Dunhuang City, Guazhou.

Seventy miles of double sets in the western suburbs.

The base camp of the rebel army of the final Jin Empire was established here.

Shuangjidui is also the military material base of the empire in the Western Regions, and the strategic location is very important.

It's always been heavily guarded.

Before you know it, this year has come to an end again.

At the end of the year, the army's material support, especially cold-proof and frost-proof materials and food supply, is an important part of testing the generals.

There is one more thing, and that is military pay.

The annual pass is the last and most important node in the payment of salaries to officers and soldiers.

The wives and children of these officers and soldiers are looking at the New Year's salary.

But at present, the pressure on the government's treasury and silver has always been like a hanging knife, which makes Generalissimo Guo Wei's neck cold.

In order to let the families of more than 100,000 officers and soldiers of the rebel army in the west receive their relatives' salaries and pensions before the year, the prince moved his true character.

He reduced the expenses of the imperial court, and met this expenditure by confiscating the stolen money of Liu Hanzhang and others from the Ministry of Labor.

For this reason, the Jingshi induced 12-6 military admonitions.

Because Dunhuang is far away from Beijing, and the ice and snow are in the sky, it was ten days before Kuaiyi spread the news to the Western Regions.

Guo Wei received a report from the imperial court and was frightened.

Fortunately, there is no danger this time, and the prince is fine, otherwise, the final Jin Dynasty will really change the sky.

The New Year can now be passed, but in the spring and summer after the New Year, the war with the Western Turks will have to resume.

In the secret letter from the crown prince to Guo Wei, it was emphasized that it was necessary to gradually eliminate the various forces of Cao Fu in the Western Regions and increase the treasury and silver income.

In addition to smuggling, border trade is also an important source of income for the Cao government here.

The border trade here has always been controlled by the Cao government.

Now that Cao Qichang has stepped down, it is time for the imperial court to take back control of the border trade market.

As the Empire of the Final Jin Dynasty further opened up the border trade in the Western Regions, the Yizhou Mutual Market became more and more prosperous.

The influence of the mutual market is constantly expanding, and more and more Beihu people, including those from Mobei and the Western Regions, who are far away, have arrived.

Or Rome and other foreign fans.

Merchants from all over the Jin Dynasty, especially in the south, rushed here to trade a large amount of cloth and silk.

Of course, the mutual market is a daily income.

Guo Weihu's case contained an anonymous report letter, which pointed out that Cao Qichang's son, Cao Zhiping, secretly supported the family's smuggling, expelled dissidents, hired murderers to kill Wu Peifan, the right deputy general of the Anxi Prefecture, and caused the slaughter of more than 30 members of the Wu family compound in Wu Village.

He was ready to use this as a breakthrough.

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And Cao Zhiping, who was far away in the Anxi Protectorate, and Guo Shuai in Dunhuang, two days later, also received the final outcome of the military advice of the Beijing division thirteen days ago.

Cao Fu failed.

Cao Qichang was removed from all official positions above all courts, and his eldest brother Cao Yanchun was demoted to Luoyang.

Before today, Cao Zhiping, as the general of the Anxi Protectorate and the lord of Yizhou City, saw that his waist was swelling day by day, and he was beaming with joy all day long.

He was glad he was on the right track.

All merchants who intend to make a fortune here, regardless of whether they have a background behind them or not, the first thing they do when they go to the Western Regions is to go to the capital to worship the dock.

The current official is not as good as the current management, he really offended him, and if he made a little stumbling, the loss would be great.

The Yizhou garrison is now firmly in the hands of Cao Zhiping, and a large amount of silver is sprinkled in exchange for the support of his subordinates.

Lei Yutao, Zhang Jianlin and other generals have also changed from the poor and sour appearance of the past, and everyone with bulging pockets looks high-spirited, and there are thick silver coins in their pockets to squander.

With the approval of Ye Yinting, the general of the Guazhou Daoxing Battalion, Lei Yutao officially became the right deputy general of the Duhufu and the defense officer of Hushi, and Zhang Jianlin and Liu Wuzhou became the chief and deputy battalion generals of the first battalion.

This made them more loyal to Cao Zhiping.

Cao Zhiping has never believed in loyalty, he only believes in tying everyone to his side with enough benefits.

Guazhou Thorn Shi was worried about his father, and the prince sent Cao Kesheng, a member of the Cao clan, to succeed him.

On the surface, the Guazhou Mansion is still under the control of the Cao family, but in fact, the prince intervened, because Cao Kesheng was already a person from the prince's side.

Last month, Guo Wei, the generalissimo of the expedition to the west, was stationed in Dunhuang, Guazhou, and began to prepare for the preliminary work arrangements for rectifying the Guazhou Road and the entire Western Regions.

Guo Wei and Cao Kesheng are both newcomers, and they can only collect intelligence before the year, and there will be no military operations.

Now, Ye Yinting, the general of the Guazhou Daoxing Battalion, has been attacked by Guo Wei and Cao Kesheng at both ends, and Cao Qichang has stepped down, and he feels a deep crisis.

He is quite self-aware and happy to be an apartment.

Illinois General's Mansion.

Cao Zhiping has been depressed for the past two days, his brows are tightened, and he asked his master Zou Baichuan, "Mr. Zou, how do you say you should deal with this matter?" ”

Zou Baichuan has recently lived in the General's Mansion for a long time, so he naturally became Cao Zhiping's master.

The weather has turned into a cold wax moon, but Zou Baichuan is still holding a folding fan in his hand, shaking it for a while, quite a bit of Jiangnan master's style.

He gently stroked the extremely neatly groomed eight-character beard with his left hand, looked at Cao Zhiping, and said softly:

"Sixth son, which one are you referring to?"

Cao Zhiping smiled bitterly when he heard this:

"There are still a few things that can be held now, of course, the top priority is the tragedy of the Wu family compound in Wu Village, someone reported it to Guo Wei, Guo Wei was handed over to the General's Mansion for disposal, and General Ye sent the deputy general Zhang Jie, he is known as the iron hammer."

"I heard that this person has a hard and smelly temper, he doesn't eat soft and hard, and it falls into his hands, no matter who you are, he will smash it down if he hits it hard."

Zou Baichuan said with a smile after hearing this:

"It doesn't matter if he's an iron hammer or a wooden hammer, the sixth prince doesn't have to worry about this matter."

"How can you not worry, although this matter has not fallen into the hands of others with real evidence, but the Turks are frivolous and have lost three waist knives with the head of a golden wolf at the scene, which can not be separated from the jurisdiction of this general." Cao Zhiping frowned.

"Of course, it can't be done, but the responsibility of the sixth prince is to protect the people of the frontier ineffectively, which led to the Turks in the Western Regions raging the border people and causing this tragedy."

"It's this crime, it's not trivial, now that my father is no longer in power, today is different from the past, I have lost strong support, the court can at least give me a dereliction of duty, or I can't evaluate it too late, that's not a good thing for my future prospects!"

Cao Zhiping shook his head and said.

"The change of the imperial court this time, although the Cao Mansion fell to the downside, but according to the situation, the emperor personally issued an edict, or left a considerable margin for the Cao Mansion, mainly because he was afraid of the king, and the court continued to have civil strife, which was not good for the court."

"That is to say, the imperial crown prince Yuan Zhi is very smart, he will never do it in the short term, at least after the summer of next year, it is possible to carry out a large-scale replacement of Caofu's foreign forces, especially in the Western Regions, the Western Turk Ashina Helu has not yet been settled, he will not take you first."