?Li Ke ascended the throne under the dissuasion of ministers and Black Guards. His reign was Yuan Hao. He became the third emperor of the Tang Empire and was called Emperor Shengzong of the Tang Dynasty, and was abbreviated as Emperor Shengzong of the Tang Dynasty.

The first thing Li Ke did after he ascended the throne was to enfeoff the meritorious soldiers and punish the rebel traitors.

The ministers who were granted the title were his confidant generals, and they changed the title of King Su Dingfang of Qinghai to the King of Northwest, who was fully responsible for military affairs in the northwest, and began to prepare for war to attack the Western Regions. Xu Jingzong was asked to replace Di Zhixun in Qingtang City, and mobilized Di Zhixun to the central government to serve as the Minister of Shangyou Pushe, and Cen Wenben was appointed as the left Pushe. Wei Zheng was still the attendant of the Menxia Province, and promoted Ma Zhou to the position of the Central Secretariat. Immediately, he appointed Li Mengchang as the Grand Governor of Bingzhou, Pei Xinglian as the governor of Daizhou, and appointed Chen Qi as the Grand Governor of the Southern Ya. The Black-clothed Guard was ordered to be the governor of the Northern Ya. Du Junchuo was ordered to be the general and follow Su Dingfang to fight against the Western Regions. The king should have the position of the King Zhongcheng commander of Yingwei to serve as Meng Zhao. He still used the Eagle Guard to protect himself, and changed the Eagle Guard to be the Grand Eunuch. Let the Wolf Cavalry Camp be responsible for the safety of the imperial city.

After dealing with these issues, he began to deal with the problems in the royal family.

Regarding Li Tai, Li Ke appointed him as Sikong, not only did he not exploit him, but he also let him be in charge of the imperial examination and education of the Tang Dynasty. Li Tai saw Li Ke's sincerity and happily accepted the order. Li Zhi was still the King of Southern, but Li Zhi wanted to go to Taiyuan Han College to study painting and study, and Li Ke happily agreed. Li Ke did not punish Li Chengqian, but just imprisoned him in a mansion in Chang'an.

Li Ke ascended the throne, and not long after, a great victory came from Liaodong. It was said that Liu Rengui led a large army to destroy the Kingdom of Goryeo and killed the King of Goryeo. Lan Dong's Turkic cavalry became a butcher army. As long as the Tang army went, it would be massacred for others. The population of Liaodong dropped sharply. Li Ke asked Liu Rengui and Lan Dong to return to Chang'an. The two went to Chang'an to offer prisoners. Li Ke granted Lan Dong as general, and went to Liu Rengui's tent to listen to him, and appointed Liu Rengui as the King of Northern Liao, and began to stabilize the situation in Liaodong.

After this promotion and appointment, the Tang Dynasty began to stabilize, and Li Ke's throne became firmly settled!

On that day, Li Ke came to a house in Chang'an City.

The yard was guarded by his personal bodyguard, Eagle Guard, and Chen Qi's Nanya Imperial Guard outside.

Li Ke walked into the yard and came to the garden behind and found Li Chengqian alone teasing birds.

Seeing Li Ke, Li Chengqian did not salute, but said lightly, "Li Ke, when do you want to deal with the orphan?"

"Brother, do you think I need to deal with you?" Li Ke asked back.

Li Chengqian was stunned for a moment before answering, "You really don't have the need to do this - since there is no, why do you still imprison the orphan?"

"Do you want to listen to my thoughts?" Li Ke asked.

"You talk—" Li Chengqian said.

"Okay--" Li Ke said loudly, like Wang Zhongchang gave a wink. Wang Zhongchang left, and in a moment, he found that the Eastern King Li Tai and Southern King Li Zhi had all come to the yard, and even the Qi King Li You came to everyone.

When the three of them saw Li Ke, they bowed and bowed, "My brother has seen the emperor--"

"Everyone is brother, so there is no need to be too polite - sit down!" Li Ke said, and he took his seat first.

When everyone sat down, Wang Zhongchang spread a map on the table. Li Ke said with a smile, "Look at this map - this is a map of the Western countries that I asked my subordinate Meng Shan to spend seven years drawing - these countries with names recorded on it, with fertile land and sparse population, which is very suitable for the people of the Tang Dynasty to live in -"

Li Ke said here and turned his eyes to Li Tai.

Li Tai glanced at Li Ke with joy in his eyes, "The emperor means—"

"Yes—" Li Ke said, "As long as there are countries on the map, I will conquer them and then live in the people who migrated to the Tang Dynasty. But who should rule these countries? If prefectures and counties are established, they will not be convenient to control from Chang'an and Taiyuan. What I mean is that only vassal states can be established, but there are people in the vassal states who are in charge of vassal states to be kings. I don't want the land captured by the Tang Dynasty to become outsiders. I wonder if you want to go?"

"Three Brothers - what you said is true?" Li You asked happily, forgot his name and called Li Ke third brother.

"Is my words very fake?" Li Ke asked back.

At this time, Li Chengqian also came to his senses, and his eyes shone with light, "Master, do you really want them to rule these countries?" His tone also changed, calling Li Ke the emperor, and recognizing Li Ke's orthodox status.

"What do you think?" Li Ke asked back.

"Isn't the emperor afraid of us--" Li Chengqian said, and kept silent, but Li Ke understood the meaning of his words.

"Brother, it will take at least 40 years to conquer these lands in the Tang Dynasty and make them a vassal state of the Tang Dynasty." Li Ke smiled and said, "I think it will take thirty years for you to rebel, but can you live that way? Even if your descendants succeed to the throne, they will be the candidates I appointed-"

Li Ke didn't speak at this point, but everyone knew the meaning.

The four Li Ke all showed a faint joy at a glance.

When Li Ke returned to the palace, a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Because he had already had some ideas in his mind about establishing a vassal state in this Western Expedition.

However, when Li Ke was worried, he still did not enthrone the queen, let alone the crown prince.

He was also hesitating, who should be the queen, whether it was Ashinayun? Or Wu Meiniang? Will Weimeiniang be willing to be under her if Ashin Yun's words? The position of the prince is the same. Should Li Ren be the crown prince? Or should Li Xian be the crown prince? Li Ke was hesitant.

On this day, Li Ke summoned Di Zhixun, Cen Wenben, Wei Zheng, Ma Zhou and others to Liangyi Hall and began to discuss the issue of the candidate for the prince.

After a long discussion, everyone's final opinion was to appoint the eldest son Li Ren as the crown prince and Ashinayun as the queen. Li Ke did not express his opinion immediately, but asked everyone to leave. He returned to the study of Ganquan Palace and thought quietly for a long time. Only then did he determine the final candidate. Ashinayun as the queen, Li Ren as the crown prince, Li Yi as the northern king, Li Xian as the king of Jing, and at the same time, the son born to the Tubo prince was also named the title of king.

At the same time, Li Ke asked the general of the Northern Yai Dynasty Du Junchuo to start rectifying the Northern Yai Army, which was to abolish the military system and implement the professional military system. The twelve guards army were reorganized into the Northern Yai Imperial Guards, with the color of the military uniforms being yellow, and the army was called the Jinyiwei. The Nan Ya army was still Li Ke's iron-core army, and the title was still the Black Yai Military Guards. The adapted Jinyiwei had improved in all aspects, and all the generals and schools in it were taken by trainees from the Army Academy. Suddenly, the Jinyiwei slowly established his position in Chang'an and gradually began to compete with the Nan Yai Black Yai Black Yai Military Guards.

As the emperor, Li Ke was the result he was most willing to see.

Because, only in this way can his rights be balanced.

However, what he could not have imagined was that his son had long focused on the Black and Jinyiwei.

Crown Prince Li Ren naturally targeted the army of Liu Rengui, the King of Northern Liao, because there were Turkic cavalry in this army, and he had Turkic bloodline, so he could better control the army; King of Northern Li Yi targeted the Jinyiwei. Because the Jinyiwei was being formed, this gave him a chance. King Jing Li Xian put his target on the Black-Ying Guard. This was out of Wu Meiniang's suggestion, and at the gate of the Northern King's Mansion, Wu Meiniang recognized the strong combat power of the Black-Ying Guard, which made his son choose the Black-Ying Guard.

Li Ke did not stop his three sons from doing things, but he saw from it that his character was one aspect.

Li Ren has the nature of a Turkic person in his bones. Li Yi likes to be realistic, while Li Xian dares to challenge himself.

In the spring of the second year of Yuanhao, Li Ke ordered the Northwest King Su Dingfang to launch a combat order against the Western Regions.

At the same time, he ordered the Northern Liao King Liu Rengui to lead 30,000 navy to fight eastward.

The Tang Dynasty opened an era of empire after Li Ke ascended the throne.

In later history books, historians call the Tang Dynasty during the Li Ke period the Tang Dynasty during the Shengzong period.

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