People take food as their day, and it is impossible to buy daily necessities for a year, so in the eyes of ordinary small businessmen, the current momentum is a little wrong; In the markets of Wuwei, Zhangye, and even Gaochang, a large number of strange people appeared, including local people, people with foreign accents, as well as Sogdians and Qiang people, who shuttled through the markets one by one, just constantly buying goods, not seeing their caravans leaving, as if they were buying back for storage.

At the same time, rumors spread that in order to prepare for the war, large commercial houses such as the Hexi Commercial Bank, which was attached to the governor's office, would purchase materials on a large scale in Hexi and the Western Regions; Ten days have passed, there have been different situations of depression in various cities, the common people began to panic, everywhere is a rush to buy, in the shops of Hexi commercial houses, the goods that can only be sold out in a month are often dumped in two or three days, it seems that the goods do not need money, and they come for nothing.

The governor's office issued a notice prohibiting the private transport and sale of grain, cloth, and salt, and all local residents will sell grain and salt according to their population, and those who need rations from other places will register with the local government. It didn't seem to have any effect, and the people who rushed to buy it had no choice but to keep the food in their homes, but there were fewer noisy crowds on the streets, and in the face of the brightly armored soldiers, everyone's tone of voice was a little softer.

However, Cui Zhen and other officials of the Governor's Office could feel that the atmosphere was obviously wrong, and a large number of merchants and caravans began to flee, and new rumors arose that the Governor's Office was ready to buy and sell by force. Every county went out to arrest smugglers in the mountains and rivers and wastelands, and more than 20 caravans were intercepted in ten days, and the most intense was in Pu Haibei, when the caravan was captured, it was met with thousands of cavalry to respond, and the officers and soldiers arrested suffered serious losses.

In the face of Yiwu County's official letter, Cui Zhen only felt frightened, Cui Zhen was a little worried at first, people die for money, birds die for food, there are a few people in front of real money and silver who can hold it, and the fight against Yang Chong is a credit in the eyes of Chang'an and the center; But in just half a month, Cui Zhen found that everyone had once again fallen into Yang Chong's trap. Cui Zhen was helpless, and in the name of the governor's office, he asked Shanshan County Shouqu Tugai to investigate the matter and find out what the thousands of horsemen came from.

Yu Zhongwen's reaction was fast enough, and he left Gaochang County as soon as possible, and rushed to Shanshan County's county to govern Shanshan City, Shanshan City is the national capital of the ancient Wuqiang Kingdom, in the southeast of Huni City, and is the largest castle in the Pu Shihai generation. Qu Tugai and Zuo Kunlun are frowning, Shanshan County is actually the end of the county in the south and west, Qinghai County in the east, Gaochang County and Yiwu County in the north, and the only gap is the desert.

The cavalry who captured the caravan in Igo County was very clever, and when they saw someone coming to help, they spared the caravan; Therefore, the huge team could not escape the eyes of Shanshan County at all, and turned east to Qinghai County. Yu Zhongwen sat down dejectedly after hearing this, he didn't even have the heart to get angry, and said bitterly: "How do I take care of you, this is the excuse that Yang Chong wants most." You think about it, if Yang Chong sends troops to come, can you block it, and can Mo and Qinghai come to reinforce it. ”

Qu Tugai said in a low voice: "The situation can't be so bad, right?" ”

Zuo Kunlun shook his head and said: "Yang Chong set up a lion camp with a mixture of Tuyuhun and Han people at the end of the day, and set up a Yiqiang camp of all Qiang people in Yiwu, just to prepare to enter Qinghai or Shanshan. The most important thing is that as long as these two battalions move, the Tuguhun and Qiang tribes of the Guishun Governor's Mansion will move with them, even if we have the help of the Shatuo and Chuyue tribes, at most we can only hold each other, if Gaochang sends troops, we can't resist at all. General, tell me about your plans. ”

Zuo Kunlun is a veteran of the battlefield, how can he not know that Yu Zhongwen came and had his own ideas; Yu Zhongwen sighed and said: "The army is in and out of Shanshan County, and there must be local troops in it, which cannot be hidden from Yang Chong; I'm going to go to Zhangye to take up a post, and you let Shi Wannian go to Zhangye with me. ”

Zuo Kunlun decisively said: "Since the general thinks so, it is better to go with Shi Wannian's head." ”

Qu Tugai couldn't help but praise in his heart, no wonder Zuo Kunlun has been able to crisscross the Western Regions for twenty years, just don't say that Yu Zhongwen went to Zhangye not only to serve as deputy director, but to represent that Yang Chong is no longer in the Western Regions. As soon as Yu Zhongwen left, Fang Xuanling, Wang Ting and others from Gaochang County, and Wei Yuanzhao and Shi Daqian from Mojun County would all support Yang Chong, only himself and Zuo Kunlun were the most embarrassed; Zuo Kunlun's method is to hand over the letter of submission, indicating that he will obey the governor's office in the future.

But Qu Tugai can't, who calls himself the younger brother of Qu Tutong, the general of Zuo Xiaowei, can't change his position; Qu Tutong saluted Yu Zhongwen and said: "General, the lower official has been away from home for a long time, and he is homesick, so when he saw Chief Yang and helped to say, can he arrange another virtuous person to allow the lower official to resign and return to his hometown." ”

Yu Zhongwen glanced at Qu Tugai and said: "Just rush at Qu Tutong, Yang Chong will not let you go, but don't worry, Yang Chong's kid must have his own plans for Shanshan County, I don't care about the future, at least Qinghai Fang can be restored, as long as the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms don't come over, your life will be better than now." Kunlun, you go and do it. ”

When Yu Zhongwen arrived at Yiwu with Shi Wannian's head, Sikong Xing could only revoke the order to mobilize the army, and quickly went to Zhangye for eight hundred miles to report the news; Rouyuan Town in Yiwu County was then baptized in blood, and the Boluo tribe was exterminated under the attack of the caravans of the Khambeg and the bald Kulin's government soldiers, all the nobles were killed, and a large number of food and materials secretly left in Rouyuan Town by the Sogdian merchants and the Duhu family were confiscated.

Duhu Lan's purchase of Bo Luobu's transfer of materials in Yiwu had long been discovered by Meng Zhuan, and it was a suitable opportunity to wait for it, and Duhu Lan was also imprisoned by Yuwen Wen; After the incident in Rouyuan Town, Jiang Fei decided to go to Zhangye with Yu Zhongwen. Jiang Fei had long wanted to go to Zhangye, and Yang Chong wrote that sometimes there would be a ball of heat in his body, like a little mouse running around in his body; Jiang Fei knew that this was a reaction to the success of Tuna, and the effect of the golden needle came out.

Zhang Guolao did not approve of Yang Chong's practice, and according to Yang Chong's increasingly heavy responsibilities, it was a joke to ask Yang Chong to spend a lot of time on practice; Zhang Guolao's meaning is to let it go, and it is good for the body to naturally breathe, and Yang Chong can take advantage of this state and exercise as much as he wants. Jiang Fei just wants to see the results, generally those who can practice this kind of situation are under the age of fifteen, Yang Chongben's age has such a phenomenon, it can only be said to be wonderful.

Yu Zhongwen and others were still on the road, Zhangye, Wuwei, Dunhuang, Jiuquan, Yiwu and other counties began to act at the same time, arresting a large number of people in the name of Turkic spies, the most prominent is Zhangye's Kang Laohe, Dunhuang's Xiao family patriarch Xiao Lang, the Kang family and the Xiao family were confiscated.

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