In spring, the eastern foothills of the Andes, in front of a snow-capped plain, are now building cities. The construction site on the riverside is in full swing, and thousands of busy indigenous people are carrying various stones or beating the foundations to the shouts of the monks.

On the top of the snow-capped mountain above the clouds, Su E's eyebrows stood in the wind, her clothes fluttering. In her calm eyes, the city was no more than the size of a chessboard, and the people running around were not much different from ants.

She watched the city from planning to construction, and in the mouths of the indigenous monks, it was a gift to the gods. In their plan, there would be a grand temple in the center of the city.

Su Emei has seen the model they built, the entire temple will be built with white boulders of more than 10,000 catties, without any crushed stones, the main body is cone-shaped, and the layers are closed upward, and finally reach a height of more than 20 zhang.

There are ninety-one stone steps on each of the four sides of the temple, plus the top one step for a total of three hundred and sixty-five steps, and there will be fifty-two reliefs on the four sides.

The whole building is simple and grand, and although the structure is simple, it obviously fits into some kind of Taoist mechanism. There will also be a mysterious building on the top temple platform, and with Su Emei's knowledge, she can only see that they are some magic weapons, but she doesn't know what they are for.

"As a gift to you, this city will be named after you when it is completed. The worship and loyalty of these people to you is really unimaginably high, and I don't know what they think. Chu Nanhuai came to Su Emei's side and looked at the city under his feet with a lot of emotion.

He looked a little jealous.

Su E's eyebrows were indifferent, as if all this in front of her had nothing to do with her.

She was obviously not as optimistic as Chu Nanhuai, and said slowly: "The rules and regulations of these people to build the city are completely their own, and they secretly coincide with the Great Dao, I have been enlightened for a long time, and I have not fully comprehended the Dao mechanism in it. But there is one thing I have confirmed. ”

The brown-skinned old Taoist turned his head to look at his disciple, and he actually saw some doorways.

Sure enough, Su Emei continued: "This temple is actually a magic circle, and it is a magic circle!"

The so-called Divine Array, Chu Nanhuai is naturally very familiar with it, and the Five Great Dao Gates of the Tang Dynasty all have this kind of magic array, which is intended to borrow immortal power from the Immortal Court through the secret method. Back then, in front of Fengqi Mountain, the Great Array of Zhuxian Immortals used by the Five Great Dao Gates to deal with Li Ye was of this type.

Chu Nanhuai understood Su Emei's subtext, "Although you are now considered by these monks to be their gods, we all know that this is wrong. When the temple is built, they won't be able to communicate with their gods, and if they do, it's easy to find your flaws. When the time comes, we will not be in a good position. ”

Su Emei did not answer.

Chu Nanhuai laughed to himself, "But in my opinion, you are too worried." If they can communicate with their gods, how can they get your identity wrong?"

After spending more than a year with these natives, they have learned the language here, and there is no barrier to communication with the local monks, so Chu Nanhuai already knows a lot about the natives.

Unlike the Tang Dynasty, there was no unified state here, each city was a city-state, and the noble monks treated the common people very harshly, and there was not even a common class here, only nobles and slaves.

The only thing that unites them is the unity of faith.

And now, their faith has been challenged because the gods have not answered their prayers for many years. The power of the monks is declining, both in terms of realm and number. The power of the aristocracy weakened, the slaves were ready to move, the people were terrified, and the society was uneasy.

In such cases, conflicts often broke out between noble monks and slaves. In order to appease the people, many monks and nobles, saying that other city-states had blasphemed the gods, causing the gods to become angry, so they stopped answering their prayers, so they openly launched wars to divert the hatred of the people.

Their wars are not aimed at unification, and there is no such thing as governance, and defeating a city-state kills all the so-called blasphemers in it, robs them of their wealth, and burns the city.

By the time Su Emei and the others arrived, the war had been going on for decades, countless city-states had disappeared, the population had been greatly reduced, and the small cities were no longer even able to resist the invasion of wild beasts.

"The monks here practice different exercises from us, we are on the basis of pursuing the unity of heaven and man, comprehending the qi of heaven and earth, absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, and opening up our own small world. And the basis of their cultivation is to obtain the power of the gods, use the power of the gods to open up the sea of qi, and then absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. ”

Chu Nanhuai said thoughtfully, "Now that the gods have lost their protection, the power of the gods in the temple is constantly weakening, and it is no longer enough to maintain the normal operation of the cultivation race. This is also one of the reasons why they launched the war of the city-states. Only by plundering the power of the gods in the temples of other city-states can they ensure their temporary strength.

"But this is drinking to quench your thirst, sooner or later, the remaining divine power in the temple will run out, and the disappearance of the cultivation world here is inevitable. Those indigenous monks, when they feel the immortal power in you, will surrender so simply, I am afraid that it is not without the meaning of rushing to the doctor when they are sick. ”

Su Emei was still silent.

Chu Nanhuai saw that she didn't answer for a long time, and said strangely: "You don't have any ideas, don't you really plan to do anything?"

Su E glanced at her master, "Why do I have to do something, what does this matter have to do with us?"

Chu Nanhuai was speechless for a while. He has the ambition to make meritorious contributions, develop the power of Quanzhenguan, and contribute to the Tang Dynasty, and the White Deer Cave is meant to roll up the world.

But this disciple of his obviously does not have the slightest utilitarian heart, after finding potatoes and corn and completing the tasks assigned by Li Ye, she looks like she is out of the way of everything, just like an official waiting for the next duty.

Chu Nanhuai naturally knew very well about his disciple's temperament, and understood that it was useless to say anything else to Su Emei, so he directly said the reason why he came to her now, "Your Majesty has an order, let us lead the local monks to fight and open up a new world here!"

After saying this, Chu Nanhuai laughed out loud for the old disrespectful hehe, looked at Su E's eyebrows with a playful face, and made it clear that he wanted to see her joke.

Su Emei was still like a water, unmoved by foreign objects, and with a faint hum, she was about to turn around and leave.

Chu Nanhuai was surprised and said, "Where are you going?" Looking at Su Emei's appearance, is it planning not to obey Li Ye's orders?

Su Emei turned her head and glanced at her master strangely, "Naturally, I went to select people." ”

Chu Nanhuai was so choked that he couldn't speak, and seeing that Su Emei had already flown down the snowy mountain, he could only use his body to keep up.

After summoning the monks, Su Emei only said a word, and then ordered the scouts to explore the way and lock on to the target, and the team followed.

What she said was: "From now on, wars are no longer aimed at killing, but about conquest. ”

What Su Emei couldn't know at this time was that her words changed the fate of a race's self-destruction.

What she didn't know was that in the vast world beyond the sky, there was a pair of eyes in the void watching here.

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In autumn, the leaves of Chang'an are fluttering.

Li Ye received the latest war report from the Western Regions, and the Guiyi Army and Yulin Army led by Zhang Huaishen and Nangong No. 1 had captured Xizhou after several great victories.

The Tang army pursued closely along the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, passing through Yanqi and Qiuci all the way, and encountered a black-clothed cavalry that came to intercept in Shuledong. The other party was quite tough, and after a long battle, Yao Ge Luolu took tens of thousands of remnants and got rid of the pursuit of the Guiyi army.

Now the Guiyi army has found out that the black-clothed cavalry is the Black Khanate (Ka

Lakhanian Dynasty), they gathered heavy troops in Shule, and had the posture of a big battle with the Tang army.

Zhang Huaishen asked for instructions on whether to gather all the military forces and capture Shule.

Li Ye's reply to Zhang Huaishen was to postpone the recovery of Shule, first establish military towns in Yanqi and Qiuci, sweep away the vast area originally controlled by the Uighurs in Xizhou, and only need to monitor and guard against the Black Khanate.

"The Western Uighurs controlled the vast area north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and there were many rich lands in it, but because of the desert and geographical isolation, it was not an easy matter to completely conquer and govern. ”

Cui Keli stroked his beard and said, "The two armies of Guiyi and Yulin have been fighting fiercely in the difficult land for several months, and now they have defeated Yao Ge Luoluqing, and their troops are dull, and they are indeed not suitable for fighting the Black Khanate again. It is indeed a good policy to rebuild the two towns of Yanqi and Qiuci first, stabilize the place, recuperate, hoard military funds, and then plan to do it later, Your Majesty is wise!"

Li Zhen said indignantly: "The Uighurs west of the Green Mountains are just a group of lost dogs, and now they really dare to collude with the Xizhou Uighurs and clash head-on with the imperial divisions, they are really looking for death!"

Compared with the steady Cui Keli, the young Li Zhen is more vigorous, and it is not surprising that Li Ye has such an attitude. In fact, many of Datang's national policies were finalized in the debate between the two.

As soon as Cui Keli wanted to say something, Li Ye waved his hand, signaling that the two of them did not have to fight, and said to himself: "The land of the Western Regions now has three forces, the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains are controlled by the Western Uighurs, and now they have entered our pockets;

"The Khotanese state has sent an envoy to the east, and now they are on the way, and with their usual national policy, it is very likely that they will take the initiative to submit to the imperial dynasty. To the west of Shule is the place where the Black Khan is entrenched, and in terms of the area under his jurisdiction, he is the largest. Right now, we know the least about them.

"At present, the Black Khan army has entered and occupied Shule, reserved the last piece of land for Yao Ge Luoluqing, and has already started a war with the Tang Dynasty in fact, and when the construction of the Western Regions has initial results, it is natural to take them under the knife. ”

Black Khan will rescue the medicine Glolutian, which is actually expected by Li Ye.

In the land of the Western Regions, he didn't plan to finish the battle, which was not realistic. The Guiyi Army and the Yulin Army were able to defeat the Uighurs in Xizhou and open up the situation in the Western Regions, and they achieved their goal.

The terrain of the Western Regions, three mountains and two basins, the foothills are rich land, the rivers are dense, the people live, the center of the basin is desert, deserted, uninhabited. The four towns of Anxi were all built near the foothills of the river.

The original four towns of Anxi, Yanqi, Qiuzi, Shule, and Khotan, except for Khotan, were all under the control of the Uighurs in Xizhou a few days ago; later, the Tang army expanded westward, and the four towns of Anxi changed, and Yanqi was withdrawn, and the town of Broken Leaves was established on the bank of the Broken Leaf River.

The town of Broken Leaves, now in the country of the Black Khan, is still the country of the Black Khan, and is called Balasagon.

In fact, most of the territory of the Black Khanate was the jurisdiction of the two protectorates of Anxi and Beiting during the heyday of the Tang Dynasty in the past.

Li Ye sent troops to the Western Regions, restored the entire territory of the four towns of Anxi, and reproduced the territory of the Tang Dynasty is obvious, not only the Broken Leaf City will be captured, but a large area of land of the Black Khanate will also be recovered-as long as Yao Ge Luo Luqing explains this to the Black Khanate, it will be difficult for the other party not to unite with him.

"In the next two years, the focus of the Western Regions was to rebuild the Anxi Protectorate to ensure absolute control over the territory. At the same time, build a military fort, hoard the materials transported from Chang'an, and wait until the armament is sufficient, which is the time for the Tang Dynasty to use troops to the west again!" Li Ye set the general direction for the affairs of the Western Regions, which is also a strategy that is in line with the general trend of other countries.

The past three or five years have been a critical period for Li Ye to completely flatten the feudal towns and enhance the strength of the Tang Dynasty.

When the army of Tang monks is formed and the war in the Western Regions starts again, even if he directly hits Talas and confronts the Great Cannibal and Crescent Moon Sect, Li Ye will also be mentally prepared.