Chapter 0480 When I am so beautiful in China, when did I fall to the point of being arrogant?
As soon as Liu Heng finished speaking, the expressions on the faces of the two lieutenants immediately became very stiff.
One of the captains lowered his head with some guilt.
Another captain raised his head and smiled dryly: "The people of Beizhi and others have always performed their duties conscientiously and never dared to be negligent. I wonder where the angels heard these rumors slandering the people of Beizhi and others?"
Upon hearing this, Kou Ji glanced at the captain who was tilting his head.
The captain with his head raised his heart skipped a beat.
But he didn't show his fear.
Liu Heng was angry at his words and laughed, "You really don't cry until you see the coffin..."
“Bring in…”
Liu Heng shouted outside the door.
A man from the Imperial City Department entered the room with a thin and dark man.
The two lieutenants looked over together and saw the thin and dark man's face changed drastically.
Liu Heng stared at the two of them, asked the thin and dark man, and asked, "Is it them?"
The thin and dark man glanced at the two lieutenants and immediately shouted: "Yes... they... they killed my brother and stole our skin..."
The first lieutenant to show his timidity was about to speak immediately.
But he was stopped by the captain who raised his head.
The captain who raised his head looked at Liu Heng and said in a deep voice: "Does the angel intend to blame Yu Beijie and others with the one-sided words of this untouchable? The angel has never entered the Western Regions, and I am afraid that he doesn't know how cunning these untouchables walking in the Western Regions are.
They serve the people in our Song Dynasty. After our Song Dynasty, they will become thieves.
Burn, kill, loot, do everything evil.
How can they believe their words?!"
"Oh?!"
Liu Heng sneered.
"Liu Fu?"
Liu Heng shouted out to the door again.
"I'm in a humble position!"
"Come in and let them see!"
"Here!"
A man wearing armor and holding a blade entered the room.
When the two captains saw him, they glared at the moment.
"Liu Sanlang, you?!"
Both lieutenants knew the man wearing armor and holding a blade.
He is Liu Sanlang, the flagship team of the scout camp.
Liu Sanlang followed them out to rob passing merchants.
Liu Sanlang knew all the things they did outside Xining Prefecture that were harmful to nature.
Liu Fu bowed to the two lieutenants and smiled and said, "I will get to know each other for the lieutenant. Liu Fu, the marriage officer of the Imperial City Department, has met two lieutenants."
The two lieutenants stared at Liu Fu in disbelief.
"Are you from the Imperial City Department?"
"Are you a marriage officer?"
Liu Fu lifted up his skirt and revealed a black boot.
The black boots on Liu Fu's feet are exactly the same as the black boots on Liu Heng's feet.
Black boots are the symbol of the Imperial City Army.
"Plop..."
The first lieutenant, who showed his timidity, collapsed to the ground with trembling all over.
What else do the captain with his head raised wants to say?
But Liu Heng snorted coldly: "Drag on..."
The voice fell.
Four Imperial City Division personnel rushed in from outside the door and escorted them out of the house.
After the two lieutenants were taken down.
Liu Fu put down his skirt and bowed to Liu Heng, "Shangguan..."
Liu Heng waved his hand, "No need to be restrained, go outside the door and wait."
"Here..."
Liu Fu bowed again and exited the room.
Kou Ji asked Liu Heng to put the documents brought by Mu Zichuan on the kang and said, "The three major harms that the official named have been killed, and the rest will be left to you."
Liu Heng nodded and exited the room.
Kou Ji sat on the kang and looked at the documents sent by Mu Zichuan.
The document records the changes in the situation in the Western Regions in detail, which is far more detailed than Kou Ji learned.
The situation in the Western Regions is far more complicated than what the imperial court learned.
Many forces are complex.
The most powerful one is not Qingtang.
But the Karakhanate.
The Karakhanate starts from Kuqa in the Aksu region in the east, borders the Amu River, the Penchi River, the Karakoram Mountains in the south, and reaches the Balkhash Lake, the Ili River Valley and the Qihe River Basin in the north, and directly reaches the Lop Nur Desert area in the southeast.
The area is very vast.
It can be called the largest power in the Western Regions.
It is not comparable to the Liao Kingdom.
The second is the Gaochang Uighur, a brother country of the Karakhanate.
It is adjacent to Yizhou in the east, to Khotan in the south, to the Gurbantonggut Desert in the north, and to Kucha in the west.
In fact, Kucha is also the territory of the Gaochang Uighurs.
It’s just that Kucha has always paid tribute to the Song Dynasty alone.
Therefore, the ministers in the Song Dynasty have always regarded Kucha as a country in the Western Regions.
The third is Qingtang.
Xiluo, the Zanpujiao in Qingtang, now regards himself as the Tubo ruler.
It ruled a large area of land south of the Great Snow Mountains (the Qilian Mountains in later generations) and north of Nibora (the Nepal in later generations).
In addition to the above three powerful forces, there are also many small forces distributed in the Western Regions.
For example, Shazhou Uighurs, Yellow-headed Uighurs, etc.
Ahmad Togankhan, the ruler of the Karakhanate, inherited the belligerent style of the previous Karakhanate rulers and further expanded on the basis of the huge territory laid by the previous Karakhan Khanate.
However, when he looked around, he found that the one blocked his expansion was his brother country Gaochang Uighurs.
So he decisively chose to attack the Gaochang Uighurs.
The Gaochang Uighurs' national strength was not weak, and with the support of the Liao Kingdom behind it, he launched one tremendous battle after another with the Karakhanate.
However.
Even with the support of the Liao Kingdom behind the scenes, the Gaochang Uighurs are still no match for the Karakhanate.
The Karakhanate once pushed the border to Kuqa in the Aksu region.
In recent years, the Gaochang Uighurs have exhausted their manpower, material resources and financial resources in order to resist the attack and harassment of the Karakhanate.
This is also why after the Shazhou Uighurs were attacked by the Western Xia, the Shazhou Uighurs asked for help from the Gaochang Uighurs, but the Gaochang Uighurs did not respond.
Although the Karakhanate is very powerful, Kou Ji doesn't need to pay attention to it for the time being.
Because of the power of the Karakhanate, it still cannot affect the Song Dynasty.
Therefore, compared with the Karakhanate, Kou Ji paid more attention to the changes in the four forces of Xixia, Shazhou Uighurs, Huangtou Uighurs, and Qingtang.
The reason why the Xixia attacked the Shazhou Uighurs was to expand.
The momentum of the Western Xia invasion of the south and the east was strangled by the Liao Kingdom and the Song Dynasty, so they could only move westward.
It is inevitable to annex the Uighurs in Ganzhou, the Uighurs in Shazhou.
The reason why the Huangtou Uighurs chose to help Xixia when they advanced westward was Qingtang.
Xiluo, Qingtang Zanpujiao, is also an ambitious person.
He was advancing eastward by autonomously and was no match for the Song Dynasty at all.
So he pointed his finger at the Huangtou Huihe who was adjacent to Qingtang.
Jiaosiluo had the intention to annex the Huangtou Huihe, and sent troops to Qingtang and Huangtou Huihe borders, and made some tests.
The Huangtou Uighurs knew that they were not Qingtang's opponent.
So after Qingtang made a test on the Huangtou Huihe, he decisively sent people to Xixia to ask for help from Xixia and restrain Qingtang from the north.
After learning about this, Li Deming, the leader of Xixia, was overjoyed.
He immediately sent his son Li Yuanhao to lead a large army to attack the Ganzhou Uighurs, and acted as if he wanted to invade Qingtang.
Seeing this, Qingtang hurriedly withdrew the troops who were tempted on the borders of Qingtang and Huangtou Huihe, and pressed to the foot of Daxue Mountain to prevent the invasion of the Western Xia and the South.
However.
After Xixia took over the Ganzhou Uighurs, she did not choose to invade the south.
Instead, he chose to drive away the surrendered soldiers of the Ganzhou Uighurs, posing a threat to Qingtang.
Then they joined forces with the Huangtou Uighurs and killed the Shazhou Uighurs, occupying most of the Hexi Corridor.
Since then.
Xixia's mind has become very clear.
After losing the prosperous territory south of the Great Wall, Xixia wanted to develop and become stronger.
We must control the golden avenue of Hexi Corridor.
In this way, only after the Western Xia Dynasty was the right to challenge the Song Dynasty and Liao Kingdoms.
It can be said that it was a tentative action of Xiluo, the Sep of the Qingtang, which caused the war situation today.
What made Kou Ji feel so annoying was that.
The war was initiated by Jiao Siluo, but to this day, Jiao Siluo is still standing by and watching like an outsider.
Allowing the Song Dynasty, Shazhou Uighurs, Western Xia, and Yellow-headed Uighurs to fight each other in the Western Regions.
"Do you want to be a fisherman?"
Kou Ji dropped the last volume of the document in his hand, touched the head of Yu Sheng, who had already fallen asleep, and muttered in a low voice.
"Who wants to be a fisherman?"
Li Zhaoliang's head reached in from outside the door.
Kou Ji made a gesture of banning the sound, carefully supported Yu Sheng to lie on the hot kang, covered him with a quilt, got off the hot kang, put on his boots, and wrapped him in a cloak.
“Go out and say…”
Kou Ji walked to Li Zhaoliang and whispered.
Li Zhaoliang curled his lips, "In order not to wake up the little guy on the kang, you would rather go outside and get frozen."
Kou Ji said calmly: "If we did well enough, he would not be tortured or disabled."
Li Zhaoliang said sarcastically: "You really have a Bodhisattva heart."
The two walked outside the house.
Feel the cold wind outside the house.
Kou Ji wrapped his cloak tightly on his body and glanced at Li Zhaoliang, "Why can't I have a Bodhisattva heart?"
Li Zhaoliang sneered and said, "There are more than thirty officials who died in the hands of you, the Bodhisattva, tonight?"
Kou Ji said lightly: "My Bodhisattva heart is only left to the people."
Li Zhaoliang said disdainfully: "You civil servants are hypocritical."
Kou Ji glared, "Are you not hypocritical? Do you dare to tell the officials the disgusting things your Li family servants did in Xining City? If you, the unscrupulous guys, could the people of Xining City survive so much?
If you guys who are not ignorant, you guys who are drunk with blood, will those big-headed soldiers need to go out and pretend to be horse thieves?"
When Li Zhaoliang heard this, he looked embarrassed.
Kou Ji was too lazy to continue discussing this topic with Li Zhaoliang. He glanced at Li Zhaoliang and asked, "What's the matter when you ran over to find me in the middle of the night?"
Li Zhaoliang said dryly: "Listen to my subordinates, you have killed more than 30 officials from Xining Prefecture. I'll come over and see when you'll kill."
Kou Ji said calmly: "When all those disgusting guys are killed, they will stop."
Li Zhaoliang hurriedly said, "Don't kill all the officials in Xining Prefecture. If they kill them all, no one will help us."
Kou Ji glanced at Li Zhaoliang, "I am the imperial envoy appointed by the official family. It's not your turn to kill whoever I want to kill."
Li Zhaoliang said with a bitter face: "When I left Bianjing City, I saw that you were very murderous. I didn't want to stop you from killing people. But you have to keep a few to help us do things.
The two imperial guards of Zhenguo and Xingguo will arrive in Xining City in three days.
Nearly 100,000 people, eating, drinking, defecation and urination are all problems.
We need someone to help us mobilize the people of Xining City and resettle the imperial guards."
Kou Ji frowned, "I know..."
Li Zhaoliang said in a deep voice: "You are almost killed by all officials of the seventh rank and above in Xining Prefecture. Tell me you know what you know?"
Kou Ji stared at Li Zhaoliang and said coldly: "What are you yelling at me? You should yell at them! Do you know how much trouble they have caused to me if they are inaction in Xiningzhou?
If it weren't for them, my soldiers and horses of the Song Dynasty would not have been trapped in the siege of Shazhou."
Li Zhaoliang opened his mouth to refute.
Kou Ji continued: "Do you know, because of their inaction, my ministers in the Song Dynasty have caused me to have a misunderstanding of the situation in the Western Regions? In the eyes of my Song Dynasty, the Western Regions are just a barbarian land and have no threat to me.
But the Western Regions I see in my eyes is a different look.
Among the many forces in the Western Regions, all those who have ambition are constantly expanding and rising.
In order to annex the Huangtou Huihe, Qingtang provoked the war.
In order to annex the Uighurs in Ganzhou, the Uighurs in Shazhou, and to control the entire Hexi Corridor, Xixia joined the battlefield.
Further apart, a huge empire not as weak as the Liao Kingdom is advancing eastward crazily.
They have reached Gaochang.
As long as Gaochang, Shazhou Uighurs, and Yellow-headed Uighurs were destroyed.
Qingtang, Xixia, and Karakhanate, the three major forces will compete for the king of the Western Regions.
Wait until the day when the king of the Western Regions arrives.
It was when my Song Dynasty was filled with smoke.
By then, two wolves stand in the northwest of my Song Dynasty. Do you think I can stop it?"
Li Zhaoliang stared at Kou Ji blankly and said in disbelief: "The huge empire you are talking about, which is not weaker than the Liao Kingdom, is the Karakhanate?"
Kou Ji said with a gloomy face: "Not bad..."
Li Zhaoliang smiled dryly and said, "Is it impossible? In addition to our Song Dynasty and Liao Kingdom, there are other powerful countries in the world? Can a strong country be born in the bitter and cold places of the Western Regions?"
Kou Ji smiled sarcastically and said, "The civil and military officials in the court are the same as you think."
Kou Ji stared at Li Zhaoliang and asked with a sneer: "Do you really think that my Song Dynasty is a powerful country?"
Li Zhaoliang asked back, "Isn't it?"
Kou Ji smiled self-deprecatingly: "Have you seen that powerful country and paid tribute to others?"
When Li Zhaoliang heard this, his face looked very ugly.
Kou Ji continued, "It's just my Song Dynasty who treats myself as a powerful country. In the eyes of other countries, my Song Dynasty is just a piece of fat."
Kou Ji sighed, "Looking at the world, all those who have ambition are constantly expanding their territory and constantly planning for the world. Only I, the Song Dynasty, guarding my own acre of land and being arrogant.
If one day, when the jackals rushed in, I, Dasong, would know how deceiving myself."
Li Zhaoliang hesitated and said, "My Song Dynasty is now peaceful and the country is strong. How could the jackals rush in? Besides, among the neighbors around, who has the strength to swallow my Song Dynasty in one bite?
Even if he is as powerful as the Liao Kingdom, he will often encounter walls in front of our Song Dynasty."