"Come, sit..." Wang Fu didn't think it was degrading, so he sat directly on the edge of the field and said to Sutiba. Sutiba was a little flattered, but he didn't even care about Zheng Gong. To the Grand Duke, he sat down next to Wang Fu with a smile and asked with a smile: "Do you have any orders from the Duke?"
Wang Fu looked at Sutiba in front of him carefully and asked: "You are from Kushan. When did you come to Dahan?"
"I came to the Western Regions as early as the time of Emperor Xiaohuan and sold some things back and forth. In the second year of Jianning, my caravan was robbed in the Western Regions. I have been hanging around in the Western Regions and Liangzhou. During this period, I also learned how to communicate, and I stayed here for a long time, doing communication things for those foreign merchants..."
"Well...do you know a few other languages?"
"No, the prince doesn't know that after leaving the Western Region, everything is the territory of Kushan... If I know these two languages, it is enough to make a living..." Sutiba said with a smile.
"How many people are in the family?"
"My parents died young and I never married, but I have three eldest brothers..."
"Oh, it seems that your family is well off?"
"My father is the head of a clan, but he was inherited by his elder brothers..."
Wang Fu chatted with him like this, seemingly casually, and he asked: "What does the name of the Yuezhi King mean?"
"He is called Hubisaka..."
"How many states, enfeoffments or counties are there in Guishan..." Gradually, Wang Fu began to ask about some customs, customs, or various political systems in Guishan. Sutiba felt that this prince might be right. The Kushan Empire was very interested, so he smiled and talked about it one by one. Listening to his story, Wang Fu nodded from time to time. Gradually, Wang Fu began to ask about some important things, such as national boundaries, surrounding enemies, and allies. such as.
By the end, Wang Fu had begun to ask questions about the configuration, number of people, and combat effectiveness of the army...
Gradually, Sutiba felt something was wrong. He reacted, widened his eyes, looked at Wang Fu, and asked hesitantly: "Your Majesty, don't you want to attack Kushan?"
"You just said that once you leave Dawan Congling, you are completely in the land of Kushan?"
"But it's so..."
"Two coasts, well...can you draw a map?"
"Your Majesty..." Sutiba was speechless. Wang Fu shook his head and said, "Don't worry, to be honest, I will not let the Han army cross Congling in my lifetime... .." Sutiba then introduced various regions. Even though he was from a small noble family, he had not traveled throughout the Kushan Empire and was still not familiar with many regions. He could only say Come up with a rough idea.
"Then what is the relationship between Parthia and Kushan?"
Wang Fu found out a lot of information from Sutiba's mouth, nodded happily and said, "Are there any Kushan people around you who are familiar with Chinese?"
Sutiba thought for a moment and said: "I still know three people, but I don't know what the prince wants to do?"
"You tell me their address, and I will send someone to bring them back..." Wang Fu ordered several guards to come and stared at Sutiba. Sutiba said: "Your Majesty, they live in uncertainty, why not let me Go and bring them back...
"That's fine!" Wang Fu nodded, looked at the guard on the side, pointed at Sutiba and said: "Follow him and bring those Kushan people back. During this period, they are not allowed to get close to each other, nor are they allowed to come close. Let them communicate. If they dare to speak Kushan language, you can knock them out... You must take this matter seriously. I don't really believe in this Kushan person..."
"We need to find those other Kushan people to see if what he said is true. We must not let them all agree on the same story on the way here... Do you understand?" Wang Fu said, and the guards nodded and pulled He followed Sutiba and walked out.
Sutiba stared at Wang Fu dumbfounded. He had forgotten that he knew Chinese? Right? That must be the case. Otherwise, what kind of person could give such terrible instructions to his servants in front of him?
Sutiba was dragged away like this. Zheng Xuan noticed the situation here, walked over slowly, frowned, and asked: "Has this person offended Mr. Situ?"
Wang Fu shook his head and said: "Of course not, but I heard from him that there is gold everywhere in Kushan... I am also a little tempted, and I want him to find a few people for me to confirm...", Wang Fu Squinting his eyes and speaking, Zheng Xuan shook his head and said: "If Situ Gong wants to conquer Guishuang, I will definitely not agree to such an unethical thing. I will report to the emperor...to impeach Gong Situ. ..”
"Hey, since I was conquered by the emperor, there have been thousands or even thousands of memorials to impeach me every year. Mr. Zheng, you can go back and write..." Wang Fu said coldly, stood up and left. Fortunately, Zheng Xuan, as a great scholar of the generation, was able to remain calm and not angry. After all, he was not a tyrannical scholar who had defeated all the invincible opponents in the temple...
Sutiba was much more miserable. There were about forty guards under Wang Fu's tent. Many of them were specially selected by the emperor from the guards. They were strong and strong because they had protected Wang Fu for many years and often fought with assassins. They had more combat experience than some of the Northern and Southern troops. They surrounded Sutiba fiercely and walked towards the street.
Standing in the distance, Sutiba pointed to a person in the distance and said, "That person is..."
Several guards immediately drew out their swords and rushed forward crazily. Seeing this, the innocent Kushan businessman rolled and crawled to escape, but he could not escape these elite guards and was directly pressed down. On the ground, from time to time, guards came around, and the businessman was still yelling: "Robbers! These are robbers!"
The guards identified themselves to the watchmen, and they left to clear the way.
Only the businessman was left shouting: "Collusion between officials and thieves!! Why do big men do such things~~~"
Within three days, the guards forcibly captured three businessmen from Kushan and escorted them to Wang Fu. Of course, Sutiba was taken away alone and could not meet with these merchants. Wang Fu met alone Seeing these merchants, these merchants from foreign lands, seeing Wang Fu's posture, they were speechless. Wang Fu asked them one by one, and used threats and other methods.
After asking four merchants one after another, I finally got an idea of the real Kushan.
After questioning, they were released and met together with Wang Fu. Wang Fu looked at them and said with a smile: "I was a little disrespectful to you before, but I have always been like this. It's okay to call you here. Yes." There is a wealth that I want to bestow upon you..."
"Is the prince going to attack Kushan? I can lead the way!" One of the merchants said, patting his chest.
"No...how could I become an unknown master?" Wang Fu shook his head and said: "I hope you can follow me back to Luoyang. I am going to give you official positions and let you teach some big men. son..."
"What does the prince want us to teach?"
"Teach them the Kushan language..." Wang Fu's eyes were shining, and he said seriously. Those people were a little confused, why should the Han people learn the Kushan language? They looked at each other strangely, and one of them asked : "Sudiba, isn't he trying to kill us?"
Sutiba trembled all over and whispered: "How could the great Han Situ harm our lives..."
He winked at this person from time to time, and the other person said: "I think this prince is not a robber, he is a great nobleman. However, if we don't agree to him, he will be furious, and we will definitely not end well." ..”
They were chatting in Kushan language. Sutiba wanted to remind them, but he didn't dare, so he could only lower his head and remain silent.
"Really?" Wang Fu asked coldly.
The merchants were stunned, their mouths opened wide, and they all bowed in panic. These merchants, who had just privately discussed whether Wang Fu looked like a robber, were so frightened that they almost cried!
"Okay, don't worry, be prepared and come back to Luoyang with me!" Wang Fu said.
These people hurriedly bowed again and said: "I obey!"