Kang Jiu's cavalry troops were placed in the areas of Yongchang and Shandan, and in the area of Rouge Mountain, which were begged for by Li Qi from Ganzhou and Liangzhou to be used as royal horse breeding grounds. The power of the imperial court was equivalent to extending from here to Hexi, based on the Tuntian area here, and then slowly expanded.

Although the use of peaceful means to subdue Hexi has left many hidden dangers, Li Qi is confident that these problems will eventually be completely solved with the increase in the number of Tuntian districts.

The rest of the armies returned to their garrisons one after another, but Li Qi did not return directly to Jinyang, but took 5,000 forbidden troops and went to Guanzhong along the Huluchuan (Qingshui River).

He now set his sights on Longyou again.

He doesn't underestimate the opponents of this era, but he doesn't overestimate them either.

Although on the battlefield, he definitely can't compare with the fierce generals of this era. But with a thousand years of more knowledge in his mind than them, Li Qi has many ways to kill them.

The strength of the traverser lies in spreading knowledge, improving the level of production technology, and adding more wealth to this society, rather than competing with these reckless men on the battlefield.

Governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh, and the military's heart and public opinion are very complicated to say, and it is very simple to say simple.

Whoever can keep them fed and clothed will be supported from the bottom of their hearts.

Of course, this simple emotion is vigorously guided and promoted, making it sublimated to another level.

Jingyuan Jiedu made Li Jichang also a wonderful person, since the age of fifteen out of Weizhou, his political performance can only be said to be neither good nor bad, quite a bit of Huang Lao's habit of doing nothing. Li Maozhen, the king of Qi, has been a warlord all his life, but the three sons he gave birth to are all fond of literature and art, proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and none of them are interested in military affairs.

Perhaps because he saw that his heirs had no ambitions, Li Maozhen was the first military town to express his submission after the founding of the Later Tang Dynasty. His choice is also very wise, the Fengxiang Li family was finally saved in the five generations of troubled times, and escaped the death of most of the five generations of warlords in the late Tang Dynasty.

Weizhou is a place that began to be set up in the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the seat of governance is in Longxi City, the upper reaches of the Wei River, west of Qinzhou. After the Anshi Rebellion, most of the west of the Longyou River fell to Tibet, and at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Weizhou was reset, and the administrative office was relocated to Pingliang City in the upper reaches of the Jing River.

For the Fengxiang Li brothers, who have no ambition and are very sensible, Li Qi treats them very favorably, and after Li Jichang visits, he personally dismounts and caresses each other, salutes with him, and lets him enter the city with him.

Being able to walk side by side with the Son of Heaven is already a very high treatment.

"I went to Hexi in person this time, and I couldn't help but feel emotionally moved when I saw the descendants of China wearing felt clothes, talking nonsense, and the people's livelihood withering and suffering. It is the fault of the Son of Heaven that he cannot feed all the peoples. Fengxiang Mansion and Longyou Qinzhou were originally one, but it is a pity that Weizhou in Longyou fell to Tibet for a long time. I want to open up and recover the lost territory of Longyou Hehuang, does Brother Li have the intention to go to Longyou and his party? This is a feat that will go down in history. Li Qi went to the Weizhou Military Office, learned about the people's livelihood and governance in Weizhou and Jingzhou with Li Jichang, and then suddenly changed the topic and said.

Li Jichang's eyes flickered a few times when he heard this, and then he smiled bitterly and said: "Thank you Your Majesty for your love, this Longyou Tubo and Zhuqiang are not as sweet and cool as Hexi, they are unruly and untamable, and peaceful means are not very effective." Let Weichen lead the army to fight, and he doesn't have that ability, which is really a disappointing thing for His Majesty. Most of the Longshan area has become the pasture of the party's Xiangye Li Department, and there are often disputes, and the subordinates have a headache. Wechen has always been lazy, and I hope that His Majesty can place his ministers in a more leisurely place. ”

He was extremely smart, and he had read a lot of books, and he knew that the Son of Heaven meant that he was a little dissatisfied with the fact that the Dang Xiang Qiang Department was entrenched in the area of Dalong Mountain, gradually invaded internally, and now the power has spread to Weizhou. When the emperor said this, it is possible that he was thinking about the Qiang tribe north of Qinzhou and in the area of Dalong Mountain. So he simply asked to be transferred, but he didn't miss the territory left by his father Li Maozhen at all.

Li Qi lightly clasped the table with his index finger, thought for a while, and then said: "It's okay, Hezhong Mansion is the richest place in Hedong, and it just so happens that Hezhong Jiedu made He Fujin move the town of Heyang, and Aiqing will go to Hezhong." The Qiang tribe in the Weizhou area needs to be directly led and governed by the government, not by the leaders of the tribes. ”

Li Jichang said: "The Qiang people are brave and will not give in easily, Your Majesty should act cautiously." ”

Li Qi glanced at Li Jichang, and then said with a smile: "Without him, it's just a combination of grace and power." In the past, the methods were either harsh and brutal, or laissez-faire, lacking economic means. Longyou and Guanzhong, only a mountain apart, is the important land of the Ping Domain, and it cannot be easily given to people. ”

Li Jichang arched his hand and said: "Your Majesty wants to restore Hehuang, and Weichen knows that he can't charge in front, but things like transporting grain and grass in the back can still be done." ”

Li Qi looked at him and smiled: "This matter is not in a hurry, you have to take your time, but you have to start from Weizhou and Qinzhou first, you can't fight in front, but you will make trouble behind." ”

These Weizhou and Qinzhou want to be used as rear bases to expand their land and recover their homeland, and Li Jiyan's brothers are willing to hand over these territories, which still makes Li Qi feel very satisfied. For such feudal towns that voluntarily surrendered their military power and localities, Li Qi would not treat them badly, and in the future, the title of at least one duke of the country would be indispensable.

The main reason for Li Qi's visit to Weizhou this time was to strengthen his control over this official road from Guanzhong to Shuofang.

The area around the Huluchuan (Qingshui River) is full of pastures of the Dangxiang Qiang Department, and once something happens, the Dangxiang people can easily cut off the connection with this road. Relying only on the road of the Hetao, the imperial court's control over Shuofang and Hexi was very weak.

Even if the Li brothers took the initiative to give up their own territory, he was able to build a series of fortresses along this ancient mountain trade route according to his own wishes, so as to strengthen the government's control over this area, and at the same time cut off the connection between the Qiang Department of the Longyou Party and the Li Clan of the Dingyan Army.

With only more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, the Dingyan army was actually not as powerful as imagined. At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, in fact, the imperial court had already controlled Dingnan and Shuofang, and then because the military generals sent by the imperial court treated the Qiang Department too brutally and harshly, coupled with a series of stupid operations of the imperial court during the period of Taizong and Zhenzong, Li Jiqian gradually unified the party departments and Dingnan and Shuofang with only a few hundred people, and gradually became bigger.

In later generations, Western Xia was able to become bigger and stronger, mainly due to the connivance of the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers, coupled with the support of the Liao State.

There are eight party departments, two in Longyou, one in Hexi, one in Hetao, plus one in Fuzhou and Shengzhou, and it is difficult for Li to have only three people, so he can't afford to toss a big storm.

What Li Qi did was to take precautions to prevent the history of Dang Xiang Qiang's possession of the Western Xia Kingdom from repeating itself in another time and space history. Now it seems that this possibility has become very small.

According to the original plan, Li Qi was going to Fengxiang and Xingyuan Mansion to inspect it. It's just that after thinking about it carefully, this will cause a lot of pressure on Meng Zhixiang and Dong Zhang in Shudi. In case the two of them joined forces in the face of heavy pressure, it would be worth the loss, so he finally gave up his plan to inspect Xingyuan Mansion, and went directly to Jingzhao Chang'an from Weizhou.

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