"Xibao, you have been back from the Western Regions for several years. Are you still in contact with them? How is the situation there? Where did the Dangxiang people fight?"

Wanyan Zonggan was not very interested in the Western Expedition because the Western Expedition was likely to trigger a power reshuffle within the Great Jin Dynasty. Wanyan Xiebao was likely to become Anban Bojilie and then become the new generation of Great Jin Emperor.

But now this concern is gone, because Wanyan Liang has become the emperor, and Wanyan Xiebao can do his best to sneak to the west to conquer a country, become a king by himself, and enjoy it when he closes the door.

Therefore, Wanyan Zonggan's attitude towards the Western Expedition became more positive. If the Western Regions are really as good as the slanting protection, then you might as well make a move. Even if you can't grab the territory in the west, it's good to grab some Persian Malaysia!

"Marshal of the Du," Wanyan Xiebao smiled, "I am still in contact with the Western Regions. Last winter, Wu Ying sent someone to send a letter to me, which mentioned the latest situation in the Western Regions now."

Wanyan Yinshuke's son Wanyan Yanying went to the Western Regions with Xibao. When Xibao returned, he took more than a thousand people to stay in Luntai City in the Western Regions.

The purpose of Xibao's decision to keep him at Luntai was to guard this large stronghold that could become a westward transit station in the future, so that he could collect information from the Western Regions.

In the past two or three years, he has sent more than ten messengers to inform Xibao of the development and changes of the Western Tang Kingdom in the Western Regions one by one.

"How is the situation?" Wanyan Zonggan asked with interest.

Wanyan Xiebao smiled and said, "The Tang Kingdom established by the Dangxiang people defeated the 100,000 troops of the Taohua Shi Kingdom on the banks of the Yunhu River in the Western Regions four years ago. Then, the Tang Kingdom took several months to seize the former land of Shule, Yutian and Shuye Towns, and the Kucha that took over from the Gaochang Uighurs, which restored the four Anxi towns of the Tang Dynasty.

Afterwards, Li Renxiao established his capital in Balashaguun, the western capital of Taohuashi Kingdom, located in the former land of Saiye, and changed his name to Xi'an Prefecture, which means Western Chang'an."

Wanyan Zong burst into laughter: "These Dangxiang people are still addicted to pretending to be Tang!"

Wanyan Xiebao smiled and said, "That's right, their Dabaigao Kingdom was suppressed in the cramped land of the western part of the Yinxia Hexi for more than 100 years. They have not lived a few good days. Now they have only been famous for the Tang Dynasty for a few years? They are already so generous. This shows that they have to pretend to be Tang to the end!"

Wanyan Zonggan shook his head repeatedly, "If God really wants to bless the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty will not perish."

Wanyan Xiebao smiled and said, "In addition, the Western Regions were originally a Buddha country of thousands of miles, but since the decline and demise of the Tang Dynasty and Tubo, the Tianfang Sect from the Dashi Kingdom has grown stronger and stronger in the Western Regions. Before the rise of the Western Tang Dynasty, it had overwhelmed Buddhism, Nestorians and Manichis in the Western Regions. The Western Tang Dynasty originally regarded Buddhism as the national religion. When it was in the Western Expedition to Anxi, it received help from Buddhist disciples in the Western Regions, so naturally it took it as its mission to revitalize Buddhism.

To revitalize Buddhism, the Western Tang Dynasty would inevitably fall into a battle with the Tianfang Sect. Therefore, the Western Tang Dynasty had to try every means to expand the number of people. Only in this way could the Western Tang Dynasty have a sufficient number of people divided into all directions. Therefore, there are only Tang people in the Western Tang Dynasty, no Dangxiang people, Han people, Tubo people, Gaochang Uighurs, and Khotan people now.

However, even if the Dangxiang people, Han people, Tubo people, Gaochang Uighurs, and Khotan people are all considered Tang people, the Western Tang people are only one.2 million. Therefore, the territory of the four towns in Anxi and the Western Tang Dynasty has been expanded to its limit.

In the past three years, although they have sent troops to Hezhong every year, they have only collected some tributes to show their national prestige and did not occupy the cities and villages there. Compared with the four Anxi towns, the Hezhong area is truly rich land, with a large population, rich land, and prosperous commerce and trade, but not worse than Yanyun!"

Wanyan Zongbi interrupted, "There are many nations in one million and two hundred thousand nations, and how many people are our country in Dajin?"

One million and two hundred thousand nations are indeed not a small number. If it were the Mongols, they would have long since flattened all the countries and tribes of the Western Regions!

But the Western Tang Dynasty was not Mongolia after all, and it was even worse than Dangxiang ruled by Yelu Dashi in some aspects.

Because the Western Tang people had very low nomadic components, they were accustomed to settle down rather than living by water and grass.

Wanyan Xiebao smiled and said, "Where can we compare with the Western Tang Dynasty? Their millions of nations were just aligned. And most of them were farmers before. So after conquering a large piece of land, Li Renli and Cao Mian were busy resettling the nations and establishing military palaces."

There is no way for the migration and production of farming people to be carried out at the same time. If they are always in a state of migration, production will basically stop. More than one million people only move and rob, but do not produce, and will they become bandits?

So after Li Renli and Cao Mian conquered enough territory, they began to imitate the Tang system and implement the national equal-field military system.

Xie Bao also said: "One and two million nationalities are scattered on the territory of the five towns including Shuye, Kucha, Shule, Khotan, Gaochang, etc., and the average one town is only 240,000. The territory of the five towns is very vast, so the power will be dispersed as soon as the nationals are divided."

In fact, the reason for the dispersion of power in the Western Tang Dynasty was not only the dispersion of the nation and the establishment of military palaces, but also the inconvenient comment on the feudal ruler, so Xibao simply did not mention it.

The feudal system of the Western Tang Dynasty was actually not the Tang system, but closer to the feudal system of the Western Zhou Dynasty!

The so-called Jiedushi is actually a vassal state!

Under the Jiedushi, there are two feudal lords: the lord of the palace (the lord of the military palace) and the lord of the fort (the lord of the military palace), as well as the lord of the palace soldiers located at the grassroots level of this feudal system.

The advantage of this feudal system is that it is directly rooted at the grassroots level. It is not enough to engage in Xiajunyi people's Buddhism and Confucianism's educational ability. Only this Xiajunyi people's path can take root in the territory of Tianfang Sect.

But then again, when the "Dabanya" of the Cross religion educated the people of the southern Iberian Peninsula, it was actually a group of barbaric Castile knights to take root and expelled a large number of Moors and Jews.

The disadvantage of Xia Junyi people is that their strength is easily dispersed and it is difficult to form a joint force to cause a fatal blow to the "Seljuk Shogunate" of the great calamity country.

Wanyan Xiebao smiled and said, "But because the Western Tang tribes were unable to enter the river after they were dispersed, Li Renli and Cao Mian hoped that we would help. This is our opportunity, and we should not miss it!"

In fact, the Western Tang Dynasty was not really unable to enter the river, but could not digest the river. The current 1.2 million nationalities in the Western Tang Dynasty were divided into about 200,000 households, about one-third of which were distributed in Suiye Town, which was less than 70,000 households.

In other words, Li Renli and Cao Mian can mobilize 70,000 elite troops to invade the river at any time!

This number is almost the same as the number of direct armed troops of Sultan Sanjar. The Western Tang army, which has fried pots, hot pot cannons, yak crossbows (sacred arm bows), and iron kite cavalry, is undoubtedly more powerful in combat. There is no problem in winning the field, and it is also possible to break through some big cities. But it is impossible to digest because the river has not been ravaged by the Mongols at this time, and the ecology has not collapsed. There is a lot of people that can support!

If the Western Tang occupied all the land in the river, then all their 1.2 million nations would not be able to suppress the situation.

"Shaped Protection," Wanyan Zong asked with a dry smile, "Then you and your father must be almost ready, right? When can you set off?"

"I've been ready for almost this fall, and the horse is fat and strong, you can set off!"

Wanyan Zonggan gave his brother Zongbi a wink, "Do we want to send some troops too?"

"Okay!" Wanyan Xiebao smiled, "I am worried about the lack of troops. My nephew and my dad can only gather 280,000 troops at most, of which 60,000 soldiers are the largest, which is 60,000 soldiers. This is still the number of auxiliary soldiers."

With 60,000 Jin soldiers and 70,000 Tang soldiers, a total of 130,000 troops seem to be a little less!

Wanyan Zong smiled dryly and said, "Then let's make up a little more, add another 40,000 for your father and son, and make up a 100,000!"

"The elder brother is only willing to hand over half of Jinghu Road, and the other territory must be held in his hands. Moreover, I also heard that the elder brother is preparing to recruit 100,000 troops to deploy defense in Lianghuai. It seems that the elder brother has not given up yet!

In addition, I also heard that my elder brother had already appointed the fifth brother as Annan Xuanfu envoy to prepare to use troops against Annan!”

"It's not just about using troops. The eldest brother will probably sign the fifth brother to Annan as king, so that he can send the King of Jinling to take over the power of the navy!"

Beijing Road, Shuntian Prefecture, Yaochi Palace.

At this time, Zhao Kai had already met Zhao Zhi and Zhao Huan's envoy Zhao Qi who had returned from Jinling City.

The two of them brought Zhao Kai a good news, a bad news and a big news that was neither good nor bad.

The good news is that Zhao Huan promised to be the King of Wu, although he was willing to hand over half of the Jinghu Road, he finally let the Song Dynasty unify in name.

The bad news is that Zhao Huan continues to expand his army and prepare for war, as if he wants to resist the imperial soldiers.

The news that was neither good nor bad was that Zhao Huan finally decided to recover Annan's lost territory and sent Zhao Shu, who was secretly connected with Zhao Kai, as the head coach, and seemed to have given the conditions to represent Zhao Shu as the king of Annan.

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "It is always a good thing that he is willing to be the King of Wu. If he pays less territory, he will pay less. I always have a way to collect his land.

Sixth brother, I will hand over the dispatch of the Jinghu South Road Transportation Envoy to you! The officials of Jinghu South Road should stay as much as possible and keep the tax as constant as possible."

"Brother San, you are"

"Third brother, brother is preparing for the battle!"

Zhao Zhi and Zhao Qi seem to have seen through Zhao Huan's conspiracy, but Zhao Kai seems to be ready to accept Zhao Huan's conditions for some reason.

Zhao Kai smiled and said, "The eldest brother expanded his army, perhaps to conquer Annan and Annan as the land of China, and should be recovered. If the fifth brother can pacify Annan, I will grant him the King of Annan and let him stay in Annan forever!"
Chapter completed!