The capital of Bahanna is thirsty for about three days to break the city, the invitation of the king of Bahanna, Pei, worriedly on the road, the intention of the Tang Dynasty's westward expansion is becoming more and more obvious, in the broken and tuozhi city to build a military town, restore the control of the Tang Dynasty in this area, and recently I heard that the broken general will be upgraded to the capital governor, the branch city, the city of General Peiluo, and the city of He Hunting are all going to be upgraded to counties, although the amplitude is small, but the signal it sends is extremely strong.

In the Tang Dynasty, this series of actions, in the gap is inevitable, Bahanna, like the Shi country, is also a loose aristocratic alliance, large and small dozens of nobles have their own land, slaves, troops, Pei Luo is the general representative of the interests they elected, and he is also the largest nobleman in the country of Bahanna.

Since it is inevitable that there will be a showdown, Pei Luo went to the crush this time to find a mutually acceptable plan, on this day, the team passed through the Qianquan Mountain Pass, and the vast and rich broken plain came into view.

"King, it looks like there is a camp in the distance."

Pei Luo stood on a high post, shielded the dazzling sunlight with his hands, and looked into the distance, sure enough, by a small river in the distance, the camp tents were continuous, there were hundreds of them, a golden flag fluttered in the wind, and the scouts on the watchtower seemed to see them, and in a moment, the camp gate opened, and a Tang military captain was galloping towards him.

"It's General Li." Pei Luo had already seen the big characters on the flag clearly, and soon, Captain Tang approached, and he hugged his fists and saluted and asked, "May I ask if this is King Pei Luo's chariot?" ”

Pei Luoze immediately stepped forward and said, "This king is!" ”

Captain Tang turned around and pointed to the camp tent and said, "The general of my family is hunting here, please ask the king to go over and talk." ”

Pei Luo saw that there were at least thousands of people on the other side, and he had some doubts. But he didn't show it in the slightest. He only smiled and nodded slightly: "Please lead the way!" ”

As soon as the group arrived at the camp gate, the camp gate was wide open, and Li Qing laughed and walked out quickly. "I thought that His Royal Highness would arrive ten days later, so I would have gone out to hunt, and if I hadn't camped here, I would have almost missed it."

Pei Luo jumped off the horse, gave Li Qing a slight salute, and said with a smile: "Spring is blooming." It was hunting season, and even Ponturake's hands couldn't help but itch. ”

Although Pei Luo is the king, but Bahanna is also called Xiu Xun Prefecture in the Tang Dynasty, Pei Luo's other identity is the governor of Xiu Xun Prefecture, which is under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Dadu Protectorate, so in terms of Datang position, he is one level lower than Li Qing, and Ba Hana has always been close to Datang. He also pays more attention to the identity of this governor than Kang Guo and Shi Guo.

"Come on! His Royal Highness the King has worked hard from afar, and he will follow me into the account to speak. ”

The two entered the camp tent, sat down as the guest and host, and offered two cups of fragrant tea to the soldiers. Bringing a few more pots of seasonal melons and fruits, Pei Luo took a sip of tea gently. sighed: "Datang tea is really fragrant and exquisite, a bag of tea to us is more than ten times more expensive, even I don't often drink it." ”

Li Qing smiled slightly and said: "Our government has opened a tea shop in Qiuzi, the original tea is everything, and it can also be supplied in sufficient quantities, if His Royal Highness the King does not think it is new tea, I will send someone to bring tea to His Royal Highness at four o'clock in the future." ”

Pei Luo nodded again and again, he got up and thanked Li Qing: "Although the tea is a small thing, Pei Luo is grateful for the general's thoughts." ”

"Might as well be! Might as well! In fact, it is also a gesture, Your Highness, please take a seat! ”

Speaking of this, Li Qing paused in his tone, turned the topic to business, and said sincerely: "I asked His Royal Highness the King to break it this time, but I actually have something to ask for. ”

"General, please speak, as long as Bahan can do it, he will never refuse."

Li Qing pondered for a while, and said: "Recently, there are quite a lot of immigrants from my Datang Dynasty, and they have missed the spring ploughing, and the food is insufficient. ”

After speaking, Li Qing picked up the teacup and sucked it carefully, seemingly casual, but Pei Luo's every move, even a subtle expression, could not hide Li Qingdi's eyes.

Xi Yuanqing said that there were only hundreds of sneak attackers, and they fled with one blow, so it didn't look like the official plan of Bahanna, and it was very likely that some nobles did it privately, but it was not certain that Li Qing took this opportunity to say it, first, to test Pei Luo's reaction, and second, to spread the matter to the light, and the matter of immigration could not be bypassed Bahana after all.

At this time, Pei Luo's expression was frozen, and he hadn't yet thought of a countermeasure to this matter, Li Qing suddenly proposed, which caught him off guard, and he smiled bitterly and said: "Is Datang a little too hasty in the matter of immigration, I think that we and other countries in the Western Regions should be consulted first, so as not to have unnecessary misunderstandings." ”

Li Qing snorted lightly and said lightly: "What misunderstanding does His Royal Highness think there will be?" ”

Now that the words have been said plainly, Pei Luo is no longer subtle, he raised his eyes, and stared at Li Qingdao with blazing eyes: "Land!" Immigrants need land, but the people of the Western Regions also need land, but there is only one piece of land, how can the two families divide it? ”

"I don't think so!" Li Qing slowly shook his head and said: "My Datang is broad-minded, since the people of the Western Regions have surrendered to my Datang, then they are the people of my Datang, and the government will naturally treat everyone equally when granting land, so won't this contradiction be solved?" ”

Pei Luo's face was red and white for a while, he couldn't help it anymore, got up angrily, and shouted: "Is the general putting the cart before the horse, my land in Bahanna belongs to the thirty-three nobles, has the general considered their interests?" ”

"Thirty-three nobles?" Li Qing's gaze suddenly became extremely sharp, and he said to Pei Luo: "There will only be thirty-three counties in Bahan, and there will be no nobles in the future!" ”

"You, you. Unable to say a word, he stomped his foot violently, turned around and left, but before he reached the tent, dozens of tall and mighty Tang troops had surrounded him.

"Send His Royal Highness the King to break his cultivation, and cut off those who are sluggish!"

Pei Luo suddenly understood, where Li Qing came to hunt, it was clear that he was gathering a large army, and he was about to attack Bahanna, he was pushed out by the sergeant, and he turned his head and roared angrily: "Li Qing, I, Bahanna, helped the Tang Dynasty in Rus, have you forgotten?" ”

"Datang treats people with benevolence and righteousness. Don't be too vicious! ”

His roar faded away. Li Qing shook his head lightly and said to himself: "Bahan Nadi soldiers, I naturally won't forget them!" ”

He strode out of the tent. He resolutely ordered: "The whole army immediately rises and marches towards Pakhana!" ”

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In April of the 11th year of Tianbao, the Tang army trapped the king of Bakhana, and then under the pretext of Bahanna's sneak attack on the migrants from the west of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang army of 5,000 light cavalry raided the country of Bakhana, and the nobles of the country of Pakhana were leaderless. Under the strong military pressure of the Tang army and the persuasion of the surrender order, the nobles of the Pichan were unable to do so

Effective resistance, one after another surrendered to the Don army, month. The Tang army entered the thirsty > sent thirty-three nobles and their wives and daughters to Qiuzi, and appointed Peiluo's brother as the new king of Bahanna.

After Bahanna was occupied by the Tang army, Li Jiao, the king of Guangping, immediately rushed to the Zhaowu kingdoms. Explain to them that this use of force was a provocation by Bahanna, and it was to ensure the safety of the westward migrants, and it was a last resort to appease the Zhaowu states. So that they don't have to be surprised.

After the blockway of Bahanna was removed, the Tang Dynasty's plan to move westward began to get on track. August. 20,000 families from Shazhou arrived in the city.

It was an early morning at the beginning of the month, the sky was cloudless, the sky was blue, and the heat had passed. The cool breeze in the early morning makes people feel more energetic. On the plain south of Zhicheng, thousands of men on horseback are eager to try, their faces are full of unconcealable excitement, they are a group of original immigrants who just came to Broken half a month ago, they are all landless peasants in Xuzhou, Dengzhou, and Songzhou, about 3,000 households, and now, they are going to carry out the most important ceremony of this westward migration: 'land grabbing. ’

In front of them, on the endless plain, more than 4,000 plots of the same size, each about a hundred acres, were divided, and it was certain that each person would get a share, but in order to make them cherish this land even more, the government of Anxi had set up this unique ceremony, and these immigrants were going to grab the land that belonged to them forever.

Near the branch city is the richest area of the whole broken area, where two rivers meet and flow into Atami, a mile away is the sparkling lake, boundless, like the sea, along the lake is a dense forest, the precipitation over the years makes the land here extremely fertile, every crop handle from the ground casually, the eyes will be slandered.

At last the rumbling drums sounded, a cry erupted from the sky, and thousands of men on horseback rushed towards the land of their dreams, the black oppression was overwhelming and magnificent, and behind them, their parents, wives and children screamed loudly in the carriage, and at this moment, the pain of being forced to leave their homeland was gone, and their eyes were full of longing and yearning for a new life.

The first horses had already rushed into the land, they were nervously patrolling, looking for the most favorable and fertile piece of land, a farmer surnamed Huang from Songzhou, he stepped into the vole hole and fell to the ground, he himself rolled off the horse, and the skin on his forehead was scratched, but he didn't care about wiping the blood, he lay directly on the ground, took out the wooden wedge engraved with his name from his bosom, and drove it deep into the land, he stood up and looked at his land, which was less than three hundred steps from the river, and there was a small poplar forest at the end of the land, The soil was black and fertile, and he was so satisfied that he lay on his back in a large figure, looking at the clear sky, tears finally burst out of his eyes, and from now on, this land belonged to him.

The ceremony of grabbing the land went on for an hour, and finally after the noise ended, the parents, wives and children began to drive the carriage into the land to look for their man, and when they found it, they hugged each other and wept, and the old father began to build a fence with the branches and sticks that had been prepared, but the land area was too large, and the materials were not enough, so in desperation, he had to insert a branch every ten steps, indicating that this was his family's territory.

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At noon, the men rode to the county to go through the formalities; and the women lit the first wisps of cooking smoke in their own land; The children happily gathered together to play a game of running the door; The old men squatted on the ground in groups, praising the land with little vocabulary they knew, without hesitation and professionally, exchanging information with each other, trying to find their origins, and it was clear that in the days to come, they would only survive in this land if they worked together and helped each other.

The following days were hard and boring, people began to plough their own land, some people still lived in the county, came to work in the fields every morning, more people began to build houses in the fields, the men formed a group of ten households, they went to Qianquan Mountain together to collect stones, together to the forest to cut wood, together to build houses, together to deal with the threat of wild beasts, together to sow winter wheat, before the winter came, a piece of villages appeared.

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On a cold morning, the first snow in the Western Regions fell, and Li Jingyan, whose lower abdomen was obviously protruding, squatted down with difficulty, picked up a ball of snow from the ground, with a mischievous smile on the corner of his mouth, and staggered towards Li Qing, who was standing in the snow and contemplating, but just when she approached Li Qing, a snowball suddenly flew from behind and smashed on Li Qing's back.

"Surprise Goose, was that you?"

Li Jingyan's smile immediately turned into embarrassment, she stomped her foot hatefully, turned around and shouted, "Luo Lan, you come out, this is what you did!" ”

There was only a string of laughter in the distance, and then the laughter disappeared into the house, Li Jingyan saw that her husband's face was a little solemn, and couldn't help throwing away the snowball in her hand, and asked with concern, "Is something wrong?" ”

Li Qing shook his head lightly and smiled reluctantly: "It's nothing!" But while Li Jingyan was not paying attention, he quietly crumpled a letter in his hand into a ball and stuffed it into his sleeve.

"On such a cold day, who called you out, what should you do with a frozen belly!" With a hint of complaint, Li Qing helped Li Jingyan slowly walk back to the house.

There was a charcoal fire burning in the room, warm as spring, Li Qing sat cross-legged on the Luohan bed, silent, the letter he read just now was written by Yan Qing, who was sent to Hedong, saying that there were rumors that the imperial court was going to remove An Lushan from the post of Hedong Jiedu envoy, and An Lushan was ready to move.

If this news is true, it means that An Lushan's rebellion will break out in advance.

He was a little absent-minded, picked up a book he had just sent and flipped through it, this was a report written by Shi Zhangji, the first governor of Broken Governors, suggesting that the Hu Tang Tongyuan should be allowed, that is, the children of the Hu people should be allowed to study in the Tang Academy.

Li Qing picked up the pen and approved the word 'Xu' in the back, and then put the report aside, at this time, Li Jingyan poured him a cup of hot tea, brought it to him and asked: "Li Lang, it will be the New Year in another month, do you want to go back to report on your work?" ”

Li Qing shook his head, "There are too many things this year, and the emperor has agreed to exempt me from debriefing, but I want to go back quietly and pick up your sister Lian'er and them." ”

"But, will the emperor approve it?"

Li Qing smiled coldly, "I'm afraid he can't take care of it now." ”

In the winter of the eleventh year of Tianbao, a serious political crisis was quietly hitting the Tang Dynasty, and the cause was the dispute over the East Palace.