After receiving the news from the Western Regions, Pei Xingjian thought about it the most.

After all, he has been a metropolitan protector in the Western Regions for several years, and in terms of familiarity with the Western Regions, Liu Renliang is far behind. Wu Zetian's words, Pei Xingjian didn't hear it, otherwise he would have said it, it was very true. Don't take it seriously. For example, the Bow Moon Division, which was the culprit of the Helmet back then, has now become a loyal subordinate and ally. In fact, the same is true of Liaodong, when the expedition was ***, Silla was an ally, but after conquering *** and Baekje, Silla, a small country with a big egg, actually had wolf ambitions and wanted to snatch Baekje and most of the region from the mouth of the Tang Dynasty in one go.

None of these Hu people can be trusted, as the prince said in the past, if they are not of my race, their hearts will be different, and if they have common interests, or if the country is so powerful that it is outrageous, they will submit to you. When the differences are greater than the interests, or the country declines, they all want to be a jackal and come up to carve up a bite.

I felt that this matter was very instructive, not only the war, but also many aspects of politics, so I asked Li Wei. The time to ascend the throne is getting closer and closer, and he can't be an emperor in the future, and he will teach him these truths. Let's finally teach a lesson.

But unexpectedly, Li Wei said rudely: "The root is Tibet." ”

“…… Yes," Pei Xingjian was speechless.

Gradually, August came, and the number of people who defected to the Nuo Hao bowl became more and more day by day. The army of the Tang Dynasty was divided into several parts and became the most ferocious bandits. I was almost sold out of what I could rob, and my life was even more embarrassing, so I had to go to Nuo Haobo to find a way to live.

Princess Honghua found Li Wei and said, "Your Highness, did the Tang Army go too far in Qinghai?" ”

"Princess, no, do you think that so many people will defect to the Great Khan?"

Princess Honghua was speechless.

The harvest was great, and this became the largest plunder in the history of the Tang Dynasty. The daily necessities were divided into several parts, one part was sent to the Central Plains, and a small part was returned to Nuo Haobo and stuffed his mouth. This is also necessary, there are too many Hu people around the Tang Dynasty, and pure suppression is not enough, and when necessary, some of them must be co-opted.

Some of them were given to the party members, but most of them stayed, and the people who came over brought some daily necessities, but many of them were not applicable. For example, when the weather is colder than the original place, a lot of fur will have to be left for them. You have to use part of your own army. Then there are the livestock, this time there are a lot of livestock captured, the west of the Yellow River in Chiling does not want it for the time being, it is impossible to stay and graze, the pasture is limited, and some of it is to be used as tuntian. Therefore, most of them were sent back to the Central Plains.

Finally, there is wealth.

The handling was very fair, and a professional businessman was invited to come to estimate the wealth, and the gold, silver and jewelry were divided into two, Pei Xingjian arbitrarily selected a team of 100 soldiers in the army, and two more people were drawn from the 100 soldiers, one on behalf of the imperial court, and one on behalf of the Qinghai generals. Draw again, draw the representative of Qinghai soldiers, and leave that pile of wealth for distribution.

In Li Wei's words, it is called an open box operation, which convinces everyone.

Then distribute it according to merit, including party members and martyrs, and distribute this half of the wealth. When the martyr is gone, he ordered someone to give it to his family. Of course, for fear of attracting criticism, everything is done behind the scenes, as long as everyone knows. Some of the people were sent to Lingzhou, and some of the people assisted in harvesting wheat in Hehuang. There is no way to do it, not only people, not only people, not few people, nearly 100,000 people, so many people have to open their mouths to eat. In fact, there are still 50,000 or 60,000 people in the area of Jishi Mountain, and Li Wei's excuse is that they were captured from Baihai and Wuhai, and they are all a group of rebels who will not repent of their death. Actually, no, there are some that were intercepted from Dafeichuan, and the very early batch was not intercepted, but intercepted at the end of the month. However, most of these tribes are lucky and not good. secretly intercepted the flow and went to Jishi Mountain to build a city.

Nuo Hao Bo knows something, but it's certainly not that simple. But there is no way, even now, there are already a lot of people, not only food, clothes, winter tents, houses, but also land, Lingzhou will definitely not be able to accommodate it. I had to beg the emperor of the Tang Dynasty to set aside some land from other state capitals to settle these people. Don't dare to ask for it anymore, of course, hundreds of thousands of Tuyuhun's subjects will submit to him together, it is the best, but his ability is limited.

There were not many battles in July, and some tribes also resisted, but the dragons were leaderless and were quickly suppressed. At the end of July, the various customs and roads were sealed, even the city of Fan was closed, and Qinghai was almost a wasteland, and there was nothing to trade. Several tall castles have been lined up from Dadoudao to Songzhou City.

Li Wei received Di Renjie's letter, and after reading it, he looked angry, and he was completely dead to the second child.

The ugliness of the family should not be publicized, and Pei Xingjian was called, only let him know, handed the letter to Pei Xingjian, and said: "I didn't expect that the hand of Qinling is really insidious." ”

It's not insidious, you don't also unite the Wulu clan in Tibet, everyone is each other, the war is like this, do everything. But Pei Xingjian didn't say it.

"It seems that Li Sharuo's rebellion this time may also have the shadow of Qinling."

"Exactly, a long time ago, Tubo had quietly entered the Western Regions, but at that time everyone didn't know about it. But it doesn't matter, Your Highness, Li Sha is too late in the end. Originally, he thought that it would be the best time for our army to hold on to the Tubo people in Qinghai and march into the four towns of Anxi. But he didn't expect us to end the Qinghai dispute so quickly, and he must have been panicking in his heart at this time. As long as the imperial court sends a general to Anxi to pacify, the chaos will be peaceful. And Anxi also has a brave general, Cui Zhifen, this person used to be a general of the minister, and his courage is no less than that of Li Jinxing and other generals. It's just that he has been active in Anxi, and the imperial court doesn't know much about it. ”

"Lonely is not very knowing."

"This doesn't matter, in fact, the imperial court from Liaodong to Anxi, these tens of thousands of miles of frontier, brave generals are like clouds, not Cui Zhizhi, His Royal Highness will pay attention in the future, and he will definitely be able to excavate it. Anxi is harmless, if His Royal Highness returns to Beijing, allow the minister to go to Anxi for a trip, and Li Sha will be captured. "I have dealt with each other before, and Pei Xingjian did not take this so-called Western Turkic Great Khan in his eyes. After a pause, he said, "The minister is afraid of Mobei." ”

"Are you saying that Qinling's hand can reach Mobei, he has such a boldness?"

"This man is very impressive. Moreover, the main force of our army is placed in the Western Regions, and the chiefs of some tribes in Mobei are probably ready to move. I'm afraid it's going to be a tough battle. But it doesn't matter, as long as His Royal Highness returns to Beijing safely, the matter of Mobei can also be easily solved. The main thing is Qinghai. ”

This sentence is the same as what Li Wei said is mainly Tibetan. Without the containment of Tibet, what Mobei, the Western Regions and Silla are all floating clouds. But he said for the second time that as long as His Royal Highness returned to Beijing, the situation was different from last year, and last year the emperor was supporting the Queen's Party and the Yongwang Party. Yongwang Li Xian is finished, these hostages are in the hands of the queen, when will he let him end, and when Li Xian will be obediently degraded to that place. The queen can't be allowed to develop anymore.

Li Wei thought of the agreement between himself and his mother again, but he was still not very relieved, and hesitated for a while and asked, "Then who will manage Qinghai?" ”

"Black teeth are common."

"Pei Qing, it's very consistent with Loneliness."

Xue Rengui arrived in Qinghai and was extremely depressed. The last time I lost in Qinghai, I was very single, so when I heard the appointment of the imperial court, I hurried to Songzhou to take up my post, wanting to make some military achievements. But before he arrived, he heard that the war in Qinghai was over, and the army had plundered Qinghai Xian and began to withdraw his troops back.

So he eagerly came to Shanzhou to look for Li Wei to see if there was any plan for the next step.

"General Xue, you come with Gulai." It didn't really end, he wrote some and played it to the court, but after Duan Fuqing, the demon moth, Li Wei didn't dare to report the specific plan to the court. Anyway, the overall situation in Qinghai has been decided, and weapons and food are enough to last for a long time.

took Xue Rengui to the suburbs and was harvesting wheat.

As Zampa thought, there was a lot of wheat and beans planted, and tens of thousands of troops needed to stop and harvest together. This was a mistake, and by the end of July, more than 50,000 people had migrated, and in August more than 10,000 people were on the way. It can only be so, now the people are still very afraid of Qinghai, and they are unwilling to leave their homeland. Only the families of the poor soldiers were willing to come. What to do, at home, there is no land, or you can only rent other people's land and beg for some life. Some of the soldiers were originally disciples hired by wealthy families. made war exploits, and exchanged the Tuyuhun people for his family, who is willing to make a trilogy? Only the families of these two soldiers were willing to come, and the others refused to come to Qinghai.

Li Weiliu was slightly disappointed with this result. Qinghai can only be built into an iron wall, so that everyone can see the prosperity of the people after a year in Qinghai. There are mountains, rivers, valleys, you can grow crops, you can also graze some livestock, mainly land, as long as you are willing to *** body, you don't have to worry about no good harvest. Only then will more people be willing to move, otherwise Qinghai will still be a sound of Qiang.

These people were harvesting, and the Tuyuhun people who had been intercepted also came to help, and the party members also came to help. Although the movements were clumsy, it was only clumsy farm work, so the wheat was cut down in batches, dried, and beaten. Along the way, Xue Rengui has seen many such scenes.

But he asked about one thing, pointing to the villages on the hills, and asked, "Your Highness, why is this arranged?" ”

It refers to the houses, which are all built on the mountain ridge with mountain streams, or on the mountainside, and the outside is made of stone walls, just like those cottages of the Qiang people. However, all of them are new houses, and the rows of neat houses under the bright August sun are very spectacular and beautiful.

From time to time, people with joyful smiles came in and out of the cottage. came, I was very worried on the way, but I didn't expect Qinghai to serve so thoughtfully this time, and I almost checked in for free.

Li Wei said in a low voice: "General Xue, how about the Qinling?" ”

"It's a hero."

"It is a hero, once the Han people move more and more, east of Chiling, it will not be long before it will really become the territory of my Tang Dynasty, and with the people, there will be enough troops and supplies. There is no need to requisition soldiers and grain and grass from the rear of the imperial court, which is enough to launch attacks to the west of Chiling. Do you think you will be willing to talk about Qinling? If it is placed in the plains, in addition to the various avenues to be guarded, can some cavalry be put in some of the small roads? Once they come in, they only attack these people, and after several times, do the people dare to live in Qinghai again? ”

"Yes."

"There are also many Hu and Qiang people here, especially the Dangxiang people, who account for the majority, and today they are friends, but they are not as industrious as the Han people. A few years later, seeing that the Han people are getting richer and richer, coupled with the provocation of people with intentions, if it is betrayal, so what? This is also the construction of the city, first of all, to increase the difficulty of their idea of immigration, and to break the delusion in their hearts. It is not to show the enemy to be weak, and besides, strength and weakness are fought, and it is not something that can be counted by building a house. He whispered: "These houses, these people, are the real hope of Qinghai in the future, not a place of rebellion and rebellion." ”

But such remarks cannot be said in public.

"Your Highness is far-sighted."

"No, there is a lot of credit to Pei Shilang. Come, General Xue, I'll show you something. The fight still has to be fought, but the difficulty has increased, and Lone still wants to launch several attacks on the Shuxi Qiang people to retaliate for their invasion. There is also Bai Lanqiang, who sent party members to lobby, but most of them didn't listen, and they had to fight. As well as many unrepentant rebels in Qinghai, they also took advantage of the tall mountains and would rather die than surrender. If it is forcibly attacked, the losses will be very heavy, and the battle of Qinghai has set a new high in the number of war soldiers killed since the founding of our dynasty. Lone didn't want to sacrifice more soldiers. ”

Xue Rengui was a little ashamed, although the number of soldiers who died this time was numerous, but the harvest was also very rich, it was a victory, not a defeat, not like himself last time.

"Why didn't Cao Huaishun dare to conquer Chengling last time, he almost missed a major event, and it was also the reason why the mountain was high and difficult to attack. Therefore, I thought of a solution that was not the way out. ”

As he spoke, he clapped his hands, and the guards immediately found a mountain ridge, and loosely piled up some stone walls on it, and inserted some scarecrows.

"Your Highness, this is ......"

"It's a lonely idea."