The king of Khotan, Yuchi, set up a banquet for the palace and the main hall to welcome the chief and his party.

Nowadays, the Kingdom of Khotan has been converted to Hinayana Buddhism. From a race perspective, the people of Khotan were the people stranded on the northern foot of the Kunlun Mountains after migrating south.

The degree of sinicization is quite high. The pagodas in the city stand tall, and the houses are mostly in the Han style. Food, clothing, housing and transportation are also similar to those in the Central Plains.

As Liu Bei said, the distant oasis mentioned by the countries outside the region is a furnace of Eastern and Western civilizations. In addition to being the main production area of ​​jade materials, Khotan is also one of the main processing places for silk and Hu clothing. The whole piece of silk sold from the pass, Khotan made ready-made clothes and was sold to Kushan and other places through the South Road Silk Road. It earned huge profits.

Holding silk clothes and beautiful jade in Khotan, how could the king of Khotan be rich?

Unlike the processing of silk materials, Khotan beautiful jade is mostly sold on raw materials. The jade materials picked from Kunlun Mountain are transported to the pass. Then they are processed into various beautiful jades by craftsmen in the Central Plains.

The reason is that in addition to the fact that the great man is quite strict in the rituals of jade pendants, the lack of superb jade craftsmen is also one of the reasons.

Nowadays, jade materials are mostly made into pendants or accessories. Jade utensils are not something that ordinary people can enjoy. Therefore, many people who send people to Kunlun to pick beautiful jade are kings and princes. Jade utensils can be passed down from generation to generation.

It is enough for the princes to pick it once. All the jade artifacts they make can be passed on to the next princes.

Therefore, King Khotan thought that Liu Bei was here for personal use.

There have been rumors in the Western Regions that Lord Changshi is about to be awarded the title of king.

The princes and kings of the Han court and the kings of the Western Regions are actually two different concepts.

The countries in the Western Regions belonged to vassal states, but the princes and kings were enfeoffed.

After drinking for three rounds, Liu Bei explained his purpose: "There is the purpose of rectifying the jade mining."

"If you don't hide the fact that the jade mining is chaotic because many forces are involved. The people behind it are all nobles of the Han court, and I am really powerless." King Khotan said this.

Liu Bei nodded gently: "The emperor knew what the king was thinking, and this is to share the worries for the king."

"I don't know where the Changshi wants to start?"

Liu Bei smiled slightly: "Spend bricks and attract jade, capture the thief and capture the king."

"Since that's the case, what should I do?"

"The king only needs to spread the news, and within a few days, the final analysis will be revealed."

"As far as the chief said," King Khotan raised his glass.

"Please." Liu Bei also raised his glass.

The guest and the host were all happy, and the King of Khotan sent someone to send Liu Bei and others to the inn. The chief of the emperor used the Western Regions to be his status as a noble person. Now that he is in person, the people of the country are honored.

Liu Bei was drunk until he was slightly drunk. After leaving the palace, he saw pedestrians singing and dancing on the road, blocking the road. Then he got off his horse and walked forward.

Seeing this, the pedestrians stepped forward to salute and shouted: Lord Changshi, Liu Bei also frequently replied to salute.

The young man in the Changshi was handsome and handsome. It happened that the lights were on, and the moon was full of the sky. A gentleman was as handsome as jade, and his spirit was full of nobleness. He was admired by many people and whispered, but he was a Han Qilin.

Shi Huan, Yan Xing and others, protecting you beside Liu Bei. He was dressed in a furious horse, his eyes were like torches. He was wary of the villain who was ill-hearted.

Fortunately, Liu Bei came suddenly. Even if he was a kid, he was not ready. The people of Khotan greeted each other and sent the chief and his party to the inn.

The Kingdom of Khotan was originally closely related to the Hanting. In the 16th year of Yongping (73rd), Ban Chao arrived in Khotan. Using this as a base, he attacked Gumo in the north, defeated Shache in the west, and helped Shule. At that time, Khotan sent troops to help. At that time, the countries in the south were the most powerful, and they had always maintained good relations with the Hanting.

However, the situation changed sharply with the squad leader Shi.

At first, Zhao Ping, the former chief of the Western Regions, died of a terrible sore. Zhao Ping's son went to Khotan to welcome the coffin and passed through the Kumi Kingdom. King Cheng Kingdom and King Jian of Khotan had always had grievances, so he said to Zhao Ping's son: "The King of Khotan ordered Hu doctors to carry poison to the smear, so he ordered the emperor to die!" Zhao Ping's son believed it. After he came back, he reported the matter to the Dunhuang prefect Ma Da. At that time, Wang Jing took over as Chief of the Western Regions, and Ma Da ordered Wang Jing to investigate the matter secretly.

Wang Jing then went to Khotan. After the Kingdom of Gumi, King Chengguo of Gumi said to Wang Jing: "The people of Khotan planned to support me as king. If they could kill the chief of the Western Regions, they would kill King Jian of Khotan, and Khotan would definitely surrender." Wang Jing was greedy for fame and agreed. After arriving in Khotan, Wang Jing set up a banquet and asked (King of Khotan) to go to the banquet, hoping to insidiously harm him.

Someone secretly reported the conspiracy to King Jian of Khotan, but Jian didn't believe it. He said, "I am not guilty, why did the King Changshi want to kill me?"

The next day, King Khotan led dozens of officials to the banquet. The host and the guest and host sat down. King Khotan got up to toast, but Wang Jing ordered his left and right to arrest him.

Seeing that something was wrong, all the officials who followed the King of Khotan to the banquet broke through and fled. They also met the chief minister and left the emperor, but they had no intention of killing Jian. At that time, Qin Mu, the chief clerk of King Kumi Chengguo, was also at the banquet. He stood up with a knife and said, "The big thing has been settled, so why do you doubt it again!"

Then he went forward and beheaded.

If the king was killed for no reason, how can this revenge be revenged?

So, the Marquis of Khotan, general Shu Wu and others gathered their troops to attack Wang Jing. Wang Jing took Jian's head and went upstairs to announce: "The Emperor asked me to kill Jian!"

Shun refused to listen. He rushed upstairs, killed Wang Jing, and hung his head in the city. Later, Shun proclaimed himself King of Khotan, and the people of Khotan killed him again and established Jian's son, Anguo became King of Khotan.

When Dunhuang prefect Mada heard that the new chief was killed, he wanted to lead his army out of the frontier to attack and kill the Kingdom of Khotan. Emperor Huan refused to allow it, so he summoned Mada back and changed Song Liang to the prefect of Dunhuang. After Song Liang took office, he knew the pros and cons, and wanted to persuade the people of Khotan to kill the Losing Man on their own and apologize. However, he did not know that the Losing Man had been dead for more than a month. So the people of Khotan chopped off the heads of the dead and sent it to the prefect of Dunhuang County. The matter was left to nothing. Song Liang later learned that the heads of the Khotan Kingdom were the heads of dead, and he had become a laughing stock in the Western Regions countries, and he was very regretful.

So I deeply hated the Kingdom of Khotan.

Then, the relationship between Hanting and Khotan took a sharp turn for the worse.

It was not until Liu Bei succeeded as Chief Secretary and then entered the Western Regions. He personally ordered the King of Khotan Anguo to go to Qiancheng. The people of Khotan all thought that Liu Bei wanted to repay the humiliation of the dead. The king must have gone but never returned. Unexpectedly, after the king arrived at Qian, the chief minister was diligently entertained and sent back safely. The people of the country were grateful.

Today, the Changshi visited again.

How can such a mind not be admired by the Chinese people?

I heard that the chief ministers have always been clear about love and hatred, and have clear grudges. This is because the chief minister of the Western Regions Wang Jing was greedy for merit, first accepted rumors, and set up a Hongmen Banquet, and even the murder of the former king of Khotan. This triggered some serial killings. What does it have to do with the current King of Khotan Anguo?

Furthermore, if you are good at killing Zhengshi, how can you not launch an army to attack?

The Han court showed weakness first and then was unwilling to accept it. It wanted to save face without spending one soldier and one soldier. As a result, it was deceived and slapped in the face. Who would blame him?

How can this be so terrible?

If it were Liu Bei, how could things have fallen to this day!

As soon as he entered the inn, Liu Bei immediately restrained his smile: "Be careful and be careful of night attacks."

"Here!" Shi Huan and Yan Xing clasped their fists.

As the saying goes, throwing bricks and attracting jade. If a wealthy merchant steals jade, it is Qin Mu, and his identity is as Liu Bei thought. Hearing that Liu Bei came to him for this trip, he would not sit and wait for death.

"People burn incense quickly, and dogs hurry to the wall."

I expected that Qin Mu, who dared to kill the former king of Khotan, was not the one who kowtowed and burned incense whenever he was in trouble. He would definitely do it all the time and start the first step.

Since Liu Bei entered the city, news has spread.
Chapter completed!