"Xue Yang, I'll leave it to you here, this vast plateau will always be in my Tang Dynasty territory in the future." Chen Yu and Xue Yang have been fighting on the plateau for almost the past two years, and the two of them have completely defeated the glorious and ostentatious empire in the past, and surrendered to the royal banner of the Tang Dynasty. After receiving the order from the General Staff Headquarters, Xue Yang led the Third Corps to stay in the newly established Xikang Province to assist in the construction of the Yunnan-Tibet Line into Tibet, which was being built in a hurry. According to the official document signed by the Cabinet and the General Staff Department, the entire Tibetan region was divided into two independent provinces, the southeastern region, including Lhasa, was separated as Xikang Province, the northern and western regions were divided into Hexi and Anxi provinces respectively, and the central region was divided into another province -- Central Tibet Province, which was placed in Hezhou, and the political envoy was Hu Xiaosi's old father-in-law, the Tubo patriarch of the Duomi royal line, so that the entire Tibetan region was artificially split into five pieces, and they could not be condensed into one in a short period of time after they were independent of each other. The inability of the plateau to produce excess population will inevitably lead to a long-term decline of the Tibetan tribes, which also gave the Tang Dynasty the basis for ruling here.

"The General Staff of Central Tibetan Province on the northern line will also send a corps to be stationed in Hezhou District, and the command will also be handed over to you, so you can act cheaply." Chen Yu was afraid that Xue Yang's corps would not be enough to deal with such a vast territory, so he simply handed over the command of a corps stationed in Hezhou from the northwest to Tibet.

"Chen Shuai rest assured, if the two corps can't suppress these defeated and down-and-out Tubo people, I'm afraid that the dignity of our Tiance Army will be lost." Xue Yang didn't care, shook his head and said: "It's just that according to the joint official document of the General Staff and the Cabinet, the emperor and the prime minister plan to use the two major passages into Tibet in the north and south to first control the southern and northern Tibet regions with a good economic foundation, and then Xu Tu to enter. I am afraid that these Tibetans will regroup their forces in those remote places. ”

"Not really, you don't understand what the Cabinet means." Because Chen Yu was about to withdraw to the mainland with the main force, the two of them had to explain everything clearly, Chen Yu spread out the map and said with a smile: "Our army pays attention to fighting for important places in war, controlling them, and then using this to control the overall situation." And the cabinet's strategy actually has this meaning, southern Tibet and northern Tibet belong to the interior of the Central Plains Dynasty close to me, with a high degree of sinicization, once the Yunnan-Tibet line and the Jinhe line on the Hexi side are opened, then these two provinces can rely on these two roads to first incorporate the Central Plains within the scope of rule, as for other places, they are actually divided into Hexi and Anxi provinces, which was originally just a strategy to split up Tibet, but brother, you didn't expect something. That is, many of the necessary daily necessities in the entire Tibetan area are not self-sufficient, and they need to be transported from the Central Plains in large quantities. These things are equivalent to cutting off their path to Tibet after we surround them in all directions, do you think those ordinary Tibetans will settle according to the areas we have demarcated? Although Chen Yu's words are also vague, the basic meaning has been expressed, once the transportation channels of salt, iron and tea and other materials into Tibet are cut off, then everyone in the entire Tibetan area will have to follow the strategy of the Tang Dynasty, that is to say, these two channels into Tibet are actually a national policy of the Tang Dynasty to rule the Tibetan area.

"Chen Shuai means that the Cabinet and the General Staff are using these two roads to play a big game of chess in Tibetan areas?" Xue Yang is a very smart person, Chen Yu's words naturally made him understand the importance of these two roads in an instant, so he immediately said that he would assist the local government to repair the Yunnan-Tibet line as soon as possible, and would arrange for the corps stationed in Hezhou to also assist in repairing the passage from Jinzhou to Hezhou, so that the idea of the base camp could be implemented as soon as possible. After the handover of the two, Chen Yu also led the main force to withdraw from this plateau, which had been fought for more than two years, to the Central Plains. More than 100,000 Tiance army soldiers are mighty, and the squad is still heading towards the truth, so that everyone can rush to a moment of relief. Since coming to the plateau to fight, almost all the soldiers have been deeply touched by the harsh natural environment of this place, and almost half of the casualties of the Tiance Army were actually not on the battlefield, but were harmed by this altitude sickness. So now that they are leaving, all the soldiers are smiling, and laughter can be seen everywhere on the march.

"Brother, the four of us are also here to discuss the follow-up. In my opinion, our Third Corps will be inseparable from Xikang Province in a short period of time, and at least before the Yunnan-Tibet line is completed, our army still needs to suppress those unwilling Tibetan rebel forces from time to time. After Chen Yu left with the main force, Xue Yang also began to summon Li Yang, Xu Ying, and Li Shenfu to come over to discuss the specific deployment.

"We don't need to worry about the Jinhe Line of the northern line for the time being, there is the Cangzhou Corps that has been transferred to the past, plus the arrangement of Xuanyingwei, the situation in Central Tibet Province is actually better than our Xikang Province, and the Jinhe Line has already been repaired almost, and now at most, some people are only transferred to widen the road and extend it to Qingyang City in front, and the construction difficulty is very small. Therefore, our top priority is to assist the local government in building the Yunnan-Tibet line, and only in this way can many of the measures of the cabinet be implemented. Xue Yang said: "In addition, there are two major towns in Tibet in Xikang Province, and Pibo City and Lhasa Wangcheng need to send troops to station, so I plan to send the four battalions in our hands to these two cities in turn, and the remaining two battalions will assist the construction team of the Yunnan-Tibet Line all the way to the west, what do you think?" ”

Xu Ying nodded and said with a smile: "It just so happens that there is still a group of prisoners of war who need to be handed over to the vicinity of Iron Horse City to open up the mountain roads in southern Tibet, so the two battalions in the rear will be handed over to Li Yang and your third battalion, and Shenfu and I will separate troops to garrison Pibo City and Lhasa City, and we will switch after the beginning of spring next year, what do you think?" ”

"Brother, this is taking care of me." Xue Yang knew that the other party was letting him have time to reunite with Lan Jin, but he didn't say much, it was most suitable for Lhasa to be stationed as the mountain camp before Tubo. And Pibo City, as the seat of Xikang Province, is also the central artery of exchanges, and it is no problem to hand it over to Li Shenfu, so he nodded. Immediately after the division of the troops, the construction of the road began. After Xu Ying arrived in Lhasa, he directly arrested all the local tribes who still had a heart of resistance to the Tang Dynasty, and a large number of prisoners of war began to take advantage of the fact that there were still a few months left in the second half of the year to widen the original road from Lhasa to the east, and lay stones for early reinforcement. The new political envoy of Xikang Province is Guo Wei, the Bianzhou Thorn Shi Guo Wei, who left a great reputation in later generations, is a young man at this time, and he has his own revenge against the newly established Xikang Province, so as soon as he arrived in Pibo City, he immediately began to organize the local Han people to open a large shopping mall in Pibo City, and then ordered all the surrounding Tubo tribes to place the location of the trading market in Pibo City. He also used the deterrence of Li Shenfu's army to force the local Tibetan tribes to obey the order. In this way, the population and the number of transactions in Pibo City have more than doubled out of thin air, and it has also eliminated the pain of traveling to and from caravans, and the trading center of Pibo City has been truly established on this land. After that, taking advantage of the geographical advantage of the transit of goods, he began to directly issue orders to the tribes, and used administrative orders to guide these tribes to graze livestock with special characteristics according to their own plans, and then the government of the government purchased the livestock property of each ministry in a unified manner, which was equivalent to giving certain guarantees to those herdsmen.

After settling all this, Guo Wei immediately began to issue reform orders after learning that the Yunnan-Tibet line was about to be repaired to Pibo City, and more than half of the pastures and livestock of the Tubo nobles in various places were directly distributed to those farmers and herdsmen who forcibly declared their freedom of life, which disintegrated the economic foundation of the Tubo people's rebellion against the Tang Dynasty, and secondly, those herdsmen who had just gained freedom in life also turned over and had the opportunity to control their own destiny. So soon this kind of policy began to spread from Pibo City to all around, not only making those Tubo nobles frightened and worried about the safety of their property day and night, but also making those herdsmen begin to look to the Tang Dynasty, and from time to time they were waiting to see when the policy of the Tang Dynasty could spread from Pibo City to their area. At this time, Guo Wei was unhurried, and almost followed the pace of construction of the Yunnan-Tibet line to advance little by little. Basically, Guo Wei's policy was implemented wherever the road continued, forcing those major nobles with evil intentions to start fleeing to other places one after another. At this time, Xue Yang suddenly ordered the garrisons to sweep up all these fugitive nobles, all of them were arrested, and announced that they would be disposed of as prisoners of war and war criminals. At this time, the Tibetan areas in central Tibet Province and Hexi and Anxi also began to reform according to Guo Wei's methods, because Guo Wei broke a way in front, so they implemented it more skillfully and more ruthlessly, and after the policy was issued, the army was directly dispatched to advance, and almost all the nobles in Tubo were knocked into the dust. On the other hand, all these things were obtained by relying on the support of the Tang Empire, so they almost overwhelmingly supported the rule of the Tang Dynasty in various places, and the economic basis of the Tubo rebellion was wiped out in one fell swoop. In just a few months in the second half of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the construction speed of the Yunnan-Tibet Line and the Jinhe Line suddenly accelerated a lot, and those herdsmen who turned over and became masters even spontaneously came to the construction site to help work, so that the Tang Dynasty laid a solid foundation for long-term rule in Tibet.

At this time, Guo Wei, who saw the Yunnan-Tibet line going west from Pibocheng to Lhasa, began to plan another thing, he was going to establish a permanent trade route in Pibocheng, to speed up the circulation of salt, iron, tea and other materials from the Central Plains to Tibet, and at the same time, in order to rule the Tibetan area for a long time, Guo Wei began to contact some familiar merchants in the Central Plains to prepare to build a meat and leather products processing factory in Pibocheng, on the one hand, to increase the opportunity for the new class in the Tibetan area to increase wealth, on the other hand, to increase the integration of the two places.

The key point that this plan can rely on is the current winding Yunnan-Tibet line, so Guo Wei almost reported to the cabinet at the same time as he began to plan and build a factory on the spot, and called the herdsmen to prepare.

Guo Wei's plan can be said to be very in line with the cabinet's Tibetan development plan, but what makes Cen Tianshi curious is that this young man, who was almost inconspicuous before, can think of this so quickly, and the plan he made is not even inferior to the plan of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, which makes Cen Tianshi, who has been secretly planning to establish a Tang political party, can't help but have the idea of wanting to meet this young man. However, at this time, Cen Tianshi quickly shifted his attention, and after the stabilization of Xikang Province, the supporting industries deployed by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce also began to enter Tibet one after another, which saved Guo Wei's original plan to rely on his own strength to contact the merchants and wealthy families in the Central Plains. The ancient city of Kangding in later generations is gradually exuding more and more dazzling brilliance at this time, and then opened up the connection channel with the south and suddenly became the transportation and trade center of the entire southern Tibet, in which Guo Wei's contribution can not be ignored.

However, the successive opening of the Yunnan-Tibet line also made the southern Nanzhao Province gradually began to play a greater role, a lot of materials into Tibet began to be raised locally, large and small factories began to sprung up in Dali and other cities like mushrooms after a rain, and a large number of goods produced were transported to Xihai County to be sent to the West, and most of them were sent directly to the plateau along the ancient tea horse road in later generations.

"The emperor's method is really good." At the reception banquet after Chen Yu returned to Chang'an, Cen Tianshi said with a smile: "As soon as the Yunnan-Tibet line was opened, the situation in Xikang Province was stabilized, and the Jinhe line in the north was also playing the same role, and there was basically no possibility of repetition in Tibet. ”

"It's just a Tibetan, it's nothing. This time, Xue Yang and the others have wiped out all the big nobles in Tibet, and those gold and silver treasures can be worth the military expenses for entering Tibet this year, right? Chen Yu's skin has been tanned and red on the plateau in the past two years, and he looks even rougher, and he suddenly smiled when he heard Cen Tianshi's words.

"Are you okay? Do you know how much money you spent in the past two years in Tibet? As soon as Chen Yu's words were finished, Wang Houchun next to him didn't give him face at all, and said directly: "That little treasure is not enough for your expenses for half a year." If it weren't for Xiaosi digging up several treasure plots in northern Tibet, we would have lost money in this battle, and we would have lost money to my grandmother's house. ”

"Wouldn't it? I remember that Xue Yang and I were very economical, and we captured four or five hundred thousand prisoners to the rear before and after, many of them were young and middle-aged, and this war potential of the Tubo people alone was directly wiped out by us, how could we still lose so much? Chen Yu scratched his head, and he couldn't figure it out for a long time, but couldn't help but look at Hu Xiaosi, who was snickering beside him, and said: "Xiaosi, you have a good brain, is it possible that we really lost so much?" ”

"Boss, don't listen to Hou Chun's nonsense, if you want to settle the account, you should go to Minister Xia Qi or Yin Honglin, otherwise you will go to the emperor and the third sister-in-law, don't listen to this half bucket of water dangling there. He was recently forced by the emperor to make a military budget. Hu Xiaosi laughed.

"Military budget? Do you have to settle accounts for a war? Chen Yu ignored Wang Houchun's jokes with him, but said a little distressed: "Damn, why do I think I really lost a lot in Tibet?" ”

"It's over, thick chun, you see, the boss is in a dead end, hurry up and persuade him." Chen Yu's reaction made several people around him suddenly start to coax, and a group of people immediately burst into laughter.