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Chapter 108 New Red River Valley

Looking down at Lhasa, surrounded by mountains, shaded by trees, and new houses, it is a beautiful river valley town reflected by the blue sky and white clouds.

Lhasa Inn is located in Bakang Street. It is a two-story Tibetan-style building with clear edges and edges. This area is filled with prayer flags and mulberry smoke. In the center of the street, there is a giant incense burner filled with fireworks day and night.[]

On the second floor of the inn, Zhu Sisi looked at the most mysterious land in the empire except the forbidden palace in the capital. In her hand, she was a "Liangyou Pictorial" bought in Yunnan. The latest issue is the cover of the empire's most popular singer. Although it belongs to Fengyue Magazine, it also published the news that the empire and the Governor of New South Wales signed an agreement involving the status of China's construction projects and the empire began to negotiate with surrounding countries to identify boundary monuments.

Zhu Sisi came with an exploration team this time. The mission of this exploration team is to further accurately map the empire's borders and establish boundary monuments with the British and Indian authorities in southern Bhutan and other places.

As a member of the National Assembly of the Council, Zhu Sisi likes to practice many things in person. When coming to Tibet to see the situation of Tibetans with his own eyes and inspect the boundary monuments, Zhu Sisi has long wanted to do, and Ye Zhao also supports this.

At this time, the heroic female officer in the crimson uniform standing behind Zhu Sisi was Zhu Sisi's personal safety officer, the first-class guard Li Yufeng.

Li Yufeng also cared about contacting the Third Squadron of the First Battalion of the Royal Lao Mountain Brigade Task Force, which accompanied the protection and survey team. More than a hundred well-equipped mountain brigade officers and soldiers were enough to deal with emergencies in Tibet.

However, according to the emperor's instructions, Li Yufeng was trying to persuade the imperial concubine not to go to the border inspection by herself. After all, the environment is harsh and she may encounter unexpected dangers.

Zhu Sisi couldn't help feeling a little regretful, but she knew that she could not be too willful after all. Otherwise, she would only be tired and troubled. If she really went to the China-India border, she was afraid that at least one border guard would be urgently transferred to ensure her safety.

Finally, she could only sigh and said, "Feng'er, I'll listen to you."

This is the first time Li Yufeng has been with Concubine Li to do a job. I heard that Concubine is compassionate to her feelings. Now I see that it is true, so I hurriedly bowed and said, "Don't worry, Empress, there is no danger in the surrounding villages of Lhasa City. Empress can enjoy the whole view."

Zhu Sisi said slightly and said, "This afternoon is the day when Langzi Xiamen is rebuilt?"

Langzixia is the largest prison in Lhasa, used to deal with serfs or prisoners. The tortures inside are extremely terrifying, and various punishments are even chilling. The prison performs torture such as nose and tongue, ears, cramps, hearts and intestines, heads and heads, genitals, skins and burys, and oil pans. It also exposes the living person's stomach and exposes his internal organs, and then goes around Bakang Street to kill him. The torture includes skin pats, wooden shackles, steel wire whips, cowhide ropes, stone hats, eye-digging spoons, broken finger knifes, copper horses, nailed finger bamboo sticks and other types of drops.

Langzixia also used the opportunity of torture and murderous criminals to provide sacrifices for "chanting mantras" to the Kasha government and the upper lamas in the temples, such as human skin, human flesh, human heart, human intestines, etc., with very cruel methods.

Zilangxia is the most appropriate way to describe it as hell on earth.

Li Yufeng said: "I heard that yes, the poster sent by Cheng Futai also said the same."

Zhu Sisi said, "Then we have to go and see." He said, "Feng'er, do you think the great emperor is a Tibetan Bodhisattva?" When he said this, Zhu Sisi felt a hint of pride in his heart. It was nothing to be the emperor's rule over the territory of thousands of miles, but hundreds of thousands of miserable slaves were rescued by his husband. This is the great compassion and merit.

The abolition of the Zilangxia system is just the beginning.

Zilangxia was banned, and all the innocent serf prisoners were released in prison were on the front page of various newspapers and magazines of the Empire. When the women who had been cut off their hands and feet and the serfs who had been inhumane torture were released from prison, Tibetans on the streets of Bakhun were crying and cheering. The prisoners' families were excited to kneel on the ground. Some saw the miserable situation of their relatives and fainted in grief. However, most Tibetans murmured to pray to the sky and recite scriptures for the Great Emperor of Manjushri Bodhisattva. If the emperors who praised the Yellow Sect in the previous dynasty only received the honorific title of "Emperor Manjushri Bodhisattva", the current Central Plains emperor began to enter the life of the lower Tibetans from this moment on.

Some people regard him as the Bodhisattva Wheel-Turning King, and there will be more people who hate him. The chaos in the entire Tibetan area will probably arise from then on.

Ye Zhao, who was in the capital, was in the East Warm Pavilion of the Forbidden Palace, looking through the reports of the "China Times" on Lhasa, saying: "The propaganda must keep up, mainly in the Tibetan area."

Standing under the dragon couch was Huang Zunxian, the chief minister of the Imperial Study Room. He was less than 30 years old, but he was well-versed in Chinese and Western learning and was quite popular among Ye Zhao.

After the former reporter Li Shuchang entered the State Council, Huang Zunxian took over his position. Now Li Shuchang has been released from the governor of Jiangsu. Anyone knows that this is the emperor's determination to promote the election of parliamentarians in the whole province of Jiangsu. He then sent a disciple of the emperor, a beloved general from the imperial study room, so he immediately disappeared due to his voice against the election of the envoy.

Looking through the newspapers, Ye Zhao suddenly thought about something and asked: "Is the lieutenant colonel officer in the northern border of Pamir Mountain called Liu Buchan?"

Huang Zunxian was stunned for a moment and said, "Yes." He knew that the emperor was most concerned about Tibet and various boundary surveys, and the boundary survey was also the most important thing in the official reports of the empire. He remembered the scholars and military school officials of the three survey teams clearly, but he never expected that the emperor would know the name of a small school official.

Ye Zhao looked into the distance with a slight look, murmured, "Liu Buchan, Liu Buchan..." Many things came to his mind and he didn't say anything for a long time.

The Pamir Plateau is called the Pamir Plateau in Tajik, which means the roof of the world. Nowadays, the entire Pamir Plateau is within the empire. There is a narrow area at the northern end of the Pamir Plateau, the Wakhan Corridor, which belongs to the territory of Afghanistan. The southern end is British India.

In recent years, Britain and India have been invading Afghanistan very urgently. When the Empire and the Kingdom of Afghanistan were surveying the boundary on the map, this narrow buffer zone was ceded by Afghanistan to China, including Langal on the Wakhan River, which is what the Chinese call Lianyun Castle.

In this way, the Tajik area in the Western Regions of China lost the buffer zone with the British and Indian authorities. The Afghans were so powerful that they cut off their arm and lost a small thousand square kilometers of territory, which made the two most powerful countries face each other.

However, even if the Chinese do not accept it, the place will be quickly controlled by the British. Therefore, no matter whether the Afghans drive away tigers or wolfs or not, they can only accept it with a smile.

The professors and students from Fengtian University of Geosciences entered the Wahan River Basin, with more than ten people. The one responsible for escorting their safety was an infantry company of an elite unit. The company commander was Liu Buchan, a senior student who graduated from the Royal Military Academy of Jinling two years ago. He was from Hou Guan of Fujian. He was just 23 years old this year. He participated in the Sino-Russian War with his troops and went to the front line. This was naturally promoted to the company supervisor.

There are many brave and good veterans in the imperial army today. If it were not for the military academy graduates selected by the army, if they wanted to become a first-level official in the company, they would have to make extremely hard efforts to gain recognition. "Student Soldier" is now a derogatory term.

Liu Buchan walked in the snow wearing houhou's black leather boots. The snow made a creaking sound. On the side was the Wahan River, which had just begun to thaw. This was a valley with cliffs on both sides, which were extremely steep.

Walking beside Liu Buchan is a little white girl, the Tajik guide. The Tajiks belong to the Europa race and are one of the white ethnic groups in the empire.

The pretty Tajik girl has dark hair and deep eyes, and her name is Aryan. She doesn't speak Zhongyuan words, but she can communicate with Liu Buchan through gestures.

Aryan is a local resident and lives alone in the valley with his parents and two younger brothers and his family of four or five. Because the Wakhan Corridor was previously Afghanistan territory, they had never seen Chinese soldiers. When the Chinese soldiers with live ammunition appeared outside the fence gate of her house, the family was so scared that they hid in the cellar, but in the end they were copied out by Chinese soldiers. After communicating with gestures, the sensible Aryan became the guide of the Chinese to avoid their family being hurt.

Aryan wanted to bypass Uncle Sangji's house when he led the Chinese to Lianyun Castle, but the Chinese seemed to be smart and could tell the directions with the instruments in their hands and avoid detours.

Aryan dared not lie anymore, so he could only pray that Uncle Sanji and his beautiful aunt were not at home. The British and Indians had also come to the valley. They were very bad. I heard that Sister Habi Pu was captured by them. I still don’t know if they are alive.

If there are no Chinese people, they are just as bad as foreign robbers.

Walking in the valley, Liu Buchan also secretly praised his heart. There were almost no villages in this narrow valley. Occasionally, there were one or two residents in the warm climate near the valley. It was really a paradise.

In front, whenever a sentry hurried back, he whispered a few words in Liu Buchan's ear. Liu Buchan frowned slightly and waved his hand. The soldiers behind him immediately dispersed into a team, and the survey team was covered by a team and hid behind a huge rock.

Aryan's face was pale, because he was about to arrive at Uncle Sangji's house in front of him.

In front of an isolated courtyard inside and outside, several Indian soldiers were beating an old man. After the hillside, the reconnaissance sentry carefully opened the rifle security and raised their guns to aim slowly. When Aryan followed Liu Buchan to the reconnaissance post to see this scene, he recognized that the person being beaten was Uncle Sangji.

Aryan was about to speak when his mouth was covered by a powerful hand, and when he saw the Chinese officer gesture at her very seriously, he signaled her not to speak.

The sentry made a strange gesture, and Aryan could guess that he was reporting to Chinese officers how many enemies there were and where they were.
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