Sima Fan's appointment contains Yang Chong's hope for the Hetao, which has always been rich, with 2,000 miles from east to west, 8,900 miles from north to south, and 2,300 miles from near, and the Yellow River can be irrigated on three sides, and the land is fertile, arable and pasturable. During the Qin and Han dynasties, Hetao was the granary of Guanzhong, but later it was only the growing power of the Hu people, and it became a pastoral area under the condition that the strength of the other was reduced.

Yang Chong asked the local government to carry out trial planting, delineating wheat, rice, soybeans, sorghum, sugar beet and other crops, and encouraging the people to plant mulberry and fruit trees, hoping to turn the Hetao area into a rice grain river outside the Saiwai. The Tuntian army is to increase the density of local farming, establish new military towns and cities, and prepare for long-term trade with the Turks, Hetao has been influenced by the Hu people for a long time, the local people are fierce, and the Hu people of all ethnic groups actually occupy a population advantage, just because they have stayed in the Central Plains for a long time, these people no longer enjoy the nomadic life, and only want to settle down and work in the Hetao.

In the past, the contradictions with the Han people often broke out, the key is the gap in resources, once you can't eat, you will be taunted by people who have a heart to play right and wrong, pull out all kinds of specious topics, Sima Fan in Shangxian for a few years, has accumulated enough experience in this area, is the reason why the political hall believes in him.

Except for the four towns near the Great Sui, the rest of the tribes, like the Tiele people, are scattered in the north of the desert, where people do not cultivate and weave, and the land has no other property; Even the daily necessities such as pots, kettles, needles and threads need to be made in the Central Plains, not to mention things such as satin and silk cloth, if you can't take the materials from the Central Plains, the Turks will be in trouble. Yang Chong's idea was to solve this problem through trade, and planned to place a large number of workshops in the military town of Hetao to trade with the Turks nearby.

For this reason, in Yinchuan City, Yang Chong specially discussed this issue with Sima Fan, and Tongwan, Yinchuan, and Hedong were identified by Yang Chong as the three towns of Tuntian, taking advantage of the opening of the market and communicating with each other, attracting the Hu people on the grassland to defect to the Hetao and become peasants in the Central Plains. The agricultural area in the Hetao area is limited, and the Tuntian Army is a means to ensure that the cultivated land is in the hands of the state.

Regarding the appointment of Dugu U, Yang Chong was more cautious, and first wrote to inquire about Duhu U and Xu Shiji, and then expanded the Yunzhong Metropolitan Protectorate to the north of Shanggu and connected it with Anzhou. At this point, Yingzhou, Anzhou, Yunzhong, Daizhou, Taiyuan, Fengzhou, and Hexi became a long chain of confrontation with various ethnic groups outside the Saiwai, and the Great Sui built a line of defense.

The only benefit of the Hu tribe was Tuli, who occupied the Lightning River, and after receiving the order of Jieli Khan, Tuli knew that his troops were insufficient, and ostensibly sent troops, but secretly reached an agreement with Liu Heimin, and made a show in the north of Anzhou, and did not fight a battle from beginning to end. Yang Chong sent a letter to Princess Nanyang in advance promising that no matter what the situation was, as long as Tuli wanted to maintain peace, he would keep the situation of Yulin City and Dali City, and only take back the land of Dasui.

At the end of the war, Yang Chong kept his promise, and when dividing the territory, even the fifteen cities in the Western Regions were left to the Turks, which greatly increased the confidence of the Turks. So in the face of the anger of Jieli Khan, the Turki were also angry and left hope for the Turks. Therefore, this time, Tuli sent his own envoy association rate, and entered the court together with the Khitan envoy Brother Gu Ge and the envoy of the Liugui Country, Yi Shishengqi.

The country of the ghosts is in the north of the North Sea, north to the country of Yaksha, the sea on three sides, and the south goes to the Yaksha for fifteen days, and the people are scattered according to the island, digging several feet deep, and building houses with oblique vertical wood on both sides. Usually wear leather clothes, rely on the benefits of salt fish, trade with the indigenous and Khitan to survive, have more than 10,000 soldiers, iron arrows and bones; Brother Cave went to do business this time, saying that the situation in the Central Plains had changed, and the Ghost Country sent Yi Shisheng Qi to follow the Khitan to worship the Great Sui.

Yang Chong is to entertain the envoys of various countries in the Nede Palace, the garden is winding and secluded, the main hall stands tall, the strange stones and majestic buildings reflect the huge drop; It is autumn, when chrysanthemums bloom, and there are patterns made of chrysanthemums everywhere from the roadside to the temple. In front of the palace, two firecracker towers as high as two zhang were built, in the sound of "splitting and crackling", the firelight flickered, the smell of smoke and fire chips filled the air, the twelve columns of Sui army armor were shining, the angry horses were freshly dressed, and the flags were fluttering; Officials of the Ministry of Rites greeted guests from all over the world outside the hall.

What he didn't expect was that he met Xue Yantuo's envoy Hun Jinzhi, Hui envoy Yuan Suqiang, and Murowei envoy Guan Nan Dagong in Chang'an. Xue Yantuo and Hui Hui were the enemies of the Turks, and they must have come to Chang'an to seek help from the Great Sui, but Guan Nan Dagong was the envoy of Nanmurwei, and if he did not come with the Turks, he came without permission, that is, he had a different heart; However, in front of the officials of the Great Sui Rite Department, the association rate still endured his anger.

When Yang Shanjing saw it, he could only sigh that the association rate had matured, and he was no longer the hairy boy he was back then. Yang Shanjing looked at Yang Chong's pomp and shook his head slightly, Yang Shanjing and others had seen the scene of rainbows back then, and today they had already guessed that Yang Chong was pretending to be a ghost, but he felt that time was like flowing water, and it had been almost ten years in a flash.

Baekje's envoy Qiu Myung, Silla envoy Park Sinan, and Ugami Mita-chan, the envoy of the Wa Kingdom, all came to visit Yang Seonjing, after all, the Turks were also nominally the suzerainty of Goguryeo, a big country, and could not be offended. Especially in the Wa Kingdom, the mission followed Goguryeo to Chang'an, and felt even less confident; Only Silla has just joined forces with Dasui to fight a beautiful victory, and Park Sinam is full of spring breeze. Baekje swayed at a critical time, seeing that it was his own interests and was taken away by Silla lightly, Wei Qiuming was extremely resentful, and he was a hundred dissatisfied with those mediocre people in the country.

The most eye-catching is the Goguryeo Mission, known as the first wise man of Goguryeo, the husband and grandson replaced Yuan Wensheng and became the chief envoy, and Yuan Wensheng retired as the deputy envoy. All sides are speculating whether Goguryeo's national policy has changed, or whether it is ready to negotiate with the Great Sui for a long time, and it is still talking while fighting.

The envoy of the Western Turks is the clan brother of Tong Ye Hu, Ashina Ni has been going back and forth between the Western Turks and Gaochang, after Yang Chong entered Chang'an, Ashina Ni stayed in Chang'an, responsible for the West Turks in Gaochang, Chang'an, Zhangye's three post houses, Ashina Ni simply started to trade, and Tong Ye Hu became a Qianquan firm, completely imitating Yang Chong's actions in the Central Plains, and is now the largest business house in the Western Turks. Anyone can see that Ashina Ni is the most relaxed person in the missions of various countries, and the person who talks to him is not an official of the Ministry of Rites, but a subordinate of the Yue Wangfu.

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