"Emperor Qi, the great victory of the expedition, Chen Fan destroyed more than 100,000 enemies in the first battle, captured 100,000 people, the commander of the Tunis Morris was killed, and only a few troops fled to the ancient Uighur city. The entire Datar tribe surrendered, and the Great Khan was also captured and prepared to be sent to Chang'an. Chen Fan led the army to land on the northern border of Datar Linghu Peak to seal Shi Legong, at this time the main force of the army had entered the desert area north of Yinshan to the south, and Keri returned to the Fengzhou camp. After Xu Tianxiang received the battle report from Chen Fan, he came to the palace to find Li Xuanqing as soon as possible and reported the results.

Li Xuanqing looked at the weather outside, frowned, and said, "Did Chen Fan's military report mention casualties?" Have the personnel sent by the logistics department to pick them up have been contacted? I heard that the desert area north of Yinshan Mountain is another snow disaster year this year, but I'm afraid that Chen Fan's return journey will not be easy. ”

Xu Tianxiang sighed and said: "What the emperor said is yes, Chen Fan's military report only said that many people suffered from severe frostbite, and I am afraid that some soldiers may leave sequelae." ”

"Then mobilize most of the professional doctors and doctors of the medical school to go north to Toyozhou, and order the Toyoshu Buzheng Embassy to assist in expanding the Toyosu Field Hospital, ready to accept the wounded soldiers, so that they can be treated as soon as possible." Li Xuanqing instructed: "The best field hospital should be established on the spot after the war to form the first hospital in Fengzhou to provide medical services for ordinary people. ”

In fact, Li Xuanqing's measures played a great role, more than 30,000 soldiers of the Tiance Army were treated on the spot in Fengzhou after surviving all kinds of hardships in the desert, which saved almost half of the lives of the injured soldiers, and most of the emotional intelligence officers were not in serious trouble because of the timely treatment, and those seriously injured also suffered less because of the treatment.

Chen Fan arranged for the army to return to Chang'an with senior generals after repairing on the spot in Fengzhou, but at this time it was already the end of November, and the second year of the Apocalypse was basically coming to an end. The various departments of the Tang Empire are also seizing the time to formulate the work plan for the coming year and the work summary for this year in the midst of the wind and snow. Chen Fan's return can be regarded as summing up the work of Tiance Mansion to the final stage.

"Big brother, I heard that many soldiers suffered from chilblains when the fourth brother Chen Fan led his troops to the north this time, so Qiaoxi thought of a lot of ways in the past few days to make this chilblain cream, I tried it and the effect was not bad, although it was not as good as the effect in the previous life, but as long as it was not severe frostbite, it was still very effective, and it also had a preventive effect." Qiao Xi walked into the Changqing Hall at some point, took a small porcelain vase and handed it to Li Xuanqing, "I hope this can help them." ”

Hearing this, Li Xuanqing turned around and took the small porcelain bottle handed over by Qiaoxi, sniffed it, nodded, and said, "This is chilblain cream made of traditional Chinese medicine, right?" It smells good, arrange factories and hospitals for production as soon as possible, and then promote it to the army and localities. After speaking, he said skillfully: "It seems that this war has had a great impact on the military, otherwise Chen Fan would not have personally come to report to me the specific battle." But I am also to blame for this incident, I didn't consider in advance that this chilblain was so serious, and it actually exceeded the proportion of casualties in the battlefield. ”

This incident was not expected in advance, although the soldiers mobilized in the north for this expedition were all soldiers from the north, and their own cold resistance was different from ordinary people, but they still couldn't stop this sudden heavy snow and bad weather. Qiaoxi pulled Li Xuanqing and said: "Big brother, don't worry about it, these soldiers have finally received the best treatment, and the second brother of the General Staff Xu has also learned a lesson, and I think I will think more carefully when deploying the campaign in the future." Comparing every victory will not come without a price. ”

Li Xuanqing pulled Qiaoxi out of the Changqing Palace, nodded and said: "That's right, but I still can't get over it in my heart, our Tiance Army has conquered the whole world in five or six years since it became an army, and there have been no less than 100,000 casualties, these people are the cornerstone of the empire, supporting the nirvana rebirth of the entire empire." ”

The couple sighed at these things while walking out, at this time Chang'an has begun to prepare for the New Year, the Tang Empire is already the second year of the New Year, the people of Chang'an, who have enjoyed the peaceful years, have long been eager to start celebrating the New Year, almost the entire December every day Chang'an is immersed in the joy of the arrival of the festival.

"Your Majesty, this is the detailed rules and regulations for the establishment of a province in the north drawn up by the cabinet." On the eighth day of December in the second year of the Apocalypse, Cen Tianshi came to Li Xuanqing after finishing the cabinet's plan to report some details of the establishment of the province in the north in the coming year. ”

Qiaoxi was taken aback by Cen Tianshi's action, and hurriedly stood up and pulled Cen Tianshi and said, "What is this doing, Mr. Qiaoxi just did what he had to do, and he didn't deserve a big gift from Mr." ”

"Okay sir, you should freak out the tricks." Li Xuanqing nodded and let Cen Tianshi sit down in his position and said, "This matter is our negligence, forgetting the impact of the chilblains incident." However, at this time, I am afraid that the price of chilblain cream will not come down, and it is also necessary to study relevant medicinal materials and find a way to use cheap Chinese medicinal materials to make chilblain ointment, so that it can be popularized to the people, so as to truly seek benefits for the people. ”

"Your Majesty, rest assured, I have arranged for the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the political envoys of the northern provinces and regions to arrange a part of the financial subsidy every year, so that the financial subsidy can be used to reduce the burden on Qiaoxi's pharmaceutical factory, so I still hope that Qiaoxi will make this pharmaceutical factory bigger and stronger, and produce more good medicines similar to chilblain cream that benefit people's livelihood."

"Sir, this chilblain medicine Ah Qiaoxi has already sold the patent to the He family, and He Wenjin has organized a large number of experts and technicians to open a factory in Chang'an, and it has been put into production in the past few days." Li Xuanqing said with a smile: "So in this case, I'm afraid that the financial subsidies of the cabinet will fall into the pockets of the He family." ”

Several people laughed when they heard this, and finally finished talking about this chilblain cream Li Xuanqing picked up the proposal for building a province in the north sent by Cen Tianshi, according to the arrangement of the cabinet, this time the plan to build a province, the cabinet included the entire grassland and the northeast. The northern steppe is divided into three provinces, the western part is bounded by the Datar border to establish the Datar Province, the vast grassland and desert in the central part to the Beihai Sea is the Beihai Province, and the eastern part to the northeast Khitan old border is the Khitan Province to be established. The northeast is divided into Mukden Province in the south, Bohai Province in the central part of the country, and Songjiang Province in the north. However, according to the cabinet's plan, Songjiang Province is located too far north, so it will still be under military control for a period of time in the future.

"Isn't this provincial division of the cabinet too big?" Li Xuanqing frowned and said: "The northern and northeastern regions are vast and sparsely populated, and the difficulty of management is not ordinary, do you have confidence in your cabinet?" ”

"The emperor can rest assured that the cabinet has enough experience on its side, and has drawn such an experience from the previous dynasty's management of the frontier areas." Cen Tianshi knew what Li Xuanqing was worried about, and said slowly: "For these desolate areas in the north, our idea is to first grasp the big and let go of the small, and then gradually expand to the surrounding areas, and fully rely on the help of the garrison on the border to complete the effective management of the empire for various places. ”

"First of all, the empire is preparing to re-establish the capital of Datar Province in the territory of Datar, so that it will not only facilitate the stationing and business of the people in and out of Datar Province, but also effectively attract those nomadic Datar tribes to settle down, as long as there is a settlement, then we can implement our management system." Cen Tianshi said: "The second is to build roads, extending from the current straight road built to support the expedition to the north to the new capital of the Tatar territory - Beizhou. Then it will be interrupted from the north of Toyosu to the northeast to Beihai Province, so that our rule in the northern steppe can rely on this artery to penetrate deep into the grassroots, so as to stabilize the rule of the empire in the steppe. ”

Cen Tianshi's management method for the grassland made Li Xuanqing nod and said: "That's fine, when the cabinet completes the establishment of the province, some of the army bases that were originally based on Youzhou and other places can also move north, so that they can support the locality, and when they need to disarm those tribes when managing the grassland, they will not be able to do it without the National Guard and the people of the Ministry of Guard." You should coordinate this matter with the General Staff at that time, and let the military also cooperate with your provincial plan. ”

"The cabinet division in the northeast has a lot of preferential treatment for Fengtian Province, and all the outlets to the sea are given to Fengtian Province." Qiao Xi also leaned over and took a look and said: "I'm afraid that Bohai Province, which has no access to the sea, needs other methods to develop in this way, according to the empire's industrial deployment in Bohai Bay, I'm afraid that there will be no way to move the main energy out of Fengtian Province for a long time." ”

"Not necessarily, there is an outlet to the sea to develop quickly, but the inland provinces want to develop is not impossible, several large rivers in the northeast have abundant water, inland river transportation can also be carried out. Moreover, most of Bohai Province is a large plain area, and the development of agriculture alone can support the development of a period of time. It's just that the climate problem in the north alone restricts economic development too much. Li Xuanqing shook his head and said: "Moreover, the territory of Bohai Province is very large, and it can be said that it concentrates most of the entire northeast region, which can develop resource industries and support the economic development of the Bohai Bay region." The Qiaoxi of the later generations naturally understood what Li Xuanqing was talking about, nodded and said: "It is also said that as long as the transportation system can be connected into a network, then the development of inland provinces can also take the fast track of coastal provinces, and it can also become a strong driving force for the development of coastal provinces." ”

"I don't have an opinion on the division of provinces in the cabinet, but according to what I said, the current empire still needs to prepare for the strategic task of Jingluanxi and does not have much energy to focus on the country, so it can only give priority to the development of a few economic centers, hoping to rely on the radiation effect of these economic centers to drive the development of the surrounding areas. Tell the newly appointed provincial envoys to find ways to develop their localities after they arrive in the local area, and don't always think about relying on the cabinet, the larger the empire's ruling territory, the more things the cabinet will do, and they need to give full play to their wisdom and talents, and they must benefit one party for one term. Li Xuanqing handed the Chen to Cen Tian and said: "Draw up a list of political envoys to various provinces and regions as soon as possible, support them more in terms of the ratio of officials, and the cabinet and the provinces and regions in the interior should support them more, and the officials who have been transferred over must be capable and talented, and tell them that all those who are willing to go to the frontier for training will be transferred back to the interior for reuse after the term of office is over, and they will be used as seeds." ”

"The emperor can rest assured that the cabinet will come up with a specific list before next year's imperial meeting and arrange for them to come to Chang'an." Cen Tianshi nodded and said, "Also, the Khan of Datar was escorted to Chang'an by the Logistics Department, and the emperor has nothing to advise?" ”

"I heard that this Tatar Khan is a powerful character, and when the Uighurs invaded the Tatars from the west, he led his troops to resist the Uighurs, and successfully resisted the Uighur offensive before the arrival of the Khags army, thus repelling the Uighurs' idea of returning to the Mobei steppe." Li Xuanqing nodded, thinking back to the intelligence report sent by Xuan Yingwei: "He was wronged this time, if we hadn't changed to a new weapon, in front of gunpowder weapons, Mobei Iron Cavalry was afraid that there would not be much room for counterattack." Go and tell the Ministry of Guards, and let the law court sentence him to three years in prison for rebelling against the Tang Dynasty and aiding and abetting abuse, and confiscate his property, and when the time expires, he and his family can be released back to the grassland. ”

For Li Xuanqing's crime against this Tatar Khan, he skillfully covered his mouth and snickered, this really wants to say something, if it is in the Tang Dynasty relying on the Tang Emperor and concurrently serving as the name of the Heavenly Khan of the grassland tribes at the same time, this crime is also worthy of the name, but after the Anshi Rebellion, basically no minority tribe will pay attention to the ruling of the Central Dynasty.

Cen Tianshi obviously realized this, nodded and said: "Since this is the case, it is better to let the law court make the influence of this matter bigger, so that all the tribes around us know about the punishment of traitors in the Tang Dynasty." ”

Cen Tianshi saw Li Xuanqing nodding in approval, so he walked out of the Changqing Palace to coordinate with the law court to arrange this matter, and specially arranged for the people of the media group to participate in the whole interview at that time, and to spread this matter to the world with the help of the media group's branches in various places, on the one hand, to boost the morale of the people in the country, let them know that the Tang Dynasty is rising, and they already have the ability to judge and adjudicate the few tribes who have committed treason, and on the other hand, it is to deter the surrounding tribes, so that they know that the era of the Central Dynasty and the Heavenly Khan is back, And this time, the Tang Empire will not only return to the peak, but also carry on the past and forge ahead into the future to reach a higher peak.

"Big brother, it seems that it makes perfect sense for us to get the railroad and train out in advance. Think about the desert steppe in our north, there is no railway transportation, but I am afraid that once the central dynasty declines, we will not be able to avoid the nightmare that appeared in the previous dynasties. After Cen Tianshi left, Qiaoxi accompanied Li Xuanqing to carefully observe the map of the north and sighed: "With such a vast area and nomadic herdsmen, it is really a big problem to manage. ”

"Yes, I'm afraid that the railway line built along the north bank of the Yellow River in Fengzhou will not be able to meet the demand, and when the economy of the grassland has developed, we will also learn from the polar bear and build an intercontinental railway across northern Asia, which is a big project." Li Xuanqing also frowned and sighed.