Molested Zulong at the beginning

Hearing his king's words, the surrounding ministers raised their heads one after another, but they were not looking at the girl, but Xiangguo beside him.

Although the girl is a descendant of King Ashoka, she is now the monarch of the Maurya Dynasty and is named the King of Chariots.

But in fact, everyone knows that this chariot king is just an empty frame, he has the name of the emperor, but he has no power of the emperor at all, such as all the powers of finance, sacrifice, and deployment of troops.

The big and small powers of the empire are almost all in the hands of a group of Brahmin nobles headed by Xiangguo.

As for her herself, regardless of being the emperor, without the nod of the prime minister, no government order can leave the capital.

The Brahmin Xiangguo frowned, and after pondering for a long time, he snorted coldly: "Then Daxia came here with a mighty army of 30, how could he easily retreat because of our apology?"

"Besides, after Daxia took Bactria, in order to prepare military supplies and restore the free status of slaves there, they also encouraged slaves to report local nobles who secretly hid food and money."

"All the nobles who were reported were hanged one after another, and one-third of the family property was distributed to the informants, and the rest was confiscated by Da Xia. There were an endless stream of corresponding slaves."

"If Da Xia is allowed to gain a foothold in the surrounding area for a long time, and the story of slaves turning over slowly spreads around, once those untouchables start to cooperate with Xia's army, then we will die without a place to die."

Hearing Xiangguo's words, all the officials present frowned.

This is indeed a tricky question.

Their Maurya Dynasty is a country dominated by slavery. All channels of sacrifice, army, finance, land, etc. are controlled by Brahmins, Kshatriyas and other nobles.

Ordinary untouchables have no promotion channels like the imperial examination in the Central Plains. They can only save money and donate the money they have accumulated to the temple.

By honestly enduring suffering in this life, praying day after day, and reciting Buddhist scriptures, when reincarnated in the next life, you can eliminate your own karma and improve your status in the next life.

After about five reincarnations, one can be promoted from a pariah to a Brahmin nobleman.

Once the influence of Daxia in the surrounding area slowly spreads, it is said that there is no need to reincarnate five times, you just need to welcome the master Wang into the city and report the local nobles.

When Xia Jun confiscates the house, he will share one-third of your property, making you a Brahman noble now.

Faced with such a temptation, let alone let those untouchables go to the battlefield to fight Xia Jun.

These untouchables may not resist at all, and even put down their weapons on their own initiative, open the city gates, and welcome the king into the city.

For them, this is an unacceptable result anyway.

An official below asked tentatively: "Then according to Xiangguo's words, what should we do?"

Brahmin Xiangguo snorted coldly, and said, "Of course we have to fight Xia Jun, and we must drive Xia Jun out completely."

Sitting on the throne, the king of chariots, bit her red lips lightly, and couldn't help asking: "But Xia Jun is so brave, how should we deal with it?"

The Brahmin Xiangguo smiled confidently: "In the past, the states had their own ghosts, and it was always difficult to unite. Now there is a unified enemy. With this order, the major city-states have come to help, and it is much easier to form a coalition."

"We have an army of hundreds of thousands, not half as weak as the Xia army. Besides, we have thirty thousand elephant cavalry, invincible in the forest."

"No matter how brave and skilled the cavalry of the Xia army is, they can only end up defeated in the face of our infinitely powerful elephant cavalry."

"Back then, Alexander came all the way to the east, but in the end he was defeated here and withdrew his troops in desperation. Today's Xia army is naturally no exception."

After listening to Xiangguo's words, the officials in the hall nodded slightly.

After thinking about it carefully, they found that it was true that the Xia army came on an expedition, and the logistics pressure was extremely high, and the supply of troops could not be replenished in time. It can be said that the army was fighting less and less.

And they have more than 40 soldiers and horses, and their military strength is far stronger than that of Daxia. They have a lot of food and supplies, and the source of troops can be directly replenished from the rear.

In addition, the elephant cavalry is extremely powerful, and its power on the battlefield is far above that of war horses.

40 vs. 30, elephant cavalry vs. cavalry, the obvious advantage lies with me.

The Brahmin Xiangguo looked at the envoy below: "Go back and tell your queen that our Maurya Dynasty is willing to join hands with you to repel the Xia army and regain the lost land. price."

The envoy of Bactria frowned slightly. After pondering for a moment, he still cupped his hands and said, "I will relay the words of Xiangguo to our queen."

The King of Chariots was sitting on the throne. She watched the envoy's back gradually disappearing, and couldn't help but said: "Xiangguo, now is the time for the two countries to join forces to deal with the powerful enemy of Daxia. It's not good for the allies to ask for the city."

That Xiangguo snorted coldly: "They don't have the capital to bargain now. If they don't take the opportunity to ask for it now, when will they dare to turn their faces?"

Big Car King bit his red lips lightly, as if he wanted to say something else: "But..."

Xiangguo glared at her coldly: "Could it be that the king doesn't trust his subjects?"

"I...I didn't."

Big Car King opened his mouth with a complicated expression, but finally shook his head slightly and didn't say anything.

She looked at a group of officials who were courteously surrounding Xiangguo, and couldn't help but smile wryly in her heart.

In the eyes of outsiders, she is a descendant of King Ashoka and is now the emperor of the Mauryan Dynasty.

But in the eyes of the court officials, she is just a vase, a tool to help a group of Brahmins headed by Xiangguo, and to send messages to the city lords everywhere.

She is now 16 years old, and she has never even been out of this palace.

Looking at the crowd who didn't see her in the slightest, she sighed slightly, not knowing how long this kind of life would last.

Chapter 410 The Depressed Wolf King

In the spacious hall, exquisite porcelain is placed in the corner, with delicate patterns.

The white pillars stand in the hall, which looks full of exotic style, but the most eye-catching thing is the stone statue carved in white marble.

It was a beautiful woman with long wavy hair, a wreath on her head, and only a thin gauze on her body, which could not cover her beautiful body at all.

The beautiful ketone bodies are directly exposed to the outside.

Mao Dun was holding a handful of gold utensils in his hand, and his green eyes looked at the texture of the stone carving with interest, and couldn't help but praise him: "Seeing slaves everywhere in that country, I thought it was a backward person. I didn’t expect the craftsmanship of the craftsmen here to be so superb, it’s really surprising.”

Xiang Yu's slender eyebrows frowned.

Looking at the naked stone sculpture, she couldn't help but cast her eyes away, and said, "Hmph, you don't have any shame in standing here naked, with no clothes on, no hair tied, after all, you are a group of Just uncivilized barbarians."

While the two were talking, Bai Su walked over with Han Xin from the outside.

He asked with a smile: "What are you two talking about?"

"It's such an adult, we feel that this stone sculpture is a bit strange..." Mao Dun smiled and recounted what just happened.

After Bai Su understood what was going on, he was a little dumbfounded, but it was not surprising.

After all, the Central Plains pays attention to the etiquette of clothes and hats. Even when you die, you must wear good clothes, tie up your hair and crown, and have a solemn burial.

Seeing this kind of blatantly naked and shameless things being placed outside in a grand manner, he naturally frowned instinctively.

I even have some doubts whether the king of this country is the same as King Zhou of Shang, who spends his days drinking and drinking.

Bai Su couldn't help but smiled, and said, "No, General Xiang, you misunderstood, this is the god they believe in and worship."

"They believe in... this?"

Xiang Yu's slender black eyebrows raised slightly, she glanced at the shameless stone statue, then looked at Bai Su with a strange expression, as if to say, are you lying to me on purpose?

After all, women in the Central Plains are often more reserved in their expressions. Except for some places where fireworks and willow alleys, it is rare to see such overly explicit scenes.

Bai Su rubbed his nose, and said helplessly: "The cultures of foreign countries are different. In a country named Greece, there are many city-states in their local area, and there are frequent wars between them. They have to fight every now and then, but Due to the low level of weapon smelting, the population is too small, and the number of troops is not large."

"The outcome of this war between each other is often determined by melee combat. Whoever has more muscular men will win."

"Therefore, their local monarchs have gradually begun to allow citizens to exercise from an early age to show off a healthy body. Whoever has a stronger body will have more opportunities to be promoted to the battlefield and become a hero."

"Over time, a culture of appreciating youthful and beautiful bodies has become popular in their country."

"Under the influence of this culture, the gods they believed in also took off their clothes one by one. The women showed their graceful bodies, and the men showed their strong bodies..."

Xiang Yu's beautiful brows frowned slightly, her red lips parted slightly and she instinctively wanted to refute, but she also felt that what Bai Su said seemed very reasonable.

For a moment, he didn't know how to refute.

At this time, Han Xin came over with a roll of maps, and said, "My lord, I found some maps. After checking, I found a detailed route that can directly enter the Maurya Dynasty."

Xiang Yu was taken aback, took the map curiously, and looked down: "Hindu Kush Mountain, what a strange name."

Bai Su stroked his chin, and said, "It's strange, because this name was not given by the locals, but an ancient nomadic people. When they passed by this place thousands of years ago, they gave it the name, which means turning over the land. mountain, kill the locals."

Xiang Yu's eyelids couldn't help but twitched wildly, and he couldn't help asking: "This...such a humiliating name has actually stayed."

For a moment, she felt a little suspicious in her whole body.

After all, in Central China, this kind of thing is simply a national humiliation, and only blood debt can be offset, but I didn't expect such a humiliating name to be kept.

Even Han Xin, who has always been reticent, couldn't help being stunned for a moment.

She couldn't help asking: "The narrowest part of the mountain pass is only a few hundred meters. In such a small area, why didn't their monarch build a Great Wall border gate? In this way, won't the north be stable?"

Nodding at the side, Mao Dun, who was watching the play, suddenly froze her smile on her pretty face. She looked at Han Xin with a calm expression, as if she didn't realize what she said wrong.

The corner of her mouth twitched involuntarily, and she felt that she had been shot by an arrow inexplicably on her knee.

Bai Su glanced at him with a strange look, and couldn't help but a smile appeared on his face, and said, "Because the pressure they face is different from ours. Every year when we encounter snowstorms in the Central Plains, the grasslands that lack food and supplies will be Sending a large number of troops to the south, so it is necessary to prepare for the battle in advance."

"And they may not encounter it once in hundreds of years. The deadly threat from the northern border naturally has no motivation to build a frontier that I don't know when it will be used."

"It's equivalent to not meeting once in hundreds of years. After encountering, it will be conquered for hundreds of years in one go, and the cycle goes on and on..."

After listening to Bai Su's narration, the three of them were filled with emotion for a moment.

Han Xin was not too surprised, but just sighed softly: "Born in sorrow and died in peace."

Xiang Yu's slender black eyebrows were frowned, looking at the small mountain pass without any precautions, and then looking at the fertile farmland of the Maurya Dynasty, he couldn't help but think to himself: "It's really a waste of money to give such a good piece of land to this group of people. "

As for Mao Dun, her exotic and pretty face is full of complexities at this moment.

If she had known that there was such a bully outside of the Western Regions, why would she fight with Daxia so stupidly?

Bai Bai spent many years on an iron plate. In order to fight for a small river loop, he hit the iron plate of Daxia with his head broken and his body smashed to pieces.

The most painful thing in life is not fighting with a strong man, failing to fight for a penny, and being beaten up.

But after being beaten, he finally convinced himself that he would accept his fate and give up.

As a result, he lay on the ground and looked back. A child with a runny nose was holding a bag of gold, standing not far away and looking at him with blinking eyes.

There is nothing more depressing than this.

Mao Dun took a deep breath, and looked closely at Bai Su with his green eyes: "My lord, leave the next task of going south to me."

Seeing her clenched fist, Bai Su couldn't help but be taken aback: "What's wrong with you?"

Mao Dun's white teeth clenched his vermilion lips, and after a long time he said: "I am very depressed now, and I need a hearty war to soothe my wounded heart."

Chapter 410 You Tell Me How to Lose

The Brahmin Xiangguo issued an order to let the army of the Mauryan Dynasty rush to the Hindu Kush Mountain in the shortest possible time no matter what.

This is the only way to go south. Alexander, as well as the Aryans in the past, all came down this route.

Therefore, the competition for this place is very important.

The people of the Maurya Dynasty were not satisfied with their marching speed. After all, they were familiar with the terrain and adapted to the local climate. In less than half a month, they had already arrived at the Hindu Kush Mountain area.

In Xia Jun's camp.

A scout walked quickly into the big tent, clasped his fists and said, "Report!"

Bai Su asked, "What's the matter?"

Tan Ma clasped his hands and replied: "The army of the Mauryan Dynasty is approaching the valley and will arrive soon."

Bai Su stroked his chin, then waved him back immediately.

He looked around and saw that everyone in the big tent looked indifferent, and Xiang Yu dragged his cheek with one hand, looking boredly at the swaying pot of fire.

Han Xin sat obediently in front of his desk, holding a cup of hot tea in his white hands, sipping it from time to time.

As for Mouton, she even tilted her head slightly, her delicate neck made a "click" sound, and her exotic pretty face was full of impatient waiting.

Seeing the reaction of everyone, Bai Su's eyelids couldn't help twitching wildly.

After all, the opponent is a big country, leading 40 soldiers and horses here in a mighty manner. Why don't these people have any nervousness on their faces, and they simply don't pay attention to each other at all.

After pondering for a while, he ordered to everyone: "Go, prepare all the gunpowder brought from the Central Plains for me, and get ready for the battle."

Mao Dun's slender willow eyebrows frowned slightly, and his green eyes gave Bai Su a weird look: "My lord, is it possible to use such a powerful weapon against this group of people?"

She was fortunate enough to witness the scene where Xia Jun used gunpowder once.

Thinking back, now my ears are buzzing and my heart is beating faster.

In her opinion, such as Bactria and the Maurya Dynasty did not experience many wars a hundred years ago, and it was enough to send the Xia army to fight.

A smile appeared on Bai Su's face: "The lion and the rabbit need all their strength, let alone such a crucial battle."