After capturing Taiyuan, Gao Xiuyan led another 30,000 people to the north. He was once again appointed by Li Ye as the governor of Yunshuo, in charge of the military affairs of Yunzhou, Shuozhou and Daizhou.
At that time, Gao Xiuyan fell from this position and took refuge in Anlu Mountain.
Li Ye gave him this chance again and got up from where he fell.
Gao Xiuyan is nearly sixty years old. He no longer considers promotion. He wants to spend the last ten years of his life to wash away the shame on himself and regain his posthumous reputation.
Let his descendants no longer be ashamed of him.
What is the kindness of knowing and encountering? This is the kindness of knowing and meeting. Only Li Ye can understand the pain in Gao Xiuyan's heart and give him this chance to stand up again.
At this moment, Gao Xiuyan was willing to go to pieces to repay Li Ye for his kindness.
Five days later, Gao Xiuyan led his army to Yunzhong County, which is today's Datong. As early as the Northern Wei Dynasty, this was the capital of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The city was large and imposing, with strong and tall walls, and a population of about 200,000. Commercial
developed.
To the north of Yunzhou is the continuous Great Wall of Sui Dynasty. It has only been more than a hundred years, but the Great Wall is still very strong.
However, there are still three gaps in the mountains to the north, all of which were washed away by rivers over hundreds of millions of years. The Great Wall also had three forts built respectively, where the Tang army was stationed.
One is the Tiancheng Army in the northeast, which is actually the name of the pass fortress. The other is the Qingsai Army in the front and back. The Qinghe River flows through here. The other is the Jingbian Army in the northwest. It has a thousand troops stationed and is easy to defend.
It is the famous Purple River Road.
Zihe Road can be said to be the most important of the three passes. The canyons of the other two passes are narrow and long, and the nomadic cavalry will be blocked in the canyons front and back if they are not careful.
Therefore, when invading the Central Plains, nomadic cavalry generally do not want to go with the Tiancheng Army and the Qing Sai Army, but prefer to take the Zihe Road. The canyon here is hundreds of miles wide and the grass on both sides is rich, which is more conducive for the cavalry to go south.
Of course, there are very few nomadic cavalry, and more are caravans from the grasslands, as well as grassland merchants and Uighur merchants, who are constantly passing through here and heading to Yunzhong County.
After Gao Xiuyan took office, he immediately inspected the Jingbian Army in Zihe and found that the fortress was poorly defended and the city gates were dilapidated.
Gao Xiuyan immediately stationed 1,000 troops here and sent 5,000 more soldiers to rebuild the city.
That afternoon, Gao Xiuyan had just returned to the Yunzhong County military camp from Zihe Road. Deputy Governor Zhang Guangsheng came to report, "To the Governor, a Han businessman came to the Governor in the past two days and said that he had important military information and was related to the Uighurs. This is a humble position."
He happened not to be here, it was the captain who guarded the gate who reported it."
Gao Xiuyan pondered for a moment and asked, "Can you find this person?"
Zhang Guangsheng nodded, "He left his address, I should be able to find it!"
"Please ask General Zhang to send someone to find the merchant!"
Gao Xiuying sat down in the big tent and looked at the official business accumulated on the table. In fact, there was nothing wrong. They were all daily army training reports.
Gao Xiuyan leaned on the back of his chair and gently pressed his temples. After all, he was old and his energy was not as good as before.
Fortunately, now he only cares about military affairs and not government affairs, which relieves him a lot of burden.
As early as the Longyou period, Li Ye canceled the Jiedushi envoys and implemented the separation of military and political affairs. This was because Li Ye controlled all the border areas and the jurisdictions of each Jiedugu government at that time. If the military and political integration of Jiedu was still implemented as before,
Due to the government system, the Longyou court did not have many prefectures and counties under its jurisdiction, so it was necessary to separate military and political affairs.
After the merger of the two dynasties, the civil service group welcomed the separation of military and political affairs implemented by Li Ye and the abolition of the Jiedushi system. Everyone in the imperial court learned the lessons of the Anlushan Rebellion and the separatism of feudal towns and firmly supported the separation of military and political affairs implemented by Li Ye.
The governor's office is cancelled. The governor can have his own residence in the city, but he must return to the military camp.
In addition, the post of Chief Shi of the Governor's Mansion was abolished, and Sima was responsible for the military affairs in the Governor's Mansion.
The current chiefs of each governor's office, Shi, were changed to senior officials in the governor's office and were responsible to the imperial court. They resolutely implemented the principle that the governor should be in charge of the governor, the governor should be in charge of the governor, the governor should be in charge of civil affairs, and the governor should be in charge of the military.
This system has also been welcomed by various military governors. Anyone who is not ambitious will welcome this system. This system will reduce the burden of the major governors and take away the complicated and complicated government affairs from the hands of each governor. There is no doubt that this system will be welcomed by the military governors.
This greatly reduced the pressure on the major governors.
Coincidentally, Zhang Guangsheng met a businessman just after he left the camp, and he quickly brought him into the camp. The businessman was about fifty years old and looked very smart and capable. He knelt down and saluted, "Wang Feng, the villain, meets the governor!"
Gao Xiuyan nodded, "Where are you from and what business are you currently doing?"
The businessman bowed and said: "The villain is from Shuozhou and has been doing business for generations. The villain has been doing business with the grassland nomads for thirty years!"
"It seems you can speak the language of the grasslands?"
"Yes, I can indeed speak Turkic, and I have many friends there."
"What important military information do you want to give me?"
Businessman Wang Feng said: "I wonder if the governor knows about the war between Kunjian and Uighur?"
Gao Xiuyan shook his head, "I don't know, and neither does the court. Please tell me in detail!"
"Six months ago, Kunjian Khan passed away. His three sons fought for the throne of Khan. In the end, the second son took over the throne. The other two brothers were killed. Uighur Khan seized the opportunity of Kunjian's internal strife.
They sent 80,000 to 100,000 troops to attack the Kunjian tribe, and a war broke out between the two countries to the west of Quman Mountain. Kunjian was defeated by the Huihe, and more than 50,000 people were killed. The rest of the tribe fled to the far north."
"This was the situation half a year ago, but what about now?"
"The villain heard that the Geluolu people withdrew from the Sijie land they had previously occupied and asked for peace with Huihe. Sijie, Pugu, Beyegu, Dubo and other tribes once again appointed Huihe as their capital khan. These are two
What happened about Yue, when the villain came back later, it snowed heavily on the grassland, and the news was cut off, so the villain didn’t know anything about it.”
Gao Xiuyan asked some more questions, then thanked the merchant and sent someone to take him out of the camp.
"Does General Zhang think this news is credible?" Gao Xiuyan asked Deputy General Zhang Guangsheng.
Zhang Guangsheng nodded, "I think the news should be credible, but the matter is so important that we should ask some more businessmen and verify it from multiple sources so that the news can be accurate."
Gao Xiuyan nodded silently, "This news is indeed important and must be reported to the supervisor. I would like to ask General Zhang to inquire again in the next two days. Once we have confirmed the news, we will report it to the court immediately."
"The governor is right, I'll go and find out now!"
Zhang Guangsheng left in a hurry, and Gao Xiuyan became really worried. From the captured Tian Shenyu information, he knew that Tian Shenyu had surrendered to Uighur. Now that Tian Shenyu has been wiped out, will the Uighur Khan remain indifferent?
Fortunately, it is winter now, and the grassland is covered with heavy snow. Since there is an enemy situation, it will not be until spring next year.
Two days later, Zhang Guangsheng collected precise information. The information reported by businessman Wang Feng was completely true. Based on the collected information, Gao Xiuyan immediately wrote an eight hundred-mile expedited message and sent a team of messengers to Chang'an.
