When Don Bijia saw the dazzling flag, his eyes suddenly flashed with stars, and he turned his head in annoyance and asked Zhou Yi: "Didn't you say that Li Siye is in Chang'an?" Whose flag is that? ”

Zhou Yi denied it: "It's just selling dog meat on the head of a sheep, and I dare to guarantee that the one standing immediately under the big curtain must not be Li Siye." ”

As soon as his words fell, Li Siye had already urged the horses to move forward, and Bai Xiaode and other generals behind him hurriedly persuaded him: "The lord in front of the two armies must not be in danger. ”

Li Siye turned his head from the side of the horse and said: "It's okay, I rode to the position of the two armies alone, and asked Zhou Yi, the king of the eight lambs, who dared to take my Li Siye's gold after eating the bear-hearted leopard, and the old boy of Dun Vigana, who lent him the guts?" ”

He rode his horse to the center of the two armies, shook his beard and shouted to the opposite side: "Zhou Yi Zhou Zhongcheng, please come and speak, and the Don Viga Khan, please come and see me." ”

Zhou Yi's face was frightened, and he involuntarily pulled the reins of the horse and retreated. Dun Bijia trembled all over, and stepped forward on his horse, and came to Li Siye's side timidly with his head half-bowed. He knew that the divination a few days ago had come true, and it was in danger to be able to see Li Siye alive, and if he couldn't see him face to face, it would be a disaster.

Li Siye stroked his beard and sneered: "Don't be harmed, I haven't met you for so many years, I didn't expect the first time I saw you in this kind of place." ”

Dun Bijia hurriedly put on a smiling face: "Since Dr. Li concurrently served as the envoy of the Hexi Festival, I didn't dare to expect to see you, but now I heard that you are about to become the emperor." ”

"Who told you that? Hearsay cannot be trusted. Now, I would like you to come here, not only to catch up on the old days, but also to ask you to explain to me what this scene is all about. Are you bold enough to commit rebellion? Or am I too old to stop the moraine? Well! ”

Dun Biga's body trembled, he turned over from his horse and bowed down and hugged his chest and said, "I tell you the truth, I do covet the treasury of Tingzhou, but I really don't know that it was you who came to take this treasure, and if I knew that even if I borrowed eighteen dares, I wouldn't dare to make a mistake in front of you." I think that when you led the army to the west and the north, wouldn't we just have to drink soup behind you? ”

Li Siye nodded: "Since you say so, then please change your evil and return to the right to make meritorious contributions, and take down the rebellious people, I will not blame the past." ”

Zhou Yi couldn't hear it from afar, but he could see that he was really cowardly, and if he turned against him before the meritorious service, wouldn't he die on the spot?

He quietly untied the horned bow from his back, took it from the quiver in his hand, and put it on the bowstring, ready to give Dun Viga a deep chill.

The eldest son of Dun Biga, Moro Teqin, looked at his father worriedly in the military formation, and looked at the Beiting Army with caution, when he suddenly saw Zhou Yi take out a horned bow and prepare to release a cold arrow. He quickly propped up his horned bow and mounted the arrow, and an arrow stabbed Zhou Yi's arm, causing Zhou Yi's arrow to deflect, only stabbing the drooping cloak of Dun Viga.

Khan turned around, dragged his cloak and saw the cold arrow, he was shocked into a cold sweat, and hurriedly crossed his hands to Li Siye and said: "Please rest assured that Dr. Li is willing to atone for his sins and take the head of this Zhou Yi to you!" ”

He pulled the reins and turned over on his horse, waved his arms and said in a loud voice: "Athletes, kill the Beiting Army for me and take down Zhou Yi." ”

There were still many officers in the Beiting army in the era of Li Siye, who had long been unwilling to work for Zhou Yi to protect his wealth, and as soon as Ge Lulu turned against him, he surrendered in batches, leaving only Zhou Yi and his son to flee east with hundreds of personal soldiers.

Li Siye waved his army east into Tingzhou City, heard that Zhou Yi and his son wanted to escape through the Shatuo tribe into Huifu, Bai Xiaode and other generals asked for orders to lead the army to pursue, Li Siye smiled and waved his hand and said: "You don't have to worry, the Shatuo people will send his head over." ”

Only five days later, the Shatuo tribe sent an envoy to the city of Tingzhou, holding a box containing the heads of Zhou Yi's father and son in his arms.

Li Siye immediately ordered the envoy to be invited to the city, personally affirmed the contribution of the Shatuo tribe, recognized their loyalty and support to the Tang Dynasty, and also promised to seal the leader of the Shatuo tribe as the general of Zuo Wuwei, the opening of the palace with the three divisions, and the Shatuo Khan. Feng Dun Viga is the ten surnamed Khan, and the broken leaf is calmed as the location of the khan's tooth tent.

This can be regarded as Li Siye's last resort, now the Central Plains is still in turmoil, he can't focus on the Western Regions, so he also needs these Western Regions minority forces to help stabilize the situation. The day before yesterday, the Di newspaper came from Chang'an, saying that Shi Siming went south after recovering his vitality and occupied Luoyang, and in order to celebrate the change of the year name Yingtian to Shuntian, he proclaimed himself the mighty emperor of Dayan. Li Siye knew that his time in the Western Regions would not last long, and Shi Siming occupied Luoyang, and he probably refused to give up if he didn't make some trouble.

He learned a lot of things from Wei Boyu to the west of the Green Ridge, the big cannibals took advantage of the emptiness of Anxi, and sent troops to occupy the nine kingdoms of Zhaowu, and the Zhaowu Jiedu he appointed made Bi Sishen defeated and prepared to retreat to Shule, but he died of illness on the road, and the Zhaowu army had more than 15,000 people, only 5,000 returned to Shule Town, and the remaining 8,000 people were fooled to India.

Only then did he think of asking about Zhao Congfang, the envoy of the Tianzhu Festival, could it be that he was also defeated by the Great Eclipse. Wei Boyu held back his wry smile, sighed and said, "There are a few of my entourage who used to be members of the Western Regions Chamber of Commerce and came back from Tianzhu, let them tell you." ”

Wei Boyu beckoned outside the hall, and an official in a cyan round-necked robe walked in, knelt on the ground and crossed his hands: "Humble Li Bu greets the king." ”

Li Siye naturally waved his hand and said, "Find a felt and sit down and continue." ”

After Li Bu thanked him, he knelt on the sheep felt at the bottom of the head, and said in detail: "Great King, the humble position is the account office of the Western Regions Chamber of Commerce in Tianzhu, since the shopkeeper Dai Wang followed you back to the Central Plains to quell the rebellion, the trade route to Hexi has been running for a while, but the festival has made Zhao Congfang gradually have ambitions, and took the initiative to interrupt the post road from Tanju Ridge to Green Ridge. At that time, he covered the sky with one hand in northern India, and felt that the Central Plains was too far away from him, and the imperial court had experienced war, so it was impossible to extend its tentacles here, so he gathered a few cronies under him and had the idea of becoming emperor in India. ”

"Emperor in India?" Li Siye felt very ridiculous in his heart, in such a multi-ethnic country, the foreigner is still the majority of the Aryan race, the caste system is complete, and there is an independent religious and cultural system to claim the emperor, the feasibility seems too low.

Of course, he knew that to do so, he needed the approval of the Brahmin temple, so he called all the elders to a meeting, but the elders refused. These brahmins then called on the Kshatriyas and Vaishyas in Qunu to revolt, and the rebels lasted only a month before they were suppressed by Zhao Congfang, who slaughtered many of them and forced the Brahmins to tamper with the teachings of Brahmanism. ”

"Doctrines can be changed, how did he change them?"

"Isn't there four castes in Brahmanism, which represent the head, upper body, legs, and feet of Brahma. He directly asked the Brahmins to create a fifth caste on top of the four castes, which was said to be the golden crown on the head of Brahma. The caste that represented the Golden Crown were the Han Chinese and Sogdian soldiers who followed him. This is how the soldiers under the command of the Zhaowu Jiedu were deceived by him into going to India, saying that following his allegiance would enable him to become the noblest fifth caste, and that he would be able to ride on the heads of the other four castes. He himself is the jewel in the golden crown and can be emperor for generations. ”

Li Siye was directly surprised, he knew that Zhao Congfang was capable, but he didn't expect him to have the ability to match his ambitions, he hadn't returned to the Western Regions for five years, he had made all kinds of psychological preparations, but he still didn't expect such an accident and situation.

"Keep talking."