In fact, the imperial court acted quite quickly, and it took eight hundred miles to rush to deliver Li Tai's appointment to Li Jing.
Li Jing changed hands, and Li Tai, who originally planned to follow Li Jing to Qinghai Lake to see it, became the governor of Shanzhou.
At the same time, the Hehuang Valley was renamed Shanzhou, and Li Tai was given full authority to manage it and be responsible for assisting the Tang army's logistics and transportation.
To be honest, this appointment was a bit sudden for Li Tai, but for Li Jing, it came at the right time.
Originally, Li Jing was still thinking about how to place Li Tai behind him, but now that he has the order from the Holy Emperor, it is natural and reasonable to place Li Tai.
Li Tai looked at Li Jing's triumphant appearance, as if a scapegoat had been thrown away for him.
If he hadn't been in his sixties, I would have had the urge to slap him from behind.
However, after Li Jing confirmed that Li Tai would stay in Shancheng, in addition to Li Tai's two thousand troops and the two hundred medical battalion personnel requested by Li Tai, Li Jing also left about three thousand wounded soldiers to assist Li Tai.
Thai.
The next step is to go to Qinghai Lake, which requires climbing a quite high mountain road. It is impossible for seriously injured people to climb with them.
Likewise, he was not very relieved to leave Li Tai in the newly captured city of Shanzhou, so he arranged for some wounded soldiers to be given to Li Tai.
By the way, I asked Ren Yaxiang to pay more attention to him. After all, the cities captured in the war are different from the cities in the rear.
However, keeping these more than 3,000 wounded soldiers was, for Li Jing, killing two birds with one stone.
One is to reduce the logistical pressure on oneself, and the other is to wait until these people are healed and can be used by King Yan.
Although Li Jing had no intention of directly supporting Li Tai, in the past few days, Li Tai had won the respect of Li Jing, so if he could take care of him, Li Jing would also take care of him.
But even so, Li Tai still has a headache looking at Shancheng now!
Li Taiwei sighed a little, looking at Shancheng which had been severely scratched by Hou Junji and other soldiers from the Tang Dynasty were also visiting one after another, he had to admit that at least during this period, Datang was the aggressor.
They are imperialist powers!
Li Tai thought of this and secretly made up his mind, so he had to extend the prime life of this great power no matter what!
Most of the local people who survived were only women and children. There were not many men alive, and most of them were under the age of fifteen.
Li Tai could tell that these people looked at Tang Jun with serious fear and heartfelt hatred.
If eyes could turn into sharp swords, then what he would have to face now would be the return of Ten Thousand Swords.
"Hou Junji, you have caused a lot of trouble for me by staying here!" Li Tai sighed verbally and said to Xue Lie next to him,
"Rengui, go and put up a wooden sign at the gate of Shancheng. Then find someone who understands the Tuyuhun language to read it out."
"King Yan, do you want to appease the local people?" Xue Lie asked after hearing Li Tai's words.
"Appease?" Li Tai shook his head and said, "I want to tell them that I like to eat people's hearts and specialize in doing evil things. There is no reason to find them now. If they don't respect my orders and one of them commits a crime, everyone will be implicated!"
When everyone around Li Tai heard what Li Tai said, the corners of their mouths couldn't help but twitch. Lu Anshou added:
"King Yan can't do this. If the saint knows about it, he won't be able to blame you, but we are afraid that we will be punished by the saint!"
"That's right. I am the King of Yan after all. I need to cherish my feathers a little more, so let's change it in the name of Lu Anshou!"
As Li Tai spoke, he patted Lu Anshou on the shoulder and said,
"An Shou, in order to stabilize Shancheng, I need someone to be a villain. I'm afraid I will wrong you!"
"No... I'm not wronged!" Lu Anshou didn't expect that he just interjected a word and actually got involved with him.
But in the face of Li Tai's condolences, what can Lu Anshou do? Can't he refuse?
"But King Yan...won't he appease the local people?" Zu Changming couldn't help but ask after listening to Li Tai's words.
"After the behavior of the soldiers, wouldn't it be disgusting if we behave like a family of soldiers and civilians now?"
Li Tai pressed his temples and said, "Let's count the remaining people.
Let these people take households as the basic unit, every five households as one guarantee, the five guarantees as one big guarantee, and the ten major guarantees as one all guarantees. Each guarantee needs one person as a Ding, each one is guaranteed, and one person is chosen to be the leader.
Let them assist us in our actions and punish them together if they make mistakes."
"Assist us? Just them? I feel like we can still control Shancheng without them!" Lu Anshou said.
"But what I want is to manage Shancheng well!" Li Tai smiled and continued,
"But I do need someone to play blackface. From now on, you will be responsible for leading people to search the streets and show your arrogance.
Don't affect the normal life of the people. If someone bumps into your hands, remember how Gao Ling dealt with them!"
"Send it to the coal mine to dig for coal!" Lu Anshou said this, becoming more energetic and asked, "Is there coal here too?"
"No, but it's the same as sending them to dredge the waterways. After all, we have to maintain Mr. Li's food transportation as much as possible!"
Li Tai calmly decided the price those who violated him would have to pay, and continued,
"The other person will be implicated if they make a mistake. I don't expect them to like us. I just need them to obey orders!"
"Does King Yan want the local people to listen to us and work? How is this possible?"
Ren Yaxiang finally understood what Li Tai meant and knew exactly what Li Tai's purpose was in saying this.
When Li Tai heard what Ren Yaxiang said, he was silent for a while and said, "Let's take a look first.
The first step is to determine how many households are left in Shancheng now, so Rengui, please lead your headquarters to post notices first.
Announce the news that we have taken over Shancheng first, and register the number of people in Shancheng before we talk about anything else."
Xue Rengui saluted and responded. Although he did not understand Li Tai's operations, he believed that King Yan could stabilize this area.
As Xue Rengui led people to count the remaining people in Shancheng, Li Tai also began to ask others to clean up Shancheng.
After all, many houses in Shancheng were destroyed due to the war. Now that I want to develop Shancheng, I have to use this opportunity to re-plan Shancheng.
After all, compared to Shancheng's spontaneous development, it would be better to plan it all from scratch.
Today's Shancheng is the future Xining. Even if it is modern, only Xining in Qinghai is worthy of development.
If China wants to control the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Shancheng must be completely in its own hands.
While his men were cleaning up the ruins in Shancheng, Li Tai was thinking about the military map Li Jing left for him.
On the next day, he took a few doctors who personally searched for local medicinal materials, a guide who knew the local language, and his five hundred personal guards, and started wandering around Shancheng.
When crossing rivers or climbing mountains, if you meet local people, you will rely on the guide's translation to chat with them and learn about the local environment, especially what are the most common crops here.
To be honest, the Tuyuhun people came all the way from the Xianbei people. Although they are mainly engaged in animal husbandry, they still have some farming ability, which is certainly not strong. It is better than sowing a handful of seeds and relying on the sky to make a living.
But at least in Shancheng, there is still some cultivated land. I asked an old farmer to inquire and learned that the most common crop grown here is highland barley. Wheat is also grown, but not many people grow it because the taste is not very good.
When Li Tai heard this, he finally felt relieved, because it was enough for Wheat to survive here.
As for the bad taste of wheat, this is natural.
After all, wheat is not ground into powder and then processed. It would be strange to just eat wheat rice and taste good. For Li Tai, this can be solved through technology.
But this alone is not enough. Again, the Hehuang Valley developed in this way can be self-sufficient, but it is not enough to support the resources required for the construction of Qinghai.
If all these resources depend on Chang'an, it will be necessary to wait until he ascends the throne to allocate enough resources and provide support at any cost.
"It seems that there is no point in being anxious!" Li Tai looked serious, and he had some vague thoughts in his heart.
But if we want to truly put it into practice, we still need the support of local people. Now we must first determine the positioning of Hehuang Valley!
After Li Tai observed the terrain around Shancheng, understood the water potential of the Huangshui River, and learned about the local crops, he had a plan in mind for the Hehuang Valley. Even if the plan was rough, it should be fine for hundreds of years.
The first is the weather, because the average temperature of the entire earth has increased, which makes Shancheng's natural environment even more superior than Xining in modern society.
Needless to say, this accumulated temperature alone allowed wheat to take root in Xining and even become a mainstream food.
As for growing wheat, those who graduated from Li Tai Agricultural College are not necessarily top talents, but at least they have a fairly mature planting plan. If you directly apply it, you can immediately achieve an abundance of grain. This is the most important thing.
Otherwise, if this place can only grow highland barley, then I will need to study for at least two or three years before I can finally improve the farming plan and farming technology. If I want to develop this place, I am afraid I will have to delay it. After all, there is no food, and any development is just a dream.
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Therefore, sometimes the national destiny is really unstoppable when it comes.
Precisely because the weather is right, Chinese technology can easily take root in the Hehuang Valley, and the local people can quickly integrate into China through technology.
Secondly, the location is advantageous. This is the only way for Hua Datang to go to Tubo. At the same time, with the settlement of Tuyuhun and the recovery of the four counties in Hexi, the Silk Road in China has basically become smooth and helpless.
At least the road from Chang'an to Dunhuang has been completely opened. In the future, Wang Wei will be able to boldly say that he advises you to drink another glass of wine and leave Yangguan in the west without any old friends.
The Hehuang Valley has the potential to become an important granary along the entire Silk Road, supporting the food consumption along the Silk Road.
To be honest, with a commercial road as long as the Silk Road, it would be unrealistic to think that it was just businessmen traveling without the support of farmers.
In fact, even in modern times, agriculture, the primary industry that seems to be somewhat bleak, is still the most important foundation of the entire modern society.
As long as the job is not secure, the secondary and tertiary industries will be nothing more than rootless roots.
Not to mention ancient times, why is it that after the Tang Dynasty, the Silk Road was rarely mentioned?
It’s not that people don’t want to recreate the glory of the Silk Road. After all, whoever is in power is stupid and who wouldn’t copy the existing plans.
The real problem is that as the global climate cools, there is a serious shortage of water vapor along the entire Silk Road.
Cultivated land has been buried, oases have disappeared, rivers and lakes have dried up, and there are no resting places on the Silk Road that can provide tourists with business trips.
The disappearance of these small strongholds made it difficult for small business travelers to move forward. Only the powerful and large business travelers, and even those with a certain level of national background, could cross the Silk Road.
But the reality is that any business route requires the support of small and micro enterprises. When all these small and micro entrepreneurs are lost, this business route is destined to be abandoned.
The construction of the modern Belt and Road Initiative or the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway, to a certain extent, relies on science and technology to forcibly resolve the adverse effects of weather and reopen the abandoned Silk Road.
It's just that the country didn't expect that this plan was proposed. As a result, the weather returned, the average temperature increased, and the water resources in these areas gradually became abundant.
What Li Tai can do is to build the Hehuang Valley into the granary of Hexi.
It doesn't matter how much money the granary itself earns. What's important is that relying on this granary can revitalize the surrounding area and achieve overall improvement.
Of course, to use a more vivid example, the Hehuang Valley can be regarded as Jiangxi. Its role is not to develop itself, but to support the comprehensive development of the surrounding economic belt surrounding Jiangxi.
The only difference is that Jiangxi sent people, while Hehuang Valley only sent food.
The Hehuang Valley must not only support sufficient food for the four counties in Hexi, but also support the fodder for the horses beside Qinghai Lake. This is basically the basic task of the entire Hehuang Valley for at least the next two to three hundred years.
As for other developments, although Li Tai will add more in the future, this general direction can be determined.
That's why a city must be built near Qinghai Lake as a barrier against Tubo. Otherwise, if you manage to develop the Hehuang Valley, and then Tubo comes to fight the autumn wind when there is nothing to do, then who can bear it!
With this general direction determined, Li Tai naturally became clear on how to develop the Hehuang land.
And soon, everyone who was ordered by Li Tai to work completed their tasks and returned to the Governor's Mansion.
There are Lu Anshou, Ren Yaxiang, Xue Rengui, Zu Changming, Tian Changgeng, and Yuan Tiangang...
"Why did Pindao come to attend this meeting? Pindao is just an ordinary Taoist priest!" Yuan Tiangang said a little puzzled.
"You know the weather and can calculate Feng Shui!" Li Tai glanced at Yuan Tiangang and said, "The most important thing is that you are good at mathematics, very good!"