After Li Zhi and his fleet left, they arrived in Shanghai three days. In two days, the Spring Festival will be held. In addition, Li Chengqian and Li Ke are both here, so Li Zhi and Aizi will stay here for three days and wait until after the festival.

Speaking of which, Li Zhi and his friends returned to the flight were carefully arranged. For example, celebrating the Lantern Festival in Shanghai was specially requested by Li Ke and Li Chengqian. After all, Li Zhi and Aizi have been in Taiwan for nearly a year, but they have no time to come to see their two brothers again, so they requested this.

This is the second time that Li Zhi and his friends have celebrated the Spring Festival outside Chang'an. The last time they just arrived in Taiwan, but they spent the New Year with Li Yan's family in Keelung. Although compared with Chang'an, Keelung's population is really small and the size of the city is incomparable, Keelung is far overseas and has various cultural exchanges in the city, so the New Year there is also a unique charm. The only thing that makes Li Zhi and Yizi feel a little uncomfortable is that the winter in Keelung is too warm. Not only does it snow, but if the quilt is too thick at night, it will also feel a little hot.

Compared with Keelung, the winter in Shanghai is much colder, especially a thin layer of snow a few days ago. Although it melted into snow water in a very short time, it also brought a bit of coldness to the winter in Shanghai and added a bit of the New Year flavor.

Shanghai is a new city and a harbor. There are quite a few businessmen in the city, all of whom have a wealth of wealth. In order to welcome the Shangyuan Festival, they collectively contributed funds to dress up the entire Shanghai as a sea of ​​lanterns. The streets are filled with various colors. The shapes of the lamps are also strange. Many are said to be mythical figures or legends from overseas countries, which adds an overseas style to the traditional Shangyuan Festival.

On the Lantern Festival that day, Li Zhi, Caier and Hu Yuyi went out together, but although they brought a lot of guards, they still couldn't stop the enthusiasm of the young men and women in Shanghai. Not only did many men take the opportunity to come forward and chat with Caier and Hu Yuyi. Even Li Zhi himself received a lot of romance from girls on the beach. In the end, Caier and Hu Yuyi held Li Zhi's hand, which made many fewer people come forward to harass him.

Three days passed in a flash. After spending an unforgettable Lantern Festival in Shanghai, Li Zhi and Caier finally boarded the ship again. However, this time they did not stop on the road, and even went to Dengzhou. They directly entered the Yellow River from the Bohai Sea and then went west along the river. They quickly arrived in Chang'an through Luoyang.

In order to welcome her son who had been out for a year and a half, Li Shimin specially sent someone to greet him, but Caier and Yizi quietly returned to the city from another city gate. After all, as women, they were in other names when they went out, so naturally they could not return to the city with Li Zhi this time.

The first thing Li Zhi did when he returned to Chang'an was to pay his respects to Li Shimin and talked about his experience over the past year and a half, especially the development situation in overseas Taiwan and other places. This was the key point that Li Shimin wanted to know. Li Zhi also had many words to tell his father, especially his feelings over the past year. He was eager to find someone to talk to, and Li Shimin was undoubtedly an excellent object.

The father and son talked endlessly in the study room in Liangyi Hall. Even the meal was sent to the study room. At night, neither of them felt sleepy. In the end, Empress Changsun arrived there in person after receiving the news. Then, the father and son were asked to go back to rest separately.

However, in the next few days, whenever Li Shimin had time, he would call Li Zhi and let him tell him about his experiences and thoughts over the past year. In fact, it was through his son's eyes and mouth that Li Shimin understood all aspects of the Tang Dynasty and Taiwan, so as to find out his gains and losses during his governance.

Through Li Zhi's story, Li Shimin also knew about Li Yan's situation overseas. When Taiwan could develop so rapidly in just a few years, and some places were even far ahead of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin was also a little shocked. Especially in the end, when Li Zhi said that Principal Hu chose to stay in Taiwan and refused to return to the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin was silent for a long time after hearing this.

"Father, although I have only been in Taiwan for a year, I do feel that there is less repression than the Tang Dynasty, but more freedom and prosperity. I also considered this a lot and found that this situation was not only because of the different policies of our Tang Dynasty and Taiwan, but also related to the interests of all parties. I really can't think of any way to build the Tang Dynasty into Taiwan like that?" Li Zhi sighed at the end.

After hearing this, Li Shimin patted Li Zhi on the shoulder and said, "Although Taiwan was separated from the Tang Dynasty, the two are essentially different. Not to mention other aspects, our Tang Dynasty established a country based on agriculture, which is also the idea of ​​establishing a country for thousands of years in the Central Plains dynasty. Although the Tang Dynasty has developed very rapidly in recent years, its policies are still based on agriculture and there are certain restrictions on industry and commerce."

Li Shimin stopped here, and then said, "But your sixth brother's idea is completely different. He disagrees with the idea of ​​building a country in agriculture. Through his actions in Taiwan and other places over the past few years, it can be seen that he pursues a country in business and is full of interest in overseas development. This makes them Taiwan already embark on a completely different path from our Tang Dynasty. As for who is right and who is wrong in the future, he can't even explain it clearly."

After hearing this, Li Zhi felt aroused in his heart and immediately spoke: "Father, what do you mean is that Taiwan and our Tang Dynasty have their own characteristics, so there is no need to pursue the exact same thing?"

Li Shimin nodded with relief and said with a smile: "Yes, Chi Nu, you haven't been in vain this trip. Taiwan has the benefits of Taiwan. Our Tang Dynasty also has the advantages of the Tang Dynasty. However, this time you can see the gap between the Tang Dynasty and Taiwan, which is also a significant improvement!"

Hearing his father's praise, although Li Zhi spoke humbly, he was very happy in the center. However, Li Zhi thought of another thing and asked: "Father, when I was in Taiwan, I heard that you were going to use troops against the Western Turks. Although I saw some war situations in the newspaper, they were not very accurate. What is the current war situation?"

When Li Shimin heard his son ask about this, he showed a very excited expression, and then talked about the war between the Tang Dynasty and the Western Turks.

It turned out that just a few months ago, the Western Regions countries that surrendered to the Tang Dynasty sent out elite troops, a total of 100,000 troops, obeying the command of Guo Xiaoke and Qibing Heli, attacking the Western Turkic Beiting from both sides, as well as the Western Turkic Nanting, Tubo, Tiel tribes, Tuyuhun and others, and also formed 100,000 elite cavalry, commanded by Asuna Sheer, and attacked from the front.

The Tang Dynasty has always believed in the policy of elite troops in the Western Regions. After all, it is too far from the Central Plains to supply too much material, so it usually does not exceed 100,000 when it goes to expeditions. However, in order to destroy the Western Turks in one fell swoop, it launched an army of 200,000 at once. Although most of this army is composed of alien races and its combat power is weaker than that of the Tang army, it is an irresistible force for the Beiting of the Western Turks.

The battle officially started four months ago. Yibidulu Khan of Beiting personally led 100,000 cavalry to fight and launched a battle with Ashinaser east of Mount Ho. As a result, the two sides with equal troops fought bloody battles for half a month, but they still had no choice but to win or lose. At this time, the other two armies commanded by Guo Xiaoke and Qi Bi Heli bypassed the battlefield and rushed to Beiting's base camp, which was the Beiting Ya Ting west of Mount Ho. As a result, the Beiting Ya Ting Ya Ting, which had no soldiers to defend, was attacked by a hundred thousand troops, causing smoke to roll in the rear of Beiting, and countless Turkic tribes were destroyed.

Yipidulu Khan, who was fighting with Ashin Sir in front, heard the news of being attacked in the rear. Although he was shocked, he ordered the news to be blocked in the army to avoid shaking the morale of the army. Unfortunately, the Tang army did not give him this opportunity at all. Ashin Sir, who also received the news, immediately spread the news, which caused the morale of the army to fluctuate in the Beiting camp.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ashinasheer broke through the camp of the Beiting Army in one fell swoop. He wanted to capture Yibidulu Khan alive, but unfortunately the other party was extremely cunning. Seeing that the situation was not good in advance, he immediately fled west with thousands of confidants. While fleeing, he also conquered the defeated army. In addition, some tribes joined, he finally gathered tens of thousands of troops again, escaped the joint pursuit of Guo Xiaoke and Qiheli, and fled westward into the United States.

The United States, which is later Uzbekistan, is close to the Aral Sea of ​​Later generations. Originally, the United States was also a vassal state of the Western Turks, but it belonged to the sphere of influence of the Southern Ting and was considered to be a hostile side to the Beiting of Yibidulu Khan. Unfortunately, the United States is not strong and far from the Tang Dynasty, so they could not resist the attack of the tens of thousands of troops of Yibidulu Khan. Finally, when the Tang army arrived, the United States was already controlled by Yibidulu Khan.

Originally, after more than a month of continuous battles, three armies including Asunaser were already exhausted. So although they knew that Yibidulu Khan was in the United States, they were unable to attack at this time, so they could only send people to siege the United States first, and it would not be too late to attack after the army recuperated for a while.

However, what no one expected was that just before Yibidulu Khan occupied the United States, civil strife occurred within Beiting. The reason was very simple. The Turkic army was composed of tribes. Yibidulu Khan himself had his own direct troops, while the others were his own troops. After capturing the United States, they captured a large amount of population and supplies. However, Yibidulu Khan, who was seriously injured, wanted to vomit these population and supplies alone, which caused dissatisfaction among the generals.
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