Count the days, it's almost that critical node, and you should speed up on your side, Li Wenyuan also handed over the matter of appeasing the people's livelihood and sorting out the officialdom to Xue Renyue, anyway, with previous experience, he is not worried. Li Wenyuan himself refocused his attention on the two counties to the west, and the Western Turkic royal court further west.

The Western Turks ruled the Tiele tribes, Qarluq, Ba Simi and other tribes, and collected taxes among the countries of the Western Regions, which can be said to be a major hidden danger entrenched on the Silk Road.

Li Wenyuan himself promised to reduce a large amount of land tax, and the tax collected from the acres of land was negligible, but with Li Wenyuan's support for the merchants under his rule, the annual tax revenue not only did not decrease, but also increased slightly. With the money, Li Wenyuan himself could do whatever he wanted, which also gave Li Wenyuan a new understanding of the amount of taxes collected from merchants, and also aroused Li Wenyuan's idea of forming an official caravan to run merchants on the Silk Road. He heard from a Sogdian that a porcelain vase of mediocre value was worth 10,000 gold in the Byzantine Empire, thousands of miles away.

Not long ago, the Silk Road also passed through the news, after the collapse of the Roman Empire divided into two Roman Empires, the Western Roman Empire was protected from the invasion of the barbarians exterminated by the Huns, and finally the territory and wealth were divided by these barbarians. The only thing left in the world is the Eastern Roman Empire, the orthodoxy of the Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire. (The Byzantine Empire, known as Fu Lak in Chinese historical sources, was pronounced buz din in ancient Chinese during the Sui and Tang dynasties. ）

With the Western Jin Dynasty's clothes and crowns crossed to the south, the power of the scholars in the north was very weak, and it was replaced by the Guanlong gate valve of the Sinicized Hu people, although these gate valves also had a large number of Tibetan soldiers and grain, but these people were too devoted to the power of the court. They are different from the scholars, the scholars are only obsessed with the power of the court, limited to the false name of the civilian group, but these gate lords are only concerned about the actual interests of the hand, to find ways to touch the army, this is the scene that any ruler in power does not want to see, if it is just fighting in the officialdom, then any emperor has a room of ways to balance the various factions, and he sits on the dragon chair and watches the play, but if he touches the army, then it is not so easy to deal with either a glass of wine and release the military power, or he can only use tough means, Either of these two is a headache, and the slightest carelessness will lead to the collapse of the entire dynasty like Yang Guang not long after. Therefore, the most worry-free way is to directly exclude from the power circle and use all kinds of "accidents" to deal with this very threatening force first.

Li Wenyuan himself was preparing to run a government-run silk caravan to transport various Chinese handicrafts to Europe to earn gold coins, and a nomadic tribe with a fierce nature was the greatest threat to the caravans on this route. Coupled with the natural feud between farming and nomads in the Central Plains, although they are groveling in the face of the Central Plains Dynasty at this time, they will definitely intervene once the Central Plains is in chaos, and Li Liang is the best example. Therefore, in order to ensure the stability of the way of money in the future, this Western Turk must not stay. Li Wenyuan secretly clenched his fists, the Central Plains can slow down for a few years, but the Turks must be eradicated as soon as possible, and the Western Turks must be eradicated at the very least.

At this time, the news came that Dunhuang County was captured, and the defenders in the city also directly chose to surrender after receiving the news that Li Liang was defeated on the front line in Guazhou and now fled alone and his whereabouts are unknown. Zhang Juntai sent fast horses to report the victory, and at the same time, because it was the first time that a hostile city chose to surrender, Li Wenyuan still needed to come forward in person to pacify.

Li Wenyuan read Zhang Juntai's handwritten letter, smiled, and told Kuaima to go down to rest first, while he simply packed up his few belongings and went to Qiu Niang first.

Qiu Niang's trip to Guazhou was to deal with some of the dark chess pieces left by Li Rail, and some ears and eyes that some Central Plains forces were stuffed in chaos. Under the personal command of Qiu Niang, some small chess pieces were caught one after another, and then the interrogation of pulling out the radish and bringing out the mud was followed. Qiu Niang often makes some "special" interrogation torture instruments, and the effect is very good, anyway, Li Wenyuan has never seen one that can support it so far. Li Wenyuan only went to watch it once, so he couldn't bear to look at it again. Although those people were laughing under Qiu Niang's interrogation tools, there was that kind of despair and sadness in the laughter, which made people's hearts tense when they heard it.

This time, Li Wenyuan learned wisely, and he sat in the living room drinking tea, slowly waiting for the next person to go to Qiu Niang. Not long after, Qiu Niang walked in. Li Wenyuan looked up and saw that Qiu Niang was wearing a linen dress that only peasant women in the field weared, and there were some dark and brown spots on some of the more hidden places.

Qiu Niang handed the wet linen cloth in her hand to the maid on the side, walked into the living room and sat next to Li Wenyuan with a grin, picked up the tea on the table and drank it all, and then asked, "Is there anything the manager looking for me?" ”

"You're interrogating those pieces again? I've said it many times, it's good to let your subordinates do this kind of rough work, so why do it yourself? Li Wenyuan took Qiu Niang's hand, looked at the blood stains on Qiu Niang's fingers, and couldn't help but say with some reproach.

"There's no way, some chess pieces are too hard, and it's easy for my subordinates to be judged to death if they're not careful, so I have to do it myself, and I can also take this opportunity to teach these little rookies a lesson." Qiu Niang smiled, returned to her usual gentle and elegant weak woman posture and said to Li Wenyuan.

"You can grasp the scale yourself, don't always make yourself so bloody, I don't have a heavy bloody breath on a person who kills enemies on the battlefield all year round." Li Wenyuan held Qiu Niang's hand and said, "How long does it take for you to finish the work here?" I have something for you to do with me. ”

Qiu Niang didn't withdraw the hand held by Li Wenyuan, just leaned on the back of the chair and closed her eyes and thought about it and said: "Now that the Yuwen family has been tried, the Yuan family's estimate is not much today, and the Pei family didn't have any excessive ideas, so they didn't move them." There are also Yang Guang's people, spending money to do it, in fact, there are no big bosses, if you are in a hurry, you can leave today. ”

(End of chapter)