Fang Xuanling stroked his beard and said to the emperor excitedly: "After our army broke through the Yanqi capital city and captured its king dragon turbid cavalry branch, the Yanqi cities surrendered without a fight. ”

"And the countries of Qiuzi, Shule, and Khotan have also sent people to join them."

"Among the Western Turkic tribes, there are also several tribes such as Shatuo and Qarluq who are willing to support Mohedu, who was canonized by Great Qin, as the new Khan!"

Fang Xuanling's words changed.

It is said that now that the Western Regions are annexed, and the Turkic tribes are submitted, they can issue an edict.

"The minister thought that he should take advantage of the victory to continue the attack, and finally like conquering Yiwu and Gaochang, he broke through the cities of his country, captured his king, and then set up counties in his land, organized households and people, and settled them once and for all." It was Hou Mo Chen Yi, who was also a Chinese scholar, who spoke.

"Hou Mo Chen Zhongshu is wrong in this statement, although our army has even descended to Yiwu Gaochang Yanqi, we must also see that now our army has reached the limit. If you go deeper, it may not be a good thing, you should accept it when you see it, and first control the captured Yanqi Gaochang Yiwu in your hands, and digest it steadily. ”

"For the shooting, you should let Mo Helu recruit the Naxi Turkic tribes, and then let him send troops to conquer and attack the shooting, so that the Western Turks can fight, and my Great Qin will guard the Yiwu Three Kingdoms and sit on the mountain to watch the tiger fight."

Fang Xuanling insisted that after fighting for so long, he had to stop and rest first.

Gaochang Yiwu and Yanqi both still need to be stabilized, Yiwu and Yanqi are both better captured, and Gaochang is ostensibly the Qin army to help the Qu clan restore, to control Gaochang, it will be more complicated.

Before, the imperial court had never thought of marching into the Western Regions at this stage, so now there is no plan, to garrison troops there, to set up a county there, to send officials there, to immigrate there, one by one, it is very troublesome and complicated.

If it can't be stabilized quickly, then it may be lost again at any time, and you can't blindly be greedy for big.

"The minister thinks that it is unrealistic to want to destroy the Western Turks in a war, and he will not fight against us head-on at all, so he will retreat directly to Qianquan, if our army goes on an expedition, it will be a lone army to go deep, which is very dangerous. Now although the countries of the Western Regions are superficially attached, our Great Qin is still unstable, and at this time, if we cross them and go deep into the Stone Kingdom, we will be placed in the enemy's back, which is very dangerous. ”

Moreover, Fang Xuanling thought that the imperial court should slow down first, because this battle had already run out of money.

All kinds of bereavement and rewards have not yet been issued, which will be a huge expense, and now the imperial court books are empty, in this case, it is not the best policy to continue the expedition to the broken leaves seven or eight thousand miles away from Chang'an.

Luo Cheng looked at the map in front of him.

Although he was also very excited at the thought of being able to restore the Protectorate of the Western Regions of Han, he still dispelled this idea when he thought about the current situation.

Fang Xuanling is right, cost and control are the most important.

"The edict ordered Cheng Yanjin to stop the march, to Yanqi County with Yanqi State, Gaochang County with Gaochang State, Yiwu County with Yiwu County, Daqin to set up Anxi Road in the Western Regions, and ordered Cheng Yanjin to be the commander of the left governor of Anxi Province and the Taishou of Gaochang County, Xue Wanche as the commander of the right capital and the Taishou of Yiwu County, and Pei Xingyan as the Taishou of Yanqi County."

"The edict ordered Mo Helu to go to Qiuzi Sanmi Mountain, rebuild the Western Turkic Khan's court, recruit the Western Turkic tribes, and send an edict to levy and shoot for the Shot."

For Shule, Khotan, Tocharo, Cao, Kang and other countries, Luo Cheng accepted their subordination, and each granted them the title of prince of the county, and each continued to be under the control of his own country and became a vassal vassal of the Great Qin.

The imperial court was in the three counties of Anxi Province, each with 8,000 troops to garrison, and the rest retreated back to the Central Plains.

Originally, Gaochang State, Fang Xuanling suggested that like Shule and other countries, Gaochang should become a vassal state of Great Qin and maintain independence. However, because of the important position of Gaochang, especially the Gaochang Kingdom, which is basically descended from the Han people and retains a good foundation of Han civilization, Luo Cheng simply set Gaochang directly as a county and included it under the direct jurisdiction and rule of the imperial court.

For the king Qu Boya, Luo Cheng was also willing to give some compensation, he conferred Qu Boya as a duke, and carved a hundred miles of valley for him in the upper reaches of the Yili River north of the Tianshan Mountains, as his fief, and made him the Duke of Yining.

It can be said that this is still a good arrangement.

If Boya is interested, he will accept this title, although from the king to the prince, there has been a great change, but he was originally taken the throne by mutiny, and this time it was the Qin army that helped him restore successfully. But with such an important position in Gaochang, it is impossible for the imperial court to continue to make Gaochang an independent country.

Yu Zhining, a scholar, felt that the emperor's appearance was a little ugly, this was a forcible robbery, and it would inevitably leave a bad reputation in the future.

But the emperor laughed.

"History books are written by the victors. Between countries, there is not so much warmth. If Gaochang does not place a county, then it is impossible for my Great Qin to establish Anxi Dao in the Western Regions, for the sake of a small country, and make Great Qin lose the entire Western Regions? ”

In fact, Luo Cheng can change a fief for Boya and give him a duke, which is already a great favor.

Emperor Qin and Han Wu, these great emperors, will not be as polite as Luo Cheng, Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty destroyed a lot, Nanyue Kingdom, Wei Manchu Korea, and the Xiongnu, but they have talked about the slightest affection.

If you are in the way of expansion, but your strength is not good, then it is normal to destroy you, and it is strange if you are not destroyed.

The soldiers and horses of the Qin army, before they left the Yumen Pass, the Western Regions did not care whether you were the twenty-seven countries or the thirty-six countries, and Great Qin could not control it. But since the Qin army had left the Yumen Pass in the west and crossed the sand sea into the Western Regions, it was not so polite.

Prime Minister Chen Shuda believed that the Western Regions could implement a system of restraint for the countries of the Western Regions.

"For the kingdoms that belong to the Western Regions and the Turkic tribes, they shall establish counties according to their territories, and then appoint their kings and tribal chieftains as taishou."

This is also what Luo Cheng did to the Khitan and Xi and other affiliated tribes when he was outside the Guan.

"What Chen Xiang said is not bad, my Great Qin is temporarily unable to control the entire Western Regions, so first maintain the three counties of Anxi, and then canonize and confer officials on other countries and tribes, and include them in the fetter system, for the future."

The fetters system, to put it bluntly, if you recognize me as the eldest brother, I will grant you an official position and recognize your position as the local boss.

For example, now that Yanqi was defeated, the Qiuzi Kingdom next to it was afraid, and the king offered tribute, saying that he wanted to worship Luo Cheng as the eldest brother, and he would follow the dock of Daqin in the future. Of course, Luo Cheng had to say something, so he set up the country of Qiuci as Qiuci County, and named the king of Qiuci as the Taishou of Qiuci.

The operational effect of this setting is that from now on, the Qiuci Kingdom is under the system of Daqin, and whoever wants to move the Qiuci Kingdom must first ask Daqin. Of course, when they became the Taishou of Qiuzi, they naturally had to pay tribute to Daqin in the future, and once Daqin wanted to do something in the Western Regions, they would have to pay money and help them.

However, this kind of detention is different from the Central Plains, for example, Qiuci County will be hereditary by the Qiuci royal family for future generations, and the imperial court will not interfere in the affairs of Qiuci County, let alone send officials to garrison.

Speaking of which, the status of the county is definitely lower than that of the vassal state, which is equivalent to a vassal.

Originally, Luo Cheng was going to give the Western Regions vassal state treatment, but now Chen Shuda thinks that it is too much to exalt them, but they are just small countries with big fart, and it would be good to directly classify them as Jumi County.

"That's good, the country of Qiuci is set up as Qiuci County, and its king is canonized as the Duke of Qiuci County and the Taishou of Qiuci."

"To the north of Gaochang County, the Turkic Shatuo Department of Shatuo is set up in Shatuo County, and its chief is canonized as the Duke of Shatuo County and the Taishou of Shatuo."

"The Qarlu Department at the western foot of Jinshan, named after the Xuanchi where it is located, set up Xuanchi County, and canonized its chief as the Duke of Xuanchi County, and also the Xuanchi Taishou."

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"All the feudal domains and counties, each of which is in its own right, is a vassal of Great Qin, and is not allowed to attack each other, nor is it allowed to cross the border and violate the border, in violation of this order, Great Qin has the right and obligation to convene the feudal domains of the Western Regions and send troops to attack them!"

In order to facilitate management, Luo Cheng set up these large and small kingdoms in the Western Regions, as well as the previous Western Turkic tribes, according to their existing territories, set up Yumi counties for them, demarcated the borders, and then made them all subordinate to the jurisdiction of the Anxi Dao Yamen.

Of course, the Anxi Provincial Yamen only directly governed the three counties of Gaochang, and only had the task of supervising and guiding the other counties. Under normal circumstances, everyone lives their own lives and does not offend each other.

But if anyone violates the rules set by the eldest brother Emperor Qin, then Anxi Dao can represent the Great Qin Imperial Court and recruit troops from Zhujian Mi County to crusade against the unruly one and destroy him.

However, in this way, Mo Helu, the new Great Khan of the Western Turks who was canonized by Luo Cheng not long ago, is very embarrassed, and the countries of the Western Regions and the Western Turkic tribes have all become the Great Qin Detention County, and they have all become the county princes, so wouldn't he, the Great Khan, become an empty Khan?

Of course, what was even more embarrassing was to shoot the Khan, he ran all the way to the bank of the Broken Leaf River, but the Great Qin Emperor divided all his territory in Chang'an City, thousands of miles away, without asking his opinion at all, and even sent Mo Helu with troops to fight him.

Regarding the Western Regions and the Western Turks, a strategy has been set.

The Great Qin monarch drew a big circle and encircled the entire Western Regions, but in fact, he only controlled the three counties. From the fact that the imperial court only left 8,000 soldiers in each of the three counties of the Western Regions, it can be seen that the real strategy of the imperial court towards the Western Regions is that it is still unable to go westward for the time being, retain a bridgehead, and slowly operate and infiltrate first.

As for the Western Turks, the main thing is to let the Turks strife internally, and use the power of the Tiele Khanate to deal with the shooting.

If there were no accidents, it was possible that Great Qin would not really send troops to the west within ten years.

The Western Regions have made a decision on this, but there is also a Tibetan in the southwest.

Although the invasion of Tibet did not really fight with the Qin army, the siege of Dafeichuan for several months, the Qin army and the Tibetan army suffered no more than 1,000 casualties each.

For the two major forces, this casualty is simply not worth mentioning.

But after all, Tubo has invaded the territory, and it is impossible to just forget it.

Now, it's up to the emperor to mean it.