Bai Erlang chattered beside Bai Shan and Zhou Man. After he finished speaking, he looked around curiously, "This is the Qiuci Palace. It looks like there are a little more steps and a little higher. It looks very ordinary."
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Bai Shandao: "Of course it's not as good as our palace, but it's still luxurious. Look at the shops and houses in the city."
"That's true." Bai Erlang looked around curiously and saw soldiers driving people in the palace to a side hall, and couldn't help but ask: "What are we going to do with these people?"
Bai Shan took one look and said: "General Ashina is not a murderer. The palace officials will probably let him go. As for those ministers, it depends on the situation. But it also depends on how General Ashina plans to deal with the Qiuci Kingdom."
General Ashina was also thinking about this issue. Originally, he wanted to sweep all the way across, no matter Yanqi, Qiuci, Shule or Khotan. Anyone who lost to the Jin Dynasty would be taken over by him. He would have Guo Xiao behind him.
The Governor of Anxi will come to clean up the situation, and then all these small countries will be included in Anxi. The area is not very big anyway.
As a result, Guo Xiao actually committed suicide, and his morale was greatly damaged. Now that the Western Region has entered winter, the weather will get colder and colder in the near future, and there may be heavy snow.
This kind of weather is not conducive to soldiers fighting at all.
And if we leave it to next year for the ice and snow to melt, at least we have to wait until April...
If the time line is extended too long, it will have a great impact on the treasury. Not only the Ministry of Revenue, but also His Majesty will not be very happy.
The loss was too great, and the gain outweighed the loss for Dajin.
Therefore, the previous plan is obviously not feasible. It will take at least two months to take over the Qiuci Kingdom and straighten it out.
Originally, if Guo Xiao was here, this kind of thing could be left to him. After all, he is the guardian of Anxi. As the general manager, he only needs to lead the troops from the front to conquer the territory.
General Ashina rubbed his forehead and said decisively: "Re-establish King Kucha. You must capture all the brothers and relatives of King Kucha. Later I will choose one of you to succeed King Kucha."
The confidants should immediately go down and arrest the person.
It was getting dark, and Bai Shan and the others temporarily stayed in the palace. When General Meng found out that they lived here, he immediately asked the wounded soldiers to be sent here, along with those who were so busy at the city gate that the sky and the earth were dim.
military doctor.
As soon as he arrived, he immediately called out to Zhou Liru, "Young lady, I'm sorry, you said you were going to leave for a while, but then you never came back. Do you know how many injured people were sent to my place?"
Seeing Zhou Man standing aside, he complained even more, "Mr. Zhou, you are the imperial physician. Charges and battles are the business of the soldiers. Conspiracy and deceit are the business of the civil servants. Our doctors are here
Just treat people later, how can you take such a risk?"
Man Bao said: "I am also a civil servant."
She emphasized: "I am still the editor of Chongwen Library."
The military doctor choked.
Bai Shan thoughtfully found steps for him, "All the injured in the army have been sent to the side hall. I went to ask for a group of people to boil water. Let's start treating the injured now."
Tonight is probably going to be another sleepless night.
The military doctor nodded repeatedly. Seeing that Bai Shan and Zhou Man were covered in moisture and their hair was still a little wet, he thought to himself: Why are they still taking a bath? Are they planning to wash up and go to bed?
The things in the palace are much more complete than those in their big tent.
It was almost completely plundered by the soldiers, and some soldiers had thick hands and couldn't help but drop things when they were rummaging through them.
Bai Shan sent someone to deliver the message in advance. Wounded soldiers would be sent over soon, so the medicinal materials in the warehouse and things in the kitchen were not allowed to be damaged.
So the soldiers were gentle and brought the medicinal materials they found to the side hall, leaving basically nothing in the kitchen.
Bai Shan went to the side hall and selected a lot of palace servants, all of whom had calluses on their hands and often did menial work in the kitchen and outside the yard, and asked them to fetch, boil, and deliver water.
Treating wounded soldiers requires a lot of hot water.
So when General Ashina finally came out from the meeting with the generals in the army, he looked up and saw that someone was carrying wounded soldiers to the side hall in a steady stream. Looking up, he saw that the whole palace belonged to that group.
The lights are the brightest.
"There is..."
General Meng immediately reported back: "Go back to the general manager, Dr. Zhou and others will be there to treat the wounded soldiers."
General Ashina was surprised, "Master Zhou, are you willing to do such rough work?"
In his impression, the imperial doctors of the Imperial Hospital were very proud, and it was not difficult to recruit them to the dignitaries in the capital. After all, treating the powerful was also one of the responsibilities of the Imperial Hospital.
But it is difficult for officials below the fourth rank to hire imperial doctors, let alone these soldiers.
After all, being a military doctor is a lowly job, and generally no one wants to be one.
General Meng was still young and didn't know about this sinister world, so he replied bluntly: "Yes, the officers and soldiers in our army were also seen by Dr. Zhou before..." And why is this a menial job?
Is sewing his belly a rough job?
Thinking of his stomach, General Meng felt a little pain in his stomach. It seemed that the wound had popped open. It seemed that he would have to go to Zhou Man to treat the wound soon.
General Ashina stood and thought for a moment. He thought that Bai Shan, his future niece-in-law, and the grandson of the Secretary of the Ministry of Finance were also inside, so he turned around and said, "Let's go, let's go and have a look too."
While Bai Shan was helping Man Bao, he said to her: "If General Ashina re-establishes King Kucha, then we should be able to go back soon."
Man Bao asked: "No more fighting?"
Bai Shandao: "General Guo is killed, morale will be affected, and Anxi also needs a new guard. It will take a long time to come back. There is no one like General Guo in the rear, and General Ashina may not be willing to do so."
Then let’s conquer these small countries.”
What if we capture two cities and then lose one?
Without an appointment from the imperial court, it would be impossible for the Anxi Army to obey, "and the line is stretched too long, and it will put a lot of pressure on the treasury for too long."
After the beginning of spring, the most important expenses for household expenses will definitely be in the Central Plains. Here in the Western Regions, it is already very good if they are willing to provide food and grass for the expedition.
It was also the capriciousness of several small kingdoms in Qiuci that irritated the imperial court. When they saw the Jin Dynasty in trouble, they added insult to injury. If they don't take action this time, they will not be stable in the future. If there is another trouble in the Jin Dynasty in the future, they will probably rebel.
What Bai Shan didn't say was that although he was now in the prime of life, the prince was not young anymore. In ten or eight years, he might have to consider succession.
There was turmoil in the affairs of an emperor, and if the chaos in the Western Regions spread eastward, it would be a great harm to the country.
It's better to subdue them while you still have the strength, so that they don't dare to reach out easily again in the future.
Man Bao counted the time and said, "Then can we go back to celebrate the New Year?"