At the end of June, Li Siye's injuries had healed for the most part, and he decided to leave for Shule, and before leaving, he said goodbye to Jiedu envoy Meng Lingcha, deputy envoy Gao Xianzhi, Cheng Qianli and others, and said that he was about to get married in Shule Town.

The congratulatory gifts of this era were more inclined to things than money, and they were usually given silk or silk, but they were not confined to these things.

Li Siye didn't want to make the marriage too complicated, except for those red tape etiquette that were unavoidable, everything else that could be saved was omitted, and when the time came, he only needed to set up a few tables of banquets in the courtyard of the Governor's Mansion and invite some acquaintances in the army to come and eat wine and meat.

Feng Changqing and Silu also took his last train to Shule, but Feng Changqing didn't expect that as soon as he joined Li Siye's command, he had to give him a congratulatory gift. He usually has great ambitions, but his family is poor and white, and he is still at the bottom, and he doesn't know how much to send a congratulatory gift to a big official like the Shule town guard, so he is riding on a horse and secretly worried.

The young man Si Lu and Ben would not have thought about such a thing, let alone worry about it, he rode on his horse and thought freely, thinking about how to rush into the city of Broken Leaves in the future, the city was full of fire or something, and the other soldiers were robbing, but he held a blood-dripping horizontal knife, and stepped firmly into the golden tent of the Turgish Khan. At that time, how his enemy knelt at his feet, confessed his sins, and begged him to spare his life, but no matter how much the enemy wept bitterly, he could not soften his heart, which was already as hard as iron and stone, and the horizontal knife in his hand was resolutely cut off, and Mo He's head spurted blood into the sky.

Slurry suddenly pulled the reins of the horse and laughed, and the people around him looked strange, thinking that this child had some kind of madness.

After an eleven days of travel, Li Siye led the people through the city of Fortress in Weitou Prefecture and officially set foot on the jurisdiction of Shule Town.

Located at the confluence of two rivers and the meeting point of the northern and southern routes of the Silk Road, Shule Town is strategically important to the Anxi Protectorate. The Tubo people held Xiao Bolu tightly in their hands, and they wanted to use this place as a springboard to occupy Shule, so as to completely cut off the connection between the Western Regions and the Anxi Protectorate.

Li Siye could feel that the weight of this burden was not light, and before he came to take office, he was not blind, but also inquired about Shule's past history and current situation.

It can be said that since Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty set up the Western Regions Protectorate, the kingdom of Shule has been active in an endless heart of Yan Han, and even in the turbulent period of the Three Kingdoms and the Two Jin Dynasty, the King of Shule still remembers the contact with the Central Dynasty, Cao Wei sent tribute, was sealed in Wei Shizhong, Dadu Governor, Western Jin Dynasty also Feng Ning Shizhong, Dadu Governor, the Central Plains Dynasty of the Northern and Southern Dynasties frequently changed, Shule envoys had bypassed Rouran to send fifteen envoys to the Northern Wei Dynasty.

Later, the Sui family ruled the world, and King Shule sent tribute, hoping that the imperial court could send the capital to protect the palace and return to the center. Unfortunately, the Sui Dynasty was short-lived, and the Central Plains fell into war again, and the hope of the Shule King to return to obedience was once again disappointed, until they ushered in the Tang Dynasty. In the ninth year of Zhenguan, the Shule royal family overcame all difficulties, evaded the interception of the Western Turkic regime, and sent envoys to Chang'an to ask for submission to the imperial court, hoping that the Tang Dynasty could send an agency to rule the Western Regions.

At that time, in order to win over Shule, the Western Turkic Khan named King Shule as Jielifa and married the princess, but he still could not change King Shule's determination to return to the Tang Dynasty. King Shule asked Taizong to set up a capital protectorate three times.

In the past hundred years from Zhenguan to Kaiyuan, the situation in the Western Regions has changed, and Shule Town has been abolished several times, but the only thing that has not changed is the heartfelt heart of Pei, the king of Shule, to the central dynasty.

After Li Siye learned about this history, he also felt that the centripetal force of Shule Town was leveraged, and he was absolutely hardcore. Based on this, he believed that it would be much easier to work as a town guard in Shule.

The current Shule Governor's Mansion is a big dudu, Yao Jianzhou Sima Pei Guoliang is a descendant of the Shule royal family, as soon as you hear this name, you know that the absolute Miao is red, and there is no doubt that he is loyal to the country.

On the afternoon of the third day, Shule City has been looking forward to it, the heavy rammed earth city wall lies under the blue sky, the city gate part is made of sandstone chisel, the top of the city gate was originally a round arch shape, later the Shule royal family repaired the city wall, specially hired craftsmen from Hexi, and added the bucket arch mountain eaves on the top of the exotic style, which also reflects the desire and pursuit of Shule people for the Central Plains culture from the side.

There were two teams of people standing outside the city gate, among them Hu and Han, seeing the chariot and horse team coming with a wisp of dust in the distance, the high-nosed Shule official wearing a round-necked robe stood on tiptoe, opened his mouth and said: "Coming, he is coming."

Zhao Chongxuan, the deputy military envoy of Shule, stood on the left side wearing a light crimson robe with a lack of hips, wearing a red triangular scarf on the top of his head to wipe his forehead, and the head of the towel was facing up to cover the bun to cool off. Don't fight, don't look at the time, is this little bit of solar energy drying people?"

Pei Guoliang, the governor standing opposite him, smiled indifferently, and also stretched out his hand to drive back the entourage holding an umbrella behind him, and asked Zhao Chongxuan in a low voice: "What kind of person is this new envoy of Li Zhen?" Does Zhao Jun understand it, can you tell him?"

Zhao Chongxuan returned the salute and said: "I don't know, I have been stationed in Shule all the year round, and I am not good at socializing in officialdom. I only know that this officer Li was promoted quickly, and I don't know where he came from, and in just a few years, he became famous in Moxi. Oh, we Shule may know that there are few people about him, but if you ask General Li who is in Khotan, even children know that he personally presided over the construction of the desert post station and led the troops to exterminate the sand bandits, which won the hearts of the locals. ”

"In that case, I'm relieved." Pei Guoliang narrowed his eyes and folded his hands in front of his abdomen. He is only in his twenties, but he always makes an old-fashioned and serious posture in front of others, probably because he is worried about being looked down upon.

He suddenly leaned over and asked, "I heard that Li Yuanjun is now serving as the town guard envoy of Shule and Khotan, do you think he will favor one over the other?"

Zhao Chongyu smiled and said: "He is here to be an official and mix political achievements, and he is not here to raise his son, where does he come from to say favoritism, besides, the geographical location of Shule Town is far from comparable to Khotan, how can he rest assured if he does not personally sit in Shule."

While the two were talking, the horse team led by Li Siye was getting closer and closer, and Pei Guoliang finally saw his appearance clearly, and couldn't help but smack his lips and said, "Isn't it too young?"

"I'm not young, and I have a short mustache on my mouth."

"Be young and vigorous."

The two of them judged Li Siye from afar, Li Siye shook the reins of the horse and sped up his speed, came to everyone, turned over and dismounted. Everyone shook their sleeves, took two steps forward and bowed their hands, and threw out the drafts that had already been typed in their stomachs.

"General Li finally came, and I waited for the Shule army and people to look forward to it, and sent people to inquire a month ago, but only when the general's family arrived, did we know that the general had other official business."

"We have sent someone to clean up the general's mansion, please enter the city."

"We have admired General Li for a long time, and it is a great honor to be a colleague with him."

"The general's name has spread all over the desert in Khotan, and meeting today is the only way to get your wish."

With so many people talking, Li Siye couldn't answer them one by one, he only bowed his hand to the first two people in the greeting team, looked at the people behind, and said loudly: "Everyone, how can you be so virtuous, you have to meet you outside the city gate, I really dare not ......"

The young man led the horse to stand behind the people under the scorching sun, and watched indifferently as Li Siye and the group complimented each other, and goosebumps rose. I've never seen it before, and it's still so coy and pretending to be close, the world of adults is really scary.

He led the horse and followed them into the city, looking up at the city cave, the boulder arch was smooth and neat, and the thousand-year-old city really lived up to its name. The streets in the city are arranged on an irregular central axis, mainly because the east and west gates are not symmetrical, and they are far less well-planned than Chang'an City.