On July 23, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Chen Fan led the headquarters of the Eastern Expeditionary Army and some of the officers and soldiers of the Eastern Expeditionary Army to return to Fengtian in the northeast, which meant that the war of the Tang Empire to conquer the Sanhan Peninsula was officially over. The situation around the entire Tang Empire has returned to the simultaneous war in the northwest and southwest Tibetan regions. However, compared with Chen Fan's happy inventory of the huge post-war captures in Dalian and other places, and the number of more than 100,000 or 200,000 prisoners of war, the Chang'an base camp at this time has not yet received the final battle report, but the battle reports of the Western Expeditionary Army in the west and the soldiers and horses in the southwest were sent to the desks of Xu Tianxiang and others of the General Staff Headquarters. On the Western Front, Wan Yi asked Gao Siji to lead his troops as the vanguard to advance into the city of Kupila, and engaged in fierce battles with the Anxi Uighurs and other troops. Due to the existence of a vast desert around Kupila and other places, in addition to the city of Kupiro and the area west of it is not suitable for stationing a large number of soldiers and horses, so Gao Siji encountered great difficulties, in addition to the fierce battle with the opponent, he also had to find a way to solve the problem of water source for the desert march, this area did not even have a well canal, in desperation, Wan Yi could only command the logistics troops to deliver water to the front line, which was considered to temporarily help Gao Siji solve the problem, but with the protracted army under the fortified city, this method was only an expedient measure, So Wan Yi is afraid that he will have to think of other ways to solve the problem. However, Li Xuanqing, Xu Tianxiang and others had no good way to deal with this situation, so they could only tell Wan Yi if they could consider sending troops to make a detour, and focus on attacking the opponent's vital forces and important places from the surrounding Kupila, and force the other party to draw troops and horses from Kupila to find a way.

Xu Tianxiang didn't know if these suggestions could solve Wan Yi's problems on the front line, but even if there was a way, it would have a limited effect, it was too far from Chang'an to the front, and it would take more than half a month to make a round trip by relying on Xuan Yingwei's teleportation channel, which was enough time to change all the situation ahead, so it was not so much to give ideas to the front line as to pray that Wan Yi could solve these problems alone.

Compared with Wan Yi's stagnation, the two roads of soldiers and horses in Tibet are making good progress, although the number of the third corps on the northern front is small, but Xue Yang has always been eclectic in fighting, as a partial front, his advance speed does not need to be as large as the frontal corps, so after entering Hezhou, he immediately began to attack the other Tubo forces of the Duomi royal system, and frequently used the soldiers and horses in his hands to be familiar with the plateau terrain to fight against the other side by surprise, and there was basically no enemy everywhere he went, if it were not for the strength of the Duomi royal system has recovered a lot over the years, I'm afraid I can't support such a series of blows for a long time. On the southern front, the main force of Chen Yu's army began to prepare to capture Ma'er City along the Tea and Horse Pass after entering the southwest Tibetan area. When Tubo intervened in Nanzhao, the army and horses went south from Ma'er City. Compared with the Third Corps, the four corps under his command basically have no experience in fighting on the plateau, and many of them have not even undergone corresponding training, so it is necessary to take Ma'ercheng and An Jiancheng in the east, and establish a gradual stronghold here, on the one hand, to exercise the combat ability of his soldiers and horses on the plateau, and on the other hand, to attract the other party to take the initiative to attack, so as to reduce the pressure on logistics. You must know that the supply difficulty of the main force of the Southwest Corps is not much worse than that of the northwest, at least the railway in the northwest has been repaired to the sandbank, and there is only one straight road on his side, which has not yet reached Nanzhao, if it is not for the southwest to be close to the southeast, Chen Yu's corps with rich materials will definitely encounter unimaginable difficulties.

However, on the third day after Xu Tianxiang put down these two battle reports, the last battle report of the Eastern Expeditionary Army also quickly appeared on the side of the General Staff and the Cabinet with the end of Chen Fan's inventory, and the huge seizure made Cen Tianshi and Xu Tianxiang and others run directly to find Li Xuanqing despite Qiaoxi and Murong Feixue's just production. Qiaoxi and Murong Feixue gave birth to a son and a daughter for Li Xuanqing at the same time on July 12, and were named Tianheng and Tianyu by Li Xuanqing. Xiao Tianqi, who was already four years old, was very curious and happy when he saw his younger brother and sister for the first time, and he was very curious and happy when he was young, and he followed Li Xuanqing in front of him and took care of his sister Tianyu who had just been woken up, and muttered something, Li Xuanqing couldn't help but smile when he saw this little guy trying to touch Tianyu's little face.

"Father, Mr. Cen and a few uncles are here." Li Xuanqing was talking with Qiaoxi, and at the same time asked Ruyan next to him to take care of Murong Feixue on the other side to make Tianheng fall asleep, and heard Tianqi walk to Li Xuanqing's side and point outside, sure enough, Cen Tianshi and Xu Tianxiang were standing outside the hall of the Qianqiu Hall and looking inside.

"Alright, I'm going to get busy." Li Xuanqing stood up a little apologetically and smiled at the two women beside him, Qiaoxi stretched out his hand and pulled the apocalypse and said softly: "You go quickly, you are not needed here, my sister and I will take care of ourselves, and don't we have a good son?" He'll take care of us in your place. Qiaoxi's words made Murong Feixue laugh too, Li Xuanqing has been accompanying herself and Qiaoxi almost every day these days, which also makes her feel very sweet, and for the sake of the two of them, she would rather give up the opportunity to go to the northwest first to reward the soldiers of the three armies, it is already very good for a man to be able to do this.

"What is it that makes you come to me in such a hurry?" Li Xuanqing walked out of the Qianqiu Hall and led everyone to the side hall next to him, and asked a little strangely. In the past two days, except for the day when the child was born, everyone came to congratulate him, Cen Tianshi, Xu Tianxiang and others basically did not come to him at other times, trying to avoid disturbing him.

"This is a summary of the military information sent by Chen Fan urgently, the Eastern Expeditionary Army has completed all its tasks, and the peninsula has been completely taken. At present, except for Liu Yi leading four battalions stationed in Xiyuanjing and other places to carry out military management, waiting for the cabinet to send personnel to take over, the other departments have followed the headquarters of the Eastern Expeditionary Army back to the northeast, and Baoliang and Hou Yong are the first to enter Songjiang Province, preparing to deter the Yan Ya and other departments that we have transferred troops to the south some time ago and are ready to move. Xu Tianxiang said with a smile while handing the battle report in his hand to Li Xuanqing: "In addition, all the captures and prisoners of this Eastern Expedition have also been counted, and it can be said that they have made a lot of money." ”

"Yo, it's really a lot of money, what kind of ecstasy did you pour into Chen Fan? How could such an honest person as he think of digging for treasure? Did you instigate Xiaosi? Chen Fan flipped to the end, and sure enough, it was the battle statistics signed by Chen Fan himself, and he couldn't help but nod and look at Hu Xiaosi and said with a smile. The victory of the Eastern Expedition was indeed a great favor to the empire, although the peninsula was small, but the location was very important, for the navy it was not only to take the fortress stuck in the shipping route from the mainland to Japan, but more importantly, to take the peninsula meant to completely throw Japan into the ocean, cutting off his arm to the mainland, which also brought stability to the future, to avoid when to negligently let Japan develop and finally let itself swallow the consequences. Li Xuanqing does not think that Japan, which was the first to be affected by the industrial revolution of the empire, will lag behind, for this era, the Tang Empire has occupied the most important position, and Japan close to him will undoubtedly have a more advantageous opportunity for other regions.

What's more, Samhan is close to the northeast, the location of the heavy industry base of the future empire, and if this place is not under his control, then I am afraid that industrial development will not be possible. This is also the reason why Chen Fan immediately dispatched two elite cavalry regiments to the north to sweep the Yan Ya as soon as the Eastern Expedition was over, that is, to create a safe rear area for economic development.

"Haha, I don't want anything else, I just think how can this little peninsula be so rich? And so much gold and silver? More than a million taels of gold alone have been recovered, how many Tang coins can be issued by my God? Cen Tianshi didn't want to do so much, but Le's beard shook and laughed: "I won't forget it, I have asked Finance Minister Qi Hong to personally lead a team to Dalian and put all this gold and silver into the warehouse on the spot." Among the seizures, 1.7 million taels of gold and nearly 7 million taels of silver, not counting the countless copper coins in the Central Plains and their locally issued copper coins, as well as countless other pearl antiques, calligraphy, painting and jade and other antique treasures. Because Samhan received a deep influence on the Central Plains culture, the appreciation and collection of treasures are similar to those of the Central Plains, and many cultural treasures such as antiques, calligraphy and paintings that have been lost or lost in the Central Plains have been found in the treasury of the three countries on the peninsula. However, Li Xuanqing didn't care about the fact that the peninsula could have so many seizures, in addition to the poor people of Silla, Baekje and Goryeo themselves had existed for a long time, and their national treasury was very full, plus these two had traded with the Tang Dynasty before through the continuous sale of local local products and mineral resources, it is not surprising that they can have so much money in their hands, not to mention that the gold and silver mines on the peninsula have been dug by these people for hundreds of years, absolutely more than that, and the people must have scattered a large amount of gold and silver. The money will have to be gradually recovered after the arrival of the banker and the later administrative officials.

"All the gold and silver will be sent to Qianzhuang as a reserve gold and silver for the issuance of Tang coins, and as for copper coins, let the people of the Ministry of Finance count them with Qianzhuang, and if they are issued by the Central Plains, all of them will be exchanged for the construction of the peninsula." Li Xuanqing nodded and ordered: "The cabinet should send personnel to take over the entire peninsula as soon as possible, and the General Staff will let Liu Yi garrison troops on the peninsula within the year to assist the cabinet in stabilizing the situation, after all, it is still a little different from the mainland." ”

When Li Xuanqing said this, he suddenly thought of something and asked: "During this time, I heard that you have transported more than 100,000 people from the peninsula to the northwest, why haven't you heard how many people have been transported to Sanhan from the northwest?" It's the end of July now, and there's not much time left until we don't hurry. ”

"The first batch of more than 30,000 people was transported over, but the peninsula was not recovered before, and we felt that the time had already been suspended, and it took a lot of people to build the road in the northwest that day. However, if we transport more than 100,000 Koreans, we can at least send 100,000 Uighurs from the northwest to the peninsula, and some of them will bring their families to the peninsula, and the number will definitely not be small. Cen Tianshi nodded and said: "This batch of population exchanges will definitely effectively dilute the situation of the majority of local residents in the two places and reduce the pressure on us." ”

"The end of the Eastern Crusade can be regarded as relieving a lot of pressure on our cabinet's money bags, and Chen Fan's speed has played a decisive role, which is not only worth the military spending, but also the cabinet can make a lot of money." Li Xuanqing has no objection to Cen Tianshi's arrangement, in fact, the population exchange between the two places is not so much to solve the Samhan Peninsula as to solve the northwest is a clever move, after a large number of Goryeo people enter the northwest, it will inevitably greatly impact the original ethnic distribution structure of the northwest, which will also reduce the pressure on the Han people to re-enter the northwest, and will also accelerate the process of integrating those minority tribes in the northwest. In fact, this was originally a helpless move, since ancient times, even in the era before Li Xuanqing's crossing, going to the northwest has always been a difficult thing for everyone to be at a loss, no matter how developed the transportation is, such a distant migration is enough to make all the Han people who are accustomed to relocate. The cabinet proposes to immigrate to the northwest every year, and the conditions are also very favorable, but there are still very few responders, and most of the people who are willing to move west are still headed by military families. However, these hundreds of thousands of Koreans helped Li Xuanqing a lot, and if these people brought their families with them in the later period, then there would be hundreds of thousands of more non-local residents in the northwest region at once. In order to survive, these Koreans will inevitably rally around the empire and become the most loyal subjects of the empire.

This is also what really makes Li Xuanqing happy, although the Eastern Expeditionary Army has captured a lot, but after all, it is all floating wealth, in today's economic development has been extremely fast, these money is driving the development of the Central Plains, and the exchange of those populations is a major measure to stabilize the border, especially the northwest. This is what Li Xuanqing is most concerned about, and with these crusades, he has the greatest harvest.

"I heard that you took Zheng Fan prisoner?" Li Xuanqing suddenly remembered one thing and asked, he forgot about the birth of his child in the past two days, and Zheng Fan, an old opponent, was actually captured, which also made Li Xuanqing a little interested, so he asked Hu Xiaosi with interest: "What are you going to do with your old opponent?" ”

Hu Xiaosi pouted and smiled: "I thought of a lot of ways before I caught this guy, but after I caught it, I didn't have much interest, we are all about to be lonely now, if it weren't for the need of the empire, I would like to release this guy, so as to cultivate an opponent for future generations, lest they forget the difficulties of our generation in the future." Although the country is big, it will be dangerous to forget the war. ”

Hu Xiaosi's words made everyone stunned for a moment, and then showed a thoughtful look, Li Xuanqing nodded secretly in his eyes, but said with a smile: "Lonely and defeated? You're thinking too much, aren't you? Do you think our generation can do everything? Do you know how many land countries there are further west in the northwest? Can our empire's current strength take those places? There are many things that need to be done for future generations, and we are destined to lay the foundation, and as for what kind of achievements we can achieve in the future, it is not something we can consider. Unless you can do it, you can build the railroad wherever we go. ”

"Then repair the past, there will be captives for them to repair in the war, and I will focus on cultivating the ability of Xuanyingwei's people to dig treasures when I go back, if you have money, people and things, you are afraid that you will not be able to repair well?" Hu Xiaosi's appearance as a single made everyone laugh, but it reminded Li Xuanqing of one thing, a big thing that can promote speed.