In the second year of Dazhong (848), Zhang Yichao led the people to form a Guiyi army to expel Tubo and recover Guazhou, Shazhou and other places; and sent envoys Gao Jinda and other letters to Chang'an.

In the fourth year of junior high school, Zhang Yichao led the crowd to recover Xizhou.

In the fifth year of Dazhong, he successively recovered Shazhou (Dunhuang), Guazhou (Anxi), Yizhou (Hami), Xizhou (Turpan), Hezhou (Linxia), Ganzhou (Zhangye), Suzhou (Jiuquan), Lanzhou, Shanzhou (Qinghai Ledu), Kuozhou (Qinghai Hualong), Minzhou (Gansu Minxian) and other eleven prefectures, and sent his brother Zhang Yitan to bring the territory of the household registration into the court, and Tang Xuanzong then gave the edict to appoint Zhang Yichao as the defense envoy of Shazhou.

In the second year of Xiantong (861), Zhang Yichao recovered Liangzhou.

In the eighth year of Xiantong, Zhang Yichao entered the court, and he was appointed to observe and dispose of the envoys in the eleven prefectures of Hexi, the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu, the secretary of the school department, and the doctor of the imperial history, and the marquis of Wanhu in Hexi. Before leaving, he ordered his nephew Zhang Huaishen to preside over the military and political affairs of the Guiyi Army.

While defending Hexi by force, Zhang Yichao also actively managed the country, vigorously developed production, and restored the economy.

The Hexi region is an area where ethnic minorities live together, some of them are farming, some are grazing, and some are doing business.

Zhang Yichao set about restoring agricultural production, paying attention to the construction of water conservancy and the development of irrigation. At that time, many ditches were built in Shazhou, and each ditch also had special management personnel such as "canal head" and "lifting gate".

Due to the construction of water conservancy and irrigation, the development of agricultural production has been promoted, and there has been a bumper harvest of grains.

In the thirteenth year of Xiantong (872 AD), Zhang Yichao died in Chang'an.

Sanguang turned brilliant yesterday, and the six counties were like Yao.

Don't moisten the fields this year. The homeland fruit tree resembles tea fat.

There are ten mills of water in the river, and the gurgling flow overflows the hundred canals.

It must be rich and cheap, and the truce is to read the documents.

Zhang Yichao is undoubtedly the best among people. National hero, in order to praise his exploits, the local people made lyrics saying:

Since Situ returned to Que, there has been my Shangshu solo progression.

Holding the five states of Hexi, Dehua Enzhen and flying away.

The natural god will be brave and strategic, breaking through Xirong in the south and sweeping Hu in the north.

Thousands of miles can extinguish the beacon fire, and the first hundred cities of Guizhou will come to Suzhou.

After Zhang Yichao's death. His nephew Zhang Huaishen continued to preside over the military and political affairs of the Guiyi Army and maintained the stability of Hexi.

But in the first year of Dashun (890), Zhang Yichao's son-in-law, Shazhou Assassin Shi Suoxun, launched a coup d'état.

Due to the dysplasia of the elbows and armpits. Zhang Huaishen's brother was caught off guard, so "the brother died and the brother mourned, and the society collapsed".

Suo Xun then set himself up as a festival envoy.

In the first year of Jingfu (892), the Tang Dynasty officially recognized him as the envoy of the Hexi Guiyi Army.

Afterward. Zhang Yichao's fourteenth daughter (that is, Li Mingzhen's wife) was very dissatisfied with Suo Xun's killing of Zhang Huaishen's brother and seizing power in Hexi by force. led the soldiers to kill Suo Xun, "Lai Taibao gods, Gu En was killed, the heirs were re-glorified, and then the posthumous grandson was reorganized."

Zhang Chengfeng, the grandson of the Li family, was the envoy of the Guiyi Army.

Zhang Yichao's Zuo, thus revitalizing.

In August of the third year of Guanghua (900), Tang Zhaozong issued an edict and posthumously recognized the fait accompli. The edict said: "Before the system, the deputy envoy of the Guiyi Army, the right to know the soldiers and horses, the doctor of Yinqing Guanglu, the inspection of the school of the country's sacrificial wine, the supervision of the imperial history, and the Shangzhu State Zhang Chengfeng as the inspection of the school left scattered cavalry, and the history of the Shazhou thorn, the imperial history doctor." Returning to the righteousness and moderation, Gua, Sha, Yi, Xi and other states observed and dealt with the envoys of the Zhubo Fall. ”

Zhang Chengfeng to Tianfu (901-903) is still the envoy of the Hexi Festival, Feng Tang Zhengshuo, the end of the Tang Dynasty, always the Tang manager Hexi, can also be said to be not resigned.

During the reign of Tianyou (904-907), Zhu Wen coerced the Son of Heaven and ordered the princes to compete for the Central Plains, and the Tang Dynasty existed in name only.

In the second year of Tianyou, Zhang Chengfeng established himself as the white-clothed son of heaven and established the Western Han Jinshan Kingdom.

Years of war have caused the economy of the Guasha region to wither, many people have been ruined, and "the sound of crying and resentment is soaring" in the territory. Losing the support of the Han people, Zhang Chengfeng's regime was finally defeated by the Ganzhou Uighurs in the fifth year of Kaiping, and was forced to recognize the Uighur Khan as his father and become a vassal of the Ganzhou Uighur regime.

It was not until the fourth year of Qianhua (914) that Cao Rengui (later renamed Yijin), another major clan in Shazhou, replaced Zhang Chengfeng and restored the title of Guiyi Army, and the society in the Kuasha region became more and more stable and the economy prospered.

After Cao Rengui, his descendants successively, successively Cao Yuande, Cao Yuanshen, until the current Guiyi Army Festival envoy Cao Yuanzhong.

Baili Wuji and his party, after eight days of rushing, came to Shazhou.

After a group of more than 300 people entered the Guasha territory, they were targeted by the Guiyi army.

After explaining the intention, the Guiyi Army accompanied Baili Wuji and his party into Shazhou City half-escorted and half-sent.

And Cao Yuanzhong had already led the crowd to wait outside the mansion.

Cao Yuanzhong didn't know that the person who came was the emperor of the Ming Kingdom, otherwise, he would have already been out of the city.

And Baili Wuji doesn't want to reveal the news and cause unnecessary trouble.

Cao Yuanzhong's round face is beardless, he is born white, and he does not have a trace of the heroic demeanor of a general, if he is in Jinling, mixed with the students of the academy, he will never be recognized.

In the future, he will guard the land of Guasha, and Baili Wuji is really a little uneasy in his heart.

Under Cao Yuanzhong's warm invitation, Baili Wuji left 300 cavalry to be placed by the Guiyi Army, and Baili Wuji carried Zheng En and was welcomed into the house by Cao Yuanzhong.

After sitting in the hustle and bustle, Cao Yuanzhong introduced the main officials under his command to Baili Wuji.

And there is one person imprinted into the eyes of Baili Wuji.

This person is not Cao Yuanzhong's command, but a businessman from the Ming Kingdom, Zhu Pengliang and Jiang Jiliang are the people in charge of smuggling ordnance to the Guiyi Army.

When Cao Yuanzhong finally introduced this person, this person immediately bowed down to Baili Wuji's knees, and exclaimed: "Grass people Ding Yuanhe greets Your Majesty." ”

As soon as Ding Yuanhe knelt down like this, Baili Wuji's identity was about to come out.

Cao Yuanzhong and his colleagues stood stunned on the spot, this is not worship, and it is not worship.

Baili Wuji was annoyed by Ding Yuanhe's words, so he simply faced it calmly.

Baili Wuji said: "Cao Jieshuai doesn't have to care, I hiked in the Western Regions, and for the sake of safety, I hid my identity." ”

Cao Yuanzhong is now difficult to ride a tiger, if he bows down, he will be named a monarch and a minister, and since then the righteous army will be attached to the Ming State, and Cao Yuanzhong has not yet made up his mind whether to vote for the Ming State or the Zhou State.

But if you don't bow down, it will be equivalent to tearing your face with the Ming Kingdom, which makes him unwilling, after all, the ordnance from the Ming Kingdom this year has greatly satisfied the equipment of the Guiyi Army, and the traders from the Ming Kingdom have promoted the prosperity of melons and sand.

Thinking left and right, cold sweat dripping.

Baili Wuji smiled and walked towards the middle of the hall, and after arriving, Shi Shiran sat down, not treating himself as an outsider at all.

Cao Yuanzhong's subordinates were unwilling, but they didn't dare to stop without authorization, so they could only look at Cao Yuanzhong.

Seeing that Cao Yuanzhong was still hesitating, Baili Wuji didn't urge him, Gu Zi raised his hand, beckoned Ding Yuanhe, who was kneeling, and stepped forward, and asked, "The one-year period I promised has expired, why are you still in the Western Regions?" (To be continued......)