Li Ze stood at the head of Lingzhou city.

On the city gate tower behind him, the Tang Dynasty flags fluttered in the wind. The warriors with distinctive armor stood neatly along the battlements of the city walls, extending all the way. Under the head of the city, tens of thousands of cavalry stood on horseback, and everyone looked up at Li Ze above the head of the city.

It happened that the place where Li Ze stood was exactly where Tochar was standing not long ago.

"I can finally splash ink and paint it!" Li Ze closed his eyes and opened his arms, as if he wanted to pour the magnificent mountains and rivers into his arms.

Under the city, some soldier suddenly raised his arms and shouted.

"Long live!"

The next moment, the shouts of long live surged up like a tide, which scared Li Ze. Behind him, Min Rou had a smug smile on the corner of her mouth, and Li Cunzhong swallowed with difficulty, with an extremely ugly face. Last year's top scorer, Kang Yu, who was called, flashed by a shock on his face, but he instantly returned to normal. He looked at the soldiers who were rushing down the city and shouting tsunami, looking as if he were a matter of course.

Li Ze stretched out his hands forward and slowly pressed down. The sound of long live sounds shook the clouds and nights silently in an instant.

"Da Tang!" Li Ze pulled out the dragon sword at his waist with a choke, raised it high, and shouted loudly.

"Wan Sheng!"

"Da Tang!"

"Wan Sheng!"

Li Ze nodded with satisfaction.

This time, Li Ze still felt a pity that he had not met Tocharo. He admired Tocharo quite a bit. He was not short of mind, no lack of skill, and of course, no lack of ruthlessness and decisive decisions. If there are shortcomings, it is that he is too old.

This is his fatal point. No matter how powerful a person is, he can never resist the erosion of time. Compared to him, he has an advantage in this regard and he has enough time to outline the country he wants.

"Min Rou, let the soldiers return to the camp!" Li Ze ordered.

"As for your order!" Min Rou turned around and walked down the city tower.

Li Ze turned to look at Li Cunzhong and Kang Yu: "General Li, Kang Yu, come with me!"

For some reason, when Tocharo left Lingzhou, he did not destroy Lingzhou City. Of course, all the people in the city were taken away by him, leaving only an empty city for Li Ze.

In Li Ze's view, this was a demonstration by Tochar. Such a city that looked like a ghost realm could shock people more than the ruins of a place.

In fact, the Tang army, who had just entered the city, was indeed shocked.

The army dug three feet into the city and searched, but found nothing abnormal. Li Ze didn't want to fall into a trap, because he had done such a thing, and after he used it, he burned the former Henghai Army to the point of being useless.

It was not until the safety was confirmed that the army officially entered the city.

"General Cunzhong, in the future, I will leave this line of Lingzhou to you to guard." Li Ze looked at Li Cunzhong and said, "There are 10,000 soldiers in the first left Wu Guard. Next, I will draw 20,000 infantry and cavalry from the Right Wu Guard, Left Wei Guard, Left Jinwu Guard and Left Qianniu Guard. At the same time, you will recruit 5,000 to 10,000 young and strong men in Lingzhou and Yinzhou, gathering a total of 40,000 people. However, in Lingzhou, Yinzhou cannot be recruited overnight. You need to discuss with Dai Lin and Kang Yu to go step by step. After all, these two places have suffered huge losses in this war, and there is also a lot of demand for young and strong men."

"As for your order!" Li Cunzhong clasped his fists and said helplessly.

Yes, he was also the general of the Left Wu Guard, and Li Ze even entrusted him with important tasks to guard one side. But compared to the past, he knew that he was no longer the Li Cunzhong of the past. The Left Wu Guard in front of him was no longer the Left Wu Guard who obeyed his own will and had no other intentions. The Left Wu Guard, which was drawn from each guard, would definitely not be poor in combat, but they were no longer loyal to him, but Li Ze.

I am just their commander.

If one day Li Ze wanted to remove himself, he would just need a messenger and a handwritten letter, and he would have to roll up the bedding and leave Zuo Wuwei.

"General Cunzhong, do you understand what you are going to do next?" Li Ze looked at Li Cunzhong with a smile and asked.

"Don't worry, with Li Cunzhong here for one day, I will never let the Tubo people step into the territory of our Tang Dynasty." Li Cunzhong said firmly.

"Not only that!" Li Ze shook his head and said, "In my opinion, after Tocharo returns to China, he will still maintain a strong attitude. After all, this person has been in power in Tubo for decades, and his prestige is not comparable to that of others in a short period of time. Therefore, as long as he returns to China, the chaos in Tubo will soon return to peace. This is not a good thing for Delhi Chinan, who we support."

Li Cunzhong was slightly surprised: "What the Prime Minister means is that the Zuowu Guard must maintain strong military pressure on Tubo?"

"The troops I'll transfer to you are mainly cavalry." Li Ze nodded slightly and said, "It's not just to maintain strong military pressure. Once Tochar wants to launch a large-scale military force against Delhi Chinan, you might as well raise your troops to suppress it."

Li Cunzhong took a deep breath: "What the Prime Minister means is, if you have the chance, I can go and chew him and take advantage of it?"

"If you can get the advantage, I don't mind." Li Ze smiled and said, "But you have to grasp a certain degree and don't really make Tocharo upset and make up your mind to have a big fight with you, because in this way, we will tilt too many resources to you again, and this is not what we want."

"I understand what the prime minister means. I must work hard to ensure that Delhi Chinan can survive and not let Tochar kill him easily." Li Cunzhong said.

"We will give Delhi Chinan some other help in other aspects. Of course, Delhi Chinan needs to pay a price to get these helps. The more time he lives, the more we can get." Li Ze smiled, looking like a profiteer, "Under the strong pressure of Tochar, what other ways does he have besides holding our thighs?"

Li Cunzhong looked at Li Ze's smile and said nonchalantly, but he felt a chill in his vest and felt goose bumps appearing layer by layer.

This is to lie down on Delhi Chinan to suck blood, and let the other party beg him to suck. Compared to the destruction of the family, Delhi Chinan must choose to exploit Li Ze. Delhi Chinan wants to get rid of such a dilemma unless he can defeat Tochar in the domestic struggle.

But as long as Tochar is still alive, I am afraid that this possibility is not high.

Of course, Tochar is old, and one day, King Yama will come and take him away. Maybe this day is what Delhi Chinan is looking forward to?

But when this day really comes, I'm afraid Li Ze's policy toward Tubo will change again.

"Kang Yu, you are the first top scholar after we were admitted to the imperial examinations. Before that, you had studied with Shangshu Zhang for many years and were familiar with our policies. So this time, you can be directly eliminated and become the governor of Lingzhou. Do you have the confidence to do the things here well?" Li Ze looked at Kang Yu.

"Do your best, and you dare not slackew." Kang Yu bowed and said, "But the Prime Minister's political views before the officials were just talks on paper and had no practical experience, so he did not dare to guarantee anything to the Prime Minister at will."

Li Ze laughed and looked at Li Cunzhong and said, "General Cunzhong, have you seen it? This is the talents from our Wuwei Academy. They will not be timid, nor will they promise anything casually. They will only promise to do their best to do something. However, I think this is enough. As long as we do our best and do our best, we should not pursue him, but should reflect on whether there is any mistake in selecting and employing people."

Li Cunzhong nodded with a wry smile.

"Kang Yu, Shangshu Cao knew that you were not experienced enough in the grassroots level, so he specially selected a group of senior officials from various places to serve in your position. These people are all old people. They are extremely skilled in the grassroots level, but they are also very slippery. What you have to do is to manage these people well and grasp the direction of the major politics. I don't want my governor, a senior official, to experience everything personally, and to vomit blood, and not do things well. If you want to do good things, you must first manage the good people. Although you are the top scholar, in the eyes of these people, you are an absolute rookie in the officialdom. Whether you can calm them will be the basis for whether the governor of Lingzhou can do well."

"Don't worry, Prime Minister. I dare to guarantee this!" Kang Yu said with a smile.

"Okay, I finally saw the heroic spirit of the top scholar." Li Ze smiled and said, "Now there are less than 20,000 households left in Lingzhou, which is not as good as an ordinary county in the mainland. Within three years, I hope that Dingkou here will double, and hope that the economy here can be self-sufficient and able to withstand ordinary natural disasters."

"The official must work hard to complete the prime minister's arrangement."

"General Cunzhong's general will also be in Lingzhou. You are both civil and military. I hope to work closely together without being dirty. Only by combining civil and military affairs can we ensure that the borders of Lingzhou are on the basis of safety and ease, and further cooperate with the court's major policies and strategies."

Li Cunzhong and Kang Yu stood up together and bowed with fists.

"I respect the Prime Minister's order. General Li is far superior to his seniority and experience. From now on, Kang will ask General Li for advice."
Chapter completed!