Fang Xuanling stroked his beard and said to the emperor excitedly: "After our army captured the capital of Yanqi and captured and killed the King Long Tuqi branch, the cities of Yanqi surrendered without fighting."

"And Kucha, Shule, and Khotan countries also sent people to surrender."

"Among the Western Turkic tribes, there are also several tribes such as Shatu and Gelulu who are willing to support the enthronement of the Great Qin Dynasty, Mo Heduo, as the new Khan!"

Fang Xuanling changed his tone.

It is said that now that the tribes of the Western Regions have surrendered and the Turkic tribes surrendered, they can issue an edict to work together.

"She Kui retreated to Shiguo, but he did not surrender. I thought he should continue to attack while he was defeated. In the end, like conquering Yiwu and Gaochang, he captured his king, and then set up counties in his place, and all households were established, and the people were all settled once and for all." The person who spoke was Hou Mo Chen Yi, who was also the Minister of the Secretariat.

"Hou Mo Chen's Zhongshu's words are wrong. Although our army has joined Yiwu Gaochang Yanqi, we must see that now our army has reached its limit. If we go deeper, it may not be a good thing. We should stop when we see it, and control the captured Yanqi Gaochang Yiwu first and digest it firmly."

"For the Shokui, Mo Hedu should be asked to recruit the Western Turkic tribes, and then he should send troops to conquer and attack the Shokui, so that the Western Turkic civil war will be fought. Our Great Qin will guard the three kingdoms of Yiwu and watch the tiger fight."

Fang Xuanling insisted that after fighting for so long, he had to stop and take a break.

Both Yiwu and Yanqi of Gaochang still need to be stable, and Yiwu and Yanqi both captured it better. On the surface, Gaochang was the Qin army assisting the restoration of the Qu family, and it would be more complicated to control Gaochang.

The imperial court had never thought of entering the Western Regions at this stage, so there was no plan now. It was necessary to station troops there, set up counties there, send officials there, and immigrate there. One by one, it was very troublesome and complicated.

If it cannot be fast and stable, it may be lost at any time. You cannot blindly seek big things.

"I think it is unrealistic to destroy the Western Turks in one battle. She Ke Laozi was so scattered that he would not fight us head-on. He retreated directly to Qianquan. If our army goes on an expedition, it will go deep into the army alone, which is very dangerous. Although the countries in the Western Regions are now on the surface, our Qin Dynasty is still firmly established. At this time, we will cross them and go deep into the Shi Kingdom, and then we will be placed in the enemy's arms, which is very dangerous."

Furthermore, Fang Xuanling believed that the court should slow down first, because this battle had already damaged the family's wealth.

All kinds of pensions and rewards have not yet begun to be issued, which will be a huge expense. Now the court’s books are empty. In this case, continuing to expedition the Shattered Leaf, which is seven or eight thousand miles away from Chang'an, is not the best strategy.

Luo Cheng looked at the map in front of him.

Although he was very excited when he thought about the recovery of the Han Western Regions Protectorate, he still gave up this idea when he thought about the current situation.

Fang Xuanling is right, cost and control are the most important.

"The imperial edict ordered Cheng Yaojin to stop advancing, and to establish Yanqi County with the State of Yanqi, Gaochang County with Gaochang County, Yiwu County with the State of Yiwu County. The Qin Dynasty established Anxi Road in the Western Regions, and ordered Cheng Yaojin to be the left commander of Anxi Road and the prefect of Gaochang County, Xue Wanche as the right commander of Yiwu County, and Pei Xingyan as the prefect of Yanqi County."

"The imperial edict ordered Mo Hedu to go to Sanmi Mountain in Kucha, rebuild the Western Turkic Khanate, recruit the Western Turkic tribes, and be ordered to conquer the Shekui."

For Shule, Khotan, Tochar, Cao, Kang and other countries, Luo Cheng accepted their submission, and each granted their titles as princes, and continued to rule their own country and became a vassal of the Qin Dynasty.

The imperial court was in the three counties of Anxi Road, each with 8,000 troops stationed, and the rest retreated to the Central Plains.

Originally, Fang Xuanling, the Gaochang State, suggested that Gaochang become a vassal of the Qin Dynasty and maintain independence, just like Shule and other countries. However, because Gaochang's important position, especially the Gaochang State, were basically descendants of the Han people and retained a good foundation of Han civilization, Luo Cheng simply set Gaochang directly as a county and included it under the direct jurisdiction of the court.

Luo Cheng was also willing to give some compensation to King Qu Boya. He granted Qu Boya the Duke and drew a hundred-mile valley to him in the upper reaches of the Yili River north of the Tianshan Mountains to serve as his fiefdom, making him the Duke of Yining.

It can be said that this is a good arrangement.

If Boya knew the tactfulness, he would accept this title. Although there had been a lot of changes from the king to the duke, he had already been seized by mutiny, and this time the Qin army helped him restore the throne successfully. However, with such an important position, the court could not continue to make Gaochang an independent country.

Grand Secretary Yu Zhining felt that the emperor's appearance was a bit ugly. He was a forceful robbery and would leave a bad reputation in the future.

But the emperor laughed.

"Historical books are written by victors. There is not so much warmth between countries. If Gaochang does not establish counties, then I, Daqin, cannot establish Anxi Road in the Western Regions to make a small country, and make the Qin Dynasty lose the entire Western Regions?"

In fact, Luo Cheng was able to change the fiefdom of Boya and give him a Duke of the Duke.

Qin Emperor and Han Wu, these great emperors would not be as polite as Luo Cheng. Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, and Emperor Wu of Han destroyed many, including the South Yue Kingdom, the North Korean Kingdom, and the Huns. Have you ever said any kind of affection?

If you are blocking the road to expansion and are not strong enough, it will be normal to destroy you, and it will be strange if you do not destroy you.

Before the Qin army left Yumen Pass, the Western Regions could not control whether you were twenty-seven or thirty-six countries. However, since the Qin army had already left Yumen Pass and crossed the sand sea to enter the Western Regions, then he was not so polite.

Prime Minister Chen Shuda believed that the system of restraint can be implemented for the countries in the Western Regions.

"For the countries that have been joined by the Western Regions and the Turkic tribes, they will establish counties and counties according to their territory, and then they will be granted the king and tribal chief as prefects."

This is what Luo Cheng did to the Khitan and Xi tribes when he was outside the pass.

"What Chen Xiang said is not bad. I, the Qin Dynasty, is temporarily unable to control the entire Western Regions. So first maintain the three counties of Anxi, and then enthrone other countries and tribes to be appointed and appointed to officials, and incorporate them into the ban system, so as to wait for the future."

To put it bluntly, if you recognize me as your elder brother, I will give you an official position to recognize your position as the boss.

For example, after Yanqi was defeated, the Kucha Kingdom next to him was afraid, so the king offered a tribute, saying that he wanted to worship Luo Cheng, and would hang out with the dock of Daqin in the future. Of course, Luo Cheng had to make some statement, so he established Kucha Kingdom as Kucha County and named the King of Kucha Prefect.

The operation function of this setting of a prefect is that from then on, Kucha is under the system of the Great Qin. Whoever wants to move Kucha has to ask about the Great Qin first. Of course, if you become the prefect of Kucha, you will naturally have to pay tribute to the Great Qin in the future. Once the Great Qin wants to cause trouble in the Western Regions, they will have to send troops, money and help.

However, this kind of robbery is different from the Central Plains. For example, Kucha County was inherited by the Kucha King family for generations. The court would not interfere in the affairs of Kucha County, nor would it send officials to garrison troops.

Speaking of which, the status of the county in the vassal state is definitely lower than that of the vassal state, and is equivalent to being a vassal.

Originally, Luo Cheng was going to give the treatment of the vassal states of the Western Regions, but now Chen Shuda thinks that it is too emphatic to give them. It is just a small country with big fucks, and it is better to just be classified as a vassal county.

"Okay, Kucha is set up as Kucha County, and its king is enthroned as Kucha County Duke and Kucha Prefect."

"The Turkic Shatu tribe in Shatue, north of Gaochang County, was established by Shatue County, and its chief was crowned as Duke of Shatue County and the prefect of Shatue County."

"The Geluo tribe on the western foot of Jinshan Mountain, named Xuanchi County, was appointed as Xuanchi County, and the chief was appointed Duke of Xuanchi County and the prefect of Xuanchi."

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"The vassals and counties, each of whom is a vassal of the Great Qin Dynasty. They are not allowed to attack each other, nor are they allowed to cross the border. If this order is violated, the Great Qin has the power and obligation to summon the vassals of the Western Regions and send troops to attack them together!"

In order to facilitate management, Luo Cheng set up gui Mi counties for them according to their existing territory, demarcated borders, and then made them all under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Road Yamen.

Of course, the Anxi Road Yamen only directly governs the three counties of Gaochang, and only has supervision and guidance tasks for other counties. Under normal circumstances, everyone lives their own lives and does not violate each other.

But if anyone violates the rules set by the leader of the Qin emperor, then Anxi Road can represent the Qin court to recruit troops from all the prison counties to attack the unruly ones and destroy him.

However, in this way, Mo Hedu, the new Western Turkic Khan who was enthroned by Luo Cheng not long ago, was very embarrassed. The Western Regions and the Western Turkic tribes all became the Qin vassal counties and the county magistrates. Then wouldn’t he, the great khan, become the empty khan?

Of course, the more embarrassing thing was the more embarrassing Khan. He ran all the way to the banks of the Suiye River, but the Emperor of Qin divided his territory in Chang'an City thousands of miles away, and never asked his opinion at all. He even sent Mo Hedu to lead his troops to attack him.

Regarding the Western Regions and the Western Turks, a strategy was decided on this.

The emperor and ministers of the Qin Dynasty drew a big circle and circled the entire Western Regions, but in fact they were only controlling the three counties. From the fact that the court only left 8,000 soldiers in each of the three counties in the Western Regions, we can see the court's real strategy for the Western Regions, that is, it is still unable to advance west with all its might, retain a bridgehead, and slowly operate and penetrate it first.

As for the Western Turks, the main thing is to make the Turks civil unrest and use the power of the Tiel Khanate to deal with the Shekui.

If there were no accidents, the Qin Dynasty might not have actually sent troops westward within ten years.

The Western Regions made a decision, but there was also a Tubo in the southwest.

Although Tubo did not really fight with the Qin army during this invasion, he besieged Dafeichuan for several months, and the Qin army and the Tubo army suffered more than a thousand casualties.

For the two major forces, this casualties are simply not worth mentioning.

But after all, Tubo invaded the territory, so it was impossible to just forget it.
Chapter completed!