is already a monarch killer, and the next step is to become a powerful minister, and let public opinion develop in the direction of one's favor, which is one of the necessary conditions.

What's more, the Son of Heaven was choked to death by a steamed bear's paw, which was originally a fact, and now that deadly piece of food is still in Li Longji's trachea.

History has changed, the Han people have not yet gained a foothold in the river and the homeland of Persia, and the power cannot be handed over at this time, otherwise, it will give the great cannibals a chance to make a comeback. The most terrifying thing about the Great Cannibals is that they have a culture comparable to that of the Han Chinese, and once they affect an area long enough, they can completely involve the locals in the world of Hu Da. Even if such a place re-enters the territory of the Han family in the future, it will still be troublesome.

Ma Lan came from later generations and naturally understood this truth. His ultimate goal is not to seize a larger territory for the Tang Dynasty, but to let the Han culture cover a larger area and squeeze out the space of the Hu world as much as possible. Now, from the Tocharian Mountains to the Aral Sea, an iron curtain isolating the Great Food Civilization has become a rudimentary form, but it is not stable, so he cannot exit at this time.

This iron army in his hand is his capital, this is an army that can sweep the whole world, with such an army, he is not afraid of anyone. Now that he's made a decision, there's nothing anyone can do with him.

So he handed over all the aftermath to Duan Xiushi to deal with, and he was doing what he had to do and making the necessary preparations.

Hai Dongqing, who was summoned, had already flown away and would soon be able to reach Chang'an City. He has great trust in Michelle, and with her in Chang'an City, he should be able to perfectly complete the things he explains.

The army remained outside the city of Tingzhou. Replenishment of various materials that have been lost. The materials transported by Qiuzi to Tingzhou through the Baishui Stream Road have not been cut off at all. Piled up in warehouses in the city. Enough Tianlei arrows and all steel arrows of the Yuanrong crossbow were replenished, and there were fifty or sixty more new-style eight-bull crossbows, and the fire and thunder were re-equipped, and the combat effectiveness of the 10,000 Anxi New Army returned to the peak.

The situation is chaotic, but with this army in hand, everything is not a problem. Any conspiracy is a joke in the face of absolute strength.

The matter of the Persian Temple, he also revealed a few points to Duan Xiushi for the first time. However, that was after the messenger sent to Chang'an had gone away. And in the name of the general, he ordered Duan Xiushi not to tell Chang'an for the time being, although Duan Xiushi was puzzled, he could only comply.

Li Heng issued an edict in the name of the crown prince of the prison state, ordering the generals of the northern expedition to go to Chang'an to discuss the reward, and in a few days, the envoy should arrive. However, if Zi dies in Tingzhou City today, Li Heng's edict can be ignored, and as the chief general of the west of the city, he is naturally not allowed to leave without permission at this time. And the messenger who waited for the funeral arrived in Chang'an City. It depends on how Li Heng, the prince, responds to this matter.

There is no doubt that this will also be an extremely tricky matter for Li Heng. The coffin of the Son of Heaven is to welcome back to Chang'an. It stands to reason that he, the prince, has to come to greet the coffin in person, but I don't know if he has the guts.

Rewarding meritorious service and rewarding the soldiers of the Northern Expedition, everything is going on in an orderly manner. Duan Junzi took care of the funeral of the Son of Heaven on the one hand, and these were also carried out in an orderly manner. The money used for the reward was the wealth that the Persian temple had transported to the vicinity of Tingzhou, and this time he had recovered a treasure worth five million yuan, which the great shaman told Ma Lan before he died—of course, at that time, he did not think that Ma Lan would kill him, and told Ma Lan the location of this treasure to show his own strength.

The five million yuan is not a wealth certificate issued by the Hezhong Group, all of them are hard currency, and the acquisition of this wealth can be regarded as saving Duan Junzi's urgency. The army marched north to kill millions of people, and every head was a military merit, although this military merit was easier to obtain, but the rewards were to be given. Such a large sum of money, I was worried that there was no way out, but I got such a windfall all of a sudden.

The athletes were overjoyed when they received the reward, and the sad atmosphere brought about by the death of the Son of Heaven gradually diluted. Gao Qianqian said goodbye to Ma Lu, took those Jianshui women to Anxi, and brought the news of the death of the Son of Heaven with her by the way. Now that Anxi is Feng Changqing in charge, he must not be able to sit still when he knows the news, and he must also think of Tingzhou, at this time, Gao Qianqian naturally has to go back to personally sit in the Ma family's workshop. Today's Ma family workshop has long surpassed the scale of Qiuzi City, this is her biggest effort, after leaving for so long, she also wants to see it in person.

Ma Xuan is ready to share the benefits of the ordnance with Chang'an, and the Ma family workshop will give a part of it to Chang'an for free, this is Ma Lan's decision, although Gao Qianqian is sad, but she still obeyed, this time she went back to Anxi first, and she also had to deal with this matter.

Tingzhou is separated from Chang'an by mountains and rivers, and although the news of the death of the Son of Heaven is spreading rapidly from Tingzhou to all directions, it is impossible to reach Chang'an City at once. At this time, Chang'an City was also in chaos.

Outside the county government office of Chang'an County, the corpses of Persians who could not survive the torture were thrown out every day. In addition to the Persians, there were also some Xinghu merchants who were thrown out later. People don't know what this is for, but this kind of thing has not happened for many years in Datang, and there have been such things in the post-martial arts period before, but it has been more than 50 years.

Hu merchants of all ethnic groups have always been obedient in Chang'an, but now that they have encountered such a catastrophe, the kind people of Chang'an are full of sympathy for them. While speculating about the reason for this, people also scolded Zhang Xun, the head of the household department who did this, compared him to Suo Yuanli Zhou Xing in the post-martial period, and called the county government of Chang'an County the palace of the king of Hades, and called Zhang Xun the living king of Hades.

However, people scolded and cursed, and every day a large number of Persians and Xinghu people were still captured in this Hades hall, and many corpses were thrown out every day. The Hu merchants in the city were panicked, and many of them wanted to escape from the city, but they were intercepted by the forbidden army.

Every day, more and more Hu people are arrested, and more and more corpses are thrown out.

People are speculating whether Zhang Xun has gone crazy. Above the court, there are many ministers who can't see it, and everyone has been honored by the Hu businessmen on weekdays, and it is unbearable to see the Hu businessmen suffering like this.

The ministers in the court also discussed this matter every time, and they all impeached Zhang Xun for being mean and ruthless, but Li Heng was all for Zhang Xun to protect him in every way. Later, Li Heng simply abolished the court meeting and stopped discussing these matters with the ministers.

Although Li Heng is generous and gentle on weekdays, after all, he is a dragon species, and the Persian Temple is about to overthrow the Tang Dynasty, so such a thing naturally touches his bottom line. If he doesn't find these guys out, how can he rest assured. For the sake of the stability of the Tang Dynasty, he didn't care if he killed all the Hu people.

Zhang Xun is for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, what is the point of dying some Hu people. What's more, Zhang Xun's methods are indeed effective, and now there has been good progress.

In fact, the torture and torture is not only carried out in the Chang'an County Ya, on the other side of Zhuque Street, there are many people who are tortured to death every day, but the Chang'an County Ya is bright and dark. It was the Hu people who were torturing over there, but the Han people were torturing here.

The first to be sent here was a servant of the Chang'an County Ya. Not long after the incident of Persian women and children kneeling outside the Chang'an County Ya that day, Zhang Xun found out this guy. This guy who converted to Ahura told everything he knew under torture, and then he still couldn't stand the torture and died directly in the county government of Wannian County. This was actually the first useful clue that Zhang Xun discovered, and then a large net hidden under the surface of the water was uncovered by Zhang Xun layer by layer.

The Persian temple is extremely powerful in Chang'an, and the structure is extremely tight, and every time a person is caught, he can only ask a few people who are related to it, and some are extremely devout to Ahura, and they refuse to admit it to death under torture, and they refuse to let go until they die, so Zhang Xun's progress is not fast. However, when it comes to Datang Sheji, Zhang Xun has enough patience.

This matter is now second to none in Chang'an City, and people's attention is attracted to this matter, and the previous rumors suddenly no one cares. While people were scolding Zhang Xun, the living king of Hades, they were also speculating about what the reason for this incident was and how it would end in the end.

While the people of Chang'an were paying attention to this matter, the two shamans who stayed in Chang'an City in the Persian Temple were also paying attention to this matter. Things turned out unexpectedly, and they gradually became uneasy.

Below them, there were many levels of people affiliated with the Persian monastery, and now a large number of people were losing contact every day, and the hierarchy was getting higher and higher. In this way, I am afraid that it will soon be traced to them.

At this time, they also understood that this time the royal family was targeting the Persian Temple.

Originally, this was nothing, after all, the key to the matter was still on the Tingzhou side, and the conspiracy had already become a conspiracy, and their main task here was to contact and deliver news to the Tingzhou side. In recent days, however, things have taken a turn for the unusual.

Every day, there were falcons coming from the Litting Prefecture, and for three days, they did not see the falcons fall again.

Something must have gone wrong on the Tingzhou side, and the two shamans were uneasy. This suspicion was even more certain on the fourth day when a falcon landed without any news.

What happened to Tingzhou? Both shamans were extremely nervous. And at this moment, on the same day, the two Datang officials who were able to contact them directly suddenly disappeared, which made them really nervous.

Those two were pawns of the Persian temple for many years, and one of them even knew the location of their current stronghold, and the two sides were in daily contact these days, and now this is happening.

The two shamans had a faint feeling that the hand of the living Yama was about to reach here.

In the city, they were like two trapped beasts, and the hunters were slowly closing in on them. (To be continued......)

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