Chapter 444: Immigration

This time, there are seven passes in Sanzhou and Shimen, Qin, Yuan, and Anle, Shimen, Yizang, Shixia, Muxia, Liupan, Zhengsheng and Xiaoguan, and so on. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

These places are actually not too far from Chang'an. Spread out the map, the distance from Chang'an is equivalent to Chang'an next door. Therefore, don't blame Wenzong for the period, he was intimidated by Niu monks and children, so frightened that he got Victoria, and then handed it back to the Tubo people.

Because the distance is too close, in order to defend Tibet, the Tang Dynasty is only more than 100 miles away from Chang'an, and there are three feudal towns such as Suining, Jingyuan, and Fengxiang.

The situation will become like this, the border of Tubo, the old enemy of the Tang Dynasty, is next to the capital of the Tang Dynasty, the mind of the Tang Dynasty, and mainly after Anshi, the feudal towns and eunuchs involved too much energy in the Tang Dynasty.

In the Anshi Rebellion, the Tubo people took advantage of the Tang Dynasty's general Shuofang, Hexi, and Longyou troops to transfer a large number of internal transfers to quell the Anshi Rebellion and take the opportunity to invade the Longyou Prefectures. The Tibetans have long coveted this place.

Datang doesn't want to say that it has been recovered, and it is difficult to protect itself. The Tubo people even united with Tuyuhun and the party, gathered an army of 200,000, drove straight in, approached Chang'an, and forced Daizong to flee.

Chang'an fell, and the Tubo people occupied Chang'an for fifteen days. Later, because the Tubo people were not accustomed to the hot climate of Chang'an, and they were not accustomed to the water and soil, coupled with wanton slaughter and looting, causing the plague to run rampant, they set up Li Chenghong, the king of Guangping, who was related to Tubo, as the emperor, and then withdrew from Chang'an. Well, it's not that King Guangping hooked up with Tubo, but that he got his sister, Princess Jincheng, married Tubo and his relatives, and for a long time, maintained the relationship between Tang Dynasty and Tubo's nephew and uncle.

After that, the Tang Dynasty was powerless to recover the land that had fallen to Longxi. The thirteen prefectures in the eastern section of Longyou Road all fell into the hands of Tibet. It's not that I don't want to recover, but I can't do anything, the Tang Dynasty is weak, and it is indeed when Tubo is the strongest, not only to take these thirteen states, but also to constantly invade the Hetao area.

At its worst, it was all lost. Yanzhou, Xiazhou, Yinzhou, and Linzhou were conquered by Tibet. The Tang Dynasty is almost about to repeat the incident in Longxi, and the loss of these states will not only make the Tang Dynasty equivalent to losing the land of the Hetao, but even the inland areas may be under the invasion of Tubo.

The Tibetans not only intruded, but also devised schemes, they were not satisfied with occupying this place, it was too far away from the Tibetan mainland, and they completely wanted to be neighbors with the Tang Dynasty.

At that time, there were three famous generals in Datang, Li Sheng, Ma Sui, and Hun Ying. The leader of the army was still praised by the Tibetan minister and decided to try to get rid of the three people. First of all, 20,000 troops were sent to enter Li Sheng's defense area, Fengxiang Town, and they did not plunder, but they kept walking, until the Jiedu made Li Sheng's administration, and Fengxiang Mansion made a loud noise under the city, "Li Linggong called us here, why don't you come out and treat us!" ”

Then he pretended to make an alliance with the Tang Dynasty and asked Dezong to send Hun Yang as an envoy. He was ready to be captured in one fell swoop, and in the end there was only one Ma Sui left, because he was in favor of the peace faction, and he would definitely be removed from office. When the time comes, as soon as the three famous generals are gone, it will be difficult for Tang Jiang to resist the Tubo soldiers.

Fortunately, Hun Yang was very vigilant, and Li Sheng also felt that something was wrong with the Tubo people, although he was removed from his military post and reappointed to an idle position, he still reminded Hun Yang to pay attention to the meeting, and finally changed the location of the alliance from the danger of getting Tuli Tree to Pingliangchuan.

As a result, when attending the meeting, Tubo really showed his true colors and wanted to rob the envoys. Hun Yu seized the horses, and the single horse had to escape, and the accompanying people, including the deputy envoy and the eunuchs who supervised the same party, brought the soldiers and horses with them, and all of them were captured.

In such a bad situation, the famous minister Xichuan Jiedu made Wei Gao, united with Nanzhao to defeat Tubo in the southwest, surrounded the point to send reinforcements, and greatly frustrated the Tubo people's sharp spirit, Tubo suffered heavy losses, and had to withdraw from the occupied states. And although the Tang Dynasty defeated Tubo repeatedly, it was also exhausted.

At the same time, Tubo also continued to attack the Hexi Road of the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty fought for the western part of Longyou Road and the four towns of Anxi, although the Tang Dynasty also had a counterattack, but unfortunately the whip was out of reach, Li Yuanzhong and Guo Xin, who were stationed in the Western Regions, had to go back to Chang'an for reinforcements, and even had to use the Uighurs to go around the major long roads to come back. Therefore, even if Tubo was defeated, in the end, the Tang Dynasty still lost the entire land of the river.

After a long break, the two sides entered a period of peace, the Tang Dynasty was committed to internal affairs, the town of Miping was in rebellion, the Tubo state was gradually declining, and it was unable to invade the Tang Dynasty on a large scale, that is, a small number of soldiers harassed.

Under such circumstances, in the first year of Muzong's Changqing, the two sides held the eighth meeting, the Changqing Alliance. The two sides call each other nephews and uncles, and the two countries each guard and govern their own borders, subject to the actual possession of both sides, and do not treat each other as enemies, do not raise troops, do not invade each other and seek to seal the territory, and the two sides send envoys to each other to exchange and trade with each other. This Changqing alliance lasted until recently, before the Tang Dynasty attacked Victoria.

The matter of Datang's recovery of Victoria has not been made public so far, otherwise I am afraid that Li Chen will be very big. Because of the oath between the two sides, there are three tablets of the "Tang Fan Alliance Monument" that records the content of this alliance. One of them has been standing in front of the "Jokhang Temple" in Lhasa, which was now known as the Luosa at that time.

Therefore, many people also have a lot of words to think that taking back these pieces of land will not help Datang, Datang is big and has many people, and it is not bad for that place. On the contrary, it will seriously damage Datang's reputation. After all, both sides will have an alliance.

'A few governors, these three states and seven passes, how to do it. Li Chen will ask like this, in fact, it means, how to collect the seven passes of the three states, his original intention was to let the left army of Shence receive this credit. However, this is not what they have brought down, it really has to be placed on their heads, and others will not necessarily look down on them because of this, and it will also disrupt the original plan.

As for the covenant, he did not throw it off. No one cares about the prime ministers who are doing it, and if they do, when Li Chen proposes a plan to recover Victoria, he should oppose it. When Victoria signed the Changqing Alliance, it had already been taken away by Tibet.

'You may make each town collect its own cantonal whip according to the distance and proximity. Li Deyu said first, "It can make Jingyuan Jiedu make Kang Jirong recover the six passes of Fuzhou and Shimen." The Suining Jiedu enabled Zhang Junxu to recover Xiaoguan, and the Fengxiang Jiedu enabled Li Wei to recover Qinzhou. ’

Li Deyu meant that the nearby Jiedu envoy went to collect the left near state hanging. In fact, many of these places originally belonged to their jurisdiction, but they were later occupied by the Tibetans.

Then, the left army of Shence could move to the nearest place in Longxi, and began to train locally, adapting to the climate on the one hand, and hoarding grain and grass on the other.

The army has not moved, and the grain and grass go first, which is almost common sense of modern people. Li Deyu is old in the military, so he naturally knows it. In fact, this grain and grass has already begun to accumulate, and among them, the newly built rail carriage has made a great contribution.

This railroad carriage has long been centered on Chang'an, and two have been laid in the east and west. Mainly spread along the Wei River. Some people may think that it would be good to have Wei River shipping, so why bother. The main reason is that the Wei River will freeze in winter, and secondly, the Wei River will often be silted, so the Tang Dynasty has dredged it many times, but with little effect.

Li Chen knew that in the Song Dynasty, the Wei River was almost unnavigable. Therefore, the Song Dynasty had to put the capital in Kaifeng, which was convenient for Caoyun. Song Taizu wanted to move the capital to Chang'an, but he couldn't make it.

In order to hoard grain and grass, the railroad carriage was paved from Tongguan to Bao. Chickens, in this way, the grain and grass transported from the south of the Yangtze River can be directly transported to the front, and the people in this area can see the horse-drawn carriages day and night, and the fish run away.

In addition, Li Chen also sent people to rectify the Cao Yun, and sent the superintendent Yu Shi Pei Xiu to rectify the Cao Yun. The results were remarkable, and the grain originally transported from Jiangnan to Jingshi was only 400,000 stones. It's not that Jiangnan can only send so much grain over, or that there is a problem with the transportation capacity.

But there is a lot of loss on the way, and during transportation, the treacherous officials over there can always find all kinds of reasons to break out serious losses. In this situation, although a transshipment department has been set up to be responsible for transshipment of food or materials sent from all over the world to Beijing, the situation has not improved.

So Li Chen sent Pei Xiu and asked him to concurrently serve as the director of the Transshipment Department to deal with this matter. After taking office, he rectified the rule of officials and promulgated the Ten Laws of Cao Yun, which immediately increased by half the amount of Cao Yun sent to Beijing that year. He estimated that it could grow to 1 million stones, which is already a very amazing achievement.

Li Chen is not only satisfied, but also not very satisfied. He was satisfied with Pei Xiu's results, and since he had arrived in the southeast, he appointed him to deal with the affairs of the tea farmers, and as long as he handled it well, he waited to be transferred back to Beijing as the prime minister.

However, being the prime minister is not necessarily people's favorite. He studied Buddhism since childhood and has been a vegetarian for many years. Maybe Buddhism is his favorite.

Far away, Li Deyu proposed a good method, which will not disrupt the plan, nor will it make those places who sincerely come to invest feel cold. However, there were still many problems on the other side, and he began to discuss them with his ministers.

Because at the beginning, in order to show their sincerity, the two sides vacated a piece of no-man's land on the agreed border, such as

Now that we want to recover those passes and cities, shouldn't those wastelands be used?

'It's good to directly let the people reclaim land and not collect rent and tax for five years. Bai Minzhong suggested that this is probably the easiest way, let the nearby people go to the reclamation, and no rent will be collected for five years.

'Send someone to Tuntian.' Li Deyu said, "Order the Xiang army to go to Tuntian, order the Xiang army to build a road to the local area, and then be in the local Tuntian." ’

Xiang Jun?! Yes, wasn't it for the purpose of reclamation that this box army was established in the first place? The road was built by the way, and now it is just right to send them. No... Wait a minute...

Thinking of Xiang Jun, Li Chen thought of something again, "Let's set up an immigration-related department in the household department." Li Chen instructed like this, Cui Yuanshi is messy, is he going to set up a new division? He is definitely the busiest and most upset Hubu Shangshu in the history of the Tang Dynasty. Although the power has increased greatly, it is really tiring to face an emperor who is often whimsical.

'Sage, is there going to be an immigration department?' Cui Yuan's style is messy, and several prime ministers here are also stupid, setting up a division? Just for the sake of the wasteland on the borders of these states, set up a division? Not to say that it can't be done, just to say, is it necessary?

'It's not a division, let's send an envoy first.' In the short term, it is to deal with the matter of wasteland and land in several states. However, in the long term, it is certain that a division will be established. Li Chen explained, "The purpose of the establishment of the Xiang Army is to resettle the victims. If the victims are not properly resettled, no one wants to see the result of rebellion. ’

Now there is land ready to house them. And what about the future? Li Chen looked around at several prime ministers, "The people of the Tang Dynasty will only increase." There are always natural disasters, and it is enough for the court to support them. ’

'Who can do such a thing by finding a way out for those people?' Who else but the imperial court. In the future, there will always be a department that will deal with these things. ’

'The Immigration Division, let's call it that, has a lot to do in the future. If I expand the territory of Datang and need immigrants in the frontier, find the Immigration Division. If there is no land expansion, the Immigration Department will also look for places in Datang that can be developed. ’

Reclamation? Is this necessary? Usually it is to issue a reclamation order and let the people reclaim the land on their own, not to mention, Datang still has the Tuntian Division, just let the Tuntian Division do it. Seeing that these prime ministers did not comprehend, Li Chen said something and stated his purpose.

He hadn't spoken to anyone before. It just exists in his heart. These words made several prime ministers nod their heads when they heard this, it was too reasonable, how much land was originally wild, and if there was a plan to develop these lands and resettle the victims, it would be a matter of counting them in one fell swoop. This is the Tang Dynasty's long-term peace and stability for 10,000 years.

Seeing that they seemed to understand, Li Chen smiled in his heart, immigration is not such a simple thing. These prime ministers only saw that the wasteland was opened up and the army was settled. Li Chen can even imagine the more complicated things.

The development of a new settlement will never be so simple. Datang is okay in China, but if Southeast Asia or even the Americas are developed in the future, the things involved will be more complicated. Immigration Division? I am afraid that in the future, there will be a Ministry of Immigration.

That concludes today's discussion. The imperial court issued an edict and ordered a few jiedu envoys to take over a few neighboring areas nearby. At the same time, he began to select and take over the officials, which is very important, Li Chen doesn't want to turn a good thing into a funeral because of the non-person he entrusted.

Because the officials sent were extorted violently, and as a result, they forced the local residents to rebel, and finally sent troops to suppress it, if it really became like this, Li Chen really didn't mind, and let the officials change from top to bottom.

In this way, at the same time as the issuance of the imperial decree, a small new unit, the Department of Immigration, was established, which was subordinate to the Ministry of Households, and the personnel and establishment were not determined for the time being, and there was only one emigration envoy, who would be responsible for the newly received passes, the reclamation of wasteland, and the arrangement of immigration.

Except for Li Chen, no one expected that at present, there are only a few new bachelors from the Hanlin Academy, and they are busy getting new departments like headless flies, how important it is to Datang. (To be continued.) )