Tuoba sighed, "You mean the gold mine in the quicksand river?" ”

As early as two months ago, he got the news that the Hexi people found gold sand in the Liusha River, and garrisoned the army to mine, so Tuoba Xi also sent people to explore in the nearby river, but found nothing, and then he and the party nobles discussed many times how to seize the Liusha River, but they were worried about the war with the Tang army and could not make a decision

Although his son didn't say it explicit now, Tuoba Xi suddenly thought of the gold mine in the Liusha River.

Unexpectedly, Tuoba Qianli shook his head, "Father, I'm not talking about Jinsha, I'm talking about Wuwei County, where the pasture is abundant and the water is abundant, if we take Wuwei County, then the party people will have a foothold, while Tubo is contained by the Hui people in Anxi, we will take Hehuang again, attract the party people of Yinchuan County to vote, with such a vast land, then our party people can establish their own country, why bother to survive in the eyes of the Tang people."

"No, never!" Tuoba Xi stood up suddenly, pointed at his son and said sharply: "You will ruin everyone like this, the current Tang Dynasty is not as weak as it was during the Anshi Rebellion, and the army of the Longyou family was no match for the party in its heyday ten years ago, and now we have incomplete armor and scarce war horses, how can we fight against the Tang Army, you can collect your ambitions!" ”

"In its heyday?" Tuoba Qianli also stood up suddenly, he walked to the door of the tent and stared at the sky west of the river, and said with a hint of disdain: "More than ten years ago, it was called the heyday? However, tens of thousands of horses and horses, like rogues, robbed houses and houses, and the prosperity in my eyes is hundreds of thousands of armor, with their own courts, prime ministers, and six departments, and the emperor of the Central Plains Dynasty rules over tens of millions of people, and takes thousands of miles of rivers and mountains into his arms. ”

Tuoba was overjoyed to see his son's arrogance, and he shook his head again and again. "You still have to think about how to feed these tens of thousands of people! The gold mine of the quicksand river can be considered, what court, what emperor, it is really a fool's dream. ”

With that, he turned and left the tent. Inspecting the items transported from the Western Regions, Tuoba Qianli looked at his father's back, only to feel extremely sad, no wonder his father was no match for Ye Liping, was driven across the Yellow River, he was narrow-minded, and timid as a mouse, didn't he know that the Tang people were not monolithic? At this time, do not take advantage of Zhang Huan's weakness to take Hexi. When.

Although he was indignant in his heart, the party nobles only recognized his father, not themselves. What can I do?

At this moment, a young woman with a demonic appearance slowly appeared from behind the tent, she was originally the concubine of the party king Tuoba Lin, and was named Mrs. Ruyi, after Tuoba Lin's death, she was naturally inherited by the new king Tuoba Xi.

But this woman is also an ambitious person, she doesn't like Tuoba Xi's weak body, Tuoba Xi is short-sighted, and she doesn't like it, according to the party's tradition, if Tuoba Xi dies, she will also be inherited by his son. Therefore, Mrs. Ruyi has been observing among his three sons, the eldest son Tuoba Wanli has a name for himself, and is as greedy for pleasure and unambitious as his father, while the third son Tuoba Baili is just a reckless man, and it is okay to fight. But the mind is simple.

Mrs. Ruyi's eyes fell on the second son Tuoba Qianli, who also had the right to inherit the throne like his eldest brother, but he was a practical person, and at the most critical moment of the Western Party, he personally led people to the Western Regions to do business. After months of tossing and turning, I returned. It wasn't until she overheard Tuoba Qianli's words just now that she finally made up her mind.

"Thousands of miles. You wait. Mrs. Ruyi stopped Tuoba Qianli.

Tuoba Qianli hurriedly stepped forward and saluted, "What did Madame call me?" ”

"Come on! Come to my tent, and I have something to say to you. Mrs. Ruyi pulled him into her tent, and if she was a Han person, she would have been the grandmother of Tuoba Qianli, but in fact she was only two years older than Tuoba Qianli.

The evolution of the ethics of the Han people has also gone through a long process, in the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Hui married his niece as the queen, in the later history books this became a sign of the ruthlessness and shamelessness of the Empress Lu, in fact, this is actually just a remnant of the concept of matriarchal clans, in the primitive society with a thin population, the most important duty of a woman is to give birth, and not to observe festivals.

This is especially true in other ethnic groups in ancient times, such as Wang Zhaojun and Princess Jincheng are married to children and grandchildren, and the sparsely populated party members are also like this, and Tuoba Qianli only regards Mrs. Ruyi as a woman.

"I heard the conversation you just had with my father, and I support you." Mrs. Ruyi said calmly. Tuoba Qianli smiled, what is the use of her support, she has no soldiers in her hands, what can she do to support herself, Mrs. Ruyi understood his smile, so she smiled and said: "I am sure to persuade Tuoba Yue to support you, he has three thousand strong soldiers under his command, who can be your backing." ”

Tuoba Yue is Tuoba Xi's own brother, but also a brave and ruthless person, he has 10,000 party slaves in his hands, is the largest force after Tuoba Xi, Mrs. Ruyi's words made Tuoba Qianli suddenly moved, his uncle's two sons died in the hands of Yeli Pingdi, he has no successor now, if he can take his population over, then he doesn't have the right to speak?

Thinking of this, Tuoba Qianli glanced at Mrs. Ruyi's towering chest, and said in a low voice: "I don't want his support, I want his people, if you can help me do this, I will make you the queen in the future." ”

Mrs. Ruyi's face changed a few times, she understood what Tuoba Qianli meant, lowered her head and pondered for a moment, she resolutely said: "Then you have to be his son first." ”

"As long as I can get those 10,000 people, why don't I be his grandson?" Tuoba Qianli said coldly with his hands behind his back.

There is already a little taste of summer in the air, the early summer of the Hexi Corridor is quietly coming, the blue sky is no longer quiet, the ** of spring has been reluctant to give way to the hotter climate, the heat is dancing on the ripe grass, and the wheat fields are filled with a kind of harvest joy in all directions.

The yamen of Wuwei County had ceased official duties a few days ago, and all the officials had gone down to the fields to help with the wheat harvest, and the city of Wuwei seemed empty, and there were few passers-by on the streets, all of whom were happy. Then they turned their horses and galloped out of the city, bringing with them the latest information from the Western Regions.

Zhang Huan is leading a group of young officials to harvest in the wheat field, and he is in a very good mood during this time, and God favors him. Hexi, which has been affected by disasters for many years, finally ushered in the first bumper harvest in four years, which made Wuwei County rejoice, but what made Zhang Huan even more ecstatic was that Pei Ying was unwell a few days ago, and the diagnosis turned out to be pregnant, and he was going to be a father.

At this moment, Zhang Huan, who was in a happy mood, wore a hat on his head, wore a coarse cloth short placket, and put bast shoes on his feet. It was no different from the dress of an ordinary farmer, and the dozen or so young officials behind him were also dressed.

These young people are all from all over Datang these months. Hundreds of scholars came to bring Hexi one after another, they all came with the ideal of recovering lost territory for the country, their arrival injected vigorous vitality into Hexi, where talent was scarce, most of them joined the army, but some were supplemented as local officials, and more than a dozen people who collected wheat with Zhang Huan today were the six Cao deputies under the Assassin Mansion.

"Governor, it looks like someone is looking for you!" An official saw a few fast horses galloping on the official road next to the wheat field, so he reminded Zhang Huandao.

Zhang Huan looked at the official road in the distance, and after looking at it for a while, he put down the sickle. patted the ground on his body and said with a smile: "You go on, I'll come when I go." ”

Zhang Huan walked to the resting place, sat on a big stone, took the water brought by his own soldiers, and drank it all happily. At this time, two scouts were brought up, and the first one stepped forward and saluted: "Dudu, we went to Qiuci and found that the Hui and Tubo were indeed fighting in Anxi. The scale is also tens of thousands. But it's almost over. ”

Zhang Huan pondered for a moment and asked, "What is the cause of the war?" What about the winners and losers? ”

"The reason for returning to the governor is that Tubo took advantage of the Hui to suppress the Liuxia rebellion last year. Sent troops to Beiting, but was defeated by the Hui, the Hui then counterattacked Anxi, Yanqi and Qiuzi were once occupied by the Hui, but the Hui were suddenly defeated when victory was in sight, and Anxi fell into the hands of the Tubo people again. ”

"What is the reason for this?" Zhang Huan was puzzled.

"The subordinates were very confused at first, but then we went to Beiting and heard the news from a Uighur merchant that there was a coup d'état within the Uighurs, and that the Khan of Dengli and his sons were killed by the prime minister Don Mohe Dagan, and more than 3,000 Sogdians and Manichaeans were killed, and the subordinates also heard that the new khan was called Vigha Khan."

Zhang Huan nodded slowly and said with a smile: "I've worked hard for you these days, each person will be rewarded with five hundred yuan, go!" ”

"Xie Dudu!" The two scouts saluted again and went down slowly.

Zhang Huan fell into contemplation, he has been martial arts for more than half a year, whether in Chang'an or in Helong, he has made a lot of noise, it is impossible for the Tubo people not to know, especially he played the banner of recovering Hexi, which means that he will be the enemy of Tubo, but the Tubo people have been silent so far, without any action, which is unreasonable.

As far as the reason is concerned, it can only be because the strategic focus of Tubo is in the Western Regions, and it cannot look east for the time being, but now that the war in the Western Regions has gradually subsided, then Tubo will accordingly spare energy to deal with itself, and he has to plan ahead and take precautions!

He has considered this problem many times, and the best strategy is to unite with the Hui to deal with the Tibetans, and use the Hui people to contain the Tibetans in Anxi, and even take advantage of the fact that he can take advantage of the fact that he has a deep enmity with the Dengli Khan, and this strategy is too difficult.

And now that there have been great changes within the Hui Hui, and Deng Li is dead, it means that his own idea of uniting the Hui will become possible.

Zhang Huan closed his eyes and gently rubbed his temples, this strategy had to take two moves at the same time, one was to send someone to Chang'an to tell Pei Jun the news, so that Datang and Hui Hui could reconcile; The second is to send an envoy back to discuss the matter of jointly dealing with Tibet.

Going to Chang'an can allow Du Mei to take a trip, but Zhang Huan, the candidate for the envoy to return to the land, can't think of a suitable person for a while, this person must have a certain identity, but also have a strong ability, and at the same time he must be proficient in the situation in the Western Regions.

At this time, a voice came from the wheat field, "Where have you all been governors?" ”

"We're all there."

Zhang Huan looked up and saw an official pointing to his side, and there was a person standing next to him, who was smiling and waving to him, but it was Pei Mingyuan, the envoy of Hexi Tuntian.

Zhang Huan suddenly smiled, isn't he the best person to send an envoy to Hui?