Chapter 53: Dunhuang Zhang Family

Liu An summoned the main officials of the Sima Office to discuss the matter of envoys Saman and Talas, and arranged the relevant matters before departure.

He Chunshan was appointed as the envoy to Talas. Before he went on the mission, he combined the relevant information. Suddenly, he seemed to discover a major problem and asked to see Guo Luo and Liu An immediately.

In the past two years, He Chunshan has been smart and capable in foreign affairs. Guo Luo and Liu An have relied heavily on him, so he postponed the date of his mission by one day, let's see what he has to say.

After the three of them met, He Chunshan said: "General Guo, Sima Liu, I thought this mission should not be found in Naiser II and Satuk, nor should I go to maintain peace."

"Then you think it should..."

"Saman doesn't need to pay attention. Satuk should use a tough attitude to ask them to cooperate with our offensive actions!"

Liu An was startled, and Guo Luo was also stunned: "Observe? Who to attack?"

"Whoever is not kind to us will attack us!" When He Chunshan said this, if it weren't for his soft tone and without a domineering scent, Guo Luo and Liu An would have thought that Zhang Mai was talking.

Although I thought He Chunshan was a bit outrageous, Guo Luo still said: "Speak."

He Chunshan said: "Now our army is being attacked from both sides, but we really understand the dilemma of our army. In fact, we are the only one who understands our army's dilemma. The more we are at this time, the less we cannot show weakness. All the nations in the world are bullying good and afraid of evil. Our army is strong and we win even the battle. This is something that is obvious to all the Western Regions. Therefore, if we show strength, we can make the countries surprised and interfere with each other. But if we let Satuk and the others break our confidence during negotiations, they are afraid that they will turn the world up! Judging from the good news from the east, Zhang Dadu has created an invincible momentum. We should follow this momentum and stay below zero to command the heroes. In the end, even if we don't make the order, we can make them dare not move."

Guo Luo: "How to call the order."

He Chunshan said: "Our army has a great weakness, that is, it is in the country, and is attacked from both sides, but this is our great advantage. Because many countries are separated by our Anxi, the East must know the things about the West, and the West must know the things about the East, and all of them must pass through us. So I dare to conclude that Saman will definitely not be able to figure out what is happening in Shazhou within half a year. In addition, they benefit from trading with us. They will never engage in troops to us because of inaccurate rumors within a year and a half. Therefore, we don't have to pay attention to Saman at all, just keep a stable life."

Guo Luo and Liu An nodded together and said, "Not bad."

He Chunshan continued: "The same goes for Satuk. It is unlikely that there will be a chance to understand our reality. What I think they heard at this time is just how the Protectorate conquered the three towns in a row and how to form an alliance with Shazhou. As for the subtleties of our relationship with Shazhou, even Li Shengtian may not be able to accurately grasp these things. How could Satuk understand them thoroughly? Therefore, I expected that he would not dare to act rashly! Since this is the case, we can order him to station troops to destroy Erki, to warn Arslan and to cause trouble for his borders!"

Guo Luo and Liu An were secretly ashamed when they heard this, because they were the few people who knew that the Anxi Army and the Guiyi Army were in harmony. They were all thinking about this in the past few months. For a moment, they inevitably had a preconceived misunderstanding that they could not get out of it. Therefore, instead, He Chunshan, who suddenly came into contact with this matter, could jump out and look at this matter from the standpoint of Neser II and Satuk.

He Chunshan is good at setting up a plan to deceive. At this time, he leaned against Anxi, a major Western Region state, and under Zhang Mai, who also knew how to build momentum, he skillfully changed his youthful intelligence to a military and national fraud. He was really like a fish to get water. After analyzing the situation of Saman and Talas, he said: "Since these two states are stable, we can do our best to deal with Arslan on the Western Front. We can send envoys to Balashaguen and urge him to join us to attack Viga!"

Guo Luo and Liu An looked at each other and felt that this move was like an alien star, which was strange and strange, but also made people shine.

He Chunshan continued: "Although the information of the Ashin family said that Viaga and the agreement reached with Arsland, the agreement can also be changed! But now Arsland, Viaga and our three families are three-legged tripods! Why should Arsland listen to Viaga? Viaga can lobby Arsland to attack us and divide Anxi equally, why can't we lobby Arsland and ask him to divide Beiting equally? If this matter is not done, it is just to maintain the status quo. If this matter is done, our army will not spend a single army or a soldier, but will add a large amount of assistance to the three eastern towns, so that the Uighurs in Beiting will perish for a long time!"

This is a chaotic world, this is a mess!

Except for the gods and Buddhas outside the sky, who can fully understand every detail in this chaotic situation? Even the princes of various countries have a grasp of the situation like a blind man touching an elephant, or touching his ears or touching his thighs. Everyone is gambling, but everyone is not sure.

Zhang Mai was actually not sure, but no one in Dunhuang City could see his weak side. All Dunhuang saw was his coolness, his elegance, his heroism, and his aura! All the people in Shazhou saw was his domineering attitude to destroy whoever he saw!

The enemy hates his domineeringness, but more people admire this domineeringness!

It was late at night, and a visitor entered through the side door under Lingjun's guidance and entered the Zhang Mansion to ask for a meeting with Zhang Mai.

"Oh?" When I visited late at night, I was probably not a good person, but now it is an extraordinary period, and some judgment standards seem to be inappropriate.

"Those brought by Zen Master Lingjun must make sense."

The person who came was a middle-aged and elderly man in his fifties had an ancient appearance, with a bookish atmosphere all over his body, and a large bookcase. For this bookcase, Shi Jian almost refused to let him in, for fear that there would be some weapon hidden inside.

Zhang Mai didn't recognize this person, but thought Lingjun would definitely not bring an irrelevant person to see him.

"The Great Protector, this is a Sushi of Dunhuang, a prominent clan in Shazhou. His surname is Zhang, his name is Yi, his name is Conglong, and his pseudonym is Huifei."

Zhang Mai felt that the name, name and number were a bit literary. He reluctantly nodded, but still couldn't hear anything. Originally, Jialing had already passed on the information of some important military and political officials in Shazhou, but Zhang Yi did not seem to be among them.

Lingjun seemed to notice Zhang Mai's doubts and continued to add: "Conglong can be said to be our own family."

"Our family? Ah--Zhang family."

“That’s right!”

Zhang Yi stepped forward and bowed to Zhang Mai. Zhang Mai quickly supported him and said, "This... Brother Zhang is older than me, so I can't afford it." Zhang Yi said, "The Protectorate is the hope of the revival of my Zhang family. Although Zhang Yi is a few years older, he should bow to the Dunhuang Zhang family."

Zhang Mai was stunned, and then suddenly remembered that when Ling Jun was in Gaochang, he had already arranged him into the Zhang family in Dunhuang. At this time, Zhang Yi suddenly came to find him. Could it be that this is the case?

As hesitated, Zhang Yi had already taken the big bookcase. Yang Yi and Li Bin were a little alert, but when Zhang Yi opened the bookcase, there were maps inside. It seemed that there were more than ten books, and it seemed that they were all ancient books that had been around for a while.

Zhang Yi said: "This is the melon, Sha, Yi, Su, Shan, Gan, He, Xi, Lan, Min, and 11 provinces of the eleven provinces. It was made by Zhang Yichao Gong ninety years ago. At that time, two sets were made, one set was presented to the court and the other set left in Hexi. The court was destroyed with the fall of Chang'an. Those who stayed in Hexi were kept secretly protected by my Zhang family. Cao Zheng Jin wanted to take over several times, but we hid it. Now he only said that this map has been destroyed, but he did not know that it is still in the hands of our Zhang family!"

He said as he handed over the 11 Hexi prefectures’ hukou map and said, “Now my father is presenting these 11 prefectures’ hukou map to Zhang Dadu!”

Li Bin almost exclaimed when he heard this. Zhang Mai was also a little surprised. The mountain and river household registration maps of the 11 Hexi Prefectures recorded the astronomy, geography, folk customs, customs, dangers, property, population and household registration status of the Hexi region. After all, after so many years, it can only be used as historical materials for later generations. Now it has no practical value for the Anxi Tang Army, but the mountain and river map is of great use. With this map, you can quite master the geographical information of the entire Hexi. In addition to some of the fortifications that have been changed over the past few decades, the Anxi Army will be well aware of the military situation of the land from Shazhou to Minzhou.

Looking at the mountain and river household registration book presented by Zhang Yi, Zhang Mai was really surprised. He didn't expect that Zhang Yi would give him this gift as soon as he met.

However, he did not know that since Cao Yijin came to power, the Guiyi Army regime secretly suppressed the Zhang family's direct descendants. Over the past 20 years, the Zhang family's power in Shazhou has shrunk. It is only because the Zhang family in Dunhuang is a thousand-year-old clan with a large population and a deep foundation that Cao Yijin was unable to uproot it. However, the military and political officials in Shazhou no longer had the Zhang family's direct descendants. Therefore, Zhang Yi's name was not on the list sent by Jialing to Zhang Mai. Therefore, when the Zhang family heard that a big figure like Zhang Mai appeared in the "clan", of course they had to try to get acquainted.

Although this picture has great use value for the Anxi Tang Army, what is more important is that it represents a force in Shazhou that is leaning against the Anxi Army. With such a local clan as an internal response, it will be of great benefit to Zhang Mai's actions in the future!

Both sides seemed very unfamiliar just now. After presenting the Shanhe Household Registration Map, the distance between Zhang Mai and Zhang Yi was narrowed invisibly. Zhang Mai handed the map to Li Bin to take charge, but he asked about the situation of Zhang's children in Shazhou.

Zhang Yi sighed: "Since Cao negotiated the rule of Jin, he has appointed private individuals, which has disrupted the political system. My Zhang family's children have no future in joining the army and entering politics. Therefore, they can only pass on family through farming and studying. Some have become monks, and some have become minor officials in the two states. However, generally speaking, it has really insulted the heroic ancestors!"

In fact, Cao Yijin's actions in Shazhou were not that bad. At least it was a bit unfair in the "appointment of private individuals". However, as a descendant of Zhang who was squeezed out of power by Cao's family, you can imagine that such criticism of Cao Yijin was considered.

The Zhang family had a tradition of a scholarly family. Otherwise, how could a great calligrapher who inherited the past and opened up the future in the Han Dynasty? After the political road was blocked for a while, many people turned to "learning". Zhang Mai had known that many families in Shazhou had great emphasis on cultural education. At this time, he said: "It's a pity to be a monk, but studying is a good thing. Now Anxi is lacking in civil servants. If our Zhang family's children have real skills, they can go to Anxi in the future, and there will be no place to use their skills!"

Zhang Yi was overjoyed and said, "Since the Cao family came to power, my Zhang family's journey to become an official has been almost blocked. Although Cao Yijin had hypocritically arranged several children of our clan to be officials, they were all just given a false title. But if we could go to Anxi to become an official, then the revival period of our clan would not be far away!"

Zhang Mai smiled slightly and said, "If the talented man in Shazhou is willing to come to Anxi, he will definitely welcome him there, and it is not limited to Zhang. However, the political system and laws in Anxi are very different from those in Hexi. After going there, you have to learn again."

Zhang Yi smiled and said, "This is natural, natural." Then he asked some questions about the similarities and differences of the Hexi political system. Zhang Mailuo analyzed that Zhang Yi had a strong foundation and was the best in the Chinese school of the savages. Although he had no actual position, he always observed the changes in the Hexi political system and had a set of ideas in his heart. Although the Anxi civil servant system established by Zhang Mai and Zheng Wei was vigorous, it may not be better than the civil servant system that had been present in the Tang Dynasty when it came to precision. Therefore,

At this time, Zhang Yi heard Zhang Mai say that, he quickly grasped the differences and differences between the two. Zhang Mai also saw that he had extraordinary insights in Zhang Yi's words and thought: "The Zhang family in Dunhuang has a foundation of nearly a thousand years. Although it has been suppressed for more than twenty years, this may not be a bad thing. If we can introduce Shazhou cultural elites represented by the Zhang family and train and transform them in the future, it will definitely greatly enrich our Anxi Tang Army's civil service system and reduce Zheng Wei's pressure."

The conversation between the two involved Anxi's political system, and such things were complicated. If you really want to talk about them in depth, you will be afraid that you will not finish it for three days and nights. Li Bin saw that the fourth update had passed and reminded him: "Major Protector, can these things be discussed slowly in the future?"

Zhang Yi yelled and said, "Look at me, look at me, because I have forgotten the time because I have spoken with the Great Protector, and delayed the Great Protector's rest. It's really damn."

Zhang Mai smiled and said, "I actually really want to have a long talk with Mr. Huifei all night, but if I want to worship Mr. Zhang Yichao tomorrow, I should have a sleep, so as not to go with a pair of black circles tomorrow, but that would be disrespectful to Mr. Zhang."

Zhang Yi said: "In this way, Zhang Yi took his leave, but there was still something to tell Sima Li before leaving."

"Oh?" Li Bin was a little surprised: "What's the matter?"

Zhang Yi said: "Before Protector Zhang Dadu arrived in Dunhuang, a group of people had arrived in the north. There were not many people, about three or five, but the origin was a bit strange. He entered the country from Yizhou. He disappeared after entering the city. I still don't know where he is hiding?"

Li Bin was shocked: "From Yizhou? Yizhou is now under the rule of Guiyi Army. It is not a strange thing for people from Yizhou to come."

Zhang Yi said: "No, although this group of people entered the country from Yizhou, I can conclude that they are definitely not from Yizhou, they are just using Yizhou!"

These local aristocratic families have deep foundations and wide hearings. They are definitely not comparable to Li Bin. Jialing sent dozens of spies to compare, so they can detect many spies that cannot be accessed.

"Well, sir, think these people are?"
Chapter completed!