"Minister, the two prefectures of Gansu have been taken over by officials sent by our political envoy Yamen and the people brought by the deputy prime minister, and all government affairs have begun to be implemented in accordance with the policies of Hexi Province." On the tower of Liangzhou City, Zhang Quanfu watched the Long family's brigade set off towards the east, with a groaning look on his face, and the report of the officials of the Civil Affairs Department came from behind him. The Long family lives in the northwest and is really still a bit talented, at least Long Xuan, who has talked to him in the past two days, has a lot of ideas about business. It's just that these people, the family concept is too heavy, limiting their vision and mind, if they are all like this, I am afraid that they may not be useful to the Emperor of Chang'an. Although the family and the country are all over the world, but people who attach too much importance to their own family may not be able to contribute to the country, and once the conflict of interests of the family and the country is not good, they will really sacrifice the interests of the empire for the sake of the family interests, which is not more obvious in the development of industry and commerce? Don't you see that the reason why the five wealthy businessmen who accompanied the emperor were able to greet even the high-level of the empire with a smile when they met, in addition to their own ability, was not they able to give up their small family for everyone at a critical moment? At the beginning, the Xu family was willing to give up all the profits they had earned in the East for the benefit of the empire, except for courage, didn't Xu Xingxia know about the empire's lack of gold and silver hard currency at that time? There is also the Yelu family who just met with him a few days ago, the empire is going to enter the northwest, and they will be able to lay out a year in advance, regardless of the loss, in addition to the business of their own family, even with countless Xuanying Guard elites who cover the northwest of the northwest, is there no risk in this? Obediently staying in the Central Plains to do business, the Yelu family is afraid that the development may not be worse than now, but it has not been squatting in the northwest without saying a word, and has made all the preparations for the army to go out. This kind of merchant is what the empire needs at present, and even when the industrial and commercial code was revised this year, the legal court also discussed the revision of the code with the heads of the five wealthy merchants, and the five wealthy merchants even took the initiative to restrict the involvement of large merchants like them in the key industries of the empire for the benefit of the empire.

The Tang Empire has abolished the title of industrial and commercial industry since the emperor came to power, and after so many years of development, industry and commerce have become a major industry in the economic development of the empire. The status of the merchant rose dramatically with the growth of wealth, gradually smoothing out the shadow left by the former legacy, and industry was almost equal to agricultural production under the spread of the queen. At this time, participating in this feast is not only ability, but more importantly, heart and vision. Zhang Quanfu's family does not have much talent in industry and commerce, and he has devoted himself to water conservancy and environmental protection over the years, but it does not prevent him from looking at problems at a high level.

"After the notice, we will immediately leave for Ganzhou, and each department will dispatch competent personnel to follow us, and notify Qianzhuang in addition, so that they can also open the Ganzhou Qianzhuang branch with us in advance and unify the currency." Zhang Quanfu nodded and asked his subordinates to pack up and then set off from Liangzhou, crossed the Hexi Corridor to Ganzhou, guided the reform of the Ganzhou area on the spot, and took over the unfinished work of Tuoba Siji. The proportion of agriculture in the northwest is much smaller than that of the Central Plains, and more rely on the convenience of the Silk Road to develop commerce, and there are huge business opportunities for trafficking silk, porcelain, tea and other goods from all over the Central Plains through local or local transactions or stops on the way. What Zhang Quanfu wants to do is to let Gansu and Gansu carry out reforms according to the model of the mainland, remove a small number of agricultural obstacles, and then develop industry and commerce. Industry needs to wait until the Ministry of Industry and Commerce to formulate a plan and then plan it in a unified manner, but commerce itself is the largest industry in the northwest, although the Guiyi Army and the Tiance Army are at war in front, but just the trade between the two places and the interior of Chang'an and the purchase of large quantities of military supplies are enough to make the two places prosper quickly.

And Zhang Quanfu's arrival has one more thing, that is, the construction of the Hexi Qianli Green Corridor, although the northwest has now entered the winter, but according to the planning along the straight road to excavate the land still needs to be done, and the rivers in some areas also need to be repaired, so as soon as he arrived in Ganzhou, the construction boom in Ganzhou is more in a more situation, and various government projects have been introduced, taking advantage of the construction before the winter comes.

In the rear, because Zhang Quanfu had already begun to resume construction, but at this time, Xuan Yingwei, who was deep in the hinterland of the Guiyi Army in front, made a strange plan after Hu Xiaosi went to Zhang Chaofeng's palace, and the specific content was not even clear to the commanders, only that from that day on, Hu Xiaosi and Zhao Si were either lurking in the palace all day long, or planning and arranging manpower and waiting for the opportunity. And the time is also spent in this strange state day by day, after Cao Rengui led an army of 100,000 from Shazhou to the front line of Guazhou, Zhang Chaofeng gathered his personal guards after the arrival of the southern Tubo mercenaries, and the two combined the army again gathered 100,000 troops towards Guazhou.

The two armies left from the sandbank to Guazhou, and also evacuated the defensive forces of the sandbank. It can be said that Shazhou, the capital of the entire Western Han Dynasty, was only more than 3,000 veterans patrolling the city and more than 1,000 imperial forest troops under the control of Zhang Chaofeng's eldest son. However, no one had much idea about it, after all, the Tiance army came from the east, the west of the sandbank was close to the Anxi Uighurs, they had taken the initiative to withdraw their troops from the border, the southern Tibetans also sent troops to support them, and in the east, in addition to their own 200,000 troops, there were 100,000 elite iron cavalry from Yizhou from the Gaochang Uighurs. The people who had been pacified by the Heavenly Sect even thought that this battle could not be lost. What's more, there is also the weather, the winter in the northwest is long and cold, which is not something that the Tiance army that is used to staying in the Central Plains can bear, as long as there is a heavy snowfall, everything will be over.

"Boss, Li Yichang is currently surrounded by a lot of guards, plus there is also the sixth rate of the East Palace in charge of Zhang Chaofeng's son, how can we break in with such a small number of people? has to kill Li Yichang, I think even the dragon group may not be able to complete it. Zhao Si still didn't have confidence in Hu Xiaosi's plan, and shook his head like a rattle, "My people have already found the Flying Eagle Brigade, let's wait a while and let them come over, so that at least they can raid the palace and take down all the children of Zhang Chaofeng's family." Before Zhao Si's words were finished, he was slapped on the head by Hu Xiaosi, who laughed angrily: "When did I tell you that I want to control the palace?" Do you think I want to take the sandbar in the center of the flowering? Stop dreaming, okay? The front-line army can't draw manpower, and even if we take the sandbar, we can't resist the opponent's reinforcements. What I mean is to kill Li Yichang, and then provoke the nerves of the Cao family and force them to expose their backs in advance. I always had the feeling that these gloomy guys had something to do with the Anxi Uighurs. So I have secretly ordered the Flying Eagle Brigade and Tiancheng to choose the opportunity to go south from Yizhou to the east of Datun City to ambush, maybe Tiancheng can fulfill his long-cherished wish and catch a big fish. ”

Hu Xiaosi said a nonsense casually and continued: "In the past two days, I have figured it out, and the current situation in the entire sandbar is under control except for Zhang Chaofeng himself. Now that Zhang Chaofeng led the army to leave, only Li Yichang was in charge of Shazhou. This person is Zhang Chaofeng's master, with high prestige, and with him, he can suppress all the forces in Shazhou. If he is killed for no apparent reason, guess what will happen? ”

Looking at Hu Xiaosi's smiling face, Zhao Si suddenly felt a chill in his heart for no reason, at this time, all the energy of the Guiyi Army was on the front line, even Zhang Chaofeng's back hand relied on this master to launch, once he fell, then the entire sandbar would definitely be chaotic, and if he lost the suppression of this Optimus Prime, all kinds of forces would jump out, if he added his own people to make such a stir, Bacheng would aim all the targets at the Cao family, and the Zhang family wanted to quickly stabilize the situation on the sandbank, so they could only take the Cao family first. Although it will not kill the Cao family on the spot, it is not impossible if he operates well.

"I've said it all, you should be able to do the rest of the thing, okay?" When Hu Xiaosi saw the change in his right-hand man's face, he knew that he had understood what he meant. As long as Li Yichang, the boss of the Guiyi Army, dies, the situation in Shazhou will inevitably be in chaos, then not only can he operate in the city at that time, but he can also send people to Guazhou to spread rumors to force Zhang Chaofeng to return to the army, and even if necessary, he can also cause the contradictions between the other party and Cao Rengui to surface. This is also what Hu Xiaosi discovered when he sorted out the situation in Shazhou City in the past few days, and Li Yichang's importance now even exceeds that of Zhang Chaofeng himself.

"Don't worry, boss, I'll take care of this matter. I immediately arranged for the people of the Dragon Group to make a plan, and in three days, I will definitely be able to complete the task and take down Li Yichang. Zhao Si was so happy when he heard the words that he rubbed his hands, and the expression on his face suddenly became obscene.

After handing over this matter to Zhao Si, Hu Xiaosi began to set his sights on the war in Guazhou, and Hu Xiaosi was not surprised that Zhao Si was able to contact the Flying Eagle Brigade that had been lurking on the northwest border, after breaking away from contact with the Uighur army, the Flying Eagle Brigade was originally preparing to ambush the Uighur rear army or logistics baggage according to Yang Tiancheng's plan, but it failed without surprise. The Uighur logistics force was not in the rear army at all, but was arranged in the Chinese army, and the Gaochang Uighurs seemed to have made up their minds to receive grain and grass from the Guiyi army, so the scale of their logistics made Yang Tiancheng look up to the sky and sigh, and had to withdraw from the ambush site with Su Xiaohu, leaving only a small team of men and horses to pass the news to Wan Yi, so that the other party could grasp the opponent's every move in time.

However, Yang Tiancheng, who failed once, has not said a word since he received Hu Xiaosi's summons, and he is ready to fight with him, no matter how he says, he can't waste this opportunity to come to the northwest once. So let Su Xiaohu concentrate the people of the Flying Eagle Brigade near the place designated by Hu Xiaosi, and then personally rushed over from the west to prepare to meet Hu Xiaosi. At this time, Yang Tiancheng completely worshiped Hu Xiaosi and Su Xiaohu for this kind of small-scale assassination or special operation. If he fights in a large army, he may be the leading commander in the Tiance Army, but he thinks it is better to follow Hu Xiaosi in this way of fighting, which is not a professional at all.

However, by the time Yang Tiancheng saw Hu Xiaosi, the situation on the sandbank had changed drastically, but at this time, both Yang Tiancheng who was rushing to the sandbank and Hu Xiaosi who was waiting in the city were paying attention to another thing, that is, Wan Yi's army on the other side of the Qingshui River was about to come into contact with the Uighurs. Moreover, Cao Rengui had already led the army into Guazhou, but he was frightened by Wan Yi's virtual camp, avoided the city, and prepared to defend the city, waiting for Zhang Chaofeng's follow-up army to arrive and encircle Wan Yi. And Gao Siji, who was found by the Flying Eagle Brigade, also connected with Wan Yi at this time after disappearing for nearly a month. As if it were a coincidence, almost all the armies of both sides gathered in a centripetal shape around Guazhou, an important military town in the northwest since ancient times.

It's just that what Wan Yi didn't expect was that he was just bluffing, and Cao Rengui retreated back into the city, and this time, after the discussion between himself and Wang Houchun, the plan to rely on the Anxi camp to attack Guazhou was completely bankrupt, and the Anxi camp that had already entered the city was facing the embarrassment of lurking or finding out again. At this time, Wang Houchun made a decision in Guazhou that was almost the same as Hu Xiaosi's in Shazhou, and ordered the whole army of the Anxi battalion to enter the city, and the original plan remained unchanged and continued to be implemented. He was betting on Cao Rengui's reaction after seeing the Uighurs annihilated by Wan Yi. Relying on Cao Rengui's courage, if Wan Yi defeated the Uighurs, then he would definitely not stay alone in the city, and would definitely find a way to join Zhang Chaofeng's reinforcements, and even try to return to the sandbank. After all, the Cao family was here, and he was able to bring in reinforcements again. As long as Zhang Chaofeng can follow his strategy, then there will be others who will continue to fight for him. As long as Cao Rengui's main force of soldiers and horses drove out of the city, the opportunity for the Anxi battalion would come, and he could completely take Guazhou with his backhand, and then rely on the city defense to hold on to Wan Yi's main army to come to support. In this way, the strategic concept of Guazhou being taken over the entire northwest can also be realized. With Guazhou in hand, at least the Tiance Army does not have to be afraid of the other party's winter attack.

Therefore, Wang Houchun, who was under the shadow of the other party's heavy soldiers, still did not change his face, but sent someone to inform Wan Yi of his plan. To be honest, his plan seems to be risky, but the initiative is still in the hands of the Tiance army, but it is a difficult problem for Wan Yi, if he wants to respond to Wang Houchun's plan, he must completely destroy the Gaochang Uighurs, and even if necessary, the battle can end as soon as possible, and use the most violent means to make Cao Rengui completely give up holding on to Guazhou, so after receiving Wang Houchun's summons, Wan Yi began to revise his battle plan, and began to think about how to cooperate with the other party's actions. If Wang Houchun's plan is played well, it can be regarded as a full plate of work, and if it is not played well, he will not be able to put himself in.

"Report, big handsome, Xuanyingwei Shazhou urgently." Just when Wan Yi urgently revised the battle plan and adjusted the deployment, the guards sent an urgent report from Shazhou. Wan Yi was stunned after just one glance.