Established a thousand-year family from the end of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 103 Long Night Journey to the Western Regions ([-])
Kingdom of Parthia (rest in peace)

Nisa City

Royal palace
This is the capital of the Anxi Kingdom.

Today, the king of the Parthians, Mithridates II, is receiving a group of special guests in the palace, a group of oriental visitors with silk.

The Parthians were originally nomadic tribes. More than a hundred years ago, they took advantage of the civil strife in the Seleucid Empire and went south, eventually creating the Parthian Kingdom.

But the kingdom is not stable. The east is the increasingly powerful Da Yuezhi, the north is a group of Bactrians who were driven to the grassland by the Da Yuezhi, and they want to go south all the time, and the west is Armenia and the remaining Seleucids.

And this group of visitors from the east is Wang Changye's emissary team.

After entering the territory of Dawan, Dawan did not welcome the Han people and directly intercepted and killed them.

Wang Changye had no choice but to continue to flee westward to the Da Yuezhi. At that time, the Da Yuezhi was chasing and killing the Daxia people. Wang Changye came to the Da Yuezhi and asked for an alliance with the Da Yuezhi.

But the Da Yue Clan has fallen in love with their new home, and they have long been disinterested in returning to the ancestral land of Hexi, so they rejected Wang Changye's request for an alliance between the Han and the Da Yue Clan, but the Da Yue Clan did not want to add another one for nothing. The enemy, so he didn't make things difficult for Wang Changye, but just treated Wang Changye as an ordinary businessman from the Western Regions, allowing Wang Changye to live in the royal capital of the Dayue Clan for several years.

After mastering the language of the Da Yuezhi, Wang Changye continued westward with a dozen or so envoys to the Anxi Kingdom, hoping to persuade the Anxi Kingdom to form an alliance with the Han, and the Han and Anxi jointly deal with the Xiongnu.

Anxi Kingdom and Da Yuezhi are neighboring countries, so there are talents on both sides to learn each other's language. Therefore, Wang Changye can communicate with the upper-level nobles of Anxi Kingdom with his fluent Da Yuezhi language. After all, these nobles invite Can afford a translator.

King Anxi sat on the throne, and the nobles of Anxi also sat on stools, sitting on their buttocks, not kneeling on the mat like the people in the Central Plains.

This way of sitting, Wang Changye heard from the elders in the clan before, that the ancestors of the Wang family also sat on their buttocks during the Kang period, and it was very comfortable.

However, during the period of the former patriarch Wang Tairan, in order to integrate with the culture of the Central Plains and completely transform the Wang family into a powerful gentry, he destroyed all the chairs and stools and forced the family members to kneel and sit on the mats like the people of the Central Plains. Gradually, everyone also They are all used to kneeling in the Central Plains.

"If I were the head of the family, I must allow everyone to sit on their buttocks, so that they would not hurt their knees all the time. How could my knees be as important as being in line with the Central Plains culture?" Wang Changye felt that although he wanted to be in line with the Central Plains, he still had to There is no need to conform to the Central Plains in everything, such as the sitting posture, there is no need to conform to the Central Plains, because the kneeling and sitting in the Central Plains really hurts the knees.

"The envoy of the Central Plains, Wang Changye, pays homage to the supreme and great King Anxi. On behalf of His Majesty the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, I greet you. May you live the same life as the heaven and the earth, and may your country prosper forever." Wang Changye spoke fluently. Shi language.

"The envoy Wang Changye from the Han Kingdom pays respects to you, the King of Kings." An Anxi interpreter translated to the Anxi King on the throne. The translation will inevitably have deviations, but the meaning is probably correct.

King Parthia occupied the land of the Persians, and thus, like the Persian rulers hundreds of years earlier, he called himself the king of kings.

"You said before that this luxury product called silk is produced in your Han country, is that true? Why have I never heard of this Han country?" King Anxi asked.

After Wang Changye came to Nisa City, he made friends with some Parthian nobles and told them that the silk was produced by the big man. This word finally reached the ears of Parthian King, so he was received by Parthian King.

"Is the silk really produced in the Han Kingdom? We Anxi people have never heard of this country before." The translator translated King Anxi's words into Dayuezhi language.

"The envoys dare not lie to the king." Wang Changye was very respectful.

After another translation.

"A country that can produce this beautiful silk must also be a beautiful and prosperous country. I am willing to establish friendship with such a country." King Anxi smiled slightly.

He is also a talented and generous monarch. Before he came to the throne, the Parthian Kingdom had internal and external troubles, especially Seleucus and Armenia formed an allied force to continuously attack the western part of the Parthian Kingdom.

After experiencing a bloody storm, he eradicated his brothers and sisters, successfully seized the throne, and formed a heavy cavalry regiment, leading this heavy cavalry regiment to recover the lands occupied by the Westerners.

"I heard that you can play a musical instrument called Qin, can you perform for me?" King Anxi continued to Wang Changye.

After translation...

"It's my honor." Wang Changye replied respectfully, and then said to several envoys who followed him to attack the palace: "King Anxi asked us to perform Central Plains musical instruments for him. You all did your best. We only have to please the king. Only then can we have a better life in Anxi Country."

"Don't worry, sir." The envoys were also from noble families, and they were originally sent by the emperor to follow Zhang Qian, so they all knew some musical instruments.

Afterwards, Wang Changye first asked his followers to fetch the Qin and other musical instruments brought from the Central Plains.

A palace lady brought some stools for Wang Changye and others.

Wang Changye felt very comfortable sitting on the stool, and the other envoys from the Central Plains also felt the same way. This sitting posture was indeed better than that of the Central Plains.

Wang Changye has learned to play piano music from Song Qianru since he was a child, so he is full of confidence.

"Guanguan Jujiu, in the continent of the river. My fair lady, a gentleman is fond of it. There are various waterweeds, and they flow left and right. My fair lady, I want it. I can't ask for it. I want to be convinced. You are leisurely, tossing and turning. There are waterweed, Pick it from the left and right. My fair lady, play it with the harp. You can pick it from the left and right. My fair lady, play it with bells and drums."

He played Guanju in the Book of Songs. Although this poem is about the love between men and women, it can also be extended to interpersonal relationships, and even international relations.

For example, compare the big man to the gentleman who pursues a lady in this poem, and compare Anxi to the gentle lady who is pursued by the gentleman.

For the rest of the envoys from the Central Plains, some beat chimes, some played flute, some beat drums, some sang poems, some danced swords, and so on.

It was the first time for King Anxi and the nobles of Anxi to hear such exotic music. Although they couldn't understand it, they felt very novel.

After a long time, the sound of the music gradually faded away. Wang Changye stood up slowly, bowed down to King Anxi and said respectfully, "I hope your lord will like our Central Plains music."

After translation...

"Hahaha!"

"it is good!"

"Not bad!"

King Anxi laughed. Every king has a dream of all nations coming to court. This is true in the Central Plains, and so is Anxi.

In the eyes of King Anxi, Wang Changye is not a simple envoy of the Han Kingdom, but a symbol of the Han Kingdom's pilgrimage to him.

The fact is indeed the case. In this era, if a country sends an envoy to another country, it will be considered by the other country as worshiping itself.

If two countries send envoys to each other's country, there will be a very strange thing, that is, both countries think that the other party is a pilgrimage country that has come to worship themselves, and both countries think that they are a country from all nations. The relationship was beautified a little bit, and it was called "Wan Guo Lai Korea".

(End of this chapter)