"How's it going? Where are Empress Xiao and her party now? This was Li Wenyuan's first sentence after coming to the governor's mansion today.

"It's early, what are you anxious about? From here to Jiangdu County, thousands of miles away, even if those fleets are going down the river and the wind is good, they still have to walk for more than a month. Now that they are tracing up the river from Jiangdu County to Longxi County, how can they go upriver to the Western Regions so quickly? If you want me to say, you better put this matter aside and concentrate on the business of the Western Regions. No matter how fast they are, it will take two months for them to come to the Western Regions. Qiu Niang didn't raise her eyes, and said angrily to Li Wenyuan.

Li Wenyuan also knew that he was a little too eager at this time, and his calculation of the days was indeed as Qiu Niang said, if he wanted to go against the current now, one was to use the wind, and the other was to simply rely on manpower, that is, the slender men who pulled the boat to provide the power to move forward. Naturally, this speed is not as fast as going downstream. So he also sat back in his seat stupidly, and turned to Qiu Niang and said, "Then let's get down to business, has there been any news from Zhang Juntai's Western Front recently?" ”

"Zhang Juntai, let me find it, here." After Qiu Niang rummaged through the pile of documents on the table for a while, she took out a note and handed it to Li Wenyuan: "This is the latest piece of information, you have read it before, you can take it yourself and read it." ”

After Li Wenyuan took the note handed over by Qiu Niang, he sat back in his seat. Then he opened the note and carefully read the content recorded above, in fact, there is nothing special, but the cause and effect of Ellie's persuasion to surrender to the Roman legion is described in detail, and now that the entire battle of Talas has ended, the Sassanid army has been disintegrated from the inside due to the rebellion of the slaves, and the soldiers and generals in the army have fled back to their Sassanid Empire to save their lives. The Western Turkic army left on the front line of the Wuhu River was also alone after the help of the Sassanids, and the signal for the peace talks had been sent some time ago, and Xue Renyue was on his way to the Wuhu River, and he would be in charge of all matters of the peace talks.

"Yes, yes! Double happiness is coming, as soon as the war on the Western Front stops, we can once again stop the pace of outward expansion and stabilize and plant a good wave of fields. After Li Wenyuan saw this news, he stroked his palms and smiled and said to Qiu Niang.

"Oh, you naturally feel good, your army has expanded your territory and earned you supreme glory, but now our territory has doubled, and the newly conquered areas are all undeveloped grasslands, although we still have a large number of homeless and landless refugees here can be deployed there, so that there will not be a situation where the land is sparsely populated and the army is unfavorable for defense, but if we want to mine all the resources contained there, I am afraid it will be a lot of investment. Fortunately, our firm that sells Hu soldiers and weapons to the Central Plains region has also done a prosperous business in the past few years, and now it can still make up for this financial vacancy, but we can't live without spare money in our hands. At the very least, we must set aside a single contingency fund, and what is more troubling than the financial aspect is that we now have a formal border with the Sassanid Empire, and we must have political, economic, and cultural exchanges with each other. In the previous battle of Talas, Liang Zi was concluded, and in the face of such a large empire that can compete with the Eastern Roman Empire, the infiltration work of our night owls is still a little inadequate. So the next intelligence front in the face of the Sassanid Empire may be at a loss. Seeing Li Wenyuan's overjoyed appearance, Qiu Niang was naturally happy for him, but out of her own responsibility, she still reminded Li Wenyuan and said.

"Of course I know about this, but time waits for no one right now. The advanced muskets equipped with our army can be concealed for a while, but not for a lifetime. What's more, this musket itself does not have a too advanced design, and if the main design idea is known, it is only a matter of time before someone imitates it. In the era before the development of firearms, it was the manpower of both sides that fought the war. However, after the possession of firearms, the battle will be fought against the comprehensive national strength of both sides. Whoever can make the most rational and effective arrangements for the use of resources will have the best chance of touching the laurels of victory, and all we can do now is to make use of the monopoly advantage of advanced weapons and enrich ourselves as much as possible before firearms are completely spread in the world. Let's not talk about that, these words are all for later. The most urgent task we need to do now is to deploy officials to the newly conquered Central Asia to re-plan the land and set up a county government, to resettle the displaced and surrendered Shun people as soon as possible, and to manage the newly conquered Central Asia as our territory as soon as possible, so that no one will dare to get involved here. After Li Wenyuan finished speaking, he picked up his pen and continued to deal with the backlog of official business for several days.

Li Wenyuan was kneeling on the table to deal with his official business, but suddenly remembered something, so he hurriedly raised his head and asked Qiu Niang: "By the way, Qiu Niang, has Li Yuan's forces moved recently?" ”

In Li Wenyuan's memory, Li Yuan established the Tang Dynasty from the anti-Sui Dao and finally took the shortest time to dominate the world in the historical records of the entire feudal dynasty in China. Of course, with the deepening of his studies, Li Wenyuan also knew that the reason why the Tang Dynasty was able to unify China with thunderous means in such a short period of time relied entirely on the support of the Guanlong nobles for the Tang Dynasty. So after crossing over here this time, Li Wenyuan's biggest headache was how to limit Li Tang's expansion and delay Li Yuan's footsteps as much as possible.

"You said Li Yuan? Li Yuan's recent days have not been easy. In accordance with your prior order, we have sold a large number of Hu soldiers and corresponding weapons, grain and grass at special preferential prices to the forces you have named and are in need of support, and their combat effectiveness has long been incomparable. Li Yuan did launch an attack on these forces at the first time as you said, but these forces relied on the strength of the Hu soldiers in their hands to stop Li Yuan's expansion this time. It is estimated that Li Yuan is now in his own mansion, jumping to scold the street, and it is estimated that the first person to bear the brunt of his scolding on the street should be you. After Qiu Niang heard Li Wenyuan's question, she said to Li Wenyuan with a smile.

After Li Wenyuan heard this, he couldn't help laughing, and secretly said in his heart that if he wanted to scold, he should do it as soon as possible, anyway, what he was going to do next, if he stimulated Li Yuan to death, wouldn't he Li Yuan be able to close his eyes when he died?

(End of chapter)