In the nineteenth year of Yongzhi, February 27, Qingming Festival.

Light rain was falling. In the afternoon, the long army continued to enter the city of Qiuzi. After a long journey, the soldiers looked tired. They didn't talk, they just looked at the city of hundreds of thousands of people. It's exotic.

However, the soldiers with hats, wearing coats, carrying blankets, bags of dry food, water bottles, and various weapons, or the silent cavalrymen on horseback, inadvertently showed the momentum of the elite of a hundred battles while walking and looking forward to it. Tiger Ben!

An army of 100,000 entered Qiuzi.

There is no official welcome ceremony here. Because, the presiding officer, nobles, and gentry all followed to the wheel to greet him. At the moment, they are all at the back of the line. However, the people of the Han family in the city spontaneously greeted them on both sides of the long street in the city.

There is no scene of eating pot pulp to welcome the king! Because, Qiuzi has recovered last year. But, cheers, firecrackers, sometimes sounded! There are also people shouting slogans excitedly!

Wang Shi Xi Dingqi Day.

Don't care about what "soldiers are like combs", there is at least one: the army of the Great Zhou will leave a way for everyone to live. And Hu Qi will only burn down their houses, plunder their property, reduce them to slavery, rape their wives and daughters, kill their parents...

Countless blood, tears, and hatred!

In Qiuzi City, amid the sound of neat marches, the Tiele merchants in the shops and shops on both sides of the long street were silent. A good old age for them has passed!

The army of the dynasty has only arrived today. But the propaganda team appointed by Jia Huan has long resisted Qiuzi. These Tiele people are aware of the latest policies and developments of the government. Extremely tough! For example: Jingguan at the foot of the North Mountain. For example, Hu Er dares to draw a sword in the city, and the crime is increased by three degrees. For example: the Zhou people claim to be the people of the Huanghuang Kingdom... Wait a minute.

Now it's Han and Tang again! If one of the Han people is killed, the captain of the Han school will lead the army to ask for the guilt. Those who commit crimes against strong men will be punished even if they are far away. If you kill one Tang person, the Tang cavalry will come. The Tang Dynasty is prosperous and coercive all over the world.

In layman's terms, the Han people are now a superior ethnic group in the Western Regions.

Others either hold their tails and live: it is impossible to think about bullying Han Ming with too many people and too many knives. Or, they will admire the kingdom, change their obedience and customs, and become a Hanmin.

In the Sihai Restaurant in the city, Lou Leng, Guo Guan, and Han Wugong looked at the imperial army from afar, and their mood was agitated.

They walked all the way from Khotan to Zhizhiman, and then went north along the Green Ridge to Shule, and then returned east, passing through Bachu, Gumo, and Qiuzi. Along the way, they felt the significance of the imperial army in the Western Regions!

Guo Guan said in a low voice: "Da Zhou Wansheng!" ”

"Wan Sheng!" Across the street, fifty meters away on the main street, the shouts burst out!

Qi Chi, the governor of the Western Regions, entered the city with civil and military officials!

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An army of 100,000 entered Qiuzi. The grand scene, the scene of the soldiers who were silent at the beginning, and the people who cheered later, must be forgotten by many people for the rest of their lives! Whether it is the people of the Han family or Hu'er!

At the same time, it deters certain forces! Watching the Zhou army enter the city, it was not simply the people in Qiuzi City and the merchants who traveled from north to south. How many of them are spies for forces in other regions of the Western Regions, it is not known.

The Western Regions are very large, there are: four towns in Anxi, Beiting, Tocharo, and nine countries in the river. And now the Zhou army has only recovered the two towns of Qiuzi and Khotan. The rest of the region has not yet been recovered.

After entering the city on the 27th, the governor's yamen soon took over all power. At the same time, the officials of the Western Regions Political Department resumed their work: measuring land, registering population, household registration, land deeds, commercial deeds, etc.

A lot to do!

And the North Court has already started a war! The Kuzi region must resume production and commerce despite the resumption. and levy all kinds of taxes to provide money and food for the army. Jia Huan started working in such an atmosphere and was familiar with the situation everywhere in Qiuzi.

A new life is unfolding.

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March 12, Closed Day. In the season of mid-spring, spring and sunshine are beautiful.

It has a warm temperate continental arid climate. Dry and rainless. There is a large temperature difference between day and night. Summers are hot and winters are dry and cold. However, in the spring morning, under the soft spring light, more than 20 degrees, it is very comfortable.

The Governor's Palace, located in the west of the city, is a bit noisy in the morning. The Governor of Qi hosted a banquet for civil and military officials from the Western Regions today. It is the first banquet and grand event since entering Qiuzi. Many merchants and nobles were invited.

In the small courtyard purchased by Jia Huan, not far from the Governor's Palace, facing Fangzhong Street, you can overlook the Qiuzi Palace.

The beautiful orchid with a soft style was in front of the mirror, helping Jia Huan comb her hair, tie her belt, and said with a sweet smile: "Third master, it's okay." ”

Jia Huan smiled and nodded. The 25-year-old orchid was his maid in Dunhuang. It was purchased with the help of Han Wugong. It is said to be the beautiful concubine of a noble family of a certain Yue family in Dunhuang City. It's hard to go from luxury to frugality! He brought her from Dunhuang and took care of him.

"Xiaoqing, I won't come back for dinner at noon. You command the kitchen. I want to go to the street and let the little four send someone to follow. ”

Jia Huan told the maid, took Qian Huai, Huang Guan, and Zhang Sishui out of the house, and walked to the governor's mansion hundreds of meters away.

The banquet was held in a courtyard behind the second hall of the Governor's Palace. Voices. Forty or fifty people gathered. and servants to and fro.

Jia Huan, dressed in a stone-blue scribe's shirt, chatted with the staff of the Governor's Mansion in the wing. Waiting for the banquet to begin. Through the window, you can see Hu Chi and Cheng You, laughing and talking with the generals or Hu people in the courtyard.

At this time, a crimson-robed official in his forties turned around from the door with an old man from Huren, bowed with a smile, and said, "Senator Jia, this is Tiele merchant Ju Ke." He has long admired your great name, and he has asked him to bring him to him. ”

It was Cai Zhifu who came from Zhengsipin, and he had a good relationship with Han Boan.

Perhaps it was because Jia Huan's angry reprimand in Dunhuang that day spread out: Huang Zhou mixed a sea of Yu, more than three generations and the Han and Tang Dynasties. The west of the Western Regions, the north of the north, the South Seas, the country of the East China Sea, the heavens and the earth, are all the concubines of my Han family! If it is not for the canonization of my Great Zhou court, dare to claim the king in front of this official?

When Governor Cai introduced Ju Ke, he did not say that he was a Tiele nobleman. Rather, say businessmen.

The so-called aristocracy is to have prestige and the right to speak in the Tiele tribe. People who have a lot of human and material resources in their hands. Don't look at this old man in his sixties, his old eyes are dizzy. Maybe the family has millions of dollars, and has a large number of slaves, shops, and pastures.

Ju Ke's face was wrinkled, his appearance was aging, he wore a black round hat, his body was thin and thin, his clothes were gorgeous, he stroked his chest and saluted, and said, "The grass people have seen Master Jia. The demeanor of the little old man Jiu Mujia, seeing it today, is enough to comfort his life! ”

Jia Huan was originally very unhappy with the Tiele people who were two or five boys. Just looking at this chest stroking ceremony, he frowned and said coldly: "Go back and read "Zengguang Xianwen" and "Kindergarten Qionglin" before you come to talk to me." ”

Jia Huan still has a lot of weight and status among the staff of the Governor's Palace. There was a low laugh all around.

Zengguang Xianwen and Kindergarten Qionglin are all Mongolian children's books. As the saying goes, if you read it, you can speak, and if you read it, you can learn to read.

Jia Huan means that Hu Er does not know Han etiquette. What do you say "Jiumu"? So much hypocrisy.

The smile on Ju Ke's face paused. There was a great deal of dissatisfaction in my heart.

The smile on Governor Cai's face faded, his face darkened, he arched his hand, didn't say a word, and left with Ju Ke.

He came with the kindness and temptation of Lord Han. In that case, so be it!