The Guiyi army Cao Yicheng and Zhang Jinlai were delayed in Lingzhou for a while, and after recuperating from their injuries, they were escorted to Luoyang by the Military Intelligence Department, rested for a day that day, and Li Congjing summoned them in the Guangxian Hall the next day. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The situation in Hexi is complicated, various forces fight each other, there has never been a moment of stopping, and dead people are really common, but this is also relatively speaking, after Cao Yicheng and Zhang Jinlai's narration, Li Congjing knows that in recent years, there have been no major wars in Hexi, only some minor conflicts from time to time.

The Tibetans, Uighurs, and Tuyuhun have not had any outstanding heroes recently, and it is reasonable that there will be small disturbances and no major wars here. At present, the threat to Hexi mainly comes from Xiazhou, but Xiazhou's use of troops to Hexi is not something that can be achieved within a year or two, and it will take time to prepare.

The Guiyi Army hoped that Wang Shi would send troops to Hexi, and Cao Yicheng and Zhang Jinlai wept when they presented their feelings. There are not many Tang people in Hexi and even the Western Regions, and the casualties have been too great for decades.

"The land in the sand and melon areas is barren, and although the Guiyi army is constantly persuading farmers to teach agriculture, they can only protect themselves. Earlier, it was ruled by the righteous army in eleven states, but now only two states are left, and the rest is basically occupied by all ethnic groups. In recent years, the Guiyi army has been maneuvering among various forces, consolidating itself and making friends with all sides, but it has not been able to curb the Uighurs' covetous ambitions......"

When Cao Yicheng and Zhang Jinlai were presenting their feelings, when they talked about the hardships and emotions, they were almost sobbing, "and there are fewer Tang people in the territory, although they can win over other departments, they are all selfish and self-interested people, and they have endless thoughts of serving the country loyally, once there is a war, I really dare not count on this ......generation."

Later, Cao Yicheng and Zhang Jin came to worship in the palace, asking the imperial court to send troops to Hexi, purge other local tribes, and then proclaim the majesty of the Tang Dynasty.

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On the same day, Li Congjing held a banquet in the palace to entertain the envoys of the Guiyi Army.

The next morning, Cao Yicheng and Zhang Jin came to visit the Civilization Palace, and Li Congjing issued an edict, "Shazhou Guiyi Army Festival makes Cao Yijin add Tongping Zhangshi and worship Taibao; Cao Yicheng, the judge of the Guiyi Army, added General Zuo Xiaowei, and Zhang Jinlai, who was the secretary of the Guiyi Army, and General Zuo Xiaowei. ”

After the early dynasty dispersed, Li Congjing went to Chongwen Palace, summoned Wang Buqi, Qi Tongwen, Li Gu and others to the palace to meet him, and announced that Prime Minister Feng Dao and Zhongshu ordered Mo to leave the matter.

"The land in Hexi is barren, the grain production is not abundant, and self-sufficiency is still stretched in ordinary times, and a war is a catastrophe. If the imperial court wants to govern Hexi and the Western Regions, it must find ways to improve the grain production in these places, so that Tuntian can supply the war, so that the imperial court dares to use troops in Hexi and the Western Regions. Li Congjing first summed up with Feng Dao and Mo Li for a while.

After the people from the academy arrived, Li Congjing said to them: "It has been three years since the college was built in the spring of the second year of Changxing, and the first batch of students are about to complete their studies. ”

Wang Buqi replied: "Dr. Qi and Li Gu are having a way to deal with this matter. ”

Qi Tongwen lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly at Tianyan, and after getting Li Congjing's promise, he said 1510: "The minister only has a slight idea, and he doesn't dare to say that it is completely useful...... The students of the Agricultural Branch of the Lingchen Branch went to the border area of Yunzhou for 'internship', and explored and analyzed the land, water conservancy, and astronomical conditions in the border area on the spot. ”

"During the Tongguang period, when His Majesty was in Youzhou Tuntian, he used the means of 'greenhouse seedling': using a closed greenhouse to control the cold, warm, humid and hot conditions in the greenhouse, increase the proportion of seed germination and seedling survival, and then transplant it to the field. This method is very practical, and now it has been improved by the academy and can be replicated in most parts of the Northland. After all, the germination of seeds and the survival of seedlings are the most vulnerable stages of crop growth, just like young children. After this period of time, it is easy for the local government to use officials who are proficient in agricultural affairs and old farmers with rich farming experience to cultivate crops well......"

"After studying at the college for a few years, the student Li Gu has a family education, and after studying in the college for a few years, his eyes were opened, and after half a year of trying, he proposed a method of 'diversified planting'." Qi Tongwen said this, and motioned for Li Gu to explain by himself.

Li Gu was born with a mellow face, a strong figure, a peaceful temperament, a delicate mind, and a very practical quality, hearing this, his body trembled, and he immediately bowed and saluted, and his words stammered slightly, but as he spoke deeply, his spirit became focused, and his speech was smooth.

He said: "For example, in places with good water conservancy conditions, crops are planted in the farmland, and mulberry trees and other things are planted in the Qianmo, and then fish and shrimp are raised in the ponds in the farmland, so that the mulberry trees can be stocked with mulberry silkworms, and the excrement of the mulberry silkworms is the fertilizer of the farmland, which can improve the farmland year after year, and at the same time, the mulberry silkworms and fertile farmland can provide food for the fish and shrimp...... It's a lot of work. ”

"In some mountainous areas, the same mountain is at different heights, in fact, astronomy, hydrology, and land conditions are different, it can be said that there are four times in a mountain, and growing food in these places can be based on different sections, planting different crops, giving full play to the advantages of different areas, and then slightly improving the relevant conditions, which can greatly increase food production and make land use more fully ......."

After Li Gu finished speaking, he was stunned uneasily, but he couldn't think of how to end it for a while, his face was flushed, and he was worried that what he said would not be approved by the emperor, so he couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

After Li Congjing heard this, he knew that what Qi Tongwen and Li Gu said was really practical knowledge of agriculture and mulberry. Before the crossing, he was also an elite liberal arts student who had learned a lot of things, although he was not admitted to a good university, but it was all the hind leg of English, and now he saw what Qi Tongwen and Li Gu said, faintly in line with what he had learned, and he knew that the other party had real materials.

"It was a smart move to set up an academy." Li Congjing thought of it in his heart, so he smiled amiably and let Li Gu sit down, praised them for their good life, and then encouraged them, so that they should not be afraid of making mistakes, and dare to try and dare to fail, so that they can get really good things, and finally said: "After going down, I will talk to Cao Yicheng and Zhang Jin, listen to them introduce the situation in Hexi, and see if all the methods can be practical. Zhang Jin came and went to Hexi. ”

Although the land in Hexi and the Western Regions is barren, it is also relatively speaking, it is not a dime a dime, and the diversified agriculture in later generations has also developed very well? At present, although there is no such high technology as in later generations, there is no shortage of officials who have improved agricultural affairs in Hexi and the Western Regions and made good achievements in the past dynasties.

Li Congjing believed that with the talents of the academy giving full play to their strengths, with a little time, the increase in grain production in Hexi and the Western Regions was not a fool's dream, and once the grain output from other places was raised, or as long as there was a practical way to raise it, he would dare to use troops and garrisons in Hexi and the Western Regions to establish an unbreakable rule.

A few days later, Wang Buqi replied that Qi Tongwen and Li Gu had already learned about the land and climate conditions in Hexi and the Western Regions with Cao Yicheng and Zhang Jinlai, and were conducting preliminary discussions.

Half a decade later, Wang Buqi returned again, Qi Tongwen's team had been formed, and he could go to Hexi with Cao Yicheng and others at any time.

At this time, Li Shaocheng, the envoy of the Dingyan Army Festival, who had already arrived in Luoyang, was summoned by Li Congjing again.

"Lingzhou and Yanzhou are all under your rule, and the Jingnan Army and the Shuofang Army are combined into one, collectively referred to as the Shuofang Army, governing Lingzhou, from now on, you are the new Shuofang Jiedu Envoy. This time, he set off with the envoy team of the Returned Righteous Army and took up his post in Lingzhou. ”

"The minister respectfully obeys the edict." Li Shaocheng's spirit was shocked, since the Anshi Rebellion, this is the first time that Shuofang's army has been strengthened, what it means behind it is self-evident.

"The focus of the imperial court this year is Jiangnan, and there will be no more action against Hexi for the time being. However, after you arrive in Lingzhou, you must reorganize the border defense, refine the border army, and at the same time cooperate with the military intelligence department to infiltrate Hexi. Liangzhou, Ganzhou, and Suzhou separated Lingzhou from Shazhou, and I knew that the Shuofang army would not be able to enter Shazhou now, but this time Cao Yicheng and the doctors and students of the college went to Shazhou, but I asked you to escort them along the way. ”

Li Congjing looked at Li Shaocheng, his eyes were clear, "I want to tell Hexi and the Western Regions that nearly two hundred years after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty has been revived again, and the Guiyi Army is my hero of the Tang Dynasty, who dares to embarrass my hero of the Tang Dynasty, the elite cavalry iron armor of the Tang Dynasty is not an ornament!" I also want to tell the tribes of Hexi, tell the tribes of the Western Regions, my Tang Dynasty is about to unify the south of the Yangtze River, and hundreds of thousands of my royal teachers are waiting for the sun, all of them are looking westward, who dares to touch the mold of my Tang Dynasty, I will personally mention the royal teacher in the coming day, destroy his nine clans, and copy his ancestral tomb! ”

"The minister's liver and brain are all on the ground, and he is willing to be the vanguard of His Majesty!" Li Shaocheng bowed to the ground.

"Whether the Shuofang army can regain its lost glory is up to you." Li Congjing finally said, his eyes were cold, "The idea is to beware of Xiazhou." ”

After Li Shaocheng retreated, Li Congjing called Feng Dao and Mo Li again.

"The imperial court wants to send troops to Hexi and the Western Regions, and the stable supply of grain is the top priority, but it is not the only key issue. The official road from Luoyang to Lingzhou has not been renovated for many years, and yesterday I received a report from the Military Intelligence Department, after on-the-spot investigation, ten miles of official roads, to say the least, there are three miles of potholes, and some places are overgrown with weeds. The grass grows in the middle of the road, and the two sections of the road are sunken, how can the king run on such a road? Once it encounters rainy weather, the baggage of the army will not be able to go? ”

Li Congjing said to Feng Dao and Mo Li, "The post station is also in disrepair, some post stations don't have a decent horse, some post station veterans, and they haven't even received a fortune for several years, so they have to open fields next to the post station to grow vegetables, and some post stations are even simply abandoned, how can this work?" There are fifteen or six hundred post stations in the world, even if there are only two or three out of ten, it is terrifying enough. ”

"The prime minister took the lead in this matter, and the Ministry of Soldiers, Works, and other departments sent officials to investigate one mile at a time. The road should be repaired, the place where the pit should be filled with sand and gravel, the place where the grass should be mowed and maintained, the place where the bridge should be built is a stone bridge, the culvert drainage place should not be leaked, the place that should be widened should be widened, and the place where the steep slope should be slowed down should be slowed. ”

"In addition, there is a post in thirty miles, the size of the post station, the number of horses, the number of post soldiers, and the rooms of the pavilion, all of which have systems to follow at the beginning of this dynasty, and it is not difficult to repair, and at the same time, you have to have the idea to meet the current needs, and I hope that Zhu Qing will do his best!"

In the end, Li Congjing said: "Today's official roads and post stations to Lingzhou will be renovated, and the official roads and post stations in the world will be the same in the future." Don't be afraid to spend money, the imperial court implements a new policy and rules the world, and the taxes obtained should be spent in these places. If the money is not enough, the court will think again, but it must not be perfunctory on these issues! ”

Feng Dao and Mo Li both bowed their heads and said yes.

In the end, Mo Li stayed.

Li Congjing told him about the history of the Guiyi Army, "At the beginning, when the current dynasty set Hexi and Western Regions, and Xuanzong, there were more than 4,000 garrisons in Shazhou, which belonged to the envoys of Hexi Jiedu. During the Anshi Rebellion, the armies entered the Central Plains to fight against the thieves, and the border air defense in Hexi and the Western Regions was weak, and Tubo took the opportunity to attack, so it was trapped by Tubo. Since then, Shazhou has been isolated from the Central Plains, and the army and the people have fought fiercely for 20 years, and finally the Tubo has broken through. ”

Sixty years later, Zhang Yichao was born after the Shazhou Jiangmen, leading the Tang people through countless bloody battles to chase the Tibetan army. Almost single-handedly, the entire Hexi and a part of the Western Regions were recovered, and the household registration and map of the eleven prefectures such as Gua, Sha, Yi, Xi, Gan, Su, Lan, Shan, He, Min, and Kuo were dedicated to the imperial court. ”

Later, the Uighurs invaded, and the Guiyi army fought a bloody war with them for decades, exhausted their strength, and finally due to internal turmoil and invasion by various tribes, their territory gradually lost, and they could only hold the two states of Gua and Sha. Now, the Liang, Gan, Su and other states between Shazhou and Lingzhou are controlled by all ethnic groups, and the Guiyi Army can no longer be connected with the Tang Dynasty. Even if you look eastward, you can't see Helan Mountain......

"Even so, the Guiyi Army still fought endlessly, defending the territory for the Tang people, and did not forget to send envoys to the court from time to time......"

After saying this, Li Congjing's heart was like a boulder, and he couldn't breathe for a long time.

In the past, the five chaos in China, the northern country was a foreign race stealing, and Ran Min rose up to lead the Han people in a bloody battle, among the wolves, to save the dignity of the Han people in the north, and to establish the country of the Han people.

Wouldn't it be better to return to the righteous army?

Moreover, the Guiyi Army was isolated "offshore", and there were few Tang people there, so the war was even more difficult. Countless Tang people have been unable to see the land of the Tang Dynasty for the rest of their lives, until they die in battle.

Such a tragic and heroic act, except for the Tang people, who can do it?

"In the past, when the country was at the height of the country, in the west of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, there were also the Dawan Governor's Mansion, the Kangju Governor's Mansion, the Gumo Prefecture Governor's Mansion, the Yueshi Governor's Mansion, the Kunxu Prefecture Governor's Mansion, the Shufeng Governor's Mansion, the Xiuxian Governor's Mansion, the Tiaozhi Governor's Mansion, and the Persian Governor's Mansion...... The territory is wide, reaching the Aral Sea and Persia. Mo Li sighed, put the folding fan in his hand, and forgot to shake it.

"In the past, the Tang Dynasty was so majestic, so Wang Xuance was a five-grade Chaosan doctor, just because Tianzhu was treated unfairly, he was able to gather foreign armies alone, and destroy other people's countries thousands of miles away from Luoyang. Except for the Tang people, who has such ability and pride? Li Congjing looked at the sky from afar, and his body was like a pine mountain.

After a moment of silence, Li Congjing said to Mo Li: "Ban Chao threw his pen from Rong and set the Western Regions with thirty-six people, and since then, the land of Hexi and the Western Regions is the ancestral territory of my China, and it cannot be compared with people." Now, if I want to re-establish Hexi and the Western Regions, I must first pacify Jiangnan. Although the Tang Dynasty is not afraid of two-front battles, Hexi and the Western Regions, including Tubo, after all, remote places cannot be as peaceful as the land where the Tang people lived. Moreover, there are still Khitans in the north that have not been destroyed, and although the Tang Dynasty is not afraid of the states, I have no habit of taking it lightly. ”

Mo Li bowed his head solemnly, "It should be so." ”

At the end of autumn and August of the first year of Dingding, Wang Shinan conquered Fujian and Lingnan.

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