In the Gobi Desert, where yellow and gray are intertwined, a group of people and horses are slowly advancing.

The sunset in the distance shone with a different kind of red light, accompanied by the sunset, which was quite lonely and sad.

Zhuge Xu rode a horse and walked in the middle of the procession.

They have been starting from Luoyang for a long time, and now they have just arrived in Dunhuang County.

It was the first time Zhuge Xu had walked such a long way.

But I didn't even finish half of the journey.

There were quite a few of them in his group, including the knights who protected him, and there were more than 2,000 of them.

What made Zhuge Xu most curious was the accompanying Futu monks.

Like in the past, there were many monks in Yongzhou, but their influence was only limited to the upper echelons.

Some celebrities like to float and like to set up banquets to invite monks to give lectures for themselves.

Of course, there are too many gods that people can believe in at this moment.

At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, in addition to the five emperors, there were more than 400 gods in the locality, and by the time of the emperor, there were already 683 temples of gods operated by the government, as for the gods of folk belief were not among them, by the time of Wang Mang, the official gods reached 1,700, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was countless.

The Wei and Jin dynasties were influenced by metaphysics, and various gods emerged one after another, and official sacrifices were carried out all year round.

But Buddhism and Taoism have taken different paths.

Buddhism chose the upper route, and they would take the initiative to contact those famous people of the clan, give lectures to them, carry out the translation of scriptures, and then use the influence of these famous people and officials to strengthen themselves.

As for Taoism, in the era of Fangshi, they also took the upper route, but because they were attacked many times, they gradually began to take the lower route, and even had the ability to organize the people to set off a rebellion at the level of destroying the country, it was an uprising.

But in Liangzhou, Shazhou and other places.

The influence of Futu is already very strong.

Especially in Shazhou.

Several great kings of Shazhou were believers in Futu Buddhism, and they often drove the people of the country to build pagodas.

The only building in those cities that can maintain the same height as the royal palace is the pagoda.

Even many of the stupas in the castle are built in the center of the castle, and the road spreads in all directions around the stupa.

Zhuge Xu walked on the road with these monks as guides, and the more he walked to Shazhou, the higher the treatment of these monks became.

Liu Song, the assassin of Shazhou, personally led people to greet Zhuge Xu and others.

Although Zhuge Xu was disposed of by the emperor, now his official position and title are not high, but after all, he has been brilliant in the past, has a great reputation, and he came here with festivals, and no one dared to be rude to him along the way.

Zhuge Xu and Liu Song did not have any friendship.

The two had never seen each other before, and when they met for the first time, both of them were a little restrained.

Liu Song set up a banquet to entertain Zhuge Xu.

Zhuge Xu looked at the many officials in the banquet, and couldn't help but ask: "Liu Gong, after entering Shazhou, I can't see the rest of the carriages on the road, and sometimes I can't touch the post house after walking for several days, shouldn't the road ahead be like this?" ”

When Liu Song heard this, he immediately fell silent.

In fact, this is quite good, if you go further, you may not see anyone for half a month.

But he couldn't say that, so he had to comfort: "Shazhou is newly established, and the roads are still under construction, maybe when you return, it won't be like this." ”

When Zhuge Xu heard this, he immediately understood what the next road would be.

It's definitely not going to be too easy to walk.

Zhuge Xu didn't want to say anything more, and the banquet ended hastily, but after it was over, Liu Song invited Zhuge Xu to his study.

Although Zhuge Xu was surprised, he still followed the other party to the study.

After the two sides took their seats, Liu Song sighed.

"Zhuge Gong, this supervision is really not easy, you have also served as the assassin of a state in the past, I wonder if I can ask you for advice?"

Zhuge Xu looked at the young Liu Song in front of him.

He knew a little in his heart that this person could serve as a assassin at his current age, and he would definitely be able to be reused in the future, and no matter how bad he was, he would be one of the six Shangshu.

It can be said that he wants to consult Zhuge Xu shook his head, "I myself am not a qualified assassin, I made a big mistake and was punished by His Majesty, how dare I teach others?" ”

Liu Song suddenly didn't know what to say.

Zhuge Xu said again: "However, if Liu Gong wants to talk to me about the affairs under his rule, I am still willing to listen." ”

Liu Song also took the opportunity to talk about what he wanted to ask.

Liu Song himself is a very strict person, and he enforces the law strictly and fairly, so everyone is shocked and frightened.

But at this moment, he encountered a group of powerful subordinates.

Cao Chao attaches too much importance to Shazhou, so the local officials he dispatches are the kind of people who are extremely capable and very strong.

Although Liu Song has a steady hold on them in terms of official positions, his age and qualifications are a little unable to keep up, and it may be okay in other states, but in this place where talents gather, it reveals a lot of problems.

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This is not what makes Liu Song the most entangled.

What makes Liu Song feel that the most difficult thing to solve is still some shady things.

Liu Song has always been a very fair person, but now he has to face the conspiracies raised by some subordinates.

For example, Liu Yu, the current long history, is planning to provoke the struggle between the Qiuci Kingdom and the Yanqi Kingdom, and then take the opportunity to take control of these two small countries.

There are already contradictions between these two countries.

If they can fight with each other, then Liu Yu will have a legitimate reason to collect their royal seal, or get them to promise to send the minister to them.

But in Liu Song's opinion, this matter is a bit inappropriate.

If you say that you want to provoke a fight between Kangju or a foreign enemy like Xianbei, then Liu Song will definitely not say anything, but these two countries are now under the rule of Shazhou, and they have been considered long-term tributes over the years, and they have no intention of disobedience.

Zhuge Xu listened to Liu Song's troubles very carefully.

He asked suspiciously, "Why don't you ask Your Majesty directly?" ”

Liu Song sighed and said, "I told Your Majesty in the last play, but Your Majesty didn't tell me what to do, just said let me continue to star." ”

"Officials everywhere feel that His Majesty has agreed to them without objection, and they all feel that they can do it."

"What the hell am I going to do?"

Zhuge Xu understood now, he said seriously: "Your Majesty has said many times that this assassin is not responsible for internal affairs, but is only responsible for supervision, you don't need to meddle in this matter at all, you just need to keep telling Your Majesty the truth about the situation of this official, the situation of various countries, and even your own thoughts." ”

"Your Majesty doesn't like to meddle in local government affairs, and you don't want to think of yourself as a former state pastor, just monitor the behavior of everyone."

"However, as far as you just said, I think Liu Yu and others are unlikely to be able to do it."

"Your Majesty sent us to the Yue's side, and he is also ready to conduct large-scale trade in the future, how can he allow war in Shazhou?"

"Qiuzi is a big country, and if there is turmoil, half of Shazhou will be affected."

"At least in the past few years, Changshi will not do it easily."

Liu Song nodded, and felt that this was the case.

After a while, Zhuge Xu's impression of the young man in front of him became more and more good.

This guy has the hope of serving as Shangshu before the age of fifty!

Zhuge Xu silently made an evaluation in his heart.

Liu Song also informed Zhuge Xu of some information.

"I often have monks from the Yue Clan's side here."

"I learned a lot from them."

Liu Song said: "In the past, they had a king called Bo Tune. ”

"This person sent an envoy to Dawei in the second year of Taihe, paid tribute, and was named the king of the Dayue clan of pro-Wei."

"The Central Plains knows very little about this person's situation, but I have heard a lot, it is said that this person is wise and martial, inherited the throne when he was young, and made great contributions, and all the countries are headed by him, as the king of Kushan."

"And I, Da Wei, was named after the Han Dynasty and called him the King of the Great Moon Clan."

"It's just that after this person is old, he has committed many atrocities, reused villains, stayed away from talents, and killed the clan indiscriminately, so after his death, the Otsuki clan began to decline, and it is said that they are now deceived by strong enemies, losing a lot of land, and not daring to fight with the enemy"

Zhuge Xu was stunned when he heard it.

When he was young, he ascended the throne, was wise and martial, defeated strong enemies, began to kill indiscriminately in old age, was mediocre, bowed his head to the Great Wei and called his vassals, how did he sound so familiar when he was named king? ?

I always feel like I've seen it somewhere.

At this moment, Liu Song is talking about the strong enemy of the Yue people, the rest of the people.

But Liu Song didn't know much about rest, and he couldn't say anything.

He only knew that this country was very strong, taking away a large number of territories from the Yue people, and they were eyeing the surroundings, and their strength was exaggerated.

Obviously, Liu Song and the others still don't know that Rest is not the same as today's Sasani.

In fact, it is not the Sabbatical Empire that is bullying the Kushan Empire now, but the Sassanid Empire.

Just as now Kushan has also become the Vasudeva dynasty

Zhuge Xu is still very grateful to Liu Song, at least he now has a vague impression of the people of the Dayue clan.

In Liu Song's description, the current situation of the Dayue clan is very difficult, they have lost the territory in the south, the south is now lined with countries, and the north has been beaten by the enemy, huddled together, trembling, they have reached the verge of extinction.

Of course, the real situation, Zhuge Xu still has to pass to know.

Zhuge Xu rested in the local area for two days and set off again.

After really entering the interior of Shazhou, Zhuge Xu realized that the road to Dunhuang was still very good, and there were still a lot of people, no wonder Liu Song was hesitant.

However, the environment here is good, with fertile farmland, grasslands, and lakes everywhere.

It seems that the environment here is even better than Dunhuang, and there is a lot less wind and sand, but when I hear about the south, the situation will be different.

Zhuge Xu could only secretly complain and continue to hurry.

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