Time gradually passed, no matter how much Zhang Zheng delayed time, how to slow down the speed of progress, he had to reach his destination after all.

On the sixth day of the fifth month, Zhang Zheng led 3,000 soldiers to the city of Xizhou, with an elusive and strange smile on his face.

Zhang Zheng had already sent someone to inform the Assassin Mansion three days in advance that he was coming to take up his post. Therefore, he had already received the news, and Xu Jingzong led the newly built officials of the Assassin Mansion in Xizhou out of the city early in the morning to greet him.

No matter how much Xu Jingzong wanted to monopolize this credit, no matter how Zhang Zheng said it, he was the second-in-command of Xizhou personally appointed by Li Er.

On the surface, Xu Jingzong has always thought that he has done a good job over the years. Just now seeing Zhang Zheng's team coming from outside the skyline, especially seeing Zhang Zheng surrounded by three thousand sergeants in the middle, Xu Jingzong's face suddenly turned blue.

Didn't Zhang Zheng only bring 200 people to his post? Who of these 3,000 people is here to explain it to me!

Xu Jingzong was stunned, and the officials of the Xizhou Assassin Mansion were also stunned. What's going on? ………… Just when the team led by Zhang Zheng arrived at the city of Xizhou, far away in Chang'an, Li Er, the Tibetan envoy who had just sent him to the Tang Dynasty to ask for relatives, also happened to get a battle report.

The envoys of Tubo came to Chang'an last year, and the purpose of sending envoys from Tubo to visit the Tang Dynasty was also very simple.

Ask for a Tang princess for their young Zampu. But Li Er refused without hesitation. The Tibetan envoy is very patient, no matter how many times you refuse, anyway, every time I ask to see me, I will definitely mention the matter of asking to marry the princess again.

Leaving this matter aside, after receiving the documents sent back by Li Jing, Li Er looked in the northwest direction, as if he saw a thousand-mile chase by Jin Ge Iron Horse.

Among the battle reports, there are documents from Li Jing requesting the class to return to the court, as well as Murong Fushun's surrender. Li Shimin sat in the imperial study for a long time, and finally signed a quasi-signature on Li Jing's request for the class teacher to return to the court.

Then he looked at the table from Murong Fushun, and didn't know what he was thinking. Fu Yun fled west, not knowing whether he was killed by his subordinates or committed suicide.

But before the defeat, he still appointed Prince Fushun to stay behind in Fuqiu City. It's a pity that Fu Qi City was already an empty city when it arrived in Fu Shun's hands.

Except for a few old and sick people in the city, there were only less than 3,000 defenders left. There are no baggage supplies or anything like that.

Fu Yun took almost all his belongings and began his escape brigade. It's just that Fu Yun wouldn't have thought that this biological son, whom he had high hopes for, would choose to open the door and surrender directly after he opened the road of escape... Li Shimin looked in the northwest direction for a long time.

Finally, I put pen to paper and write down a holy decree, which is the will of the edict of Fushun. Murong Shun was the king of Xiping County and the late Lü Wu Gandou Khan, and succeeded Fu Yun as the new king of Tuyuhun.

After approving Li Jing's battle report, Zhang Zheng raised his head and looked in another direction. That direction is not Tuyuhun, but further north.

There are two powerful nomadic empires, one is called the Western Turks, which is the product of the collapse of the Turkic Empire, and the other is called Xue Yantuo, which is a rising star that gradually rose after the fall of the Turks after eating the dividends of the steppe.

Whether it is Xue Yantuo or the Western Turks, without exception, they all played a role in fueling the Tuyuhun Dynasty's knocking on the border of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Shimin can feel the wolf ambitions of these two countries. So Li Er pursed his lips and muttered softly: "Cautious, cautious, I hope you can support my army to come to the Western Regions in person." As Zhang Zheng predicted, Li Shimin's next target was Xue Yantuo and the Western Turks.

At the beginning, Li Shimin exchanged the death of the old Li Gang for ten years of peace in the Tang Dynasty. Now that half of the ten years have passed, and there are still so many enemies in Datang, Li Shimin is of course very anxious.

Last time, it was because the remnants of the extermination of the Turks were still there, so even if the Tang Dynasty was in turmoil, these surrounding foreign countries did not dare to have any ideas.

But now it has been several years since the fall of the Eastern Turks, and many people have forgotten the might of the Tang Iron Cavalry and began to gradually infiltrate the borders of the Tang Dynasty.

Only by solving these things can Li Shimin devote 12 points of energy to face the counterattack of those who have been attached to Datang like poisonous sores after ten years of peaceful life.

Western Regions, Mobei, Liaodong, Annan...... There are enemies of the Tang Dynasty everywhere, and Li Shimin certainly has a reason to be anxious.

"Shadow, do you think the Zhang family kid can make a little better of the Western Regions for me?" After thinking for a long time, Li Shimin asked lightly towards the shadows in the darkness.

The shadow in the dark didn't talk as usual, and Li Shimin didn't care, it seemed that he was just talking to himself.

………… Outside Xizhou City, Zhang Zheng took the lead in welcoming Xu Jingzong with a hearty smile.

"Oh, Uncle Xu has tormented his little nephew, how can he be a little nephew, he actually bothered Uncle Xu's father to welcome him." Zhang Zheng's attitude was too good to say, as if it was really a junior who had met a kind elder.

Zhang Zheng's attitude made Xu Jingzong's heart suspicious. He didn't have much contact with Zhang Zheng, but he had more contact with Zhang Gongjin.

After all, the two are both former ministers of the Qin Palace, even if they don't get along in their hearts, at least on the surface, everyone has the same position.

And Zhang Zheng, Xu Jingzong had only heard that he was a prodigal son who relied on his father's power to run rampant in Chang'an.

It wasn't until Zhang Zheng became famous in the past few years that Xu Jingzong noticed the son of the old man. But I only noticed that there wasn't much overlap in reality.

It stands to reason that if you kick him out, no matter how stubborn you are, it is impossible not to understand what this means.

If you change to yourself, it's already good if you don't shake your face. But the young man in front of him, how can he feel like a hungry dog seeing?

And Zhang Zheng was followed by these 3,000 people, and he actually gave himself a very familiar illusion, which is not good.

But Xu Jingzong is also a thousand-year-old fox, although he is suspicious in his heart, his face is silent. He pretended to be angry and said: "Nephew Zhang Xian, the old man heard that you set off from Chang'an in December last year, why did you arrive in Xizhou at this time, it really made the old man wait for a while." ”

"The little nephew knows the mistake, the little nephew knows the mistake, it is really the beautiful scenery along the way, the beautiful rivers and mountains of the Tang Dynasty make the little nephew subconsciously can't help but sink in, and he forgot the time for a while, this is late, please uncle don't blame." Zhang Zheng looked at Xu Jingzong with a smile, and confessed his guilt, and his attitude was so good.

"How can a young man lose his mind by playthings, just for the sake of Er's father's face, the old man will not care about you this time, the old man has prepared a banquet in the Assassin Mansion to pick up the wind and wash the dust for the virtuous nephew, and the virtuous nephew will come with the old man." From beginning to end, Xu Jingzong did not mention the matter of the 3,000 people behind Zhang Zheng, but just talked to Zhang Zheng as an elder.

Zhang Zheng sneered in his heart, and arched his hand: "Uncle Xu has taught him a lesson, and the little nephew knows." Then he called Kurban and whispered a few words in Kurban's ear, so that they took Chen Yu and other guards to follow Xu Jingzong into Xizhou City.

Xizhou City is still the same lively and prosperous appearance, and it seems that the city changed from Gaochang to Datang has not had much impact on this city.

But everyone knows that today's Xizhou is indeed different from the past. At least the people under the original Xizhou City have now begun to regard themselves as Tang people.