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"Ji Han, don't waste your energy in vain, dumb people hate others talking to them all the time."

But before Ji Han could ask again, the Taoist priest in purple turned around and cursed at Eggplant:

"You're the fucking dumb!"

Chapter 815 Eat people with a short mouth

Hearing the Taoist priest in purple turn around and scold eggplant, Ji Han and the others also widened their eyes.

They hadn't figured out why the Taoist didn't let them get in the car just now, Ji Han always thought it might be their decoration problem.

After all, with such short hair, carrying a weird bag, and wearing such neat but not so well-fitting Taoist clothes.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like you just robbed other Taoist priests' clothes and cheated passers-by here.

That's why he pretended to be stupid like this, pretending that he didn't understand what Ji Han and the others were saying.

On the other hand, Eggplant always thought that the Taoist priest was dumb, because they asked a few things, so they pushed six two five and said nothing.

The four of them didn't expect that the Taoist priest who came up in an ox cart not only understood what they said, but also had such a violent temper.

After turning around and cursing Eggplant, the Taoist priest in purple sighed again, closed his eyes and shook his head, saying:

"The practice of purifying the mouth has failed again, it's really fucking unlucky!"

After listening to the words, several people also understood what happened before.

There is indeed a saying of "clean mouth" in Taoism, which originally meant not to say some taboo words, but some places also directly require not to speak for a period of time.

It can be regarded as a kind of exercise for desire and personal nature. It is estimated that the Taoist priest was still talking about it just now, so he never replied to what Ji Han and the others said. Maybe he really couldn't bear the slander of eggplant, so he yelled out loudly.

This time I amused the eggplant:

"Let me tell you, Fellow Daoist, you have more bits and pieces in your mouth than I do. I'm afraid it's a bit difficult to clean your mouth."

The Taoist priest in purple didn't say much, but just turned around and gave Eggplant another look.

Ji Han saw that since he was able to communicate without barriers, he asked again:

"Fellow Daoist, do you understand the situation in the city ahead?"

It may be because the Taoist priest in purple clothes no longer pretended to be deaf and dumb like before, but he did not reply directly, but suggested:

"The stone city in front of you is not a place for you to go. You may die, so I advise you to leave early."

Ji Hanxin said that this is the place we were looking for, if you tell us the beautiful mountains and clear waters, the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, we will feel weird.

So he replied:

"You don't have to worry about this, fellow daoists. Since we're here, we're all enlightened. We just want to make some preparations in advance."

After the Taoist priest in purple hesitated for a moment, he still shook his head and said:

"Then I'm afraid I can't help you much, but no matter what you do, I hope you leave as soon as possible, otherwise you may be involved in danger."

As soon as Ji Han heard it, he knew that this guy must know something, but he just kept it secret.

Before he could continue to ask, the Taoist priest in purple took out two dry biscuits from his bag and chewed them.

Seeing that Ji Han and the others didn't seem to have any intention of eating, the Taoist handed over the remaining dry food in his bag and said:

"Four friends, although I don't know which temple you are from and what you are doing here, I still advise you to go back early and not stay here for anything. I still have some dry food to share with you. The nearest inn to the east is also nearly a hundred miles away, and it may be useful when you go back."

Ji Han smiled and said:

"Fellow Daoist, you gave us all the dry food, aren't you going to go back?"

The Taoist waved his hand and said:

"It's not the dry food that affects whether I can go back. Oh, forget it, you can continue to ride this bullock cart when you go back, but return it to the owner of the inn in Kucha Town, and treat him as nothing. Ingots of silver, if I can go back, I will ask him for it myself. This cow also knows the way, and I will ask you to take it all the way back."

Listening to the Taoist's words, Ji Han and the others became more and more confused, wondering what it was all about.

However, the four of them could also tell that the Taoist priest had good intentions, as he was sending cattle and sharing dry food.

Seeing that the Taoist priest in purple couldn't swallow the cake, Chen Ke poured out a large amount of dried pork from his backpack while passing the water.

Originally, Chen Ke wanted to continue to use the beef jerky he ate every time, but this time he was in Hainan, and it was really not easy to purchase, so he had to buy a large amount of pork at the convenience store at the airport as a substitute.

Chen Kexin said that it was a good thing to replace beef jerky with dried pork, because it was illegal to eat beef in many dynasties in ancient times, and Taoist priests also avoided eating beef.

Chen Ke opened a large bag of dried pork and handed it over:

"Although it seems inappropriate to eat these on the cart, but now is not the time for picky eaters, come to Daoist, try mine."

Smelling the smell of meat, the Taoist priest in purple chewed the dry biscuit in his mouth, swallowed and said:

"This...not so good?"

After about half a stick of incense, the four of Ji Han and the Taoist priest in purple began to feast on the cart.

Ji Han and the four of them didn't eat anything after getting off the airport in order to hurry up, while the Taoist priest in purple ate nothing but dry biscuits all the way. The meaty aroma of technology and hard work.

Not long after, he was like Ji Han and the others, munching on the jerky and drinking the hot water from the thermos.

After swallowing a big mouthful, he let out a satisfied breath and said:

"Which temple do you practice in? It's too comfortable a day!"

Ji Han smiled and said:

"These are trivial matters. I can discuss them with fellow Taoists later. Now, can you tell us about the stone city in front of us?"

As the saying goes, people who eat people have short mouths, and the purple-clothed Taoist squeezed a few slices of pork jerky from the bag and explained:

"Actually, I just don't want you to take risks. The stone city in front was left over from the Tang Dynasty. At that time, there were four towns in Anxi, and the fortress guarding the town of Qiuci was here. So it can be said that this is a fortress site."

Ji Han didn't know what dynasty it was now, and it was inconvenient to ask to reveal his identity as a time traveler, but from the Taoist's words, he could also hear that the Tang Dynasty should be some time away from now, so he asked:

"Ruins? Does that mean there is no one here now?"

"Of course."

"Since there is no one else, why is the danger you mentioned just now coming?"

"Although it has been so long, and this land has changed hands many times, since the Tang Dynasty until now, no foreign army has entered here, and no army has reoccupied this fortress."

Ji Han puzzled and said:

"Hey, isn't there only one stone city here? Can it be worth thousands of troops?"

The Taoist priest in purple looked up at Stone City, which was already very close, shook his head and said:

"On this mountain, there is not only an empty city, but also a whole army of Yin soldiers who once buried all the invading enemies."

Chapter 816 The Soldier

When Ji Han heard about Yin Bing, he didn't pay much attention.

After all, the so-called Yin soldiers along the way have already seen several cars. This kind of saying is so common that it can no longer cause any fear to Chen Ke.

Sure enough, Chen Ke said curiously:

"Yin soldiers? Fellow Daoists, we cultivators are still afraid of this. Anyway, it is within the scope of our profession. Since you know that there are Yin soldiers here, why don't you just deal with them?"

The Taoist priest in purple looked back at Chen Ke and snorted softly:

"First, I really admire the brave warriors who used to exist here.

Second, they can't harm one side here, on the contrary, they can also protect the stability here.

Last but not least, I can't handle trails. "

Ji Han asked curiously:

"Fellow Daoist, what is the origin of those Yin soldiers you mentioned?"

The Taoist priest in purple sighed, and began to look at the stone city and tell the history here:

"Tang Taizong Li Shimin wiped out TLF's Gaochang State, and set up the Anxi Protectorate in Jiaohe City to manage military and political affairs in the Western Regions. Later, Anxi Governor Guo Xiaoke defeated the Kucha Kingdom and moved the Anxi Protectorate to Qiucha to rule over Kucha, The four towns of Yanqi, Khotan, and Shule guard the northwestern frontier of the Tang Dynasty, do you know that?"

The four of them nodded. These Chen Kes have been popularized to everyone before.

The Taoist priest in purple nodded and continued to narrate:

"At that time, the enemy of the Western Regions was no longer the Xiongnu, but Tubo.

In the early Tang Dynasty, Songtsen Gampo commanded 20 Tubo troops to attack Songzhou in Datang, but was defeated by Datang troops.He sent a special envoy to Chang'an to apologize and ask for a marriage.After that, Princess Wencheng entered Tibet, and the 20-year peaceful cooperation between Tang Dynasty and Tubo began.

More than ten years after Tang Taizong and Songtsan Gampo passed away one after another, the conflict between Tubo and Datang resumed in order to compete for the Western Regions.The battle of Dafeichuan in Qinghai, the war between Datang and Tubo broke out in an all-round way.

The four towns of Anxi in the Western Regions have also become places where the two sides have repeatedly fought over and changed hands several times.

But crises always occur when there is turmoil in the Central Plains. Later, the Anshi Rebellion broke out, which brought serious disasters to the Central Plains.The Tang army stationed in the Hexi Corridor and the Anxi Protectorate in the Western Regions had to be transferred to the interior to participate in the counter-insurgency.

Anxi Duhu Mansion and Beiting Duhu Mansion received the edict of Tang Suzong, and Li Qiyun, the Sima of the Anxi Marching Army, Li Siye, the General of Hussars, and Ma Phus, the General of the Left and Right Jinwu Guards, led the army back to the Central Plains. A total of 15000 elite soldiers were called back.

The forces of Anxi and Beiting, which are located in the Western Regions, were greatly weakened immediately.Tubo took advantage of the opportunity to attack the Hexi Corridor with all its strength and marched into the Western Regions. After that, Tubo captured the area west of Fengxiang in Shaanxi and north of Fenzhou in Sichuan.Later, they continued to capture the land of Longyou, which separated Hexi from the Central Plains.

At that time, the Tubo army even captured Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and retreated half a month later.

Over the next ten years, Tubo moved north along the Qilian Mountains, and Liangzhou, Ganzhou, Suzhou, and Guazhou in Hexi fell successively.With the fall of Shazhou, an important town that had fought against Tubo for many years, the Hexi Corridor was completely lost.The passage between the Western Regions and Datang was cut off, and the Tang Dynasty's Western Region garrison was alone outside the Great Wall, facing a very difficult situation.

However, the Beiting Governor's Mansion still has Yixiting Jiedu envoy Li Yuanzhong commanding the remaining troops of the Hanhai, Tianshan, and Yiwu armies to stand firm, and Anxi Governor Guo Xin led the Anxi Army to control the four towns of Anxi. The Tubo army fell.

Later, Li Yuanzhong and Guo Xin sent messengers to detour to Chang'an to report the military situation to the DPRK.

At this time, the Anshi Rebellion had already subsided, and Tang Dezong Li Shi was already in power in the Tang Dynasty.

Only then did the imperial court know that the two Protectors of the Western Regions were still intact, so they named Li Yuanzhong the Protector of Beiting and the King of Ningsai County, and Guo Xin the Protector of Anxi and the King of Wuwei County.

But they are unable to give any reinforcements of troops and money.

Later, the eminent monk Wukong met Guo Xin in Qiuci on his way back from Tianzhu to learn Buddhist scriptures, and also met with the local guardian envoys in Shule, Khotan and Yanqi, which shows that the four towns of Anxi were still in the hands of the Tang army at this time.

They mobilized the army and the people, recruited soldiers from the fields, developed the economy, minted coins, and always used the year name of Datang.Although completely with the Central Plains

After breaking off contact, he is still maintaining the land of Datang in the remote Western Regions.

Beiting was captured by Tubo. At this time, Li Yuanzhong had died four years ago, and Yang Xigu, the successor of Beiting Jiedu, led more than [-] people to evacuate to Xizhou.After failing to contact Huihe to recover Beiting, Yang Xigu was killed by Huihe Prime Minister Jiegan Jiasi.

Datang lost contact with Anxi because of this. He did not know the survival of the Anxi Protectorate, and in fact had given up control of Anxi.

However, what the imperial court did not expect was that Anxi was still struggling under the leadership of Jiedu envoy Guo Xin.

Guo Xin was born in a family of famous generals. His grandfather Guo Jingzhi was the governor of Shouzhou and Shangzhu Kingdom.His father, Guo Ziyun, was a guerrilla general.His uncle was Guo Ziyi, king of Fenyang, who was a hero in suppressing the Anshi Rebellion.

General Yunhui and General Zuowuwei Guo Xin were ordered to go to governor Hexi and Anxi and other places.Later, he successively served as the empress of the four towns of Anxi, the guardian of Anxi, and the envoy of the four towns.In charge of the Anxi Protectorate.

When he first arrived, Khotan fell first among the four Anxi towns.

But it was not until 18 years later that Kucha, where the Anxi Protectorate was located, was finally captured by Tubo.

Under the extremely difficult situation, Guo Xin led the remnant Tang army to persist for another 18 years!

Although in the history books, there is no exact record about the time when Anxi finally fell and the whereabouts of Guo Xin.

But I finally confirmed that the last barrier they were guarding was this stone city, and most of the Yin soldiers inside were transformed at that time, let alone incapable, how can I be qualified to deal with them? "

Hearing this, Ji Han and the others were also a little emotional. Even though they didn't see those Tang soldiers with their own eyes, after listening to the Taoist priest in purple, the following scene could emerge in their minds:

At the last moment of the city's destruction, Guo Xin, the king of Wuwei County with gray hair all over his head, led a group of hungry and exhausted veterans, braved the snow, and still stood on the top of the city of Kucha and fought bloody battles with the Tubo soldiers until all died heroically.

This is not a historical interpretation, nor is it a clichéd plot. This is the past in the ancient ruins in front of us.

And these people didn't even leave their names in the history books, but what they did was more respectable than those emperors and generals.

Ji Han asked:

"How do fellow daoists know so much about the situation here? Could it be that you have some connections with this place?"

The Taoist priest in purple ate the last two slices of dried pork, waved his hands and said:

"I also came here before to listen to the general introduction of my brother, and then I went back and checked the relevant books in detail."

"But since it's not about dealing with the Yin soldiers here, why are fellow daoists coming here this time?"

Chapter 817 Don't worry

Hearing Ji Han's question, the Taoist priest in purple seemed to be a little speechless, and after a moment of hesitation, he still said the same thing:

"Don't worry about why I came here. Now that you understand the situation here, leave as soon as possible if you have nothing to do. If you are throwing your life here, don't say Xiaodao didn't warn you."