Located on the west side of Qinghai, Fu Qi City was once the king city of Tuyuhun and the largest city in the Tuyuhun realm.

The reason why it is not now is because after Tubo conquered Tuyuhun, he built another Xiongcheng in the western border of Wuhai near Bailanqiang, which was directly named Tuyuhun City to house the Tuyuhun puppet royal family supported by Tubo.

In order to declare the grace and strength of Tubo, the Tuyuhun New City was built as grandly as possible, and the scale far exceeded the original Tuyuhun King City.

But even so, Fu Qi City is still the military and political center of Tuyuhun's hometown, one is because the land here is close to Qinghai, and there are various artificially dug canals and ponds around the city, the water and grass are abundant and beautiful, and it is suitable for living and grazing.

Of course, the most important thing is that Fu Qi City is the real controller of Tuyuhun at the moment, and the residence of the first power of Tubo, the Mengar family.

Although the Gar family also has its own clan land in the Tubo Realm, the father and son of Da Lun Lu Dongzan have been sitting here for a long time, and with the intensification of the conflict with the Tang Dynasty, Fu Qi City has naturally become a gathering place for the soldiers and materials in the Tuyuhun hometown.

The city was built during the turbulent period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in China, so with a strong Seoul style, the city is divided into inner and outer Guo, with open avenues to divide the area, and there are ditches to connect Qinghai more than ten miles away. Qinghai thaws in spring and summer, and you can even set a boat in the city to sail in Qinghai.

During the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, China was weak, and the Hexi Corridor was not smooth, and the city of Fu Qi once became an important node of commercial communication between the east and the west, so this city was also extremely prosperous at that time. Today, there are still a large number of mansions, markets and other buildings left over from the city and even outside the city, and now they have all been changed to garrison points.

Although the outer city is still full of bloody characters, once you enter the inner city, whether it is the street buildings or the people coming and going, they are full of strong Tang style, and people suddenly think that they have come to a big city in the Tang Kingdom.

The reason for this style is that Tuyuhun is originally a Haixi alien, not a Western Qiang species, but a highly sinicized Xianbei Miao descendant.

It is precisely for this reason that the Tuyuhun royal family seems to be incompatible with many strong clans in the Tuyuhun realm, so that when the Tubo invaded in a big way, some of the ministers of the Qiang and wealthy clans in the realm simply betrayed their old king and chose to take refuge in the Tubo, which was closer to the customs.

Another reason is that the current owner of this city, the Tubo Great Discussion of Qinling's personal interest. Qinling admired the Tang style, which was already a well-known thing in the Tubo country, and its people's daily crown and living habits were all Tang customs, even in the marching camp tent, they had to erect Tang-like screens.

It is precisely because of the interest of Qinling that in addition to the cronies and guards of the Gar family, there are also many scholars, craftsmen and so on who have been captured from the Tang Kingdom, which makes the city reveal a stronger Tang style.

In the inner city, the original Tuyuhun Palace, now renovated with heavy eaves and tiles, is almost the same as the Tang Dynasty palace architecture, and even the silk and bamboo music reverberating between the corridors and pavilions have the style of Tang Yan music under careful listening.

In the hall, a musician is concentrating on playing the "Water Tune", and the maids in the hall have flowing sleeves, colorful silk dresses, and beautiful dances.

The middle-aged man on the high couch in the reclining hall is wearing feathers and golden crowns and hairpins, and he is the first minister of Tubo today, and he talks about the Qinling. Qin Ling's forehead is high, his eye sockets are slightly sunken, and his nose is slightly hypertrophied.

Although the singing and dancing in the hall is gorgeous, but Qin Ling's attention is not on the singing and dancing, he frowned slightly, although he was not angry, but he had his own prestige overflowing, looking at the young man sitting upright in the left seat of the couch, his eyes were not weak, and his tone was a little low: "I told you several times before returning to China, you must pay careful attention to Tuyuhun City, but you actually let the king of Tuyuhun escape without stopping it!" ”

The young man was none other than Gong Ren, the son of Qinling, and at this time he bowed his head with a frustrated face and said astringently: "How dare my son forget his father's advice, he has been stationing 2,000 troops in Tuyuhun City, and he still patrols from time to time. On the eve of his king's escape, he asked me to accompany him on a hunting game, and there was not the slightest sign of it......"

Hearing his son's complaint, Qin Ling couldn't help but sigh again. In the early years, there was civil strife in the clan, and after the eldest brother Zan learned that after he was killed, he could no longer concentrate on side affairs, and needed to travel back and forth, and control the situation in Rasha City.

The current King of Tuyuhun is not the original branch of the Murong clan, but just a puppet raised by their Tubo. In the past so many years, there is basically no authority and sense of existence in the Tuyuhun Kingdom.

Don't say that his son was negligent about this, even Qinling actually didn't pay too much attention to King Tuyuhun. But this time Tuyuhun fled and offered his daughter to Zampu, and then a large number of Tuyuhun members bypassed him and got Zampu's direct appointment.

This is undoubtedly a very dangerous signal, not to mention the Tuyuhun in front of him, in the old years Tubo was in the process of growing, and the Sun Bohao clan who surrendered to Tubo was directly appointed by Zampu as the Great Commentator, and soon after, Sun Bo was annexed by the inside and outside.

Zampu did this, obviously to learn from the stories of his ancestors, and to really attack Tuyuhun. Once King Tuyuhun, who had not paid enough attention in the past, fled, he brought a lot of trouble to Qinling.

"This matter, that's it, with a puppet, how much storm can it set off? If he only stays in the Ru District, he will fall, and if he dares to return to this realm, he will be killed! ”

For those who betray him, Qinling has always adhered to an attitude, that is, to kill them all!

He is already annoyed by all kinds of domestic disputes at the moment, and he is really murderous about the restless King Tuyuhun.

However, the situation in the land of Wuru is different from the frontier, there are many wealthy clans, and each has its own feudal people, even if he is in power, he can only order and influence those people through gatherings such as the Huimeng and the Great Material Gathering, and he can't enter and exit without prohibition to enter and kill.

If the tactics are too tough, it is very likely to provoke the Wuru mutiny, which has not been uncommon in the past few years. If it is a normal season, with the strength of Qinling, I don't care too much about how those heroes react.

But now that the great enemy of the Tang State is in internal turmoil, it is a good time for Tubo to expand abroad, and Qinling really does not want to miss this good opportunity because of the turmoil in the country.

"Don't pay attention to the puppet king anymore, is there any news from Murong Haoli, who moved to the land of the Tang Kingdom?"

The puppet king of Tuyuhun was not in the room, and Qin Ling naturally did not have kindness to him, and he already had a plan to abolish this puppet in his heart, and already had a follow-up plan: "The Murong clan moved to Hequ, and the customs are different, so they may not be able to tolerate and treat the Saibian group of Hu well." Now that there is chaos among the remnants of the Turks in Moshang, the military of the Tang State is serious, if I can recall his troops through extravagance, it can also benefit my strength! ”

Although their Gar family has a kingdom enmity with the Tuyuhun royal family, in the face of huge interests, all enmity and enmity become unimportant.

Because of his bad relations with the Tang State, it was not easy for Qin Ling to obtain the internal intelligence of the Tang State, but he entered Chang'an in the old years, not only studied the national eunuch, but even served as a guard for Emperor Gaozong, and also had a deep understanding of the affairs of the Tang Dynasty.

What's more, the resurgence of the Turks and the fact that Tuyuhun is an outlier on the side of the river meander, these are all obvious things, but there is no need to inquire in detail, Qin Ling can also guess that Tuyuhun's living situation in the Tang Kingdom must not be good.

He wanted to recall the Tuyuhun royal family again, but it was not whimsical, and it was not just aimed at the Tuyuhun puppet king. He wanted to take the opportunity of the Murong clan's return to the country to carry out a cleansing of Tuyuhun's hometown as a whole.

After years of attacking, the remnants of Tuyuhun are far less submissive than they were during his father's and brother's time, but if they are directly cleaned, it will provide an excuse for Zampu and political enemies in the rear of Tubo to meddle in Tuyuhun's affairs.

Therefore, the original Tuyuhun royal family was an excellent excuse for Qinling to demonstrate to the country that they should not stretch their hands too far. The land of Tuyuhun is the foundation of his father and brother, including himself, who have worked hard and fought bloodily, and must not be allowed to be taken by the insatiable wealthy families in the country.

"There is no news yet, or the road is far away, and Luxury itself is not a good person, once he leaves this place, he may not be willing to obey orders."

Hearing his son say this, the corners of Qinling's mouth curled: "It's okay, the river meanders are full of hus, and there is no place for him to stand." If he really dares to betray me, he will enter Xizhou next year and rush out of Helan Mountain to take the head of this traitor first! ”

"Ah, Father, do we still want to continue to attack north? However, the country has urged several times to retake the four towns......"

Gong Ren couldn't help but hesitate a little when he heard his father's hatred.

"Of course they want me to retake the four towns, the four towns are in the key areas, and the wealth is abundant, only by controlling the place, can they hunt up enough goods for their enjoyment!"

When Qin Ling heard this, his face sank slightly, although he personally led the army to capture the four towns for the first time in the old year, he still had reservations about this plan. Especially now, the attack on the four towns is no longer a simple development plan, but is also regarded by some people in the country as an opportunity to grab wealth and good things.

"The five ru in the country, just like my guanzhong, is the foundation of my career. Tuyuhun is the Central Plains, without which there is no hope of hegemony! Now that you have both, where to go is the most important thing. In previous years, my brother took the plan of Zhangye in China, defended Qinghai and seized the Western Regions, although this is also a long-term plan for the establishment of the country, but Qinghai is adjacent to Longyou, and the Chinese army can enter at four times, and the swords and soldiers are against each other, and it is not allowed to be far away. ”

As the general of the Tibetan State who defeated the Tang army twice in the Qinghai region, Qinling naturally has a say in this, it is true that the attack on the Western Regions was also one of the strategies to go out to explore, but it has been proved that even if the Western Regions are captured, without long-term operation, it is not enough to give full play to the strategic effect of Zhang Ye's waving arms, but it prematurely exposes the strength and ambition of Tubo, so that the Tang Dynasty no longer ignores them.

"The strength of the Tang Dynasty, how can those vulgar people know? After two wars, the reserves of Tuyuhun were almost exhausted, and our country was already weak, but the Tang State could still come again, and now it is just trapped in civil strife. In addition, the Tang people run the Western Regions, which is a long-term plan for hundreds of years, and the countries in the Western Regions are famous and fearful. ”

When Qin Ling said this, he sighed and said: "In previous years, the four towns won a few losses, and the Tang army was able to repeatedly disrupt our country's plans with only a few thousand games, and now there are tens of thousands of garrisons, and all countries are subdued. Although Tang General Wang Xiaojie does not have any big plans, he is a reckless man who can fight ruthlessly, and he is a new victorious man. ”