In a light snow like a fine flot, 40,000 Tang troops arrived in a mighty procession to the largest city in the river: Samarkand.

This city of 300,000 people, after decades of conquest and slaughter by the Great Cannibals, has been devastated, and today it welcomes the first entry of Tang Dynasty troops.

40,000 Tang troops set up camp at the city gate, and dozens of squads entered the city to inspect the situation, survey the terrain, inquire about the population, and prepare for the next ceremony.

In the camp, Li Qing'an was explaining tomorrow's arrangements to the king of Shiguo, Tel, and the prince Hassan, who had just arrived.

"According to the information I have received, the kings of various countries have already arrived in Samarkand, and tomorrow I will talk to them about the future military and political arrangements, and please ask the king to give them a thorough understanding first, so that the two sides can cooperate better."

Teller bowed and smiled: "General, please speak, I will definitely tell you." ”

Li Qingan walked a few steps with his hands behind his back, and said with a smile: "Let's talk about the meaning of the saint first, the saint made it clear at the beginning of the year that he was not to blame for the past, so I can't ask them for blame, this is the bottom line, you can tell them first to reassure them." ”

Teller groaned and said: "Although the general has this heart, I suggest that I give them the answer at the end, so that the general can put forward more conditions first." ”

"Condition!"

Li Qingan sneered and said, "Are they still qualified to make conditions with me?" Did they ever ask the cannibals to make a condition? Now that our army has entered the Transoxiana region, it is up to me to do it, and there is nothing negotiable. ”

Perhaps feeling that his tone was a bit heavy, Li Qing'an softened his tone and said: "Of course, it is not my main purpose to give them the truth, this is just to stabilize the situation, I hope that the king can understand the current situation of the Sogdian countries for me, what difficulties they have, and what expectations they have for the Tang Army, I want to know all this, and I hope the king can make this bridge for me." ”

"I know, I'll go to pacify the countries for the general."

At this time, Hassan next to him asked in a low voice: "The general once promised us that if we take Hezhong, we will be led by Shiguo, I wonder how the general will arrange?" ”

Teller's spirits lifted, this is also his most concerned question, their Shi country for this battle of Talas almost poured out of their pockets, 20,000 soldiers killed and wounded half, for this Li Qing'an promised them, take the river, will give Shi Guo compensation, now is the time, then how should Li Qing'an fulfill his promise?

Li Qingan smiled and said, "Don't worry!" This time you have done your best for the Battle of Talas, I will not treat you badly, and I will make my own arrangements for tomorrow. ”

Teller father and son thanked him for leaving, Li Qing'an pondered for a while, and then ordered the soldiers: "Invite Mr. Li Mi and the clerical officer Luo Qiming, and then call me Li Fei Yuanli." ”

Soon, Li Yu and Li Fei Yuanli came to the big tent, and Luo Qiming, who was in charge of the documents for Li Qing'an, also came, Luo Qiming is the son of Luo Pinfang of the Broken Leaf Hidden Dragon Society, that is, the uncle of Li Qing'an, the descendant of the Hidden Prince, he is quite knowledgeable, proficient in Turkic and Sogdian, so he was arranged by Li Qing'an to join the Anxi Army and be in charge of the documents.

Li Qingan asked the three of them to sit down and poured tea for them, Li Mi and Luo Qiming were fine, but Li Fei Yuanli was uncomfortable, he quickly stood up and said: "If the general has any orders, just give orders, so please sit down and pour tea, Lao Li can't stand it." ”

"Then you can stand aside!"

Li Qing'an was not polite to him, unfolded a map of the middle of the river, and smiled at Li Mi: "I have thought about Mr.'s suggestion repeatedly, and I want to improve it again." ”

Li Mi arched his hand and said: "Please speak, I will listen to you." ”

Li Qing'an pointed to Samarkand and said: "Mr. suggested that I build a military town in Dawan and Xiaye, and establish a river festival envoy in Samarkand, although this plan is good, but I am worried that the imperial court will oppose me to serve as the river festival envoy, or let me serve as the river festival envoy, and remove me from the post of Anxi festival envoy, so I want to revise this plan, not to build a river festival envoy, but to set up a Samarkand military town, and set up a guard envoy in various countries, what does Mr. think?" ”

Li Mi frowned, "But if you set up a military town, there are too few troops, so how can you resist the counterattack of the big cannibals?" ”

"Quite simply, use the Sogdian army to fend off the Great Cannibal counteroffensive."

Li Qing'an pointed to the map and said with a smile: "The nine Sogdian countries, plus the Shi Kingdom, Kuzhanti and Bakhana, are actually twelve countries, and I plan to let these twelve countries set up a joint military-political conference in the river, that is, an alliance, the role of which is to jointly resist the eastward expansion of the Great Eclipse, each country has a seat, a small country has a seat, and a large country has two or three seats, and all the diplomatic and military affairs related to the Sogdians are resolved by voting, and the majority vote prevails, so that the Sogdians can act in concert and will not be broken by the Great Eclipse Army." ”

Li Mi understood a little, and hurriedly asked, "What does the envoy mean to let the Sogdians finally become a country?" ”

Li Qing'an smiled faintly and said: "It is not my intention to make the Sogdians a powerful country, this joint military-political conference is just a tool, now it is military and diplomatic power, and in the near future, the taxes and internal affairs of the Sogdian countries will gradually be unified into the military-political joint conference, and this military-political joint conference is actually my Tang Dynasty, and mastering it is equivalent to mastering the Hanzhong region, as for the Sogdian joint army, it belongs to the military-political joint conference in name, In fact, the command and the right to appoint and dismiss officers were in the hands of the Anxi envoys, and of course, the Sogdians were responsible for the military expenditures. ”

Li Mi suddenly realized, he stroked his beard and smiled: "I understand, what the general means is that no matter what the general does in the river in the future, it will be the decision of this military-political joint meeting in name, and it has nothing to do with the general, right?" ”

"High!" Lifei Yuanli next to him also understood, and he gave a thumbs up and praised: "I said that the Sogdian matter was also added to the Bahanna, it turned out that the general used it to deal with the imperial court." ”

"It's not exactly against the imperial court."

Li Qing'an smiled and said to Li Fei Yuanli: "The focus is still to deal with the big cannibals, this Sogdian army, I plan to establish a strength of 50,000 people, some of them are prisoners of war in Talas, and the other part is those miners trained in Broken Leaves, I will leave the peacetime training of these 50,000 people and the defense of the big cannibals to you, but other major decisions must be decided by me, I will give you another 6,000 Tang troops, and you are the first soldier and horse envoy in the river." ”

Only then did Li Fei Yuanli understand the reason why Li Qing'an called him, it turned out that he was actually going to hand over the Hezhong region to him, he was excited in his heart, and immediately bowed down and said: "My subordinates will never live up to the general's expectations!" ”

Li Qingan nodded and said to him: "You are only in charge of the military, and you don't interfere in the local government affairs in the river." ”

He turned back to Luo Qiming and smiled: "Although this joint conference is an internal affair of the Sogdians, it must also reflect the will of my Tang Dynasty, so you will be my representative, stationed in Samarkand for a long time, and you have the right of veto on the resolutions they pass, if the situation is critical, you need to borrow troops, you can directly discuss with General Lifei, and then report to me afterwards." ”

Luo Qiming hurriedly bowed and saluted: "The subordinates will do their best to serve the envoy." ”

Li Qing'an arranged them one by one, and finally smiled at Li Mi: "The military-political joint conference system is only a preliminary idea of mine, and I have not considered many details maturely, so I will hand over this system to my husband to improve for me, and come up with a plan before I return to Anxi." ”

"The subordinates started immediately, I don't know when the envoy will return to the broken leaves?"

Li Qingan thought for a while and said: "I still have to go back to Chang'an to report on work, I can only stay in Samarkand for five days, and after five days, I will return to Broken Leaves." ”

．．．．．．．．． The next morning, the Tang army officially began to enter the city, the ceremony of entering the city was attended by 6,000 Tang troops, the streets were crowded with cheering people, the light snow flying in the sky could not hide the joy and passion of Samarkand, all kinds of musical instruments were played in the streets, the beautiful girls danced the enthusiastic and unrestrained Hu Xuan dance, when the Tang army brigade entered the city, the whole city was boiling, the people cheered and rushed forward, whether it was a believer in the Yuan religion or an Islamic believer, everyone welcomed the Tang army from the bottom of their hearts, Their joy and excitement stemmed from the promise of the Don Army coach.

The Tang army will not interfere with any religious beliefs of the people, will not interfere with them in rebuilding their own temples, and will not interfere with their pilgrimage to Mecca.

Li Qing'an rode on a war horse, dressed in black bright light armor, wearing a silver helmet, carrying a horizontal knife at his waist, and a huge bow hanging on the saddle bridge, looking majestic, he looked at this historical city curiously, he knew that in the western expedition of the Mongols hundreds of years later, this famous city would be destroyed in one fell swoop, and hundreds of thousands of people were slaughtered, but at this moment, he changed the trajectory of history with an unstoppable force.

As his army passed through the famous Samarkand Temple Square, two temple elders with a large crowd of worshippers came forward and knelt down in the street, holding a gold plate aloft.

Li Qing'an reined in the war horse, he recognized the dagger in the gold plate, it was the one he gave to Julan, he turned over and dismounted, and slowly picked up the dagger from the gold plate, the dagger was burned by the fire, some deformed, but the handle was still intact, and the words 'Li Qing'an' were clearly visible.

An elder cried: "This is the last relic of Kulan, dedicated to the general, may the general treasure it." ”

Li Qingan silently stroked the dagger, there were still blood stains on the dagger, she ended her young life with this dagger at the last moment.

Li Qingxin was extremely sad, the enthusiastic and unrestrained foreign girl appeared in his mind, remembering the happiness when she embraced, and the sadness when she parted, his eyes couldn't help but moisten a little, and he gently put the dagger back on the gold plate.

"She awakened the Sogdians to revolt with her young life, and she should accept the admiration of the Sogdians, so she should be enshrined in the temple!"

After speaking, Li Qingan turned around and strode away.

(To be continued)