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When Yunchu was receiving education at school, the professor once said something he thought was a joke. Since he became an official in Datang to a certain level, he began to re-examine the professor's words.

"Small politics belong to the government but not to the people, great politics belong to the people but not to the government"

This sentence means that a person with less political achievements thinks about issues from the court rather than the people, and a person with a greater political achievement thinks from the people rather than the court.

This sentence is meaningful to those who have become officials to a certain extent.

Yunchu is actually on this watershed right now.

When he first became an official, Yunchu's vision was always on the court. Even though he did a lot of things in Wannian County, his ultimate goal was to attract the attention of the emperor and even the ministers.

It was different later on. After securing his position, he basically did half of the affairs for the people and half for the court.

Now, going to the Western Regions is entirely for the development of Chang'an City, or it can be said that it is purely for the common people.

The Tang Dynasty was the most glorious era of Chang'an City, but unfortunately this glory eventually became a swan song.

As for the decline of Chang'an, Genmiao began when Li Zhi raised Luoyang's status...

The most important reason why Chang'an is prosperous is that it is connected to the Western Regions. Merchants from all over the world come here one after another, which makes Chang'an different from previous years.

The potential of Guanzhong has been basically exhausted to supply the huge city of Chang'an. Since the water in the lake in Guanzhong is not enough to support Chang'an, Yunchu wanted to widen the commercial river running from the Western Regions to Chang'an.

In order not to let Chang'an gradually decline due to the lack of a lot of capital resources after the emperor took all the civil and military officials to Luoyang.

For this reason, he is willing to take the power that Chang'an City can control to formally clean up all obstacles that are not conducive to trade from the Western Regions to Chang'an Road.

So, along the way, there will be a bloody situation.

"The two hundred and five are in a hurry..." After reading Yunchu's memorial, Li Zhi put it aside lightly, and said to Wu Mei who was sitting by the stream and bathing her feet.

Wu Mei glanced at the memorial and said, "The city of gods is about to be built, and the relocation of the imperial court is imperative. Yunchu's dream will eventually be turned into ashes. He is dying."

Li Zhi let go of the giant bear's round ears, picked up the memorial and read it again and said, "It's quite unique. He swept the bandits along the way, and he should have gained a lot. However, the Marquis of Guanzhong wanted to strengthen Chang'an City by clearing the bandits and gaining money. Disrespectful to the court"

Wu Mei smiled and said, "Your Majesty doesn't doubt his ability?"

Li Zhi laughed loudly and said, "I don't think it will be difficult for an invincible wise general and a mighty general to strangle a group of horse thieves, bandits, and robbers on the Liaodong battlefield."

"He will also organize an unprecedentedly large caravan to go to the Western Regions to do business, and continue to promote the wealth and prosperity of Chang'an City. He is preparing to use Chang'an City to compete with the gods, and he is quite disrespectful."

Li Zhi looked at Wu Mei in puzzlement and said, "Chang'an City belongs to me, and so does the city of gods. Where does your disrespect come from?"

Wu Mei smiled and said, "If gods really can't compare to Chang'an..." …

Li Zhi waved his hands and said, "I don't care! The more he does such things, the more stable my country will be."

Wu Mei was speechless for a moment and said, "The concubine always feels that this matter is not as simple as he said."

Li Zhi sneered and said, "You mean about Prince Beluz? Do you think I don't know?"

Wu Mei looked at Li Zhi and sighed, "Your Majesty is wise and innocent."

Li Zhi handed Yunchu's memorabilia to Wu Mei and said, "Yes."

Wu Mei asked in surprise, "Are you sure? Are you sure? Your Majesty has allowed Pei Xingjian to be the Protector of Anxi?"

Li Zhidao, "Pei Xingjian has had a hard time recently. I sympathize with him and allow him to leave the Ministry of Officials and move to be the Governor of Anxi."

"Hasn't Your Majesty already decided to send Xue Rengui to be the Protector of Anxi?"

"Xue Rengui went to Beiting Protectorate to take office"

Hearing what the emperor said, Wu Mei's originally calm face changed.

He got serious, pulled his snow-white feet out of the stream, quietly put on his socks and put on his shoes.

Then he said to Li Zhi, "Yun Chu went to the Western Regions, Pei Xingjian went to Anxi, Xue Rengui went to Beiting, Guo Daifeng went to Andong, and now..."

Li Zhi said impatiently, "Send all the people who should be sent out, so that it will appear that there is no one around me, so that those disorderly officials and thieves can take advantage of the opportunity to mobilize."

Wu Mei hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, don't fight!"

Li Zhi looked down at Wu Mei and said, "They're gone, isn't there a queen by my side?"

Wu Mei suddenly raised her head and looked at the emperor in astonishment, "How is this possible, it's too dangerous"

Li Zhi tucked his hands into the wide sleeves of his robe, looked at the mountains and said, "I am the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, to deal with a criminal, it is enough to send a jailer, this is the way of an emperor."

Wu Mei looked at the emperor noncommittally. For the first time, she felt that the emperor might be taking things too seriously. She didn't believe that the Changsun family would surrender, and she didn't think that the nobles of Guan Long would stand by and watch the Changsun family's affairs.

However, at this moment, the emperor looked very confident.

When Yunchu received the emperor's decree, it was already five days later.

The emperor allowed the two counties of Wannian Chang'an to organize local people to go out of Yumen Pass to do business with the states in the far west, and gave Yunchu a gold medal that he could do things cheaply after leaving Yumen Pass.

With this golden plaque, Yunchu can act according to his own ideas outside Yumen Pass.

However, as a restriction, five people from Baiqisi must join the caravan going west, and they must also serve as personal guards for Yunchu and Wenrou.

These things were all expected. The emperor did not let Baiqisi be the nominal leader of the caravan, which was already a rare trust and favor for Yunchu.

When Baiqisi captain Zhang Donghai saw Yunchu, he was so ashamed that he couldn't even lift his head.

However, Yun Chu acted very indifferent, just feeling sorry for Zhang Donghai, it is really not a good thing that he turned into a lieutenant of Baiqisi after a good job as a captain.

From the point of view of the future of the two, as long as there is no rebellious heart, the captain of Zhechong, who is in command of a local army, is definitely a career with a bright future. Many generals in the Tang Dynasty, the great generals came out of the position of Captain Zhechong . …

As long as he takes a step further in the position of Captain Zhechong, he will be the official general of the Sixteen Guards of the Tang Dynasty. If he does a good job in the position of general, he will be able to rank among the top leaders of the Tang military in the future.

The school lieutenant of Baiqisi is very powerful, far surpassing the captain of Zhechong, he can be regarded as the most trusted person of the emperor, but in the eyes of all officials, these people are just royal servants, eagle dogs, and they are incompatible with them.

No matter how rich and powerful they are, they are not as good as official officials like them.

It was a good thing for Yunchu that the five Baiqi Division captains who came were led by Zhang Donghai.

"It's a pity that Wang Defa didn't come. If he came, our team would be complete."

Yun Chu smiled and threw Zhang Donghai a bottle of wine.

When Zhang Donghai saw Yunchu treated him as usual, he said in shame, "It was Zhang Donghai's honor to fight side by side with the general in Liaodong."

Yun Chu took a sip of wine and said, "In Liaodong, everything went well for us, and it's due to your good words in front of His Majesty. Since you are doing this job, you naturally have the obligation to keep it secret. Why do you feel embarrassed? There is no need for this." .

Speaking of which, we are ministers in the same palace, but the division of labor is a little different.

It's better if you come, we will still form an army this time, and I have also applied for a lot of gunpowder. Before we leave, you must form these mobs into a well-disciplined army.

Just as His Majesty allowed me to do things cheaply when I left Yumen Pass, you can also do things cheaply when you are training the army."

Zhang Donghai listened to Yunchu's arrangement, and his heart, which was a little ashamed, was really at ease. The general's trust in him remained the same as before, and he also entrusted him with the important task of organizing and training the army. Obviously, after leaving the fortress, His main task is still to

lead the army.

Yun Chu was very busy, so he arranged Zhang Donghai's errands in a few words, and then began to discuss the types of goods accompanying the army with Master Wan.

In view of Yunchu's understanding of people from the Western Regions, the caravan will only bring a small amount of silk, paper, and a small amount of half-porcelain with three-color glazes produced in the Tang Dynasty when going out this time.

These good things are used when exchanging with local kings and patriarchs in the Western Regions.

When Yunchu went to the Western Regions this time, he mainly developed the vast market of ordinary herdsmen, a huge market that no one had ever explored.

Silk, paper, books, brushes, and porcelain have nothing to do with ordinary herdsmen.

What they need are iron pots, teapots, milk pots, wine pots, knives for eating meat, scissors for shearing sheep, awls for sewing cowhide and sheepskin, needles and threads, iron sticks for fixing tents, axes, saws, and The paint painted on the dead is to drink tea that can help them increase their vitamins.

In the pastoral areas of the Western Regions, tea is never used to relieve tiredness, because most herdsmen have no need to relieve tiredness at all. Even if they herd sheep, they don't have many opportunities to eat beef and mutton throughout the year.

Just like silkworm farmers can't afford silk.

After the people of Wannian County and Chang'an County began to mobilize, more people followed the county officials to the Western Regions to make money.

Based on the previous precedent of making a fortune in Liaodong by following the county lord, in just three days, Yunchu received a list of tens of thousands of people.

Zuo Wuwei's army was only 1 people, Yun Chu naturally couldn't take such a large army to the Western Regions, otherwise, this would not be doing business, but going to the Western Regions to carry out an organized and purposeful collective robbery.

3000 people, this is a number calculated by Yunchu, Wenrou, and Di Renjie after careful measurement. Adding in the 1000 people traveling with the caravan, it is a good choice to control the number of people going out to around 4000.

As the commander of the training army, Zhang Donghai completed the training of 3000 people from among tens of thousands of people. He was shocked to find that in front of his eyes, there appeared a majestic army with excellent equipment and no need for training at all.

Chapter 1, let's look at the small chapter.