Chapter 322: The Legations
The official opening of the bank, as well as the official promulgation of the commercial law, can be said to be a new step for Dahan, although there will be many problems at the beginning, such as the most critical shortage of manpower.
Many of the manpower is served by Huo Zheng's guards cavalry, because Huo Zheng's guards cavalry are literate, since they can read, it means that they are not stupid, although what they are really good at is leading the army to fight.
But in fact, as long as they are given how to do such basic work, with their discipline, after emergency training, there is no problem.
Therefore, these 2,000 people can be said to have played a great role, supporting all the main frameworks of more than a dozen departments, especially the bottom frames of these departments arranged in various cities.
There are all kinds of problems at the beginning of any department, and there is no absolute perfection, unless you can bring in thousands of people with experience in the field from later generations, but those people may not be able to do well in this era.
Because there are no auxiliary tools in this era, a lot of work is done manually.
But fortunately, the workload of this era is not comparable to that of later generations.
As long as the framework is built, there is no fear of problems, and problems can be solved, and when the people who continue to be added in are more and more experienced, then the entire country's official system will be established.
Perhaps the easiest task is the Ministry of Justice, because the law is already in place, and all they need to do is study the law and memorize all the provisions of the law.
In addition to this, the official opening of the commercial law and the money bank also means that the commercial trade of the Han Dynasty is finally on the right track.
In the past, the trade of the Han Dynasty was to cooperate with the Li family of Longxi and Zhao Qi, and the merchants who came over on their own, and they had never cooperated with foreign countries, but during this time, the Han Dynasty has been storing a large amount of cloth, especially wool products.
The two wool thinning work at the turn of spring and summer and autumn allowed Huo Gang to store a large amount of wool in his hands, and all of this wool has been made into cloth, not only that, Huo Gang and they have begun to buy it from some surrounding tribes.
The first goal of this opening is Tuyuhun, or Datang has now named it Haizhou, which is also because of Qinghai Lake, which was formerly called the West Sea.
Li Jing and his main army have begun to evacuate, but there is still one person left in Tuyuhun to be in charge of the affairs here, and this person is Liu Hongji.
At present, Liu Hongji is in charge of all matters in Haizhou, and Huo Gang discussed with Li Shimin, it is not so difficult to open up the trade route with Tuyuhun, and if you go southeast from Yangguan, you can actually find some roads directly across the Qilian Mountains into Tuyuhun.
It's just that because there are relatively few people walking, it can almost be said that there is no road, but the road is not too difficult to walk, and Huo Gang is ready to send people to start building the road.
Although it is said that the carriage cannot walk for the time being, with cement and concrete, it is not difficult to pass through the Qilian Mountains if the road is repaired, mainly in some important sections.
After crossing the Qilian Mountains, it was easier to rely on the Qilian Mountains all the way to the vicinity of Qinghai Lake in later generations, and the main activity site of Tuyuhun was also near Qinghai Lake in later generations.
In the west, there are actually not many here, only a few limited small tribes, these small tribes actually did not defeat the Tang Dynasty, but after they heard the defeat of Tuyuhun's main army, these small tribes immediately surrendered.
In fact, this is the normal state on the grassland, and relying on a really powerful force is the way to survive.
It is not too simple to control Tuyuhun, because of the alliance between the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, which leads to the fact that Tuyuhun has no direction to swing at all, and after the main tribes of Tuyuhun are defeated, the remaining tribes have no power to resist at all.
However, what made Huo Gang a little stunned was that, according to the information transmitted by him and Liu Hongji through messenger exchanges, after Li Jing defeated the main cavalry tribe of the Tuyuhun tribe, the other tribes attached to Tuyuhun defected one after another.
Among them, the fastest defection was a tribe called Tubo, and the leader of this tribe was Songtsen Gampo.
When he heard this name, Huo Gang's expression was weird, this ...... If this is the case, then the famous Tubo Dynasty in history may disappear.
Because the current situation is different from history, first of all, the Tubo in this period is very weak, and Songtsen Gampo does not have such great ambitions for the time being, he is just the leader of a small Tibetan tribe.
Secondly, although Songtsen Gampo has some ability, he also defected to Datang at the first time, but in the same way, Datang's strength obviously impressed him enough.
The most important point, and the most different point from history, is that the current policy of the Tang Dynasty towards the Western Regions is completely different from history.
Historically, when the Tang Dynasty took the Western Regions, even if Li Shimin became the Heavenly Khan, when the Tang Dynasty's territorial expansion was extreme, such as the Western Regions, they also directly established the Anxi Protectorate, and the so-called Anxi Protectorate nominally belonged to the Tang Dynasty.
But in fact, there is not much difference from an independent country, but I have to say that the combat effectiveness of the various capital protectorates of the Tang Dynasty in history is still very awesome, such as the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, and the later Murwei Metropolitan Protectorate and so on.
In fact, these Duhufu are nothing more than the officials of the people who originally lived here to submit to the Tang Dynasty, and then the Tang Dynasty gave them a name, that's all, most of the members, the local structure, etc., are still the original ruling class.
From the nominal and later history, it seems that these places are already the territory of the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty has never ruled these places in the true sense.
At least there is a big difference from the meaning of the word rule that Huo Gang thinks, of course, this is also because of the limitations of the times, and it is very good that Datang can achieve this point.
The reason why it is different from history now is because of the emergence of the Han Dynasty, the status of the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty, and the trade between the Tang Dynasty and the Han Dynasty that is about to explode, which means that the Hexi Corridor and even Haizhou in the future will not be too backward.
Once it becomes prosperous and Li Shimin's thinking changes, these places will inevitably begin to assimilate the same books and cars as they do within the Tang Dynasty.
Huo Gang had brainwashed Li Shimin at this point, so now Liu Hongji is actually preparing to do these jobs when he stays here.
It is estimated that Songtsen Gampo may become a member of Haizhou in the future, and perhaps the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau will also become the territory of the Tang Dynasty in the process of his governance of Haizhou.
But the country of Tibet will never appear.
It's just that Huo Gang didn't expect that on the tenth day of the opening of Dahan's Qian Zhuang, Wu Ping, as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, hurried over and told Huo Gang a very important news.
"You're not wrong?" Huo Gang, who heard the news, was a little stunned, this ...... Li Er is also too generous.
"Chief, I'm not wrong, it was the officials of the Tang Rite Department who sent someone to inform us in advance, their envoy group has entered the territory of Wuwei City, and they will march towards us next, because this time it is a formal envoy group, so the scale is relatively large, and they are walking slowly."
"It will take about half a month to get to us, but the other party has already revealed the news to us that His Majesty Li Shimin has canonized his eldest daughter Li Lizhi as Princess Changle."
"At the same time, the entire Guazhou was renamed Changle Prefecture, and as the dowry of the princess of Changle to marry the Han, it was handed over to our Han rule." Wu Ping said quickly.
"In addition, because we promised what we had done before, Datang said that our money village could be set up in three cities, including Ganzhou City (later Zhangye), Jinchang City, and Wuwei City in Liangzhou."
Huo Gang's face was speechless, he felt that Li Er was really ruthless, this gift was too big, and the land of Yizhou was actually given directly, and it was also used as a dowry, I will go, if you say so, my dowry is obviously not missing!
As a later generation, especially Huo Gang, who has been educated in later generations, naturally absolute land is absolutely inadmissible, but people in this era obviously do not have this kind of thinking, even the Central Plains countries, which have a relatively tight view of the territory, do not attach so much importance to this aspect.
Not to mention the Turkic nomads in the Western Regions, who simply did not have that concept.
However, Huo Gang can probably guess why Li Shimin did this, obviously Li Shimin is first to thank him for saving his life, and secondly, he ...... It is estimated that it is to establish a buffer zone with Datang, third.
Huo Gang can probably guess a little, this can be regarded as a way to show sincerity, because in the early negotiations between the two sides, although Huo Gang got some population, there is no doubt that Datang has taken a big advantage here, and Huo Gang does not have much advantage here.
Don't talk about trade, trade is a two-sided thing, if Datang sold Huo Gang some strategic materials, it would be fine, but in fact it didn't.
On the contrary, Huo Gang has sold a lot of good things to Datang here, and Li Shimin obviously knows very deeply that everything has come and gone, and if it is only for benefits, then such an ally will not last long.
So Li Shimin obviously directly put a big move at one time.
At one time, the territory of a state was directly given to Huo Gang, and the area of Guazhou is indeed not large, but it contains at least about nearly 300,000 people in Guazhou, as well as the four cities of Dunhuang, Suoyang, Yumen Pass, and Guazhou.
These four cities are not too big cities, but because they are border cities, the walls and other aspects of these four cities are well built, and it costs a lot of money to build these cities alone.
If it were modern times, it would be impossible to say that these ordinary people would rebel directly, but in this era, these ordinary people have no room for resistance at all, and the most critical point in this is this.
The population of a state has been given to Huo Gang, so what about those officials in these cities?
If Li Shimin didn't deliberately confess, it is estimated that these officials also gave it to Huo Gang, although it was said that Huo Gang didn't use it to see Huo Gang, but obviously Li Shimin had already given his sincerity.
The readers in the entire Guazhou don't dare to say too much, but there are definitely a lot, which is also a wave of strength for Huo Gang.
From these perspectives...... Li Shimin really deserves to be the emperor who left his name in the history books, either he didn't send it, or if he wanted to send it, he would send it directly to a place where Huo Gang couldn't refuse!
Because of this Guazhou alone, Huo Gang felt that Li Shimin might have another meaning in it, that is, to help Huo Gang adjust the population ratio in Huo Gang's territory.
If there was no Guazhou, the Turks had an absolute advantage in Huogang, but with Guazhou, this meant that the Han Chinese had the upper hand again.
This Huo Gang has to appreciate it!
This is okay, either don't send it, if you want to send it, just send Huo Gang a profound, if he sends Huo Gang those things that he doesn't have, such as gold, silver, jewelry, and high-grade silk and the like, even if there are many of them, it is estimated that Huo Gang will not be as shocked as he is now.
"The affairs of the money village will be handed over to Peony to be responsible, and the building materials will be sent to these cities as quickly as possible, and the money village will be built as soon as possible."
"Also, what do you think we should dowry?" Huo Gang looked at Wu Ping and asked.
"Chief, as the leader of the Han Dynasty, the dowry should have been decided by yourself, but since His Majesty Li Shimin has given so much, then we Han naturally can't be stingy, I think, at least this dowry we Han can't let the Tang people look down on it." Wu Pingyin said calmly.
"Hmm...... Well, let me think about it, it's still half a month before they come anyway. Huo Gang nodded, Li Er gave too many things, and Huo Gang couldn't be stingy.
"There's something else." Wu Ping said.
"What's the matter?"
"The Western Turk Ashina Hemolu has sent an envoy to form an alliance with us." Wu Ping said seriously.
"Huh? What about the leaf protection? Huo Gang was stunned for a moment, the leader of the Western Turks has always been the Khan of Tongyehu, I have to say that Tongyehu is actually a very good leader, although in his old age, some of his policies are indeed too brutal.
"According to Minister Mingyue's information, He Molu has killed Tong Ye Hu and officially ruled the Western Turks, but at present, Tong Ye Hu still has a lot of loyal subordinates, so He Mo Du urgently needs a stable external environment." Wu Ping immediately spoke.
Huo Gang nodded silently, although he knew that the Western Turks were not very stable this year, but he didn't expect that things would happen earlier than in history, but he was not surprised.
Because of his appearance, Tong Ye Hu was opposed by more people, so it was not incomprehensible that He Molu would launch it in advance.