Two years ago, Li Ye blocked Tongguan and blocked Zhu Wen, and now Zhang Chengfeng has also started to play the same operation.

However, the Western Regions are not as good as Guanzhong, and Zhang Chengfeng is not Zhang Yichao either.

During the Zhang Yichao era, Guiyi Army went to Yiwu in the west and connected to Lingwu in the east. It had a land of more than 4,000 miles, a house with a household registration of one million and a group of hundreds of thousands of armored people.

When Zhang Huaishen was the second generation, the Uighurs who were rising were unable to control the rising Uighurs and defeated Ganzhou Uighurs many times. However, the Uighurs in Xizhou took advantage of the situation to capture Yizhou and lost the grassland supplies, and the Guiyi army gradually declined.

After Zhang Huaishen's death, the Guiyi army's internal struggle for power and profit had become a small oasis country, and its binding force on the surrounding Uighurs was getting smaller and smaller.

Zhang Chengfeng, who wanted to show off his strength in the Western Regions surrounded by powerful enemies, would probably seek death.

Li Ye has been stationed in the camp outside Suzhou for half a month. From scouts and detailed investigations, he learned that Shazhou is actively expanding its troops and hoarding food and grass.

Thanks to the Tang army's reopening of the trade route, Shazhou has also flourished in the past few months, with money and food, which naturally attracted the surrounding nomadic tribes to join.

Whether it is walking on the Ancient Tea-Horse Road or the Hexi Corridor, Shazhou is a must-pass place.

The Imperial City Department's detailed investigation report showed that the Guiyi Army paid 20% of the heavy taxes on merchants, which was five times that of the Tiantang Prefecture!

"Zhang Chengfeng is so ignorant. As long as His Majesty gives orders, he will break through Guasha and the two states in the last month!" When discussing the situation several times, the general in the army was also there, and Gao Xingzhou could no longer bear it.

At this time, Jiuyanquan City must not be compared with Jiayuguan in later generations, and the Guiyi army could not stop the current Tang army.

However, the Western Regions game of chess is obviously not good enough to rely on force to fight.

If Li Ye wants to use the material, manpower and financial resources of the Western Regions to compete for the Central Earth, he cannot start a large-scale killing.

No matter what Zhang Chengfeng thought, the people of Guasha Prefectures were descendants of the Tang army who had wiped out the Western Turks and resisted Tubo for fifty years.

"Why should General Gao be angry? If God wants to destroy it, he must first make it crazy. If the destiny of the Tang Dynasty arises, how can the mere Guasha states block our footsteps?" Li Ye even brought out famous quotes from later generations.

The success of a series of military operations made Li Ye not only respect the status of ordinary soldiers, but also obeyed these generals.

"Your Majesty said very much. The Western Regions are winding and sandstorms, and our army is not ready to go straight." Yang Shi said kindly.

Li Juchuan echoed: "That's true. The purpose of our army's trip is to recover the two states of Gansu and force the Uighurs to surrender. If the military forces are put into the Western Regions, it will cause imbalance in the Western Regions. If it becomes chaotic, it will require more energy to be invested. Secondly, the Uighurs in Ganzhou have not yet completely surrendered, but they are just afraid of the strength of our army and the power of the Tang Dynasty. If our army is a little unsatisfied, the Uighurs will act behind their backs, and Hexi may be in trouble."

Li Ye deeply agrees that his main energy is still on the development of Helong.

With the livestock farming in Qinghai, Hexi, Hehuang and Longyou, the entire Helong will inevitably become a powerful cornerstone for the rise of the Tang Dynasty.

"Which family does not have one or two rioters? Since Zhang Fengcheng did not allow me to reach out to the Western Regions, I want to see what he can do. From now on, Gao Xingzhou's troops will guard Ganzhou, and Yang Shihou's troops will continue to guard Liangzhou."

"The last one will follow the order."

When it was Suzhou's turn, Li Ye suddenly hesitated. Suzhou was at the forefront and had been ruined to the point of being ruined. He could not support the army. His eyes swept over the generals and finally fell on Kang Huaiying, "General Kang led five thousand cavalry troops to guard Suzhou."

Kang Huaiying was stunned for a moment. Obviously, she didn't expect that she would have such an opportunity. She was pushed by Zhe Sili beside her and then she realized and knelt on the ground halfway, "I will obey the order."

"The army will set off camp tomorrow and return to Tiantang Mansion."

However, in the afternoon, the Guiyi Army's mission arrived, with a long camel caravan, either gold, silver or jade, famous swords and horses, as well as some rare objects of this era.

"Ur Zhang Liu's empress has repeatedly returned to the country in Xizhou, so she was unable to come to see Your Majesty in person, and asked me to worship Shazhou's wealth and goods to show my heart." Perhaps because of the bad intentions, Li Ang said humbly.

Li Ye grabbed a gold coin. The front was a bearded man's avatar, and the reverse was a crooked tadpole script, with exquisite workmanship and obviously carefully crafted.

A whole box of golden colors makes people's heart beat faster.

"Shazhou is so rich this year. It seems that Zhang Liuhou has lived a good life." Li Ye joked.

Li Anqian heard the dissatisfaction in Li Ye's language and hurriedly defended, "Thanks to Your Majesty's opening of the trade route, Gui Yi Army can collect some small taxes."

Li Ye looked at the hundreds of large boxes in the camp. If this was a small profit, there would probably be no big profit in the world.

However, he was too lazy to talk to Li Anqian on this issue, "Er Zhang Liu is so proud of his gifts, so what else do you have to ask? Don't go around the corner, and say it together."

So much money is definitely not for "talking about your feelings".

Li Anqian bowed, "Your Majesty is wise, Zhang Liuhou can pay 10,000 taels of gold to the court every year, and only ask for your Majesty's appointment."

This is spending money to buy an official.

A sense of guilt suddenly surged in Li Ye's heart. Zhang Chengfeng is still staying for the future, so the appointment he asked for was very obvious.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, although the Tang Dynasty withdrew from the Western Regions and Helong, without the enthronement of the Tang court, there would be no legal status. As long as the Tang Dynasty did not fall, at least the name was still the sect leader on the eastern land!

Many things in the world require nominality.

This is also one of the legacy left by the Tang Dynasty to Li Ye.

"Zhang Chengfeng will be the governor of Guiyi Army from now on. When I return to Tiantang Mansion, the edict will be issued." Li Ye did not resist the temptation of gold, and no one could not get along with the money.

During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, a shred of money was equal to one tael of silver, and ten taels of silver were equal to one tael of gold.

Ten thousand taels of gold is 100,000 coins, and in such a chaotic era, the value of gold itself is far greater than the money-making on the market.

Li Anqian was overjoyed, "Thank you, Your Majesty, I will always be the Western vassal of the Tang Dynasty!"

Just listen to this kind of thing.

Until now, Li Ye has gained some substantial benefits, and his resentment towards Zhang Chengfeng has also dissipated a lot.

Ten thousand gold coins and twenty thousand silver coins seem to be from a certain country in the west.

"This is a big food coin." Li Juchuan was knowledgeable.

I naturally heard of the name Dashi. In addition, Li Ye also heard of Karakhan, Saman and other countries from merchants.

It seems that the west side is even more turbulent than Middle-earth.

However, Li Ye’s mind is not that far away. Only after leaving Yumen Pass in Shazhou can he be considered a true Western Region.

With the current strength of the Tang court, he was unable to intervene in the Western Regions before Helong had completely digested it.

This is another major reason why Li Ye is unwilling to turn against Zhang Chengfeng.

The next day, the army returned to Tiantang Mansion.

After passing through the Dadou Valley, the south of the Qilian Mountains is another scene.

The villages and cities on both sides of the Taiwan Strait nourished by the Huangshui River gradually flourished, at least more angry than the two states of Gansu and Suzhou.

In late May, wheat seedlings in the fields are growing vigorously, fat fish jump out of the water in the small rivers and streams, and various wild beasts are galloping happily among the grasslands, woods and valleys.

The Qilian Mountains not only blocked the wind and sand in the north, but also nourished the land with snow.

Li Ye of Jiangnan in this era had never been to, but the climate here was much warmer than Guanzhong.

Wild flowers are stepped on under the horse's hooves, butterflies are flying low, and egrets are flying far into the blue sky.

After a slow marching for more than ten days, Li Ye immediately revoked the fishing and hunting order.

Only a nation that eats meat can have the strength to fight the beasts around.

After a whole winter and spring seasons, various wild animals have rushed out of the woodland and ate wheat seedlings. Herbivores are more harmful than carnivores. A wild boar can overturn ten acres of fields in one night. The key is that wild boars are still in groups, and rabbits are even more chewy as vegetables in the ground. There are also golden-tailed rats, which are particularly edible, and they are the same size as rabbits.

Women and elderly people stayed behind the fields, while young and strong men carried bows, arrows and spears, hunting all over the mountains.

The fat fish in the big rivers are caught by military nets, and can reach more than 2,000 kilograms in a day.

What Hehuang lacks the most is food, but what he does not lack is meat.

All kinds of birds and animals, and all kinds of cattle and sheep raised.

When the shattered rivers were gathered together again and a powerful order was established, the huge potential of this soil gradually emerged.

Attraction to people on the southern plateau is fatal.

At this time, the southern plateau was still an eternal serf, the system of nobles, and the nobles controlled everything, so they took the serfs and were subjected to cruel punishments at any time.

There was no choice before, but now the choice is placed in front of them.

The people at the bottom of the class have been brought to the Helong people.

Becoming a Tubo people who are reborn is far from being comparable to a serf crawling at the feet of noble people, but becoming a Tang people is almost a noble person.

Naturalization chart has long been sent to the plateau with ulterior motives by Li Ye.

At first, a group of people who couldn't survive sneaked out.

Later, it was in groups.

Later, there was a manor and a manor run.

The nobles hugged more than a dozen women to sleep at night. When they came out during the day, they even ran away with the guards. The guardian mastiffs ran to Helong with the crowd.

Several small cities south of Taoshui have long been empty.

If it weren't for Zhang Xingjin, Yang Chongben had insufficient money, food and military strength, and Li Ye issued an order to keep his troops still, the two of them would have been unable to hold back.

Of course, the influence of naturalization strategy is only in the area south of Taoshui. The core area of ​​the plateau is like the Kanto vassal states. It is busy hurting each other and has no time to control what is happening under the plateau. Even if you want to, you don’t have the ability.

Tubo was able to rise and annex Duomian, Yangtong, Supi, and Xiangxiong were not enough. Tuyuhun in Qinghai and Hehuang was the biggest nourishment for its rise, and it was also the confidence to challenge the Tang Dynasty.
Chapter completed!