Chapter 195 (1/2)

Loulan is not an important town. At least in Li Hong's mind, Loulan's role is far less important than that of Anxi's four towns. However, all the materials of the Tang Dynasty after Yumen pass from the central plains were transported to Loulan, and then Li Hong distributed them from here and then transported to various places.

Loulan and Li Hong never thought about investing a cent, because in his opinion, even a copper investment will be a waste in the end. After all, the city will disappear sooner or later, and it is not human power that can change it.

Although he has tried his best to protect Loulan City, and even let the people protect the trees and vegetation such as Populus euphratica and Haloxylon ammodendron, the diversion of the Peacock River is still happening unconsciously.

Naturally, Li Hong couldn't pay attention to this. Instead, he asked Yu Wenrong and Liang Xiaoren, including Lou Yu, to find out after they came to Loulan for a short time. From then on, Li Hong gave up Loulan completely.

Apart from Wang Bo, the four heroes of the early Tang Dynasty were sent to four towns in Anxi by Li Hong. With the efforts of the first batch of students from Chongwen library who finished their studies, Hanyu Pinyin has now begun to spread in Anxi and has a great potential for popularization.

Li Hong's ultimate goal, of course, is to let Chinese characters and Tibetan characters appear among the people of Tubo, and even replace the Tibetan language.

Li Hong's idea naturally depends on the fact that the development of Tibetan characters began only a few decades ago. With the Chinese characters of the Tang Dynasty supplemented by more easily learned Pinyin, it is likely that the Tibetan language will be replaced by time.

Pei Xingjian appeared in Loulan city in a hurry. Sweating on his forehead, he looked anxious and flustered. Even the token at the gate of the city was shown in a hurry. Waiting for the soldiers who were unable to check it out, he ran into Loulan city on fire.

In the governor's house, the summer solstice is in a hurry to find ice. It is summer now. The temperature here is too hot to breathe during the day.

Seeing Pei Xingjian's robe front and back, because of the rush, it had been wet and tightly adhered to his body. He said hello in a hurry and went to look for ice.

After Pei Xingjian asked Li Hong's residence clearly, he did not care about the etiquette, so he went to the house behind him in a hurry.

Huameng and mang seed were accompanying Li Hong at this time, and standing in front of him was Dou Yi, a rich merchant in Chang'an City, who had once helped Li Hong and his son out of the siege in Taiyi city.

”Your Highness, the goods have been sold and escorted until they enter their territory.”

When Pei Xingjian arrived with him, he heard Dou Yi reporting the resale of goods to Li Hong. Hearing these, I can't help but sigh.

”Dadaohu...” Pei Xingjian looked at Li Hongcheng and ignored him. He stood for about a cup of tea. Li Hong always regarded him as an invisible person.

But no matter how anxious he was, Li Hong refused to give him a chance to talk. After discussing business with Dou Yi, Li Hong began to nag about whether Dou Yi had married another concubine.

However, no matter how Dou Yi explained it, it was his son's concubine, not her own. Li Hong seemed to be unable to hear her. She was still asking about the eight trigrams. She was almost about to start digging the graves of her ancestors and looking for her roots.

”Your Highness...” Pei Xingjian had no choice but to accentuate his tone and exclaimed helplessly.

He knew why his royal highness did not want to see him since the summer of this year, but the imperial edict is hard to violate. As a minister, he has to do his duty as a minister.

”What are you doing again?” Li Hongbai his one eye, do not want to pay attention to him, a face hate his expression, asked.

”Your Highness, this is your Majesty's edict. You are ordered to leave for Chang'an immediately.” Pei Xingjian took out two edicts. One of them was shown to Li Hong when he came to Loulan a month ago. However, the prince didn't take it seriously and didn't leave to go back.

Today, it still depends on the western regions and Loulan City, which is harmful to other city states outside Anxi capital, such as Baishi, Tubo, Bulu, and tuhuoluo.

Two days ago, he received the second imperial edict from his majesty and ordered him to immediately urge his royal highness Li Hong to return to Chang'an. Therefore, he had to rush to Loulan in the hot weather again and ask his royal highness to return to Chang'an.

Li Hong looked indifferent and looked at Pei Xingjian and said lazily, ”are you impatient with me in Loulan? I'm not in the way of you. Or do you think that Anxi's four towns are now stable, so I'll go back quickly? ”

”Your Highness, how dare I drive you to leave here? This This Isn't this the decree of your majesty? I would like you to stay here. ” Pei Xingjian had to say something against his will. If it wasn't for your Majesty's order, he would like to make a memorial to see if he could invite his highness back.

Pei Xingjian now really and sympathetically feels that it is easier to invite God than to send God away, and he also understands the depression and helplessness of Baiyi Dashi and Tubo.

As long as there was such an ancestor here, he occupied the main road from the western regions to the hinterland of the Tang Dynasty. As long as the goods to Baiyi Dashi or Tubo and other countries were seized by him in Loulan, he asked people to pay taxes and pay any road and Bridge toll.The degree of shamelessness is as follows: I opened the mountain and planted the tree. If you want to think about this road, you will leave the bandits who buy road property.

No, his Royal Highness has already done so now. His left guard general junquanyi has been cruising in the desert or in the middle of Khotan Shule during this period, pretending to be a robber and robbing the goods of white clothes, Tibetan and other countries.

What's more, what makes people angry is that after they grab the goods, they have to pay for them to redeem them. If they don't want to redeem them, they give them to Dou Yi, and then Dou Yi finds a seller to sell the goods.

Otherwise, they secretly throw them at the gate of Khotan or Shule City, and give them free sponsorship to the people in the city. For the past two months, the people of Khotan and Shule have been guarding the gate of the city every day before dawn, waiting for the moment when the gate is opened, so that they can go outside to pick up goods.