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But it is easy to come, but it is difficult to go, the Tang army has surrounded them from three directions, and in the south is the elite of the 20,000 broken leaves Tang army, which held several cities such as Yili City, and with the cooperation of the Sanhu coalition army, it began to recommend to the north; In Gongyue City, there were 20,000 Tongluo troops and 10,000 Shatuo troops, who blocked the road back to the east and entered Beiting; And to the north of Jinshan is the 30,000 Gelulu army that came with monstrous hatred, and the Hui people killed all their parents and sisters, and they came back desperately.

The Hui people finally chose to fight with the Qarluqs, which is a mentality of cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, and it is also to prevent the Qarluq people from retaliating in the future, it should be said that this is a battle in which the Hui people put themselves to death, according to the rules of the steppe people, the Luo army and the Shatuo army did not participate in the war, let the Qarlu people solve the hatred themselves, the Tang army also stopped a hundred miles away, Li Qingan sent a secret order: not allowed to interfere in the civil war of the Hu people.

This is a battle of revenge and counter-revenge, the two sides are equal in strength, evenly matched, after a fierce battle of two days and two days, the dead bodies are all over the grassland, this is another never-ending battle, the Qarluq people swore to kill all the Hui people at all costs, and the Hui people were entangled by death, unable to get out, after both sides lost nearly seventy percent of the troops, the Hui people finally lost their support and were defeated, the last five thousand remnants of the army fled on the grassland, and there were only eight thousand Gelulu people left in pursuit, they kept chasing and fighting, After chasing thousands of miles away, exhausted countless war horses, in the end, less than 2,000 Hui escaped, and the Qarluq only had 5,000 tired troops left.

After the last 5,000 Qarluqs returned, Li Qing'an scattered the 5,000 remnants of the army into the Tang army, and incorporated the Qarlu grassland into the Xiaye Prefecture, where Xuanchi County was built, and since then, the Jinshan Qarluq people have died out in the long history of the Tang Dynasty.

．．．．．．．． Time gradually to the beginning of November, the second heavy snow swept the land of Anxi again, the real sense of the harsh winter is coming, the war in Anxi has also died down, into a period of recuperation, at this time, Anxi's militia conscription began to be busy, all states and counties are full of conscription notices, Anxi is not the inland conscription system, but the military household system, that is, every family has the obligation to send troops, according to the regulations, each household only sends one soldier, and his parents and wives enjoy rent-free tax treatment, when the farm is busy, The magistrate also had to organize manpower and cattle to provide support.

However, this military household system was only implemented among the Han Chinese, and this time, the Anxi Jiedu Embassy issued a retirement order, that is, the scope of conscription was expanded to the entire Anxi, including all ethnic groups, of course, their parents, wives and children can also enjoy the treatment of Han military households.

Officials in Anxi also estimated that according to this method of conscription, at least 100,000 troops could be added in one winter.

At the same time, more than two dozen ordnance workshops in the country of Broken Leaves and Stone began to get busy, building weapons and preparing firearms, and every household in Anxi was also given the task of winter, with the government providing raw materials, and each household had to sew a sleeping bag and make three pairs of thick-soled military shoes.

At the beginning of November, 100,000 sets of Mingguang armor, 200,000 horizontal swords and 100,000 crossbows were transported from Chang'an, and the convoy arrived in Beiting, which undoubtedly greatly enhanced the strength of the Tang army in Anxi.

Just when the preparations for the broken leaves were in full swing, Li Qingan's focus quietly turned, and he only needed to make a direction to prepare for the war, and other specific implementation plans were naturally arranged by his subordinates, and he was thinking more about Chang'an's affairs.

The carriage galloped quickly on the streets of Broken Leaf City, Li Qingan sat in the car and calmly looked at the rather lively street market, it is now the beginning of November, and it will be the New Year in two months, the streets of Broken Leaf are no different from the hinterland of Guanzhong, there are horse-drawn carriages from all over the country to buy New Year's goods from Broken Leaves, many of them are several Han families to purchase together, most of them come from various Han settlements, although the settlements are not short of food, but they are said to be common necessities and jewelry, far less abundant than Broken Leaves.

On the snow-covered streets, there was a long queue in front of the two recruitment points, and several Hu businessmen with a long camel team were asking the street pedestrians about something, the camels were carrying thick cotton bales and blankets, which were good to sell at the moment, and the military and civilians needed them in large quantities, Li Qingxin also had a trace of feelings, after the battle of Tangbo this time, he was afraid that there would not be too many opportunities to return to Anxi, how to strengthen the connection between the mainland and Anxi, is the top priority he has considered in the past few days, of course, He has now established a perfect carrier pigeon communication line, set up more than 20 carrier pigeon transit stations along the way from Chang'an to Broken Leaf, and set up more than 50 post stations, so as to ensure that the pigeon letter arrives in Broken Leaf within 15 days and Ma Xin within 50 days.

Just two months ago, a clever pigeon innkeeper had invented a 'pigeon language', represented by the Turkic alphabet, a letter that could represent a common sentence, as long as both sides were equipped with the same deciphered copy, so that a large amount of information could be written on a very small piece of silk.

This is the predecessor of the code in later generations, this method has been concerned by the military, take it to study, maybe in the future scouts will not be afraid of being intercepted by the enemy to send letters, greatly strengthen the secrecy of the intelligence, for this reason, Li Qing'an specially ordered to reward this person who invented the 'pigeon language', and transferred him to the Anxi Military Marching Sima Department.

But this is still not enough, the delivery of materials is still difficult, from Chang'an to transport materials to Anxi to 50 days to two months, during which the transportation alone will consume a lot of manpower and material resources, in order to strengthen the communication between the two places, the construction of the Tang Straight Road has become the top priority, in order to speed up the progress of road construction, Li Qing'an also ordered the military to put the 25,000 Tibetan prisoners of war captured in the battle of the end of the city into the road construction army, he hopes to complete this arduous project within the next year.

The Anxi Political Affairs Hall has repeatedly calculated that if the Tang Straight Road is used to ride a horse from Longyou to Anxi Yizhou, it will only take 15 days at the earliest, and then build a large number of transit warehouses and post stations in Huizhou, Ganzhou and Yizhou, which will undoubtedly greatly strengthen the material and communication links between Anxi and the Central Plains, which is an encouraging prospect.

Only by solving the transportation problems in Anxi and the hinterland can he move strategically eastward in the true sense.

Just as Li Qing'an was pondering, a shout came from a recruiting point on the street, "Where am I not qualified?" I'm skinny, but I'm eighteen years old, and I don't lie to you. ”

"Xiao Langjun, you are obviously a child! We have rules that are not accepted under the age of 16. ”

"I can read and write, I can do a clerical job, I beg you, I came all the way from Chang'an, just to make a contribution in Anxi, you can accept me!"

Li Qing'an seemed a little familiar with the young man's voice when he heard it, so he immediately ordered: "Stop!" ”

The carriage stopped, and Li Qingan saw that there were many people around the recruiting point, so he said to a personal guard: "Go and see, what's going on?" ”

Several guards rode over on horseback, and the onlookers dodged away, and the guards shouted and asked, "The general asked what happened here?" ”

The lieutenant in charge of recruiting pointed to a beggar-like young man next to him and arched his hand: "This young man wants to join the army, and I see that he seems to be less than sixteen years old, so I will not allow it." ”

At this time, the young man timidly peeked at Li Qing'an's carriage, turned around and ran away, and several conscription soldiers next to him grabbed him.

"You let me go, I'm not in the army!" The teenager struggled desperately.

The guards glanced at him, saw the panic in his eyes, and were suspicious, so he waved his hand and said, "Take them all!" The general wants to ask. ”

The lieutenant in charge of the conscription brought the boy to Li Qing'an's carriage, but the boy turned his head and refused to look at Li Qing'an.

At this time, Li Qing'an had already recognized this young man like a beggar, his extremely ugly face was his signboard, this young man turned out to be Lu Qi, the son of Cheng Lu Yi in the imperial history, he had seen him once in Lu Mansion a few months ago, and encouraged him to go to Anxi for a walk, but he didn't expect him to really come to Anxi, and he still came to break leaves, seeing that he looked like he ran away from home.

Li Qingxin couldn't help but admire this young man's determination a little, but his face didn't show it, his face sank, and he shouted: "Lu Qi, are you guilty?" ”

This young man was Lu Qi, he was inspired by Li Qing'an that day, and he made up his mind in his heart, and after several discussions with his father were rejected, he left a letter, carried dozens of silver dollars in his arms, and rode a thin donkey to Anxi alone.

After a few months of stumbling, his money has already been spent, and the thin donkey has already been sold, and he came to Broken Leaf as a partner for a Hu Shang, Hu Shang didn't dare to take him west, so he gave him a little money to break up, Lu Qi wanted to go to Li Qing'an, but he dared, so he mixed in Broken Leaf for more than 20 days, and happened to meet Broken Leaf conscription, so he decided to join the army.

Lu Qi was really scared in his heart, so he had to honestly step forward and salute: "See Uncle Shi!" ”

"I ask you, do your father and uncle know that you have come to Anxi?"

"I don't know!" Lu Qi lowered his head timidly.

"It's your luck that you don't die now, otherwise your sin of unfilial piety will be confirmed."

Admiration is admiration, but Li Qingxin is also annoyed by this young man's recklessness, if Lu Qi dies in Anxi, then the feud between him and the Lu family will be concluded, fortunately, God let him meet this young man.

Lu Qi's lips moved, and he suddenly mustered up the courage to say: "General, I want to join the army, I know I can't fight, but I can do civilian work, copy documents and so on." ”

Li Qingan shook his head and said: "The Anxi Army does not allow young people under the age of sixteen to join the army, this is an ironclad rule, whether it is a civilian or military position, as the lord of Anxi, I can't take the lead in violating it, you are only twelve years old this year, and you are still four years old, even if you have great ambitions, you go back to Chang'an first, and read the military book for a few more years, and when you are sixteen years old, I will allow you to join the army in Longyou, and now you write a letter home to ask your father for sin, do you understand?" ”

Lu Qi lowered his head in frustration, he knew that he had no hope, Li Qingan waved his hand and said to the two pro-soldiers: "Take him to my mansion, hand it over to the third lady, and say that this is my nephew, let the third lady arrange his food and lodging." ”

As soon as the pro-soldier agreed, he gave up a horse, picked Lu Qi on the horse, and took him away, Li Qingan was still not at ease, and told a pro-soldier: "Keep an eye on him sooner or later, don't let him slip away again." ”

The pro-soldier nodded and followed from a distance, Lu Qi's surname Ren made Li Qingan feel a headache, it seemed that he had to write a letter in person to explain it to the Lu brothers.

He shook his head and said, "Keep going!" ”

The carriage continued to move forward, walked a few more streets, and stopped in front of a big mansion, and Luo Pinfang and more than a dozen other people were waiting at the door, and when they saw Li Qing'an coming, they came up together.

This mansion is where the helm of the Hidden Dragon Society is located, and the tablet of the Hidden Prince Li Jiancheng is in the house, since the Han and Tang Societies were officially changed by Li Qing'an to the Anxi Internal Affairs Department the year before last, the Han and Tang Societies have disappeared, but the core of the Han and Tang Societies Hidden Dragon Societies still exist.

Li Qingan is still the head of the association, and the 20 members represent the 18 generals of the building, but many of these 20 members work in the Department of Internal Affairs, perhaps themselves or their families.

The rest of the older people turned their minds to their own family business, such as Luo Pinfang, who and Chang Jin were both vice presidents of the Hidden Dragon Society, but Chang Jin became the head of the Anxi Internal Affairs Department, and Luo Pinfang did not enter politics because of his age, but his eldest son Luo Qiming served as the governor of the Hezhong Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, and Luo Pinfang himself and his second son were doing trade between Anxi and Byzantium, and established Luo Ji Trading House, which was one of the three largest private trading firms in Anxi.

Although Luo Pinfang and the others have turned their minds to trade, they dare not forget the purpose and centennial goal of the Hidden Dragon Society, in recent years, Li Qing'an's strength has grown step by step, although they are gratified, but Li Qing'an was named King Zhao, which is what makes them ecstatic, which means that the Li Tang clan officially recognized the existence of the descendants of the Hidden Dragon Society, which is also the first goal that the Hidden Dragon Society will achieve in a hundred years, at least the imperial court recognizes the descendants of the Hidden Prince.

Luo Pinfang stepped forward and said with a smile: "Now that Anxi is busy preparing for war, how can His Highness have time to come to us?" ”

Luo Pinfang is at least nominally Li Qing'an's grandfather, so his tone of voice to Li Qingan is also slightly different from others, and he is a little more casual.

Li Qingan smiled: "What is today, do you think I forgot?" ”

Today is November 11, just one hundred and twenty-eight years ago today, the construction of the eighteen will protect the construction of the crown princess Chang and the completion of the widow of the son of the trek thousands of miles, arrived at the broken leaves, this day has also become the most important two commemorative days of the Hidden Dragon Society, one is the Xuanwumen incident on the fourth day of the sixth month, and the other is the rebirth of the hidden dragon on November 11.

The twelve people of the Hidden Dragon Society who are still in Broken Leaf gathered in the ancestral hall today, originally to inform Li Qing'an, but in the past few days, Broken Leaf has been preparing for war, and everyone has nothing special, so at Luo Pinfang's suggestion, without notifying Li Qing'an, everyone can have a small gathering.

Hearing that Li Qing'an actually remembered this, everyone looked at each other, and a trace of emotion flashed in their eyes, Luo Pinfang bowed down and said: "In fact, it is commemorated every year, and there is nothing special, His Royal Highness is busy with official business, so he will not use it." ”

"Since I'm breaking leaves, how can I not participate?"

Li Qingan saw that everyone was standing at the door, so he smiled and said, "Let's all go in!" Today is an important day for the Hidden Dragon Society, and we still hold ceremonies according to tradition. ”

Everyone walked into the gate, and dozens of Li Qingan's henchmen and soldiers also followed, and the dark door slowly closed.

The back house is the ancestral hall, everyone changed into a silver-edged black robe, wore a crown, each holding a jade plaque, the brand was engraved with the name of their ancestor, they lined up in two lines, with solemn expressions, followed behind Li Qing'an.

Li Qing'an was dressed in a gold-rimmed black robe, wearing a crown, and his long black robe dragged on the ground, leading the twelve members of the Hidden Dragon Society to the gate of the ancestral hall step by step with a square step that can only be found in a drama.

The door of the ancestral hall has been opened, the cigarette smoke in the copper furnace is swirling, and the spirit card of Li Jiancheng is placed on the main table behind the cigarette, which reads: 'The spirit of the prince of the Tang Emperor Benzong Zhengyuan was built', and in the back there is a long row of spirit cards, there is the spirit of the crown princess Chang, and the tablet of the first generation of the Hidden Dragon Master Li Chenghe, as well as the spirit of the eighteen generals.

Standing beside the copper furnace was an elderly man, his name was Chang Lian, Chang Jin's grandfather, and the only surviving second-generation Hidden Dragon Society veteran, who was nearly ninety years old this year, with gray hair, and the wrinkles on his face were full of the vicissitudes of time.

His back was already hunched, trembling and standing there, as if a gust of wind would blow him down, despite this, he was also wearing a silver-rimmed robe, holding a jade plaque, his expression was extremely solemn, his eyes were full of vicissitudes, at this time there were a little tears, he looked at the high-spirited Li Qing'an slowly stepped forward, he seemed to see more than a hundred years ago, eighteen family generals surrounded the young first generation of the head of the association Li Chengji held the same ceremony here.

More than 100 years have passed, and the ancestors have long since turned to dust, but their spirit and their beliefs still exist, and the dreams of the ancestors have been moving towards the moment when their dreams come true.

Chang Jing quietly wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes, picked up the small copper mallet, knocked it lightly on the copper bell, and said in a hoarse voice: "Incense!" Bow down ......"

Li Qing'an took three long incense sticks from Chang Jin's hand, bowed a few times, and inserted them into the copper furnace, and then he knelt down on the white jade steps with twelve members of the hidden dragon, and they bowed to the spiritual position three times reverently, at this moment, Li Qing'an has really regarded himself as a descendant of Li Jiancheng, and he muttered: "The ancestor is above, and the fourth Sun Qing'an swears to the spirit of the ancestor here, one day, I will take the spirit card of the ancestor to go back to the Xuanwu Gate!" ”

．．．．．．．．． After the ceremony, the door of the backyard of the ancestral hall was slowly closed, everyone changed back to their usual clothes and came to the guest hall, sat down in two rows, Li Qingan sat on the main seat, took out the dragon and phoenix Shuangpei and put it on the table, and several of his personal soldiers served tea to everyone.

It's a bit of a tea party, but it's actually one of the rituals, called 'accountability', as the name suggests, it's a reflection on the past year, including the questioning of the leader and the questioning of everyone by the leader.

'What have you done this year?' What are you going to do next year? Everyone wasted another year, if they explained to their ancestors. ’

When Li Jue was the leader of the meeting, what he was most afraid of was this ceremony, and he often came up with all kinds of tricks to prevaricate, such as fainting on the spot when he was asked by everyone, crying bitterly, and swearing, and everyone knew that he was a gentleman, so they didn't investigate him deeply.

But since Li Qing'an ascended to the position of the head of the association, this accountability has changed a little, the key is that Li Qing'an is too strong, and everyone does not dare to attack him one by one, but just elects a representative and asks a few words symbolically with his surname.

Everyone's eyes turned to Chang Jin, today he is the accountability representative, Chang Jin's head is a little big, and his grandfather is also present! How can he question him?

At this time, Chang Shi said: "Today's accountability is up to me!" ”

He left the table tremblingly, knelt down to Li Qingan, and said slowly: "The subordinates dare to ask the master, how much has the world been gained?" ”

Li Qingan bowed down and said: "Back to accountability, the momentum of the world is only three points." ”

"Where are the other seven?"

"Chengdu Shu lord three points, the world's princes and clans three points, the other point is not attached to the hearts of the people."

"When will the human heart be attached?"

"When the hidden dragon is no longer hidden, people's hearts will naturally be attached."

Chang Lin smiled, smiling like a child, "The master said well, when the hidden dragon is no longer hidden, people's hearts will be attached." ”

He also said to everyone: "Since the lord ascended the throne, he has been tolerant of us and never asked, but the birth of the hidden dragon is by no means a matter of the master, and we have the responsibility of the hidden dragon society, I suggest that the hidden dragon society officially move to Chang'an, and twenty members of the hidden dragon club will give up their mundane affairs, use all the resources in our hands, and do our best for the hidden dragon to no longer hide." ”

．．．．．．．．． Chengdu Nanming Palace, Li Longji has been ill for almost a month, since the beginning of autumn, Chengdu has been rainy, rarely sunshine, the air is very humid, Li Longji can not adapt to such a climate, plus he is weak, so he fell ill.

After he fell ill, he had no intention of interfering with court affairs, and all the things were handed over to Yang Guozhong, Chen Xilie and Cui Yuan.

In the dormitory, there was a palace maid's scream again, several eunuchs were so frightened that they hid aside, they knew that there was another palace maid who annoyed the saint and was beaten with a rod, and now the saint is more difficult to serve than before, and the slightest slowness in the movement will be severely punished, and many people have been beaten to death.

In the dormitory, Li Longji was lying on the couch on his side, his back was rickety, it was difficult to lie comfortably, and his body was sick, which made him feel irritable, and only the palace people were angry.

At this time, Li Longji had a feeling that the end was approaching, the weakness of his body organs made him feel that he had not long passed away, he began to miss his concubine, and he longed to see her again before he died.

He can't see the living, but he doesn't want to see the dead, these days, Li Longji always has a dream that makes him frightened, in the dream, the sons he killed are all bloody to find him, and his ancestors, Zhongzong, Gaozong, Taizong, and Gaozu are all asking him in turn, why do you want to split the Tang Dynasty?

Every time he woke up in the middle of the night, and then he couldn't sleep, looking at the roof and staying up until dawn, Li Longji became more and more afraid, how could he go to see the ancestors, how to explain to the ancestors? Can he say that these are all sins created after the establishment of the crown prince?

An imminent fact is placed in front of Li Longji, who will he appoint as his heir? He has also thought about this issue for a long time, and Jing Wangmao and Wu Wangxuan have refused to come to see him, which has made him very disappointed in these two sons.

He was thinking about which son could reunify the Tang Dynasty, he knew that Sixteen Lang and Eighteen Lang did not have this ability, he would not consider them, in fact, this answer was already coming out, a son with a heart and surname and means that were very similar to him, and if he passed the throne to this son, he should be able to reunify the Tang Dynasty.

"Sit up, I'm going to write a letter!"

(To be continued)