Loulan is not an important town. At least in Li Hong's mind, Loulan's role is far less important than that of the four towns in Anxi. However, all the materials from the Tang Dynasty after leaving Yumen Pass in the Central Plains were transported to Loulan before Li Hong distributed them from here. , and then shipped to various places.
Loulan Li Hong never thought about investing a penny at all, because in his opinion, investing even a copper coin would be wasted in the end. After all, this city will disappear sooner or later, and it cannot be changed by human power.
Although he had tried his best to protect Loulan City, and even asked the people to protect trees and vegetation such as Populus euphratica and Haloxylon ammodendron, the diversion of the Kongque River was still happening unknowingly.
Naturally, it was impossible for Li Hong to pay attention to these. Instead, Yu Wenrong, Liang Xiaoren, and several others, including Lou Yu, came to Loulan to discover this. From that time on, Li Hong completely gave up. Loulan.
The four heroes of the early Tang Dynasty, except Wang Bo, were sent to the four towns of Anxi one by one by Li Hong. With the efforts of other first batch of students from Chongwen Hall to complete their studies, Chinese pinyin has now begun to slowly spread in Anxi, and it has great potential to be popularized.
Li Hong's ultimate goal was naturally to have Chinese characters and Tubo script appear among the Tubo people, or even replace the Tubo script.
Li Hong's idea was naturally based on the fact that the development of Tibetan writing was only a few decades ago. With the Chinese characters of the Tang Dynasty supplemented by the easier-to-learn pinyin, it is very likely that in time, the Tibetan writing will be replaced.
Pei Xingjian hurriedly appeared in Loulan City, sweating on his forehead, looking anxious and panicked. He even showed the token at the gate of the city, and ran away without waiting for the helpless soldiers to check it. Entered Loulan City.
In the Governor's Mansion, Xia Zhi was hurriedly looking for ice cubes. It was already summer, and the temperature here during the day was already so hot that it made people breathless.
Seeing that the front and back of Pei Xingjian's robe was already wet due to the rush, and it stuck tightly to his body, he hurriedly said hello and hurried to find ice.
After Pei Xingjian asked Li Hong clearly where he lived, he ignored the etiquette and hurriedly met Li Hong and walked to the house behind.
Hua Meng and Mang Zhong were accompanying Li Hong at this time, and standing in front of them was Dou Yi, a wealthy businessman from Chang'an City, who had rescued Li Hong and his son from the siege in Taiyi City.
"Your Highness, those goods have been resold and escorted until they enter their territory."
When Pei Xingjian arrived, he heard Dou Yi reporting to Li Hong about the resale of goods and other matters. Hearing this, I couldn't help but feel heavy in my heart, and sighed helplessly.
"The Protector..." Pei Xingjian looked at Li Hong and ignored him. It was almost time for a cup of tea. Li Hong always treated him as an invisible person.
But no matter how anxious he was, Li Hong just didn't give him a chance to speak. At this moment, he and Dou Yi had finished discussing the business matters, and now they were chatting about home affairs. The topic was naturally whether Dou Yi had married another concubine.
But no matter how Dou Yi explained, it was his son's concubine, not his own. Li Hong seemed unable to hear it. He was still gossiping and almost started to dig up his ancestral graves to find out his roots.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince..." Pei Xingjian had no choice but to increase his tone and shouted helplessly.
He knew the reason why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince did not want to see him since summer this year, but it was hard to disobey the imperial edict. As a minister, he had to fulfill his duty as a minister, right
"What are you doing here again?" Li Hong rolled his eyes at him, unwilling to pay attention to him, and asked with an expression of disgust on his face.
"Your Highness, you see, this is His Majesty's imperial edict, ordering you to return to Chang'an immediately." Pei Xingjian took out two imperial edicts, one of which he had shown to Li Hong when he came to Loulan a month ago, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince He didn't take it seriously and just didn't want to go back.
Today, he is still in the Western Region, in Loulan City, causing harm to other city-states outside the Anxi Protectorate, such as Bai Yi Dashi, Tubo, Bolu, Tochar and other small country countries.
Two days ago, he received the second imperial edict from His Majesty, ordering him to immediately urge His Highness the Crown Prince Li Hong to return to Chang'an, so he had no choice but to brave the extremely hot weather and rush to Loulan, biting the bullet and asking His Highness the Crown Prince to return quickly. Chang'an.
Li Hong looked at Pei Xingjian with an indifferent expression and said lazily: "Are you impatient with me being in Loulan? I'm not bothering you, or do you think the four towns in Anxi are now stable? , So you want me to go back quickly?"
"Your Highness, how dare I drive you out of here? This... this... isn't this an imperial edict from His Majesty? I wish you could continue to stay here." Pei Xingjian had to say words that went against his will. If His Majesty hadn't issued the edict, he would have I plan to file a memorial to see if I can invite His Highness back.
Pei Xingjian now truly and empathetically feels that it is easier to invite gods than to send them away, and he also better understands the depression and helplessness of the white-robed Dashi, Tubo and other countries.
With such an ancestor here, he occupies the main route from the Western Regions to the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty. As long as the goods are going to Baiyi Dashi or Tubo and other countries, he will seize them in Loulan, and then make people pay taxes and pay whatever they want to pass by. Bridge tolls.
The degree of shamelessness is great: I opened this mountain and planted this tree. If I want to cross this road, I will leave behind the money to buy the road.
No, His Highness the Crown Prince has already done this. The Zuowei General Quan Yi under him has been wandering in the desert or in the middle of Yutian Shule during this period, pretending to be a robber and robbing white clothes, food, and food. Goods from Tubo and other countries.
And the most annoying thing is that after grabbing the goods, they still ask people to spend money to redeem them. Even if they don't want to redeem them, they give them to Dou Yi, and then Dou Yi finds the seller and sells the goods.
Otherwise, they would secretly throw it away at the gate of Khotan or Shule City. If they don’t want it, they would donate it to the people in the city for free. In the past two months, the people in Khotan and Shule have been guarding the city every day before dawn. At the door, waiting for the moment the city gate is opened so that he can go outside to pick up goods.
"Ignore that imperial edict. If you like imperial edicts, I have many more here." After finishing speaking, Li Hong threw eleven edicts in front of Pei Xingjian while he was stunned.
Pei Xingjian was so shocked that he almost left his body. He picked up an imperial edict and saw that it was His Majesty's edict ordering him to return to Chang'an.
Eleven imperial edicts, in summary, come back to me quickly, the Western Region has been a mess for you for more than a year!
The reports of impeachment by envoys from various countries fell on Li Zhi's desk like snowflakes.
Pei Xingjian held the eleven imperial edicts in his hands. He was completely stupid this time. His two imperial edicts already felt like a knife on his neck, giving him a chilling and life-threatening feeling.
And His Highness the Crown Prince is worthy of being His Highness the Crown Prince. He is so powerful that he ignored eleven imperial edicts. I don’t know what His Majesty is thinking at this moment in the depths of Chang’an City.
"I will deal with him sooner or later. If you don't believe me, just show me!" Li Zhi held a thick stack of documents handed over through Honglu Temple. You don't need to read them, they are all about impeaching Li Hong.
Wu Mei turned over and looked at the book in her hand, but she kept laughing. Now the Western Region would only be good if it wasn't so chaotic and full of chaos.
The little idiot has been in the Western Region for a year and a half, almost two years now, and has completely become a scourge to the Western Region.
And this pile of tricks to impeach him is simply because Li Hong not only robbed the goods they bought from the Tang Dynasty and sent them back to their country, but also robbed the local goods they brought when they came, but fortunately, he also left them with Give them money and let them go to Chang'an to buy goods from the Tang Dynasty.
However, all of this is just the suspicion of Baiyi Dashi, Tubo and several small countries, because no one has conclusive evidence to prove that it was the governor of the Anxi Protectorate who ordered his men to do it.
But all the clues point to the Great Protector of Anxi Protectorate!
Tibet and Baiyi Dashi even sent envoys to Anxi to negotiate with the Anxi Protectorate, hoping that the Tang Dynasty could crack down on thieves in the desert, but they were refused every time because they had no money.
If you want to fight against thieves in the desert, you can each contribute some money, and we will fight against the thieves together.
At first, both Tubo and Baiyi Dashi really believed it. Each family gave a lot of money to the Anxi governor, and then they made an appointment to meet in Khotan and go into the desert to fight against thieves.
But when a month passed, only the cavalry of the Tang Dynasty came out intact. White-clad Dashi, Tubo and other foreign countries, all the troops were wiped out.
The Protector of Anxi looked frightened and sighed: "Fortunately, I ran fast, otherwise, I would have been killed by them all."
"What's in the desert?"
"The crocodile is so big, it can swallow a camel in one bite."
“….”
Since then, various countries have blacklisted the Great Protector of the Anxi Protectorate of the Tang Dynasty, and they have not interacted with each other until death. They even put the name of the Great Protector together with terms such as shameless people.
Wu Mei smiled while watching, as if the young man with a ponytail and speeding around the palace on a skateboard appeared in front of her eyes.
"You can still laugh! The face of the Tang Dynasty has been completely lost by him! The great power of the Tang Dynasty and my great reputation will be destroyed sooner or later in the hands of that little idiot! Just wait, wait until he comes back and see How can I deal with him! I have to let him know how powerful I am this time!" Li Zhi said with burning eyes and gritted teeth.
"Then you can issue an order for him to return to Chang'an."
"The decree is given."
"How many times did you do it?"
"Well... eleven courses."
"Are you back?"
"… No."
"Sigh... That's it. The influence of the Anxi Protectorate has never been as important as it is today since the rule of the Tang Dynasty. Now the four towns of Anxi are undergoing an important period of reconstruction. If you really call him back, then he will Who do you plan to hand over to the Four Towns of Anxi built by yourself? If he hadn't provided all the necessary supplies for Pei Xingjian, how could Ashina Duzhi be suppressed so quickly? "Wu Mei's beautiful and gentle eyes stared at that star. She asked about the big tree that was originally planted in front of her palace in Tai Chi Palace. Later, after Daming Palace was completed, the little idiot sneaked it and moved it to the big tree at the entrance of Penglai Palace in Daming Palace.
(End of chapter)