The matter of Baicaowan Village is not a special case, but Li Ke has come this way along the way, and Li Ke can understand the hearts of these people, they just want to see themselves.

So Li Ke also stopped and let them take a look, although the trip was delayed, didn't he come to Qinghai this time to do this? By the time Li Ke arrived at Chihai City, the first snow had already fallen in the entire Qinghai.

Chihai City has now become a very prosperous city, and it has become one of the important cities on the way to Ruoqiang and other countries through here, along with the northern route to the 36 countries of the Western Regions, as well as the cities of Suoyang, Gaochang and other countries.

Because Chihai City has perfect construction, the number of merchants staying here is also increasing, and the herdsmen of Qinghai itself also use this place as a gathering point, so Chihai City is also becoming more and more prosperous.

However, the number of herdsmen living in Chihai City is not large, but many merchants and soldiers stationed in Qinghai live here, as well as the workers and their families who work in the entire salt lake, as well as the families of the industrial areas in Qinghai.

Looking at this city that did not exist in the original history, Li Ke sighed with emotion.

Qiao Shiwang had already greeted him outside the city, and after the two of them greeted each other, Qiao Shiwang asked with a smile, "How is it?" San Lang, has this Chihai City changed a lot? ”

"Big is big, small is small." Li Ke shook his head and said, when he left, Chihai City had basically been built, but now it is just more perfect, and the number of houses in the city is also more.

"Well, are you still used to it?" Li Ke looked at Qiao Shiwang and said, Qiao Shiwang is still Li Ke's uncle, and his wife is Li Shimin's sister.

"Adapt, all the work here in Qinghai has basically been completed, I am just a keeper here, and even many things are better than me." Qiao Shiwang shook his head and said.

"I heard that you were stopped by the people on your way." Qiao Shiwang teased.

"Uncle, you also know why I came, when I left, I promised to come back to see them, since I came back, let's look at them, the bottom work in Qinghai is still doing well. The main thing is to do a good job in the planting and pastoral areas of the Hehuang Valley. Li Ke nodded helplessly.

"This Saburo, don't worry, there is no problem with the preparation of the division of pastoral areas and planting areas, and the grain reserve center to be built here has also been completed, but I heard that the train you invented Saburo, will the train to the Yili Valley go from here?" Qiao Shiwang was very interested in this.

"Probably unlikely." Li Ke thought for a moment, and then shook his head helplessly.

Although the terrain on this side of Qinghai is also flat, compared with taking the Longyou Road, a large number of people and villages can be connected along the Hexi Corridor, and after entering Xinjiang Prefecture, the road construction railway there is also more suitable.

The railway line is naturally the railway line of later generations, stretching from the north of the Tianshan Mountains to the vicinity of the Yili River Valley, and then see if it can cross the Tianshan Mountains.

Even if you can't cross the Tien Shan, it's still very close to the Erie Valley.

"Hey." Qiao Shiwang was a little disappointed, because if the railway was built, he didn't have to think about it to know that Qinghai would have a huge development because of this railway line, but now it is almost impossible.

"Aren't you going to think about repairing directly from here? At present, the western part of Qinghai is almost all deserted Gobi Desert, and after the division of pastoral areas, aside from the herdsmen who have switched to planting land, in fact, a large number of pastoral areas have been vacant. In particular, with the addition of alfalfa as a supplement to forage, the demand for forage is now decreasing. ”

"If it passes through Qinghai, the whole of Qinghai will usher in huge development, and the point is that if the railway can be extended directly from here to Qinghai-Tibet, it will also be a good thing for controlling the entire Qinghai-Tibet state." Qiao Shiwang thought for a while and asked.

Li Ke was a little speechless, what are you thinking? Do you know how difficult it was to build a railroad on that land? Although the railway difficulty of the steam train is lower than that of the railway in later generations, it is also not something that the current Datang can handle.

"No, for a long time, I'm afraid the population of Qinghai and Tibet will be reduced to a very low level. According to my current plan, the population of Qinghai-Tibet Prefecture will be concentrated in a few river valleys that are most suitable for human habitation, and the rest of the large areas will be directly vacant. Li Ke shook his head and said.

The current situation of the Tang Dynasty is not the same as the situation in later generations, the original population of Tubo was more than 3 million, and aside from the Songtsen Gampo taken away, the Tang Dynasty actually won nearly 3 million Tubo population.

After two years of propaganda, at least nearly one-third of these Tibetan people began to stretch along the Sichuan-Tibet and Yunnan-Tibet routes to Yunnan and Sichuan.

Because of Sanji's propaganda, the Tibetan serfs were much more loyal to the Tang Dynasty than in other places, and after this series of measures, these Tibetan serfs have been completely converted, and after they mixed with these Shanyue people, it was conducive to strengthening the Tang Dynasty's rule over the local area.

In this way, at least one-third of the population of Tibet will be relocated to the interior. The rest will remain among the most inhabitable gathering places on the Tibetan Plateau.

In this way, most of the remaining areas of the Tibetan Plateau, which are not very suitable for human habitation, will remain untouched for a long time.

In other words, most of the area here will be no man's land, and because of the entire Himalayas, these places will not have to worry about enemy invasions and the like in this era, and several major passes will be manned.

In the rest of the area, even if someone can come over, they can't come over with a large army, not to mention, the Tianzhu at the other end is a lump of mud, do you still expect the elite troops to invade Datang?

Therefore, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is definitely safe, and in fact, there are not many enemies in the entire southwest region now.

"Okay, that's fine, such a bitter cold place, most of the area is indeed not suitable for human survival, but in the future, the railway will definitely be built from Jincheng." Qiao Shiwang added.

"That's for sure, in any case, Qinghai is also an important logistics base, and if you go to the Western Regions, this is an important fulcrum, and the railway will definitely be repaired." Li Ke nodded.

Qiao Shiwang nodded silently, and then he suddenly sighed without knowing what he thought.