As for the Western Regions, Li Xingchen thinks it may have to wait.
The saying that if you want to sleep, someone will give you a pillow, it is the most suitable way to describe Xu Deyan's "Three Strategies for Pingxi".
Stabilizing Jiangnan and encouraging further exploration of Nanyang is what Li Xinchen wants to do now.
Rectify the troops and horses, attack by sea and land, and pacify Liaodong in one battle. This is what Li Xinchen will do in the future.
The Western Region is too big and too far away, and every country in the Western Region is open to do business and is determined not to cause trouble. Li Xinchen really couldn't care about them for a while.
The "Three Strategies to Pingxi" directly put the focus of the work of pacifying the Western Regions on first exploring the details of the countries in the Western Regions, and naturally bought enough time for the imperial court to adjust its strategy and complete more important things first, so as not to force
Li Xingchen invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the Western Regions.
However, the countries in the Western Regions have always been relatively honest in history. They have no intention of grabbing territory from the Central Plains Dynasty. They just guard one-third of an acre of the Western Regions. Gaochang was destroyed by the prosperous Tang Dynasty. Part of the reason was that the Qu family of Gaochang at that time
The alliance with the Turks was considered to be on the opposite side of the Tang Dynasty. Although Gaochang did not do anything in the alliance, he only scolded the Tang Dynasty several times. Part of the reason was naturally that Gaochang controlled the key point from Hexi to the Western Regions.
Both the Sui and Tang dynasties were working to restore trade with the Western Regions. Gaochang's "emotions, sorrows, joys, and sorrows" were a hurdle that couldn't be bypassed, so it was better to deal with this guy directly.
What Gaochang is experiencing now is different from what it was in another time and space.
The other Gaochang has the right to look down on the Sui and Tang dynasties, because the leader of the Turks they followed was indeed the one who once dominated all the heroes and dominated the Western Regions. Even if the Turks were defeated in the Tang Dynasty, the Western Turks who migrated westward were still the same.
An enemy powerful enough to threaten the security of the northwest border of the Tang Dynasty.
But Gaochang's fate is a bit tragic.
Originally, they were the younger brothers of the Turks, but who would have thought that the Turks were scattered and dispersed. In addition, Tugu Hun came from the south, so Gaochang naturally had no choice but to become Tugu Hun's younger brothers again.
Perhaps Gaochang thought he could live peacefully in his small life, but who knew that the boss Tuyuhun went to provoke the big man, but he was beaten to pieces under the watchful eyes of his younger brother.
Seeing that the two bosses were taken care of by the big man, Gao Chang could no longer turn a blind eye to the big man. Even if he didn't want to hug the big man, he still had to think about whether he had the ability to compete with the big man. If he didn't have the ability, he would just squat in the Western Region. What?
Don't say anything, don't do anything, just make a little money with peace of mind.
Gaochang and other countries in the Western Regions are relatively obedient, so Li Xingchen naturally doesn't mind letting them drink a few more sips of soup and enjoy themselves, and wait until the big man is free to take over the Western Regions.
As for the memorial that came from Fuqi City, it was a little earlier than the one from Dunhuang.
The Han army captured Fuqi City and killed Murong Fuyun, which was what Li Xingchen had expected. The tribes on the plateau were basically under the control of the Han, and Murong Fuyun had no place to escape even if he wanted to.
Go, if Yu Wenxin can't catch Murong Fuyun, then Li Xingchen will have to figure out whether he is suitable to take charge of it alone.
This memorial went directly from Fuqi City, through the Huangshui Valley, through Guanzhong to catch up with His Majesty's fleet, and also brought the news of victory to every corner of the plateau and northwest.
At this point, the war in the northwest, which lasted for half a year from the end of the Northern Expedition of the Han Dynasty to the present, has come to an end. The collapse of Tuyuhun means that no one is qualified to challenge the Han Dynasty in the northwest, at least in the short term.
No, perhaps it would be more accurate to say that in the northwest and on the plateau, no matter whether they are Qiang people or Tuyuhun people, there is no one who is not a subject of the Han Dynasty.
This memorial passes through the simple road that is already under construction in the Huangshui Valley, passes through the Chidao network that is being improved in the northwest, and also passes through the straight road that is under construction between Luoyang and Chang'an, and then goes south along the Honggou Canal. The transportation is convenient.
The speed of message transmission all shows that the Han Dynasty is improving its road transportation network at an unprecedented speed. It is also in an unprecedented state, representing the Han nation and the Chinese nation with the participation of other tribes and ethnic groups.
Rise in the East and look upon the world.
Only a few people who saw this memorial with their own eyes knew that the Han Dynasty's conquest of the entire snow-covered plateau had only just begun.
The appearance of Tubo undoubtedly showed that the Han Dynasty had a new opponent on the plateau.
"Nangri Lun Praise." When Li Xingchen saw the memorial, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Just not Songtsen Gampo.
But if we calculate the time, Songtsan Gampo may not have been born yet, or he may be just a teenager. This Nangri Lunzan is his father.
Because Nangri Ronzan reused new nobles - most of these new nobles came from other tribes annexed by the Xibonye tribe, they had no interest in sticking to the old system and territory of the Xibonye tribe. Instead, they actively wanted to
In order to cooperate with Nangri Lunzan to truly integrate Tubo into a kingdom - so he encountered hostility from the old nobles of the Xiboye tribe, and was eventually poisoned by these old nobles, which meant another failure of integration in the history of Tubo.
It wasn't until the rise of Songtsen Gampo that he actively reformed internally and focused on learning and introducing advanced technologies from the Tang Dynasty externally, thus avoiding making things behind closed doors. Only then did Tibet officially appear in history as a unified kingdom, and thus began the era of dominating the plateau.
For Tubo, the acute internal conflicts at this time may be the most dangerous time.
And for the big man, this may be the best time.
Li Xingchen sometimes had to lament that the era he came from seemed to be divided between the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Central Plains was inextricably divided, but in fact it was the time when China's external environment was the most stable.
Tuyuhun and Turks stared at each other, and neither of them had expanded to the point in history where they could travel freely to places like Northwest and Bingzhou, as if they were in uninhabited territory.
Goguryeo tried Tantan, but because of the constraints behind it, it did not dare to attack Liaodong. Tubo itself still had a head of lice that it couldn't scratch, and it had no threat to Tuyuhun.
In Nanzhong and Lingnan, heroic girls such as Mrs. Xian appeared again. They took peace and tranquility and cooperation with the Central Plains dynasties as their main policies and would never find trouble to participate in the struggle in the Central Plains.
As for those in the Western Regions, they are just a bunch of salted fish and have no dreams.
It seems that God is favoring this nation. Since they are fighting a civil war, let the guys from outside be honest. When they have the results and a powerful dynasty stands up, let the guys from outside start one after another.
Make trouble, and then get beaten one by one.
It seems that the Turks, Goguryeo, and Tubo, these countries and nations that have either been inseparable from China in history or have countless grievances and hatreds with China, are more like the ordeal prepared by God for the rise of China.
Knife stone.
After closing the memorial, Li Xingchen could only sigh in his heart.
Perhaps this is the fate of the nation.
In the dark, there is God's will to protect China, and the blood will flow forever.