Junxumi was too relaxed. He thought that he had the confidence to challenge Liu Tan after he reached the Wusun territory.

Of course, he might not really be looking for trouble with Liu Tan, it was probably just a subconscious move.

The main reason was that he was bullied badly by Liu Tan on the way and was also tricked by the Huns. He had no place to vent his anger and endured it all the way to Chigu City.

He didn't dare to express this to Liu Tanfa, but that didn't mean he couldn't cause trouble.

But he forgot that he was ambitious, but Liu Tan was willful!

They were threatened to go back at every turn.

Junxumi glanced at Dalu standing beside him. Dalu laughed and said, "Your Highness, you're joking. The wedding procession has already reached Chigu City. Even if Your Highness returns, it will be difficult for you to explain to His Majesty the Emperor, right?"

Liu Tan also smiled at him and said, "You also said that it's just difficult to explain. He is my father, what else can he do to me?"

Everyone: ...

Where did this scoundrel come from!

Huo Guang on the side did not say a word. If it were in the past, he would think that such a scoundrel was not suitable for diplomacy. Diplomacy requires tact and a little bit of communication. The right thing to do is to advance when the enemy retreats.

But now he found that to deal with these tough ethnic groups, he had to resort to straightforward scoundrels like Liu Tan.

If you want to bully us, you have to see if we will let you bully us.

Dalu thought to himself, you have already entered Chigu City, can you leave whenever you want?

Liu Tan also understood this. He looked at Dalu and said, "I think if we want to leave, Wusun won't stop us, right? Otherwise, my father will be really angry."

Dalu said in a deep voice, "The Emperor of the Han Dynasty always keeps his word. Since he has already agreed to a marriage alliance with the Wusun, he will not go back on his word. What do you think, Your Highness?"

Junxumi knew something was wrong when he heard Dalu's words. He coughed frantically and wanted to say something, but before he could stop him, Liu Tan spoke very gently, "Aren't Big Wusun and Little Wusun both Wusun?"

Sorry, I have to drag Lu Xuan out to take the blame again. But Lu Xuan’s relationship with Da Wusun is not good anyway. At worst, I can just apologize to him when the time comes.

Huo Guang glanced at Liu Tan, then drank to hide the expression on his face. He thought that it was fortunate that their Fifth Prince had a good relationship with Lu Xuan, otherwise what would happen if Lu Xuan knew about it and really came to propose marriage?

How could they possibly marry the Fifth Prince... wait... what Fifth Prince? Even if they really proposed marriage, it would be to marry the princess!

Huo Guang felt that his thinking was a little confused, and today was probably not a good time for negotiations.

Dalu was also confused. After all, they did not acknowledge the existence of the Little Wusun. They and the Little Wusun that Lu Xuan was currently leading were called wandering people, so they had never thought about this at all.

But the problem is that they don't admit that the Han Dynasty recognizes it. Anyway, Lu Xuan's position in the Han Dynasty is higher than Junxumi.

Dalu's brain circuits couldn't keep up with Liu Tan's imagination. He opened his mouth, and Junxumi beside him said decisively: "The Han envoys just entered the city today and must be very tired. Please rest for two days, and we can discuss it again."

Dalu found his voice and said quickly, "Indeed..."

Before he could finish, Liu Tan interrupted him: "It's just a small matter, why do you need to delay it for so long? The wedding is in seven days, shouldn't we discuss what to do then? Or do you want to wait until the day is right and just make it a done deal?"

Junxumi had originally wanted to drag Dalu away to find his grandfather, but after hearing what Liu Tan said, he felt it was not easy to leave, so he had to ask, "Then... Your Highness means..."

Although he asked, he had also made up his mind that if Liu Tan insisted on holding a Han-style wedding, he would ask someone to postpone the wedding time. After all, it was the Han Dynasty that was anxious if Liu Tan didn't go back for a long time. What was the point of a prince staying here for a long time?

Liu Tan smiled and said, "You guys don't know how to adapt. Since both sides have disagreements, why can't we integrate them?"

Huo Guang turned and looked at Liu Tan worriedly: "Your Highness..."

Liu Tan waved at him, and Dalu asked thoughtfully, "How do we merge?"

Liu Tan said, "Of course, this has been discussed. The Han Dynasty's marriage to the Wusun is for friendship, not for annexation. So, while the Wusun can insist on having their own wedding, we also have to consider the princess's discomfort. So, why not combine the two styles? Have a wedding that combines both Wusun and Han styles. This way, we can avoid disputes caused by disagreements and also demonstrate the friendship between the Han and Wusun. Isn't that a good idea?"

Huh? That's a good idea.

Dalu seemed lost in thought. Huo Guang whispered, "Your Highness, I'm afraid we may not have enough time."

Liu Tan leaned closer to him and said, "Don't get too hung up on the details; the general idea is fine."

Just as the Wusun people thought, they had already come here and it was impossible for them to really go back, so they had to make a certain degree of compromise. Before, he was just showing an attitude of not compromising.

After they put it out there, the other party knew they were serious. He said this again to show that the Han Dynasty sincerely wanted to form an alliance with Wusun, and Wusun should be grateful.

If they retreated at the very beginning, the Wusun would only think that the Han were easy to bully.

Liu Tan didn't quite understand how relations between countries worked, but he knew that sometimes the boundaries between people were like this. Now it seemed that at least the relationship between the Han Dynasty and Wusun was similar.

After hearing what Liu Tan said, Huo Guang understood what was going on. He knew that he had to fight for those things that would save face, and it didn't matter if he had to give up some of the substance.

So during the discussion, Huo Guang strongly demanded that the part about the fan-rejecting poem must be retained.

After hearing this, Liu Tan almost laughed out loud. How could the Wusun people know how to write poetry? They didn’t even have their own writing, yet they still wrote poetry.

To be honest, having traveled here from the future, it was basically difficult for him to imagine how a country without written language was ruled.

However, in fact, they can not only rule but also rule well.

Dalu was so angry that his face turned red. He felt that the Han people were deliberately making things difficult for them.

Liu Tan knew that Huo Guang was deliberately using the Han civilization to crush the other side. However, the Wusun people might not know how precious the emergence of civilization was. They probably only saw that they were being embarrassed.

Liu Tan coughed lightly and said, "As for the fan poem, the Han Dynasty has many kinds, and it may not be impossible to provide them. This part of the Han Dynasty wedding is the most lively. How can Dalu know that Kunmi doesn't like it if he doesn't try it?"

As he spoke, he glanced at Junxumi. He could see that Junxumi was very curious about the various procedures of a Han-style wedding.

Because they wanted to integrate with each other, both sides listed the wedding process. Oh, the Wusun side dictated it and Jiang Chong wrote it down. After he finished writing it, only half of the paper was used.

When it came to the big man... he wrote two pages directly!

Liu Tan knew at a glance that Jiang Chong was up to no good. He even wrote down the engagement ceremony. Although the engagement process was indeed included in the wedding process, it was only a prelude. The steps on the wedding day were only about one page.

But he didn't say anything, letting the Wusun people on the opposite side listen with confused expressions from top to bottom.

It has to be said that when one's social class reaches a certain level, etiquette can enhance one's status. The more detailed the regulations are, the more they represent one's origin, status, knowledge, and so on.

The Wusun people had some admiration for the Han civilization. It was okay when they didn't understand it before, but now that it was clearly laid out before them, the pressure was so great that they could hardly bear it.

Liu Tan's previous judgment was somewhat wrong. He said not to focus on details. In fact, the Han Dynasty could really win in terms of details, because Wusun had no regulations on those details at all!

Liu Tan watched as the entire wedding was changed bit by bit beyond recognition. Although many major steps retained the core of Wusun, in fact, the entire wedding flavor had become no different from a Han-style wedding.

The most annoying thing is that these guys didn't use the etiquette of the emperor's wedding or the prince's wedding. They used the etiquette of the princess's wedding, which invisibly put Lie Jiaomi in the position of the prince consort.

This discussion lasted for many days. All the instruments used by the Han Dynasty had their own particularities. The Wusun people didn't understand, so they could only ask bit by bit, remembering them, and then reply to Lie Jiaomi.

Before the wedding, Lie Jiaomi rarely appeared. It was not until the wedding day that Liu Tan met the Kunmi of the Wusun Kingdom as a guest of the bride's party.

Before meeting him, Liu Tan had imagined that the king of a country must be a little different from others, right?

But after meeting him, he felt a little disappointed. Lie Jiaomi is now a skinny old man. Compared with the bright and beautiful Princess Danyang, Liu Tan felt that his heart was broken in an instant.

What does it mean to plant a flower in cow dung?

However, he still had to put on a smile and give a big gift to his sister's wedding.

Oh, the so-called gift was two huge sugar sculptures. He asked someone to make the model in Chang'an and brought it all the way to Wusun. After arriving at the post station, he asked people to surround the entire post station and then chose a place to make the sugar sculptures.

At first the Wusun people were curious, but after Liu Tan’s warning, they… they actually dared to send people to secretly see what it was.

This time Liu Tan showed no mercy, or to be more precise, Huo Guang showed no mercy. He ordered his men to kill whoever they caught. Anyway, these people definitely had no official identities, and Wusun would not recognize them, so they just treated them as thieves. The Han Dynasty treated thieves very strictly, so what could be done?

After killing him twice, no one dared to come.

Until the wedding day, Liu Tan had the two sugar sculptures pulled to the gate of the Wusun Palace by cart - he didn't say that the Wusun Palace was not even as good as his Sui Yu Palace.

Originally, in order to maintain the aura of the Han Dynasty, this sugar sculpture was slightly smaller than the one he had made for Liu Che before. In order not to offend the Wusun people too much, he finally chose to carve two wolves howling at the moon, and even made the moon, and dyed it a light blue color.

The wolf eyes are inlaid with green jasper, which is a local jade from the Western Regions, so it didn’t cost too much.

In fact, in order to make it more realistic, Liu Tan originally wanted to put some white phosphorus in the eye sockets of the two wolves, so that the wolf eyes would produce the effect of burning flames, but this idea was strongly suppressed by Huo Guang.

Of course, it cannot be done even if it is not suppressed. No matter how low the ignition point of white phosphorus is, it still has a temperature. Over time, the sugar will inevitably melt.

Liu Tan was very satisfied with the final product, and on the day before the wedding, he had the statue placed at the gate of the palace.

After putting it there, Junxumi's face twisted when he saw it - the sugar sculpture was taller than their palace walls!

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