The first snow of Zhenguan's fifth year was a little later than in previous years.

When the Liangzhou guards rushed out of the city gate one after another, the people in Liangzhou City were full of despair. It has been several months since the Western Turks swept Liangzhou, but anyone who is sober-minded knows what the situation in Liangzhou City is now.

There are only about 20,000 defenders in Liangzhou, most of whom are still infantry troops, and now most of them have gone out of the city, so they must have encountered something big.

In today's Liangzhou City, apart from the Western Turkic invasion, what is there to do bigger?

"His Royal Highness the King of Chu went out of the city to attack the Western Turks, but he was captured!"

"General Niu took three thousand cavalry out of the city to rescue His Royal Highness the King of Chu."

"General Niu's 3,000 cavalry is no longer good, and the defenders of Liangzhou City have been urgently requisitioned and 8,000 people have been requisitioned out of the city."

"It's over, the Western Turks will soon enter the city, what can I do?"

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Because when Niu Jinda went out of the city, he did not believe the information reported by Li Kuan, and when he came back to dispatch the infantry again, he did not explain what happened, which led to some rumors circulating quickly in the city.

The atmosphere in Liangzhou City was already very depressing, but whenever there was any major change, it immediately spread throughout the city.

So when Li Wan returned to Liangzhou City with the guards, he was greeted not by a welcome team, but by the people who were dragging their families and preparing to flee from Liangzhou City.

But fortunately, the time for the news to spread was too short, and there were not many people out of the city, and when everyone saw Li Kuan's team returning victoriously, all rumors were self-defeating.

"I know that the Wang Yeji people have their own natural appearance, how can they be captured by the Western Turks!"

"The day the prince first came to Liangzhou City, I felt that the sun was brighter, and it turned out that he was really here to save our people."

Don't expect how high the discipline of the Shengdou Xiaomin is, soon, as the guards of the Chu Wangfu threw the heads of the Western Turks one by one to the gate of the city, the common people no longer believed that Li Kuan had lost the battle.

"Lord Wang, it seems that Xi Junmai suggested cutting off the heads of these Western Turks who escaped from Liangye Valley and putting them at the gate of the city to make them into Jingyu, which is really in line with the actual needs of Liangzhou City."

Wang Xuance originally had some opinions about Xi Jun's approach, and felt that it was too barbaric.

Those who escaped from the valley from the fire were basically wiped out after being attacked by the crossbows of the guards of the Chu Palace.

Thousands of heads are big, and they are panicked when they look at it.

"These steppe peoples are the most violent and strong. If this kind of thing is placed in Chang'an City, it will definitely be scolded half to death by those so-called literati, and the reputation of this king will be stinked for 10,000 years. But in Liangzhou City, the situation is completely different. ”

Li Kuan didn't expect the people of Liangzhou City, or even the grassland people around Liangzhou, to know each other and like him like silver, he was afraid that it was enough.

This time, the Western Turks came from the territory of Tuyuhun, and those people in Tuyuhun were naturally inseparable.

And the north of Liangzhou is Xue Yantuo's territory, the Tang Dynasty destroyed the Eastern Turks, and Xue Yantuo is the biggest winner.

Although on the surface, the people of Xue Yantuo also surrendered to the feet of Li Shimin, the heavenly khan, but the emperor of the sky is far away, and in the northwest, the people of Xue Yantuo still have some ideas of their own.

To put it bluntly, they only want to temporarily belong to the Tang Dynasty in name, and when they are strong, they also hope to establish a khanate like the Turks.

Since Li Kuan has come to Liangzhou this time, he naturally has to leave a few hands to deal with these grassland peoples.

"Lord Wang, after this battle, the Western Turks should not dare to get along with Datang in the next two or three years, and at the same time, this fire attack with fewer victories has also played a role in deterring Xiaoxiao. Liangzhou is the fief of the prince, many people think that the northwest is a bitter cold land, there is no value, in fact, in this case, if the prince can make some achievements, but can leave a deep impression on His Majesty. ”

Wang Xuance, as the first strategist of the Chu Palace, at this time, he naturally began to think about the future for Li Kuan.

"Xuan Ce, you thought of going with this king. This Liangzhou City is the pearl of the northwest in the heart of this king, in less than five years, this will be the most prosperous city in the northwest, I want all the caravans through the Western Regions to start from Liangzhou, to make Liangzhou the most desirable trading place for grassland herdsmen. ”

"Lord Wang, it's not easy to do it to such an extent." Although Wang Xuance has the intention to assist Li Kuan in building Liangzhou, he is subject to the limitations of the times, and there are not many ways to do it.

"Xuan Ce, don't worry, this king has a method."

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The Western Turks defeated Liangye Valley, and the 20,000-strong army was almost lost.

The news soon spread throughout the Northwest.

The Jingyu composed of thousands of heads at the gate of Liangzhou City will not deceive people.

Tens of thousands of good horses that escaped from the Liangye Valley and were collected by the army sent by Niu Jinda will not deceive.

The scene of corpses everywhere in Liangye Valley will not deceive.

With the return of more than 10,000 Liangzhou defenders who were responsible for cleaning up the mess, Li Kuan's defeat of the 20,000 troops of the Western Turks with only 1,000 guards was immediately deified.

All of a sudden, Li Kuan could be said to be a powerful northwest, and the thousand palace guards were all about to float when they walked.

Many people in Liangzhou, whose relatives had been plundered by the Western Turks, even hung Li Kuan's portrait in their lobbies, believing that it could serve as a way to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters.

However, as a party, Li Kuan was hiding in the residence of the Chu Wangfu in Liangzhou City, and he didn't know what he was thinking about with a group of craftsmen.

"Adjust it according to this ratio to see if the wool comes out is cleaner."

"Lord Wang, this wool is already very clean. Even the top-grade wool blankets of the Xue Yantuo people are not so good. ”

"Not enough. If this wool is used by the Xue Yantuo people, it naturally has a little taste and is nothing. Originally, those people smelled all over their bodies. But if you want to sell it to the Han people, you still have to deal with it cleanly. ”

Li Wan accompanied Qing'er and Wang Xuanwu, and constantly instructed the craftsmen to do that in the courtyard.

At first, Wang Xuance and Xue Li were very interested in helping, but soon, they gave up.

Xue Li was more interested in taking the guards across the grassland than anything else, so Li Kuan temporarily arranged for him to go to the grassland to buy wool.

However, Wang Xuance was the representative of Li Kuan, helping to deal with many things in Liangzhou City.

In the past, when Li Kuan first came to Liangzhou, whether it was Niu Jinda or Liangzhou Assassin History, he respected Li Kuan on the surface, but in fact he didn't take him too seriously, and he would not discuss with Li Kuan when it came to Liangzhou's military and political affairs.

But since the Battle of Liangye Valley, they immediately let go of their contempt for Li Kuan, and all matters in Liangzhou City began to be discussed with Li Kuan, the nominal supreme governor of Liangzhou City.

But this makes Li Kuan miserable, the affairs of a state capital, there is a mess of everything, from military affairs to trivial matters.

So he simply asked Wang Xuance to come forward, and he only occasionally looked at the summarized information.

The rest of the time, he spent his time in a makeshift laboratory, where he worked with craftsmen on how to process and spin wool.

The battle of Liangye Valley has increased Li Kuan's points a lot, and this time there is a system that can exchange some alkali powder and other basic materials, and the progress of the experiment is faster than imagined.

"Lord Wang, go to the hall to receive the order!"

With the sound of hurried footsteps, Li Kuan's experiment was interrupted.