readx; The news of the killing of the nine leaders spread the next day, and some of the hard-line Muslim believers had a riot in the morning, but without the organization of the leaders, their confusion appeared to be chaotic and fragmented, and the number of participants in the riot was much smaller, they either gathered in front of King Kang's palace, or scattered in front of the government to smash the official office, and nearly 100 people rushed out of the city to storm the military camp. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At this time, the Tang army was ready, Li Qing'an ordered martial law again, and the 20,000 heavily armed Tang army began to brutally suppress the rebellion of some hardliners in Samarkand, Li Qing'an issued an order that those who did not surrender would be killed, and the Tang cavalry pursued those who fled with wooden sticks and long knives in the streets and alleys, and when they caught up, they were hacked to death with knives, and there was no longer the slightest mercy.

In just one hour, the rebellion in the city was suppressed, more than 2,000 people surrendered, more than 400 recalcitrant people were killed, and finally the center of the rebellion was concentrated in the palace of King Kang, which is also the place where the largest number of rebels gathered.

The six thousand cavalry of the Tang army surrounded the palace, more than a thousand rebels hid in the palace and confronted the Tang army, and returned fire with stones, the Tang army repeatedly informed them that their surrender was invalid, at noon, Li Qing'an issued an order to burn the palace, the area in the river was rich in fire oil, a clay pot full of fire oil was thrown into the palace by a trebuchet, the whole palace was filled with a pungent smell of fire oil, more than 1,000 people hiding in the palace finally felt the imminence of death, and began to surrender one after another, and the fire oil was still thrown into the palace, The entire palace was almost soaked in oil, and by this time more than 700 people had already surrendered, and nearly 600 people still refused to surrender.

"Ignition!"

With Bai Xiaode's order, hundreds of rockets rose into the air and shot into the palace, in an instant, the palace was full of fire, a raging fire, the fire rolled up the tongue of fire, engulfing the entire palace, billowing smoke straight into the sky, wailing, screaming from the palace, nearly a hundred people covered in fire from the palace crying and rushing out, only ran out of a few dozen steps and fell to the ground and died, the fire has been burning for three days and three nights, the palace covering an area of nearly dozens of acres was burned to the ground, with five hundred and eighty of the most diehard anti-Tang people were burned to death, The palace fire also became a famous dividing line in the history of the river.

A hundred years later, some historians commented that the palace fire burned the last hope of the Abbasids to regain the river.

．．．．．．．．． With the fall of the hardliners of the Muslims in Samarkand, the moderates gained the upper hand, and the moderate leader Borodo wrote an open letter to the Muslims of the River, calling on the Muslims to abandon their hatred and rebuild their homes.

At the end of February, the first batch of 50,000 stone grain arrived in Samarkand, the price of grain fell back to the initial level, the crisis in Samarkand was completely alleviated, Samarkand is the largest city in the river, but also the center of the whole river, its demonstration effect quickly spread to other countries, some cities that were ready to revolt and make trouble also followed to calm down, in early March, the Tang army lifted martial law in all cities, and order in the river began to be gradually restored.

Three days later, Li Qing'an arrived in Bukhara, the second largest city in the river, which had become a ghost town in the severe turmoil of 20 days earlier, and the original population of more than 200,000 people was left after a few days of bloody clashes, and the vast majority of them fled the city, either to the mountains, or to other countries such as Samarkand and Nasebo.

As the situation gradually calmed down, the residents of Bukhara began to return home one after another, for Bukhara, because the hatred between Zoroastrians and Muslims was too deep, Li Qing'an adopted Cui Qianyou's plan in this city, divide and rule, with a dense water tributary flowing through the city as the boundary, according to the main residence of the two factions, they were placed in the east and west of the city, the Muslims were mainly concentrated in the east and north of the city, so the east of the city was assigned to the Muslims, and the north of the city was divided into two, and the two sides were bounded by the river. The west of the city was naturally given to the Zoroastrians.

Under the leadership of the Tang Army, after the two sides sent representatives to discuss, they finally reached an agreement, and each side sent people to the other side's jurisdiction to demolish their respective temples and transport the materials back to their own jurisdictions to rebuild the temples.

When Li Qing'an arrived in the city, Tian Zhen, the commander of the Tang Army who temporarily guarded the city, rushed to report the situation to Li Qing'an.

Bukhara originally had 10,000 garrisons, all of which were composed of Zoroastrians in the middle of the river, but when Li Siye and Tian Zhen, who were stationed in Shiguo, led 20,000 new troops to Bukhara, the original 10,000 garrisons were transferred to the east bank of the Amu Darya River for defense, and the maintenance of law and order in Bukhara was transferred to the new army.

"General, at present, Angola has a total of 30,000 Tang troops, and Siye will lead 20,000 troops to defend on the east bank of the Amu Darya River, and I will lead 10,000 Tang troops to arrange the partition of Bukhara."

Li Qingan nodded and asked, "What about the situation of the partition?" What are the difficulties? ”

Tian Zhen is a famous Mo swordsman in the Tang Army, he is one foot tall, his figure is extremely majestic, like a half-cut black tower, although he looks rough, but he is extremely careful, and he is also very capable of doing things, he thought about it and smiled: "Maybe both sides are afraid of being killed, everyone has always been in favor of partition, and it is going smoothly, they have each organized a group of elders, all of which are composed of respected old people, and the housing distribution, population registration and temple demolition and construction in their respective jurisdictions are all completed by the elder group, the Tang Army does not interfere, and it is currently going very smoothly, There were no disputes, but ..... There are also difficulties. ”

"What difficulty?"

Tian Zhen sighed and said: "The main thing is the ownership of the Grand Mosque of Bukhara, both sides refuse to let it, under my mediation, this dispute has been put on hold for the time being, but the problem will break out sooner or later, if it is not handled well, I am worried that it will be the source of turmoil in the future." ”

The issue of the Grand Mosque in Bukhara, Li Qing'an has also thought about it repeatedly, and he knows very well that if it is not resolved, it will cause riots sooner or later.

"Let's go! Let's go to the mosque and have a look. ”

Hundreds of cavalry turned their horses and escorted Li Qing'an towards the mosque.

The streets of Bukhara are chaotic, and now is the busiest time for residents to move, with donkey carts and wagons full of goods, men driving in front, children sitting on the roofs, and women following the carts, carefully tending to their meager possessions.

Tian Zhen was very thoughtful, and he ordered his soldiers to build two bridges on the Mishui River, ten miles apart, so that Zoroastrians and Muslims could use one bridge each, so that the two sides would basically not mix together, thus avoiding the risk of conflict.

The cavalry walked through the crowd, full of narrow and winding streets, the houses were made of brick houses and adobe flat-roofed houses, similar to Samarkand, layer upon layer, spreading through the city, the mosque where Li Qing'an was going is located in the north of the city, close to the river that crosses Bukhara, is an open square, the Bukhara Library built by the great cannibals, the madrasah, and the famous Great Mosque of Bukhara are distributed around this square, which is a famous art center in the middle of the river, Thousands of students and scholars come here every year to study and spread knowledge, and it enjoys an excellent reputation throughout the Islamic world.

The Zoroastrians were not interested in the library or the academy, but they were concerned about the mosque, which was once the second largest main temple of Ahurlamaz in the Transoxiana region, after the Samarkand Temple, which was demolished after the Great Food Army captured Bukhara fifty years ago and built the Great Mosque of Bukhara on its site, which has become a shrine for Shiites because of the burial of former Shiite spiritual leaders.

But this mosque has also become the deepest pain in the hearts of the Zoroastrians, who have never forgotten this hatred for decades, and when the Tang army reoccupied Bukhara, Zoroastrianism re-emerged, and the restoration of the main temple of Ahuramaz fifty years ago became the biggest dream of the Zoroastrians in Bukhara, but this dream became the source of the Bukhara riots.

Li Qing'an rode into the wide square, which was located on the east bank of the river and belonged to the Muslim territory, but the Zoroastrians did not recognize it, and almost all the demarcation sides were determined, except for this area, which was disputed by both sides.

Li Qing'an went around, carefully inspected the terrain of this area, the square is far away is about ten zhang wide Bukhara River, it is an important tributary of the dense water, the whole city is divided into two, so it has also become the dividing line between the two sects, there was originally a bridge leading to the square, but now it has been demolished by the Tang Army, there are several huge buildings on both sides of the square, which are Islamic libraries and colleges, and a big road is in front of the end, is the source of this riot, the Great Mosque of Bukhara, but the mosque has collapsed, It was demolished by the Zoroastrians during the riots, and at this time martial law was already in place near the mosque, and nearly 1,000 Tang cavalry patrolled near the mosque, and no one was allowed to approach.

However, groups of Muslims and Zoroastrians can be seen on the periphery of the martial law zone, and they are not worried about each other, so they have come to the vicinity to monitor each other.

"Did the general see it?"

Tian Zhen pointed to the two groups of people in the distance and said with a smile: "Those two groups of people are their respective elder groups, they sat together to negotiate yesterday, and they don't know each other today." ”

Li Qingan raised the curtain and looked at it for a while, nodded and said, "Take them to the library, find a room, I will have a meeting with them to discuss the ownership of the mosque." ”

Dozens of cavalry galloped to lead people, Li Qing'an entered the library, the library is a completely enclosed rectangular building, in the middle is a field and open space, surrounded by dense rooms, like a big prison, the difference is that scholars live here, many scholars have lived here for many years, Bukhara has a long history, for thousands of years has been the cultural and artistic center of the river region, and Samarkand is a commercial center, where the culture is profound, Every year, a large number of scholars from Damascus and Constantinople studied religion, history, mathematics and the calendar, and the middle of the building was a place where they walked in search of inspiration, and after the capture of Bukhara by the Great Eaters, it became a natural center of Islamic culture.

Despite the devastating unrest in Bukhara and the nearby mosque as the epicenter of the riots, the hundreds of scholars living in the library did not flee, locking the gates, packing hundreds of thousands of parchments into boxes and hiding them in the basement, where they took up arms and prepared to die defending these precious cultural texts.

But they were also lucky, when the mosque collapsed, the mob left the square and went to the inhabitants to loot and kill, and no one was interested in these parchment rolls.

Led by Library Director Ibrahim, Li Qing'an visited the largest cultural center in the riverine region with great interest.

Ibrahim, a scholar from Damascus who had been in the library for thirty years, and who had devoted all his efforts to the preservation of cultural texts, opened a room and introduced Li Qing'an: "Look here, general, there are three thousand parchment scrolls, mainly from Damascus and Tianzhu, and some manuscripts from the Athenian library. ”

In front of Li Qing'an was a large half-lit and half-dark room, with a ceiling height of about five zhang, huge bookshelves extending to the roof, and dozens of gray-haired old scholars were burying their heads in copying parchment scrolls with quill pens, engrossed, and no one looked up at this side.

"They are all scholars from the West, and the shortest ones are 10 years, and there are many parchment books that are hundreds of years old and have long been broken, so they need to be rescued, and they spend almost their entire lives copying books," Ibrahim said. ”

"The time of a lifetime?" Li Qingan was a little surprised.

"Yes! The time of a lifetime, including me. ”

Ibrahim sighed lowly, the library has no source of funding, all rely on the help of the mosque next to it, and now the mosque is also destroyed, they have cut off their economic resources, no economic resources, which means that there is no bread, no parchment, no ink, they will not survive, but today, Li Qing'an came to the library unintentionally, which brings a glimmer of hope to Ibrahim, if he can get the support of the supreme ruler in Anxi and even the Hanzhong region, then the library can continue to continue, and the culture will no longer be cut off.

He folded his hands and said to Li Qing'an with a hint of pleading: "General, we don't have a Dinar's reward, everything we do is voluntary, just to pass on these books to future generations, just to not let history and culture break in our hands, we are willing to dedicate our life's time, but we only need a little bread, just a little ink and parchment, so that we can survive, but we no longer have any source of funds, only begging the general to give us a little fund, Support the continued continuation of this library. ”

Li Qing'an didn't speak for a long time, he remembered that the same ancient country in the East, the destruction of culture in the hundreds of years in later generations, so that when their descendants mentioned their history, there were only two hundred years left, only a braid of shame left, they forgot that they still had a strong Han and Tang Dynasty, and there was an incomparably prosperous two Song Dynasty, forgetting that they still had iron-blooded ancestors, and their war knives and bows and arrows made the West tremble.

Perhaps, they just lack such a library that continuously records history.

"I know, the Bukhara government will be established soon, and then they will allocate special funds to the library, or special funds will be allocated by Broken Leaves, don't worry about this."

Li Qing'an said this, he remembered something and said: "The big cannibal has already learned papermaking from Chang'an, it is estimated that it will take a long time to spread here, you can select some young people to learn papermaking in Broken Leaves, I hope it will help your library." ”

Ibrahim was overjoyed, he had seen the white linen paper of the Tang Dynasty from the hands of Sogdian merchants, and if he could learn this paper-making technique, it would play an immeasurable role in the preservation of library classics.

"Thank you, General! Thank you, General! ”

Ibrahim was so excited that he couldn't speak incoherently, and Li Qing'an turned back to Zhao Siyi, the judge who accompanied him, and said, "The funding of the library and the study of papermaking will be left to you." ”

Zhao Siyi hurriedly agreed, and at this time, Tian Zhen walked over quickly and reported: "General, both of them have arrived, I will arrange it in a conference room on the second floor, just wait for the general to pass." ”

"Good!" Li Qingan smiled and said to Ibrahim: "Thank you for taking me to visit the library, I still have business, so I'll go first." ”

After speaking, he followed Tian Zhen to the second floor.

．．．．．．．．．． The conference room was temporarily converted from a reading room, and Tang Jun put the tables and chairs in two rows, and eight people from each side came and sat opposite each other, which was a negotiation method they had been using for several days, and the two sides could face to face and frankly express their demands and ideas.

The conference room was surrounded by heavily armed Tang Army soldiers, and from a large window, the collapsed mosque on the opposite side could be clearly seen, which was deliberately arranged by Tian Zhen, so that both sides could face reality better.

In addition to Li Qing'an, there are also the vice kings of Anguo, the Sogdian areas are basically two-king, there are kings and vice-kings, Anguo's Zhengwang Yejie has been killed by Li Qing'an, so that Luo Jiwang, the vice king of Anguo, surfaced, Luo Jiwang is about 50 years old, belongs to the pro-Tang faction, he has a bad relationship with the Zhengwang, and has been deposed at home for a long time.

Neither side spoke, and although they were both Sogdians, their brotherhood was severed by religious beliefs, and they were able to reach an agreement on all issues, except for the ownership of the mosque, which was difficult for both sides to reach a consensus, and neither of them would budge.

At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside, and dozens of Tang soldiers surrounded Li Qing'an and walked into the room, and the general Tian Zhen followed behind Li Qing'an, and when the two factions saw him come in, they all stood up together.

"Sit down, everybody!"

Li Qingan smiled and waved his hand, invited everyone to sit down, he also sat down, and said to everyone: "I want to thank everyone for their reason and mutual tolerance, so that there is no more conflict in Bukhara, and we are sitting here today in the hope of completely eliminating the root cause of the conflict." ”

Li Qing'an pointed to the mosque outside the window, "That's it, I hope we can complete today's negotiations with the greatest sincerity." ”

At this time, an old Muslim man stood up and said: "General, we have talked three times about the ownership of this temple, but we have not negotiated, we are willing to buy this temple with 500,000 dinars, but the other party refuses to accept it, but in any case, the mosque is on the east bank of the river, it should belong to Muslims, we must not accept the appearance of a Zoroastrian temple on the east bank of the river, I hope the general can understand." ”

An old Zoroastrian man on the opposite side also stood up and saluted, and said: "Dear General Li, the original Ahuramaz temple has a history of five hundred years, and it is a holy place for Zoroastrian people in Bukhara and even in the river, it originally enshrined the scepter of the main god of Ahuramadaz, and it is also a Zoroastrian holy relic in the river like the Eye of Light, since the Great Cannibals invaded Bukhara, they destroyed the main temple and also destroyed the holy relics, we have endured this, but we will never allow the construction of a mosque on the temple, this is a blasphemy against the main god, We also ask for the General's understanding. ”

Li Qingan nodded and said: "I know that your contradictions are irreconcilable, so I put forward a third plan, you listen to my plan." ”

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(To be continued)