Tibet

Li Chenghua brought 3,000 camels, all loaded with dry food, drinking water and bags.

1,000 soldiers rode horses, and Li Chenghua transferred the dry food and drinking water to the war horses.

3,000 camels were used to transport gold coins, and one camel could carry five bags of gold coins.

After two days of hard work, this huge gold prospecting team finally set off and headed directly to Suiye City.

The gold coins in the mine cave disappeared completely. A strong earthquake occurred hundreds of years later, and the mine cave collapsed. This gold cave completely disappeared in the long river of history.

At the same time when Li Chenghua found the gold cave of the Saint Girl Society, a cavalry team of 3,000 people arrived in Xianhai County, located in the Yaosha River Delta.

The total population of Xianhai County is 48,000 people, and the ethnic composition is relatively complex. Sogdians account for half of the population, and the other half come from Western countries, including Arabs, Persians, Khazars, Qin people, Jews, and even merchants from the Mediterranean. In addition, there are some ethnic groups from the Caucasus Mountains. From the perspective of race, they are basically white people.

But no matter where the county residents came from, they all became citizens of the Tang Dynasty more than a decade ago.

This county, which was once the westernmost county of the Tang Dynasty, is now controlled by the Ambor family.

Ambor has been the prime minister of Kangguo for 20 years and has always controlled the economic and financial power of Kangguo. King Constantine of Kangge has long wanted to deal with him, but Ambor has deep connections in the army, which makes Constantine afraid to act rashly.

When the Tang army arrived this time, Constantine used the power of the Tang army to control Samarkand and decisively cleaned up the thirteen trusted generals that Ambor had placed in the army.

As the thirteen generals in the army were dismissed, Ambor realized that something was wrong and left Samarkand overnight and fled to his fiefdom, Aral City, which is Aral County.

His family is all in Aral City, including his sons, nephews and several brothers, as well as his dozen wives.

The Ambor family has a thousand troops, tightly controls tens of thousands of people in Aral City, and also cruelly exploits them.

The 3,000 troops of the Tang army consisted of 1,000 Hexi troops and 2,000 Anxi troops. The main general was Liu Taihe, a native of Zhangye. He was a lieutenant of Xianhai County and participated in the battle to capture Xianhai County. Now he has been promoted to Tiger General.

He led his army to recapture Xianhai County again.

Looking at this familiar triangular county town, Liu Taihe was filled with mixed feelings. More than ten years had passed, and he once again came to the most distant county town in the Tang Dynasty.

He will serve as the first governor of Xianhai and lead 3,000 troops to station in Xianhai County for five years.

Three thousand cavalrymen approached the city, and the defenders on the top of the city were in chaos, desperately ringing the alarm bell.

"Dang! Dang! Dang!"

Liu Taihe was full of contempt. This big bell was left by them back then, and there was also a city gate. It had not been replaced for more than ten years.

Liu Taihe looked at the dilapidated city gate. It was very old back then. Now it is not only old, but also dilapidated, and the gate is full of cracks.

"Pass my order, two hundred cavalrymen, go forward and blow up the city gate with explosive arrows!"

Immediately, two hundred cavalrymen rushed up, drawing their bows and arrows together, and a captain shouted, "Shoot!"

Two hundred explosive arrows were shot out at the same time, hitting the city gate densely, "Bang! Bang! Bang!" There was a burst of explosions, and the smoke was filled.

The soldiers on the city were frightened and squatted down, holding their heads. The dense explosions made them extremely terrified.

When the smoke dissipated, the dilapidated gates that had been running were almost gone, with broken wood all over the ground, and only a little remnant of the two gates remained on the side.

Liu Taihe waved his sword, "Kill into the city!"

Three thousand cavalrymen shouted in unison, waving their spears and swords and killing into the city.

Just as it was easy to capture the city, it was also easy for the Tang army to occupy Xianhai City. One thousand soldiers knelt down and surrendered. This time the Tang army did not massacre them and accepted the soldiers' surrender.

Then a thousand soldiers surrounded the An Mansion, and soon, Amber led the entire family to surrender.

The Tang army showed no mercy, but killed all the men in their family, leaving no one alive, and confiscated all the family wealth.

At first, the people in the city were terrified and hid at home. As the red dragon flag of the Tang Dynasty rose on the top of the city, the people in the city finally recognized this army. The Tang army that had ruled the city for two years was the only army that exempted them from taxes, leaving a deep impression on all the people.

Now, this army is back again, and the whole city is jubilant. People are very excited and come out of their homes, singing and dancing, beating gongs and drums to welcome the return of the Tang army.

The Dudufu and the County Yamen were immediately established in the city. The Dudufu was not responsible for government affairs, but only for defense. The County Yamen was responsible for managing government affairs, and Zheng Wenqing, a military officer of the Trade Bureau of the Anxi Dudufu, was appointed as the county magistrate.

Zheng Wenqing was from Xianyang, Jingzhao. He studied Sogdian language for four years in the Imperial Academy. After graduating from the Imperial Academy, he was assigned by the court to the Trade Office of Anxi Governor's Office as a military officer, responsible for trade between Anxi Governor's Office and Western countries.

Zheng Wenqing was promoted to the magistrate of the westernmost county of the Tang Dynasty.

On the first day of Zheng Wenqing's appointment as the county magistrate, he ordered more than a dozen Sogdian yamen runners to post "A letter from His Majesty the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty to the people in the city" all over the county.

The letter was written in Chinese and Sogdian, with little content, and the people of the county only remembered the last sentence.

"The whole city, whether it is the people or the merchants, will be exempted from taxes for five years! '

The people of the city were jubilant again.

This is a new trick. From ancient times to the present, from home to abroad, as long as this trick is used, people's hearts will all be attached, without exception.

The common people are very simple and realistic. It is useless to talk about big principles. Giving real benefits is the truth.

Chang'an.

The court was very lively these days. The news of the Tang army's victory in the Western Expedition reached Chang'an. The people in the city were jubilant, beating gongs and drums to celebrate the Tang army's re-control of Hezhong. After all, this was a sign of the Tang Dynasty's prosperity. Which Tang people didn't want their dynasty to be strong again?

As the saying goes, laymen watch the excitement, while experts watch the doorway. The court officials were excited because the Tang Dynasty annexed Bukhara and controlled the Shi Kingdom.

These two countries produce gold and silver respectively. Controlling these two countries means that the output of gold and silver in the Tang Dynasty will increase greatly.

In the Pinxue Courtyard of Danfeng Restaurant, Wei Jiansu, the right prime minister, Zhang Li, the left prime minister, and Xiao Hua, the Minister of Revenue, were having lunch together. They discussed finance and currency this morning until noon, and then came to eat together.

Of course, it was the AA system, everyone ate their own and kept their own accounts in the end, but they were prime ministers, and they had a lunch allowance of 30 guan per day. The amount was 30 guan, and as long as it did not exceed 30 guan, they could record official expenses.

They usually eat a set meal of more than ten strings of coins, and then drink tea worth ten strings of coins. The tea they drink is not expensive, but the water is expensive. It is mountain spring water taken from Zhongnan Mountain every morning.

It sounds like a luxury, but for an empire, this luxury is really nothing?

"Prime Minister Wei, what is the attitude of the emperor?" Xiao Hua asked tentatively.

"Of course the emperor supports it. As long as there are enough reserves and mineral resources, I think it can be implemented. It is better than paper money!"

Speaking of paper money, the three of them showed a bitter smile on their faces. Last winter, the emperor wanted to issue paper money. With one million taels of gold as collateral, he issued four types of paper money: one hundred coins, five hundred coins, one string of coins and ten strings of coins.

As a result, all the civil and military officials in the city strongly opposed it, and they all thought that this was more cruel than the big money back then. The big money was used as ten coins, at least it was still copper. This time, paper was used. How ridiculous.

Of course, it was not the opposition of the ministers that finally made the emperor cancel the idea, but the anti-counterfeiting of paper money was not up to standard. Paper money is very easy to counterfeit. This is not a case of counterfeiting of one or two counter tickets. Fake paper money will appear everywhere in the world and flood into the market. It is impossible to check it out. In the end, it will cause chaos and no one will accept paper money.

Zhang Li thought for a while and said, "Let's talk to the emperor again this afternoon! I suggest that we put the big framework up first, and then fill in the content in detail. After half a year of preparation, it can basically be implemented."

Wei Jiansu nodded, "Zhang Xiangguo is right, put the big framework up first!"

At this time, Xiao Hua whispered, "I just heard a piece of news, I don't know whether it is true or not, Dugu Shangshu is going to resign."

Wei Jiansu raised his eyebrows, "Really?"

Xiao Hua smiled bitterly, "I can't be sure!"

Recently, it has been reported that Pei Zunqing is going to resign, and now Dugu Lie is also going to resign. Is the emperor going to make a big move?

Zhang Li was silent for a moment and said, "I guess the emperor will talk to us about this in the afternoon!"