Chapter 103

Li Jiancheng groaned: "The affairs of Tubo ...... Just do what Chen Ying wants! ”

Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling said almost in unison: "Your Majesty, no!" ”

Li Jiancheng looked at Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling suspiciously, and said puzzledly: "Why?" ”

"When it comes to fighting, you can fake General Chen." Fang Xuanling said: "However, what is favored by the world and admired by all the people, General Chen must not do it again!" ”

Li Jiancheng said solemnly: "This ...... I believe in General Chen. If it weren't for General Chen, I'm afraid I would have been a pile of rotten bones, and Chen should have the ability to do this well! ”

"This matter, no one can do it except Your Majesty!" Wei Zheng said solemnly: "Unless Your Majesty is willing to leave the troubles!" ”

In Li Jiancheng's vision, Tubo and the Western Regions are both barren lands, especially the Western Regions, where there are no large patches of water and soil, all of them are scattered oases, and they are all the scale of small countries.

As for Tibet, it is even more desolate, and even if the Tang people go to Tibet, they will be dizzy and weak.

Although, in the war of Tibet, Chen Ying fought very beautifully. However, in Li Jiancheng's view, this cannot be regarded as a military victory at all, but a political victory.

Because, the main force involved in the attack on Tubo, in addition to the more than 10,000 cavalry troops of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and the 6,000 men and horses of the Beiwei Army, the others are more than 100 large and small tribes of the anti-Songtsen Gampo Alliance, and these Tubo talents are the real main force.

In Li Jiancheng's view, whether it is Tubo or the Western Regions, most of them are places of chicken ribs, only the four counties of the Han Dynasty in Hexi, as well as Gaochang, Qiuzi, Shazhou, Yizhou, and Shule in the Western Regions, are still of some value, and even the cities of Kangyanju, Songbangbao, Nagqu, Dada, and Yalong are probably not as big as a mile in Chang'an City.

Fang Xuanling looked at Li Jiancheng silently, and glanced at Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng understood, bowed to Li Jiancheng and said, "Your Majesty, do you still remember the oath of the year!" ”

Li Jiancheng was stunned.

He swore a lot, and he really didn't remember which one Wei Zheng was talking about. After all, a politician's oath is like a sweet word to coax a girl, just listen to it.

Wei Zheng said loudly: "We want to establish a prosperous Tang Dynasty, this Tang Dynasty has eliminated wars externally and established order internally, she will let the old and weak can live in old age, let the strong and strong use their strengths, let the young and weak be raised, let the virtuous get a higher position, let fairness and faith walk freely in the world, and let the world have just laws to abide by!" ”

Fang Xuanling continued: "The Tang Dynasty of the people of the world is the Tang Dynasty that governs the world, everyone benefits because of this great cause, and at the same time, everyone also contributes to this great cause, it will be a grand duke's country, not just a temple of a certain family, this will not only be the Tang Dynasty that the children of the Han family are looking forward to, but also the Tang Dynasty that all countries and all races are looking forward to!" ”

"I hope our country will be like this in the future." Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly: "But that kind of country is very, very far away from us......

"Not far!"

Fang Xuanling said: "We are already doing it!" ”

Wei Zheng said without thinking: "According to the current population statistics of the Zuo Minbu, the ten provinces under heaven (Guannei Province, Henan Province, Hedong Province, Hebei Province, Shannan Province, Longyou Province, Huainan Province, Jiangnan Province, Jiannan Province and Lingnan Province), a total of 367 prefectures, a total of 3.83 million households, a total of 2,2331,991 people, a total of 2.19 million households in the world in the seventh year of Wude, a full 1.64 million households, which does not count the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate. According to General Chen's statistics, the Anxi Prefecture has jurisdiction over three towns and 19 prefectures and 176 counties, with 743,654 households, totaling 3,718,270 people. ”

In history, even in the third year of Yonghui (652) under the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, the population of the Tang Dynasty was only 3.8 million households. The main benefit is in this time and space, because of the influence of Chen Ying, an otherworldly butterfly, the Hebei Rebellion was quickly pacified, and the number of victims was greatly reduced, and most importantly, because Du Fuwei did not die.

In the same history, the Fugongyou Rebellion, which took nearly a year to finally put down, killed less than one-third of history, and most importantly, the Tang Dynasty expanded much faster and more smoothly than in history. In particular, the Hebei Rebellion and the food crisis in Guanzhong made Chen Ying migrate more than 300,000 households to Anxi, making Anxi more than 20 times more Han people than in the same period in history.

Although the grain crisis in Guanzhong has just passed only two years, the 16 long positions in Guanzhong have been more than eighty percent full, and the long positions controlled by the imperial court have stored more than 12 million stone of grain, even if within a year, the grains in Guanzhong have not been harvested, and there will be no food crisis in Guanzhong.

As a result of the continuous victories in the wars against the Eastern Turks and the Western Turks, a large number of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs, and other livestock were captured, and now there are 3.83 million households in the world, at least more than 5 million adult ploughing cattle, and more than 9 million horses. This is not counting the imperial court Taifu Temple located in Longyou, Hehuang, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Daizhou, Yunzhou, as well as Qingzhou, Yingzhou and other more than 70 official horse farms, even in history, in the heyday of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, Li Longji also had more than 700,000 war horses at most.

But now, the number of war horses in the imperial court has exceeded 1.3 million, and if Li Jiancheng needs to, he can recruit 400,000 cavalry from the world at any time, and within three months, he will arm a million people into a million army.

The different Tang Dynasty gave Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling great confidence, especially the Chidao in Guanzhong and the Chidao in Yizhou will be expected to connect to Yuanzhou within three months, and in the spring of the fourth year of Kaiyuan at the latest, the whole line will run through the Chidao from Chang'an to Yizhou for more than 6,000 miles.

By galloping through transportation, the Guanzhong army will be able to reach Yiwu Prefecture at a speed of 200 miles a day, at most 30 days, and if it advances lightly, this time will be shortened to 25 days, or even shorter.

In addition to this strategic road to the west, the road from Chang'an to the east has been built to Songzhou, this important road will be bifurcated in Songzhou, continue to the east to Buqicheng (now Qingdao, Shandong), and north to Zhuozhou, Yizhou, Youzhou to reach Yingzhou Longcheng in eastern Liaodong (now Chaoyang City).

In particular, seeing the huge transportation capacity and transportation efficiency of Chidao, Chidao from Chang'an to the southwest through the Meridian Valley, into Bashu, and to Jiannan Road has also been put forward a plan.

In the future, in ten years, Datang will build a strategic gallop road of four verticals and four horizontals, connecting the 367 states of the world with the four major protectorates.

Li Jiancheng groaned: "General Chen is fighting like this in Tubo, although he is happy to win a big victory over Tubo, but everything has advantages and disadvantages, and Kui Mei will barely dare to move." ”

Wei Zheng thought for a while and said: "The prince is far away in Anxi, and the emperor misses it very much, so it is better to let the prince return to Chang'an with Princess Pingyang and Chen Yuma......"

Without waiting for Wei Zheng to finish speaking, Li Jiancheng shook his head and said: "Xuan Cheng, I understand what you mean, I want to open the Silk Road as soon as possible now to obtain the funds of the rich country, and I want to leave the Western Turks as a thorn in the side of a dog, so that I will not be satisfied with Yile, I want General Chen to lie dormant for the time being." ”

Looking at Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng's puzzled looks, Li Jiancheng said: "I want to make all the countries in the world hate me to the bone, and I want Sassanid, Byzantium, and Western Turks to connect our enemies as the object of our Tang Dynasty's strong army." When I cleaned up the jackal of Goguryeo and freed my hands, it was the time for our Tang Dynasty to look westward with all the strength of the country. I want to make the city of seven mountains in Byzantium tremble under my horse's hooves, I want to make the West Sea (that is, the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin dynasties, China's name for the Caspian Sea) the inland sea of the Tang Dynasty, and I want to make the Alps the western border of the Tang Dynasty! ”

Listening to Li Jiancheng's words, Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling were both enthusiastic.

Wei Zheng said: "My emperor Shengming! ”

Li Jiancheng groaned: "Where are the people in the middle of the book! ”

Cen Wenwen bowed down and said, "The minister is here!" ”

Li Jiancheng said: "Formulate, give Chen Ying Bai Jing Huang Yue, and save Anxi." ”

Wei Zheng's face changed greatly, Chen Ying's power was already great enough, and weighting Chen Ying again would be a curse or a blessing to the imperial court.

Before Wei Zheng could speak, Li Jiancheng continued: "Xue Wanche, the general of the Zuo Wuwei, was given the general of the Zuo Wei, and the envoy was pacified by the Xizhou Daojing, which was under the jurisdiction of Yanqizhou, Tingzhou, Huozhou (today's Turpan), Xinzhou, Huzhou, and Tazhou (now the southeast of Bayingoleng Prefecture). ”

Speaking of this, Wei Zheng was ecstatic.

The most prosperous area of Anxi Dadu Hufu is actually in the east, connected with Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou, Shazhou, etc., and now under the order of Li Jiancheng, the nineteen prefectures of Anxi are separated from the six states and sixty-one counties in the eastern half, almost including the most essential part of Anxi.

In this way, Chen Ying's jurisdiction will be greatly reduced, but Li Jiancheng assigned all the entire territory of Tubo to Chen Ying, and let Chen Ying govern Qiuzi, Shule, and Tubo in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

Although the total area did not decrease, but increased by more than 3,000 li, the population decreased by nearly one-third, and the Tibetans became the first people.

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When Chen Ying received Li Jiancheng's holy decree, the time had reached the end of November of the third year of Kaiyuan.

Chen Ying didn't live in the Songtsen Gampo Palace, not because Chen Ying was afraid of overstepping, but mainly because he couldn't stand the smell inside.

The Tibetan people regard cow dung as a symbol of wealth, and whoever has more cow dung will be rich. Of course, the reason for this custom is very simple, the coal resources of the Tubo Snow Plateau are very scarce compared to other parts of China, which is mainly the main reason for the geological formation of the Snow Plateau continent.

Although the proven reserves of coal in later generations were nearly one billion tons, these coals were not as good as the Zhundong mining area in Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang, where the reserves exceeded 4 billion tons, and they were shallow coal mines, almost semi-open-pit.

In Xueyuan, if you want to promote the use of coal, in Chen Ying's opinion, it is not ordinary.

First of all, it is very difficult to transport, even if the coal located near Yexian County is as cheap as soil, but the value of transporting snow plateaus has increased more than a hundred times.

On average, a truckload of coal requires an additional cost of thousands of dollars. Almost every catty of coal can be sold for three to five cents, which is almost the same price as the price of a bucket of grain, even Chen Ying feels painful.

Cow dung is the main fuel of the Tibetan people, even Songtsen Gampo is not exempt from vulgarity, in the royal palace of Songtsen Gampo, there are more than 1,000 servants alone, plus armor guards, more than 5,000 people live in normal times. In such a large area of the royal palace city, the daily consumption of fuel would be an astronomical amount.

In order to meet the heating needs of the palace, the Tubo people set up a total of six cow dung storage warehouses in the palace, and they don't know how long the cow dung has been stored here, anyway, especially the cow dung in the dark room, Chen Ying is worried that the open fire will ignite the biogas inside.

Chen Ying's taste of Songbang Fort City is good in winter, but the key is that in summer, it is definitely not a place for people to stay, and it can stink so much that the brain is starved of oxygen. Chen Ying naturally did not live in a dung heap, so he moved out of Songbangbao City and found a hot spring valley in the Yangni River Valley of Songbangbao City, where he built a hospital and a camp.

Chen Ying is now the uncrowned king of Anxi, and where he is, he is the political center of Anxi.

When Chen Ying was in Songbang Fort City, Songbang Fort City was extremely prosperous, with merchants and wealthy people gathering, but when Chen Ying moved to Yangnihe City, Songbang Fort City quickly declined.

When he received Li Jiancheng's holy decree, Chen Ying was also obviously stunned.

Because, Chen Ying actually gave him the power of Jiedu Anxi, and Jiedu made this official position appear more than a hundred years earlier than in history.

Unlike the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the latter was an administrative body, while the former was only an official position.

It mainly manages the military, and has no power to manage civil affairs.

In the beginning, there was no difference between the commanders of the large military regions, but in the middle and later periods, when the Jiedu envoys managed the affairs of civil affairs, there was no difference between the emperor and the emperor. Once the Jiedu made a rebellion, the imperial court had no other way but to quell the rebellion.

Of course, the change for Chen Ying is that he has one more side of Daxuan, and he wrote to the Anxi Army to make Chen.

After Ma Zhou looked at the holy decree, he smiled and said, "Congratulations to the Lord!" ”

"There's nothing to congratulate!" Chen Ying waved his hand and said, "Are the things you prepared ready?" ”

Ma Zhou bowed and said, "Okay! ”

Chen Ying sighed and said: "In the eyes of those officials in the court, General Ben is now in a high position, and he is the well-deserved King of Anxi!" ”

Ma Zhou said: "Isn't it? ”

"No, they're all wrong!" Chen Ying pointed to the distance and said: "The current Tubo is a blank piece of paper, and it is also a forbidden area for the scholars and gates, and here, it is just a test field for the generals. ”

Chen Ying looked at Ma Zhou's "Discussion of Dividing into Mu", and at the same time searched for the historical apportionment into mu in his mind.

Chen Ying spent nearly half a year conceiving a feasible approach to Tibet.

Chen Ying is now testing the feasibility of Datang's future governance in Anxi.

Ma Zhou tried to say: "It can really be done, they will join forces against the Lord!" “

Chen Ying smiled disapprerovingly: "Will General Ben be afraid of them?" If they dare to rebel, they will use their necks to try the sharpness of the general's horizontal knife! “

Ma Zhou opened his mouth and did not persuade again.

He knew that Chen Ying was an assertive person, and what he decided would never change.

"Let's do it!" Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Order the Modao Army, the Beiwei Army, the Xiao Cavalry Army, and the Yue Cavalry Army to all put their eyes on the bright spots!" “

Ma Zhou sighed in his heart, he knew that if this order continued, the heavens and the earth would definitely change color, and he would definitely kill people's heads.