Great Snow Mountain, Yelan Country.

The early winter sun rises into the sky as it stretches over the foothills to the east.

The lush oasis and the yellow sand of the desert meet in the golden morning sun, and occasionally the camel bells 'jingle' from afar, the marching caravan walks across the official road, sends camels and carriages, and then pats off the sand and dust on their bodies, and walks with their companions into the tea shop next to the road to rest.

Drink a bowl of matcha tea from Yelan Kingdom, take a bite of a big naan mixed with mutton foam, and talk about the recent events in the Western Regions.

“…… It's been so fast, in a blink of an eye, that group of Western barbarians has been beheaded for nearly a month. ”

"Recently, I came from the Xijon grassland, and you tell me how fierce those Western barbarians are? I've heard about it on Tieler's side, but I'm not exact. ”

“…… We know a fart, and everything we have seen with our own eyes has become a big feces in the stomach of a barbarian! ”

In the tea shop away from the city, there are merchants from the Xia Kingdom in the east, as well as Hu merchants from the Western Regions in the middle and south of the Western Regions, all of whom are people who go south and north, and naturally understand the words on both sides.

"Anyway, it's a pity to kill it, only those who are eaten, it's a pity, the great changes that are rare in a hundred years in the seventy-two countries of the Western Regions are all under the governance of the Xia Kingdom, and the days are coming, but as a result, such a group of Western barbarians will be drilled out, and they will attack the city, and they will actually use people as rations!"

"These bitches raised it, and I don't know if the west is unfed, and they use people as food!"

Speaking of excitement, regardless of whether it was a merchant from the Xia Kingdom or a local merchant from the Western Regions, it was inevitable to shout a few words outside about the Jinsa barbarians who came from the west!

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about those headless ghosts, let's talk about it right now, I heard that the Son of Heaven of Xia Kingdom is in Yelan Kingdom?"

"Do you still need to hear? Now the entire Western Regions knows that the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom is going to accept the kings of the Western Regions in Yelan Kingdom, and many kings have come. ”

"Are there really so many kings coming?"

A merchant from the Xia Kingdom snorted twice: "But not come? Our Majesty's Tang Army is in Yelan Kingdom, and there are several cavalry, but when they come, the cavalry will go to his house. ”

The wind and sand were blowing, and the climate in the Northern Western Regions at this time was getting colder and colder, and the merchant wearing a leather jacket and a fur hat sighed and rubbed his hands: "Smart people will definitely choose to come here to meet at this time." ”

"Haha, it's true, I can't beat it anyway, I can't beat it early, and I can't say that I can still get a benefit if I die early and calmly meet the Son of Heaven in Shangbang." Hu Shang at a table next to him took a sip of matcha tea, and his voice was quite kind: "As long as the wind and rain are smooth and there is no war and abuse, the people can have a mouthful of food to eat, clothes to wear, and we can also earn money, it doesn't matter who is in charge of the Western Regions." ”

"You people from the Western Regions can see it!" Several merchants from the Xia Kingdom in the east laughed, along with the guys who were squatting outside to drink tea and eat naan, and they also laughed with the minced dust in their mouths.

Of course, there are also different voices.

"The Son of Heaven of Xia Kingdom rescued the Western Regions, he has great righteousness, but he doesn't leave, and lets all the kings go to see him, what is this going to do?! You Xia people shouldn't come to the Western Regions to do business! ”

Several men from the Western Regions wearing sheepskin coats and white strips of cloth on their heads stood up, their faces were covered with calluses blown by the wind, blue eyes and big beards, and the eyes of those Xia people who were laughing were quite fierce.

There was even a person who reached out and grabbed the small scimitar worn at his waist.

"The kings of your Western Regions are incompetent, they were wiped out by a group of Western barbarians, and they ate more than 100,000 people a month, what are such kings doing? If it were in the Xia Kingdom, not to mention that the Son of Heaven was going to cut off their heads, the people would have to rise up.

Now it's okay, the barbarians have run away, you guys, you guys are starting to harden again, why don't you see you draw your sword and fight with the Western barbarians? Do you still need our Great Xia to send troops?! ”

Those bearded Hu merchants of the Western Regions were said by the merchants of the Xia Kingdom, and they suddenly couldn't hold back a fart for a long time.

The two guards accompanying him clenched the hilt of their knives and showed fierceness: "Drive this group of Xia Kingdom merchants away!" ”

"Who dares?!" The merchants of the Xia Kingdom also slapped the table and stood up fiercely, and the porters and men who accompanied them also pulled out their weapons, "We Xia people are not only soldiers who can kill people, Lao Tzu, a merchant from Liang Country through the grassland, and then to the foot of this snowy mountain, do you think it is mud?!" ”

"Say less! Shut up over there! The shopkeeper of the tea shop, together with his buddies, came to persuade him, and the rest of the Hu merchants were worried about being implicated, so they hurriedly left the table to dodge, and someone pointed to the bearded people from the Western Regions and shouted: "They seem to be Ugo Liren, Ugo Li was destroyed by the Xia State cavalry, they must have a grudge and sow discord here!" ”

"Get rid of them!"

"Mix with the Western barbarians, don't let them stay in Yelan Country, disgusting!"

The bearded Hu Merchants of the Western Regions, whose faces were flushed, were suddenly angry. The merchants of the Xia Kingdom on the opposite side drew their swords one after another, and the merchants of the other small countries around them were also angry and swarmed up.

For a time, chopsticks and wooden forks flew wildly, copper spoons hit people's foreheads, lacquered bowls, and stools...... Woo woo greeted the bearded Hu Shang of the Western Regions.

"Stop fighting! Stop it! The shopkeeper of the tea shop clapped his hands and stomped his feet, and then was hit in the eye socket by the flying bowl, and squatted on the ground with a painful cry.

In the tea shop, there was chaos all of a sudden.

The three groups of people came together to spread to other diners, causing even more chaos.

Confusion continued on the side of the road, and the sky light gradually rose.

Since the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom summoned the remaining kings of the Western Regions to visit the Yelan Kingdom, more than a dozen kings of small countries in the Middle and Southern Provinces have rushed over from all over the country.

Even if some of them are unwilling, but now the situation is stronger than people, and the army of Xia is stationed in Yelan Country, as long as they are not stupid, they all understand that the Western Regions are about to change.

However, for the people of the Western Regions, they first experienced the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom wreaking havoc in the South Middle Road, and then experienced the terrifying actions of the Western barbarians, and they only care about the fact that there will be no more wars and that the land of the Western Regions will continue to thrive in peace and stability.

In the seventh year of Yuanxing, in November, the defense of Yelan Kingdom was taken over by the Tang Army in the hands of the Emperor of Xia State, and a team opened all the main roads of Yelan City to guard, and the courtiers and soldiers of the two countries of Wugeli and Jukan also gathered over, took off their armor and official robes, and the two countries were reduced to states, and the city was merged into Yelan State.

Meanwhile.

Turtle Che, Changqi, Guipo, Zhan Mi, Tiele, Changkang ....... the only remaining twenty-four countries, at this time the kings of all countries gathered outside Yelan City to wait for the Xia Kingdom Emperor to summon and enter the city together.

A purpose-built annex outside the city.

The walls of the building are all made of mud and shabby, and the roof is tiled with stone slabs with some embellishments, and nothing else.

But the people who can live here are all noble people, and no one dares to say that this place is not good.

Inonham accompanied King Tiele and King Liugeng in the courtyard, looking at the bare ground, and his mind was on the audience shortly afterward.

"Have you seen the Son of Heaven of Xia Kingdom, what kind of person do you think he is?"

King Liugeng was one of the first small countries in the Western Regions to take refuge in the Xia Kingdom, but he had never dealt with the emperor of the Xia Kingdom, only during the New Year's holidays, there would be a letter from the Xia Kingdom to send a few words of condolences.

However, those national letters were basically written by the Zhongshu Province, and they were not written and sent by the emperor himself at all.

Naturally, you can't see between the lines how the other party is a person.

"He's a very powerful person."

Inonham didn't dare to talk nonsense, you must know that this place has been controlled by the soldiers and horses of the Xia Kingdom, and I heard that the Son of Heaven of the Xia Kingdom has a secret agent in his hands, so he can't say that his words and deeds are already under the surveillance of the other party.

In the cold wind, King Liugeng's temples were white, and he stood under a poplar tree in the courtyard with his hands on his shoulders, and he was a little angry when he heard such perfunctory words from Enonham, but he was helpless.

Soon, someone came in from outside, it was a female official of Yelan Kingdom, and the other party brought the will of the Emperor of Xia Kingdom, and informed all the kings of the Western Regions here to enter the city and enter the palace to meet the Son of Heaven.

Almost at the same time, on the long street, a group of people came out of the official residence in the city and gathered towards a mansion in the city.

"This night Lan Guo is really a little family, the streets are so narrow, they walk comfortably?"

The streets in the city can only be run by three horses in parallel, and the generals and mounts of the Xia Kingdom are relatively tall, so they can only ride in parallel, so that Cheng Yanjin can only hang behind, chattering and complaining along the way: "I have to repair it here in the future, it's really a crime!" And the bed, too, with both feet stretched out, and the feet hanging outside......"

Qin Qiong looked straight ahead, and when she heard the muttering words behind her, she didn't even tilt her head.

"Lao Qin, I've been telling you for so long, you should turn around!"

The corners of Qin Qiong's mouth twitched, and her eyes crossed the corners of her eyes.

"Don't talk, I'm dead."

On both sides, Wei Chigong and Li Xuanba suddenly let go of their voices and laughed, and their heroic voices made the people of Yelan Kingdom who stopped to watch on both sides of the street turn pale with fright.

Soon after, the procession stopped at the largest mansion in the city.

Lu Bu, Zhao Yun, Ma Chao, Huo Quzhi and others welcomed a few of them in.

At this time, in the official residence, the servants who were transferred from the palace were busy in front and back of the mansion, and several male servants walked quickly into the eaves with warm water, and then under the gaze of two huge figures, they turned into the open room.

Su Chen, who was wearing an imperial robe over there, only said one sentence under Wu Zixun's service: "Put it aside." After that, those male servants went out tremblingly, and when they left, they looked at the Xia Guo man in the room with envy, with such masculinity.

"Your Majesty, wash your face!"

Wearing the emperor's robe, Su Chen took the towel handed over and wiped it, glanced at Wu Zixun reflected behind the glass mirror, and casually asked how he had recovered from his old injuries over the past few days.

"Thank you Your Majesty for your concern, the minister is recovering well."

"You and I have known each other for a long time, and there is no need to be so cautious when there are no outsiders!"

Su Chen handed him back the towel, leaned down to face the face in the glass mirror, tidied up his temples, and after he was neat, he turned around and opened the door and walked out.

Dian Wei and Xu Chu were dressed in iron armor, carrying halberds and tiger head knives, and took the armor soldiers of the Tiger Guard Battalion and followed the Son of Heaven out of the backyard.

Coming to the front yard of the official residence, Qin Qiong, Lu Bu, Zhao Yun and others, as well as Huo Quzhi, Ma Chao and Liu Sheng's Shenji Battalion waited for a long time.

"Your Majesty, get in the car!" After all the generals came over to say a few words, they all bowed their hands and invited Su Chen to walk on the ancestral car.

Immediately, each commander and his own soldiers guarded around the imperial chariot, escorting the emperor of the Xia Kingdom to the palace of King Yelan.

Two rows of twenty rows of Tiger Guard Battalion armor soldiers took the lead in opening the way, and their footsteps shook the armor pieces on their bodies and made a metal collision sound.

The soldiers of the Shenji Battalion carried bows and crossbows and sky-piercing cannons on their backs, and the huge imperial chariot in front of them drove slowly, rolling on the street with a dull wheel, and slowly drove out.

The hideous dragon flag of the Xia Kingdom, hunting and flying, along the way, the people of the Yelan Kingdom looked at this flag, knelt down one after another, and kowtowed respectfully to the figure in the car.

In the palace of the king, twenty-four kings of the Western Regions entered the palace in an orderly manner.

When they passed through the corridor and under the palace wall, they had already seen the soldiers of the Xia Kingdom who were fully armoured, and countless eyes swept over them, as if they were looking for a place to put the knife.

It's chilling.

After entering the palace, unlike the once luxurious hall, after the emperor of the Xia Kingdom came here, he abandoned some luxurious furnishings and set up two bronze tripods instead, perhaps considering the cold in winter, the bonfire was lit early in the palace.

Twenty kings entered the main hall and stood on both sides to wait, while Bai Nani accompanied Itas, the queen of Yelan, from the side hall, and after she had finished saluting the kings one by one, she did not walk back to the royal steps, but came to the first place on the left to stand still.

Seeing this scene, many kings began to be mentally prepared.

Not long after, the dragon flag entered the palace, and the guards guarding outside hurriedly came over to report: "The honor guard of the emperor of the Xia Kingdom has come." ”

Everyone looked back at the temple gate, and what greeted them was a banner flying in the sky like a banner covering the sky and the sun, and a moment later, there was a series of neat footsteps, stepping on the white rock steps outside the hall with a roaring sound.

Su Chen was wearing a crown on his head, wearing a white dragon pattern imperial robe on a black background, and a pair of black straight boots under his feet, the sky light fell on him, and Su Chen's shadow was obliquely reflected on the ground.

Behind him, a group of generals in the army, armor leaves, and weapons collided, and there was a loud clang.

The two teams of Tiger Guard Battalion soldiers stood still, separated from the left and right outside the hall gate, Su Chen lifted his robe and walked into the main hall.

"Start translating my words!"

As soon as he entered the main hall, Su Chen's majestic voice echoed in the main hall, and in the midst of the dragon and tiger steps, he continued: "As the suzerain, I have accepted you as a subordinate, so I have the responsibility to help in times of danger. Therefore, it is my duty to relieve the siege of the Western Regions, so don't think about it and thank you! ”

Just like his own court, Su Chen's footsteps did not stop, he stepped directly on the woolen blanket paved by the royal steps, walked to the golden seat, threw the Daxia Dragon Sparrow to Dian Wei, pressed the handrails on both sides, split his legs, and sat down with a golden knife.

"The Western barbarians are bullying you, I can't look past it, only by teaching them a lesson, can they know that there is a powerful country behind you."

Su Chen's gaze swept over the furry faces below, and he waited for Bai Nani to finish relaying the last sentence before he continued to speak.

"But this matter is not over, since the Western barbarians have come once, they will definitely come a second time...... You are too weak, you will inevitably repeat the mistakes of the past, and I will add another article in addition to the Western Regions Protectorate proposed before, and if you are incompetent, the people of the Western Regions will be in trouble, and I will build a new Western Regions with my own hands. ”

Taking advantage of the Western barbarians, the giant dragon from the East finally opened its bloody mouth at this moment.

In the royal palace, the kings of the small countries in the Western Regions were suddenly silent.

(End of chapter)