As soon as Liu Heng's voice fell, the expressions on the faces of the two lieutenants immediately became very stiff.

One of the lieutenants hung his head a little weakly.

The other lieutenant tilted his head and said with a dry smile: "The lowly people have always been dedicated to their duties, and they never dared to be the slightest bit slack. I wonder where the angels heard these rumors of slander against the inferior? ”

Hearing this, Kou Ji glanced coldly at the captain who was tilting his head.

The captain with his head tilted back chuckled in his heart.

But he didn't show his timidity.

Liu Heng laughed angrily at his words, "You really don't cry when you don't see the coffin......"

"Bring it in......"

Liu Heng shouted outside the door.

A man from the Imperial City Division entered the room with a lean and swarthy man.

The two lieutenants looked over in unison, and when they saw the lean and swarthy man, their faces changed drastically.

Liu Heng stared at the two of them, asked the lean and swarthy man, and asked, "Is it them?" ”

The lean and swarthy man glanced at the two lieutenants, and immediately shouted, "Yes...... It's them...... They killed my brother and robbed us of our skins......"

The lieutenant, who was the first to show his timidity, was about to speak.

was stopped by the captain who was holding his head up.

The captain with his head tilted looked at Liu Heng and said in a deep voice: "Does the angel plan to use this untouchable side to ask the lowly people for their crimes?" Angels have never set foot in the Western Regions, and I am afraid they don't know how cunning these untouchables who walk in the Western Regions are.

They are the people in my Great Song Dynasty, and when they leave my Great Song Dynasty, they will turn into thieves.

Burning, killing, looting, and doing all kinds of evil.

How can they be believed?! ”

"Huh?!"

Liu Heng sneered.

"Liu Fu?"

Liu Heng shouted again outside the door.

"Humble duty!"

"Come in and let them see!"

"Whoa!"

A man in armor and a blade entered the room.

When the two lieutenants saw him, their eyes widened for a moment.

"Liu Sanlang, you?!"

The man in armor and the blade is known to both captains.

He is the flag team of the scout battalion, Liu Sanlang.

Liu Sanlang followed them out to rob the passing merchants.

Liu Sanlang knew all the hurtful things they had done outside Xining Prefecture.

Liu Fu bowed to the two captains and said with a smile: "Officially, Liu Fu, the official of the Detective Department under the Imperial City Division, has seen the two captains. ”

The two lieutenants stared at Liu Fu in disbelief.

"You're from the Imperial City Division?"

"Or a family officer?"

Liu Fu lifted the hem of his skirt, revealing a black boot.

The black boots on Liu Fu's feet, whether they are style, appearance, or pattern, are exactly the same as the black boots on Liu Heng's feet.

The black boots are the symbol of the Imperial City Division.

"Puff ......"

The lieutenant, who was the first to show his timidity, trembled and collapsed to the ground.

The captain with his head up, what else did he want to say.

But I heard Liu Heng snort coldly: "Drag it down......"

The voice landed.

Four Imperial City Division's men rushed in from outside the door and escorted them out of the house.

After the two lieutenants were escorted down.

Liu Fu put down the hem of his skirt and said to Liu Heng: "Shangguan ......"

Liu Heng waved his hand, "No need to be restrained, go and wait outside the door." ”

"......"

Liu Fu gave up his hand again and withdrew from the room.

Kou Ji asked Liu Heng to put the documents brought by Mu Zichuan on the kang and said, "The three major evils named by the official family have been punished, and the rest will be handed over to you." ”

Liu Heng nodded and exited the room.

Kou Ji sat on the kang and looked through the paperwork sent by Mu Zichuan.

The document recorded in detail the changes in the situation in the Western Regions, far more detailed than what Kou Ji had learned.

The situation in the Western Regions was far more complicated than the imperial court had learned.

Many forces are intricately intertwined.

The most powerful of them all is not Qingtang.

Rather, the Qarakhanid.

The Qarakhanid Empire stretches from Kuqa in the Aksu region in the east, borders the Amu Darya, Penchi River and Karakoram Mountains in the south, reaches the grasslands of Lake Balkhash, the Ili River valley and the Seven River basins in the north, and reaches the Lop Nur Desert in the southeast.

The area is very vast.

It can be called the largest power in the Western Regions.

It is not comparable to the Liao State.

The second was the Qocho Uighurs, a brother of the Qarakhanid state.

It is bordered by Yizhou to the east, Khotan to the south, Gurbantunggut Desert to the north, and Qiuzi to the west.

In fact, Qiuzi was also a dependency of the Uighurs of Gaochang.

It's just that Qiuzi has always paid tribute to the Great Song Dynasty alone.

Therefore, those ministers in the Great Song Dynasty have always regarded Qiuzi as a country in the Western Regions.

The third is Qingtang.

Qingtang Zanpu Jiaoluo now considers himself the co-lord of Tibet.

It ruled a large area of land south of the Daxueshan Mountains (later the Qilian Mountains) and north of Nibora (later Nepal).

In addition to the three powerful forces mentioned above, there are also many small forces scattered in the Western Regions.

For example, the Shazhou Uighurs, the Huangtou Uighurs, and so on

The ruler of the Qarakhanid, Ahmad Togan Khan, inherited the belligerent style of the previous Qarakhanid rulers and expanded further on the vast territory laid down by the previous Qarakhanid khans.

However, when he looked around, he found that his brother Gaochang Uighurs were in the way of his expansion.

So he made a decisive choice to attack the Uighurs in Qocho.

The Uighur state of Gaochang was not weak, and with the support of the Liao State behind it, it launched one shocking war after another with the Qarakhanid.

However.

Even with the Liao state behind them, the Qocho Uighurs were no match for the Qarakhanids.

At one point, the Qarakhanid state pushed the border to Kuqa in the Aksu region.

In recent years, the Qocho Uighurs exhausted their human, material, and financial resources in order to resist the attacks and harassment of the Qarakhanids.

This is also the reason why, after the Shazhou Uighurs were attacked by the Western Xia, the Shazhou Uighurs appealed to the Gaochang Uighurs for help, but the Gaochang Uighurs did not respond.

Although the Qarakhanid Empire was very strong, Koji did not need to pay attention to it for the time being.

Because of the power of the Qarakhanid, it has not yet affected the Great Song Dynasty.

Therefore, compared with the Qarakhanids, Kou Ji paid more attention to the changes in the four forces of Western Xia, Shazhou Uighurs, Huangtou Uighurs, and Qingtang.

The Western Xia attacked the Uighurs in Shazhou for the sake of expansion.

The momentum of Western Xia's southern and eastern invasion was stifled by the Liao State and the Great Song Dynasty, and it could only advance westward.

The annexation of the Ganzhou Uighurs and the Shazhou Uighurs was inevitable.

The reason why Huangtou Hui chose to help Western Xia when he was advancing westward was because of Qingtang.

Qingtang Zanpu Jiaoluo is also an ambitious person.

He self-ruled eastward and was not an opponent of the Great Song Dynasty at all.

So he pointed the finger at the Huangtou Hui Hui who was adjacent to Qingtang.

Jiaoguo Luo had the intention of annexing the Huangtou Hui Hui, and sent soldiers and horses all the way to the border of Qingtang and Huangtou Hui Hui, making a certain temptation.

Huang Tou Hui knew that he was not Qingtang's opponent.

Therefore, after Qingtang made a test of Huangtou Huifu, he decisively sent people to Western Xia to ask for help from Western Xia to contain Qingtang from the north.

Li Deming, the leader of Western Xia, was overjoyed when he learned of this.

He immediately dispatched his son Li Yuanhao to lead a large army to attack the Uighurs in Ganzhou, making a gesture of invading Qingtang.

Seeing this, Qingtang hurriedly withdrew the soldiers and horses that were testing on the border of Qingtang and Huangtou Huifu, and pressed to the foot of the snowy mountain to prevent the southern invasion of Western Xia.

However.

After the Western Xia conquered the Uighurs in Ganzhou, they did not choose to invade south.

Instead, they chose to drive away the Uighurs of Ganzhou, posing a threat to Qingtang.

Then he joined forces with the Huangtou Hui and killed the Shazhou Uighurs, occupying most of the Hexi Corridor.

Since then.

Xixia's mind has become very clear.

After losing the rich territory south of the Great Wall, Western Xia wanted to develop and become stronger.

It is necessary to control the golden avenue of the Hexi Corridor.

In this way, only after the Western Xia did they have the qualifications to compete with the Great Song Dynasty and the Liao State.

It can be said that it was a tentative move by Qingtang Zampu Jiaoluo that caused today's war situation.

What makes Kou Ji feel annoyed.

The war was provoked by Kakuro, but to this day, Kakuro still stands by and watches like an outsider.

Let the Great Song Dynasty, Shazhou Uighurs, Western Xia, and Huangtou Hui pinch each other in the Western Regions.

"Want to be a fisherman?"

Kou Ji dropped the last paper in his hand, touched his head, which was lying on his knees and had slept soundly for the rest of his life, and muttered in a low voice.

"Who is going to be a fisherman?"

Li Zhaoliang's head came in from outside the door.

Kou Ji made a silent gesture, carefully helped Yu Sheng to lie on the hot kang, helped him cover the quilt, got off the hot kang, put on boots, and wrapped the big kang.

"Go out and talk ......"

Kou Ji paced in front of Li Zhaoliang and whispered.

Li Zhaoliang pursed his lips, "In order not to wake up the little guy on the kang, you are willing to go outside to get cold." ”

Kou Ji said indifferently: "If we do well enough, he will not be tortured and disabled." ”

Li Zhaoliang said sarcastically: "You really have a bodhisattva heart." ”

The two of them paced outside.

Feel the cold breeze whistling outside the house.

Kou Ji wrapped the big coat on his body tightly and glanced at Li Zhaoliang, "Why can't I have a bodhisattva heart?" ”

Li Zhaoliang sneered: "There are more than thirty officials who died at the hands of you, the Bodhisattva, tonight, right?" ”

Kou Ji said without being salty: "My bodhisattva heart is only reserved for the people. ”

Li Zhaoliang said disdainfully: "Those of you who are civil officials are hypocritical. ”

Kou Ji glared, "You're not hypocritical? Do you dare to tell the officials about the disgusting things that your Li family's servants did in Xining City? If it weren't for you black-hearted guys who had oppressed Xining City too much, how hard could the people of Xining City live?

If it weren't for you black-hearted guys drinking the blood of soldiers, those big-headed soldiers would need to go out and pretend to be horse thieves? ”

Li Zhaoliang looked embarrassed when he heard this.

Kou Ji didn't bother to continue discussing this topic with Li Zhaoliang, he glanced at Li Zhaoliang and asked, "You came to me in the middle of the night, what happened?" ”

Li Zhaoliang said dryly: "Listen to my subordinates, you have already slaughtered more than 30 officials in Xining Prefecture. I'll come and see how long you kill. ”

Kou Ji said indifferently: "When those disgusting guys are killed, they will stop." ”

Li Zhaoliang hurriedly said: "Don't kill all the officials in Xining Prefecture." When we kill all of them, we won't have anyone to do things for us. ”

Kou Ji glanced at Li Zhaoliang, "I am the official appointed messenger, and it is not your turn to kill anyone." ”

Li Zhaoliang said with a bitter face: "When I left Bianjing, I saw that you were very murderous. I don't want to stop you from killing. But you'll have to keep a few to help us do things.

The two forbidden armies of Zhenguo and Xingguo will arrive in Xining City in three days.

Nearly 100,000 people, eating, drinking, and Lazar are all problems.

We need someone to help us, mobilize the people of Xining City, and settle the forbidden army. ”

Kou Ji frowned, "I have a ...... in my heart"

Li Zhaoliang said in a deep voice: "In Xining Prefecture, the officials above the seventh grade are about to be killed by you, you tell me that you know what you know?" ”

Kou Ji stared at Li Zhaoliang and said coldly, "What are you yelling at me?" You should yell at them! Do you know how much trouble their inaction in Xining Prefecture has caused to my Great Song?

If it weren't for them, the soldiers and horses of my Great Song Dynasty would not have fallen into the siege of Shazhou. ”

Li Zhaoliang opened his mouth to refute.

Kou Ji continued: "Do you know how much misunderstanding the situation in the Western Regions has caused my great Song ministers to misunderstand the situation in the Western Regions because of their inaction? In the eyes of my Great Song Dynasty ministers, the Western Regions are just barbarian lands, and there is no threat to my Great Song Dynasty.

But what I see in the Western Regions is different.

Among the many forces in the Western Regions, all those who are ambitious are constantly expanding and rising.

In order to annex Huangtou Huifu, Qingtang provoked a war.

In order to annex the Ganzhou Uighurs and the Shazhou Uighurs, and to control the entire Hexi Corridor, the Western Xia joined the battlefield.

Farther away, a huge empire no weaker than the Liao State was frantically advancing eastward.

They have reached the territory of Gaochang.

As long as Gaochang, Shazhou Uighurs, and Huangtou Uighurs are destroyed.

Qingtang, Western Xia, and Qarakhanid, when the three major forces meet, they will compete for the king of the Western Regions.

Wait until the day when the King of the Western Regions comes.

That's when my Great Song Dynasty wolf smoke is everywhere.

At that time, two wolves will stand in the northwest of my Great Song Dynasty, do you think my Great Song Dynasty can stop it? ”

Li Zhaoliang stared at Kou Ji in a daze, and said in disbelief: "The huge empire you are talking about that is not weaker than the Liao State is the Qarakhanid State?" ”

Kou Ji said with a gloomy face: "Not bad......"

Li Zhaoliang smiled dryly: "Impossible, right? In addition to my Great Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom, are there other powerful countries in the world? In the bitter cold land of the Western Regions, can a strong country be born? ”

Kou Ji smiled mockingly: "The Manchu Dynasty is the same as you think. ”

Kou Ji stared at Li Zhaoliang and asked with a sneer, "Do you really think that my Great Song Dynasty is a strong country?" ”

Li Zhaoliang asked rhetorically, "Isn't it?" ”

Kou Ji laughed self-deprecatingly: "Have you ever seen that powerful country pay tribute to others?" ”

When Li Zhaoliang heard this, the look on his face was very ugly.

Kou Ji continued: "It's just me who is Song and regards myself as a strong country. In the eyes of other countries, my Great Song Dynasty is just a piece of fat. ”

Kou Ji let out a long sigh, "Looking at the world, all those who are ambitious are constantly expanding their territory and plotting against the world. Only I, Da Song, guard my own one-acre and three-point land, and Yelang is arrogant.

If one day, when the jackals rush in, I will know how much self-deception I have. ”

Li Zhaoliang hesitated: "My Great Song Dynasty is now peaceful in the four seas, and the national strength is strong. How can you let the jackals rush in? Besides, among the surrounding neighbors, who has the strength to swallow my Great Song in one bite?

Even if it is as strong as Liao, in front of my Great Song Dynasty, it has repeatedly hit a wall. ”

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