In March, the imperial court's edict reached Qinzhou, and Qinzhou Jiedu made Yao Yanchou transfer to Hedong and serve as the envoy of Zhaoyi Jiedu. Li Jitong was promoted to the envoy of Qinzhou Jiedu and the king of Longxi County, and Zhou Tingyu was appointed as the defense envoy of Qinzhou.

Li Qi sent more than 100 officials from Jinyang Academy to Qinzhou in Longyou, obviously starting to strengthen the power of the Tang State in Longyou, preparing to restore the boundaries of the old Tang Dynasty in this area.

Liang Xing, An Shouluan and these people were transferred from Zhangbei to Longyou, and the imperial court needed to use their experience in Tuntian on the northern grassland to continue to expand their territory in the Longyou and Hehuang regions. The imperial court has accumulated a lot of experience in opening up the territory in the northern grasslands, and under normal circumstances, political and economic means are the mainstay, supplemented by military means. For those tribal leaders who are superficially subservient, they generally adopt the method of conferring officials to win over, as long as the other party does not interfere with the imperial court's immigration plan, and does not interfere in the internal affairs of each tribe, and even the annual tribute is only a symbolic small part.

Of course, there is no mercy on those tribes who support troops to confront and obstruct the imperial court's plan to build a city in Tuntian by force. The 15,000 Hexi cavalry led by Kang Jiuhuoliang moved from Shandan to Kaluochuan, and the number of Qinzhou cavalry under Li Jitong's hand also exceeded 12,000 cavalry, and nearly 30,000 cavalry troops suppressed and deterred the Fan and Qiang tribes in the Longyou and Hehuang regions, so that they did not dare to act rashly.

The Hezhou Division, the Zongge Division, and the Miaochuan Division, the most powerful Tibetan tribes in Longyou and Hehuang, each had 6 or 7,000 cavalry troops, unless someone could unify the Tibetan tribes in the Qingtang and Hehuang areas.

It's a pity that since the collapse of the Tibetan Empire, the various Tibetan tribes have also been fighting with each other, and some tribes have been grudges with each other for a hundred years.

In fact, at the end of the Tang Dynasty, after the leaders of the Tibetan tribes in Hexi began to accept the canonization of the imperial court, the Tibetan tribes in the Qingtang and Hehuang regions also followed suit and went to Chang'an and Luoyang to make pilgrimages and accept the official positions canonized by the Central Plains imperial court. Although the official seal and canonization document were not of much use, they were a symbol of orthodox rule. The official positions recognized by the Central Plains Dynasty were always higher than those who were self-proclaimed.

Since the Anshi Rebellion, the land of Hehuang and Hexi has fallen into Tibet, and since the end of the Tang Dynasty, there have been continuous wars, except for a short period of recovery of Hexi during the Wuzong period, most of the period, Longyou and Hexi were ruled by Tibetans. However, with the collapse of the Tibetan Empire, the power of the Tibetan people gradually weakened, originating in the west of Minshan, the Qiang tribe in the Hequ area gradually became stronger, in fact, during the Five Dynasties, the Qiang tribe in the Longyou and Hexi areas was the strongest, followed by the Han army and the Tibetan tribes.

In three years, in the vicinity of Qinzhou, Huizhou, Guweizhou, and Minzhou, there were more than 50,000 military households in Tuntian, mainly Han people, and gradually established a strategic advantage over Tibet and Zhuqiang.

However, since the Middle Tang Dynasty, Hexi and Longyou have been ruled by the Tibetan, Qiang, Uighur and other ethnic groups for most of the time, although more than one-third of the people living here for generations are still Han people, but the cities and villages are also mixed with Hu and Han, forming a unique ethnic harmony characteristic in the northwest. The military cantonment policy pursued by the Tang State in Hexi and Longyou did not exclude the Hu people, and nearly half of the military households came from the Tibetan and Qiang departments.

Compared with the Qiang ethnic groups that were still in slavery, at least the family property and personal safety of the military families in various places were still greatly guaranteed.

The fugitive slaves of various tribes are also a major source of personnel for the Tuntian army in Longyou, which is also the place where the conflict between the garrison and the tribes is triggered. The leaders of the various tribes came to ask for their fugitive slaves, and the troops were not allowed to return them, which could easily lead to contradictions and conflicts. It's just that after a few tribes that attacked the garrison were exterminated, no one dared to do so openly anymore, after all, escaping a few slaves was only a trivial loss, and it was not worth risking their entire lives for this.

Because they brought 3,000 Yunzhou cavalry with them, Liang Xing and his team crossed Liupan Mountain from Weizhou and arrived at Ganquan City in the upper reaches of the Guanchuan River through Longgancheng, it was already mid-April. In the valley fields north of Qinzhou, the winter wheat has begun to tassel, the stems and leaves are verdant, and after more than half a month, after the Dragon Boat Festival, it is time to harvest.

The new Lanzhou assassin Zhang Han was already waiting for them in Dingxi City, he was a civil official in Guanzhong, there was no army to protect him, and he did not dare to go alone to the imperial court in name, but he took office in Jincheng under the control of the Qiang Ministry. After the edict of the imperial court, the old Jincheng County was changed to Lanzhou, and this Zhang Han was the first Lanzhou assassin.

This Dingxi City is the traffic artery north of Qinzhou, from here there are three major roads: one leads to Qinzhou, one leads to Weizhou, and one leads to the northwest to Lanzhou Zhijin City.

The Tang army had already gained a firm foothold in the Zuli River valley north of the Yellow River and the Wei River valley west of Qinzhou, and its task in the past two years was to gradually advance to the Tao and Huang river valleys. The methods adopted by the imperial court were the same as those in the northern grasslands, which were to build forts and gradually infiltrate and encroach on the fields by means of military tuning.

After encamping outside the city of Dingxi, Liang Xing and An Shouluan entered the city with a group of partial generals in the army and came to meet Zhang Han. Liang Xing is the defense envoy of Lanzhou, and An Shouluan is the deputy defense envoy, although the two of them are not under Zhang Han's control, but the state assassin is their nominal official, but it is an indispensable courtesy.

What the Son of Heaven hates the most is that the generals rely on their own force, and the following offenses, as a protégé of the Son of Heaven, even the sons of noble families like An Shouluan pay special attention to this. Otherwise, when you are reprimanded by the Son of Heaven and treated coldly, only you know when you are uncomfortable.

Although Zhang Han was born as a civil official, he served in the capital water superintendent, and was responsible for the farmland water conservancy dredging project around Jingzhao Mansion, which was regarded as a technical official, otherwise the Son of Heaven would not have appointed him to Longyou to serve as the assassin of Lanzhou.

Everyone met, during which they briefly exchanged things about the implementation of Tuntian in Lanzhou.

The main problem is the lack of population, especially the number of Han people. In a place, if the population of the Han family occupies the majority, it can basically be stabilized. And in Longyou, the biggest problem is that the population is scarce, don't look at the tribes in the war at every turn, claiming tens of thousands of horses, in fact, the entire tribe of the old and weak, women and children are all counted, the real battle is only one-tenth.

Qinzhou is an important town in Longyou, and after the inventory and registration were completed, it was found that the number of Han people was less than 200,000. The implementation of military reclamation in Longyou is the biggest problem for immigrants.

Some of the ministers in the court thought that the implementation of the border military camp would definitely be hostile to the grassland tribes, but the actual situation was just the opposite, most of the grassland tribes did not react to the arrival of the Han army, and some even took the initiative to cater to the government's strategy because of the arrival of the Han army, which brought benefits to themselves.

These leaders did not see any conflict between speaking Chinese and speaking Hu......

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