The war in Longnan came quickly and ended quickly.

The Eighth Ministry of Dangxiang was gathering troops and preparing to kill the three kingdoms of Bailang and Qiang in one fell swoop. As a result, the Tuyuhun Khan sent an order to come and quit the war.

Tuyuhun became cowardly, Dangxiang Qiang also retreated, and eventually the Yeli Ministry became the biggest loser, and their pastures and pastures became newly developed border areas of the Tang Dynasty.

Liyuan, Taoyuan, Qiangyuan and Chishui, Tongde, and the Tang Dynasty added five new counties and expanded the territory of 800 miles.

Tuyuhun admitted his defeat, and Zhang Chao did not take any more effort, but stopped when he saw the situation. In Zhang Chao's words, do not rush for a moment. After the phase goal is completed, then digest it well.

The task in the next stage is not to continue to attack blindly, but to complete control and stability of the occupied territory. It is necessary to build roads, cities and forts, and to station troops and immigrate.

These newly occupied lands are all excellent pastures, so they will mainly build pastures and reclaim some arable land. The five counties will be connected to one line and form an armed defense belt with fortress stations. This will not only consolidate the newly occupied hundreds of miles, but also have an important task, which is to protect the newly opened trade route in the south.

Zhang Chao admitted the border demarcation signed by Tuyuhun and Tang Jian.

The big bay of the Yellow River, more than 100 miles wide and several hundred miles long, is still a corridor of the Tuyuhun people, which can connect the Dangxiang Qiang in the east.

However, Zhang Chao also forcibly set a buffer zone about twenty miles wide and fifty miles long between Chihe County and Bailanqiang territory more than 100 miles south.

This area is actually the trade route between Taozhou and Bailan Qiang, Tubo and others in the Tang Dynasty.

In order to avoid being intercepted by Tuyuhun people when transiting in the future, he proposed to set up this passage as a buffer zone. Neither Tang nor Tuyuhun were allowed to station troops here, nor could they intercept Tang, Tubo, Bailan Qiang and other national caravans.

In this way, there were only two sections of the Yellow River between the Tang Dynasty, Tubo, and Bailan Qiang.

Zhang Chao even proposed to build a mall on the Tuyuhun passage between Tang Chihe County and Bailanqiang.

"This mall can provide transactions between the Tang Dynasty, Tuyuhun, Bailan Qiang, Tubo and other parties here to communicate with each other. The Tang Dynasty is responsible for building a city here and paying land rent to Tuyuhun every year."

Just two months after the war, Zhang Chao had built a Chishui County town in the former Baiyeli camp.

In a small county town, Zhang Chaozheng discussed matters with the leaders of the Yeli Ministry.

The former seven tribes of Yeli are now left with the five tribes of Yeli. Hei Yeli was long destroyed, and Qing Yeli lost the leader and half of his clan members, and lost many young and strong people in the last battle. After the war, the remaining population of Qing Yeli was divided by the other five tribes. From then on, five tribes remained.

After the truce, Murong Fuyun re-divided the territory of the Great Bay of the Yellow River, which was about 200 miles long and about 200 miles wide, to the five divisions of Yeli.

The remaining 100,000 people of the five Yeli tribes were relocated here.

The area that Zhang Chao wanted to rent, which was twenty miles wide and one hundred and fifty miles long, was Bai Yeli's territory. If Zhang Chao had proposed such a whimsical idea in the past, the people of Yeli would definitely not understand it.

But now, the five divisions of Yeli have broken their backbone. The two words "Zhang Chao" are in Yeli, and they are the real children's cry. Zhang Chao suggested meeting each other in Chishui County, and no one dared not to come.

Zhang Chao said he wanted to set up a buffer, but they didn't dare to refuse.

"Believe me, after this mall is established, everyone can love you. In the future, everyone can enjoy convenience and get security guarantees when they come here to trade. I suggest that Datang be responsible for the construction and maintenance of the mall, and that a tax of 20 to 10% will be collected on merchants entering the city. This tax will be taken out 20% for Tuyuhun and 10% for the Ministry of Yeli. I suggest that Bai Yeli get half of the Ministry of Yeli get half of the Ministry of Yeli get half of the Ministry of Yeli. What do you think?"

Bai Yeli's new leader was an old man over fifty years old and very calm. He was not a member of the Yelizhen tribe. After Yelizhen's death, Bai Yeli's tribe changed into a big family to take over the tribal power. The old man was named Yeli Qu Cong, who was a relatively pragmatic person.

He would rather cooperate with Tang Jun than fight, and he would not be able to fight.

"How much is the land rent and how much is the share?"

Yeli Qingcong opened his mouth slowly.

Zhang Chao smiled slightly and was willing to ask for the price. This is a good phenomenon.

"How about renting a thousand sheep a year?"

Twenty miles wide and one hundred and fifty miles long. This is a large piece of land, not just a city. However, this land is not valuable. For herders, the land is valuable. But the passage drawn by Zhang Chao on the map is a relatively flat valley passage, and the valleys are relatively fertile.

"Five thousand sheep!"

Yeli Qingcong looked at the map again. The map was drawn more clearly and he could see it clearly.

"two thousand!"

Zhang Chao bargained.

"four thousand!"

"Haha, how about we each take a step back? The rent for 3,000 sheep a year, but this money has to be deducted from the mall's taxes as the mall's maintenance expenses!"

"Yes, but we don't want sheep, we want tea or cloth. A sheep needs to exchange for two kilograms of tea or cloth."

Yeliqu Onion opened a price again. The original transaction in Jiangxin City was originally a pound of tea for three sheep. Later, there were more tea and more merchants, and the price of tea also dropped, from the original one to three, to the current one.

But the price of simmering onions is reduced, and a sheep is exchanged for two kilograms of tea or a piece of cloth.

The price is actually quite fair. Tea is expensive and cheap. The merchants who came to Longxi are basically the worst kind of tea, almost all of which are produced in Guanzhong and Hanzhong. The simplest processing method is to steam and make tea cakes.

It would be very profitable to exchange two pounds of tea for a big sheep.

Zhang Chao also knew that with the increase in commerce, the prices of many commodities will definitely fall a little, and it is impossible for everyone to make such huge profits.

But it's not expensive.

The passage, which is twenty miles wide and one hundred and fifty miles long, is calculated to be 750 square kilometers and has an area of ​​more than one million mu.

A yearly rent of 6,000 kilograms of tea or 3,000 pieces of cloth is not expensive no matter how you look at it.

If it were replaced by a horse, it would only be about a hundred horses.

"It's easy to say, there's no problem with 6,000 kilograms of tea or 3,000 pieces of cloth a year. However, after my Tang Dynasty issued this land rent, this place belongs to my Tang Dynasty's concession."

"Concession?" Yeliqucong frowned.

"In the concession, this place still belongs to Tuyuhun, but Tuyuhun rented it to me Taozhou of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Taozhou has the right to build a city and farm the land on this land."

"Will that become the territory of the Tang Dynasty?"

"No, no, no, the land is still in Tuyuhun, but I rented it here, so I built a city and opened a shopping mall here, and built a farm here for the needs of the city. However, if the Tuyuhun people want to pass through the border, there is no problem. It is just that the land is generally passed through, and there is no need to notify us. But if a large number of people pass through the border, or your army passes through the border, we must notify us in advance."

"Our Tang Dynasty has the right to station a certain number of troops in this concession to protect the market and maintain order. If the Tuyuhun people violated the law in the concession, then they should quote the laws of the Tang Dynasty and be tried and dealt with publicly."

Yeli Qu Cong did not expect that the Tang Dynasty would eventually build a city and garrison troops, which he did not want to see.

"Don't worry, we can agree that the concession will only have less than 3,000 people."

If there are less than three thousand people, it means that there can be up to two thousand people. That is the size of a field army of the Tang army, which can be three or four military palaces.

"Our leader of Yeli, cooperation can be a win-win situation. Our troops are only to protect the mall. After all, this is a place where many companies meet, so how can we do it without anyone maintaining order?"

"The market is located in our territory, so we, Baiyeli, will naturally maintain order."

"There is no need to say this. We have worked hard to build a mall for the sake of the smooth business road. How could we feel at ease to hand it over to the Ministry of Yeli?"

"What if I don't agree?"

Zhang Chao looked at Yeli Qu Cong and chuckled and shook his head, "You won't agree. You know that even if you don't agree, I will build a city here or a city, and the garrison will still garrison. But in this way, our two families will have a bad relationship in the future. And you will also lose the rent of 6,000 kilograms of tea a year, not to mention the 20% tax. If this market is done well, your income will be much more than these 6,000 kilograms of tea."

Yeli Qu Cong's face turned pale and red, red and purple after these words, which was so bullying.

"Does Zhang Duhu completely ignore the alliance established by your emperor and our country's Khan?"

"The sky is high and the emperor is far away. The emperor is not so clear about many affairs in the border areas. We border ministers still have to help the emperor deal with it." Zhang Chao said with a plain face.

Zhang Chao's rogue behavior made Yeliqu Cong quite powerless.

He wanted to threaten war, but he couldn't even say it. Maybe Zhang Wenyuan wanted him to propose a war. As he said, if he wanted to build a city here, no one could stop him. At least the Yeli Ministry could not stop him. If Tuyuhun sent troops to come, then the newly signed alliance would be torn apart.

Zhang Wenyuan was bullying him and not daring to start a war, and Tuyuhun did not dare to start a war.

But the Ministry of Yeli did not dare to start a war again, and even Tuyuhun did not dare to do it.

"Chief Yeli, isn't it great to cooperate and win-win? Look, this place is still from your Yeli Ministry or from Tuyuhun, I just rent it. It's like I bought a house in your Fuyicheng, so why don't I beg for a few guards?"

Yeli Qu Cong really wanted to say that things were not that simple and comparable, but he couldn't find a better reason to refuse.

Zhang Wenyuan now said that he would rent money and would give him a lot of face to the alliance. Otherwise, if he forced himself to take over, his Ministry of Metallurgical Affairs would have no choice but to start a fight.

Zhang Chao also understood the current situation.

He knew clearly where the bottom line was. If Zhang Chaoqiang occupied these hundreds of square kilometers of land, it would be equivalent to cutting Tuyuhun in half with one knife and surrounding the Dangxiang tribes in the east. This would definitely touch the Tuyuhun bottom line. If it was hard to say, the war would have to start.

Zhang Chao didn't want to fight again now, so he finally proposed a way to rent.

Tuyuhun could not have let the Tang Dynasty cut them into half, and Zhang Chao was unwilling to have such a barrier to his trade route, and he wanted to completely open up this section.

Rent becomes a product of compromise.

"You must report this to the great khan!" Yeli Qu Cong was unable to make a decision in the end.

"This is fine. I can wait for your reply, but it's better to hurry up. The Chinese New Year is coming soon. I'll start building a city after the New Year. In fact, don't worry so much. I rent this land, pay you to rent, build a market, and at most several more villages. Your exchanges will still be unobstructed. How good is it to trade between us in the future? Tuyuhun's cattle, horse, fur, medicinal materials, etc., can easily be exchanged for my Tang Dynasty tea, cloth, silk, porcelain, etc., isn't this good? Once this market opens, it will attract caravans from various countries to trade. If you collect taxes, you can still get 20%!"

The Yeli people rode their horses away, crossed the Yellow River and returned to their territory.

"Sanlang, why bother with them? Let's cross the river directly and build cities and garrison troops there. The Yeli people dare not do anything at all." Niu Jianhu shouted.

In the past two months, Zhang Chao has been taking actual control of the newly established five counties.

At the same time, his Taozhou fangs also expanded. The four capitals used to have a total of 200 people, but now there are 800 people from the four capitals, and each of them has become 200 people from the four teams.

The number of soldiers in Taozhou's prefecture is still 10,000, and the total number has not changed.

However, Zhang Chao selected more than 8,000 people from the Yeli soldiers and formed three armies, Pingyi, Zhenman and Fuqiang, each with 2,800 troops. However, these three armies were not formal soldiers, but militias in Taozhou.

Their usual draws and receives training, and their weapons are stored in the military arsenal. Once in war, they can be summoned to assist in defense or go to war.

Because they were a militia, they received preferential treatment and were not sold, but became official slaves in Taozhou, and their families were also official slaves.

Zhang Chao allowed them to live together on a daily basis and also set rewards for their work. If they made military achievements, they could still be exempted from being exempted from being a foreign household, two were exempt from being a miscellaneous household, and three were exempt from being a good person.

From an official slave to a good man, you can be a good man after three releases. These militiamen, as long as they perform well, can still be a free man for their families.

Zhang Chao gave these people goals and hopes, and if they do well, they will be free in the future. Even if they are officials and servants now, Zhang Chao did not allow them to live an inhumane life. They were under the jurisdiction of the Taozhou government, building roads, building cities and farming land, etc., and were divided into different jobs. Their families also arranged work, and they worked hard to get enough food and clothing.

As militiamen, they even have the opportunity to go to the battlefield, have the opportunity to make contributions and receive rewards, and exchange for freedom for themselves and their families.

The number of soldiers in Taozhou Prefecture has not changed, but the actual military strength has been greatly enhanced. Not only are there these three Tuyuhun militia troops. In addition, each county also has a village soldier, and he has to receive training in his spare time. Even the people who were selected as village soldiers are qualified to wear bows and knives in normal times.

As long as there are police, Taozhou now has a total of 150,000 people, and can mobilize at least 30,000 people. This is a very terrifying number. Especially this is not just about recruiting people and strong people, but these people need to be trained and equipped.

The soldiers of each county and township are affiliated with various bows and archery clubs, big sword teams, and long spear clubs. They each have their own specialties. Once they gather together, they can not only become excellent reserves, but also become supplementary soldiers to the soldiers.

With Taozhou's current strength, there is really no pressure to fight the Metallurgical Power Department, and it can even swallow them.

However, the court had signed an alliance with Tuyuhun, and the emperor also issued an order to Zhang Chao to withdraw his troops and stop the battle. Under various circumstances, setting up a concession is actually the best choice.
Chapter completed!