The next day, Hall of Establishing Governance!
Empress Zhangsun, Mo Yanyu, and He Xi were comfortably reclining in rocking chairs, with tea and fruit laid out on small tables beside them. Their eyes were fixed unblinkingly on the enormous light screen before them!
Qing Mo and the others had changed into ordinary clothes and were traveling through the seemingly desolate Western Regions with over a hundred formidable guards and dozens of carts loaded with supplies!
Because the Emperor and quite a few civil and military officials had suddenly left Chang'an, and although every effort had been made to suppress the news, there were no walls in this world that did not leak wind!
Thus, to prevent "interested parties" from taking the opportunity to stir up trouble, Mo Yanyu and He Xi had specifically come to the palace to keep this wise empress of the ages company and hold down the fort!
In contrast to the calm within the Tang Dynasty imperial palace, Cheng Chumo, Zhangsun Chong, and the others, who had been brought along by their elders, were constantly wiping the sweat running down their foreheads!
Compared to cool Chang'an, the Western Regions truly were rather dry and scorching at this time of year!
"National Preceptor! What have you been looking at all this way?"
"I'm looking at where in the Western Regions we should build train stations and lay railway tracks, so that Chengqian can govern this land more effectively in the future!"
Ever since arriving in the Western Regions in an instant, Qing Mo had taken out a detailed map of the area and begun making plans in his mind, intending to use trains to forge a closer connection between this place and the Tang Dynasty!
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