Yu Chi Baolin's married life is destined to be very busy, and accompanying Dongzhu to hold continuous concert tours in various departments in Mobei is his political task, and it is estimated that he will not stop this task until there is no new person to replace Dongzhu in Mobei.

And Sun Xiangfu also took the opportunity of Li Shimin's visit to various ministries to take a good look at the terrain of Mobei.

In later generations, the most famous crop here is sunflowers, but it is not that the environment here is not suitable for planting other crops, the overall environment of this period is much better than that of later generations, the sunshine is more abundant, and due to the altitude, the temperature difference between day and night here is very large, if it is really planted here, some specific crops, the yield will be very high, of course, this is the next step of Sun Xiangfu's development of Mobei will consider things.

Walked north for eight or nine days, after the Hangai Mountain, the water system became more and more developed, there are many tributaries of the Seleng River, the Hun River, many large and small lakes can be seen everywhere, in the later generations, here is almost near Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia.

"Your Majesty, this is the best place to establish the city of Xue Yantuo Khan." After a comprehensive analysis, Sun Xiangfu suggested to Li Shimin.

"Really? I'm going to go further north! It's not far enough here! ”

All elite cavalry one person and two horses, lightly armed, from the northernmost Dingxiang City of the Tang Dynasty, this road has been walking for almost half a month, and there is at least about two hundred miles a day, to the current position, from Shanyang, there are almost more than three thousand miles in a straight line, far enough.

"Your Majesty, Yi Nan is not stupid, the water and grass here are abundant, the terrain is flat, it is the best grazing area in the Mobei region, and in the center of the entire Mobei region, further north, it is even colder, not suitable for living.

Moreover, although we are building a sweat city for Yi Nan on the surface, we are actually building a city for ourselves, and we are too far away alone, and we are afraid that it will not be easy to control in the future. ”

With the military strength that Yi Nan now controls, if you don't want to fight with the Tang Dynasty, there is room for development to the west and north, those positions are called Middle Siberia and Siberia in later generations, and they were ruled by the Han people during the Han Dynasty, and now there should be many small tribes with a very backward degree of civilization, but there are some differences between the racial characteristics and the Asians.

Sun Xiangfu gave Li Shimin such a suggestion, naturally he had his considerations, the place is too far away, not suitable for Shanyang to trade with it, more than 3,000 miles away, that is, the elite army marched under the leadership of the locals, in order to get here in about half a month, ordinary businessmen groped their way here from Shanyang, it took more than a month.

If it is far away, it will raise the cost of transportation, thereby increasing the price of goods, and will also reduce the frequency of commercial exchanges, which is inconsistent with Sun Xiangfu's purpose of accelerating cultural dissemination through frequent exchanges.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that what Zhengming said is reasonable, this place is a plain area, and there are few mountains and rocks, in case Xue Yantuo has any changes in the future, we will bring troops to attack, and they will have no terrain to defend······"

The reason why Li Shimin brought so many generals to Mobei together is to let everyone be familiar with the local environment on the spot, after Li Jing made a strategic analysis of the suggestion, Li Shimin was immediately relieved, and soon, he and Yi Nan jointly selected a place near the river bank, and the craftsmen began to preliminarily survey.

Of course, at this time, Sun Xiangfu also has to fool Yi Nan according to the actual interests of the Tang Dynasty.

"Yi Nan Khan, you have seen the grandeur of Shanyang City, but you may not know why he will remain prosperous, Your Majesty is sympathetic to the lack of management and management skills of your Xue Yantuo people, and specially formulated a set of official systems for you to efficiently manage the people, as long as you appoint the talents provided for you by several major families as officials, they can help you manage the production and life of your subordinates very well, which will greatly accelerate the economic development of the Xue Yantuo Khanate."

Hearing this, Yi Nan nodded, Li Shimin had talked to him about this before, and he himself felt that he should learn the advanced management system of the Tang Dynasty, so he nodded and said, "What Sun Dudu said is true, Ben Khan will appoint them in accordance with the official system of the Tang Dynasty later, and if it is effective, he will definitely hire more Han people to come to my Xue Yantuo as officials and stewards." ”

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "Yi Nan Khan's eloquence is strategic, victorious and profitable, and there are many people who are Tuli, in this way, the land of Mobei will be able to get rid of the current poverty and backwardness in a few years, of course, if you really want to get rich, you still need to learn from Shanyang in more aspects." ”

Yi Nan nodded yes, and said, "If Sun Dudu has any good suggestions, please inform Ben Khan, and Ben Khan will be thanked later." ”

Sun Xiangfu waved his hand and said with a smile, "Talking about thanks, we are all courtiers of the Tang Dynasty now, and doing our best for the prosperity and strength of the people of the Tang Dynasty is a matter of duty, and this governor can't afford to be the heavy thanks of the Yinan Khan." ”

Sun Xiangfu politely rejected Yi Nan's kindness, and said, "Actually, there is no trick to making the people rich, it is enough to prosper business, you have also been to Shanyang twice!" It should be known that the reason why Shanyang is rich is because there were many merchants in the past and the large volume of goods traded, which led to the prosperity of the whole people. ”

Hearing this, Yi Nan seemed to feel that he had found an idea, nodded and said, "Exactly, Shanyang was originally a place that was even more barren than here, and it was precisely because of Sun Dudu that you established the city and developed commerce and trade, which made it rich, do you mean, if Ben Khan's Khan City prospers commerce, it can also become rich as Shanyang quickly?" ”

Sun Xiangfu nodded and said, "Of course, this time I brought a lot of businessmen who are willing to come to Xue Yantuo Khan City to open shops, as long as you allocate a certain amount of population and labor to them, they can quickly help you develop the business in the city."

For example, in the coal industry, there is a person named Wei Xingshan, in our Datang, but the son of Wei, who specializes in this industry, if you can give him some manpower, he will immediately help you find coal mines in the north of the desert, and mine and make honeycomb coal blocks that are as easy to use as Shanyang.

In this way, you can build a large number of greenhouses for cattle and sheep to spend the winter, as long as the cattle and sheep do not freeze to death in the winter, in the coming year, I am afraid that the number will be so large that you can't eat it all.

And some merchants, such as the one named Xiao Qi, can help you sell all the cattle, sheep and horses produced by Xue Yantuo, and at the same time, sell some goods that Xue Yantuo needs, and you only need to collect his taxes in the city, and you can make a lot of profits.

There are many other industries, I won't repeat them one by one, these Han businessmen, you communicate with them more when the time comes, give them some preferential treatment and support, if they can lead more businessmen to do business in your Khan City, then, it is difficult for you to get rich here! ”

In Yi Nan's opinion, what Sun Xiangfu said can be regarded as word for word, in fact, what Sun Xiangfu said is a real strategy that can make Yi Nan rich.

However, in the future, Xue Yantuo Khan City is not like Shanyang, with many types of goods, good quality, and rare, they just have a relatively large output of cattle and sheepskin goods.

This will form another situation, although the people of Xue Yantuo have increased their output because of the greenhouse, but because of the introduction of various easy-to-use and expensive shops, they will have more places to spend money, in fact, ordinary herdsmen and ordinary people just send these extra outputs to the Tang Dynasty at a low price, and they themselves cannot achieve wealth, and they are more like those noble leaders who are accustomed to extravagance, because of the increasing expenses, but become poor.

In this process, Yi Nan, who is only responsible for tax collection, will indeed be rich, but he will gradually lose the hearts of the people, and those nobles and small tribal leaders under his command want to continue to be rich and luxurious, and if they want to continue to be rich and luxurious, they need more money, and this kind of thirst, Yi Nan can't satisfy them, and they will begin to deviate from Yi Nan.

Yi Nan can't satisfy them, but someone can!

The Tang Emperor can easily let them live a good life, at that time, whether it is the officials who manage the people's livelihood, or the people at the bottom, or the nobles, the hearts of the tribal leaders are all supporting the Tang Emperor to directly manage this land, then, at this time, it can basically be announced that the era of Yi Nan is over.

In the next two days, Yi Nan really met with all the businessmen brought by Sun Xiangfu very well, and treated them as VIPs, and drank and feasted twice a day to ask for advice.

Li Shimin led tens of thousands of soldiers and more than 200,000 people from Xue Yantuo's department to come over one after another to help Yi Nan build the Khan City, and after digging the foundation of the New Khan City for a day, he was ready to say goodbye to everyone.

Before leaving, Li Shimin gave all the living materials that he did not need to bring back to the herdsmen of Xue Yantuo, which further deepened the good impression of these Xue Yantuo people towards him.

Since the construction of Khan City has just begun, Yi Nan can't get out, this time Xue Yantuo's people and horses participating in the big competition were led by Sanjie, a total of about 2,000 people, and set off with Li Shimin's team, anyway, after seeing the strength of the Tang Army, Yi Nan didn't plan how many championships his subordinates could get.

As for the inside of Datang, it was lively, and when the newspaper and the pamphlet promoting the game were printed out in large quantities, this matter instantly became a hot topic of discussion among the whole people.

No. 1 in the world! Who wouldn't?

Moreover, this kind of competition is not limited to fighting and fighting.

Running, bidding guns, high jump, long jump, who wouldn't? Some people think they have something to do in a certain area, and they really want to try it.

Of course, the most important thing is those assassins or governors in Shangzhou, who doesn't want to win the group award of 100,000 yuan? Even if you can't win the team award, a single champion is still a thousand rewards! It's three years from now, but it's time to watch it, gain some experience, or at least know how to compare!

Almost as soon as they saw the newspaper, many assassins issued recruitment orders, inviting some local wealthy families to prepare to select talents to form a joint group to participate in the competition, for them, earning benefits is only one aspect, and it is even more important to show their faces in front of the emperor or the world.

For this kind of competitive things, the powerful families are naturally the most concerned, they are more eager than ordinary people to be the first in the world, almost without thinking about it, the head of each family ordered, in the name of the state and county, to form a team to participate in the competition, compete for the right project, in their own disciples and family soldiers at the same time, but also spend a lot of money, in various places to find a variety of talented talents, money is a small meaning for them, the world's first name, must fight.

All of a sudden, the status of the martial arts rose and became the object of competition among all parties in the Tang Dynasty, which achieved the expected effect of Sun Xiangfu very well, maintained, and even carried forward the martial spirit of the people of the Tang Dynasty, so that the martial artists also had many channels for advancement.

So, when Li Shimin's large team returned to Shanyang in early August, they were frightened by the lively scene on the streets of Shanyang.

Chu Suiliang, who went outside the city to greet Li Shimin, was called over for questioning as soon as possible.

"Your Majesty, more than ten days ago, people from all over the country began to pour into Shanyang, the number of people is not less than 100,000, and now it is increasing every day, and the Hu merchant team of the Western Regions who finished the goods in Chang'an also returned to Shanyang at this time to load the goods.

Coupled with the tens of thousands of troops on the imperial court's northern tour, as well as the families of officials and retinues, there are now almost 300,000 outsiders in Shanyang City, more than twice as many as usual, so the streets are very crowded. ”

Shanyang is not as big as Chang'an, it lives more than a million people, and it seems empty, it is only a quarter of Chang'an's size, and it lives seven or eight hundred thousand people, and it is a block system, of course, it will seem overcrowded.

However, the people are full, but the order is not chaotic, Wei Chi Baolin's director of security was removed, the new director of security is called Guo Da, is Guo Po's brother, originally served as a captain in the Anbei Army, after arriving at the security bureau, he can still find the Anbei Army to seconded people to help manage the security in the city at any time, but nothing major happened.

Of course, this is related to some of the problems that Sun Xiangfu discussed with Chu Suiliang before, and the emergency plans made for various problems caused by the population explosion.