Two days ago, only a relatively small number of people like Iron Hammer rushed to the side of the official road, but the day before, horses continued to converge on both sides of the official road from Chihai to Longyang Gorge like waves converging on the river.

It's just that these herdsmen are very shrewd, they didn't approach Chihai City, because they were afraid of being known by His Highness, and ordered them to go back, and they couldn't resist His Highness's order.

Therefore, they began to gather on both sides of the official road from more than 20 miles away from Chihai City, and more and more herdsmen gathered here, only a few hundred at first, and gradually thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands......

More and more herdsmen are like waves that merge into the river, constantly converging and converging on the road that is nearly 200 miles long.

Simple tents were set up on both sides of the road, with horses grazing nearby, and a river next to them.

They are waiting here just to see off His Highness.

The entire Anxi Protectorate has been busy for two days, Li Ke has a lot of things to bring when he goes back, first of all, the gold must be transported back to Chang'an, just the 20,000 Tang Jin gold in Tubo is equivalent to more than 11 tons in later generations, counting the more than 9 tons of gold that Li Ke got back from telling others before, a total of 20 tons of gold.

In fact, there is not much money in these golds, which is about 5.36 million yuan in Datang, and the current gold exchange is too lossy, as a later generation, Li Ke naturally knows that gold is very scarce in nature, and gold is also an important industrial raw material, although it is said that Datang cannot use it at present.

But it's always right to leave gold, Li Ke is not ready to exchange this gold, but the silver is actually okay, this winter to next year, it is estimated that the amount of silver in Li Ke's hands will skyrocket, mainly from Tibet.

Don't look at Tibet as a slave society, but it is precisely because it is a slave society that almost all the wealth is concentrated in the hands of Songtsen Gampo, and Li Ke reasoned with him to return 20,000 catties of gold, and the gold in Songtsen Gampo's hands is definitely not much, and then a large amount of silver must be used to buy pig iron.

In addition, Li Ke felt that next year, Songtsen Gampo would directly cross the Himalayas in the future in large quantities and begin to either trade or plunder Tianzhu and other countries.

Either way, there's still a lot of gold and silver coming back, and that's a good thing.

Because all this money will flow back into Li Ke's hands.

On the second day, when Li Ke put on one of his twenty sets of clothes under the service of Yang Anning and the others, the team outside was ready to set off.

When Li Ke went back, because he was not in a hurry, he naturally did not wear armor.

When Li Ke went out, Li Daozong and the others had already put on armor and were waiting for him outside.

"General Li, Xizhou will be handed over to you." Li Ke said seriously.

"Please rest assured, Xizhou is the work of His Highness, and the last general will work hard to ensure the smooth operation of Xizhou." Li Daozong said in a deep voice.

"Well, anyway, you just have to know what I'm telling you." What is the specific matter, of course, is to ask Li Daozong what is going on with his two daughters, Li Yan and Li Xin have a very long-term vision now, and they can often draw inferences from one another to see many of Li Ke's arrangements, which has a great effect on stabilizing Xizhou.

Although Xizhou actually won't have too many problems as long as the current situation is maintained now, if Li Yan is here, at least Xizhou can still move forward.

And although Li Xin looks a little stupid, Li Ke naturally doesn't look at the problem from the surface, many people see Li Xin's fast mouth, as if he can't hide things in his head, and he says it directly when he thinks of something, which looks quite stupid.

But everyone ignored one point, that is, what Li Xin said is the most critical! This is important because it means that she can only say it if she has it in her head, which means that she can see it through as well.

This is talent, and speaking can be made up for by nurture, but talent is impossible to make up.

When she grows up in a few years and gets rid of this habit of talking, Li Xin will not be worse than Li Yan.

"Yes!" Li Daozong saluted silently, Li Ke said this in private, and he didn't say it in front of everyone, so he naturally gave him a face as a father, and for his daughter's ability, Li Daozong can be said to have truly experienced it during this time.

In the next two months, almost Li Yan was dealing with the affairs of the entire Xizhou, and His Royal Highness was just making decisions, and Li Yan was doing the specific distribution and arrangement of affairs, and Li Daozong thought that he couldn't do it himself.

"Let's go!" Li Ke turned over and got on the horse directly, and didn't say any nonsense, what should have been arranged has been arranged a long time ago, and everything that should be said was said yesterday, just set off directly today.

As Li Ke turned over and got on his horse, the team that had already been prepared naturally followed behind and walked out of the city, and when he left the city, the 30,000 troops left behind outside lined up neatly on both sides of the team.

When Li Ke and the others came out, Su Dingfang, who was at the front of the team, said loudly: "Lizheng!! ”

"Click!" The sound of armor crashing came in unison.

"Salute!!"

"Huh!" All the soldiers raised their right hands and saluted a posterity! That's right, this military salute is naturally also improved from the militia training manual, Datang's army performs the forked hand salute most of the time, this time the entire Xizhou army training, the entire militia training manual, in addition to the tactics of modern thermal weapons, other queue training and so on are all kept up.

And the military salute was naturally changed directly, anyway, Li Ke himself felt that the military salute in later generations was very good-looking, better than the forked hand salute of the Tang Dynasty, besides, it was good for the army to have a separate etiquette, and these soldiers were wearing bright and bright light armor, and they saluted the army in a uniform manner, is it super handsome? !

In the future, this military salute was invented by His Royal Highness Li Ke, King Qin of the Tang Dynasty!

Li Ke didn't say anything, he just rode on his horse and waved his hands at these soldiers.

They were stationed here to protect their families and defend the country, although Li Ke compensated them for their military salaries, but it was certain that they were far away from their hometowns, and in ancient times, it was not like modern times, and it was difficult to go back home.

The long line kept advancing, and it wasn't until the phalanx of soldiers behind could not be seen that Li Ke felt a little emotional.

The surrounding grassland has become yellow, although the temperature is not yet below zero, but there are more than ten days to estimate that it will soon enter the winter, I don't know how much change Xizhou will have next time I come here?