Li Xiao saw that Galdan was so knowledgeable about current affairs, and he also admired him a lot, so he comforted him a few more words before ordering him to retire.

At this point, the entire Western Regions, which is far broader than the Tang Dynasty, has been incorporated into the country he founded, and Li Xiao is very happy in his heart.

The thousand-year-old homeland has been newly returned, and the land it has obtained is more extensive and magnanimous, how can it not be emotional.

Li Xiao immediately ordered all the subordinates of the Dzungar Khanate to change their Han customs, grow Han hair, wear Han clothes, and become newly naturalized Han Chinese. And half of the population was divided into it.,After the completion of sinicization,Immediately moved to Eastern Siberia and Outer Manchuria.。

At the same time, millions of Han Chinese were transferred from China to live in mixed with the remaining Dzungar tribes, so as to completely sinicize and stabilize the local area, just like the Yarkand Khanate, so as to ensure long-term peace and stability.

It's just that the destruction of the two countries in a row has taken the entire Western Regions into possession, but the ambition of the Tang Emperor Li Xiao is far from being satisfied.

Don't take advantage of the time when the army is sharp and invincible, to expand more and bigger territories for the Tang Empire, and wait for when!

His eyes were fixed on Russia in the north and Uszang in the south.

Now Russia, just under the city of Dolbenrut in the Dzungar Khanate, has annihilated a full 50,000 elites, and the general Andreov was even defeated and killed, and was trampled into pulp by the cavalry of the Tang Army.

The Russian elite has been defeated, and there is no heavy garrison in the whole of Western Siberia, and the Russian army has no way to compete with itself except for retreating to the Ural Mountains on all fronts.

And Western Siberia, where troops were scarce, was surrounded by the Tang army from the east to the south, and it was the best time to send troops to attack it with all its might.

Of course, going to such a bitter cold place to fight will increase the mortality rate of soldiers and soldiers, and the logistical supply will be extremely difficult, but if you can take this region, which is arguably the richest mineral and forest resources on the planet, no matter how much sacrifice you make, it will be worth it.

One lifetime pays, all generations benefit, even if you sacrifice 100,000 soldiers, you must resolutely take this place!

Li Xiao immediately ordered half of the troops to be divided from the 30 soldiers and horses, and the Russian prisoners who had just surrendered and the rest of the Dzungar army of Galdan were led as the vanguard, and they all attacked Russia from the south. In addition, the troops and horses of the Fifth Town, which had been stationed in Eastern Siberia, also mobilized heavy troops to attack the west with all their might, and the troops attacking from the south, echoing each other, were attacking in a strange way, and they were bound to take the whole of Sisiberia in one fell swoop, and finally join the army at the foot of the Ural Mountains.

The other half of the troops were transferred from the two towns, and the surrendered Yarkand Khan king Yaolevas led the rest of his Ye army as the vanguard to attack Wusizang. In the entire Dzungar Khanate, it was also the Yarkand Khanate, leaving only one town of soldiers and horses to garrison to maintain law and order.

This Wusizang is the Qinghai-Tibet region of modern China, and it was an administrative region located in present-day Tibet during the Yuan Dynasty of China.

Wu Si (translated as Wei after the Qing Dynasty, that is, Wei Zang's Wei) refers to the former Tibet; Tibetan refers to the posterior hidden; Nari is Ali, and Sugurusun means three parts (i.e., Guge, Bulang, and Mangyu), and Nari Sugurusun is roughly equivalent to the present-day Ali region. Yuanzhi Xuanwei made the Marshal Sidu's Mansion manage these three regions in a unified manner.

In 1239, Kuoduan, the second son of Ogedei, sent Duoerda into Tibet and reached the northeast of present-day Lhasa. In 1247, the Sasgar religious chieftain Panmidan Gonggyal sent a visit to Koduan to submit to the Mongols. After entering the Yuan Dynasty, Wusizang was divided into 13 million households, and together with the Marshal Mansion of Nari Sugurusun, they were all under the jurisdiction of the Marshal Mansion of the Marshal of Wusizang Nari Sugurusun Three Roads Xuanfu Envoy. Marshal Xuanfu was sometimes the Tibetan Benchan, the highest official in Tibet at that time, and was directly appointed by the imperial court.

At that time, there were three parts: "Former Tibet" included present-day Lhasa and Shannan regions, "Later Tibet" was the present-day Kaze region, and "Ali" referred to the entire northern Tibetan Plateau (present-day Ali region and part of the Nagqu region).

The social system of the three roads of Wusi Zang Nari Suguru Sun did not fundamentally change in the Yuan Dynasty, and it was still serfdom in which the lords exploited and ruled over the subjects. The big and small lords constituted a feudal aristocratic class. Monasteries possessed large amounts of land and property and exploited serfs.

The monks and feudal lords in the Wusi-Tibetan region all had great power, and the subjects called Misidi (i.e., the tribesmen) had no personal freedom, and were burdened with a variety of taxes and servitude, and engaged in hard labor all year round, and were the most pitiful and painful class.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Tibetan region was still called Wusizang. However, compared with the Yuan Dynasty, Tibet's economy has now developed greater. During the Ming Dynasty, Tibet's economic ties with the Central Plains were greatly developed and expanded through the benefits of the Ming Dynasty's tribute. Compared with the Yuan Dynasty, this connection is not only larger and more extensive, but also more civilized.

In fact, the close economic ties between Tibet and the Ming Dynasty have become one of the most striking elements and features. The further strengthening of economic ties between Tibet and the Central Plains undoubtedly marks the formation of an eastward development trend of Tibet's economy and leads to a further eastward tilt of the center of gravity of Tibetan civilization.

The Ming Dynasty set up the "Wusi Tibetan Guard" before Wei and Tibet. In the seventh year of Hongwu, he was promoted to "Wusi Tibetan Guard" to "Wusi Tibetan Commander". Later, it was promoted to "Command Envoy Division" to "Command Envoy Division", and there were a number of Command Envoys, 10,000 households, 1000 households, and 100 households.

During the Ming Dynasty, monks and lay leaders in Tibet paid tribute to the central dynasty. The Ming Dynasty implemented an administrative system that combined the establishment of military guards in the capital and the establishment of multiple feudal and public buildings of various political and religious forces, and brought the whole of Tibet under the rule of the central dynasty. In order to further emphasize the political subordination involved in the division of feuds, the rulers of the Ming Dynasty established a strict tributary system to accompany the feudals. Tribute became a specific form of political ties between the Tibetan local government and the central government.

Tibet's tribute to the central government of the Ming Dynasty began in the fifth year of Hongwu and the emperor was sent to pay tribute, and finally in the third year of Chongzhen, the monks of Wusi and Tibetan monks were more than three and so on, which lasted more than 200 years, which shows the closeness of their relationship.

It's a pity that in the last years of Chongzhen, the world was in turmoil, and the imperial court no longer had the ability to control the distant Wusizang Xuanwei Division, and this place has since become an enclave of self-management, and has since been out of the control of the central power.

Such a split situation, in the current situation of the Tang Empire, will never be allowed to happen again.

If a chicken is lost, it must be found in time, otherwise, it will never find its way home.

Therefore, Li Xiao decided to launch a recovery operation in the Wusi-Tibet region at the same time when attacking Russia.

This is because Tibet is now in a state of division, and all regions are autonomous and there is no unified political power, which is an excellent favorable situation for the Tang Army that can be broken by each other.

Therefore, in the process of recovering Wusizang, the Tang army did not need to send a large number of soldiers and horses, and there were two towns of troops, which launched an attack from the east and west sides of Baosizang, all the way to Lhasa. The final plan was for these two troops to meet smoothly in the city of Lhasa.

Of course, the Tang army only sent soldiers and horses to two towns, which is also another realistic consideration, that is, Tibet is the roof of the world, and the terrain is very steep and difficult to navigate, which is a great challenge for logistics supply, which also restricts the large-scale offensive of the Tang army from the perspective of appearance. In the end, it was decided that only the two towns would be sent to act separately, and it was the most realistic option.

The plan was finalized, and the Tang army immediately split up.

And the Tang Emperor Li Xiao, accompanied by the guards, returned to the capital, and since then he has personally controlled these two major battles related to the national fortune.

The Tang army attacked from both sides, and Russia, which was greatly injured because of the loss of 50,000 elites, could no longer resist the sharp front of the Tang army, and constantly lost cities and land, and broke all the way to the west.

The Tang Army's triumphant legato, attacking and killing all the way, did not enter the realm of no one. Although this Western Siberia is vast and boundless, it is a miracle that the Tang army has completely won this place with the richest mineral and forest resources in the world in less than a year.

Finally, after two years, the Tang Army, which had resisted the severe cold and lack of logistics, as well as the repeated raids and harassment of the Russian army, paid thousands of sacrifices and non-combat attrition of more than 10,000 people, the Tang Army in the south and the Tang Army in the east finally met at the foot of the Ural Mountain, completely and resolutely completing the plan that Li Xiao had originally formulated.

At this point in the war, the Tang Army's logistical supply capacity had reached its limit, the soldiers were also exhausted, and the soldiers and horses of the vassal countries who participated in the war suffered heavy losses, almost to the extent that it was difficult to sustain.

The Tang army reached the limit of its troops, and the Russians, who retreated to the west of the Ural Mountains, also lost their generals, their morale was low, and they were embarrassed to fight again. And because of the uprising in the country, the forces were even more scattered, and it was no longer possible to even mobilize troops to carry out a surprise attack on the Tang army that had come from thousands of miles.

As a result, the two sides have formed a stalemate on the Ural Mountains, and neither side can continue to attack the other, and the two countries have formed a de facto border.

At this time, a letter delivered by a flying pigeon departed from the city of Beijing and arrived in Moscow five days later, reaching the Russian Tsar Alexei I.

Alexey I, with the help of a translator, quickly read the letter, and his face turned pale.

His hand holding the letter trembled involuntarily, and his mouth subconsciously moved and closed.

With a click, a delicate pipe made of brown oil and ironwood fell from his mouth onto a thick, dense carpet of woven flowers.

"Damn it!"

The supreme ruler of Russia could not help but curse in a low voice, picked up the pipe again, took out a silk cloth towel, carefully wiped the dust off the pipe, and then stuffed it back into his mouth.

"Go and call Morozov."

Alexei I, who had returned to his chair, gave a hasty order to the guards beside him.

Soon, Morozov, the in-law and prime minister with a big belly but wearing a tight dress, followed the guards in.

"Your Majesty, you call me 。。。。。。"

Alexei I interrupted him with a wave of his hand, and then handed the letter to his bosom.

"Look at it, look at how in the eyes of the Tang people, the Russians were driven out of Western Siberia like a lost dog, and finally hid at the foot of the Ural Mountains to survive." Alexei smiled bitterly: "Poor Russians, the British are copying our back roads in the Crimea, and the Chinese West Siberia and our territory are really a perfect combination." ”

Morozov frowned, hurriedly put on gold-wire glasses with small round lenses, and quickly read Li Xiao's letter. After reading the letter, his face was very pale.

"Western Siberia, just lost 。。。。。。"

He muttered, his eyes still full of disbelief.

"Yes, it's lost, the reality is so cruel, the devil has captured the castle, and God's people have no choice but to retreat." Alexei I stood up, walked slowly to the delicate rococo carved arched window, looked at the vast wind and snow in the distance, and his face suddenly swelled with sadness: "Our army has suffered such a major defeat, lost cities and land, and retreated one after another, and as the king of Russia, I cannot express the pain in my heart at all. ”

Looking at the fat back of Alexei I, Morozov's heart was also unspeakably sad.

Alas, the pain of internal and external difficulties can be described in words when the country revolted one after another, the people were struggling to make a living, and there were strong enemies pressing the territory outside, taking away Siberia, which the Tsar had occupied for more than a century.

That Tang Emperor Li Xiao is really a heroic figure.

It is a miracle that this guy, who started as an ordinary village hunter, can now rule such a huge empire.

Vanderbilt sighed. Remove the small round lens and put the letter from Li Xiao back on Alexei I's imperial table.

"Your Majesty, perhaps, we can counterattack back and regain lost territory?" His voice was low.

Alexei I sneered, turned around, blinked his gray-blue eyes, and said in a mocking tone: "Attack back? To put it simply, if only it were so easy to attack back. ”

Alexei I let out a long sigh, and he paced around the office like a trapped beast: "Now Siberia is lost, the territory east of the Ural Mountains is in the hands of the Chinese, and our Russian military presence in the East basically ceases to exist. If you want to mobilize the whole country's troops again, regardless of the risk of rebellion and thieves in the country, it will be easier said than done to attack the Tang army, which has already built a castle in the Ural Mountains! Not to mention that it is very likely that the British or the French will take advantage of the lack of our forces to seize Crimea. Even if they do not move, if our army wants to attack Siberia, the road is long, and the army is on an expedition, how can it easily defeat the Tang army, which is waiting for work. If we are not defeated again, then our Russian Empire will be afraid of being torn apart. ”

When Alexei I said this, he stood still, slowly turned his head, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Morozov, in my opinion, maybe it is the most realistic way for us to admit the status quo and deal with the protracted war between Russia and the Tang Dynasty well." ”

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