Even if Li You is the king of Qi and the fifth son of Emperor Taizong, but now that he is the general of the Wa State, many ministers in the court have regarded Li You as the leader of the foreign state, so when Li Zhi stripped Li You of Qi, Deng, Qing, and Laizhou, it was simply expected.

But now, Li Jie wants to return Dengzhou Laizhou to Li You, let the Japanese rule the two states and counties of the Tang Dynasty, the uproar caused in the court can be imagined, dozens of ministers in the court stood up angrily to protest, was easily ignored by Li Jie, and after the end of the court, more twists and turns began to pile up in Shangshu Province, but about this advice, and Li Jie was all left behind, and finally forced Wei Yuanzhong and other prime ministers to simply form a group to kneel in front of Li Jie's palace.

Li Jie, who was also forced to have no choice, had to recruit them all and persuaded them with a sentence.

"There is Dengzhou Laizhou, Li You is the King of Qi of the Tang Dynasty, without Dengzhou Laizhou, he will really be the general of the Japanese State!"

The reason why the Wa Kingdom has always been a covetous, arrogant posture around Huaxia is because of its unique geographical location, isolated overseas, when it wants to communicate with China, it will send Tang envoys to absorb the nutrients of Chinese civilization, and when you don't want to communicate with China, it is difficult for the influence of the Central Plains Dynasty to penetrate here.

Finally, Li Jie took out the courage to defeat the Japanese court for the first time, which had always regarded himself very highly, and wanted to sit on an equal footing with the Tang Dynasty Emperor, and supported Li You as the general of Zhengyi to control here for Huaxia, but as Li Zhi recovered Dengzhou Laizhou, blocking the channel of communication with the Japanese State, these years, Li You's exchanges with the Central Plains have also decreased significantly, and politically he began to rely on the local Japanese ministers.

Therefore, Li Jie wanted to return Dengzhou Laizhou to Li You, it seemed that the Tang Dynasty suffered a loss, but in fact, the two wealthy commercial states became a bait, forever caring for Li You in China, relying on the Central Plains family to rule the Wa State, and in order to keep these two states, the Wa State must always maintain a low profile towards the Central Plains, which is more convenient for Huaxia's political tentacles to penetrate into the Wa Island.

In time, it may not be possible to turn this Japanese country into a Chinese Japanese province!

Under this explanation, the prime ministers of Chang'an finally acquiesced to Li Jie's order, although the refutation of Shangshu Province had almost no binding force on Li Jie, but for the first time, the members of the three provinces unanimously passed Li Jie's edict, and a positive attitude was also transmitted.

October of the fifth year of Mingfeng.

Regardless of whether they were satisfied or not, the envoys of the various ethnic groups in Haidong, who had stayed in Chang'an for more than a month, left Guanzhong in turn with their amazement and regret at the prosperity of Chang'an, and the Silla delegation was also included in it.

The power of the autumn tiger is fully revealed at this time, the sun seems to be in the last presumptuous hot sun before the harsh winter, the last leaves of the green willows of Baqiao are wilting, and the Silla Hualang, who has always been known for its elegance, is hanging his head in a felt hat wearing a big red flower, and he is weakly guarding in front of a carriage.

The owner of the carriage, Jin Huaiyuan, the new leader of the Hualangs, was quite energetic at this time, with handsome cheeks and a well-fitting Hualang Dao martial robe, he had the temperament of the long-legged Oba in later TV dramas, which was much more handsome than Li Jie's mold.

Although the imperial court ordered ministers not to make friends with envoys from Fanbang, the most difficult thing for the Chinese to manage was entertainment, and in Chang'an for a month, in order to show the wealth of the heavenly dynasty, there were many large and small banquets every day, and Jin Huaiyuan still made many family friends.

At this time, it was these friends who were saying goodbye to him, and in the middle of holding the wine bowls high one by one, Jin Huaiyuan, who had already drunk a little high, shook and raised the wine bowls quite elegantly, and sang loudly with pride.

"Raise a glass to say goodbye to the romantic night, the affection is clear! For our affection, do it! ”

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In the reluctant love poem, more than a dozen wine bowls were raised together, and finally died under the last bowl of wine, the dazed Jin Huaiyuan was carried into the carriage by the flowers, and he was still lying on the edge of the window muttering that everyone would meet again, and the carriage began to gallop all the way east, and the young people of the family in Chang'an were also scattered in a hurry in talking and laughing.

No one noticed that on the Chang'an City Gate Tower behind the Baqiao, a pair of binoculars were still watching the carriage leave.

Don't want to be sideways, Li Jie still didn't recognize this son after all, and now the three sons, except for the ambitious third little fat man Li Gong, the rights have basically reached a balance, Li Jie doesn't want to have an older son to increase the variables, and give him the entire Korean Peninsula, which can be regarded as compensation for him.

Li Jie's eyes were leisurely, but beside him was yawning, rubbing his impatient eyes, Li Jin still muttered depressedly: "Father, this son is talented, and ambitious, and he is not in awe of Chang'an enough, he will definitely cause trouble in the future, why don't you get rid of him?" ”

In the past few days, I don't know why it's not pleasing to see this Jin Huaiyuan, Li Jin is not less troublesome to him, but Jin Shengman's education method seems to be much stronger than Li Jie, the two are on par in polo and other martial arts, and Li Jin, who does not seek to understand poetry and elegance, was thrown out of two streets, and Li Jin, who has lost face, really hates Jin Huaiyuan so much that his teeth itch.

However, listening to his son's annoyed inquiry, Li Jie shook his head with a wry smile, patted Li Jin's shoulder with deep meaning and said, "When you are older and more mature, you will understand, go, go back to the palace with your father!" ”

"Father, my sons and ministers have been in charge of the country for a few years, aren't they mature enough?"

"Oh? That's right, there has been a famine in Lianghuai recently, and I am having a headache for disaster relief, the prince is so mature, this matter will be handed over to you! ”

His Majesty the Emperor leisurely entered the royal four-wheeled carriage and grunted, but His Royal Highness the Crown Prince fell off his horse top-heavy.

dealt with the situation in Haidong, and without waiting for the ministers of Chang'an to breathe a sigh of relief, the ministers were dragged into a busier work by Li Jiesheng.

First of all, military reform, in the history of the Gaozong Dynasty, with the war in Haidong and the increase in the population of the world, the government soldier system based on the Juntian system has begun to collapse, the government soldiers have become more and more unsuitable for large-scale labor expeditions in foreign wars, a large number of soldiers from the Haidong battlefield directly slowed down the Goguryeo War, and became a local security risk.

In the era of Wu Zetian, the Tang army was repeatedly defeated, and the territory shrank by one-fifth, and in the era of Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, large-scale recruitment and the complete collapse of the military system of the inland government formed a situation of heavy external weight and light internal lightness, and finally caused the tragedy of the Anshi Rebellion.

In this time and space, thanks to Li Jie's blessing, the population of the Tang Dynasty did not rise but fell, and a large number of families also followed Li Jie to the sea to seize more fertile land, land annexation was much slower than in the same period, and the government soldier system was just showing its decline, but Li Jie knew that the government soldiers would collapse sooner or later, so in Guanzhong, Li Jie started the construction of the conscription system in advance.

Bingyuan recruited from the government soldiers and the Turkic people outside the Saiwai and Tiele people, with a ratio of three to two, Li Jie established a standing army of 50,000 people in Chang'an, Jingyuan and other places, called the Shence Army.

Different from the old soldiers of Li Zhibeiya's forbidden army, in order to ensure combat effectiveness, this army at any time dispatched manpower to take turns to plug the border, and the nomadic people's real short-range soldiers to temper combat effectiveness, and in order to ensure that the army will not fall into the hands of careerists, Li Jie followed the system of the later Song Dynasty, and the command of the Shence army was in the hands of the sixteen guards of the Southern Ya, but the right to transfer troops was in the hands of the emperor and the military department.

Throughout November, the imperial court was busy with the formation of the Shence Army, and finally a backbone framework had just been built, and Li Jie was busy reforming the school system.

Under the Ministry of Rites, the school administration was established, and then the prefectures and counties began to imitate the system of the Ming Dynasty to establish the township school, county school, government school, and state school, and at the same time, the number of people admitted to the imperial examination was also like the time of the Great Min, and the number of people admitted to the imperial examination increased tenfold in one breath.

The academic administration system is obviously a means to crack down on the power of the family and snatch knowledge out of the family, but Li Jie's new policy is like a cannon, and the officials of the family have not even had time to resist, they have been driven out of exhaustion, and they have no energy to resist.

As if he wanted to complete a lifetime of government affairs in just a few months, the last bit of Mingfeng's fifth year and the beginning of Mingfeng's sixth year, the entire Tang Dynasty was in that kind of earth-shaking change, and even the scholars in Chang'an could clearly feel that it seemed that the days were the same.

Such days passed until May of the sixth year of Mingfeng, the spring ploughing ended, and the repair of Zheng Guoqu also completed the first stage of hardship, and finally, the minister of Chang'an could finally breathe a sigh of relief and live a few days of rotten bureaucratic life, but at this time, another news that alarmed the imperial court came out of the palace.

Li Jie, the emperor of the Min and Tang Dynasties, decided to tour the east and led 300,000 Western Tang troops out of the customs and inspected the eastern part of the country!