The blade swept 30,000 miles, and the rivers and mountains were soaked in 9,000 blood.

The world of the Holy Tang Dynasty is fought with a knife and a gun, a foot and an inch.

In the 800 years since the founding of the country, 30 generations of Ming monarchs and heroes are all ruthless people with outstanding martial arts and brilliant achievements. And it is this ruthless man after another who has turned the small city-states that originally succumbed to the Jinhe Plain into a Huanghuang Empire with a territory of 100,000 miles.

The boundaries of the imperial dynasty, bordering the vast sea in the east, the ghost desert in the west, the great wilderness in the north, and the barbarian in the south, if it were not for the natural barrier of the Shenzhou continent, and the climate outside the Middle Earth had always been harsh and difficult, the sword of the Holy Tang Dynasty really didn't know how far it would have to extend.

The 800-year-old civilization of the country is a glory and a light for the people of the Holy Tang Dynasty, a glorious history that cannot be told and read enough in the school, and a story and legend full of applause in the teahouse and wine shop.

Of course, it is also a bitter memory of the surrounding small countries being beaten for a full 800 years.

Who Sheng Tang wanted to beat, originally there was no need for a reason.

Although every generation of emperors will always rack their brains to come up with a reason before beating others, so as to conform to the ancestral motto of "the teacher is famous". However, it is often better for them to find reasons than not to find them.

Because of those reasons, anyone who listens to them will feel that these grandsons not only have to beat people, but also punish their hearts; is not only heart-wrenching, but also looks down on everyone's IQ very much.

For example, the sixth emperor Li Tianci. When he swept through the Seven Kingdoms of Monan, he came up with the reason that his beloved golden eagle was seduced by the sheep of the Bohai Kingdom and ran away.

So, Li Tianci personally led 150,000 Xuanjia iron horsemen and kicked directly into the Bohai Kingdom, rummaging through boxes and cabinets, looking for birds everywhere. However, it is a pity that the house of the king of the Bohai Kingdom was raided three times, and the unlucky golden eagle was not seen. Li Tianci was not reconciled, and searched all the way north until he searched the other six countries as well, and then he stopped.

The golden eagle could not be found in the end, and the Seven Kingdoms of Monan had to move with tears in their eyes, migrating 800 miles to Mobei, and the farther away from the broken bird of the Holy Tang Emperor, the better.

The fourteenth emperor Li Hengyi, when he attacked Yunyue, the reason he gave was even more outrageous: one day, Li Hengyi's concubine said that she had a nightmare, dreaming that the prince of Dianyue took the opportunity of coming to the imperial capital to worship and put her to sleep. Li Hengyi was furious after hearing this, and without saying a word, he led the Qilin Army to southern Xinjiang to find the prince who cuckolded him to settle accounts. The king of Yunyue was so frightened that he hurriedly wrote a letter to ask for guilt, saying that he had more than 20 bastard sons, and I don't know which one offended Niangniang in his dream, as long as His Majesty pointed it out, he would immediately correct it on the spot.

Li Hengyi lightly put down the next sentence: The ugly thing is unbearable.

Then, he commanded 80,000 golden unicorns to completely erase the Dian Yue Kingdom from the map.

waited until the 25th emperor Li Miao came to power, and found a reason to beat people to a new height. In order to level the five states of Dongyi and seize the important outlet to the sea, he actually forced the big leader of the Dongyi Alliance to give him a war letter.

The Dongyi people were completely panicked, and they didn't know what kind of tricks this Holy Tang Emperor was playing.

Li Miao said: If you don't obey my orders, you are an enemy.

There is only one way of attitude towards the enemy: to fight, to fight to the death.

This left is neither left nor right, there is no way, the leader of Dongyi had to write a letter of war with respectful words and modest wording, and sent it to the imperial capital with trepidation. Then, he waited for the Saint Tang Sailor, who happily accepted the challenge.

And then, there is no then.

In order to praise the great achievements of the emperors of the past dynasties in conquering the Quartet and expanding the territory, Li Taixuan, the great poet of the Holy Tang Dynasty, wrote the famous work that has been passed down through the ages in the same year that the Dongyi tribe was destroyed:

In the imperial capital of the Smoke and Rain Mirror Lake, Nanhua is drunk with ruby red.

The blade swept 30,000 miles, and the rivers and mountains were soaked in 9,000 blood.

I don't know if Taixuan, this guy, really respects the merits of the previous emperor, or has bad intentions and holds back the bad mockery of the Holy Tang Dynasty. In short, the emperors of the past dynasties after the advent of this work, how to see how this poem is not pleasing to the eye, always feel that something is strange.

It wasn't until the previous emperor Li Chengwen succeeded to the throne that everyone woke up from a dream: I'll go, it turns out that the problem is here.

What's the problem?

Nanhua.

The "Nanhua" in Li Taixuan's poem refers to Nanjinhua. This flower is abundant in the oasis of the ghost desert, and it is the sacred flower worshiped by the 36 countries of Western Xinjiang.

According to legend, where the Nanjin flowers bloom, there is an endless source of water and wealth.

And the reason why people think that Li Taixuan's poems are problematic is precisely because of this flower.

This is sweet, and the other is arsenic-frost.

Nanjin is a divine flower in the minds of the people of Western Xinjiang, but it is also a thorn in the eyes of Sheng Tang.

A poisonous thorn.

The eighth, eleventh, and twenty-third emperors of the Holy Tang Dynasty launched three large-scale expeditions against the ghost desert in Western Xinjiang. Xuanjia, Qilin, long knives, and fierce blades, the top elite legions of the dynasty almost took turns to fight, but in the end, they all failed to end in victory.

This is not to say that the thirty-six countries of the Ghost Desert in Western Xinjiang are so powerful that even the Holy Tang army that swept the world has no way to take them.

The most important problem is that these people from Western Xinjiang have been killed, but they can't be defeated.

Unless they are slaughtered cleanly, it will be an abominable rhythm of beating them down, rising up to rebel, and then beating them down and rising up again to rebel, and the cycle goes on and on.

It was not until the twenty-fourth emperor Li Shilun succeeded to the throne that he changed the practice of the first emperor and horse to set foot in the western frontier, and instead adopted the strategy of "appeasement with tenderness and appeasement, supplemented by heavy troops and ammunition", and treated each other as a "brotherly state", which finally made the western Xinjiang become a little more subdued.

Since then, after nearly a hundred years of six generations of emperors, the western frontier and the imperial capital have maintained a relatively friendly situation, and the emperors of the Holy Tang Dynasty have also avoided the west intentionally or unintentionally, and only swept their edges elsewhere.

The ghost desert is as silent as the Dead Sea, no one disturbs or cares.

It seems that this state of affairs should last until the end of the earth.

At least, the twenty-ninth emperor Li Chengwen always thought so before he ascended the throne of the Ninety-Five.

However, it was precisely when he was in power that something happened to the ghost desert in Western Xinjiang.

A few years ago, further west in the western frontier, alien races rose.

The flame-worshipping Turkic tribe suddenly swept across the vast world at the westernmost tip of the continent like a prairie fire. Countless tribes and city-states were either wiped out or subservient, and a huge empire with a territory and population comparable to that of the Holy Tang Dynasty stood next to each other across the vast ghost desert.

It was also from that time that the 36 countries in Western Xinjiang, which were originally calm and serene, began to secretly stir again.

After Li Chengwen succeeded to the throne, he soon sensed that there was a sign of instability in the west, and just as he was thinking about countermeasures and intending to prevent it, a large-scale rebellion suddenly and unexpectedly came.

Twenty of the 36 major tribes in Western Xinjiang, which were subject to the Shengtang Dynasty, raised their rebel flags overnight and sent troops to attack the imperial military forts located in various places, and a large number of imperial officials and Shengtang border people stationed here were brutally killed.

The situation in the western frontier is suddenly out of control, and it is rapidly sliding into the abyss.

The Holy Tang royal family has always had a saying: if it is written, it is not written, and it is not martial.

Compared with his younger brother Li Chengwu's Sven and elegant, Li Chengwen can definitely be regarded as a killing god.

When the smoke rose, the new emperor was furious. Emperor Li Chengwen, who had only succeeded to the throne for less than a month, looked at the battle report sent back by Xijiang, and only two words popped out of his mouth:

Slaughter!

In an instant, Saint Tang's military machine was completely activated.

The closest to the ghost desert in Western Xinjiang is Liangzhou Mansion, where the famous Fierce Blade Legion is stationed. Because of the mess, they were also the first to react. The 70,000 Fierce Blade Ironclad Army, under the command of the Grand Commander He Jingming, put aside the small rebels from all over the country and rushed straight to the core area where the rebellion broke out - Che Chi Kingdom.

Immediately afterwards, the Long Knife Corps, which was preparing for the Central Plains and passing through the northwest, also quickly assembled and marched westward. One hundred thousand swords and tigers followed the route of the Blade Army's advance, sweeping away the rebels they left behind. Wherever they passed, not a single grass grew.

By the time the two elites met in the court of King Chechi, the main force of the rebels in Western Xinjiang had been wiped out, and the remnants of the rout fled westward and hid deeper into the ghost desert.

However, the anger of Sheng Tang did not subside.

In the 28 states of Middle Earth, at the behest of Emperor Li Chengwen, up to 300,000 government soldiers were mobilized to roll from the east along the trade routes of Western Xinjiang, and repaired the 36 countries one by one.

Yes, you read that right, it's the thirty-six nations.

Not only were the 20 countries that participated in the rebellion bloodbathed, but even the other 16 countries that were honest and did not follow in causing trouble were also severely beaten.

The reason is simple.

Li Chengwen said: I want to show them.

They? Who are they?

Not the thirty-six tribes of Western Xinjiang, but the Turks.

Behind this rebellion of the vassal states without warning was the Turkic Empire. Li Chengwen saw this very clearly, and naturally the drunkard did not mean to drink.

Without the means of thunderbolts, how can you deter the hungry wolf next to the pillow?

Of course, if it is said to be a slaughter, it can't really kill the chickens and dogs. First, the Holy Tang Dynasty has passed the earliest stage of barbaric expansion, civilization and education have become the foundation of governing the country, and the bloody killings do not conform to the public sentiments and public opinion in the Holy Tang Dynasty; Second, the ghost desert in the western part of the country was an excellent barrier and buffer for the western territory of the imperial dynasty, and if it really became a no-man's land, not only would trade no longer be possible, but it would also be in direct conflict with the Turkic Empire.

In that case, the pressure on the defense of the Western Front would increase sharply, to the detriment of the country.

In the 799th year of the Holy Tang Dynasty, that is, the year when Li Chengwen succeeded to the throne, the sudden and short-lived rebellion in Western Xinjiang was finally completely pacified by the Holy Tang army, and the vast ghost desert once again fell silent.

However, the rebellion was quelled, but not all of the hundreds of thousands of troops involved in suppressing the rebellion were withdrawn.

At the behest of the emperor, 20,000 fierce blades, 20,000 long knives, and 60,000 soldiers jointly formed a new legion, the Zhenjiang Protectorate, which stayed in the vast 36 countries!

Long knife and fierce blade, Yongzhen West Frontier.