In fact, Yu Chi Baolin finally mixed a mouthful of rice with Li Daozong to eat, white noodles and big steamed buns, and ate more than a dozen in one go, without moving a bite of the food or anything.

"No, what is your kid competing with a steamed bun, and Gaochang is not without wheat." Li Daozong waited until Yu Chi Baolin finished eating, and asked with some curiosity.

"Uncle, you don't know, this place is not for people, there is rice, but the rice tastes bad; Wheat is also available, but it is not chewy and does not taste good. After Yu Chi Baolin poured a lot of water into his stomach, he exhaled comfortably, patted his belly and said.

"It's just that the good days give you a habit, I think that when Lao Tzu was fighting, it would be good to have something to eat, and it was really difficult" Li Daozong first counted Yu Chi Baolin down, and then seemed to remember something: "By the way, you said that you have important information, tell me, what it is." ”

"That's it!" Yu Chi Baolin's eyes glared: "It's just that the things in Gaochang are not delicious, and I want my uncle to be mentally prepared." ”

Li Daozong was obviously stunned for a moment, he didn't come back to his senses for a long time, dare to love this kid who was captured alive by himself in a hurry just to eat? In order to tell yourself that Gaochang things are not delicious?

Yu Chi Baolin saw that Li Daozong didn't speak for a long time, and it was not interesting to sit alone, so he simply took the tablecloth covering the table, packed all the remaining steamed buns, and carried them on his body: "Uncle, I have finished eating the food, then I will go back, otherwise the brothers will know that I have been arrested, and I am afraid that people's hearts will be disturbed." ”

"Come on, beat him out for me, beat him hard." Li Daozong was awakened by Yu Chi Baolin's voice, and his first thought after reminiscing was to beat people.

The next days were lackluster, and there was nothing to say, the Tang army and the horse thieves fought a few times, but basically they were evenly matched, today you catch a few of me, tomorrow I will catch a few more of you, back and forth so tossed back and forth for about half a month, and finally the horse thieves did not continue to have food and grass, and they were unable to fight again and retreat first.

The Tang army dispatched 20,000 people to chase after the horse thief, and came up with a never-ending posture, as if he was determined to completely eliminate the horse thief.

The two teams chased and fled, bringing up billowing smoke and dust and disappearing into the distant horizon, leaving more than 10,000 Tang troops stationed outside Gaochang City, waiting for the army sent out to return.

This situation made Ju Wentai, who was waiting for the Tang army to show its might and completely exterminate the horse thieves, a little dumbfounded, and looked at Wang Xuance, the envoy of the Tang army, and said nothing: "How, how can this be?" ”

Wang Xuance looked as usual, drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, and said proudly: "The lord of the country doesn't have to worry so much, with my Tang sergeant here, presumably those horse thieves will never dare to step into the land of Gaochang for half a step." ”

Yes, the horse thieves don't dare to come, but the 30,000 people of your Datang army are stationed here, it seems to be more terrible than the horse thieves, right? Ju Wentai and the prime minister looked at each other without saying a word, and suddenly they both had a feeling of luring a wolf into the room.

"What? What is on the mind of the lord? Wang Xuance saw that Ju Wentai was speechless for a long time, and couldn't help but ask curiously.

"Lord Angel, I don't know, when do you plan to withdraw your army?" Prime Minister Gao Chang is also a human being, so naturally he would not let Ju Wentai answer such an embarrassing question, so without waiting for Lao Ju to speak, he interjected and asked.

"Withdrawing troops?" Wang Xuance turned the wine glass in his hand a few times, and turned his gaze to the prime minister: "The thirty-six countries of the Western Regions are subject countries of the Tang Dynasty, and they will offer a large number of treasures and property every year, but the Tang Dynasty, as the suzerain, has never done anything for you. ”

"Is it true that if there are still horse thieves in the Western Regions, you will not withdraw?" Ju Wentai's face was cloudy, and the wine glass in his hand squeaked.

"This is natural, what Datang needs is a peaceful and stable Western Regions, and war and chaos will be beneficial to the interests of Datang, so as long as there is a profession of horse thief, Datang will not withdraw its troops." Wang Xuance pretended to say it with confidence, but his heart was already happy.

He naturally knew what Ju Wentai thought, and he also knew that this old thing didn't have any good intentions.

But it's easy to please God, it's hard to send God, the Tang Dynasty army spanned eight hundred miles of the Hanhai Sea, and it was not far away to get here, how could it be so easy to withdraw the troops back before the goal was achieved?

Ju Wentai, an old thing, has an unclear relationship with the Western Turks on weekdays, and even openly robbed the Datang business travel, openly shouting that the Tang Dynasty would not do anything to him.

Now that there is trouble, the Western Turks can't solve it, so they thought of Datang, planning to use Datang, and then throw Datang aside, I really don't know how this old guy's head grows, and he would have such a naïve idea.

Ju Wentai finally couldn't stand Wang Xuance's 'ugly' face, and slammed the wine glass: "Angel of the Tang Dynasty, the widow is a little overwhelmed by alcohol, temporarily lose company, angel drink slowly!" ”

"It's okay, it's okay, the lord of the country is going to it." Wang Xuance, who was disliked by the master's family, did not show any embarrassment and concern, but just raised his glass to Ju Wentai and saluted Ju Wentai, and then looked at Prime Minister Gaochang: "Prime Minister, let's study the supply of the army." ”

"Supply problems?" The prime minister was stunned and didn't know how to answer.

Wang Xuance said lightly: "This is natural, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty came here thousands of miles away for the stability and development of the Western Regions, you can't let them squat in the desert and drink the wind, right?" Will this make these Datang soldiers chill? ”

"But, but, but Gaochang doesn't have so much food." The prime minister looked embarrassed, he wanted to refuse Wang Xuance's request very much, but when he thought of the prestige of the Tang Dynasty army and the 10,000 Tang troops outside the city, he immediately coaxed down.

"Datang is here to maintain peace and stability in the entire Western Regions, and I believe that Gaochang will make its own contribution to regional peace, but it makes no sense to ensure regional peace and stability, and only our two countries are responsible, right? Should all the 36 countries of the Western Regions do their part? ”

Wang Xuance didn't want to persecute Gao Chang too much, after all, he would have to stay here for several years in the future, and it was one thing to tear his face now and everyone would not be able to think about it in the future, and it would be very worthless to arouse the disgust of the countries of the Western Regions.

Thinking of what Li Chengqian said before leaving, 'pull a batch, beat a batch, and kill a batch', Wang Xuance felt that this sentence was simply a classic.

But who to woo? Suppress whom? Kill whom? There seems to be a big deal to this, too

How to choose the object to win over, and how to choose the object to kill, this needs to gather all the people, observe one by one, and see which people have a good impression of Datang and which ones don't, and finally decide.

(End of chapter)