Chapter 365: I look east to the King's Master. The King's Master won't come? I am the King's Master!
Canopy.

【Zhang Yichao was a nobleman from Shazhou, a descendant of the Zhang family of Dunhuang.】

[In the local area, the Zhang family is a top-level powerful family. ]

[During the Tang Dynasty, the Zhang family was a powerful local family.]

[After the arrival of Tubo, there was no change.]

[Although the Tubo regime was brutal, it showed leniency to the local nobles.]

[Because Tubo also realized that if they did not cooperate with the local tyrants, they would not be able to maintain their rule over Hexi.]

[This is also the ruling method of Tubo. After all, the wealthy families have money and soldiers. ]

【Therefore, many large families in the Hexi region were attached to Tubo during the Tubo rule.】

[They continue to be their local nobles, and act tyrannically. ]

[Although Zhang Yichao lived a wealthy life since childhood, his family also served as officials in Tubo.]

[But he has always been extremely disgusted with the brutal rule of Tubo. ]

[When Zhang Yichao was very young, he regarded the famous Tang Dynasty general Feng Changqing as his idol. ]

[Although Hexi had already fallen when Zhang Yichao was born. ]

【He has never been to the Tang Dynasty.】

【But Zhang Yichao has always been looking forward to the king's teacher. 】

[And unlike others, Zhang Yichao did not passively wait for the king's master to come again. ]

【Instead, it has been quietly accumulating strength. 】

[Prepare to find the right time to recover Shazhou! ]

【Return to the Tang Dynasty with the local people! 】

[Since the king's teacher is not coming? ]

【Then we will create a royal division ourselves! 】

【Zhang Yichao has a lot of family wealth and great ambitions.】

[So from a young age, I began to secretly connect with the local heroes. ]

【Build up connections for the armed forces. 】

【At the same time, he practiced martial arts and studied military books. 】

[After years of accumulation, Zhang Yichao has gathered a large group of Shazhou tyrants around him, with him as the core. ]

[Zhang Yichao also used his own money to secretly build armor and weapons.]

【Make adequate preparations for the uprising. 】

[This is also because the local Tibetan rule was too rough. ]

[Otherwise, in a strictly governed Central Plains dynasty, fighting with a few weapons might not be a big problem. ]

[But privately casting armor on a large scale is a serious crime in any dynasty. ]

[Only in the Tibetan area where the ruling ability was completely messed up, Zhang Yichao could do this. ]

[In 848 AD, the second year of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang’s reign.]

[At the age of 49, Zhang Yichao witnessed the decline of Tubo and its fall into civil war.]

【Warlords, nobles, and slave owners each ruled their own territories.】

[After the people of all ethnic groups in the entire Tubo-ruled area suffered great losses.]

【Zhang Yichao realized.】

[The day I have been waiting for for many years has finally arrived. 】

【As for the process of Zhang Yichao's uprising, there is only one sentence in the history books.】

[“Once, the general put on his armor and shouted at the gate of the prefecture. The Tang people all responded. The Tibetan garrison commander was frightened and fled. Yichao then took over the affairs of the prefecture and presented a letter of surrender.”]

【This short sentence makes Zhang Yichao's uprising look very easy. 】

[But in fact, this successful uprising was inseparable from years of preparation, infiltration and communication. ]

[This is not only the credit of Zhang Yichao, but also the joint credit of all the people in the entire Shazhou area! ]

[From the local deputy governor of Shazhou to ordinary Shazhou people. ]

[Everyone had already become fed up with the oppression of Tubo.]

【Under such a passionate public sentiment, Zhang Yichao successfully launched the uprising within a day.】

[Successfully drove away the Tibetans. 】

[The announcement of the restoration in Shazhou sounded the clarion call for the liberation of Hexi and Longyou regions.]

【After the liberation of Shazhou. 】

[Zhang Yichao immediately thought of reporting to the Tang Dynasty court.]

[At this time, the Hexi Corridor had been occupied for sixty or seventy years. ]

[During this period, communication between the two sides was almost cut off.]

[It is extremely difficult to contact Datang. 】

[In order to ensure that the news of the uprising to recover Shazhou can be conveyed smoothly. ]

【Zhang Yichao chose the saturation communication approach.】

[Zhang Yichao sent out ten teams of envoys to report the victory to Chang'an via different routes.] [In the end, only the eminent monk Wuzhen, who used his monk identity as a cover, arrived in Chang'an after two years of arduous journey.]

[The remaining nine teams of envoys all died on the way. ]

【After Wuzhen and his group arrived. 】

[The then Tang Emperor Xuanzong heard that Shazhou, which had been occupied for 70 years, had been recovered! ]

【I am ecstatic! 】

[For the Tang Dynasty, which was in decline at the time, and for Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, who was determined to revive the government. ]

[The news of the recovery of Shazhou was like a shot in the arm. ]

[Tang Xuanzong excitedly said to his ministers:]

[I have realized the ideal of recovering the Hexi Corridor, which my father, Emperor Xianzong of Tang, had failed to realize! ]

[I must! Immediately! Right now! Go to the Imperial Ancestral Temple to report the victory to our ancestors.]

[Tang Xuanzong issued another imperial edict, in which he said enthusiastically:]

[“The loyal ministers’ red hearts were used to resist and the long horns of the Kunyi tribe were broken. Dou Rong’s story in Hexi was seen in the heyday; Li Ling’s special troops who taught archery were all righteous troops.”]

【Zhang Yichao was also appointed as the Defense History of Shazhou.】

Outside the sky.

During the Tang Dynasty, when Li Shimin saw this, he couldn't help but applaud.

"Good! Good! Good!"

"Well done!"

"Zhang Yichao! The reason why our Tang Dynasty is so prosperous is because there are many talented and righteous people like Zhang Yichao!"

And the Qin Dynasty.

Ying Zheng felt relieved and envious.

"First there were the Anxi Army and the Beiting Army, and then there was Zhang Yichao of Shazhou."

"Why are there always people like this in the Tang Dynasty?"

"Is the Tang Dynasty really that good?"

tomorrow.

Zhu Di naturally knew about the Anxi Army and the story of the Guiyi Army.

Just seeing it from the sky gives a completely different feeling and touch.

Zhu Di was also deeply moved by Zhang Yichao and his men's heroic act of resistance.

Then Zhu Di looked at the map of the Ming Dynasty.

"There is no Western Region in the Ming Dynasty."

“But the Han Dynasty did.”

"There was in the Tang Dynasty."

"Even the Wei, Jin, and Sui dynasties had them."

"The only dynasty that didn't have that was the Song Dynasty, whose martial virtues were underestimated."

"And if our Ming Dynasty wants to truly surpass the Han and Tang dynasties, if we don't have the territory of the Western Regions, then future generations of history readers will not be able to understand this."

"Even I myself don't sound tough!"

"Recovering the Western Regions was something that my father failed to do."

“And if I did it.”

"Then can I, the emperor who came to power by clearing away the entourage of officials, be honored as the Yongle Emperor?"

"How about becoming the greatest emperor of all time?"

It’s not just the ancients,

Modern netizens couldn’t help but talk about it when they saw this.

"Zhang Yichao: I'll be waiting for you in Shazhou (city) at 8 o'clock tonight."

《Great victory! Great victory!》

"Tang Xuanzong: When you first said you were going to recapture Shazhou, I thought it was a war report from the subspace to fool me."

《What does this have to do with you!!!》

"Emperor Xuanzong of Tang: Although I didn't do anything, I still worked hard for myself."

"Xuanzong is pretty good, although a bit exaggerated."

"It's like when I was playing Byzantium and was being beaten up by Brother Chicken, and suddenly I turned around and saw, guess what, the Rhodes Island rebels have joined us!"

"Zhang Yichao: My dear emperor, can you give me money and soldiers?"

"Like the Anxi Army, the imperial court provided all assistance except for practical help."

"At least Zhang Yichao was given a title of provincial governor, which gave him a political status, which was also very important."

"Yes, the Guiyi Army actually has a very weak base, but with the name of the Guiyi Army, many small forces in Hexi are flying the banner of the Guiyi Army."

《Why is he just a defense user? 》

(End of this chapter)