The turmoil in the grasslands had affected the safety of the western border of Beijing, and the small and medium-sized tribes sandwiched between the two major forces of the Uighurs and the Tang Dynasty saw that the Uighur house was about to collapse, and they went south to avoid the disaster.

All tribes have rich experience in dealing with the border towns of the Tang Dynasty, according to the old experience, if you can't hurt the border town guards of the Tang Dynasty, people will not look at you, you can only prove that you are strong, not easy to provoke, and a thorn, they will treat you as a person. This is determined by the unique bureaucratic system of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty is high and dominates all directions, but this country is too big, the population is too large, the emperor alone is not able to manage all the places, he can only use officials to govern the vast territory under his name, this huge empire is actually governed by thousands of officials.

These local officials are easy to cause trouble, and as long as it is profitable, they dare to provoke anything. They are also very afraid of things, as long as it is not profitable, they are afraid of everything, and they wish that there was nothing in the jurisdiction, and it is better to sit and eat and drink for nothing.

If something happens in the tube, the first thing he thinks about is to ignore it, pretend not to see it, ignore it, and then suppress it, turning big things into small things and small things into nothing. It doesn't matter what fairness and justice are, anyway, it has nothing to do with you, and your safety is the key.

Therefore, if you want to get fair treatment from them after moving inward, there is only one way, to make trouble! If you keep to yourself, he will think that you are a bully, let the lowly officials and officials bully you, you make trouble, the lower-level officials will come to calm the matter, you make a small trouble, you can't see it above, then it is useless, you can only make things bigger, you can't cover it at all levels, and you will make trouble until you want the emperor in the capital to know, and your good days will come.

In order to keep his official position, he will whisper to appease you, and if you ask for any benefits, he will most likely agree, anyway, it is all public, and he doesn't want to pay a penny himself. He just wants to calm you down and not have an accident. On the contrary, what good is it for him to save money for the treasury, but offend you and make him lose his office?

According to this logic, all the tribes have flashed their swords and guns, and they will fight to the death, and it will be easy to talk when it hurts.

For a time, the border of Yanbei, Hedong, Zhenwu, Fengzhou, and Lingwu was in an emergency at the same time.

In fact, the impact on the western border of Beijing was relatively light, and the impact on Longxi, which was controlled by Tibet, was even greater. Earlier, Li Mao judged that the collapse of the Uighur Khanate was imminent, and in order to avoid the impact of the refugees, he secretly ordered the towns along the border to use more force and less tenderness against the small and medium-sized tribes scattered on the grassland, which made the tribes on the steppe have a very bad impression of the Tang Dynasty.

On the other hand, the first capital of Tibet used Huairou means to buy people's hearts, and this move of the first capital was also a continuation of the consistent policy of Tibet, bribing the steppe tribes to fight against the Uighurs, and finally overthrowing the steppe empire and grabbing greater benefits. These small and medium-sized tribes on the grassland through careful comparison, the impression of the Tubo people is getting better and better, after the chaos, the tribes choose to defect to Tubo, unless they have to, very few people to trouble the officials of the Tang Dynasty.

For this reason, the impact of Longxi controlled by the Tubo people was greater, and the tribes that poured into Longxi were many and miscellaneous. They ate Tibetan, drank Tibetan, picked up a bowl to eat meat, put down their chopsticks and scolded their mothers, making Chudu depressed.

What was even more fatal was that when the first wave of southward refugees moved to Longxi in the name of annexation, they initially misjudged the situation, believing that the time had come to divide and disintegrate the Uighurs, and that they should generously show favor to the annexes, so as to attract more steppe tribes to the south and submit to Tibet, which would not only weaken the strength of their opponents, but also strengthen their own strength.

It is because of these returnees from the south that they were properly resettled with sincerity at the beginning. Zhuyu was in front of her, and the latecomers also demanded the same resettlement conditions, and shouted at the slightest dissatisfaction.

Chu Du wanted to grit his teeth and support it for a while, and then slowly concoct it after it stabilized, but he found that the returnees were like a surging river, surging over continuously, and he wanted to give up his original promise, cancel the preferential treatment he had given at the beginning, and strengthen the control of the various ethnic groups who moved inward.

But it was already too late, and the internal relocation departments had already penetrated into the hinterland of Longxi, and the sudden change of plans would inevitably cause trouble.

In desperation, Chu Du had to be ruthless and decided to scrape the warehouses around the country again, and hold on for a period of time, maybe tomorrow the rain will be clear.

After a few shakes on the Datang border line, which had been urgently reinforced, it finally returned to calm. Those who went south found that the border towns of the Tang Dynasty had taken on a new look, and the newly appointed people were all landlords and old money, and they were very slammered, and it seemed that there was no hope of making trouble and making profits, and the more fierce you were, the more ruthless he would beat, but the honest and well-behaved ones could still get a place to stay.

When they heard of the generosity of the Tibetans, some of them turned their heads and headed westward, while others remembered the cruelty of the Tibetans in the past, and after thinking twice, they put down their swords and guns and sincerely joined them.

After Li Mao inspected Fengxiang, Jingyuan, and Lingwu, he convened a gathering of envoys from various towns in Xiazhou, adjusted the deployment of troops, and prepared for the second and third rounds of violent attacks from the grassland. On the one hand, he sent an envoy to Bianzhou and asked Emperor Li Han to send an envoy to the grassland to canonize the Khan of Heyu and stabilize his position.

The Uighur Khan had to be officially canonized by the Tang Dynasty to be justified, which is a rule that has a history of nearly 100 years. The Khan of the Yakuza took the throne in a hurry, and he was not canonized for the time being, except for the thirteen departments of the tooth tent to serve him, the rest of the departments still held a wait-and-see attitude.

The Uighurs were completely hopeless because the old house was on fire, but there was still something to study about the method and timing of the collapse, and Li Mao still had to buy time for the border towns, and he also had to transfer troops from the interior to transport grain and grass. The Uighurs had a better chance of victory if they delayed for one more day.

Li Han was overjoyed when he received the watch, and secretly said to Wang Cairen: "The Uighurs are about to be defeated, and the strong enemy in the north of the Tang Dynasty has finally fallen, and if his family is defeated, the grassland will be chaotic, and it will inevitably affect the western part of Beijing, and Li Mao will be completely entangled." Without the pressure of Chang'an, there will be infighting, and my opportunity has finally come. "I cried with joy. Wang Cairen smiled and said, "This is Heavenly Help, Your Majesty." Li Han said: "No, this is God bless my Tang Dynasty, I finally don't have to be the king of the dead country." ”

Knowing that the grassland was changing, Han Gongwu was also very happy, Jingxi was tight, Li Mao was unable to go east, and now in the east, he declared that the military army was strong and strong, and his strength was second to none, how could he do nothing with such capital?

Because of discussing with his henchmen Fengya, Zhang Jiugong, and Wu Xiong how to get rid of the henchmen Zhu Kerong, the strategist Wu Xiong said: "It's easy to kill Zhu Kerong, he will hold a banquet on the other day, invite him to come, and a cup of poisonous wine will do." Han Gongwu frowned: "It's another indiscriminate method of poisoning, I want to smash the cup and behead him on the spot." The strategist Zhang Jiugong was busy and persuaded: "Zhu Kerong is brave and martial, and the body of the lord is ten thousand gold, it is not worth taking risks for such a rough person." ”

Han Gongwu also knew that Zhu Kerong was brave, and he was afraid that he would not be able to get him, so he said: "In this way, then use poison, but to block the news, if it spreads, it will not be cost-effective to ruin my reputation." He asked again: "After killing Zhu Kerong, what should they do with their sons?" ”

Wu Xiong suggested cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, Zhang Jiugong said that it was an assassination, how could he make a big move, there were still 40,000 people in the Shence army, and if it was reversed, it would not be a joke, Han Gongwu wanted to talk about Fengya's idea. Tan Fengya stroked his beard and smiled: "Let's kill people and plant stolen goods, let's just say that Liu Wu did it." Let them hate Liu Wu. Wu Xiong said: "Liu Wu doesn't have the guts, or is it appropriate to say that Li Mao is proper, Li Mao sent someone to assassinate Zhu Kerong in order to Ningding Jingxi." Han Gongwu said: "Ningding Jingxi is too around, let's just say that they had a grudge in Youzhou in the past, and it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years, and Li Mao is also a man of temperament." ”

The three of them praised Han Gongwu for his wisdom, and the strategist Zhang Jiugong said: "Before the lord uses the plan, there is still one person who must be taken away." ”

Han Gongwu said: "My son Shaozong? ”

The strategists praised: "The lord is wise. ”

Han Gongwu said: "What I said is that if he knows, he will be verbose." Anyway, Huainan Jiedu made Cui Yi, who is not long-eyed, seized the grain ship of the boat gang, how can it be so, at the moment of national disaster, Li Taishi is trying his best to defend the border for the country, how can he cut off the grain road? It's reasonable for me to go and pull Li Mao. There is a way that brothers are on the wall, and the outside is insulted, how can the barbarians take advantage? Everyone praised Han Gongwu's wisdom and generosity.

Han Gongwu was not generous, he was afraid that Li Mao would be defeated too quickly, and the Tubo and Uighurs would fight in one go, and he would not have time to do anything.