Yesterday, Sister-in-law Xie came to her sister's house to sit for a while. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info It's okay in the mulberry forest right now, she's here to chat. Liu Yuru only heard a sentence from her words, saying that Xie Guang had just returned from the beef and horse meat branch in Xizhou. Then he said that the governor of Xizhou Guo was dispatching people.

Liu Yuru didn't know what military actions Guo Dudu had, and she even guessed that Gao Jun had caused a lot of trouble in Yazhou and had to transfer troops from Xizhou? And Sister-in-law Xie was vague, which made her worried. Anyway, it's fine, after lunch, Liu Yuru pulled Xie Jinlian and Lirong, and wanted to go to Xie Guang's house to inquire again.

At the gate of Gao Bai's house in the old village, Gao Xianxing leaned out inside the gate and retracted. At noon, Gao Xianxing did not go back to his home in Xincun to eat, and he didn't expect to be here in Ju'er. They pretended not to see it, and walked to Brother Xie's house.

Xie Guang is no longer the one who cheats for five copper coins, now he has money in his pocket, and he often travels back and forth between the desert in the north and the counties of Xizhou, he has experienced more people and things, and his knowledge has also risen.

After listening to Liu Yuru's words, Xie Guang said that it is true that Xizhou is mobilizing people, but it is unlikely to support his brother-in-law. Not to mention that the brother-in-law will never fall to the point of asking for reinforcements, Xizhou can only be supported by the mainland, how can he transfer troops to the mainland in turn?

Liu Yuru and the others were relieved, and asked, "Then in which direction does Uncle Guo want to use his troops?" ”

This Xie Guang can't say it well, he comforted Liu Yuru, Xie Jinlian, and Lirong, and let them rest at home, "Brother-in-law will be fine, rest assured." ”

The governor of Xizhou Guo was indeed transferring troops for the Qiuzi country, which was six hundred miles west of Yanqi. Guo Xiaoke believes that what Qiuzi is doing under Xizhou's nose can no longer be tolerated, which will bring about a chain reaction.

With the west and east two protrudes. The threat from the north is becoming more and more insignificant. Emperor Zhenguan intended to establish suzerainty over the oases in the Tarim Basin.

These oases are very important to Datang because the "Silk Road" passes through here. Merchants from Persia and the Eastern Roman Empire west of the Green Mountains reached Chang'an by this road. Therefore, control of this road was a major purpose of the policy of the Tang Empire.

The first great oasis to be included in the Tang Dynasty was the warm and rich Gaochang closest to Yumen Pass, which is now Xizhou. It has been influenced by more Middle-earth culture than any other oasis. Since the Han and Jin dynasties, the Gaochang Kingdom was ruled by its Han ancestors, the Koji dynasty.

During the Sui Dynasty and Tang Gaozu periods, Gaochang was in the west. Suddenly. Under the rule of the Turks, but in the fourth year of Zhenguan, with the death of Yehu Khan, the Gaochang king Lu Wentai, who had lost his dependence, and his queen went to the Tang Dynasty and were warmly received.

However, a few years after his return to China, he began to close the Silk Road.

This is due to a profound change in the situation in the Tarim Basin.

In the tenth year of Zhenguan, Ashina Sheer decided to go to Chang'an to be a general of the Tang Dynasty. Since the twelfth year of Zhenguan, Ashina Sheer's dominance in Gaochang has been replaced by the West. Suddenly. He was replaced by the leader of the Eastern Alliance, Dulu Khan. Because of Dulu's support, Gaochang Wang Lu Wentai dared to defy the Tang Dynasty. Merchants who had traveled to Chang'an with goods from the west could not move on, and the tributes to the Tang Dynasty from the countries west of Gaochang were also intercepted by Ko Wentai.

Because of these difficulties, in the twelfth year of Zhenguan, the emperor allowed Yanqi, another small oasis in the southwest of Gaochang, to open another southern road across the desert.

Ko Boon Tai then united with the West. Suddenly. The Turks attacked Yanqi and another small oasis country, Iwu. Yiwu is located to the east of Gaochang and is the only way to Chang'an, and the reason for the attack is that Yiwu is facing the west. Suddenly. His attitude turned cold, and he turned to allegiance to the Tang Dynasty.

Emperor Zhenguan received a letter of help from Igo and immediately ordered Ko Wentai to come to the court in person as a vassal, but Ko Wentai ignored him. In the twelfth lunar month of the twelfth year of Zhenguan, the emperor ordered Hou Junji to lead an expedition to Gaochang.

At first, he thought it would be ridiculous for the Tang army to cross such a vast desert area to conquer his kingdom, but he did not expect Hou Junji's perseverance and fierce combat strength. When he heard that the Tang army was rapidly approaching, it was said that he died of extreme fright.

West. Suddenly. He had promised Gaochang that he would come to his aid if Gaochang was attacked, so he sent a reinforcement army. But the support army turned around and fled when the Tang army arrived. In the eighth month of the lunar calendar of the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, the son of Lu Wentai, the king of New Gaochang, surrendered to Hou Junji.

The emperor was determined to make Gaochang part of the Tang Dynasty, not just a Tibetan subordinate. Wei Zheng and Chu Suiliang were strongly opposed to direct rule over the oasis, as it was too far from Chang'an, required a large number of troops to garrison, and had difficulties in recruiting and supplying troops.

Wei Zheng resolutely denied that the annexation of this place would enable the Tang Dynasty to gain any real benefits. But the Emperor ignored this advice, for the value of a Silk Road was not recognized by everyone. As a result, Gaochang became a state of the Tang Dynasty - Xizhou.

Xizhou is a strategic support point for the Tang Dynasty to consolidate the Silk Road, so the governor of Xizhou is not only a state in the interior of the country, but also in charge of the affairs of a state in both civil and military affairs, and has a standing army, and the area under his jurisdiction is also extremely vast, from Shazhou to the west of Gansu and Su to the Yanqi border in the west.

Yanqi had paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty since the sixth year of Zhenguan, but it was soon disturbed by the Tang Dynasty's establishment of a governor's mansion and garrison in Xizhou, which was close to it and less than 500 miles away. Therefore, Yanqi and Xi. Suddenly. The Turks made an alliance and stopped paying tribute to the Tang Dynasty, and also learned from Gaochang's practice of leviing heavy taxes and withholding tribute to merchants passing by on the south road.

As a result, in the late eighteenth year of Zhenguan, Guo Xiaoke, the governor of Xizhou, went out to Yanqi and captured the king. And Qiuzi's reinforcements didn't dare to show up in a decent way, and Yanqi was included in Xizhou.

Six hundred miles west of Yanqi is the Qiuci Oasis, and the leader of Qiuci, Su Fa, although nominally a vassal of the Tang Dynasty, secretly aided the rebellion of Yanqi in the eighteenth year of Zhenguan and stopped paying tribute to the Tang Dynasty.

Guo Xiaoke was able to sit in the position of the governor of Xizhou for so long, because he clearly knew that the fundamental purpose of the emperor's operation of Xizhou was on the Silk Road. Ensuring the smooth flow of the Silk Road, and on this basis, striving for the prosperity of the nearby areas of Xizhou, and spreading the prestige and influence of the Tang Dynasty are the values of Xizhou's existence.

Qiuzi affected the smoothness of the Silk Road, or did not play a good role on the Silk Road, and the governor of Xizhou could not remain indifferent. At present, the Tang Dynasty has just won a great victory in Liaodong, and the eastern part of the empire is stable. And inside Xizhou, because of the existence of Gao Jun, the rear will not involve Guo Xiaoke's energy.

After Gao Jun came back from the Yipida Land Department, he was not in Tianshan Mu for four or five months in a row, but the daily operations of Tianshan Mu were carried out in an orderly manner under his remote control, and Gao Jun still had the leisure to take care of the affairs of Jiannan Dao, which could not but make Guo Dudu also surprised.

He thought that in a short period of time, Gao Jun was able to grow from a deputy superintendent of the lower rank of the seventh rank to a separate driver of Xizhou, the chief pastor of the Tianshan Mountains, and even served as the only Silk Road superintendent in Datang.

The things he did in more than a year were actually in line with the Tang Emperor's strategy of managing the Silk Road.

Whether it was expanding the Liuzhong Horse Farm, or rebuilding the desolate western mountain villages, setting up sericulture, going to the Baiyang River, thousands of miles away from Xizhou, to build pastures, and even bringing 300 people to the territory of the Yipida Land Department, each piece of success was achieved without the need for Xizhou to contribute people and efforts.

Everything he did conformed to the emperor's Silk Road strategy, but Gao Jun didn't know it. Gao Jun is just acting according to his temper and character.

Guo Xiaoke thought, it's just that Gao Jun is not in Tianshan Mu at this time, should his actions in the direction of Qiuzi wait a little longer, and wait for this Silk Road Supervisor to come back? (To be continued.) )