The turmoil over Qian Yin quickly subsided. Although the people still have doubts, if they have money, they will save it, and they will be able to accept it quickly, and the shops in the market will be open for business. Most of the Hequ Road is populated by immigrants, and everything depends on the government, which is relatively easy to control compared to other places.

In July, the weather cooled down quickly. Shengzhou is in the north, and the hot weather in summer comes and goes quickly.

In the middle of the year, Fan Zhen of the Governor's Yuan came to inspect Hequ Road as a volume appeasement envoy. The volume pacification envoy is a temporary dispatch, and there are natural and man-made disasters in the place, and the imperial court sends ministers to pacify the volume. Understand the people's hearts, inspect officials, and provide disaster relief and relief to the people during natural disasters.

Hequ Road is a newly expanded place, so naturally the volume of the faction appeases the envoys and understands the local situation.

Early this morning, Du Zhongxiao took the officials of Shengzhou to the station to greet Fan Zhen. When he was down, he was bullied by the villain, and Fan Zhen was the magistrate of the county and helped him a lot. This kindness is not easy, Du Zhongxiao has always kept it in his heart.

After getting off the train, the entourage prepared a guard of honor. Fan Zhen saw Du Zhongxiao with people there at a glance, hurriedly stepped forward, without a guard of honor, and bowed his hand in front of Du Zhongxiao: "The handsome man is a handsome minister all the way, always life and death all the way, what a prestige!" Come to greet me in person, how can I afford it! ”

Du Zhongxiao returned the salute: "Sheren is polite." In the office, I can't welcome the place where I give up people to appease the place by order of the court. In private, when I didn't get to the top, I encountered difficulties, and I relied on the benevolent help of others to get to where I am today. The grace of the day is unforgettable! ”

Fan Zhen didn't dare to say in a hurry, met with the surrounding officials, and was accompanied by Du Zhongxiao and went back to Shengzhou City.

In front of the city gate, seeing that the city of Shengzhou was built very tall and difficult, Fan Zhen said: "I heard that the officials who have come to Shengzhou say that the new city is majestic and can be called the first city outside the city. When I saw it today, it was true. The festival marshal expands the land for thousands of miles, builds the city and defends, solves the worries of the children and grandchildren, and is enough to be juxtaposed with the ancient names. ”

Du Zhongxiao was polite, led Fan Zhen into the city, and arrived at the Shuai Mansion. If it was someone else, it should be signed that Chen Xiliang would take the officials to greet him, and after entering the city, Fan Zhen went to the Shuaifu to meet Du Zhongxiao. Even if the post house is not built, it should be in the state government to entertain Fan Town and live there. Because of the old friend of Fan Zhen when he was Linying Zhi County, Du Zhongxiao personally welcomed him into the city, and the Shuai Mansion was hospitalized, which was a special courtesy.

When they went to the living room to have tea, the officials made a lot of noise, and when they saw that it was still early, they left separately. In the evening, Du Zhongxiao set up a banquet to catch the wind and wash the dust for Fan Zhen, and they came over again. With trains, as the mode of transportation changes, so does a lot of etiquette.

After drinking tea for a while and chatting gossip, Fan Zhen said: "This time I came to Hequ Road, in addition to Xuanfu place, the saint and the prime minister still have something to ask me to discuss with the festival marshal. Tomorrow I will go to Shazhou, walk all over the river meandering road, and I don't have much time to spend with the festival marshal. Now let's talk about it, don't think I'm presumptuous. ”

Du Zhongxiao said: "You don't need to be polite, you just have something to say." On the meandering road, where there is a command, it will be done! ”

Fan Zhen didn't dare to say it, and said: "A few days ago, after the railway was repaired to Hezhou, it was necessary to repair it all the way to Blackwater City. And it is necessary to upgrade Heishui City to Juyan County, increase the garrison, and peek into the Western Regions, and the troops will come to Gaochang Kingdom. With the financial resources of the imperial court, it is not difficult to supply materials for the railway to Heishui City, and there is manpower on the Hequ Road, so this matter is easy to do. With 30,000 soldiers in the hands of the commander, he defeated the Khitan and the party in a row, and expanded the land for thousands of miles. Now that he has an army of 160,000 and all the training has been completed, it is not surprising that the Weijia Western Regions are not surprising. There is only one case, the Khitan has not been extinguished, the clouds have not recovered, and the Xingling is still in the hands of the party. At this time, if you don't go all out to deal with the Khitan and the party, and the troops are thousands of miles away in the Western Regions, the saint and the prime minister are really difficult to understand. ”

Du Zhongxiao thought for a while and said, "There are several reasons for doing this, I will tell them one by one and reply to the imperial court." First, although the Khitan and the party were defeated in the previous battle, they did not hurt their muscles and bones, which should not be underestimated. To carry out a war of annihilation against the party, it is necessary to have hundreds of thousands of troops. Last time they suffered a loss, and in the past few months, they have been casting cannons with all their might, building a strong city and defending it. When the training of soldiers and horses on Hequ Road was completed, the Great Wall in the area of Dangxiang Mountain and Heguan was built. Relying on a fortified city and artillery, it is not an easy task to attack a city. The same is true for the Zhenrong army in the south, when the new army is formed and the artillery and muskets in the army are complete, Lingzhou will be what it is now. Therefore, if you want to start a war against the party, the imperial court must prepare for several years. This is especially true for the party, let alone the stronger Khitan. After the party fell into the country, there were only 350,000 soldiers and less than 200,000 soldiers, but the Khitan could easily gather a million soldiers and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers. Unless the soldiers and horses of the whole country are trained and the party is destroyed, they can use troops against the Khitan. Otherwise, there is a risk. When the Great Song Dynasty had an absolute advantage over the party and the Khitan, why take risks? ”

"The Western Regions is different. Although the area is vast, the population is only gathered in a few green states, and there are not many households. There are not many people, and naturally there are not many soldiers and horses. Just like Gaochang Kingdom, with one or two thousand soldiers and horses, it is enough to suppress it. After the railway was repaired to Heishui City, twenty or thirty thousand soldiers were stationed, even if this dynasty had no intention of the countries of the Western Regions, the countries would definitely defend against me. It is better to prevent him from guarding against me, so as to make the trade route unimpeded. ”

"Third, Gaochang is the land of the Han Dynasty, and there is no homeland of the Tang Dynasty. The world is mixed, how can you ignore this? Before the Uighurs moved westward, there were originally many Han Chinese people, and everyone cherished their homeland. Although the Uighurs did not have as many Han Chinese as before, they were still in the majority. The current Gaochang Kingdom is no longer the Gaochang Kingdom of the past, and most of its people call themselves Xizhou. The people, ministers and royal family of Gaochang Kingdom are all Han people. In the current western state, most of the royal ministers are Uighurs. The imperial court entered Gaochang, which can be described as hanging the people and saving the people. ”

"Fourth, since the first battle of Hue, the imperial court built a river meandering road, which everyone knows. Months had passed, and the Uighur envoys from Ghochang were nowhere to be seen, and they were no longer to submit to the court. It is nothing more than the original submission to the Khitan, and now sit back and watch the success or failure. Another point, most of the people in its territory are Han Chinese, and it is just thousands of miles away, and when the court arrives in Heishui City, how can the Black Falcon people lie in peace? The imperial court soldiers are not powerful, they are afraid that the Han people will have different intentions, and they will only double their oppression and vigilance. ”

"The last point, of course, is the human heart. Taking the Western Regions first is actually easy first and then difficult. Khitan, Dangxiang, and the Western Regions, the places closest to the imperial court are the least heartfelt to the imperial court, and the court of the people of Youyun regard them as their subjects, and they themselves do not have this consciousness. The party is a little farther away, but it doesn't care about the Han people and the people, and there are more people who are interested in the court. The Western Regions are the farthest, but the Han people there cherish their homeland and regard the Central Plains as the hope and mother of abandoned children. ”

"What's the solution? When the Tang Dynasty was strong, they moved into the river meander, into Youyan, and the north of the Central Plains were all the land of the Hu people. The Tang Dynasty declined, various ethnic groups rose up, and the Han people were displaced. These places are close to the Central Plains, and those who can run will run back to the Central Plains, and those who can't run will turn many Han into Hu. On the contrary, the Western Regions are thousands of miles away, and the Han people there cannot move back to their homeland, so they can only live there. In terms of the hearts of the people, it is the people of the Western Regions who are the most oriented to the imperial court, followed by Hexi, followed by Xingling, and there are not many Han people in the Hengshan area. Although there are many Han people in Youyun, since the rebellion of An Lushan, they have been divided. Five generations have risen and fallen, and they have borrowed more clouds and Hedong soldiers and horses to dominate the world. In the past, the imperial court was weak, and the Han people here still looked down on the Central Plains. The simplest look at the name, the Han people in the sixteen states of Youyun, many of them are proud of their Hu names, and they have given up their Han surnames. On the contrary, the Han people in Hexi and the Western Regions do not abandon their surnames, even if they follow the customs, there are many people who use their surnames as their family names, which is the people's hearts. ”

"With railways, far places are not necessarily far, and near places are not necessarily close. Instead of using the distance of the road to determine the order of the crusade, it is not determined by the distance of people's hearts, from near and far. Returning to the Western Regions, relieving the people from hanging upside down, several counties in Hexi can go down without a fight. ”

The Fifth Dynasty of the Late Tang Dynasty was a very special period, not because the enemy came from outside, but from the center. The most core area, the feudal town, developed into five dynasties and ten kingdoms. Slightly outer, due to the large number of foreign races moving in, some joined the warlord wars in the Central Plains, and some migrated west to the north. Expanding from the vicinity of the Central Plains was Fanhu, and the frontier areas that were impacted were dominated by Han Chinese.

Except for the territory of the Song Dynasty, regardless of the clouds, the closer to the Song Dynasty, the fewer Han people. The farther west away from the Song Dynasty, the more Han people there were. The most typical is the state of Gaochang, where the Han Chinese are still the majority, but they are under Uighur rule. The dominant Uighurs migrated westward from the Hexi region. Too many ethnic groups moved into this area of the meander, and those who were close to Hedong Road joined the Hedong warlords. Not close to the Hedong Road, the rise of the Dangxiang people oppressed the Uighurs to move westward, and in the process of the Uighurs' westward migration, they destroyed one Han regime after another. Wave after wave of these rising ethnic groups, with the nurturing of the Central Plains, wiped out all the Han regimes that had been cut off from the Central Plains.

Youyun Sixteen Prefectures is actually the northern half of Hedong Road and Hebei Road, which is more special here. In the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty, the view that the Son of Heaven was strong and strong was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Most of the warlords who chased the Central Plains rose to Hedong Road and Hebei Road, which caused the people there to create a false impression. They are born to fight, and the Central Plains is their prey. The founding of the Song Dynasty deepened this illusion with the military inferiority of the Khitan.

Where there is this kind of mentality, people's hearts are the most complicated, and even if they are mostly Han Chinese, it is difficult to get support. The Central Plains regarded them as their people, but they looked down on the Central Plains forces. There are several changes, and the rebellion is like drinking cold water, like the historical Guo Yaoshi. Without a long period of rule, these two places are unreliable, so it is better to leave them to the back.

This truth is like Taiwan, which has not been unified in later generations, and Hong Kong, which has been isolated from the outside world. Backed by powerful forces, they think they are superior to others, and it is difficult to win the hearts of the people. All the good is deserved, and all the bad is due to the oppression of the Central Plains. However, in this era, it was armed force, and in later generations, foreign enemies dominated the cultural, educational, and economic economy. The inertia of the people's will makes it difficult to make them turn around.