In the city lord's mansion, Du Zhongxiao, Fu Bi and Zhang Ji sat together, discussing the arrangements after leaving. There were not many Song troops in Khotan, only two or three thousand people, so Zhang Ji could not be here, just one or two commanders.

At this moment, a personal soldier quickly stepped in and said, "Reported that outside the city, some people found that the people of the Green Church fled. The two sides clashed and finally fought. Three people died. Local tyrants came and asked to send troops to capture them!"

Du Zhongxiao was stunned. After a while, he said: "Why did the Green Cult people escape? How did the conflict between the two sides occur?"

After saying that, he waved his hand and said, "Let the local tyrants who reported the case come in, let's ask ourselves! At the beginning of the Dharma Assembly, this happened before Yuchi Sanlang ascended the throne! I thought everything would go smoothly, but I asked Yuchi Sanlang to deal with these troublesome things, but I still couldn't escape!"

The personal soldiers agreed and turned around and came out soon. After a while, two members of the staff came in.

The two of them went up to salute, and one said, "The Shi Yuanwai, who is outside the small city, has more than 300 acres of good land, and is dedicated to worshiping Buddha. He is a good family. This is Lu Yuanwai, who has opened a restaurant in the town and is also a good person. Today, Longxing Temple talks about Buddhism. Because we happened to have something to do at home, we made an appointment to arrive tomorrow, so we were idle at home. At noon, we found a group of people coming out of the city, with cars and horses inside, heading out of the city."

Mr. Lu rushed to say, "I run a restaurant, and there are a few people in it that are the customers, so I know each other. Seeing them walking past the restaurant, I hurriedly asked where they were. One of them said that Hei Sang had recently left, and that he was reviving, and that he wanted to promote Buddhism. They were sad, so they wanted to escape to other places. Mr. Shi happened to drink in the store and quarreled with them, saying that it was a reconstruction of the country, so they wanted to escape. They were not good people and wanted to report to officials. Those people were afraid, so they quarreled with us, and after a long quarreling, they started a conflict."

Shi Yuanwai said: "The shopkeepers in my family came over when they heard that I was quarreling with others. Finally, they started fighting. Two shopkeepers and a servant outside the Lu Yuanwai were beaten to death by those people. They fled one after another, and they didn't know where they went."

After hearing this, Du Zhongxiao felt his head buzzing. At this time, the two sides had a conflict. It is likely that the two officials were too aggressive that something happened. However, if someone died, those who got rid of the people and escaped all of them, the murder must have been carried on their backs.

After thinking about it, he said to Zhang Ji: "Send cavalry immediately to recover those people! Don't interfere in religious matters, but the life lawsuit must be investigated clearly! The Song army entered Khotan and ignored the Black Khan's religion, and the official did not pursue it. Their escape had nothing to do with us. As for the conflicts between the local people in Khotan, the army is not allowed to intervene, and the king and prince will resolve it in the future!"

Zhang Ke crossed his hands and quickly walked out of the official hall to arrange his troops. Kunlun Mountain is south of Khotan. If they escaped into the mountains, it would be difficult to chase after them. However, the direction he heard from the two officials should be looking at Ya'er, and he could not chase him as long as he was on the road.

Seeing Zhang Ji leaving, Du Zhongxiao told Shi Yuanwai and Lu Yuanwai: "You go home, someone will come to you later and explain what happened today. In the past few days, everything is too busy. Let's wait for a few days, and the king will deal with it."

Mr. Shi and Mr. Lu thanked him and said goodbye and left.

Du Zhongxiao said to Fu Bi: "Hei Khan and Yutian fought for decades, and finally Yutian was destroyed. It has been fifty years since then. The disputes between the two countries are not only geographically enemies, but also religious reasons. In the past fifty years, there must be many green believers in the territory of Yutian, but after the court came, most of them re-believe in Buddhism. There is also a devout believer, which must have conflicts with other people in the past few months. Today, the Longxing Temple Dharma Assembly, and then Yuchi Sanlang ascended the throne, there is no need to say what happens in the future. There is nothing to escape to a foreign land, but they gathered together and had their lives, so things were different."

Fu Bi said: "Like such unruly people, they should be severely punished!"

Du Zhongxiao shook his head: "Deputy envoy, please leave the affairs of Yuchi Sanlang to Yuchi. The army should not interfere too much. Otherwise, there will be chaos in the future and the army will not be able to withdraw. Now Yuchi Sanlang does not have his own patrol personnel. The army can help them catch people back. They can send people to ask everyone's confession, but don't interrogate them. Everything is left to him when Yuchi Sanlang ascends the throne."

Fu Bi said: "Jingshuai, although Yutian is a country, it is a country ruled by the court, not a place beyond the law. Now that human life is gone, how can we let go of it? In my opinion, if someone catches him, he will be interrogated by Jishuai!"

Du Zhongxiao sighed: "How to interrogate? Should we use the court's laws or the foreign law? Why should we stop these two people? Yutian is a foreign land. Although under the rule of the court, the establishment of a country is to allow foreign law to be governed by the foreign law."

Fu Bi was speechless for a moment and didn't speak. The first thing Du Zhongxiao did on Hequ Road was to slaughter local natives because of selling Han women. Unexpectedly, Yutian had another face, which made Fu Bi unable to understand.

In fact, there is nothing that cannot be understood. Hequ is originally a lot of Han people, and the local natives have been oppressing Han people for a long time. It is difficult to restore the trend without attacking heavily. Different from Khotan, there are few Han people here, and it involves religious conflicts. The court should withdraw and not interfere.

In Du Zhongxiao's memory, he was really impressed by religious conflicts and knew that they were very complicated matters. If they were not handled well, they could cause large-scale riots. Moreover, such conflicts lasted for a long time, especially for countries like Black Khan, which could be chased to Persia all the way, and it was difficult to eradicate them.

Fu Bi had no idea about Hei Han and the Green Sect, and he didn't even know what Hei Han's religion looked like. It was natural for him to cut the mess with a quick knife and use the heavy punishment in troubled times. Since Yuchi Sanlang did not ascend the throne, there was nothing to be tried by the Song army.

Zhang Sheng said: "Jingshuai means that in the future, we will leave the affairs of Khotan less and leave them to the King of Khotan for handling. Since this is the case, we will only capture people, because the King of Khotan has been defeated. This place is a Khotanite, which is very rare for Han people. Even if there are Han surnames and names, it is mostly a habit left in the Tang Dynasty, not Han people. We should not interfere, so that the indigenous people in the Western Regions should not have any objections to the court."

Du Zhongxiao said: "That's true. It doesn't mean that the court will not care about the natives of the Western Regions in the future, but will take it slowly. Everything has a process. Compared with Hei Khan, a Buddhist country is still easy to deal with with in the Central Plains Buddhism. Hei Khan is not a solid piece of iron. After fighting a war, they should be able to recognize the situation in the country. As long as the trade routes can be opened, there is no need to get into evil with them in a short period of time. The Western Regions are too big. If the imperial court wants to lay the foundation in this area, it will inevitably have to put in great effort. There are two trade routes, one north road and one south road. If Hei Khan changes, or can get along with Xihei Khan, Shule is the south road. There is no big country on the north road, and we can emigrate from the Central Plains along the road."

Fu Bi said: "If you say so, Khotan will not be a commercial road."

Du Zhongxiao said: "In the past, there were commercial roads south of the desert, and of course, Khotan was a commercial road. Now there are trains, and the commercial roads south of the desert are abandoned, so Khotan will of course leave the commercial road. The land here is fertile and beautiful jade, so it will definitely be a good place in the future."

Speaking of this, Du Zhongxiao sighed: "It is actually not a good time for the imperial court to obtain the Western Regions. Dangxiang is still there, and several counties in Hexi are still in the hands of Dangxiang. Even if there is a railway, it is impossible to open up the railway. Now in the Western Regions, everything is required to be stable. When Dangxiang is destroyed and the imperial court obtains several counties in Hexi, it will be qualified to develop the Western Regions. Therefore, in the Western Regions, try to interfere as little as possible except along the railways."
Chapter completed!