Tursun had to agree with this suggestion. Although he was no longer afraid of giving his life, those who were not afraid of death did not mean that they would seek death. Isn’t the best ending to be alive and then make great contributions?

But Tursun did not live in Burke's Mansion. He knew that the Saint was lying in Sima Yiboke's mouth, which had a great impact on his worldview. Since the Saint was able to deceive people, Sima Yiboke would do the same. Tursun could not believe this guy. He chose to make a five-day agreement with Sima Yi, and then used his business relationship to wander around the surrounding Tianfang Cult Temple, teahouses and inns, and inquire as much as possible.

Tursun and Sima Yiboke finally got similar news. Yarkand City was in chaos again. Apark encountered a big problem. Junggar seemed to have a relaxed attitude and no longer listened to Apark's orders. Many lords returned to their cities and Zhendians and no longer supported Apark. These news summarized that Sima Yi's Aksu is currently safe, so he can discuss with the empire the plan to attack Babai from both sides.

But this time Sima Yiboke became a frightened bird, and he wished Tursun would send troops immediately when he wanted to go back.

"In August, I hope to hear the news that the imperial army entered Hami before August, and then I will lead my troops westward immediately!" Sima Yi said.

But this matter was not decided by Sima Yi. Tuerxun said according to Wei Yunfeng's explanation before coming: "Arrival in October, before October."

"It's too late! At that time, the autumn harvest was over, and Babai, who had food, was even more powerful."

"It is to be after the autumn harvest! Burke, you must know that the supply line of the Celestial Army started from Lanzhou, more than a thousand miles away from Hami. If you take action in August, Babai will definitely burn and destroy the immature grain of Hami and Turpan, strengthen the walls and clear the fields, and shrink back to the city. In that case, can your Aksu, Baicheng, and Kuqa provide all the supplies needed by the army, and can they feed those people who have lost their food?" Tursun asked directly.

Obviously this is impossible. At that time, Apak and Zhuo will not sit idly by and watch the ally of Babai. They will definitely send troops to the east. Who is the Aksu area that takes away the troops? Not to mention providing supplies as a large army. You must know that Babai was attacked by Sima Yiboke and the empire. Isn’t Sima Yiboke also under the attack of Babai and Apak?

The autumn harvest in the Western Regions was in September. The imperial army arrived ten months ago. The autumn harvest in Turpan and Hami ended. After arrival, they could collect grain on the spot. If Babai did the sturdy walls and clear the fields, they would have to grab food from the people, which would obviously arouse public grievances! When the autumn harvest ended, farmers would be idle and more likely to accept corvee labor. The same is for corvee labor. After the autumn harvest, the autumn harvest was two different states. In order to prevent the grain from rotting in the fields, farmers would work hard.

Sima Yi had no choice but to agree. Finally, he placed two letters and a plate of gold and silver in front of Tursun. Tursun was puzzled why he did this. Sima Yi said and picked up an unsigned letter: "Tursun, my true friend, I beg you to come to Lanzhou and find an opportunity to hand this letter to His Highness Cheng in private, please agree to me."

Tuerson wondered: "King of the Lord?"

"Didn't you see him? He is the one responsible for the Western Expedition. He should have arrived in Lanzhou in mid-June..." Sima Yi was puzzled.

Tursun remembered the boy he met in Tianshuijing, a handsome boy who was chatting with him in the bathroom. When he broke up at the Yellow River Ferry, he seemed to have said that I would arrive in Lanzhou before June 15th. Could he be His Highness Cheng?

Tursun almost slapped himself twice. When Sima Yi asked, he could only tell a half-liar: "Is he a fifteen-year-old boy? When Lord Wei told us about the military aircraft, he was beside him. I thought that was just Lord Wei's nephew. I deserved to die. I never knew the nobles of heaven!"

"It's him, he is my daughter's friend. I hope that for Di Liguli's sake, he can arrive as scheduled." Sima Yi said earnestly.

Tuerxun had no choice but to agree. He left Aksu City that day and returned to Lanzhou. He tried his best to speed up along the way. He traveled nine days long, and Tuerxun finally knelt in front of Lin Junhong as fast as possible.

"I am such a damn idiot. I don't even know the Holy Face of Your Highness. I deserve to die." Tursun knelt in front of Lin Junhong and whipped his face.

"Okay, get up, I didn't tell you on purpose. Didn't you say that a donkey without sacking will hold grudges and beat his master. If I don't sacking you, you will be afraid of me, flatter me, and tell me many interesting news about the journey. Will you take me to enjoy local special services at Huamachi and Ferry? You won't, you don't have the courage, Mr. Tuerson, get up, I won't blame you, but I want to tell you a bad news." Lin Junhong smiled and helped Tuerson up.

"Please say, I'm all my life belongs to Your Highness, what bad news are you worried about?" Tursun answered sincerely.

Lin Junhong said: "Originally, I hope you can answer that Lanzhou can share family happiness with his family here and wait for the news of my victory, but I'm sorry, you must serve as the guide of my army. Do you know that my subordinates have found many merchants from Hexi, the Western Regions in Gansu. Each of them mentioned the father Tuerson who helped them. Some people said that you know how many sand there are in the Western Regions desert, and some people said that in the desert, you are more reliable than camels. Judging from their faithful appearance, I can only rely on you."

"I can easily serve you," Tursun replied.

"Why are you more reliable than camels? I looked at their answers and felt that this was not a compliment. It seemed that there was something interesting." Lin Junhong asked.

Tursun carefully took a cup of tea and told him proudly: "That was seventeen years ago. I was a small businessman with only three camels. He traveled through the desert with people to Khotan. He encountered a sandstorm that lasted several days and nights. When the sandstorm ended, we lost one tenth of the camels, but it happened to be all the camels carrying water.

When there is no water in the desert, people will choose to follow the footsteps of camels, but I decided to look for it myself. Someone followed me, but most of them followed the camels, and the only ones who survived were me and my friends. Those who followed the camels never showed up again."

Lin Junhong smiled: "You are such a reliable person, but after listening to this story, you should be my guide."

"Your Highness, Tursun is always listening to your orders." Tursun said.

Lin Junhong patted his shoulders, afraid of him and said, "Okay, go back and wait for news. You have more than a month to enjoy everything in Lanzhou. Now no one will stop you from going anywhere. The emperor taught me that when someone serves you, you must give him the reward he needs most. Mr. Tursun, I will treat you like this."

Tuerxun thanked him and returned to his home excitedly. After experiencing this incident, he was more eager to see his family. When he went to Aksu, he had sent someone to pick up his family from southern Xinjiang to Lanzhou. I think they should have arrived.

When he entered the house, Tursun heard the sound of someone chanting scriptures, which were mixed with many interpretations of the scriptures. His face suddenly changed. Those words were very similar to those of missionary priests. Although he gained the status of an imperial citizen because of his merits, the imperial citizens did not have the power to preach.

"Shut up, shut up!" Tursun rushed into the room where the sound was heard, but only saw a child sitting at the table with a book in his arms, and there was no one else. This child was his favorite son Muhemaiti.

But Muhemaiti should not be here, because he had never told the empire's man the location of Muhemaiti, because he had been secretly settled in the empire by Tursun, but was only in Ningxia City. Obviously, the King Cheng used himself to shock himself.

"Father, you are back, it's so great!" Muhemaiti hugged Tursun.

Tursun snatched the books in Muhemaiti's hand and asked, "Who asked you to read these? You will go to prison, do you know?"

"This is taught by the teacher. I have to recite it today and have a random check tomorrow." Muhemaiti explained, and there is another paragraph in the book: read and recite the full text. Obviously, there will be no such thing in the real scriptures.

"What teacher, what school?" Tursun sat down and asked. His son who shouldn't have appeared appeared and went to school. Obviously, this was not simple.

Muhemaiti explained: "More than 20 days ago, my friend was picked up here from Ningxia and was arranged to study at Lanzhou Tianfang Education and Jing Academy. There were teachers who taught Koran there. This is the textbook of Jing Academy..."

After listening to his son's explanation, Tursun understood a lot. This may be what Lin Junhong said, "give the reward you need the most."

"Father, in fact, the teachers in the School of Sutra are not from the same sect as us. The doctrines they speak are different from those of the Saints." Muhemaiti said carefully.

The Tursun family, who lived in Yarkand all year round, was on the surface of the Baishan School, which was different from the old religions in the empire. Tursun said: "Children, saints and saints have different explanations, otherwise there would be no distinction between Black Mountain and White Mountain."

After recognizing Abdulla's true face, Tursun didn't care about any doctrines, and Muhemaiti was a little worried: "Father, can I really learn these? Isn't this something that can only be done by saints? I'm afraid that others will know, even at home, I will only dare to study in my own bedroom?"

"It's different. In the empire, anyone has the right to learn. Children, do you know that there are no saints here. The priests in the temple are recommended by all the priests. As long as you have enough knowledge, as long as you are fair, peaceful and kind, you can do what the saints do. Do you understand?" Tursun said with a smile.

Muhemai asked: "Then can I never return to my hometown?"

Tursun laughed: "Child, when you grow up, your hometown will definitely be an empire, and the empire is your hometown."

In fact, Tuerxun already fully understood Lin Junhong's intention to arrange Muhemaiti to attend the School of Jing Academy. After graduating from the School of Jing Academy, Muhemaiti was the official sect of the Religious Bureau and was in charge of the faith of one party. This is absolute religious power. With a son of the head, the Tuerxun family can be preserved.

But isn’t the children of the Tursun family who are in charge of the sect and are willing to see the Imperial Religion Bureau? The children of merchants understand the nature of religion, religion, business and power more. The Tursun family is involved and integrates with the empire. Vested interests will only protect and obey the empire, rather than using religion to oppose the empire.

At the end of August, outside Lanzhou City.

Tursun led a camel caravan to wait here. This was everything he prepared for the war, using all his relationships and resources. There were seventy camels, twelve guides and translators, as well as craftsmen who dug wells, doctors and tools needed. If they weren't really impossible, Tursun would definitely buy some camels.

In the refreshing morning breeze, Lin Junhong finally arrived. He only brought more than twenty guards, and there were no one else. Tursun looked in the distance and found no traces of the army and asked, "Your Highness, where is your army?"

Lin Junhong smiled: "If my army set out here, how long will it take for Baby Bock to know, fifteen days or one month?"

Tursun dared not ask again, and it would involve military secrets. He personally brought a clean camel, and the camel sedan was decorated very beautifully: "Your Highness, this is for you."

Lin Junhong knew that camels tasted bad, but so what? Now he can ride a horse, but when he enters the desert, he will ride a camel. Even if he doesn't ride, there are camels around him, and the taste is also very bad.

Climbing up the camel, accompanied by Tursun, this small team headed northwest.

In fact, the army of the Western Expedition had set out in advance. The army of the Western Expedition included a reinforcement brigade, and the vassal soldiers from the Yunzhong and Xining Appeasement Zone. Among them, the reinforcement brigade was added by an infantry brigade in Gansu, a cavalry regiment with a scale of 1,000 people, and two field artillery companies and some craftsmen. The scale of this brigade was smaller than that of the mixed brigade, but there were about 5,000 people. They had taken advantage of the opportunity to change defenses in advance and went to Jiayuguan to guard it. As long as Lin Junhong arrived, he could set off.

The vassal soldiers of the Yunzhong Appeasement Zone had already set off from Xitao in mid-August. There were a total of 3,000 cavalrymen, but they rode camels dispatched from the Appeasement Zone. After they set off from Xitao, they crossed the desert of Alaxan, followed the side walls to Jiayuguan to meet up, and then arrived at Jiayuguan and then obtained war horses. These were the first armies of the Western Expedition Army.

The eight thousand troops, half of each cavalry, and four thousand camels, went to the expedition first. The second batch of troops was also two parts. led by Wei Yunfeng. An infantry regiment set out from Lanzhou and merged with the cavalry in the Shandan area of ​​the Xining Pacification Zone. The Xining Pacification Zone is the smallest appeasement zone in the empire, with only fifteen Zhasaks, and most of them are still producing flags and only five flags can be used for cavalry. Because they also need to be guarded against the threat of the Heshuot Khanate, they will draw one of the five Dings and have two thousand five hundred cavalry. This cavalry will set off from Xining, cross the Biandukou of the Qilian Mountains, arrive at the Dacaotan of Shandan, wait for the arrival of Lanzhou, and then escort the second batch of infantry and supplies to Hami. This army has only two thousand camels, but there are eight hundred baggage vehicles, which are expected to arrive about twenty days later than the advance troops.
Chapter completed!