Crown Tang emperor

The Empress Dowager knew the reason why the saint left just now, so when the saint entered the hall, she cast a concerned and inquiring look.Seeing the saint with joy in his eyes, he nodded slightly, but after a while, he couldn't help feeling a little sad in his heart.

The empress dowager knew that what she did when she was in power in the past years violated the wishes of too many people, so after agreeing to the emperor's request to return to the court to supervise the country, she was also prepared in her heart to be strongly opposed by Shiliu .

But looking at the meaning of the saint now, Shiliu didn't have too much resistance to this, at least not enough to affect the normal progress of things.

Wu Zetian was not so self-confident that he felt that his return to the court was what everyone expected, and Shi Liu was happy to see this, so he did not object.The occurrence of such a situation can only show that in the eyes of the majority of the time, no matter whether the Empress Dowager returns to court or not, it will no longer bring too much impact and change to the current order of the situation, and naturally there will be no more Necessary for a great discussion.

In other words, the current era no longer belongs to her, and she is no longer the queen who dominates the world and can shake the world with her every move, but just a patriarch who takes shelter under the wings of today's saints.

For a politician who once stood at the pinnacle of power, such a situation of being neglected by the world is indeed a bit unacceptable, but when seeing the sage sitting in the temple and the Hu guests worshiping respectfully, Wu Zetian The loneliness in his eyes gradually faded away, and instead he revealed contented relief.

Anyone who once held power would not be willing to give up the power in his hand, let alone the empress dowager who had a much stronger desire for power than ordinary people.

However, after experiencing several turbulent palace changes and none of her sons dying well, Wu Zetian had to admit that the current situation was the most honorable exit for her, and the best arrangement for Sheji.

The public opinion in the country is still under control, and the next thing to pay attention to is naturally the attitude and position of the surrounding Hus towards Datang's military operation.

As soon as Li Tong sat down in the palace, Xi Chief Li Dazhen impatiently came out of the class and kowtowed: "Today, the sage wants to personally control the heavenly soldiers and punish the evil thieves. Although I come from a despicable Dongyi, I also enjoy the king's favor. With a deep sense of loyalty, I implore the sage to allow his ministers to send out their troops and line up to help!"

At this time, several hours had passed since the sage announced this shocking news, and the chief envoys of the Hu chieftains had also made their preliminary decisions. As Li Dazhen came out to express his position, many people were annoyed at not being able to take the lead One step, while hurriedly getting up and scrambling to make a statement.

And with the initial statement of this group of people, the Hu chieftains in the hall also stood up to speak one after another, expressing their support for the saint's decision.

In fact, no matter what these Hu chiefs said, it was not enough to influence the decision of the Tang court, and at the same time, it could not avoid the obligation to recruit troops to join the war.But their specific attitudes can also explain a lot of problems.

Although it is an extremely heavy burden for them to accept the enlistment of Tang Dynasty to participate in various wars, it is also a great opportunity.Because many Hu tribes seized similar opportunities and performed well, they received the key support of Datang and became the powerful overlords of one side.

For example, Li Dajin, the Xi Chief, who was the most eager, was of course not impatient because he said that he was full of loyalty, but because he saw that there was no power in the Northeast, and Datang still hadn't selected a new agent, so he asked for it. Active performance.

Li Dazhen was not the only one who had such thoughts. For example, the messenger who was expelled from the court for disturbing the court ceremony just now even cut his face outside the Linde Hall to plead guilty, his cheeks were bleeding profusely, and he knelt down I'm sorry, but I'm just begging Datang Tian Khan to give the Tuqi Shiren a chance so that they can also join in the use of troops against Qinghai.

Of course, this is not cheap, but compared with the price paid, there are greater benefits in it.Once they are supported and recognized by the Tang court, their respective development and growth will undoubtedly be more effective.

Of course, the premise of all this logic is that Datang itself is strong enough to maintain the normal operation of a whole set of prison order.As far as the current situation in Qinghai is concerned, Tubo really does not have the conditions and strength to compete with Datang.

"I am also very pleased that all parties can be loyal to the king's order and hate evil as much as hatred. After the military plan and the details of the recruitment and deployment are agreed upon by the imperial court, military orders will be issued. As for today, the whole world celebrates this festival and does not make miscellaneous remarks to disturb the interest."

Seeing Qunhu's enthusiastic attitude, Li Tong also said with a smile.

Chapter 0930 Three years of storage, a battle of great ambitions

After the New Year's Great Court Meeting, Datang's war machine was fully operational.Prime Minister Liu Youqiu also withdrew from the affairs of the Zhengshitang and took full charge of matters related to the saint's westward expedition.

Since Tubo invaded and occupied Qinghai during Gaozong's period, Datang had to prepare heavy troops in Longyou for defense.Since the emperor wanted to personally conquer this time and solve this problem once and for all, Datang's entire war plan was also extremely large, and the number of troops prepared to go into this war alone was planned to be 20 troops.

In the war plan made by the Privy Council, the 20 troops that will go to war are mainly divided into three aspects.

First of all, it is naturally the original army in Longyou and the surrounding areas. Since the Kaiyuan period, the imperial court's military investment in Longyou has also continued to increase.So far, there are more than [-] armies in Liangzhou, Shanzhou, Hezhou, and Taozhou in Longyou alone.

Although the garrison of more than [-] troops included a considerable part of the farmers and soldiers who opened the border and farmed the fields, not all of them were first-line elite armored soldiers, but these soldiers were not completely without combat effectiveness, and they could also be armed and go into battle when needed.

In addition to the troops already stationed in the Longyou states, the imperial court will organize and raise nearly 10 troops.Although the scale of this troop recruitment is quite large, it is not a difficult task for the imperial court's current organizational capabilities.Especially after last year's Lishan Martial Arts Exercise, all states in the world are constantly equipped with military equipment, and the imperial court's dispatch is also well-organized.

However, although the imperial court has such organizational power, it does not intend to dispatch all 10 troops from the middle school, and only [-] elite troops will be dispatched from the middle school.Moreover, these [-] troops will not be put into front-line combat unless necessary, but only serve as an army of guards to follow the holy car and protect the safety of the holy man.

As for the lack of troops, they must be recruited from the surrounding barbarians.And the number of men and horses dispatched by these Hu Hus represented their respective ranks and statuses in the new order of custody in the Kaiyuan New Era of the Tang Dynasty.

In the past few years, due to the frequent involvement of the imperial guards in the two yamen, since the Kaiyuan period, the central imperial guards have almost been overthrown and rebuilt.The internal guard and Beijing battalion structure formed up to now has brought the standing force of the central imperial army back to the level of 10,000+ again.

This time the imperial court dispatched troops, in addition to defending the saints and participating in a series of battles to recover Qinghai, it also had a more important meaning, that is, to show the strong fighting power of the central imperial army to the border towns, so as to restore the central imperial court's deterrence to the local border states force.

After all, in the past few years, turmoil occurred one after another in the imperial court, and there was a major reform that completely abolished the Fubing system. Today's central imperial army can still maintain a few percent of its combat effectiveness. This is the doubt that many people in the world can't help but have.

Therefore, Liu Youqiu, who was in charge of the selection of soldiers, did not directly recruit soldiers from the various departments of the Forbidden Army. Instead, he joined forces with the generals of the Neiwei and Jingying to select the best soldiers from all-round strengths such as physical fitness, military skills, and moral character. .

The collapse of the military system of the Tang Dynasty was not short-lived. From the middle and late period of Gaozong, the selection of Long March athletes was carried out to make up for the lack of soldiers in the government. In the new dynasty of Kaiyuan, it was even more powerful. Therefore, the court naturally accumulated a wealth of soldiers. Constitution and Tradition.Various selection criteria and processes, such as being able to win armor, being able to bear weight, and proficiency in bowing and horses, have also evolved extremely maturely.

The criteria for selecting soldiers in the army are naturally extremely strict, far beyond the reach of ordinary people.Such as leading five stone bows, arrows piercing heavy armor, spears, swords and halberds, flexible use, known as the brave man.Controlling galloping horses, standing upright and riding freely, crossing cities and going through houses without leaving traces, he is known as a agile man.Going back and forth for three hundred miles, going out in the morning and returning in the evening, he is known as a man with fast feet.Walk fifty steps with a force of 630 Jin, known as a man of great strength.

Such things are not only beyond the cognition of ordinary people, but even what can be done in the army is one of the best elites in a hundred.

In addition to the selection of imperial guards such as the inner guard and the Beijing camp, the imperial court also specially opened up channels for civilian bravery to join the army.Generally, all middle school youths who are ambitious and have full confidence in their own skills can join the recruitment and selection process.

The folk customs of the Tang Dynasty favored martial arts, and whenever the imperial court made great moves, there were always many courageous people who recruited to join the army.For example, the famous general Xue Rengui took the initiative to join the army when Taizong Li Shimin conquered Goguryeo, and he emerged in this war and won the championship of the three armies.

This time the sage was about to personally conquer Qinghai, and the enthusiasm of the people was extremely high. Almost at the same time as the edict was announced, the young and strong people in the workshop poured into the recruiting sites set up in the two counties of Wannian County, Chang'an.The two districts were overcrowded for a while, forcing the government to choose a place for recruiting troops in the suburbs outside the city.

The imperial court also attached great importance to this recruitment for the forbidden army and the people, and specially formulated a title of "Jingbian Athletes" for this purpose.All the athletes who can be selected in this recruitment will be given a turn directly.

While the recruitment of imperial sergeants is in full swing, related ordnance and supplies are also busy being mobilized.

Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once said in the old year, I count one as ten, and there is no one else, only a strong soldier and a sharp ear.Taizong made this conclusion, of course, with some taste of humility. Even if all kinds of objective factors on the battlefield are aside, his own tactical and strategic talents are also at the top level in the world.

However, this sentence is also a good summary of the reason why the Tang army is strong. The strong combat effectiveness of individual soldiers and sophisticated weapons and equipment together constitute the powerful combat effectiveness of the Tang army.

Although the number of troops dispatched directly by the imperial court this time was only [-], the various military materials dispatched were massive.Aside from the most basic food and grass, more than [-] collars were used for various armors, battle robes and other protective equipment alone.This does not include the equipment allocated to the Longyou army in the past few years, including not long ago.

As for all kinds of ordnance such as knives, bows and crossbows, they are basically rationed according to the ratio of one to one and one-fifth of the number of troops.And because the opponents of this battle, the Tubo army also has a good level of armor defense, relatively high-end ordnance such as armored arrows are even more over-rationed, and 30 of them are used in the stockpile alone.

In addition, there are [-] large cowhide shields, [-] horse lances, [-] Mo knives, and countless other miscellaneous items.

This is already the case in terms of machinery, but the amount of animal power such as cattle, horses and donkeys is even more astonishing.After several years of recuperation, the Longyou Shepherd has recovered, and has reached a reserve of more than [-] horses. Even so, the imperial court has still transferred more than [-] war horses from other animal husbandry supervisors, and they all started at the beginning of the new year. Mobilized to Chang'an.

The animal power of other pack horses and donkeys to transport materials is more than several times the number of war horses.For a while, looking west from Chang'an, the roads as far as the eye can see were all chariots and horses.

While Chang'an City was still busy preparing for the expedition, the sage had already left Chang'an City and went to Xianyang to visit the imperial mausoleum with the support of his officials, praying for the protection of the former king that this expedition would revive the great power of the Tang Dynasty.

There are many complicated etiquettes among which, without repeating the details, when the monarchs and ministers returned to Chang'an again, the time had already entered the end of January.At this time, the various military preparations for Chang'an City were coming to an end.

A total of [-] strong elite troops have been stationed in the west of Chang'an City, waiting for the holy driver to inspect in person at any time.The supplies of the large army that have been raised have also begun to be transported, and the supply team is heading west continuously.

Such a majestic picture of gold and iron horses, before Li Tong had time to deeply appreciate it, he first met the courtiers who came to greet him and complained on the north bank of the Weishui River.

"This time, the army has not gone west, and the treasury has been searched for more than half. In particular, the arsenals such as Hedong and Weinan are almost empty..."

Yao Yuanchong, the prime minister who was in charge of staying in Chang'an, had a solemn expression on his face, holding the accounting books that had just been sorted out, and reported to the saint that the current savings situation of the imperial court was really not optimistic.

Of course, Yao Yuanchong didn't intend to complain when he reported these things, after all, a similar situation had been foreseen as early as when discussing the plan.But seeing the years of recuperation accumulated in such a short period of time gushed out, it was really not a good mood.

While listening to Yao Yuanchong's report, Li Tong looked through the accounting book carefully, to be honest, he felt a dull pain in his heart.However, the purpose of recuperating for several years is to fight bravely, and fighting a war is the fundamental national strength. If all kinds of military supplies are just blindly hoarded, they are just a pile of dead things.

"The Northern Metropolis Military Weapons Supervision still needs to strengthen its construction. After a few years of savings, it can't afford a single battle. Now that the government and the opposition are fighting bravely and wanting to dominate the country, we must not hurt the morale of the country's conditions with such harassing schemes!"

In terms of basic money, food and materials, the situation can still be maintained, but the emergency of various military supplies is an urgent problem that needs to be resolved.

Since the Xingtai period, Li Tong has been building armored soldiers in Weinan. The campaign in Qinghai almost emptied the arsenal savings of the imperial court for several years, which shows the great consumption of national power by the war.

Hearing the sage's exhortation, Yao Yuanchong's face became bitter again, but before he could speak, Li Tong continued: "Reviving the country's prestige is not easy. But the former emperor and old ministers have accumulated energy for several years, and the state will be able to Defeat the strong enemy and make the country great. Now we are in charge of this task, even if we don’t hope to be the best, we should also try our best not to humiliate the predecessors and avoid being laughed at by the latter.”

Although he said so in his mouth, Li Tong was already thinking in his heart that in the next battle, in addition to achieving the strategic goal of recovering Qinghai, he should also try his best to ensure that there would be enough benefits to feed back.

After all, he is not as powerful as Emperor Sui Yang and has a strong family background, so he can spend money regardless of the cost.This time the imperial court paid such a high price for the Western Expedition, it was really necessary to get all the excrement of Tubo Zanpu to fertilize the land, so as to ensure the healthy and orderly development of the Tang Dynasty's national strength.

After a brief meeting with Yao Yuanchong and other court officials and a brief explanation, Li Tong did not return to Chang'an, but went straight to the Western Expedition camp in the west of Chang'an City, and directly dispatched troops.

Chapter 0931 Tang family grace, all in custody

The camp in the west of Beijing stretches for more than ten miles, and the camp tents are spread out in an orderly manner, and the flags are flying, and the drums and horns are endless.

In this big camp, apart from the [-] Jingbian athletes just recruited by the imperial court, there are also a large number of servants of the Hu tribe stationed, the number is also nearly [-].

Although these Hu tribe troops who participated in the war in response to the imperial court's call were also temporarily stationed in the camp in the west of Beijing, they were not completely mixed with the Jingbian athletes of the Tang Dynasty. Clear boundaries.

This boundary line is not entirely caused by man, and there are completely different military appearances from each other.

The military appearance of the Tang army is naturally majestic and strict, and the identity of the suzerain country alone has made the soldiers proud and excited, not to mention that these Jingbian athletes are brave men selected by the imperial army and the people. Armed with weapons, that spirit is also extremely heroic.With the supervision and restraint of military orders, there is a kind of iron-blooded killing atmosphere that is prohibited by orders.

On the other hand, Zhu Hu's army is much inferior.Since the current camp was originally planned and set up by the Tang Dynasty, when the soldiers were restrained in the camp, it was a little impressive, but once there was any transfer order, the chaotic scene of Shi Wu was simply horrible. No difference from the mob.

This is not to belittle the military power of the Hus. The Hus forces under the control of the Tang Dynasty are diverse, and the situation of each tribe is also very different.Moreover, it does not have a stable material output like farming, so naturally it cannot be said to have any powerful armed forces.

Because the nomads have been troubled by the frontier for a long time, many people subconsciously think that these Hu warriors are brave and mighty, but this is not the case at all.

The living and production environment of these nomads on the grasslands was not as superior as that of the Central Plains Dynasty, and their meager material output was not enough to support them to develop a powerful armed organization.

The reason why every strong Hu tribe rises and invades China repeatedly is that before these Hu tribes became strong, they first experienced a series of fierce competitions such as fighting, annexation and integration, which were almost like raising Gu. They strengthened themselves by digesting the coexisting forces around them, and In this series of processes, various combat techniques and experiences have been developed, and thus the foundation for continued outward expansion has been established.

Prior to this, it was the Turks who had such conditions. However, with the collapse of the Turks, the order of the Tang Dynasty was overthrown, and there were very few Hu tribes that could threaten and challenge the Tang Dynasty militarily. .

Including the Khitan Dahe tribe that has been strong in the Northeast for many years, although the Khitan rebellion in the original history brought great harm to the Tang Dynasty and left deep hidden dangers, but in the current time and space, the court can The Khitan is also vulnerable to a single blow through normal means, especially the Dahe clan has reached the dangerous situation of genocide.

In fact, the strength of Khitan is also inseparable from the deliberate support of the Tang court. For example, in the battle against Goguryeo during the Taizong and Gaozong dynasties, the Khitan people provided certain help to the Tang army.Whether it was to suppress the rebellion of the Mohe people or contain the resurgent Turks, the Khitan also acted as a qualified thug for a long time.

Before he really took over the world, Li Tong had a lot of complaints about Datang's detention policy, and felt that it was too lenient and forbearing. He clearly had the strength and conditions to completely eliminate the other party, but he left some troubles for these barbarians to continue to develop , Accumulate strength to counterattack Datang's opportunity.

But when he became the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, he had a deeper understanding of this whole set of restraint order.The so-called confinement is not the connivance and tolerance of appeasement and rape, but the integration of as many Hu forces as possible, so as to have an absolute say in the allocation of resources in their area, so that there will be no hegemonic existence in the area that monopolizes all resources .

Datang's policy of confinement is not only a unilateral plunder and oppression of the strong and the weak, but a support and harmony full of humanistic feelings.The standard for the implementation of this set of policies is not based on the comparison of the strength of the various Hu forces, but on who is more obedient and who is more in line with my values.

The Hu tribe regimes that existed under the order of the Tang Dynasty, the weak do not have to worry about their collapse every day, and the strong should not bully the weak and plunder and annex unscrupulously.Regardless of whether you are strong or weak, as long as you are willing to follow the moral principles of the Tang Dynasty, you will have a space to thrive.

That's why Tang Taizong was regarded as the Khan of Heaven by the Hu chiefs, not only because of the invincible and unrivaled Datang army, but also because of Datang's feelings of weeding out the strong and helping the weak.As long as you are willing to obey the instructions and order of the Tang Dynasty, even if you are just a weak Hu chieftain with less than a hundred tents and a territory of less than a hundred miles, you can still get a piece of pasture to live on.

If you want to make an analogy again, then the order of detention in the Tang Dynasty is more similar to the Tuen Decree implemented in the Western Han Dynasty, except that this decree was transferred from the country to the Siyi for implementation.An Eastern Turk fell, but the north and south of the desert developed many Hu tribe forces on the remains of the Eastern Turk.

Although subjectively speaking, Datang wants to control and allocate resources in the surrounding areas to ensure that there will not be a dominant regime in the surrounding area to challenge the authority of Datang, but objectively, it has indeed preserved many of its strengths. The power of the state itself is not enough to survive.

It should be said that in the current Middle Ages, the Tang Dynasty's order of confinement is indeed the most advanced and most lenient ruling policy.It is not to kill competitors blindly through brutal conquest and physical destruction, but to allow more forces to participate through the allocation of resources, thereby suppressing the development space of competitors.

Such a method is not only in the present, but also has great reference significance even in the future when the productivity has been developed at a high speed.

Of course, the prerequisite for all these policy measures to be able to maintain operation is that Datang itself needs to have strong strength.

Don't talk about conflicts of interest between countries, even conflicts and disputes between ordinary people, two strong men with big arms and round waists fight each other, and a three-inch man insists on saying a word of justice to persuade him to make peace, not to mention these words Fair and unjust, but what happened next would never be fair to him.

When Shengjia arrived outside the camp in the west of Beijing, the Tang soldiers in the camp had not yet received the military order to leave the camp, but the servants of the Hu servants left the camp one after another under the order of their respective leaders. Distributed in a mess in the outskirts of the camp, facing the direction of the Shengjia flag, they kowtowed and cheered.

As for the Hu chieftains, they were even more excited. Although there were guards on the left and right of Shengjia to prevent them from approaching and disturbing them, they were also singing and dancing on both sides of the road, cheering again and again.Although going out with them doesn't make them so excited, but showing a sense of presence in front of a saint is absolutely impossible to fall behind.

In this lively atmosphere, Li Tong's chariot slowly drove into the camp.The civil and military officials who were going to follow the expedition had already lined up inside and outside the Yuanmen to greet them, and went all the way from Shengjia to the camp of the Chinese army.

At this moment, Li Tong had also changed out of his crown dress, and sat down in the tent wearing a light battle robe. He raised his hand to signal the marching commander Shi Liu Youqiu to come forward and report the situation of the gathering of the armies from all routes.

"Reporting to the sage, the [-] Jingbian athletes have all been assembled. The armored soldiers have assembled the six armies, and each set up a general to hold the flag. The left and right guards have four battalions, and they are divided into festivals and flags..."

Accompanied by Liu Youqiu's report, the chiefs and generals of all the armies also got up one after another to pay respects to the saint and accept their orders.These generals are mainly young and strong, including Yang Fang, Zhao Changxing and other Yasukuni heroes, as well as Guo Da, Li Yang and other confidantes, as well as Hei Chijun and other latecomers, as well as Wang Jun and other frontiers excavated by the previous court. Officials.

This time the Western Expedition is also a process of updating the Datang military.Although Tang Xiujing, Wang Xiaojie and other veterans will still go out with the army, their main task is no longer to lead the army to fight, but to serve as staff officers and prepare questions, and each is responsible for some other affairs.

The strategic experience of the veterans is a valuable asset, but today's Datang has new personnel and new styles. In the future, if we want to continue to make great progress in military affairs, we will naturally need a steady stream of generals to emerge.

In addition to Datang's own generals and talents, there are also many Hu chieftains in the big tent right now.For example, the nominal beneficiary of this conquest is Murong Wan, King of Qinghai, and Li Dazhen, the Chief Xi who is diligent in the affairs of the king, and so on.

King Murong Wan of Qinghai led [-] troops to participate in this western expedition. This is all the young and strong forces that Qinghai Kingdom of Anle Prefecture can recruit today.For Datang's plan to recover Qinghai this time, these Tuyuhun survivors can be said to have gambled everything.

Although Xi Chief Li Dazhen was very active, he was not the Hu chief who sent the most troops.After all, Xiren's territory is located in the far northeast, and has little interest in Qinghai itself. It is impossible for Datang to wait for his return to dispatch troops before dispatching troops. Therefore, only a thousand soldiers who entered Beijing to participate in the guards will accompany the army this time. .

The Hequ Zhuhu also showed their own performances, and even the Huihe leader Dujiezhi, whose son was killed last year, sent thousands of tribesmen to join the battle.As for the Uyghe Adan family that the imperial court intended to support, the leader Adan Yanfeng personally led [-] armored soldiers to assist in the battle.

Some of these servants of the Hu tribe have already assembled and settled in the camp in the west of Beijing, while others are still in the process of recruitment. Hui and Wang Shi set out to Qinghai together.

After listening to the reports from various parties, Li Tong said: "The expedition is imminent, and the proposals should be kept simple. The army will go out to the west immediately. After the victory is completed, there will be a long day of gathering and discussing the merits!"

When the imperial army marched mightily towards Longyou, the atmosphere in Qinghai became delicate and dangerous, and there was a sense of tension that a war was about to break out.

Chapter 0932 Tuhun Nanwang, Gar asked Fan

When the news that the sage of the Tang Dynasty decided to go west in person spread to Qinghai, all parties with relevant interests here were greatly shocked.Among them, the most shocking thing is that Qinghai has been regarded as the only Gar family that can settle down.

The past year has been full of disasters and sufferings for the Gar family, and it was even on the verge of extinction.Finally, under Da Lun Qinling's strong response, he forced back the menacing Zanpu and won a respite. At the same time, the cooperation with Datang was gradually on the right track.

Although during the process of this cooperation, the officials of Datang had a lot of arrogant words and deeds, but it has to be admitted that in the process of communication with Datang, Haixi's situation has indeed been greatly improved.

Especially with sufficient supplies, the members of the direct descendants of the Gar family and the chiefs of the tribes, and the tribal people down to the bottom, all deeply felt the benefits brought about by this exchange.

In previous years, due to the shortage of various materials, every cold winter was a severe test for Haixi. A large number of people were hungry and cold, and fell into the bitter cold wind.However, with the supplement of supplies this year, although it is still not enough for everyone to have enough food and clothing, the number of deaths has dropped sharply.

Putting aside the general disputes between countries, for ordinary people, survival is the greatest wish.Now that the living environment has been greatly improved, the Haixi people's enthusiasm for supporting the Gar family is also high, and it is no longer the simple slavery relationship with little emotion in the past.

Ordinary tribesmen may not be aware of the root cause of this change, but the upper echelons of Haixi know it well.Zan Po, who facilitated the cooperation with Datang, also gained great prestige, and was no longer ridiculed like when she just returned to Haixi from Chang'an.

Just as everyone in Haixi was looking forward to surviving the cold winter and living in a better situation in the coming year, the news that the sage of the Tang Dynasty was going to conquer Qinghai suddenly came, which naturally shocked the people in Haixi beyond acceptance .

Although Datang's Western Expedition this time meant Tubo, the target was Qinghai.Now that Ma Yuan, the king's teacher led by Zanpu, is in Xikang, once the Tang army marches to Qinghai, the Gar family must be the first to bear the brunt.

But at present, the Gar family has almost completely separated from the forces in the Tubo Kingdom, and has become more and more harmonious with the Tang Dynasty, and has benefited a lot from it. Now caught between the struggle between these two great powers, what position should we take? It's also really confusing.

Not to mention the various shocks and speculations from the outside world, the Gar family was shaken like a thunderbolt after hearing the news.

In the second ten days of January, when the army of the Tang Dynasty was already marching towards Longshang under the leadership of the sage, the Zanpo of the Gar family also secretly arrived in Haidong under the escort of the family guards.And the one who received him was Guo Yuanzhen who came to the Haidong front from Shanzhou.

Although the situation in Qinghai is already unprecedentedly tense, it is full of dignity that the war is coming.But for Zan Po's visit, Guo Yuanzhen also arranged a rather grand welcome scene.