Gaochang, located in the Western Regions, is a multi-ethnic country.

There were Han Chinese, Uyghurs, Indians, and Arabs, and occasionally you could even see people from the Qin Dynasty coming from the west of the Arabs.

They have different cultures, different beliefs, different diets and lifestyles.

Therefore, there are many conflicts.

In particular, the conflicts between these people and the Han people.

Perhaps because Gaochang was a commercial society, and the Han people were very good at doing business, the Han people in Gaochang were very wealthy and produced some rulers.

This led to collective confrontation between other races.

Billeco has always maintained a balance between the major domestic powers, striving to keep their interests separate from each other.

After the Tanguts were destroyed, the obstacle to the Gaochang Kingdom disappeared.

In recent years, with the rise of commerce in the Song Dynasty, the cost of many commodities has dropped significantly. The prices of silk, cotton clothing, ceramics, and tea sold to Gaochang are generally lower.

Merchants from the Chang'an area were the main ones dumping goods into Gaochang.

In order to penetrate the market of Gaochang Kingdom, they found many Han Chinese in Gaochang Kingdom to act as their representatives.

A group of Han Chinese in the Gaochang Kingdom took this opportunity to become even wealthier.

At the same time, the Han people also needed more powerful figures to support their commercial empire in the court of Gaochang.

As a result, the frenzied power struggles became even more intense.

With the outbreak of war between the Kingdom of Gaochang and the Song Dynasty, trade to Gaochang came to an abrupt halt.

The conflicts that had accumulated between Gaochang and the Han people had long since intensified.

However, always wary of the Song Dynasty, Bilege never dared to attack the Han people.

Knowing that my army was marching south, Bilege suddenly became bold.

On July 16th of the twelfth year of the Jingkang era, a horrific murder occurred in the capital of Gaochang.

A Han Chinese man was stabbed to death in the street.

This Han Chinese man is Feng Yang, the son of Feng Shi, a high-ranking official in the Gaochang Kingdom. He is Xue Donglai, a wealthy merchant from Chang'an, and his business partner in the Gaochang Kingdom.

I heard that he was killed by a gang of thugs.

However, judging from the subsequent massacre, it was definitely not a group of thugs; it was someone maliciously trying to incite internal conflict.

This was proven true; Feng Shihua paid a high price to capture one of the murderers.

The murderer confessed that he was instigated by Salar, the son of the current prime minister, Zhanmuer.

So Feng Shi retaliated in kind, hiring a hitman at a high price to kill Salar.

The conflict escalated completely.

Bilge chose to stand by and do nothing.

After several such incidents, the two sides began to fight each other in the streets.

A debate also broke out in the imperial court.

Prime Minister Zhanmuer was Bilege's father-in-law. In a fit of anger, he mobilized the army, surrounded Feng Shi's residence, and killed Feng Shi's entire family.

This thoroughly enraged the other Han Chinese.

The capital city of Gaochang was closed, and a large number of troops entered the city to begin the extermination of the Han people.

The massacre lasted for three days and three nights. During those three days and three nights, the people in the city kept their doors tightly shut, fearing that someone might break in.

People hid in their houses, their hearts pounding as they heard the desperate cries outside and the sound of knives cutting into bones.

I have nightmares all night long and can't sleep.

They also heard the soldiers' wild laughter and the woman's cries for help.

Three days later, someone mustered up the courage to go out and saw corpses all over the street.

The heads were piled up on the side of the road.

Some even saw familiar faces, now just heads, with expressions of despair on their faces.

A Han Chinese official complained to Bilege, but Bilege deliberately hid in the deep palace and refused to see him.

He and several of his trusted generals were plotting how to take advantage of the southward advance of the Bahai army to deliver a heavy blow to Yue Fei and then seize the Hetao Road.

In order to cater to the intentions of the King of Gaochang, the ministers of Gaochang began to rack their brains to impeach all the Han Chinese ministers in the court.

A series of evidences indicate that Han Chinese officials in the imperial court engaged in serious corruption and exploitation of the people.

Within a few days, the charges were established, and all the Han Chinese officials had their homes confiscated and were executed.

Outside Yumen Pass, a thin figure was riding a horse and galloping frantically eastward.

She was followed by a troop of cavalry, whose clothing indicated they were from the Kingdom of Gaochang, numbering about a dozen men.

This woman was Feng Shi's youngest daughter, named Feng Ziqing. She was the only one who escaped from the capital of Gaochang.

After escaping, she quickly headed towards Yumen Pass.

I heard that the Song Dynasty's elite troops are stationed outside Yumen Pass. Yue Fei was a man of strict military discipline and who loved the people like his own children, so he should be safe there.

Once she enters the territory of the Song Dynasty, she can travel eastward smoothly to Chang'an to find her brother-in-law, Xue Donglai.

However, her whereabouts were still exposed, and more than a dozen cavalrymen were chasing her frantically.

"Yang Shuai, look over there, isn't there a woman there?"

"I told you to check if there were enemy troops, but you focused all your attention on women," Yang Zaixing said with a laugh.

He held the telescope and shifted his gaze, and indeed saw a woman riding a horse galloping at full speed.

Hu Xian, the deputy general beside him, said: "General Yang, I only saw that the woman was being chased by more than ten Gaochang cavalrymen. Her identity must be extraordinary, and there must be a reason behind it."

Yang Zaixing also thought of this.

Outside the Jade Gate Pass, where the Song army was stationed, how could a woman suddenly appear being chased by enemy troops?

Yang Zaixing led his men and rushed forward.

Hu Xian shouted from the side, "Who goes there!"

The woman's horse was clearly frightened by the iron-blooded aura emanating from Yang Zaixing and his group, and immediately stopped.

Feng Ziqing hurriedly asked, "Are you all military officers of the Great Song Dynasty?"

"I am Hu Xian, the Commander of the Third Army of the Fifth Army Corps in the Northwest of the Great Song Dynasty. Who are you?"

"I am Feng Ziqing, please, General, save my life."

The Gaochang cavalrymen clearly saw Yang Zaixing and his group, and they immediately stopped in their tracks.

But Yang Zaixing would not let the enemy go. He gestured, and Hu Xian said, "Take them all down."

Upon seeing this, Feng Ziqing breathed a slight sigh of relief; at least her life was spared.

The dozen or so cavalrymen from Gaochang turned to flee, but they were intercepted as soon as they got there. After a fierce battle, seven or eight of them died, and the remaining seven were captured.

Hu Xian then began to interrogate the suspects, adopting the mannerisms of the military police from the Censorate.

Only after this interrogation did they learn that such a major event had occurred in the capital of Gaochang.

So Yang Zaixing sent these people to Yue Fei so that Yue Fei could also learn about the specific situation.

"Please, General Yue, do justice for this woman!"

Yue Fei said, "You may rise now. I will inform the Emperor of this matter."

So Yue Fei wrote a letter and sent it to Tokyo by fast horse.

At the same time, the Imperial City spies who had received the news from Gaochang Kingdom also delivered it to Zhao Huan.

Zhao Huan established a rule in the Song Dynasty: whenever a Han Chinese in a foreign land encounters trouble and comes to him for help, officials of the court have a responsibility to lend a helping hand.

As for whether this person is a traitor, further investigation is needed.

If they are traitors, they will not be spared.

If they are law-abiding citizens, we can certainly accept and help them return to the Song Dynasty.