After Li Xuanqing and the person in charge of the military and political aspects of the Liangyi Hall in Chang'an talked about it, it was equivalent to determining the political structure of the northwest and even the future Tibetan area, so when the two ministries organized manpower to divide the region and arrange personnel, the urgent mail from Tuoba Sizhi and Wan Yi in the northwest was also sent to the cabinet and the general staff, and when they saw the two urgent items with similar content, Cen Tianshi and Xu Tianxiang couldn't help laughing, and secretly said that these two people are really sharp-minded and long-term people, although they are not in the central government, they can understand the mystery. And these two urgent items were also sent to Li Xuanqing in the palace later, and Li Xuanqing also nodded at the political sensitivity of these two people, but he was afraid that the two people who were on the front line at this time could feel the urgency more than Cen Tianshi and others who were sitting in the rear base camp. Therefore, after thinking about it for a while, Li Xuanqing personally wrote back to the two of them, telling them his ideas about the territory of the northwest, which is far away from the political center, one by one, and asking them to make arrangements in advance.

When Chang'an was filling in the colors in accordance with the blueprint drawn by Li Xuanqing step by step, so that the Tang Dynasty could achieve greater development at the level of industrialization, Wan Yi and Tuoba Sijian ushered in another thing in the northwest, the special envoy of Gelulu came from the north.

"The marshal, the deputy marshal and the deputy prime minister have arrived." Liu Xuan took Gao Siji and Tuoba Sijian into the handsome tent outside Shule City, and then saw Wan Yi busy facing the map, and immediately walked over. The entire city of Shule has been handed over to the civil affairs and the National Guard, and all the units of the Western Expeditionary Army have been stationed outside the city when they are stationed in various places, and even though the wind and snow are constantly blowing in various places, the military discipline of the Tiance Army has not been relaxed in the slightest, and the principle that the military is not allowed to interfere in government affairs in peacetime has been strictly enforced. Even though a large amount of honeycomb coal delivered from the logistics department was distributed for winter heating, the generals of each ministry still warned the soldiers of each department every day. After seeing that honeycomb coal heating was very good, the civil affairs department also found a small coal factory near Shule, and dropped a large group of captives to dig coal to make honeycomb coal and then sell it in Shule and the surrounding major cities, so as to solve the problem of heating the people in winter.

"Why did you call the deputy prime minister over on such a cold day?" Wan Yi turned his head and saw Tuoba Siji sitting on the side, fiddling with the charcoal fire in the charcoal stove, and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Haven't you asked the soldiers of all departments to stop and arrange for the winter in the past few days?" Nothing needs to be sent in by the army, right? ”

"Ge Lulu sent an envoy to Shule, and now the people have arrived in Broken Leaf City and have been left behind by Li Feixue." Liu Xuan shook his head and said: "According to the Xuanyingwei Express, Ge Lulu plans to surrender this time, and is willing to submit to the Tang Dynasty and pay tribute every year as a vassal. ”

"That's it?" Gao Siji shook his head, obviously very disdainful of this kind of tribute, so he spoke directly: "Ge Lulu was the culprit of the defeat of the Anxi army in the Battle of Everross, and later it was also the tribe that killed the remnants of the Tang Dynasty the most in the northwest. ”

Wan Yi didn't speak, but after Gao Siji finished speaking, Tuoba Sizhi nodded, and agreed with Gao Siji's words, and from the founding of the Tang Dynasty to the present, there has never been such a tributary and obedient Fanbang, and whether it was Qiqi, Nanzhao or later Goryeo or the grassland tribes, the Tang Empire led by Li Xuanqing directly rejected all the affiliated forces of Fanbang, for the Tang Dynasty, it was either taken by me and then included in the territory of the Tang Dynasty, or there was no conflict with the Tang Dynasty, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs handled the daily affairs of the two countries. However, it is a pity that so far the Ministry of Foreign Affairs does not have much to deal with, except for arranging people to follow the fleet to the sea every year and inspect and compile materials in places that are temporarily beyond the reach of the Tang forces.

"Not to mention Ge Lulu's accumulated crimes, as far as the Tang Dynasty treats the strength of the various ethnic groups in the northwest, this kind of tributary lord who has been eliminated is no longer suitable. So just refuse this matter outright. Tuoba Si thought for a moment and said, "But that envoy of theirs can stay, and if possible, tell him that we will allow him to visit Chang'an." ”

Tuoba's words made Gao Siji stunned, but Wan Yi obviously understood what he meant and nodded: "The chief of staff went to summon Li Feixue and asked him to let the special envoy of Ge Lulu let him go and allow them to come to Shule." As for handing it over to the deputy prime minister after coming, anyway, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is also a cabinet department, you can deal with it whatever you want, there is only one principle, that is, the Tang Dynasty does not need Fanbang tribute, and what Ge Lulu did in the past will be destined to bear fruit tomorrow. Heaven has always been like this. The meaning of Tuoba Si's advice is very clear, and the reason why the special envoy of Gelulu went to the Central Plains is naturally to borrow his eyes to take a good look at the strength of the Tang Empire today, and it is also a deterrent to the ethnic groups in the northwest.

"Well, I agree with what the marshal said. Regardless of Qarluq's attitude, the enmity of the past and the current strategy of our Western Expeditionary Army will not give up that land, especially the Yibohai region that Qarlu took from the Turks, which is an important area for the future Tiance Army. Gao Siji nodded and pointed to the battle map behind Wan Yi and said: "That big lake Zhao Si and they have been there some time ago, it is said that this big lake is not all saltwater lakes, the west is a freshwater lake, the east is a saltwater lake, it is said that the western region is rich in water enough to feed hundreds of people and troops. Speaking of these, Gao Siji was full of interest, and he was obviously interested in Yi Bohai.

Although the news of Ge Lulu's dispatch of special envoys spread around the high-level leaders in the northwest of the Tang Dynasty, whether it was Wan Yi and Gao Siji of the military or Tuoba Si of the civil administration, they did not focus on the return of tribute, but were very interested in the land occupied by Ge Lulu. Therefore, after Liu Xuan passed the order to Broken Leaf City, where the guard battalion was located, Li Feixue just filmed a large group of men and horses to accompany Ge Lulu's delegation back to Shule, and there was not much reaction at all. Instead, he plunged headlong into the matter of how to repair and rebuild Shattered Leaf City. Moreover, Li Feixue sent people everywhere to explore the various relics left by the Han and Tang dynasties, and tried every means to preserve and rescue those stone monuments and monuments. Li Feixue expressed his great interest in this city, which was the seat of the Anxi Prefecture for a period of time, and a large number of Turgish prisoners of war captured in the local area were driven away by the idle soldiers of the Guards Battalion to prepare to rebuild the city.

There are thousands of miles of distance from the north and south of Broken Leaf City to Shule, and the road is difficult to walk in winter, and there are wind and snow from time to time, so when the Qarlu mission arrived in Shule, there was only the last half month of the fourth year of the Apocalypse, and the weather in December was even colder, and this year, the climate in the northwest was colder than before, and countless reports of serious disasters in the areas under the rule of the Tang Dynasty were also sent to Tuoba Siji's desk. On the one hand, Tuoba Sizhi summoned the governors of various prefectures and counties to mobilize the local treasury to help the tribal tribes tide over the difficulties, and on the other hand, he also began to ask the local garrisons to start joining the ranks of rescuing the people. Moreover, although this snowstorm caused serious economic losses in the northwest, Tuoba Sizhi instructed the people in Anxi to focus on taking care of the people at the lowest level, and chose to ignore those nobles and ranchers as long as they did not endanger their survival. This obvious bias towards the lower levels of the common people made the aristocratic families who usually owned a large number of livestock very dissatisfied, and in some areas even began to conflict, and even those nobles who suffered heavy losses instigated the people of the lower tribes to loot the army treasury materials. These affairs, large and small, made Liu Xuan and Tuoba Sijian mobilize the army to severely suppress the rebellion on the one hand, and on the other hand, they deeply felt that the reform in various parts of Anxi needed to be deepened. For those nobles who possessed the means of production and subsistence, it was necessary to suppress them and guide them to start the transformation of industry and commerce as soon as possible, and at the same time completely change the previous slavery system that restricted the freedom of life. Therefore, in the instructions to the local assassins, Tuoba Si directly demanded that all localities must completely cut off the slavery system before the arrival of the New Year, so that everyone can be free. Moreover, this is tied to the rescue of the people, and while helping the people to distribute relief materials, they directly issue household registration to those people at the bottom, and at the same time use force to protect their lives.

In this way, it is equivalent to the need for the two major military and political institutions in the northwest to go all out to complete this matter, so after the Qarlu mission arrived in Shule, no one received it for five consecutive days, whether it was the military management yamen in the city or the large army camp outside the city, they were all people who came and went in a hurry. The Qarlulu envoy was a typical bearded, somewhat Tessian-like, deep-eyed and high-nosed man named Doron. But no one received them for five consecutive days made Duolong feel embarrassed and a little angry at the same time, feeling that Datang was deliberately snubbing them. But then the results they found in Shule City made him feel creepy. Because Shule is the location of the supreme command organ of the Tang Dynasty's military and political administration, the measures issued by Tuoba Si Ji on abolishing the slavery system and restoring the freedom of the people at the bottom were implemented as soon as possible, and countless wealthy families in the city were ruled by the military officers' yamen, and all the slaves, farmers, herdsmen and slaves under their own jurisdiction must be lifted from the slavery restrictions within ten days, and they took the initiative to arrange for them to go to the officers' yamen to accept household registration. In addition, according to the requirements of Tuoba's advice, every household must provide the necessary means of production and living materials to ensure the livelihood of these people, otherwise, the military officer yamen will forcibly confiscate the corresponding wealthy property and distribute it to these people. At the same time, the Datang Labor Law was promulgated, stipulating the wage labor contract, and at the same time asking the deputies to summon the heads of these wealthy families to preach, and warned them that in the future, all the industries they operate recruited workers, farmers and herdsmen must sign labor contracts in accordance with the labor law, and the military officers and yamen will randomly check the implementation at any time, and violators will be directly fined and confiscated, and the head of the family will serve five years of hard labor. It can be said that because of the experience of his previous life, although the labor law brought by Li Xuanqing is not too biased towards laborers, the punishment methods for employers or those wealthy nobles who have just been reformed are too severe, and at the same time, taking the initiative to inspect and supervise is equivalent to hanging a sharp sword over the heads of both labor and management, which can be cut down at any time. Although the effect of this kind of legislation cannot be seen for a while, it is conceivable that when the people on the Legislative Yuan side take over these and have a strong deterrent, they will definitely be able to directly wipe out a large number of people who are unwilling to implement them, and thus use bloody repression to fix the labor law.

But this method of cutting off all comfortable personal freedom frightened Doron, the envoy of Qarluq, who had never seen a regime so brutal, treating the interests of the wealthy as nothing, to help support the slaves of the lower tribes who were almost equal to livestock property. What the hell are they going to do? Duolong couldn't care about whether Datang was deliberately snubbing them at this time, as an envoy who dared to send an envoy at this time, he naturally had his own keen eye for observing affairs. He found at a glance that this system, or Shule's just-implemented policy, dealt a blow to other forces, when the lives of those slaves who turned over and became masters of personal freedom were guaranteed and their lives were guaranteed, how high should their support for Datang be, and how much impact should they have on other surrounding forces? Once this kind of thing spreads, I am afraid that the leaders and nobles of the major forces will have to keep their eyes open when they sleep, and they must be on guard at any time whether their slaves are looking forward to the version and the Tang Dynasty.

However, in the midst of Duolong's anxiety and uneasiness, Tuoba Sizhi finally explained all the things to be explained, and arranged for several of his deputies to go to various places to supervise the implementation of the situation in various places with the military leaders sent by Liu Xuan.

"If my estimation is correct, you and I Datang should be in a state of war now, right? Do you have any other thoughts when you come to Shule? Tuoba Siji nodded when he saw Dolong's appearance, and had a new idea about his previous proposal, so he deliberately didn't mention anything else.

"Oh, thanks to the deputy prime minister's inquiry, the little envoy is here to say hello to the Tang Emperor on behalf of my Qarluq Khan, and I, Qarluq, am willing to return to the Tang Dynasty and be the northwest barrier of the Tang Dynasty, and pay tribute year after year, and dare not disobey." Seeing that Tuoba Sizhi took the initiative to ask questions, Duolong just took over the conversation and said: "Before, I didn't know that Tianwei offended the Tang Dynasty, and I also asked the deputy prime minister to play His Majesty the Emperor on behalf of my Great Khan, and I beg for forgiveness. I, Ge Lulu, am willing to compensate Datang for gold and silver property to express my Ge Lulu's apology. Moreover, the king of my family asked the envoy to ask if he could make peace with me and send a princess to come, and my great khan was grateful and would swear allegiance to the Tang Dynasty. After Duolong said this, he saw an inexplicable smile on Tuoba's face, and thought that the other party had thought about his words, and immediately gritted his teeth and said his last meaning.

"And pro? Marrying a princess? Tuoba couldn't help but laugh, and his voice even went straight outside.