Li Zicheng is ready to return to Lanzhou, since he left Lanzhou in March, it is now the month of Layue, and it took more than half a year to basically get Sichuan, in fact, the Tianming army occupies only the agricultural land between Bashu, as for a large number of toasts in southern and western Sichuan, there is still no time to take care of it for the time being.

However, the most powerful and prestigious Tusi in Sichuan, Shi Yan Xuanwei Si, has changed the land and returned to the Han nationality, will the rest of the Tusi be far away?

As long as the imperial army's troops did not come to Sichuan to harass, the Mandate of Heaven army stationed in Sichuan would be broken individually, and the foreign races in the mountains on the periphery of Bashu would be gradually assimilated by military, economic and other means.

Li Zicheng had already told the generals of the Heavenly Mandate Army and the officials of Sichuan that the best way was to build roads.

The biggest advantage of the Tusi being able to confront the imperial army and enslave the people of their own clan is the terrain, so each Tusi controls the highlands with high mountains and dense forests and constant traffic.

Compared with the plain areas, these places are very barren, even if the land is changed and returned, there will not be much tax, Li Zicheng will not value this tax, in fact, once it is fully sinicized, the government needs to subsidize these places a lot.

However, let the Tusi establish a "country within a country", it will bring hidden dangers to security, the Tusi control the military, political, economic power of a place, and even control the people, once the wind blows, it is possible to give birth to dissent, if the court does not want to lose these lands, it will be necessary to quell the rebellion, manpower and material resources are also not few.

It is not impossible to catch up with internal and external troubles and cause the country to split, so when the Mandate of Heaven Army was so strong that there was no opponent in the local area, Li Zicheng did not like the detention policy adopted by the Ming court, nor did he recognize the original Tusi system, but under the leadership of a strong military force, he used all possible methods to assimilate these people.

In the process of assimilation, one might encounter problems of one kind or another, but Li Zicheng believed that as long as the ideological work was in place, only Tusi, who accounted for a very small minority of the population, would be harmed by the real interests, and once the broad masses of the people really became Han people, the taxes would be much lighter.

Before leaving Sichuan, Li Zicheng summoned key officials of Sichuan in Jianzhou, such as Sichuan Governor Guo Shijun, independent judge Chen Tingmo, Chengdu Governor Wang Weizhang, Jianzhou Governor Xu Shangqing, and Mianzhou Governor Lu Xunzhi.

Li Zicheng admonished the officials to start building a new Sichuan in accordance with the four laws of the Mandate of Heaven, with the redistribution of land, equality of all in the face of taxes, the encouragement of the development of industry and commerce, and the fact that there were many tusi in Sichuan, which must be gradually abolished, and that the "Tui En Law" must be implemented.

What he values most is the local roads in Sichuan, "if you want to get rich, you must first build roads", and the roads are convenient, which is not only conducive to the exchange of materials, but also can change people's thinking and understanding.

"Shu Road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky", Li Zicheng has already seen it, but the difficulty of Shu Road mainly lies in the connection between the land of Bashu and the outside.

It is separated from Shaanxi by Micang Mountain and Qinling Mountains in the north, Daba Mountain and Shenlongjia from Huguang in the east, and is blocked by Wushan across the river; To the south, it is separated from Yunnan and Guizhou by Da Lou Mountain and Da Liang Mountain; It is separated from Qinghai-Tibet in the west, and is separated by Minshan Mountain, Qionglai Mountain, and Jiajin Mountain......

However, inside Bashu, Shu is dominated by plains and hills, so it is possible to build a transportation network first.

Li Zicheng conveyed an order to Guo Shijun and the chief officials of the prefectures, prefectures, and counties, under the unified leadership of Guo Shijun, with the support and cooperation of all prefectures, prefectures, and counties, to restore the "Chengdu-Chongqing Ancient Road" to the east with Chengdu as the center, and extend it all the way to Chongqing Prefecture.

The north is the focus, at least build the road from Chengdu to Zhaohua County (Yumeng Pass), so that between Sichuan and Longyou, there is no avenue between Wudu County, Minzhou Prefecture and Zhaohua County, Baoning Prefecture, and the rest basically become a smooth road.

The difficulty of the Shu Road has been daunting for thousands of years, in the era of underdeveloped science and technology and basically relying on manpower, the speed of building roads will not be too fast, Li Zicheng did not give them a time limit, but let them do what they can conveniently.

What Li Zicheng didn't expect was that Guo Shijun gave him a problem: "Dadu Governor, the southwest of Chengdu Mansion is a large amount of land, and his subordinates have explored it, and the strength of each Tusi is relatively small, so it is not difficult to sinicize, but in case it alarms the Tibetans in the west......"

"Tibetans?" Li Zicheng suddenly understood what Guo Shijun meant, if the existence of the Tibetan Tusi system is allowed to exist, it is not conducive to the implementation of the Sinicization policy in the whole of Sichuan, on the contrary, if the policy of Sinicization is also for the Tibetans, it is very likely to alarm the Wusi Tibetan regime in the west.

What to do? Li Zicheng was helpless for a while, and while the Mandate of Heaven army was seizing the Han land, it was difficult to have the strength to engage in large-scale battles with the Tibetans, and the powerful Tang Dynasty could only maintain a superficial peace with the Tibetan state established by the Tibetans through peaceful relations......

By the time he was in Xining, Li Zicheng had already carried out a policy of naturalization of the Tibetans, but Xining was far away from Uszang, and it was impossible for a large-scale battle to take place for a while.

But now......

"Dadudu, in the northwest of Chengdu, there is an ancient city in the Tang Dynasty, one side of the lonely peak, three sides of the river, guarding Yunnan, Qinghai-Tibet into the Sichuan important place, at that time called Victoria, as long as Victoria in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo will not dare to go deep," Guo Shijun said: "Unfortunately, Victoria City is now destroyed, only some broken walls are still ......"

"Broken wall?" Li Zicheng was overjoyed and said: "Tell Zhao Guangrui to restore the ancient city of Victoria immediately and station heavy troops in the city." ”

"The subordinates also have their intentions, so they told the Metropolitan Governor ......"

Li Zicheng first explained to Wu Ermao, and he took the brothers of Wuyingmen to supervise the officials in Sichuan, and then took Li Guo and escorted Guo Shijun to bring 800,000 taels of silver from Chengdu, went to Hanzhong, took out the gold and silver in the Ruiwang Mansion, and rushed to Longyou together.

Entering Wudu County, it was a relatively flat cement avenue, Li Zicheng took five hundred households of personal soldiers, holding silver taels, but left Li Guo's second battalion in case Fu Zonglong and others came to take Sichuan.

At this time, it was the eighth day of the lunar month, and everyone was going back to pass the new yuan, and they were all riveting to rush back.

Li Zicheng's personal soldiers, all cavalry, originally marched extremely fast, but the auxiliaries had to escort the silver two, although there was a flat avenue, but in the territory of Minzhou Mansion, the road was more tortuous, and there was snow on the road, until the twenty-eighth of the lunar month, before returning to Lanzhou.

Liang Wencheng, Shen Dao, Tang Ruowang and other officials in Lanzhou Mansion spontaneously greeted Li Zicheng's return to the north outside the southern city, and even the old man Mei Zhihuan was also supported by everyone and was frozen in the cold wind outside the city.

Li Zicheng looked at the snow kneeling a lot, not only mixed feelings, when he first came to Daming, he was so poor that he didn't even have a way to go home, how did he create such a foundation......

He picked up Mei Zhihuan with both hands and blamed: "Old man, on such a cold day, your old man doesn't have to go out of the city, in case he freezes his body, but it is a huge loss to the Mandate of Heaven Governor's Mansion......"

"Yes, yes," Mei Zhihuan stood up slowly with Li Zicheng's strength, and carefully looked at Li Zicheng's face, "The Metropolitan Governor is young and promising, and he has only seen it in his life, and it is a fortunate thing in his life to be able to follow the Metropolitan Governor......"

"The old man has won the award...... Li Zicheng asked the officials to get up again, but he glanced at Liang Wencheng, "Wencheng, I said a long time ago, there is no need for such a welcome ceremony, such a cold day, let everyone be frozen outside the city......"

"Zicheng, you have wronged me, I heard that the Metropolitan Governor took Sichuan and returned triumphantly, and rushed to meet the ...... one by one" Liang Wencheng smiled self-deprecatingly: "The people don't know yet, if the people know, I'm afraid the Metropolitan Governor won't be able to return home today!" ”

"Don't," Li Zicheng doesn't like the scene of tens of thousands of onlookers, besides, together with the time on the road, he hasn't entered the house for nine months, and he really thinks about the wives at home, such words are naturally unspeakable in public, "The people can live and work in peace and contentment, and live a rich life, even if I am a little tired, I have no regrets!" ”

"The Metropolitan Governor is really the Pope!"

I don't know who hit the head, the officials were on the snow, and they paid homage to Li Zicheng again, and Li Zicheng had to say some humble words again, and finally calmed everyone down.

Mei Zhihuan shook his sleeves and grabbed the corner of Li Zicheng's clothes, "Metropolitan Governor, tonight the old man must give the Metropolitan Governor the wind, rest assured, the old man will not use public funds, he will use the old man's money......"

Speaking of drinking, Li Zicheng's head suddenly became big, and he hurriedly excused himself: "Old man, I have worked hard all the way, and I haven't entered the house yet, so I should always go back to rest......"

Liang Wencheng laughed, hugged Mei Zhihuan, and whispered a few words closer, Mei Zhihuan smiled, and said busily: "It's the old decay who has lost his mind, and the metropolitan governor is not strange, tomorrow, tomorrow will definitely give the old decay a chance......

"Tomorrow, tomorrow I will go to the old man's banquet again to see what dishes the old man can prepare," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Don't take out the money at the bottom of the box, you can only starve in the future......"

Everyone laughed along.

At this time, the auxiliaries had already driven the carriage loaded with silver into the city, and Li Zicheng said goodbye to everyone and went straight to the Dadu Governor's Mansion, temporarily storing 1.8 million taels of gold and silver in the Dadu Governor's Mansion.

In several palaces in Chengdu, the Mandate of Heaven army found more than 2 million taels worth of gold and silver, and he originally planned to inject 800,000 taels of them into Xining and Lanzhou as foreign investment to promote the development of the local economy.

Along the way, Li Zicheng had already calculated that of the 100,000 taels, 800,000 of which would be invested in the provinces of Xining and Qinghai Province, as well as the military funds for the expansion of the army.

Lanzhou has a larger population, and the prefectures and counties of Gansu Province are also more mature, so they need to invest one million taels.

Of course, silver will not be directly put on the market, but the same amount of paper money will be issued, which is originally the currency in circulation, and if paper money is not issued, it will also appear directly in the market, which should not cause violent inflation.

Li Zicheng is not worried about rising prices, in the period of rapid economic development, it is normal for prices to rise appropriately, and the newly issued banknotes are not directly given to the common people, but are spent by the government, and are gradually put into the market, and the price fluctuations should not be too large.

Before he knew it, Li Zicheng had arrived in the back garden, he turned over and dismounted, handed over the reins of the horse to his own soldiers, and asked them to go back to the attic to rest, and go to the back office alone.

As soon as he walked to the position of the study, a figure flashed, and a petite figure rushed into Li Zicheng's arms, but he said: "The Metropolitan Governor is finally back......"