Chapter 389: The Dispute Outside the Territory Continues to Have an Impact

After Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian secretly returned to Beijing, he rested until mid-November, and then returned to the court to handle state affairs in the daily court meeting.

During this period, Duke Wei Chang Yuchun had already "sent" Yu Siqian, the "new champion" selected by the emperor, to the Western Regions to guard the construction of the Great Wall outside the region as a groom in the Tang army according to the will of Emperor Zhaowu;

The tea-horse smuggling case involving four provinces and eight prefectures of the Tang Dynasty was also sent back to the Ministry of Justice for retrial according to the will of the emperor. For the nine clans of the relevant persons involved who were not involved in the case, they were given lighter punishment or exempted from punishment, which demonstrated the benevolent government thought and mind of Emperor Zhaowu;

The edict that ordered officials of the second rank and above in various places to report to the capital also had a special 800-li express messenger to pass the edict along the official road;

Everything in the court was developing step by step.

And in Jinling City, the people who had worked hard for a year also began to prepare for the upcoming Lunar New Year, the first New Year under the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

At the same time

Far away in the Western Regions, nearly 100,000 Arab Empire prisoners of war and wounded soldiers who were pardoned by Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian finally crossed the snow-capped mountains and valleys on the Pamir Plateau and set foot on the territory of their homeland under the leadership of Bisuma, the guard captain of General Turhong, and took the remains of General Turhong.

In fact, the news that the Abbasid Dynasty led an army of 800,000 to the Eastern Expedition to the Tang Dynasty and finally defeated the Western Regions and wiped out 800,000 troops had been reported back to the Abbasid Dynasty a month ago.

However, it was only known to the princes and nobles in the court.

The news of the army's tragic defeat, from Caliph Safah to the civil and military officials in the court, everyone remained silent and did not intend to announce this news that would affect the morale of the army and the people.

The people of the Arab Empire, who were kept in the dark, naively believed that their Eastern Expedition army was invincible and marched forward towards the rich Tang Dynasty in the east!

They also hoped that the imperial soldiers who went east would bring them herds of cattle and sheep and countless gold and silver treasures when they returned victoriously.

After all, in the past external expansion of the Abbasid Dynasty, the imperial army from top to bottom would eventually allocate a portion of the spoils to subsidize the people at home.

It is for this reason that the Abbasid Dynasty was full of martial arts, and it was invincible in the past wars against neighboring countries, and established a huge empire that now spans Asia, Africa and Europe.

The benefits brought by this external expansion and the war gains generated were all in the hands of everyone from the princes and nobles to the ordinary people.

Even so, the spoils that these ordinary people could get were just the leftovers that the princes and nobles didn't want.

Under the deliberate propaganda of the officials of the Abbasid Dynasty, these ordinary young and middle-aged people in the Arab Empire have even begun to look forward to the idea of ​​grazing in the vast Western Regions and panning for gold in the rich Eastern Tang Dynasty.

Of course, the premise of all this is that Turhong, the first warrior of the Abbasid Dynasty and the general of the Eastern Expedition of the Empire, can return triumphantly with the imperial army from the Eastern Expedition.

So, when Bisuma, the captain of the personal guard of General Turhong of the Eastern Expedition, set foot on the land of the Arab Empire with only one in ten wounded soldiers who had traveled a long distance and experienced countless hardships;

Those Arab people who fantasized about getting some benefits from the Eastern Expedition of the Empire conquering the Western Regions and approaching the Tang Dynasty felt that the sky had fallen in an instant!

Especially, when they learned that Turhong, the first warrior of the Abbasid Dynasty, the general of the Eastern Expedition, and the god of war in the hearts of countless Arab people, died on the battlefield;

At this moment, the people of the entire Arab Empire were silent.

Look again, the 800,000 mighty Eastern Expedition Army, now only less than 10,000 wounded soldiers with missing arms and legs returned, and the entire Abbasid Dynasty became even more silent.

There was no thought of breaking out in silence.

Even those young people who were once radical were no longer impulsive.

Not only because the 800,000 troops of the empire were defeated, but also because the Abbasid Dynasty's first warrior, the Eastern Expedition General Turhong, who they regarded as a god of war, was defeated in just three moves by the Tang Dynasty Emperor Chen Huaian's Fang Tian Hua Ji and died on the battlefield.

As Emperor Zhaowu Chen Huaian had expected, the impact of General Turhong's death on the battlefield in Arabia was no less than the 800,000 Eastern Expedition troops being annihilated in the Western Regions.

When the coffin of General Turhong, who had "returned from the Eastern Expedition", arrived in the capital Baghdad, Caliph Safahi personally went outside the city to carry Turhong's coffin, which was the last courtesy given to this old general who had fought for the Abbasid Dynasty for many years, and even held a state funeral for him.

When the funeral of General Turhong was over, the Abbasid Dynasty also ushered in a court meeting after the news of the army's disastrous defeat in the Eastern Expedition was leaked.

At the meeting, General Turhong's brother, Tursun, the prime minister of the Abbasid Dynasty, made a systematic summary of the disastrous defeat of the empire's eastern expedition.

At the end, he did not forget to inform Caliph Safah and the Arab civil and military officials in the court of what the Great Emperor Chen Huaian had told the captain of the personal guard Bisuma.

Tursun said: "Your Majesty, the Great Emperor Chen Huaian of the Tang Dynasty once shouted outside the Black Tiger City of Huihe - Submit to the Tang Dynasty and keep your body intact!"

Wow!

When this was said, everyone in the room was shocked.

The civil and military officials in the court were whispering, could it be that the Great Tang Emperor Chen Huaian was preparing to march westward and fight into the territory of the Abbasid Dynasty?

On the throne, Caliph Safahi had an ugly expression.

Tursun continued: "Your Majesty, I think this should be a warning from the Great Tang Emperor to us, so that the Abbasid Dynasty would give up the plan of the Eastern Expedition;"

"According to the report of the soldiers who returned to the country, the Great Tang Emperor Chen Huaian has already started to build a long Great Wall hundreds of miles long in the Pamir Plateau and Tianshan area;"

"This move can be seen as the Great Tang Dynasty's intention to divide the Abbasid Dynasty into different regions!"

After a pause, Tursun said solemnly: "One thing worth noting is that the 500,000 corvées of the Great Tang Dynasty to build the Great Wall were all soldiers of the Abbasid Dynasty's Eastern Expedition!"

Hiss——

Hearing this news, the court was boiling again.

All the civil and military officials and royal nobles of the Abbasid Dynasty could not help but take a deep breath.

They all complained in their hearts that the move of the Great Tang Emperor Chen Huaian was simply a murder!

Since he had already won the battle for the Western Regions, why did he release the wounded soldiers back home, send healthy soldiers to labor service, and even build large-scale projects on the border between the two countries?

This move clearly told the subjects and people of the Abbasid Dynasty that your sons, husbands, and fathers were reduced to labor service for the Tang Dynasty on the Pamir Plateau, and a Great Wall was being built for the Tang Dynasty to prevent your relatives from meeting and reuniting;

If you want your family to reunite, you have to ask the Caliph to let the empire send an eastern expedition army to the Pamir Plateau again to rescue your family;

Otherwise, you can only watch them working day and night on the Great Wall in the country until they die in a foreign land!

However, now even the Abbasid Dynasty's first warrior, General Turhon, has died on the battlefield. Even if the empire wants to go on an expedition to rescue the soldiers in labor, which general can take the order to go?

If we fight, there will be no generals to lead the troops;

If we don't fight, it will be difficult to quell the domestic grievances;

Could it be that it is really like what the Great Emperor of the Tang Dynasty said - surrender to the Tang Dynasty and keep your body intact?