The capital city of Kangguo, Samajian, is the largest city in the middle of the river in Central Asia, Samajian is the name of the Tang people, and it has a more well-known name, called Samarkand.

It is a city steeped in history, an important hub on the Silk Road, connecting the Persian Empire, India and China.

As early as more than a thousand years ago, it was conquered by ancient Persia and later by Alexander the Great of the Macedonian Empire; For more than 1,000 years, there have been constant wars, and in the last few decades, the Western Turks, the Great Cannibals, the Post-Turks, the Turks, and the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms have fought and fought for it countless times.

This historic city in Central Asia, which has been battered by vicissitudes and wars, welcomed the arrival of Tang Dynasty troops for the first time. At the same time, the magnificence and wealth of the city built by Samad also shocked these Anxi troops at once!

After Duan Xiushi received Sama Jian from the servant army of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu who surrendered to Cheng, he immediately sent a thousand Anxi troops to block all the city gates, strictly prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving. As soon as Gao Xianzhi's army arrived, he saw a big city full of gold, silver and jewelry.

For more than ten years, the white-clothed and black-clothed eaters have carried out a large-scale raid on the Hezhong region, and more than eighty percent of the wealth of the nine Zhaowu kingdoms such as Kangguo and Shiguo have been plundered by the great food, half of which was transported to Mulu City, and half of it was left in Samujian.

In the previous decisive battle of Talas, the main force of the Great Food was wiped out overnight, and all the materials of the Great Food Battalion were returned to the Anxi Army. The rewards and personal belongings of tens of thousands of soldiers were collected after the war, and the gold and silver coins alone contained more than 60 camels, plus other belongings, such as precious stones, Damascus scimitars, and Arab war horses. Wang Chengen secretly calculated that the capture of this battle alone would be enough for the Anxi Army to spend seven or eight years.

But when he came to Samajian, Wang Chengen found that he was completely a dirt bun, and compared with Samajian's wealth, the previous seizures were not worth mentioning at all. This is simply a mountain of gold, a sea of silver!

It can be said that when the Maritime Silk Road was not yet popular, the land Silk Road was a golden trade route. Due to the Tang Dynasty's strict household registration system, Tang people were not allowed to go abroad to engage in international trade. It is equivalent to the Tang Dynasty opening up and guarding the smooth flow of the Silk Road, but allowing the merchants of the nine countries of Zhaowu to dominate the Silk Road trade.

These people of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu are not good at fighting, but they are very good at business. Silk from the Tang Dynasty was in high demand in Byzantium and Dashi in the West, and they bought silk from the Tang Dynasty on the one hand, and on the other hand, they imported treasures that were abundant in the West at that time, such as Sese, Meiwang, agate, pearls, etc. Just like this, these merchants of the Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms made a lot of money.

In addition to the two major items of silk and treasures, the people of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu also operated livestock, slaves, and hobbing, covering almost all important market areas and monopolizing the entire Silk Road. Under their shrewd management, the wealth of the East and the West continued to gather into the hands of these Zhaowu Nine Kingdoms, and then was snatched by force by the Great Cannibals.

Now that the Great Cannibal has been defeated by the Anxi Army, it is the turn of the Anxi people to grab the Great Cannibal.

Because the city of Samad had been occupied by the Great Eclipse, the Sogdians and the local aborigines of the Nine Kingdoms of Zhaowu were forced to move out of the city altogether at an early stage, and hundreds of forts were built outside the city to live, and the inhabitants of the city were mostly Arabs and Khorasan Persians. In this way, Gao Xianzhi is also honest and polite, he will never hide his pursuit of wealth, and immediately ordered a plundering of the wealth of the entire city in three days!

In the hall of the Governor's Palace, the golden dinar was piled up into a hill that was many people high, the silver dirham (also translated as Dirkhan) was piled up into a higher hill, and the rest of the jewels, jade, and sorrow were also countless.

Gao Xianzhi sent people to roughly estimate that there were about three million gold dinars and more than forty million dirhams in silver. These are very pure gold and silver coins, a dinar of gold weighs about 4.1 to 4.2 grams, which translates to the current weight of more than 24,000 catties! With the addition of dirhams and jewels worth about the same value as him, it means that this time the Anxi army has scavenged more than 50,000 catties of gold worth of gold in the city of Samad!

War and plunder are indeed the quickest way to get riches! It turns out that war can not only gain military merit and glory, but also so much wealth; It turns out that robbery is such a painful thing. I really regret dying, the land in the river has always been rich, everyone knows it, why didn't you think of coming to rob him?

Coupled with the capture of the Battle of Talas, as well as the property looted by Gao Xianzhi in the previous breach of Huhu City and the looting proceeds of Duan Xiushi along the way, this time the Anxi army harvested at least eight million dinars of gold coins. Thinking of this, Wang Chengen was so excited that he was going crazy, and Gao Xianzhi was so excited that he couldn't sleep all night, and he got up three times a night to watch it. Those Anxi soldiers who were bitter and almost unbelievably lucrative were even more excited, and their eyes were red!

The high school had already agreed, and each soldier could now receive fifty gold dinars, and the rest would be divided in Anxi. Last year, these soldiers also captured Shiguo Tuozhi City with Gao Xianzhi, and also looted the entire city. But the harvest was less than one percent of what it had been this time, and most of it was used to buy ordnance, mules and donkeys for private horses and packs, and each soldier did not receive much.

This time it was different, each soldier was fifty gold coins in his hand, and when he arrived in Anxi, it was a lot of wealth, and many soldiers of the Anxi Army could not earn such money even after ten years. How can they not be so excited that they are about to go crazy!

There are those who rejoice, and there are those who are sad and anxious. Needless to say, the Arabs and Persians who were robbed in the city of Samad did all the evil things in the past, and it was a blessing to Hu Da to save a life after the city was broken.

What is really worried are those countries west of the Green Ridge that have been riding on the wall to watch the wind, especially the countries east of the Butana such as the State of Xie Su, the State of Humi, and the Kingdom of Jiuyue Deqian. Only Tocharian and Kumi were in good spirits, and sent thousands of cavalry to support Xiao before he went north to Talas.

Although the number of troops is small and their combat effectiveness is limited, their position is clearly stated. Now that the war is settled, these small countries that have not caught up will no longer have a chance to take refuge in their performances.

Who would have thought that this black-clothed food army, which was still invincible in the river last year, would be wiped out by the Anxi army so quickly!

However, it was too late to regret it now, and these kings and Ye Hu, who had rushed to Samat to build the city, were worried and asked King Ningyuan, King Dongcao, and Tocharo Ye Hu and others about Gao Xianzhi's attitude.

As the only staunch ally of the Tang Dynasty in the area west of the Green Ridge in the river before the battle, Dou Zhongjie, the king of Ningyuan, was undoubtedly the most relaxed and proud one at this moment. Before, because Ning Yuanguo was attached to the Tang Dynasty, he was excluded, isolated, and attacked by other countries, and he almost couldn't survive. Now that he is flattered and flattered by so many kings and Ye Hu, it feels really indescribable.

"Everyone, be quiet, listen to me." Dou Zhongjie stood up and looked around at everyone and smiled: "Gao Dashuai has already said that he came to the river to drive away the big cannibals for everyone." The commander wants me to tell you that what he has said will not change. Please rest assured that the Anxi Army will never harass and plunder you like the Great Cannibals. But there is one ......"

"What's there?" Everyone asked in unison.

"Marshal Gao said, before this, the countries that could send troops but did not send troops to support it mean that you have no confidence in the Anxi army. Therefore, Gao Dashuai asked each country to send at least one prince Dao Anxi to serve as a guard for him, so that you can know how the Anxi army is trained in peacetime and how effective it is? The next time there is such a thing, there will be no such lack of confidence in the Anxi army. ”

"What ......"

"Isn't this a hostage?"

"Hmm......" Dou Zhongjie pondered for a second or two, and sneered: "If you have to understand it like this, you can also say it." ”

Immediately the kings began to talk again, some worried and some remorseful. At this moment, the door of the conference room opened, and more than fifty richly dressed and tall guards walked in, and one of them shouted loudly: "The deputy capital of Anxi, the envoy of the four towns, and the tall and handsome in the imperial history." ”

Immediately afterwards, Gao Xianzhi walked in with several senior generals and civil officials of the Anxi Army, and it was quite strange that there was a Persian old man in white and a masked Persian girl at the back. After being introduced to all the kings and Ye Hu who had been there, Gao Xianzhi raised his hands and pressed them down, and said, "Dou Zhongjie, the king of Ningyuan, should have told you about So-and-so's decision, So-and-so wants to know, do you agree or not?" ”

"Gao Dashuai, I already sent troops at that time, but the Anxi army marched too fast and didn't catch up with ......"

"Do you agree or disagree?" Gao Xianzhi's face immediately turned cold.

“…… Agree. ”

"What about you?"

"Agree, naturally agree."

"Since we all agree, let's talk about the next thing." Gao Xianzhi glanced at everyone: "Now let's talk about the arrangement of the land in the river." ”

All the people, including Dou Zhongjie, held their breath at this time, concentrating and calming down, for fear of missing a word.

"Before the Great Food invaded the river, the Anxi army had been busy dealing with the Turgish and Tubo, and had no time to take care of this side. Now that Tibet was no longer in trouble, a certain decision was made to focus on the river. This time, a certain meeting fought all the way to Mulu, completely defeated and captured alive and Posilin. But the big food is big, and it is bound to make a comeback in the future. Therefore, it was decided to garrison 5,000 troops in the river, and the garrison was built in Samad! ”