"Thank you, Ma Xiang! The small slave clan must do their best to supply the army, and wherever the army hits, the caravan of the small slave clan will follow! ”

Dou Hao's face showed joy, and he thanked him again and again.

The benefits of doing business with the army have been tasted by the Kangju businessmen, and now they are extremely happy to get such an opportunity again.

A few more expeditions like this, maybe the wealth in the treasury will be restored.

"There you go!"

Waving his hand to let him leave, watching the fat man leave with a happy face, Ma Ling sat on the top of the hall, his brows furrowed tightly.

Mu Kun behaved too rebelliously today, but this guy seemed to be too deferential.

Han Min entered the river in a big way, and among the eight armies in the river, except for the Lantian army south of Wuhushui, the land occupied by the rest of the seven armies originally belonged to the nine surnames of Zhaowu.

If the Kangju people didn't have the slightest dissent, they wouldn't be able to do something like wanting to control Duan Junzi. But today's aggressive performance is not the slightest different from when it was built in Samo, and it is completely a model of a foreign vassal king.

However, the Kangju people have never been fuel-efficient lamps, and those Huxuan women who haunt the homes of Chang'an officials and dignitaries, who are both dancers and killers, are all under the control of the Kangju royal family.

"Could it be that there is more than one side of the Kangju royal family, and that Sogdian cook has nothing to do with the Duai?" Ma Lan's eyes flashed, and suddenly a possibility came to mind.

Of course, there is more than one side of the Kangju royal family, Kang Million is the Kangju royal family, and the forces in the secret are quite terrifying, but they obviously do not belong to the aggressive side.

It would not be surprising if there was a similar force on the other side.

Today, Mu Kun was looking for his own death, but he told Ma Lu a big secret, that is, Yang Guozhong had nothing to do with the assassination of Yankangfang. With this lesson in mind, Ma has been extremely cautious in making conclusions. Duhao's performance today couldn't help but make him wonder if the Sogdian cook was directly related to Duai.

It is a pity that the Sogdian cook has not been found, and if she does, she will have to be interrogated.

……

After thinking for a while, Ma Lan suddenly felt unbearable hunger. I slept for seven days in a row, and when I woke up, I only drank two bowls of gruel, and after tossing for so long, the little food in my stomach had already been consumed. Ma Xuan simply stopped thinking about it, got up and left the main hall, and returned to the living place.

"Father!" When Xiao Ma Chen saw Ma Lan, he staggered over and threw himself into Ma Lan's arms.

Ma Lan smiled and picked up his son, only to realize that in the two months since he left the fishing city to inspect various military towns, the little guy has actually grown a lot taller.

Kang Lin'er looked at the father and son with a smile, the corners of her eyes were still red, but there was blood on her little face.

In the past few days, she has been by Ma Lan's side, and she is extremely worried, and she doesn't know how many tears she shed. This man was her man, her and her son's support, and she didn't know what she would do without him.

Fortunately, the man she liked woke up after all, and she was naturally extremely happy.

"I'm hungry." Ma Lan looked at the Sogdian girl and smiled.

Kang Lin'er sighed, and hurriedly went to fill a large bowl of porridge and put it in front of Ma Lan.

"Nothing else?" Ma Lan smiled.

Kang Lin'er pursed her lips and said with some embarrassment: "I can only boil porridge, and I can't do anything else." ”

Ma Chen broke free from Ma Lan, ran to his own room, took out a large piece of dried meat and ran out, holding it up like a treasure and saying coquettishly: "Father, eat this!" ”

Ma Lan took it with a smile, took a bite hard, and said, "It's so fragrant!" ”

"Father, eat it, I still have it there!"

"You can't eat too much, this one is enough."

Ma Lan patted his son's little brain, sat down with a smile, and ate dried meat with white porridge, only feeling unprecedentedly sweet.

After falling asleep for seven days, it is naturally not appropriate to eat more when he wakes up, Ma Lan is naturally very clear about this, he broke the dried meat into small pieces and ate it carefully, and drank the white porridge with dates on it, Ma Lan felt that his body had recovered some strength, and he stopped eating.

Accompanying his son and Kang Lin'er to wander around King An's palace leisurely, Ma Ling felt very down-to-earth.

After returning to the city after the western expedition to Kufa, he already knew a lot of news from the other side of the Green Ridge, both good and bad, and he couldn't idle his mind for a moment thinking about these things all day long. And at this moment, accompanying Kang Lin'er and Ma Chen, there was a rare moment of peace in his heart.

Now in Chang'an City, Yang Guozhong has restored the title of the Duke of the Kingdom and re-established himself in the court, although the official position is lower than Chen Xilie in the imperial history, I heard that the momentum is better than Chen Xilie. As for the issue of his excessive power, Yang Guozhong has publicly mentioned it several times in the court.

Farther northeast, the administrative office of the Andong Metropolitan Protectorate had moved back to the new city in western Liaoning. Anton has always been concurrently served by the Pinglu Jiedu envoy, so this matter has something to do with himself.

Li Jing did a good job during this time, like a sharp edge in the cone bag, although it was a victory piled up with human lives, but after all, it was a succession of battles, and the Khitan and Xi people had nowhere to hide, so they could only escape far away from the mountains.

Li Jing sent a secret letter, and Shi Siming, the other culprit of the Anshi Rebellion, had been killed by him in the name of missing the deadline, which can be regarded as completing the task he gave him. This kid is called my family by the Son of Heaven, and he is really not an ordinary person, and he has scheming skills.

The Tang Dynasty's front in the northeast continued to open up, and Li Jing imitated his actions in Anxi and asked the Son of Heaven to allow the old soldiers who had honored officials in the second province of Hedong in Hebei to apply for Xuntian in the newly opened place, and he had already obtained the permission of the Son of Heaven.

The Son of Heaven even wanted to carry out a large-scale migration in Hebei and Hedong to move the poor to the northeast, but later it was counted as a resignation due to the arguments of Zhang Xun, the head of the household department.

Zhang Xun's reason was that the cost of immigrating to Anxi was huge, and the household department was already extremely difficult to deal with, and the household department could not maintain it at all if he immigrated to the northeast again, so the Son of Heaven agreed to temporarily postpone this large-scale migration.

However, the postponement is temporary, and since it is postponed, there will be such a day sooner or later.

This is a good thing, the fertile black soil in Liaoxi and Liaodong is the most suitable for Han people to cultivate. The road to migration in this direction is not far, and it will not be as miserable as in the river of immigrants.

I only hope that Li Jing can firmly hold on to the newly opened area and not let the immigrants encounter too much risk.

On the Nanzhao side, Ge Luofeng has completely bowed his head, and at the same time as the ministers are on the table, the army has all withdrawn to the hometown of the six edicts.

Ge Luofeng's backer is Tubo, and the reason for bowing his head now is naturally due to the situation in Tubo's hometown on the plateau.

Since the army of Zhangxiong King Li Mixia broke through the city of Luo, fought to the south of the Yarlung Zangbo River, and dug up the tombs of the kings of the Tubo dynasties, the Tubo Empire has ceased to exist, and now the Qiangtang is in a situation of melee between the large and small Qiang tribes. At the suggestion of Yang Guozhong, the Son of Heaven appointed Lu Dongzan's descendant Gong Ren as the envoy of Qiangtang, led a large army to Qiangtang, and successively subdued the Qiang tribes of Subi, Bailan, and Dangxiang. The rest of the Qiang tribes, under the division of the Tang Dynasty, did not form a joint force to fight back against the Tang Dynasty, but fought inextricably.

On Gongren was stationed at the edge of the Qiang pond, relying on the sale of weapons, food, salt and other necessary materials for the war to various Qiang tribes, and quickly squeezed out the wealth of the Qiang tribes. The more the Qiang people fight the deeper the hatred, the more they beat the fewer people, the more they fight, the poorer they become, because they all have the support of the Tang Dynasty behind them, no one can completely kill the other party, they can only fight endlessly.

The collapse of the Tubo Empire was faster than he imagined, and the Tang Dynasty ministers above the court were obviously not fuel-efficient lamps. King Zhangxiong destroyed the temple of the Sibuye clan in a surprise attack, and then the Tang army took advantage of the situation to go up the plateau, and within a few months it plunged Qiangtang into absolute chaos.

As an ally of the Tang Dynasty, Li Gongbu, the king of Zhangxiong, did not participate in this melee, and after the surprise attack was successful, the whole army retreated to Zhangxiong's hometown, guarding the border and no longer fighting. Du Huan and Cen Shen, like Gong Ren, also peddled war materials to various tribes, disrupting the Qiang tribe and making a windfall at the same time, a large number of materials were continuously transported from Anxi by Xinghu merchants to the surrendered city, and then sold to the Qiang tribe through the hands of Du Huan and Cen Shen.

Most of the news is good news, and the only bad news is that Yang Guozhong has re-entered the court.

Mi Xue is interrogating Mu Kun, and there should be a result soon. However, the assassination of Yankangfang has nothing to do with Yang Guozhong, this is a sure thing.

It is indeed a little inexplicable to have a feud with Yang Guozhong. However, the guards of the Fufeng Hou Mansion who participated in the attack were all sent by the Yang family, who would have thought that it had nothing to do with Yang Guozhong?

If he hadn't made a feud with Yang Guozhong, he should have had enough time to calmly manage the land in the river, but unfortunately there was no if, this feud had already been concluded and had become a dead knot.

The Son of Heaven gave Yang Youniang to marry him again, but Yang Guozhong talked about his excessive power in the court several times, which shows that Yang Guozhong already hated himself to death.

The most depressing thing was that night when he broke into the Yang Mansion and killed so many Yang Mansion guards. Mu Kun is right, those people died unjustly, they were all sons of the Han family with families, but they died in vain under their own knives.

"Father, what are you thinking?" Ma Chen rode on Ma Lan's head, pulled Ma Lan's hair and asked coquettishly.

Ma Lu was stunned for a moment, only to realize that he was already distracted.

Looking at Kang Lin'er, who was smiling lightly, Ma Lan felt a little ashamed in her heart. was originally ready to accompany their mother and son, but the things in my heart still couldn't let go.

Maybe this is fate, it inexplicably appeared thousands of years ago, and I should be heartbroken about these things.

Putting aside these troubles for the time being, Ma Ling concentrated on accompanying his son and Kang Lin'er and frolicking in the garden for more than an hour. Mi Xue, a Xinghu woman, walked into the garden and looked at the happy family of three, and the situation in her eyes was indescribable.

She is the leader of Anxi's secret agents, and she naturally doesn't need to report when she comes to see Ma Lu. Of course, she has always not walked through the main entrance, but climbed over the wall to enter, and naturally no one needs to report it.

"Recruited?" Ma Lan asked.

"Recruited." Michelle nodded.

"Lin'er, take the child back first." Ma Lan looked back at the Sogdian maiden and said. There are some bloody and shady things that he won't let his son touch.

Kang Lin'er nodded lightly and pulled Ma Chen out of the garden. (To be continued.) )