Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 170

Li Yan also suffered from a big headache.

After Cao Lingzhong stayed in the Governor's Mansion for ten years, in the ten years, several waves of Beiting Governors changed and left, and some of them didn't even arrive at the post, and they completed the gilding promotion and returned to the court on the way. up.

However, Cao Lingzhong had been in Beiting for ten years, and he was still unable to be promoted to be the governor of Beiting after he stayed.

It would be fine if Cao Lingzhong was incompetent, but he is still a good general who loves soldiers like a son.

The ten years of rough official career made Cao Lingzhong resentful, but the court's treatment of Longyou made Cao Lingzhong even more chilling.

Since the An Lushan Rebellion, Lite generals like Cao Lingzhong have been hostile and suspicious by Tang Ting.

During the Anlu Mountain rebellion, the Tang court dispatched frontier troops to enter the pass. At that time, the northern part of Longyou was unstable, and many small kingdom leaders were ready to move.

The Han Navy wanted to deter the small tribes in the north, and the Tianshan and Yiwu armies wanted to prevent the Uyghurs from taking advantage of the fire, so Cao Lingzhong refused the imperial court's recruitment and refused to send the main force of the Beiting army to enter the pass.

However, the imperial court issued more than a dozen ultimatums in a row, and Cao Lingzhong asked the judge of the Beiting, Cen Shen, to lead the partial divisions of the three armies into Guanzhong.

Cao Lingzhong was regarded as a disobedient official by the Tang court. Gaochang City in Xizhou was an important town for the court to transfer supplies to Beiting. Li Xiuzhang, the governor of Gaochang, received an order from the court to withhold Beiting's military pay.

This time Beiting became even more eccentric, and guarding the border was already very hard work. After ten or 20 years of garrisoning the border, they were still treated like this by the court. Xizhou looting, "self-raised" military rations.

Cui Tao's letter stated that Cao Lingzhong was originally loyal to the imperial court, but now the Beiting Protectorate's renunciation is inseparable from the emperor's wise operation.

But even without the wise operation of the imperial court, it is not just something that has happened in recent years that the Beiting Protectorate's Mansion is centrifuged with the center.

Li Linfu, the minister of power during the emperor's period, promoted and appointed a group of generals of foreign races in order to suppress the Jiedu envoys in the border areas.

For example, Anlu Mountain at that time rose from the sky in the hands of Li Linfu.

Li Linfu moved out the ancestral precept that aliens cannot be a phase, and thus controlled the phase for more than ten years.

Cao Lingzhong was a member of the Lite tribe, and he was appointed as the queen of Beiting Protectorate at that time.

Afterwards, Cao Lingzhong made many military exploits, but he was unable to turn from a post-stay to a full-time guardian.

Cao Lingzhong couldn't be promoted, neither could his three-army striker, and the lower-level school lieutenant brigade commander couldn't be promoted either.

The entire Beiting was like a pool of stagnant water, and there was no way to break the deadlock.

Cui Tao's plan is to send envoys to read the order of the Bafu to Cao Lingzhong, and then appease the three armies of Hanhai, Tianshan, and Yiwu, and try to incorporate the entire Beiting Protectorate by means of Huairou.

Li Yan also nodded secretly, the situation in Beiting is different from other state capitals.

The Hexi Corridor area is the land that Datang has been managing for a long time. The century-old system of granting land to military soldiers has been implemented. The influence of Datang has been rooted in this land.

For this kind of area, it is natural to intensive cultivation.

But Beiting is different. Beiting has a large expanse of sea and wasteland, and there are also a large number of nomadic tribes of different races.

Datang could not set up a state capital to govern these nomads like the four counties in Hexi.

The method of Jili Prefecture, allowing these nomadic tribes to pay tribute to the Tang Dynasty and maintain their influence is the most effective way of ruling.

And all of this requires a mature system of the Beiting Protectorate to operate, so recruiting and surrendering the Beiting Protectorate is currently the best choice.

Apart from these small tribes, Li Yan looked at the map.

"Your Highness, Shang Bo Shang Sima is back!"

Li Yan was immediately overjoyed. Shangbo successfully completed the task of talking to Uighurs, and presided over the negotiation of the tea and horse trade in Baowenshan Shouzhuo Mansion. Hearing the news of the Shazhou meeting, he rushed back to Shazhou without stopping.

It's a pity that he was still a step late and failed to catch up with the Shazhou meeting.

"See Your Highness." The dusty Shang Bo saluted Li Yan, then offered the talisman with both hands and said:

"Your Highness, fortunately, I did not disgrace my life!"

Li Yan immediately helped Shang Bo up and said, "Shang Sima has worked hard! But you came back just in time, and the lonely king happened to ask you something."

Shang Bo immediately said: "Your Highness, please speak!"

Li Yan immediately asked, "What does Shang Sima think of Uighurs?"

Shang Bo thought for a while and said, "I have never seen Gele Khan, but I see that the Uighur has great ambitions for my Tang Dynasty because of this prince who has displaced him."

"Why is that?" When Li Yan went to Lingwu, he also listened to his father and Guo Ziyi's political discussions. At that time, the high officials of the Tang Dynasty believed that the Uighurs had no desire for territory in the Tang Dynasty, so Li Heng refused to agree to borrow troops from Tubo, but You can borrow troops to return to the Uighur without any psychological pressure.

Because the Uighurs want money, but the Tubo people will not leave when they come.

Shang Bo said: "The Uighur royal court is also undercurrents. The eldest son of Gele Khan, Prince Yehu, is in the Tang Dynasty and is now fighting in the Central Plains. He sacrificed the lives of the Uighur warriors and brought back so little wealth."

Li Yan nodded. According to history, after Prince Ye Hu returned to the Uyghur, he was convicted and killed very quickly. After that, the Uyghur's attitude towards Datang took a sharp turn for the worse.

Shang Bo said: "However, from my point of view, there is another important reason for the Uighur's change of attitude towards the Tang Dynasty."

Li Yan quickly asked: "What is the reason?"

Shang Bo said decisively: "Bei Ting!"

"Beiting? Why can Beiting still affect the Uighurs? The Hanhai, Tianshan, and Yiwu armies combined have less than 2 people. It is very difficult to maintain the law and order in Beiting alone. How can it affect the Uighurs?"

Li Yan also did his homework. Although Beiting Dufu Mansion has a large area under its jurisdiction, the total number of troops is not large.

The Han Navy is stationed on the north side of the Han Sea, mainly to monitor the nomads on the opposite side of the Han Sea.

The Yiwu army was stationed in Yiwu, and its main function was to defend the western part of Beiting from the Uighurs.

The Tianshan Army is garrisoned in Luntai to protect the government of Beiting, Tingzhou.

The number of these three troops is not large, and it is difficult to protect themselves, let alone attack the Uighurs.

But Shang Bo said: "The most important role of Beiting is not to attack the Uighurs. Has Your Highness ever thought about why the Beiting Governor's Mansion consumes so much military supplies every year?"

Li Yan was stunned for a moment. According to the report submitted by Cui Tao, the materials transferred from Gaochang City to Beiting each year indeed exceeded the needs of the [-] army, and it could even be said to exceed the combined military expenditure of the four counties in the Hexi Corridor.

Gaochang, a bustling city, has to subsidize the money, grain, taxes and subsidies to Beiting every year, and also needs to extract taxes from Shazhou and Guazhou.

"Why is this?"

Shang Bo pointed to the map and said, "Because Datang has been secretly subsidizing the Ge Luolu Department and the Xia Gas Department!"

Li Yan looked at the map, the Uyghurs occupied the Mongolian plateau, but in the west of the Uyghurs' territory, there were two obtrusive marks.

These are the Ge Luolu Department and the Xia Gas Department.

Shang Bo said: "The Ge Luolu tribe is a tribe of the Tiele people. Since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty has been funding the Ge Luolu tribe to contain the Turks. The Ge Luolu tribe has always been vacillating between the Turks and the Tang Dynasty. , and finally the Turks perished, and the Ge Luolu tribe surrendered to the Tang Dynasty."

"During the Battle of Hengluosi, Ge Luolu's Department also responded to Datang's enlistment and followed General Gao Xianzhi to fight the big cannibal."

Li Yan nodded. Of course he knew about the battle of Heng Luosi six years ago. At that time, Anxi Metropolitan Protector Gao Xianzhi led the Anxi North Court army to face the Dashi army.

Whether this war was a victory or a failure, even in the Tang Dynasty six years later, there are different opinions.

Some people in the court used the loss of troops in this war to attack Gao Xianzhi in the future, saying that Gao Xianzhi had suffered a defeat.

But this battle did stop Dashi's expansion in the Western Regions, and the soldiers and civilians of Longyou Dao thought it was a victory.

Shang Bo said again: "We talked about the Ge Luolu people, and then we talked about the Miaogas people. This Miaogas is a tribe in the northwest of the Uighur. Gas Khan is the captain of the cavalry, and this is the position Li Ling held before he surrendered to the Huns."

"The Miagas tribe has always been submissive to the Tang Dynasty, and has always been a vassal to the Tang Dynasty. These two tribes are in the west of the Uighurs, and they have always been a serious threat to the Uighurs."

"This time I went to Uighur Yazhang City, the reason why I didn't see Gele Khan of Uighur is that he went to conquer Shrikes himself."

Now Li Yan finally understood why Shangbo said that Datang spent a lot of money in Beiting. It turned out that Datang was also playing balance with the Uighurs, secretly supporting the Ge Luolu Department and the Xiajiasi Department!

Shang Bo really said: "From Tingzhou to the north, you will enter the territory of the Ge Luolu Department. Datang has been secretly supporting the Ge Luolu Department and the Miaogas Department in Tingzhou. Otherwise, without the support of Datang, these two How could the tribe have been able to fight the Uyghurs for so long?"

"However, this time Datang borrowed troops to return to the Uighurs. One of the conditions was to stop supporting the Geluolu and Miaogas tribes. That's why Gaochang City has been in arrears with Beiting's military funds. Cao Lingzhong is not willing to implement Datang's policy. , that's why the Beiting army is at odds with Longyou."

After Shang Bo finished speaking, Li Yan finally realized.

The situation in Beiting is actually so complicated!Datang, the imperial balance player, is much better than Dai Ying!
Shang Bo continued: "Your Highness, this time Gele Khan led the Uyghur elite with the intention of destroying the Geluolu tribe and the Xiajiasi tribe. If the Uighurs are really unified, then Longyou will face the Uighurs and Tubo. Threats on two fronts."

"Although we have just signed a tea-horse trade treaty with the Uighurs, the contract on paper is unreliable. If the Uighurs eliminate the threat from the West, they will definitely stare at Datang."

Historically, the Uyghurs defeated the Geluolu tribe and the Xiagas tribe at the end of the second year of Zhide, and unified the entire Mongolian plateau.A few years later, Uyghur and Tubo divided Longyou Dao.

Li Yan looked at Shangbo and asked, "Sima, what advice do you have?"

Shang Bo crossed his hands and said: "Your Highness, the Bafu needs someone with weight to tell Cao Lingzhong that after Cao Lingzhong stays, the Bafu is different from the imperial court, and the Bafu will not abandon Longyou! In this way, the Beiting will definitely submit!"

Li Yan nodded and said, "Then I will write a letter myself, and Shang Sima will take the arrears of military funds to Tingzhou to persuade Cao Lingzhong to surrender!"

(End of this chapter)