In the hall of Zichen Palace, Li Zhi sat behind the imperial couch, looked at Li Xuan solemnly, and said: "Fanzhou, the old country of Tubo, there are three million people, fifteen prefectures, and seventy counties. If it weren't for the initial peace of the land and the unquiet of the Quartet, I would not have entrusted such a heavy land to you to govern. ”

The ministers in the palace were solemn at the same time.

Although Fanzhou was initially peaceful, the world was too wide, the people were too many, and Li Xuan was too young, if there were other options, they did not consider replacing Li Xuan.

But those who can replace Li Xuan are already in front of the Luo Dao army, and the others, either the prime minister of the DPRK and the central government, or the marshal of the army, are easily unable to move at all.

In addition, Tubo is located on the plateau, and the plateau miasma is heavy, so such a heavy responsibility is not something that ordinary people can bear.

Li Xuan has not heard the rumors, and there is indeed one person who has the ability to replace Li Xuan to lead the party.

However, this person is Wang Fangyi.

Li Xuan stood in the hall, he knew that the emperor was not really dissatisfied with him when he said this, but rather sympathetic to him.

After all, he was only twenty-five years old, and although he had been fighting for many years, he was too young after all.

The emperor can trust him, and the prime minister of the court also believes in him, but there is never less discussion.

It's just that because he just returned last year, he has the merit of destroying the country, and now he is ordered to exterminate the Yue Wang's rebel party, so no one will put it on the surface.

But no one doubted him, and these words reached the emperor's ears more than once.

What the emperor said just now was clearly telling Li Xuan how critical his situation was.

There is a slight difference in the governance of Fanzhou, and it cannot be said that the DPRK and China will immediately attack it in groups.

Li Xuan bowed his head and arched his hand, and said seriously: "Your Majesty, although the minister is young and rules one side, but there are some Luo Dao to appease the chief Shi Zhang Gong, and there is Luo Dao to appease the chief Shi Xiao Gong, and there are Luo Dao marching chief Shi Xiao Gong to assist, and the fifteen states in Fanzhou, all the local assassins are virtuous people, and the ministers only need to sit in Luo, govern the counties under their command, and then take themselves as an example and lead everyone, which will definitely make Fanzhou stable and prosperous." ”

"Words are more beautiful than what you say." Li Zhi leaned forward slightly, looked at Li Xuan with a solemn gaze, and asked, "Let's talk about it, governing Fanzhou, millions of people, what are your specific plans?" ”

"Returning to Your Majesty." Li Xuan arched his hand and said: "Although Fanzhou is vast, it makes the people feel at ease, it is nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation. ”

Li Zhi nodded lightly, Li Xuan's statement was fundamentally in the right direction.

Standing up slightly, Li Xuan looked at the surrounding ministers and said: "Although there are three million people in Tubo, over the years, the nobles, big families, grasp the land, mountains and rivers, and other people can have food and clothing, it is already a fluke, and the others are more slaves, as long as these slaves can be fed and clothed, and fear the Tang Dynasty, it will not be far from stability." ”

The ministers in the palace couldn't help but nod, Li Xuan's hand was exactly the key point.

Although Tibet was powerful in the early days, it was only a few hundred thousand people who were powerful and wealthy, and many more people were subordinates and slaves of these people.

As long as these vassals and slaves can be stabilized, then it will not be far from the Tang Dynasty to stabilize Fanzhou.

"Register the household registration, divide the fields, according to the old system of martial arts, each person has a hundred acres of land, spring planting and autumn harvest, only the autumn harvest, you can return to your heart and settle down." After a slight pause, Li Xuan said seriously: "As for the rest, it is nothing more than the influence of the old people of Tubo, and the minister wants to follow the story of the Jin Dynasty's destruction of the Kingdom of Qiu, destroy its words, destroy its ancestral sacrifices, and leave only the land of the Tang Dynasty." ”

Destroy its writing, destroy its ancestral sacrifices.

Jin destroyed the kingdom of Qiu.

Hearing these words, the ministers in the palace couldn't help but feel a little commotion for a while.

In later generations, many people have only heard the words "false way to destroy the enemy", and it is amazing that they know that "the lips are dead and the teeth are cold".

Only those who know history well know the depth of the Kingdom of Qiu, and even the formation of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period are deeply related to him.

To put it mildly, if the Kingdom of Qiu had the intention of hegemony, the first overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period should be the Kingdom of Qiu.

But it's a pity that the Kingdom of Yu was finally destroyed by the Kingdom of Jin, and what happened in the middle was only the four words of false Dao and Yu.

Even only in the marginal corners of the history books, can we find records of the Jin Dynasty's destruction of the Kingdom of Yu, the destruction of its writing, the destruction of its ancestral sacrifices, and the annexation of its people.

What Li Xuan wants to do now in Fanzhou is to exterminate the writing of the Tubo people, destroy the records about Tubo, and let the people of Fanzhou only know that the people of the Tang Dynasty are Tang people.

"Isn't that going a little too drastic?" Li Zhi looked sideways at Liu Renliang and asked, "Zuo Xiang, what do you think?" ”

"It's a little too intense." Liu Renliang took a step forward, arched his hand, and said seriously: "The minister thinks that there is no need for the extermination of the Tibetan people's writing, and only all the books, furs, and stone tablets that exist in Tubo to record the text can be sent to Chang'an for preservation." ”

After a slight pause, Liu Renliang looked at Li Xuan and said, "Regarding the Tubo sacrifice, since the Tubo royal family has moved to Chang'an, then the temple of Tubo has also been relocated.

Others are okay, when Songtsam was alive, he was indeed sincere to the Tang Dynasty, and then the troubled times were the business of the descendants, so he moved his body to Chang'an. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Renliang turned to look at Li Zhi and arched his hand: "Your Majesty, please ask for a favor for the king of Xihai County, let him be buried in Zhaoling, after all, the first emperor also wants to take a good look at him underground......"

"Okay, so be it." Li Zhi slapped the armrest suddenly, his eyes were already full of excitement.

Let Songtsan go underground and tell his father the emperor that Tubo was destroyed by him Li Zhi.

Thinking of this, Li Zhi's eyes couldn't hide the excitement.

He had even neglected that in order to do this, Songtsen Gampo needed to be dug out of the ground first.

"Minister's order." The ministers in the palace gave up their hands at the same time.

"Everyone loves to be flat." Li Zhi raised his head slightly, then looked at Liu Renliang and said, "Zuo Xiang continues." ”

"Whoa!" Liu Renliang arched his hand and said: "There are not many people in Fanzhou who know the Tubo language, but most of them can read the Tubo sound, let the Tubo people use the Tubo sound to read the Tang characters, and then slowly correct it, and spend three or five years to let the people know the Tang characters and understand the Tang sound, as for the Tubo sound, let him circulate it among the people, as long as the official does not appear." ”

"Whoa!" Li Xuan took the lead in giving up.

Heiya Changzhi and Shi Yong and others also followed.

They knew that Li Xuan and Liu Renliang were only talking to each other at the moment, but what they said was for all of them.

In particular, every word Li Xuan said, as long as the emperor agrees, it will immediately become the benchmark for governing Tibet.

All states and counties are to be allowed to do the same.

"That's it." Li Zhi waved his hand without the slightest hesitation, and then he looked at Li Xuan again: "The land of Tubo, the land suitable for growing grain, seems to be only along the two rivers?" ”

"Yes!" Li Xuan arched his hand and said: "South of Tanggula Mountain, although the weather is warm, the land fertility in most places is extremely poor, and it can only be used for grazing, and only in a slightly better place can it be used to grow barley, and only in better places can it be used to grow wheat, which is the foundation of the state capital." ”

"That doesn't seem like that's enough, does it?" Li Zhi raised his eyebrows and looked at Li Xuan.

"Yes!" Li Xuan nodded and said, "If Fanzhou wants to prosper, the best way is to communicate water transportation, especially the land of two rivers, the Nu River and the Luo River, one of which leads to Shuzhong, and the other goes straight to the Five Edicts; Therefore, the minister wanted to open up the Nu River and the Luo River waterways and increase the passage of trade routes. ”

After a slight pause, Li Xuan arched his hand and said: "Please also give an order to the central government to let the western states of Yizhou build roads and establish places for trade and commerce in the land of the party; The other is to announce the five edicts, not to embarrass my Datang caravan. ”

"The matter of Yizhou, after the political affairs hall discussed, the Yizhou Metropolitan Governor's Mansion was issued, as for the five edicts, Zhao Guogong is now in Qianzhou, let him be responsible for communicating with the five edicts, if there is disharmony, then touch the road." Before Li Zhi's words were finished, many courtiers in the palace couldn't help but raise their heads.

There are many meanings in the emperor's words.

For the matter of the five edicts, the emperor had already prepared, otherwise he would not have transferred Li Jingxuan in advance.

However, once the Tang Dynasty and the Five Edicts go to war, Li Jingxuan will be completely left there.

No, to be more precise, from the beginning of the negotiations now, Li Jingxuan has already been nailed there.

"As long as there is a waterway, then the goods of Tubo can be easily transported to Shuzhong and other places, and then exchanged for gold and silver, and a large number of materials can be purchased and returned to Fanzhou."

Li Xuan bowed his hand slightly, and the emperor nodded slightly.

There is one in and one out, and the government does not know how huge the benefits can be obtained from it.

"It's just easy to get down from the plateau, but it's difficult to go up to the plateau, and it takes several times more effort to transport many things from under the plateau, and without the power of water transportation, the road is not easy to walk." Li Xuan's face became solemn.

Li Zhi smiled, then waved his hand and said, "How to do it is your responsibility as a placating envoy, so don't ask anyone else here." ”

"Huh!" The ministers in the hall couldn't help laughing for a while.

Li Xuan smiled bitterly and gave his hand, the biggest problem in Fanzhou is also here, the things inside are easy to transport, but the consumption is even more when they are transported.

Especially without the support and consumption of the army, and the local government is unwilling to support it, the progress of this kind of thing will become extremely difficult.

And that's not all.

A lot of things need to be transported from Shuzhong and Changzhou to Fanzhou, and if you don't pay attention, Shuzhong and Changzhou will become the throat of Fanzhou, and there will be a lot of trouble here.

Li Xuan raised his head with a wry smile, looked at Li Zhi and said: "Your Majesty, the governance of Fanzhou is basically like this, and the rest is to communicate between the Western Regions and Tianzhu, if there is a caravan passing, it is also the source of finance and taxation in Fanzhou." ”

Li Zhi nodded, then looked at Li Xuan and said, "I have heard people say that you have the intention of entering Tianzhu. ”

The ministers in the palace looked at Li Xuan in surprise for the first time.

But then they reacted, Li Zhi said that he was attacking Tianzhu, not attacking Tianzhu.

The attack on Tianzhu is to send troops to Tianzhu, and it needs the support of the court, while the attack on the Heavenly Clan is supported by Fanzhou itself.

Even smarter people can see later.

Now that the Tang Dynasty is pacified, the ambitions of the generals are not so easy to satisfy, and if you want to use troops in the future, Tianzhu is a good choice.

"Yes!" Li Xuan arched his hand and said: "There is a southernmost Ganges River in Fanzhou, which leads directly to Tianzhu, and then flows into the sea, and at the mouth of the sea, there are many Tang merchants who come across the sea and gather there. ”

"Back then, the Eastern Jin Dynasty Fa Xian traveled west to learn from the scriptures, and then came back from the sea." Li Zhi's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Yes, the minister wants to find out how much business profit there will be on this trade route, and at the same time see how much loss there is." After a slight pause, Li Xuan said: "As far as the minister knows, the passage of this trip is not far from the land, and from time to time there will be port supplies. ”

"Let them come with you, take a walk." Li Zhi waved his hand directly, his face grim.

He has seen a new path to blaze new trails.

As long as there are enough benefits, then it will be able to attract the attention of the family.

As long as the family's gaze is turned outward, then it is tantamount to weakening the family's power in disguise.

In the court, the pressure on the court will be much less.

This is of great benefit to the stability and continuation of the entire Tang Dynasty, and the emperor will not miss it.

"Whoa!"

(End of chapter)