On September 18, the third year of the Apocalypse, in an urgent report sent from the heart of the Tang Empire to the Northwest Front, a cabinet document was also urgently sent to the military administration area led by the Western Expeditionary Army and Tuoba Sizhi along with the military intelligence order, which included the instructions of Prime Minister Cen Tianshi on the military management and winter affairs in the northwest region, and also attached the opinions drafted by Li Xuanqing on the recovery of the hearts of the Han people in the northwest region, especially in the Guazhou and Shazhou regions. Coincidentally, Li Xuanqing also took the long period of winter as a good opportunity to gather the people's hearts and reorganize the spirit of the Han people in the northwest, so he quickly allocated a batch of materials to relieve these Han people under the increasingly difficult logistical conditions.

Because Wan Yi can ignore government affairs, and he commands the brigade to repair the road at the junction of Guasu, Tuoba Sijian decided to formally appoint Sima Daoxin as the Guazhou Assassin after discussing with Liu Xuan and others, responsible for the specific affairs of the Guazhou reform, and according to the composition structure of the Assassin's Mansion in the Central Plains, after transferring some people from Hexi, a complete and complete local leadership body was set up to be fully responsible for the reform. Due to his previous experience in carrying out military management in the northeast, Tuoba Sijian worked out a detailed and feasible plan overnight, involving all aspects of the local area in Guazhou.

"Deputy Prime Minister, the Assassin's Mansion has been fully adjusted, and I have also become familiar with the government affairs model of Datang in the past two days, although there must be many mistakes and omissions, but I promise to do my best not to live up to the deputy prime minister's trust in me." Sima Daoxin's team was formed with the assistance of Tuoba Siji, and he also began to run in after the handover of military affairs, and he gradually mastered the mode of handling this kind of organization and service in separate offices.

"Okay, Daoxin, you don't have to say anything nice, today's Tang Dynasty doesn't have so much retreat under the influence of the emperor, and you have to do more practical things." Tuoba Si shook his head and said, "Forget it, you'll know later, let's study the reform of Guazhou." You are a local, you must know more about the agricultural business here in Guazhou, right? ”

"Guazhou is located in a remote area, and there is a desert next door in the territory, so there is not much land that can be used for farming, and it is also concentrated in the lower reaches of the Qingshui River, Shule River and Yulin River, that is, the part of the northern part of Guazhou near the grassland, but the land is still fertile, but the climate in the northwest is cold, and only one season can be planted a year." Sima Daoxin was in contact with Tuoba Sijian during this time, and he also knew the latter's temper, so when he heard this, he spoke directly: "These three areas end in the West from Baihu Pass to Suoyang City in the east, although the area is not small, but the land is basically concentrated in the hands of the Zhang family, the Yang family and the Dou family from the northwest. Although these three families are all descendants of our Han people, the people who have been engaged in farming in the northwest since ancient times are all Han people, and the other tribes are mainly nomadic fishing, hunting or business. Sima Daoxin hesitated a little after the introduction: "According to the deputy prime minister's meaning, let's start with agriculture first, right?" ”

"Do you disagree?" Tuoba Sizhi looked at Sima Daoxin and said with a smile, "Or do you have another way?" ”

"This, in the past few days, I have also carefully studied the national policy of my Tang Dynasty, although it is an equal construction of the Chinese nation by all ethnic groups, but after all, it is based on the Han people, which is beyond doubt. But we will first use the knife from our own people in the northwest, will it be used by people with intentions, and I am afraid that it will have a bad impact when it reaches Chang'an. Tuoba's thoughtful smile made Sima Daoxin uncomfortable, but he still gritted his teeth and expressed his concerns, "The deputy prime minister is in a high position, but after all, he is still from the party, so I am afraid that the emperor will blame him." ”

"You're worried about this? It seems that you still can't be sent to Chang'an School of Administration to study, and you haven't mastered the essence of the emperor and the cabinet governing the country. Tuoba Si laughed and said: "Forget it, let me tell you briefly, what you just said is not wrong, the Chinese nation is a community of Chinese ethnic groups created by the emperor, although it is based on the Han nationality, but it is no longer the Han people of the past." The Han people in the northwest are in a difficult situation, and it is precisely because we need to carry out drastic reforms that they can be revitalized. After finishing speaking, he nodded and said: "That's it, the reform will start soon, you can see it with your own eyes and figure it out with your heart, if it really doesn't work, I will tell the emperor to let you go to the School of Administration to study for a while." ”

Tuoba Sijian left Sima Daoxin alone in the hall of the Thorn History Mansion and pondered, and he directly began to mobilize the army to start making preliminary preparations, and at the same time, the Xuanying Guards on the side of the Flying Eagle Brigade and Guazhou were also in place, and a large amount of information and details that were not usually seen began to enter Tuoba Siji's desk.

"Xiaohu, in the past few days, the Northwest Military Management Branch of the Ministry of Security has been controlled by you, find the Zhang family for me first, and uproot the first family of Baihu Pass." Tuoba Si Ji smiled coldly and said: "Even if you are a foreigner, you can help other tribes to oppress your own clansmen, it is really a clear way of heaven, and retribution is reincarnated." Is this Zhang family and Zhang Chaofeng a family? ”

Su Xiaohu was originally annoyed by this Zhang family, and he was the first to pass the black information of the three major families investigated by Xuanying Wei, and he was still suppressing his anger, but this atmosphere was interrupted by Tuoba's words, and he smiled bitterly when he heard this: "I didn't care about checking this, and there may be a connection." ”

"It doesn't matter if he's in touch or not. You arrange for people to take these materials to raid the house early tomorrow morning, take down all the people of the Zhang family, confiscate all the family property, and let the brothers of the Modao camp count and measure the land and real estate under the name of the Zhang family. Tuoba Sizhi didn't bother to care so much, and early the next morning, he asked the Modao battalion to go directly to raid Zhangjiawu Fort, and for a while, the entire Guazhou area was shaken by the actions of the Tiance Army. Subsequently, Sima Daoxin's Assassin's Mansion issued an announcement, announcing the fact that the Zhang family had oppressed the people and communicated with foreign tribes, and took the opportunity to announce that the original land of the Zhang family would be distributed to those inherent farmers. Originally, Tuoba Sizhi also wanted to distribute it according to the standards of the mainland, but after checking the number of farmers near Baihu Pass, it turned out that it was not realistic. According to the five thousand hectares of farmland under the jurisdiction of the Zhang family, it is not enough at all, and in desperation, the land deed can only be issued according to the actual number of people about three acres.

Although the land in the northwest is not as the lifeblood of all the people in the mainland, but for the Han people it has a very different meaning, all of a sudden each family has been allocated so much land, how not to let everyone cheer, although many people are suspicious of these land, for fear that one day the people of the Zhang family will come back and snatch it, and even some timid people do not dare to take this new type of land deed, but when Tuoba Sizhi directly announced that all the backbone forces of the Zhang family would be escorted to Guazhou for public trial, the entire Huqiu Pass shook again. This time, the ordinary people who didn't have to worry about the Zhang family killing them back believed that the land sent to them by the Tiance Army was real and could be touched.

And when the Huqiu Pass side made a big move to carry out armed raids, the Dou family and the Yang family in several other places were frightened by the bloody heads of the nineteen members of the Zhang family, and they didn't expect that Tuoba Siji and Guazhou Assassin Mansion would be so bloody, and as a Han regime, the Central Plains Dynasty was actually the first to deal with its own people after occupying Guazhou. For a while, I didn't know what the Assassin Mansion had in mind, and after trembling, I began to send people to go to the door to find the new Assassin Sima Daoxin to find out if I wanted to do anything to them.

However, just when they were looking for Sima Daoxin, the Assassin Mansion also began to go hand in hand, on the one hand, the Yang family and the Dou family Tuoba Si Ji were directly handed over to Sima Daoxin, whether it was to continue to confiscate or coerce and lure, in short, the big family and the big family were absolutely not allowed to control the land anymore, and the land law of the Tang Empire was also directly released in the form of a notice by Tuoba Siji, if it weren't for the fact that the people from the media group had not yet arrived, It is possible that Tuoba Sizhi will directly publish the land law in the publications of the media group, and directly distribute it to the people free of charge.

In addition to agriculture, a large number of animal husbandry is the pillar that supports the economy of Guazhou, and to do animal husbandry will involve other tribes, a small number of tribes on this side of Guazhou can be described as a large number, Tubo, Uighur, Tatar and even Qianghu people, the binding force of the Guiyi Army on a few tribes has declined greatly over the years, resulting in the fact that although these tribes are not many in number, they have a lot of local discourse. The Han Chinese, who made up the majority of the population, became the second class.

However, there are not so many scruples about the Han people who can still kill Tuoba Siji, the party is now integrated with the Han people, and he himself has never had a clear concept of the tribe, but he is obsessed with the great unification of the nation proposed by Li Xuanqing, so he is even more ruthless in the reform of animal husbandry, and directly issued an ultimatum to more than 30 grassland nobles of all sizes in Guazhou in the name of Sima Daoxin, requiring that more than eighty percent of the cattle and sheep and other livestock under his command must be distributed to the subordinate herdsmen within ten days. And cooperate with the civil affairs officials sent by the Assassin History Office to do a good job of the herdsmen's settlement. At the same time, the Eagle Brigade was secretly dispatched to closely monitor the tribal leaders and nobles who were making abnormal movements.

"Deputy Prime Minister, you're not going to be fishing for law enforcement, are you?" Liu Xuan was a little strange about Tuoba Siji's approach, no matter how he looked at it, he felt that he was preparing to dig a pit for these few clan leaders and nobles to pick in, because Tuoba Siji obviously asked Xuan Yingwei to set an invisible trap when he mobilized the Flying Eagle Brigade, just waiting for these people to come forward.

"Fishing law enforcement, fishing law enforcement, anyway, I don't plan these people to be so obedient." Tuoba Si thought for a while and said with a smile: "Slowly find something to do for Xuan Yingwei in winter, didn't Zhao Si say let us cooperate with them?" ”

Liu Xuan looked at Tuoba Si's smile and felt a chill in his heart for no reason, and suddenly found that the deputy prime minister in front of him seemed to be a leader of the army before, but in the past few years, he has been doing government affairs with Cen Tianshi, so everyone forgot that this guy's character is also so iron-blooded.

"Okay, have you finished your military affairs, do me a favor when you're done, in the past two days, literate soldiers have been dispatched to assist the Assassin Mansion to register the people of Guazhou, according to the plan of the cabinet, Guazhou and Shazhou are currently hanging on the side of Hexi Province, if there are changes in the future, let's talk about it." In this way, when all the registrations are completed, the reverse osmosis capacity of the Kuazhou side will be greatly enhanced. Tuoba Sijian was obviously very aware of the new household registration system established under the leadership of Li Xuanqing, so while promoting the reform of agriculture and animal husbandry, he used a strong deterrent to bring all the local population of Guazhou into the formal category.

"Okay, leave this matter to me, there hasn't been a lot of military affairs recently, and there is no need for me to keep an eye on things with Shi Jian and Zhang Sheng." Liu Xuan nodded, as a staff officer of the military, he naturally understood the role of the household registration system of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in maintaining stability and distinguishing between friend and foe. Although the household registration system of the Ming Dynasty brought by Li Xuanqing from later generations has been improved in many aspects, it is known as a weapon of great destruction through the ages that is stricter than the household registration system of the Republic era in the previous life.

However, after Liu Xuan left, Tuoba Sizhi was muttering to himself: "It's been more than ten days, and it's enough for these smart people to react, right?" It's time for business reform to come out. Tuoba naturally has his own considerations in the words of advice, and the reform of the Central Plains is different, because there is no problem of the surrounding tribes, so in the face of their own people and the need to protect the leading forces of all walks of life, the cabinet in the Central Plains reform in the face of pressure and resistance Although it is also a butcher's knife high, it will try to persuade when it can persuade and guide, and preserve the powerful leaders for the development of all walks of life in the future. But at this time, Tuoba Sizhi did not plan to do so, the northwest region has been separated from the central Tang Dynasty for a hundred years, and business is originally a person who chases fame and fortune, if the means are too loose, I am afraid that these people will not understand the meaning of the existence of the empire. And Tuoba Sijian did not feel that if these local local snakes were all exterminated, the merchants from the interior would not come to fill the shortfall, and under the leadership of the Yelu family, a large number of large and small merchants began to engage in northwest trade, and these people became those mobile economic growth points on the New Silk Road.

"Those who can understand it are all worthy of cultivation by the empire." Tuoba turned to the last page of his plan, and sure enough, the words business reform were written on it, but it was then closed. The business reform must be handled by himself, and there is no way for Liu Xuan to do it. However, the reason why the plan was closed was that according to the arrangement of Tuoba's advice, this matter still needs to be cooperated.

Just when Tuoba was thinking about this matter, Yeluqi, who was far away in Ganzhou and commanding his family to unload the goods, suddenly sneezed, and then saw a group of people riding war horses outside Ganzhou City, and one of them quickly came to Yeluqi after dismounting and said: "Yelu Gongzi, Minister Murong has an urgent message for you, so that you can follow the content of the urgent mail immediately." ”

"Murong?" Yeluqi was stunned for a moment, had a plan in his heart, and took the letter. Half an hour later, the Yelujia caravan, which had been unloading in Ganzhou, suddenly set off for the west.