In the Tang Dynasty, there are all old drama bones in the world, and people like Songtsen Gampo who have never seen a play will be turned around by them with a rhythm.

Therefore, after three days of deliberation and management, the specific details of the merger of Tibet into the Tang Dynasty were finally finalized and a schedule was formulated.

From now on, all the territories of Tubo will become the inherent territory of the Tang Dynasty, and all the tribes and people of Tubo will be registered in the Tang Dynasty.

All the people's household registration, the establishment of the government office, the garrison of the army and other matters will be completed before the end of next year, and Songtsen Gampo himself, who was canonized as the king of Qinghai-Tibet by Li Shimin, gave three into the mansion in Chang'an, enjoyed two thousand yuan per month, and all the members of his clan moved to Jingzhou in Guanzhong for resettlement, as for the Tubo palace, as well as all the goods and materials in the palace, they still belong to him.

The reason why he was given the title of two-character king was mainly because the territory of Tubo was large enough, he had meritorious service in donating land, and Li Shimin wanted to give an example to those who came after.

In this period, the scope of Tibet in this period is slightly larger than the scope of Tibet in China in later generations, belonging to Qinghai, and some plateau places in Niper, which currently belong to Tibet, and from the map of later generations, in fact, you can see at a glance that it is larger than eight Hubei provinces.

Finalized the matter of Tubo, but did not give the Tang Dynasty ministers a sigh of relief, this was originally in everyone's predetermined plan, the more Songtsen Gampo dragged it back, the more unfavorable the situation would be for him, and in the end, he couldn't even mix up the idle title of a two-character king.

Because, even an old and powerful empire like the Byzantine Empire can't resist the money offensive of the Tang Dynasty, let alone a poor country with an annual GDP of less than 2 million yuan and a tax balance of less than 200,000 yuan!

When Ma Zhou was in October, he had already been ordered to set off to collect debts from the countries of the Western Regions, and before last year's sports conference, the countries of the Western Regions had been in arrears for more than a year to borrow money from Datang, and the repayment period had passed for three or four months.

If they can't repay the loan, then Datang will start to use various means, deducting the year-end dividends of their shares is necessary, anyway, after the winter of October every year, Datang will begin to enter the inventory settlement period. If they plan to repay their debts, then the money they brought to buy shares will be in vain, because all of them will be liquidated by Datang to pay off their debts.

"According to the minister's estimates, few of these borrowing countries can repay the money, because, judging from the data given by the Statistics Office of the Ministry of Commerce, the total value of the goods they purchased in our Datang last year has far exceeded their gross national output value, and there are some kingdoms, even if they only repay interest, it is enough." In the conference hall, after listening to the report of the Li Fan Office on the affairs of Tibet, Fang Xuanling said.

Li Shimin has been in Broken Leaf City for a year, but he didn't sit here for nothing to throw money, since the strategy for the Western Regions has kicked off, then, he will go all out to do things.

All kinds of intelligence systems, advance troops, have actually been sent out by him, and now, he can know the intelligence information of the countries in the Western Regions with great efficiency.

Since the calculation and statistical ability has improved by two or three levels, the strategists of Datang are accustomed to analyzing the situation through data.

Hearing Fang Xuanling say this, Hou Junji answered, "I can't get the money back, but it's good, it just so happens that we have an excuse to send troops westward, this killing to pay for life, and repaying debts is a matter of course, and no one in the world can say that we Datang have done it." ”

Hearing this, Li Shimin shook his head and said, "The heat is not enough, according to the big plan agreed before, we can't enter the army when the equipment and food supply are not smooth, even if the road from Broken Leaf City to Guanzhong can be quickly used next year, but there is also a distance of 12,000 miles, plus the distance of transporting grain to Guanzhong from all over the country, it will be even farther, the grain truck and the vehicle transporting weapons and armor supplies are heavy, and they go slowly.

And once the war starts, our front line may have to advance thousands of miles, and without a good road bonus, the time required for supply will only be longer, which is not conducive to combat.

Therefore, our best situation is that we can directly produce the supplies required for logistics in the territory of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and the task of Ma Zhou's trip has never been to collect money. ”

Hou Junji was a little surprised and asked, "If you don't collect money, what is he going to do?" ”

Li Shimin smiled, "He will give us the ability to produce military supplies locally." ”

Hearing this, Hou Junji suddenly realized, it seems that Ma Zhou's trip to the Western Regions is to ask countries to use materials to pay off their debts, as for what kind of materials, of course, they are ore resources that can be made into armor, weapons, and cannonballs.

Thinking of these materials, Hou Junji complained and said, "Although the power of this artillery is great, but it is too expensive to fight, steel balls, lead bullets, a hundred cannons bombarded for a quarter of an hour, hundreds of boxes will be gone, if you want to keep up with the supplies, I am afraid that the number of people used for logistics is more than double the number of people in the main battle." ”

Li Shimin nodded and said, "This is the problem we need to solve, even if the Tubo side is successfully taken, so that we can draw more people, but the territory we want to control and occupy in the future is too big, and the logistics supply will always be a problem that plagues us, and to ensure the logistics supply, we need to dispatch a large army, and we only have hundreds of thousands of troops along the way, and the territory of the Western Regions countries is so large, we can't afford to divide it all the time."

Only now do I know how correct Zhengming's concerns were at the beginning, and it is indeed impossible to rely on the number of our existing troops to control such a large territory as the entire Eurasian continent with a population of two or three hundred million, so the overall pace of advancement has to be slow.

By the way, where is he now? ”

Fang Xuanling replied, "Judging from the letters from some time ago, it should have arrived in Yunnan. ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he thought about it for a while, and said, "That's right, let them and his wife lead the art troupe and some condolence materials to go to all parts of Tubo to take care of the various departments for me, so that when we take over the land of Tubo again next year, it will be smoother, and let the Annan Army divide into an escort army to ensure their safety." ”

Fang Xuanling nodded and said, "Zhengming is the best at dealing with ethnic minority issues, Your Majesty's plan is very ingenious, but we still need to have a comprehensive consideration of how to manage this Tibetan land." ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he stared at this area on the map hanging in the council hall for a while before he spoke, "Once Tubo takes over, it will be our outpost position for our future march into Jialou Weibo, Tianzhu and other countries, and the garrison is indispensable."

I want to set it up as Luo Dao, transfer Li Ji as the general manager, integrate and recruit Ningchuan Dao, Jiannan Dao and Tubo native young people who are more adapted to the plateau climate to enlist, and replace Zhengming before the winter of next year and garrison the local area.

The total size of its troops is tentatively set at 120,000, and after that, this army will attack from the left and right with Liu Hongji's troops of Tanmo Dao, attack and manage the territory of the entire South Asian region. ”

Using two state highways and about 200,000 troops to manage the entire South Asian region with a population of more than 30 million, this is a way that Li Shimin has no choice, and the population of the Tang Dynasty is only more than 35 million, but there are about 1 million troops, and the proportion has reached more than one thirties, which is too high.

After all, out of the 35 million people, at least 30 million are elderly, women, children, and young men join the army, and the ratio is almost 5 to 1.

The current method can only be to slow down, wait for more young people in the Tang Dynasty to grow up, and more young people from newly subjugated countries will be sinicized and can be applied to the military.

Therefore, after Fang Xuanling expressed his approval of Li Shimin's plan and drafted an order to send it to Guanzhong, they discussed the resettlement of more than 2 million road construction workers and the matter of the kingdom to be incorporated next year.

Before the month of Layue, Tubo was merged into the Tang Dynasty as a whole, Songtsan Gampo was crowned the king of Qinghai-Tibet, and the young master of the prince of Nongguo was the envoy of Luo Dao Xuanfu, leading the art troupe, and 30,000 Annan troops entered Tibet.

Fortunately, the manpower of the art troupe is assembled, and it will take some time for the materials of condolences to be mobilized, Sun Xiangfu can enter and set off again after the first month of next year, otherwise, Sun Xiangfu is estimated to scold Li Shimin to death in his heart, and enter the Tibetan area in the cold winter, which is the rhythm of tossing him to death.

Although after several years of exploration, businessmen have found some ways to combat altitude sickness, but Sun Xiangfu does not think that this trip will be easy, because Sun Xiangfu, who has traveled in later generations, knows how uncomfortable the pain of altitude sickness is.

"Let the art troupe gather here, let's go back to Jiuyuan County for the New Year! Just put the children back, the Tibetan Plateau, they are not suitable to follow. After receiving the holy decree, Sun Xiangfu discussed with Yu Xiu'er in Dali's residence.

Yu Xiu'er nodded and said, "The concubine also thinks so, I heard that when the Han people from the Central Plains go to the Tubo Plateau, they will have unbearable headaches, like illness, this time, we need to bring more medicine to defend ourselves." ”

Sun Xiangfu smiled bitterly, "That kind of pain can't be solved by taking medicine, it can only be relieved slightly, but it's good to live on it for a while and get used to it." In fact, there are only a few areas above, and it will be uncomfortable to stay, and the places where they mainly live, such as the location of Luocheng City, are not so high, and the Han people will not have an uncomfortable reaction when they go there.

It's just! I'm a little worried that your face will be like those Tibetan women, and it will not be beautiful. ”

"Ahh When you go to Tibet, your face will be plateau red? ”

Not only Yu Xiu'er, but Li Xiangdie and Yao Hongsleeve also screamed, appearance is the most important thing for them in addition to their voices, if they go to Tubo, it may damage their appearance, then the price of this errand is too great.

Sun Xiangfu soothed, "Don't worry, rub more skin care ointment, drink more butter tea, and stay in a low-lying place when you go, as long as you don't live there all the year round, there should be no problem." ”