The big and small officials of Songzhou Mansion looked at Li Zhonghua, a young and excessive envoy of moderation, surrounded by several female generals wearing armor, and felt a lot of emotion in their hearts, compared with others, they felt that they had lived on dogs all their lives.

After meeting and saluting, Han Xian, the governor of Songzhou, introduced the officials of Songzhou Prefecture to Li Zhonghua one by one.

Although Li Zhonghua was a little bored by the large number of officials, Li Zhonghua also knew that since he was mixing in officialdom, no matter how impatient he was, he had to endure it.

If you offend these officials, people will not cooperate with you at that time, or even secretly stumble, you can't help others.

Although it is nominally under your control, in fact, everyone understands that the Songzhou Jiedu envoy does not have much management power over the Songzhou Mansion at all.

Regarding this point, Han Xian, the governor of Songzhou, has already told everyone how he lived before? How will you live in the future?

10,000 Songzhou troops were temporarily placed outside the city to set up camp, and there was not such a big place in Songzhou City, so they were arranged to stay.

After drinking and eating, Han Xian, the governor of Songzhou, said: "Li Jiedu envoy, the place in Songzhou City is small, because the Jiedu envoy is an official position that was not there before, so there is no government office in Songzhou City, I don't know what the next step of the Jiedu envoy is?" ”

"Your Majesty sent this section envoy here, but it is not for me to enjoy it in Songzhou City, and in the future, the affairs in Songzhou City will still be supervised by you, and the affairs outside Songzhou City will be taken over by this section envoy.

Therefore, the affairs of the Jiedu envoy will not bother the Han Dudu, but the Han Dudu Governor needs to send a few guides who are familiar with the local area, and take the Jiedu envoy to Bailan, the territory of the Dangxiang Zhuqiang tribe to take a turn, so that the Jiedu envoy is familiar with it, and the place under his own jurisdiction can be done.

As for the festival envoy office, wherever the festival envoy goes, there is the festival degree envoy office. ”

"Rest assured, the governor of Pontus must select a few, people who are very familiar with the terrain of the twenty-five prefectures, and give the Jiedu envoy as a guide, if there is anything that needs help in the future, although the opening is, you and I are officials in the same dynasty, all for the sake of my Tang Dynasty, for the sake of Your Majesty's worries, you should work together and work hard for the court."

Han Xian, the governor of Songzhou, listened to Li Zhonghua's meaning, and felt a lot more comfortable, and his speech was naturally much better.

The meaning of Li Zhonghua's words was obvious, that is, to tell Han Xian that he would not compete with Han Xian for power and profit in Songzhou City, and the emperor sent himself to come to the twenty-five prefectures.

As for Songzhou City, what was it in the past and how it will be in the future, he will not meddle in meddle in things.

Li Zhonghua showed his attitude, not only Han Xian, the governor of Songzhou, relieved his heart and had no hostility. Even other officials in Songzhou Mansion were relieved.

As the saying goes, one mountain does not tolerate two tigers, if Li Zhonghua insists on opening a government office in Songzhou City, other Songzhou officials will have to sit on the wax, and they don't know whether to listen to the order of the governor of Songzhou or the order of Songzhou Jiedu's death, this is not good.

Han Xian warmly invited Li Zhonghua to stay in the Governor's Mansion in Songzhou City for a while, but Li Zhonghua politely rejected Han Xian's kindness and returned to the camp outside the city on the grounds that it was inconvenient to bring many people.

"Sir! We don't settle in Songzhou City, where do we want to stay? I heard that the places of the Bailan Party and the Zhuqiang tribe are very xenophobic, and there are no big cities, and there are twenty-five prefectures, all of which are like some cottages, and some still live a nomadic life. Luo Feiyan said worriedly.

"It doesn't matter, the twenty-five prefectures are so big, let's find a place with flat terrain and build a new city by ourselves, and we are not short of money.

The most important thing is that in the future, the twenty-five prefectures will be our private territory, and everything will be decided by us, so why live in Songzhou City and make those people's hearts unhappy. Li Zhonghua said with a smile.

"But will those Qiang tribes agree with us to build a city in their place?"

"Then it's up to them, our 10,000 Songzhou troops are not decorations, besides, the lord can appoint the envoys of the imperial court, they are always nominally the courtiers of the Tang Dynasty, so what reason is there to refuse the lord to build a new city?"

The next morning, Han Xian sent a guide over, and Li Zhonghua let the 10,000 Songzhou troops rest for three days, and then began to inspect the territory under his jurisdiction, twenty-five prefectures.

At the same time, Li Zhonghua sent some special escorts into the territory of Tibet to investigate the intelligence of Tibet.

There are also some people who have entered the 25 prefectures to inquire about the situation.

Li Zhonghua took a look at the map drawn by the imperial court, the map of this era is very simple, except for indicating a general location, mountains, rivers, and rivers, it only indicates the approximate distance between the two places.

The names of some small mountains and rivers and small cottages are completely invisible, and even the junction of the two prefectures is not marked.

Not to mention the border with Tibet.

However, there is no way to blame the people who drew the court, in recent years, after Tubo Zanpu Songtsen Gampo took power, the speed of rise was too fast.

In just a few years, the whole territory has been unified, and the big sheep tong, the little sheep tong, the subi and other countries have been wiped out, and the power has reached the bank of the Jinsha River, threatening the Bailan, Dangxiang Qiang tribes.

I heard that the Tang Dynasty sent a festival envoy with the army of the Tang Dynasty to inspect and protect everyone, and the leaders of the various tribes also welcomed it.

After all, all tribes have already expressed their submission to the Tang Dynasty, and the relationship with the Tang Dynasty is that of a monarch and a minister.

The fact that the imperial court sent officials to inspect shows that the imperial court attaches great importance to them, and all tribes will definitely welcome them no matter what they think in their hearts.

Unless they are ready to betray Datang.

Patrolling all the way to the west, I came to Yazhou on this day.

This Yazhou is not Biya Prefecture, and there is also a Yazhou under the jurisdiction of the Yizhou Governor's Office, but it is the Zhengzhou of the Tang Dynasty, in today's Ya'an City, Sichuan.

And this Yazhou is just one of the twenty-five prefectures under the Songzhou Governor's Mansion, located in today's Kangding.

Further on, there is the Jinsha River, which is now the sphere of influence of Tibet.

In order to prevent the expansion of Tibet's power, Li Zhonghua felt that it was the best choice to garrison Yazhou.

Of course, this is also because the geographical advantages of Yazhou are very obvious, there are not only lush forests, but also vast grassland pastures, the sea is not high, the climatic conditions are good, and the rivers and lakes are vertical and horizontal. It's not too cold in the winter and not too hot in the summer.

It is said that the prime minister once visited Kangding, praising it as an overseas immortal mountain, a holy place in Penglai, and a reputation for the south of the Kangba River, and it is also the throat road between Sichuan and Tibet, and the ancient tea horse road for business and trade.

Yazhou is the Qiang tribe, and the Shu Han of the Three Kingdoms called it the arrow furnace.

The name of Yazhou Thorn is Tuoba Daya, and he was very happy to hear that the envoy of Songzhou Jiedu planned to build a new city in Yazhou.

Why are you happy? The reason is very simple, because the power of Tubo has seriously threatened the security of Yazhou, and Tuobada has also written to the Tang Dynasty, requesting to continue to move inward.

However, Li Shimin has never agreed, let you move inward, wouldn't you cede the territory to Tibet?

Moreover, without these barriers, Yizhou, and even the entire Jiannan Province, will all have to directly face the threat of Tubo, and Li Shimin will definitely not want to see this happen.

Although these Qiang tribes are recognized as part of the people of the Tang Dynasty, they are definitely not as close as the people of the mainland.

This is like one is a grandson and the other is a concubine, and the treatment must be completely different.

Now the emperor of the Tang Dynasty not only sent a festival envoy, but also wants to build a new city here, doesn't that mean that the imperial court will not give up here, and Tubo will not be able to threaten here.

Not only does his tribe not have to move inward, but it is also very safe, as the leader of the Tuoba tribe, how can Tuoba Da be unhappy?

Compared with Tubo, whether it is other tribes of the Qiang people or the Tuoba tribe, their hearts are all yearning for the Tang Dynasty.

In the places that have been annexed by Tibet, there are also many Qiang tribes, what kind of life are they living under the rule of Tibet? How could Tuobada not know.

And the Tang Dynasty treated them a thousand times better than the Qiang tribes under the rule of Tubo.

Although they also had to pay some taxes, they were pitifully small, and they were really insignificant compared to what the imperial court gave them.

Li Zhonghua knows that building a new city is not a simple matter, nor can it be completed in a short period of time.

And it was only one year before the Tubo soldiers came to the city of Songzhou.

Therefore, the new city that Li Zhonghua wanted to build was only an inner city at that time, and the Jiedu envoy's government office and the garrison of the Songzhou army were his own.