Li Chengqian's car paused when he walked in front of this group of officials, and Liu Kui stood beside the car and said loudly: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has a decree, and the officials will continue to hurry." ”

Then Li Chengqian's car passed by Zheng He and the others.

Zheng He waited for Li Chengqian's car to drive over before he stood up, patted the dust on his head and was about to get on the horse to follow Li Chengqian's car, but he heard Lu Xiang, the governor of Fangchi Prefecture, who was driving in the Fangchi Prefecture, said angrily: "'Ride with the son, Yuan Si changes color' Even the people who are still in Taishi's punishment are still ugly to ride with the lord of the people, and the current crown prince is actually riding with the attendants......"

Lu Xiang is a descendant of the Lu clan of Fanyang, Zhenguan was raised to the Ming Department at the age of seventeen in the second year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin loved him very much, so he was promoted to the governor of the capital from the fourth grade before he was thirty years old, but he had no meritorious service in the north for a few years, so there was no chance to be promoted.

Lu Xiang looked down on Zheng He very much on weekdays, and Zheng He also accommodated Lu Xiang in everything because he was not from a good background and had no culture, so many things in the Fangchi Prefecture Governor's Mansion were decided by Lu Xiang.

Lu Xiang was very dissatisfied with Zheng He's kneeling when he saw Li Chengqian's car driving far away just now, and he thought that Li Chengqian would personally get out of the car and pick them up, but he didn't expect Li Chengqian to even stop the car.

Therefore, when he heard that the person who spoke was an internal servant, the fire in Lu Xiang's heart did not come anywhere.

If it weren't for Changshi Liujing holding him in time, Lu Xiang would have stepped forward on the spot to stop Li Chengqian's car and drive into the admonition.

The so-called 'with the son to participate in the ride, Yuan Si changed color' from Sima Qian's "Book of Reporting to Ren'an", which means that in the past, when Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the eunuch Zhao Tan and Emperor Wen were in the same car, Yuan Ang saw it and immediately moved forward with an angry face.

This is to compare himself to Yuan An, a minister of the Han Dynasty.

When Zheng He heard this, he hurriedly turned his head and shook his hands wildly: "Don't be cautious!" ”

Lu Xiang saw Zheng He's persuasion and said louder: "Even if Your Majesty is here, I Lu Xiang dare to admonish directly, let alone only one prince?"

Zheng He couldn't persuade him when he saw it, and some of the knights of the East Palace were already looking this way, and hurriedly waved his hand to let Liu Jing pull Lu Xiang away.

Li Chengqian didn't know what was happening behind, the car didn't stop, and when it came to noon, Zheng He had already prepared lunch for them, and Li Chengqian's army didn't stop to eat.

After such a long march, we can see the benefits of Donggong Liurate's usual training, in such a hot summer, it is not easy to march 30 miles a day, and according to Li Chengqian's marching speed, it is completely possible to walk 50 miles a day.

Zheng He, who was riding a horse and following behind, watched Donggong Liuyu rush so much, the soldiers were not tired at all, and the slightest bit of unhappiness in his heart about Li Chengqian's not getting out of the car was gone.

The army arrived at Baiquan County on time according to Li Chengqian's request, and Xue Rengui had already set up a camp outside the city.

Li Chengqian's car drove directly into Xue Rengui's camp.

Zheng He was ready for any banquet and singing and dancing beauties in the city in order to convince Li Chengqian, and when he saw Li Chengqian entering the barracks, he also followed him to the barracks to ask for a meeting.

"Governor Zheng ——, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has an order, and he needs to rest after a hard journey today, and all the things that catch the wind are free. Zheng Dudu went out of the city to greet thirty miles, and it was hard work, so go back and rest early! ”

Liu Kui heard that there were people around Zheng He who had opinions about him on the road, so naturally he would not have a good face for this group of people, so he turned around and entered the big tent after passing the word.

Only Zheng He and his party were left standing in front of the big tent in a daze.

Zheng He understood no matter how late he was at this time, Li Chengqian was giving him a look.

But he couldn't remember where he offended the prince, so he had to take the civil and military officials of the Fangchi Prefecture Governor's Mansion back to the city in a huff.

As soon as Li Chengqian entered the big tent of the Chinese army, he moved his legs and feet slightly, and then called Xue Rengui in.

"Rengui Xifeng's situation, you tell the Gu Wang in detail." Li Chengqian looked at Xue Rengui and said seriously.

"Yes!"

Xue Rengui began to tell as soon as he spoke, it turned out that this Xifeng clan was only a small tribe of the Dangxiang Qiang Xifeng clan, and there were more than 10,000 men, women and children in the whole clan, usually in addition to grazing and growing some food, their ancestors lived in Baiquan County, and it has been more than 100 years today.

The Yeli clan here only moved here in the last years of the great cause of the former Sui Dynasty, but because the Yeli clan was numerous, the imperial court decreed that the Qiang people in Fangchi Prefecture should be under the control of the Yeli clan.

In recent years, when the Yeli clan collected taxes for others, they would overcollect the cattle and horses of the Qiang people in this place every year.

They applied to the Fangchi Prefecture Governor's Office, but the Governor's Mansion only said that this was a matter for the Qiang people in the party and was under the control of the Yeli clan, and then the Yeli clan would become even more serious.

Therefore, like the Xifeng clan, the Fei Ting clan and the Mi Bao clan, who had lived in Baiquan County for more than 100 years, all moved further north.

Now in Baiquan County, except for the Xifeng clan, the Qiang people of other small tribes have all taken refuge in the Yeli clan.

In the past few days, Li Chengqian has also learned about some of the situation in the party. The Qiang people are a people who have dealt with China since the Han Dynasty, and they came into contact with Han culture earlier and did not have their own writing, so their degree of sinicization is also relatively good.

As far as Li Chengqian has seen, although these people are grazing, they all build houses and settle down, even if they have the same surname, they do not belong to each other, and the Yeli clan and the Xifeng clan have many tribes with the same surname in the northern border areas of the Tang Dynasty, and they are all in their own way.

The imperial court could have directly controlled them as ordinary people, instead of handing over small tribes that were not at all unrelated to each other to be managed by large tribes, as is the case now, but instead cultivated local forces.

Of course, in the west, the Tuoba clan (that is, the ancestor of the Li clan in the later Western Xia) was relatively close to Tuyuhun, and the whole clan was relatively united, and it was a large tribe of two or three hundred thousand people.

But even so, he did not have the conditions to unify the Qiang people and establish a state, and it was only later that the Tang Dynasty court continued to seal them, giving them the authority to occupy and manage the northwest region.

Since this matter was encountered by Li Chengqian, it is natural that he will not leave them the foundation for the founding of the country.

Li Chengqian basically understood the situation, so he went out to patrol the camp with Xue Rengui, and waited for the morning to enter the city to ask for Zhu Jue, the governor of Fangchi Prefecture.

Zhu Jue is in his early twenties this year and has just taken over the position of the head of the fine seal clan, but if he is forty from the outside, some people believe it.

In addition to the wind and frost in the northwest, there is also his straightforward and loyal temperament, which also has a lot of credit.

Seven days ago, the Wild Rich suddenly sent someone to rob the cattle and sheep they were grazing, and many of the tribesmen were afraid that the Wild Rich asked him to ask someone to send some gifts to the Wild Clan, and use the horses in the tribe to exchange the cattle and sheep that were stolen by the Wild Rich.

But Zhu Jue, who was straight, thought that Ye Li could snatch their cattle and sheep and their horses, so why did he agree to the exchange?

Therefore, the fine seal clan must tell Ye Li that I have the strength so that you can't rob my cattle and sheep.

So Zhu Jue sent his younger brother and several old people in the clan to hide in the grassland hundreds of miles away from here with all the horses in the tribe, and he himself took the young men of the clan to show the strength of the Xifeng clan to the Yeli clan.

Later, when he was defeated and met Xue Rengui, Zhu Jue saw that the soldiers brought by Xue Rengui were all the fine armor he had seen in Chang'an City, so he decided that this was a person who could help them, so he followed Xue Rengui's arrangement and came to Baiquan County to ask to see Zheng He.

But today, the civil and military officials of the entire Fangchi Prefecture Governor's Mansion have to go out of the city to greet Li Chengqian, who has the time to take care of his affairs,

So Zhu Jue took a few servants to sit in front of the Governor's Mansion in the scorching sun for most of the day, and it was not until after Shen Shi that he saw Zheng He and his party come back dejectedly.

Seeing Zheng He and others dismounting, Zhu Jue hurriedly got up and stepped aside, and when they got off the horse, he stepped forward and hugged his fists and said, "The leader of the villain Xifeng clan is Lord Dudu." ”

"Huh?"

Zheng He stood on his feet and glanced at him with a gloomy face.

Zhu Jue was stunned and didn't know how to speak, but fortunately, the entourage next to him was clever and said with a smile: "Lord Dudu, we are bullied by the Yeli clan and can't live, so we have come to ask Lord Dudu to uphold justice." ”

When Zheng He heard this, his face turned cold and he continued to walk forward, and said lightly as he walked: "Lu Beijia will ask about this matter." ”

Although Zhu Jue saw that Zheng He had a cold attitude, he had arranged someone to deal with it, so he hurriedly bowed to their backs and continued to compose.

The porter of the Governor's Mansion looked at it twice, and said in his heart: How can anyone salute like this, he is really a barbarian villager.

When they walked away, Zhu Jue remembered that he was going to find Lu Beijia, and hurriedly walked to the concierge and took out a piece of lamb fat jade and handed it over, hugged his fists with a smile on his face and said, "Dare to ask this official, where is that Lu Beijia Lu." ”

The porter took his mutton fat jade, checked it in his hand, and didn't talk to them, just pointed at Lu Xiang's official room and let them go in by themselves.

Seeing this, Zhu Jue was busy taking people in, at this time Lu Xiang was angry about Li Chengqian's affairs, how could he pay attention to Zheng He's arrangement, and when he saw them coming in, he said with a cold face: "The bastard thing actually sued the leader of his clan, and someone took them and gave them to the Yeli clan for disposal." ”

(End of chapter)