Chapter Eighty-Seven: Out of the Town and the Great Protector of the Western Regions (Second Watch)

The next day, without waiting for Chen Ying to send troops, Su Dingfang sent back the news.

Gaochang King Koji Boya, self-tied, leading the sheep to carry the pot, automatically surrendered. In fact, this result did not surprise Chen Ying, in the Western Regions Chen Ying, since Chen Ying defeated the 200,000 soldiers and horses of the Yehu Khan in Liangzhou, his momentum has been achieved, even if the King of Gaochang has a kind of resistance, the Gaochang people who have been enslaved by the King of Gaochang for a long time will not follow the King of Gaochang to resist Chen Ying's army.

However, Chen Ying also has Chen Ying's weaknesses.

He was sluggish. Although the various departments of the Western Regions surrendered one after another and contributed grain, however, these grains could barely support Chen Ying's entire army from starving to death, but they could not support Chen Ying to launch another large-scale war.

Although there is grain in Lingzhou and Liangzhou too, but the heavy snow has closed the roads and the transportation has been interrupted.

However, Chen Ying was not idle. Instead, they sent scattered cavalry to convey to the various ministries the order of the Western Regions to meet Chen Ying.

Whether they come or not is their own business. However, as long as you dare not come, you will bear the consequences.

Unexpectedly, there are not a few cotton in Gaochangguo. There is no technical difficulty in playing cotton, Gaochang City, and Gaochecheng started at the same time, and finally spun cotton threads to weave cotton cloth, this matter is not in a hurry, Chen Ying is really not proficient in this kind of thing, not to mention the principle of the loom, even if it is the appearance of the ancient loom he has not seen, vaguely seen the ancient loom pictures, will also be thrown where he will go.

Idle, Chen Ying asked them for a topographic map of the Western Regions in Gaoche City, and asked them for a topographic map of the Western Regions.

Looking at the map, it is not difficult to see that the Green Mountains, the Tianshan Mountains, and the Altai Mountains are actually a huge commanding height, and the importance of the Western Regions is self-evident.

Fortunately, there is an arid area of more than 2,000 miles in the four counties of Hexi, and the march is a very serious problem. Why did Chen Ying brave the cold to come to the expedition in winter, in fact, it was to solve the water problem.

In winter, it will snow in Hexi, and it is not difficult to solve the problem of water for people and horses when there is snow.

But the reverse is also true, if the nomads have been working in the Western Regions for several years, raising strong soldiers and horses, and really pouring down like a torrent, it will be a catastrophe. It can't be stopped by Yangguan, Yumen Pass, and Jiayuguan alone. No matter how strong the Xiongguan is, there is always a chance to break through.

Fortunately, our ancestors did not disappoint us, and the Western Regions has always cultivated the fields with troops, and it has been a rule formed since the Han Dynasty onwards.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the warlords were divided, and the imperial court was beyond the reach of the Western Regions, and Tubo captured Hexi, whipping Guanzhong, at this critical moment, Zhang Yichao, a native of Shazhou, stepped forward to recover the eleven states in Hexi, and led the eleven states to return to the Tang Dynasty, avoiding the secession of the northwest.

In fact, once the northwest is divided, the harm is no weaker than that of the northeast. Fortunately, the folk customs of Qinliang are extremely fierce, and they can barely support it, but the Yinchuan Plain is not good, the Ordos Plateau is lost, the Yinchuan Plain will not be saved, and the Yinchuan Plain is lost, and the entire Hetao Plain will be flooded by the roaring barbarian cavalry, which is why for two thousand years, the Han people know that the Western Regions, Hexi, and Hetao Plains are fertile and fertile, suitable for agriculture and animal husbandry, and a little management will show the beautiful scenery of the idyll, but they have never made great efforts to manage the Hetao Plain.

Because they were afraid that the Western Regions, Hexi, and Hetao areas would become a springboard for attacking the Central Plains.

Although Chen Ying does not understand history and is not proficient in politics, he knows that once the main nation of a country loses its sense of identity with the country, the country will also lose its centripetal force.

Ethnic minorities, that is pure, they will be the most unstable factor, and pulling the flag to rebel is the most likely.

In Chen Ying's view, the world is not the world of one person, but the world of the world. Those who benefit from the same world will win the world; Those who take advantage of the world will lose the world. There are times in the sky, there is wealth in the earth, and those who can share it with others are benevolent, and where the benevolence is, the world will return to it. To avoid the death of people, to solve the difficulties of people, to save people's troubles, to help people's urgency, virtue also, where virtue is, the world returns. Those who share sorrows and joys with others, good and evil, righteousness, where righteousness is, the world will go to it. Mortals die evil and live happily, virtuous and profitable, and those who can generate profit, the Tao is also, where the Tao is, the world returns to it.

Because of the interests, the Han people of Gaochang had to turn the Han into Hu in order to survive. Then for the sake of profit, he can also turn Hu into a man.

Thinking of this, Chen Ying sighed.

Helplessly, he is just a marshal of the marching army, in charge of military affairs, and cannot also be in charge of civil affairs.

Chen Ying could only stop all these plans on paper, but could not put them into action.

Fortunately, Chen Ying's entanglement did not last long.

At the beginning of December of the third year of Wude, Guan Junrong made Anxing and his party of more than 100 people arrive in Gaoche City.

However, An Xing and the others looked very miserable, like calling Hanako. Their luck was so bad that they encountered a storm and almost froze to death outside Jiaohe City. Fortunately, dozens of people froze to death, and finally arrived safely in Jiaohe City, rested in Jiaohe City for three days, and then couldn't wait to rush to Gaoche City.

An Xing's snot flowed into three inches, and Chen Ying felt nauseous, and unconsciously retreated a foot away.

However, An Xing bowed down and saluted Chen Ying: "Congratulations to General Chen!" ”

Chen Ying said inexplicably: "Where does the joy come from? ”

At this moment, another obese eunuch stood up from behind An Xing, originally Chen Ying thought that he was An Xing's subordinate official, after all, he never asked about An Xing's affairs. As an envoy to the army, An Xing was surrounded by two hundred people, including his guards, his subordinates, and staff.

The obese eunuch cleared his throat and said, "Liang Guogong, the general of the town army, the commander of the horses, and the marshal of the marching soldiers of the West River Road have received the order!" ”

Chen Ying looked at this holy decree with a blank expression, feeling a little surprised. The holy decree shows the imperial power, the most sloppy, the texture of the shaft handle according to the official grade of the decree have a strict difference, the first official is the jade shaft, the second official is the black rhinoceros horn shaft, and then look at the holy decree unfolding, for the silk brocade weaving, on both sides of the flying golden dragon, it is indeed the holy decree that the second grade official will use.

Chen Ying is now just a second-grade honorable officer, and this honorable officer is useless. His actual position is to be the marshal of the three-rank marching army, but is this holy decree a holy decree for promotion?

The eunuch said in a low voice: "Liang Guogong, the general of the town army, the commander of the horses, the marshal of the marching soldiers and horses of the West River Road, and the festival." Since leading the army to the west, the Kexi Turks, clarifying the thief atmosphere, outstanding meritorious service, special advancement, from the second grade, the West River Road Xingtai Shangshu left servant shooting, the Western Regions Dadu protection, as an encouragement ......"

Chen Ying was slightly stunned after the decree, he was worried that he couldn't sinicize the Western Regions, he lacked a name the most, and now this name is in his hands?

Luo Shixin pulled An Xing aside and asked, "Is the marshal big, or is it the big protector?" ”

An Xing smiled but did not speak.

Chen Ying reacted: "Zhou Qing, send all the envoys to the backyard to rest, by the way, don't forget to present a high-speed car souvenir!" ”

For eunuchs, Chen Ying does not despise eunuchs from the bottom of his heart like some literati, he is physically disabled, it is just a problem with this system, as a man, I am afraid that no one wants to castrate, of course, unless he can't live.

An Xingchong smiled at the lieutenant envoy, he naturally understood the meaning of Chen Ying's so-called specialty.

Chen Ying's so-called local specialty is money. And Chen Ying has always been generous, An Xing is a person who takes money to do things, accepts Chen Ying's money, and never says "bad things" about Chen Ying. Of course, he will say bad things that don't hurt, such as killing prisoners, robbing, and bullying vassal subordinates, if An Xing really does everything to Chen Ying, Li Yuan is not a fool, I'm afraid he will be transferred back in less than three months.

When An Xing and his party left, Chen Ying explained to Luo Shixin: "Most of the Western Regions protect the second grade, and the marching marshal is the third grade!" ”

Luo Shixin suddenly realized: "This is a promotion!" ”

Chen Ying smiled and said nothing.

All the soldiers also congratulated Chen Ying, and Chen Ying announced that all the soldiers of the army would be rewarded with one pound of wine, of course, it was the special product of the Western Regions.

The soldiers roared with joy.

However, the whole army was divided into three parts. With the Mo sword army, the Xiao cavalry army is one, the Zhaowu nine divisions are one, and the servant army of the other departments is another.

Looking at this scene, Luo Shixin said with a worried face: "Dadu Hu, the quality of this group of people is very good. But their hearts are not with us. ”

Even Luo Shixin could see this problem, and Chen Ying couldn't see it.

It's just that he didn't have power before, but now that he has power and fame, it's very easy to solve it.

Zhou Qing came back at this time and glanced at Chen Ying.

Chen Ying understood that An Xing had already received the money.

Chen said to Zhou Qing: "You go and call Ma Mengming, don't invite me!" ”

Since Ma Mengming was sent to Gaochecheng by King Gaochang as an envoy, Chen Ying discovered that this Ma Mengming was actually a talent, he was proficient in more than a dozen indigenous languages of the Western Regions, and he was also a pragmatic official.

Chen Ying thought about it, Li Yuan would definitely prepare for him the subordinate officials of the Western Regions Protectorate, such as Changshi, Joining the Army, Sima, Thirteen Cao Ministers Joining the Army and Assistants, anyway, Li Yuan would not let the Western Regions Protectorate become Chen Ying's hall.

However, Li Yuan would definitely take care of Chen Ying's front and give him a few official positions and let Chen Ying appoint them by himself.

Chen Ying took a fancy to Ma Mengming's ability and decided to recruit Ma Mengming to join the army as the secretary of the Western Regions Protectorate.

Recording and joining the army is actually the duty of the ancient lord.

In the shogunate, the ministers of Wei and Jin who commanded the army and opened the government were often involved in confidential information and the consul general's affairs. Xi Chisel was once the master of Huan Wen, and the people of the time said that "thirty years of reading Confucian books is not as good as a master book of Xi". This was the time when the power of the main book was at its peak.

Of course, the power of the record to join the army is mainly whether the commander trusts it or not, and it is the same as the free cavalry permanent attendant, if the emperor trusts the scattered cavalry permanent attendant, then the scattered cavalry permanent attendant can influence the important decisions of the imperial court, which is the de facto prime minister.

But once you don't trust it, then it's just an ornament.

Ma Mengming came to Chen Ying and bowed down and said, "The grass people meet Dadu Protector!" ”

"You won't be a grass farmer in the future!" Chen Ying looked at Ma Mengming and said: "This Dadu Protector is preparing to secretly screen you, and appoint you to join the army as the Protector of the Western Regions!" ”

Ma Mengming understands that the Western Regions Protector's record of joining the army is just a minor official on the seventh grade, but the private scene is extraordinary!

Ma Mengming hurriedly bowed down: "Xie Dadu is protective!" ”

PS: The monthly pass is 300 plus more, and it will be later. More on that later!