In Shule Palace, Li Shengtian had just finished processing a large number of reports and felt a little dizzy.
This king, who is not usually very diligent, has been very concerned about state affairs in the past three or four months.
Every day before the sun rises, they start to deal with government affairs. Except for a short break at noon, they basically have to wait until the sun sets before returning to the harem to rest.
This is Shule Xinding, and there are indeed many things going on, including appeasing the surrounding tribes, dealing with the Gaochang Uighurs who want to come over for a share of the pie, and the queen of the Geluolu tribe who is said to have fled to the land of Seven Rivers. Gradually regaining his footing and other things, he had no time to rest.
Also, he was stimulated by Zhang Zhao. This nephew was invincible in external battles. His uncle couldn't compare with Zhang Zhao in military affairs. How could he be compared with Zhang Zhao in domestic affairs?
Cao Yuanxin felt distressed and took a bowl of stewed chicken soup, carried it to Li Shengtian, and squeezed his shoulders.
As a result, before Li Shengtian had a chance to take a sip, the internal official walked in with an urgent letter covered with bright wild pheasant feathers.
"Emperor, urgent delivery to Balasagon, eight hundred miles away!"
Li Shengtian stood up with a whoosh. Before the valet could bring the letter, he went to get it himself. After a long while, he let out a long breath.
"Well done, Erlang! First, he lured the enemy deep into the enemy's territory, and then led his elite troops into the mountains and forests to cut off their food routes.
Ruotai and Bai Congxin were then ordered to lead a raid with fine cavalry and burn their granaries, while Ma Jirong led his troops to defend Balashagon.
After forcing the Persians to retreat, use a large army to cover them up! Come on, Liu Niang, take a look too! "
Li Shengtian happily read these hundreds of words twice before handing them to Cao Yuanxin.
In fact, after Zhang Zhao left, Li Shengtian felt a little regretful and worried. Shule and Balashagon were thousands of miles apart. In fact, even if Balashagon failed to defend, the Persians would not choose to continue attacking Shule.
The reason why Li Shengtian let Zhang Zhao go was, firstly, because he was obsessed with his status as the protector of Buddhism, and secondly, because he was slightly afraid of Zhang Zhao.
But not long after Zhang Zhao left, Li Shengtian regretted it. Zhang Zhao insisted on taking only 2,000 men with him, saying that more troops were more valuable than more troops.
But the Persian Saman Kingdom is also a prosperous country in the river, and it is easy to mobilize tens of thousands of people. If something happens to Zhang Zhao, how should he face his eldest sister and Zhang Zhao's contribution to the Kingdom of Khotan?
Fortunately, Zhang Zhao finally won another big victory. Not only was he fine, but he also helped the Khotan Jin Kingdom become famous again.
"It seems that Erlang is really a natural-born general! He also said in the letter that the army led by Ali Duraf, the governor of Tashkent in the Samanid Kingdom of Persia, is not as numerous as the Ghulam guards of Saktu.
Its soldiers and armor are not refined, their horses are not raised properly, and their arrogant soldiers are lazy. Judging from this, the Persian Samanid Kingdom is in decline.
As long as we are ready to send troops to liberate the Khanate, we will defeat it in one battle and establish the foundation of the Great Jin Kingdom in Khotan for thousands of years. "
Cao Yuanxin was also overjoyed. The more territory Zhang Zhao secured, it was all for her son Li Congde.
It seems that my decision is right. When the time comes, Cong De'er will control the Anxi prosperous country like Khotan, Zhang Erlang will open up Ganliang and rebuild the rebel army. The two countries will share the benefits of the Silk Road, and the Cao and Zhang families will share the eternal peace. .
"Yes! Polu Prefecture defeated 20,000 with 2,000, and this time in Balashagon, defeated 30,000 with more than 2,000, one against ten every time, this is what the famous generals of this dynasty are like!"
Li Shengtian fully agreed. When Zhang Zhao grabbed his sleeve and shouted, "Don't leave your descendants behind," Li Shengtian never expected that victory would come so quickly and easily.
The 30,000 troops he recruited did not have much effect, and Zhang Zhao defeated the enemy alone.
The two people's vision for the future of Khotan at that time, now only the Bakhanna region is left to be conquered, and it doesn't seem to be difficult.
"Did Burke from Andukang's Yusupu reply to your letter recently?" Thinking of this, Li Shengtian asked the internal officer who came over with an urgent delivery.
Andukang was Andiyan in the Fergana Basin in later generations. This city was the throat from Shule into the Fergana Basin. Although the city was not big, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Yusup Bek was a general under Saktu. After the Kara Khanate captured most of the Fergana Basin, Yusup was appointed by Saktu as the governor of Andukang. He was stationed in the original Bakhna Kingdom. Fortress.
In the past few months, Li Shengtian has been trying to appease Yu Supu, but this person's attitude has always been very ambiguous. Because of his faith, he may fall to the Persian Saman Kingdom.
The internal official shook his head and said, "Back to the emperor, I have been paying close attention to it, but no messenger from Andu Kang has ever come over!"
"I don't know what's wrong!" Li Shengtian's face darkened, "This Yu Supu is so shameless, does he really think he doesn't dare to send troops to conquer?
Send a verbatim copy of Zhang Jungong's urgent delivery to Yu Supu, and tell him that I will wait for him for two months at most, and if he still dares to waver at both ends by then, I will personally propose to the Kingdom of Jin. A hundred thousand troops were wiped out! "
After the internal officer left, Cao Yuanxin showed a wry smile, not because of An Dukang, but because of Zhang Zhao.
"Your Majesty, Zhang Erlang has made such great contributions now. How should he be rewarded? He is only twenty years old and is already the governor of Polu Prefecture. He owns Polu Prefecture, so we can't give him another piece of land, right? "
Li Shengtian suddenly became stunned. This was not because his uncle, the Emperor, was afraid, but because he was really beyond reward.
At the age of twenty, Zhang Zhao took over a state with tens of thousands of people. This was already outrageous. The Jin Kingdom of Khotan was only that big, and if he were to grant any more rewards, he would have to grant a whole country.
"Sir, the Balasagon Mountain is high and the roads are far away, so it's not as good as..."
Before Cao Yuanxin finished speaking, the chief of the internal affairs committee ran in again.
"Report to the Emperor that another eight hundred miles of urgent delivery from Balasagun has arrived. It is extremely urgent. When the messenger arrived, even three of the horses died."
Hearing what the chief of staff said, Li Shengtian and Cao Yuanxin quickly ran over to pick it up, with strange and helpless expressions on their faces.
This was because Zhang Zhao sent out the eight-hundred-mile express overnight, which resulted in the death of several horses. It was sent out just after he destroyed the Pugu Naluo family. There were not many words, but every piece of news was very nerve-wracking.
"The Yehus of Balasagon and the leaders of the Buddha, Jing, and Mani religions asked Duke Zhang to serve as Ju'er Khan and keep Balasagon forever.
He also mobilized five thousand troops to recapture the cities east of Talas. In the city, the Yehu servant Gu family gathered a crowd to rebel and was killed.
The ancient master Titexi, the abbot of the Burana Buddhist Temple, invited Shule to preside over the reconstruction of Dayun Temple, and asked Guo Xuanqing to stay as Balasagon's successor. "
Cao Yuanxin read the above content word for word, and a few drops of sweat could not help but drip from his forehead.
None of these things is trivial, especially the fact that Balashagon Zhuyehu and the leaders of the three religions recommended Zhang Zhao as Ju'er Khan. What did he want to do?
"Did Liu Niang just want to say that we should find a piece of land in Balashagon and give it to Zhang Erlang?" Li Shengtian asked Cao Yuanxin with a wry smile.
Cao Yuanxin also smiled bitterly and nodded, "I want to say this, but look, our nephew does not want a piece of land, but wants the entire Balashagon. Isn't he shouting that he wants to return to the east? ?What are you trying to do?"
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Li Shengtian slowly sat back on the chair, picked up the already cold chicken soup and took a sip.
"Wait! I estimate that the third messenger should arrive soon, maybe tomorrow morning.
If Zhang Erlang really wanted to establish himself as Balasa Gon Juer Khan, he would never tell you and me so clearly. I guess the next letter will explain all this! "
Zhang Zhao did indeed send the third eight-hundred-mile express, and he did want to explain clearly to Li Shengtian.
But before the explanation, after three pushes and three concessions, after Yan Jin led an army of 3,000 people back to Balashagon, Zhang Zhao was ready to officially accept the title of Ju'er Khan given to him by the Ye Hus of Balashagon.
Although such a title is of little use to Zhang Zhao who is about to return east, in the long run, it is very useful.
Because after he takes over the Central Plains, this Khan position and this title will become the basis for his strong claim to the Karakhan nomads of Balasagon's generation.
Amid the roaring mountains and tsunami, Zhang Zhao led everyone to hold a grand ceremony to offer sacrifices to heaven by the Chu River.
The title of Khan on the grassland generally comes from two sources. One is blood, and the other is winning the election through strength.
Zhang Zhao overthrew Ali Durav, the governor of Saman Postashkent, with one enemy against ten men, and also killed the whole family of Pugu Naluo. This is a manifestation of his strength.
So the reason he was able to get this recommendation today was because he was able to 'protect' the people of Balashagon.
After the heaven-sacrifice ceremony was completed, Zhang Zhao quickly began to arrange his own left-behind team.
Guo Xuanqing, the great and dignified figure who took refuge with Zhang Zhao, was not surprised to be appointed as the post-resident of Balasagon. After Zhang Zhaodong returned, Guo Xuanqing took charge of all affairs of Balasagon.
Below is the Council of Elders. The number of elder seats varies according to the size of the tribe. A total of fifty-five elder seats have been prepared.
Don't think that the parliament is very advanced and sounds like a modern thing. In fact, this model has existed for a long time.
Even in Saman Persia, they also had a state council called Diwan. The Turks and Uighurs also had a long-standing model of kings and nobles discussing affairs together, so this council of elders was easily accepted by everyone.
In addition to being in charge of all the tyrants and the Council of Elders, Balashagon also had the Shangshu in charge of military affairs, taxation, and household registration.
In the local area, seven governor's offices were set up: Talas, Baishuihu City, Julan City, Ashbulai City, Dongcheng, Helie City, and Yezhi City.
Among them, Talas City has the Western Governor's Office, which governs Baishuihu City and Julan City. Li Guoshou, Ayiguli's father-in-law and the fifth grandson of Li Sizhong, the king of Huaining County in the Tang Dynasty, is the Western Governor.
At this point, the political framework of Balasagon has been set up.
In addition, Zhang Zhao also received 60,000 acres of fertile land and a large amount of pasture in the former Suiyejuntun of the Tang Dynasty on both sides of the Chu River.
He planned to allocate 10,000 acres of fertile farmland and five pieces of pasture to Li Shengtian, and at the same time, he planned to bring Balashagon into Khotan's sphere of influence.
In this way, Ju'er Khan just means the literal meaning - the glorious Khan, rather than the kind of self-centered Khan.
Putting Ju'er Khan under the emperor of Jin Dynasty and dividing fertile fields and pastures among them, this was considered as giving Li Shengtian enough face.
This is also good for Zhang Zhao, because he wants to move the 3,000 tents and 20,000 people of Ashina Chu of the Bashmi tribe to Balashagon as his direct tribe.
This was the younger brother he had worked so hard to recruit, and he had promised to give him a place to settle down, and now he has finally broken his promise.
After Ashina Sili was settled, Zhang Zhao could rest assured that his son Ashina Sili's three hundred Qingqi would be at his side for use.
