"This is Chang'an!" When he saw the gate of Chang'an City, Lu Shishi's tears rained down, and he immediately knelt on the ground, when he walked out of the gate of Chang'an and went to the Western Regions, he was only eighteen or nineteen years old, and now more than 20 years later, he is already a gray-haired old man, and the teenagers who went to the Western Regions with him died there, and now there are only a few blood-stained letters left to accompany him back to Chang'an.

"Lu Yishi, don't be too sad." The senior brother gently patted Lu Shixi's back and comforted, there were also tears flashing in his eyes, speaking of which, he had been away from Chang'an for longer than Lu Shixi.

"Master, two, please go to the post station to rest for the time being, the miscellaneous family will enter the palace to play in Your Majesty, you should wait for the news at the post station first!" Duan Mingxiu took them to the post station to settle down, and then said goodbye and left.

"Guo Ye, did you say that Your Majesty would summon us?" Seeing Duan Mingxiu go away, Lu Shishi looked at Shen Long and asked, he was full of expectations for meeting the Son of Heaven.

"The master can definitely see it, we can't say!" Shen Long sighed secretly in his heart, if it was Tang Dezong, who had just ascended the throne, and heard that there was news from the Western Regions, he would definitely summon him immediately, at that time he still had the ambition of Zhongxing Datang, and now his ambition has been silent for a long time.

More than ten years ago, when Tang Dezong ascended the throne, he looked like a generation of Zhongxing lords, and chose cronies and courtiers internally, thus alienating the eunuchs, and accepting the proposal of Prime Minister Yang Yan to implement the two tax laws; At the same time, he worked to eliminate the power of the feudal towns that had grown since the Anshi Rebellion; Externally, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs accepted the suggestion of the famous minister Li Mi to "go north and return to Hui, south to Yunnan, and west to Dashi and Tianzhu" to fight against Tibet, and repeatedly defeated the Tubo army, successfully reversing the strategic disadvantage of Tibet.

In the second year of Jianzhong (781), Li Baochen died in Chengde Jiedu, and his son Li Weiyue asked Dezong to appoint him as the new Chengde Jiedu envoy and inherit his father, but Dezong refused. Li Weiyue then joined forces with Tian Yue, the envoy of Wei Bojiedu, Li Zhengji, the envoy of Ziqing Jiedu, and Liang Chongyi, the envoy of Shannan Dongdao Jiedu, to raise troops to rebel.

Dezong ordered Youzhou to stay behind Zhu Tao and Huaixi Jiedu to make Li Xilie and others quell the rebellion; The army initially loyal to the central Tang Dynasty had the upper hand, and Li Zhengji died of illness shortly after his rebellion, and his son Li Na continued to lead the Ziqing army, but was besieged; Liang Chongyi was defeated by Li Xilie and committed suicide; Li Weiyue's subordinate Wang Wujun rebelled, killed Li Weiyue and asked the central government to surrender. Among the four towns, only Wei Bo's Tian Yue is still fighting against the central government, but he is no longer alone.

But at this time, Wang Wujun and Zhu Tao led troops to rescue Wei Bo, Tian Yue, Ziqing Li Na, Tian Yue and others were able to recover, and then Li Xilie rebelled, and the disaster of the feudal town intensified.

In the fourth year of construction, Yao Lingyan led 5,000 soldiers to Chang'an. At that time, most of the Jingyuan soldiers left the station, most of them took their children with their families, hoping to get a generous reward from the imperial court after arriving in Chang'an, but they did not gain anything until they left Chang'an City. At that time, Dezong issued an edict and ordered Jingzhao Yin Wang Hong to reward the army, Jingzhao Yin Wang Xiang only rewarded coarse tea and light rice, and the soldiers were very angry, and then launched a mutiny, driving Dezong out of Chang'an and taking refuge in Mukden.

After this incident, Emperor Dezong's ambition gradually extinguished, and he began to appoint eunuchs as commanders of the forbidden army, and increased miscellaneous taxes such as shelves and tea throughout the country, which led to growing resentment among the people. It tolerated many things in the feudal town, which made the power of the feudal town increase day by day, and missed the good opportunity to revive the Tang Dynasty.

If he hadn't made so many mistakes, perhaps the feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty would have been quelled, and if he hadn't refused to join forces with the Hui Khan because of the unpleasantness of his early meeting with the Hui Khan, perhaps the road to the Western Regions would have been reopened.

It's a pity, it would be nice if I could have come a few years earlier, at that time Emperor Dezong was still ambitious, and there was a famous person like Li Mi to assist, and there were famous generals like Hun Yang and Li Sheng, and there was no chance to revive the Tang Dynasty and reopen the Western Regions.

But now, everything is too late, an emperor who has lost his ambition is unable to lead the Tang Dynasty to regain the glory of Zhenguan and Kaiyuan, and Li Yu has died last year, Hun Yang and Li Sheng are also dying, and it is impossible to rely on the domestic strength of the Tang Dynasty to aid the Western Regions.

However, this does not mean that Shen Long's efforts to come to Chang'an were in vain, if this is the case, he will not come back for a special trip; The situation in the Anxi Prefecture is completely different from that in the Tang Dynasty.

Due to geographical characteristics, the Western Regions are full of vast deserts, and there is no way to form large areas of densely populated areas like the Central Plains, and most of the people in the Western Regions gather in a few places with water sources, and the Silk Road linking the Tang Dynasty and Dashi is like a silk thread, connecting these cities.

The Western Regions could only flourish with thriving commercial trade, otherwise agriculture and animal husbandry alone would not be able to feed many people in such a water-scarce place; Commerce has brought benefits to the countries of the Western Regions, and coupled with the elite soldiers and strong generals of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the countries of the Western Regions will obey the words of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate so much.

And now, Tubo has cut off the Silk Road, in the words of those lobby merchants in the advertisement, "business has become more and more difficult to do in recent years", and the countries in the Western Regions have also lost their interests, plus most of the soldiers and horses of the Anxi Protectorate have been transferred back to the Tang Dynasty, and the Anxi Protectorate has lost its position in the Western Regions.

Now it is impossible for the Tang Dynasty officials to send reinforcements to the Western Regions, but it may not be impossible to reopen the Silk Road, Shen Long came back to Guazhou, Suzhou, Ganzhou, and Liangzhou, and the line was cut off by Tubo, but the north belongs to the Hui, and the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Hui is still good, the year before last, Tang Dezong just married the eighth daughter of the Xian'an princess to the Hui longevity Tianqin Khan, and allowed it to change its name to the Uighur; Later, the Uighurs briefly defeated the Tibetans and reopened the Silk Road.

If the merchants are allowed to go north to return to the territory of the Western Regions and transfer to the Western Regions, perhaps the traces of the merchants of the Tang Dynasty can appear in the Western Regions on a large scale and continue to bring considerable benefits to the countries of the Western Regions.

Therefore, Shen Long came to Chang'an for several purposes, first of all, to bring back Tang Dezong's will, although now the Tang Dynasty has no way to provide them with substantial help, but to be commended by the Tang Dynasty, compared to the morale of the remaining soldiers of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate and the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate will also be encouraged, right?

The second is to encourage more merchants to return to the Western Regions through the territory of Hui, and to do this, Shen Long alone cannot do it, he needs the support of a family with great influence in Chang'an.

While pondering, someone outside came to report, "Master Guo, on behalf of the Duke of the Kingdom, please come over to the house." ”

said that Cao Cao Cao was here, and as soon as he pondered about it, someone came to the door.

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