In the study, Li Xuan's right hand pressed on the map on the table, and said with a cold face: "In the eighth year of Zhenguan, Songtsen Gampo asked to marry the princess of the Tang Dynasty, but the first emperor refused.

The first emperor sent Youwu Wei Zhonglang to take Niu Jinda as the vanguard, and defeated Songtsen Gampo in the east of Songzhou.

Hou Junji led the main force to kill later, Songtsen Gampo was afraid of it, withdrew from Songzhou, and then sent an envoy to apologize for his sins and ask for marriage again, and then there was the matter of Princess Wencheng. ”

The Tubo people have never been a good person, and when Songtsan Gampo was in power, he was afraid of the majesty of the Tang Dynasty and did not dare to provoke the Tang Dynasty easily, so he turned his attention to Tuyuhun.

At that time, Tuyuhun was disrespectful to the Tang Dynasty, and there was a matter of the Western Turks, so Emperor Taizong calculated that the Tubo people would defeat Tuyuhun, but it was only a big defeat, which did not make Tuyuhun lose the country, but stuck the road to Tubo.

It's a pity that Emperor Taizong died of illness, Li Zhi ascended the throne, and the eldest grandson of the power struggle was unscrupulous, and he had no time to look westward, and finally Tuyuhun died in the country, and his land belonged to Tubo.

"Songzhou is under the Min Mountain, is Mianzhou, Mianzhou to the south is Pengzhou, Pengzhou is close to Chengdu." Li Xuan's expression was faint, and there was a trace of disgust hidden in the depths of his eyes, no matter who it was, he felt very disgusted with the person who almost hit his hometown back then.

"The prince digressed." Yu Ze leaned his back on the bookshelf and said calmly: "The northwest of Songzhou is close to Minzhou, the northwest of Minzhou is Fangzhou, Fangzhou is close to Taozhou, Diezhou, and then there are colleagues." ”

That is to say, colleagues go southeast, pass through Diezhou, Fangzhou, Minzhou, and then Songzhou in Jiannan Road, and then arrive in Mianzhou.

Mianzhou is already Sichuan and Shu.

After Mianzhou is Pengzhou.

Colleagues go to the southeast, over the mountains and mountains, thousands of miles away, is Pengzhou.

Tongren goes to Chang'an, which is also 1,300 miles away.

Although it crosses mountains and mountains, all of them are in Datang.

In addition, colleagues go to Chang'an, as long as they go down the plateau, the road will indeed be much smoother.

However, Li Xuan is now the deputy marshal and deputy governor of the Taohe Road March, and Diezhou and Fangzhou are all under his jurisdiction.

Mianzhou and Songzhou are the land of Sichuan and Shu, so what needs to be passed in the middle is a Minzhou.

Not to mention, this road has already been traveled when Songtsen Gampo entered Kozon Prefecture, at least it shows that the road is clear, and it is the way of the army.

It's a big deal that they go through the territory of Tibet, and there is no absolute cut off road.

If Pengzhou and his colleagues can be connected, even if they Li Xuan is the assassin of Xinzhou, it is definitely much more convenient, and the land of thousands of miles is definitely not far away.

"Nope." Li Xuan still shook his head and said: "Now, Liang Jun just led the two-way army from Songzhou to Tubo to attract troops from the east of Tubo, even if the war is over and the Songzhou army retreats, but the Tubo people will still not relax, which also means that Songzhou Minzhou will not relax either." ”

Taking a light breath, Li Xuan finally said: "It's not the time yet, even in the next few years, there will be no chance, take it steady, go east first." ”

"That's the Yuan family." Yu Ze suddenly looked up at Li Xuan, his eyes full of other meanings.

Li Xuan waved his hand and continued: "Tongren goes north out of the Longwu River, and on the other side is Longwu Village, and the grain and grass from Hezhou pass through Longwu Village and are transferred to Guide, Tongren, and even Zeku.

Guide doesn't care, but colleagues, if you can build a bridge across the Yellow River of 400 meters, then colleagues will be firmly bound to Kuozhou, and even Hezhou, Taozhou, Weizhou, Lanzhou, Minzhou, Longnan ......"

Li Xuan's fingers swiped gently, and a line had been hooked.

Empress Wu tried to sever the relationship between Li Xuan and Kuozhou, Hezhou, and Taozhou, and Li Xuan only needed to build a bridge, which was enough to break the situation.

Then, Li Xuan raised his head and said softly: "You don't have to go to Sichuan and Shu in the mountains, you can also go to Longnan. ”

"If you go to Longnan, you will inevitably have to use more means to cover up." Yu Ze's face became solemn, and walking in Longnan meant that it was difficult to escape Chang'an's sight.

"There is no need to hide it too much, everything is formal, in accordance with the law, and it is best to fall in the sight of the palace, just to reassure them." After Li Xuan finished speaking, he waved his hand directly.

Yu Ze somewhat understood the meaning of Li Xuan's words.

What should be left in the dark still has to be gone, but what is placed in the light still needs to be put on.

In this way, the palace can let down its guard.

If it's all in the dark, the palace should be vigilant.

"But build a bridge?" Yu Ze couldn't help but shake his head and said: "The Yellow River is turbulent, and the mountains and rocks at the bottom of the water are undulating, making it difficult to build piles, so how can you build a bridge...... Today's raft bridge is just a temporary urgency, and if you want to fix the bridge, then you need to build a waterwheel, and use the power of the waterwheel to communicate between the two sides of the strait, so as to ensure the smooth flow of grain and grass, and the construction of the bridge is ......"

The terrain of the Yellow River is special, and the bottom of the water is all hard rocks, so it is not easy to drive into a thick and long pillar to make a bridge pier, not to mention that they need more than just a bridge pier, and with the speed of the Yellow River's water flow, even if the bridge pier is laid, it is difficult to say how long it can be supported.

The problem is still one thing, and the second is that the amount of manpower and material resources that need to be mobilized here is absolutely astonishing.

Li Xuan's gaze retracted, smiled lightly, and then said softly: "If everyone knows that it is not easy, everyone knows that it is almost impossible, so we have to do it...... The most important thing is to let the DPRK and China know that what we are doing is an almost impossible thing. ”

Yu Ze immediately understood what Li Xuan was going to do, but he immediately shook his head and said: "Doing this, although it is easy to put the palace on guard, but once it is successful, what there is in the palace is not wariness, but fear." ”

"So you have to be careful when you want to build this bridge." Li Xuan looked up at Yu Ze, his eyes flashed fiercely, and then he smiled indifferently: "There are many things in the DPRK and China, and there may not be time to care about this." ”

Yu Ze frowned, and finally said: "I still have to borrow the power of the big war, the war is fast, and the consumption of grain and grass is particularly large, if you can take Wuhai and watch for Luo, then Your Majesty may be much more tolerant, and this matter still needs Your Majesty's approval." ”

Li Xuan picked his eyes, and then nodded seriously: "Uncle Yu's words are very reasonable, Your Majesty has decided, then the matter can be decided, if you can eliminate the border troubles, Your Majesty is also happy in his heart." ”

Li Xuan thought about the Empress Wu a little, he almost forgot that it was the emperor who was really in charge now.

Although Li Zhi has a certain precaution against the clan and the royal family, if the clan really cares about the border states, he will not say anything.

Even if Empress Wu could see some of Li Xuan's intentions, she definitely couldn't think that far.

With the emperor as a shield, then no one will come to find the account in the future.

"The construction of the bridge still needs to be investigated on the spot, and now let's talk about returning to the affairs of colleagues."

Yu Ze waved his hand, looked at Li Xuan and said: "Originally, I raided the noble houses in the city, and obtained a large amount of grain, grass, gold, silver and jewelry, as well as fields, cattle and sheep. ”

In the past, they just used their colleagues as a passing place, a temporary place for grain and grass.

The local people, as long as they don't interfere with their grain and grass transportation, then it is not a big deal to raise them.

But now that Yu Ze is a fellow county magistrate, these people are the people under his rule.

Among them, there is one thing that cannot be shaken off, and that is the autumn tax.

Originally, Yu Ze thought that he was just a passerby, and after March, it was enough for the imperial court to send a new county order, and he didn't have to worry about any autumn tax or anything like that, but now everything has changed, and the autumn tax has immediately become a knife hanging over his head.

Li Xuan nodded slightly, and said: "Don't worry about the autumn tax, after the investigation is confirmed, it will be reported to the imperial court, without the real background, even if the tax is collected, it will not be collected." ”

"Let's be honest." Yu Ze looked at Li Xuan with a solemn face and said: "Although I have not been in the county order for a long time, in Tongren County, there are all kinds of account books left over the years, although Songtsan Gampo is not satisfactory, but in the matter of learning the Tang Dynasty, it is quite in place. ”

Li Xuan waved his hand and said, "Let's talk about the number." ”

"Hmm!" Yu Ze nodded and said: "Today's colleagues generally have 30,000 acres of cultivated land and more than 2 million acres of grassland. There are cattle and sheep and more kinds of animals in the grassland, more than 50,000 heads, and now they are not slaughtered much, and if they continue to be grazing, they can also be harvested. ”

"And what about the population?" Li Xuan's expression became solemn, in today's colleagues, population is the biggest problem.

"The entire Tongren has a population of 9,400 people, 2,200 households, of which less than 600 are Han people, more than 2,600 people, and the remaining 1,600 households and more than 6,800 people are all Tubo, Qiang, Salar and other ethnic groups." Yu Ze's expression was solemn, and the situation here was not optimistic.

Li Xuan took a light breath, and then said, "You continue." ”

"The Han people are here, there are only a few craftsmen, the scholars have a certain treatment, the other Han people are mostly slaves, the young people can be educated and reformed, the young people are still bloody, but the middle-aged people have become numb, as for the elderly, there are few elderly people here." Yu Ze said and lowered his head slightly, yes, there is a world of slaves, how can the old man survive.

Li Xuan's expression turned cold, in the past, he at least regarded Tubo as an equal opponent, but now it seems that the Tubo people are not worthy of his word equality.

The word slave also clearly displayed the hierarchical structure within Tubo in front of Li Xuan's eyes.

At the same time, the word slave also means the weakness of Tibet.

It is not that the slaves rebelled, but that the existence of slaves shows that the rights and wealth of the Tibetan people will be concentrated in the hands of a few people.

"After the prince entered the city, he ordered the orderly release of Han slaves, and after selection, 4,500 Han slaves have been released, and 400 slaves are not allowed to be released, and the rest are non-slaves." After Yu Ze finished speaking, he finally stopped, and he was busy with these things for several days before he could figure out a clue.

"Whether these 400 people are dead or alive is decided by the 4,500 people, and a suitable person will be selected from among them to be appointed as an official in the county government to maintain order and judge on their behalf." Li Xuan knocked lightly on the table, and the fate of the four hundred slaves was decided by a word.

Now, Yu Ze has just served as the county magistrate of Tongren, and everything in the household registration and fields has not been registered, and no one will care about the death of a few people.

It is absolutely cost-effective to have the right to dispose of these four hundred people in exchange for these people's loyalty to Yu Ze and Li Xuan.

As for the officials, nobles, and sinful Tubo people in this city, they were all slaughtered as early as when the city was broken.

(End of chapter)