Hezhou officials came one after another, and they were all startled when they saw Yang Lin.

"Shaozai came from afar, why didn't you notify me in advance so that I could come and greet Shaozai." Guo Chaoyong, the prefect of Hezhou, carried his official robe and began to shout from a long distance.

Yang Lin sat under a big tree, looking at the people who were almost there, his face turned cold, and he scolded: "What did the imperial court send you to shepherd one side for?" Is it to welcome the officer?

Under your rule, a town was slaughtered, and you, as local parents, didn't even know it? ”

Everyone was stunned, the northwest is different from the Central Plains, this place is vast and sparsely populated, and many small towns rarely communicate with the outside world.

Those on the main traffic routes are better, and as for this town, it is rarely frequented.

If it weren't for Yang Lin's unfamiliar Long Live Camp people, and believing in the half-witted words of Gao Shan, he took a shortcut they imagined, and the miserable scene here would not have been discovered.

"Shaozai, this..."

Guo Chaoyong made a look, and immediately someone from the inspection department came into the town with a tolerance to check.

Yang Lin glared at him and scolded: "You all go in, take a good look at how you protect one side." ”

Officials of Hezhou, big and small, no less than 100 people, entered the town together.

When he came out again, his eyes were already a little wet, and Guo Chaoyong even knelt on his knees in front of the town.

"Yang Shaozai, Xiaguan... Guilty. ”

Yang Lin wiped his eyelids and said, "Do you know who did it?" ”

Fang Jinyun, the general judge of Hezhou, turned pale, and stood up and said, "Shaozai, this is the usual method used by Uighur thieves. ”

"Uighur thieves?" Gao Shant hurriedly said: "What kind of bird thief, such a loss of conscience. ”

Guo Chaoyong, the prefect who was kneeling on the ground, said in a deep voice: "During the reign of Renzong, the Uighurs in Hexi were destroyed by Li Yuanhao, the Xia rebel, and the Uighur khans were killed at night, and a large number of Uighurs fled to Hehuang. At that time, it was still the territory of the Tibetans, and they set many rules to turn these Uighurs into their slaves.

Unable to bear the humiliation, these Uighurs elected a leader to resist the oppression of Tibet.

These people were defeated by the Tibetans and became a gang of bandits wandering in the river, living by robbing passing caravans and abusing the local people.

Their whereabouts are secretive, they come and go, they are cruel and murderous, and we have surrounded and suppressed them several times, but we have not been able to find their figures. ”

It turns out that there is this history, Yang Lin knows very little about it, the last time he destroyed the Western Xia, Yang Lin patronized the Qiang people. However, at that time, the Hexi Uighurs were already very submissive, because they had been overwhelmed by the party members all the year round, and in fact, the Great Song Dynasty had helped them by destroying the Western Xia.

The rulers of the Western Xia, the party nobles, and the other clansmen in the Western Xia at that time were all very cruel. Even their own clansmen, the Seven Qiang of Hengshan, are managed by them as cattle.

Yang Lin sneered and said, "The Hexi Uighurs have now all submitted to my Great Song Dynasty, and their people don't care?" ”

Gao Shant coughed lightly, leaned closer and said, "Shaozai, when you were in the northwest, didn't you plan them into various states... The Uighurs no longer have their own army and patriarchs. ”

Yang Lin took a sip and scolded: "Then the Qarakhanid Dynasty further west should be responsible, the people of my Great Song Dynasty were slaughtered for no reason, and we must not just pursue a Uighur thief and let it happen." ”

The officials of Hezhou have not yet come out of their grief and indignation, and they are all stunned...

What does the Uighur thieves have to do with their Qarakhanid compatriots, you must know that the complete Uighur Khan tent was already extinct at the end of the Tang Dynasty.

The Uighur thieves who are now in rebellion are part of the Hexi Uighurs, strictly speaking, the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

This is equivalent to the fact that in the future generations of Yanbian, there are compatriots of the Korean ethnic group who have committed crimes, and we are going to find trouble with South Korea and North Korea.

"Let Song Jiang come to Hezhou to see me!"

Ignoring everyone's reaction, Yang Lin ordered his subordinates to go and call Song Gongming, the envoy of the Northwest Suppression.

Obviously, he didn't move his mouth, but he really wanted to act.

"Isn't the Western Army training cavalry, first transfer to get back the Falcon thieves to practice their hands, I want to arrest all these people, and let them pay for their sins. Then, I will go back to His Majesty, and we will settle accounts with the Qarakhanid Dynasty. ”

The Uighur thieves, the culprit, are now a small player to pick up. The Uighur Dynasty, which could not be beaten by eight poles, was unlucky.

In the final analysis, Yang Lin still has to train his troops, and since the Western Army has lost the old enemy of Western Xia, it is now happy to trade with the Kereh, and has developed towards a group of qualified and professional mutton dealers and horse dealers.

The Uighur soldiers, Kereh soldiers, and Qiang soldiers recruited on a large scale also need to be tested, or they need to be rubbed at the starting point, and they should always practice with battles to maintain their combat effectiveness and deal with the future Jin people.

Everyone has fought a lot for the Great Song Dynasty, and they will also have a sense of belonging to the Central Plains Dynasty.

Furthermore, the current territory of the Uighur Dynasty was called the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and the Beiting Imperial Protectorate during the Tang Dynasty.

In other words, that piece of land has belonged to the Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times, and the evidence is conclusive and irrefutable.

The Great Song Dynasty inherited the Tang dynasty, and of course this property must be recovered.

There is also the tragedy in the small town of Hezhou, which also exposes how many appalling crimes are being staged all the time under the fierce folk customs in the northwest.

We must change this chaos, and we must use iron and blood to deter these people in the early stage, so that they know that they are in pain, that they are afraid, that they know that they are afraid, and that they will restrain themselves.

Since it is included in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, there is no place outside the law, there is no people who can be bullied and killed at will, no matter what clan he belongs to, they are all Song people, and they are protected by the Great Song army, and they must obey the laws of the Great Song Dynasty.

Yang Lin pinched his fingers and calculated, the new Western Army had nearly ten years to train troops and recover their homeland on this land.

In the future, the skill of competing with the Jin people and reselling mutton will not be of the slightest use.

Because the surrounding strong enemies have either been eliminated or are allies, the northwest of the Great Song Dynasty is now a little too comfortable.

Once a strong steppe nomadic tribe appears, this kind of comfort will kill the Great Song Dynasty, and the border army must be allowed to maintain its combat effectiveness.

Yang Lin didn't care whether they could accept it or not, and left this bloody town with everyone, leaving someone in Hezhou Mansion to bury the body, and other officials returned to Hezhou City with Yang Lin.

The short-lived false peace in the northwest is about to be torn apart, and it is conceivable that another round of competition will follow.

Without a brilliant record, don't even want to live in peace with others here, this is an ancient battlefield where the strong are respected.

Once there is a grassland dynasty, their eyes will inevitably be fixed on the Hexi Corridor, so after the revitalization of the Central Plains Dynasty, why should they be complacent.