Although the Bianliang court of the Great Song Dynasty is Zhengshuo, it is beyond the reach of the Khotanese whip, Wu Yingying is a Han Chinese, and now occupies thousands of miles of place, the military is strong, and he has the heart to enter the Western Regions, if the Khotanese State is not attached to him, I am afraid that he will clean up Gaochang and Black Khan, and he will deal with it in Khotan. In the past thousand years, when the Central Plains was flourishing, all the countries that opposed the Western Regions were destroyed. As the saying goes, a leaf knows autumn, now look at General Zhang Zhongyao, Cai Lang's deputy envoy two handsome demeanor, accompanied by Xiong Zhen, the scale of the caravan is huge, but also look at the king of the Xia Kingdom actually sent a delegation to the Great Food Country to announce the grandiose style, it is a sign of China's irrepressible prosperity, passed down for more than ten generations, if the Khotanese royal family who has been serving China does not have this eye, it is not worthy of calling itself "Little China".

"Come, General Zhang drinks again, the soldiers of the Wang Division are all like dragons and tigers, but they are forbidden, so enviable, such a tiger and wolf division, I really don't know how to practice it!" Zhang Zhongyao drank up the wine toasted by the king of Khotan, and said with a slight smile: "This is easy to say, my Great Xia army has a promotion system, and it has collected everyone's courage, if the Khotanese army does this, the Black Khanate and the Gaochang Uighurs are not enough!" Khotan had long been in contact with the Lian Rui Army, which ran the southern Tien Shan Dao, and there were many warriors in the army who envied the system of Lian Rui Army, and many people asked the king to change to this system, but this system obviously touched the interests of the nobles. Although Zhang Zhongyao did not hide his selfishness, Wei Chi Dama only had only the only way, Zhang Zhongyao looked at his face, and secretly said in his heart, after His Majesty encompassed the Western Regions and entered the river, the warriors of Khotan could still tolerate those dry bones in the graves that were crippled and deficient. He did not continue to discuss this matter with Yu Chi Dama, but only smiled and circled among the high-ranking officials and nobles in Khotan, conveying to them the goodwill of the Xia Kingdom and the determination to draw his sword to help. Leaving the capital of Khotan, Zhang Zhongyao led the Bactria delegation all the way to the west, and also got closer and closer to the area where Khotan and the Black Khanate were at war, only to see the devastation along the way, ten rooms and nine emptiness, the exquisite Buddhist temples built in the Western Regions for hundreds of years were destroyed into ruins, the Buddha statue was drenched with human feces and horse urine, most of the heads did not know what to do, next to the broken Buddha statue, is the burning of the remaining Buddhist scriptures, a few fragments of the text can be distinguished, often because the temple walls were burned down, suppressed the flame of the original burning of the classics and preserved. Many monks would rather die and hold the Buddhist scriptures tightly in their arms, and the people and scriptures turned into charred black in the flames.

Many more monks were slaughtered because they did not want to convert, and it was common to see white bones around the destroyed Buddhist temples, and between the bones, some monks carried sutras that were completely soaked in blood, and the plasma and pages were glued together and could never be opened.

In Khotan, where Buddhism is worshipped, Buddhist temples are often the cultural center of a region, and large temples preserve all kinds of picture albums, poetry collections, and even account books, household registers, etc., and the barbaric invaders are mostly illiterate, destroying many other texts preserved in the monasteries, and countless torn ancient documents are soaked in pools of blood of slaughtered monks, and blood and paper condense into purple-red masses.

"They came with scriptures, slandered the Buddha everywhere, recruited believers, the monks and the people did not care about these outsiders, the Central Plains is not called 'strange is not strange, its blame is self-defeating', but these Turkic mongrels actually used our unbelief in God as an excuse to send troops to attack, it turned out that those who came to preach the scriptures and slandered the Buddha, together with the miscellaneous who took refuge in them, pointed the way for those robbers. Holding scriptures in his hands, burning and looting everywhere, villains who are more ferocious than horse thieves!" Yu Khotanese guide Shiming introduced to Zhang Zhongyao quite indignantly, "Amitabha, if you commit a reluctance, the Buddha forgives your sins. The anger in his chest was unfillable, and he scolded: "May these murderers who destroyed Buddhist temples and killed monks go to hell." Then he put his hands together and said, "Amitabha." ”

Zhang Zhongyao and Cai Lang stared at the destroyed Buddhist temples and the purple-black bloodstains all over the ground, full of complex and incomprehensible emotions about the Great Food Empire they were about to send, "It is really a country of robbers, and the plundering of Jiangnan and Bashu by the Great Song Dynasty is simply merciful compared to these Turkic robbers under the banner of faith." Zhang Zhongyao said secretly, "If it weren't for Your Majesty's foresight, which had just stabilized the five states and immediately prepared to pass through the Western Regions, I don't know what this place would be like in the future." ”

Cai Lang thought of Liang Zuoqiu mentioning to him that Yang Deliang, who had returned from Da Shi, was like a fighting and provoking the monks and Confucian scholars everywhere, and his heart was heavy, and he secretly said: "The master knows a lot about Da Shi and the situation in the Western Regions, why should he allow this person to spread the doctrine of robbers in the country, but don't make a big mistake and repeat the mistakes of Khotan." ”

In the early spring of March, but it was still cold in the northwest, in the mansion of the King of Xia in Dunhuang City, Wu Yingying listened to the news transmitted by the Military Intelligence Department from Chase in the study. Outside the window, the branches of the willow trees are still covered with snow, but the branches have spit out a little green spores, which look more and more delicate against the background of the snow.

At the beginning of the year, Ding Lian, the king of Jiaozhi County, who had seized the south, died, and his younger brother Ding Duxuan succeeded to the throne at an early age, and the general Li Huan launched a mutiny and imprisoned Ding Xuan and his clan. Zhao Jiong took the opportunity to send troops to fight, and ordered the Lanzhou regiment to train Sun Quanxing, the eight envoys Zhang Xuan, and the general Cui Liang of the left prison guard to deploy soldiers and horses by land and enter Jiaozhou from Yongzhou Road. Liu Cheng, the assassin of Ningzhou, Jia Xiang, the deputy envoy of the armory, and the Marquis Wang of the Guange Gate deployed the soldiers and horses by waterway and marched from the waterway.

In this month, for the shame of the snowy city, the Liao Emperor Yelu Xian ordered Xiao Ducai to lead 100,000 troops to attack the Song Dynasty in Xijing Datong Mansion, and the Zhidai Prefecture and Sanjiao garrisoned the soldiers and horses to deploy Yang Ye, and led hundreds of elite cavalry to bypass the Liao army and make a detour behind the enemy, so that the Liao army that was attacking Yanmen Pass was suddenly routed. The defenders of Yanmen Pass took advantage of the situation to switch and kill over, and attacked before and after, the Liao army was defeated and fled, and the prestige of "Yang Invincible" spread through the north again, and the Khitan army on the three sides only knew that there was "Yang Invincible", but did not know Pan Mei, Cao Bin and other generations.

"Taking advantage of the danger of others, it seems that Zhao Jiong's habits have not changed. Wu Yingying sighed and said to Chase, "We must pay close attention to the expansion of the tax collector's office, and first set up the shelves of the State Division, the Manufacturing Division, the Poverty Relief Division, the Medicine Division, and the Capture and Catch Division." Gou Luo'an succeeded him as the head of the Military Intelligence Department, and Xin Gu and Yu Furen had no objections, so you can slowly hand over the personnel and files to him. The stakes are high, the transfer is almost complete, and then the appointment instrument will be issued. ”

Chase figured out what Wu Yingying meant, it seemed that he wanted to expand the Great Prime Minister's Mansion on the basis of the Tax Collector's Mansion in the future, and as the head of the establishment of this institution, his position in the civil service system would be difficult for anyone to replace. ”

Now the position of the head of the Military Intelligence Department has not been handed over, and the Military Intelligence Department has sent many detailed investigations to Mobei, and Chase is very worried about the situation of those tribes recuperating in the Xiaohai area, but because Xia Guo is restrained by the Song State, he has not been able to concentrate a large-scale army to go deep into Mobei and completely eliminate them.

So Chase said again: "The army under Cao Han crossed the border to fight in the grass valley and was taught a few times by the good students of the White Feather Army, and they didn't dare to move recently. However, because the Song army stationed troops on the border, the hussars and the white feather army could not go north, and the Duhan army and the same enemy army with their troops and Yin Hu have arrived in the Xiaohai area, building cities and grazing, but the strength of the two armies is a little weak, and now they can only sweep a surrounding area, and they cannot send a large army to completely wipe out the surrounding barbarians. This gave the barbarian tribes who had been expelled to Mobei a chance to breathe, and when the summer solstice and autumn came, the livestock would multiply, and then there would be a resurgence. However, those barbarians who bred in Mobei were all frightened by the Wuxia army, and they did not dare to pick up the tiger whiskers of the hussars and the white feather army. ”