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After the beginning of the court meeting, Cen Shen, as the prime minister of the Government Council, first went out to report: "Your Majesty, as of the 10th day of the first month of this month, the construction of the northern Silk Road of our Western Qin has been completed, and the road from the new capital to the Kerch Port of the Khazar Protectorate has been fully connected, including the sections in the territory of Oghuz and Huatzimo, and a total of 361 post stations of various sizes along this line have also been completed, and the post soldiers have also been stationed. According to statistics, the number of business travelers on this route has increased by about 30% in recent days, according to this trend, the number of business travelers will increase in turn in the future, as long as the safety of this business route can be maintained The number of business trips will not decline! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Very good!" How is Tianzhu's road built? ”

"Back to the king, Tianzhu has completed the construction of two wide roads through the north and south, each road is ten zhang wide, after the construction of these two roads, it has strengthened the connection between our Western Qin inland and Tianzhu Protectorate, and at the same time, it has also made the economic activities within Tianzhu Protectorate more frequent! At present, two roads from Jisu and Taixi to Tianzhu are also under construction."

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Yes, you have to ask the relevant responsible officials for credit, it is not easy to complete such a large amount of work in such a short time, they must have thought of a lot of ways!" ”

"Yes, King!"

This is Chen Qing standing up and reporting: "King Qiqi, as of the second day of the first month of this month, the task of recruiting the first batch of 50,000 people in the army expansion plan has been completed, and these 50,000 people are currently distributed in military camps all over our Western Qin for training!" According to the plan, these 50,000 people will complete all military subject training and ideological education within three years, and then be assigned to serve in various regiments! However, information collected from several nearby military camps shows that the quality of this batch of recruits is very high, and the progress of completing the training is 20 percent faster than planned, and if this progress is maintained, it may not take three years to complete the training of all military subjects and the transformation of ideological education! ”

Zhao Ziliang was surprised: "Why is this happening? ”

Chen Qing hugged his fists and said: "The king, Weichen and others were also puzzled by this at first, but later after investigation, it was found that the reason for this situation may be related to the popularization of private schools, academies and schools in various places in our Western Qin, and the worst of these recruits also studied private schools for three years, and the soldiers who read the most were graduated from some university halls!" In the past, the soldiers we recruited were illiterate, and many of them couldn't even distinguish between left and right, which brought great difficulty to training, but literacy is different from that of well-read soldiers, and their ability to accept is much stronger! ”

Hearing this, Zhao Ziliang smiled and said to the civil ministers: "It seems that our measures to popularize education and get the people out of ignorance are still very beneficial, and even the training progress of the soldiers can be improved!" I don't know what future generations will say about this king, but this king is confident that our vigorous development of education will definitely not be wrong, which is a great achievement of Ze and all generations! ”

The ministers sang the praises of merit: "The king is wise! ”

"King!" Gao Shang came out of class and bowed his hand to Zhao Ziliang and said: "King Qizuo, according to the recent battle report from Hexi, General Ma Lan and General Bai Xiaode have besieged Liangzhou City, and the city is just around the corner, and it is not far from quelling the rebellion in Hexi. However, Weichen thinks that even if the rebellion is quelled, the matter is not over, the Tubo people have been harassing the Tang border, it has not been a year or two, even if we help the Central Plains court to quell the rebellion this time, and in another three and five years, the Tubo people will invade the Longyou region and the Hexi region again, aren't we exhausted? If you want to completely solve this matter, the only way is to completely eradicate the power of Tibet and eliminate it! Now that there is civil strife in Tibet, and all the ministries are working independently, it is the best time to completely solve the Tibetan problem, if we wait until the wise lord of Tibet appears to unify the military and political power of Tibet, then it is unlikely to solve it! ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at the other ministers and generals and asked, "What do you think of Lord Gao's words?" ”

The ministers and generals all whispered to each other and discussed, but none of them took the initiative to express their opinions and opinions on the matter.

Zhao Ziliang saw that this was not good, and he had to name him, so he pointed to Cen Shen and said: "Cen Shen, you are the Prime Minister of the Government Council, let's not analyze the feasibility of this matter from a military point of view, you only talk about whether this matter is feasible from politics, foreign affairs and other aspects?" ”

Cen Shen was named, and had to stand up and arch his hand: "King, our Western Qin has not established diplomatic relations with the Tubo tribes, and the invasion of the Tubo tribes on the Hexi Corridor and the invasion of the Northern Tianzhu from time to time have seriously violated the interests of our Western Qin. Judging from the current situation of the treasury of our Western Qin, there is not much pressure to support a war against Tibet, but Weichen is worried that the terrain of Tibet is not conducive to our offensive ······."

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said: "This is a military issue, since from a political, diplomatic and economic point of view, it is not inappropriate for us to start a war against the Tibetan tribes, so now we will look at the feasibility of conquering Tibet from a military point of view, the generals of the Military Aircraft Academy, what do you think?" ”

Xuanyi, the commander of the Sixth Legion, stood up and hugged his fists and said, "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that it is more than ten times easier for us to attack Tibet now than it was back then!" ”

Zhao Ziliang smiled, raised his hand and said, "Tell me your reason!" ”

Among the many generals in Western Qin, only a few generals have followed Zhao Ziliang into the hinterland of Tubo, and only these people have a thorough understanding of Tubo, including Brehan, Xuanyi and others, even Chu Ge, Li Siye, Chen Qing and others are not qualified to say such things.

Xuanyi said: "Back then, the minister followed the king deep into the hinterland of Tubo and had a deep understanding of the environment of the Tubo Plateau! Attacking Tibet from the Longyou and Hexi regions was an attack from a low to a high place, and we had to bear countless difficulties. Altitude sickness alone makes the army stagnant, and after entering the territory of Tubo, all kinds of ups and downs, all the year round snow is difficult to dissolve the mountain is prohibitive, and the cold can directly freeze people at higher places, so although the imperial court has repeatedly used troops against Tubo, it can only be maintained in the Longyou area, and only when the king led us deep into the hinterland of Tubo, the front of our army advanced to the area of Tongtian River! The situation today is completely different from that of the past, and the direction of our attack on Tibet is no longer limited to attacking from the north to the south! If we were to use troops against Tibet now, there would be several offensive routes to choose from: the first, of course, would be from the area west of the Longyou River; the second is to enter the small and large Bolu from the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate through the Green Ridge, with the Great Bolu as the forward station of the attack; The third road is to enter the country from the north Tianzhu Yuan to the east, and from the Kache Pass to the sheep of Tibet; Fourth, from the North Tianzhu to the Ni Bo country, from the territory of the Ni Bo country into Tibet, and from here into Tubo, from the capital of the Tubo country Luo Cheng is very close, the minister believes that these four offensive routes, the fourth route is the easiest! The multiple choices of the offensive line have made it unnecessary for us to always move from low to high in our strategic offensive against Tibet. ”

"Secondly, our weapons are sharper than before, and our armor is stronger than before!"

"Again, we have a cotton coat to keep out the cold, even if the weather is cold, it can keep the soldiers warm and not be easily frozen!"

"Finally, and most importantly, we don't have to be constrained anymore, we can fight if we want, we can leave if we want, and the emperor of the Central Plains and the imperial court can no longer force us to withdraw our troops!"

Zhao Ziliang patted the imperial case and said: "The biggest regret of this king's life is that he obviously has two chances to completely solve the threat of Tibet, but because of political reasons, this king's two battles against Tibet have fallen short!" Since it is not a problem for us to attack Tibet from a political, foreign, economic, or military point of view, then this king will definitely not give up this opportunity, and this king has decided to conquer Tibet himself! The Government Council allocated military expenses as soon as possible, and the officials of the Military Machinery Institute quickly took action to mobilize troops! ”

Xuan Yi hugged his fists and said, "Great King, if you want to choose the second, third, or fourth route to attack Tubo, you must have enough experienced mountain and plateau infantry!" Today we have only 3,000 mountain infantry trained on the plateau! ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "Yes, these three thousand people are led by Duan Xiushi, and the three thousand people are indeed a little less!" It seems unlikely that a group of soldiers will be trained in a short period of time. Most of the veterans who followed the king to attack Tibet have retired, and many of them have already married and had children, and I don't know if they can pick up swords and guns again, and whether they can adapt to the environment and climate on the plateau! ”

Li Siye stood up and hugged his fists and said: "If the king insists on personally recruiting Tibet, he can issue an edict to recruit these veterans to re-enlist, the king's last attack on Tibet has only been nine years since now, and the soldiers of that year are all young people, and now their oldest is only about forty years old, and the younger one is only in his twenties, just in the prime of life!" After two or three months of training, you can become an army! ”

Zhao Ziliang immediately slapped the imperial case and shouted: "Okay, pass on the will of this king, recruit the veterans who followed this king to conquer Tubo back then, adopt the principle of voluntariness, if you are unwilling, you will not be forced!" Xuanyi, you are solely responsible for this matter, and when the soldiers and horses are fully assembled, you will lead this army of soldiers and horses! ”

"Obey the order!" Xuanyi hugged his fists and agreed, and said: "King, if the recruited veterans are not enough, Weichen suggests to negotiate with the Central Plains Imperial Court and borrow three or five thousand troops from the garrison of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, they have been stationed in the Lingling for a long time, and they have already adapted to the cold climate of the plateau, so they are the best candidates for this attack on Tibet!" ”

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said: "Yes, you go to recruit the veterans first, if the troops are not enough, this king will let the Honglu Temple negotiate with the Central Plains Imperial Court!" ”

"No!"