Listening to this person's words, Liu Wenxiu's eyes also lit up.

What words does this capricious villain have to say to himself?

As if seeing Liu Wenxiu's suspicion, the fifth said hurriedly: "Mayor Liu, do you know that the rebel leader Gamu, in order to capture Lhasa City, has brought all the soldiers and horses in southern Tibet, but he didn't think that they would do their best to attack, when Lhasa fell completely, but there was a sudden arrival of your army, Nagamu stubbornly resisted, died and died, and most of his subordinates were captured by your army, so now southern Tibet ......"

"Therefore, now southern Tibet is empty, and the dragons have no leader, so do you want this town to immediately send troops to attack southern Tibet?" Liu Wenxiu immediately saw the original meaning of what this person wanted to say.

The fifth generation was stunned when he heard this, and immediately replied: "Liu Zhen Changguo is wise, and he knows his original intention at once. I was thinking that now that Gamu is dead, and the rest is also defeated, it would be a pity if I didn't take this opportunity to attack southern Tibet with all my might. ”

He paused for a moment, and said hurriedly: "Mayor Liu, I am still familiar with the situation in various parts of Tibet, if you can trust you, you are willing to lead the way for the army and go to southern Tibet, which can be regarded as a little merit to serve your army." ”

Hearing his eagerness to express his attitude and look of anticipation, Liu Wenxiu's heart was full of pride, and he said: "The fifth generation is so eager to serve our army, this town is very relieved, just like your wish, after the whole army rests in Lhasa for a day, at dawn tomorrow, immediately march to southern Tibet to completely eradicate the remnants of the local evils. You can lead the way for our army, and you should be credited. ”

When the fifth generation heard this, he was overjoyed, and immediately replied: "Thank you Lord Liu for your love, and I will do my best to serve your army,"

The arrangements of the Tang army were set, and early the next morning, under the leadership of the fifth emperor, the 100,000-strong army continued to march south, pointing directly to southern Tibet.

Sure enough, at this time, there were no soldiers and no generals in southern Tibet, and it was already a mess, and after the arrival of the Tang army, it took almost no effort to completely subdue this land that had been rebelled by the people for decades.

With the recovery of Lhasa and southern Tibet, the situation of the whole Wusi-Tibet has changed greatly, and then, the Tang army began to divide its troops to attack, one after another cities and strongholds were taken, and after two full years, this piece of the Tang army's establishment thought that the hardest bone was finally gnawed down.

In order to take the world plateau, the Tang army also paid more than 60,000 casualties, and the logistics baggage, grain, grass and ordnance consumed were immeasurable.

However, Li Xiao, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, still thinks that it is worth it.

After all, with this world ridge, the entire South Asian subcontinent is already in full view. As long as the Tang army was willing, they could continue to attack south at any time, so as to completely take this fertile land temporarily occupied by the British.

Of course, Li Xiao does not intend to do this now, because, in his plan, all the strategic goals of the Tang Army have basically been achieved by the war. The Tang Empire is so vast, from Siberia in the far north to Australia in the south, it is the territory of the Tang Empire.

Therefore, Li Xiao carried out sinicization and diversion management in the Wusi-Tibet area like the Western Regions, and the local recalcitrant elements were either executed or exiled, and finally the work was successfully completed a year later, and the Wusi-Tibet area has completely restored peace and tranquility since then.

Next, the Don army began to disarm.

The original 14 military towns were reduced to 9 military towns, and their establishment scale was changed to four battalions per town, and the number of people in each battalion was also greatly reduced, thus reducing more than 200,000 troops in one fell swoop, saving a lot of ordnance and grain and grass resources for the Tang Empire, and greatly reducing the burden on the country.

The garrison of these eight military towns is as follows: the four battalions of soldiers and horses in the first town are stationed in Beizhili, Shandong Province, Xuanfu Town, and Liaodong Province, where the Beijing Division is located.

The soldiers and horses of the second town were stationed in Jiangxi Province, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province, and Anhui Province (according to Li Xiao's request, Nanzhili was divided into Jiangsu and Anhui provinces to reduce the scale and facilitate administrative management. ）

The soldiers and horses of the third town are stationed in Henan Province, Shanxi Province, Shaanxi Province, and Gansu Province.

The soldiers and horses of the fourth town are stationed in Fujian Province, Guangdong Province, Guangxi Province, and Taiwan Province.

The soldiers and horses of the fifth town are stationed in Sichuan Province, Guizhou Province, Hubei Province, and Hunan Province. (According to Li Xiao's request, Huguang was split into Hunan and Hubei, and the Yunyang area in western Hubei was merged into Hubei.) ）

The soldiers and horses of the sixth town were stationed in Yunnan Province, Vietnam Province, and Burma Province, of which Burma was bordered by India, which was occupied by the British, so two battalions of soldiers and horses were left to garrison.

The Seventh Town garrisoned the Philippines, New Guinea, Australia, and Southeast Asia.

The soldiers and horses of the eighth town were stationed in the outer northeast, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Siberia.

The soldiers and horses of the ninth town were stationed in Wusizang, Western Regions Province, Junggar Province, and the Mongolian tribes. Two battalions of soldiers and horses were placed in Wusizang, in case this area, which the Tang Empire finally worked hard to recover, was afraid of instability because of the border with the British India.

The soldiers and horses stationed in various places were established, and Li Xiao began to formulate a system, and the leaders of military towns in various places were rotated every three years, in case the army would gather the hearts of the people in the local area and form a feudal town. In addition, he also set up that after three rotations, the main generals of each military town were all from Wu into the civil service, and officially served as civilians in the imperial court, and were no longer responsible for specific local military arrangements.

His system, coupled with all the civilian systems of the Supervision Department and the secret agent system of the Security Department, has achieved the central government's firm control over the army, and it can be said that without Li Xiao's order, the leaders of military towns in various places have no right to transfer even a general army and horses at will. In addition, the armies in various places could not collect taxes and grain from the local area, and could only rely on the central government to draw and plan for food, and were not allowed to meddle in local administrative affairs, thus completely preventing the generals of military towns in various places from becoming the local emperors like the Tang Dynasty.

After completing the reorganization and garrisoning of the army, in the following twenty years, Li Xiao devoted himself to managing the domestic economy and foreign trade, and under his management, the Tang Empire finally became the most prosperous, most developed, and most powerful country in the world at that time.

Beijing, the capital of the Tang Empire, has become the "new Roman city" that people all over the world yearn for, and countless foreigners hope to settle and live in this great city, and are even more willing to be naturalized by the Tang Empire as a member of the Han Chinese, so as to settle permanently in China.

After the Tang Empire has been operating solidly for the past 20 years, its national strength has been beyond the reach of all countries in the world, and Li Xiao knows that the next expansion opportunity of the empire has finally arrived.

Over the next two years, the Tang Empire began to compete with Bukhara and Khiva for the Kazakh steppe.

The Tang army dispatched troops and horses from the three towns to seize control of the entire Kazakh steppe, and then the Tang army invaded the Hanzhong region, and Khiva and Bukhara began to ask for help from the Ottomans and Safi in order to avoid the loss of the country.

After spending five full years and more than a dozen large and small wars, the Tang Empire finally destroyed Khiva and Bukhara, and let its western borders reach the South Caucasus region northward.

At this point, the Tang Dynasty's expedition in the west finally came to an end.

Li Xiao set up two towns, the tenth town and the eleventh town, to garrison the territory of the two countries respectively, completely consolidating the newly occupied places, and then, as in the previous Western Regions, the local area was sinicized and immigrated.

Next, Li Xiao dispatched four military towns from the interior, divided into three places from the Western Regions, Wusizang, and Burma, to launch an all-out attack on the British entrenched in India, and defeated the British one after another, until they fled in a straight route.

Originally, Li Xiao was ambitious and wanted to swallow the South Asian subcontinent in one fell swoop, but to his surprise, it was here that an unprecedented and extremely ferocious plague broke out in northern India, a large number of Tang soldiers fell ill, and their combat effectiveness quickly declined to the point where it was difficult to maintain.

Seeing this, the British who retreated to southern India finally seized the opportunity to counterattack, and the Tang soldiers were sick and demoralized, and were defeated by the British, so they had to retreat, and their original spirit was suddenly lost.

Subsequently, the two sides guarded both sides of the Ganges River, and carried out many tug-of-war battles, and finally in the end, the British were exhausted, and the Tang army, which had suffered from plague and logistics, was unable to fight again, and the two sides finally decided to take the Ganges River as the boundary to divide northern India into China, and southern India belonged to the British.

Li Xiao knew that it was not easy for the Tang Army to achieve such results under the condition that the Tang Army was attacked by the plague and the logistics were ineffective, so the temporary tolerance of Britain now did not prevent it from re-attacking in the future.

After the war with the British in India subsided, Li Xiao made his eldest son Li the crown prince because of his age, and asked the prince to accompany him to teach him government affairs, so as to gradually familiarize him with state affairs.

Li Xiao knows that this prince Li Chengren is cowardly and kind, but he is also smart and sober, such a person is not a very good pioneer, but he must be a very good keeper. And now the Tang Empire has reached its peak in its own hands, and it is extremely difficult for future generations to surpass themselves, and it is very content to be able to keep it well, so that the territory they have opened up can become a foundation that Chinese descendants can inherit permanently.

As for what the Tang Empire will become in the future, whether it will become a constitutional monarchy or one day move towards a republic, I am afraid that it is difficult to predict the outcome.

Tianxingjian, a gentleman strives for self-improvement.

In this era that Li Xiao has traveled through, Li Xiao, a generation of heroes, will continue to create the glory and legend that belongs to him and the entire Chinese nation.

Is all this predestined?

Nobody knows......

(End of the full text, thank you for your continued support and encouragement.) Originally, I wanted to write about another expedition to Europe, but I was really interested, so let's stop there. ）

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