Datang: Li Shimin begged me to rebel

What happened in Baicaowan Village is not a special case, but that's how Li Ke came along the way. Li Ke can understand the hearts of these people, they just want to see themselves.

So Li Ke stopped to let them take a look. Although the schedule was delayed, wasn't he just doing this when he came to Qinghai this time?By the time Li Ke arrived at Chihai City, the first snow in Qinghai had already fallen.

Chihai City has now become a very prosperous city. Like the northern route to the 36 countries in the Western Regions, that is, Suoyang, Gaochang and other countries, it has become an important city passing through here to Ruoqiang and other countries. one.

Because Chihai City has a well-established construction, the number of businessmen coming and going here is also increasing. In addition, Qinghai's own herdsmen also use this place as a gathering point, so Chihai City is becoming more and more prosperous.

However, the number of herdsmen living in Chihai City is not large. On the contrary, many merchants and the family of soldiers stationed in Qinghai live here, as well as the workers and their families working in the entire Salt Lake, as well as the people in Qinghai. Most of the family members in the industrial zone live here.

Looking at this city that did not exist in the original history, Li Ke was mostly moved.

Qiao Shiwang had already greeted him outside the city. After the two greeted each other, Qiao Shiwang asked with a smile, "How is it? Sanlang, has Chihai City changed a lot?"

"It's big if you say it's big, and it's small if you say it's small." Li Ke shook his head and said, when he left, Chihai City was basically completed, but now it's just more complete, and the number of houses in the city is also more .

"Well, are you still used to it?" Li Ke looked at Qiao Shiwang and said, Qiao Shiwang is still Li Ke's uncle, and his wife is Li Shimin's sister.

"Adaptation, you have basically completed all the work here in Qinghai, and I'm just doing it here, and the people below are even better at many things than me." Qiao Shiwang shook his head and said.

"I heard that you were stopped by the people on the way." Qiao Shiwang teased.

"Uncle, you also know why I came here. When I left, I promised to come back to see them. Now that I am back, let's take a look at them. At present, the work at the bottom of Qinghai is still doing well. The main thing is the Hehuang Valley. We need to do a good job in the planting and pastoral areas." Li Ke nodded helplessly.

"Don't worry, Saburo, the preparations for the division of pastoral areas and planting areas are all right, and the grain reserve center to be built here has also been completed. However, I heard that the train you invented, Saburo, is the train to the Yili River Valley. Will you go from here?" Qiao Shiwang was very interested in this.

"I guess it's unlikely." Li Ke thought for a while, then shook his head helplessly.

Although the terrain on the Qinghai side is also flat, a large number of people and villages can be connected along the Hexi Corridor instead of taking the Longyou Road. After entering Xinjiang, it is more suitable to build railways on the roads there.

The railway line is naturally the railway line of later generations, stretching from the north of Tianshan Mountain to the vicinity of Yili River Valley, and then see if it can cross Tianshan Mountain.

Even if it is impossible to cross the Tianshan Mountains, it is very close to the Yili River Valley from there.

"Hey." Qiao Shiwang was a little disappointed, because if the railway is built, Qinghai will have a huge development because of this railway line, but it is almost impossible now.

"Don't you consider repairing directly from here? Now the western part of Qinghai is almost the deserted Gobi Desert. After the division of pastoral areas, aside from the herdsmen who turned to planting land, in fact, a large number of pastoral areas have always been vacant. Especially many After using alfalfa as a forage supplement, the herdsmen's demand for forage is now decreasing."

"If it passes through Qinghai, the whole of Qinghai will usher in a huge development. The point is that if the railway can directly extend from here to Qingzang Prefecture, it will be a good thing for controlling the entire Qingzang Prefecture." Qiao Shiwang thought for a while asked.

Li Ke is a little speechless, what are you thinking?Do you know how difficult it is to build a railway on that land?Although the difficulty of the steam train railway is lower than that of later generations, it is also not something that the current Datang can handle.

"No, for a long period of time, the population of Qinghai-Tibet Prefecture will probably be reduced to an extremely low level. According to my current plan, the population of Qinghai-Tibet Prefecture will be concentrated in several most inhabitable river valleys. It would be great if all of the large areas are vacant." Li Ke shook his head and said.

The current situation in Datang is different from the situation in later generations. Tubo originally had a population of more than 300 million. Putting aside Songtsan Gampo’s take away, Datang actually took down a population of nearly 300 million in Tubo.

And these Tubo population, after two years of propaganda, at least nearly one-third began to travel along the later Sichuan-Tibet and Yunnan-Tibet routes to Yunnan, Sichuan and other places.

Because of the propaganda of Sangji and the others, the Tubo serfs are much more loyal to Datang than other places, and after this series of measures, these Tubo serfs have completely returned to their hearts. It is conducive to strengthening Datang's rule over the local area.

In this case, at least one-third of the population of Tubo will be relocated to the interior.And the rest will be kept among the most livable places on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

In this way, most of the remaining areas of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau that are not actually suitable for human survival will maintain their original appearance for a long time.

In other words, most of the areas here will belong to no-man's land, and because of the entire Himalayas, these places don't have to worry about enemy invasion in this era, and several major passes are garrisoned.

In the rest of the area, even if someone can come over, they cannot come over with large troops. What's more, Tianzhu at the other end is a lump of mud. Do you still expect elite troops to invade Datang?

Therefore, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is definitely safe. In fact, there are not many enemies in the entire southwest region now.

"Okay, that's fine, most areas in such a bitterly cold place are indeed not suitable for human survival, but the railway will definitely be built from Jincheng in the future." Qiao Shiwang added.

"This is for sure. In any case, Qinghai is also an important logistics base, and if you go to the Western Regions, this is an important fulcrum, and the railway will definitely be built." Li Ke nodded accordingly.

Qiao Shiwang nodded silently, then he suddenly thought of something and sighed.