Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

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When occupying Chen Ying and occupying Songbangbao City, he found out that there are actually only two roads from Kangyanju City to Songbangbao City. If it is winter and the river is frozen, there are more ways to go forward.

The point is that it is summer now, and the Tibetans don't have a huge navy to transport troops.Chen Ying ordered Guo Xiaoke's department to make arrangements in advance and wait for work with ease.

Songtsan Gampo and Tunmi Aru were dumbfounded. They both looked at each other with disbelief. They even thought their ears were broken. How could it be possible? How could it be possible to be surrounded by the enemy after a night? up?After encircling Songtsan Gampo, things became much easier. Facing such a big fish as Songtsan Gampo, Chen Ying deliberately surrounded and did not attack. If the cloth does not break through, they will never attack.

Songtsan Gampo originally thought that the battle would go smoothly, so he didn't prepare much luggage. Even counting the yaks and sheep, they could only eat for more than a month.

Even if they save their dried meat and food, they can only last about two months.For this reason, Songtsan Gampo hastily sent messengers to break through the siege, and issued an imperial edict to the ministries of Tubo.Call on all ministries to come and serve the king.

Now the fun is even greater, because there is no unified command, the various tribes in Tubo are far and near, and their strengths are also different. Qin Wang's division, come to one to destroy one, come to one or two, and destroy a pair.

At the end of June in the third year of Kaiyuan, the arrows were exhausted, and the hungry and skinny Songtsan Gampo, with his upper body exposed, led a hungry and skinny sheep and surrendered to Chen Ying.

For this reason, the war between Datang and Tubo, which lasted half a year, finally came to an end.

It ended with Datang's overall victory.

Now Li Jiancheng couldn't help but smile even more. He and the Tang court hadn't had time to make preparations to take over Tubo. Here, Chen Ying had already taken Tubo, and he directly opened up thousands of miles of land and nearly 200 million Tubo. Under the leadership of Songtsan Gampo, the people surrendered to the Tang Dynasty.

Looking at this memorandum, Wei Zheng pondered: "The war has already been fought. I am afraid that it will be difficult to absorb and digest the work of Tubo in three to five years, especially to win the hearts of the people. This is a long time!"

Fang Xuanling smiled wryly and said: "Who says it's not? Originally, Anxi had more Hu and fewer Han. Although now Datang can rely on Anxi Army's strong sentiments, it can temporarily be dominated by Han Tong, but if this population situation does not change .. in a generation or two there will be big problems."

Wei Zheng continued: "Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty opened up the Western Regions, it has been a common practice to solve problems by immigrating to the border areas, but... right now, not only Anxi is short of people, but Tubo is also short of people..."

Li Jiancheng was in pain and joy at the same time.

Wei Zheng looked at Li Jiancheng and said: "The capital of the Western Zhou Dynasty was in the Guanzhong Plain. After the Shang Dynasty was destroyed in the east, the land was two or three thousand miles east of Hangu Pass. But King Wu and Duke Zhou did not move eastward, only Luoyang built a companion capital. Qin The country destroyed the six countries, and the situation is the same. However, the Qin State did not move the capital to the east. After Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty conquered the world, he chose the location of the capital. He did not choose Luoyang, which has a moderate geographical location but a small layout, but chose Guanzhong, which is geographically remote. , Your Majesty, why do you say?"

Li Jiancheng said: "In fact, the geography is not biased. It should not be the biggest problem. The biggest problem is that the capital must form a strong enough force to overwhelm the subordinate towns. In the Zhou and Han dynasties, Chang'an was relatively strong. The ones in Luoyang are relatively declining, and we have to learn from the lessons here."

Wei Zheng pointed to Chen Ying's memorial and said, "How to reply to General Chen's memorial?"

Li Jiancheng pondered: "The Xingtai system cannot be cancelled, otherwise, with the vastness of Anxi and the jurisdiction over thousands of miles, if you ask Chang'an for everything, according to General Chen's words, the cucumbers and vegetables will be cold!"

Fang Xuanling smiled wryly, "Who said it wasn't?"

Li Jiancheng said: "General Chen will give me a difficult problem...he is a well-known smart man in the world, and he will definitely find a way to let him send an army to send the so-called Songtsan Gampo to Chang'an to fight with Jieli Khan be a neighbor!"

Chapter 1: White Jing and Huang Yue Jie Du Anxi

Chapter 1 and Three

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?"

"War matters can be done by General Chen." Fang Xuanling said: "However, General Chen must never do things that are benevolent 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, let alone rule 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 [-] large and small tribes 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?"