After arranging the tasks of the generals to be assigned to guard the generals, Li Xiao did not stay for a long time, but immediately took a boat to return to Baijiang Fort, where he only stayed for one night. The next day, he set off on a boat and went up the Baijiang River to return to the commander's mansion in Siqi City.

When Li Xiao returned from the north, he felt a serious sense of crisis.

The Japanese sent a prince back, but as soon as they raised their arms and called out, they gathered and quickly summoned tens of thousands of rebels, which he had never expected before.

It was even more surprising that the Japanese sent troops to Baekje directly. Coupled with Goguryeo's current ambiguous attitude, Li Xiao felt deeply anxious.

The night before Jiuchicheng left, Li Xiao had already written a memorial to the court, requesting that a group of government soldiers be transferred to Baekje in Henan, Jianghuai and Hebei.

In the memorial, he said that the situation was very critical, saying that if there were no reinforcements from the Central Plains Army, Baekje might not be safe. The situation he had worked hard to conquer at the beginning would be ruined, and it might be even more difficult to seize Baekje again next time.

He didn't know whether the court would send troops and how many could it be sent, but this could only be a good expectation.

The reinforcements from the court were only considered outside the plan and could not be completely counted on.

Baekje's defense still depends on itself.

Zhao Chiman and others are generals. They only need to defend one city and stick to their own tasks, but Li Xiao is the handsome man and has to lead the overall situation.

If you devote yourself to something, time always passes quickly.

The sky was already shining outside the window of the backyard of the Shuai Mansion. When Cui Yuenu held a bowl of millet porridge on his desk, the red candle had already burned to the end.

Smelling the fragrant millet porridge, Li Xiao put down the pen in his hand and stretched.

Yuenu helped Li Xiao open the window and pack up the paper and pen on the table.

The cool morning breeze hits the face with indescribable comfort, making people feel comfortable.

Looking at the girl Yuenu, Li Xiao suddenly remembered something.

"Yingluo is still at home recently?" he asked.

"It's still the same." Cui Yuenu wanted to speak but stopped.

"Just say whatever you have."

"Master, if you want me to say that she is too pretentious. If Master is not at the mansion these days, she has quietly written to the Cui family and sent a lot of things to him. She really treats the things in the Master's mansion as her own. If Master wants me to say, Master is just treating her too politely. If Master directly takes her, she will definitely not be like this now."

Li Xiao picked up the breakfast and said while eating, "I want to see how arrogant this girl is."

To him, Cui Yingluo is just a beautiful woman now, and Li Xiao actually lacks the most is women. As long as he thinks, how many are there?

But Li Xiao didn't want to let her go, so he just stayed by his side. Looking at the expression of dissatisfaction and dissatisfaction in the once noble girl of the fifth surname, it was actually quite good sometimes.

Her existence can remind Li Xiao of how many enemies he has.

"Yuenu, what do you think of the Baekje woman who works in the coach's mansion?"

"It's pretty good. These people are very attentive and dedicated to their work."

Li Xiao nodded. No matter what, after the Tang army conquered Baekje, the people here will be dominated by Baekje for a long time, and the Tang occupying troops will always be a minority.

After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains in later generations, it implemented the strategy of separation between Manchu and Han. They built Manchu cities in various places and separated them from the Han people. This strategy was not bad, but Li Xiao felt that it was not good enough.

He just saw Yue Nu think of an idea, that is, marriage.

The officers stationed in Baekje were asked to take women who tame the powerful tribes as concubines of Baekje and strengthen their rule by marriage. The soldiers could also marry or take women from Baekje as wives and concubines.

For those Baekje who married the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, they can incorporate their household registration into the Tang Dynasty and give them land.

With so many people in Baekje, they have to fight and pull. Even the powerful and wealthy families have to be treated differently. For example, the royal nobles must be suppressed with all their strength and confiscated their property and escorted them to the Central Plains. For ordinary wealthy landlords, they can marry each other and use their influence to establish local order. If they are dissatisfied with the king, they still have to suppress them.

From the maid Li Xiao, he thought of the proton again.

The powerful landlords sent their children to be protons, in name only to receive Chinese cultural education. Li Xiao felt that it was necessary to establish a county education in Baekje to comprehensively promote Chinese cultural education, which was also considered colonial education.

We have to start from childhood and let those Baekje kids learn Han culture from childhood, write Tang Mandarin, subtly accept Han culture and the Tang Dynasty.

In the future, the Tang Dynasty will definitely immigrate to Baekje one after another. Perhaps when there are more Han immigrants in the future, the issue of rule will not be more troublesome. But now, only a few thousand Tang people will definitely appear to be more difficult among Baekje people with a population of 20 to 3 million.

After breakfast, Li Xiao did not rest, but asked Yuenu to get him the public servants.

Today he was not wearing armor. When he did not command troops to fight, he was unwilling to wear armor. He was wearing Tang Dynasty official uniforms. Li Xiao is now a purple-robed goldfish, and he is particularly majestic when wearing it.

In front of the bronze mirror that fell to the ground, Li Xiao took a careful look and found that he had become darker recently, but he seemed to be stronger.

But his face was not very good and he was a little haggard.

"Master, Chang'an Angel is here!"

Zhang Cong, the captain of the guard, came over to report that the boy was still wearing a bright armor, and he made a clanging sound when he walked. This set of armor was admired by Li Xiao. After he got it, he couldn't bear to take it off and wanted to wear it in his sleep.

"Is there an order to come so soon?"

When we arrived at the front hall, the envoy from Chang'an had been waiting for a long time. The envoy set out from Chang'an five days ago, and had a water and land turn around, day and night, and almost never stopped.

Sitting there, his face was even more haggard and ugly than Li Xiao's.

"I've met Mr. Li." The envoy was a man that Li Xiao didn't know. He was wearing a blue official robe. He was not old and looked like he was a literati and did not have the arrogance of aristocratic children. Li Xiao was probably a young official from the common people's imperial examination.

After a chill, a table of incense was placed to welcome the imperial edict.

The imperial edict was somewhat beyond Li Xiao's expectations. The emperor issued an edict to divide Andong Road into two, split it into Liaodong Road and Andong Road. Among them, Liaodong, Goguryeo and the more northeastern places were transferred to Liaodong Road, and the Liaodong Protectorate was established. Yuchi Gong was still used as the Grand Protectorate, and Xue Rengui was appointed as the Deputy Grand Protectorate and the General of the Liaodong Governor's Office.

The Baekje area south of Goguryeo was set up as the Anton Protectorate, and was also in charge of Silla. The imperial court appointed Pei Xingjian as the Anton Protectorate. Pei Xingjian was the posthumous son of Pei Xingji, a famous former Sui general. He was born as a civil servant, but he was called the Confucian general.

However, the imperial court granted him the title of the Great Protector of Andong, but he was only given the title of title. He is now the Minister of Personnel.

The court asked Pei Xingjian to be the magistrate, but he did not have the responsibility. It was obvious that it was because of Li Xiao. After all, with Li Xiao's qualifications and age, he was not enough to serve as the magistrate. But the court also knew that Li Xiao was doing well in Baekje and did not want to send a boss to him to avoid the discord between the generals and the generals at that time. So he simply found a famous person as the magistrate like Liaodongdao, and asked Xue Rengui to be the deputy magistrate.

The division of Andong Road into two was also due to the fact that the court is now in charge of the Western Turks, and the east is mainly defending. Before Goguryeo was destroyed, Andong Road was isolated from the north and south, and it was inconvenient to unify the overall situation, so it was simply split.

Xue Rengui guarded Liaodong, and Li Xiao guarded Baekje.

In fact, it is still the same as in the past, but after splitting it into two, the responsibilities are clearer and clearer.

There is also news in this imperial edict that made Li Xiao very happy.

The emperor transferred 8,000 troops from the Qingqi Huaiyang Mansion, 200 ships of all sizes and 2,000 sailors to reinforce Baekje, and was assigned to Li Xiao's command and stationed in Andong for a long time.

Eight thousand battle soldiers, plus two thousand sailors, this is ten thousand people.

The reinforcements of this ten thousand people were really raining in time for Li Xiao. The two hundred ships of all sizes and two thousand sailors also valued them very much. With a little training, they could form a real naval fleet with the ships under Zhao Chiman.

With the advancement of the Tang army's ships, the maritime generals were invincible.

"When will reinforcements arrive?" Li Xiao asked the angel.

"You can arrive one after another in three to five days at most. I hope the general will prepare early to come to reinforcements to settle down."

"There is no problem with this. There are now five governors' offices, 16 prefectures and 180 counties on Andong Road. In addition to these prefectures and counties, many Tunbao Abrams are also built, which is enough to accommodate these people."

The official said again, "Master, the imperial court means that in order to ensure the long-term peace of Baekje, the eight thousand soldiers of Qingqi Junyang who came to help will not go back. They will be the soldiers stationed in Baekje in the future. The commander must set up a new military residence for them, choose a garrison, and give them land."

Li Xiao was even happier about this news. The new soldiers stationed in Baekje will not leave after coming.

"I wonder when their family members will arrive?" Li Xiao asked hurriedly.

"No family is here for the time being."

"Why?" Li Xiao was puzzled.

As a result, the angel's reply made Li Xiao laugh and cry. It turned out that although the emperor had drawn 8,000 soldiers for Li Xiao, these soldiers were not actually real soldiers. They were selected for temporary assaults. Most of them were selected from the sons and nephews of the old soldiers in the military residences of Huaiyang, Qingqi, and the selected ones were basically those second sons and concubines, and most of them were just born and unmarried.

Only in this way, young people who are not married can come to Baekje without any worries.

However, in this way, Li Xiao originally hoped that when these soldiers arrived, the hope of moving their families there would be vain.

Eight thousand young bachelors came.

There are only these 8,000 young bachelors, and no more family members will come.

But then I thought about it, it’s better to have it than not.

These bachelors are not afraid of coming here. They have no family or wives. Li Xiao is responsible for helping them find the girls and building a real home for them here.
Chapter completed!