All this turned out to be the arrangement of Emperor Zhao Zhi.

In the second Longyou War, both sides actually suffered heavy casualties, and the same was true for Li Xun, who gathered nearly 50,000 troops in the headquarters, and after several major battles, only 10,000 people remained, plus 8,000 bandits under Liu Zhan who had very weak combat effectiveness, and there were less than 20,000.

Li Xun wrote two chapters, one is a meritorious chapter, and the other is a detailed description of the drastic changes in the Western Regions, a unified Western Regions is definitely a great threat to the western part of Longyou, so Li Xun asked Zhao Zhi for support and help in the music.

Although the war was won, the finances of the imperial court deteriorated further, and it can be seen from this reward that the imperial court gave many official positions, but the rewards in terms of money and goods were very few.

Li Xun didn't have much hope, Zhao Zhi gave it, and if he couldn't give it, he could only forget it, but he never thought that Zhao Zhi not only gave help, but also gave strong support and help, and actually gave Li Xun an army of 50,000 people, of course, the military salary and various materials were arranged by Li Xun himself, and the imperial court was not responsible for any supply, judging from the current situation in the western part of Longyou, an army of 50,000 people, Li Xun could not support it at all, Zhao Zhi said very clearly in his letter, choose one to twenty thousand, It is used for the defense of the western part of Longyou.

Wang Dezhao does not refuse anyone's toast, and he is famous in Anbei for not getting drunk.

The feast lasted three full hours, and it was finally over when most of the people were drunk.

From beginning to end, Wang Dezhao was very low-key and quiet, with few words, while the generals of Li Xun's family were very enthusiastic, and they felt very welcome and happy about Wang Dezhao's arrival.

Li Xun was helped out of the hall by Hou Quan, and when he arrived at the inner courtyard, Li Xun, who was still drunk just now, immediately stood up straight, his eyes were cold, his expression was indifferent, and he looked a little drunk.

Li Xun still has something to do tonight, and he can't get drunk, but Wang Dezhao arrived for the first time and didn't show a certain sincerity, which is also a little bad, Wang Dezhao is Ma Wu's old general, and he has followed Ma Wu for many years.

Wang Dezhao is two in his Chinese New Year's Eve, born in poverty, joined the army at the age of seventeen, because of his heroic appearance and extraordinary martial arts, he was favored by Ma Wu, stayed by his side and became a personal soldier, and in the past 15 years, he followed Ma Wu to the east and west, performed his war merits, was promoted to general three years ago, and followed Ma Wu to Anbei to take up a post.

Li Xun, including Shan Qiu and others, is very enthusiastic about Wang Dezhao, not because of Wang Dezhao's official position, in fact, Shan Qiu, Yuan He and others have higher official positions than him, and the actual governor of a state, Wang Dezhao and Shan Qiu, Yuan He and others have known each other before, although there is not much communication, but everyone is the kind of low background, relying on their own efforts to climb up, among the many generals in the Jin Dynasty, Wang Dezhao has a certain reputation, this person fights bravely, every time Ma Wu goes out, Wang Dezhao is the vanguard, every battle will win, Therefore, Li Xun and others do not look at Wang Dezhao entirely because of his own official position and military power in his hands, but they value Wang Dezhao more as a person.

"It's none of your business, go rest."

"Yes, Marshal."

Hou Quan left with his fists clenched, while Li Xun pushed open the door of the study and walked in, where Fan Zhongyun and Sima Tu were sitting drinking tea.

Seeing Li Xun, Fan Zhongyun said softly: "I heard from Da Xiong that you drank a lot just now, but now it seems that it is nothing." ”

Sima Tu smiled: "The lord doesn't want to get drunk, there are many ways." ”

Li Xun smiled and didn't speak, he drank a total of three jars of wine tonight, except for the first jar of wine, the rest was white water, although his own amount of wine could not be compared with Da Xiong, Shan Qiu and others, but this little wine was nothing.

Li Xun sat down, took a sip of tea, then looked at Fan Zhongyun and Sima Tu, and said lightly: "You have also read the letter given to me by the emperor, let me choose 20,000 people from it to stay." ”

Speaking of this, Li Xun paused, and then sighed lightly: "These 50,000 people are elites, to be honest, I want to stay all of them." ”

Sima Tu smiled and said: "Don't be too greedy, all 50,000 people are left, we can't support it, and the resistance is too great, if we really do it, we may cause trouble." ”

Li Xun waved his hand: "I just thought about it, and naturally I knew that this was impossible." ”

The two chatted for a while, and Li Xun saw that Fan Zhongyun had been silent all the time, and couldn't help but ask strangely: "Old Fan, you asked me not to drink too much at night, I have something to discuss, I am here, why don't you speak?" ”

Fan Zhongyun looked at Li Xun and said lightly: "I'm thinking about things in the Western Regions, and I'm a little distracted." ”

Li Xun was puzzled: "The war between the Western Regions and Dashi has just ended, although it has been won, but its own losses are also very large, I am afraid that there will be no moths in a short period of time, we have nothing to worry about." ”

Fan Zhongyun smiled lightly: "They can't get out of the moth, what about us?" ”

Li Xun was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't understand the meaning of Fan Zhongyun's words.

Sima Tu was shocked, and said loudly: "Brother Fan, do you want to take the initiative and catch him off guard?" ”

Li Xun understood what Fan Zhongyun meant, pondered for a while, frowned and said: "The Western Regions are obviously guarding against us, after the war with Dashi is over, immediately increase the military strength of Xizhou, now there are nearly 30,000 troops in Xizhou, if we really want to fight, I am afraid it will be difficult for us to get anything too cheap." ”

"What strategy does Brother Fan already have?"

Sima Tu deeply understood Fan Zhongyun's character, he must have a certain certainty, otherwise he would never say this easily.

Hearing Sima Tu say this, Li Xun's eyes suddenly looked at Fan Zhongyun.

Fan Zhongyun nodded, took out a letter from his arms, and handed it to Li Xun, Li Xun unfolded the letter and looked at it, and Sima Tu also walked closer to watch.

"This letter is written by Wang Suyi?"

When Li Xun saw the signature of the letter, he couldn't help but look at Fan Zhongyun, his expression was quite strange, Wang Suyi, this person Li Xun had a few encounters with him, but it was only business dealings, and there was not much communication between the two

Fan Zhongyun said softly: "I'll read the letter before I read it." ”

Li Xun didn't say anything more, and lowered his head to read the contents of the letter carefully.

There are also a lot of Han people in the Western Regions, 36 countries in the Western Regions, as far as foreigners are concerned, some have a very low social status, and some have a good social status, but in most of the countries in the Western Regions, the social status of foreigners is still very low, in the territory of Zhongchou State, there is a powerful bandit force, more than 10,000 people, most of them are Han people, the leader is called Chen Tu, these actually have nothing to do with Wang Suyi, Wang Suyi's father lived in Longyou in his early years, because of war and famine fled to the Western Regions, starting from a small businessIn the end, it became bigger and bigger, and after Wang Suyi took over the family business, after more than ten years of development, it has become the leading wealthy man in the country.

Wang Suyi's business involves a lot of things, but the most profitable and important is the sale of salt and grain, and his main business partners are the two countries of Dashi and Lunar Eclipse, which almost monopolize the salt business in these two countries. 2k reading web