I saw that this Wang Xuance paused for a moment, and then said: "But what I never expected was that this Lu Wentai was such a timid person, he thought that between our Datang and this Gaochang Royal City, thousands of miles apart, the next desert, the Tang army would not come."

It's a pity that he doesn't know our Datang army too well. Can our army be cut off by such a harsh environment? You don't see that back then, we were in the land of ice and snow, chasing Tuyuhun Murong Fuyun for more than 2,000 miles.

When the army arrived at this pass, Ko Wentai heard the news and was immediately frightened to death, and his son Koji Zhisheng inherited the throne. Later, our Tang army conquered this Gaohe City, and Koji Zhisheng surrendered. The other cities also fell to the wind, and won twenty-two cities in the first battle, with a population of more than 17,000 people.

In view of the importance of Gaochang's location, I still remember that when I first arrived in Jingshi, under the leadership of King Jiangxia, I met His Majesty. Later, His Majesty adopted my suggestion and that of Dr. Wei: use the Gaochang people to govern the Gaochang people, change Gaochang to Xizhou, set up Tingzhou in Futu City, set up the Anxi Protectorate in Jiaohe City, and return the Yanqi land and people plundered by Gaochang to Yanqi. At this point, the first war pacified Gaochang. Today, Gao Changguo has been dead for seven years. This is the reason why this Gaochang hometown still belongs to our Datang!

"The eldest brother is right, this is the end of many injustices will kill oneself, this Lu Wentai is so yang and yin, he deserves such a punishment" Zhou Zeng said quite openly......

"Ahh

"I've never been stupid," Zhou Zeng replied immediately. As the atmosphere eased, the group laughed and walked forward.

Sunrise and sunset, and it was some days of travel, and they arrived at Gaohe City, the former capital of Gaochang. I saw that this Gaohe City is still a high city wall, and the merchants who come and go make this capital city within a radius of seven or eight miles seem quite lively, although Gaochang has been destroyed, but after these years of acting by the Tang Dynasty, it still maintains this prosperity.

After this day's rest, they simply replenished some food and necessary items, and the group went on the road again. The target ---- the country of Yanqi.

Although history is written by victorious people, in the history of China, the principles upheld throughout the 24 histories are basically objective and fair. Remembering it in history is precisely to warn future generations and let future generations avoid detours; Only in this way will history move forward on the right track, and this is the difference between Chinese history and foreign history. And this sincerity is the objectivity, conscience, and basic justice of historians upheld by the people of the later dynasties!

But seeing this Chen Maocai, he looked at the "Records of the Western Regions of the Tang Dynasty" compiled by Master Xuanzang and explained to everyone like this: "This Yanqi has been established for nearly a thousand years. The Legend of the Western Regions has been recorded. Up to now, this Yanqi country is more than 600 miles long from east to west and 400 miles wide from north to south. Surrounded by mountains, the road is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. Springs and streams are intertwined into the belt, so the water is directed to irrigate the fields, and there are many crops suitable for planting on the land. The specialty is pears, which are sweet and crispy. The climate is mild, the folk customs are simple, and the writing is mainly Sanskrit such as Tocharo......"

When I heard that the pears produced here were quite sweet and crispy, the saliva of Zeng and others this week flowed out like this......

In fact, the history of Yanqi is quite complicated. Although it has been established for thousands of years, and since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Yanqi King Dragon Turf Branch has also maintained this friendly relationship with the Tang Dynasty. In addition, in the fourteenth year of Zhenguan, it was also because of Yanqi's request for help that Li Shimin defeated Gaochang in order to maintain order in the Western Regions.

Therefore, this dragon turf cavalry branch is also quite grateful to the Tang Dynasty, and pays tribute on time every year. However, when people are old, they sometimes prefer their children, and in the eighteenth year of Zhenguan, his daughter also married Ashina Quzhi, the younger brother of the Western Turkic general Ashina Quli, a few years ago. With this relationship, this Ashina Quli asked his younger brother and daughter-in-law to persuade his father Wang Long to ride the branch many times.

As the dragon rider branch was old and sick, and he was very fond of this precious girl, he gradually fell to the Western Turks. At that time, the capital of Anxi protected Guo Xiaoke, and also sent several envoys to persuade him to change his mind, but he still went his own way, obsessed with ghosts, attached to the Western Turks, and did not pay tribute on time.

In the midst of such stubbornness, Guo Xiaoke, the protector of Anxi, took his brother Long Su Po Zhun as a guide, and then entered Yanqi City and captured this dragon turf cavalry branch. Finally, with the support of the Yanqi nobles, the dragon Xue Po Anazhi was established as the new Yanqi king.

When the group knew from Wang Xuance's mouth that the relationship between Yanqi and Datang had been quite good over the years, they were also quite relaxed and at ease......

Sunrise and sunset, it was a little time, after this way of eating and sleeping, they finally came to this Yanqi King City, where the water and grass are abundant and the rivers are intertwined---- Bogdaqin City. I saw that this Bogdaqin City was six or seven miles away. Surrounded by water on three sides, it is located next to an oasis in the Gobi Desert.

When they arrived at the gate of the city, the group led their horses and walked slowly. The soldiers guarding the gate were a little surprised when they saw such a large group of people, and they were all dressed as officials of the Tang Dynasty. But seeing that Zeng had walked over this week, he said to them very politely: "We are the envoys sent by His Majesty the Great Tang Dynasty Khan, to envoy you to the Yanqi Kingdom, to meet your King Xue Po Anazhi, please bother to say goodbye."

After receiving this clear message, the leading soldier immediately replied politely: "Rank envoy, please wait a moment, let me go in and say a word", on the one hand, he ordered the rest of the soldiers to receive him well, and on the other hand, he flew towards the Bogdaqin city.

After a while, I saw that the soldiers on both sides of the city gate had cleared the way by soldiers who had come out of the city. As a luxurious carriage slowly came out, and after it came to a stop, a middle-aged man dressed in a rather gorgeous dress stepped out of the carriage.

And this man is none other than the king of Yanqi ---- Xue Po Anazhi. Because it has always maintained a good relationship with the Tang Kingdom, when I heard the soldiers' report that the Tang Kingdom sent envoys to Yanqi, and now it has arrived at the gate of this city, I can't care about the respect of the king. In order to show the grandeur, it was decided to personally go out to greet Guo.

When Wang Xuance saw Xue Po Ana giving such a big gift, he hurriedly greeted him. Because within the broad territory of the Tang Dynasty, the kings of the Western Regions are all at the level of county kings, so when Wang Xuance saw this King Yanqi, he naturally didn't need to kneel, but just stretched out his hands and said with a long wave in accordance with the etiquette of the Tang Dynasty: "The envoy of the Tang Dynasty led the governor Shi Wang Xuance, and sent an envoy to Yanqi at the behest of His Majesty the Khan, I never thought that the king would personally go out to greet him, and Xuan Ce really couldn't afford it!" ”

Trivia: Dragon Turf Riding Branch, King of Yanqi Kingdom in the Western Regions. After Guo Xiaoke attacked Yanqi, he captured the Dragon Turkey Cavalry and his family, and sent them to Chang'an, where they were later released by Li Shimin. In 649, after the death of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the Dragon Turf Riding Branch was carved into a stone statue and erected next to the Tang Zhao Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. In the second year of Yonghui (651), the younger brother of the Longtu Cavalry Branch, Long Xian Nazhun, died, and Tang Gaozong put him back into the Longtu Cavalry Branch, allowing him to become the king of Yanqi again.

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