Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 981
Chapter [-]
Li Jiancheng murmured: "The affairs of Tubo... just follow Chen Ying's wishes!"

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

Li Jiancheng looked suspiciously at Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling, the two most trusted officials, and asked in puzzlement, "Why?"

"You can do things like fighting with General Chen." Fang Xuanling said, "However, General Chen must never do things that are gracious to the world and respected by all people!"

Li Jiancheng said solemnly: "This... I believe in General Chen. If there is no General Chen, I am afraid that I will already be a pile of rotten bones. Chen should be able to do this well!"

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

In Li Jiancheng's vision, both Tubo and the Western Regions are barren lands, especially the Western Regions, where there are no large patches of water and soil, but scattered oases, all of which are the size of small countries, not to mention dominating the world. Not even qualified as a partial tyrant.

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

Although, Chen Ying fought very well in the Tubo war.However, in Li Jiancheng's view, this is not a military victory at all, but a political victory.

Because, apart from the more than 6000 troops of the Xiaocai Army and the 100 troops of the Beiwei Army who participated in the attack on Tubo, the others were more than [-] tribes of different sizes from the Anti-Songtsan Gampo Alliance. main force.

In Li Jiancheng's view, whether it is Tubo or the Western Regions, most of them are tasteless lands. Only the four counties of Hexi and Han, as well as Gaochang, Qiuci, Shazhou, Yizhou, and Shule in the Western Regions, are still of some value. Even the cities of Kangyanju, Songbangbao, Naqu, Dada, and Yalong are probably not as big as a Lifang in Chang'an City.

Fang Xuanling looked at Li Jiancheng who was silent, and winked at Wei Zheng.

Wei Zheng understood, bowed to Li Jiancheng and said, "Your Majesty, do you still remember the oath made back then?"

Li Jiancheng was stunned.

He swore a lot, but he really couldn't remember which one Wei Zheng was talking about.After all, the oath of a politician is like the honeyed words of a philanderer to coax a girl, just listen to it.

Wei Zheng said loudly: "We want to establish a prosperous Tang Dynasty, a Tang Dynasty that eliminated wars externally and established order internally. She will allow the old and the weak to live forever, let the strong and strong use their strengths, and let the young and weak be nurtured. , so that the virtuous can rise to the top, let fairness and faith prevail in the world, and let the world have just laws to abide by!"

Fang Xuanling continued: "The Great Tang for the people of the world is to govern the world. Everyone benefits from this great cause, and at the same time, everyone contributes to this great cause. It will be a country of great dukes, not just a country of a certain family. Temple, this will not only be the Great Tang that the children of the Han family are looking forward to, but also the Great Tang that all nations and peoples are looking forward to!"

"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 Ministry of Civil Affairs, there are 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 360 seven prefectures, a total of 380 million households, a total of 230 people, a total of 91 million households more than the total of 210 million households in the seven years of Wude. There is no statistics on the Anxi Protectorate, but according to General Chen’s statistics, the Anxi Protectorate has three jurisdictions, three towns, nineteen prefectures, and 160 six counties, with 170 households and a total of 74 people.”

In history, even in the third year of Yonghui (652) under Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi of Tang Dynasty, the population of Tang Dynasty was just 380 million.The main benefit lies in this time and space, because of the influence of Chen Ying, a butterfly from another world, the chaos in Hebei was quickly quelled, and the number of victims was greatly reduced. 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 the history. Most importantly, the Tang Dynasty expanded faster and more smoothly than in history.In particular, the chaos in Hebei and the food crisis in Guanzhong caused Chen Ying to relocate more than [-] households to Anxi, and the number of Han people in Anxi was more than [-] times that of the same period in history.

With the adoption of new farming tools and agricultural tools, the grain production of Datang has been greatly improved. Although the food crisis in Guanzhong has just passed two years, the sixteen Changping warehouses in Guanzhong have been more than 200% full. Changping, which is controlled by the imperial court The warehouse has stored more than [-] million shi of grain. Even if the grains in Guanzhong are not harvested within a year, there will be no food crisis in Guanzhong.

Due to the continuous victories in the wars against the East Turks and West Turks, a large number of cattle, horses, sheep, pigs and other livestock were seized. Now there are 380 million households in the country, at least more than 500 million adult cattle, and more than [-] million draft horses.This is not to mention that the Taipu Temple of the imperial court is located in more than [-] official horse farms in Longyou, Hehuang, Bingzhou, Youzhou, Daizhou, Yunzhou, Qingzhou, and Yingzhou. Even in history, during the prosperous Kaiyuan period, Li Longji also has a maximum of more than [-] war horses.

But now, the number of war horses in the imperial court has exceeded 130 million. If Li Jiancheng needs it, he can recruit 40 cavalry from all over the world at any time, and within three months, millions of people will be armed into millions of troops.

The different Datang gave Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling great confidence, especially that Chidao in Guanzhong and Chidao in Yizhou are expected to be connected to Yuanzhou within three months, at the latest in the spring of the fourth year of Kaiyuan. It runs through Chang'an to Yizhou with a length of more than [-] miles.

Through fast-track transportation, the Guanzhong army will be able to reach Yiwu Prefecture at a speed of 30 miles per day in up to 25 days. If they advance lightly, this time will be shortened to [-] 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 branch in Songzhou and continue to build eastward to Buqicheng (now Shandong Qingdao), heading north to Zhuozhou, Yizhou, and Youzhou to Longcheng in Yingzhou (today's Chaoyang City) in Liaodong.

Especially seeing Chidao's huge transportation capacity and transportation efficiency, the Chidao from Chang'an to the southwest via Ziwu Valley, entering Bashu, and arriving at Jiannan Road has also been proposed.

In the future, within ten years, Datang will build four vertical and four horizontal strategic roads, connecting the 360 ​​seven prefectures in the world with the four major capitals.

Li Jiancheng murmured: "General Chen's victory in Tubo is such a great victory. Of course, he is happy, but everything has advantages and disadvantages. Kui Mei Mianmian will lie dormant and dare not move."

Wei Zheng thought for a while and said, "The crown prince is far away in Anxi, and the Supreme Emperor misses him very much. How about letting the crown prince, Princess Pingyang, and Concubine Chen return to Chang'an..."

Before Wei Zheng could finish speaking, Li Jiancheng shook his head and said, "Xuancheng, I understand what you mean. Now I want to open up the Silk Road as soon as possible to obtain funds from rich countries. I want to leave the Western Turks as a thorn in my side, so that I I will not settle for pleasure, I want General Chen to lie dormant and wait for the time being."

Seeing Fang Xuanling and Wei Zheng's puzzled look, Li Jiancheng said: "I want all the countries in the world to hate me to the bone, and I want Sasanian, Byzantine, and Western Turks to join forces with our enemies as the foundation for us to strengthen our army in the Tang Dynasty." Object. When I have cleaned up the jackal of Goguryeo and freed up my hand, it will be the time when our Tang Dynasty will pour all its power to look west. I will make the city of the seven mountains of Byzantium tremble under my horseshoes, and I will let Xihai ( Since the Qin, Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties, China's name for the Caspian Sea) became the inland sea of ​​the Tang Dynasty, and I want the Alps to become the western border of the Tang Dynasty!"

Listening to Li Jiancheng's words, both Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling's blood boiled with enthusiasm.

Wei Zheng said: "My emperor is wise!"

Li Jiancheng mused, "Where is Zhongshushe?"

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

Li Jiancheng said: "For the imitation, give Chen Ying a yellow axe with a white flag to save Anxi."

Wei Zheng's face changed drastically. Chen Ying's power is already strong enough, and giving Chen Ying more power will be a disaster rather than a blessing to the court.

Before Wei Zheng could speak, Li Jiancheng went on to say, "Give Xue Wanche, the General of Zuowuwei, the General of Zuowei, and go out of the town to appease the Xizhou Road. Xizhou Road is under the jurisdiction of Yanqi Prefecture, Tingzhou, Huozhou (today's Turpan), Xinzhou, Huzhou, and Tazhou (today's southeast of Bayingolengzhou)."

Speaking of this, Wei Zheng was ecstatic.

The most prosperous area of ​​Anxi Daduhufu is actually in the east, where it is connected to Ganzhou, Suzhou, Guazhou, Shazhou, etc. Now, under the order of Li Jiancheng, the Anxi Nineteen Prefectures have been dismantled from the six districts in the eastern half. The 61 counties in the state almost cover the best part of Anxi.

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

Although the total area has not decreased, but has increased by more than [-] miles, the population has decreased by nearly one-third, and the Tibetans in the territory have become the first ethnic group.

……

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

Chen Ying did not live in the Songtsan Gampo Palace, not because Chen Ying was afraid of overtaking, but mainly because he couldn't bear the smell inside.

The Tibetans take 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. Compared with other regions in China, the coal resources in Tubo Xueyuan are very scarce, which is the main reason for the geological formation of Xueyuan Continent.

Although the proven reserves of coal in later generations are nearly one billion tons of coal, the coal is not as good as the Zhundong mining area in Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang, where the storage capacity exceeds 40 billion tons, and it is a shallow coal mine, almost in the form of semi-open pit.

But in Xueyuan, it is not so difficult to promote the use of coal in Chen Ying's view.

First of all, transportation is very difficult. Even if the coal located near Ye County is as cheap as dirt, the value of transporting snowfields is more than a hundred times higher.

On average, a car of coal needs to increase the cost of thousands of dollars.Almost every catty of coal can be sold for three to five cents, which is almost equivalent to the price of a bucket of grain, and even Chen Ying feels pain in the flesh.

Cow dung is the main fuel for Tibetans, even Songtsan Gampo is not immune to it. In Songtsan Gampo's palace, there are more than a thousand servants alone, plus armored guards, more than 5000 people live in normal times.In such a large palace city, the daily fuel consumption would be an astronomical figure.

In order to meet the heating needs of the palace, the Tibetans set up a total of six light and dark cow dung storage warehouses in the palace. I don’t know how long the cow dung has been stored here. Anyway, it is especially the cow dung in the dark room. The methane inside ignited.

Chen Ying's Songbangbao City tastes good in winter, but the key is that in summer, it is definitely not a place for people to stay, it can smell so bad that the brain lacks oxygen.Naturally, Chen Ying would not live in a dung heap, so he moved out of Songbangbao City, found a hot spring valley in the Yangni River Valley of Songbangbao City, and built a hospital and camp here.

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

When Chen Ying was in Songbangbao City, Songbangbao City was very prosperous, with merchants and rich people gathered. However, when Chen Ying moved to Yangnihe City, Songbangbao City declined rapidly.

When receiving Li Jiancheng's imperial decree, Chen Ying was obviously taken aback.

Because, Chen Ying actually gave him the power to Jiedu Anxi, and Jiedushi made this official position appear more than 100 years earlier than in history.

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

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

In the initial Jiedushi, there was actually no difference between the commanders of the large military regions, but in the middle and late stages, when the Jiedushi was in charge of civil affairs, there was already no difference between the Tudi Emperors.Once the Jiedushi rebelled, the court had no other way but to suppress the rebellion.

Of course, the change for Chen Ying is that he has an extra face, and he wrote to Chen Ying, the Jiedu envoy of the Anxi Army.

After looking at the edict, Ma Zhou smiled and said, "Congratulations, my lord!"

"There's nothing to congratulate!" Chen Ying waved his hands and said, "Is the thing you prepared ready?"

Ma Zhou bowed and said, "Okay!"

Chen Ying sighed and said: "In the eyes of those officials and masters in the court, this general is now a high and powerful general, and he is the king of Anxi who deserves his name!"

Ma Zhou said, "Isn't it?"

"No, actually they are all wrong!" Chen Ying pointed to the distance and said: "Now Tubo is a blank slate, and it is still a restricted area for the nobles. Here, it is just a test field for the general."

Chen Ying looked at Ma Zhou's "Negotiating a Ding Ding Ren Mu", while searching for historical data in his mind.

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

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

Ma Zhou tried: "It's really feasible, they will join forces to oppose the Lord!"

Chen Ying laughed disapprovingly and said, "Is this general afraid of their rebellion? If they dare to rebel, they will test the sharpness of my horizontal knife with their necks!"

Ma Zhou opened his mouth and didn't try to persuade him any more.

He knew that Chen Ying was a man of his own mind, and the things he decided would never be changed.

"Let's execute it!" Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Order Mo Dao Army, Beiwei Army, Xiao Cavalry Army, and Yue Cavalry Army to keep their eyes on the bright spot!"

Ma Zhou sighed in his heart, he knew that this order would definitely change the color of the world and kill people everywhere.

(End of this chapter)