Liang Xing and An Shouluan led 3,000 Yunzhou cavalry from Dingxi City to escort Zhang Han, the assassin of Lanzhou, to Jincheng to take office. After looking at Jincheng from afar, Liang Xing and An Shouluan were very disappointed, this Longyou city that the Son of Heaven often mentions is far from the northwest fortified city they imagined, the city is dilapidated, in disrepair, and the city wall has collapsed in many places.

The largest tribe in the area of Jincheng is a branch of the Xue Xian tribe, not the Tibetans, but the Qiang tribe of the Baihe (Daxia River), which is of the same origin as the Dangxiang Qiang. Xue Renju, the leader of the Xue Xuan Tribe, went to Jinyang to make a pilgrimage to the Son of Heaven after taking refuge in the Later Tang Dynasty, and changed his surname to Xue. It's just that the first name of this guy was Xue Ju, so that after reading it, the Son of Heaven smiled and added a benevolent character to the middle of his name. This Xue Ju was a prince of Shuofang and Hexi at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and the emperor didn't want this to become the second Xue Ju.

It is equivalent to saying that the name of Xue Renju was given by the Son of Heaven.

After receiving the report of the fast horse, Xue Ju, who is currently the commander of the troops and horses of the Lanzhou Fan Department, led hundreds of horsemen out of the city and greeted them from afar. These Yunzhou riders are wearing chain mail with steel plates, and in the eyes of these Qiang cavalrymen, they are elite.

The army was stationed outside the city, An Shouluan was stationed in the barracks, while Liang Xing led three hundred pro-troops, accompanied by Xue Renju, and followed Zhang Han into Jincheng. Entering the low and dilapidated city gate cave, Liang Xing couldn't help but feel the destructive ability of the grassland people when he saw the dilapidated buildings on both sides of the street, the pedestrians dressed in tatters on the street, and the streets covered with cow and horse dung and blood.

They really don't have the ability and intelligence to run a city yet.

There are about 16 tribes around Lanzhou, among which the Xue tribe is the largest, with a population of more than 1,600. This is already a large tribe in Longyou.

Last year, the imperial court conducted an inventory of the tribes in the Quwu Mountain (Liupan Mountain) area in the northwest of Weizhou, and there were as many as 42 registered tribes, the largest being the Yeli tribe of the Dangxiang Qiang people, with a population of about 4,200 accounts, and the smallest tribe with a population of more than 100 accounts.

The imperial court's strategy for the Longyou, Hehuang, and Fanqiang tribes was to annex the small tribes, and directly integrate them into the garrison together with the Han immigrants, and implement military reclamation of the tuntian. As for some larger tribes, the means of awarding officials and winning over them are adopted, and a part of the industrial and commercial interests are transferred to the other party by means of buying shares, so as to form a preliminary community of interests.

Having realized the enormous benefits of industrial and commercial interests, these tribal leaders would generally despise the benefits of grazing and relax their management of their own tribes and territories, and the use of advanced production technology in the tuntian districts would easily attract these backward nomads into their own interior.

When these tribal leaders realized that they had lost their pastures and territories, they had actually been transformed into basically qualified Tang officials, and their own interests had been tied to the interests of the local government, forming a solidarity and standing on the position of consciously safeguarding the interests of the government.

In the northern grasslands, the imperial court did just that, and it only took five years to successfully transform most of the grassland tribal leaders into local officials in the Tang Kingdom.

With the previous experience in the Northland grassland, the military affairs in Hexi and Longyou only need to be done according to the rules and regulations, and the set of rules implemented in the past can be done.

The combination of the Tibetan tribes in the Qingtang region to form the Tsongkha Kingdom was caused by a series of policy mistakes implemented by civil officials who did not understand the situation of the grasslands and frontiers during the Song Dynasty, and in this world, Li Qi planned to complete the control and transformation of the Qingtang and Hehuang regions before they were born.

There are tens of thousands of Tang army force deterrence, the imperial court in Longyou, Hexi military tuntian did not meet much resistance, now the main problem is due to the gradual stability of the Guanzhong area, the people do not have much willingness to move, although the government has carried out a lot of propaganda and mobilization, the number of tuntian troops recruited in Guanzhong every year is sharply reduced, on the contrary, the displaced people in the Liangchuan area have become the main source of the Tuntian army in the Longyou area.

On the other hand, the imperial court extended its tentacles to the densely populated Jingxiang region through caravans.

According to the census, there are less than 1,000 Han people in Lanzhou, perhaps because most of the Han people who have been trapped in Tibet for more than 150 years have become slaves, and they have become seriously Tubo and Hu. However, even if they spoke Tibetan or Qiang languages, the Han people had a great influence on Tibet and the Qiang tribes, not only bringing many advanced farming techniques to these tribes, but also transforming the tribal structure of these nomadic or herding tribes from the original slavery to the feudal lordship.

After the arrival of the Tang army, many Tibetans and Qiang people registered with the government that their ancestors were the original Han people, and Zhang Han, the assassin of Lanzhou, was a little skeptical. Some of these civilians, who basically could not speak Han, may have registered as Han people because they were afraid of being oppressed by the Han army, and some of them may indeed be descendants of the Han family who were trapped in the Longyou and Hehuang regions.

The imperial court means that no matter which tribe it is, as long as you sign up for the Tuntian Army, you will receive it all, and you are not afraid of conflicts with the leaders of the tribes in various places.

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Meng Yiju sent more than 12,000 newly recruited Sichuan displaced people to the river pool in Fengzhou, and with him more than 30 boats of tea and silk and other specialties produced in Shu.

Zhou Tingyu was ordered to lead a thousand cavalry troops from Qinzhou to the Hechi Wharf in Hui County, and after inspecting the list of personnel, he said: "Why are there so few people this time?" ”

"It's already a lot, and if you get more, my old man and Dong Zhang's side must be in a hurry. Although Shu has a large population, they have always been on guard against the loss of personnel. If it weren't for the pressure from the imperial court, I'm afraid that even these people would have been detained. Meng Yiju complained a few words, "You count and receive these more than 30 ships, and sell them even if they are the imperial court's appropriation for the Qinzhou Army in the summer." ”

Zhou Tingyu looked at the list of goods and said with a smile: "This thing has to be earned." ”

"Be careful, if the price increase is too strong, if someone sues the court and says that you are exploiting the various departments of the Qiang and Tibetans, you will not be able to eat and walk around when the time comes."

"Don't worry, it's all officially opened trade points, and the price is clearly marked. On the contrary, many of the original Shu merchants hated us enough. Zhou Tingyu laughed, the Qinzhou army's increase in the price of goods was within a reasonable range stipulated by the imperial court, but it squeezed out a lot of profiteer caravans in the past in the area of Longyou and Hehuang in Shu.

The price of goods in the trade points opened by the government on the land of various ministries is relatively fair, and more importantly, there are shares of those tribal leaders in them, and there will be dividends every year, and those tribal leaders will naturally protect their own interests.

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