Chapter 667: Allies
Zhao Kuangyi is definitely a master of assassination, when he dealt with the Khitan tribes, he took this skill to the extreme, sowing discord, secretly attacking, causing various tribes to fight, and then spending a little money to buy prisoners of war from the victorious tribes, as slaves, sell them to the mainland, and make huge profits.
Zhao Da can capture tens of thousands of slaves every year, and he can't do it just by fighting a war and going to the grassland to collect and arrest them. Many times, Zhao Er is like the shadow of the eldest brother, doing a lot of bad things behind his back, brushing off his clothes and hiding his name in the background.
This time when he went to the Western Regions, it was the same, he first bribed the people of the Khitan tribe, and then disguised himself as an envoy and went to the Black Khanate, pretending to form an alliance.
The Khitan is still a big country in the world, and it is definitely a big plus to be able to get the support of the Khitan.
Moreover, the Khitans also told the Black Khan's Satuq Khan in a serious manner that the Han people did not use any demon techniques, nor did they help the gods, but gunpowder!
They have mastered a powerful weapon, gunpowder!
The Khitan suffered a great loss at the hands of the Han Chinese, who were willing to share the secret of gunpowder with the Black Khanate.
If Satuq Khan has read the history books, he must know that when Jing Ke assassinated the King of Qin, he carried a map of the Yan Kingdom, and sometimes good intentions may not be good intentions!
But Satuk Khan obviously suffered the loss of too little study, and he felt that it was after the Khitan suffered a loss, and he was forced by the pressure of the Great Zhou to think of forming an alliance with him, because he asked him, otherwise how could he send precious gunpowder!
Satu Khan was overjoyed, the shadow of defeat even disappeared for the most part, he was angry, recruited soldiers, gathered forces from all sides, and wanted to destroy Khotan first, then the Guiyi army, and then the Central Plains!
He is full of ambition, and good news has also come from Baghdad and other places, although the Great Food Empire no longer has the combat power of two hundred years ago, but it is still enthusiastic about preaching, and the two elders came to Talas with tens of thousands of soldiers with their own swords and horses, and joined the battle sequence of the Black Khanate.
Satuq Khan was so confident that he decided to invite all parties to swear an oath on his birthday and strike a fatal blow to Khotan.
On the school grounds, Satuq Khan's two sons, as well as the Uighurs of Western Prefecture and Tibet, as well as tens of thousands of soldiers, were all eagerly awaiting the arrival of the king.
But they waited and waited, but what they waited for was two loud bangs in succession, and at the gate of the city, Satuq Khan was assassinated, and the handle of his car was blown to pieces.
The king, covered in blood, fell from his chariot, and he struggled and wailed on the ground, and when his men brought him back to the palace, he died of excessive bleeding.
As for the two elders who were traveling with them, their brains exploded on the spot, their chests penetrated, and they died directly!
"Tender, still too tender!"
Zhao Er pursed his lips, obviously not satisfied, assassination is always used for the first time, and the effect is the best, just killing an old king and two innocuous elders, it is really not good.
If you can blow up the Uighurs and Tibetans, then it will be enjoyable!
If you want to come to the barracks, it's hard to start, and you can only reluctantly make it difficult.
Zhao Er felt unsatisfactory, but Li Shengtian was overjoyed. He and Satuq Khan are old rivals and have been fighting for decades. Satuq Khan was originally a Turkic, he renounced the original faith of the tribe and converted to the sect of the Great Food Empire, so he became a brother with the Great Food and the Persians.
Khotan, who believed in Buddhism, became a pagan, and Satuq Khan launched round after round of attacks, and Khotan suffered heavy losses.
This old guy is dead!
Blown up alive!
This is retribution!
Li Shengtian made an exception and ordered the whole city to rest for three days, and he even took out some cattle and sheep and gave them to the people in the city, so that the big family could pay tribute to their dead relatives and tell the undead in heaven the news of Satuk Khan's ambush.
Since the arrival of reinforcements from the Great Zhou, good things have been done one after another, casting artillery, breaking the enemy soldiers, enriching the treasury, strengthening the city walls, and the power of Khotan has rapidly increased at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Li Shengtian's joy was overflowing, as if he was ten years younger, and his waist became straight.
……
"Senior brother, I don't think things will be so simple!"
Brother Guo Xing hugged his shoulders and said to Zhao Er very seriously: "Satuq Khan's death is not the key. ”
Zhao Er rolled his eyelids, "What do you mean, do you mean that those two elders are more important?" ”
"I hate to admit it, but it seems like it should be." When Guo Xingge was in the school, he came into contact with several bearded scholars.
They have strong attainments in astronomy, calendar, geometry, navigation, etc., and Guo Xingge has studied with them and read some of their classics.
"Senior brother, in the Central Plains, what we emphasize is to seek common ground, even if it is Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, completely different things, we can live in peace and work together as the foundation of our learning. But in other places it is different, they emphasize differences more, as long as they are different from themselves, they are enemies, and because of the issue of inheritance, they can argue with each other for hundreds of years, and treat each other as enemies! ”
Zhao Er was obviously not very interested, he clasped his ears and said: "In decades of life, I always find faults, isn't it to find fault with myself?" ”
Brother Guo Xing smiled bitterly: "The problem is that others don't think so, senior brother, I think you stabbed a hornet's nest!" ”
Zhao Er also realized the seriousness of the problem, if the Great Food Empire really cared so much, maybe the death of the two elders would provoke their anger and start a larger-scale war.
He assassinated the Black Khan King in order to delay time, which should have been achieved, but he provoked a larger enemy...... It doesn't seem like a good thing!
Zhao Er smiled bitterly, "What, let's inform the master and let him find a way to help the Western Regions!" After Zhao Er finished speaking, he slapped his ass and ran away, obviously this guy is only responsible for digging a pit, never burying it. Brother Guo Xing had no choice but to write a long letter to Ye Hua and told Ye Hua his conjecture.
When Ye Hua got this letter, he was so angry!
Zhao Er, this bastard, is simply a dead person!
This is not only a hornet's nest, but also a hole in the sky!
Originally, in the name of religious wars, the Black Khanate called on the people of the Great Food Empire to join the battle.
Now that the two elders have died, he is even more able to make a fuss, and he can't even think about this battle without fighting.
And on a scale that everyone could have imagined!
Damn Zhao Er, make trouble for yourself!
"Call me Zhang!"
In the afternoon of the next day, Zhang Xun returned to Chang'an from Hanzhong, and without even drinking saliva, he asked Ye Hua to call over.
"I can only give you a year and eight months at most, and if you can't repair the Shu Dao, you can come and see you!"
Zhang Xun was dumbfounded, isn't this asking for human life!
He was about to argue, but Ye Hua added: "Also, I don't allow you to waste the people's power and force the people to rebel." Besides, you must implement Juntian as soon as possible, and I need to increase the grain production of Bashu by at least thirty percent, so that it can provide military rations for a million troops. ”
After Zhang Xun listened, he had the heart to die!
He raised his neck and said to Ye Hua: "Master Hou, you give me a knife!" If you want the horses to run and don't give them grazing, even if you kill me, you can't do it! ”
He looked generous and righteous, but Ye Hua smiled instead, "Master Zhang, I know how much skill you have." Only you can do this, and only you can do it! ”
Zhang Xun still has a stiff face, he is not a person who will be easily fooled with three or two sentences of flattery!
"Lord Zhang, now that the official system is reforming, there are a lot of vacant positions, in a word, you have done it, I will guarantee you to be the secretary of the Ministry of Industry! How about the contractor of the whole week? ”
Zhang Xun's mouth immediately became dry, as if he couldn't believe his ears.
"Master Hou, this, this is true?"
Ye Hua laughed, "Lord Zhang, Your Majesty will be lucky in Chang'an soon, if you don't believe me, you can ask Your Majesty!" ”
"No, no!"
Zhang Xun hurriedly waved his hand, it was enough to have Ye Hua's promise, he didn't want the duck in his hand to fly away.
This is really a resolute character, he didn't stay for a moment, and returned directly to Hanzhong.
Zhang Xun thought on the road, there is no other way, if you want to finish it in advance, you must increase investment, and the people are unbearable, so you can only do it to the wealthy families.
Coincidentally, there is also the matter of Juntian, and it is not possible to deal with the wealthy family!
"Hmph, don't blame Lao Tzu for being rude, Ye Hua forced me, and I can't help myself!"
Zhang Xun completely tore his face, he seconded a group of officials from Gyeonggi, and then mobilized the forbidden army, directly into Sichuan, all the migrant workers who participated in the construction of the road, all according to the head of the land...... This order went down, Bashu was boiling, and there was no need for the imperial court to requisition, many people directly carried shovels and pickaxes and rushed to the construction site, as for where the land came from, they didn't care.
"It's okay, Zhang Xun's courage is much stronger than Li Gu's." Ye Hua was very pleased, he set his sights from the southern line to the northern line, time waits for no one, the problem of the party must be solved!
"Go and tell Li Guangrui that Benjue wants to see him, and within five days, get me to Yanzhou!"
The officials below grinned, they were also meeting for the first time, and they were so arrogant!
"Master Hou, is it a little more tactful, and good words are to appease."
Ye Hua snorted, "Lao Tzu is ready to be slaughtered, and he still says something nice?" Is he Lee Kuan Rui worth? ”
The official almost laughed, and forced his stomach to give the order......
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