Chapter 1144 What, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty is so arrogant?
With this doubt, the second prince continued to set out with the mission.
Although the identity of the second prince cannot be revealed publicly, it would definitely be outrageous if the second prince continues to be a servant who feeds horses when he knows the identity of the second prince.
So soon, the second prince became the grassroots minor official in the mission, basically without any sense of existence.
A few days later, the mission that came out of the desert arrived at 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 to be very big."
So the second prince came to an officer from the Han Dynasty.
In order to "escort" these envoys, the Han Kingdom specially sent five hundred cavalry, and this officer from the Han Kingdom was one of the 100 generals.
The second prince said in Jiasheng Yayan, who had just learned for a few days, "Li Baijiang, are the cities of your Han Kingdom as big as Dunhuang?"
As he said that, the second prince deliberately put on an admirational expression.
If Li Baijiang answered yes, the second prince's evaluation of the Han Kingdom would definitely be lowered by a level.
You should know that in the Seleucid Empire, there are many cities larger than Dunhuang City.
After hearing the second prince's words, Li Baijiang couldn't help laughing.
"What do you know, a kid?
This city was built at the beginning of this year. His great emperor was newly built by the way when he passed by this place. It was not even a year since then."
After listening to Li Baijiang's words, the second prince was stunned.
"Has this city been built for only a few months?"
If Dunhuang City is viewed as a standard with a long history, then this Dunhuang City can almost be said to be useless.
But if you use a city that has just been built for a few months and look at Dunhuang City as a standard, then this Dunhuang City is really awesome.
In just a few months, this Dunhuang City has already reached such a scale. Even if it is placed in the Seleucid Empire, it requires a huge amount of manpower and material resources to do it.
The second prince was surprised for a while and couldn't help but ask, "Since your Emperor has worked so hard to build this city, I believe this city should be very important to you."
Li Baijiang looked at the second prince again with a fool's gaze, and couldn't help but smile and said, "Can't you watch yourself?"
There is no such thing as Dunhuang City within a radius of hundreds of miles, and there are not many other urban residents.
How could such a place be newly built for His Majesty the Emperor?
As for the status of our great Han Kingdom, I will say that if this city was not located on the necessary path to the great Han Kingdom to the Western Regions, then it would have no status at all."
After listening to Li Baijiang's words, the second prince couldn't speak at all.
For the second prince, such a city must be built in just a few months, and it must be used to use powerful manpower and material resources. With so much manpower and material resources to develop a city, is it really that irrelevant?
These days, the second prince also specially found General Li Bai as a breakthrough to contact him, hoping to further obtain more information about the Han Dynasty from General Li Bai Bai.
Although the contact between the two sides was only a few days, the second prince could clearly judge that this Li Bai General was actually a very proud person. When facing the second prince, he always felt a sense of confidence that made the second prince very uncomfortable and condescending.
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 happened that the entire mission was also staying in Dunhuang City on this day, which undoubtedly provided a very convenient condition for the second prince.
As soon as he sat down, the second prince took the excuse of going out to take a look and wandered around Dunhuang City with two followers.
After this wandering, the second prince indeed saw a lot of things.
First of all, the second prince can be sure that the incident that Li Baijiang said about Dunhuang City was just a few months old, because there were a lot of newly built buildings everywhere in the city, and there were more unfinished buildings.
Not only that, there is no sign of living in many buildings, which means that its owner may not have planned to start moving in, or that its owner has not yet arrived in the city.
Secondly, the second prince also discovered that although the city was very young, it had begun to be full of vitality.
The most dynamic one is undoubtedly the market of this city.
In the market, the second prince saw a large number of people wearing nomadic clothes, and were enthusiastic sellers and various livestock.
On the other side of the market, there were people selling slaves. What made the second prince speechless was that he actually saw that it was obvious that the slaves of the Seleucids were being sold.
The second prince went over and communicated with the dealer selling the slave.
The slave trader laughed at the second prince and said, "These guys are the Seleugu Hu people seized by His Majesty the Emperor in the Battle of the Western Regions. When we got here, the Lakers were seriously injured and they would definitely not be able to return to the Central Plains alive. Therefore, our Emperor was here to deal with them at a very discounted price.
If you really want to buy it, then I can also give you a very discounted price.”
After hearing the slave trader's words, the second prince was speechless for a while, and then silently took out the money and bought all the Seleucids.
After buying these Seleucids, the second prince suddenly became very bad, and he lost the interest to continue wandering in this 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.
It is obvious that for the second prince, the appearance of these slaves once again evoked his memories of the defeat.
The second prince seemed to be relieved, but only he himself knew that the facts were not what they showed.
I don’t know how many nights, the second prince reminiscent of this failure and couldn’t sleep all night.
This was a blow for him, like a basin of cold water pouring down, which instantly wiped out all his dreams and forced him to fall back to the starting point, and could only find a way to make a comeback.
The cafeteria continued to set off again on the second morning, and the second prince's expression became normal. He continued to join the Yuezhi Group and headed towards the east.
In this way, autumn passed day by day, and the second prince followed the delegation and passed through the other three counties established 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, smiled and pointed to the plain in front of him, and said to the second prince: "Didn't you always want to see what the core area of the Central Plains of our Great Han Kingdom looks like?
Now you've entered the edge of this core area."
This sentence sounds quite difficult to pronounce, but the second prince immediately understood the meaning and focused on both sides of the road.
As the road beneath her feet was constantly thrown behind her by a carriage, the expression on the second prince's face gradually became more exciting.
This time is exactly the time of harvest, and the second prince can see a large number of ordinary people from the Han Dynasty working between the fields.
If this is the case, it is actually nothing. After all, in the Seleucid Empire, there were also a large number of ordinary people who harvested food in autumn every year.
The real problem is that the second prince can see the heartfelt smile on the faces of these ordinary people.
The second prince couldn't help but say to Li Baijiang beside him: "They seem to be very happy."
General Li Bai laughed: "Isn't harvesting food a thing worthy of happiness?"
The second prince waved his hand and said to Li Baijiang: "I don't mean that, I mean that the people here seem to be full of hope for their future life."
After hearing the second prince's words, the expression on Li Baijiang's face began to become serious.
After a while, Li Baijiang said, "Do you know where I am?"
The second prince was stunned for a moment after hearing this sentence, and then shook his head in confusion.
For the second prince, Li Baijiang was a great Han like other great Han people. What is the difference?
General Li Bai said to the second prince lightly: "I am a person from Guanzhong. In our words, I am an old Qin man who was in absolute terms and was also a Qin man who fought against our Emperor."
After hearing this, the second prince immediately captured a message: "What do you mean is that the people on this land were right with your Emperor more than ten years ago. Did they just be conquered?"
Li Baijiang shook his head and said, "You are wrong again. It's only less than three years since we are classified as the Han Han."
After hearing this, the second prince was really shocked: "Three years?"
As a governor who once expanded the territory of the Seleucid Empire, the second prince knew very well what three years meant.
To put it bluntly, it’s impossible to do anything in three years.
Even those places that were conquered by the second prince a few years ago, now rebellions against the Seleucid Empire are still coming one after another.
The second prince couldn't help but speak, "In just three years, how did you make this place so happy through a newly conquered land?"
General Li Bai said calmly: "To be honest, I don't know why, but our Emperor can do it.
The officials he sent were able to teach us various agricultural knowledge, but also to make fair decisions, and would also lead us to build water conservancy during the slack season.
Yes, all the officials sent by His Majesty the Emperor did."
After listening to Li Baijiang's words, the second prince couldn't help but sigh: "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 such an official with a good reputation and ability.
General Li Bai smiled and said to the second prince: "What if I tell you that there is not only one such official, but is spread throughout Guanzhong, Hanzhong and even Bashu?"
Although the second prince did not know where Hanzhong or Bashu was, after hearing what Li Baijiang said, the second prince could not help but be shocked.
Because the second prince could hear 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, good officials were not without Seleucid Empire, but it was often very good to be able to produce one or two.
How could a group of good officials gather directly in this great Han Kingdom?
If it weren't for the fact that Li Baijiang had a full understanding of his character these days, the second prince would think that this was simply bragging.
After a while, the second prince couldn't help but speak again: "Can your great Han country be favored by the god Zeus?"
General Li Bai laughed and said to the second prince: "You are wrong. There is no favor from God in our Han Kingdom. In fact, our Han Kingdom was completely fought by one war after another by our Emperor."
When the second prince heard this, his heart suddenly moved and he quickly said, "Can you tell us what excellent victory you, His Majesty, have you ever had during the war?"
General Li Bai spoke immediately: "If you say something else, I may not be able to say it, but when it comes to His Majesty's victory, hum..." General Li Bai talked about Zhao Kuo's victory over the past ten years and said this in this way.
This statement is just like a daytime has passed.
Until late at night, the second prince was still intoxicated by the sound of hearing and couldn't help but sigh: "Is this really something a human can do?"
The second prince is really fascinated.
Zhao Kuo has had so many brilliant victories over the past decade, and many ways of victory are unprecedented for the second prince, and it is simply opening the door to a new world.
It turns out that war can still be fought like this! It turns out that there is such a reason for war! It turns out that we can still calculate all the processes and results of the entire war before the war! The second prince rubbed his eyes that were red and he sighed again.
"Is your emperor really a human?"
For the second prince, Zhao Kuo is so masculine!
Chapter completed!