At the mention of the Qarluqs, a hint of hatred flashed in the bones' eyes, and he tried his best to calm the anger in his heart, and said slowly, "My father died at the hands of the Qarluq dog thieves. ”

Li Qingan was stunned and said apologetically: "I'm sorry, I don't know." ”

"This has nothing to do with the general, our strength is not as good as others."

Gu Duzhi sighed and said: "In the twenty-ninth year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, the Beiting blizzard, my father led the people to migrate to the west of Jinshan, where the blizzard was less affected, the west of Jinshan was originally uncertain, occupied by the Qarluqs, my father took people to the Qarlu tooth tent to negotiate, and asked them to allow us Shatuo people to stay for a winter, but we were refused, not only that, my father was besieged by the Qarluqs on the way back, and was seriously injured, and then the Qarluqs sent 10,000 people to drive us, killing hundreds of us, and robbing countless women and children and most of the cattle and sheep, We were forced to leave Jinshanxi, and my father died three months later, and in the winter of that year, countless of our cattle and sheep froze to death and starved to death, and the vitality of the Shatuo people was greatly damaged. ”

"Have you ever thought about revenge?"

"Why don't you want to, it's just that Shatuo is sparsely populated and his strength is not good!"

Gu Zhi sighed, his mood was very low, Li Qing'an glanced at him, and said slowly: "If I let Sha Tuo go to Jinshan West to fight with the Qarlu people, of course, the scale will not be too large, but it can't be too small, for example, there is a conflict over the pasture, can you cooperate with me?" ”

Gu Duzhi looked at Li Qing'an in a daze, and said for a long time: "What does this mean?" ”

"You don't care what I mean, anyway, I need the Shatuo and the Qarluqs to clash."

Li Qingan patted him on the shoulder again and said with a smile: "If you cooperate well, I will give you the pastures west of Jinshan to you Shatuo people in the future." ”

Gu Zhizhi's eyes slowly brightened, and he nodded slowly, "I understand, I am willing to serve the envoy." ”

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The next day, Li Qing'an's brigade continued to march eastward, and two days later, the team came to the camp of the Yiwu army, and there were ten miles, Han Zhi, the governor of Yizhou and the envoy of the Yiwu army, and Yang Zaicheng, the deputy envoy, came to meet Li Qing'an.

Yizhou is one of the three states of Beiting, where the grassland is vast, and there are large lakes such as Pu Hai, so agriculture is also correspondingly developed, Yizhou leads Yiwu, Rouyuan, Nazhi three counties, with the most Shatuo people, there are also Qiang people, Tuqi Shi and Hui people, and the Han people are far less than Tingzhou, mainly military households, agriculture is also based on the army tuntian.

"Humble Han Zhi see General Li!"

Han Zhi is about thirty-five years old, tall, rugged in appearance, a pair of small eyes are as sharp as an eagle, his father is a Tang army, his mother is a Shatuo person, he grew up in Beiting since he was a child, and joined the army in the twenty-eighth year of Kaiyuan, like Li Qing'an, he also started from the small soldiers in the fort, and he accumulated merit step by step to become today's governor of Yizhou.

Although Han Zhi's appearance is rough, this person is very good at seeing the wind and making the rudder, and the kung fu is first-class, for example, Li Qing'an sent people to him to ask for support at Yumen Pass, Han Zhi immediately poured out his troops, and all the three thousand Yiwu troops under his rule were sent to support Li Qing'an, and the starry night helped, if he didn't have an urgent matter and couldn't get out, he would personally bring the army to help, and it was the arrival of the Yiwu reinforcements that forced Qianghu to attack the city, and his decisive march left a very deep impression on Li Qing'an.

Li Qingan returned the salute with a smile: "Last time Yumen Pass helped, thank you General Han." ”

"Where! Obeying orders is where it is our duty to do so. ”

Some things can't be explained too clearly, Li Qingan has an order, and Han Zhi obeys the order and does it well, but the problem is that Li Qingan has not yet handled the transfer of military power at that time, and there is no military command and arrows, what order does he Han Zhi listen to? Whose orders are you listening to? The ambiguity in this can be imagined, what he means by saying this sentence is to imply that he obeys Li Qing'an as the Beiting Festival, this is his statement, and it is also his position, of course, the premise is that Li Qing'an cannot infringe on his interests, he is the governor of Yizhou, and the Yiwu army is under his rule, he can obey Li Qing'an's orders, but Li Qing'an cannot interfere too much in the military affairs of the Yiwu army, in other words, to maintain the status quo.

Li Qing'an understood what he meant, when he first arrived in Beiting, it was undoubtedly a stupid thing to make enemies in many ways, what he came to Yizhou to ask for was Han Zhi's obedience, as for other things, it would be a long-term consideration, so he smiled slightly and said: "General Han's vigorous and resolute behavior is admirable, I hope I will cooperate happily in the future." ”

Han Zhi couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard Li Qing'an use the word 'cooperation', and laughed loudly: "Okay! Li Yuanjun is worthy of being a hero, fast talking, please follow me to the barracks and have a look at the army. ”

"General Han, please!"

Everyone turned their horses' heads and galloped towards the Yiwu military camp, the two horses were staggered, and Li Qingan nodded slightly to the deputy envoy Yang Zaicheng to show his gratitude for galloping to Yumen Pass.

Yang Zaicheng also returned the salute, and everyone sped up their horses and gradually walked away.

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Jinshan, that is, today's Altai Mountains, north of Jinshan to the east is the territory of the Hui people, west is the control area of the Qarlu people, southeast is the pastoral area of the Shatuo people, whether the Hui people, the Qarluq people or the Hui people, they are a branch of the Turkic people, after the fall of the Turks, the Hui people gradually became stronger, replacing the Turkic position in Mobei, they submitted to the powerful Tang Dynasty, Tianbao five years, the Hui leader Guli Pei Luo was named Huairen Khan by the Tang Dynasty, the power of the Hui reached its peak, the same year, The Hui annexed the Qarlu tribe of Wudeshan Mountain, and the Qarluq people in the area of Jinshan and Beiting set up their own Yehu and belonged to the Tang.

The tooth tent of Gelulu is located on the shore of Xuanchi Lake in the lower reaches of the Duolus River, their territory is thousands of miles, distributed in the vast land south of Jinshan, the easternmost is the Desert Governor's Mansion, close to the Shatuo Governor's Mansion of the Shatuo people, here is also a large grassland and mountain, in November of the 29th year of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, a serious conflict broke out between the Qarlu and the Shatuo people, and the Shatuo Ye Hu Zhu Xie Fuguo died in this conflict, the Shatuo people suffered heavy casualties, nearly a thousand women and children were plundered and became slaves.

Nine years have passed, and the Qarluqs have forgotten the bloodshed, and they have multiplied and lived a peaceful life on this grassland.

That night, dark clouds obscured the bright moon, a group of nearly 1,000 people of the Qarluq tribe was very lively, sheep into the pen, cattle and horses in the livestock pens leisurely grazing, tents in the fire bright, men, women and children around the stove to cook milk tea, roast mutton, from time to time groups of children running between the tents, laughter spread throughout the grassland.

Suddenly, there was a thunderous sound on the earth, the tea stove on the fire was trembling slightly, the Qarluqs looked at each other, they didn't know what was going on, many people got out of the tents and looked east, the thunder came from the east, but the east was pitch black, and they couldn't see the situation in the distance, and as the thunder became louder and louder, the Qarluq people suddenly understood that it was the sound of the hooves of thousands of war horses.

Three miles away, a black cavalry team swept in, three thousand Shatuo cavalry came fiercely, the Qarluq people called their sons and daughters, desperately ran westward, did not wait for them to escape a mile, Shatuo cavalry rushed into the tent area, the knife flashed, screams one after another, torches were thrown into the tent, the fire was in the sky, more than a hundred tents were destroyed and flattened, the Shatuo cavalry opened the killing ring, men, women and children did not let go, all were chopped to death by a knife, the head of the person rolled, the blood stained the grassland red, except for a dozen people who escaped by luck, The remaining nearly 1,000 people all died under the knife of the Shatuo people.

Seven days later, the news of the Shatuo people's night attack on the Qarlu tribe in Damo Prefecture spread all over Beiting, and also reached the Qarluq tooth tent on the shore of Xuanchi Lake.

Mou Ra Montenegro is over fifty years old this year, medium build, but the shoulders are a little deformed and wide, the hair on his face is unkempt, a big nose with wine lees, since he served as the chief of Qarluq twenty years ago, he has always regarded the Hui as the first threat to Qarluq, especially three years ago, after the Qarlu Department of the Oude Mountain was annexed by the Uighurs, Mou Ra Montenegro was worried, he knew that the Hui people would come sooner or later, for this reason, he has been looking for a new place to live, his eyes have been on the Broken Leaf River, when the Turgish people are strong, He never dared to have such an idea, but now that the Turgish people are decaying, it is time for the Broken Leaf River to change its owner, and he firmly believes that as long as Gelulu gets the Broken Leaf River, the water and soil there will definitely make the Broken Leaf River prosperous.

For this reason, in the past few years, he has been thinking about the Black Mountain, all his thoughts are either worried about the Hui people, or he is plotting against the Tuqishi, and he has never taken the Shatuo people to heart, their leaders have been killed by themselves, and they have not dared to cross the border one step so far, but it is this Shatuo people who he has never taken to heart, but he has attacked his land at night and slaughtered an entire tribe.

A kind of anger at being bitten by wild dogs filled his heart, and at this time, a rough voice came from outside the tent, "Father, give me three thousand cavalry, and let me go to Pingshatuo." ”

A dark shadow strode into the big tent, this is a young man about thirty years old, at first glance he looks almost exactly the same as Mou Ra Montenegro, with a big face, unkempt hair, a huge rosacea, broad shoulders, but his figure is one size bigger than Mou Ra Montenegro, he is the eldest son of Mou Ra Montenegro.

He had twenty women, and he had five women every night to sleep, and secondly, he saw that he had an eye for money, and he especially liked gold, and most of the gold that the Qarluqs had stolen from the Western Turks for more than ten years had fallen into his hands, and in order to get more gold, he married the daughter of a great Sogdian merchant, and his father-in-law helped him take all kinds of precious stones, pearls, and jade to eat, and exchange them for pieces of yellow and clear gold.

He also had a big wish to assassinate Luoduo, which was to marry a princess of the Tang Dynasty, but unfortunately his father did not approve of it, so his wish was not fulfilled for a long time.

Moura Black Mountain was on fire, and when he saw his son entering the tent, he said viciously: "Okay! I will give you five thousand warriors of the Qarluqs, and I will wash the people of Shatuo with blood. ”

"Father, don't be impulsive!" There was another hurried voice at the tent door, and when he heard it, his face sank and he snorted disdainfully.

I saw an equally young man walk in, only twenty-seven or eighteen years old, different from Mou Ra Black Mountain and Mou Thorn Luo Duo who looked like a black boar, this young man was tall, with a pair of slender eyes, a high nose, and a broad and towering forehead, and it could be seen that he had Han Chinese blood.

He is the second son of Mou Raid Sihan, his mother is Han, originally the daughter of the Yizhou military household, in the ninth year of Kaiyuan was taken away as a slave by the Ge Lulu people, Mou Lai Montenegro saw that she looked a little good, so she was accepted as a slave concubine, and later gave birth to Mou Assassin Sihan, she missed her hometown, so she named her son Yan Sihan, when her son was eleven years old, she gave birth to a daughter, and soon she died of postpartum infection.

Yan Sihan and his sister were humble, suffered from white eyes since childhood, until the age of eighteen, he relied on his flexible mind to hunt a big black bear weighing 300 catties alone, which caused a sensation in Gelulu, and also made the black mountain of Mou Ra look at him with admiration, he repeatedly made suggestions, so that Gelulu survived several tribulations, especially the year before last when the Hui people annexed the Gelulu Department of Wudeshan Mountain, the Gelulu Department of Jinshan was in danger, he decisively persuaded his father to take refuge in the Tang Dynasty, so that the Hui people were afraid, and the Gelulu Department of Jinshan escaped a catastrophe.

But no matter how Yan Sihan behaved, he couldn't change his humble identity, especially in the eyes of his eldest brother who assassinated Luo Duo, he looked down on this brother the most.

Yan Sihan's obstruction calmed down a little, and he hurriedly asked, "Why can't you kill Shatuo Dog, do you want us to endure this breath?" ”

"It's no problem for the father to take revenge, but before taking revenge, he should first inform the North Court, the child heard that the North Court has changed the new festival envoy, if he goes to fight the Shatuo people as soon as he takes office, it seems disrespectful to him, the father should first salute and then the soldiers, complain to the North Court, and then move the troops to teach the Shatuo people, so that the North Court has nothing to say."

"Humph! You're quite sensitive to the news of the Han people. The assassin on the side interjected coldly.

Yan Sihan hurriedly stepped forward to give a salute and said with a smile: "Big brother, I also heard from a few businessmen, how can I compare with my eldest brother's knowledge." ”

Yan Sihan's humble attitude made the assassin feel a little better, and he pouted: "You are a little crooked, if you go to Beiting to report according to your wishes and then do it, we will have been scolded to death by the clansmen." ”

He turned to his father and said, "Father, it's better to be like this, report on the one hand, and do it on the other, and the two are not wrong." ”

Mou Ra Black Mountain nodded, he was just about to agree, at this moment, someone outside the tent announced loudly: "Chief, the envoy of the North Court has arrived!" ”

Plotting Black Mountain was stunned, he hurriedly said, "Hurry up, please come in!" ”

After a while, a young civil official of the Beiting strode in, bowed slightly, and said in a loud voice in Turkic: "I am Pei Yu, the secretary of the account of Li Yuanjun of the Beiting, and I am here to pass on Li Yuanjun's orders!" ”

Mou Ra Heishan hurriedly laughed and said: "Li Envoy Jun is the new Deputy Envoy of Jiedu Li?" ”

"Exactly!"

Mou Ra Heishan gave the two sons a look, and the father and son saluted together: "I am willing to listen to Li Yuanjun's orders!" ”

Pei Yu took out a document and said loudly: "Spring back to Beiting, it is the best season for hunting, this general specially summoned the three army generals, and the warriors of Gaochang, Gelulu, Shatuo, Turkic, Qianghu, Tuqishi and other ethnic groups under the rule of Beiting, gathered in Tingzhou to hunt, limited to the first day of the fourth month, all armies gathered in Jinman County, and those who were late for violating the order were punished according to military regulations. ”

After Pei Yu finished reading the text, he smiled and said: "My general said that it is best for all clans to have a prince to come forward, with a limit of fifty people, of which Ge Lulu and Shatuo can be up to one hundred. ”

Mou Ra Heishan pondered for a while, and suddenly asked, "May I ask Mr. Pei, where did Li Yuanjun originally serve?" ”

Pei Yu smiled slightly: "My envoy was originally in Anxi, known as the first arrow in Anxi, has the big chief ever heard of it?" ”

"It turned out to be the Tianshan Blood Arrow!"

The Black Mountain was stunned, and the new envoy of the Beiting Festival, Li Yuanjun, turned out to be Li Qing'an of Anxi who made the Tuqi Shi people frightened.

Pei Yu arched his hand and said: "I have already passed on the order, the big chief, please prepare as soon as possible, don't miss the date." ”

After speaking, he said goodbye and left, as soon as Pei Yu left, Yan Sihan said: "Father, this Li Qing'an hunting is an excuse, he wants to mediate the contradiction between the Qarlu and the Shatuo people. ”

"I heard that, too."

Mou Ra Heishan nodded slowly and said, "Since he has already intended to mediate, it is better for us to go to fight Shatuo immediately, so be it!" ”

He turned back to his two sons and said, "You two will lead a hundred Qarlu warriors to Jinman County to participate in the spring hunt and see how he can reconcile the contradictions between the Qarluq and the Shatuo. ”

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The conflict between the Qarlu and the Shatuo people broke out, so that Li Qing'an ended his inspection of Yizhou in advance, and hurried back to Tingzhou, preparing to mediate the conflict between the two Hu, it happened that there was a custom of spring hunting in Beiting, and in March and April every year, the cavalry and archery masters of all armies and ethnic groups gathered in Tingzhou, which was actually a kind of friendship, and for Li Qing'an, who had just taken office, this year's spring hunting was particularly important. It was an opportunity to establish his dominance in the North Court.

It has been almost a month since he came to Beiting to take office, and although he has greeted Cheng Qianli a few times, Zhao Tingyu, the governor of Xizhou, has never had any news, neither come to meet nor meet, and it is clear that he is waiting for him to inspect.

It's no wonder that Li Qing'an is not a festival envoy after all, nor is he the protector of the North Court, he is a deputy, and on another level, his Governor of Tingzhou is at the same level as the Governor of Xizhou, so Zhao Tingyu has the support of King Qing, so he dares to give him a dismount, as the saying goes, 'A strong dragon is hard to defeat the head snake', the court has given him the highest power, but how to really get these powers, this requires his means.

Li Qing'an was not in a hurry, he handed over the preparation of the spring hunt to Yang Fengche, the previous spring hunts were organized by him, he was good at this kind of thing, and Li Qing'an was in the yamen of the Jiedu Mansion every day to rectify the military affairs of the Han Navy.

There are 12,000 people in the Han Navy, and the soldiers and horses are Lu Fengyuan, the former governor of Tingzhou, Lu Fengyuan has been transferred, and he is temporarily led by the deputy envoy Wang Yichu, Li Qingan naturally took over as the soldiers and horses envoy after taking office, the first thing he did was to reform the Han Navy system, he used the number of Han Navy as an excuse to divide the Han Navy into three, called the Han Navy 1, 2, and 3 armies, and appointed Duan Xiushi and Li Fei Shouyu and Li Fei Yuanli as the soldiers and horses of the three armies, and the former deputy envoy Wang Yichu was promoted to the Sima of the Beiting March, Li Qing'an also gave him the post of Chaosan doctor from Wupin, so that he was transferred to a civilian officer.

Wang Changling joined the army and envoy of Tuntian for the Beiting Record, Cen Shen was the judge, and Pei Yu was the secretary, so that before the spring hunt was held, Li Qingan first grasped the military and political power of Tingzhou in his hands.

In the evening of that day, Li Qing'an returned to the Jinman County Mansion from Beiting City after his official duties, and as soon as he left the city gate, a sergeant came forward to report: "General, there is a businessman from Chang'an, saying that he is your old friend and has an urgent matter to see you." ”

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(To be continued)