When Gu Cheng came to the General's Mansion to look for Hong Dingshan, Hong Dingshan was drinking sullen wine one by one, and he really felt like a dog now.Standing in line with the second prince, he had no choice at all.At first, he was not a person from the second prince, but because he was familiar with the second prince, he naturally got involved with the second prince after entering the Praetorian Guard, is this wrong?
Later, the second prince asked him to take care of the people of the Xianqin Daomen, could it be difficult for him to refuse a prince?
Especially the prince who is about to become the crown prince.So Hong Dingshan didn't have a choice in all this, he just passively followed the crowd in it, but he didn't expect to be inexplicably branded as the prince's party and completely lose power.Although Li Xiaowu hasn't said what to do with him at the moment, Hong Dingshan must know that he doesn't end well.At this time, Gu Cheng knocked on the door and walked in, and the guards of the General's Mansion recognized Gu Cheng and did not dare to stop him.Looking at Hong Dingshan's decadent appearance, Gu Cheng couldn't help but shake his head.This general's desire for power is a bit heavy, and he may not have had such heartache when his wife was green."
General Hong, it's not your style to drink to kill your sorrows."
Hong Dingshan glanced at Gu Cheng and snorted lightly, "Lord Gu came to see my joke at this time?"
You have successfully stood in line, helped Your Majesty ascend to the throne, and become Your Majesty's confidant and mainstay, and your future is limitless.My future is uncertain now, and the errands of the Praetorian Guard have been taken away by His Majesty, what else can I do if I don't use alcohol to kill my sorrows?
”Gu Cheng shook his head lightly and said, "This is not the General Hong I know."
Some of the intrigues within the royal family will indeed affect their own power.But as cultivators, you and I mainly rely not on our own status and power, let alone those scheming methods, but on our own strength.Su Dingguo, the general of Shenwuwei, is the hardcore of the second prince, what is the result?
Although it has also been affected, he will also command several armies if he is transferred to a local area.General Hong, if you have the strength of General Fan Sihai of Long Xiangwei, do you think Your Majesty will care if you have ever taken refuge in the second prince?
He will only rush to invite you back to the center of the capital, and he is even afraid that you will have a dislike with the imperial court.The big husband is ambitious in all directions, and the capital does not leave a master, so it's a big deal to change places. ”Hong Dingshan put down his wine glass and said with a laugh: "Or Lord Gu, you will comfort people, let's talk about it, why did Lord Gu come to me this time?"
Now my grandmother doesn't love my uncle and uncle, even my colleagues in the military don't want to get close to me, Master Gu, you can't come to talk to me, right?
But just for today's words, what do you want me to do, Master Gu, I should do it today. ”Although Hong Dingshan was depressed at this time, this would not affect his mind.He has a friendship with Gu Cheng, but the friendship is not strong enough to make Gu Cheng rush to comfort him.Gu Cheng smiled and said: "I can't hide it from General Hong, this is a holy decree, and I ask General Hong to accompany me to Western Xinjiang for a walk." ”Hong Dingshan must have strength and strength, and he must have means and means, and the most important thing is that he himself was a general stationed in the western frontier before.So since he was going to Western Xinjiang this time, the first person Gu Cheng thought of was Hong Dingshan.The important thing is that Hong Dingshan is in a state of frustration at this time, and at this time, Gu Cheng pulls him, and Hong Dingshan will also remember his favor.Hong Dingshan took the holy decree, looked at the content and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "I came to the capital from the western Xinjiang at the beginning, but I didn't expect that now I will return to the western frontier again."
It's a circle back and forth, what do you think I'm trying to do?
However, the capital has accumulated some lessons in recent years, and it is a big deal to start all over again.Thank you Lord Gu for still being willing to think about me at this time, my subordinates on this trip will definitely obey your dispatch and help Lord Gu complete this mission. ”"General Hong is polite, you are more familiar with Western Xinjiang than me, and I will have to rely on you to provide information when the time comes.Your Majesty has allowed you to take some of the Praetorian Guards with you as long as you feel you can afford to do so. ”Hong Dingshan nodded, it was very generous to let him take away some of the Praetorian Guards Li Xiaowu.As a general of the border army, Hong Dingshan also has some means in training troops.Therefore, he selected 2,000 people from the entire Praetorian Guard to prepare to take to the western frontier.Don't look at the fact that there are only 2,000 people, but these 2,000 people are the elite of the elite, even if the border army of 20,000 people comes, it is not their opponent.After sorting out the logistics bags, Gu Cheng took the two thousand people straight on the road and headed for Western Xinjiang.………… The chaos in the frontier areas of Daqian is no longer a year or two, and it can be said that it is a problem left over from history, and this has been the case since 500 years ago.However, there are only two places where the chaos in the Daqian border is the most serious, one in the north and the other in the west.The area of the Western Frontier is huge, and even the area of the Western Regions further west is not even inferior to that of Daqian, but most of them are uninhabited deserts, and only a small number of oasis cities are suitable for human survival.It's not that I didn't want to conquer such a large area, but after trying, I chose to give up, because the gains outweigh the losses.Although the Northland barbarians are divided into multiple tribes, they are still a race for the most part, and they can still become a nation.And those small races in Western Xinjiang are simply too numerous to count, and it is okay to say that they have hundreds or even thousands of races.These races have different cultural beliefs from each other, with large populations of more than one million and small dozens of people counted as one race.All the small clans in the entire western Xinjiang are attacking and fighting each other, and if the big cadres are involved, then all the guns will be directly aimed at the big cadres, and it will be even more chaotic.Therefore, 500 years ago, the Great Cadres had already made a choice, drawing a rough boundary line in the western Xinjiang, within the boundary line is the western Xinjiang of the Great Qian, and outside the boundary line are those tribes in the Western Xinjiang, and at the same time, the Great Cadres also began to emigrate to the Western Xinjiang, all of them are prisoners of the disaster, and they want to let them multiply in the Western Xinjiang, and at the same time push the boundary line forward.It's a pity that the idea is good, but the reality is cruel.Some of the tribes in Western Xinjiang are quite mild-mannered, and they are willing to take the initiative to take refuge in Daqian, and exchange some special products for various items produced in the Central Plains, as long as they can live in peace and stability.However, some tribes are extremely ambitious, and even dare to come to fight the idea of big cadres after annexing other small tribes, some are attacking cities, and some are plundering and running away.Although the local garrison also knows about Western Xinjiang, it is impossible for the local tribes to understand it, and in the end it can only be stopped.Therefore, the 500-year-old cadres in Western Xinjiang are a tug-of-war, you fight me, I fight you, advance and retreat, and there is no result in jumping left and right.When Gu Cheng and Hong Dingshan's soldiers and horses entered the western territory, he immediately felt a trace of scorching wind and sand rushing towards his face, as if the air was filled with the smell of dry sand.Hong Dingshan took a deep breath, squinted his eyes and said: "I didn't expect to come back again after going around for a few years, in fact, if I think about it carefully, this place in Western Xinjiang is suitable for me."
Every day, you only need to train soldiers and horses to kill some barbarians in Western Xinjiang, where is there so much complicated in the capital?
”Gu Cheng rode his horse to Hong Dingshan's side and asked, "General Hong, what are the forces on the side of the Western Xinjiang Imperial Court doing?"
Is the interior complicated?
”Hong Dingshan looked at the yellow sand in front of him, shook his head and said, "It's okay to say it's complicated, it's okay to say it's simple."
In fact, at first, the purpose of stationing troops in western Xinjiang was to push the western border line forward, but now they have long given up this idea.Therefore, now the imperial court forces in Western Xinjiang are only thinking about one thing, and that is to maintain stability.When the small clans in the western region came to find trouble, we repelled them, and occasionally some small clans went too far, and we would send troops to exterminate them.In short, you hit me, I hit you.The territory of Western Xinjiang is huge, but in fact, there are not many residents, and you Jingye Division also stationed a lot of people here, you should know this. ”Gu Cheng nodded, Jingye Division has stationed three pacification envoys here, that's right, these three people are all envoys of Western Xinjiang, but they are divided into left and right and middle roads.The western frontier is too big, but the number of people is not so large, there is no need to set up such a county, so it can only be done like this.Hong Dingshan continued: "In addition to the military forces, there are many Jianghu sects here in Western Xinjiang, but these Jianghu sects are not the same as the Jianghu sects in the Central Plains Martial Arts.Five hundred years ago, your Jingye Division can be said to be the real pinnacle, suppressing demons and ghosts, suppressing the rivers and lakes, at that time, some chaotic Jianghu sects and martial arts people on the rivers and lakes killed and caught, and those who were caught were thrown here in the Western Xinjiang to deal with those alien races in the Western Xinjiang.The ancestors of these people are not easy to get along with, and their nature is even more fierce, coupled with the environment in Western Xinjiang, these people are just like bandits and robbers.It's just that their interests are the same as those of my Daqian, and they let those alien races in the western Xinjiang invade, and those barbarians don't care whether you are a Daqian or a person from the rivers and lakes, as long as they have the faces of Central Plains people, almost all of them are men who kill women and rob them, leaving no trace of life.So on weekdays, although the two of us don't look at each other, they won't lag behind at critical moments.In short, Master Gu, after you arrive in the Western Frontier, try not to offend them. ”Gu Cheng nodded, at this time, the sun was already like blood in the sky, and the scorching smell of wind and sand in the air also carried a hint of chill.This is the case with the weather in western Xinjiang, which is sometimes scorching during the day, comparable to the southern barbarians, but at night it is extremely cold, comparable to the snowfields of the far north.Therefore, this place is indeed not suitable for human survival, and even if the big cadres try their best to bring down this place, they will have to pay a great price to govern it, and the gains outweigh the losses."
Find a place to rest for a while, sometimes there will be sandstorms in the western frontier at night."
Hong Dingshan has been in the army in Western Xinjiang for half his life, and his experience can be said to be very rich, and Gu Cheng has brought him to find the right person.Before dark, Hong Dingshan skillfully led people to find the ruins of a small city, although the ruins were half buried in the sand, but there were still some walls that could protect against the wind and sand.In the middle of the night, after everyone had set up camp and slept peacefully, Gu Cheng, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground, opened his eyes suddenly.Not far from their camp, the sound of 'rustling' came slowly.