Aguda represents the surrender of the Jurchens. The largest force in the north was swept away. A power vacuum to a certain extent appeared in the north, but how could Daxia sit and see this situation without any hesitation?

When it comes to how to manage such a huge area in the north, court ministers have had a lot of debate, because in harmonious places, most agricultural civilizations are deserts, grasslands, and plateaus, where farming civilizations are not suitable for survival. These places are places that nomads are naturally fond of, but they have always stayed away from them for farming civilization.

Some ministers believe that it is still to support the nomadic peoples pro-Daxia, such as asking the Zubu tribe to guard these places, while the Daxia only needs to have a good relationship with the Zubu tribe.

However, some ministers made arguments that although the northern region is not suitable for cultivation, the truly powerful Central Plains dynasty did not really give up these places. Whether it is the strong Han Dynasty or the prosperous Tang Dynasty, as long as there is a chance, it will definitely take a lot of effort to control it, even if it costs a lot.

The two arguments have their own reasons and cannot convince each other. In the end, Ouyang Bian came out to set the tone.

——The times have changed, and this area is not as difficult to manage as imagined.

Ouyang Bian explained that the difficulty in governance in these places is that they are too vast and are not suitable for the survival of a large number of agricultural populations. This difficulty is actually caused by insufficient technology.

If the place is vast, there will be a risk of the emperor being far away. However, there are trains in the transportation area. As long as railways are built in key areas to form a railway-connected urban agglomeration. For example, from Zhongjing as the starting point, a railway connecting the north and south will be built, passing through Yikunzhou, Linhuang Prefecture, Qinzhou, Changchun Prefecture, Yueliji, and Olimi. Then the key cities on this line are under control. Wherever there is an invasion or rebellion, the army can quickly reach the counter-insurgency or resist invasion through railways, and a large amount of military supplies can also arrive quickly - this was originally the most difficult and most consuming thing.

Regarding economic issues, the Central Plains dynasty is difficult to control in these places because they can only invest unilaterally, and some of the specialties produced cannot be transported out. However, it is different with railways. Just talking about livestock, you can create a lot of wealth to feed back to these places.

The population of the Daxia Dynasty is now more than 100 million. With the development of the economy, the demand for meat will become more and more intense. The livestock produced in the Hetao region alone is not enough for the consumption of the entire Daxia people. In recent years, the meat prices in Daxia have increased significantly. There are inflation reasons, but the fundamental reason is that the supply of meat is insufficient.

Therefore, as long as the train can reach the north, a large amount of livestock can be transported from the north. Although the value generated in this aspect may not make up for the investment in railways, as long as it can be less than half, it is worth it.

On the one hand, the north can generate long-term benefits, and as long as the time is long enough, it can make up for the investment in this area;

On the other hand, in terms of geographical value, the Mongolian Plateau's role as a barrier to the Daxia Dynasty is irreplaceable. With the barrier to the Mongolian Plateau, the Daxia Dynasty has broad room for strategic detours.

Imagine that if the northern enemy arrives at Linhuang Prefecture, then he can advance to Zhongjing and cross the Great Wall at any time, which will be the hinterland of the Daxia Dynasty. With the natural barrier of the Mongolian Plateau, the threat from the north can basically be ignored.

A stable north is crucial to the Central Plains civilization. With this barrier, the Central Plains dynasty can spend national strength on economic development, rather than spending military force and defensive against northern enemies.

The Song Dynasty is a very typical example.

It is said that the weakness of the Song Dynasty was because of the improper country. There are some truths, but it is not the root cause. The root cause is that the Song Dynasty did not have a northern barrier. Without this barrier, there was never a way to truly develop with peace of mind.

When the Song Dynasty was so rich, the government was still so poor that it was still very poor. Of course, the tax revenue was not too high, but the military expenditure was too large. With such a large size of the Western Army and the Northern Army, the military expenditure that would burn every year would account for 80% of the expenditure.

80%!

Remember this number.

The countries in later generations, including the most powerful countries, were only 3.5%, but the Song Dynasty had a total of 80%. How terrifying this is!

But this is necessary.

The Western Xia was poor and poor, and the Liao Kingdom was big and arrogant. The Song Dynasty was just a fat man who was fat and was castrated over and over again. Naturally, he had to pay a lot of money to tighten the fence.

The current land area of ​​the Daxia Dynasty is three times larger than that of the Song Dynasty, but it only needs to maintain less than two million troops. Of course, if we have to calculate strictly, two million people in the police system must be added.

But this is also because the governance focus of the Daxia Dynasty was different from that of the Dayin Song Dynasty. The Dayin maintained rule, while the Daxia Dynasty wanted to create a business environment conducive to economic development. The degree of refinement here is more than ten times, and it is not the same as that.

Therefore, under such technical conditions, governing the north may not be a waste of national strength. If done well, not only can the cost be recovered, but it is also benefited by the ten times the benefits generated in a safe environment.

Ouyang Bian was full of confidence in these things because the Daxia Dynasty was rich.

The booming economy in recent years and the benefits brought by the industrial revolution have begun to emerge. In fact, excluding the commercial tax that already accounts for the majority, even agricultural tax is also considerable.

Although Daxia strictly implemented the agricultural tax of the fifteenth tax and one day, and also exempted all kinds of harsh and miscellaneous taxes, the agricultural tax collected was more than ten times that of the previous one.

Where does this ten times the agricultural tax come from?

First, the development level in the south is getting higher and higher. Jinghu Road and Guangnan Road have been classified as Jiaozhi Road, including Jiaozhi Bagan and other countries. This is the increase in income brought about by the increase in total;

Second, Ouyang Bian used the land reform to achieve the distribution of resident and acres, and the officials and gentry paid the grain together. Through tax innovation, tax revenue was directly connected by the court, rather than the many people in the middle.

In this way, the agricultural tax alone is already more than the highest annual year of the Song Dynasty, and the commercial tax is three times that of the agricultural tax!

Why did Ouyang Bian propose to beat the Jurchens this time? Zhang Dun didn’t have so much nonsense? Of course, it was because there was money in the treasury.

That is, he will earn as much as he earned in the past few years, otherwise Zhang Dun would applaud if Ouyang Bian proposed to expedition to Seljuk.

I have earned a lot in recent years, but spent more, and infrastructure construction is too expensive, especially the big dog owners of the China Railway Corporation, who lay thousands of kilometers of railway mileage every year. The railway is a gold-swalking monster, which means that the economy of the Daxia Dynasty flourished, otherwise it would be really unbearable.

But this is interesting. The money saved by railway investment in later wars due to the existence of railways can offset a large part of it.

For example, when the Song Dynasty was attacked, the existence of railways reduced the transportation loss of materials by more than half. What a huge project to destroy Song Dynasty, saving half of the loss, that is, the amount of funds of tens of millions of qians. Such a large amount of funds can indeed make up for a lot of investment.

There are also the War to Destroy the Jurchens. The Daxia Dynasty directly sent supplies to Dading Prefecture by train, and then transported them from Dading Prefecture to other places. This loss has been reduced too much.

In fact, it is precisely because of the support of the railway that the battle against the Jurchens can be so smooth. After all, the war is just logistics.

In the past, the military was not weak during the Han and Tang dynasties. Most of the national strength was mainly consumed in logistics. Because of the difficulty of logistics supply, only elite troops could be adopted at a time. Even an army of tens of thousands of people would have to provide at least 200,000 to 300,000 to provide logistics support for them.

During the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of Sui failed to conquer Goryeo in three battles, and eventually led to the destruction of the country. In fact, it was still logistics. Otherwise, how could a mere Goguryeo be able to resist the *** dynasty?

Ouyang Bian's explanation goes straight to the essence, and thanks to his consistent strategic vision, no one has opposed his tone.

Therefore, the general direction was set for the governance of the northern region.

Regarding this general direction, there are two specific measures: one is to garrison troops on the frontier, and the other is to establish a border economic zone. In terms of infrastructure, railway construction is the center, and economic urban belts along the railway are built, and various cities are connected to achieve effective rule over these areas.

During the discussion of these things, the Emperor Yelu Hongji of Liao Kingdom had probably been forgotten, and no one even proposed to hand him over to Chang'an City. It was because Wang Shao saw that Yelu Hongji had a difficult life and sent him to Chang'an City. Only then did someone realize that the Emperor Yelu Hongji of Liao was still alive.

Yelu Hongji is still alive, but the Liao Dynasty has already perished. Even though the Emperor of Liao is still there, the court has collapsed.

Officials of the Liao Kingdom, especially the Han officials, have surrendered to Daxia and actively participated in Wang Shao's pacification of the northern region, which has made Wang Shao's pacification more effective.

Ouyang Bian was quite pleased with Yelu Hongji's arrival, because there was one more person dancing during the annual meeting.

Of course, Ouyang Bian did not treat these monarchs who lost their country, so he offered to the fields and mansions, and then appeared as a mascot during some festivals. This is a great country that should have face, and less decent will be less.

Yelu Hongji adapted faster than Zhao Xu, because in the next few years, he was beaten by the Jurchens and couldn't sleep all night. If he was captured by the Jurchens, he would probably not have enough food and food, but eating shit was real. However, when he arrived in Daxia, although it was far inferior to when he was an emperor, he had food and drink, and had a rich spiritual and civilized life, which fulfilled his lifelong dream, which was to become a Chinese.

After Yelu Hongji arrived, he found out that the Daxia court had a high degree of freedom for these kings who had lost their country. Although some people were monitoring them, as long as they did not frequently contact sensitive people, their lives would not be disturbed. Yelu Hongji really liked such a life.

He didn't have much contact with those officials of the Great Xia, but Zhao Xu, Li Bingchang, and Li Gande, the kings who were destroyed could come and go. Yelu Hongji often looked for them, but there were also some disharmonious things between them.

Li Bingchang is an official from Daxia. Although he will also contact them, he obviously has a sense of boundaries.

Zhao Xu and Li Gande have no sense of boundaries, but Yelu Hongji is more willing to contact Zhao Xu. As for Li Gande... Hey, what qualifications do you have to be on par with the monarch of my big country, the devastated country?

As for Li Gande's rejection of Yelu Hongji, he was also a little disdainful while being angry - hehe, the descendant of a barbarian dared to bare his teeth with me, the Chinese descendant?

Yes, in Li Gande's eyes, although the Liao Kingdom learned Han culture, the one who learned Han culture the best was that they were the Yue Li Dynasty. What about the Liao Kingdom, Xixia, and Goryeo, were all inferior to the Yue Li Dynasty!

As for Zhao Xu's opinion of these people, although he didn't speak, when he arrived at his mansion, he despised those who were all foolish masters. However, when he thought of his same situation, he couldn't help but feel unfair and burst into tears.

Ouyang Bian didn't know that the WeChat group of the king of the Destroyed Country he had gathered had already started to roll it up, but he still wanted to continue to make more people roll it up. This time he was interested in the Tubo tribes.

Tubo is no longer the Tubo in the Tang Dynasty.

In 755, the "Anshi Rebellion" broke out in the Tang Dynasty. Emperor Xuanzong of Tang fled from Chang'an to Sichuan. Because the Tang Dynasty mobilized a large number of troops to deal with Tubo to quell the rebellion, the defense in the western region was empty, and Tubo took the opportunity to occupy large areas of the Tang Dynasty and Hexi.

And this was the last heyday of Tubo.

During the reign of Chisong Dezan, the Tubo Dynasty's jurisdiction expanded greatly. The eastern part was generally bounded by Longshan Mountain, to the north, to Helan Mountain in Ningxia, and to the south, Nanzhao was a vassal state. After 790, Tubo occupied Beiting and Anxi, and decades later, Tubo lost Beiting and Anxi.

According to Tibetan and historical records, Tubo once advanced to the north bank of the Ganges River south of the Himalayas.

Frequent wars weakened the national strength of Tubo, and Tang Dynasty generals Li Sheng, Wei Gao, Shi Jingfeng and others severely damaged the Tubo army many times.

After entering the 9th century, Tubo began to decline from prosperity and could no longer expand outward.

In 821, Tubo Zampo and Li Kezu sent a special envoy to the Tang Dynasty to request an alliance and concluded a friendly alliance.

The grand alliance ceremony was held in Chang'an and Luoshe, the capital of Tang, and the Communist Wen emphasized that we should always be reconciled.

In 823, the Tang-Tibet Alliance Monument established in Lhasa still stands in front of the Jokhang Temple and has become a precious evidence of the friendship and unity of the people of the Han and Tibetan peoples.

After the end of the 8th century, internal contradictions in the Tubo ruling class became increasingly intensified. The competition among the royal family caused Tubo to split. Another melee between the Tubo generals, which brought greater disaster to the people.

After Dama's death, due to the struggle between his two sons, Yongdan, adopted by the eldest princess, and Ou Song, born by the young princess, the ministers were divided into two factions, and the Tubo royal family was divided into two branches and fought for years.

Tubo's generals in various places also dominated the army and fought for each other. In the past, some tribes belonging to Tubo also successively broke away from the jurisdiction of Tubo.

Immediately afterwards, a large slave civilian uprising broke out, sweeping across the Tibet region. The Tubo Dynasty collapsed with the decline of Buddhism under such a situation.

Shortly after the founding of the Song Dynasty, Yu Sila, a descendant of a tribal leader in Tubo, established a regime in the Huangshui River Basin of Qinghai Province, centered on Miaochuan and Qingtang. This was a local feudal regime with Tubo and Qiang as the main body at that time.

Yan Silu sent envoys to pay tribute to the Emperor of the Song Dynasty many times and begged for official positions. In 1032 AD, Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty appointed Yan Silu as "General Ningyuan, Envoy of the Aizhou Tuanjian" and gave him a generous salary.

In 1041 AD, the Emperor of the Song Dynasty also named Yi Siluo as "The Procuratorate Taibao Chong Baoshun, Hexi and other army governors."

Since then, Dong Wen, Ali Gu, Zhao Zheng, Long and others, were appointed officials from the Song Dynasty for generations.

The area ruled by the Yesi Luo tribe was affiliated with Qinfeng Road, which belonged to the 26th routes of the Northern Song Dynasty.

By 1116 AD, all the areas of the Chásila tribe were changed to counties and counties in the Song Dynasty.

In addition, Emperor Zhenzong of Song also appointed Pan Luozhi, the leader of the Tibetan Liugu tribe of Liangzhou, as the official position of "Yanzhou Defense Envoy and the Inspection Envoy of the Western Capital of Lingzhou" in 1001 AD.

Starting from the 11th century AD, the Song Dynasty dispatched bows and arrows and other weapons to Tibetan tribes in the Hexi Corridor and other places, and recruited Tibetan archers to establish a military system similar to the Song Dynasty militia among Tibetans to jointly defend against invasions and harassment by the Xixia people.

Previously, Wang Shao developed a large amount of land in Linxia, ​​Gansu and Lintao, and recruited more than 300,000 Tibetans to engage in cultivation.

After Daxia occupied the Sixth Route in Shaanxi, these Tibetans followed suit to Xixia, but this was only a marginal area. In addition, most tribes still occupied most of the Tubo area and refused to surrender to Daxia.

Now these tribes cannot pose a threat to Daxia, but if this land is not reclaimed, it is always a hidden danger. Without a plateau barrier, the enemy can attack from here at any time, which is very unfavorable to forming a whole Chinese strategic defense circle, so this place must be reclaimed!
Chapter completed!