Li Qi waited in Yangcheng for more than half a month, but before Yelu Deguang led the army to come, Lin Yadili and his entourage came to the Tang army camp in Yangcheng as Khitan envoys to ask for captured Khitan nobles and generals.

Li Qi knew that this battle was a temporary subduing of the Khitan, and he didn't want to really turn against the Khitan now, so he replied: "The Khitan raised troops for no reason and violated our borders, so we must first determine the border between the two countries and sign an agreement before returning the captured generals." ”

Diri had no choice but to return to Shangdu to return to the lord of the country. Li Qinai left the privy envoy Yuan Xingqin and the Zhongmen envoy Lu Yan to stay in Yangcheng to be responsible for negotiating peace with the Khitan, and the armies returned to the town, leaving only part of the Jinyang Army and Yunzhou Army to continue to be stationed in the upper reaches of the river. In mid-September, he returned to Zhangyuan, Shanbei from Yanzicheng (Zhangbei).

After a major battle, the Tang army of Jinyang extended the northeast border to the north and east for more than 200 miles, although it seemed that it did not gain much, but it curbed the Khitan's attempt to advance westward in the northland grassland, and in addition, it won several years of peace time for the northland border. At least in the short term, there will be no more large-scale invasions of the Khitans.

The additional advantage of defeating the Khitan was that it also dispelled Luoyang's original plan to attack Zhenzhou, and it also made the military towns in Guanzhong who were ostensibly subordinate to Jinyang also fearful.

The Khitans tossed up the strategy of Li Qi's original plan to send troops to attack Hanzhong with Li Jiyan in the autumn, and this matter could only be adjusted for a period of time.

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In the late autumn season, on the mountain pass of the Daqing River in the northeast of Zhangyuan City, the dam that was built two years ago has already taken shape, and it has been raised and strengthened again this year. The dam was built against the mountain, just stuck at the mouth of the valley, turning the valley into a huge reservoir and blocking the road from Horsehair Mountain to Zhangyuan.

The outermost newly raised dam is made entirely of concrete, replacing the original earth-rock dam, with a height of 13 zhang, and most of the land on the east bank of the Yanghe River west of Zhangyuan City can be irrigated after the construction of several major trunk canals.

The north of Wuzhou and Xinzhou all belong to the military tuntian area, and private people are not allowed to carry out tuntian except for herdsmen who can graze. Most of the residents in this area are military households.

The biggest difference between the Juntun area and the local area is the housing, although it is still mud houses, but all the houses are built in a uniform manner, and it is not obvious from the appearance that the rich and the poor are rich.

Moreover, the gap between the rich and the poor in the military tun area is the smallest, and the fields cultivated by each household are basically average.

Compared with the ordinary people in the "locality", these military households have a certain sense of superiority, and these advantages lie in the fact that they can buy all kinds of daily necessities at a price less than one-third of the market price with food stamps, cloth stamps, non-staple food stamps, etc. In addition, the families and children of military households can also be given priority to work in the workshop.

Compared with ordinary peasant households, the income of military households will be higher.

Correspondingly, military households have more obligations than local households, and they need to serve a certain period of military service every year, while ordinary households only need to serve 30 days of conscription. Serve in the military, and if you are unlucky, you may be sent to battle.

There is a rule that if the wasteland is not irrigated, it is not allowed to be cultivated. If you want to open up the land, you need to dig the canal first, which must be planned and approved by the Tuntian Division.

In the north, the Taifu Temple has set up a special recruitment department to attract and resettle the displaced people in the interior in a planned way, and move to the various cantonment centers in the back to resettle the tuntian. Among them, Hedong, Hebei and Guanzhong have the most displaced people, the northern part of Shanxi is dominated by Hebei displaced people, and the Hetao area is dominated by Guanzhong people.

Fortunately, the governance of the five generations was chaotic, and there was no shortage of displaced refugees everywhere.

With the establishment of more and more military tun districts, the grasslands of the Northland are developing in the direction that Li Qi expects, and the increase of Han people is not only changing the population structure of the Northland grasslands, but also imperceptibly affecting the living habits of the grassland people. There are more and more grassland people who can speak Chinese, and all the newly built grassland commercial markets are in the Juntun area. Most of the garrisons could not speak Hu, could not communicate with each other without Chinese, and were easily deceived by their own people.

After being fooled too much, the herdsmen on the grassland also learned well, and tried not to be introduced by those "oils", but directly communicated with the merchants.

The Khitan threat was temporarily lifted, and Li Qi believed that if he was given another five years, he would definitely gain a firm foothold in the grasslands of the Northland. At that time, even if the Khitans don't come to provoke him, he may also take the initiative to attack.

On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to sleep soundly!

In this land of East Asia, there can only be one emperor......

Li Qi inspected Xinzhou, and Fu Yanchao came from Ruzhou to visit.

In the Xinzhou Bureau, Li Qi said to Bai Chengfu: "You have done a good job in Shanbei in the past few years, General An Lao will be a minister next year, and you will take over as the envoy of the Zhenwu Army."

This is considered a reward, Bai Chengfu handed over all his tribes with great interest, and was incorporated into the garrison troops in various parts of Shanbei. The Tuyuhun people are very good at business, and many of them have joined the caravan. For such subordinates who understand the general situation, stress the overall situation, and have political acumen, they should be promoted and rewarded. Although the power of the Zhenwu Army's envoys has basically been hollowed out, it can be regarded as the highest level of foreign generals.

Bai Chengfu suddenly felt a little surprised, bowed down and said, "Thank you, Your Majesty for your grace!" ”

He didn't expect that after handing over power, he would be promoted by two levels.

Li Qi looked at Fu Yanchao again: "In the past two years, I am not going to do anything in Youzhou, the eldest brother will be transferred to Tonghua and appointed as the envoy of the Zhongwu Army." ”

"It's all on your Majesty's orders!" Fu Yanchao bowed and replied.

In his feeling, in the past two years, Li Qi's power has become increasingly powerful, and this section has been transferred back and forth, which is clearly cutting off the power in their hands, at least in the past, the father died and the son succeeded, the brother died and the brother died, and that set no longer worked in the Northern Dynasty. It's very strange that he didn't move Gao Yuntao, Yao Yanchou and Mao Zhang, and he didn't treat them as his own people for a day, and in addition, these small military towns in Guanzhong can't take care of them for the time being, and it's easy to provoke others to be vigilant.

"Jingzhao, Tonghua and the Hezhong Army need to practice this winter, and it may be useful next year. In the past, the eldest brother also had to serve as an inspector to inspect and supervise the training situation in various places. Li Qi said.

"Your Majesty wants to take Hanzhong?" Fu Yanchao asked.

Li Qi glanced at him, and then said: "Big brother is well-informed, this matter has not been decided yet, and we have to wait until next year's spring sowing." ”

In fact, the northern army of Zhenzhou in Hebei accounted for only half, and Jizhou and Shenzhou were still in the hands of the southern army. Xiongzhou is considered a bridgehead for the northern army to enter Youzhou in Jinyang, it is backed by the Dingzhou army, and the southern army is helpless for the time being.

Li Siyuan also made adjustments to the generals in Hebei this year, Shi Jingtang was appointed as the envoy of Youzhou Jiedu, and Zhao Dejun was transferred to Cangzhou and appointed as the envoy of Yichang Jiedu. Li Qi was waiting for civil strife to break out in the south, so he was not in a hurry to start a big war with the southern army, but first tried to plot a territory in the west that was easy to get out of control......