Chapter 586: The Envoys
Various modern production methods had already been developed by Chen Xi and a group of farming students. Jinkela, which was supposed to be a joke, actually became a reality.
Sky-high yields per mu had become an inevitable problem for the Han Dynasty. It was precisely this kind of affluence that allowed Youzhou, Bingzhou and other places to use grain wantonly to hire the Hu people to fight to the death with Goryeo.
The country was peaceful and the people were prosperous, which was what the Kushan envoys saw along the way.
This situation of people's prosperity made the Kushan envoys a little depressed. Every envoy who went to other countries, in addition to submitting letters of credence to establish contacts, had another task, like Liu Hua and Ma Chao, to see the situation in other countries.
The Kushan envoys knew very well how terrifying the well-developed infrastructure and the peaceful and prosperous scenes they saw along the way were.
The Kushans occupied the Ganges Plain and possessed the best fertile land in the South Asian subcontinent. However, countless people starved to death every year in Kushan. But he really could not see such a scene in the Han Dynasty.
Although he knew that the Han Dynasty would never be able to prevent such a situation, the fact that he did not see it along the way was already very telling.
This is simply unbelievable. No empire would ignore the importance of food, but the gap between the two sides is so big that he, a non-professional, can see it with his naked eyes. The gap is too big.
The agricultural experts of the Kushan delegation even exchanged their telepathic beads for a copy of an agricultural book, and they regarded it as a treasure and studied the theories in it diligently every day.
The same was true for several other delegations, especially Japan. They were extremely devastated when facing their former suzerain country.
They knew that the Han Dynasty was a superpower, but they didn't expect it to be so terrifying.
As for the Goryeo delegation, they had no idea. They came to apologize. They had already understood enough about the power of the Han Dynasty. This kind of power itself was not something they could resist.
The most exciting thing was the delegation from Great Britain. They were high-level officials and they truly felt the gap between the two sides.
Receiving these envoys is a very important matter in itself, and it will be very troublesome if it goes wrong.
However, the three people who happened to be in charge of this matter were Li Ru, Xu You and Guo Jia. They were responsible for intelligence and operations.
The three of them had different political views and they tried to restrain each other, but Guo Hao and Chen Xi both overlooked one thing.
That is, these three people are not good people. At the national level, they are imperialist conquerors.
No, or rather, the entire Han Dynasty is full of such people, and the pacifists Chen Xi and Guo Hao are the exceptions.
In the past, Guo Hao and Chen Xi could use development to suppress these people's little thoughts, but after five years of development, these people can no longer bear it.
On the other hand, the work at home has almost been completed, and they have to consider expanding their territory.
I didn’t realize how big the world is before, but after the crazy infrastructure construction, the speed of troop transportation and deployment capabilities have increased by more than one level.
Li Ru and his men had already marked all the surrounding countries, including Kushan, Goryeo, and Parthia, with an "X". All of them were now within the attack range of the Han Dynasty.
To put it simply, this group of civil officials have long wanted to start a war. For them, they have no shortage of money, people, or strength, so why not expand their territory?
Faced with this trend of thought, Li Ru and his colleagues naturally placed a number of people in the Grand Herald to understand the situation abroad and be ready to stir up international conflicts and start wars at any time.
Even if there are no conflicts, they will create them. These people can use any means they want.
Nowadays, it is important to have a legitimate reason for doing something. They must at least occupy the moral high ground to facilitate subsequent mobilization and propaganda.
Especially after the three years of development promised by Chen Xi, even Liu Zhang quietly began to align with Li Ru and others.
In other words, the entire Han Dynasty has remained united, and they are just waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity that is enough for the war to break out.
For the sake of their own interests, for the sake of the Han Dynasty, and for the sake of fame in history, since they have seen the world, they will definitely not be bound by the current territory of the Han Dynasty.
All the lands where the sun and the moon shine and where the rivers flow belong to Han territory.
It seems overbearing, but this concept is deeply rooted in everyone's heart, even an old villain like Jia Xu is an exception.
In their thinking, everything good must be ours, and everything within our attack range must be our territory.
What friendly exchanges? How can our relationship be as close as the one where you have been completely incorporated into my territory?
Once you become a part of me, our relationship will naturally become close.
The Grand Herald never asked about the purpose of this group of envoys, and no one investigated. They just wanted to create some news at the court meeting.
Everything seemed so natural, but people like Li Ru who were behind the scenes had already planned the fate of these envoys.
Except for Great Britain, which was relatively far away and in line with the strategic layout of making friends with distant countries and attacking nearby ones, the Grand Master of Ceremonies simply fooled the other several envoy groups.
The British envoys were received personally by Liu Zhang, who gave them details.
Anyway, Great Britain is an ally and has come once, and the others are coming for the first time, so it is reasonable that the Grand Master of Ceremonies did not receive them personally.
At the same time, the Grand Herald enthusiastically entertained the British envoys, but neglected the reception of other envoys.
Is this reasonable? Yes, it is!
They didn't pay any attention to the Australian refugee delegation at all. They had seen many such delegations. If they hadn't met them this time, they would not have taken the Australian envoys seriously.
They were just like beggars when they came. If it weren't for the fact that they were led by two people with internal energy out of their bodies, they would not have been able to reach the imperial capital.
After all, the troubles of some small countries are just a piece of cake for the governor.
Liu Bei, who was in Yizhou, crushed countless small countries that were ignorant of the danger.
However, before Li Ru and his men could start setting traps for the Kushans, Goryeos and Japanese, Liu Ying decided to summon the envoys to an audience and even took the initiative to convene a court meeting three days later.
This caught the group of people off guard. According to their estimation, Liu Ying was definitely too lazy to hold a court meeting and would delay it until the monthly fixed court meeting. Then their arrangements would be perfect.
After all, after Liu Ying came to power, things like morning court sessions were basically cancelled and would never be held except for major events.
As a result, Liu Ying, who had always been a lazy person, actually took the initiative to convene a court meeting. This was as shocking as Chen Xi's request to work overtime.
The reception of a delegation of foreign envoys, of which there were five of them, was a major event and caught Li Ru and others off guard.
However, these people quickly guessed Liu Ying's thoughts, which were nothing more than her eyes on this batch of gifts.
When they thought about their previous collaboration with Chen Xi to defraud money from the princess, they all regretted it extremely.
Yesterday’s cause led to today’s consequences, so they had no choice but to stop the action.
There are plenty of opportunities anyway, so there is no need for them to mess around.
