At noon, the Jin family found a wine shop in Suifeng Fort and held a banquet to entertain the family head and Li Guangbi.
In addition to Uncle Shen and Chu Liangshan, there were also two elders from the Jin family who were accompanying the banquet.
After everyone sat down, Zhou Jun raised his glass and said: "Nine times out of ten, life is unsatisfactory, but there are only two or three people who can talk to people. This first glass, I first pay tribute to this fate."
All the people present were from the Tang Army in terms of origin, and they could not tell outsiders what happened.
Therefore, Zhou Jun's words immediately resonated with everyone.
After everyone drank the wine in their cups, Zhou Jun glanced at Li Guangbi beside him, and then asked Uncle Shen: "Where are the three thousand partial troops now?"
Uncle Shen: "They were placed in three places: the racecourse, the ironware shop, and Changyunfang. Each place has branches of different sizes... The original plan was for the old to bring in the new and learn by doing."
Zhou Jun nodded, but he knew in his heart that all three thousand partial divisions were dispersed and arranged into different branches of commercial banks. Firstly, it was for the convenience of management, and secondly, it was to prevent each other from forming factions.
Thinking of this, Zhou Jun asked again: "Have these people fallen behind in their daily training after joining the branch?"
Uncle Shen: "The Jin family is different from other business houses. Most of the managers are from the military, and the areas where they work are not peaceful, so they dare not let their fighting skills go to waste. On weekdays, no matter how high or low they are, they never fall behind in training, and they can do it anytime and anywhere.
Run to the battlefield."
Chu Liangshan, who was listening on the side, his eyes lit up and he quickly asked: "Zhou Shijun, there is a war in the west, can we be used?"
Before Zhou Jun could answer, Uncle Shen frowned and said in a deep voice to Chu Liangshan: "You were once soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, but now you have taken off your military robes and become the military guards of the clan. The title must not exceed the regulations, so you should call Zhou Jun
Called the head of the family."
Hearing this, Li Guangbi thought for a moment and said to Chu Liangshan: "The battle of Shibao City was recorded in the military register as our death in battle, but we will never be in the army again in this life. Fortunately, Zhou Lang
If you take him in, you will have a place to live, and you should treat him as the head of the family."
Chu Liangshan knew that he had made a mistake, so he responded and changed his name to Zhou Jun as the head of the family.
Zhou Jun waved his hand and said: "There is no need to worry about some small things, let's talk about the business. Wang's poor management, excessive corruption, and exploitation of foreigners caused the collapse of the Daqi trade road, and Tubo took advantage of it. Now, the Tubo army is invading,
Shazhou is in chaos."
Li Guangbi was in prison before and did not know anything about the outside world. He only roughly heard about the war in Shazhou.
He asked Zhou Jun: "There are guards at Yangguan in Shazhou, and there are Doulu troops in Dunhuang, and Tang troops are stationed in Mingsha Mountain and Sanwei Mountain. How can the Tubo people cause chaos in Shazhou?"
Zhou Jun: "Due to corruption and exploitation, the foreign border people deeply hated the Tang Dynasty officials, and the Tubo people were instigating them, which caused constant rebellions in the state capitals and county towns without stopping. Just last month, there were foreign rebels.
, the military rations stationed by the Doulu Army in Dajing were completely burned with a fire. The morale of the army was depressed, and the front line was in emergency again and again."
Li Guangbi opened his eyes wide with disbelief on his face.
In his opinion, the Tang army had more victories than Tibetan defeats against Tibet.
He had never expected that the Battle of Shazhou would end in such a useless manner.
Chu Liangshan is in Liangzhou and is the person in charge of Changyunfang, so he knows the situation in Shazhou better.
He said to Li Guangbi: "I heard from people in the local trading house in Shazhou that before the Tang army was mobilized, rebels sent information to the Tubo camp before they left the city. Therefore, the Tang army had an insight into the opportunity, and every time they fought against the Tubo, they always
It was controlled by the latter. In addition, in the Tubo army, it is said that there was an unparalleled famous general named Sang Chiruo. During the war, he appeared and disappeared. The Tang army never got any advantage against him."
Hearing this, Li Guangbi shook his head and said, "It seems like the situation in Shazhou is not optimistic."
When Zhou Jun heard this, he smiled bitterly.
Not only is the situation in Shazhou not optimistic.
The entire Longyou Road, including Beiting, Anxi, and the Hexi Corridor, is in a critical situation.
Historically, although the Dashi Kingdom won the Battle of Talas, they were shocked by the strong fighting power of the Tang army. In the second year after the battle, the Caliph of the Dashi Kingdom sent envoys to Chang'an City to seek peace.
In the Anxi Protectorate, Gao Xianzhi, who wanted to avenge his shame, was summoned back to Chang'an by a transfer order.
Feng Changqing, who took over as the governor of Anxi Province, faced the unstable situation after the defeat of the Talas. He adopted the method of appeasement and comfort. He first stabilized the nine surnames of Zhaowu, and then sent out surprise troops to defeat those who wanted to collude with the Tubo people in rebellion.
Da Bolu regained control of the situation in Anxi.
Cheng Qianli of the Beiting Protectorate, as well as An Sishun, the governor of Hexi Province, and with the assistance of the Uighurs, defeated the coalition forces of the Turkic rebel generals Li Xianzhong (Abusi) and Ge Luolu, and completely wiped out the northern Tang Dynasty.
Hidden danger.
However, when Zhou Jun arrived, the situation took a turn for the worse.
The king was corrupt and exploited foreigners. In addition, Gao Xianzhi destroyed the Shi Kingdom and looted countless people. The foreign border people in Longyou Road were all in danger, hated the Tang Dynasty, and started rebellions one after another.
Sang Chiruo, a famous general in the Tubo army, used his troops like a god, conquering Ziting Town and Shouchang County overnight, and almost captured the city of Dunhuang. After that, Sang Chiruo became even more active on the battlefield in Shazhou, and the Tang army faced this
People rarely win.
Zhou Jun recalled the history books, but he never remembered that there was a person named Sang Chiruo in history. He only vaguely remembered that there was such a sentence in the "Collection of Tibetan History" - Da Lun Jiongzan in the Yin Year (752 AD), Karma
The Erpan clan suffered disaster due to the war, and the entire clan died.
From this point of view, Sang Chiruo, who was born in the Gar family, should have died in the 11th year of Tianbao in history, but due to the butterfly effect, he not only survived, but also shined and became a famous general of the Tubo army.
As for Cheng Qianli of the Beiting Protectorate, he was busy dealing with the riots in his territory due to the rebellion of the alien tribes, and had no time to take care of anything else; An Sishun, the governor of Hexi Province, had to keep a low profile due to the fall of Li Linfu; and the Huihe people, because of the tea leaves
Disputes and wars are endless, and the Uighur unified grassland in history is now far away. Therefore, the Turkic rebel general Abusi and the Geluolu tribe are currently living well, and the hidden dangers in Mobei of the Tang Dynasty are becoming bigger day by day.
, sooner or later it will cause chaos.
The alien rebellion, the victory of Tubo, and the instability of Anxi. These three major events, coupled with the victory of the Battle of Talas, made the Dashi Kingdom not send envoys to Chang'an to seek peace as recorded in history, but remained in a state of chaos.
Waiting and watching state.
This situation is not difficult to understand. In the eyes of Da Shi, although the Tang State was strong, it was suffering from internal and external troubles and the situation was getting worse day by day. If it continued to deteriorate like this, Da Shi could join forces with Tubo to jointly suppress the Tang State and ensure geopolitical relations.
The strength of the power should be in a balanced situation, and try to ensure that there will not be a situation where one company is dominant.
It is precisely because of the above reasons that the situation in Longyou where Zhou Jun is located is many times more dangerous than in history in terms of harsh situation and complex environment.
If we use a metaphor popular in later generations, during the eleventh year of Tianbao, Longyou in the history books was a simple model, but Longyou where Zhou Jun was in was a hell model.