[Today, a special chapter is added, for book friends, "listen to the wind and wait for the flowers to bloom."] Li Jiangyao said: I wish him and all the heroes who face the challenge head-on can be victorious and proud of the world! 】

In June, the scorching sun in the land of Western Xinjiang is like fire, and what is even hotter than the scorching sun is the hot hearts of the kings of Western Xinjiang.

There is only one kind of person who can make the kings anxious one by one - their creditors.

In other words, the debt collector has come to the door.

Lord Ameni, the head of the Persian Empire's merchant mission, recently sent the largest debt collection team in the history of Western Xinjiang to 27 major countries to collect long-overdue aid loans from them.

These loans range from millions of silver coins to tens of millions of silver coins, and some are even settled directly in gold coins. The loans were also used in a variety of ways, some were used to repair towns destroyed by the war, some were used to distribute money to royal officials, some were used to help refugees who had left their homes, and some were used to restore agricultural and livestock production.

But most of them were used to redeem their own soldiers who were captured by the Zhenjiang Army in the war.

At the beginning, these kings of Western Xinjiang originally hoped to completely get rid of the rule of the Holy Tang Dynasty through risky rebellion, and then seek the independent development of their own country, and even fantasized that when the national strength increased greatly, they would rob the land and population of neighboring countries, dominate one side, and dominate the ghost desert.

However, they never expected that the continuous war not only destroyed the Silk Road trade route, which had a wide range of financial resources, but also lost a large number of young and strong laborers in vain, and finally ended up with a lot of debts.

Now that I think about it, my intestines are going to be repentant.

However, regret is regret, and the reality always has to be faced. Looking at the Persian representatives who came to the door, the kings of various countries tried their best to talk about him, some of them wept and wiped their tears and pretended to complain about their grievances, and some of them hid in Tibet and avoided them.

There are even those who are cheeky and directly repay their debts.

"Come, come, see what is valuable in my palace, and move them all. People can take them all with them, or they will move with me. Anyway, if you don't have money, you have to die. ”

"I'm sure I can't pay it back. Now that the western frontier is occupied by the Turks, with the governor of the western frontier on top and the Yakut army outside, you will not dare to transfer the Persian army to force me to death, right? ”

In the face of these shameless Rakpi ghosts, the Persian representative was not angry, but calmly dropped a sentence: "Dear Highness, before coming here, we Lord Ameni said that he spent a lot of money to hire a professional debt collection team, and if we don't want to get the money back, then let professional people do professional things, and they will negotiate with His Royal Highness the King." ”

"Professional debt collection team?" The kings were puzzled: "Who is Ameni going to ask me to consult?" ”

"This business was taken over by Baron Metasequoia."

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The kings of Western Xinjiang were a little skeptical about the Persians' claims. It was difficult for them to understand that Li Jiangyao, who had killed a thousand knives, was fighting to the death with Gema Khan, how could he have the leisure to help Aimeni do the bad thing of collecting debts?

However, this doubt quickly disappeared.

At the end of June, on the same day that the Persian delegates issued the deadline for repayment, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th armies of Zhenjiang, totaling 220,000 soldiers and horses, set out from the mountains of Arumqi, Metasequoia, and Longcolondo respectively, and directly entered the country of Loulan by five routes.

In front of the powerful Zhenjiang Army, the once invincible Loulan Kingdom was as fragile as a baby, and in less than twenty days, the country's seven large cities were quickly captured by Li Jiangyao and them.

Before the Loulan King Alikjiang could react, Huo Liya, the lord of Nanhua, personally led the Third Army, rushing all the way and surrounding the Loulan Wangting.

Not long after, the First and Fifth Armies also arrived, and without saying a word, they launched a fierce attack on the royal city.

Three days! The brave Loulan royal court guards lasted for three days! Then he obediently raised the white flag.

Alikjiang, the leader of the Western Xinjiang Alliance and the king of Loulan, was tied up by his subordinates and sent to the camp of the Zhenjiang army.

Li Jiangyao sent someone to send an order from Ma Feishu, and Huo Liya followed the instructions, in front of the soldiers of the whole army and the people of Loulan, angrily denounced the twelve major crimes committed by Alikjiang, including rebellion against the Holy Tang Dynasty, collusion with foreign enemies and Turks, turning his back on the people of Western Xinjiang, abusing and killing the king of Shanshan, etc., so that Alikjiang knelt on the ground and trembled.

After reading out the indictment, Horia ordered someone to take the seized nine-star blade, and as the executioner, she cut the throat of the father-killing enemy with her own hands, avenging the blood of the deceased relatives and the people of Shanshan.

At the same time, the Zhenjiang Army officially announced to the entire Western Frontier: From now on, the Loulan Kingdom will be completely wiped out from the territory of the Western Frontier!

Shameful traitor, although far away, he will be punished!

Of course, Li Jiangyao also attached a reason to the announcement released to the outside world: In addition to betraying the Holy Tang Dynasty and dying innocently, Alik Jiang, the king of Loulan, also violated the basic spirit of the contract and defaulted on his debts and refused to pay them back. As a debt collection agent specially hired by Aimeni, Zhenjiangjun had no choice but to protect the legitimate interests of creditors by forcibly recovering the land of Loulan State.

As for why Alikjiang, the king of Loulan, was directly killed, Li Jiangyao explained it like this: We refer to the debt collection model of the Shengtang folk gang, and for those who deliberately cheat, they usually want both money and life, which is a normal industry rule.

As soon as this terrifying industry rule was announced, the kings of the Western Xinjiang countries could not sit still.

The remaining 26 debtor countries, including Shule and Chechi, sent high-level diplomatic missions one after another to Metasequoia City to negotiate repayment.

The envoys brought all kinds of expensive gifts, up and down, and bribed almost all the civil and military officials of the Zhenjiang Army, for fear that they would not serve well and accidentally offend a big man, and turn themselves into the next business target of the debt collection group.

After the representatives of the 26 debtor countries had gathered in Metasequoia, Emeni, who had been waiting here for a long time, came forward and invited Li Jiangyao to meet with the representatives of various countries.

The Western Xinjiang Debt Negotiation Conference was officially held.

At the meeting, Ameni said in a serious manner that the main reason why he agreed to provide huge loans to various countries was to help Xijiang relieve people's livelihood and develop the economy, so that countries could recover from the pain of war as soon as possible, restore the glory of the Silk Road trade route, and then protect the commercial interests of the Persian Empire.

Therefore, he did not want to see Western Xinjiang get involved in endless wars again, and let down his own good intentions.

Based on this consideration, Ameni suggested to the delegates of various countries that if the debtor country could formally withdraw from the dispute between the Turks and the Shengtang and hand over the command of the army and the diplomatic power of the vassal state to Li Jiangyao, the Zhenjiang army, then the Persian side could not only delay the repayment period again, but even provide a guarantee in the name of the Persian Empire to continue to provide financial support for peace construction.

For this proposal, many Western Frontier vassal states were quite moved, especially those countries that did not have a deep hatred for Shengtang, and hoped that they could get out of the sea of suffering as soon as possible.

However, some countries expressed concern that the Turkic armies would return to the western frontier at any time, and they would inevitably become the target of their retaliation.

Li Jiangyao got up and left his seat, strode to the center of the venue, and said loudly: "You can rest assured about this issue. As long as you can return to the right path and continue to accept and support the control of the Holy Tang, our Zhenjiang army will not only blame you for the past, but will also send troops to Zijin Pass to block the Turks' footsteps back to Western Xinjiang. You must know that the dynasty is by no means weak and can be bullied, and the millions of Saint Tang Xiongshi are about to launch a counterattack, and it is uncertain whether Ashina can come back alive. ”

Aimeni and Li Jiangyao stood side by side and said solemnly: "In addition, I can also give you a guarantee. His Majesty the Great Emperor of Persia has personally promised that as long as General Li Jiangyao nods, the Persian Empire can send a large army to reinforce at any time and join forces with Shengtang to fight against the Turks together. In this way, you should have peace of mind, right? ”

Hearing this, the representatives of various countries could not help but exchange their heads one after another.

To tell the truth, everyone has long had enough of being enslaved and oppressed by the Turks. At present, Gemar Khan has suffered defeats and hid in the Zijin Pass, and the Persian Empire has expressed its support for Shengtang at this time, how to choose next, I am afraid that there is no need to hesitate for too long?

The representative of Che Chi Guo asked hesitantly: "Your Excellency, your Excellency, our Che Chi made a big mistake and went astray, acted as an accomplice of the Turks, and was still in the ...... with the capital of Zhenjiang Having fought in Crescent Bay, can you really be forgiven? ”

"And us," Shule representative also raised his hand, his face full of concern: "Your Excellency, you know that Shule is the same as Loulanguo, and the five-year period is the first of our troops, and we are the first to raise troops, and we have ...... They are all stained with the blood of the saint Tang soldiers, can we also be forgiven? ”

Li Jiangyao quietly looked at the representatives of the countries who were looking at him intently, and then glanced at Aimeni beside him, and then said solemnly: "I know, your king is worried, all of you are worried, worried that the grudge with the Holy Tang is too deep to be dissolved or erased. However, I would like to say that hatred does not bring hope, and revenge does not solve all problems. If we can't face up to the wrong past, we can't hope for a bright future. Go back, and tell your king, as long as they can change their past mistakes and return to the arms of the Holy Don, all the previous crimes and punishments will end in the Alik River. I, Li Jiangyao of the Zhenjiang Army, speak my word! ”

"Okay, I'm Amyni, and the Persian Empire, and I'm willing to be a guarantor!" Ameni smiled and shouted to everyone, "What are you doing in a daze? Go back and report to your king, so that he can make the right choice sooner! You know, the interest on the loan is increasing very quickly every day! ”

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A month later, a delegation of 26 debtor countries from the western Xinjiang returned to Metasequoia City.

This time, as if the countries had negotiated in advance, the negotiators were all replaced by kings of various countries, including Gelhan and Tajikistan, who were extremely influential leaders in the western Xinjiang.

In addition, there are many monarchs of small countries who are not debtors of Emeni, and they also come spontaneously.

Everyone has the same thought: they want to witness a historical turning point that will last for thousands of years in this place.