The news of the establishment of the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion by the imperial court spread quickly, and some people were surprised and some worried about Liu Kui's entry into Liangzhou with the Right Shence Army.

It seems that after the pacification of Hedong, the attention of the imperial court returned to the Hexi region again.

As the top combat strength of the forbidden army, the Right Tiance Army and the Right Shence Army are stationed in Longyou, and this intention could not be more obvious.

Zhu Wen, who learned the news, was naturally very happy, the imperial court obviously didn't want to turn his face with him, and after pacifying Hedong, there was no further action against the feudal towns in Shandong.

It's not that Li Ye doesn't want to pacify these feudal towns, but there are too many feudal towns here.

In more than ten feudal towns such as Xuanwu, Yihua, Zhongwu, Heyang, Weibo, Tianping, Chengde, Yanhai, Youzhou, Yiwu, Henghai, Pinglu, and Wuning, the smallest had tens of thousands of troops, and most of them actually controlled nearly 200,000 troops in the four towns to Zhu Wen.

The total size of these feudal towns is no less than 500,000 troops, and Li Ye does not dare to move at all, otherwise he will be affected by one blow and the whole body.

If these feudal towns were forced to join forces, it would not be something that the imperial court could deal with.

Moreover, there are some feudal towns in Jiangnan, Shuofang and other places.

It can be said that at this time, Li Ye could not move the feudal towns of Shandong, but the feudal towns in Jiangnan and Shuofang and other places were easier to start.

The concern is naturally that the imperial court is now suitable for the strategy of starting a war in Hexi?

After all, the conquest of Hedong has just ended, and more than 2 million yuan of money and grain have been used.

However, this time the household department did not oppose it too much, compared to others, they undoubtedly know the most about the current situation of the imperial treasury.

Last year, that is, the second year of Qianning, the treasury revenue was as high as 22 million yuan, although it did not achieve the previous target of doubling compared with the first year of Qianning, but it was higher than the highest year from the Dezong period to the Li Yi period.

If you count this year's income next year, it will go up.

Because after the pacification of Hedong, even Xuanwu, Yihua and other towns began to hand over the annual green seedling money and two taxes, even if it is not much, but it is a good sign.

Other feudal towns can't compare with Zhu Wen, and many plans have started to make up for it since Li Ye ascended the throne.

Li Keyong has been cleaned up, which of them thinks they are stronger than Li Keyong's Shatuo army? Naturally, pay your taxes honestly.

In the view of Li Mi, the head of the household, the war of the imperial court has made the treasury income higher, and the treasury has a lot of surplus, so there is naturally no need to deal with the emperor, as long as the use of money and grain in the treasury is regulated.

And just when Liu Kui, the governor of Liangzhou, had not yet set off with the army, there was another good news.

The Six Valleys decided to surrender to the Tang Dynasty and was willing to pay tribute to 10,000 war horses, hoping to live in peace with the Tang Dynasty and open a mutual market.

Li Ye didn't expect this Rokutani to admit it so quickly.

Although it is not really obedient to the Tang Dynasty, since people take the initiative to submit to softness, the imperial court cannot use troops against it.

Moreover, the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion has just been established, and the army is not in place, so it is not suitable to start a war with a large tribe like the Liugu Tribe.

So Li Ye decided to accept the submission of the Rokugu tribe, and ordered the establishment of the Changsong Metropolitan Governor's Mansion (下都督府), with the great leader of the Rokutani tribe as the governor, and the other five leaders as the deputy governors, nominally under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

This is good news for the imperial court, but it is not good news for other forces in Hexi.

The first was Zhang Huaishen, the envoy of the Guiyi Army, and the second was the Uighurs of Ganzhou.

Zhang Huaishen was worried about Zhang Huaiding, and the Ganzhou Uighurs were worried about the Tang Dynasty doing something to them.

It is certain that as long as the Datang side gives an order, whether it is the Guiyi Army or the Liugu Division, they will be happy to send troops.

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"Hasn't the envoy sent to Chang'an returned yet?"

Shazhou, that is, Dunhuang in later generations.

As the westernmost county of the four counties of Hexi established in the Western Han Dynasty, it is the base camp of the Guiyi Army and the state with the largest proportion of Han people in Hexi, which is also due to the unremitting efforts of the previous dynasties, so Dunhuang is particularly famous in history.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, as a unified, powerful and pioneering Central Plains dynasty since the Han Dynasty, Dunhuang developed even faster.

It's just that after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, Tubo attacked the Hexi Corridor on a large scale, and finally became the land of Tubo.

However, more than 40 years ago, the rebel army formed by Zhang Yichao was based in Shazhou and swept the entire eleven states in Hexi, which led to the current Guiyi Army.

During these years, the foreign enemies of the Guiyi army were mainly Uighurs.

The biggest enemy was actually the Western Uighurs, who had occupied both the Guiyi states.

The Ganzhou Uighurs were the future henchmen of the Guiyi army, and the war that broke out this year illustrated the Ganzhou Uighurs' ambitions for Ganzhou and Suzhou.

Li Mingzhen shook his head, "There is no news coming, I suspect that it may have been intercepted and killed by the Huaiding faction." He certainly doesn't want you to get in touch with the court and get the support of the court. ”

Zhang Huaishen is known to the outside world as the envoy of the Guiyi Army, and he calls himself a servant in the Guiyi Army, because the servant is the prime minister, and he can be regarded as putting gold on his face.

In addition to Li Mingzhen's identity as the assassin of Guazhou (see note), he was also the Zuo Sima of the Guiyi Army, and the affairs of Guazhou were mainly in charge of his clansmen. After all, Guazhou is the base camp of the Li family, while Shazhou is the base camp of the Guiyi Army, and they all need someone to sit in charge.

"Could it be that the imperial court supports Zhang Huaiding so much? You must know that I am the temperance envoy of the Guiyi Army! Zhang Huaishen roared.

Li Mingzhen hesitated for a while and said, "But after all, he is the son of his father-in-law." ”

Li Mingzhen is Zhang Yichao's son-in-law, his meaning is obvious, although this foundation of the righteous army is not Zhang Yichao's work alone, but since ancient times, the father died and the son succeeded.

Zhang Huaiding inherited Zhang Yichao's festival and made the throne, which was justified in the eyes of others.

If Zhang Huaishen's Yizhou had not been taken by the Uighurs, perhaps it would not have been like this, but without the strength he relied on, Zhang Huaiding would have ambitions for the throne of Jiedu.

In fact, Zhang Huaiding's relationship with the imperial court, Zhang Huaishen was aware of it a few years ago, after all, he also had eyeliner in Liangzhou.

Zhang Huaiding's soldiers and horses had a lot of fine armor and weapons for no reason, and although Hexi also produced them, he thought he couldn't make such good armor.

There is only one possibility, and that is from the imperial court, and only the imperial court has the ability to make such good weapons and armor.

Knowing that Zhang Huaiding had close contacts with the imperial court, Zhang Huaishen was a little anxious.

At the beginning, Zhang Yichao went to Chang'an as a hostage, but he was only asked to handle the military and political affairs of the Guiyi Army, and after Zhang Yichao's death, although he thought that he was the envoy of the Guiyi Army, he was not recognized by the imperial court.

Before the loss of Illino, it was nothing.

After the loss of Yizhou, his power was weakened a lot, and his unrecognized Jiedu envoy also made some people have strange ideas.

Zhang Huaiding is one of them.

Therefore, after learning that Zhang Huaiding had quietly set up a relationship with the imperial court, Zhang Huai was deeply anxious, so he also sent many envoys to Chang'an to seek recognition from the imperial court.

However, there has been no news of several batches in succession, which can not help but make people suspicious.

So Li Mingzhen's guess is very likely, Liangzhou is occupied by Zhang Huaiding, will Zhang Huaiding see Zhang Huaishen have a relationship with the imperial court?

In fact, Zhang Huaishen, Li Mingzhen and Zhang Huaiding did not know that in fact, a group of envoys borrowed the road from the territory of Tubo in Shanzhou and Kuozhou, and finally successfully arrived in Chang'an through Hezhou and other places.

However, it did not attract the attention of the imperial court.

In other words, Li Ye didn't want to see a unified and powerful Guiyi army.

Although the Guiyi Army nominally belongs to the Tang Dynasty, it is actually a feudal town.

Will a unified and powerful Guiyi army allow the imperial court to get involved in Hexi? That would instead be an obstacle to the imperial court's return to the Western Regions.

What the imperial court needs is a weak, chaotic and obedient Guiyi army, and Zhang Huaiding is the fuse that plunged the Guiyi army into chaos!

Only when the Guiyi army fell into chaos did the imperial court have a chance to enter Hexi.

Just like the establishment of the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion this time, of course, Zhang Huaishen didn't know the news of the establishment of the Liangzhou Governor's Mansion at this time.

Otherwise, after learning that the governor was not Zhang Huaiding, he would definitely be able to guess Zhang Huaiding's true intentions, and he would not have sat here so easily to start this conversation.