Fast horses galloped out of the city, and at the same time, fast horses rushed in from outside the city.

The entire Metropolitan Protectorate is busy day and night, and all the news inside and outside the city is being sent to the Metropolitan Protectorate all the time.

Three days passed quickly, but almost the entire city was busy.

Li Xuan sits in charge of the Protectorate and rules everything.

The news from Qinghai and Hubei, he is most concerned about.

The king of Qinghai looked very ambitious, but when Li Xuan stood on the opposite side of him, he was stunned to find that the Tuyuhun cavalry under the command of Zuo Xiaowei and Right Leopard Taowei was unusually loose, and they could gallop for a while when they charged, but when they encountered other means, they were helpless.

At first, they could quickly pass through the trenches that Guirunuo led the people to dig by filling in the pits, and then when more and more trenches suddenly appeared in front of them, they began to hesitate on their own.

After the bridges and roads behind them were cut off, they couldn't find a way to pass through them in a short time.

Li Xuan even doubted that before he left Fu Qi City, the king of Qinghai and his son could rush to Fu Qi City, if something went wrong because of this, it would be funny.

At the same time, in the city, Ren Grace is trying his best to select the elite to join the right guard.

At the beginning, when they heard that the whole family was going to move to Qugou New Town, most people were still unwilling.

But the next day, when there was no more rice porridge in the city, many people suddenly came to their senses.

If you can't survive, how can you take care of many others.

Once Li Xuan leaves Fu Qi City, their former king will be responsible for the lack of food in Fu Qi City in the future.

There were once two words, enough to express the level of trust of the people of Fu Qi City in that king.

After going through so many things, even people who are optimistic about the future can't help but feel their hearts swaying.

Especially after some people had already joined the army and received back the rice and fish that had gone to Qugou New Town, many people immediately began to take active action.

The rice grain was taken out by Li Xuan from the granary of the Duhu Mansion, and the fish and meat were fished by Chihongzang in Qinghai Lake these days.

Qinghai Lake is a huge and mysterious treasure house, but limited to fishing technology, the Tubo people have always been not enterprising enough in this regard, and have not really gone deep into Qinghai Lake to fish, and Li Xuan's right guard soldiers immediately launched skilled fishing techniques after entering Qinghai Lake.

These soldiers from Jiangnan Province are almost all experts in fishing, and soon a large amount of fresh fish and meat will be sent to the case.

On the third day, the food supply in the city was restored, and the rice porridge was mixed with more wild vegetables, fish and meat, which was enough to ensure that the people here had enough physical strength before leaving.

Tonight is the evening of the third day, and tomorrow morning the first people will be on their way.

Six thousand Tuyuhun elite cavalry, nearly 30,000 people, all moved to Qugou New Town, and the vast majority of these were wealthy families in the city.

……

"The King." Some tired voices sounded behind Li Xuan.

Li Xuan turned around and saw Crimson standing at the stone table exhausted.

The waning moon on his head is like a hook, and Chi Hongzang, who has been busy for three days, has long lost the excitement of being in power at the beginning, and the energy in his body is about to run out, and his eyes are almost unable to open.

"Sit!" Li Xuan motioned for Chi Hongzang to sit down, and then looked at him and said: "From here to Qugou New Town, there are temporary camps left by the left and right guards along the way, which can be used to rest temporarily. ”

After a slight pause, Li Xuan said: "In the future, the main function of Chi Lao has been to quickly demarcate a new site, and then establish a new city on the north bank of the Shazhu Yu River, which is not too big, enough for 50,000 people to spend the winter." ”

"Fifty thousand?" Crimson stood up abruptly and looked at Li Xuan with a face full of disbelief.

He had already predicted the establishment of a new city, but originally he only thought that it would be to build a new city of 20,000 or 30,000 people, but it became 50,000 in one breath, and the workload doubled, and Chi Hongzang almost fainted in anger.

Li Xuan waved his hand directly, and said soothingly: "The first thing to build a city is the city wall, the city wall is deep to lay the foundation, in order to ensure the stability of the city, it is early autumn, but if you want to build a city before the arrival of winter, even the gods can't do it, so the king decided not to build the outer city wall first, but to repair the fang city first." ”

"Datang Neifang?" Chi Hongzang immediately understood what Li Xuan was talking about.

"Hmm!" Li Xuan nodded lightly and said: "Building a city is nothing more than city bricks and wood, but if you replace the city bricks with wood, you can save a lot of time, from the inside to the outside, one house and one house, one square and one square, such a city, no, a village that can accommodate tens of thousands of people can be built." ”

When Chi Hongzang heard Li Xuan say this, he quickly thought of something, he raised his head, looked at Li Xuan, and asked deeply: "The king thinks that the Tubo people will not attack again this winter." ”

Li Xuan looked at Chi Hongzang and was silent for a long time, and finally said with a solemn expression: "Tell Chi Lao a news that no one knows in the entire Tuyuhun that the lord of Tubo is likely to have passed away." ”

"Ahh Crimson immediately stood up subconsciously and looked at Li Xuan with a face full of disbelief: "This, this ......"

"It's not too secret news that Mangsong Mangzan, the lord of Tubo, is dying, but no one thought that he would die now." Li Xuan's expression was indifferent, and then he said: "And even if he is dead now, there is a great possibility that the Qinling will not be mourned, so the impact of this matter will not be too great, at most ......"

"But on Qinling, we must return to Luo and preside over the overall situation." Chi Hongzang immediately understood the key to this.

The struggle for power cannot be relaxed in the slightest.

If you hesitate a little, you will immediately lose your life and your life, and you can't tolerate the slightest carelessness.

Li Xuan nodded and continued: "As soon as the Qinling Tomb is returned, Tubo will inevitably shrink its defense with all its might, and the Tang Dynasty can act recklessly in the area of Qinghai Lake and Qingnan Basin in Qinghai, but it will definitely not be able to defeat Wuhai, and if we want to decide Wuhai in a war, we are all waiting for next year." ”

"As long as Datang is not defeated next year, Qugou New Town will always be safe and sound." Chi Hongzang understood Li Xuan's intentions in doing this.

The Tubo people can't hit the ditch, and there is no city wall.

"This king will set up a dam somewhere in Nanshan, and once something really goes wrong, the Tubo people will attack it, and they will immediately open the dam and release water, and the safety of these tens of thousands of people can be guaranteed, and the rest will be a big deal to withdraw to Shanzhou and Kuozhou, and survive unharmed." Li Xuan calmly said the worst possibility.

Crimson Tibet's face was a little ugly, and the hard work after a year of hard work was easily ruined in the end, and no one could accept it.

After a long time, Chi Hongzang looked at Li Xuan and asked in a low voice: "In this way, the king and the Tang Dynasty will no longer care about Fu Qi City." ”

"The surrounding area of Fu Qi City looks fertile with vegetation, but since the Silk Road was cut off on the Qinghai Plateau, this is no longer a transportation artery, and it can even be said to be a remote place.

Li Xuan looked in the southeast direction, and said with a solemn face: "This is also the reason why this king wants to move to Qugou, Qugou is on the node of the Tang Dynasty grain and grass transportation, when the time comes, the military will have the grain and grass of the sergeants, the public grain for repairing the city, and the spare money earned from the transportation of grain and grass, and the wages of business travel, no matter what, they can survive." ”

After a slight pause, Li Xuan sneered and said: "With Qugou, who cares about Fu Qi City, even if the Tubo people have the heart to Fu Qi City, but as long as Qu Gou sends troops to Cha Ka, Fu Qi City will no longer be a threat to the Tang Dynasty." ”

"In this way, the Murong clan will be useless anymore." Crimson Tibet's expression suddenly turned cold, but the depths of his eyes became excited again.

It can be seen that he really hates the Murong clan, but he will be extremely excited about anything that is unfavorable to the Murong clan.

Li Xuan didn't explore the contradictions and entanglements between the Murong clan and these Tuyuhun clans back then, in fact, it was nothing more than some power struggle.

Tuyuhun is at a critical point, the Murong clan lost the country, the Tang Dynasty and Tubo are all stirring in it, coupled with the frequent actions of ambitious people, and the Murong clan has no ability to govern the country, and has repeatedly made mistakes in doing things, and lacks ability, the destruction of the country is a matter of time or time, it depends on whether they are destroyed in the hands of the Tang Dynasty or Tubo.

"Once Qugou New City prospers, Fu Qi City will become more and more decayed, this is doomed, when the time comes, the people of Fu Qi City will also move more to the past, of course, the eyes of the Murong clan will also pay attention to the past." Speaking of this, the corners of Li Xuan's mouth showed a sneer of disdain.

"But Datang has already established a state and county in Qugou New Town." Crimson Zang raised his head and looked deeply at Li Xuan.

Li Xuan's expression was calm, and his actions had proved that Datang had completely given up the strategy of supporting Tuyuhun to re-establish the country.

"This king has heard that Qugou used to be the capital of the king of Tuyuhun?" Li Xuan looked up at Chi Hongzang.

Chi Hongzang was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a wry smile, and said: "That is the story of more than a hundred years, when the Central Plains was in the Western Wei Dynasty, the Western Wei Liangzhou Assassin Shi Ning united with the Turkic wooden pole Khan, captured the old capital of Qugou, Duncheng, robbed countless treasures, and the two cities became ruins. ”

"But it shows that there are still foundations there." Li Xuan said a word and grasped the key factors he wanted.

"It's not a foundation." Crimson Zang shook his head and said with a wry smile: "It is an extension of the Nanshan Mountain Range, and it only needs to dig rock formations below to stabilize it, so the strategy of the king to build the inner city first and then the outer city is completely feasible." ”

"It seems that when the time comes, there will be more old and old." Li Xuan smiled and gave up his hand to Chi Hongzang, there is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, Chi Hongzang is giving Li Xuan this feeling now.

"The king is polite." Chi Hongzang bowed his hand to Li Xuan again and said, "In this way, the old man will go back first, and he will prepare to leave tomorrow." ”

Li Xuan nodded, and then he suddenly spoke: "Tomorrow's departure, your garrison will go first." ”

Crimson hid his body for a moment, bowed down and said, "Obey!" ”

……

After Chi Hongzang left for a long time, Li Xuan sighed and asked sideways, "Is everything arranged along the way?" ”

"Back to the prince, all roads are arranged, and once someone attacks, they will immediately fall into the siege of the army." Qiu Zhenmu walked out of the dark shadows.

No one knows when he, who has been training in the right leading guard, appeared here.

Li Xuan nodded slightly, and then said softly: "Since the Tubo people are coming, then they only have two choices, one is us, and the other is Fu Qi City. ”

The elite cavalry of the Tubo people either took advantage of Li Xuan's return to the east to raid Li Xuan, or waited for Li Xuan to leave, and then raided the city.

"Lord, why are you sure that the Tubo people will definitely come?" Qiu Zhenmu was a little confused.

Li Xuan raised his head, looked at the starry sky above his head, and said softly: "Because once Mangsong Mangzan dies, there is only one last chance left for the Qinling to go to war, if he can't solve the Qinghai crisis this time, then he can only wait until next year, and he won't be reconciled." ”

(End of chapter)