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Lanzhou quickly sent a caravan to Dunhuang again. Because of the hasty preparation, Kangqudagan, the Sogdian merchants, showed amazing operational ability. Within one month, bulk goods such as tea and silk worth up to 500,000 guan were transported to Lanzhou for reloading. At the same time, Kangqudagan also brought a convoy carrying 500,000 guan of goods from the Han family of Youyan and the Khitan nobles. Chen De acquiesced the Khitan caravan and the Lanzhou caravan to march together, which represents the guarantee of the safety of the caravans on both sides. In view of the failure of the caravans in the previous period,

The goods were even more valuable this time. Chen De took great pains to the issue of caravan escort. Not only did he send the left army commander Xin Gu to lead two thousand infantry and cavalry all the way to escort, but there were also eleven cavalry teams of the cavalry battalions all over Helan, and the northern foot of the Yin Mountains were the eyes and ears of the caravans. In addition, a ranger with more than 100 people was specially sent to secretly cruise on the key pass from the Dangxiang of Xiazhou to the northern grassland. Once the Dangxiang people made a big move out of the barrier, they immediately sent a letter to the caravan and Lanzhou. If Dangxiang of Xiazhou still wanted to get the chestnut from the fire, Chen De would not mind giving them some lessons.

Kang Qu Dagan's side had lost cargoes continuously and was under great pressure. Not only did he personally escort the Khitan caravans from Shangjing to Lanzhou to meet, but in order to prevent harassment from the Uighurs entrenched in the Hexi Corridor, he also contacted Cao Yanlu, the governor of the Guiyi Army who was in Dunhuang City through his tribe. The Guiyi Army would send cavalry out of Dunhuang to meet the caravan eastward. The Guiyi Army was the only Han force on the Silk Road, and occupied Dunhuang, the eastern hub of the Silk Road. In the future, he would be the most important ally of Lanzhou to expand the commercial road. In order to promote the long-term cooperation between Dunhuang and Lanzhou, Kang Qu Dagan also told the Guiyi Army envoy Zhang Zhongyao, who was waiting in Chang'an to meet the Emperor of Song, to come to Lanzhou.

The leader of the Guiyi Army, Cao Yangong, just passed away last year. Zhang Zhongyao's trip was to represent Cao Yanlu to declare his surrender to Emperor Song, and asked Emperor Song to grant Cao Yanlu the successor to the governor of the Guiyi Army. In view of the hostile relationship between Lanzhou and Bianliang, Zhang Zhongyao could only meet with Chen De in a private study. Even so, Zhang Zhongyao, the envoy of the Guiyi Army, gave the highest courtesy to Zhang Zhongyao, the envoy of the Guiyi Army, and sent the commander of the Right Army, Xiao Jiu and the captain of the Ya Army, Li Si, to lead 100 cavalry to greet him a hundred miles away.

Zhang Zhongyao was the descendant of Zhang Yichao, the first governor of the Guiyi Army. He read poetry and books since he was a child and yearned for his hometown of the Celestial Empire. In recent years, the Uighurs in Gua, Sha and Ganzhou near Dunhuang have had great influence. More than 50 years ago, the leader of the Guiyi Army, Zhang Chengfeng, had been forced to submit to the Ganzhou Uighurs and was forced to cede Suzhou. Since then, the Cao family has been in power in Guiyi Army and has been forced to marry the daughter of the Ganzhou Uighur Khan for generations and married the daughter of the Ganzhou Uighur Khan for his wife, but Cao Yijin, Cao Yuande, Cao Yuanshen, Cao Yuanzhong, Cao Yangong, Cao Yanlu and other successive governors of the Guiyi Army, but they were forced to call the Uighur Khan the father.

Under the Guiyi Army, the four major clans of Guasha were Zhang, Cao, Li and Suo, all of whom were in charge of the throne of Jiedu. In modern times, the Cao family has been in power for a hundred years. Faced with the pressing of the Uighurs, the country's power has become increasingly embarrassing, which has aroused dissatisfaction among other major families. Zhang Zhongyao made his mission this time, in addition to asking Emperor Song to grant titles, he also asked for help from the Heavenly Kingdom with a pure heart as a desert. The Song State had an important place in Shuofang. Even if thousands of elite troops were sent to aid Guasha and declare their national prestige, the Uighurs, whose power was far from comparable to the Central Plains, were afraid. The Han people in Guasha could develop slowly and gradually restore Longyou, such as Yi, Xi, Gan, Su, Lan, Shan, He, Min, Gua, and other states in the Western Regions.

Along the way, I felt that the mountains and rivers of the Central Plains were particularly friendly. Whether it was the merchants in the city or the people working in the fields were mostly Han people, which was very different from the Hu Han people in Shazhou, and even the Hu people were more than Han people. Zhang Zhongyao couldn't help but feel excited. It was better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books than to go to Central China. I don't know that China's population is so prosperous, but I'm afraid it's more than dozens of times more than the Hu people in the Western Regions. Guanzhong has many people and few lands. With these many Han people, as long as the court sends a large army to escort and encourages immigration and reclaiming, it will squeeze the Uighur Tubo forces out of Hexi with just squeeze.

He arrived in Qinzhou with enthusiasm and was arranged to live in the inn where he was entertained by the Western Regions. This residence lasted for half a year, and the Song Dynasty seemed to have forgotten him. The Zhang family had a great understanding of the etiquette of the officialdom in the Middle Land. Zhang Zhongyao first came and was quite generous. Whether it was the concierge officer who accompanied him all the way or the local official who was temporarily in charge of reception, he had gained a lot of benefits. However, after being delayed in Qinzhou for a long time, he naturally did not dare to spend money casually. He still had a few treasures on him, so he was preparing to make friends in Bianliang.

The powerful and powerful, who offer their respects to the officials, should not give them to them early. The officials of the Song Dynasty who were responsible for accompanying and monitoring the envoys saw that he could never get any more money, and their attitude gradually faded. However, they had received a lot of benefits from him for no reason and did not restrict him from traveling around. On this day, Kang Qu Dagan told him that he wanted to meet Chen De in Lanzhou. Since Dunhuang was originally a commercial city, the caravan had a great relationship with the rise and fall of Dunhuang. Zhang Zhongyao was idle anyway, so he lied that he went to Huashan to visit, and Kang Qu Dagan arranged for him to come to Lanzhou.

Xiao Jiu and Li Si accompanied each other all the way. Xiao Jiu was the commander of the Later Shu guards. He had his own court rituals when treating people and things. Li Si was originally a Confucian scholar and was gentle and gentle. After Chen De's instructions, they treated Zhang Zhongyao with special courtesy. They traveled all the way and had fun. The three of them had a great chat.

Zhang Zhongyao is a thoughtful person, and he still has the intention of serving the court to investigate the realities and reality of Lanzhou. He observed secretly and tentatively, and felt that Xiao Jiu was calm and steady, Li Si was very resourceful and flexible. Both of them were rare generals and were even more loyal to Chen De. In his words, he occasionally revealed his obedience to Chen De from the bottom of his heart. The children of Zhang Zhongyao's family had their own way of observing people and knowing people. They were secretly shocked that Chen De could get his subordinates so loyal. Look at the soldiers in Lanzhou again, the soldiers dared to fight, the military orders were strict, and they were running like arms and fingers. They were neither humble nor arrogant, and they were brave and determined. On the way, a battalion of raids was practicing shooting skills in the suburbs. They saw a strong horse galloping, and the cavalry sometimes hid in the belly of the horse, and sometimes stood on the horse.

At the top, sometimes there were arrows and sometimes they looked back at the moon, changing their postures, but most of them could hit the arrow pile. Zhang Zhongyao had seen many Hu cavalry in the Western Regions, but most of them could not compare with the Lanzhou cavalry. These were still Han cavalry? Even the elite tribes on the grassland could not match. He didn't know that Tuhun Army was originally the legacy of a nomadic child, but was tempered by a century-old military sword in the Central Plains. He was already the first-class elite soldiers in the world, so he secretly ignored them. He added a lot of fear to Chen De, thinking that this person was either a hero who was a great traitor or a hero who helped the world and the people. Unfortunately, he was born at the wrong time, and the return of the world to the Song Dynasty was the general trend. The greater his talent, the more suppressed he was.

Close to Lanzhou City, there were gradually more fields and farmers with crops in the mountains and rivers. Zhang Zhongyao knew that this was the states north of Hedong Road that had been war-torn for a long time. Only by approaching the city and protecting the farmers could they grow crops. The number of farming near Lanzhou is rare in the border counties. He was a little surprised that the dense grass on some hillsides and dry land was quite neat, and said, "Master Xiao, these grasses seem to be planted by manpower."

Xiao Jiu and Li Si were walking with him, and he replied, "That is, these fields should not be planted with grains, so they can raise livestock." Zhang Zhongyao said "Oh" and nodded slightly. There were few horses in the Central Plains. With the abundant people's strength and the vast land of the land, if the method of planting grass was widely used, millions of war horses could be reproduced within decades. If it were the Central Plains, it would be only cost to maintain so many horses, but if it was the heart to manage the Western Regions and even the northern desert.

, a large number of war horses were necessary. As the saying goes, Zhang Zhongyao thought in his heart, and seeing that Chen De in Lanzhou was not as good as a vassal state, but seemed to have a heroic ruler in his pericarial world. He had been in the Western Regions for a long time, and he was thinking about the struggle with the Uighurs, Tubo and other Hu tribes. Therefore, when he saw the people of Lanzhou planting grass, he thought of the method of protecting horses in the former Han Dynasty, but he did not know that Lanzhou's move was just to increase the proportion of meat on the table.

The closer he got to the city, the more frightened he became. In today's world, such a hero, who did not know whether it was a blessing or a disaster, became silent in his words. Xiao Jiu and Li Si only thought about how to answer when he brought him back to see Chen De, and did not disturb him. They only led soldiers to protect the envoy of the Guiyi Army and walked slowly and came to the front of the Lanzhou Tuanlian Envoy Mansion.

Chen De had been waiting in the mansion for a long time, and when he saw Zhang Zhongyao, he smiled and said, "The guests came and made the brilliance of Lanzhou. How dare Chen De of Lanzhou not welcome him?"

Seeing that he was wearing a general's robe, the second general Xiao Li looked respectful. He had already guessed that it was Chen De in front of him, but he didn't expect that he was so young. He seemed to be under thirty years old. He had a calm and powerful aura in his every move. He calmed down and bowed respectfully: "Zhang Zhongyao, the army of the Guiyi Army of Shazhou, see General Chen."

As soon as these words came out, Chen De's face changed slightly. He reached out to greet Zhang Zhongyao and Xiao Jiu. Li Si sat down. Zhang Zhongyao sat on Chen De's right head, while Xiao Jiu and Li Si sat on both sides. After the three of them sat down, Chen De leaned over and asked Zhongyao, "Do you dare to ask, but the descendants of Zhang Yichao, the governor of Guiyi Army,?"

Note 1: In order to resist the expansion of the Western Karakhan Dynasty under the name of jihad, Li Shengtian, the king of Khotan in the Western Regions, fought for years and was unable to support his independence. He sent envoys to ask for help from the Song Dynasty, the Sect Master. The Song State returned to send Buddhist scriptures and sent a mission of 157 Buddhist monks to "travel the Western Regions" to support morally. In the end, the Kingdom of Khotan was conquered, and Buddhists were blood flowing into a river. The Islamization of the Western Regions was completed in the cruel killing.

Note 2: During the horse season from 2001 to 2002, there will be 1,144 horse owners, 24 trainers, 35 jockeys and 1,435 racing horses in Hong Kong.

Author: The statement that Chinese people are not suitable for meat and milk is not suitable for it. I think it is nonsense. Eating too much will naturally be suitable. High-protein foods can improve physical fitness and strengthen their bodies. Now, parents who have the conditions will not refuse to let their children eat beef and drink milk.

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