"Immediately pass on my orders. Those who have fled back from Shule State must not be made to suffer in the Western Regions. They must be provided with adequate food and shelter, and they must be taken to more countries."
Cheng Chuliang immediately felt that this was definitely an opportunity. If we kept talking, I'm afraid no one would believe it. But these people are from your thirty-six countries in the Western Regions. You can judge whether these people are telling the truth. What's more, it's no longer a secret that the King of Shule took his people away. Many people in the Western Regions know about it.
"That's a good idea. Many people have had this idea recently. They believe that under the rule of our Tang Dynasty, these people are having a hard time. If they could go to the Arab Empire, perhaps their living conditions would be improved. If they knew that this was a changed life, I really want to see what expressions they would have on their faces."
Li Chengyi was also a little scared. Of course, this was not the fear of war, but the fear of the Arab Empire's methods. You really can't tell right from wrong. You want to rob everyone and can only see what is in front of you. You can't see the long-term plan for this money. How can such an empire expand so fast?
In fact, the Arab Empire has been at war all the time and expanded very quickly, but they could not last long and would soon be replaced by others. This is also the most helpless aspect of their system.
It is not impossible to combine politics and religion, but your belief does not mean that you will be judged as pagan. You can only rely on your own people. When you were on the original land, you were able to defend it, but the land you expand to is getting bigger and bigger. If you cannot integrate and absorb these people from outside, you will never be able to control such a huge empire.
In just a few days, this fear spread throughout the entire Western Regions. Many nobles still wanted to go there for refuge, so they waited and watched, wanting to see what would happen to the Shule people.
Now there is finally no need to wait and see. The entire nation has disappeared, including their king. No one has a good ending. These people are a little scared. Fortunately, they did not take anyone with them. When the King of Shule was about to leave, he wrote letters to all of us, hoping that we could go with him.
Now we just have to take this last step. If we all follow it, we will be dead.
Of course, some people say that this is a lie, and it was all made up by the Tang Dynasty army in order to keep us here forever and serve as their slaves, and prevent us from pursuing new freedom.
This kind of statement may have been tenable at first, but the more than 3,000 people who escaped from Samarkand were not just ordinary people, many of them were nobles from Shule. Can't we trust what they said?
The most important thing is that many of these nobles are opposed to each other. It's impossible to expect them to speak for the same side. Some even have blood feuds. Everyone in the Western Regions knows that they are now speaking in unison. Can the Tang army do it? Can they change all this? It's probably unlikely. This is their obsession for decades.
So this news was gradually confirmed. Many people had not yet sent people to the Tang army. After receiving this news, they immediately implemented the court's orders and brought the army here immediately, so Cheng Chuliang also slowed down his speed.
There was a specific ideological change within the army. The Shule people who joined the army participated in one speech after another, telling the tragic situation at that time in great detail, and some parts could have been deepened a little.
Originally, the armies of the countries in the Western Regions joined the Tang army purely to show their support. Although they had arrived, they were not prepared to actually fight. If they were really used as cannon fodder, these people would just ride their war horses around. Anyway, the territory of the Western Regions is very large. Even if you already regard me as a traitor, there is no way to catch me back.
In this situation, Cheng Chuliang really couldn't do anything to them, but after the Shule people who escaped back spoke, the armies of the countries in the Western Regions immediately changed.
The rule of the Tang Dynasty was indeed quite overbearing, and these people had little autonomy. They had to pay a large amount of gold, silver and treasures every year, but at least we can all survive, and as trade deepens, our lives will be better.
The reason why we hesitated between the Arab Empire and the Tang Empire was that we thought that after the Arab Empire came, our lives would be better than now. However, they would rob everyone. If we surrendered to them, let alone live a better life, our current life would be a luxury.
So at this time they figured out that maintaining the current living conditions was the best gift from God to us, so the kings of various countries sent people to deliver their own personal letters, asking these national troops in the Tang army to use all their abilities to cooperate with the Tang army in combat, and to keep these people from the Arab Empire west of the jungle and not allow them to enter our territory.
Although it delayed the battle for nearly twenty days, it was worth it for the Tang army. Instead of bringing these vassal soldiers who did not contribute, it would be better to let them all get the handwritten letter from their king, so that they would know what to do on the battlefield.
Not all of the Arab Empire's spies were killed, and some were left in the Western Regions. When the countries received this news, they reported it back as quickly as possible, hoping that the people above them could understand that your decision was extremely wrong.
After Governor Faisal received the news, he wanted to report it to Prince Salman as quickly as possible so that he would be mentally prepared. When we meet the armies of the countries in the Western Regions, I am afraid the pressure we will face will be even greater.
But halfway through the journey, this guy turned back. Think about the prince's arrogance. He thinks every decision he makes is right. If you deliver such information to his desk, then the whip will have an intimate contact with your body again. You are clearly accusing him of making a wrong decision. Do you still want to be reinstated?
