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Although several brothers and nephews of Dengli Khan were unwilling to rescue the Khan trapped in the Tang Dynasty, under the insistence of Prime Minister Dunmohe, the Huihe court finally decided to redeem Dengli Khan for the overall situation.

The Tang Dynasty was led by Right Prime Minister Wei Jiansu to negotiate with Prime Minister Dunmohe. There was not much bargaining in this negotiation. The Huihe agreed to redeem the Huihe army at a total price of 10 million sheep regardless of how many people were left in Feihuxing.

This included not only the prisoners of war in Feihuxing, but also the 1,000 prisoners of war captured by the Tang army in Yi County.

Of course, the ransom did not include weapons and war horses. Weapons and war horses must be left behind. The two sides agreed to hand over and release people in Qingsai Gorge, Yunzhong County.

The Tang Dynasty got the inside, and gave the other side face. The two sides agreed to reach an agreement in their own way. The Tang Dynasty signed a redemption agreement. The first name was that the other side was defeated and the trapped remnants were redeemed by ransom.

The Uighurs signed a ceasefire agreement, which made it clear that the Uighurs were not prisoners of war, but that the two sides had reached an agreement for the Uighurs to return to the grasslands. It was also mentioned in the text that the Uighurs paid 10 million sheep as war compensation for the invasion of the Tang Dynasty by the Uighurs.

Li Ye signed the ceasefire agreement on behalf of the Tang Dynasty.

Prime Minister Dunmohe did not stay in Chang'an. He immediately ordered General Gu Du to return to Feihu Pass, and he himself rushed to Yunzhong.

Considering that autumn had arrived and they did not have much time to travel back and forth, the Uighurs had made preparations in advance. They brought 12 million sheep and 100,000 horses, and would deliver the sheep to the Tang Dynasty in advance, and they would directly take the prisoners away.

Ten days later, Xi Wanli led 30,000 cavalrymen to accompany the Tang Dynasty's handover envoy Duan Xueshi and the Uighur general Gu Du to the west exit of Feihu Pass, where there were 30,000 troops led by Nan Jiyun.

Guduo led a dozen of his men into Feihu Pass and soon arrived at Feihu County.

Dengli Khan had been looking forward to Guduo for a long time, and finally he came.

"Khan, several princes in Huihe did not agree to rescue, but Prime Minister Dunmohe insisted on rescue, and other tribes also asked for rescue, so the opponents had no choice but to agree."

Dengli Khan gritted his teeth and said, "I knew these bastards wanted me to die in the Tang Dynasty!"

"Prime Minister Dunmohe has finished negotiations with the Tang army and paid 10 million sheep to redeem the Huihe army."

"What is the name of redemption?"

Dengli Khan did not care how many sheep he paid, but he cared about the name of redemption. If it was in the name of prisoners of war, then he would not be able to continue to be the Khan. No Huihe would accept a prisoner of war to continue to be the Khan.

Guduo handed the agreement to Dengli Khan, who read it carefully, not letting go of every word. He breathed a sigh of relief. It was a ceasefire agreement and he did not become a prisoner of war.

"When can we leave?"

"We can leave now, but Khan had better take a look at the copy, there are conditions on it."

Dengli Khan took the copy and looked at it carefully, and frowned immediately, "How can we ensure the safety of the army if we can't take away weapons and horses?"

Guduo smiled bitterly: "Khan, the other party said very clearly that they just want a ransom. If they want to kill us, it will be easy. They just need to let a batch of sick mules and horses in, and all our horses will die within ten days. The meat can't be preserved and will rot quickly. We will have no food. This trick is very vicious, and fortunately they didn't use it.

And since their regent has signed the agreement, he will not go back on his word again. Khan, don't worry!"

Dengli Khan was just pretending to be hypocritical. In fact, he was more anxious than anyone else to leave this damn canyon. He would accept it if he was asked to take off his clothes and leave.

Besides, he knew better than anyone that they had no choice at all.

An hour later, 55,000 Huihe soldiers laid down their weapons, bid farewell to their horses, and marched in formation toward the valley entrance to the west. 60,000 Tang soldiers watched the Huihe soldiers passing by one by one.

Each of them took a bag of five kilograms of dry food and a water gourd, and marched in formation toward Yanmen Pass.

Under the escort of the Tang army, 55,000 Huihe soldiers crossed Yanmen Pass, and Yunzhou was opposite. There was no resistance or resistance along the way. All Huihe soldiers were eager to return home. It would be winter in two months, and every soldier was worried about the situation at home.

Including Dengli Khan and several captains, they were slightly treated with preferential treatment. Each of them had a horse and more food than the soldiers.

Four days later, the team arrived at Qingsai Valley. At this time, the Tang army had delivered 10 million sheep at the entrance of Zihe Valley two days ago. 10,000 Tang cavalry drove the endless flock of sheep to Fengzhou.

This batch of sheep worth tens of millions of guan will eventually be transported to various parts of the Tang Dynasty by water, and the money obtained will be used as war dividends, half of which will go to the court's left treasury and the other half to Li Ye's inner treasury.

55,000 Huihe soldiers passed through Qingsai Valley and entered the grassland. Only then did tens of thousands of Huihe soldiers seem to have returned home, and their whole body and mind relaxed, cheering and running towards the distant camp.

Prime Minister Dunmohe led more than 10,000 Huihe soldiers to set up a camp dozens of miles away. They welcomed the released Huihe soldiers into the camp. After three days of rest, the army returned to the grassland in a mighty manner.

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In the past few days, there has been a trend of returning farmland in the court. In the early stage, it was the Guanzhong gentry, Wei family, Du family, Su family, Liu family, Yang family, etc., and in the later stage, it was basically the Guanlong families. Almost every day, they reported to the Ministry of Households and gave up the manor in Guanzhong.

The first to withdraw land was the Dugu family, which was also one of the top landlords in the Tang Dynasty. They withdrew eight manors in Guanzhong, about 200,000 acres. According to the court policy, there were two ways: redemption and exchange. The Dugu family chose exchange.

Next came the Changsun family and the Dou family, who also all withdrew from the Guanzhong manor, and then the Yuan family, who withdrew from five manors, and then the Yu family, the Houmochen family, the Doulu family, and so on followed suit.

Some withdrew from one manor, and some withdrew from two or three manors. Within ten days, all the Guanlong families withdrew from more than 100 manors and millions of acres of land. All of these families chose to exchange, and none of them chose to redeem.

The reason is also very simple. The court does not allow the addition of manors of more than 500 acres, that is, it no longer allows land annexation. It is an exception for exchanging manors. In this case, everyone naturally wants to keep the manor.

There is also a deeper reason, which is to exchange overseas islands.

All families have received various plans from the court to exchange land, among which exchanging islands at ten times is the last option.

However, most families ignored this option, but there is no impenetrable wall in the world, especially among the Guanlong nobles, who are intermarried and have all kinds of intricate relationships.

Yuan Xiao, the grandson of Yuan Yuan, Duke of Bing, married the daughter of the Dou family. Yuan Xiao is currently the governor of Longzhou. He happened to be reporting to the court these days, and Yuan Xiao got a shocking news from his wife.

The news really shocked Yuan Yuan. The Dou family actually exchanged the island. These family heads are all thousand-year-old foxes. Of course, he knew that the Dou family would not be kicked in the head by a donkey and run to exchange the island.

The Dou family must have followed the Dugu family and the Changsun family. In other words, the Dugu family and the Changsun family are very likely to have exchanged the island. What are they doing? They actually hid it from him.

"Grandfather, maybe the Dou family wants to do overseas business. They had this idea before."

"You think too simply. What do you need islands for overseas business? And these are deserted islands. It is impossible for the Dou family to exchange a deserted island alone. I guess the Dugu family and the eldest grandson also exchanged."

Yuan Xiao suddenly remembered something and said quickly: "My grandson had a party with a few old friends yesterday. The eldest grandson was also there. We mentioned the exchange of land. The eldest grandson said that their family not only handed over the land in Guanzhong, but also the manors in Hedong and Zhongyuan. I don't know why?"

Yuan Yuan nodded slowly and said: "Sure enough, as I expected, there must be a big story here. The Dugu family and the eldest grandson family must be hiding something from me!"

"Why don't you go and ask them, grandpa!"

Yuan Yuan thought so too. He took out a visiting card and handed it to his grandson, "Give it to Dou Xian for me. I will visit him tonight!"