Although there was no open promise, the next day, the Min army still drove to the northeast very unceremoniously, and on the same day, the Cao people promised that the Alans had attacked the Hengros City that had not been captured for five days were taken into their hands, and the big sign of the Governor's Mansion in the middle of the Fujian River was hung here.

The days of the Min kingdom ruling the river officially began.

Under the vigilant gaze of the various ethnic groups in Central Asia, the Fujian army really did not make any irritating moves at first, and seemed to be very satisfied with this enclave bordering the Green Mountains, that is, the Pamir Plateau, Li Jie successively ordered the imperial drive and the army to move eastward, and finally the 100,000 Fujian troops all gathered in this corner of the river.

Moreover, gathered in the territory of the Sogdians, the nomads brought by Belus slowly retreated in the direction of the Hindu Kush, as Li Jie had promised before.

More than 300,000 people from various nomadic tribes such as the Cypriots, or the Wusun, Sarmatians, and Scythians were captured and distributed equally among the Alans and Qarluqs in Fujian, and the original two tribes had a population of more than 100,000 at most, and more than half of the tribes expanded out at once, and the two tribes occupied a vast territory that spread from the Black Sea to the Pamir Plateau.

However, the benefits were not taken in vain, along the Hindu Kush Mountains to the stronghold in the river, the Ministry of Industry of the Fujian State took out a long map, along the source of the rivers in various places, and asked the two departments to assist the Fujian State to build 22 cities in the grassland at the same time, and the aristocratic leaders of each ministry must give up their nomadic life and move into the city.

Li Jieke knows too well, the nomad is an unfamiliar wolf, don't look at the Alan people and the Qarluq people are now so respectful to the Fujian country, it won't take a decade or two, after the wings are full and the minions are sharp, sooner or later the two will still barn their teeth against the Fujian country, rather than waiting until then, it is better to prepare in advance, these twenty-two cities are the key to locking the northern grasslands.

Don't look at the empty grassland, in fact, there are dangers to defend and evidence, because nomads are also people, and they also need to drink water, and livestock need water and grass supplements, so walking along the river on the grassland, you can always find nomads.

These twenty-two cities are the key places set by the Fujian army when they swept the grasslands, each of which controls this water source, if it is well managed, holding a water source is enough to make thousands of nomads outside the city thirst and starve to death, if these places are successfully built, they are definitely a thorn in the side of the nomads in Central Asia.

Moreover, the hundreds of thousands of captured people were given to two at once, and the Fujian State was not at ease.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, there is power, originally the grasslands are scattered, the Qarluq people and the Tutan Tuoise people are still relatively inferior existence, many tribes are above their status, now let them belong to the two departments, I don't know how many tribes of the original chiefs and nobles will definitely not be convinced, when the time comes, the mountains in the two departments are numerous, but it is not easy to rule.

Moreover, the grassland is divided into two tribes, and there will be new friction between each other, and then the Fujian State will fuel the flames, and the huge grassland will definitely not be united together like the Belus time, and the betrayal of any tribe at that time can be easily crushed by the Fujian State.

Ignorant of the sinister intentions of Li Jie leading a group of ministers, and indulging in the city life promised by the Fujian State, the Alan people and the nobles of the Qarlu tribe happily gathered most of the men in the tribe together, taking advantage of the warmth of spring, burning bricks and stones, and in the warm spring breeze, small grassland cities began to rise from the ground.

As for the Sogdian tribes in the Hezhong region, the Min State did not control it much, but deliberately kept away from it, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry, the Left and Right Guards, and the 50,000 soldiers of various ethnic groups brought from the interior were strictly stationed near the city of Hengros, and even in the name of the Governor's Office in the Middle River, they did not send official troops to any of the Sogdian countries.

This unexpected indifference surprised the Sogdian tribes who strictly guarded against the infiltration of the Min State, and in their surprise, the Zhaowu nine surnames also maintained a strict attitude of guarding against the death, and the nobles and lords of the various tribes who returned safely from the scene of the alliance strictly forbade their residents to contact the Min people, for fear that the influence of the Min people would weaken their rule.

The vast expanse of the river was spent in this atmosphere of old and dead intercourse throughout the spring, and it was not until summer that the Sogdians found themselves at ease.

In May, the road south of the Hindu Kush was well built, and a few inland merchants began to pass through this road to reach the city of Hengros in the river, and in June, the number of such merchants increased like a blowout, and countless loads of goods from the interior were piled up in the city.

Because of the evacuation of the Sogdians, the empty city of Hengros was once again lively, and on the streets, the original residential roads were converted into commercial inns, and each warehouse was full, and the variety of goods was incomparable.

** from Arabia, myrrh, coffee, Arabian horses, Afghanistan jade, lapis lazuli, Indian Buddha statues, black pepper, all kinds of precious silk fabrics, in short, the Silk Road once had goods are readily available here, only more, no less.

Drastic political changes, the war-torn Khorasan made the Fujian State close the pass, the Silk Road that had flourished from the Shang and Zhou dynasties had withered for several years, the traffic blockade made Chang'an suffer huge economic losses, and the Sogdians of the middlemen were also trapped in it, withering year by year, and now finally there is such an abundant supply of goods again, and the countries with the surname Zhaowu are drooling greedily from afar.

What made these Zhaowu nine surnames even more unable to sit still was that the Persian merchants, Tianzhu merchants and Tang merchants from Fujian did not sell these goods on the spot, but were ambitious to go north again and personally talk about the trafficking of these goods to Chang'an.

How does this work? How can this be?

The Silk Road has always been the lifeline for the survival of the Central Asian nations, and if the Fujian merchants were allowed to go through this trade route and remove the middlemen in the words of later generations, the Silk Road would have nothing to do with the Sogdians in the future.

So this group of people who can do anything for money began to cross the sea to show their powers, and without waiting for the Fujian caravan to be dispatched, there were already more than ten horse bandits entrenched in the east of the Silk Road.

It is a pity that Li Jie's way of dealing with the bitter requests of these Sogdians is to delay.

The tributes sent, the gifts are smiling, and the beauties sent by various countries directly fill the harem, as for the requests for mutual trade, they are all being discussed and processed, anyway, the relevant departments are stepping up their work, you can wait patiently.

After a stalemate for half a month, looking at the mountains of goods and the businessmen of all ethnic groups in the Fujian Kingdom, the nine surnames of Zhaowu, who were foaming in their mouths, finally gave in.

The first to succumb was not far from Hengros City, the relatively weak Shi Guo among the nine surnames, the lord of Tashkent was the first to send his eldest son as a proton to the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate, and accepted the official position given by the Min State, the administrative officials stationed there, and the political obedience made Shi Guo like a real estate merchant who succeeded in public relations in later generations, and the merchants of Shiguo were the first to rush into the merchant street of Fujian in Hengros City, like a hungry wolf, and then took advantage of the relationship between the various ministries in the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, Carrying piles of goods, he once again embarked on the Silk Road, which his ancestors had walked for more than 1,000 years.

On the one hand, it is the Silk Road that depends on it, on the other hand, it is the absolute right of the lords and nobles, looking at the Silk Road in the past, the people of Shiguo who are at the end of the old and old are now dominating the Silk Road, and they are generally carrying the burden and rushing on the road.

Countries have sent protons to Hengros City, as hostages in Fujian, about more than 100 princes and grandsons of various countries, including almost all the kingdoms and tribes of Zhaowu Jiu, for them, Li Jie also built a Hongwen Pavilion, so that all protons can learn Tang culture.

At the same time, the administrative and military officials under the command of the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate, such as the deputy governor, Changshi, Sima, and the record of the army, also gradually penetrated into various countries.

In February, the Hezhong Protectorate was established, and at the end of June, it basically controlled the situation in the Hezhong, compared to the 14th year of the Tang Dynasty Zhenguan, Hou Junji initially pacified Gaochang, set up the Anxi Protectorate, and then successively conquered Qiuzi, Khotan, and the Western Turks fought a decisive battle, and it took more than ten years to rule deep into the Western Regions compared with the large and small tribes, the speed has been like riding a rocket.

Of course, there is still a way to go for the Fujian people to fully control the Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate, at least for now, a broad road is displayed in front of the Fujian people.

In mid-July, the Metropolitan Protectorate of the River was almost completely opened.

Different from the previous governors of Fujian, this time the Hezhong Protectorate is completely a copy of the Tang Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

The Hezhong Metropolitan Protectorate set up Kyushu in the territory, corresponding to the nine surnames of Zhaowu, and named its leader as the assassin and the deputy protector, but the people under the surname Zhaowu were not entered into the household registration of the Ministry of Household of Fujian, and were still handed over to the lords of the countries with the surnames of Zhaowu in accordance with their old system and customs, but the Fujian State set up a record of the army, Sima and other civil and military officials under it, on the one hand, it was the communication channel between the nine surnames of Zhaowu and the Metropolitan Protectorate, and on the other hand, it was also a guarantee to maintain the loyalty of all countries to Fujian.

After the completion of this series of political changes, the city of Hengros, which was originally located in the corner, has been quite prosperous, as if it has restored the prosperity of the Silk Road, and the big merchants from Fujian gathered here, bringing the vast goods from Tianzhu in Persia to trade with the Sogdians, and then the Sogdians took over the next journey, through the camel caravan through the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, through Kazakhstan, Xinjiang, and finally arrived in Chang'an.

It has become the most lively transit station on the Silk Road, the city of Hengros is really prosperous to the extreme, the streets are shoulder to shoulder, everywhere are leading camels and driving carriages of merchants, Persians, Tang people, Sogdians, one by one compare with each other and talk loudly about the price, every day the transactions reached here are innumerable, the people are so crowded that even the city can not be placed, and the merchants have built new neighborhoods outside the city.

The newly established city bureau is not enough to describe the daily progress and money.

But at this time when the form was very good, Li Jie made a decision that shocked the Fujian country.

Changed the title of Li Rang, the king of Fujun, as the king of Hezhong County, and led the protection of most of the capital in the river!