Chapter 380 Good News From the Capital: The Emperor Becomes a Father

While Chen Huaian, Emperor Zhaowu of the Tang Dynasty, was talking and laughing, the construction of an extraterritorial Great Wall spanning the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains was put on the agenda at the main border line between the Arab Empire and the countries in the Western Regions.

In Chen Huaian's vision, this extraterritorial Great Wall that spans the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, over mountains and ridges, through deserts, grasslands, cliffs, and rivers is not a simple and isolated city wall;

Rather, it is a complete and rigorous military defense system that connects the passes, military forts, city gates and important military towns in the Western Regions from the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and the north and south of the Pamir Plateau from point to line, and then from line to surface;

It can effectively resist the intrusion of hostile foreign countries in the Western Regions and provide an important guarantee for the stability of the Silk Road in the Western Regions. It is a real feat that will serve the present and benefit the future;

Of course, it is also a large-scale project with a huge amount of work and takes a long time;

The difficulty and far-reaching impact of the project are no less than that of the Great Wall of China defense fortifications ordered by the First Emperor.

The existence of the Great Wall outside the region will also completely change the thousand-year-old geographical relationship between the Western Regions and the Central Plains. It is a major move for Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian to incorporate the Western Regions into the Central Plains dynasty.

In this way, the problem of handling more than half a million prisoners of war was easily solved.

The millions of troops that Chen Huaian summoned from the [Born Emperor's Destiny] system could naturally stay in the Western Regions without having to return to the dynasty, which minimized the impact of the "system summoned NPC" on the Central Plains dynasty.

The Western Region has also become Chen Huaian's first copy since he ascended the throne.

After settling the issue of half a million prisoners of war, Chen Huaian waved his hand at the nearly 100,000 sick and wounded among the captive soldiers in the Uighur Khanate and ordered all the sick and wounded with missing arms and legs to be sent back to the Abbasid Dynasty;

On the one hand, even after recovering from their injuries, it would be difficult for these sick and wounded soldiers who were missing arms and legs to pick up weapons again in the returning army and become soldiers who invaded the Tang Dynasty;

On the other hand, the practice of releasing wounded soldiers could also demonstrate the magnanimity and magnanimity of the Tang Dynasty as a sovereign state, and it could also allow these returning wounded soldiers to damage the morale of the soldiers and civilians of the Abbasid Dynasty;

This move can be described as killing multiple birds with one stone.

Of course, as for whether these wounded soldiers can cross the complex terrain of the Varakhan Corridor and cross the Pamir Plateau back to the country before the heavy snow closes the mountains, despite the shortage of food and medicine, that depends on their luck. !

Anyway, the Tang Dynasty and Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian will not bear the reputation of killing prisoners!

Furthermore, in compliance with his previous promise, Chen Huaian ordered Bisuma, the captain of Turhun's personal guard, to be responsible for exhuming the body of the first warrior of the Abbasid Dynasty and the general of the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition who died in Black Tiger City. , together with the prisoners, sick and wounded who were repatriated, were escorted back to the capital Baghdad for burial.

In other words, Chen Huaian gave this "defeated general" his final dignity and respect.

It was September 29, the first year of Zhaowu in the Tang Dynasty.

The remains of Turhun, the general of the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition and the first warrior of the Abbasid Dynasty, as well as tens of thousands of released prisoners, sick and wounded, officially embarked on the journey westward home.

On the same day, Chen Huaian, the Great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, issued a decree that the remaining more than 500,000 prisoners of war from the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition were to go to the foot of the Tianshan Mountains to participate in the construction of the Great Wall outside the territory. The crimes committed during the process of becoming a vassal state in the Western Regions.

The construction of the Great Wall outside the territory was solely responsible for the Tang Dynasty’s Minister of War and Zhenxi Marquis Guo Dingfang;

At the same time, Zhao Zilong, the chief general of the Royal Forest Army of the Tang Dynasty, was ordered to command 300,000 Tang troops to guard the borders of the Western Region. He was responsible for assisting Guo Dingfang, the Marquis of Zhenxi, in completing the construction of the Great Wall outside the region.

According to the preliminary plan given by officials from the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty, the construction of the Great Wall outside the territory will last for twenty years.

At that time, based on the performance of the more than 500,000 captive soldiers in the construction of the Great Wall outside the Territory, consideration will be given, as appropriate, to the release of prisoners who have outstanding performance in the construction of the Great Wall outside the Territory and return to their homes across the Great Wall outside the Territory;

It can be regarded as giving hope to these more than 500,000 captives.

It is worth mentioning that the chief culprit who directly led to the war in the Western Regions, Tibes, the exiled king of Wusun Kingdom, was also among the corvee team building the Great Wall outside the region.

When the prisoners, who were strung together with ropes and long poles, were escorted by the Tang Dynasty army to the foot of Tianshan Mountain, Tibes, one of the captives, had his hands raised above his head and tied to the long pole;

Those blue eyes glowed with resentment, looking back at Black Tiger City fiercely. Standing beside Chen Huaian, the Great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, facing Lan Yu, the lord of Anxi Hou of the Tang Dynasty, who was bossing him around, he felt viciously in his heart. He swore - I, Tibbis, will come back one day!

However, before Tibes could glare at Lan Yu with malicious eyes for a few more times, he was whipped by the oncoming whip, making him grin and grin in unspeakable pain;

It was the Tang soldier responsible for escorting the prisoners who was kindly reminding him not to delay the progress of the entire team.

It was early October in the first year of Zhaowu in the Tang Dynasty.

The situation in the Western Regions, which had experienced the catastrophe of a war, finally became calm under the iron-blooded suppression methods of the Great Emperor and Heavenly Khan Chen Huaian.

The current situation is that the Tang army that stayed in the Western Regions has stationed in the countries in the Western Regions, including the Uighur Khanate, in batches in accordance with the orders of Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian, and is fully responsible for the country's military and public security.

And those kings of the Western Regions, domestic nobles, and military generals who were forced by the majesty of the Arab Empire's Eastern Expedition and chose to betray their suzerain country, the Tang Dynasty;

Most of them have become prisoners like the King of Wusun, Tibes, and are following the teams of corvée labor and building the Great Wall to the foot of the Tianshan Mountains to contribute their own strength to the construction of the Great Wall outside the region.

The remaining small part, when they stayed in the country, chose to change their ways again after seeing the Tang army approaching the city, opening the city gates to welcome the Tang army's progress, hoping to get a lighter sentence from the Khan of Heaven.

For these princes and nobles in the Western Regions, Chen Huaian adopted a relatively gentle approach and ordered them and their families to be sent to the capital Jinling City. Officials from the Ministry of Rites set up a "study abroad class" for them to learn the rules and etiquette of the Central Plains Dynasty. As for after they finish their studies, they will be allowed to be rich men in Jinling City.

This series of iron-blooded means of suppression has now left the entire 36 countries in the Western Regions without a monarch or a master. Only the Great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the Khan of Heaven, Chen Huaian, has become the well-deserved common master of the Western Regions.

Next, the new policy of "separation of military and politics" was gradually implemented in the Western Regions. The implementation of these specific matters naturally did not require Chen Huaian to personally take care of everything. Officials from the six ministries of the court and the two deputy governors of the Anxi Protectorate, Guanjun Hou Huo Qubing and Changxin Hou Zuo Liangcai, were responsible for implementation;

Although Lan Yu, who made the mistake first, was lightly punished by Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian with "three cups of wine",

but Chen Huaian did not intend to keep him in the Western Regions, but was ready to transfer Lan Yu back to the court for further arrangements.

In the blink of an eye, it was mid-October.

The capital of the Uighur Khanate, Harabalegas, which had not yet begun winter, finally welcomed the first snow in the first year of the Tang Dynasty's Zhaowu.

When everything in the Western Regions was being implemented step by step according to the will of the Heavenly Khan Chen Huaian, Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian in the Uighur Palace also received an 800-mile express from the Jinling Imperial City.

To be precise, it was an urgent message of good news from eight hundred miles away.

Empress Dowager Xu Ruoyun sent someone to report that if the situation in the Western Regions had been settled, she hoped that the emperor would return to Beijing as soon as possible.

Because, the founding empress of the Tang Dynasty, Liu Shujun, and the imperial concubine Yue Qiluo in the harem had already entered the countdown to delivery.

Chen Huaian, he was going to be a father!!!