Where the Tang army of Jinyang arrived, the royal caravan would soon follow and set up a trading point.

Four-wheeled carriages have high requirements for roads, and the main task of those captured Khitan prisoners of war is to repair roads. Fortunately, the Shanbei Army has already repaired the road from Yangmen Town to Yehuling, and the road repair on the grassland of Bashang only needs to start from here.

The grasslands in the north are indeed sparsely populated, and the Tang army got half of the grassland on the dam, and the survey was recorded, and the total number of nomadic tribes such as Zubu, Khitan, Turkic, Xi and Tuyuhun was only more than 6,000 accounts.

The privy envoy Yuan Xingqin and Zhongmen Ling Lu Yan sat in Yangcheng and demarcated the boundary between the two sides with the Khitan Tiyin Xiao Wei: the two sides were bounded by the Daze land in the upper reaches of the Lightning River, the Khitan realm in the east and north of Modong, and the Tang realm in the south of Yinshan in the west of Moxi. The Khitan side wanted to ask for the herdsmen of the tribes on the dam to belong to the Tang realm, but Yuan Xingqin refused to agree, and the two sides dragged on until it snowed in October.

After handing over some prisoners of war, Yuan Xingqin began to return to Jinyang.

Only Li Qi appointed Wu Luan to stay behind the newly established Weisai Army, which made Yuan Xingqin a little puzzled.

Although this Wu Luan was originally a subordinate of Sha Yan, he was a general of the Liang State, and with Yuan Xingqin's understanding of the Son of Heaven, he didn't believe in those Liang generals, but somehow he trusted this Wu Luan very much.

This Weisai army is quite a town after staying, and because it is located on the Khitan border, there are many garrisons, which can be said to be an important border town, but somehow it crossed Li Cunshuo and Li Sifeng, but let this Wu Luan take the position.

The way to settle these nomadic tribes was very simple, and after Li Qi occupied half of the dam, he announced that he would reduce half of the "annual tribute" during the Khitan rule. No one wants to pay more taxes and hand over the cattle and sheep they have worked so hard to raise. It turned out that the tribes on the grassland could not bear the oppression of the Khitans, so after announcing the reduction of half of the "annual tribute", the leaders of these grassland tribes came to Li Qi one after another and swore allegiance to him from now on to "Tian Khan".

The oath is not real, but the benefits are real.

There is a cost to managing the place, and Li Qi reduced the "annual tribute" purely because the taxes levied by the Khitans were too heavy - forty percent of the annual income had to be paid, which was simply to the limit of what could be tolerated, and it was no wonder that the Liao Dynasty had always rebelled against the divination.

The Khitan State only imposed light taxes on the Khitans and Xi tribes, which was the basis of their rule.

Wu Luan was in Swallow City, and since defeating the Khitan, Li Qi ordered him to supervise the construction of a circle of outer cities outside Swallow City, and changed Swallow City to Zhangbei City.

The captured Khitan soldiers needed to be resettled in the Tuntian District of Shanbei and Yunzhou, and some of the Tuntian military households in Shanbei and Yunzhou were transferred to the Weisai Army, and nearly 20,000 military households were distributed and resettled, so that he was so busy that he was knocking on the back of his head every day.

The Khitans built three forts about the size of Tunpu to the east of Lishui, and after a major battle, the castles were dilapidated, and there were many places that needed to be rebuilt, but also needed to be expanded on a large scale.

Fortunately, Wu Luan has already had several experiences in building castles, and he also has some experience and experience in this regard.

Time is very tight, and many newly built Tuntian forts have no time to build bungalows, so they can only dig the ground and live in the nests first.

Yuan Xingqin inspected the resettlement of the Tuntian army, and said to Wu Luan: "This northern Tuntian is very difficult, as for the residence, let's make do with it first." When it comes to eating, you must ensure that there are no problems. The place where the money should be paid cannot be saved, this matter must not be sloppy, and the military households have the strength to work only when they have their stomachs full. If it is cold today, even digging a ditch is a troublesome matter, and the burden on your body is not light, once the Khitans attack, the Weisai army will bear the brunt, especially the tunbao in the border area should be built larger, strong and reliable. ”

Wu Luan said with a sigh of teeth: "Prime minister, only some of the military households in this Weisai army are tun troops in the north, and they can be regarded as having some experience, but nearly half of them were originally herdsmen and had never planted land at all, so this is the trouble." ”

"Then plant grass first, mainly animal husbandry, and then when the displaced people recruited from the interior are resettled, the situation will be better."

"The problem is that it seems a little inappropriate for Your Majesty to put Li Cunshuo and Li Sifeng under his authority."

Yuan Xingqin looked at him and said: "I was also a little puzzled, but later I found out that there was nothing wrong, these two people are not familiar with Tuntian affairs at all, Your Majesty put these two people in the north for the purpose of training cavalry, and they may be called at any time." Moreover, they have never been exposed to the water conservancy construction promoted by Jinyang, so this arrangement is also appropriate. ”

Wu Luan said with a smile: "Li Cunshuo is going to teach a lesson to the several tribes that originally followed the Khitans in winter, I don't know what the cardinal minister thinks?" ”

Yuan Xingqin said: "The Son of Heaven has an explanation before leaving, if people don't offend me, I won't offend people, let them live in peace for a while, don't take the initiative to provoke disputes." Everything is based on the overall situation, I estimate that there will be a big action in next spring, so let them go first here, and try not to take the initiative to cause trouble. Li Cunshuo and Li Sifeng, the old man will admonish him in person. ”

Yuan Xingqin was reminded by Lu Yan that this was a thorough understanding, the emperor was implementing the policy of separating the military and the government in the north, and the generals of the border army would not arrange specific administrative positions, even if they were given a festival envoy, and it was estimated that they would also have a false title, and they would not be arranged to serve in this town.

This time he defeated the Khitan, and obtained a lot of military horses, and many Tibetan soldiers were incorporated into the Weisai cavalry and Yongbian cavalry of Li Cunshuo and Li Sifeng. The cavalry in both hands was expanded to 7,000 people, so Li Qi only gave the two of them the military posts of defense envoy of the Weisai army and the defense envoy of the Yongbian army, but let Song Tinghao and Wu Luan serve as the rear guards of these two newly established military towns.

I'm afraid that the two of them will be used as Wenchen.

Speaking of these two cavalry armies, Yuan Xingqin was in a trance, and unconsciously, it only took more than five years for Li Qi to become so powerful in a critical situation after the Xingjiaomen incident. The number of cavalry on the Jinyang side now exceeds 50,000, and you must know that even when the first emperor Li Cunqiao was at his strongest, the number of cavalry in the Tang army was only less than 40,000.

Moreover, most of the cavalry of the Northern Army were still armored cavalry.

The armor of the cavalry includes helmets, chain mail, arm guards, battle skirts, leg guards and combat boots, etc., each set of armor needs more than 100 silver dollars, and the cost of armor alone exceeds more than 5 million. Moreover, the 12,000 Praetorian Guards cavalry under the three major armies of Jinyang are also equipped with vests.

If you really have to calculate carefully, just these more than 50,000 cavalry, the cost of military horses and equipment alone is more than tens of millions, if it were not for the Son of Heaven to make money, the cost of this cavalry army alone would be enough to drag down the finances of the imperial court......