The storm caused by money quickly subsided. Although the people still had doubts, they would store their own money and would be able to accept it quickly. The shops on the market were also open normally. Most of Hequ Road was a foreign population, and everything was dependent on the government, which was easier to control than other places.

The fire flows in July, and as soon as July enters, the weather quickly cools down. Shengzhou is in the north, and the hot summer weather comes and goes quickly.

In the middle of the month, Fan Zhen, the Zhijianyuan, came to Hequ Road to inspect. The Taijianyuan was a temporary dispatcher. If there were natural disasters and man-made disasters in the local area, the court sent ministers to comfort them. Understand the people's hearts, inspect officials, and also rescue the people during natural disasters.

Hequ Road is a new land, so naturally the sect's mass comforting envoy comes to understand the local situation.

Early that morning, Du Zhongxiao took Shengzhou officials to the station to welcome Fan Town. When he was in a downturn, he was deceived by villains. Fan Town was a county magistrate and helped him a lot. This kind of kindness was not easy, and Du Zhongxiao always remembered it in his heart.

After getting off the train, the followers prepared the ceremony. Fan Zhen saw Du Zhongxiao and his men were there, and hurriedly stepped forward without the ceremony. He bowed in front of Du Zhongxiao: "Jingshou is a commander all the way, and he always lives and dies all the way. How powerful is it! Come to welcome him in person, how can I afford it!"

Du Zhongxiao returned the gift: "You are polite. In the public, you are willing to comfort the court. How can I not welcome me? In private, when I was not in the first place, I encountered difficulties and relied on the kindness of my servants to help me, and I have achieved today. The grace of that day is unforgettable!"

Fan Zhen hurriedly said that he didn't dare to meet the officials around him, accompanied by Du Zhongxiao and returned to Shengzhou City.

When he arrived at the city gate, he saw that Shengzhou City was built very tall and difficult to be built. Fan Zhen said, "I heard that the new city was majestic and could be called the first city outside the border. When I saw it today, it was true. The generals spread the land thousands of miles away, built the city and defended it, and relieved the worries of their descendants. It was enough to be with the famous generals of the ancient times."

Du Zhongxiao was polite and led Fan Zhen into the city and to the General Mansion. If it were someone else, the magistrate Chen Xiliang would have brought officials to greet him. After entering the city, Fan Zhen went to the General Mansion to visit Du Zhongxiao. Even if the inn was not built, he should have been entertaining Fan Zhen in the prefecture of the state and living there. Because of the old friend of Fan Zhen when he was Linying's county magistrate, Du Zhongxiao personally welcomed him into the city and was entertained by the General Mansion, which was a special courtesy.

After going to the living room to use tea, the officials made a fuss and left. In the evening, Du Zhongxiao held a banquet to welcome Fan Town, and they came over again. With the train, as the mode of transportation changes, many etiquettes also changed.

After drinking tea for a while, after chatting about gossip, Fan Zhen said, "This time I came to Hequ Road. In addition to Xuanfu, the emperor and the prime minister also asked me to discuss with Jieshuai. Tomorrow I will go to Shazhou and walk all over Hequ Road. I don't have much time to spend with Jieshuai. Now discuss, don't think I'm taking the liberty."

Du Zhongxiao said: "Don't let the servants be polite, just say something. On Hequ Road, you will definitely do whatever you want!"

Fan Zhen did not dare to say, "A few days ago, the general of Jieshuai said that after the railway was built to Hezhou, he would build all the way to Heishui City. He would also promote Heishuai City to Juyan County, increase the garrison to see the Western Regions, and the troops were approaching Gaochang. With the financial resources of the imperial court, it was not difficult to build the materials from Heishui City, and Hequ Road was also manpower, so this matter was easy to handle. Jieshuai defeated Khitan and Dangxiang in his hands, and expanded the territory for thousands of miles. Now he has 160,000 troops in his hands, and all the training has been completed. It is not surprising that there is one thing that the Khitan has not been destroyed and the clouds have not yet recovered, and the spirits are still in the hands of Dangxiang. At this time, he did not fight against Khitan and Dangxiang, and the Western Regions, which are thousands of miles away, it is really difficult to solve."

Du Zhongxiao thought for a while and said, "There are several reasons for doing this. I will tell you one by one to the servants and reply to the court. First, although the Khitan and Dangxiang defeated the Khitan in the previous battle, they did not hurt their muscles and should not be underestimated. To fight Dangxiang to destroy the country, hundreds of thousands of troops must be involved. Last time they suffered a loss, they made every effort to build a strong city and defend it in the past few months. When the training of the troops on Hequ Road was completed, the Great Wall in the Shanheguan area of ​​Dangxiang was built. Relying on the strong city and with artillery, it is not easy to attack the city. The same is true for Zhenrong Army in the south.

, When the new army is organized, the army has complete artillery and guns, Lingzhou is now. Therefore, to start a war against Dangxiang, the court must prepare for several years. This is especially true for Dangxiang, let alone the stronger Khitan. After Dangxiang was overwhelmed, there were only 300,000 or 500,000 soldiers, and less than 200,000 soldiers, but the Khitan could easily gather millions of soldiers and hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers. Unless the whole country's troops were trained and the Dangxiang was destroyed, they could use troops against the Khitan. Otherwise, there would be risks. When the Song Dynasty had an absolute advantage over Dangxiang and Khitan, why should we take risks?"

"The Western Regions are different. Although the places are large, the population is only concentrated in a few Green State, and there are not many households. There are not many people, so there are naturally not many soldiers. For example, Gaochang State, with 10,000 or 20,000 soldiers, it is enough to be subdued. After the railway was built to Heishui City, it would be stationed at 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers. Even if the dynasty has no intention of the Western Regions, the countries will definitely guard against us. Instead of defending us, it is better to let him not dare to defend, so that the trade routes can be smooth."

"Third, Gaochang was originally the Han land, and there was no homeland of the Tang Dynasty. How could the world be separated from this? Before the Uighurs moved west, most of them were Han people, and everyone was worried about their homeland. When the Uighurs came to the west, although the Han people were not as many as before, they still accounted for the majority. The current Gaochang Kingdom is no longer the Gaochang Kingdom, and most of them called themselves Xizhou. The people, ministers and royal families of Gaochang Kingdom were all Han tribes. In Xizhou, most of the royal ministers were Uighurs. The imperial court entered Gaochang, which can be said to be accusing the people of crime and saving the people."

"Fourth, from the Battle of Hue, the imperial court built Hequ Road, which everyone knows. Several months have passed, and there are no Gaochang Uighur envoys, nor do they submit to the court. It's nothing more than saying that the Khitans were to be successful or failure. Another thing is that most of the people in the territory are Han people, and it's fine if they are thousands of miles away. When the imperial court arrived in Heishui City, how could the black falcons lie down? The imperial court's military power was not powerful, and they were afraid that the Han people would have different intentions, so they would only double their oppression and guard against it."

"The last point is of course the heart of the people. Taking the Western Regions first is actually easy to start and then difficult. Khitan, Dangxiang, and Western Regions are the closest places to the court, but people are the least interested in the court. Youyun, the people regard them as their people, but they do not have this awareness. Dangxiang is a little far away, but they do not care about the Han people and the people of the court. The farthest in the Western Regions, but the Han people there are the hometowns and regard the Central Plains as abandoned children and look forward to their kind mothers."

"What are the ways? When the Tang Dynasty was prosperous, it moved foreign races into Hequ, Youyan, and north of the Central Plains, all of which were the Hu people's horse herding land. The Tang Dynasty declined, and all races rose up and Han people were displaced. These places were close to the Central Plains, and those who could run would run back to the Central Plains. Many of them turned into Hu. On the contrary, the Western Regions were isolated thousands of miles away. The Han people there wanted to move back to their hometowns and could not get it, so they could only live there. According to the people's hearts, the people in the Western Regions were the most respected to the court, followed by Hexi, Xingling, and Hengshan.

There were not many Han people in Youyun. Although there were many Han people in Youyun, they had been in power since the Anlushan Rebellion. The rise and fall of the Five Dynasties, and most of them were borrowed from Youyun. The soldiers and horses in Hedong were domineering the world. In the past, the imperial court was in a weak position, and the Han people here looked down on the people of the Central Plains. The simplest thing to look at the names is that many of the Han people in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun were proud of the name of Hu and gave up their own Han surnames. On the contrary, the Han people in Hexi and Western Regions did not abandon their original surnames. Even if they followed the Hu customs, they often called their surnames as their clans. This is the back of the people."

"With railways, far places may not be far, and near places may not be near. Instead of using the road to determine the order of attacks, people's hearts cannot be determined from the distance to the distance, from near to far. Return to the Western Regions and repel the people from the upside down, several counties in Hexi can go down without fighting."

The late Tang and Five Dynasties were a very special period. They did not come from outside, but exploded from the center. The most core area was the separatist vassal states and developed into the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. A little outside, due to the migration of a large number of foreign races, some joined the warlords in the Central Plains, and some moved westward and northward. The expansion from the near Central Plains was the Fanhu area, and the frontier area was mainly Han people.

Except for the territory of the Song Dynasty, the smaller the Han people were in the closer they were to the Song Dynasty. The farther they were to the west, the more Han people were. The most typical one was Gaochang, where the Han people still accounted for the majority but were under the rule of the Uighurs. The dominant Uighurs moved west from the Hexi area. Too many ethnic groups moved into Hequ area, and those close to Hedong Road joined Hedong warlords. Those who were not close to Hedong Road rose up and oppressed the Uighurs to move west. During the Uighurs' migration westward, they destroyed one Han regime after another. These rising ethnic groups once in a wave, and with the nourishment of the Central Plains, all the Han regimes that were cut off from the Central Plains were destroyed.

The Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun are actually the northern half of Hedong Road and Hebei Road, which is quite special. In the chaotic times of the late Tang and Five Dynasties, the views of the emperor's strong soldiers and horses being strong are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The warlords who competed for the Central Plains were mostly the rise of Hedong Road and Hebei Road, which gave the people there an illusion. They were born to fight, and the Central Plains were the prey they fought for. The establishment of the Song Dynasty deepened this illusion against the military disadvantages of the Khitan.

Where there is such a mentality, people's hearts are the most complicated. Even if they are mostly Han people, it is difficult to get support. The Central Plains regard them as their people, but they look down on the Central Plains forces. Once there are several changes, they will raise a rebellion like drinking cold water, like Guo Yaoshi of history. Without a long period of rule, these two places are unreliable, so it is better to put them in the future to solve them.
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