Li Mi was also in the immigration team. In addition, there were two people he met when he was young, one was named Wang Changling, and also a great poet. He was a Jiangnan person who yearned for life in the frontier. He was originally sent to Lingnan, but later he became a local official in Jiangning. Later, he was demoted. After learning that the court called on Jiangnan's wealthy families to go to Shiniu Town, he simply resigned his official position and went with his family.

The other one was the Goryeo monk who was with Li Mi who happened to meet at that time, Sun Xiurong went south to attack the Tubo people, who happened to meet, the lazy monk, who became a monk at the Jade Buddha Temple in Kucha Town.

After Li Mi was idle by the court, he was not greatly affected by the care of Prince Li Heng, because he had been idle positions. This time, the lazy monk went to Zhongnan Mountain to find him and invited him to Cheng'en Temple in the Western Regions to worship Buddha. Because Sun Xiurong moved the remains of the Buddha to Xiaoshicheng (Nasebo), Shiniu Town leaned against Xiaoshicheng, so he went to Shiniu Town with immigrants. It happened that Wang Changling was in the immigration team, so the three of them walked together.

Speaking of the immigration team, although there are guards, Li Mi still has the most guards. Among them are the Qianniu Guards sent by His Highness to protect him, as well as the Khitans who Li Mi’s father was kind to him when he was in Liaodong, Goguryeo, Goryeo, and Bohai people. Like Li Simu, most of them are brave men, with a small number of people, only more than ten people, but his more than ten people are stronger than the hundreds of guards of ordinary wealthy families.

Li Mi's name is famous in Chang'an and Luoyang, especially in the Buddhist path. Although Li Mi is less than 30 years old, he has the name of "Changyuan Layman". Changyuan is his name, and this layman naturally spans the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism.

In the entire Chang'an and Luoyang, there is only one person with such reputation, and there is no one else.

Li Guangjin naturally knew this, so he basically discussed it with Li Mi when he encountered major events on the way.

Li Mi also admired Li Guangjin's courage very much. After both of them, they both appreciated each other.

Li Mi is not worried about the possible horse thief.

"In such a bitter and cold place, it is impossible to gather too many horse thieves. There are up to a hundred people in a group, and no matter how many, they will not be able to survive."

Thinking of the horse thief, he suddenly thought of Sun Xiurong.

"I didn't expect that Dalang is in his early thirties. I guess he will never be able to earn the situation he has made in his life. Compared to Gao Xianzhi, he is the real king of the Western Regions and the King of the Mobei region. He traverses the Mobei region and the Western Regions, rarely encounters an enemy. Not long ago, he defeated the Great Cannibal and firmly grasped the land in the river."

"In time, Dalang becomes the Western Turkic Republic, and it is not impossible for such a large force as the Huns to be. It is still an enhanced version."

Thinking that he, a real scholar of the Tang Dynasty, had also used Sun Xiurong's unique language, Li Mi couldn't help but shake his head and smile bitterly.

Even so, he had never thought about how much influence the Shattered Ye Army could have on the Tang Dynasty. No matter how powerful the Shattered Ye Army was, if it had a full-scale conflict with the Tang Dynasty, the final winner would still be the Tang Dynasty. Li Mi never doubted this.

Li Mi has his own unique insights on politics. He had discussed it with Sun Xiurong before, and in the end the two sides almost reached an agreement.

Four words.

"Dingkou", "regulation".

Putting enough people in an effective system (the regulations mentioned by Tangren) is the way to success, and everything else extends from here.

With enough Dingkou, there are enough talents, and with effective regulations, it will be unfavorable.

But there are still differences between the two.

For Sun Xiurong, epoch-making technology is also fatal, and no matter how good the regulations are, they cannot compare. Of course, this is his unique secret, so how can it be easily shown to others?

For Li Mi, in addition to these four words, there is morality. If Dingkou and regulation are trees, then morality is the water and soil that soaks the trees.

Of course, this is Li Mi’s unique idea, and he did not say it to Sun Xiurong.

The morality in Li Mi’s mind is neither the morality of the Tao Te Ching nor the moral character as commonly said, but the “way of virtue”. However, this virtue is very complicated and cannot be summarized in just a few words.

In short, this virtue is the law of the jungle at some point, such as most parts of Europe nowadays, such as the so-called great sailing colonial era in later generations, such as the end of each Central Plains dynasty. Sometimes this virtue spans hundreds of years and eventually forms the so-called civilization.

Sometimes it acts in God's will, but the core is basically unchanged.

Some virtues appear in the form of mean and virtue transformation, typically in the early days of the Central Plains dynasty.

It is hard to say which kind of virtue is good, but Sun Xiurong believes that since they are all human beings, they must consider the issue from the standpoint of human beings. Specifically for a certain country, they naturally have to stand on the standpoint of a certain country. Therefore, if it is for the interests of a certain country, killing externally is also allowed, while internally it is a morality in the traditional sense.

This is its complexity, and it is hard to sum it up in one sentence.

In fact, for this point, Emperor Xuan of the former Han Dynasty had a famous saying, "The king and the king are mixed with overbearing" roughly summarized this situation. As for the further approach, it is the "inner saint and the king outside". In Sun Xiurong's view, this will not be realized in a few thousand years, because under the absolute premise of material finiteness, selfishness always exists, and as long as selfishness exists, the inner saint and the outside king is just empty talk.

In Li Mi's ideal, the inner sage and outer king happened to be the ideal in his mind. This is also his only motivation for studying Buddhism and Taoism in a large amount and linking it to Confucianism and Taoism.

Whether it was Li Mi, Li Guangjin, or Wang Changling, they were not excellent military talents at least at this time. When there was not enough manpower in their hands, they would definitely not have to come to cover it for thirty or fifty miles. Therefore, when Kang Xiaorong saw a huge immigration team in the cypress forest on the mountain on the north bank of the Kizilsu River, they did not notice it.

It's not their fault.

As the saying goes, it is difficult to climb the blue sky from Shu Road because the mountains are steep, but after all, there are not many cases of deep subtropical areas, and they will not freeze to death or starve to death. However, in the Palacioles, they are plateaus, with bitter and cold weather and thin oxygen. There are sudden snowfalls in summer, and heavy winds and sand are commonplace.

In addition, they had to cross the snow-capped mountains, and the Bahanna Basin on the north and the Pamir Plateau on the south were all controlled by the Tang army, which in their opinion should be foolproof.

But nothing is absolutely true.

After entering the wide valley south of Osh Road, there will be a flat desert valley about two hundred miles long from east to west and forty miles wide from north to south, and on both sides are continuous snow-capped mountains.

Excluding this section of the river valley, the remaining Kizilsu River flows among the mountains and ridges on both sides.

There is a lake in the mountains on the south side of the Flat River Valley. It is called Kala Lake at this time, and later it is called Kalakur Lake. There is a slightly slower valley in the north of Kala Lake that leads to the Kizilsu River Valley. There, the immigration team was targeted by horse thieves.

The leader of the horse thief was Nie Xu Danxi's subordinates. After Gao Xianzhi defeated the Bakhanna Kingdom, some of the personnel followed the Suiye Army to Talas, but some of the personnel were unwilling to accept it, mainly some of Nie Xu Danxi's guards. According to the tradition of Bon religion, when your master dies due to grievances, as servants (Nie Xu Danxi's guards are all his slaves), if they cannot avenge their master, they will go to hell after death.

Therefore, when the horse thieves learned that there were a large number of Tang people passing through the Kizilsu River Valley, their eyes immediately lit up.

For them, it is not as simple as robbing people and property.

In the case where the real enemy cannot be targeted, attacking people related to enemies, and using the blood sacrifice can also avoid going to hell.

So, Li Mi and his team had just stepped into that wide valley and were immediately discovered by horse thieves and informed all horse thieves with Lake Kala as the center and a radius of two hundred miles.

Gao Xianzhi said it right. Due to the different resources of support, there are no more than one hundred horse thieves in each group of Pamir Plateau, and people are second. The main reason is that the forage that can support horses in this place is too scarce.

But for a specific purpose, they can be brought together completely, and they have their own special contact channels.

When Li Mi and others walked through this wide valley of 200 miles and stepped into the narrow valley with steep mountains on both sides again (leading to Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, later generations), they happened to gather opposite Kang Xiaorong and others.

In that place, due to the large number of snow-capped mountains forming streams, a dense cypress forest about twenty miles wide formed!

Such a place is both a place where thieves or bad intentions hide, and a place where travelers rest, so all three groups of people meet here!

In addition to hiding in the woods, there is another reason why horse thieves choose this place.

The name of the Kizilsu River is because most of the places where it flows through are reddish-brown sandstone land, and most of them are deserted. Even when the river water is most abundant in spring and summer, after a journey in these places, the river water will become narrower and shallower. Unless there is a scene where there are snowy mountains on both sides, this situation is irreversible.

Although there are streams flowing down here, the snow water in the nearby snowy mountains is not abundant, far less abundant than that in the area of ​​Kala Lake. Therefore, when we get here, the river water suddenly narrows, and the shallowest part is barely over the horse's neck.

This is still during the flood season. The snow-capped mountains on both sides are just beginning to melt, and the shallowest part is probably only reaching the horse's belly.

This is the most critical reason why horse thieves choose this place!

This subtle terrain was not valued by the Tang army, which had just officially occupied the entire Kizil River Valley. If the guards of Shiniu Town were Tian Zhen or the guards of the Pamir Mountains were loyal to the border, someone who was interested in Ban Chao might have noticed this.

Unfortunately, Tian Zhen is a big and thick Mo Dao General, and Bian Qizhong is simply the people in the small tribe of Tuqi Shi. It would be better to let them go to the battlefield to fight, but it would never be ambiguous to carefully investigate the key geographical situations under his jurisdiction.

If Feng Changqing was still under Gao Xianzhi's command at this time, with his carefulness and understanding, he might have carefully investigated the entire Kizilsu River, but unfortunately, Feng Changqing has now gone to the Suoye Army.

At this time, the Tang army could ensure that most of the military pay was paid by the recruited generals, the training of the generals, and the compliance with military discipline. This was already an incredible existence. In addition, the military equipment was powerful, if there was no civil strife, it would definitely be in a crushing position for the surrounding tribes. Under this power, it would be unnecessary to further make things more detailed and confirm that it was not necessary.
Chapter completed!