This winter, there is a lot of snow in the Longyou and Hehuang areas.

Spring has just arrived, the snow in the mountain pass has not completely melted, and there is an endless stream of Qiang and Tibetan hungry people who come out of the mountains to find food. Some tribal leaders carried silver and drove herds of livestock, hoping to exchange them for food and pasture for the government.

At this time, the remnants of snow in the mountains and forests have almost melted, and the weeds on both sides of the road have grown tender green leaf buds, and at a glance, the earth seems to have a hazy green surging. But on both sides of the road, more and more people came out in search of food, and most of them had a pale green color like spring grass on their faces.

Li Jitong brought back a large amount of grain from Shu and Guanzhong this winter, and hoarded it in Qinzhou, Huizhou, Guwei, Dingxi City, and Lanzhou.

There are many Tibetan or Qiang forts around the tunpu of the Longyou Han army, and there is also a large amount of grain and grass in the tunpu warehouses of these Han army, if the leaders of these nomadic tribes want to invade and plunder, there will be many choices.

But they didn't dare.

In the past few years, since the Tang army began to implement Tuntian in Longyou, those tribes who dared to offend or rob the Tuntian area have disappeared, and some of those who dared to act were killed at the hands of their own people, and the other part died at the hands of the Longyou Army stationed in Qinzhou and the Hexi Cavalry Army of Kaluochuan. As long as someone dares to make a move against Tuntian District, the government will offer a reward of three times the amount of looted goods, demanding the annihilation of this entire bandit tribe.

Those officials appointed by the Tang Dynasty, after seeing the bounty, had already left the so-called tribal friendship behind, and volunteered, often leading their troops to exterminate these "bandits" before the Qinzhou army even started.

The Tang Dynasty has only implemented military tun in Longyou for a few years, except for some tun fields near the river, most of the rest of the places are the territory of the Tibetan officials, and are the pastures of those Tibetan and Qiang tribes, and the situation is even more so in the Tao River basin and the Huangshui basin west of Minzhou.

Now, taking advantage of the opportunity of this snowstorm, the government has recruited a large number of hungry people from Tibet and Qiang into the Tuntian army in the name of relief for the victims, and second, it has exchanged grain and grass for pastures near the river from the leaders of the Qiang tribes, and is preparing to open up new Tuntian areas.

"There is no advance or retreat!"

This is the emperor's reply last year on approving the establishment of the Hehuang Zhaofu envoy in Longyou and the establishment of a Guancheng at the mouth of the Kaluochuan River, which put a lot of pressure on the generals and officials of Longyou...... This naturally also includes Li Jitong, the king of Longxi County, who is responsible for the right side of Longxi.

This advance does not refer to the march, there are 10,000 Hexi cavalry of Kang Jiu stationed in Kaluochuan, plus more than 20,000 soldiers and horses under the jurisdiction of the Longyou Jiedu envoy, Longyou, Hehuang and even the Qingtang and Tibetan tribes all surrendered to the coercion of the Tang army, got the canonization of the imperial court, and became an official of the Tang Dynasty.

This advance is to require the establishment of Tuntian forts and even cities to the west.

Zhou Tingyu rushed back to Qinzhou from Miaochuan City (Huangzhou City), and went directly to the palace without taking a break.

"How's it going?" Li Jitong said after seeing him.

"Fortunately, although Wen Jaluo was in pain, he still obediently handed over the Cheese River Valley, but Huangzhou City was still in his hands." Zhou Tingyu said.

Li Jitong arched his hand and said, "Brother Tingyu, this is another great achievement. ”

Zhou Tingyu shook his head: "The incident is not so simple, if you can't reclaim the tuntian land as soon as possible, there may still be a recurrence." When the time comes, people will occupy the pasture, and if they want to forcibly evict them, they will still have to use swords. In this Longyou Tuntian, the lack of immigrants is always a big problem. ”

Li Jitong said: "The imperial court plans to dismantle the four towns of Fengxiang, Suining, Dunfang and Tonghua this year, and at least half of the 100,000 town troops in Guanzhong will be moved to Longyou, and some of the Shaanzhou and Hezhong armies may also be transferred." ”

Zhou Tingyu breathed a sigh of relief: "The 50,000 town army was reorganized into a garrison army, will it be moved with its family?" ”

"Let's mobilize as much as possible...... Li Jitong pursed his lips, "Those tribes are only two or three thousand people at most, but they are enough to dominate one side of Hehuang." ”

Zhou Tingyu nodded: "As long as the Tuntian Han army occupies the majority, this Hehuang place can be completely stabilized." The Son of Heaven often said that the strategy of uniting all ethnic groups was still very effective. ”

The imperial court still fully supported the development of Longyou and Hehuang, and basically the trade profits of several major firms between Guanzhong, Shudi and Longyou were mostly allocated to the Longyou army to support the development of Tuntian here.

This alone costs more than 5 million yuan per year.

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When Li Siyuan stole Luoyang, Xichuan Jiedu made Meng Zhixiang still have some ambitions. Li Qi fled back to Jinyang that year, and when it was the most difficult, he asked Li Jiyan to bring a message to his eldest uncle, hoping to solve part of the silver money he had scavenged from Wang Yan when he was conquering Shu to Jinyang.

At that time, Meng Zhixiang decided that Li Qi, the crown prince, could not be Li Siyuan's opponent, and refused Li Qi's request without hesitation.

It's just that what surprised him was that Li Qi not only gained a firm foothold in Jinyang, but then made steady progress, and it only took three years to turn the situation around. Later, the Northern Army counterattacked and broke through Xingyuan in one fell swoop, and Meng Zhixiang felt a little pressured.

Meng Zhixiang originally planned to annex Dongchuan Dongzhang's territory and unify Shu. However, after the Northern Army occupied Xingyuan Mansion, they secretly supported Dong Zhang, which restrained each other, so that Meng Zhixiang, who had always been scheming, did not dare to act rashly. If he really fights with Dong Zhang, the Northern Army will give him a behind-the-back attack, and he will be the first to finish.

After the death of Princess Yichang, Meng Zhixiang favored the Li family, and initially prepared to appoint Meng Chang, the eldest son of the Li family, as his heir. However, the Son of Heaven fully supported the eldest son of the princess, Meng Yifan, after thinking about it, he weighed it in many ways, and finally under the persuasion of Li Renhan, Zhao Jiliang and other subordinates, he still acquiesced to the position of Meng Yifan's heir.

At least Yifan and the four brothers were all born to the eldest princess, and they are cousins with the Son of Heaven, which is related to the survival of the family business.

Recently, from time to time, rumors from the Jinyang court have spread to Shu, saying that the Son of Heaven intends to reclassify the original east and west Sichuan military towns into southeast and northwest Sichuan Jiedu military towns, and it seems that he is ready to do something to Shu.

Meng Zhixiang convened his henchmen to discuss, but none of his generals Li Hanzhi, Zhao Jiliang, Zhao Tingyin, Zhang Ye and others dared to confront the imperial court, which made Meng Zhixiang feel extremely depressed.

In March of the eighth year of the Republic, after receiving the news that Dong Zhang, the envoy of Dongchuan Jiedu, had moved from Zizhou to Yuzhou on the order of the imperial court, Meng Zhixiang fell ill......

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