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Then, Doros called the servant to his camp alone, and after a few words, he confirmed the identity of the servant.

Doros said helplessly: "Your Royal Highness, why can't you stay in Antioch?

If His Majesty the Emperor knows that you have followed me quietly, I will be in big trouble. "

Yes, this guy who looks like a servant is actually the second prince of the Seleucid Empire, that is, the eastern governor of the Seleucid Empire who was defeated by Zhao Kuo a few months ago!The second prince smiled and said calmly: "Uncle Doros, you should understand my character very well.

For me, being defeated is not a difficult thing to accept, but being defeated by an unknown enemy makes me doubt the prospects of our Seleucid Empire.

Therefore, I need a chance, a chance to understand our enemy. "

Doros said: "Your Highness, Second Prince, I can understand your thoughts, but maybe you should talk to Your Majesty when you leave."

The second prince's smile became brighter and brighter: "Uncle Doros, do you think I can still come to this place if I really tell my father in advance?"

Doros was speechless.

Indeed, according to Antiochus II's temper, if he knew that the second prince wanted to go all the way to the Han Kingdom, his first thought would be to beat the second prince violently, and then put him in confinement for several months or even a year.

Doros now has a complete headache. If he is still in the Seleucid Empire, everything is easy to talk about. He can arrange the second prince back, but now he has entered the territory of the Han Kingdom for almost half a month. Alright, what's the deal?

The second prince could clearly see Doros' depression, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Uncle Doros, before I left our border, I already had someone leave a letter for Father.

I have already told Father everything in the letter, and Father will also know that this matter has nothing to do with you, let alone blame you in the future. "

After listening to the second prince's words, Doros realized that this guy must have come prepared, otherwise how could he have even prepared the letter?

The second prince continued to talk eloquently: "Uncle Doros, don't you really wonder what the Han Kingdom that suddenly popped up from the east looks like?"

Doros said: "Of course I am curious, even His Majesty the Emperor is also very curious, otherwise he would not have sent me as an envoy to the capital of the Han Kingdom."

The second prince smiled and said: "Yes, each of us understands this truth.

Just ask Uncle Doros to think about it. After all, you are a noble messenger. Will the big man let you see and understand a real big man?

Will not.

They will definitely try every means to present a false Han Kingdom in front of you that they want you to see.

If we really want to know this country, then what we can do is let a person in the dark observe and understand this country quietly. As a servant, obviously I can help you accomplish this better task, isn't it? "

When Doros heard the words, he suddenly fell into deep thought again.

After thinking about it carefully, Doros suddenly felt that what the Second Prince said was not unreasonable.

Anyway, at this point, it should be an impossible task to send the second prince back, so we can only continue to take it with him.

Doros let out a long breath, and said slowly: "Your Highness, Second Prince, if you really want to do this, then I'm afraid I won't be able to disclose your identity."

The second prince smiled and said: "This is not a very troublesome thing for me. The life of a servant these days is actually a very rare experience for a prince."

When Doros heard it, the second prince had already said so much, so what else could he say?

Therefore, Doros could only helplessly exhort: "In any case, I hope that you, the second prince, will be more careful when you take any action. After all, this time I came here to hold peace talks with the emperor of the Han Dynasty under the order of His Majesty the Emperor." Yes, if the peace talks this time are broken, His Majesty's anger will not let the two of us go."

After hearing what Doros said, the second prince knew that Doros had been persuaded, so he showed a triumphant smile: "Uncle Doros, don't worry, although I want to avenge the emperor of the Han Kingdom, I don't want to take revenge." I would be so stupid as to sabotage this diplomatic action, otherwise how would I get to know the Great Han Kingdom better?"

For the second prince, these words really came from the heart.

Along the way, the Second Prince has already crossed the Western Regions and is about to arrive at the Hexi Corridor.

For him, the various policies implemented by the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions seemed to be nothing too magical.

If the Seleucid Empire controlled the Western Regions, it would basically implement policies similar to those of the Han Dynasty.

So, how did such a big Han country give birth to the magical weapon that defeated the second prince?

At this moment, the second prince's heart was also full of doubts.

Could it be said that the real core area of ​​the Great Han Kingdom is a completely different world from the Western Regions?

Chapter 1144 Why is the emperor of the Han Dynasty so awesome?

With this kind of doubt, the second prince continued to set off with the mission.

Although it is said that the second prince's identity cannot be revealed publicly, it would definitely be outrageous if he continued to be a horse-feeding servant when he knew the second prince's identity.

So soon, the second prince became a low-level official in the mission, basically the kind who didn't have any sense of existence.

A few days later, the mission from the desert arrived in Dunhuang City.

Looking at the Dunhuang City in front of him, the Second Prince frowned and muttered in his heart: "This city doesn't seem very big."

So, the second prince joined a military officer from the Han Dynasty.

In order to "escort" these envoys, the Great Han Kingdom specially dispatched five hundred cavalry, and this officer of the Great Han Kingdom was one of the hundred generals.

The second prince said in the blunt dialect that he had just learned a few days ago: "Li Baijiang, are the cities of your Great Han Kingdom as big as Dunhuang?"

As he said that, the second prince deliberately put on an expression of admiration.

If Li Baijiang answered yes, the Second Prince's evaluation of the Han Kingdom would definitely be lowered by a notch.

You must know that in the Seleucid Empire, there are many cities larger than Dunhuang City.

After hearing what the second prince said, Li Baijiang couldn't help laughing.

"What do you know, kid?

This city was built at the beginning of this year when our great emperor passed by here, and it has not been a year since. "

After listening to Li Baijiang's words, the second prince was stunned.

"Has this city only been built for a few months?"

If you use a city with a long history as a standard to look at Dunhuang City, then this Dunhuang City can be said to be almost useless.

But if you use a city that has just been newly built for only a few months as a standard to look at Dunhuang City, then this Dunhuang City is really awesome.

In just a few months, the city of Dunhuang has already reached such a scale. Even in the Seleucid Empire, it would require a huge amount of manpower and material resources to achieve it.

The second prince was surprised for a while, and couldn't help asking: "Since Your Majesty the Emperor spent so much time building this city, it must be very important to you."

Li Baijiang once again looked at the second prince with the eyes of a fool, and couldn't help but smile and said: "You don't know how to watch yourself?

There is no one within a hundred miles of Dunhuang City, and there are very few residents of any other city.

For our emperor, how could such a place be built with great effort?

As for the status of our Han country, let me just say this, if this city is not located on the only way from the Han country to the Western Regions, then it has no status at all. "

After hearing these words of Li Baijiang, the second prince was completely speechless.

For the second prince, such a city needs to use a lot of manpower and material resources to build a new city in just a few months. So much manpower and material resources are used to develop a city. Is this city really worthless? Is it so insignificant?

These days, the second prince also specially found Li Baijiang as a breakthrough point to make contact, and wanted to further obtain more information about the Great Han Kingdom from Li Baijiang.

Although the contact time between the two parties is only a few days, the second prince can clearly judge that Li Baijiang is actually a very proud person. When he faces the second prince, he will always have a little The condescending self-confidence made the second prince quite uncomfortable.

When a person is so confident, he actually disdains to lie.

The second prince was silent for a long time, and decided to enter Dunhuang City alone to find the answer.

It just so happened that the entire mission was also staying in Dunhuang City on this day, which undoubtedly provided the Second Prince with a very convenient condition.

As soon as he sat down, the second prince wandered around Dunhuang City with his two attendants under the pretext of going out for a look.

After wandering around for a while, the second prince has indeed seen a lot.

First of all, the second prince can be sure that what Li Baijiang said about the Dunhuang city being built just a few months ago is absolutely true, because a lot of newly built buildings can be seen everywhere in the city, and there are more unseen buildings. The finished building.

Not only that, but many of the buildings don't even have any signs of occupancy, which means that its owner may not plan to start moving in, or that its owner has not yet come to the city.

Secondly, the second prince also found that although the city is very young, it has begun to be full of vitality.

The most dynamic is undoubtedly the market in this city.

In the market, the second prince saw a large number of people wearing nomad costumes, enthusiastically selling all kinds of livestock.

On the other side of the market, there were still people selling slaves. What made the second prince speechless was that he actually saw that the slaves of the Seleucids were obviously being sold.

The second prince went up directly and had a conversation with the dealer who sold the slave.

The slave trader smiled at the second prince and said, "These guys are the Seleuku Hus captured by His Majesty the Emperor in the Battle of the Western Regions. Since these Lakers were seriously injured when they came here, they must not They returned to the Central Plains alive, so our Emperor His Majesty dealt with them here at a very favorable price.

If you really want to buy it, then I can also give you a very favorable price. "

The second prince was speechless for a while after listening to the slave trader's words, then silently took out the money and bought all these Seleucids.

After buying these Seleucids, the second prince's mood suddenly became quite bad, and he lost the interest in continuing to wander in the city, and soon returned to his camp.

After returning to the camp, the second prince closed the door and did not show up for a long time.

Obviously, for the second prince, the appearance of these slaves once again brought back his memories of the defeat.

The second prince seemed relieved, but only he knew that the truth was definitely not what it showed.

I don't know how many nights, the second prince thought about this failure and couldn't sleep all night.

For him, this was a blow like a bucket of cold water was poured down. It wiped out all his dreams at once, and made him fall back to the original point. He could only find a way to make a comeback.

In the morning of the second day, the cafeteria continued to set off again, and the second prince's expression became normal. He continued to join the Yuezhi regiment and headed east.

In this way, the autumn passed day by day, and the second prince followed the mission through the other three counties set up by Zhao Kuo in the Hexi Corridor, and then passed through Longxi County and entered Guanzhong.

After entering Guanzhong, Li Baijiang, who was already familiar with the second prince, pointed to the plain in front of him with a smile, and said to the second prince, "Didn't you always want to see where the core area of ​​the Central Plains of our Great Han Kingdom is?" What's it like?

Now you have entered the edge of this core area. "

This sentence sounds like a mouthful, but the second prince understood the meaning immediately, and focused his eyes on both sides of the road.

Along with the road under his feet, being left behind by the carriage constantly, the expression on the second prince's face gradually became more exciting.

This time happened to be harvest time, and the second prince could see a large number of ordinary people in the Han Kingdom working in the fields.

If that's the case, then it's nothing. After all, in the Seleucid Empire, there will also be a large number of ordinary people who harvest food every autumn.

The real problem is that the second prince can see the smiles from the heart on the faces of these common people.

The second prince couldn't help but said to Li Baijiang beside him: "They seem to be very happy."

Li Baijiang laughed loudly: "Isn't harvesting food a thing worthy of happiness?"

The second prince waved his hand and said to General Li Bai: "That's not what I mean, what I mean is that the people here seem to be full of hope for the future life."

After hearing what the second prince said, the expression on Li Baijiang's face became serious.

After a while, Li Baijiang said, "Do you know where I am from?"

The second prince was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and then shook his head in doubt.

For the second prince, General Li Bai is from the Han Kingdom just like other Han people, so what's the difference?

Li Baijiang said to the second prince indifferently: "I am from Guanzhong. In our words, I am an out-and-out old Qin person, and I am also a Qin person who fought against our emperor back then."

After the second prince heard this sentence, he immediately grasped a message keenly: "You mean to say that the people in this land were against your emperor more than ten years ago, and they were just conquered. Soon?"

Li Baijiang shook his head and said, "You're wrong again, we've only been classified as big men for less than three years."

After the second prince heard these words, he was really shocked: "Three years?"

As a governor who had also expanded the territory of the Seleucid Empire, the second prince knew very well what three years meant.

To put it bluntly, in three years, nothing could be done.

Even those places that were conquered by the second prince a few years ago, there are still rebellions against the Seleucid Empire.

The second prince couldn't help but said: "In just three years, how did you manage to pass through a land that has just been conquered and become such a happy situation today?"

Li Baijiang said calmly: "Frankly speaking, I don't know why, but our emperor can do it.

The officials he sent can not only teach us all kinds of agricultural knowledge, but also judge cases fairly, and even lead us to build water conservancy during the slack season.

It can be said that the officials sent by His Majesty the Emperor have done everything that can be done for us. "

After hearing Li Baijiang's words, the second prince couldn't help expressing emotion: "It seems that the official who governs your local area is indeed very wise."

As a natural ruler, the second prince naturally has a good impression of this kind of official with good reputation and ability.

Li Baijiang smiled, and said to the second prince: "If I tell you, there is not only one such official, but all over Guanzhong, Hanzhong and even Bashu?"

Although the second prince didn't know where Hanzhong was and where was Bashu, after hearing Li Baijiang's words, the second prince couldn't help being shocked.

Because the second prince could tell from Li Baijiang's words that such a wise official was not just one person, but a whole group.

This completely overturned the second prince's imagination. For him, there were not no good officials in the Seleucid Empire, but it was very good to have one or two.