All this turned out to be the arrangement of Emperor Zhao Zhi.

In the Second Longyou War, both sides actually suffered heavy casualties, and the same was true for Li Xun. He had gathered nearly 50,000 troops. After several battles, only 10,000 troops were left, plus Liu Zhan's 8,000 combat troops.

The very weak bandits number less than 20,000.

Li Xun wrote two memorials, one was a tribute memorial, and the other was a detailed description of the drastic changes in the Western Regions. A unified Western Region was definitely a big threat to the west of Longyou, so

In the memorial, Li Xun asked Zhao Zhi for support and help.

Although the war was won, the imperial court's finances deteriorated further. It can be seen from the rewards awarded this time that the imperial court gave many people official positions, but the financial rewards were very few.

Li Xun didn't have much hope at first, so Zhao Zhi gave him whatever he wanted, and if he couldn't, he had to forget it. However, he never expected that Zhao Zhi not only gave help, but also provided strong support and help.

The army of 50,000 people was completely given to Li Xun. Of course, the military pay and various supplies were arranged by Li Xun himself, and the court was not responsible for any supplies. Judging from the current situation in the west of Longyou, the army of 50,000 people

, Li Xun couldn't support him at all, and Zhao Zhi's letter to him made it very clear that he would select 10,000 to 20,000 for the defense of the western part of Longyou.

Wang Dezhao would not refuse a toast to anyone. He was famous in Anbei as someone who would never get drunk after a thousand cups.

The banquet lasted for three full hours, and it finally came to an end when most people were drunk.

From beginning to end, Wang Dezhao was very low-key and quiet, speaking very little, while the generals of Li Xun's group were very enthusiastic and felt very welcome and happy for Wang Dezhao's arrival.

Li Xun was helped out of the hall by Hou Quan and entered the inner courtyard. Li Xun, who was still drunk just now, immediately stood up straight, his eyes were cold and his expression was indifferent, and he did not look like he was drunk at all.

Li Xun had something to do tonight and couldn't get drunk, but Wang Dezhao didn't show a certain degree of sincerity when he arrived for the first time. It was a bit bad. Wang Dezhao was Ma Wu's old general and had followed Ma Wu for many years.

Wang Dezhao, who is 30 and 2 years old, was born in poverty. He joined the army at the age of seventeen. Because of his heroic appearance and extraordinary martial arts skills, he was favored by Ma Wu and stayed with him as a soldier. For fifteen years, he followed Ma Wu in east and west expeditions and achieved military exploits.

He was promoted to general three years ago and followed Ma Wu to serve in Anbei.

The reason why Li Xun, including Shan Qiu and others, were very enthusiastic about Wang Dezhao was not because of Wang Dezhao's official position. In fact, Shan Qiu, Yuan He and others had higher official positions than him, and they actually served as governor of a state. Wang Dezhao and Shan Qiu

Qiu, Yuanhe and others had known each other before. Although they didn't have much contact with each other, they all came from a low background and worked their way up through their own efforts. Among the many generals in the Jin Dynasty, Wang Dezhao had a certain reputation. He fought in

Brave and brave, every time Ma Wu went on an expedition, he always took Wang Dezhao as the vanguard and would win every battle. Therefore, Li Xun and others looked at Wang Dezhao not entirely because of his official position and military power, but more as a person.

"It's none of your business, go and rest."

"Yes, Marshal."

Hou Quan clasped his fists and left, while Li Xun opened the door to the study and walked in. Fan Zhongyun and Sima Tu were sitting inside drinking tea.

Seeing Li Xun, Fan Zhongyun said softly: "I just heard Daxiong say that you drank a lot, but now it seems like it's nothing."

Sima Tu smiled and said: "My lord, if you don't want to get drunk, there are many ways."

Li Xun smiled and said nothing. He drank three jars of wine tonight. Except for the first jar, the rest were all water. Although his drinking capacity cannot be compared with Daxiong, Shanqiu and others, but this

Ordering wine is nothing.

Li Xun sat down, took a sip of tea, then looked at Fan Zhongyun and Sima Tu, and said quietly: "You also read the letter the emperor gave me, and asked me to select 20,000 people to keep."

Having said this, Li Xun paused, and then sighed softly: "These 50,000 people are all elites. To be honest, I want to stay all of them."

Sima Tu chuckled and said, "Master, please don't be too greedy. We can't support all 50,000 people if we stay, and the resistance is too great. If we really do it, we might get into a lot of trouble."

Li Xun waved his hand: "I just thought about it and naturally knew that this was impossible."

The two chatted for a while. When Li Xun saw that Fan Zhongyun had been deep in thought, he couldn't help but asked strangely: "Old Fan, it was you who asked me not to drink too much at night. I have something to discuss. I'm here, why don't you say anything?"

Fan Zhongyun looked at Li Xun and said quietly: "I was thinking about things in the Western Regions, and I got a little distracted."

Li Xun said in confusion: "The war between the Western Regions and Dashi has just ended. Although we won the victory, our losses were also very large. I'm afraid nothing will happen in a short time. We have nothing to worry about."

Fan Zhongyun smiled lightly and said: "They can't do anything wrong, what about us?"

Li Xun was stunned when he heard this, not understanding the meaning of Fan Zhongyun's words.

Sima Tu was shocked and said loudly: "Brother Fan, do you want to take the initiative and catch him off guard?"

Only then did Li Xun understand what Fan Zhongyun meant. He pondered for a while, frowned and said: "The Western Regions are obviously on guard against us. After the war with Dashi, they immediately increased the military strength of Xizhou. Today, Xizhou has nearly 30,000 Western Regions troops.

, if we really want to fight, I’m afraid we won’t be able to get any big advantage.”

"Brother Fan may have some plans?"

Sima Tu deeply understood Fan Zhongyun's character. He must have a certain degree of confidence, otherwise he would never say this easily.

Hearing what Sima Tu said, Li Xun's eyes immediately looked at Fan Zhongyun.

Fan Zhongyun nodded, took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Li Xun. Li Xun opened the letter and read it, and Sima Tu also came closer to read it.

"Is this letter written by Wang Suyi?"

When Li Xun saw the signature of the letter, he couldn't help but look at Fan Zhongyun with a strange expression. Li Xun had met Wang Suyi several times, but it was only business dealings, and there was not much communication between them.

Fan Zhongyun said softly: "Read the letter before talking."

Li Xun said no more and lowered his head to read the contents of the letter carefully.

There are also many Han people in the Western Regions. There are thirty-six countries in the Western Regions. As far as foreigners are concerned, some have very low social status and some have pretty good social status. However, in most of the Western Regions countries, the social status of foreigners is still the same.

Very low. In the territory of Zhongchou Kingdom, there is a powerful bandit force with more than 10,000 people. Most of them are Han people. The leader is called Chen Tu. In fact, these have nothing to do with Wang Suyi. Wang Suyi's father was a bandit in his early years.

Living in Longyou, he fled to the Western Regions due to war and famine, started with a small business, and eventually grew bigger and bigger. After Wang Suyi took over the family business, after more than ten years of development, he had become the leading rich man in Zhongchou.
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