In the snow, the orderly retreat of the Tubo army did not last long, under the sharp attack of the Tang army, they finally could not support, the whole army was defeated, the Tubo soldiers screamed and fled in the mud, the Tang army chased and killed, and countless Tubo soldiers were overturned and stabbed to death in the mud.

Li Bing led an army to the southeast, where there were the war horses of the Tubo army, and they could not let the Tubo army escape on horseback, and countless Tubo soldiers fled to the war horses, but were intercepted by thousands of Tang cavalry.

In desperation, the Tibetan soldiers fought desperately, but this kind of single-handedness without formation and cooperation was not at all the opponent of the Tang cavalry who were also single-handed, and they were killed in wailing and screaming.

In this battle, the Tang army killed more than 12,000 Tibetan soldiers, and the great minister Shang Jiezan only led more than 2,000 people to flee to the southwest, and the Tang army won a complete victory, but they themselves also paid a heavy price of more than 3,000 casualties.

Guo Song did not pursue the enemy army again, but sent his lieutenant Li Bing to lead 5,000 cavalry to continue southward to find the source of supply for the Tubo army.

Two days later, Li Bing found the logistics of the Tubo army in Wuhai, about 100 miles away from the battlefield, which was actually a tribe that had set up hundreds of large tents and drove tens of thousands of yaks and cattle to graze by the lake.

The arrival of the Tang army alarmed hundreds of herdsmen, who did not care about the herd, mounted their horses and galloped southward, Li Bing did not pursue, he ordered the collection of the logistics of the Tibetan army, including thousands of stone barley, more than 40,000 head of cattle, and thousands of carts.

Two days later, the snow has stopped, the blue sky and white clouds appeared overhead again, pure without a trace of impurities, Guo Song is inspecting the cold spring salt field, at a glance, the lake is as smooth as a mirror, the sky is blue, it is difficult to describe the beauty in words, no wonder this place is known as the sky realm in later generations.

But Guo Song's concern is not the scenery, but the salt here, the quality of the salt here is very good, the yield is large, easy to mine, the only drawback is that the transportation is inconvenient, the cost of transporting out is relatively high, this Tubo harassment made Guo Song see its other defect, that is, safety.

"Your Highness, will you still mine salt here in the future?" An Rengui asked in a low voice.

Guo Song shook his head, "I'll leave it here for future generations!" ”

He turned his horse's head and left the Cold Lake Salt Works........

On the way back to Shanzhou, the army came to the stone fort city, which is a famous strategic place in the history of the Tang Dynasty, it is the only place to pass through the Hehuang Valley to Qinghai Lake, three cliffs, only one path up the mountain, on the top of the mountain built a stone fort that can accommodate more than 1,000 people, who built it at first has been difficult to verify, but the Tang Dynasty and Tubo have repaired it on a large scale.

Shibao City is in the hands of the Tubo people most of the time, tens of thousands of Tubo troops are advancing eastward from here, capturing Hehuang and invading Longyou, but now Shibao City is firmly controlled by the Tang army, a thousand Tang troops are stationed here, and there are dozens of iron fire thunders in it, as long as the Tang army is not careless, the Tubo army basically can't capture Shibao City.

Guo Song stood on the city platform, looking at the plateau in the distance, this time the war with Tubo is far from the scale, it can only be regarded as a sneak attack by the Tubo army, and the national strength of Tubo cannot support their large-scale operations, I believe that after this war, the Tubo who was beaten will not dare to send troops easily, so there will be a long period of calm here.

..........

After resting for a day in Shanzhou City, the army immediately returned to Chang'an, Guo Song ordered Li Bing to lead his army from Dasan Pass into Guanzhong, and he led 3,000 cavalry to Yanzhou.

The population of Yanzhou is too small, there is no state government, it is managed by Lingzhou, militarily it belongs to the jurisdiction of the Lingzhou Governor's Office, last year the Jin Wangfu canceled the title of Jiedu Mansion under the jurisdiction of the Governor's Mansion, renamed the Governor's Mansion, there are a total of more than a dozen Governor's Mansions, the original Shuofang Jiedu Mansion was split into three Governor's Mansions, such as Lingzhou Governor's Mansion, Fengzhou Governor's Mansion and Shengzhou Governor's Mansion.

Whether the main general is named the governor also depends on his own rank, if the military rank is not enough, it can only be called the soldier and horse envoy, also called the overseer, and the military rank is enough, then he can be named the commander, in order to be called the governor.

The governor of Lingzhou was Liang Wu, while Fengzhou and Shengzhou were both overseers.

Of course, Guo Song will not go directly to Yanzhou, he came to Lingzhou first, Lingzhou Thorn Shi is Li Mi's eldest son Li Chan, he only came to Lingzhou at the beginning of this year to take office, and the original Thorn Shi Liang Yundao was transferred to Taiyuan Mansion Yin.

Li Chan accompanied Guo Song into Lingwu County, he did not come to Lingzhou for several years, Lingwu County has changed a lot, the biggest change is that the clan fort built by the major families in the city has disappeared, in fact, this change is relatively easy, directly dismantle the walls and towers, it is no different from ordinary mansions.

Guo Song's biggest feeling is that the population of the county seems to be much larger, there is a lot of people everywhere, and all kinds of shops have also increased significantly, and the cries of shops are coming and going, and they are very lively.

"The population of the county seems to have increased a lot!" Guo Song said with a smile.

Li Chan nodded and said: "Your Highness is right, the population of the county has increased rapidly in recent years, and the registered population has increased from more than 20,000 to nearly 50,000, plus merchants and other people who have come over, there are almost 70,000 or 80,000. ”

"What is the reason for this?"

Li Chan secretly smiled bitterly in his heart, wasn't this the decision of King Jin at the beginning? He himself forgot.

He still said respectfully: "Your Highness, the rapid increase in population is directly related to the extermination of the party members, and His Highness decided to marry more than 20,000 young party women to the Shuofang Army and Fengzhou Army soldiers, half of these women live in Lingwu County, and the other half live in Fengzhou.

In the past few years, most of them have given birth to children, some of them have more than one, so the houses in the county are gradually dense, many of them are soldiers' families, they have military salaries to support their families, and there is land allocated outside the city, so they have no worries about food and clothing, but they also live and work in peace and contentment. ”

Guo Song suddenly forgot about this matter, and he asked with a smile: "How are these party women doing?" ”

"To put it simply, it is to follow the local customs, from speaking and dressing, it is no longer distinguishable from the local Han women, but they still have some characteristics, such as generally growing fatter, and they like to go out in groups, Your Highness, please look at the store opposite!"

Li Chan pointed to a shop on the opposite street, which was a cloth shop, and saw more than a dozen young women in the cloth shop, their faces were painted very white, wearing skirts, and their hair was combed very high.

These young women, one tall and plump, most of them carrying their children in cloth bags, gathered together to discuss the cloth, and she spoke quickly and quickly, like a quarrel, and listened carefully to the Lingzhou accent.

"Their husbands are still soldiers?" Guo Song asked with a smile.

"Basically, the copper money of a month is enough for Lingzhou, plus the accumulation of land with two yuan per month, the land in Lingzhou is not expensive, most of the soldiers have more than a dozen acres of land, and the military will plant grapes uniformly, and at the end of the year, it can be divided into more than 30 yuan.

They also have three buckets of rice every month for military family food subsidies, two sheep for the Chinese New Year, and the house is also built by the army, and soldiers can go home for two days every ten days. ”

Guo Song nodded, this is also the result he expected, if you want to completely erase the traces of the party members, the best way is to improve their living standards, in the past, they were extremely poor as party members and today as Han people, so that these women are not willing to miss the past, the weaker the traces of the party on their bodies, the less impact they have on their children, and after a generation, the party will completely disappear.

Judging from the trendy dress of these women, they are still very willing to be Han, which shows that their strategy is still successful.

At this time, Li Chan asked, "When does Your Highness plan to go to Yanzhou?" ”

Guo Song sighed and said, "I have to go to the barracks in the afternoon to comfort the soldiers, so let's leave early tomorrow morning!" ”

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The reason why Yanzhou has a word 'salt' is because of the salt produced here, of course, compared with the salt of the cold spring salt lake, the salt reserves here are too small, and the mining cost is relatively high, the salt lake does not need to boil salt, large pieces of salt are cut directly, and salt must be boiled here, and there is one more process.

However, there are disadvantages must be advantageous, although there is one more process for salt mining here, but the transportation cost is relatively low, you can use the cart to transport it to Lingwu County first, and then directly on the ship, the land part has about 100 miles, and the cart only needs to go for a day and a half.

The north of Yanzhou is a big desert, the south is a reckless mountain, the white salt pond that produces salt is in the middle, there is a white pond county here, the population is only thousands, basically grazing, the county is surrounded by a large pasture, as far as the eye can see, the white salt pond covering an area of thousands of hectares is in the south of the county.

When Guo Song arrived accompanied by Li Chan, he happened to meet Xie Huaien, the commander of the Salt and Iron Bureau.

Xie Huaien and the county magistrate of Baichi County hurriedly stepped forward to salute Guo Song.

(End of chapter)