I was the heir in ancient times

"Since Yelv Chanyu kindly invited me, it's okay for me to go there, but I have a request." His Highness the Crown Prince stretched out a finger, "Let's go there in a carriage, you and I will not bring anyone, only you How are we two?"

"Oh, what His Royal Highness said is exactly what I want. What's the problem?" Yelv Danyu got off his horse very simply, threw the whip in his hand to the entourage beside him, and looked around curiously: "This Where's your lord?" Yelu Shanyu raised his chin towards Mr. Dong.

Gu Baozhen made an apologetic bow to Mr. Dong beside him, and said, "Mr. Dong, I'm really sorry, I have something to do here..."

Dong Futu smiled slightly, and shook his head: "It's a good thing that the crown prince is concerned about the country and the people. If Dong doesn't want to disturb you, why don't you go to Nan San Institute to visit the Sixth Prince."

Dong Fu seemed to know how to please Gu Baozhen, and maybe he was helping Gu Baozhen to have a look. All in all, in Gu Baozhen's view, Dong Futu was indeed a talented person with a delicate mind and no less than his appearance.

"Excuse me sir." The crown prince bid farewell to Mr. Dong, and asked his servants to get a carriage, and Eunuch Hua personally helped drive the carriage, while he sat inside with Shan Yu and went to the inn where Shan Yu stayed.

The carriage has a pattern of green-topped glazed beads with four claws and dark dragon patterns. The wood used to make the carriage is a century-old tree with a dark fragrance and no insects. Every piece of wood fits perfectly and is strong and firm, which is not the case in grasslands. Their carriages were all snatched from the Central Plains. Firstly, they couldn’t make them, and secondly, they didn’t have the materials, so most of the people who could use the carriages were nobles.

Shan Yu's eyes fell on the gold-plated Erlongxizhu hand warmer held by the prince. Following the beautiful fingers holding the hand warmer, he saw the snow fox fur muff hanging on the prince's wrist. The prince next to him Your Highness, it seems that food and clothing are all good, and there is nothing bad. He looks like a weak person, but he dares to go out of the palace alone in a carriage with him, Shanyu. I don't know if it is really audacious. Still confident.

Yelv Shanyu sat in a domineering posture, with his legs spread wide apart, propped his right elbow on his thigh in an upright manner, then tilted his head to look at the dignified prince, and heard the sound of a carriage shaking and rolling over palace bricks, like It is a crisp accompaniment that makes people feel happy.

"Some time ago, there were rumors in the capital that His Highness the Crown Prince was missing. Why hasn't His Highness come out to refute the rumors for so long?" Yelu Ban seemed to be very curious about everything about Gu Baozhen.

Gu Baozhen half-truthfully said: "Really? I don't know. I was punished by my father. I stayed behind closed doors in Zhuangzi in the suburbs of Beijing, thinking about my past mistakes. I really don't know anything about the outside world."

Yelvban raised his eyebrows, his handsome and deep eyebrows were full of aggressive charm, when he smiled, he even showed a canine tooth: "Why doesn't His Royal Highness call himself 'Bengong'?"

"Privately, I think we can become friends with Yelv Shanyu, so...how does Yelv Shanyu feel?"

"Of course that's great!" Yelu Ban said bluntly, "I'm most annoyed by your habit of bowing and asking questions when you meet acquaintances. It's really troublesome to kneel, kneel on one knee, and kowtow. Like our grasslands, there are not so many rules, everyone eats meat in the same pot and drinks in the same pot, they are all brothers." Yelu Ban said, "Then you can just call me by my name, prince, why should I call prince?"

Gu Baoyu replied: "You can call me Gu Qi."

"Gu Qi? Backbone? His Highness the Crown Prince seems to have high hopes from His Majesty the Emperor."

Gu Baozhen twitched the corners of his mouth, thinking that this was purely a coincidence, but he didn't bother to explain, so let him misunderstand it, and there is no loss.

"Gu Qi, you and I think differently." In the carriage, the talkative Prairie King chatted endlessly as if he had made a new friend, "I thought you would be more powerful, or your eyes would be more dangerous."

Gu Baozhen glanced over with just the right politeness and indifference: "Then what is it actually?"

"Actually, Gu Qi, you are better than I imagined, which surprised me." Yeluban seemed to be pointing, "Do you know that there are many stories about you in the grassland?"

"..." Gu Baozhen shook his head, he didn't care much about his own affairs.

"There used to be a lot of black markets in the grasslands. Over the years, although it seems that we have not entered into waters with your country, nor have we communicated with each other, nor interfered with each other, but in fact, there are many businessmen from your Shu country on the black market. Most of them They claim to be from Shanxi, and some of them are from the coast, and more are from the capital. They come to trade with us, from sesame oil, spices, pork, silk brocade, cement, everything. We will give you cattle and sheep, precious medicinal materials , a beautiful jewel."

Yelu Ban's voice became lower and lower: "When I was young, I used to sneak around the black market with Hu Te. The black market is very lively. There are everything for sale. We lack everything, so most of the time, people on our side sell The wool and cowhide that went out went out for hundreds of carts, but what was returned was not hundreds of carts of rice, flour and grain. Even so, everyone felt that it was not easy, and felt happy from the bottom of their hearts.”

"Hut is my teacher, probably like the relationship between you and that gentleman just now. He is the most knowledgeable and wise man in our grassland. When he found a strange golden stick on the Central Plains people's carriage, he was very surprised Curious, they exchanged a large piece of gold for a cart of golden sticks. People from the Central Plains told us that the prince of Shu Kingdom discovered this edible food, boiled it with water, roasted it with fire, and broke off the corn one by one. Grind it into noodles, you can do anything, it’s delicious.”

"Hute made everything for me, and it was really delicious." Yeluban said, his eyes seemed to be no longer looking at Gu Baozhen, but looking at him through Gu Baozhen. The grilled corn.

"Same as potatoes, they are all foods discovered by the prince, but they are both more delicious than the same, so I thought, one day I will take the prince of Shu Kingdom to the grassland, so that he can also find a lot of food on the grassland , Let everyone come to us to buy."

Yeluban's voice ended here, he paused, his eyes refocused, and he said with a smile: "Gu Qi, tell me, are you really the God of Valley? If so, I'm going to snatch him away."

This person speaks both truth and lies, sometimes he tells the truth jokingly, and sometimes he tells lies sincerely.

Gu Baozhen felt that this was probably one of Yeluban's few truthful words: "Yeluban, do you want to listen to the truth or lies?"

"Truth."

"I'm not. I just discovered those things by chance. I didn't conjure up those foods out of thin air. They grew there." Gu Baozhen explained, "Even if you take me to the grassland one day, I won't find anything new. Even if you kill me, I won’t be able to change it.”

Yelu Ban's expression faded for a moment: "Although I have thought about this result, I am still not reconciled. I want to give it a try. Just in case, Gu Qi, you go there and find something good."

Gu Baozhen was about to smile helplessly, but suddenly his eyes flickered slightly, and he remembered that the Xiongnu did have good things, but it was not food, but an open-pit coal mine!

There are only two open-pit coal mines in Shu State. The mining of these two mines is becoming more and more difficult, and it is obviously not enough to guarantee the coal demand of the people of Shu State. So far, there may not be much support for mining coal in the mountains. In order to blow up the mountain and the precise amount of gunpowder, all of these require professional technicians to operate. The talents in the Shenji Battalion don't know if they can do it, so it is unknown for the time being.

But if you cooperate with the Xiongnu and excavate from their large and small open-pit coal mines and underground coal mines, it will save half the time and greatly reduce the risk!

According to his memory, Gu Baozhen knew that the map of Shu Kingdom and the current domestic map are the same, and the map of the Xiongnu is even more consistent with the current Inner Mongolia, and Mongolia has a total of 370 coal mines in the present world, with reserves of about 270 billion tons!There are many plains in the grasslands, and there is no need to blow up the mountains. If he makes a deal with Yelv Ban now, the biggest advantage is that he knows the exact locations of all the coal mines. Do not know at all.

Even if you know it, you don't know all the five places in 370!

Shu Kingdom has taken advantage, and all resources and information are tilted towards Shu Kingdom. Now it should be the Xiongnu begging Shu Kingdom to give them a chance to get married. Although barefoot people are not afraid of wearing shoes, Gu Baozhen feels that Yelvban is not that The kind of person who would seriously risk the lives of the entire prairie brothers and start a war for a moment of honor and disgrace.

Gu Baozhen thought that Yelu Ban should be sincere in asking for peace, but because he had nothing in his hand except a princess and his wife, he pretended that he was not afraid of the sky and the earth, that he couldn't live, and everyone else couldn't live.

The carriage continued to drive, but it was obviously too long, and it didn't look like it was going to an inn in the city, but Gu Baoyu didn't notice it, he always remembered that the driver was his father-in-law, one of his own, so he didn't care.

He just looked at the ignorant Yelu Ban with complicated emotions, he was really a good man, a good man who gave charcoal in a timely manner, although Ye Lu Ban didn't know it himself.

Gu Baozhen has two choices now, one is to make an unequal deal with Yelv Ban, and go back and tell his father that he can make concessions on other conditions of the marriage, including commercial conditions, to make Yelv Ban happy, but Yelv Ban has to draw out 370 and five pieces of land were given to them, and the location was chosen by them, and all the coal mines were taken as their own.

The second is to tell Yelvban straightforwardly that he wants their coal mines, and directly tell them where they are, just tell them one or two places, and then trade fairly.

Gu Baozhen thought, if the fourth brother and the third brother knew about this, the fourth brother who has always advocated reconciliation would definitely stand on the united front with the third brother. Indeed, as Fifth Brother said, he is a person who will not let go of any opportunity.

Now if it is not possible to directly ask for more than 300 pieces of land, it is better to kill them, so that all the coal mines will be included in the territory of Shu Kingdom. This is not 100% profit, but hundreds of billions of profits. Sacrifice in front of these profits, Not worth mentioning.

But this is not the same as the prosperity that Gu Baozhen wants. If bloodshed can be avoided, it is better to avoid it.

He chooses the second.

"Brother Yelu, you have handed over the remnants of the previous dynasty to Shu Kingdom, and you have sent the princess for marriage with full sincerity. I think our marriage marriage has almost been settled. Earlier, you used my absence as a raft and did not continue to make marriage deals. Now? What else is better to say together. "

Yeluban tapped his fingers on his knees regularly, feeling extremely happy. Hearing Gu Baozhen's question, he thought for a while and said, "Aside from restarting border trade and resuming exchanges, I have no other requirements."

"Yelu Danyu doesn't have to hide it. I know you want to send people over to learn all the technology of our country, and then move back to build it yourself. Maybe you used to grow corn back then. I hope your people have the same technology as ours. The rich life here is the same. But people have to teach students according to their aptitude, the land has to be adapted to local conditions, and transactions have to be flexible. If I'm not wrong, no matter what crops you plant over there, they won't grow. No matter what you do, it will only destroy the land. In the past one or two years, the land will be desertified."

Yeluban's pupils trembled slightly, and he pinched Gu Baozhen's wrist, and said in disbelief, "How do you know?!"

"You don't have to worry about how I know. I just want to live in peace with you all sincerely. We are all insignificant beings who live on this land. If we can get along well, why not? I don't think anyone wants to leave Friends and relatives, make fearless sacrifices." Gu Baozhen said calmly, "If you are well-informed, you should probably know that the next many years will be so cold, you need warmth and food, we need the same, and need more."

"I also know that there are several places in your country that are very suitable for developing coal mines. If you are willing, marry the princess to Zhitong immediately. The marriage is just the beginning. Then I will let our people go to dig, you guys Of course, it is also possible to hire people to dig, but half of all the coal mines that are mined must be sold to us at a low price, and the remaining half can be kept for yourself or sold to the affiliated countries of the Shu Kingdom, we don’t care.”

Gu Baozhen also said: "I tell you this because I want to express my sincerity, and tell you that war is the most stupid thing. Living hard and building a better home is the meaning of life, Yeluban, What do you say?"

Yeluban looked at the prince of Shu Kingdom no longer with those frivolous and joking eyes. No one would remain indifferent after hearing such conditions and obtaining such sincerity.

Coal mines, Yelu Ban knows how important it is.

They have a vast grassland, and they never thought about digging anything. Even if they found a coal mine, perhaps not many people knew what it was.

How did this prince know the exact location of the coal mine on the grassland?How many do you know?Why does he know so much about the grassland?Who told him? !

——The Prince of Shu Kingdom is really unfathomable!

Yeluban digested Gu Baozhen's words well, and remained silent for a long time. He looked at the window frame of the carriage, and there was a crisp sound. Gu Baozhen immediately felt that the carriage seemed to turn a corner, and began to return.

Something must have happened to Mr. Hua, it is not Mr. Hua who is driving the horse outside.Although Gu Baozhen finally realized this, his scalp was numb and he had no other way, and told himself that his guards should have been quietly following the carriage not far away, um, it must be so!

His Royal Highness, who became afraid after knowing it later, was still calm on the surface, while Yeluban smiled and said: "Gu Qi, you really opened my eyes and convinced me, how about this, you meet my sister first, and wait for her to get well." Yes, I watched your wedding and signed a peace agreement, what you say is what you say, I believe you!"

Gu Baozhen declined politely: "Unfortunately, I have been married before, and I vowed never to marry again in this life."

Yelvban: "How could it be possible for a man not to marry again? Gu Qi, you are joking, as long as you meet my sister, you won't say that, even though she was born a little taller than you, and her skin is not as good as yours." So pretty, but the girl with the most beautiful smile in our grassland, you will like it."

"..." Gu Baozhen shut up, and wanted to say that he likes men, but this kind of thing should not be said everywhere, it is not good for his reputation, he is a man who wants to be the emperor, and there should be no scandals before he ascends the throne .

"Or..." Yelu Ban stretched out his hand to hold the prince's hand, and scratched Gu Baojin's palm with his fingers, "Your Highness likes me more?"

Gu Baoyu pulled his hand away coldly, and said solemnly: "Please respect yourself."

Yeluban joked: "What if I don't respect myself?"

Gu Xiaoqi lowered his eyelashes, thought for a while, then looked up at the other person without any emotion, and said, "Man, you are playing with fire."

After finishing speaking, the carriage just stopped, Gu Baozhen stepped out of the carriage first, and when he went out, he saw that the man driving the horse was indeed not Mrs. Hua, but a Hun.He touched the goosebumps on his forearm and shivered, but it wasn't because he missed the danger, but because he was ashamed to imitate the lines spoken by the domineering president just now!

hateful!He was short of words just now, and only thought of such a nasty reply, so greasy!

But it doesn't matter, anyway, he is here to discuss cooperation with Yeluban, not to fall in love, image is not important.The important thing is that if Yeluban can take the initiative to marry the princess to Zhitong, he will not have to get married, which is much better than letting the old lady persuade his father alone.

While thinking about how to get the result he wanted, Gu Baozhen looked around.

The inn where Xiongnu Shanyu lived was heavily guarded. There were Huns and soldiers from the Shu State, but they were clearly divided.

Yelvban, who followed closely behind, chased after Gu Baozhen with unceremonious strides, and never mentioned the jokes on Fangcai's carriage, and warmly invited the prince of Shu Kingdom to go upstairs to meet his sister: "Let's go, let's go, I asked my subordinates to tell my sister before, If you say you want to come to see her, she must be ready, we children of the grassland are no more hypocritical than you, we can chat casually after meeting, there is no need to be polite."

Gu Baozhen intentionally dumped the Xiongnu princess to Zhitong, since it was not easy to dump a woman with no character or appearance, so he thought it would be good to meet the princess.Zhitong had an unfortunate childhood, but at least a happy marriage.

As a result, I went upstairs and entered Room No. [-] in Tianzi, only to see a woman dressed in Han costumes with gold hairpins and beads on her head walking towards her.

The pseudo-mother looks clean and heroic after being dressed up, but the shoulder width, height, Adam's apple, and her masculine taste cannot be concealed even if she speaks in a low-pitched voice...

How fat four?Was it Yeluban's audacity to deceive others?Or were the ancients really incapable of distinguishing between a man disguised as a woman or a woman disguised as a man?The mentally handicapped masquerading in TV dramas turned out to be real!They have been wronged all these years.

"Come on, Gu Qi, this is my sister, Yelu Qing." Yelu Ban waved his hand and introduced, "Qing, this is the Prince of Shu Kingdom."

Yeluqing, who was walking towards her, was supported by her maid, imitating the etiquette of Han women, but her posture was slim: "I have seen His Royal Highness, His Royal Highness is really a good-looking talent."

Gu Baozhen was stunned, and replied: "Ah, thank you, the princess is also... talented."

The author has something to say: In fact, it’s not that they can’t tell the difference between men and women, but that grassland women are indeed fierce, and some are as strong as men, so this princess is very successful in disguise, yes, this is a man.