Zhang Zhao, then Zhang Zhao will expose her identity.
Once the halo is gone, it is basically a delusion to maintain status in a highly competitive harem like Khitan.
But in the harem, without favor and status, the end will be as miserable as possible.
"Discourteous! Don't back down!" Yelu Deguang pretended to reprimand Yelu Lihu.
However, he knew that the Hexi envoy would definitely go back and tell Zhang Zhao that if Zhang Zhao was not stupid, he would still send someone with a lower status over as long as he, Yelu Deguang, did not object.
However, Yelu Deguang will not ask for it anymore, because from now on, Zhang Zhao of Hexi Province has given him three unparalleled treasures: Buddha, Tianma, and Princess Daguo. He will not ask for nothing, and he must ask for something big.
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Moreover, the matter between the two sides that Zhang Zhao attacked and killed his Zuopishi Feng Shengjun at the Hun River has not yet been resolved.
But this kind of atmosphere is not suitable for talking about this kind of thing, and Yelu Deguang has no other solution.
Mainly because he couldn't figure out what Zhang Zhao wanted from him?
To put it bluntly, even if he proposed conditions, it would not be something that an envoy could negotiate with him.
The purpose of the Hexi envoy coming here should be to avoid further complicating the situation.
So Yelv Deguang hosted a banquet to entertain Wu Dal'er and his party. At the same time, the secret line began to work. Han Kuangye began to ask Cao Yanjing to provide more detailed information about the Guiyi Army.
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In the evening, the dinner party was finally over. Yelu Deguang quickly summoned Han Kuangye. Han Kuangye found Cao Yanjing to find out the details about Wu Dal'er.
"So, this Hexi Zhang Zhao wants to pick up people from Yunzhou City?"
When Yelu Deguang heard Zhang Zhao's request, most of his good mood after receiving the precious gift was instantly destroyed.
He didn't expect that Zhang Zhao's real request was to take food from his mouth.
Of course Yelu Deguang, who was in the Zuopi room, did not want Yelu Deguang to let Zhang Zhao go so easily, so he pretended to be indignant.
"Your Majesty personally led a large army and besieged it for seven months. How could it be possible that we could only end up with an empty city?
Even if the Hexi people just want to take over the Datong Army, they can’t resist the Khitan Heavenly Army and must not be let go!”
Yelu Deguang frowned, not because of Zhang Zhao, but because of Yelu Pode's words about seven months of siege.
Before the siege of Yunzhou, Yelu Deguang had never seriously attacked a fortified city in the Central Plains. The ones he had conquered before were all small towns or beacon forts in the wilderness. This was his first attempt at a fortified city like Yunzhou.
Well! This attempt almost made Yelu Deguang depressed. Now that he heard someone say that he had besieged the city for seven months, he started to feel uncomfortable.
But Yelv Deguang didn't understand this, and kept complaining about how Yunzhou was doing, and how it was, which made Yelu Deguang feel like he couldn't stand it any longer.
Zuopi Shixiangwen Yeluwuzhi is an old fox among the Khitan people, and he has already noticed it.
But he didn't remind him, and simply let Yelu Deguang say a few more words, which made Yelu Deguang about to explode before he spoke.
"Your Majesty, according to what I have seen, although we have figured out who the King of Han is, we cannot accurately judge it without seeing him.
Why don't we send an envoy to the west and ask King Zhang Han to come to the Hun River to meet with His Majesty."
Wu Dal'er gave him a high-quality folded horse and the right to supply goods of two hundred jins of sugar and five hundred jins of tea bricks a year, just to buy Yelu House Zhi.
"What should we do if King Zhang Han of Hexi Province refuses to come?" Han Kuangye asked in a low voice. He was asking for Yelu Deguang.
"If he is afraid and refuses to come, there will naturally be no mention of picking up the Datong army.
If he comes, but the Hexi soldiers and horses are not that strong, then kill him on the spot.
If the soldiers and horses in Hexi are really strong, I would like to ask Your Majesty to put our great Khitan Kingdom first and be patient for the time being.
In the future, we will control the sixteen states of Yanyun and even the sacred land of Hebei in Jin State, and we will have plenty of time to deal with these Hexi people."
This chapter has been completed!