Chapter 339: The Kingdom is like a chess (IV)

About three days from Bahanna's capital, Sei Sai City to Sai Ye, the king of Bahanna, Pei Luo was invited by Li Qing and set off on the road with concern. The intention of the Tang Dynasty to expand westward is becoming more and more obvious. In Jianjun Town of Suye and Tuozhecheng, the Tang Dynasty's control in this area was restored. Recently, I heard that Sai Ye will be upgraded to the Governor's Prefecture, Yezhi City, Pei Luo General City, and He Licheng will all be upgraded to counties. Although the amplitude is small, the signals they send are extremely strong.

In the series of actions of the Tang Dynasty, it was inevitable that Bahan was in the cracks. Bahan was also a loose aristocratic alliance, with dozens of nobles of all sizes, all have their own land, slaves, and army. Pei Luo was the general representative of the interests they elected, and he was also the largest aristocrat in Bahanna country.

Since there is inevitable showdown, Pei Luo went to Shuye this time to find a plan that both sides could accept. On this day, the team passed through Qianquan Mountain Pass, and the vast and plump Shuye Plain came into view.

"King, it seems like someone is camping in the distance."

Pei Luo stood on a high hill, blocking the dazzling sunshine with his hands, and looking into the distance. Sure enough, by a small river in the distance, the camp tents were continuous, with hundreds of caps. A golden flag fluttered in the wind, and the scouts on the watchtower seemed to have seen them. After a moment, the camp gate opened and a Tang army captain was rushing towards him quickly.

"It's General Li." Pei Luo had already seen the big words on the flag clearly. Soon, the Tang Army Captain approached, and he clasped his fists and asked, "Is this the car of King Pei Luo?"

Pei Luozhe immediately stepped forward and said, "I am!"

The Tang Army Captain turned around and pointed to the tent and said, "My general is hunting here, please ask the king to go over and talk."

Seeing that there were at least thousands of people on the other side, Pei Luo felt some doubts in his heart, but he did not show any of his face, and he just smiled and nodded slightly, "Please lead the way!"

As soon as the group arrived in front of the camp gate, the camp gate opened wide. Li Qing laughed and walked out quickly, "I thought His Royal Highness arrived ten days later, so I took a break and went out to hunt. If I hadn't been camping here, I would have almost missed it."

Pei Luo jumped off his horse, gave Li Qing a brief salute, and said with a smile: "Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, and it is the hunting season. Even the governor's hand can't help itch."

Although Pei Luo was the king, Ba Khan was also called Xiuxun Prefecture in the Tang Dynasty. Pei Luo's other identity was the governor of Xiuxun Prefecture, which was under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate. Therefore, in terms of the position of the Tang Dynasty, he was one level lower than Li Qing, and Ba Khan had always been close to the Tang Dynasty, and he paid more attention to the identity of this governor than Kang Guo, Shi Guo and others.

"Come on! His Highness the King has worked hard from afar, and he will follow me to talk."

The two entered the camp, and the host and the host sat down. The personal soldiers presented two cups of fragrant tea and brought a few pots of seasonal fruits. Pei Luo took a sip of the tea and sighed: "The tea from the Tang Dynasty is indeed fragrant and exquisite. A pack of tea is more than ten times more expensive to us, and even I can't drink it often."

Li Qing smiled slightly and said, "Our government opened a tea shop in Kucha. The Central Plains tea leaves are available and can be supplied in sufficient quantities. If Your Highness does not think it is not new tea, I will send someone to send tea to Your Highness in the future."

Pei Luo nodded repeatedly, and he stood up to thank Li Qing and said, "Although the tea is small, Pei Luo is very grateful for the general's wish."

"It's okay! It's okay! In fact, it's just a small task. Please sit down!"

Speaking of this, Li Qing paused and turned the topic to the main thing. He sincerely said: "I asked the King to come down to the King's Palace to Shatter Leaves this time, but I actually asked for something."

"Please tell me that as long as you sweat, you will never refuse."

Li Qing pondered for a moment and said, "Recently, I have immigrated to the Tang Dynasty. I have missed spring plowing and lack of food. I want to ask if I borrow some food to suck my sweat, and the power to immigrate to the west is not enough. I also want to borrow some carriages, but I don't know how convenient it is to suck my sweat?"

After saying that, Li Qing picked up the teacup and sucked it carefully. It seemed casual, but Pei Luo's every move and even a subtle expression could not be hidden from Li Qing's eyes.

Xi Yuanqing said that there were only hundreds of people who attacked him and escaped with one blow. This did not seem like the official plan of Bahanna. It was most likely that some nobles did it privately, but it was not certain. Li Qing took this opportunity to say it out, one was to test Pei Luo's reaction, and the other was to spread the matter openly. After all, immigration could not avoid Bahanna.

At this time, Pei Luo's expression had froze. He had not yet thought of a solution for this matter. Li Qing suddenly proposed it, which caught him off guard. After a while, he smiled bitterly and said, "Dang Dynasty was a little too hasty in immigration? I thought that we should first seek the opinions of the countries in the Western Regions to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings."

Li Qing snorted gently and said lightly: "What misunderstanding does Your Highness the King think there will be?"

Since he had already said it, Pei Luo was no longer implicit. He raised his eyes and stared at Li Qing with bright eyes and said, "Land! Immigration requires land, but the people of the Western Regions also need land, but there is only one piece of land, how can we divide the two families?"

"I don't think so!" Li Qing shook his head slowly and said, "I have a broad mind. Since the people of the Western Regions have surrendered to my Tang Dynasty, they are the people of my Tang Dynasty. The government will naturally treat everyone equally when granting land. In this way, isn't this contradiction resolved?"

Pei Luo's face turned red and white. He could no longer help it, and stood up angrily and shouted: "Are the general putting the cart before the horse? The land in Bahan belongs to the thirty-three nobles. Has the general considered their interests?"

"Thirty-three nobles?" Li Qing's eyes suddenly became extremely sharp. He said to Pei Luo with singularity: "There will be only thirty-three counties in Bahan, and there will be no nobles in the future!"

"You, you..." Pei Luo's hand trembled and pointed at Li Qing. He was so shocked that he couldn't say a word. He stomped his feet suddenly and turned around and left, but before he reached the tent, dozens of tall and mighty Tang soldiers had surrounded him.

"Send His Highness the King to cultivate the leaves, and those who are negligent will be killed!"

Pei Luo suddenly understood that Li Qing was here to hunt, and clearly gathered a large army to attack Bahan. While he was pushed out by the soldiers, he turned his head and roared: "Li Qing, I Bahan was so strongly helping the Tang Dynasty in Talas. Have you forgotten?"

"The Tang Dynasty treats people with kindness and righteousness, don't be too cruel!"

His roar gradually disappeared, Li Qing shook his head gently and said to himself: "I will naturally not forget the soldiers who can be Brahan!"

He strode out of the tent and ordered decisively: "The whole army immediately gets up and moves towards Bahan!"

In April of the 11th year of Tianbao, the Tang army lured King Bahana, and then used the excuse of Bahana's sneak attack on the Tang Dynasty's migrants as an excuse. Five thousand light cavalry of the Tang army raided the country of Bahana. Long Wuzhu, aristocrats of Bohana. Under the dual force of the Tang army's strong military pressure and the order of persuasion of surrender, Bohana's nobles could not organize effective resistance and surrendered to the Tang army one after another. In June, the Tang army entered the city of Thundersai. Li Qing immediately sent thirty-three nobles and their wives and daughters to Kucha, and appointed Pei Luo's younger brother as the new king of Bahana.

After Bakhan was occupied by the Tang army, Prince Li Chu of Guangping immediately rushed to Zhaowu countries and explained to them that this time the war was that Bakhan was provoking first, and that it was necessary to ensure the safety of migrants in the west. He was forced to appease Zhaowu countries so that they would not have to be surprised.

After the roadblocking stone of Bahan was moved away, the Tang Dynasty's immigration plan to move westward began to get on track. In August, 20,000 immigrants from Shazhou arrived in Suye City.

This is an early morning in early September. There is no cloud, the sky is clear, the heat has passed, and the cool breeze in the morning blows slightly, making people feel more energetic. On the plain south of Yezhi City, thousands of men riding horses are eager to try, and their faces are full of excitement. They are a group of immigrants from the Central Plains who just arrived in Saiye half a month ago. They are all landless farmers in Xuzhou, Dengzhou and Songzhou, with about 3,000 households. Now, they are about to carry out the most important ceremony of this westward migration: "Grasting Land."

Yes, on the vast plain in front of them, more than 4,000 pieces of land of the same size have been divided, each of which is about 100 acres. It is certain that everyone can get one. However, in order to make them cherish this land more, the Anxi government specially set up this unique ceremony, and these immigrants will rob the land of their permanently.

Near Yezhicheng is the richest area in the entire Saiye area. Two rivers meet here and flow into the Rehai. One mile away is a sparkling lake, boundless, like the sea. Along the lake are dense forests. Years of sedimentation make the land here extremely fertile. If you take a handful of crops from the ground, your eyes will be slandered.

The rumbling drums finally rang out, and a shout erupted from the sky. Thousands of horse-riding men rushed to the land they had dreamed of, overwhelmingly covered with spectacular momentum. Behind them, their parents, wives and children screamed loudly in the carriage. At this moment, the pain of being forced to leave their hometown has disappeared, and their eyes were filled with desire and yearning for a new life.

The first batch of horses had already rushed into the land. They were patrolling nervously, looking for the most favorable and fertile land. A farmer surnamed Huang from Songzhou, his horse stepped into the field mouse cave and fell to the ground. He himself rolled down from his horse, and his forehead was broken. But he didn't care about wiping the blood, and lay directly on the ground, took out the wooden wedge with his name engraved from his arms, and penetrated into the land deeply. He stood up and looked at his land. It was less than three hundred steps away from the river. At the end of the land, there was a small forest of poplar trees. The soil was black and fertile. He was very satisfied. He lay on the ground in a large shape, looking at the clear sky, and tears finally burst out. From now on, this land belongs to him.

The ritual of robbing the land lasted for an hour before it finally ended in a noisy voice. Parents, wife and children began to drive carriages into the land to find their men. After finding them, they hugged each other and cried. The elderly father impatiently started to build a fence with branches and sticks that had been prepared. However, the land area was too large and the materials were not enough. In desperation, he had to insert a branch every ten steps, indicating that this was his family's territory.

At noon, men rode their horses to the county to handle the procedures; while women lit the first wisp of smoke on their own land; children gathered happily to play games; old men squatted on the ground, using few words they knew, and professionally praised the land. They exchanged their information and tried to find the connection between them. It is obvious that in the days to come, they can only survive on this land by working together and helping each other.

The days that followed were hard and boring. People began to plow their own land. Some people still lived in Yezhi County. They came to work in the fields early every morning. More people began to build houses in the fields. Ten men formed one-piece. They went to Qianquan Mountain to collect stones, log wood in the forest, build houses together, deal with the threat of wild animals, and sow winter wheat together. Before winter came, villages appeared one after another.

On a cold morning, the first snow in the Western Regions fell. Li Jingyan, whose lower abdomen was obviously protruding, squatted down with difficulty, picked up a ball of snow from the ground, with a naughty smile on his lips, and walked towards Li Qing who was standing in the snow and pondering. But just as she approached Li Qing, a snowball suddenly flew from behind and was hitting Li Qing's back. When Li Qing turned around, he saw Li Jingyan with a smirk on his face, holding a snowball in his hand, and was trying to throw it at him.

"Yingyan, were you just now?"

Li Jingyan's smile immediately turned into embarrassment. She stomped her feet hatefully and turned around and shouted: "Luo Lan, come out, this is done!"

There was only a string of laughter in the distance, and then the laughter disappeared into the room. Seeing that her husband's face was a little serious, Li Jingyan couldn't help but throw away the snowball in her hand and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"

Li Qing shook his head gently and said with a forced smile: "It's nothing!" But while Li Jingyan was not paying attention, he quietly pinched a letter in his hand into a ball and stuffed it into his sleeve.

"It's such a cold day, who told you to come out? What should I do if the child in my stomach is frozen?" Li Qing held Li Jingyan and walked back into the house slowly with a hint of complaint.

The room was burning with carbon fire, warm as spring. Li Qing sat cross-legged on the Arhat bed, silent. The letter he had just read was written by Yan Gaoqing who was sent to Hedong, saying that there was a rumor that the court was about to stop the position of Hedong Jiedushi in An Lushan, and An Lushan was already ready to move.

If this news is true, it means that An Lushan's rebellion will break out early.

He was a little absent-minded and picked up a document he had just sent and read it. This was a report written by Zhang Ji, the first governor of Ye, and suggested that Hu Tang be allowed to attend the same ward, that is, children of Hu people were allowed to study in the Tang people's academy.

Li Qing picked up the pen and approved the word "Xu" behind it, and then put the report aside. At this time, Li Jingyan poured him a cup of hot tea and brought it to him and asked, "Li Lang, it will be the New Year in another month. Do you want to go back to report your work?"

Li Qing shook his head, "There are too many things this year. The emperor has agreed to waive me from reporting my duties. However, I want to go back quietly and bring you Sister Lianger and the others."

"But, will the emperor be sure?"

Li Qing smiled coldly, "He may not be able to take care of it now."
Chapter completed!