Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 726 New Errands
In the halls of the Tang Dynasty, there are old actors in the world. People like Songtsan Gampo who have never seen an opera will be played around by them with rhythm.

Therefore, after three days of deliberation, the Lifan Department finally finalized the specific details and worked out a schedule for the merger of Tubo into the Tang Dynasty.

From now on, all the territory of Tubo will become the inherent territory of the Tang Dynasty, and all the tribes and people of Tubo will be registered in the Tang Dynasty. The army, government offices, and old laws will be set up and implemented in accordance with the border towns of the Tang Dynasty.

The household registration of all the people, the establishment of government offices, and the garrison of the army will all be completed before the end of next year. Songtsan Gampo himself was conferred the title of King of Qinghai-Tibet by Li Shimin, and he was given three entrances to the mansion in Chang'an. Monthly offering two thousand guan, all members of his clan moved to Jingzhou, Guanzhong, for resettlement. As for the Tubo royal palace and all the property and materials in the palace, they still belong to him.

The reason why he was given the title of two-character king was mainly because the territory of Tubo was large enough, and he had made meritorious deeds. Li Shimin wanted to show off to the latecomers.

Tubo in this period was slightly larger than Tibet in later generations. It belonged to Qinghai, and some plateaus in Nepal belong to Tubo at present. From the maps of later generations, it can be seen at a glance that it is larger than eight Hubei Province is still bigger.

The matter of Tubo was finalized, but it didn't feel relieved to the officials of the Tang Dynasty. He can't even get the idle title of a two-word king.

Because, even an old and powerful empire like the Byzantine Empire cannot withstand Datang's money offensive, let alone a poor country with a national output value of less than 200 million yuan and a tax balance of less than 20 yuan!

When Ma Zhou was in October, he had already set off to collect debts from the countries in the Western Regions. Before the sports meeting last year, the countries in the Western Regions had owed Tang Tang the money they had borrowed for more than a year, and the repayment period had passed three years. It's been four months.

If they can't repay the loan, then Datang will start to use various means. It is necessary to deduct the year-end dividends of the shares they hold. Anyway, after the winter in October every year, Datang will start to enter the inventory settlement period.If they plan to renege on their debts, then the money they brought in to buy shares will be wasted, because all of them will be liquidated by Datang to pay off their debts.

"According to my estimate, few of these borrowing countries can pay back the money, because, according to the data given by the Statistics Bureau of the Ministry of Commerce, the total value of the goods they purchased in our Datang last year has far exceeded Their national gross output value, some kingdoms, even if they only pay back the interest, it is enough." In the meeting hall, after listening to the report on the Tubo affairs by the Lifan Office, Fang Xuanling said.

Li Shimin came to Suiye City for a year, and he didn't sit here and throw money for nothing. Now that the strategy of the Western Regions has begun, he will go all out to do things.

Various intelligence systems and advance troops have actually been sent out by him. Now, he can know the intelligence information of the countries in the Western Regions with high efficiency.

And since the calculation and statistics ability has been improved by two or three levels, Datang's counselors are used to analyzing the situation through data.

Hearing Fang Xuanling's words, Hou Junji answered, "It's good if we don't get the money back. It just so happens that we have an excuse to send troops westward. It's a matter of course for killing people and paying debts. No one can say that we, Datang, have done it before.”

Hearing this, Li Shimin shook his head and said, "The fire is not enough. According to the big plan agreed before, we can't enter the army when the equipment and food supplies are not smooth. It is used quickly, but there is also a distance of [-] miles. Adding the distance to transport grain to Guanzhong, it will be even farther. The grain transport vehicles and the vehicles transporting weapons and armor supplies have heavy loads and travel slowly. Sending from afar, without a two-month itinerary, I'm afraid it won't work.

And once the war starts, our front line may have to advance thousands of miles. Without a good road bonus, the time required for resupply will only be longer, which is not conducive to combat.

Therefore, our best situation is that we can directly produce the supplies needed for logistics within the territory of Anxi Dadu Protectorate, and Ma Zhou's mission on this trip has never been to collect money. "

Hou Junji asked in surprise, "If you don't charge money, then what did he do?"

Li Shimin laughed, "He will give us the ability to produce military supplies locally."

Hearing this, Hou Junji suddenly realized. It seems that Ma Zhou's trip to the Western Regions is to ask the countries to use materials to pay off their debts. As for the materials, of course they are ore resources that can be made into armor weapons and artillery shells.

Thinking of these supplies, Hou Junji complained, "Although this artillery is powerful, it is too expensive to fire. Steel balls, lead bullets, a hundred cannons for a quarter of an hour, and hundreds of boxes will be gone." If you want to keep up with the supply, I am afraid that the number of people used for logistics will be more than double the number of people in the main battle."

Li Shimin nodded and said, "This is the problem we need to solve. Even if Tubo is successfully captured, we can deploy more people to bring it up. However, the territory we will control and occupy in the future is too large. , will always be a problem that troubles us, and to ensure logistics supplies, we need to dispatch a large army, and we have only a few hundred thousand troops.

Only now do I realize how correct Zhengming’s concerns were. It is indeed impossible to control a territory as large as the entire Eurasian continent with a population of [-] to [-] million people by relying on the number of our existing troops. Therefore, the overall Advance the rhythm, but slowly.

By the way, where is he now? "

Fang Xuanling replied, "Judging from the letters some time ago, we should have arrived in Yunnan."

Li Shimin heard the words, thought for a while, and said, "That's just right, let their couple lead the cultural troupe and some condolence materials, go to various places in Tubo, and preach and appease the various ministries for me, so that next year we can take over the entire land of Tubo. Time will be smoother, let the Annan army divide a guard army to ensure their safety."

Fang Xuanling nodded and said, "Zhengming is the best at dealing with minority issues. Your Majesty's plan is very ingenious. However, we still need to have a comprehensive consideration of how to manage this Tibetan land."

Hearing this, Li Shimin stared at the area on the map hanging in the meeting hall for a long time before he said, "Once Tubo takes over, it will be our outpost for marching into Garuda, Tianzhu and other countries in the future. The garrison is indispensable.

I want to set it up as a logical path, transfer Li Ji to be the general manager, and integrate and recruit young and strong men from Ningchuan Road, Jiannan Road, and Tubo who are more suitable for the plateau climate. Before the winter of next year, they will replace Zhengming and be stationed there.

The size of its total force is tentatively set at 12. After that, this army will attack from the left and right with Liu Hongji of Tammo Road to attack and manage the entire territory of South Asia. "

Using two state roads and an army of about 20 to manage the entire South Asian region with a population of more than 3000 million is Li Shimin's solution. The population of Datang is now only 500 million, but there are about 100 million troops. The ratio reached [-]/[-], which is too high.

After all, out of the 500 million people, at least 3000 million are old people, women, children, and the ratio of young men to the army is almost five to one. If there is a substantial increase, other aspects of production will be affected.

The current method can only be to slow down, wait for more young and strong people from the Tang Dynasty to grow up, and more young and strong people from the newly conquered countries will come over and be able to be used in the military.

Therefore, after Fang Xuanling expressed his approval of Li Shimin's plan and drafted an order to send to Guanzhong, they discussed the placement of more than 200 million road construction workers and the kingdom to be incorporated next year. From here Reorganizing tens of thousands of troops can also play a role.

Before the twelfth lunar month, Tubo as a whole was merged into the Tang Dynasty, Songtsan Gampo was named the king of Qinghai-Tibet, and the young master of Nongguogong Prince Shaoshi was the envoy of Luoxie Dao, leading the art troupe, [-] Annan troops entered Tibet, and announced the announcement of appeasement, and The imperial decree and festival talisman of appointment came to Sun Xiangfu.

Fortunately, the manpower of the art troupe is assembled, and it will take some time to mobilize the condolence materials. Sun Xiangfu can enter and start after the first month of next year, otherwise, Sun Xiangfu will probably scold Li Shimin to death in his heart. He tosses the rhythm of death.

Although after several years of exploration, merchants have found some ways to combat altitude sickness, but Sun Xiangfu does not think this trip will be easy, because Sun Xiangfu, who has travel experience in later generations, knows that the pain of altitude sickness How uncomfortable.

"Let the art troupe gather here, let's go back to Jiuyuan County to celebrate the New Year! Just put the children back, the Tubo Plateau, they are not suitable to follow." After receiving the imperial edict, Sun Xiangfu met with Yu Xiu'er in Dali's residence discussed.

Yu Xiu'er nodded and said, "I think so too. I heard that the Han people in the Central Plains will have unbearable headaches when they go to the Tubo Plateau, as if they were sick. This time, we need to bring more medicines for self-defense."

Sun Xiangfu smiled wryly and said, "That kind of pain can't be solved by taking medicine, it can only be relieved a little bit, but after living on it for a while, it will be fine after you get used to it. During this time, I have had many exchanges with Lu Dongzan, In fact, there are only a few areas above, and it will be uncomfortable to stay there. The places where they mainly live, such as the location of Luoxi City, are not so high, and the Han people will not feel uncomfortable when they go there.

Just ah!I'm a little worried that your face will turn red like those Tibetan women, it won't be beautiful. "

"Ah! When you go to Tibet, your face will turn red?"

Not only Yu Xiu'er, but also Li Xiangdie and Yao Hongxiu screamed. Apart from their voices, their appearance is the most important thing for them. If they go to Tibet, their appearance may be damaged, so the price of this errand But it's too big.

Sun Xiangfu comforted, "Don't worry, apply more skin care ointment, drink more butter tea, and stay in a low-lying place when you go. As long as you don't live there all year round, there should be no problem."

(End of this chapter)