Chapter 103

Li Jiancheng pondered and said, "That Tubo affairs... let's do as Chen Ying wants!"

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

Li Jiancheng looked at Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling, two important officials in confusion, and said in confusion: "Why?"

"You can fake General Chen when fighting." Fang Xuanling said: "However, General Chen must never do anything that is respected by the people!"

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

"No one can do this except Your Majesty!" Wei Zheng said seriously: "Unless Your Majesty is willing to leave behind troubles!"

In Li Jiancheng's vision, Tubo and the Western Regions were both barren lands, especially in the Western Regions, where there were no large chunks of water and soil, all of them were scattered oasis, and they were all small countries. Not to mention dominating the world, they were not even qualified to be a domineering mansion.

As for Tubo, it was even more desolate. Even if the Tang people went to Tubo, they would be dizzy and weak in their limbs.

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

Because, in addition to the cavalry of Anxi Protectorate, more than 10,000 people and 6,000 people from Beiwei Army, the other ones are more than 100 tribes of the anti-Songtsen Gampo Alliance, these Tubo people are the real main force.

In Li Jiancheng's view, Tubo or the Western Regions were mostly useless places, only the four counties of Hexi Han, as well as Gaochang, Kucha, Shazhou, Yizhou, and Shule in the Western Regions, were of some value, and even Kangyanju, Songbangbao, Nagqu, Duodat, and Yalong Zhucheng, probably not as good as the Lifang Da in Chang'an City.

Fang Xuanling looked at Li Jiancheng silently and gave Wei Zheng a wink.

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

Li Jiancheng was stunned.

He made a lot of oaths, but he really couldn't remember which one Wei Zheng was talking about. After all, the politician's oath was like the sweet words of a fickle young man coaxing a girl. Just listen to it.

Wei Zheng said loudly: "We want to establish a prosperous Tang Dynasty. This Tang Dynasty has eliminated wars and established orders internally. It will allow the elderly and weak to live their lives, let the strong and strong use their strengths, let the young and weak be raised, let the virtuous be promoted, let fairness and faithfulness travel smoothly in the world, and let the world have fair laws to abide by!"

Fang Xuanling continued: "The Tang Dynasty, which is the world's people, will benefit from this great cause, and everyone will also contribute to this great cause. It will be a country of great dukes, not just a temple of a certain family. This will not only be the Tang Dynasty that the Han family hopes for, but also the Tang Dynasty that all nations and nations hope for!"

"I hope our country can become like this in the future." Speaking of this, Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly: "But such a country is still very, very far away from us..."

"Not far!"

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

Wei Zheng said without hesitation: "According to the current population counted by the Zuomin Ministry, the ten roads in the world (Guannei Road, Henan Road, Hedong Road, Hebei Road, Shannan Road, Longyou Road, Huainan Road, Jiangnan Road, Jiannan Road and Lingnan Road), a total of 3.83 million households, a total of 2,233,1991 people, and in the seventh year of Wude, there were a total of 2.19 million households in the world, a total of 1.64 million households. Among them, there were no statistics on the Anxi Protectorate. If the Anxi Protectorate Prefecture, according to General Chen's statistics, the Anxi Protectorate Prefecture has three towns, 19 prefectures and 176 counties, with 743,654 households, a total of 3.718,270 people."

In history, even in the third year of Yonghui (652) of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty, the population of the Tang Dynasty was only 3.8 million households. It was mainly due to this time and space, because of the influence of Chen Ying, a butterfly in another world, the Hebei rebellion was quickly quelled, and the number of deaths was greatly reduced. Most importantly, because Du Fuwei did not die.

In the same history, the Fu Gongyou Rebellion, which took nearly a year to finally be put down, was less than one-third of the deaths in history. Most importantly, the Tang Dynasty expanded faster and smoother than in history. Especially the Hebei Rebellion and the Guanzhong Food Crisis, which made Chen Ying migrate more than 300,000 households to Anxi, making the Han people in Anxi more than twenty times more than the same period in history.

The new type of farming tools and agricultural tools were adopted, and the grain production of the Tang Dynasty was greatly improved. Although the Guanzhong grain crisis had just passed two years, the 16 Changchun Changchang warehouses in Guanzhong had been fully stored. The Changqing warehouse controlled by the imperial court stored more than 12 million stones of grain. Even if the Guanzhong grains were not collected within one year, there would be no food crisis in Guanzhong.

Due to the continued victory of the Eastern Turks and Western Turks, there were also many cattle, horses, sheep, pigs and other livestock captured. Now, there are at least 3.83 million households in the world, at least 5 million adult oxen and more than 9 million horses to pick up horses. This is not the case that the imperial Taipu Temple is located in Longyou, Hehuang, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Daizhou, Yunzhou, Qingzhou, Yingzhou, and Yingzhou. Even in history, during the Kaiyuan period, Li Longji had at most 700,000 war horses.

But now, the number of war horses in the court has exceeded 1.3 million. If Li Jiancheng needs it, he can convene 400,000 cavalry from the world at any time and arm millions of people into millions of troops within three months.

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

Through the transportation of the road, the Guanzhong army can arrive in Yiwuzhou at a speed of 200 miles a day, up to 30 days. If it is moving forward lightly, the time will be shortened to twenty-five days, or even shorter.

In addition to this strategic road towards the west, the road towards the east from Chang'an has been built to Songzhou. This important road will be bifurcated in Songzhou and continue to be built eastward to Buqi City (now Qingdao, Shandong), and northward to Zhuozhou, Yizhou, and Youzhou arrive at Yingzhou Longcheng in Liaodong (now Chaoyang City today).

In particular, after seeing the huge transportation capacity and transportation efficiency of Chidao, the Chidao from Chang'an to the southwest through Ziwu Valley, entered Bashu, and arrived at Jiannan Road, has also put forward plans.

In the future, in ten years, the Tang Dynasty will build a strategic road of four vertical and four horizontal lines, connecting the 367 states in the world with the four major protectors.

Li Jiancheng pondered: "After General Chen fought like this in Tubo, he was very happy, but everything had advantages and disadvantages. Kui Mei would lie dormant and dare not move."

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

Before Wei Zheng finished speaking, Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "Xuancheng, I understand what you mean. I will open up the Silk Road as soon as possible to obtain funds for enriching the country. I will leave the life of the Western Turks as a thorn in my side so that I will not be content with Yile. I want General Chen to lie dormant for the time being."

Seeing Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng confused, Li Jiancheng said: "I want to make all the countries in the world hate me to the core. I want to let Sassanthes, Byzantium, Western Turks connect our enemies as the target of our Tang Dynasty's powerful soldiers. When I take over the wolf Goguryeo and free up my hands, it is the time when our Tang Dynasty looks over. I want to make the seven mountains of Byzantium tremble under my horse's hooves. I want to make the West Sea (the name China for the Caspian Sea during the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties) become 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 excited.

Wei Zheng said: "My emperor is wise!"

Li Jiancheng pondered and said, "Where is the servant of the Zhongshu?"

Cen Wenben bowed and said, "I am here!"

Li Jiancheng said: "I gave Chen Yingbaiqian, Huangqian, and the governor of Anxi."

Wei Zheng's face changed drastically. Chen Ying's power was already great enough. If you give Chen Ying weight, it would be a disaster for the court, not a blessing.

Before Wei Zheng could speak, Li Jiancheng continued: "The General of the Left Wu Guard, Xue Wanche, was awarded the General of the Left Wu Guard, and was appointed as the General of the Left Guard. He was appointed as the General of the West Prefecture Road. He was under the jurisdiction of Xizhou Road, Yanqi Prefecture, Tingzhou, Huozhou (now Turpan), Xinzhou, Huzhou, and Tazhou (now southeastern border of Bayinguoleng Prefecture)."

Speaking of this, Wei Zheng was ecstatic.

The most prosperous area of ​​Anxi Protectorate is actually in the east, connected to Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou, Shazhou and other places. Now, under the order of Li Jiancheng, the nineteen Anxi prefectures have been demolished from the eastern half of the six prefectures and sixty-one counties, almost covering the most important part of Anxi.

In this way, Chen Ying's jurisdiction will be greatly reduced, but Li Jiancheng assigned all the Tubo territory to Chen Ying, allowing Chen Ying to take charge of Kucha, Shule, and Tubo in the Anxi Protectorate.

Although the total area has not decreased, it has increased by more than 3,000 miles, but the population has decreased by nearly one-third, and the Tubo people in the territory have become the first ethnic group.

...

When Chen Ying received the imperial edict from Li Jiancheng, it was already at the end of November in the third year of Kaiyuan.

Chen Ying did not live in the Songtsen Gampo Palace. It was not that Chen Ying was afraid of crossing, but mainly because he really couldn't stand the smell inside.

Tubo people use cow dung as a symbol of wealth. Whoever has more cow dung will be rich. Of course, the reason for this custom is very simple. The coal resources of Tubo Xueyuan are very rare compared to other parts of China, mainly because of the main reason for the geological formation of the Xueyuan continent.

Although later generations proved that the reserves of nearly one billion tons of coal were found, these coals were not as good as the Zhundong Mine Area in Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang. The storage there was more than four billion tons, and it was a shallow-strat coal mine, almost in a semi-open-pit form.

In Xueyuan, it is difficult for Chen Ying to promote the use of coal.

First of all, transportation is very difficult. Even if the coal located near Ye County is as cheap as soil, the value of transporting it to the snow-capped plateau is more than a hundred times.

On average, a truck of coal costs thousands of yuan. Almost every kilogram of coal can be sold for three to five cents, which is almost the same as the price of a bucket of grain. Even Chen Ying feels painful.

Cow dung is the main fuel for the Tubo people, and even Songtsen Gampo is not immune. In Songtsen Gampo's palace, there are more than a thousand servants alone, and with armored guards, there are more than five thousand people living in normal times. In such a large-scale palace city, the fuel consumed every day will be astronomical.

In order to meet the heating needs of the royal palace, the Tubo people set up a total of six cow dung storage warehouses in the palace. I don’t know how long the cow dung here has been stored. Anyway, especially the cow dung in the dark room, Chen Ying was worried that the torch would ignite the biogas inside.

Chen Ying's Songbang Castle City tastes good in winter. The key is that in summer, it is definitely not for people to stay here, and it can smell so bad that the brain is deficient in oxygen. Chen Ying naturally would not live in the dung pile, so he moved out of Songbang Castle City and found a hot spring valley in the Yangni Valley of Songbang Castle City, where hospitalizations and camps were built.

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

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

When Chen Ying received the imperial edict from Li Jiancheng, he was obviously stunned.

Because Chen Ying actually gave him the power of the Jieduan Anxi, and the official position of Jieduan appeared more than a hundred years earlier than in history.

The Jiedushi is different from the Anxi Protectorate, the latter is a management agency, while the former is just an official position.

Mainly manages military affairs, but has no power to manage civil affairs.

In the initial Jiedushi, there was no difference between the commanders of the military region, but in the middle and late period, when Jiedushi managed civil affairs, there was no difference between the local emperor. Once the Jiedushi rebelled, the court had no other way except to quell the rebellion.

Of course, the change in Chen Ying was that he had a great deal of trouble and wrote a letter to Chen, the governor of the Anxi Army.

After looking at the imperial edict, Ma Zhou smiled and said, "Congratulations to the Lord!"

"There is nothing to congratulate!" Chen Ying waved his hand and said, "Are you ready for what you have prepared?"

Ma Zhou bowed and said, "Okay!"

Chen Ying sighed and said, "In the eyes of those officials in the court, this general is now in a high position and powerful position, and he is the most deserved King Anxi!"

Ma Zhou said: "Isn't it?"

"No, they are all wrong!" Chen Ying pointed to the distance and said, "Tubo is now just a piece of white paper, and it is also a forbidden area for the aristocratic families. Here, it is just a test field for this general."

While looking at the "Add to discuss stalls and dimes" written by Ma Zhou, Chen Ying searched in his mind about the history of stalls and dimes.

Chen Ying spent nearly half a year to conceive a feasible solution on Tubo.

Chen Ying is now experimenting with the feasibility strategy of governing the country in Anxi.

Ma Zhou tried to say: "It can be implemented, they will connect it against the Lord!"

Chen Ying smiled disapprovingly and said, "Will this general be afraid that they will rebel? If they dare to rebel, try to use their necks to try the sharpness of this general's sword!"

Ma Zhou opened his mouth and did not persuade him again.

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

"Execute it!" Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Order the Mo Dao Army, the Beiwei Army, the Xiao Cavalry Army, and the Yue Cavalry Army to highlight their eyes!"
Chapter completed!