Straight man of steel

Chapter 138

"Ayuan, something is wrong. This shouldn't be what Duotong is worried about."

After Zhang Yuan expressed his feelings, Li Jian said on the side.

What's wrong?
Zhang Yuan really couldn't think of any other reason, and now it seems that this seems to be the best explanation.

"Brother Li, please speak clearly."

"A Yuan, you may not have been exposed to many such incidents, but I have seen many since I was a child.

The officials of my big man only care about whether the number of people required for conscripting corvee can be matched, not that they must be able to go.

If ordinary people have money, they can buy a male servant. If he sends those servants to apply for corvee, there will be no troublesome people. This is a reasonable and legal thing.

According to Zong Xing, those commoners were all captured from other tribes. Even if Tang Meng and Yelanghou reached a deal, then these commoners should be regarded as Yelanghou's slaves. Yelanghou would use these people as their replacements. The corvee quota for the common people complies with the laws of the Han Dynasty. "

Li Jian's explanation made Zhang Yuan fall into doubt again.

What exactly did Tang Meng and Duotong want to hide from themselves.

"According to what Brother Li said, the previous speculation is no longer reasonable, so how can we find out the truth?"

Just as Zhang Yuangang asked, Ji Fu pushed the door open and walked in.

"Didn't you say that Marquis Yelang doesn't want you to count the household registration of Yelang Kingdom? Then you keep insisting on this matter. After a long time, they will naturally show their feet."

After saying this, Ji Fu picked up the tea leaves in the bamboo tube on the table, turned around and left.

Zhang Yuan didn't even close his mouth, pointing to the door and asking Li Jian Zongxing.

"This old guy has been listening to us outside the door just now?"

Li Jian and Zong Xing shook their heads together.

"I do not know."

Now it was Zhang Yuan's turn to be speechless.

Jiang is still old and spicy. I have to say that just now Jifu hit the point right away.

"Tomorrow I will go to the palace in the city to meet Duotong and force him.

Since Tang Meng has replaced the Yelang people with people from other tribes, there is no danger in forcing Duotong now.

After all, this means that the Han army helped Duotong in disguise to weaken the strength of the surrounding tribes that were hostile to them. "

Li Jian nodded approvingly.

Zhang Yuan didn't know that he was close to the truth.

Early the next morning, even though Duotong had no intention of meeting Zhang Yuan, Zhang Yuan still led a group of officials from the mission to stand outside the palace and asked to see Yelang Hou Duotong.

Duotong and Tang Meng didn't come to a conclusion after discussing for the past few days, so they just left Zhang Yuan alone, but never thought that Zhang Yuan would come to the door by himself.

After Dutong learned that Zhang Yuan came to see him, he thought that Zhang Yuan was anxious or had changed his mind.

"Let the envoys of Han come in."

With permission, Zhang Yuan led a group of people into Duotong's palace again.

For the third time, Zhang Yuan was still attracted by the beauty of the palace.

If I were a bloodthirsty and brutal person, I would have stopped talking to Duotong by now, just flicked my sleeves back to Chang'an, and said a lot of bad things to Liu Che about Duotong. Completely disappeared in the long river of history in a short period of time.

"The envoy of Shangguo, why did you come to see me? Could it be that the envoy has changed his mind?"

Duotong very much hopes that Zhang Yuan can change his mind, so that his plan with Tang Meng can be implemented directly.

When Zhang Yuan heard that Duotong really thought about this matter, he felt that there must be a ghost in it.

Tang Meng should not hide anything from Zhang Yuan about anything that is beneficial to the big man. If he keeps Zhang Yuan away, he does not want Liu Che to know about it, and this matter is likely to be harmful to the big man.

Zhang Yuan showed a smile and shook his head.

“Marquis Yelang, I am here today to hope that you will quickly order someone to count the registered population in Yelang Kingdom.

In the first half of the month, our delegation will return to Han Dynasty. If things don't have a result that satisfies the emperor, I will go back to Han Dynasty.

The next person who sets foot on Yelang Kingdom will be the border captain of the three counties of Bashu in the southwest of Han Dynasty. I hope you will think about it carefully. "

Today, Zhang Yuan came to threaten Duotong.

As expected, Dutong couldn't accept such words. He held the handle of the golden seat tightly with both hands, as if he was about to explode.

"I, Yelang, have hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers. Why should I be afraid of your Han border troops?"

Zhang Yuan looked around with interest.

"Oh? Then I don't know how many Yelang troops are in the city of Fu County at this moment?"

"There are tens of thousands of elite soldiers in the city of Hu County, so the envoy doesn't worry that all of you won't be able to get out of this valley when he speaks like this?"

Duotong's two eyeballs were about to pop out.

As for the officials around Zhang Yuan, they all pulled Zhang Yuan, hoping that Zhang Yuan would not say any more.

These officials had lived in Chang'an for a long time and had no idea about the strength of the Han army and the strength of the surrounding small countries. Their impression of the Han army was still at the time when Emperor Gaozu was besieged on Baishan Mountain.

The war to suppress the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms that was won a few years ago was only an internal war in their eyes, and could not be compared with foreign countries.

"If that's the case, then Yelanghou can give it a try.

Let's see if your Yelang's ten-thousand-member army is strong, or my thousand-member soldiers are brave. "

Duotong's face turned blue and red for a while, and he seemed to be very angry by Zhang Yuan. Before seeing the soldiers of the big man, Duotong might still feel that Yelang's army was invincible, but now he is a little nervous, but he still has a strong heart. It was determined that Yelang's army was not afraid of the Han armored soldiers.

The reason why he didn't want to break his face with the big man, and even adopted the form of alliance with the vassal, was to fight against the dozen or so tribes surrounding the Yelang Kingdom.

"General Tang will obey the orders of one of your envoys?

You think too highly of yourself too. "

Duotong quickly thought of the crux of the matter, Zhang Yuan did not have the power to command the army outside the valley.

Zhang Yuan didn't care about what Duotong said. Although he had no power to command the army, he now represented the face of a big man. How much courage could Tang Meng have to let the mission go wrong under his nose.

"Whether the doctor will listen to my order has nothing to do with Yelanghou.

Marquis Yelang can try to see if he can keep everyone in our Han delegation here.

Duotong, listen, it’s only half a month. Once the half-month time is up, the mission will immediately leave Fanxian City. All that awaits you next is the flames of war.

I think you are still calm and calm, your time is still long. "

Zhang Yuan felt that he had already said enough of what he needed to say. Rabbits would bite people when they were in a hurry. Zhang Yuan never thought of betting his own life. After saying these words to Duotong, he turned to face the mission. The officials said.

"Let's go and give Marquis Yelang some space."

(End of this chapter)