When Zhao Xing received the news of the great victory in the Western Regions, it was already June of the eighth year of Guangxi, which was half a year ahead of the end of the year he had set for the Pingxi Army to complete the task, and judging from the casualty statistics reported, it was a complete victory.

In just four months, with only more than 12,000 casualties, the Wusun Kingdom with a population of more than 600,000 and a territory larger than Jizhou was managed, and it was also a foreign army, which was enough for Zhao Xing to record a special record for the Pingxi Army.

Zhao Xing, who was in a good mood, immediately drafted a commendation order to commend the Pingxi Legion, and asked the Peasants, Soldiers, Merchants and Gold Bank to allocate two million taels of silver as a reward to greatly reward the soldiers who used their lives abroad.

Although the Wusun Kingdom has been initially subdued, the follow-up work is far from over. In addition to being happy, Zhao Xing did not get carried away, but immediately dispatched a group of grassroots officials and various craftsmen from the Jin State to Dunhuang City to assemble. When these Han officials and craftsmen arrived in Dunhuang New Town, the troops sent by Guan Yu personally entered the customs to meet them.

These officials were to take on the historical responsibility of managing and educating the Usun people, and as for the craftsmen, they were to guide the Usun captives in building permanent fortifications and cities that could accommodate large populations in important areas.

In Zhao Xing's view, if you want to truly conquer the Wusun people on horseback, you must first occupy the land of Wusun for a long time. If you want to occupy the land of Wusun for a long time, you must find a way to drag the Wusun people off their horses. The creation of permanent fortifications and cities that can be inhabited by large populations is undoubtedly the best option.

Zhao Xing wrote letters to Guan Yu and Liu Yu respectively, putting forward his opinions and views on the future military and political affairs of the Western Regions.

Zhao Xing reminded Guan Yu that in the future, he would continue to attack the Western Regions in a steady and steady manner, especially to pay attention to the tactics of using troops against Shanshan, Loulan, Jimo, and Jingjue on the Southern Silk Road north of the Kunlun Mountains and south of the Western Regions, and subdue these small countries by means of a combination of softness and force.

Due to the increasing territory actually controlled by the Pingxi Army, the current strength is obviously insufficient, so Zhao Xing not only expanded the Xiliang Army, officially awarded the number to the Yanqi Black Mountain Car Division Coalition Army, but also added an army to the Pingxi Army.

Among them, the 20,000 cavalry troops, which were originally called the Yanqi Black Mountain Carriage Division Coalition Army, were officially named the Western Protector Army by Zhao Xing, and the establishment was expanded to 30,000 people, and the missing 10,000 people were drawn from the Xiliang Army, and the army commander was served by Yan Liang, and Ma Dai was appointed as the military division.

The original 30,000 Xiliang Army was withdrawn by the Western Protector Army, and after 10,000 were left, there were still 20,000, and the original 20,000 Yanqi Reserve Cavalry were all assigned to the Xiliang Army, if the Xiliang Army became 40,000 people. The army commander is still Ma Chao, and Tian Yu is still the military advisor.

In this way, the two powerful cavalry units all became a mixed Han-Hu cavalry unit, and the main generals were all trusted generals.

In the cavalry troops under Zhao Xing, in addition to the Flying Tiger Army, which has always maintained pure Han blood, the Blue Wolf Army and the Dingyuan Army are all mixed units of Han Chinese, Huang Xuan, Yan Sheng and Yaoxing. As long as the proportion of Han nationality at all levels of generals is firmly controlled, these troops will always obey Zhao Xing's command and call, and will not easily mutiny.

Zhao Xing added a new army for the Pingxi Army with the number of Tianyi Army, with a strength of 30,000 people, and the soldiers were recruited from the Jin State, Jizhou and Youzhou, with Zhao Gang as the commander and Lu Xun as the military division. This force was an all-infantry unit, with a total of six divisions, all of which were mixed, and no longer distinguished between hoplites and light infantry.

After the recruitment of the entire army was completed, it was led by Zhao Gang and officers at all levels who had already been in place to go to the Western Regions for training.

As a pure Han infantry corps, the Tianyi Army will take on the important task of guarding Yuanqu City, where the Pingxi Royal Mansion is located, that is, Zhao Xing's forbidden army. From the very beginning, this unit will receive new training methods and new weapons and equipment, and will take on a heavy responsibility similar to that of the Crouching Tiger Army in the Western Regions in the future.

In this way, the entire Pingxi Army will be composed of 5 armies: 40,000 Xiliang Army, 40,000 Pingxi Army, 30,000 Huxi Army, 30,000 Kunlun Army and 30,000 Tianyi Army, with a total strength of 170,000.

According to Zhao Xing's plan, in the future, the Tianyi Army will be stationed in the territory of Yanqi Kingdom, the hinterland of the Western Regions, the Kunlun Army will be stationed near Wusun Chigu City, and the Western Protector Army will cruise on the north and south sides of the Tianshan Mountains as an emergency mobile force. The 40,000 Western Liang Army and the 40,000 Ping Western Army were still the main battle forces, gradually occupying and encroaching on the areas that had not yet been annexed to the Western Regions.

In view of the distrust of the Wusun people, Zhao Xing had no plans to recruit soldiers from the Wusun captives for the time being. After fully controlling the land of the Western Regions, whether or not to absorb the Wusun people into the cavalry force depends on the situation.

Zhao Xing urged Liu Yu to seize the time to conduct pre-job training for the grassroots officials of the Jin State who had recently been transferred to the Western Regions, so that they could become familiar with the customs and customs of the Western Regions as soon as possible, quickly integrate into the local society, and bring out a group of local officials in the shortest possible time.

Zhao Xing also suggested that Liu Yu should find a way to encourage the Hu people at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains to go north to live and settle in Wusun, and at the same time migrate a group of Wusun people to live at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and eventually form a favorable situation in which all ethnic groups in the Western Regions live together.

As for other more in-depth tasks such as unifying weights and measures, unifying words and languages, and unifying clothing etiquette, Zhao Xing believes that even if he does not remind Liu Yu, he will definitely find a way to spare no effort to carry it out in depth. Now Zhao Xing's policy of national integration has shown obvious results in the Jin and Liang states, and Liu Yu himself is the executor of the specific policy, and he has accumulated very rich experience in promoting national integration.

In order to support Liu Yu, Zhao Xing instructed five important newspapers, including Jin Bao, to report on the customs and customs of the Western Regions and various rare specialties in a large manner, and called on businessmen from the interior to go to the Western Regions to seek good opportunities to make a fortune, and called on large grain growers and breeders in the interior to go to the Western Regions to contract farmland and develop animal husbandry.

Today, the total population of the Western Regions is only a few million, which is far from saturation, and it is just right to absorb the labor force from densely populated areas in the interior to go to the Western Regions for exploration and development.

Zhao Xing called this large-scale action the "western development" strategy in the "Jin Bao", and made it clear that all merchants and peasant households who were willing to go to the Western Regions to do business, plant, breed, and set up various workshops could get a very considerable amount of start-up capital from the farmers, soldiers, merchants, and gold banks stationed in the Western Regions. This start-up capital is enough for merchants and farmers who go to the Western Regions to gain a foothold in the Western Regions immediately, and as long as they operate patiently for two or three years, they will definitely get rich returns.

Although the Han people have a strong sense of the countryside and are easily reluctant to leave their homeland, Zhao Xing's very attractive method can still attract a large number of Han people to the Western Regions to make a living and settle down. As long as the holdings continue to be reduced, when one day the number of Han people is equal to the number of Hu people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions, Zhao Xing does not believe that the Western Regions can still break away from the embrace of the Han Dynasty.

PS: It's been three days since I had a bad cold, and it's not good today, but Nandao still insists on updating two chapters a day, I hope you will understand......