So, on this night, it once again became a personal show of Zhao Kuo’s story.

However, Li Jian also felt some differences between the second prince. The second prince seemed to have made up some determination. This time he seemed particularly firm and calm, and at the same time he became more focused.

The next morning, the leader of the Seleucid mission, Doros, the court minister, met the second prince again.

"Your Highness, according to the rules of the Han people, it will be time for us to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Kingdom in three days. Are you sure you really don't go with me as an official of the mission to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Kingdom?"

For Doros, there is a reason why he is so enthusiastic.

The second prince has not been idle for this period of time, and the same is true for Doros.

After learning about Zhao Kuo's great achievements, Doros also felt awe and fear of Zhao Kuo. He subconsciously wanted to take the second prince with him. If something happened, he would take the blame with Antioch II in the future.

The second prince smiled slightly and said to Doros: "Uncle Doros, I will meet the Emperor of the Great Han Kingdom, but now is not the time."

Doros was stunned for a moment, and was about to ask the second prince when it would be "time", the second prince had already stood up and left the room.

After leaving the room, a cool breeze suddenly blew, causing the second prince's body to tremble for a moment.

The second prince tightened the collar of his clothes, looked up, and saw a gust of fallen leaves blowing down from the tree by the autumn wind.

It seems that this winter is destined to be spent in the Imperial Capital.

The second prince tilted the corners of his mouth slightly and smiled.

In the main hall of the Great Han Palace in the imperial capital, Zhao Kuo, who had just handled a group of government affairs, received a report: "Your Majesty, the Minister of Intelligence Mao Sui is here with the person you want to meet."

Zhao Kuo put down his pen and smiled and said, "Come so soon?"

Then come in and meet them.”

A moment later, Mao Sui took Li Jian in and saluted Zhao Kuo: "I have met His Majesty the Emperor."

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "Okay, there is no need to be too polite, just sit down."

After years of this, the Han Dynasty has fully popularized tables and chairs, so Mao Sui and Li Jian naturally sat down on the chairs that had been prepared long ago.

Zhao Kuo did not talk to Mao Sui first, but looked at Li Jian with interest and said with a smile: "I remember you, you did the Liaodong ginseng work back then, right?"

Li Jian was obviously stunned for a moment, and after several seconds, he said: "It was me who did it. I didn't expect that Your Majesty would remember my little contribution."

Zhao Kuo smiled: "This is not a small contribution. The Liaodong ginseng was still very important to me. If I hadn't taken the Liaodong ginseng, my income would have been greatly affected at that time. It would be impossible for you nightingales to raise so smoothly!"

Mao Sui and Li Jian, two nightingale elders, laughed at the same time when they heard this.

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "Come on, Li Jian, you have been in contact with the second prince the most during this period. Let me tell you, what kind of person do you think this second prince is?"

Li Jian thought seriously for a while, then said, "Reply to Your Majesty, I think this second prince is actually a more contradictory person.

On the one hand, he really loved his country very much, and was eager to make achievements for the Seleucid Empire and to take revenge for previous failures.

On the other hand, after this period of experience in the Central Plains, he also had an intuitive understanding of the prosperity and strength of the Han Kingdom. He should have been shaken in his heart, and he felt that defeating the Han Kingdom was an impossible task."

Zhao Kuo listened to Li Jian's words very carefully and asked a question: "Since that's the case, I want to ask you something.

Do you think, can I persuade this second prince to surrender to our great Han in the future and become an important pawn for the great Han Dynasty to rule the ancient land of Seleu?”

...It was another morning, and the second prince got up.

During this period, the second prince would wash up routinely after getting up every day, and then after breakfast, he took two followers out and wandered around the imperial capital.

Today is no exception, but when he was out, the second prince met Doros, the Seleucid court minister who was also about to go out.

Today is the day when Doros meets Emperor Zhao Kuo of the Han Dynasty.

Due to his identity, Doros simply nodded to the second prince quietly, and then left in a carriage with a large group of mission officials under the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Han Dynasty.

The second prince quietly stared at Doros's departure back, and after a while, he said lightly: "Okay, it's time for us to leave."

One follower said, "Where are we going today, Master?"

The second prince thought about it and suddenly spoke a place name that Li Jian had mentioned but had never been to in the past two days: "Let's go to Hualou Street."

One hour later, in the imperial palace of the Han Kingdom.

Doros looked at the majestic hall in front of him, walking step by step on the steps, feeling the momentum of the elite soldiers of the Han Kingdom on both sides of the steps, and his legs trembled involuntarily.

To be fair, Doros is not the kind of official who has never seen the world. When he was young, he followed the previous Seleucid emperor to fight south and north.

But here, Doros suddenly felt an extremely oppressive momentum, which made Doros, who had long been used to seeing big scenes, feel a little breathless.

"Is this the Han army defeated our elite eastern Seleucid army?

Sure enough...it's worthy of reputation."

While sighing in his heart, Doros stepped into the hall under the leadership of Su Li, the foreign minister of the Han Dynasty.

In the hall, all civil and military officials from the Han Dynasty gathered together, and they looked at Doros and others with curious eyes.

For the new Han Kingdom, dealing with these "foreign" envoys was also the first time to be experienced.

These Hu people, barbarians and others around the Han Dynasty can only be considered a tribe at best, not even a small country.

The Seleucid Empire was inherited from the Alexander Empire and was the successor of the authentic Greek Aegean civilization. From a civilization perspective, it was absolutely qualified to have an equal dialogue with the Han Kingdom, which represented the Chinese civilization.

Doros ignored the eyes of others, but looked at Zhao Kuo who was sitting on the throne first.

In his thirties, his expression is calm and his eyes are calm, but he exudes a majesty and domineering spirit that makes people want to kneel down.

Doroth never even felt this feeling from Antioch II.

Perhaps, only the legendary Emperor Alexander can be compared with this emperor of the Han Kingdom! With this idea, Doros took a deep breath and knelt on one knee: "His Majesty, the noble Emperor of the Han Kingdom, I am Doros from Seleucid. I pay the highest respect to you at the orders of our Seleucid Emperor Antioch II!"

Although this is a sentence full of diplomatic envoy style, it is also the real idea in Doros's mind.

He was indeed shocked by the powerful strength shown by the great man along the way, and he was indeed in awe of Zhao Kuo from the bottom of his heart.

Beside Doros, there was naturally a translator who had already prepared a long time ago and translated Doros' words to Zhao Kuo.

Zhao Kuo looked at Doros in front of him and found that the court minister had a part of the Greek appearance in his face, but when he looked closely, he did not look very much like the Greek face in Zhao Kuo's impression.

Zhao Kuo smiled and said, "The messenger does not need to be too polite. Take your emperor's letter of state and then sit down."

China is a country of etiquette. Of course, Zhao Kuo cannot say that he will show off and slap people in the face. We are etiquette.

Doros submitted a letter of nationality. There were actually two letters of nationality. One was written by the Seleucid Emperor Antioch II, but it was obvious that Zhao Kuo could not understand it, so there was a second letter of Chinese characters that Doros asked someone to translate after entering the Central Plains.

This letter of nationality is nothing more than a polite word, such as "The most powerful emperor from the West greets the most powerful emperor in the East, hoping that you and us can have long-term friendship and peace..."

But it is not entirely nonsense. Zhao Kuo can still see the two hopes of Emperor Seleucid Antioch II.

First, maintain peace between the two countries.

Second, the Seleucid Empire could recognize the rule of the Han Kingdom over the Western Regions, but hoped that the expansion of the Han Kingdom would not continue to go west.

After reading it, Zhao Kuo laughed and looked up at Doros who was waiting on the side.

Doros, who had been waiting for Zhao Kuo's reply, subconsciously straightened his body and was quite nervous.

Zhao Kuo said lightly: "Emister of Doros, I have received the letter of the country of Your Majesty Your Emperor.

I can probably understand what your emperor meant.

But the exchanges between the two countries are not what your emperor said, I will do as I do.

I also have two requirements here. If you, Emperor Seleucid, can have peace between the Han Kingdom and Seleucid.

If we don't agree, we may soon come to the land of your Seleucid Empire again."

When Zhao Kuo spoke, he was quite calm and calm.

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Doros's cheeks couldn't help but beat slightly.

To be honest, Zhao Kuo's words were too strong.

If it was in Greece or Egypt, once Doros heard this, he would definitely turn against him on the spot and turn around and leave.

Our Seleucid Empire is the strongest country among the successors of Alexander the Great. When did we suffer such anger?

But in the Great Han Kingdom... Doros coughed and said with a smile on his face: "Dignity Emperor of the Great Han Kingdom, Doros will listen to your opinion on behalf of the Seleucid Empire."

Zhao Kuo said calmly: "First, the Seleucid Empire must open up its trade routes and allow our merchants from the Han Kingdom to enter the Seleucid Empire to trade.

At the same time, we promise to protect the safety of our Great Han Dynasty business groups so that your local local officials will not detain and interrogate our Great Han Dynasty business groups for any illegal reasons.

Second, no Seleucid army shall enter the east of Lake Balkash, and the governor of the eastern Seleucid shall not exert any influence on all the great Han territories east of Lake Balkash in any way.

If it is discovered by our great Han Kingdom, it will be considered as Seleucid's war against the great Han Kingdom."

After hearing Zhao Kuo's words, Doros's heart suddenly felt relieved.

For Doros, Zhao Kuo's two conditions are undoubtedly very relaxed.

Trading?

This is absolutely fine. Seleucca also had a large amount of goods that could be exchanged with the Han Dynasty.

As for the second article, after the failure of the last war, the east of Lake Balkash was occupied by the Han Kingdom, and the Seleucid Empire did not want to go to war with the Han Kingdom, so they naturally would not enter the territory of the Han Kingdom.

For Seleucci, Central Asia was actually not of great value, because this area did not have any rich agricultural resources, but was still a large area of ​​grasslands and deserts, which was not suitable as the center of the empire's rule.

Therefore, the Seleucid Emperor Antioch II attached more importance to the Middle East, which was close to Asia Minor and Egypt, and belonged to the real core area of ​​the Seleucid.

As long as the Han Kingdom does not launch a war against the Seleucid Empire, it will be easy to say.
To be continued...