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Twenty-five years of Hongwu, golden autumn and August.

Li Cun left an edict in public and placed it behind the Zhengda Guangming plaque in the Qianqing Palace, and issued a formal holy decree:

"If the crockpot does not break from the well, the general will inevitably die in battle. If I die on the battlefield this time, the crown prince Li Biao will succeed me. After the crown prince succeeded to the throne, he took out the edict I left behind the plaque, and my last words are all in this edict. ”

Li Cun even said such a thing, Li Biao and the civil and military officials of the Daqian Dynasty, whether they were true or false, all wailed and cried to keep Li Cun.

Some people also made it clear: "In the conquest of the Western Regions, it is completely possible to send a general to lead the troops, just like the previous expedition to Jin, Goryeo, Western Xia, Mongolia, Dali, the countries on the Indochina Peninsula, and Japan. ”

Li Cun didn't say, if I don't go in person, how can I arrange for my sons who have not yet been fiefdomed, how to use the railway to open up the Silk Road on land, and how to take away all the hidden dangers of the Daqian Dynasty?

Li Cun just waved his hand and said, "I have made up my mind." ", and then let all the civil and military officials disperse.

When only Li Cun and Li Biao, father and son, were left in the Qianqing Palace, Li Cun took out another bag and gave it to Li Biao, and explained: "If one day my son encounters difficulties that are difficult to solve, you might as well open this bag to see, maybe it can solve my son's problem, of course, I hope that my son will never have a day to open this bag......

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On August 16, the sky was clear.

Li Cun took his more than 10,000 concubines, thousands of princes, and princesses, and under the protection of 100,000 tiger troops, boarded the train to Chang'an, Xijing.

Be.

Li Cun's trip was a personal expedition.

But in fact, Li Cun, the emperor of the Great Qian Dynasty, is no longer able to go to the front-line battlefield in person, and the so-called royal expedition is just to bring Li Cun a little closer to the battlefield.

In this way, Yue Fei, Wu Jue, Han Shizhong, Zhao Li, Li Yanxian and other generals who accompanied Li Cun on the expedition this time did not dare to let Li Cun go directly to Xingqing Mansion, the capital of Western Xia, to live temporarily, but first asked Li Cun to live in Chang'an City in Xijing for a period of time, and when they swept the entire Western Regions and found a new comfortable place for Li Cun, they asked Li Cun to move to Xingqing Mansion, and when all the Western Regions were pacified, they would ask Li Cun to go to the Western Regions to live temporarily.

It can be said that Li Cun said very well before departure, and he died on the battlefield or something, in fact, even if the frontline war is unfavorable, it will not affect Li Cun.

Let's put it this way, in case there is a mistake on the front line, Li Cun will get on the train and return to Nanjing Yingtianfu in a day or two.

And where there are no trains?

Where there is no train, Li Cun will not go.

Let's not talk about it, Li Cun, who knows very well that a gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, has no problem with self-abuse, so he has to be in danger.

I just said that with Li Cun's current identity, even if Li Cun wanted to get out of danger, it would be impossible for the accompanying civil and military officials to let him.

In case Li Cun asks the enemy to behead or something, then Li Cun is not purely making trouble for the soldiers on the front line.

Li Cun doesn't want to be Zhu Qizhen and become a laughing stock nailed to the frame of historical shame.

For Li Cun, this imperial expedition is actually more like that he has lived in Yingtianfu in Nanjing for too long, which is a bit boring, so he changes places to live and appreciates the great rivers and mountains of the Daqian Dynasty by the way.

Well...... It's a bit of a sojourn in the afterlife.

However, the difference is that Li Cun's sojourn dispatched 200 trains, 200,000 war horses, and 100,000 guards, and brought out all the people and things he wanted to bring, and there were people along the way who arranged the food and accommodation of Li Cun and Li Cun's entourage in advance.

Some people may want to ask, will Li Cun do this, will it be a bit of a waste of labor and money?

Of course not.

Because all the expenses of Li Cun's trip, including the military salaries of the expeditionary force, were all paid by Li Cun himself, and had nothing to do with the finances of the Daqian Dynasty.

Moreover, Li Cun and his entourage, including the soldiers of the expeditionary force, must give money to buy wherever they pass, even if they want a needle or a thread.

- Not only at home, even when it is abroad, it must be so, this is Li Cun's order to die, no matter who dares to violate it, he will be severely punished.

In addition, the salaries of the officers and men of the expeditionary force (including the salaries of Li Cun's entourage) were all extremely high, and they also had expeditionary subsidies, and there were additional rewards after winning the battle, and they were paid immediately, so they were not short of money at all.

This is not a waste of labor and money.

In fact, on the contrary, the expeditionary force and Li Cun's line can actually bring huge financial revenue to the place wherever they go.

It is no exaggeration to say that all the local governments wish that the expeditionary force and Li Cun's expedition could pass through the areas under their jurisdiction, and it is best to stay in the areas under their jurisdiction for a longer period of time, in which case the people under their rule will make more money and the economy will skyrocket, which is a great thing that cannot be asked for.

It is worth mentioning that although Li Cun did not go to the front line in person, Li Cun sent all his sons who wanted fiefs and wanted to be princes and kings to the battlefield.

Li Cun made it very clear to his sons who wanted to be fiefs and wanted to be princes and kings: "There is no free lunch in the world, if you want a fief and a king, you must earn it yourself, otherwise, you will give up this thought, and go back to the local government to engage in politics, business, or eat and die." ”

No one dared to question Li Cun's decision.

In addition to the unification of the emperors before Li Cun, almost all of them stopped at the Central Plains, and the four were not governed, only Li Cun, at home and abroad, different parties, all for the king's land, strange deeds, unprecedented and unprecedented, people and Shen have a big strategy, with soldiers like gods, martial arts shine, open-minded, magnificent, he uses a fair attitude that wins the hearts of the people to dominate his empire that is expanding every day, and a high degree of wisdom makes him exert a high degree of talent, which makes people unconvinced.

is also because the princes who obtained fiefs and became princes and kings before were all princes who had made great contributions.

- It's not that all the princes who have obtained fiefs and become princes and kings have obtained fiefs and become princes because of their military exploits, some of them are because of the good governance of one side or the good economy or some other merits, in short, if you want to be a fief and become a prince and king, you must show achievements.

In other words, all princes except Li Biao are the same.

In this matter, Li Cun said very bluntly:

"If you have no merit and can't convince the public, I will give you a fief and make you a prince and king, and sooner or later you will be ousted from power, or even killed.

Therefore, Li Cun's sons who want to be fiefdoms and kings must work hard to prove their own abilities.

It should be emphasized that no matter which path these princes take, it will not be easy to get to the point of obtaining fiefs and becoming princes, and they must go through unremitting efforts, even a life and death, to obtain this qualification.

In Li Cun's original words: what is easy to get, no one will cherish.

Moreover, it's not what you want, or where you lay, you'll be given it.

——After obtaining the qualifications, they will also draw lots in batches, and where they catch, they will get it, and there is no room for negotiation in this matter, let alone picking fat and thin.

Aside from Li Cun's insistence on doing this, it means that he treats his son equally, fairly and justly, and there is actually a destiny in this.

If it is placed in the future life, some madmen may say: My life is up to me, not to heaven!

But in this feudal society, people still believe in fate very much, especially this kind of thing of being an emperor and a prince.

You must know that this kind of big thing does not mean that you will definitely succeed if you are capable, diligent, and good at drilling.

Because if you want to achieve such a big thing, manpower is so small, and only with God's help can it be possible.

Otherwise, if a random one is lost on the battlefield, or a random wind chill is infected, it may kill a person.

All in all, although Li Cun has prepared a lot of fiefs for his son and is ready to continue to build more fiefs, this does not mean that as long as he is Li Cun's son, he can easily obtain the ideal fief - if they want to obtain a good fief, hard work and luck are indispensable.

In fact, this also laid the groundwork for Li Cun's descendants to have wars with each other in the future.

After all, some people just don't accept their fate, some people are greedy and want to get better, or even more fiefdoms, and some people simply have the ambition of unification.

In this regard, Li Cun is like a mirror in his heart.

There have been many, many, many examples to prove that history is always strikingly similar.

Let's put it this way, from King Wu of Zhou dividing the world to Qin Shi Huang's unification of the six countries, this is almost the final and inevitable result of the feudal system.

Li Zheng practiced a feudal system outside the territory of the Daqian Dynasty, and in the end it is estimated that he will not be able to run such a fate.

Of course, because Li Cun's feudal vassal states were far more divided than those of King Wu of Zhou, and the territory of the feudal was far from being comparable to that of the Zhou Dynasty, it was unlikely that Li Cun's final feudal vassal states would be unified into one country, and the biggest possibility was that they would eventually merge into dozens or hundreds of countries of different sizes.

And in this process, there must be things like brothers turning against each other and killing each other.

For this inevitable result, Li Cun saw it very thoroughly.

While Lee was alive, he would definitely not let such a thing happen.

That is, no matter who it is, when Li Cun is still alive, it is the dragon that has to be coiled, and the tiger who has to lie down, no one is allowed to change the result of Li Cun's separation, so that Li Cun is troubled, otherwise, if anyone dares to be disobedient, Li Cun will personally kill him.

And after Li Cun's death, Li Cun can only care about its flooding.

If Li Cun still knew about it at that time, at most, he hoped that the meat would be rotten in the pot all the time.

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At the beginning of August of the twenty-fifth year of Hongwu, that is, half a month before Li Cun's personal expedition.

Generals such as Yue Fei, Wu Jue, Han Shizhong, Zhao Li, and Li Yanxian had already led the expeditionary troops out of Yumen Pass and into the Western Regions.

The people of the cities where the expeditionary force passed by had long heard of the deeds of the Daqian Dynasty sweeping through the entire east and conquering everything, and they did not dare to be enemies with it.

In fact, they were not willing to fight with the Qianjun army, after all, many tribes in the Western Regions were forced to submit to the Gaochang Uighurs.

Now that there is a great killing god who can defeat the Uighurs of Gaochang, they hope to overthrow the Uighurs with the help of the strong combat effectiveness of the cadre army.

In this way, these small tribes and small forces in the Western Regions will have a chance to regain their independence.

In other words, in essence, there was no cultural unity within the Qocho Uighurs, and the various small tribes and small forces were only subjugated to the force of the Qocho Uighurs, and they did not complete the integration of civilizations.

Therefore, when the khans and chieftains of various small tribes and small forces in the Western Regions heard that the Qianjun were going to attack the Gaochang Uighurs, not to attack them, not only did they not stop them, but they also took the initiative to lead the way for the Qianjun, and some even begged to join the Qianjun to help the Qianjun fight the Gaochang Uighurs, wanting to share a spoonful of soup with the Qianjun.

-- In the territory of the Gaochang Uighurs, there are many ethnic groups such as the Han Chinese, the Turks, the Great Zhongyun, the Xiaozhongyun, the Xiangmo (i.e., the pharyngeal noodles), the Qarluq, and the Geduo (a branch of the Tibetans), and they are not monolithic, on the contrary, they often fight, and it is not surprising that some small tribes and small forces are willing to join the powerful Daqian Dynasty to help the Qianjun fight the Gaochang Uighurs.

This is certainly a great thing that is too good for the cadres to be better.

You must know that the area of the Western Regions is huge, and the terrain is complex and changeable, and if there is no person who is familiar with the terrain as a guide, it will be very difficult for the Qianjun to find Wang Cheng of the Gaochang Uighurs, that is, the city of Gaochang.

Therefore, Yue Fei and others happily incorporated these small tribes and small forces in the Western Regions and asked them to lead the way for the cadres.

The Uighurs made Gaochang the winter capital and Beiting as the summer capital.

The Uighurs north of the Tien Shan Mountains were mostly nomadic, while the Uighurs south of the Tien Shan were engaged in agriculture.

Most Uighurs are Buddhists, so there are many Buddhist monasteries in the city of Gaochang.

In their early years, the Uighurs had close contacts with both the Zhao and Song dynasties and the Great Liao Empire.

Later, after the rise of the Great Qian Dynasty and the destruction of the Zhao Song Dynasty and the Great Liao Empire, especially after the Great Qian Dynasty destroyed the Western Xia and Tibetans, the Uighur king of Gaochang sent a large number of envoys to the capital of the Great Qian Dynasty to meet and make contributions.

What impressed Li Cun the most was that the year before last, Bilge sent envoys to present Buddha teeth, amber cups and glassware (glassware) to Li Cun.

Seeing that the Uighurs had sold glassware and offering it to him, Li Cun was really a little crying and laughing.

In addition to offering treasures, the Uighurs did not know where they heard that Li Cun liked women, anyway, every time Bilgo sent an envoy to meet Li Cun, he would present fifty Falcon beauties to Li Cun.

Those Uighur beauties were either amorous, graceful, or smart, elegant and beautiful, or fairy-like, so that Li Cun knew that Liu Che, Li Shimin and others definitely did not go to the Western Regions for the sake of those two or two raisins.

Li Cun once saw that Bilge was quite a good man, and personally wrote a letter to Bilge, asking him to lead the Gaochang Uighurs to surrender and accept the demolition of the Daqian Dynasty.

However, Bilge did not accept Li Cun's stubble at all, but blindly asked Li Cun to pass on the Uighurs of Gaochang, saying that the Uighurs of Gaochang were willing to become vassal states of the Daqian Dynasty and absolutely obey the rule of the Daqian Dynasty.

Li Cunke clearly knew that in history, when Yelu Dashi was on an expedition to the west, he passed through the Gaochang Uighurs and borrowed from Bilgo, who not only agreed, but also hospied Yelu Dashi, and then took the initiative to offer horses, camels, and sheep, and expressed his willingness to hold his descendants as vassals. Later, after Yelu Dashi established the Western Liao, Bilgejin led the Gaochang Uighurs to join the Western Liao.

As a result, when he came to himself, Brother Bile pushed back, which inevitably made Li Cun, who had already swept half of the world, feel unhappy.

Thus, the first goal of the expedition was to attack the Uighurs in Gaochang.

Under the leadership of those small tribes and small forces in the Western Regions, the large army of the cadres easily approached the city of Gaochang.

Bileco stood at the head of the city and looked at the rows of black red-clad cannons below, his scalp tingling.

The Uighurs occupied the main route of the Silk Road.

Therefore, Bilge was still very well informed, and he knew that the Great Liao Empire, which was much stronger than the Gaochang Uighurs, the Jin Kingdom, which joined forces with the Great Qian Dynasty to destroy the Great Liao Empire, the fierce Western Xia Dynasty, and the once glorious Tibetan tribes, were all destroyed by this powerful red-coated cannon.

Now, the red-coated cannon is on top of the head of the Uighurs of Ghochang.

The combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of Liao, Jin, and Western Xia, and even the Gaochang Uighurs of Tibet, which had fallen apart, did they really have the strength to fight?

After asking himself, Bilgor smiled bitterly.

The answer is obvious.

In fact, Bilge has long known that the Daqian Dynasty cannot be disobeyed, and disobedience will perish.

It's just that Biler has always had luck before.

Now that the Qianjun army is about to begin the siege of the city, if Bilge continues to fantasize about luck, then for the Uighurs of Gaochang, they will definitely face a catastrophe.

Thinking of this, before the cadres opened fire, Biler chose to surrender in Kaesong......

Yue Fei ruled the army strictly, and did not commit any offense against Qiu, the inhabitants of Gaochang City, but he only "invited" all the royal and clan families of the Gaochang Uighurs to Chang'an City, the western capital of Daqian, to meet Li Cun.

After this, the cadres began to sweep through the Western Regions.

At the same time, the civil officials of the Daqian Dynasty took over the city of Gaochang, and together with the officials of the Uighurs of Gaochang who were willing to surrender to the Daqian Dynasty, they governed the city of Gaochang, and organized the people of the Western Regions to build a railway from Yumen Pass to Gaochang City together with the people from the Daqian Dynasty......

In this way, Li Cun's imperial expedition was victorious in the first battle, and the Han people's expedition to sweep Asia, Europe and Africa officially kicked off......

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